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Meme time!

10 Signs You Are Reading A Story By Envinyatar

1. There is little to no direct dialogue. Sometimes it's indirect. (Fail, I know.)

2. Instead, there is silence and meaningful glances and instinctively knowing what the other wants.

3. There is little in the form of detailed visual descriptions, be it characters or surroundings.

4. Instead, there is a lot of thinking. Angsting. Emotional conflicts. Intense focus on the chatacter telling the story with little room for anyone else.

5. There is a lot of present tense. Sometimes second person POV. If there is past tense, there will be voice over or a "framing" beginning and ending in present tense. And there will be run-on sentences.

6. There is a strict POV. No switching even in different scenes within a fic.

7. Sex usually isn't all that important. It's either found after some of the emotional conflict is solved or used to express said emotional conflict. It is rarely very kinky or very graphic.

8. If we are talking first war generation, there will be Severus and/or Sirius and/or Remus and/or, lately, Narcissa. Sometimes Lily or James.

9. If we are talking second war generation, there will be Hermione and/or Harry. Sometimes Draco or Theodore.

10. Canon pairings are used to bounce off new pairings, be it in the form of grief because of the beloved one's death, or unhappiness within the relationship and resulting cheating.

11. A set of (living) secondary characters does usually appear off-screen, if at all.

(Okay, so I said there'd be ten signs, but these are more like, a bazillion. Heh. And there are still things missing...)