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18th December 2009
bethbethbeth, posting in
snapenews @ 9:31pm: Issue #805: Thursday/Friday, December 17/18, 2009
 Hello, and welcome to the latest issue of ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/community.gif) snapenews. Thank you all for your continuing support and useful links! Feel free to comment (either below or at snapenews@gmail.com) and let us know how we're doing! CHALLENGES/CONTESTS This week's challenge on snarry100 is Patronus.
This week's challenge on ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/syndicated.gif) quiz_sshg is Magical Bets.
REC LISTS/ARCHIVE UPDATES
hgss_digest has been updated here.
TODAY IN ART
Threesome/Moresome/Other
Anonymous (posting in snapelyholidays drew "A Problem of Scales" (Snape/Harry/Charlie. R.)
TODAY IN FIC
Gen
![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) janus wrote "Velvet" (Snape, Rabastan. G.)
Het
Anonymous (posting in smutty_claus) wrote "Perfectly Imperfect" (Snape/Hermione. NC-17)
Slash
Anonymous (posting in snapelyholidays) wrote "Through the Years" (Snape/Kingsley. R)
GRAPHICS/ICONS
swithers posted icons from Philosopher's Stone, ten of which feature Snape
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We aim to bring you the latest Snape-centric items in the fandom but some might slip through the net! You can help to ensure this doesn't happen by sending us links via email to snapenews@gmail.com. There are submission guidelines in the snapenews user profile, but for the 'Today in' sections we just require the basic title/creator/rating/warnings/link info.
florahart @ 4:21pm: I often find this blog thought-provoking...
 So, Shapely Prose... I don't actually agree full-bore with everything she says all the time, because I do think there is a relationship, if not quite the one(s)* being pushed by large chunks of society, between weight/food and health, but I also think that given how prevalent those social messages are, having some voices that are a little over the top on the other side is probably all to the good. Anyway, today she talks about the effort to have kids not leave Santa cookies because cookies are a sometimes food, and the comments, in which people write letters to Santa and tell him why he can't have cookies, may have me falling off my chair with giggle. Possibly repeatedly. *The messages I think are bad are: 1. fat people are unethical and weak and probably pathetic; 2. fatness and weight can be measured and talked about in absolutes even in the absence of other data; 3. only thin people are pretty. The messages I wish we spent more time on are: 1. feeling well and strong are worthy goals and sometimes but not always weight management/reduction is a part of reaching them; 2. the ethics of consumption are about sustainability and sharing of resources, not about fatness; 3. beauty isn't about skirt size.
Nothing about any of that should be taken as a criticism of the efforts I am aware many people who might read this have made to change their own bodies.I originally posted this at http://florahart.dreamwidth.org/1015256.html, and you are welcome to comment there. OpenID and/or anon comments are allowed.
snupin_santa, posting in
lupin_snape @ 7:39pm: Story: Of Celluloid and Fate, for islandsmoke
 Title: Of Celluloid and Fate, for islandsmoke From: Your Secret Snupin Santa Summary: Cinemaphile Severus Snape only wanted to enjoy his first holiday in a place where no one knew him. So what the hell was Remus Lupin doing there? A little imagining of how the boys might have found each other after the first war. Rated: Coal and Switches (NC17) Warnings: prostitution, pornography of sorts, Severus having rude thoughts about the French Notes: I hope you enjoy this, islandsmoke! Apologies to anyone who knows Clermont-Ferrand. I've taken many liberties and I'm aware that the lovely city is not actually overrun with prostitutes. ;) Thanks to my dear beta, and to the amazing mods for the fest! Word count: 4487
celandineb @ 2:27pm: TGIF
 Can't-miss for Jane Austen fans: Pride & Prejudice in emoticons! So far today I have skinned my knee falling down the stairs (yes, I am three); walked Juno despite sore knee; returned a nonfunctioning electric candelabra to Target; gassed up the car; and wrapped a wedding present. We'll be leaving in about an hour and a half for the wedding, so I'm gonna try to do a little writing in the interval. Today's ![[info]](http://stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) 3fan_holidays fic is fluffy Bill/Neville. Today's drabble from me:
Current Mood:  mellow
Current Music: SO grumbling about grading
musesfool @ 1:51pm: glimpse your many futures
 Bring me the finest bagels and muffins in the land! My yuletide story has been sent off to beta! It turned out all right in the end, I think. It needs a good polishing, but it isn't the horror I was afraid it was going to be when I was struggling over each and every word. Now onto Broken Toys! *** I stayed up late last night and now I am very tired. It was hard to get out of bed this morning. It is very cold outside, and it's supposed to snow. My parents said not to come, because of the weather. So I have an unexpected weekend at home. Surely there will be baking. And writing. And sleeping. Dear god, so much sleeping. Have a poem, since I am clearly incapable of writing an entry: The God Who Loves YouIt must be troubling for the god who loves you To ponder how much happier you'd be today Had you been able to glimpse your many futures. It must be painful for him to watch you on Friday evenings Driving home from the office, content with your week— Three fine houses sold to deserving families— Knowing as he does exactly what would have happened Had you gone to your second choice for college, Knowing the roommate you'd have been allotted Whose ardent opinions on painting and music Would have kindled in you a lifelong passion. A life thirty points above the life you're living On any scale of satisfaction. And every point A thorn in the side of the god who loves you. You don't want that, a large-souled man like you Who tries to withhold from your wife the day's disappointments So she can save her empathy for the children. And would you want this god to compare your wife With the woman you were destined to meet on the other campus? It hurts you to think of him ranking the conversation You'd have enjoyed over there higher in insight Than the conversation you're used to. And think how this loving god would feel Knowing that the man next in line for your wife Would have pleased her more than you ever will Even on your best days, when you really try. Can you sleep at night believing a god like that Is pacing his cloudy bedroom, harassed by alternatives You're spared by ignorance? The difference between what is And what could have been will remain alive for him Even after you cease existing, after you catch a chill Running out in the snow for the morning paper, Losing eleven years that the god who loves you Will feel compelled to imagine scene by scene Unless you come to the rescue by imagining him No wiser than you are, no god at all, only a friend No closer than the actual friend you made at college, The one you haven't written in months. Sit down tonight And write him about the life you can talk about With a claim to authority, the life you've witnessed, Which for all you know is the life you've chosen. ~Carl Dennis *** This entry at DW: http://musesfool.dreamwidth.org/108764.html.  people have commented there.
Current Mood:  sleepy
Current Music: I'll Fall with Your Knife - Peter Murphy
dd_mods, posting in
daily_deviant @ 12:00pm: Kinky Kristmas Fic: Mating Games (Lucius/Narcissa)
 Kristmas Wish Fulfilled for: ldymusycFrom: A Wonderous Watcher! Title: Mating Games Characters/Pairings: Lucius/Narcissa Rating: NC-17 Kinks/Themes Included: Body worship: Mussed hair Other Warnings: AU, I made her a bit younger. Word Count: 2907 Summary/Description: From the first time she saw him, Narcissa has had an absolute adoration for Lucius’ hair. Author's Notes: Many thanks to my beta readers and to my cheerleaders. This was a fun one to write and I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed working on it. ( love is a splendid thing )
dd_mods, posting in
daily_deviant @ 12:00pm: Kinky Kristmas Fic: The Running of the Deer (Luna/magical beast)
Kristmas Wish Fulfilled for: pre_raphaelite1From: A Wonderous Watcher! Title: The Running of the Deer Characters/Pairings: Luna/ magical beast Rating: R Kinks/Themes Included: Bestiality, dub-con, voyeur!paintings, The Carol of the Bells. Other Warnings: Bloodshed, death of a non-canon magical creature, voyeurism, pagan themes. Word Count: 1723 Summary/Description: Near Yule, Luna goes investigating the legendary Horned Ones. Author's Notes: I claim no ownership over either the canon characters/settings or the non-canon mythology in this story ( The Running of the Deer )
dd_mods, posting in
daily_deviant @ 12:00pm: Kinky Kristmas Fic: Language of the Wolf (Remus/Severus)
Kristmas Wish Fulfilled for: r_grayjoyFrom: A Wondrous Watcher! Title: Language of the Wolf Characters/Pairings: Remus/Severus Rating: NC-17 Kinks/Themes Included: dirty talk Word Count: 1,475 Summary/Description: Remus talks dirty and they both like it! Author's Notes: many thanks to my beta s and e! Many, many thanks to the mods for having the fest! ( Language of the Wolf )
dd_mods, posting in
daily_deviant @ 12:00pm: Kinky Kristmas Fic: Pansy's Twelve Days of Christmas (Pansy/Draco, /Blaise, /Theo)
Kristmas Wish Fulfilled for: thiliaFrom: A Wondrous Watcher! Title: Pansy's Twelve Days of Christmas Characters/Pairings: Pansy and various combinations of her, Draco, Blaise, and Theo. Oh and a little surprise at the end. Rating: NC-17 Kinks/Themes Included: spanking, body modification, breath play, multiple partners, triple penetration, cross-dressing, deep throating, semi-public/public sex, double penetration, shibari (bondage), dub-con, angst, voyeurism, dirty talk (slight), non-con (attempted) Other Warnings: Word Count: 3300 Summary/Description: Every Christmas, Pansy helps her boys live out their sexual fantasies; this year, she's been inspired by a theme. She just almost forgot about herself in her plans. Good thing, her best mate hadn't, especially when everything fell apart. Author's Notes: I tried to get all the kinks/themes you requested in as well as a few more with the concept I came up with for your gift. I hope you enjoy the following piece. Happy Holidays. ( Pansy's Twelve Days of Christmas )
scribbulus_ink, posting in
lupin_snape @ 11:18am: RL/SS in other fests
 Weekly round-up of RL/SS stories and art found in the other fests I'm following this month: HP Yule Balls, Harry Holidays, and Kinky Kristmas. If anyone is following other fests and spots some RL/SS, please feel free to do the same! Stories:Far OutCharacters/Pairings: Sirius/Severus/Remus Rating: NC-17 Kinks/Themes Included: gender bending, first time, threesome, double-penetration Word Count: ~4300 Summary/Description: Sirius, unable to resist tormenting Severus, hits him with a spell that turns him--briefly--into a girl. It's Remus to the rescue when things don't go back to normal as quickly as planned.
scribbulus_ink, posting in
lupin_snape @ 11:06am: Rec round-up
 Just wanted to remind everyone who's reccing Snupin Santa fest stories that I'm collecting recs here on LJ and here on IJ. So far, five stories and two artworks have qualified for inclusion in both the Daily Snitch and Snape News newsletters! Please post rec links in the comments of the posts listed above so I can keep track of recs more easily, and if you'd include the title of the work(s) you're reccing, that would be really helpful as well. Thanks!
snupin_santa, posting in
lupin_snape @ 10:56am: Story: Fits and Starts, for dungeons-master
 Title: Fits and Starts, for dungeons-master From: Your Secret Snupin Santa Summary: Severus survived an Unbirthing Venom. . . mostly. Rated: Gingerbread & Cocoa (PG) Warnings: cavalier attitude towards Book 7 canon (i.e., handwaving); hints at past child abuse Beta: an absolute angel with the patience of a saint (she checked this three times!) Word count: 14463
celandineb, posting in
cels_fic_haven @ 9:25am: Star Trek drabble: Everything's All Right [Kirk/McCoy, general]
 Title: Everything's All Right Author: celandinebFandom: Star Trek XI Pairing: Kirk/McCoy Rating: general Length: 100 words Warnings: implied sex Summary: The morning after the night before. Note: For inell, who wanted Kirk/McCoy, "boot." ( Everything's All Right )
snapelyhols_mod, posting in
snapelyholidays @ 2:12am: art for sealcat 'A Problem Of Scales' (Snape/Harry/Charlie)
  Art for: sealcat
Title: A Problem of Scales
Artist: to be revealedPairing: Snape/Harry/Charlie Rating: R Media: Pencil and paper Warnings/Kinks: highlight between brackets if you prefer story warnings: [ some nudity in the last bit] Summary: For some reason, Snape is part-dragon... Disclaimer: The world of HP and its characters belongs to Rowling. The artist has borrowed them for the purposes of storytelling. No profit was or will be made. ( Art for sealcat )x-posted to DreamWidth & LiveJournal
musesfool @ 1:16am: i got a little story you should know
 \o/ 1240 words! I'm not done, but the end is in sight! Woo! And now I must go to bed, because I am up way too late. *** This entry at DW: http://musesfool.dreamwidth.org/108421.html.  people have commented there.
Current Mood:  jubilant
Current Music: one for my baby - frank sinatra
17th December 2009
musesfool @ 10:22pm: i had sex with your wife
 Friday Night Lights( spoilers )I love this show so so much. I can't believe that it consistently gets shut out of awards, because it is pretty consistently (early season 2 aside) head and shoulders above most other shows on television. Sigh. *** I came home from work tonight and took a nap. I haven't done that in ages (I mean, okay, a few nights ago I fell asleep on the couch, but that wasn't planned - this was planned). I also ordered in, something I don't do very often anymore either. I got my period this morning and it's freaking freezing out. I felt I deserved both. Also, my new comforter arrived. I haven't had a new one in ages. I still love my old (fifteen-years-old) black comforter with the lilies on it, but I needed something new and this one is pretty. Hopefully it's warm, too. I'm not going to put it on the bed till my period's over, though, just to be safe. *** This entry at DW: http://musesfool.dreamwidth.org/108070.html.  people have commented there.
Current Mood:  mellow
Current Music: Absolute Beginners - The Jam
snupin_santa, posting in
lupin_snape @ 9:25pm: Story: The Investigation, for shadowycat
 Title: The Investigation, for shadowycat From: Your Secret Snupin Santa Summary: Remus lies in a mysterious coma at St. Mungo's. After all the usual remedies fail, Severus is brought in to investigate. Bitter from many disappointments, Severus is surprised when what he learns about Remus challenges his preconceived notions. Rated: Gingersnaps (PG13) Warnings: AU in that both Severus and Remus survived the war Notes: Happy Holidays! Many thanks to my wonderful betas (to be named later), who are responsible for all the good parts of the story. Disclaimer: The world of HP and its characters belongs to Rowling. The author of this fic has borrowed them for the purposes of storytelling. No profit was or will be made. Word count: 9730
snegurochka_lee @ 8:31pm: smutty_claus Recs
 I need to take another reading break and finish writing something if I want to post it before the end of the year. Which I really, really do. But reading is so much easier! :/ Well, anyway, reading has prevailed over writing this week. Ah, well. :) I've got a few of the longer smutty_claus stories bookmarked, but here are some one-shots I've loved so far. Throwdown by Anon (Harry/Tonks, NC-17: Tonks-lives!AU, 5K) Voldemort had been a piece of cake compared to fighting a pretty girl.PAIRING WIN! I was just talking to a friend about how we slashers love to keep canonically dead women dead and resurrect the men (which I do all the time myself, so no judgement there), but it's lovely to see the reverse for a change. Tonks survived the war, and several years later, she's Harry's physical combat instructor in Auror training. Winning set-up before I even tell you another word, right? :D They are each wonderfully characterised, and I especially love Harry's narrative voice as he tries to talk himself out of a raging crush on this 30-something family friend, mother of his godson, training superior, and overall super hot, fit, awesomesauce woman. Ride the Drafts in Empty Bedrooms by Anon (Snape/Narcissa, NC-17, canon character death, implied infidelity, 3K) Severus is well aware that some of his housemates tend to turn to the liquid comfort of Firewhisky and gin after being so totally rejected; it is now his turn to turn to the sweet assurances of liquid luck.This is one of the only Snape het ships I can handle, and when it's done well, I really like it. I mean, HI, Unbreakable Vow, anyone? a;lksjf. This short fic does a nice job of switching between a school-age timeline and an HBP-era timeline, and I really like how the author characterises both Snape and Narcissa and develops the chemistry between them. I also really like the style of writing here; I can't really explain what's different about it, but it has a nice, fresh feel, with some well-placed parenthetical asides and streamed-in dialogue and oh, IDEK what I'm talking about. It works, though. :) A Little Sideways by Anon (Cedric/Luna, NC-17: Cedric-lives!AU, 9K) Cedric was never as dead as everyone thought. All he needed was one person to see him.This one had me at the summary. :) It's a lovely, romantic tale about a boy who died and might have become a ghost (or might have come back, except no one can see him but Muggles), and a girl he used to know a little bit who spots him one day and slowly brings him back to life. Sort of. It's a universe only a character like Luna could make work, and the way it unfolds is nothing short of beautiful. I also decided it's part-meta on minor characters like these in general in fic: all it takes is for someone to 'see' them. ;) Upon the Midnight Clear by Anon (Draco/Hermione, NC-17, 4K) Years after the war, things have changed. Hermione meets Draco at a Christmas party and goes home with him to make a little music.This might be a horrible, back-handed sort of compliment to give, but it took me a few tries to get into this one. First of all, unless you're one of maybe two authors I can name off the top of my head who excel ridiculously at it, I probably won't be on board for your first-person narration right off the bat. Second, I, ah, had some trouble with Hermione in the first few paragraphs. BUT! But! I was intrigued enough to keep reading, and by the time Draco enters the scene, I was completely hooked. A bitter, broken-hearted Hermione is actually pretty kick-ass by the time she loops her arm into Draco's at a Christmas party and starts chatting him up just to make a philandering Ron jealous. I was rooting for her the whole way. Draco, meanwhile, is quiet, charming, and there is a passage about his relationship with his son that melted me into a puddle of goo. It's a great set-up and has a lovely follow-through. If you're wary of first-person the way I am, I recommend plunging in and letting yourself sink into the POV. It's really nicely done.
Current Mood:  cheerful
celandineb @ 6:16pm: Oops!
 Forgot to say, got a delightful card from aome today - thank you!
Current Mood:  embarrassed
celandineb @ 6:14pm: It's that time again...
 Job searching time, that is. ( Job search stuff )( Not much else today )Today's 3fan_holidays fic was a gen PotC piece featuring Jack and Will (plus others). Today's drabble from me:
Current Mood:  accomplished
Current Music: George Winston - Carol Of The Bells
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