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Fanfic Recs!

Sun, 09 Jan 2022 21:38:34 GMT

I got to spend some time reading fanfic again, though could hardly make time for all the brilliant-looking Hoggywarty and rarepair winter exchange entries this year that look interesting - most of them do look so worthwhile! You creators have really outdone yourself this year, and the recipients must feel so lucky! Some hits from the ones I've gotten round to reading, most of you have probably already read them, but if you haven't:

Fanfic:
The Perfect Gift (Minerva McGonagall/Severus Snape, 8441 words, PG), which is a truly magical ghost story about a Christmas gift, a family curse, and these two rather private adult characters slowly and respectfully falling for each other. Read this, you will not be sorry.

Rest your Dream in My Dream (Minerva McGonagall/Severus Snape, 9k words, T/PG), is an excellent Minerva/Severus fanfic which tells a post-war story about how Minerva and Severus became a couple with flashbacks to relevant past interactions. You won't regret reading it if you haven't already!

and an honourable mention: Lit Match (Alecto Carrow/Lily Evans, ~2k words, R) by phantomanto , which is a very interesting take on this unusual pairing which they still manage to make work well.

Art:
Rejoicing (in the Greenhouse)- an illustration for an equally excellent fanfic (The Longest Night) set in a greenhouse.

Art for Reawakening - a delightful gifset illustrating the visitors to Severus' bedside illustrating the fic of the same title

What a good ending to last year and start to this one!

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Fic: If Only In My Dreams

Sun, 09 Jan 2022 12:08:41 GMT

Title: If Only In My Dreams

Rating: Gen

Word Count: 1393

Characters and/or Pairings: Minerva McGonagall/Severus Snape, Robert McGonagall
Prompt: Christmas Eve will find me/Where the love light gleams/I'll be home for Christmas/If only in my dreams
Fest: Written for 2021 HP Mini Fest
Summary: It has been thirty years, but as a familiar scent brings back sudden and unbidden memories, Minerva finds herself grieving for a past she believed gone.

AO3 link

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FIC: We wish you a merry Christmas (Petunia/Severus)

Fri, 24 Dec 2021 09:07:52 GMT

Title: We wish you a merry Christmas
Pairing: Petunia/Severus
Rating: R
Warnings: Underage characters having sex
Word Count: 2270
Prompts: rarepair_shorts: Festive Fun Fest: We wish you a merry Christmas
Summary: It's Christmas, Petunia has decided to give herself a present and she (to her horror) has chosen just the person to do this with - he who, 1) her sister considers to be hers, 2) won't be believed if he tells tall tales, 3) does not go to her school, and, most importantly, 4) makes her skin tingle whenever she touches him.
Author's Notes: Merry Christmas, everyone, and stay safe. Thank you, crockywock, for being my beta.

We wish you a merry Christmas (AO3)

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FICATHON: An Occasion (Minerva McGonagall/Madam Malkin)

Fri, 30 Apr 2021 19:30:43 GMT

Title: An Occasion
Pairing: Minerva McGonagall/Madam Malkin
Rating: G
Word Count: 2155
Summary: Of course she had seen her before, Minerva McGonagall, she had been two years below her, but the last time Talia had seen her, she’d been all elbows and knees, too tall to be graceful, her face flecked with red spots as she shouted bloody murder at the person who’d knocked the bludger into her.
Author's Notes: This was written for the rarepair_shorts numbers game, and great fun!

Link to AO3 because my cut keeps being eaten.

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COMPLETE: FIC: The Great Spattergroit Lockdown of 2000

Thu, 23 Apr 2020 19:56:33 GMT

Title: The Great Spattergroit Lockdown of 2000

Rating: Gen

Word Count: 11470

Characters and/or Pairings: Minerva McGonagall/Severus Snape, Andromeda Black Tonks, Arabella Figg, Aurora Sinistra, Filius Flitwick, Irma Pince, Neville Longbottom, Penelope Clearwater, Pomona Sprout, Portrait Phineas Nigellus Black, Rubeus Hagrid, Poppy Pomfrey, Septima Vector, Sybill Trelawney, basically all Hogwarts staff apart from Rolanda, who gets to stay home.

Summary: With Hogwarts in lockdown, the Hogwarts teachers have to come up with a way of teaching the students.

Complete Fic on AO3

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FIC: The Great Spattergroit Lockdown of 2000, Chapter 1/6

Tue, 21 Apr 2020 12:54:23 GMT

Title: The Great Spattergroit Lockdown of 2000
Rating: Gen
Word Count: 2159
Characters and/or Pairings: Minerva McGonagall/Severus Snape, Andromeda Black Tonks, Arabella Figg, Aurora Sinistra, Filius Flitwick, Irma Pince, Neville Longbottom, Penelope Clearwater, Pomona Sprout, Portrait Phineas Nigellus Black, Rubeus Hagrid, Poppy Pomfrey, Septima Vector, Sybill Trelawney, basically all Hogwarts staff apart from Rolanda, who gets to stay home.
Summary: With Hogwarts in lockdown, the Hogwarts teachers have to come up with a way of teaching the students.

Chapter 1/6 on AO3.

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Lockdown Fest!

Sat, 21 Mar 2020 18:33:27 GMT

When life gives you a pandemic...

Lock Down Fest is a non-anon, self-posting, multi-ship and multi-fandom mini fest focusing on a twofold theme: a. Isolated Together, and b. Quarantine/Covid-19 related. LDF will run from 20-30 March 2020.

It's lockdownfest on tumblr and also on Ao3.

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Check-in post

Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:03:20 GMT

Good morning, everyone! I hope you are all still doing well.

I'm a teacher in home office, so I've got a large pile of exams here to keep me company and students e-mailing me questions to make me feel like I'm working. Other than that my natural state already is self-isolation so not much changed, which is kind of making me rethink my life style choices.

I've taken up a knitting project and I'm learning how to Morse Code. What pursuits have you taken up to keep you busy?

if you feel lonely, why not go over and check in on the Covid Coffee Corner.

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Two days in and I still can't wrap my head around it

Sun, 02 Feb 2020 20:25:33 GMT

Somehow, I'm still pretending this is not real in my head. I feel a lot like Ian McEwan, who writes, "Brexit, the most pointless, masochistic ambition in our country's history, is done".

I still cannot understand voting yourself away from a union built on the rubble of a wartorn and divided Europe, a union based on solidarity, freedom, human rights, and peace. A union in which historic perennial enemies became friends and wars became unthinkable.

I'm trying to cling to my hopes for Scotland.

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Picard (no spoilers)

Mon, 27 Jan 2020 16:17:50 GMT

I am home sick. A tummy bug my daughter brought home which nobody got knocked me flat, so I should listen to my body when it tells me to stay TF home and get some rest.

I had a very pleasant weekend, though, with watching Picard, which turned out to be surprisingly unhorrible. What I had missed dearly in ENT and the eternally godawful Disco is finally back - something approaching an ethical backbone within a universe that is again closer to Trek than Wars inspite of the Blade Runner influence.

Even though I enjoy a good morally grey character, I'm heartily sick of their ubiquity. Not everything needs to be dark and gritty, visions of utopian societies are permissible now as necessary as before. Utopias, even though they always become Dystopias when they are out-dated, show us what we can dare to hope.
And I'm saying this as someone who does even not exist in Gene Roddenberries original utopia. Anyway, rant over, I had a good time and enjoyed watching Patrick Stewart as much as ever and will be very unhappy once the dark-and-gritty-crown mess this up, as they do.

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FIC: Home, Adrift

Tue, 21 Jan 2020 12:10:24 GMT

Title: Home, adrift
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 9597
Characters and/or Pairings: this is mostly a story about Severus and his father, but there is Severus Snape/Minerva McGonagall, past Severus Snape/Lucius Malfoy, Tobias Snape/Eileen Prince

Summary: Professor Snape was dead, and Severus was alone. He did not mind. He was adrift, unmoored. It was difficult to feel professorial in Cokeworth. It was difficult to feel anything but out of place. Not that he had ever fitted in. He walked up and down the high street for hours, not even getting suspicious looks from the other people. This was not an area where grown men in funny clothes walking up and down high street aimlessly in the middle of the day got funny looks. This was not the kind of place where people looked at one another at all.

Author's Notes: I did a thing. There were several things floating around my mind when writing this. Mostly how I think it is unfair that working class fathers seem to be portrayed as violent substance abusers more than middle class parents, and the fact that I can see Severus having developed his precocious and excellent Occlumency skills early on as a defence mechanism when dealing with an abusive Legilimens. Also how much of Severus's life is spent doing what other people tell him to. So, this happened. Thanks so much Crocky, for bearing with me.

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