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!

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.

I made some festive Minerva/Severus icons from a fireplace gif I had seen online several times and which I now stole from found on a site selling oil and firewood here.

I realise that it is hard to tell that it's them at all, but here the icons are, anyway, for those of you who might like them. 

Preview: 


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I usually check art tagged "Minerva" once a month to find pieces for DownyThistle, but since I'd taken a break from posting, I missed out on some great works that I'd like to show you here, too. 

To start us of, this is a must see: 


Minerva and Irma by ~Johny-and-Mary on deviantART 
I love the colours and their expressions. Perfect. 

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Yes, I do have too much time on my hand now that my exams are over, what gave me away?  Sorry about the spam. 

Title: Avada Kedavra.
Characters: Severus Snape, OC
Rating: PG-13
Credits: lightning by *redheadstock, Severus by *senshistock, muggle by ~dazzle-stock. 
Summary: Severus Snape using the Killing Curse on a muggle woman.
A/N: I believe Severus Snape killed during his DE days, though I respect other readings of the character. Though this is, as always, not very explicit, I put this behind a cut because I believe it can still be potentially upsetting. 

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Title: Keeper. 
Characters: Minerva McGonagall, Wilhelmina Grubbly-Plank.
Rating: G. 
Credits: Like a magpie. Corner brushes by =Eterea86, Pose references for Wilhelmina by ~BlooDoveStock here, Minerva by =Kxhara here - would have been lost without them, the limbs were all over the place in my reference-free attempt. Birds by ~WingsOfAHero here.
Summary: Minerva and Willa spending some time on the quidditch pitch. The latter is not the greatest flyer and lost her broom, but Minerva is there to help. 
A/N I think that the placement of my goal hoops is non-standard. Sorry about that!



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Title: Minerva's Life.
Rating: G
Credits given in posts for individual images 
Characters: Minerva McGonagall, her family, Severus Snape, Albus Dumbledore, 
Artist's Notes: My version of Minerva McGonagall's biography from before birth to her seventies from 2010. I never got round to posting these, but here they are now. I'm not happy with all of them anymore and surprisingly happy with others in hindsight.
Anyway, here they are, each is a click-through link to the entry with a larger version. 

Title: Family.
Characters: Tobias Snape, Severus Snape, Eileen's broom and cloak.
Rating: G.
Credits: Tobias by *SenshiStock, Severus by ~Struck-Stock, grass by *charfade, birds by ~WingsOfAHero and texture by `cloaks.

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Title: Son.
Characters: Eileen Snape, Tobias Snape, Severus Snape, Death Eater of your choice.
Rating: G.
Credits: official Dark Mark as a reference here and *sarahebear-stock stock image for the Death Eater.
A/N: Another companion drabble that explains what is going on here. Apologies for the bad quality. 


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Title: Favour
Rating: G
Characters: Remus Lupin and Severus Snape.
Credits: Wolf: ~MoonsongStock here, Severus: *SenshiStock here, Trees: ~Winerla here. 
Summary: Lupin never remembers what he does or does not do in wolf shape. Severus does not mind that at all. 

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This is a fairly unorganised collection of really great SSMM pieces I really like, and mostly a calicogoat fanpost. Some of them are quite old and you've probably seen them all already, I'm also not very articulate in my fondness for these amazing pieces and they deserve a better introduction than my uncoordinated squeeing, but they're all worth checking out. 

( One: Duellers )

( Two: Losses )

( Three: Lovers. By ~Calicogoat.  )

Also noteworthy is ~hellanim's  beautiful 12 Pictures from Snape's Life in beautiful monochromes with a dash of red and ~calicogoat's Flight of the Goldfinch which has Minerva and Severus battling a dragon on a flying machine and what could be more awesome than that?