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This year brings some changes!

Our own severed_lies will host the SNARC contest here, and
our own janus will host the monthly challenges and make the banners.

I'm still preparing the birthday party for our boy over on severusbigbang, and after that I'll make an effort to pretty up the asylum, make the rules a bit clearer and maybe get up to some other mischief. Oh, and there was something else... what was it?

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Right! Your banners! I'll make all the banners I owe you. ;)

Happy New Year!
Well, it's been a while, but it's time for me to get back into Friday Fic Recs...

Today's offerings are all from snupin_santa. I haven't finished this year's snupin_santa reading - hell, I'm not even half way through yet, but here a few that jumped out at me. There may be considerable overlap with geri_chan's recs, as I' ve been using her recs and those of r_grayjoy as starting places for my own reading.
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Kinky Kristmas Fic: Taking Advantage (Severus/Sirius)

Title: Taking Advantage
Characters/Pairings: Severus/Sirius, James
Rating: NC17
Kinks/Themes Included: Wanting someone you don't want to want, hate!sex, dub-con
Other Warnings: First time
Word Count: 2295
Summary/Description: Sirius has long wanted to pound Severus, and now he has a chance to do so.

Link to fic:
http://asylums.insanejournal.com/daily_deviant/243599.html#cutid1

I've been broadening my horizons with a short fic or two over at Daily Deviant (longer ones or multiparters, I've been bookmarking for later), and ran across this one. I'm not normally into this pairing or the kinks listed, but it was short so I gave it a try. I thought it was really well done. :) Head the warnings, though!

Just wanted to let everyone know that the Snupin Santa stories are being posted this month, and you can find links to the fics under the Snupin Santa tags on IJ and LJ. There's a wide range of stories, with more yet to come, and I'm sure that anyone who enjoys Snupin can find something to their liking. I haven't had time to read them all yet, but I am able to make a few short recs:

I ended my last with:

We are totally misjudging Lily based on the “The Prince’s Tale.” Because these were never meant to be Severus’s memories of Lily.

They’re his memories of what went wrong between them.


I want to clarify this last point. And then I’ll be done, really, for quite a while.

( Most of us )

This month, we'll take it easy.

Recently, someone told me that there'll be a fest for Severus' 50th birthday on the forum Why Snape?

(It may be an alternative for those of you who don't want to participate at our Severus Big Bang Birthday Bash fest. Why Snape? isn't affiliated with us nor am I in any way involved with it.)

And in that sense I borrow the question:


Tell us what draws you to the character, whether you find him interesting, love him, admire him or why else you are hanging out on a Snape site.

And enjoy the busy holidays.

(I did not forget your banners. They will come. Whistles innocently)

Here’s another thing I’d like to drag out from the depths of Sailorum’s Snily post-and-commentary for independent attention.

Most often, when I read something by someone with a viewpoint strongly different from mine, it clarifies my understanding of how they view (or misinterpret—evil grin) canon, but it has a hard time altering MY view. But sometimes someone offers an insight that just reverses things for me.

The insight that Lily almost certainly was a prefect in SWM altered my perceptions of her behavior very negatively.

However, one of Sailorum’s responses to a comment has the exact opposite effect on my view of Lily in the Mulciber/Potter argument. Like 00sevvie and others, I’d felt Lily to be cold and distant in that scene, not responding like a true friend, for not expressing overt sympathy and horror over her supposed best friend’s near-murder (and for thinking Mulciber’s failed prank, whatever it was, on a par with death-by-werewolf).

But I see now that I was falling into the old trap of assuming that what I knew, a character knew, and judging them on the basis of my knowledge. (Just like all the fen who think that OF COURSE Snape knew all along that the Dark Lord was an Evul sociopath—I mean, it’s obvious in retrospect, right? How could Sev not have known at 15 that this Dark Lord wizard was Bad News?) I’ve been committing that same sin with Lily.

( For here’s )

There was one comment I wanted to pull out from the recent Lily threads for separate discussion.

I’m glad Hwyla pointed out that Lily almost had to have been a prefect in SWM. I’d been wanting someone to bring that up.

Warning: Lily-bashing ahead. At least I can't come up with any way to have Lily look good in SWM if she's really a prefect as well as Snape's supposed best friend.

( Is it credible )

I posted a long (10,000+ word) rambling essay on the Dark Arts, Dark Magic, Dark wizards, and the inconsistency with which these various terms seem to be used in the WW on my lj: “Dark Magic Doth Never Prosper.”
http://terri-testing.livejournal.com/28365.html#cutid1

What is relevant for looking at “Severus and the Dark Arts” is the central distinction I made: that the portrayal of Dark magic in the Potterverse lacks coherence partly because different groups in the WW are actually using the adjective “dark” in different, and sometimes mutually incompatible, ways.

To recapitulate my main argument (so no one here has to wade through my interminable babble to understand what I want to say about Severus): I posit that in the British WW there are at least three distinct groups applying the adjective “Dark” to magic with different meaning. (Cut here for those who don’t want to read the original.)

( The first group )

Which brings me finally to Severus.


( The Dark Arts are a POWERFUL )

totalreadr requested that I post my extensive Severus and Lily thoughts here on Snapedom, as a meta essay...so here they are (I hope nobody minds, considering the recent kerfluffle). This can also be my response to the December '07 challenge. ;)

( Feel free to skip this if you're tired of reading and/or talking about Severus/Lily...I'm not judging ;) )

SNARC has been quiet, but never fear, it isn't dead.
Next year, severed_lies and  janus  will be cooking up new SNARC challenges and serve them here.

For now, however, I invite you to a

...how long have you been around here now?

IGNORE THE TROLL!

What do you expect if you link to such an article on HP Essays and want to discuss it?
Randomneses has been here before, didn't like it, and went elsewhere, fair enough.

We want to talk about Snape stuff undisturbed here, they want to do their stuff elsewhere, let them. There will always be a few who can't respect this. This, here, is not a general Harry Potter discussion group. It is a group for Snape fans, where Snape fans can be reasonable or not, whatever they prefer. This is not a place for 'the enlightened' to come and tell us how delusional we all are.

But don't fall for the trolls and let yourself be provoked.

The rules demand that anonymous posters sign with initials or a name.
Those who don't, may be new here, and can be reminded kindly. If they still insist on posting anonymously, they are trolls by default who are too cowardly to wank in the open.

Do you really want to react to their drivel? No? Thought so...

No, I won't turn anonymous commenting off. It would leave several of our friends out of the loop, and no troll is worth that.

(I've turned the comments off here, because I'm too busy at the moment to discuss and explain why some posts are wank and others aren't... please, those of you who've seen this before, remind people on the threads to ignore the trolls.)

It's Friday morning here in Australia, and I'm reccing this essay:

http://randomneses.livejournal.com/479704.html

It's about the Snape/Lily pairing, and why there's so much Lily-bashing (apparently) that goes on in the Snapefen camp. I don't entirely agree with it, but it's thought-provoking,to say the least.

I look forward to hearing what other members think!

Alison

Title:A Part of Me
Author: PhantomTF
Pairing/Characters: Professor!Snape/Student!Snape
Rating: Chapters range from G to NC-17.
Category: Angst
Word Count: 70,200, or 153 pages in Microsoft Word
Warnings: character death, brief torture, dark themes, sex between two men who are essentially the same person, teacher/student relationship
Disclaimer: The boys are not mine, only this crazy tale is
Summary: A Potions accident splits Snape into two people - a dour professor and an angsty rebellious teen. Both must now coexist at Hogwarts and in a time of war.
Author's note: I’m certain some variation of this concept has been done before, but hopefully at least the story itself will be original enough to please.

This story is AU, replacing the events in Half-Blood Prince and Deathly Hallows. I will make reference to items, events and concepts that came up in Half-Blood Prince and Deathly Hallows – they will be altered to fit into this new storyline, but there are still possible spoilers.

Although the majority of this story is PG-13 at best, there are definitely some NC-17 scenes as well.

“Snape” is usually used to refer to Professor Snape, and “Severus” is usually used to refer to student Snape.

For anyone who is squicked by a sexual relationship between the two Snapes, I will be posting an expurgated version on Fanfiction.net at some point.

Chapters can be accessed through my LJ account, or at http://phantomtf.livejournal.com if that link does not work.

Feedback is always wanted!

Took a break from fic writing today, to try out some different shipping options for Severus (just for the heck of it). My fevered brain happened upon the idea of Snape/Tonks, thought it would be amusing, and went in search of fic. Found some and some art too...they amused me greatly (I LOL'd at the fic - go read it, it's funny), so...I share. :)

Title: Whine
Characters: Snape/Tonks
Author: kerrymdb
Prompt: wine
Rating: T
Genre: humour
Word Count: 1,800 words
Summary: Being stuck in a dark wine cellar with a beautiful witch is most men's dream. But Severus Snape is certainly not most men…
Author’s Notes: Set during Order of the Phoenix. This was written for [info]colourful_bat's Winter Solstice Challenge.

Link to teh fic: http://kerrymdb.livejournal.com/306454.html#cutid1


Here's some art (it's really cute, and there's some Snupin in there too): http://xterm.livejournal.com/118721.html#cutid1

Enjoy fellow Snapers, and if anyone has any favorite Snonks recs, please do lay them on me. ;)

I recently emailed Bloodcult of Freud to ask if there was any chance of “Seven Preposterous Things” being finished. The author pled real life and other writing, but also said, “The dwindling feedback was a factor in the stalling of the story.” You have to join Digital Quill to leave a review (which wasn’t always the case--as I pointed out to BcoF a possible reason for dwindling). However, you can, as I belatedly realized, email BcoF directly with feedback. It’s a marvelous AU (from the end of HBP)—featuring Severus/Hermione and Draco/Millicent. Great characterizations (Millie is the best, but they’re all good), wonderful dialogue, an interesting and different Pureblood culture, a plot that twists from hysterically funny to tragic to sexy unexpectedly… really you want to read it. And having started it, you will, really truly, need to see it carried to completion. So go read it, and then let Bloodcult know you’re not content to be abandoned. BCoF’s own warnings on the story were:
Dark Comedy and Angst. Graphic Sex, Character Death, Pimples, Gore and Unflattering Characterizations.
Not a one of which were inaccurate. So now go read. Or reread. Bloodcult of Freud, Seven Preposterous Things
http://www.digital-quill.org/viewstory.php?sid=754

I was watching a programme on television tonight (Misommer Murders) and was struck by the young actor playing the local poor-but-honest farm boy about to marry the squire's daughter. I took down his name as the credits rolled, it was Mel Raido, who I'd never heard of before. He's an English actor who has been in a few films in the past few years.

Have a look at this piccy and tell me if this is, or is not, young Severus Snape? Perhaps just after leaving Hogwarts. Or is he too pretty? Anyway, he's my Friday rec, LOL!

http://cache4.asset-cache.net/xc/84411188.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=17A4AD9FDB9CF19346E4C5E9CA07326129FE0D26A3E303DAB01E70F2B3269972

Alison

This was too long as a reply, so I thought I'd post it as a mini-essay:( Read more... )