Some oldies but goodies dragged out from the bookmarks. Some of these you may have read - all are extraordinarily good.
EDIT: I've just realized that I've posted my Friday recs on SATURDAY! *blush* Sylvana (or co-mod) should I remove this post?
Snarry:
The Cinnabar Sling by![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
dingochow. I haven't seen many stories written by dingochow, but those I have seen are brilliant. This is no exception, an AU with the most marvelously snarky, snarly misanthropic Snape, known as the Spider.
At the time, the head of IT at Not Groom Lake was a tall, skinny guy with a long greasy black ponytail and really huge nose. People called him the Spider, and he was a Brit. He was also about five kinds of genius, and famous even at NGL, [...] as the most ill tempered, sarcastic, polysyllabic bastard on the place.
The Spider didn't like boys. Not officially. What Spider liked was men, men fairly close to his own age, say between thirty and fifty or fifty-five, men who were just as jaded and kinky as he was. No soppy stuff, no wide eyes gazing up at him in admiration, no sexually charged hero worship or passionate eagerness to learn. Spider liked pickups and casual meetings, or, at the very most, he might tolerate what the younger generation called "friends with benefits". He certainly didn't want to be anybody's first time, much less his first love. Talk about scarring some poor innocent little bastard for life.
Spider was a piece of work, but even he wasn't that much of a jerk.
Do read, this fantastic, compelling, brilliant, sexy story.
Whispers of Intent by tira_nog. Although written some time ago (for the 2006 snarry olympics) this story is well worth reading. Tira_nog's Snape is uniquely vulnerable, without being in any way weak - and her snarry is divine, showing how Harry effortlessly brings down Snape's barriers. Wonderfully sexy stuff - tira_nog's Snape is memorable.
Snape/Draco:
And for an entirely different flavour: Illuminations de Noël" byfemmequixotic. Not my favorite pairing, except when written by femmequixotic. This is brilliantly wonderful writing, among the best I've seen - absorbing, lyrical, bitter-sweet, moving. The writing is hypnotizing - it's pace and melody is such that the reader is totally drawn into the protagonist's experience, immersed in the emotional journey. Wonderful - I can't recommend this one highly enough. It is brilliant!
EDIT: I've just realized that I've posted my Friday recs on SATURDAY! *blush* Sylvana (or co-mod) should I remove this post?
Snarry:
The Cinnabar Sling by
dingochow. I haven't seen many stories written by dingochow, but those I have seen are brilliant. This is no exception, an AU with the most marvelously snarky, snarly misanthropic Snape, known as the Spider.At the time, the head of IT at Not Groom Lake was a tall, skinny guy with a long greasy black ponytail and really huge nose. People called him the Spider, and he was a Brit. He was also about five kinds of genius, and famous even at NGL, [...] as the most ill tempered, sarcastic, polysyllabic bastard on the place.
The Spider didn't like boys. Not officially. What Spider liked was men, men fairly close to his own age, say between thirty and fifty or fifty-five, men who were just as jaded and kinky as he was. No soppy stuff, no wide eyes gazing up at him in admiration, no sexually charged hero worship or passionate eagerness to learn. Spider liked pickups and casual meetings, or, at the very most, he might tolerate what the younger generation called "friends with benefits". He certainly didn't want to be anybody's first time, much less his first love. Talk about scarring some poor innocent little bastard for life.
Spider was a piece of work, but even he wasn't that much of a jerk.
Do read, this fantastic, compelling, brilliant, sexy story.
Whispers of Intent by tira_nog. Although written some time ago (for the 2006 snarry olympics) this story is well worth reading. Tira_nog's Snape is uniquely vulnerable, without being in any way weak - and her snarry is divine, showing how Harry effortlessly brings down Snape's barriers. Wonderfully sexy stuff - tira_nog's Snape is memorable.
Snape/Draco:
And for an entirely different flavour: Illuminations de Noël" by
femmequixotic. Not my favorite pairing, except when written by femmequixotic. This is brilliantly wonderful writing, among the best I've seen - absorbing, lyrical, bitter-sweet, moving. The writing is hypnotizing - it's pace and melody is such that the reader is totally drawn into the protagonist's experience, immersed in the emotional journey. Wonderful - I can't recommend this one highly enough. It is brilliant!