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For Meta Month last November I wrote an essay on why I like stories where Snape and Lupin adopt a child. I thought it would also tie in nicely with the ongoing Family Fest. I won't repeat the entire essay, although you're welcome to click on the link and read it, but I thought that I'll go ahead and post my list of adoption recs here, expanded to include a couple of new recs and some Teddy fic and art.

Title: Retired Nature - Chapter 3
Author: Ehmaz

Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Snape/Lupin

Summary: Post-war, the Light has won, and Snape finds himself on a farm that's falling apart and with no money left. Enter the ever-destitute werewolf!

Disclaimer: Not my characters or universe, making no money.
Warnings: None. (yet?)

Notes: Pimping this for Ehmaz who is gifting me this fic because I beta'ed her fic Moonshadow and this one as well. She is too busy writing more chapters to do it herself. I requested a post-war AU where the Light wins and Snape uses up all his money to buy a farm where Lupin is coerced into helping him (optional: a barn full of magical creatures and a pet).



Retired Nature - Chapter 1
Retired Nature - Chapter 2
Retired Nature - Chapter 3

REMINDER: The Deadline for the Snupineer Funtime Activity Project is April 1! One update since the original post: I need an answer key with all puzzles and trivia questions. If you already sent one without an answer key, please follow up with one.

You might remember that I asked for people to get their offerings in early, and it's still not too late to be considered an earlybird. However, if April 1 comes around and you're close to having something done, please do contact me, rather than letting the work go.

Right now, the project file is quite thin, and there has only been one piece of art turned in for colouring, so if you've been debating whipping something up for this anniversary project, please go ahead and do it! In case anyone missed it, most of the links I gave took you to web sites that would create games or puzzles based on your inputs. And if you want to be different, a quick search of your idea plus "creator" or "maker" might help you find other game-generators.

Thanks to everyone who turned in files for the project early. If we never get another piece in, what we have already will be lots of fun! Remember, this is all in celebration of lupin_snape's 5th Anniversary on the web.

I'll try to be around in YM and chat this weekend if you have any needs or questions. It's all right to leave me off-lines or questions via email as well.

love, lore

The Family Fest is open now until April 30. All kinds of creative and meta pursuits are welcome (and we've already seen some, huzzah), and there are no minimums or maximums on the length or size of an entry.

In the spirit of Family Fest, one of our memebers, jiapa, has decided to make her participation in the fest a donation challenge. I'll let her speak for herself here:

"I'm not a writer. I'm a reader, and a rather voracious one. I especially like Snupin Family stories, so I'm delighted to see this fest, and anticipate lots of fun reading, where I benefit from the fruits of all the writers' (and artists') labors.

I want to contribute in some way."

What she has decided is to donate $5 for every contribution to Family Fest, up to $200. What Jiapa would like is help from potential contributors in deciding where to send her final donation. After her initial thoughts on where to send donations, I made a few suggestions. Again, I will use her words:

"I've been thinking about what you said about international charities. All of the four I originally listed are through donorschoose.org, which is an American charity (at least for now). It has a very cool premise, which is that school teachers post what they want, the charity authenticates that they come from an impoverished school and figures out how much it will cost to get the teacher what they want. Donors choose a particular teacher's request from their website, and when enough donors have chosen a particular project, the charity buys the stuff the teacher wants and gives it to the teacher. Then the teacher is expected to write a thank you note and, if possible, get their students to also write thank you notes, and these notes are sent to the donors.

I picked four projects that supported literacy, since that's something that's important to me. OTOH, health is also very important to me, and I don't feel strongly between any of these charities, so it'd be great if the Lupin_Snape community choose."

Now we come to the reason I am making this post, instead of Jiapa - I have poll-making abilities! Hee! Please note at this time, this is not a mod post, just me helping to facilitate an incredibly generous, inspiring offer. If you'd like to read our entire exchange for more information, it's here.

What follows under the cut is a poll with choices on which charities Jiapa is considering donating to, and a question of who the donation should be contributed to. If you're considering submitting to the Family Fest this month and would like to help Jiapa choose, please click the cut and fill out the poll. Only mods and Jiapa will see your answers. I left the "other" for "which charity" to replies so that if one proves to provoke discussion and seems popular, Jiapa can consider it.

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