Rec Event: 4 fic, 1 art
Long time lurker delurking!
Can't believe we've already had more than 50 recs for this event. I'm fairly certain I'm not duplicating any, my apologies if I am!
Title: Lost Feeling Author: Minx Length/Word Count: ~ 10,000 Rating: NC-17 Author's Summary: After Sirius is sent to Azkaban, Remus tries to cope. Eventually Snape helps. Rock ’n roll, drugs, and sex, in that order. Very angsty. First time story. RL/SS (RL/SB implied)
This was the very first Snupin I ever read and stumbled on it while looking for Lupin in the Lost Years stories. I'm not sure why this story sticks so strongly in my mind, but I still occasionally go looking for it, several years after I first read it. This story is one of a long series, the rest of which are not Snupin.
Title: Still Life Author: The Treacle Tart Length/Word Count: ~ 8500 Rating: M Author's Summary: Severus Snape takes some pictures and sees things for the first time.
The second Snupin story I read. It sticks with me due to the vivid imagery. It was very easy for me to see the photographs described by the author.
Wizard's cameras allowed the photographer to recreate an entire scene. Replicas of the individuals whose images it captured could wave and smile and interact with the person viewing the picture. All this Muggle device did was capture a simple still, and what good was that? Was a picture that could not move truly worth a thousand… anything? Snape thought haughtily. What could be so special about this apparatus that the Creevey boy would cry upon its removal? Snape picked it up and re-examined it. He would just have to find out for himself.
Title: Methods of Suicide Author: jedirita Length/Word Count: ~ 7000 Rating: PG Author's Summary: A post-final-battle fic with plenty of H/C and angst (Lupin as the comforter). Snape has little reason left to live accompanied by mental/emotional/physical infirmities, and now the holiday season and everyone else getting on with their lives is making it worse. Lupin is one of few who notices. Warning: Discussions of suicide
A 2006 Snupin Santa entry that felt all too real. Not a cheerful fic, but ends with hope. The last few paragraphs are some of my favorite writing.
Title: A Troublesome Transition Author: McKay and Arionrhod Length/Word Count: ~ 62,000 Rating: PG Author's Summary: For Severus Snape, death proves not to be the end, but rather a new beginning as he takes on the office of Death, adjusting to his new position with the help of some familiar faces and a ghostly assistant. Pre-slash. Inspired by Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality series. This story is a canon-compliant Afterlife story.
A fairly recent offering from McKay and Arionrhod, this pre-slash story is a lot of fun to read and I loved the cameos of the other witches/wizards that are the incarnations.
Finally, I wanted to rec a piece of art. This piece is an illustration from a BLU story that was rec'd earlier this month: The Chemical Wedding of Albrecht Grindlewald.
Shadowycat's art is very realistic figures drawn in pencil. (A style I've tried and failed for years to accomplish.) But really strikes me about this piece is all the wonderful detail she put into the piece. Albus, in particular, is very well done.
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