The Lupin/Snape Lurve Community

Hello! First, how is snupin_santa going for you all? We're just at the mid-month comment drop-off, which I know is the fault of all these darn holidays (*wink*). If you're reading without commenting, please consider leaving a "Thanks!" or "Looked at this" or "Enjoyed" or any other little response to what you read or view for the rest of the month. You could help combat some of the comment drought to come and make a creator very happy.

Also, if you're rec'ing, even if it's the gift for you, please let McKay know here on IJ or here on LJ. We haven't had many gifts make the newsletters, which is a shame, as we've usually had several appear in them before this time in years past. You don't have to get fancy to post to McKay's round-ups; a pasted link to the rec and the title of the gift will be fabulous!

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December Calendar Art
by sandywolf


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Isn't it cute? I love the bold colors!
As always please feel free to leave Sandywolf comments here or at her journal.

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Many of you remember aleoninc, right? Well, she's been having computer problems, but did see the 10-year Anniversary celebration for Snape/Lupin and wanted to contribute.


( She says [posted with permission] )

What a sweetheart, right? I made two icons from the art. Please feel free to take or make your own!

As always, you can leave aleoninc comments on her art here!


The Crack_Broom, an HP recommendations community, has a free-flying month this December. That means you can post one rec this month for anything not already rec'ed in the past, fic or art. If you are not already a member of the community, you need to leave a reply on the free-flying post saying you want to be added. I believe your rec post will then be queued and approved by the mods. Form for rec'ing Art or Videos. Form for rec'ing stories.

Lupin/Snape is not a regularly rec'ed pairing anymore, but it might return to monthly status some day, especially if we continue to sign up for "Featured Pairs" and make a strong showing in open months like this one. My only suggestion is that you avoid recommending anonymous art or stories because the creators will not be able to respond right away and you might forget to go back and edit the post. Free-flying month is a great way for a new rec'er to try posting a rec. Consider it a dry-run if you're signed up to rec in the community and have never done it before. Finally, you don't have to make your one rec Snape/Lupin. It just would be nice if there was more than one Snape/Lupin rec in December. ^_^


The Year-Long Challenge: A Decade of Snape/Lupin continues! Remember to post before the end of the month if you're in the running for the entire year. If you'd like to contribute to the challenge without committing to a post each month, feel free to post at any time and use the "project: a decade of ssrl" tag!


Fandom-related news: If you have a Delicious online bookmarking account, it looks like it is going to be shut down soon. I know many of us use Delicious for rec lists or as personal bookmarks. There doesn't seem to be many helpful "here's what you can do to move on" posts yet, but you can export your bookmarks to an HTML file at the very least in the meantime.


So, lots of graphic treasure for everyone, reminders to give the gift of comments and the decade challenge, and a fandom-related heads-up. All in a day's work for a mod. Have a wonderful holiday or break to everyone who is getting one. And happy End of December and New Year to everyone else! *hugs community*

love, lore

Have you seen our Snape/Lupin 10-year Anniversary and Year-Long Challenge? If not, check it out!

October Halloween Week Calendar art by littleblackbow

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I know this is coming pretty late in the month, but it will be offered again next year as a 2011 desktop choice. littleblackbow did a wonderful job, so I hope you will all leave her comments here!

I am taking general Snape/Lupin images for 2011 from now until the end of the year.

Instead of sign-ups and deadlines, I am making an open call for 2011 images. You can add a calendar to your image and set a month for it, just be aware I might receive more than one calendar for a certain month and will be putting up all I receive for that month. Offering an image also means you're giving permission for the image to go into an ongoing library of desktop calendar art for future years. I'm imagining that the day will come, maybe even this year, when we won't be able to drum up 12 separate images.

If you have participated in a previous calendar and would like your art to enter the ongoing archive, please drop me a note in some fashion (reply here is fine). I'll eventually try to contact everyone personally who doesn't contact me.

It would be nice to have all the images by the end of the year, but if you're running late or suddenly inspired, I'll accept work at any time from now on (although I hope you are managing your time so you can create art for the Snupin Big Bang Art Focus-hee!). If anyone (or more) wants to produce desktop images for the year-long challenge, please feel free!

Spooky Snupin ends on Halloween!

Snupin_Santa new participants have a deadline coming up on Monday!

I'm loving the late Fantasy Fest entries, and I have started to look for my lists on my hard drive so we can get the Master List up soon.

love, lore

For Fantasy Fest 2010 news, see below.

We have no challenge this month, but we do have a volunteer activity:

If you would like a Snape/Lupin icon or banner or other graphic element, and you have some details in mind (words, images, etc.), leave a reply here with details and/or links. People who know how to make icons/digital art are welcome to keep an eye on this post and fulfill the requests.

I'll try to post reminders, but I am one harried mod this month. If anyone wants to start discussions or put up some candid captions or something else, please feel free!



If you would like to leave pennswoods comments on her wonderful art, please reply to this post or visit her journal!


whitestar/whitestar_alpha (IJ/LJ) made this year's Fantasy Fest participants banners and icons. She is a lovely, enthusiastic participant here and I hope you'll not only use her gifts, but let he know what you think of them as well. You can respond here if you like or visit Whitestar's journals.


I'm putting these up and trusting you all to be on the honor system when choosing to use these. If you haven't posted your piece at all yet, please wait to take a banner or icon. If you've at least put up a chapter and intend to finish, go ahead.

The Masterlist for Fantasy Fest will not go up until October sometime, so if you're still working on yours, you're in the grey zone. Fantasy Fest is officially over for this year, which means participants are now welcome to repost their work or archive it (like at Moonshadow).


Some links from around the journals - remember, you can always share a Snape/Lupin link with the community, whether it's your work or not.
Ficlet by Celendineb
Drabble by Celendineb
Beanstalk NSFW art by Didodikali
Thin Excuses 1850 NC17 words by R_Grayjoy
On the Desk NSFW art by Zephre


Heads-Up (meaning this is all tentative): We are planning an Art Big Bang for the early Winter/Spring. I am resisting calling it Snupin BLU 2: Art Boogaloo.

Artists: We will be looking for your original, finished Snape/Lupin pieces. A limit has not been set yet, but we will likely allow 1-3 pieces. A single piece can include a comic or image sequence. Deadline likely to be mid-February, but this heads-up is for anyone who wishes to start now.

Writers: There will likely be at least a 5000 word minimum, one writer per piece, first come, first served claiming. Writing period will be mid-February - March 31 (I hope!). The word count is high because this is a Big Bang - the idea is to encourage quality work.

Art and stories will be archived at the Snupin Big Bang site. Remember, if you make an account at the site, you will have some control over your work there and be able to respond to comments. Work would be postable/archivable elsewhere 1 month after going live. You are likely going to have to join one of our ninja locked snupin communities to work on this Big Bang.

I'm making this early announcement so that artists can begin work whenever they have time this fall and writers can make room in their schedules this spring. I don't have any other details, but if you have questions, please ask them because you may bring up an issue we'll have to figure out. An official announcement will probably come sometime in November, after most exchange deadlines.


Annnnnd that's all I have for now! If you have any comments or questions, please let me know. Otherwise, expect McKay to run our October Fest, which I believe she will begin late this month. I'm still around, still available; I'm just utterly pressed for time and the ability to concentrate so please don't be alarmed if it takes a few days for me to get back to you. I hope this post will be spammed with comments and requests for icons, though! ♥ all of you!

love, lore

OK, doing this quick because the power just went out and we won't remain connected long.

The Snupin Remix has been underway this week. Posting will continue for the next two weeks, M-F, with weekends off for catching up. Here are the tags for both IJ and LJ:

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/lupin_snape/tag/exchange:+remix
http://community.livejournal.com/lupin_snape/tag/exchange:%20remix

If you post any Remix recs on your journal or other journals, please reply here with the title and links. If we get three for any one Remix piece, I can send it off to the newsletters as a hot rec.

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As always, if you have comments for the artist, please leave them here!

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LJ's Crack_Broom is having open reccing this month. If you'd like to post just one rec there that hasn't appeared on the community before, this is your chance!

The only community challenge for this month is to view and comment on and possibly rec Snupin Remix pieces. Please, support the artists and authors who are still creating new material for our favourite pairing!

I am considering a fantasy fest, with prompts gathered and claimed this month for posting next month (July). Yes or No? Please reply!

And that's all I have. Stay safe, everyone! ♥

love, lore

Finally I've made some blank wallpaper calendars of my NaNo calendar (per lore's request =D) in a few different sizes. Also, one different Nano-sized wallpaper and a simple blank one which can be resized easily for any resolution.

Lastly, the loverly LoreLore made some icons! *fwee* Feel free to take and use. ^_^ Everything Under the cut! Happy Halloween everybody!

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The Snupin Calendar is a two-year offering, July 2007 - June 2009, in both colour and greyscale with slash images rated up to a hard PG-13. There are no references in the calendar to anything canon-specific. Calendar art is owned by each artist and cannot be used in any other form without permission from the artist.

Colour 11x17	Grey Scale 11x17	Colour 8.5x11	Grey Scale 8.5x11
This version is for professional printing This colour version will print on both sides of 11 x 17 paper to make a calendar you can properly staple and fold for use. It is set up head to head, 26 pages duplex (13 sheets) full color, stapled and drilled - if you take it to a printer, you should tell the printer the underlined parts.	This version is for professional printing This greyscale (black and white) version will print on both sides of 11 x 17 paper to make a calendar you can properly staple and fold for use. It is set up head to head, 26 pages duplex (13 sheets) greyscale, stapled and drilled - if you take it to a printer, you should tell the printer the underlined parts.	This version is for viewing/home printing This colour version will print on single sides of 8.5 x 11 paper and will be most useful for people with personal printers.	This version is for viewing/home printing This greyscale version will print on single sides of 8.5 x 11 paper and will be most useful for people with personal printers.

You can also try "fit to page" in the print dialog box for any of these versions if you wish to make a calendar that prints both art and month on one 8.5 x 11 sheet or on European paper sizes.

All the files are in .pdf format. You can download Adobe Reader for free here, which opens .pdf files.

Please be aware, when printing, that the image colours, full-colour or greyscale, will vary by printer. You should print test pages and adjust accordingly.

Calendar artists are now welcome to post their art, and I very much hope all of them will at least put a link here for people to use for direct feedback.

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And...that's it. If you have any questions, I'll try to address them and will add them here as ETAs if needed. However, some technical issues, you might have to work out on your own.