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snarrymod (snarrymod) wrote in snarry_games,
@ 2009-08-04 20:42:00

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Team Snitch Entry (FIC): "Sex, Lies, and Audiobooks" by RaeWhit
Title: Sex, Lies, and Audiobooks
Author: RaeWhit joanwilder
Team: Snitch!
Genre(s): Alive and Kicking (EWE)
Prompt(s): Secrets and Lies, Coming Home
Rating/Warnings/Kinks: NC-17; Highlight if you wish to know: * *mild bondage, whipping, There is a 213 word scene in this 48,000 word story that describes a non-Snarry aborted one-off. As it has offended someone, I'm adding this warning.**
Word Count: 48,000+
Author Notes/Disclaimers/Betas A/N: The village of Lochdubh and its inhabitants in this story are the property of BBC Scotland (from the series Hamish Macbeth). All things Harry Potter belong to J.K. Rowling et al.
The snarry_games have the best Mods in fandom—they've worked so hard for years to give all of us such a supportive environment in which to play—thank you! Also, my heartfelt appreciation to jadzialove for the excellent beta reading, to whitecotton for help with Scottish-izing my Scottish, and to sestra_prior for her assistance with British questions. Team Snitch, thanks for your input, your team spirit, and your love of Snarry. It's been a privilege and honor to cavort with you all and wield my big stick. Lastly, I'd be remiss if I didn't express my appreciation to Rudyard Kipling for his masterpiece, Captains Courageous.

Summary: Belonging and deserving, needing and wanting—desires of the human heart that Severus and Harry must face when they're forced to the little village of Lochdubh to settle a very late codicil of Albus Dumbledore's will.

"Sex, Lies, and Audiobooks"

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holdyourspin
2009-08-05 06:32 pm UTC (link)

When I saw the length, I bookmarked this story into a Read Later folder and somehow it wound up at the top of the list rather than the bottom so when I had time today to spend reading, it's what I came across first. It's likely it would have been a month from now, or longer, before I read it otherwise, but I'm so glad it's what came up.

This is such a lovely story. I have a real weakness for stories where people who are lost wind up found, maybe because I don't really think it happens like that in real life (or it hasn't for me, anyway - I really identified with this Harry, I think especially because I'm going through one of my, you know, quarterly... bi-monthly... whatever crises of omg I'm 28 and have gone nowhere and have no plans or means to get away from it) and would like to think that it could happen. In any case, I suppose it's a good thing to have a weakness for because so much literature is about growth and personal change.

Anyway. I'm babbling. I suppose I don't really know what to say, except that I enjoyed this story and was touched by it and despite my general disbelief that life ever does fall together quite like that I didn't find it unlikely or particularly hard to believe while I was reading it. I've always enjoyed the stories you write, and this is no different.

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joanwilder
2009-08-05 07:19 pm UTC (link)

There was a time in my life when I felt like Harry, sort of paralyzed by the inertia of my life, not a clue how to jump-start it. I guess that some people in those circumstances pull themselves out by the bootstraps, or at least make a change or two that proves to be the catalyst to getting out of their slump. But for Harry (and myself), it was fate that sort of stepped in and gave the kick in the arse. Still up to him what to do with it, I guess, but his needs and desires formed his response to the new revelations in his life. It really can happen. As for waiting for something to happen, well, it gets tiresome, and I suppose for some people it never really does happen, so a risky thing to wait for. Probably safer and wiser to make your own destiny, or at least try to nudge it in the right direction.

I'm glad you ended up reading the story, and I appreciate so much your unique and thoughtful comment. I hope things in your life do fall together for you, though. :)

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