pervy snape-fancier

Happy birthday, lilyevans_snape!

I be a sneaky pirate ninja. I've been biting my tongue about this for several days instead of hinting, even resisting the considerable temptation when you remarked on the Sev/Reg drabbles about "Christmas come early". Hee.

Title: Cold Hands, Warm Hearts
Pairing/Characters: young Professor Severus Snape, Aurora Sinistra; brief mention of past Severus/Lily
Genre: Gen? Friendship? Whatever the het equivalent is of "pre-slash"?
Rating: PG
Words: ~3600
Summary: Oooooo, Severus, I think she likes you!
Warnings/Contains: Unbetaed, unBritpicked, not as snappily witty as my usual fare (hah! hear that? that's the sound of one's own horn tooting), just a random bit of fantasy I tried not to think too hard about (but still failed in some places; you know me).


( Cold Hands, Warm Hearts )

Snarry 3 by ~Umino-aka-Morskaya on deviantART

So sweet. I love Severus's glasses and apparent age and the contented familiarity in him ruffling Harry's hair.



Connichi 2009 - poking Snape by ~HowellJenkinsSama on deviantART

There are some other photos of this interesting Snape cosplay as well. Normally I would say that nose prosthesis takes it over the top into slightly cruel caricature, but somehow it really brings this particular costume together.



The Long Road by ~TGP on deviantART

I loved the moody colour and how a frightened child grows into a sullen teenager, a disaffected adult, and then a total mystery with his back turned to the viewer. Very simply drawn but quite effective.



The Banes of Her Existence by *Vizen on deviantART

This made me LOL IRL. Just look at Severus and Minerva's poses and expressions, and Albus's drink with the umbrella! Poor woman, being headmistress and sharing an office with those two...

( ten fic recs behind the cut: gen, Severus/Lily, Harry/Draco, Severus/Harry, Sirius/Harry )

for tjwritter, an absolutely shameful amount of time after her actual birthday: Five Things Lily did with Severus that she would never do with James. ( Read more... )

Since I've already gone and violated taboos today, here's something else that contravenes several of what I have deduced to be the commandments of fanfic:

1. Thou shalt have thy work betaed (at least if it's over a certain length).
2. Thou shalt have thy work Britpicked (where applicable).
3. Thou shalt not post WIPs unless thou dost not mind losing a lot of thy possible readership (the many who refuse to read WIPs until they're completed).

I just want to seem like I'm doing something, yeah?

Title: Lost Causes
Characters/Pairings: this part Lily/James talked about, Sirius/Remus hinted at, Severus, Regulus
Rating: this part PG
Words: this part ~3100
Summary: Second chances are all well and good, but sometimes things really are lost. Maybe. Depending on your definition of "lost".
Warnings: As said above, unbetaed, unBritpicked, and WIP. Future parts will contain both slash and het, strong language, and drug use.

( Lost Causes )

things i'm gonna do (G)
A seriously gorgeous drawing of Regulus with the locket. I mean like wow.

Snack (PG for silly kissyface)
*sporfle* Yeah. Snack: it's kinda like that.

Severus HBP (G)
Apparently mostly lighting practice, but I like the moody atmosphere and young Severus's (he looks maybe 12-13 to me) morose expression.

The First Wand (G)
G for Good God That's So Cute, that is. Little Lily and Severus getting their wands.

Snape, memories (G)
Just a simple sketch, but I love his melancholy expression, and the shape of his nose is oddly beautiful.

At the Top of the Hill (G)
Severus kneeling on that dark windy hilltop, offering Dumbledore "anything". All the fine lines give this the look of an engraving. His cloak and hair being whipped about in the wind are wonderful.

Boys Night In (NC-17 and very NWS)
Severus/Sirius/James: it tastes better when it's consensual (at least that seems to be the intent). acatnamedeaster has a gift for pleasured facial expressions, I think. I dare you to look at Severus's face and his hand grabbing the sheet and not drool. (Also: Sirius, lol get a hairstylist.)

(abandon fic! abandon fic!)

Some abandoned drabblish things. The first two are from the same prompt set as the one Make-Believe came from, but I'm not keen on these.

( Forgetfulness )

( Wars )

( Mistake )

( Presents )

ETA: Gosh, a link would help, wouldn't it?
The Place That August Brings

This is my second gift in the less_for_you exchange. (So I guess that gives away that I wrote two fics for it -- insert guesses here. I think I totally fail at anon, but perhaps others are not familiar enough with me to recognize what I see as a blindingly obvious prose and, especially, punctuation style.) Here slightly-edited is the comment I left:

I posted about this when I saw it in the mod journal on the 13th. At the time I was hard-pressed to describe how it made me feel except by writing extemporaneous poetry:

it is October, and dark too soon
in the dregs at the bottom
of that barrel called summer.
the breeze from the window
was warmer at first, and now
too chill too fast after sunset;
but it is this faded photograph
and not that wandering wind
that's set a shiver in my skin.

I enthusiastically adopted this out of the exchange orphans because I loved it so much. I adore the sort of fairy-tale quality to it; it's got hints of a kind of Charles de Lint - urban fantasy thing going on. I feel like I'm looking at a dusty abandoned playground, listening to a tale being told to me by an old woman who once played there, and seeing and hearing ghosts of the children she's telling me about. It also reminds me of finding hidden places on the grounds of the summer camp I used to go to as a girl, and all the magic stories we used to cook up about them.

For the header art, I think I like Lily best, the shape of her hair and the bright contrast of the color with the blue of her top. Severus's patched clothes are cute too!

This fic packs a lot into its 2000 words. Go thou and read, but not too fast (says she of the 300-400 wpm) -- let it creep in your mind like a mist.

Title: Make-Believe
Characters: Severus, Lily
Rating: G
Word count: 100
Warnings: Excessive cuteness.
A/N: 13drabbles alpha set prompt #4, "Make believe".

( Sev, what do wizard children do when they play make-believe? )

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I have a whole file folder full of random fic prompts gathered from various places, which I hardly ever, you know, actually use for anything, mainly because most prompts just earn a blank stare from me as my brain totally fails to serve up any expansion on the idea. (This is what I mean by "not a writer.") I know I don't have the discipline to actually follow through on any silly promises like "look at the literally hundreds of prompts there and pick one, just one measly little one, every day and write a drabble with it", but, hey. I did one last night. Since they are young children here, I thought maybe a series, one per year, kind of thing, but I'm sure I'd be foolish to say "I'm going to try that" because it would never happen.

Title: Hums are Things which Get You
Rating: G
Characters: Lily Evans, Severus Snape
Word count: 782
Summary: Lily is captivated by the rather unlikely idea of Severus singing and finds that the thought makes studying rather difficult. Set in the spring of their fourth year.

( Pale gold sunlight filtered down... )

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( Some further a/n since this is the post in my own journal )