quick rec

Lots of great stuff showing up in the lupin_snape Fantasy Fest. One of my favourites so far is rian219's All the World Drops Dead, as it plays to a number of my particular kinks (post-War survival, Snape and Lupin extraordinarily good at what they do, things left unsaid and unanswered...).

Excerpt:

England had not been the place for Severus Snape after the war, pardon or no pardon; across the channel in France was not either, or in Italy, or anywhere where Albus Dumbledore was called friend. So he went further, into the Eastern Block, into countries where the countryside was harsh and inhospitable, and life was too hard for anyone to care a whit who he was or what he'd done, where his name was not synonymous with murderer and no one spat at him in the street.

In other ways it was perfect for him as well; extremes of climate always meant rare plants, elusive animals, potions ingredients that in previous times would have cost him a fortune to procure had he not been doing so in his capacity as Potions Master. Now that he had no such capacity, it was convenient for him to frequent places where with a little knowledge, a lot of cunning and a smidgeon of physical effort he could get what he wanted and not have to pay for it at all.

drabble meme

Via schemingreader:

The first 10 people to comment on this post get to request a drabble on a subject/character of their choosing from me. In return, they have to post this in their journal.

I'm going to tweak this a bit, given that the majority of my readers aren't fic writers: you don't have to propagate the meme if you don't feel comfortable drabbling on demand. I would love it, though, if you would spread the love in some other fashion, such as, say, posting on ten things you relish about fandom, or ten dishes you'd serve at a fandom cocktail party, or listing ten fics you've reread more than twice. Cool? Cool.

Fandoms: Dark is Rising, Harry Potter, Sherlock Holmes, Wimsey/Vane, and Stephanie Laurens's Bar Cynster series. (Actually, I don't even know if that last really counts as a fandom yet, but I suspect I'm going to succumb to the urge to write something about Lady Osbaldestone before the year's out.)

Also, it may take me a week or two to generate these, since I'm still in the throes of waltzing with hippopotami stomping on darlings deboning and reassembling the plotbunny du semaine. It's not unlike stitching together a turducken, in that it's slippery and multilayered and only someone demented would be trying to fashion a meal out of it. And yet, here we are. *rueful grin*