Three short fic recs from the H C Fest

These are three fics from the h/c fest that will make you cry, laugh, and go, "Whoa" respectively. First one is adarog 's Paperwhites, FRAO, Giles/Joyce. The sex doesn't make the pain go away, but Joyce is determined to make things last. This is a sequel to Chrysanthemums , which antennapedia rec'd here previously, and it will break your heart. I might be biased because this was written to my prompt, which was, "Giles/Joyce during her illness," but it's beautifully written... read more

Clearly, I am never going to get my s**t together and do a proper fic recs post again. Apparently, I took that as a challenge to myself, and decided I did in fact have 6 or 7 spare hours over the course of the weekend in which to draw up a list of reading pleasures for you. And I feel really weird because I didn’t agonize over this post for a week, rereading and rewriting my commentaries until I was sure they were perfect. I just said whatever came to mind. With frightful speed! Hopefully whatever...

[Note: Oh Lord this took forever, as in the better part of six hours.  I kept tripping over more stories in my bookmarks...and then I decided, I'm on a roll anyway, why don't I add in some EXTRA STUFF ...and YEESH.] Since I only started looking about four months ago, if that, some of this is new and some is old, but this is the stuff I've been carrying around in packets (the binder got unwieldy) for weeks, reading and rereading.  Probably half of these were gotten off other peoples' rec lists...

isildurs_babe wrote one of my all-time favorite Snupin stories for the Snupin Santa exchage this past December, "Nevermind the Buzzcocks." I love alternative, non-magical reality stories, and I particularly grooved on this one, which set Severus, Remus and the set of whole Marauders' era characters in late 1970s Manchester. Snape makes an intense leader for a punk band. The humor in the story, the sound of the dialogue, the amazing Snape characterization, all just completely blew me away...

thesnapelyone is such a good writer. She often writes an uncompromisingly nasty Snape who is vulnerable, witty, and amusing. Tonight she has a story up at the severus_lucius comm that I don't generally frequent, but I saw the story on one of the newsletters. There are only three comments up there right now, which means you are probably not reading the story, and I know that when you read it you are going to laugh your head off. "Romantic Entanglements" --rated PG-13 for a little...

Mind the Gap by elanor_isolda (NC-17) Harry starts his work at the Kings Cross office of the Department of Magical Transportation and soon has to find out all about the horrors of bureaucracy. If it weren't for Snape, who he shares an office with, his days would be even bleaker, eaten up by tedious paperwork. I love the authenticity of the story and the way it combines the magical atmosphere of the King's Cross of the books with a humorous take on the daily annoyances of office work...