Friday fic news

[vulgarweed]

1) Misc. I have received my Worst Case Scenario Survival Handbook Challenge scenario. It involves proper procedure for ramming a barricade with a car. Imp of the Perverse that I am, I'm wanting to interpret this for the one fandom I write in where cars don't exist. (Now, a thoroughbred racehorse can get up to 35 - 45 mph, yes? I'm sure a meara or a Fell Beast could manage it easily...)

2) Good Omens: I've almost finished a draft of "Breathless Mouths May Summon", a sequel to "Amid the Sacred Wreck," set in Constantinople and Jerusalem in the 12th century. (It's almost twice as long. Gah.) I'm excited about this new development: quantum_witch, having already done illustrations for three pieces of mine, suggested that since we were de facto collaborating anyway, why not make it official? (And there are elements of this story that were at her suggestion as well). So she gets to see it first, and then y'all get to see story and artwork together.

3) Harry Potter: I have a real hankering for a story about Severus and Minerva, after the events of HBP. (Whether this is a hankering to read one or write one I'm not entirely sure yet, but they're hardly mutually exclusive.) Anybody got one? Doesn't have to be shippy or smutty or anything like that, although it's fine if it is.

Comments

[bethbethbeth.livejournal.com]

Two people wrote SS/MM stories for my birthday:

musesfool: The Only Truth That Sticks

meri_oddities: Endings.

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

Yaaayy! Thank you!

[maureenlycaon.livejournal.com]

Wow. What an incredible idea for a challenge! Almost makes me want to break my personal vow not to get involved in any more challenges until I finish one or two of the stories I've got now . . .

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

It is great, isn't it? So much more to bounce off of than the usual pairing challenges, etc., can be.

[quantum-witch.livejournal.com]

I feel so special :D Gavotting on pinheads, I'm so excited!

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

You might want to check close_contrast for the HP stuff. I know that there were a few good post-HBP stories posted.

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

Done, joined. Thank you so much!

[divinetailor.livejournal.com]

buhsputter...

you meant Minerva always secretly loved Severus?? holy handgrenades, Batman! i...wow. takes some getting used to, but...hmm.

heh.

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

Well, not necessarily....I had a great deal of fun in the "Ravenous" series writing them as close friends who understand each other all too well to make any of that romance stuff plausible at all (despite his wishes when he was much younger). I shipped Minerva and Albus in that one.

But they're both so interesting, there's so many ways you can read them...

[divinetailor.livejournal.com]

i was referring to the GO HBP-reading ficlet you put up after the release. "she loved him, i knew it," or whatever you wrote precisely...

at first i thought it was Albus you meant, and i thought that was sensible. i know you shipped them in "Ravenous," which definitely would be my logical choice. but the funny thing is, i noticed that, in HBP, when Minerva "swayed dangerously" it was immediately after she was told that Severus killed Albus. she seemed much more genuinely shocked even than Remus. was it just that she shared Albus's unwavering trust of Severus, or was it a deepseated need of her own to trust him, for personal reasons? i'd never thought about it or about Minerva's own emotional connections to any of the other faculty. but in canon it's definitely true that she and Severus have a kind of rapport. there is a mutual understanding.

interesting stuff. very, very interesting.

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

i was referring to the GO HBP-reading ficlet you put up after the release. "she loved him, i knew it," or whatever you wrote precisely...



Oh, hahaha, I get it now. Yes, in that story that is what I meant. Albus, I mean. (Or at least that's what Aziraphale thinks - opinions of characters not necessarily representing those of the authors and all...:D)

There's a wonderful, sad story by amberdiceless, here that deals with Minerva's feelings about losing both Albus and Severus at once - how that balance they had as Dumbledore's right and left hands is gone now and she is all alone. (It's also one of the very first post-HBP fics I ever saw--note how quick she was on the draw!)

I definitely agree that she took the news hardest of all. She was certainly more shocked than Remus or anyone except maybe Hagrid. I think she trusted him both because Albus did and because of reasons of her own. But I also have to wonder how much she really knew, or suspected.

[amberdiceless.livejournal.com]

Hee! Thanks for the plug, sweetie! I think I wrote that one at, like, three am the night the book came out. Had to set the record straight, you know. ;)

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

It's so wonderful when stories do that. And rare. I think it holds up very well. And sets the record straight, indeed. It's all but canon to me now.

[divinetailor.livejournal.com]

*waaaaahhh*

me too. this is truly perfect. yes. i would like to hug you very much right now.

Writing One On The Fly

[catherinecookmn.livejournal.com]

The gray-haired man on the park bench looked as if he'd hadn't bathed in a few decades. His rumpled trench coat, his grime-stained fingers, the greasy sheen of his fingerless gloves, all bespoke extreme filth.
But this didn't make him any less attractive to the pigeons waddling around his feet, pecking at the crumbs left over from the rock bun he had just eaten.

Nor did it seem to deter a small tabby cat who padded, swiftly and silently, up to him.

The man lifted an eyebrow. "Why haven't you killed me yet?" he whispered.

Severus, came the reply, a brief sussurus in his mind.

Minerva? When did you...?

Albus taught me.

Oh.

There was silence, both physically and mentally, for a second.

Then... you know why?

Yes.

I see. An audible sigh from the man on the bench. Well, you certainly know how to guard your mind, so I suppose I can trust you to keep a secret.

Of course, dear.

And with that, the cat jumped up sprightly into his waiting arms.

Re: Writing One On The Fly

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

Aw.....oh WOW.


How sad and beautiful.

Re: Writing One On The Fly

[catherinecookmn.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

I keep thinking of Snape in terms of Kurt Vonnegut characters. In this case, he's Howard W. Campbell from Mother Night.