| I say, old fellow, the hunt is on! Come, Watson, we have Wizards to battle... |
[Sep. 12th, 2009|06:17 pm] |
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The last gingertart fic to be posted was in the Snarry Games 2008 Getting Familiar. The muse then went AWOL. Now she's back, although God only knows where she got the inspiration for this. It was an experience to write, I have rarely had such fun in my life.
Team: Snitch
Genre(s): Fandom Crossovers and Literary and/or Historical
Prompt(s): Code of Honour
Rating/Warnings/Kinks: PG; None
Word Count: ~ 56,500
Summary: From the private journal of John. H. Watson MD; not intended for publication. Being an account of the strange case of the Fourth Deathly Hallow; in which Dr John H. Watson and Mr Sherlock Holmes save a life, discover the true secret of Professor Moriarty, unravel a time loop or two, encounter a femme fatale, imbibe potions, break into and out of a wizarding mansion, hide in a male brothel, go shopping, track down a magical artefact, almost attend a ritual sacrifice, fail to be Obliviated and totally ignore the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy of 1692, all in the company of a lank-haired, irascible but secretly besotted schoolmaster, a bemused aristocrat and an increasingly perceptive and enamoured young hero.
The Fourth Deathly Hallow is now up at the Snarry Games 2009. Beware, this plot-bunny is a big bastard. It had me by the throat a couple of times and it took the combined efforts of LeelaCat, Lesyeuxverts, Klynie and WhiteCotton to beat it (and my stray punctuation) into submission. Thank you, ladies, your help was invaluable. |
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| Snarry Games fic rec |
[Sep. 7th, 2009|01:18 pm] |
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Another wonderful fic and a very, very long and satisfying one this time - Anachronism by Starcrossed. A mystery (a very big one with some minor ones lurking around in it) which is solved at the end in a stunning and unusual way, a gradually evolving relationship with angst in parts but an ending that made me happy, some great details and well-written other characters, including Ginny, but the best thing about it is Snape. He is wonderful, in that fierce, protective, articulate, bitter, emotionally repressed and damaged way that we all love. Harry is very well realised too but it is Snape who makes this fic so good, Snape in all his snarling glory. Go and read about him and vote and comment! Even if it is for the Other Team. Bah!
(I Brit-picked this fic and at almost 100,000 words, a fic has to be good to get me read it twice in a few weeks; in this case it was a pleasure.) |
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| Snarry Games rec! |
[Sep. 2nd, 2009|02:34 pm] |
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Today, it is grey and damp and cold, and I have a day off work so a bloke could come and fix my washing machine, and I wondered if there would be a good fic in the Snarry Games. A mug of hot chocolate and a nice comforting Snarry, I thought.
Comforting? No. Heart-wrenching, brilliant and compelling, yes. Rook Castling Kingside by WhiteCotton is the latest offering from Team Snitch and boy, is it stunning! An emotional roller-coaster ride, with a clever use of flash-back and subtle twisting of canon, a wonderfully real Lucius with humanity as well as pride, relationships that need only a slight tweak away from canon to sent the story careering along a parallel path towards triumph or tragedy and descriptions to die for.... seemingly throw-away words or lines that resonate long after I finished reading. Clouds, broken doors, Harry asking Snape, in seemingly simple innocence, if Snape was a copy of his own father, since he obviously believed that Harry must be like James, forcing Snape to rethink everything about him.... Snape's relationship with Albus, and the palpitating delicacy of Snape's friendship with Lucius, their communication carried out in hints and the angles of their gaze. This is a DH-compliant classic and I loved it. |
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| SNARRY GAMES! |
[Aug. 23rd, 2009|02:24 pm] |
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RL - Exams, puppy, malevolant household appliances, new job applications - thank Merlin there are the Snarry Games to escape to! I'm in Team Snitch but I just have to rec some Team Cauldron art and fics as well, because they are so good. Heh, mea culpa.
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| Reccy sort of post |
[Aug. 9th, 2009|02:26 pm] |
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1. Snarry Games. YAY!  Support Team Snitch - Reaching for Gold!
Fabulous fics and stunning arts from both teams
2. ...a hurt/comfort post-DH Snarry romance written in thirty-three Spenserian stanzas here - brilliant!
3 It is small, with dark eyes, floppy ears, a little black nose and waggy tail, and it is like a Transformer, mutates in a blink of the eye into a puppy from hell. Heh. (Crap picture, but she either looks like a black blob or I have to ramp up the contrast until she looks kind of faded.)
http://pics.livejournal.com/gingertart50/pic/00012agr/ |
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| Anyone on my flist like BPAL? |
[Jun. 20th, 2009|11:34 pm] |
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*waves*
I'm still here, busy writing a monster fic o'doom for the Snarry Games (Yay! Go Team Snitch!) Ahem. Where was I? Does anyone on my flist *hugs flist* like BPAL perfume oils? I have just bought a big job lot of BPAL imps and I'm working my way through them in a state of utter confunded bemused perfume-drenched besottedness. How can one not want to try a perfume with the name A Countenance Forboding Evil (is that Voldemort's aftershave?), Slobbering Pine or Screeching Parrot? I keep going back to ebay and my mouse hovers over the 'bid' button even though I have enough damn perfume to drown in. I'm currently sitting with nose pressed to my wrist in between typing words, sucking up the current trial sample. I shall not start describing them, there are communities devoted to that and the fic needs writing first.
*runs back to lurkdom* |
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| A Snarry rec |
[May. 10th, 2009|02:10 pm] |
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Go and read the latest fic in the hds_beltane exchange fest. It's a Snarry and it is utterly beautiful. Eurydice's Answer - “No magic can bring back the dead.” But it might bring back the almost- dead. Harry knows he has to try. Where potions and the underworld come into it is an open question. Go, read, enjoy and comment! |
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| Nostalgia Fest |
[Feb. 7th, 2009|06:52 pm] |
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| Fics and a rec |
[Feb. 1st, 2009|10:55 am] |
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I'm supposed to be writing and illustrating *gulp* my fic but I'm following a few fests in the times when work and bronchitis have left me too knackered to be creative. I only write one pairing regularly although I have dabbled with a few others in drabbles and short fics, but I read a wide range. I love Harry/Snape and threesomes with those two, and I read Lupin/Snape, and Harry/Draco, Snape/Draco and Snape with a range of others.
I've recently started reading het *makes sign against the evil eye* and I'm following the Snape/Hermione fest over on lj. There have been some great stories there. I love Snape/Hermione as a pairing for similar reasons to Snape/Harry; the characters strike sparks from each other. The latest fic was absolutely brilliant, hilariously funny and with another character whom I love, the gloriously snobbish, elegant and witty Lucius Malfoy. The fic is A Taxing Affair and it stars Hermione (who by now runs the country), Snape (spying again) and Lucius (having to go Muggle against his better judgment), Prime Minister Gordon Brown battling with the budget and a thoroughly unpleasant tax collector. For those who don't read het sex, treat it as gen, because the sex isn't explicit. It'll be worth it for the wonderful banter. When Hermione decides she wants Snape, she finds that his best friend comes as part of the package... |
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| I wanna pick your brainzzzz..... |
[Jan. 15th, 2009|08:13 pm] |
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I haven't got time to re-read DH 'cos I'm writing a rather hooj fic for a fest, so can anyone tell me, how good (or bad) were Harry and Draco at wandless magic, by the end of DH? Could they do anything at all without their wands? Your thoughts on this would be very welcome. |
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| Reccy-rec rec..... |
[Jan. 10th, 2009|11:30 am] |
This is another utterly wonderful, beautiful fic. If you like Snape/slash, go and read Illuminations de Noël - Snape/Draco [NC-17] by Anon Author in snapelyholidays. Please don't let the pairing put you off! This is being recced by others but it deserves a lot more love, it should have hundreds of comments on by now because it is just so lovely. Chocolat and cigarettes in Paris, with Snape. Mmm.
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| Bunnies, peacocks and zombies hoorah |
[Jan. 9th, 2009|09:50 pm] |
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As if I didn't have enough to do, I've just discovered yet another terrific fest, over on lj. It's the Severus Snape Hermione Granger exchange, here and the quality so far is just wonderful. I almost choked on my port and peanut-butter-and-spiced-quince-jam sandwich. I'll read het pairings if they're with Snape. Yummy. |
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[Jan. 7th, 2009|02:57 pm] |
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In 2009,  gingertart50 resolves to... Give up writing. Apply for a new fanfiction. Connect with my inner freedom-of-speech. Lose ten karenkks by March. Find a better sealcat. Overcome my secret fear of lilyeyes.
Poor Karenkk and Sealcat! And I'm not sure what Lilyeyes did, either. I've been wondering about the first one for some time..... *g* |
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| More blehhhh |
[Jan. 6th, 2009|01:39 pm] |
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I've got the Ebil Snotty Cold of Doom with the Cough from Hell, and I've just been to the dentist with excruciating pain which might have been an ear or sinus infection but in fact turned out to be a back tooth requiring root canal work/nerve removal. And the heating has failed at work, which is another reason for not being there. And I need to take the doggette to the vet and my car is sick too and is booked in at the garage on Thursday and it was bloody minus 4 degrees this morning and so just - blehhhh.
*sulks* |
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| blehhh |
[Jan. 5th, 2009|08:50 pm] |
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Can anyone suggest why my HTML code gets screwed all to hell when I copy and paste it into ij? I tried doing that New Year resolutions meme and it splattered the page with code instead of giving me a nice neat little print-out. Although I think someone is trying to tell me something. The first line was 'Give up writing.' Erm, yeah, ok. But I've just joined a fest.... |
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| Hello, flist! |
[Jan. 5th, 2009|04:48 pm] |
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*waves*
A belated Happy 2009 to you all. Hope you all had a wonderful Yule. Mine was great but I now have the Ebil Snotty Cold of Doom coupled with the Cough from Hell. It didn't help that I went back to work on Friday and the heating had failed. I went with a slight sore throat and returned with the ESC of D. It was cold in there; too cold to sit all day at a desk, anyway. And now it has snowed for the first time this winter and my boss rang to say that the heating isn't sorted, so I stayed home. What a wimp, I know.
I haven't recced anything for ages, because I was saving all my rec links to post onto my big list of favourite fics and the damn hard drive ate the file when it died. However, I can't resist these two.
Numero uno is a festive fic which I have only just stumbled across and it is utterly lovely. Draco, merrily on high. here. Warm, witty, wonderful, womantic and I didn't think I even liked the pairing much. This is like mulled wine after a brisk walk in the snow. Even if the Draco/Harry pairing isn't your thing (and it isn't really mine) this is simply a lovely seasonal frolic of a fic.
And like lots of other folk, I've just got to rec that fabulous, incredible fic that has been recced all over the place, The Courtship of Benjamin Jink. Again, do not let the pairing put you off, please! It is a fabulous fic, sharp, witty, poignant and subtle.
Shoo, go read them both! |
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| Heeeeelllppppp...... |
[Dec. 19th, 2008|11:13 pm] |
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*scatters virtual beta-treats*
I've put my name down for a fest in the hopes of tempting the muse to return, and I has a plot-bunny. Now I need a plot-bunny beta to help me wrestle the furry little devil into some sort of shape. Any offers?
*puppy eyes*
Please?
You don't need to be able to Brit-pick, trust me, however knowledge of 19th century literature and/or history would be a great help.
*grins and sidles out* |
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| Call me a soppy old romantic.... |
[Dec. 14th, 2008|08:00 pm] |
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..... but I think she's beautiful. She's big, she's magnificent and very powerful (and very young) and I am determined to see her one day, and if I'm feeling rich enough, travel in her wake. She's an A1 Peppercorn called 'Tornado' and she is proof that people can have a dream and make it come true. She's here, taking the evening commuters at Durham station totally by surprise. |
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| Looking for a comm..... |
[Nov. 13th, 2008|07:34 am] |
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Someone mentioned this and I'd like to find it - a community for those who like the pairing of a very clever Gryffindor and an equally clever Slytherin, cross-gen (teacher and ex-student), lots of UST and banter - and yes, I do read het. I've read a couple of excellent fics featuring them and would like to find more. Severus and Minerva, anyone? |
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