Reccing and Bragging

[paulamcg]

Challenges #6 and #9

#6 In your own space, rec at least three fanworks that you didn’t create.

#9 In your own space, brag about yourself. Tell us what things you've done that you're proud of; the things that make you the wonderful person you are. …
Rec YOUR work, YOUR fic, YOUR art, YOUR meta, YOUR anything! Maybe you host a challenge, or maybe you have lists of resources that you've lovingly curated that you'd like to share. Or maybe you . . . whatever you do, we want to hear about it!!

I'm reccing fics by writers whose HP fanworks I've found only this year, thanks to year-end roundups and Snowflake: Cerberusia, kira_katrine and nightfalltwen.


Vervain and Dill (Evan Rosier/Severus Snape, T) by Cerberusia (3200 words)
Rosier returns to the Slytherin boys' dormitory after taking the Mark, and finds Snape.
A brilliant portrayal of Snape, a beautiful hurt/comfort scene, and excellent writing that makes it all wonderfully vivid.

Mint and Tiffle Berry (Luna & Hermione) by kira_katrine (1600 words)
Hermione is having trouble figuring out Luna's approach to the competition.
This delightful fic makes me feel I love Luna ever more, and that's a lot. Hermione is wonderfully IC, too, and even though this is AU, it could be about the two girls' attitudes towards school work – or ours towards fanfic writing.

Under the Mistletoe in Greenhouse two (Pansy/Neville) by nightfalltwen (800 words)
Neville and Pansy find themselves trapped beneath mistletoe and only one thing is going to break that spell.
A lovely little fic. The writer has fit in a wonderful characterisation of Pansy (with references to other things in her life), as well as a magical problem and its solution, and a real feel of cold.

As for bragging about myself, perhaps, for once, I won't say that I'm hopelessly stuck in the Harry Potter fandom. This wonderful person here is still devoted to complementing the story of Remus Lupin's life by crafting more stories about him and others in the same first-five-HP-books-consistent world, and making each fic work on its own, too.

As I think I'd better limit my self-recs, too, to three... I start by reccing two series! You can read any fic separately as well.

If Not a Prank (Remus/Sirius, T) by PaulaMcG includes three fics which offer a probably unusual take on what's usually called Sirius Black's prank on Severus Snape. I've developed this idea as a part of my story about Sirius-loving Remus's life (so as to make his unrelenting love plausible without contradicting the canon of the first five HP books). The second, Sirius-pov fic was written for the Wolfstar Games and has got a bit more kudos, but I'd love to hear what people think of any of these fics. Each can be read separately, too, and they can be read in any order.

Professor at Hogwarts (mainly past Remus/Sirius, also Remus/Severus and minor pairings, G – M) by PaulaMcG is a collection of my PoA-era stories. The latest one was posted with the title Another Round here at hoggywartyxmas, where I got my share of the generous commenting, but I'd like more people to meet my Remus in other situations of his year as Professor Lupin and to tell me that they love him how they like the fics.

Finally, a single story on which I've got no comments at all. (Except from my lovely beta, who usually only points out a few embarrassing errors, but in this case said she really liked the intriguing non-linear narrative.)

From the Oblivion (Tonks, and a hag OC, references to various pairings but not to any Remus/Tonks, T) by PaulaMcG
In July 1996 Tonks is coerced into reliving moments shared with Sirius, Lupin, and Amelia Bones.