Here's something I don't want people to miss: Some Ways of Having Loving, by marseverlasting. Sirius/Regulus, about 12,000 words, rated R. This is just lush. That's really the best word for prose like this, rich and descriptive and beautiful, full of metaphor that has you falling in love with whatever's being described. And for most of the story, that's Regulus, ( Read more... )

You ask me what kinds of fics I like? I like fics with a first line like this:

“I’m cold,” Draco said in that crisp voice he used when he expected something done about it.

That's the first line from the_con_cept's loopily wonderful reversathon fic, Stalks and Bonds (parody threesome bonding fic, Snape/Harry/Draco). It's a lovely example of what I think is a ( Read more... )

So, yeah, while I like the idea of Snape/Lupin in theory, I'm not usually one to seek out fic for it. I get this Truffaut-esque sense of quietness with the pairing, which is not how I usually want my smut. (It's the Eddie Izzard "I've been arranging matches," "I think I'd...better go," "Yes, I think you better had," narrative, when I'm looking for ( Read more... )

If you're missing nopejr's set of In-Honor-of-Harry's-Birthday drabbles, you're missing some of the best short fanfiction written in the HP universe. Slash smut and humor and high fantasy and horror, in wonderful crunchable bites. Check it out.

*shrugs*

I can't think why my endorsement will make a difference, as pornish_pixies already has quite the reader list and reputation, but the lack of readers suggested by the scarcity of comments on the story No Need for the Niceties (Snape/Filch, Harry, NC-17) by vissy is karmic injustice, man. Raw and dirty, complex, perfectly voiced--I'm imploring people to give ( Read more... )

AH HA HA HA.

fee_absinthe's Snarryish answer to "What's happening to HP fandom?"

fee_absinthe is BRILLIANT. Go read.