Merry Christmas + various updates
Overdue post, in which I'll try to cover all the subjects at hand...
a. Following a couple of discussions about Snape and Snape's appearance, I took advantade of a train ride to sketch a little Snapey. There was a beautiful line in one of the fics from the current sshg_giftfest, "He [Snape] looked utterly lost" (while watching Hermione who brushes some snow off from his coat). I tried to sketch it, in slots 1 and 3 (whiche were the last ones to be sketched, since this was drawn clockwise), but haven't exactly caught that moment of entrancement.
2. The said sshg_giftfest has come to an end today, with the Anonymous Masterlist posted. I managed to read and comment every single entry but for the last two; the overlapping with HoggywartyXmas has earthquaked all my organisation, and from being perfectly on time with the daily update, I'm now five fics behind considering both fests (sigh.) Anyway, my favourite entries from this round were:
Farmer Granger and the Most Glorious Cock, that is now justifiably famous as it's a masterpiece: a complete illustrated book about, ehm, Farmer Granger's cocks;
Ghost Stories (hurt/comfort, HG is SS's therapist. Haunting.)
The Cure (another hurt/comfort, that manages not to be angsty)
A Gifting of Book Wyrms (beautifully and stylishly written, SS and HG meet in a winter wonderland);
Death Takes an Holiday (and leaves Snape as his replacement)
By Moonlight (a retelling of Alfred Noyes' poem The Highwayman)
Coming to terms (seventh year, virgin!Snape)
Under the Sea (Mermish SS and HG), fanart;
And last but not least my fabulous gift, Definition, a wonderful Voldemort wins told in beautiful, sparse prose. I've already read it many times and every time I find some new subtext.
All entries are still anonymous, until the final reveals.
3. During the fest, I also managed to re-read my very favourite story from last year, The Shadow War by death_ofme, and I loved it just like the first time I read it. I also started reading the famous Post Tenebras, Lux by Loten (I was more or less at 26% before Christmas week trumped all my organisation). I loved the beginning, but several aspects of the development puzzled me. Anyway, I plan to finish it once I'll be done with the holiday fests.
4. Which brings me to THE holiday fest, hoggywartyxmas, that started a couple of days ago. As I wrote before, I'm shamefully behind with my reading, but I hoe to catch up next week. Go there, you! Go and follow!
5. By the way, if you perchance want to follow me, you can now find me also on Instagram (sometimes). I am currently working on a graphic novel (to be published hopefully in Autumn, 2017) written and drawn by me, Le tende bianche, for an Italian publisher. If you are not afraid of Italian, you can follow its progression here on facebook.
I hope this is all. A very merry Christmas to you all. <3
a. Following a couple of discussions about Snape and Snape's appearance, I took advantade of a train ride to sketch a little Snapey. There was a beautiful line in one of the fics from the current sshg_giftfest, "He [Snape] looked utterly lost" (while watching Hermione who brushes some snow off from his coat). I tried to sketch it, in slots 1 and 3 (whiche were the last ones to be sketched, since this was drawn clockwise), but haven't exactly caught that moment of entrancement.
2. The said sshg_giftfest has come to an end today, with the Anonymous Masterlist posted. I managed to read and comment every single entry but for the last two; the overlapping with HoggywartyXmas has earthquaked all my organisation, and from being perfectly on time with the daily update, I'm now five fics behind considering both fests (sigh.) Anyway, my favourite entries from this round were:
Farmer Granger and the Most Glorious Cock, that is now justifiably famous as it's a masterpiece: a complete illustrated book about, ehm, Farmer Granger's cocks;
Ghost Stories (hurt/comfort, HG is SS's therapist. Haunting.)
The Cure (another hurt/comfort, that manages not to be angsty)
A Gifting of Book Wyrms (beautifully and stylishly written, SS and HG meet in a winter wonderland);
Death Takes an Holiday (and leaves Snape as his replacement)
By Moonlight (a retelling of Alfred Noyes' poem The Highwayman)
Coming to terms (seventh year, virgin!Snape)
Under the Sea (Mermish SS and HG), fanart;
And last but not least my fabulous gift, Definition, a wonderful Voldemort wins told in beautiful, sparse prose. I've already read it many times and every time I find some new subtext.
All entries are still anonymous, until the final reveals.
3. During the fest, I also managed to re-read my very favourite story from last year, The Shadow War by death_ofme, and I loved it just like the first time I read it. I also started reading the famous Post Tenebras, Lux by Loten (I was more or less at 26% before Christmas week trumped all my organisation). I loved the beginning, but several aspects of the development puzzled me. Anyway, I plan to finish it once I'll be done with the holiday fests.
4. Which brings me to THE holiday fest, hoggywartyxmas, that started a couple of days ago. As I wrote before, I'm shamefully behind with my reading, but I hoe to catch up next week. Go there, you! Go and follow!
5. By the way, if you perchance want to follow me, you can now find me also on Instagram (sometimes). I am currently working on a graphic novel (to be published hopefully in Autumn, 2017) written and drawn by me, Le tende bianche, for an Italian publisher. If you are not afraid of Italian, you can follow its progression here on facebook.
I hope this is all. A very merry Christmas to you all. <3