My gift posted today over at hoggywartyxmas and oh, my, is it a thing of wonder. If you like stories that break your heart and then put it back together again in a most satisfying and lyrical manner, please take a moment to go and read:

Through the Spiral of the Years

And it sings itself "Happy birthday," all alone on Mars, which kind of makes me cry.

Still super cool, though :)

Reveals are up over at sshg_giftfest, so I can now admit to having written "The Price of a Memory" ( on the fest community or on AO3) for reynardo! Her prompt was positively inspiring, and I had a wonderful time writing this for her.

I would also like to profusely and enthusiastically applaud and thank dragoon811, who wrote for ME a splendid story containing so many of my ( Read more... )

I stumbled across a fic on AO3 tonight that I simply must rec. It's dark, very dark, but oh so terrifyingly credible. Every action of every person in this story is entirely in character, and if the HP books had been written for adults instead of children, this or something very like it would surely have happened. The story isn't long but it's ( Read more... )

During filming of The Hobbit, Ian McKellen had an angsty moment over the fact that he was acting with thirteen dwarves and yet not a single actor was there on camera with him -- all he had were 13 photographs of the dwarves on top of stands with little lights; whoever he was "talking" to their light would flash, but the actual actors did all their ( Read more... )

For hp_art_tales. If you like angsty!Snape, look no further for you have found him!

Title: Promise Keeper
Author: delphipsmith
Summary: Snape reflects on promises made over the course of a difficult life
Rating: PG
Warnings: Er...angst?
Featured Characters/Pairings: Snape, Dumbledore
Word Count: 2189
Inspiration Art: Promise Keeper, by droxy
Author's Notes: This pretty much ( Read more... )