As many of you know, the supremely talented mywitch has generously gifted us with her annual "25 Days of Drawing" -- a welcome holiday present to everyone in HP fandom.

Posting has finished for this year, so I'd like to highlight just a few of my favorites. You should absolutely go and look at everything (mywitch has offered her usual amazing range of styles ( Read more... )

My dears! The 13th (that's right, 13th!) edition of the fabulous hoggywartyxmas fest has finished posting, and you won't be surprised to hear that as usual, it's been a triumph. 26 HP stories and artworks, all of them worth your time ( Read more... )

The democratic world is still burning up, but here and there are small, lovely breaks in the flames where we can sit down and catch our breaths and enjoy some very fine HP fanworks.

My unbroken lucky streak continues in terms of the amazing gifts I receive in the rarepair_shorts Summer Wishlist event. This time, it's another beautifully written and characterized ( Read more... )

snapecase posted its final entry today, and it's a total winner. Even I (someone generally unmoved by Severus/Hermione) am utterly charmed and won-over by this clever, snarky, exquisitely-written and marvelously-illustrated gem of a fic. And there's a Minerva picture for the ages! Go on, treat yourself:

Title: Bringing Up Babymort
Author and Artist: ( Read more... )

Got the January blues? Well, you'll find the perfect antidote at the snapecase fest, which is currently posting. There's something for every Snape-ish taste -- a fine variety of tones, genres, pairings, gen. The fest divides Snape's life into five categories: one for each decade of his canon life, and a fifth for the life he had after canon ended. The ( Read more... )

The best thing you can do is just go and read/look at the entire fest. But since "read everything" is not a very useful rec post, I will do my best to narrow things down a bit.

Arbitrarily, I have restricted myself to three fics and three artworks, but rest assured that I could have chosen many more.

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The glorious hoggywartyxmas fest has finished posting for another year. As usual, the quality of the entries is stellar. I'm restricting myself to reccing five stories and two artworks, but truly, I could have chosen many more ( Read more... )

Every year, For 25 glorious days in December, the super-talented mywitch offers "25 Days of [HP] Drawings." Technically, each day's entry is a gift based on one person's prompt, but in reality, all the gifts are for all of us -- clever, witty, and full of delicious details.. Along with hoggywartyxmas, Mywitch's drawing fest has become one of my favorite holiday ( Read more... )

I've had the chance to dip into several fun fests this summer. Here are a few recs:

femmefest -- Reveals have already gone up ( Read more... )

Just popping in to offer some snapecase recs; the fest finished posting today, and I want to give you a few links before reveals. (The mod usually posts reveals almost immediately, without a reading period.)

So here are just a few of the fascinating pieces that I enjoyed. The fest overall has a wonderful range of tones and characters.

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1 September ( Read more... )