This year, I didn't have any holidays around Christmas and New Year, and I felt it! I rarely manage to look at and comment on all hoggywartyxmas entries before the reveals, but this year it was worse than ever. I didn't even manage to finish my gift knitting on time (that's another story). So today is January 12 and I still have ... half? ... of this year's ( Read more... )

So! I don't think that a lot of us had a great 2020, most of us for obvious pandemic reasons. Personally, I ran into my own limitations (I still have the bruises) and I learnt a lot about myself. I haven't been in a good place, and not being able to meet people who are dear to me hasn't helped. It was therefore great to see at least one familiar ( Read more... )

Hello hello, happy new year everybody ( Read more... )

Here's a happy birthday to the Man Who Undoubtedly Lived!

Let's celebrate with some recs from hoggywartyxmas - starting with my fabulous gift! It was written, compiled and provided with selected illustrations by shiv5468 who, let's be honest, spoiled me rotten. Therefore -

Get thee to Hoggywarty to read The Sweet Smell of Success (G, 2500 words), a tale of perfume, ( Read more... )

...I have such a back log of gift art that it's not funny :p. That's what I get for being bad at gift-giving: I offer pictures instead of purchases, but I have to get them all done! And I'm not always equally inspired, so sometimes it really takes time to create something I can offer without blushing ( Read more... )

Ack! I've been so busy doing stuff for school that I haven't been very active here - and so I have failed, so far, to rec my wonderful springtime_gen gift fic. And I'm kind of ashamed because of my lateness, because I really enjoyed the fic a lot. It is a very quiet, reflective story. After the Battle of Hogwarts, McGonagall is beset by doubts about the way she ( Read more... )

My hp_beholder gift has posted! Because of an IJ outage, it got a bit lost between the folds, and that's a shame.

A Mystery Author wrote Black Knight Moves Forward (PG-13), a story set during the summer preceding Philosopher's Stone. Severus Snape and Minerva McGonagall get to know each other better as they work on the defenses for the Philosopher's Stone. ( Read more... )

During the holidays, I joined hoggywartyxmas. I joined rather late and was the only artist at the fest, so I didn't expect to get a gift. But therealsnape, rather un-snapishly, thought I should have one, and so she contacted purplefluffycat, who wrote Reflections in Liquid in response. She nailed my tastes exactly with four subtle and sensitive vignettes featuring Minerva McGonagall, ( Read more... )

Whoa! Look at Richerand's brilliant Snape!


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I'm going to rec a fan comic today, from a fandom I don't belong to - that of the animated series Avatar: the Last Airbender. I haven't seen a single episode, but I started reading the comic because I think the artist is great. She's Johane Matte, a. k. a. rufftoon. And guess what? I discovered that you really don't need any prior knowledge of the Avatar ( Read more... )