[FIC:] Al Azif (HP, Voldemort, Snape) NC-17

[archon_mentha]

In case you've missed them, hp_springsmut reveals are up! cmere was the one who wrote that fantastic dark!Harry fic for me, Displacement, which is a perfectly balanced mix of violence and psychology.

Title: Al Azif
Rating/Warnings: NC-17, Painful, underage (16), dark!creature sex.
Pairing(s): unrequited Snape/Voldemort, Snape/dark!Creatures.
Summary: Snape

Comments

[fleshdress]

Well I have been useless with the whole commenting business recently. However, I think this is some of your strongest work. It works as fanfiction, but there's a sense of something darker and deeper to it.

I believe I squeed over the concept of the book before but I do still love it. I love that it's not even happy being a book. It's an eternal torment. That's the kind of idea that could carry a fic, so it says something about how great this fic is that an idea like that can be used as detail.

Magic should cut, it should burn, it should leave a wizard pale and shaking after, still tasting the aftermath of near destruction, of blood and ashes.
Oh I love the images in this.

Once, the crypt had been spelled with sweetly scented floral charms, but the magic had decayed, faded to a sullen thought on the air that settled thickly and resisted any efforts to breathe it.This in particular, but your sense of setting and season in this is just incredible. The feel of autumn is especially evocative

[archon_mentha]

Oh, sweetie. *GLOMPS* I love you madly. I didn't mean to be whining on my post - I hope I wasn't - it was that I do feel particularly good about this one, and in that good way that isn't dependent on fandom-y approval. And I thank you for a lot of that, too. *loves*

I was more just curious what the reaction was - if people were squicked, or if it's a step too far to one side to feel like fanfition anymore, which is neat that you mentioned it, because it's been on my mind lately.

♥ You are awesome. :) Thank you.

[sirrah_chan]

I was behind my friend posts almost two weeks so no wonder I almost missed this. If it weren't for that school post with the girls who live in some bizarre world (or is it that we live in some bizarre world - who knows) I might have never read this… which would have been bad thing. Since I love it

[archon_mentha]

*tackleglomps* Oh, wow. Thank you so much for commenting to this! ♥ So much huge love. Snape's hard to write and I've only tried it once before.

I am very fond of this piece, so it means so much that you liked it! Oddly, the two parts that were written first and most easily were the introductory scene with the book and the crypt scene - everything else was filled in around them. I will read through it again though to see if something is off with the rhythm in there. :)

And! I'm really appreciative - thank you so very much for giving an honest (and so very nice) review and giving me a place to look. *g* And I'm so glad I'm not the only one who thinks, 'Tentacles and monsters? Yay!' hehe but then I'm always dancing over the line without realizing it.

You are ♥. Thank you.

Fic: Al Azif

[secondsilk]

I remember when you posted this you were concerned by the lack of response and I said that it wasn't necessarily that people weren't liking, just that they hadn't read it yet. It's taken me that long to get this far through my to-read this.

I love this. Snape is wonderfully drawn, smart and desperate and pragmatic and clever. I also really like that what comes of it is his following Remus to the Whomping Willow. In the whole scheme of how the series turns out it is a relatively minor incident, but it was important for him and at the time.

The crypt was horrifying in exactly the right way. The depths of it, Voldemort's power there and Snape's struggle, especially the struggle to breath, the drowning. I think I was a little confused about what exactly was happening at any one moment, but I was trying hard not to pay too much attention. It was still very powerful at that distance.

The book creeps me out. But I find it fascinating as well, compelling. And the care Snape shows towards it is a wonderful (and creepy) thing to read.