OK I have just updated the Vampire List and Snarry pairing again. I’m trying to work my way through the large list of vamp fics that I have bookmarked on my Delicious account. I did orginally start doing by what ever it was I had at hand. But all I ended up with is a whole heap of drafts and no live pages. This way, I hope I have things up and running and am able to add pages/lists as they get enough stories on them to bother making them live.

I have found that in all this coding, going back and re-jigging ones memory over stories tends to mean that I spend more time reading than coding…

Please enjoy the latest offering.

Well we are back after having lost our password and getting the site nearly shut down… not a good thing.

But on the other hand, I did read some more loverly stories.

Both the Vampire list and the HPSS pairing list have been updated with two stories.

Now for some recs… Severus Sighs (I’m sure I have mentioned this wonderful group  a few times before) is having a Grand Challenge. Hmm… what does this mean for you and I? Well lots of lovely stories featuring everyones favourite potions master. And no not all of them are slash and even less are Snarry. It’s a Severus Snape focussed com so there is all sorts of delights for the decerning reader.

Go and check it out!

I am still doing my cataloguing and you’ll find everything that I have read on my delicious account. The links to particular tags can be found by clinking on the themed lists link at the top of the page.

Until next time…

Some of the lovelies devored today are…

Commonplace Magic by Acid and Sinick (Is a non-magical AU where Harry is in uni)
http://www.walkingtheplank.org/archive/viewstory.php?sid=2108

Come Out of the West by Perfica (Again non-magical with Harry working in a hospital, with Snape as a patient)
http://asylums.insanejournal.com/snarry_games/172393.html#cutid1

Some Notes Exchanged by Nenya Entwhistle (Non-magical – Harry works in coffeeshop)
http://asylums.insanejournal.com/snarry_games/183351.html#cutid1

The Trial of Henri Blanc by klynie1 (Magical AU set after the war – Harry is an auror, I think) http://community.livejournal.com/snarry_games/115218.html

I’m almost tempted to start a new list… does 4 stories count as reason enough to start a list??? Hmm, shall have to think on this some more. Perhaps I’ll start the draft and what till I have more to post the list.

Til next time.. Happy Easter!!!

Time to do something about that…

In my previous post I mentioned joining the Severus Sighs yahoo group and quietly despaired that it was going to be one of those really busy ones where I really didn’t follow what was going on and eventually set to special messages so that my inbox didn’t fill up. Needless to say, I still get all of the emails coming through, and just as well as they are a prolific bunch of writers who often on the spur of the moment will have a challenge or something as long as it has Severus Snape in it!

Not only has reading all of these wonderful stories been fabulous, but they have convinced me to spread my wings and join in… as a beta! I have just participated in my first beta for a loverly lady Fancypantsdylan as she writes her story for the Snarry Holidays exchange. It has been an interesting experience for us both but a good one none the less.

In the meantime, I have been reading many loverly stories and I’d like to share a few with you…

The Snarry Games have produced some wonderful fics and art and these are the ones I have read so far…

“Enjoy!!”

Something Ever After by AbstractConcept
Genres: Crossdressing and Crossover/Fusion
Prompt: Some Enchanted Evening
Summary: Harry just wanted his happy ending. Instead, he’s stuck with a sparkly tiara and glass shoes, and the entire world seems to have gone mad.

The Shadowless Hereafter by Perfica
Genres: Literary, Alive and Kicking (EWE)
Prompts: Candle in the Window
Summary: “Mr Woodlock is a reporter from a very important periodical. He is here because he wishes to interview me on my time in the Great War.”

Sex, Lies, and Audiobooks by RaeWhit
Genres: Alive and Kicking (EWE)
Prompts: Secrets and Lies, Coming Home
Summary: Belonging and deserving, needing and wanting—desires of the human heart that Severus and Harry must face when they’re forced to the little village of Lochdubh to settle a very late codicil of Albus Dumbledore’s will.

Connecting the Dotty by I Got Tired of Waiting
Genres: Alive & Kicking (EWE)
Prompts: Love and Marriage, Sands of Time
Summary: A gentle tale of growing old together.

The Snidget by Acidburn and Sinick
Genre: Alive and Kicking (EWE)
Prompts: Last Hope, Skin Deep
Summary: After the Dark Lord’s victory, Headmaster Snape is living under a sword’s edge, when hope flies in past his shields.

Snow Harrie by Eriador117
Prompts: Secrets and Lies
Genres: Literary/Historical, Crossdressing/Genderbender
Summary: Lily has always wanted a baby girl with hair as black as ebony, skin as white as snow and lips as red as blood…

Falling into the Stars by Gnomad
Genres: Crossover/Fusion
Prompts: Falling Stars, Man in Uniform
Summary: A risky bit of magic goes horribly wrong and lands Snape and Harry in a place they never intended to be. Or to put it more succinctly: Snape and Harry! In space!

Seer Divine by Shadowess
Genre: Crossdressing, Historical
Prompt: Seeking Knowledge
Summary: In Viking-Age Sweden, Seidhr magic was usually passed down from mother to daughter but since Harry was an only child, he became his mother’s apprentice. Harry must now raise power for a ritual and turns to his other tutor, Severus Snape, to help him.

Sine Qua Non by Dracofiend
Genres: Alive and Kicking
Prompts: Hold My Hand; Odyssey
Summary: He passes a hand over his face and takes a few seconds to silently, pointlessly curse the Dark Lord, himself, and the wretchedness of magic for burdening him with something so fantastic and absurd as true love for Harry Potter.

Is it just me that thinks that there should be a warning that is something along the lines of OMG Het!!!

Hmmm…

I have recently joined Severus Sighs (the mailing list) and was surprised at the sheer volume of emails that come through. Tempted to do what I usually do when the list I joined is too long, I delayed putting the list onto ‘no mail’ and am I glad I did!! This list is the most prolific list of authors who constantly challenge each other to write drabbles, amongst other things.

Kink night is a favourite! And well really any other night that the members get frisky is wonderful!!

But one of the side effects of joining this wonderful resource is that I have been exposed to wonderful communities such as the Snarry Games and other challange based communities. I have avoided them previously as they are often on Live Journal and I have avoided that place as I find trying to find stories on there burdensome and a hassle. I prefer going to an archive and clicking on the recently updated tab. <— Lazy I know!

So I have had the true delight of reading some amazing stories on Insane Journal at these wonderful communities… you can too by going here —> Snarry Games or perhaps Drarry is more your cup of tea then here is good for you —> H/D World Cup

In the meantime, I shall endeavor to continue to devour fiction as it goes by, keep those author alerts happening so I dont miss any new stuff and hope that this big cataloguing project that I brought on myself will one day be finished. Or will it? After all, the only way that will happen is if I stop reading or people stop writing. Now which do you think is more likely to happen??? 800+ fictions left to catalogue… and god knows how many I haven’t read yet!!!

I started this as a project in learning to use different content management systems and found that the constant supply of HP stories was greater than expected.

Tools that I am using include Delicious, email and of course my trusty phone, on which I devour HP fanfics in manner resembling a starving man at a feast…

I hope that this will become a resource that can be used by fans looking for lists of completed fiction in the themes that they wish.

I have chosen to only list completed fics as I have become frustrated with finding great lists with some fabulous fiction, only to discover that they are often WIPs and are unlikely to be finished.

Occasionally I do find a WIP that is so amazing that it would be a shame to not list them, however, I plan on listing these separately from the main lists.

Enjoy! I hope you do…