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arcanetrivia) wrote2008-07-03 02:20 pm
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Ack. Note to self: MUST GET GOING ON SNAPEDOM SUMMER FEST FIC. Maybe having Fridays off this summer will help. I've been woefully drifting on the plot-bunny failboat here. :-/
This is a non-anonymous exchange and the two of the three drawings I could write stories for that were in fests have been revealed, so... any ideas, anyone?
Severus helps Draco brew Elixir of Euphoria (gen, G)
Last Kiss (Severus/Lily, G)
Beltane Rite (Severus/Harry with Draco; NC-17/NWS)
edit: Oh good god.
geri_chan wrote ~20,000 words for hers and posted it already (this is the 1/3 of the way through a post-whenever-you're-done kind of schedule). I am SO going to be made of fail.
This is a non-anonymous exchange and the two of the three drawings I could write stories for that were in fests have been revealed, so... any ideas, anyone?
Severus helps Draco brew Elixir of Euphoria (gen, G)
Last Kiss (Severus/Lily, G)
Beltane Rite (Severus/Harry with Draco; NC-17/NWS)
edit: Oh good god.
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That's exactly why I don't write *g*. Don't panic. You'll be fine. If it matters, I vote that you do something with the Last Kiss art.
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You! Outta my pool!
The only thing I've "heard" for the Beltane Rite piece so far is some rambly atmospheric drivel written from Draco's perspective about what he's seeing and experiencing. Not very Snapey, for one thing, and I've never tried to write Draco in my life.
Real-world magico-religious stuff in Harry Potter stories really gets my knickers in a twist so I don't think I'll be doing a real "Beltane rite" kind of thing...
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I think it would be interesting from the Snape perspective, actually, but there aren't many topics that wouldn't appeal from his perspective. (I was thinking 'Snape has to educate Potter on old-world wizarding custom for the rites might be fun. lots od 'dunderhead!' possibilities there...:P) Of course, I am fascinated with the idea that, essentially, the magical world sealed itself at a certain point in the Middle Ages and what hold-overs from that time have remained (especially with the purebloods) v. what has shifted as 'new blood' has come in from outside...
Gah, it's a medievalist thing, I think.
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I've done 10k on my summer fest fic and am nowhere near the (NWS) scene I am supposed to be writing about. Am in fact seriously considering a separate pr0n piece for the fest...
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Riiiiiiight.... ;)
I've done 10k on my summer fest fic and am nowhere near the (NWS) scene
This is supposed to be comforting? :P I mean, it's "failure" in the same sense of "Failure of the Snack" (i.e., not getting anything like what you set out to produce), but still...
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The fic I am working on for the Summer Fest is a Severus-Draco gen, as I think I already mentioned in another post. (I just posted a "bonus" fic for the entire Underground, which is my cracky Severus and the Seattle Grunge Scene inspired fic. Heh. Not that I know much about it, but the one-liner turned into a Real Story, so what the hell.) I am not used to writing Draco, but a bit of review of Book 6 in particular is helping. Maybe you can come up with something that centers around the making of the potion itself, rather than around developing Draco's character? Something that has significance in Severus' characterization? Something that expresses his aspirations or hopes for some point in the future? Some reflection on the past that is inspired by the potion-making? Does he always want to make potions? Perhaps Draco's enthusiasm for learning reminds him of his own early days of learning potions--or perhaps it makes him think how he's only doing it to mark time till he can fulfill his duties to Dumbledore and go on to do something else instead of teach Potions at Hogwarts.
There's a bit of fodder for ya.
That Beltane pic... jeez. I would be inclined to write some kind of humor, parody, or crack based on it, e.g., Harry having a weird dream, or Severus having a weird dream, inspired perhaps by the "Mists of Avalon" movie scene with Arthur and Morgan, but since the artist is Wiccan, I don't know if she'd want humor based on a religious ceremony. Maybe. Wiccans have better senses of humor than some religious people do--and if you keep it respectful to the religion, being less than respectful to the characters just might work for a few laughs. After all, the Potterverse folks aren't Wiccans, so there's already an incongruity. Picture Severus saying, "I was an altar boy, for God's sake! I've never done this before!" :-D
No wonder people think I'm crazy.
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You'd think that'd be the easy one, wouldn't you, but it's not been the case so far. Don't let
inspired perhaps by the "Mists of Avalon" movie scene with Arthur and Morgan
Am now picturing Severus with Anjelica Huston. ^_o
but since the artist is Wiccan, I don't know if she'd want humor based on a religious ceremony.
Being Pagan myself as well as a lapsed Brit-Trad Wiccan, I could probably manage to do it sensitively enough. ("O thou who standest on the threshold between the pleasant girls of the living and the dread domains of the lords of the naughty places...") Hm. Might be a way to attack that problem. Real-world Muggle magic and pagan religious elements in Harry Potter fic usually really gets on my nerves because it seems so out of place. Humour might help.
Picture Severus saying, "I was an altar boy, for God's sake! I've never done this before!" :-D
lol. That's actually kind of an interesting idea. Now there's a religion I'd be blundering about in the dark trying to write. Better bust out my mother's old Missal.
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Quite understandable. ;-) No matter how much you like something, every now and then you have to step away and dry out from saturation in it.
I did not know you were Pagan, or if I did, I forgot. (One of the people on my f-list comes from a Gardernian family; is British Trad similar? I tend to lean Eclectic Everything myself, which means I'd be a great Unitarian Universalist more than anything!) Anyway, that makes it better for humor-writing purposes, because it's always safer to satirize your own religion (or your own former religion, e.g., with those of us who grew up Catholic) than someone else's.
Now there's a religion I'd be blundering about in the dark trying to write.
I grew up Vatican II, three years younger than Sev. ;-) I can help there, if you want, though I can't vouch that his northern England parish was like my American Irish-Catholic parish in Minnesota. Guitar Masses, FTW!! :-D E-mail me if you want me to do any beta-ing in that regard; address is on my profile.
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