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[arcanetrivia]

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.

Comments

[kerrisokol.livejournal.com]

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.

[juniperus.livejournal.com]

Oh, the Beltaine Rite piece is excellent!! - and I'm so sick of Snily, I think a lovely PWP complete with fire and antlers sounds divine! How about a Mists of Avalon turned-on-its-head Beltaine scene...Snape as king expects Draco to be chosen and, instead, gets Potter?

[drachenmina]

Weirdly, I find the Snily one most promising, plot-wise. Maybe he's just told her he's gay so they can never be together, so she runs off to James *spit* in despair... ;D

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...

[bohemianspirit.livejournal.com]

Well, you could take the easy way out and write the Severus/Lily one. ;-)

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.