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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

[elethian.livejournal.com]

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

You'd think that'd be the easy one, wouldn't you, but it's not been the case so far. Don't let juniperus hear me say this, but I think I may be a little Snily'd out, at least on the production end.

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.

[bohemianspirit.livejournal.com]

I think I may be a little Snily'd out, at least on the production end.

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.

[elethian.livejournal.com]

British Traditional(ist)/Brit-Trad/BTW is a general family of "Wiccas". Gardnerianism is one of them (the originator, depending on your history). Others include Alexandrian, Silver Crescent, Mohsian, and the tradition I was initated into, Kingstone (so named for the King Stone at the Rollright Stones). They're mostly fairly similar to one another (ahaha, Allyn Wolfe (http://www.newwiccanchurch.net/) -- my "grandfather", if I remember my lineage? maybe it's "uncle" -- would so frown to see me say that!). Some of them differ in only tiny details in their Books of Shadows. It gets rather silly really.