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The Last Snowfall by ruuger
Fandom: Discworld
Pairing/Characters: Granny Weatherwax, Death
Rating: Teen
Words: 630

Author's summary: Death and Granny have one final talk.
Author's warnings: Major character death
Additional tags: Future fix, Deathfic, Yuletide 2010, Podfic Available

My comment: "I'm not crying, I'm crying. ...Er, wait."

Quote:
"You're late."
"I WAS DELAYED. THERE WAS A SMALL PLAGUE IN EBPHEBE. YOU KNOW HOW IT IS." He gave her a knowing look. "BESIDES, ONE COULD SAY THE SAME THING ABOUT YOU."

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Good Clean Fun by (as yet anonymous)
Fandom: Doctor Who
Pairing/Characters: Tenth Doctor, Donna Noble
Rating: General
Words: 1020

Author's summary: The Doctor takes Donna to visit shapeshifters. She seizes the opportunity.
Author's notes: Inspired by AU Meme: Donna Noble by lost_spook. All of these AU snippets were fantastic. This bunny just beat his siblings to the finish line.
Author's warnings: None
Additional tags: Shapeshifting, Banter

My comment: "...Wait, what? I suppose it helps that I follow lost_spook on DW and so I'm passingly familiar with the AU/weird scenario generators they use, but still. LOL. What is this fic even? The Doctor as a caretaker is a nice touch. Shades of foreshadowing, I guess?"

Quote:
It would be unfair to say that turning Donna into a soap dispenser was his greatest regret. The Doctor had a number of regrets across his 900-plus years of life, including several planets he had failed to save. But did it rank up there? Certainly.

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Working Holiday (The Release the Kraken Remix) by (as yet anonymous)
Fandom: Discworld
Pairing/Characters: minor Lobsang Ludd/Susan Sto Helit, Death, Mustrum Ridcully, Ponder Stibbons, Rincewind
Rating: General
Words: 2026

Author's summary: Death takes a holiday. He's not the only one.
Author's notes: Inspired by Death Takes a Working Holiday by MiraMira.
Author's warnings: None
Additional tags: Remix, Vacation

Quote:
Rincewind screamed and ran away. Soon his scream was taken up by several other members of the faculty. Death couldn't frown, but he could sigh. Perhaps shuffleboard was too much to ask.

Anatomy of a Prank by xylodemon
Marauders, Regulus, Severus, rating AO3 "teen and up", 28099 words (plus a few hundred in images of handwriting on parchment)
Author's summary: Step by step instructions for those wishing to emulate the incomparable Messrs Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs.

I won't be spoiling this at all, really, if I say that the prank in question is short-sheeting the beds of all of Hogwarts. There's a lot more hung on and woven around that one little plot fact. Nice pice of humorous gen; this from me who doesn't normally enjoy hearing tales of the gleeful exploits of those oh so charming Marauders. OTOH, features a Peter who is far from the cliched lump.

Quote:
"Whereby, all punishments meted, including but not limited to detentions, banishments, and letters written home, will be served by the accused, without regard to innocence or guilt, lest a fellow Marauder betray one of his comrades in arms," Remus recited, and if he didn't stop reading that book, Sirius was going to beat him about the face and head with it. "Furthermore, all spoils earned, given, or otherwise gained shall be shared equally and without reservation, with the exception of Marmite, tinned fish, invitations to Slughorn's office, and the favours of Lily Evans."

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A Spy, A Curse, A War, A Kiss: by diadelphous in silverdoefest
Severus/Lily, R, ~27000 words
Author's summary: During the first Wizarding War, Dumbledore gives Lily an assignment: reconnect with her old friend, the Death Eater Severus Snape.
Author's warnings: AU. Possibly OOC Lily. Some gore/gruesomeness. Prostitution (not a major plot point). Smoking. This is an AU with two major changes from canon. The first is that Lily was consciously in love with Severus during school, but never acted on it because of his interest in the Dark Arts. The second is that the "Mudblood" incident never happened, and so Lily and Severus stayed friends up until the point that he joined the Death Eaters.

Quote:
Crispin made a low growling noise in the back of his throat, though some of the other Death Eaters laughed. Sev dragged Lily through the Death Eaters and shoved her up against the bar. For a split second his mouth was against her ear, his breath warm and soft, and in a whisper like wind he said, "Scream when you should scream."

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In The Midst of Life by albalark in snapecase
Severus, Lily, Tobias, Albus, Minerva; PG, 7831 words
Author's summary: The past is never really past.
Author's warnings: character death (not Severus)

Quote:
A surge of disgust had gone through him then, mixed with a powerful self-loathing every bit the equal of what he felt for his father. This was the source of his own weakness, the reason he'd been merely tolerated in Slytherin House and never truly accepted, whatever his merits as a wizard. He had pulled his arm away with a jerk and looked over the man in front of him with a sneer.

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