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Title: sweet chocolate
Fandom: Monkey Island
Pairing/Characters: Guybrush/Elaine
Rating: General
Words: 222
Summary: Guybrush eschews the straightforward way in favor of the silly (but in this case, sweet) way, as usual.
Additional Tags: Fluff, Kissing
Notes: From OTP Prompt #7 by dont-call-my-name-alejandro. Yeah, this is weightless saccharine fluff. Nobody send me their dentist bill. 😂 I've just been struggling to come up with anything lately and was looking for prompt lists.

sweet chocolate

Title: The Education of Guybrush Threepwood (on AO3)
Fandom: Monkey Island
Pairing/Characters: Guybrush/OFC
Rating: Explicit
Words: 6600
Summary: Guybrush and his girlfriend teach each other some, ahem, vital life skills.
Warnings/Contains/Additional Tags: Romance, Fluff, Hand jobs, Oral sex, Both participants are 16, This fic is rated H for Herman Toothrot-ting fluff, No he's not in this
Notes: I started with her name (which is funny because those are usually my personal voodoo anti-root), her occupation, and a few hundred words of cute fluff about how she humored him about his pirate stories. Then uhhhh my hand slipped?

Alien Hands by raingirl9
Fandom: Doctor Who
Pairing/Characters: Ten/Donna
Rating: General Audiences
Words: 711

Author's summary: After a long day of adventures, Donna makes an observation. The Doctor takes it the wrong way.
Author's notes: I don’t know where the idea for this came from, but it’s basically plotless fluff that I thought might be worth sharing.
Author's warnings: None
Additional tags: Fluff, Established Relationship, Holding Hands, Slice of Life, Romance, Humor

My comment: "Awww, so sweet :)"

Quote:
She smirked at him, a gleam in her eye. “You know all those films with little green men in them? You’ve got hands like that. Martian hands.”
“I’m not-”
“I know you’re not from Mars.”
“-green.”

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Phone Tag by kesomon
Fandom: Doctor Who
Pairing/Characters: Thirteen, Graham, Ryan, Yasmin, The Castellan
Rating: General Audiences
Words: 1253

Author's summary: "Milliways Steak House and part-time mortuary, how may we serve you today?" In which the Doctor deals with an unwanted caller and the TARDIS fam learn a few things about their fun-loving alien friend.
Author's notes: Wrote this while avoiding spoilers for The Ghost Monument. Credit to my friend Viking for the use of weird introductions to unwanted phone calls. He mostly uses them against telemarketers.
Author's warnings: None
Additional tags: Humor, Phone Calls & Telephones, Pranks and Practical Jokes, Bad Puns, Trolling Authority

Quote:
The Doctor looked at him, amused, and then cocked her head like a bird who’d found something shiny. She clapped Graham on the shoulders with a grin that was aglow with delight and mischief; it was a grin Yaz was rapidly coming to learn to fear.

deathdaydungeon has been backing up their mostly gen Snape fic to AO3 lately, under the name jaxon. I recommend a look-see at least for basically all their stuff, but here are some highlights. ( Read more... )

Severus/Lily and gen for the most part here. ( Fic recs )

Art recs later since it's a pain to construct a post with dA thumbnails while I'm at work.

The Mistletoe Incident by naadi
(Harry/Draco, PG-13, may be NWS depending as it includes some suggestive nudity)

Draco parks himself beneath some mistletoe and will neither clear out nor kiss any of the hopefuls. Harry Potter to the rescue! (with a bit of a surprise ending.) Sort of comic format - text on pictures - done in sort of limerick rhyme scheme.

Harry leaned close to his old nemesis
His lips just a breath from the kiss.
He moved closer still,
Said in whispered ill will,
"I am so going to kill you for this."

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snapelyholidays - The Crystalline Cold of Christmas Air
(Tom Riddle, with appearances from Abraxas Malfoy, Gellert Grindelwald, and Severus Snape)
Alchemia asked for a sympathetic Dark Lord. Here he appears as a boy under the shadow of another, as a man who has assumed his own pride of place, and as a lord bestowing a Christmas gift.

My comment: "That's just so amazing! I love Tom's voice and the echoes of people's colors and placements down the generations."

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mini_fest - Delighting in Your Company
(Severus/Sirius, PG-13, 1300 words)
The most beautiful present is not under the Christmas tree, the most beautiful present is having the love of your life on your arms and knowing that for ever they will be there.

Pretty schmoopy in the end, but also has a few of the barbs we so love this ship for:

"I got you a dish that says 'Fido'."
"Git. I got you a whip."
Severus's mouth opened, but no sound came out.
"For eggs and things."
"A whisk, you idiot."

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mini_fest - Legend of the Accursed Fruitcake of CamlannM
(mostly gen humor but with some Harry/Draco, Albus/Gellert, PG-13, 3537 words)
The Accursed Fruitcake of Camlann was said to have been a rejected Christmas present from Morgana to Merlin, forever doomed to pass on from wizard to wizard, bringing its curse upon all who dared regift it. This is its epic story over the ages and how one brave wizard finally defeated the Accursed Fruitcake’s evil spell.

Summary kind of says it. This was a silly delight. I highly recommend a dramatic reading for no doubt soon-to-be-confused significant others or friends.

Malfoy’s poorly thought-out plan went roughly like this:

1) Fruitcake is cursed.
2) Give fruitcake to Potter.
3) ???
4) Profit!

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mini_fest - A Christmas Wish
(Severus/Harry. Artist rated PG-13 but as far as I can see it's straight G, so it makes me wonder if I'm missing some saucy detail.)
Prompt(s): 29. "All I Want for Christmas" - Harry makes a Christmas Eve wish that Severus was still alive. and 31. Snape as Jack Frost.

The frosty coloring and spiky hair and eyebrows suit Severus surprisingly well. Harry's gloved fingers touching the corner of Severus's smile is very sweet.

Secret Santa by aramintasnape (Severus/Aurora, sexy fluff, R, 2875 words)
Every year, Albus organises a Secret Santa for the staff. This year, Severus decides to liven up the proceedings...

Three words: Black silk lingerie. Hee! Also, this is set in my favourite under-written era for Severus, the young professor (1980s).

Christ, what was wrong with him? Maybe Albus had slipped him a Get-Totally-Over-Excited-and-Act-Like-An-Idiot-At-Christmas potion on the sly. It couldn't be possible that he was actually looking forward to Christmas presents.

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There must be something in the water mulled wine this year, because besides mimimanderly's A Visit from Severus, we also have A Visit from St. Severus by hexgirl (both are a strong PG-13 or soft R, I think):

His black eyes they glinted! His skin was like chalk!
His cheeks were like marble, his nose like a hawk!
The sneer on his lips was enough to rouse fright,
And the hair on his head was as dark as the night.

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Sort of oldish, from this summer's Snarry Games:
Connecting the Dotty by igtow (Severus/Harry, romance/family, PG-13, ~19200 words)
A gentle tale of growing old together.

igtow's summary pretty much says it. Harry and Severus begin this story aged in the middle of their second centuries, and it's about them and their considerable number of descendents and family dealing with Severus's growing senility -- and, as the story goes on, some of Harry's problems as well. This grabbed me in the gut early on and didn't let go. I'm having a really hard time picking a good excerpt out of this because it doesn't seem to want to be carved into little chunks like that. So... next!

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A Severus Christmas Carol by Strega Arvay (gen/supernatural, PG, ~26900)
What the Dickens? Severus Snape finds himself at the end of the year, feeling particularly foul. Leave it to the 'ghosts' of Christmas Past, Present and Future to set him straight. AU story with DH spoilers! Takes place in Harry's 5th year... sorta.

Probably a cliched idea by now, but I thought this was a good take on it that had its own life and didn't feel limp or stale. Regulus stands in for Marley, and the three spirits are Lily, Dumbledore, and (naturally, given the appearance) a Dementor. It has the predictable ending as it's a clear example of based-on-X homage, but again, I was taken with the way the HP characters were adapted into the known storyline and made relevant there with their own twist.

Snape stood transfixed by the scene in front of him. He wanted to believe with all his might that the heat in his face came solely from the setting sun shining in through the kitchen window. Without looking at Dumbledore, he asked, “Tell me, does [Harry] live or die?”

“That I cannot say, Severus,” Dumbledore sighed. “I only know what lies… well, technically, what lay ahead of me in my life. But I do see an empty chair at the Gryffindor table, and a wand without an owner. If things remain as they are then, yes, I do believe Harry will die.” His voice changed, harsher and cutting. “But he should consider himself lucky, right? Lucky to be so blissfully removed from the torment of this world?”

The echo of his own words cut through Snape like a knife [...]

Snow by *PhalacrocoraxCarbo on deviantART

She said she would have liked to have a little dialogue or story for this picture, but couldn't think of one, and could anyone write one? So I did this little splat of Severus/Hermione. (I know, I know: Four horsemen sighted on horizon; film at 11.) I have no idea what I am doing here so forgive me if I get the character dynamic all wrong.

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Severus shivered, pulled his scarf up a little higher around his throat, and tried to sink his jaw and cheeks down into it like a turtle. His voice a little muffled by the green and grey striped wool, he said, "Granger, if you'd just—"

"—Hermione," she admonished him without looking up, scraping her fingers through the snow to make the lines of her snow-horse's mane.

"Hermione," he continued gruffly, "as I've told you twice already, if you insist on making snow sculpture in the dead of winter you surely have faster and better ways of doing so." He tapped the tip of his wand impatiently against his palm. "Or doth the history of your Charms marks deceive me?" He ardently wished once again that he'd put on a hat and gloves before venturing out in the twilit snow to collect the foolish young witch.

"Oh, Severus," she sighed, standing and brushing the snow from her knees, then turning to face him. "One thing I've learned is that there are just some things that are better to do with your own hands." For a moment she remembered hearing about Harry digging Dobby's grave in the Muggle way and blinked away the tears that sprang to her eyes. Then, smiling, she took one of his hands in hers. Caressing his fingers suggestively, she stretched up to whisper in his ear, "Some things. As I'm sure you know..."

Severus shivered again, but not from the cold. "Some things," he agreed in a low, hot voice, and led her inside.

Snarry 3 by ~Umino-aka-Morskaya on deviantART

So sweet. I love Severus's glasses and apparent age and the contented familiarity in him ruffling Harry's hair.



Connichi 2009 - poking Snape by ~HowellJenkinsSama on deviantART

There are some other photos of this interesting Snape cosplay as well. Normally I would say that nose prosthesis takes it over the top into slightly cruel caricature, but somehow it really brings this particular costume together.



The Long Road by ~TGP on deviantART

I loved the moody colour and how a frightened child grows into a sullen teenager, a disaffected adult, and then a total mystery with his back turned to the viewer. Very simply drawn but quite effective.



The Banes of Her Existence by *Vizen on deviantART

This made me LOL IRL. Just look at Severus and Minerva's poses and expressions, and Albus's drink with the umbrella! Poor woman, being headmistress and sharing an office with those two...

( ten fic recs behind the cut: gen, Severus/Lily, Harry/Draco, Severus/Harry, Sirius/Harry )