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Title: Dancing Fool
Fandom: Monkey Island
Pairing/Characters: Guybrush/Elaine
Rating: General audiences (G)
Words: 360
Summary: Just a fluffy little ficlet: Guybrush did his best to learn to dance for his and Elaine's wedding. Of course, this is Guybrush we're talking about here...
Additional Tags: Weddings, Dancing, Fluff, Humor
Notes: Inspired by this headcanon post of captmickey's:
Yeah, it's funny seeing Guybrush be a klutz and a goof and silly.
But it's also cool thinking how he probably practice for weeks on end to waltz/ballroom dance for Elaine for their wedding and it's the one form of dance he can do because of how hard he practice.
And he still remembers it.

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?

Wormwood and Gall by delphipsmith (in snapecase)
Severus Snape, Albus Dumbledore, cameo by Lucius Malfoy; G, 3785 words
Author's summary: When Severus is offered the job of Potions Master at Hogwarts, he thinks that perhaps life might not be as desolate as it looked. Whether or not this is correct remains to be seen.
Author's warnings: Angst.

My comment: Great "missing years" piece.

Quote:
"Are you well, Severus?" Albus Dumbledore said solicitously.

"Oh yes," Severus Snape said through numb lips. "Being nearly condemned to Azkaban is such an...energizing pastime."

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Grey in the Dark by potionpen
Eileen, Severus, OMC; AO3 rated "general audiences", 4082 words
Author's summary: It's a chocolate-scented August in the Sherwood, and there's a stormcrow at the door.

(this is about Severus buying his first wand, but not from Ollivander.)

Quote:
"And he's a Ministry toady," the woman added, scowling. "The Trace on every bleeding wand he sells."

"Southern milquetoast," Dickon agrees, making a face. "No one'd stand for that nonsense north of Kent. Now, lad, do you want your mam to stay?"

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(Love is a) Battlefield by veridari (in severus_sighs)
Severus/Harry, Neville, Teeny Nagini, Minerva, Draco and BAMF!Trevor; G
Author's summary: It is the annual Staff Valentine's Day Party, where lines are drawn in the sand, enemies are made and Cupid is nowhere to be found. Or is he? Yes, just your typical holiday at Hogwarts.

My comment: LOL! I love all of this. I think my favorite part is either Trevor's less-than-impressed look at his costume, or Minerva's assured delight at pointing out the missed point in Severus's logic...

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Five Moments of Doubt by Bagheera
Severus, Minerva, Ginny, Neville, Luna, Pomona Sprout; AO3 rated "general audiences", 5911 words
Author's summary: Five times someone doubted Snape's allegiance while he was headmaster, five moments at Hogwarts during year seven.

Quote:
Ginny swallowed. Most portraits were feigning sleep, some empty, but Dumbledore was awake and present. He raised his silver eyebrows at her, then made a shooing motion with his hand, as if to remind her of her lines. Then he leaned back in the window frame and gazed down at Snape, calm and melancholy, as if he were seeing something quite different from his murderer.

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The Things Draco Carries by catsintheattic
Draco, Pansy, Severus, Vincent, Gregory, Blaise, Malfoys; AO3 rated "teen and up", 4875 words
Author's summary: Another pure-blood will recognise you by your blood and heritage, but any commoner will recognise you by your possessions. Seven years at Hogwarts. Seven insights into Draco’s schoolbag.

Quote:
There is a Potions essay in his bag that Professor Snape has marked in Draco’s first year. He has written not too bad under the text, followed by the energetic scribble that is his signature. Knowing Snape, Draco treats the parchment as if his Professor’s script were written in ink of gold.

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Last Day at the Mill by Squirrel Patronus
Tobias, Severus; rated Teen, 2016 words
Author's summary: The Mill in Cokeworth is shutting down. Tobias Snape and his son, Severus, have different ideas about the future of the city.

Quote:
He had meant to be friendly, conversational. His own son was a stranger to him. Severus smiled a ghastly grin at him. His black eyes continued to bore through his father.

edit: apparently this crosspost to LJ failed. apologies to those who see it more than once on DW and IJ.

I've been building these up for a while (there are... 17?), so I'm omitting the quotes from the fics I would usually give.

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And some quick comic/art recs to a few things by someoldcat. All Severus/Sirius.

White Noise WS, bonus Severus in Quidditch referee's uniform.

La Petite Mort NWS, bonus Sirius speaking French that may or may not be any good. ;)

L'Extrémité WS where I am but has closeup of kissing and implied sex.

These are part of a longer series, btw.

( slightly racy Severus/Sirius image )

Nyhurgha. Imfwarphpha. Thing. Deal. Yeah. This. Please to read the whole thing. (Parts of which are very NC-17 and NWS.) It's improbable and totally a fantasy and $DEITY does it not ever matter. (why does this standard not work for fic, i esk ye!)

As usual, some of these are a bit behind by now (going back about two and a half months). See tags for what's in this batch; I think there's more gen than usual (has some recs from snapecase and deatheaterfest).

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Title: (untitled)
Pairing/Characters: Severus/Lily
Genre: friendship/romance
Rating: PG for brief mention that boys sometimes get happy in the pants
Words: 454
Summary: Just a friendly game of cards.
Warnings/Contains: Unbetaed; not Britpicked although I did take the advice of hp_britglish to substitute pontoon (blackjack) for poker.
A/N: Written for coldfiredragon in fandom_stocking, here.

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Fear of the Forgotten by bk7brokemybrain in snape_ldws
(Severus, Neville, dark/gen, PG, ~275 words)
Snape has been preparing himself for the Second War.
My comment: "Whoa, now that's a neat (and dark) idea! Nicely done."

The Dark Lord made his choice between Potter and Longbottom. Since I cannot touch the one, I will use the other.

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No Escape Needed by as-yet-anonymous in daily_deviant (Kinky Kristmas)
(Severus/Percy, R, ~1400 words)
Percy had decided this morning over coffee and porridge that today is the day that he'll try to seduce Severus.
My comment: "Mmm, nice! This pairing is an occasional guilty pleasure of mine, and you've handled it so gently and tenderly."

He has never been the submissive lover, the one whose mind was penetrated, but he can see the attraction to it now, with Percy filling his mind like a stream of cool water.

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Career Advice by nadagio
(Severus, Hermione, gen but you could squint, light PG, ~1250 words)
Mid-OotP Interlude. It's Hermione's turn for career advising, but McGonagall can't make it to their appointment.
My comment: "I don't 'ship that', as you said, but there was plenty to enjoy here even without ship goggles on. Nice lines from Severus."

"You are taking eleven O.W.L.s, Miss Granger. Even someone as... obsessed and over-reaching as yourself must realize that you cannot possibly have the time and energy to devote to eleven N.E.W.T. subjects."

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The Butterbeer Incident by naadi
(Harry/Draco, romance/humor, PG-13, art + poem text about 950 words)

Pretty, lighthearted, and very funny in places.

"God, Harry," he cried, "are you mental?
This git is a boy!
Even worse, it's Malfoy!
How could you miss something so monumental?"