Last verse, same as the first. Plus FICRECS.

[pauraque_bk]

Yet again, I've started shuffling my friends list. That means adding some journals and taking off others (hopefully more of the latter). It's nothing personal!


In propitiation, have some recs:

Inheritance (NC-17, Snape/Dumbledore, warnings for incest) by atdelphi
I beta'd this, but there honestly wasn't much to do by the time I got my hooks in it. It made me clap my hands in sinful glee. Severus is exactly this ambitious, and Dumbledore is exactly this... well. I don't want to spoil it for you. Just read.

Lunching with the Antichrist (R, Tom Riddle/Morfin Gaunt) by bookofjude
No one else writes like Jude, do they? I have a hard time dealing with Tom/Voldemort as a character in fic -- when you're doing psychological realism, it gets too scary -- but this short piece lets you get close to him, his humanity and his total loss of it, in a way that really worked for me.

Icon (NC-17, Harry/Snape) by rantipole_
Author was new to me, and what an interesting fic! This isn't usually my pairing; I don't think you have to be a Snarryist to get something out of it. It's much more about layers of mood and folklore and -- my favorite -- commentary on the text. By which I mean that feeling you get that a fic could not be written in any other fandom, because it's so firmly rooted in the source, and the deeper meanings of that source.


Here's another thing: Do you guys ever get people commenting on your fics and then deleting the comment, so that you get the notice, but then when you go to reply it's gone? Today I got a notice of someone replying to The Set with the single word "heartbreaking.", and they'd deleted it. Did they want me to get the message without having their name permanently attached to the opinion? Or did they merely change their mind?

Comments

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I wonder if some people have a general policy of wanting their feedback to go just to the author and not be a public thing?

Oh, and I wanted to give you a link to this because I thought you might have some good insight. It's a question about Peter.

[pauraque]

As I was saying to atrata, there have been fandoms -- and perhaps fandom eras -- where it was a no-no to give public feedback. This was when things were conducted on MLs, so if you sent an "omgsogood" message to the list, everyone would get it in their inboxes, so private email was the way to go. Of course, LJ doesn't have that problem, but if you're coming from ML culture, it can feel uncomfortable to leave public FB.