Snape Fics by Bohemian Spirit

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fayzbub opens a discussion about an essay focusing on the Snape/Lily pairing.

CHALLENGES/CONTESTS

This week's challenge on snarry100 is Flourish and Blotts.

This week's challenge on quiz_sshg is Prolific Author Series: MiaMadwyn.

REC LISTS/ARCHIVE UPDATES

Moonshadow (the Snape/Lupin archive) has added two new stories. For more info, click here.

hgss_digest has been updated here.

TODAY IN FIC

Het

lesyeuxverts posted "Le Ténébreux" (Snape/Lily. R. Warning: Character Death)

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It's Friday morning here in Australia, and I'm reccing this essay:

http://randomneses.livejournal.com/479704.html

It's about the Snape/Lily pairing, and why there's so much Lily-bashing (apparently) that goes on in the Snapefen camp. I don't entirely agree with it, but it's thought-provoking,to say the least.

I look forward to hearing what other members think!

Alison

or since when does a kiss equate to sexual violence?

Adam Lambert has basically said he got carried away at this year's American Music Awards, but that if people were offended, that's because they're bigots. 

Consider these quotes:  "I admit I did get carried away, but I don't see anything wrong with it." . . . "If it had been a female pop performer doing the moves that were on the stage, I don't think there'd be nearly as much of an outrage at all.  I think it's because I'm a gay male."

GLAAD has complained that any criticism of Lambert reinforces a double standard against gays, and uses as an example the kiss between Madonna and Britney Spears at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards, which was controversial, but was also replayed,  And, honestly, I'd be sympathetic to that argument except for two things:  The MTV awards were on cable, specifically MTV, which is not exactly known as sedate.  But the bigger issue for me is that Lambert did not just kiss a guy on stage.  That would be entirely analogous and I suspect that, while some people would have complained, there would not be much of an uproar.

No, the issue is that, among other things, Lambert dressed his backup dancers in BDSM-like gear and forcibly pushed the head of another performer into his crotch and rubbed it in his crotch (although as I understand it, people on the west coast did not see that -- it was edited out).  It is really more analogous to the Timberlake-Jackson Super Bowl furor, when Timberlake ripped off part of Jackson's clothing.  And don't tell me that did not cause an uproar.  Of course, I must confess that I have often disagreed with people about the Timberlake-Jackson issue.  The two of them claimed it was just a wardrobe malfunction, and that Timberlake's ripping her clothes off was just supposed to reveal a lacy red bra, rather than her bare breast.  But my question was and remains:  WHY did they think it OK to be showing for titillation and supposed entertainment a white man ripping the clothing off a black woman to leave her in underwear?

The bottom line is that both Lambert's shoving a man's face into his crotch and rubbing it around, and Timberlake's ripping off Jackson's clothing were mimed acts of sexual violence, played out before children on major TV networks.  Well, so maybe Lambert's wasn't was mimed; apparently he was getting some stimulation there.  I cannot see why Lambert thinks that is OK.  I cannot see why GLAAD thinks that is OK.  And I am horrified that Lambert and GLAAD are perpetrating the stereotype of gays as people who equate sexual violence with a kiss.

Issue # 781: Tuesday-Wednesday, November 24-25, 2009

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COMMUNITIES

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snupin_santa has made a Mod post about Snupin Santa 2009

NEWSLETTER/ARCHIVE UPDATES

hgss_digest  has been updated here and here

CHALLENGES/CONTESTS

snupin100 has posted Challenge 235: Teeth

TODAY IN FIC

Het

lesyeuxverts has posted Le Tenebreaux (R; Severus Snape, Lily Evans; Warnings: character death)

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Title: Justifying the Wolf, III
Challenges: random Wikipedia article snape100 (Meryatum), politics lupin100
Word Count: 100
Note: this is part of the conclusion to the de-aged Snape plot begun a couple of weeks ago. He is in his twenties and has regained most of his memories.


Audrey Prince led them to a spacious parlor. She vanished a stack of political flyers from the table, took a seat beneath an old lithograph of the statue of Meryatum at Abu Simbel, and tapped her cane for tea.

Severus accepted a steaming cup of tea. "You're looking well, Gran."

"As are you," said Madam Prince. "Considerably older than when you left for school, but well."

"It came on - gradually," said Remus. He paused. "Strong memories triggered growth. Today - "

"I know what happened today." Her gaze was unreadable. "Perhaps you'd care to tell me what happens next?"

Title: Shame
Author: janus
Characters: Severus Snape, Minerva McGonagall
Rating: G
Challenge: Written for snape100's prompt #309: "Honi soit qui mal y pense" "Let him who thinks ill there be shamed."
Word Count: 200
Warnings: None

"Don't call me Coward!" he had cried, propelling fury, pain and desperation from him with the explosive power of sheer feeling required for a Patronus.

After he had betrayed his soul, his honour and any fine feeling for himself he had ever wanted to possess, this was the one thing he had left: He was not a coward.

At breakfast he read The Daily Prophet, but also The Times to gage Wizarding effects on the Muggle world. The standard caught his eye, and he deciphered its words of old French via Latin. "Let him who thinks ill there be shamed."

That would teach them, if they read it. He remembered the garter story from his first, Muggle school. McGonagall ought to be ashamed of thinking poorly of him after everything she should have seen and deduced.

But he thought ill of himself also, he realised. So much he had done sickened him. If he heeded the motto, he could be ashamed for judging himself so. If he did not heed it, he could condemn himself without shame. He lifted the corners of his mouth bitterly, appreciating the irony.

He vanished the newspaper and turned back to far more damning concerns.

Title: Opposites Attract
Author: alisanne
Pairing: Severus Snape/Harry Potter
Rating: PG
Challenge: Written for snape100's prompt #309: Wikipedia redux I got this. *eyeroll*
Word Count: 100
Warnings: None that I am aware of.
Beta: sevfan
Disclaimer: The characters contained herein are not mine. No money is being made from this fiction, which is presented for entertainment purposes only.

Opposites Attract

The New York Times today has an article on how both sides of the political spectrum are challenging the increasing federalization of criminal law.  It's an interesting read.  But the bizarre thing about it is that it describes a revolt in legal circles against federalizing criminal law, traditionally the province of the states; yet the comments picked as Editor's Selections all rail against state drug laws.  It makes me wonder if their own editors read the story.  And it kind of confirms my increasing lack of respect for the editors of the NYT, given their sympathy for those irrelevantly whining in the comments that it was unfair they went to jail for state drug charges or California's three strikes state law (the problem with which -- and there most certainly is one -- is that is inappropriately applied).  I mean, if they are going to whine, at least make it relevant to the topic of the article.

The whiny sense of over-entitlement in the comments reminds me of a guy who called my office the other day and said he was going to be all responsible now and clean up a warrant for an old drug charge (we're getting that a lot these days, and what it really means is he can't get a job now because the warrant turned up in a background check).  When I told him that was no problem:  he just either needed to come back to enter a plea and pay the fine, come back to contest the charge, or get a lawyer to do one of those for him, his response was to scream obscenities at me about how the state had an obligation to take care of it for him.  He wanted me to pay his mileage to drive to court.   The fact that I was agreeing not to charge the jerk with criminal failure to appear charges apparently escaped him. 

Then there was the guy who drove through the state doing drugs and, when he got picked up, wanted us to transfer his case to an adjoining state, because it "wasn't fair that I have to drive all this way to come to court."  Anyway...

The other somewhat strange thing about the article is its claim that nobody on the "right" has complained about this before now.  Yet, I remember clearly in the years before his death, Chief Justice William Rehnquist -- constantly criticized for being too far to the right -- repeatedly warned in speeches that Congress was exceeding its grasp -- because it was criminalizing conduct that had never been illegal; because it was increasing the power of the federal government and usurping the ability of states to prosecute (a favorite topic of mine, as you know); and because it was increasing the complexity and breadth of the federal criminal laws without any concurrent increase in budgets for the federal district courts.  As a result, putting aside the philosophical issues, the federal courts are overburdened and simply do not have the resources needed to handle the increase in caseload.  And I clearly recall contemptuous dismissals of Rehnquist from the NYT and others when he gave those warnings.

Title: Justifying the Wolf, I
Challenges: random Wikipedia article snape100 (Slawecin, Lower Silesian Voivodeship), politics lupin100
Word Count: 100
Note: this is part of the conclusion to the de-aged Snape plot begun a couple of weeks ago. He is in his twenties and has regained most of his memories.


A door opened while Severus named the politicians whose photographs adorned the walls. The Princes had a long history of involvement in politics, and Remus was not surprised to learn that Eileen Prince had met her husband during work on a campaign to deal with an infestation of bundimuns in Muggle buildings in an obscure Eastern European village.

"Severus?" A tall woman gripped an ornately carved cane. "My goodness. The Black girls owled me with the news."

"Gran." Severus' fingers dug into Remus' palm. "This is Remus Lupin. My - "

"We'll discuss this over tea," said Audrey Prince.

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POLLS
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TODAY IN ART

Slash
• Not Again by lainenyah (Sirius/Snape, PG)

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Title: Enthralled
Challenge # 309: "Wikipedia, Redux!
Author: Severed Lies

Word Count: 100

Rating: G

Characters: Severus Snape, Charity Burbage
Warnings: None
A/N: Clark's Law is an adage that reads: “Sufficiently advanced cluelessness is indistinguishable from malice.”


“So you have stated that blasted 'Law' repeatedly, but I assure you, it is distinguishable and punishable.”

Severus swept through the classroom, book in hand. He turned once, sketched a slight bow, then glided out the door into the dark corridor.

Charity repressed a laugh until she was certain Severus had descended at least two levels. He was so determined to prove that her favorite author was a hack that he forgot the bottle of red ink he came to borrow. She disagreed with him whole-heartedly about Elsworth Haynes, however.

Severus missed dinner that evening, enthralled with Imperial Earth.

Title: Staying the Night
Author: dandru
Challenge: Written for: snape100 #309 "Wikipedia, Redux!"
Pairing: Severus/Harry
Rating: PG
Words: 100 x 4
Disclaimer: All characters belong to JKR. I only play. I assure you, no one would pay me.
Summary: Severus takes Harry on a hunt for a horcrux and Harry hopes for more.
Notes: Wiki link: as luck would have it... Zdzieszulice Górne

Staying the Night

Title: Recompense
Author: torino10154
Word Count: 100
Pairing: Severus/Harry
Rating: PG-13
snape100 Challenge 309: "Wikipedia, Redux!"
Warning: Reference to homophobia/verbal abuse.
Disclaimer: Not mine. They belong to JKR.
A/N: I wouldn't even believe me, but I swear this was the first thing that came up. :) Pornophobia.

Title: Justifying the Wolf, I
Challenges: random Wikipedia article snape100 (Grover Cleveland), politics lupin100
Word Count: 100
Note: this is part of the conclusion to the de-aged Snape plot begun a couple of weeks ago. He is in his twenties and has regained most of his memories.


Teddy was safely tucked in for a nap when they Disapparated in front of Prince Hall. The front door opened as they reached the top step.

"Master Severus! You is here!" An elf, neatly dressed in a pillow slip embroidered with the Prince arms, clapped her hands together in delight. "Mistress is in the library! I is getting her!"

They waited as the elf disappeared. Portraits, both moving and still, filled the entry way. Remus peered at one that seemed vaguely familiar.

"Grover Cleveland?" he asked.

"One of Gran's uncles was the Wizarding attache to his adminstration," said Severus.

Title: cry me a river (or maybe just a little stream)
Challenge: #309: Wikipedia, Redux!
Word count: 5 x 100
Rating: PG
Pairing: None
Summary: Severus’s helpful and unhelpful extended family.
Note: The challenge is: ‘random article’ option on Wikipedia. I clicked on it and got “Consortium of Collegiate Agricultural Organizations”. I was like "what the?!!" at first. Apologies if it looked a tad bit forced into the storyline. And as an echo of past week’s Other Family challenge, this could be Severus’s job if he were taken in by the Taylors from early on.

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This week's challenge on snape100 is Wikipedia, Redux!

This week's challenge on grangersnape100 is "Turkey." For more information about the challenge or related concerns, click here.

REC LISTS/ARCHIVE UPDATES

The sshp_prophet has been updated for November 15 to 21.

TODAY IN FIC

Het

Anonymous (posting in hp_darkfest) wrote "Breaking" (Snape/Bellatrix. R. Non-Con. AU)

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Challenge #309: "Wikipedia, Redux!" This week's challenge is a revival of Challenge 178 from May of 2007. To play, go to Wikipedia's Main Page, then click on the "Random Article" link in the navigation bar on the upper left of the page, and use whatever you get as your prompt (to make it more amusing for all, please provide a link to the page you're using). If you honestly can't think of anything related to your first prompt, try again, but no more than three tries please: this is a challenge, after all.

(Note: this time around, when I tried I ended up with an Evangelical Christian preacher, which...seemed quite unrelated...until I realized the man's name was "Bobby Brewer." *g*)

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