Writer's block cannot stop the Snaco recs!
Apr. 9th, 2011 04:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lokifan_importWriter’s block has hit me like a train. Not surprising, really; Miss Godfrey and Violet both went home this morning. More importantly for writer’s-block-causing, this has been a stressful week essay-wise, and since I have a big Medieval project and my dissertation due in less than a month, it’s not going to ease off quickly.
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diacon_alley is coming up - which is a source of great excitement, but also effort!
Anyway: writing is far from the only way one can contribute to fandom, so in that spirit, here are the twocrack_broom recs I’ve posted so far this month.
Custard Tarts for the Tart by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
iamisaac (Severus/Draco, 2500 words, NC-17.)
After the war, there are precious few jobs going for ex-Death-Eaters. War-hero Severus, however, finds one for Draco...
This is short, elegant, and utterly engrossing.
It was written for a “catamites” challenge at Daily Deviant, but takes a very different tack from the one you might expect. This Draco isn’t a mistreated, virginal woobie; but neither is he an effortlessly beautiful, charming, superlatively skilled young whore. He’s never brought Snape to orgasm with his mouth alone, and he has to try hard to keep his figure.
He’s Snape’s catamite, and is very aware of his status. It’s a job, despite his feelings for Snape, despite what the world believes; and he must do it well or he’ll be out on the street. But - of course - he loves Snape.
Snape looms over every line of this fic, but even when he appears ‘on screen’ it’s unclear what he feels for Draco. And that works wonderfully: this fic is deep into Draco’s POV, and not only is he unsure of Snape’s feelings, he’s not really concerned with them. He has to focus on pleasing Snape, on being pleasing, for both material and emotional self-protection.
A fic with this premise could be so overblown and melodramatic; instead it’s an elegant, wonderfully characterised snippet of hearbreak.
Snape and Draco byglockgal (Severus/Draco, G.)
IT’S REALLY CUTE. I know Snaco is meant to be the cool ship, you know, with fuckloads of angst and Gothic identity crises and kinky kinky sex. But whatever, I am confessing to my love of Snaco fluff. And this is just so cute and I flail at it and beam at it and OH DRACO’S BLUSH.
It’s a G-rated little comic, with an extremely cute, funny, recognisable Snape and Draco. And totally worth checking out just for Snape’s changing expressions as Draco is SUPER-STEALTHY.
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diacon_alley is coming up - which is a source of great excitement, but also effort!Anyway: writing is far from the only way one can contribute to fandom, so in that spirit, here are the two
crack_broom recs I’ve posted so far this month.Custard Tarts for the Tart by
iamisaac (Severus/Draco, 2500 words, NC-17.)After the war, there are precious few jobs going for ex-Death-Eaters. War-hero Severus, however, finds one for Draco...
This is short, elegant, and utterly engrossing.
It was written for a “catamites” challenge at Daily Deviant, but takes a very different tack from the one you might expect. This Draco isn’t a mistreated, virginal woobie; but neither is he an effortlessly beautiful, charming, superlatively skilled young whore. He’s never brought Snape to orgasm with his mouth alone, and he has to try hard to keep his figure.
He’s Snape’s catamite, and is very aware of his status. It’s a job, despite his feelings for Snape, despite what the world believes; and he must do it well or he’ll be out on the street. But - of course - he loves Snape.
Snape looms over every line of this fic, but even when he appears ‘on screen’ it’s unclear what he feels for Draco. And that works wonderfully: this fic is deep into Draco’s POV, and not only is he unsure of Snape’s feelings, he’s not really concerned with them. He has to focus on pleasing Snape, on being pleasing, for both material and emotional self-protection.
A fic with this premise could be so overblown and melodramatic; instead it’s an elegant, wonderfully characterised snippet of hearbreak.
Snape and Draco by
glockgal (Severus/Draco, G.)IT’S REALLY CUTE. I know Snaco is meant to be the cool ship, you know, with fuckloads of angst and Gothic identity crises and kinky kinky sex. But whatever, I am confessing to my love of Snaco fluff. And this is just so cute and I flail at it and beam at it and OH DRACO’S BLUSH.
It’s a G-rated little comic, with an extremely cute, funny, recognisable Snape and Draco. And totally worth checking out just for Snape’s changing expressions as Draco is SUPER-STEALTHY.
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Date: 2011-04-09 07:17 pm (UTC)Or chocolate for non-drinkers, perhaps, or a tiny jar of tiny lollies so that one can sort them by colour and line them up in perfect rows in lieu of glaring at the blank page :).
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Date: 2011-04-09 07:37 pm (UTC)Ahahahahaha! Definitely. I like the tiny lollies idea - perfect for one with my 'ah, soothing organisation' tendencies. I have been plotting a schedule of Snaco recs, deleting spam from the Diacon Alley website forum, and doing the washing-up :)
And trying to decide if getting a Chinese would be an unforgivable waste of my student loan...
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Date: 2011-04-09 07:48 pm (UTC)Deleting spam, that's a good one. Sorting one's inbox is good, too - setting up filters and rules is soothing to the brain *and* useful later.
Oh, washing up. I should do some. though actually, now that I look at the clock, I need to get off the internet and get to the gym! I will be late for my date with the treadmill, boo! *flees*
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Date: 2011-04-15 12:19 am (UTC)Definitely!
Heh. I miss swimming, but I feel so busy right now with my diss. deadline coming up... but then I am more focussed when I exercise, so...
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