Beholder recs (HP fics)
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fluffyllamaI've not been around much as I'm trying to get our house ready to go up for sale. We're very close to that point now, and I have estate agent fatigue already and yet another one turning up this afternoon. So my reading time has had to be grabbed here and there, but of course Beholder is always worth making time for!
I'm hoping to make another recs post yet, but I thought I'd start with some posted later in the fest as they've had the least time out there to be read, and reading/commenting always seems to drop off as posting continues in any fest. I still have a lot to read, and I apologise for not getting to a lot of them yet, especially the longer stories!
I haven't included any warnings since you have to highlight to read them at the community, so do check those if you need to.
Straight On 'Till Morning (Moody/Scrimgeour, PG-13)
I have to start with this one, because it's my gift! Mine, all mine... but I suppose you can read it too :D
I sometimes think we get carried away with the list of likes and dislikes when signing up for fests, and I do try to assure the author that they should write something they will enjoy creating above all, but when the two happen to coincide the results are fabulous! Ministry/auror/order goings on, politics, history, plotting, Moody's relationships, wonderful world-building and details and so much more. *happy sigh* Mine! Go read :)
A Gramarye of Folk Magic (Snape/Aberforth, NC-17)
This is beautiful. Aberforth keeps on doing his own thing while the plot thickens and Albus manipulates in the background, visible only to us through Snape as he appears to Aberforth. Definitely a must read from the fest.
A Short Treatise on the Social Lives of Ghosts (Cuthbert Binns/Grey Lady, Cuthbert Binns/Horace Slughorn, Moaning Myrtle/Nearly Headless Nick, The Fat Friar/The Wailing Widow, PG)
The ghosts (and some non-ghosts) of Hogwarts getting on with their deaths, each in their own way. Myrtle's diary is hilarious and the Fat Friar even more so, while Binns looks for companionship and struggles with names. Just lovely.
Working Things Out -aka- The Delicate Dance of the Happy Tentacula (Secret pairing, R)
First - I love that title! The story is marvellous too, though hard to say too much about with a secret pairing, as it should be in a mystery story. A really fun read with lots of Hogwarts staff!
we lay together on a cold hard floor (Snape/Pettigrew, R)
Peter slash! There's so little of that out there, relatively speaking, and he's always been so underappreciated. The comments to this fic say it all better than I ever could, so you should check those out, but this is fascinating Peter and great Snape, and well worth a read, even if you're not sure why anyone would find Peter interesting.
More later if I'm not eaten by voracious estate agents. Eep.
P.S. Any guesses which Beholder fic is mine? I suspect at least one person has guessed...
I'm hoping to make another recs post yet, but I thought I'd start with some posted later in the fest as they've had the least time out there to be read, and reading/commenting always seems to drop off as posting continues in any fest. I still have a lot to read, and I apologise for not getting to a lot of them yet, especially the longer stories!
I haven't included any warnings since you have to highlight to read them at the community, so do check those if you need to.
Straight On 'Till Morning (Moody/Scrimgeour, PG-13)
I have to start with this one, because it's my gift! Mine, all mine... but I suppose you can read it too :D
I sometimes think we get carried away with the list of likes and dislikes when signing up for fests, and I do try to assure the author that they should write something they will enjoy creating above all, but when the two happen to coincide the results are fabulous! Ministry/auror/order goings on, politics, history, plotting, Moody's relationships, wonderful world-building and details and so much more. *happy sigh* Mine! Go read :)
A Gramarye of Folk Magic (Snape/Aberforth, NC-17)
This is beautiful. Aberforth keeps on doing his own thing while the plot thickens and Albus manipulates in the background, visible only to us through Snape as he appears to Aberforth. Definitely a must read from the fest.
A Short Treatise on the Social Lives of Ghosts (Cuthbert Binns/Grey Lady, Cuthbert Binns/Horace Slughorn, Moaning Myrtle/Nearly Headless Nick, The Fat Friar/The Wailing Widow, PG)
The ghosts (and some non-ghosts) of Hogwarts getting on with their deaths, each in their own way. Myrtle's diary is hilarious and the Fat Friar even more so, while Binns looks for companionship and struggles with names. Just lovely.
Working Things Out -aka- The Delicate Dance of the Happy Tentacula (Secret pairing, R)
First - I love that title! The story is marvellous too, though hard to say too much about with a secret pairing, as it should be in a mystery story. A really fun read with lots of Hogwarts staff!
we lay together on a cold hard floor (Snape/Pettigrew, R)
Peter slash! There's so little of that out there, relatively speaking, and he's always been so underappreciated. The comments to this fic say it all better than I ever could, so you should check those out, but this is fascinating Peter and great Snape, and well worth a read, even if you're not sure why anyone would find Peter interesting.
More later if I'm not eaten by voracious estate agents. Eep.
P.S. Any guesses which Beholder fic is mine? I suspect at least one person has guessed...
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