#snapecase

[consistentsquash]

Snapecase is posting!!! <3

[goddess47]

Happy Birthday, Severus Snape!

As part of the celebration of Severus' birthday, SnapeCase (on Live Journal) has started posting fic.

There will be a fic a day until the mod runs out of works, but it usually runs 5-6 weeks.

Check it out here: https://snapecase.livejournal.com

[gawaincomic]

This is from 2023, and I kinda forgot to post it, but I thought about it again because there was no Snapecase this year :/. This is called 'Nineteen', and I made it for last year's Snapecase.

...I'm not sure this is the best way to make a re-entry on tumblr after a long absence, but here it is. Have some punk Snape.

[thiswaycomessomethingwicked]

Made a playlist for Snapecase Era Downey - aka music for when you're a young assassin trying to keep your head down and party on while a maniac runs your local government (scag!) and every so often you're forced to remember this which is, frankly, rude

(not at all relatable!)

(it's a real hodgepodge music-wise)

[perverse-idyll]

Minerva McGonagall/Severus Snape, 127,191 words, NC-17.

It's finished! It's finished! It's finished! It's finished! It's finished! It's finished! AAAAAAHHHHHH!

At long last, I've managed to bring a WIP to completion! Minerva and Severus have struggled their way to the end. It's 9:30 at night, I haven't eaten since breakfast, and I could dance a jig! But I won't. The story is Angst Central, canon compliant as far as Snape's fate goes, so you know, a jig is a little OOC. But I'm thrilled to have brought this little ship into harbor, because - now I can abandon ship and run away! (Not really, I still love Snagonagall, but it's time I turned my sights back on Snarry.)

I was helped to shepherd this story to the end by a group of absolutely lovely readers and commenters. The idea got its start in the Snapecase fest on LiveJournal (which is currently running, and maybe now I can catch up on my reading) and it's taken years to finally get it out there. I need a breather. I know this isn't a popular ship, but I had feelings about them, and at least for now, I've had my say.

[houseofsnarry]

The Snape Showcase is back, baby! Click the link for all the details and rules and how you can participate. It's a fest hosted by iulia_linnea over on LiveJournal.

Also, wondering about the previous fests? Here are the links to the previous years' masterlists:  2011, 2012, 2013, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023.

The fest is in celebration of Severus Snape throughout his ages from birth to....well. We like to pretend around here he reached his golden years. Shhhh. That snake bite did nothing but leave a little scar and he's happily somewhere away from the adoring public (us), brewing his potions, and sending scathing letters to the editors.

"Gen, het, and slash fan works of any kind and of any rating are welcome."

We can't wait to see what our amazing community bring to the fest!

[snarrybang]

Want to have fun creating something Severus Snape-related to celebrate his birthday?

Head over to the Snape Showcase; pick an age-range, and have fun!

Gen, het, slash welcome! Fic & art welcome! Solo works or collabs welcome!

The Snape Showcase has been running for years; you too can be part of the adventure :D

[consistentsquash]

OOH! I actually know some of these fics! Really love MM's determination + follow through in Truths Found in the Art of Change. This is so OOTP and DH McGonagall.

Even if it's eleven years too late, Harry Potter will at last wake up knowing that she has a proper home, and Minerva wouldn't have it any other way.

Iirc I read Phoenix, Disinclined on Snapecase. Love how sensitive the writing is about the topics.

Adding the others to my TBR.

HP Rec Fest - Day 21

Prompt: A thought-provoking fic @hprecfest

Truths Found in the Art of Change

Characters: Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Minerva McGonagall, Poppy Pomfrey

Pairing: Minerva McGonagall/Poppy Pomfrey

Creator: TransRights (Duskglass)

Rating: K/G

Warning: misgendering, mentions of dysphoria

Word Count: 3,009

Summary: it begins, time and again, with a girl and a book.

Why You Should Check It Out:

From the HP Trans Fest 2021, this is a gorgeous story of acceptance and love that includes one of my favorite tropes: Minerva as mentor. This time, however, her mentorship goes beyond the academic into areas of gender identity. The scene with BAMF!Minerva talking to Petunia made my little heart sing.

A Bit of Earth Beneath the Feet

Characters: Minerva McGonagall, Remus Lupin

Creator: lash_larue

Rating: T/PG-13

Word Count: 8,400

Summary: Sometimes a woman does what she feels is right, and neither asks permission nor looks back.

Why You Should Check It Out:

A marvellous portrait of friendship and of a wonderful teacher who leads a perceptive student to important decisions and realizations, and a tribute to real-life caring teachers.

Endings and Beginnings

Characters: Augusta Longbottom, Dobby, Hermione Granger, Irma Pince, Original Character, Severus Snape

Creator: delphipsmith

Rating: K/G

Word Count: 9,000

Summary: An ancient mystery and a modern one: do they hold one another's answers?

Why You Should Check It Out:

I do love fics that probe wizarding lore, and this one takes a deep and nuanced look at house-elf history and how things came to be as they were.

It's full of wonderful details and exquisitely drawn characters, and the gentle humor clothes some trenchant obeservations of wizarding society that ring true in today's real world.

The Phoenix, Disinclined

Character: Severus Snape

Creator: prolurk

Rating: K+/PG

**Warning: attempted suicide

Word Count:** 9,965

Summary: Severus Snape survived Nagini's attack. And he's not happy about it.

Why You Should Check It Out:

A difficult—and essential—story about a difficult subject. This is all about trauma and survivor's guilt, featuring a Severus who is not at all happy at having survived.

The author builds their tale carefully and respectfully, and perfectly captures Severus's progress from terror and bewilderment, through malaise, and then to (grudging) acceptance. The details of the therapy he undergoes to get there are perfectly drawn.

[titconao3]

Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Severus Snape, Tobias Snape, Eileen Prince Additional Tags: Community: snapecase, Child Severus Snape, Poverty, not very happy Words: 2280 Summary: Eileen and Tobias Snape take their six-year-old son Severus to a fair in Cokeworth.

One of my two fics for Snapecase 2023!

[bulbasaurlife]

My submission for Snapecase 2021. I lost the original file for this too, so here's the compressed version.

[milotzi]

Here's a mixed medium artwork I did as a present to the community for the reveal of the 2021 Snapecase over at LJ, which included lots of fantastic Snape fictions and art. It's called Dedushka Snape, as it was inspired by the Russian babushka dolls:

[consistentsquash]

Author Love Letter - Scarlet

Folks, definitely chime in you want to add stuff because a lot of folks have probably met Scarlet in different contexts!

Also it's like 4am here so my spag and everything is going to be pretty bad. Sorry about that.

Scarlet, @givereadersahug on Tumblr and emeraldlove on AO3. Powerhouse of a human, brilliant multiship and multifandom writer, moderator, fest runner, community builder, absolute role model. 0% drama, 100% love. People first always. The Queen of giving without expectation.

We were like talking about having a Rec Fest sometime back in March 2023. Of course I was 100% talk 0% action. But Scarlet actually got a lot of great folks involved, started the fest, got comods to help out and literally just made it happen. That's a good TLDR intro: Make Things Happen Behind the Scenes. Like an iphone or something. Scarlet behind the scenes = it was going to work 100% without problems.

When I think about Snarry fandom, like any big and old fandom we have different folks with different strengths/contributions. Great writers, artists, podficcers, organizers. But it's pretty hard to find somebody whose first priority is making the fandom thrive because we are fans/fan creators, pretty attached to the stuff we are doing, we have time limits because fandom is a hobby and we have to prioritize between creating and community building a lot of times. Scarlet really said Community First, People First. I don't even know how to explain it but 0% transactional vibes.

Making space for people. Meeting folks where they are at. Obviously introverts have a hard time in communities sometimes. Some folks learn how to handle it. No judgment here because these experiences can be subjective. But I have seen Scarlet go the extra mile for folks who are new/introverted/feeling imposter syndrome/going through some complicated fandom experiences. Just being there for them and supporting them to get started.

Also a brilliant writer of darkfic!!! Scarlet's darkfic shorts are some of my all time favs because of how dark/delicious/intense they are. These fics really give me 2000s dirtyhotbadwrong vibes because of how totally out and proud they are about their fiction is not reality vibe. Tons of range and lots of genres but the darkfics get my special love because they are just dirtybadhotwrong shameless amazingness. Check out In His Bed to get a sense for that unique vibe! Her community building and cheerleading wins are huge but also her darkfic writing is some of my all time fav.

Also Queen of Attention to Detail. I have read some fests with her and she guessed authors just like that during anon phase. Just incredible observation Sherlock Holmes style.

My fav fest memory is doing Snapecase reading with her. She guessed the author for Candles Lit Against the Dark, @perverse-idyll based on the title because she noticed/connected a lot of the flame/shadow imagery in the author's other Snarry fics. I am pretty good about guessing some authors myself because I can identify their style but guessing from the title is advanced superpowers. I can't even!! So extra, Scarlet. So totally extra and I love love love <3

Another fav memory I have is about analyzing fics with her. When HotD was airing eldritcher's Ossuarium was being written episode by episode. It was an insane time. We had a brilliant time analyzing those fics :D We were both passionate but Scarlet was so extra passionate, noticed tons of detail that was totally lost on me, really good at connecting the dots, just a hardcore close reader.

Also dead dove fics! 100% supporter of folks writing dead dove, incest, darkfics.

Also reccing older fics! Her Dudley phase was insane and she was finding fics from like 2000s on wayback just like that with some superhuman skills. On like websites I didn't even know existed. Really Sherlock Holmes <3

Also smaller fests. Scarlet supported a ton of Dreamwidth fests and got new folks to join them/introduced them to Dreamwidth culture and literally was the bridge between different types of fandom culture a lot of times.

Also reccing fic! Her recs for For I Have Found Salvation by @lumosatnight and also for @wilfriede's podfics have so much love/passion/enthusiasm and I just love those works 2x because of the emotional connect of her reccing <3

Also nwhiker! I really got into this author's Snack fic, Second Life because of Scarlet's passionate, passionate reccing. When Scarlet got into something the reccing happened with big big love and for me that was like the best thing ever because folks who love things with big love are just super special <3

Also my concrit buddy for movies. Ingmar Bergman to Audrey Hepburn to Past Lives just a total knowledge wikipedia about movies/movie making/movie meta/movie crit. I really changed my perspective about movies after learning from her. Also shows! Watching HotD and doing episode reviews with Scarlet is like one of my best memories ever ever ever <3 Also books!

Also moderator of Snarry discords like @houseofsnarry, participated, started and ran a ton of communities and fests including the @hprecfest which is just finishing this week <3 <3

If I have to describe Scarlet in like one word I am going to say Connection. 100% about connection, 100% heart led. So special. Love, love, love.

pic source Los Angeles Street Art photography by bigcitiesbrightlights

[goddess47]

Looking for a fellow HP fan...

I was going to my to-do writing list (yes, it's too long!) and I realized it was December, and I should be finishing up stories for SnapeCase on Live Journal - a Harry Potter Snape-centric fest which has run for a long time. In poking at this, I find no prompting for this year's fest and, in fact, the mod iulia_linnea has not posted since February of this year, at the end of the fest.

I'm no longer concerned about the fest but about iulia… I've left her a couple of messages on LJ and the fest email, and asked a couple of folk who are her flist, and no one has heard from her and does not know what might have happened to her.

If you're iulia and you have Reasons to not be active, that's not a problem, just worried about you.

If anyone knows something, feel free to leave a reply or drop me a PM and I'll let folk know enough to not worry.

Just did not want someone to disappear into the void… we lose enough folk in fandom to real life, just wanted to take a moment to reach out.

Thanks!

[Crossposted on my LJ also.]

[gawaincomic]

I don’t do Valentines, but here is a gloating Snape for your delectation :).

Third Snapecase entry - yes, this was a busy fest for me.

[halfbloodprincess23]

Check out the one-shot I wrote for the Snapecase fic fest on Livejournal. It’s not very good but I figured i’d share anyways, in case anyone is interested. I wrote it under a specific set of rules so it’s just a one-shot for now, but I am thinking about expanding it at some point. 

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Major Character Death Relationships: Hermione Granger/Severus Snape Characters: Severus Snape, Hermione Granger, Portrait Albus Dumbledore Additional Tags: Time Travel, Room of Requirement, Character Death, Suicidal Thoughts, Magical Parchments Summary:

After a mysterious encounter in the Room of Requirement, Severus gains a small glimmer of hope, where before there was only despair.

[perverse-idyll]

I’m reminded by the fact I forgot to post about my latest chapter that Snapecase has been running for weeks now and I need to promote that, too! I’m participating in this round, along with a lovely group of writers and at least one artist. I’ve read most of the fics and commented on about half (I’m perpetually behind, this should not be news to anybody), and there are many fascinating, sometimes sad, sometimes perceptive and funny stories this year. The majority of the entries make for quick reading, and I never cease to marvel at new takes and new angles on each decade of Severus’s life. He is, shall we say, the gift that keeps on giving. The fest has at least a week of posting left, I believe. I highly recommend it, and not just because I signed up for it!