Fandom Snowflake Challenge Day #1

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In your own space, post a rec for at least three fanworks that you have created. It can be your favorite fanworks that you've created, or fanworks you feel no one ever saw, or fanworks you say would define you as a creator. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Man, this is a sort of bad day for this. I'm having a pretty low-self esteem writing day. I don't even want to look at my stories. But I do want to remember the times when I wrote things for people and they were very happy to receive them and told me what it meant to them. So here, have some stories that someone at sometime liked rather a lot.

"Every Other Thursday" HP(Ron/Viktor) NC-17, 20k words.

Summary: It was supposed to be a game. Ron thought he knew the rules.

This was originally written back in 2008 for daddybear716 at the hp_rarities fest. It was the first gift fest I participated in and I think it might have spoiled me for what to expect. This story still gets surprise!comments that make me *sigh*. It's been forever since I've read it and I'm sure there are bits that might make me cringe and wish to do it all over, but I'm going to rec it as it stands. A timestamp if you will. ♥

If music be the food of love, play on HP (Orsino Thurston and Gideon Crumb--members of "The Weird Sisters") Hard R, 10.5k words.

Summary There are only two people that know what split up the band. As they prepare for their Memorial Reunion concert, the two remember. Bandom HP style! 'Cause even Wizards know how to ROCK!

This was originally written in 2009 for hp_yule_balls *sigh* remember HP Yuleballs? Such a fun fest. Anyway, this was written for my bestie, redsnake and when signing up for this fest, we might have skewed the sign ups so that there was no possible way that anyone but me would be able to write for her. She still didn't know what I was writing though. It was one of the funniest fest experiences I ever had. ♥ Plus, Red is fun to write for no matter what. Fun to work her delicious and varied kinks-- literary, theme and sexual ones--into a story. This time it was relationship angst, boys being awkward, first times, bandom and extreme!rarepairs. ♥

And finally, my last rec, which I just remembered breaks the theme of the recs, as the recip of this story actually never acknowledged it at all. But, it was well received by many people in circles of fandom I had never touched before (or since). So, that's something.

Severus Snape Sends His Regrets HP (Snape/Lily) NC-17, 7k words.

Summary: What do you give the happy couple who has everything? What if Harry wasn’t the only Potter who received a few of Snape’s choice memories?

This was written in 2008 for another defunct fest (less_for_you)for a tiny pairing that never really got bigger, though there was a moment there when it seemed it could.

Always. *sob*

Anyway, I really loved exploring the darker side of Snape, though I don't think he's as dark here as some did. We also get to see what Lily and Snape's teen years might have been. It's sort of still my head canon for them. ♥

And I was going to go on and whine about the state of affairs in comments and lament that kudos and "likes" aren't equivalent and are sort of worse than no comment at all on gift fics, but then I remembered that this is a public post, and I don't want to be that person. Though, I guess I am and now adding passive-aggressive to the list of asshole-moves I possess--sorry about that.

Anyway. Fun challenge! I hope to check out some new fics on other people's posts as well. w00t! New-To-Me-Fic! ♥♥