Res ipsa loquitur

skuf pointed out to me that Transfigurations is ten years old this month. (I don't think I've ever stuck with any other hobby for ten years, despite all those piano lessons.)

At this distance, the main thing I see in the story is a triumph of collaboration. The kind of shared creation that goes on in fandom is something I've never seen anywhere else, and it's unspeakably precious.

... and yes, I'm serious about that crossover. This is for the cliche_bingo square "Unmixy things: weird crossovers."


Appetite
Snape (sort of; it's complicated)/Horst -- NC-17 -- 2,700 words
Snape's happy ending requires him to start again in another story.
Warnings, if any (highlight to read): Um, cartoon characters having sex? No particular warning.

Lots of people have been doing cool stuff with my stories, and I've been terribly remiss in sharing links.

viva_gloria did a DVD commentary on Term of Service (SGA, McKay/Sheppard, NC-17) -- find it here.

ladyvyola did a DVD commentary on Advantage (SGA, McKay/Sheppard, NC-17) -- find it here.

podfic_lover did podfics of Getting the Message (Due South, Fraser/Kowalski, G) and Subterfuge (Due South, Fraser/Kowalski, NC-17) -- find them here.

laurie_ky did audiobooks of Tender (Sentinel, NC-17) and Knoxville (Sentinel, PG-13) with cover art by cybel -- find them here.

kinseyx did a podfic of The Familiar (HP, Potter/Snape, NC-17) -- find it here.

zabira did a podfic of Homemaking (Due South, Fraser/Kowalski, NC-17) -- find it here.

anatsuno did an audiobook of Field Conditions (SGA, McKay/Sheppard, NC-17) with cover art by cybel -- find it here.

My deepest apologies if you did something and I forgot to announce it.

As always, if you like the work, comment to the reader/artist/commentator. And my policy on any and all such transformations of my stories is: Go for it.

rhicauldrie has taken on the enormous task of creating a podfic of Transfigurations (and the mini-follow-up, Repairs). You can download the chapters from here.

Pretty cool, huh? Be sure to let the podficcer know if you like it!

Green Earrings
Hermione/Angelina/Katie -- PG -- 1500 words
So pretty.
Not quite unfinished; just doesn't add up to anything.

The Project
Harry/Snape -- NC-17 -- 5000 words of story plus 2000 words of chat log
He wished it had been anyone other than Snape.
I can't remember whether julad's suggestions actually changed the story as written, or if the most I'd gotten around to doing with them was pasting in the chat log.
Note: I feel I should put some sort of warning on this, because cesperanza hated it -- scenes that I'd thought of as merely distant and clinical had a horrible squicky noncon feeling to her. You know your own squicks; if you have any concerns, I'm happy to answer questions.

Icebreaker
Harry/Snape/Lupin -- deeply, profoundly NC-17 -- 14,300 words
Harry brews a potion.
Riddled with gaps; also switches from third person to first and has a couple of separate beginnings. I had beta help here from bethbethbeth, giglet, and julad.


True Minds
Harry/Snape -- R -- 4200 words
Legilimency and everything after.
this is mostly notes; what little narrative there is is an odd style because a lot of it is taking place inside a Legilimancy session. The story would have been a big, significant one if I'd ever been able to write it, which is probably why I couldn't.

There are no HP spoilers in this post.

My Harry Potter muse left me somewhere in the middle of Half-Blood Prince. (A pox upon open-canon fandoms! I never had this problem in Sentinel!) But I still had all these half-finished stories, and I couldn't bear to give up hope.

Well, I've discovered that just knowing the story will end soon is enough to make me give up hope. So I'm going to toss all these up over the next couple of days before they get completely obliterated by the new canon. Some of them are mostly outlines; some are half-written stories; some are finished stories that just happen to need a lot of work to make them good stories.

Please keep your expectations low! There's a good reason why I never published these. Sometimes several good reasons.

Here's the first one:

Remission
Snape/Lupin -- NC-17 -- 6,300 words
"You took the cure." "Yes, but the wolf is still there."

I just had a Blinding Flash of the Obvious: When people are kind enough to nominate me for contests, I ought to repay them by sharing the contest with the people on my flist. Duh. Sorry.

Anyhow, someone has nominated Transfigurations for the Quill To Parchment contest, which was very nice of someone. I particularly like this contest's approach to categories: Boys Do It Better Male Slash, Girls Do It Better Femslash, Because JKR Said So Canon Het, Because We Want It So Fanon Het ...

To tell the truth, if anyone wants my voting suggestion, I suggest y'all vote for something newer -- lots and lots of great stuff has been published in HP since 2003.

(meme from hesychasm)

Ask me what happens after the end of any of my stories. (Or tell me what you think.)

This is so cool! Alina, a.k.a. shored, is doing a graphic novel adaptation of my Harry Potter story, The Familiar. It's a work in progress, but she's already got eight pages up, and is updating every week. (Except that she went on vacation before I got around to updating, which is my fault and not hers.)

The story was NC-17, so I imagine the graphic version will get there eventually, too, but so far it's safe for all.

Check out all her art while you're at it!

[edited to add] When you get to page 8, be sure to click the Next button (which will attempt to take you to a page that isn't there) because her error message is a classic.

My page ought to be hitting 100,000 any minute now.

To celebrate, I've put up ten number smutlets in both Due South and Harry Potter fandoms. (All on one page, all NC-17.)