resonant | New Harry Potter/Ratatouille story: "Appetite"

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New Harry Potter/Ratatouille story: "Appetite"

... 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.

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LOVE. (I admit my first thought was to wonder why he's eating creme brulee with a fork. But that this thought did not last long, because even without knowing Ratatouille at all, I adored the whole thing. [g])

Oops! I'm going to violate my usual "posted-is-posted" policy and go fix that. Should have hunted you down and asked you to beta. (You interested in taking a crack at some Princess Bride slash in a week or so?)

I'm so glad you liked it, though!

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fox - 2009-08-17 13:41 (UTC) - Expand

I have not seen Ratatouille--and I don't care, I love this. Mushy peas!

I'm so glad!

It's amazing me how many people haven't seen Ratatouille. It's really all kinds of fun, even if you have no carnal interest in the characters. (But it will make you hungry!)

Mushy peas = ♥
Q.E.D.

That was... definitely random. But in a very good way! I love how he yearns for chips.

It was crazy, wasn't it? I have no idea where it came from. But I've always felt Snape deserved something better than what he got.

Ahahahahaha. I mean, beautifully done. But explicit sex with those two characters! *brainbendy* .... Awesome. I think you just joined the ranks of Pixar slashers. There are four of us that I am aware of - welcome to the small, dirty club.

Could you, erm. Point me at the rest? :-)

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resonant - 2009-08-15 01:33 (UTC) - Expand

Oh that's... that's. Yeah.

It is indeed an unmixy thing, and I think only you could have made it into such a sweet story with such tart characters.

Lovely!

Crazy, huh? But happy. That's all I ask, in the end.

My, yes, that's...a weird crossover. *blinks*

It is probably a sign that I've been made to watch Ratatouille waaaaaaaaaaay too many times that I can pretty much hear the whole thing in the back of my head.

(If Pixar's the afterlife, I get to move back to Point Richmond when I die. Which sounds pretty good, really.)

I, too, have a child and a copy of the Ratatouille DVD. I'll tell you, sometimes smut is the only way to make a kid's media enthusiasms bearable.

On the other hand, if I could choose a kids' movie afterlife, I'd want to go live with Lilo and Stitch. Sleeping right between Nani and David.

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sara - 2009-08-15 01:41 (UTC) - Expand

This is crazy talk. It's also absolutely hysterical and beautiful. Aww, Snape's heaven is *perfect* for him.

Oh, thanks! I think he deserves better than a lifetime of unrequited love followed by a painful and lonely death.

I have never felt this mushy and affectionate about a Snape story before! Like someone else said, what a sweet story for such tart characters.

Poor canon Snape; he sees to it that nobody likes him any better than he likes himself. I've always felt that he deserved better.

Oooh, brava!

Thank you!

Just exquisite! What an ironically apt next life for Snape!

I've never seen Ratatouille, but I did see stills of Anton Ego and immediately thought of Snape, so this was a pure delight to read!

It's the voice, really, that made me see them as the same person. Ego is voiced by Peter O'Toole, who sounds a lot like Alan Rickman. (This is why a while back I was looking for a six-degrees way of getting O'Toole hooked up with someone from the HP universe -- but I chose reincarnation as a simpler method.)

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sinick - 2009-08-16 04:08 (UTC) - Expand

This is kind of perfect! They are similar characters, aren't they? I'm happy for him.

He knew he'd been reborn into a different world. For one thing, there was no magic. For another, he was in France and no one was smoking. :)

And that his first thought would be to try it out on a rat. And Colette as a born Slytherin.

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The voice and the sneer are the same. I wonder if actually we have some kind of archetype here?

I really noticed the lack of cigarettes in Ratatouille -- in a way it's even more implausible than a cooking rat.

So glad you liked it!

OH GOD SO GOOD.

Man.

See, this is the perfect example of the Res Phenomenon: that thing where one reads anything a given writer writes because it is 127% guarandamnteed to be worth the reading, whether one knows the canons or not.

(As it happens, and for what it's worth, I am reasonably familiar with HP canon and not [yet] familiar at all with Ratatouille. I plan to remedy this. But see, that's the thing: with what you write, the way you write it? it doesn't matter, because it is STILL funny and hot and striking right the fuck home when one least expects it.)

Crazy, isn't it? And yet once you see Ratatouille you'll see where I'm coming from.

I'm so glad this Snape worked for you, though. Making it all up to Snape is one of my chief goals in life.

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queue - 2009-08-15 15:52 (UTC) - Expand

Ahaha, I love it! And Snape's craving for shitty English food -- in the face of exquisite French food -- makes me laugh, because I've never been a fan of French food.

I always love the way your Snape is disdainful but not really cruel -- and certainly not without feelings.

Sekrit confession: I've never tasted most of the foods mentioned in this story. Neither the creme brulee category nor the Scotch eggs category.

disdainful but not really cruel -- and certainly not without feelings.

Canonically I suppose he is cruel (especially when you think about the fact that the people he's talking to are children) -- but this is an excellent description of the Snape in my head.

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sinick - 2009-08-16 04:18 (UTC) - Expand

Oh, this is delightful. Love the premise, love your tone, love the humour, love Snape.

Oh, I'm so glad! I always want to snuggle Snape, but I'm sure he won't tolerate it. I'm lucky he lets me smut him.

Of course Snape is Anton Ego - why have I not noticed before?! This is funny and clever and satisfying and contains, good lord, such successful cartoon sex!

It's the voices -- they're amazingly similar.

I'm glad it worked for you, cartoon sex and all. Gotta figure Horst can do something with that thumb.

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sinick - 2009-08-16 04:20 (UTC) - Expand

This was great!

Thank you! I'm so glad you liked it! (Sorry for the late reply. DW comment notifications ... grr.)

*glee* Oh this is wonderful! I especially like Snape's reflections upon the mechanism/suitability of the crossover.

I'm so glad you liked it! Writing Rodney McKay has entirely revolutionized my treatment of the impossible -- why explain it, if you can figure out a way to handwave it while still in character?