Recs? Please?

[resonant]

Still trying to avoid reading Harry/Draco stories until I've finished the one I'm writing. Finding it increasingly difficult. Have sucked dry all the Snape stories I could find.

Anybody want to rec me some good Harry/Ron? Percyfic? Anything? Please?

Comments

[strawberrythief.livejournal.com]

How do you feel about WiPs?

[penelope-z.livejournal.com]

Harry/Ron is not very impressive in general.

Confection Carnage by Aspen is good smut.
http://www.chibihanna.net/psa/hr/confectioncarnage.html

Lacking of foresight is good and long but a WiP
http://www.chibihanna.net/psa/hr/lackingforesight.html

And rhoddlet has written some nice H/R shorts, posted in her lj, I'll see if I can dig them up.

And well, you can try my H/R too if you're not too picky.
http://www.chibihanna.net/psa/hr/hisbelongings.html

[tradescant.livejournal.com]

Ha haha! I have already recced your fic. You are too late!

Here are some of Rhod's H/R ficlets:

http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=rhoddlet&itemid=90245
http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=rhoddlet&itemid=93979
http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=rhoddlet&itemid=98178

And this one is just Ron, sort of.

http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=rhoddlet&itemid=94973

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Cool. Thanks!

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Oh, I loved "His Belongings." I should have known you were one of the people I was being scummy about not writing feedback to. The thing about the shapes of the elbows ... mmm.

Will check out the rest.

[penelope-z.livejournal.com]

*shakes fist at Tradescant*

Well, I'm glad you liked it. I love Ron though almost nobody else does, in this fandom of Malfoys.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I'm still trying to get a handle on Ron. If you'd care to share your insights into his character, I'd love to read them. It's a constant struggle for me to write him in such a way that he doesn't sound just like Harry except for the word "reckon."

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

In this fandom I sort of have to tolerate them, don't I, if I want to read anything whatsoever.

[strawberrythief.livejournal.com]

And with that ringing endorsement... :)

I like Vali's Switch (http://www.certando.net/vali/switch.htm). I also recommend the very promising first four chapters of a headlong Harry/Ron smut by an author named Anna, titled Moving Pictures (http://www.witchfics.org/anna/movingpictures/index.html).

You may have/probably already have read them both. But other than that, I got nothin'. Did you find any good Snape stuff in your own peregrinations? Any recs?

Snape recs

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Both of those are new to me. I'll check them out.

Did you find any good Snape stuff in your own peregrinations? Any recs?

Hm. Probably nothing everyone else hasn't already recced. In my keeper file I find these Snape stories that I've loved and would wholeheartedly* recommend. Heavily weighted toward explicit slash, since that's what I like best:

tradescant: Fidelius. (http://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=915359) Harry/Snape, very moving and sad. She says she's working on a sequel, yay!

predatrix: Occasional Table. (http://predatrix.slashcity.org/fiction/occtable.htm) Harry/Snape, hilarious and very original.

ailei: Firefly. (http://www.sockiipress.org/~luthien/snapeff/archive/firefly.html) Snape/Ollivander, but don't run screaming; it really works.

lexin: Through a Glass Darkly. You can find her HP page through this link. (http://www.redrosepress.co.uk/potter.htm) This is the all-boy Hogwarts AU, and it's very very different, not to mention unfinished and unresolved. But I love it.

Dorcas: Perspective. (http://remembrall.slashcity.net/moonshadow/perspective.html) Snape/Lupin, established-relationship. This one may not do it for you unless, like me, you have a real kink for talking during sex.

Seeker: Potio. (http://www.angelfire.com/ego/vigilantgriffin/snape/fiction/seeker-potio.html) Snape/Lockhart, and once again, don't run screaming, because it's beautiful.

cybele_san: Something To Write On (http://www.chibihanna.net/psa/hother/somethingwrite.html) and its sequel, Quill and Ink. (http://www.chibihanna.net/psa/hother/quillink.html) Harry/Snape, magic!smut of the purest and most potent variety.

kay_taylor: By the Rivers Dark. (http://vigilantgriffin.net/kay/fiction/bytheriversdark.html) Snape/Black, sad and sweet.

ellen_fremedon: Slowly But Exceeding Fine. (http://www.geocities.com/ellen_fremedon/Slowly.html) Snape/Black, long, involved, extremely moving.

Please don't ask me which of these authors I've actually sent feedback to, or I'll have to do a Dobby and slam my ears in the oven.

E-mail me if you want a list of stories I would half-heartedly recomend.

Re: Snape recs

[(Anonymous)]

Don't-run-screaming-Snape/Lockhart: another Predatrix, "Photo Perfect." http://predatrix.slashcity.org/fiction/photoperfect.htm

[laurakaye.livejournal.com]

Oh, blast. I read a really good Percy story in the summer and I can't remember what it was called. It was the one where he worked in the Muggle sex club- shut *up*, it was good, much to my surprise. Dang it. Does anyone know what that story was called?

[tradescant.livejournal.com]

The Price of Wisdom (http://www.jbx.com/~boethius/forged/wands.html), I think.

(Sorry to spam your Livejournal!)

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

OK, so having seen that James is a co-author I know it will be well-written and funny but fear that it will also be smutless. Warn me now: is there smut here or not?

Not spam if I asked for it!

[tradescant.livejournal.com]

It is as smut-free as a fic where Percy is a whore in a BDSM club can possibly be. In fact, the lack of smut is something of an Accomplishment.

Oh, but so you know: implied incest warning.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Alas. My entire friendship with anne began with me being impressed that she had managed to write a PG-13 pon farr story, so I get the Accomplishment thing. But really I want people to give me smut.

HP fandom has expanded my tolerance for incest as much as it has expanded my tolerance for WIPs, though in both cases the tolerance is still rather grudging.

[tradescant.livejournal.com]

Oh, smut. Why didn't you say?

Here's a Ron smutfic you may have already have come across, especially if you've spent much time on Aspen's webpage, Paper Moon (http://papermoon.crackerbox.nu/ginnyswallows.html). Do as the Prefect Says (http://papermoon.crackerbox.nu/doastheprefectsays.html) is lots of fun. Not too heavy on characterization, but if smut is what you're after, this fic has it in spades. Heed the warnings, though.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, I enjoyed that one very much qua smut. What I'm always hoping for is something that's Smut 'n' More! Which is rare, and especially in this pairing, it seems.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

It was the one where he worked in the Muggle sex club- shut *up*,

[laughing]

If you remember the name of the story or the name of the archive, send it to me.

I was having a conversation at one point in chat, and for the duration of that conversation, Percy/Sirius totally made sense to me. But now I can't remember why.

[kate_nepveu]

(Stopped by out of curiosity after reading "The Familiar," which is lovely.)

As far as Harry/Ron:

A short that's sort of H/R: Easily, by Beck.

WIPs: A Lacking of Foresight, by Keelywolfe. Set five years after Hogwarts.

Moving Pictures, by Anna. 5th year.

And I'll through in a Ron/Draco short that I really liked and that has some of the same calmly understated nature that I liked about "The Familiar": Surfacing, by Kay.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Cool! Thanks! And I'm glad you liked "The Familiar."

[kate_nepveu]

De nada. Would like to know what you thought of them (especially "Easily," which I sort of quailed about calling H/R...).

Hmm..I know squat about H/R

[ailei.livejournal.com]

*waves* But I can point you to good Percyfic. Actually, it's Neville/Percy. No. No, really. I swear it's good. LOL.

Unlikely Heroes (http://khirsah.bacchae.org/uh1.html), by Khirsah.

Re: Hmm..I know squat about H/R

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Thanks -- read that one and was kind of "eh" about it.

One of the weaknesses of Percy/Neville is that that's an awful lot of Awkward, Shy, Misunderstood, Out Of Place, and Friendless to cram into a single story. Percy/Oliver at least has one character who's not staggering under the weight of all that insecurity.

Canon Percy thinks so highly of himself. I'd love to read a story in which he's actually as smart as he thinks he is.