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nineveh_uk) wrote2011-04-05 01:19 pm
nineveh_uk) wrote2011-04-05 01:19 pm
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I am feeling remarkably uninspired today. The weather is not helping; I was just about to go for a walk in the park and it has started raining. I shall give it ten minutes.
I want to read some new Wimseyfic. Why is the world not responding by dropping Wimseyfic into my lap? Come to that, when I want to write something, why does it not spring Athena-like from my brow? It seems that the inspiration that ought to come from having a table again is being swallowed by also having a telephone. And the inevitable tendency of a table to get covered in Stuff. I need more cupboards and a house-elf.
Also, in the absence of Wimseyfic can anyone rec any good Snape/Lily? If that isn't a contradiction in terms.
And, being completly random, and because I must finish the Hilary/Bunter so that I can get back to the Wimsey/Potterverse crossover, have a snippet of the latter:
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Wimsey strolled briskly down the gravel drive to the Hogwarts gates. Walking up after lunch, the damp air had carried a faint warmth and whiff of spring, but Highland nights were cold. He shoved his hands in his overcoat pockets – he had toyed with purchasing a set of robes before deciding that he was really too old for dressing-up games – and let himself out through the wicket gate onto the Hogsmeade road. He had taken a small house on the far side of the village, not as convenient as it might be for the school, but far more so for everything else and with a slate roof. Wimsey did not claim to know a great deal about Scottish vernacular architecture, but he felt certain there was a good reason that it did not normally include thatch. He recalled that the highly selective guide to the magical world for Muggle parents he had read on the train had described one of the Hogwarts founders as originating in the Fen country. If the moss-covered and probably rat-infested roofs around him were the fault of Salazar Slytherin, Wimsey could quite understand why he was not fondly remembered.
I want to read some new Wimseyfic. Why is the world not responding by dropping Wimseyfic into my lap? Come to that, when I want to write something, why does it not spring Athena-like from my brow? It seems that the inspiration that ought to come from having a table again is being swallowed by also having a telephone. And the inevitable tendency of a table to get covered in Stuff. I need more cupboards and a house-elf.
Also, in the absence of Wimseyfic can anyone rec any good Snape/Lily? If that isn't a contradiction in terms.
And, being completly random, and because I must finish the Hilary/Bunter so that I can get back to the Wimsey/Potterverse crossover, have a snippet of the latter:
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Wimsey strolled briskly down the gravel drive to the Hogwarts gates. Walking up after lunch, the damp air had carried a faint warmth and whiff of spring, but Highland nights were cold. He shoved his hands in his overcoat pockets – he had toyed with purchasing a set of robes before deciding that he was really too old for dressing-up games – and let himself out through the wicket gate onto the Hogsmeade road. He had taken a small house on the far side of the village, not as convenient as it might be for the school, but far more so for everything else and with a slate roof. Wimsey did not claim to know a great deal about Scottish vernacular architecture, but he felt certain there was a good reason that it did not normally include thatch. He recalled that the highly selective guide to the magical world for Muggle parents he had read on the train had described one of the Hogwarts founders as originating in the Fen country. If the moss-covered and probably rat-infested roofs around him were the fault of Salazar Slytherin, Wimsey could quite understand why he was not fondly remembered.
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Crossovers are fun in general, and Wimsey seems to work quite well for some reason.
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Someday I want to write some of Honoria's diary entries from 1898, when Gerald, Mary, and Peter were all little kids and the Martians invaded. >_________>
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I definitely want to read Honoria and the Martians.
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\o/ I am concerned that her writing would be really difficult to emulate, but I was concerned about writing Peter and Harriet too and no one has complained about either of them yet, so perhaps everything will be okay after all.
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There are worse fates!
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12 Small Steps Against Inertia (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3705304/1/12_Small_Steps_Against_Inertia) by tsubaki-hana. I will strive to be less mad, he thinks wryly. (Look past the occasional typos -- it's a gorgeous story.)
Sympathetic Magic (http://ls269.deviantart.com/) by ls269. This is a novel-length AU and creates utterly wonderful voices for so many characters, especially Snape and Lily. The chapters are listed in order on the sidebar; even if the first couple don't wow you, I recommend you stick with it -- it has grown into a truly marvelous world of storytelling, with wit, plot, and genuine originality.
To Sever the Lining from a Cloud (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/134285/1/To_Sever_the_Lining_from_a_Cloud) by Textualsphinx. A strange, delicate Snape and Lily fairytale. 'One must either be a work of Art or wear a work of Art.' (Oscar Wilde)
Asphodel (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2768162/1/Asphodel) by CatsonMars. (slight AU, in that it was written before Book 7 came out and imagines a different backstory for Lily and Snape). Of asphodel, that greeny flower, / like a buttercup / upon its branching stem- / save that it's green and wooden- / I come, my sweet, / to sing to you. / I was cheered / when I came first to know / that there were flowers also / in hell
And, I hope it's not in poor taste to add one of my own stories, but this is a Snape character study with a fair amount of Lily in it, based around themes and quotations from Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories. Given your Wimsey interests, I thought it might appeal :) Severe Reasoning (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5328670/1/Severe_Reasoning).
My only claim to be giving decent advice is that I'm a big fan of azdak's writing, which I feel speaks for my taste :) All best wishes!