Back from Slash Retreat!
Oct. 13th, 2009 10:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lesyeuxvertsThe weather is frightfully cold, and my cat is grumpy. I'm not allowed to leave her alone for four hours, let alone four days, so she is informing me of her displeasure, and extorting extra cuddles.
Everything was super-fabulous! I think I have already mentioned most of the wonderful food (although probably not the fact that we had super-delicious oatmeal the morning we all left (andentrenous88 fed me oatmeal twice this weekend, too, so I am one lucky fangirl. I love oatmeal.) or any of the not-quite-as-delicious road food that we ate. Although there were Dunkin Donuts munchkins and mini Cinnabon cinnamon rolls, so it was not all bad. The Cinnabon coffee was really bad, though.)
On Sunday we had a lovely walk down by the river (with the dogs and their frisbee!) and we sat around and chatted, and made chocolate balls (r_grayjoy's recipe, which is amazing) and I made a cheesecake with lots and lots of help.
We wrote a bunch of drabbles - and drew drawbles, although as you can probably imagine, I was not involved in that particular part of the activity. Well, I didn't write any of the drabbles, either, but I helped with brainstorming and betaing.
One ofventurous's friends came by in the evening with a whole box full of vegetables and made a delicious stir-fry, and we had some lovely red wine and sat around talking about anything and everything. There were so many fantabulous conversations this past weekend that I couldn't hope to do them justice, apart from saying that whenever the Old Fangirls Retirement Home is built, I'm moving in straightaway. (Whether I'm retired or not, and whether or not Snape and Lupin are running it, lol.)
I was so distracted by all the fun and writing and squee and good food that I didn't take very many pictures, but here are a few:
Lily with Aloysius, who is sleepy (someone got a picture of him writing fanfic at one point ...la_dissonance? Someone?)
Sleeeeepy kitty :)
entrenous88 and la_dissonance and I drove back up north (by which I mean that entrenous88 did almost all of the driving, and the rest of us slept/chatted/plotted out an epic Snarry roadtrip fic). And now I am home, and mostly recovered, and wishing that every weekend could be the slashretreat_dc.
And now for a post-Slash Retreat drabble! Look, I can still write HP! :)
Title: World Enough and Time
Author: lesyeuxverts
Beta: the fabulous and amazingbewarethesmirk
Word Count: 299
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: err, hints at future Harry/Snape? maybe?
Warnings: character death (sort of)
Disclaimer: Not mine. Title stolen from Andrew Marvell.
AN: Forlittleblackbow, who couldn't come to slashretreat_dc but who was kind enough to send us all art via slashpine! Mine was this lovely picture of Harry looking off into the distance, wistfully, with Snape in a dark profile in the background, so I used it as inspiration for this, though I'm not sure it was quite what littleblackbow was envisioning with her art.
If there had been world enough and time, Harry would have found Snape before the end – hunted him down in his cottage by the sea and made him see reason.
Nothing had made a difference, neither Hermione's arguments nor Professor McGonagall's requests. Snape had refused to see them all.
Harry still thinks that he could have persuaded Snape, if he'd had enough time. If he'd taken out more articles in the Prophet, defended the man's honour more vehemently, or sent him another owl, Snape would've listened. He would have relented.
The word coward hangs between them – one of the last words that Harry said to Snape. Look at me, Snape said, his last words.
He'd lived, but he hadn't wanted to see Harry again. He hadn't let Harry apologise.
If there had been world enough and time – it's something Harry heard Hermione say once – he wants it to be true now. If he had gone to Snape's cottage, ignored the man's refusals and broken through his wards, if he had only gone there…
He wouldn't be standing in the rain now, listening to a flat eulogy and wondering how many of the mourners really knew Snape. He wouldn't have had to hear Poppy's verdict that the northern sea air hadn't been good for Snape's weakened lungs, that with time and care he could have been kept healthy, that she could have done something for him.
Listening to the eulogy, he fingers the chain of the Time-turner in his pocket. Harry is a full wizard now, stronger than most, and his friends in the Department of Mysteries know better than to gainsay him when he knocks on their doors.
Stories of the funeral will win him admittance to Snape's cottage if nothing else will. He has world enough and time.
Everything was super-fabulous! I think I have already mentioned most of the wonderful food (although probably not the fact that we had super-delicious oatmeal the morning we all left (and
entrenous88 fed me oatmeal twice this weekend, too, so I am one lucky fangirl. I love oatmeal.) or any of the not-quite-as-delicious road food that we ate. Although there were Dunkin Donuts munchkins and mini Cinnabon cinnamon rolls, so it was not all bad. The Cinnabon coffee was really bad, though.)On Sunday we had a lovely walk down by the river (with the dogs and their frisbee!) and we sat around and chatted, and made chocolate balls (
r_grayjoy's recipe, which is amazing) and I made a cheesecake with lots and lots of help. We wrote a bunch of drabbles - and drew drawbles, although as you can probably imagine, I was not involved in that particular part of the activity. Well, I didn't write any of the drabbles, either, but I helped with brainstorming and betaing.
One of
venturous's friends came by in the evening with a whole box full of vegetables and made a delicious stir-fry, and we had some lovely red wine and sat around talking about anything and everything. There were so many fantabulous conversations this past weekend that I couldn't hope to do them justice, apart from saying that whenever the Old Fangirls Retirement Home is built, I'm moving in straightaway. (Whether I'm retired or not, and whether or not Snape and Lupin are running it, lol.)I was so distracted by all the fun and writing and squee and good food that I didn't take very many pictures, but here are a few:
Lily with Aloysius, who is sleepy (someone got a picture of him writing fanfic at one point ...
la_dissonance? Someone?)Sleeeeepy kitty :)
entrenous88 and la_dissonance and I drove back up north (by which I mean that entrenous88 did almost all of the driving, and the rest of us slept/chatted/plotted out an epic Snarry roadtrip fic). And now I am home, and mostly recovered, and wishing that every weekend could be the slashretreat_dc.And now for a post-Slash Retreat drabble! Look, I can still write HP! :)
Title: World Enough and Time
Author: lesyeuxverts
Beta: the fabulous and amazing
bewarethesmirkWord Count: 299
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: err, hints at future Harry/Snape? maybe?
Warnings: character death (sort of)
Disclaimer: Not mine. Title stolen from Andrew Marvell.
AN: For
littleblackbow, who couldn't come to slashretreat_dc but who was kind enough to send us all art via slashpine! Mine was this lovely picture of Harry looking off into the distance, wistfully, with Snape in a dark profile in the background, so I used it as inspiration for this, though I'm not sure it was quite what littleblackbow was envisioning with her art. If there had been world enough and time, Harry would have found Snape before the end – hunted him down in his cottage by the sea and made him see reason.
Nothing had made a difference, neither Hermione's arguments nor Professor McGonagall's requests. Snape had refused to see them all.
Harry still thinks that he could have persuaded Snape, if he'd had enough time. If he'd taken out more articles in the Prophet, defended the man's honour more vehemently, or sent him another owl, Snape would've listened. He would have relented.
The word coward hangs between them – one of the last words that Harry said to Snape. Look at me, Snape said, his last words.
He'd lived, but he hadn't wanted to see Harry again. He hadn't let Harry apologise.
If there had been world enough and time – it's something Harry heard Hermione say once – he wants it to be true now. If he had gone to Snape's cottage, ignored the man's refusals and broken through his wards, if he had only gone there…
He wouldn't be standing in the rain now, listening to a flat eulogy and wondering how many of the mourners really knew Snape. He wouldn't have had to hear Poppy's verdict that the northern sea air hadn't been good for Snape's weakened lungs, that with time and care he could have been kept healthy, that she could have done something for him.
Listening to the eulogy, he fingers the chain of the Time-turner in his pocket. Harry is a full wizard now, stronger than most, and his friends in the Department of Mysteries know better than to gainsay him when he knocks on their doors.
Stories of the funeral will win him admittance to Snape's cottage if nothing else will. He has world enough and time.
