lesyeuxverts | Reversathon wrap-up, DH aftermath (comm recs), and drabble offer

reversathon has finished, which might have been overlooked in all of the crazy DHness. Check out the masterlist or skip right to the best part - A Time to Dare, which

venvincere wrote for me, *squee*. It's a Snarry, and so sweet (just the thing to cure the post-DH blues), and it incorporates sooo many of the things that make my little heart beat faster! Exotic places, unusual jobs, disguises ... it's really perfect, and I demand that you all go and tell the author so immediately! :)

My own fic for

reversathon was also a Snarry, A Light Untouched - it's rather long, so I'm afraid it's going to take awhile for me to post it here. I have to figure out how to break it up into several LJ posts, some way or another ... nonetheless, I want to give a huge thank-you to everyone who helped to beta it,

schemingreader,

gingertart50,

virginie_m,

snarry_fan7, and

brightfeather - and everyone else who supported me through the writing of it! I certainly couldn't have done it without all y'all's help. My muse's deserted me at the mo, but I've been planning a giftie ficlet for the group of you, by way of thanks ... so look for that sometime in the next few days. *hugs and squishes* :)

2. Check out the Deathly Hallows Prediction Game:

dh_predictions that

magnetic_pole was clever and kind enough to set up. There should be fic appearing there ... sort of soon-ish. Check out the comm for all the details. I don't know yet if I'm writing or prompting ... in fact, I can't remember what I guessed. Probably I lose at predictions and I'm writing, but perhaps that'll get my muse started again. :)

3. I have to confess, I'm planning on writing AU for the longest time. I don't seem to be able to reconcile my muse with the realities of Book 7 ... all attempts to do so only make her run away! Nonetheless, this may be of interest to some of you:

snape_after_dh, a fest for post-DH Snape fic. There's a pretty banner and everything, only I don't know how to do that ... so just go and check it out, okay? Spare my poor little brain the trauma of HTMLing and computering and all of that scary stuff.

4. So yes, my muse has run off ... and yes, I still have a few in the queue from the last round of teenyfics, but I'm going to open a drabble offer again in the hopes that it'll scare my muse into writing. Please, though - don't frighten the poor girl ... if it's going to incorporate facets of DH, there must be no character death and no insipid sprogs of insipid marriages (i.e. no Harry/Ginny) ... I think you can probably figure out what will work and what won't. AU is always a good bet... compliant through GoF or OoTP is also a good bet. Don't traumatize me too much, darlings, okay?

5. I really am embarrassingly traumatized by DH. I'm not ready to write ... I'm not ready to read DH-compliant fanfic, hardly - I have a few, but I have no verve for it. I feel as though something shiny and precious is gone ... my Severus, *sobs*. Well ... it's more than that, really. I'm just very disappointed in general about the way that canon ended.

I know that some people have waxed optimistic and have come up with a lot of plausible theories about Severus being alive ... but I just can't ... he's dead, you know? Yes, there's AU, and yes, there are ways to bring him back in fanfic ... but he's dead, and I'm traumatized. *clings to flist*

I know life is unfair, but damnit, fiction isn't supposed to be! Screw realism, I want a happy ending with justice and happy endings for everybody! (And by happy endings, I do not mean that "epilogue" that JKR wrote. No matter when I come to accept DH canon, I don't think that I'll ever accept that.) I want catharsis, and I want some sort of meaning, and I want the larger moral context of the story to fulfill it's earlier promise. I feel cheated by this ending and no, I'm not ready to move on yet. *clings*