Bring Back the Bastard! Recs
Nov. 25th, 2012 08:12 pmThe first week of ![[info]](https://stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif)
deeply_horrible's "Bring Back the Bastard" fest has come to a close, and already it's proving to be a fest for the ages. Everything is worth reading/looking at. There's a sestina! (*\o/*) -- and other brilliant works as well. Snape's bastardy is well-served. Check these out:
-- ART -- The Little Prince byAnonymous ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
zarkir (NWS)
You won't be able to stop looking at this exquisitely arrogant, scrawny young Snape. "The Little Prince," ironically, indeed.
-- FIC -- A Turning Towards. . . byAnonymous ![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
atdelpi (Snape/Filch; R)
Only 1500 superbly-written words, yet it packs a memorable punch of emotion and expert characterization. Because of the trademark excellences, I'm fairly sure I've guessed the author. (But keep in mind, I'm usually wrong.)
-- FIC -- Romance of the Age byAnonymous o_mayari (unrequited Regulus/Snape, others; R)
Absolutely brilliant. As I said in my review at the comm, this fic is a "stylistic and witty and bitterly satirical tour-de-force." Expertly channelling Evelyn Waugh, Nancy Mitford, and a bit of F. Scott Fitzgerald and others, the story casts the "pure-blood" wizarding world, plus their token Bit of Rough (aka Severus Snape) as the "Bright Young Things" of the 1920s.
No comment of mine can do this story justice; you'll have to read it to see all its many layers and ironies and clevernesses. It's entertaining and disturbing as hell. It presents the DEs as people for whom murder is more a means of avoiding boredom and inconvenience than it is a statement of (however unconscionable) philosophy. The story's indictment goes beyond the DEs, too, to include many self-absorbed members of the "pure-blood" upper-class (like Sirius and James). They're not as corrupt as the DEs, but the seeds are there. (And it's not just the upper-class to whom the satire can apply; I think the story targets complacency and privilege and apathy wherever they occur.)
And there's meta, too!
(I may have misread some of it, though. I thought the character of "Snidget" was supposed to be Narcissa Malfoy, but another reviewer referred to her as an OC. But I'll tell you what I'm not wrong about: the excellence of this story.)
My favorite joke: the source of Regulus's upper-class nickname ("the Sheik").
deeply_horrible's "Bring Back the Bastard" fest has come to a close, and already it's proving to be a fest for the ages. Everything is worth reading/looking at. There's a sestina! (*\o/*) -- and other brilliant works as well. Snape's bastardy is well-served. Check these out: -- ART -- The Little Prince by
zarkir (NWS)You won't be able to stop looking at this exquisitely arrogant, scrawny young Snape. "The Little Prince," ironically, indeed.
-- FIC -- A Turning Towards. . . by
atdelpi (Snape/Filch; R)Only 1500 superbly-written words, yet it packs a memorable punch of emotion and expert characterization. Because of the trademark excellences, I'm fairly sure I've guessed the author. (But keep in mind, I'm usually wrong.)
-- FIC -- Romance of the Age by
o_mayari (unrequited Regulus/Snape, others; R)Absolutely brilliant. As I said in my review at the comm, this fic is a "stylistic and witty and bitterly satirical tour-de-force." Expertly channelling Evelyn Waugh, Nancy Mitford, and a bit of F. Scott Fitzgerald and others, the story casts the "pure-blood" wizarding world, plus their token Bit of Rough (aka Severus Snape) as the "Bright Young Things" of the 1920s.
No comment of mine can do this story justice; you'll have to read it to see all its many layers and ironies and clevernesses. It's entertaining and disturbing as hell. It presents the DEs as people for whom murder is more a means of avoiding boredom and inconvenience than it is a statement of (however unconscionable) philosophy. The story's indictment goes beyond the DEs, too, to include many self-absorbed members of the "pure-blood" upper-class (like Sirius and James). They're not as corrupt as the DEs, but the seeds are there. (And it's not just the upper-class to whom the satire can apply; I think the story targets complacency and privilege and apathy wherever they occur.)
And there's meta, too!
(I may have misread some of it, though. I thought the character of "Snidget" was supposed to be Narcissa Malfoy, but another reviewer referred to her as an OC. But I'll tell you what I'm not wrong about: the excellence of this story.)
My favorite joke: the source of Regulus's upper-class nickname ("the Sheik").
