Deeply_Horrible Reveals

Reveals have been posted at deeply_horrible. What a grand fest it was -- over 40 entries. I was fascinated by the range of characters and genres and tones, from horror and angst and drama and dystopian futures to comedy, satire, and parody. Yet all of them presented a believable version of bastard!Snape.

I'll post my own story in a bit, but I wanted to squee one last time about a few of my fest favorites.

I won the "bronze medal" for guessing the creators of eight entries, but since six of those eight guesses were for art, I don't think they should really count. Art styles are easier to recognize than writing styles. The only stories I correctly guessed were by two of my favorite authors: atdelphi, who wrote the splendid A Turning Towards, and dueltastic, who wrote the equally-splendid A Virtuous Man.

But Duel also wrote another of my very favorites, and a story more different in tone and emphasis from "A Virtuous Man," it's hard to imagine. I never spotted you, Duel, you sly, versatile thing, you. Flisties, if you haven't read Bitter Going Down (Snape/Aberforth), hie you over there right now.

Romance of the Age, that biting, hilarious "Bright Young Things" parody, turns out to be by an author new to me, o_mayari. But you can be sure I'll be scoping out all hir other fics.

I'll be adding creator names to my various rec posts soon.

Great fest, verdeckt, my dear. Thank you!

FIC: "The Headmaster" (Severus, Minerva, Poppy, Portrait!Albus)

Here's my entry for deeply_horrible's "Bring Back the Bastard!" fest. As my ever-patient betas know, I waffled terribly over this fic. I couldn't have done it without you, dears, or without the support of verdeckt, the excellent mod.

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Title: The Headmaster
Author: kellychambliss
Beta Reader(s): therealsnape and miss_morland
Word Count: 5250
Characters: Severus Snape, Minerva McGonagall, Poppy Pomfrey, portrait!Albus
Rating: R
(Highlight to View) Warning(s): torture (mostly offstage)*
Prompt: "He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the burden of being a man" (Samuel Johnson).
Summary: Decent human beings couldn't or wouldn't do the things the Headmaster was required to do -- ergo, he couldn't be decent.
Notes: I'm extremely grateful to my beta-readers/handholders/therapists and to our excellent mod for her extraordinary patience.

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( The Headmaster )

In Which Kelly Talks About Herself. A Lot.

Now that all my holiday fests have had their reveals, I can post my (only slightly belated) end-of-year fic meme. I always enjoy these -- both writing my own and reading other people's. I love the chance to pull together an assessment of a year's worth of disparate stories. (I suppose I like it for the same reason I used to enjoy [in a masochistic sort of way] final exams -- I'd never have gone through the difficult process of synthesizing my learning if I hadn't been forced to, and I was always glad once I had. I learned loads from the process.)

Here's what I wrote in 2012 (all HP):

( The Fics and Fests )

( The Stats )

( The Thinky Thoughts )