Fandom Snowflake Day 3

Day 03

In your own space, post a rec for at least three fanworks that you have created. It can be your favorite fanworks that you've created, or fanworks you feel no one ever saw, or fanworks you say would define you as a creator.

(NB -- I'm skipping Day 2).

For this sort of thing -- reccing one's own work -- I enjoy picking a guiding theme. The first time I did the Snowflake Challenge (2014), I chose the theme of 'firsts'. This year, I've chosen the theme of "stories I've written in which the title is a corruption of homage to a famous work of literature."

Of Rhinos and Men (Snape/Moody; R)
Title references Steinbeck's novel Of Mice and Men, which is itself a quotation from Robert Burns. The story is one of my rare forays into m/m slash, and it does indeed feature a rhino, though not (you may be pleased or sorry to hear) in a carnal sense.


Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Snape (Snape/McGonagall; R)
Title references Wallace Stevens's poem Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird. There's always something dark-bird-like about Snape to me; I can't believe his patronus is not a raven or a crow or a blackbird singing in the dead of night, taking his broken wing and learning to fly.


Miss Grubbly-Plank Finds Herself (Wilhelmina Grubbly-Plank/Irma Pince; NC-17)
Title references Radclyffe Hall's classic story of what used to be called gender "inversion," Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself. Miss O is a woman who feels more at home as a male. Her first name is "Wilhelmina," and I can't help but think that JKR is making a deliberate allusion to this story in her naming of Grubbly-Plank. There's no narrative reason that we need to learn G-P's first name in canon at all; JKR seems to go out of her way to introduce it. So no coincidence, if you ask me.


Reflections in a Golden Frame (Mirror of Erised with Lucius Malfoy, Narcissa Malfoy, Charlie Weasley, Molly Weasley, Minerva McGonagall, Alastor Moody, Albus Dumbledore, Filius Flitwick, Rolanda Hooch, NC-17)
Title references Carson McCullers's novel Reflections in a Golden Eye. This fic is the closest to crack!fic that I've done and was written with much authorial snickering.