Fandom Snowflake Day 4

Day 4

In your own space, create a fanwork. Make a drabble, a ficlet, a podfic, or an icon, art or meta or a rec list. Arts and crafts. Draft a critical essay about a particular media. Put together a picspam or a fanmix. Write a review of a Broadway show, a movie, a concert, a poetry reading, a museum trip, a you-should-be-listening-to-this-band essay. Compose some limericks, haikus, free-form poetry, 5-word stories. Document a particular bit of real person canon. Take some pictures. Draw a stick-figure comic. Create something.

I may have to do this day's challenge three times, since I want to write a review of the film Carol and also feel the itch to drabble.

But the first order of business is a rec post. I find myself both sad and ecstatic: sad, because I have finished reading all the entries in this year's stupendous hoggywartyxmas fest, and ecstatic because the fest, always excellent, was simply top-notch this year. Rec-able story and art followed rec-able story and art with amazing regularity. Choosing a representative sampling for this rec post has been tremendously tough and also tremendously fun. I want to thank the Founder of the Feast, therealsnape, for running one of the best fests in HP fandom and all the clever creators for giving these wonderful gifts -- 12 days of the best holiday presents ever.

Just when I think there's nothing new to be written in HP, along comes hoggywartyxmas! Long may it reign.

(NB -- I've already recced my own fine gift here and some excellent Hoggywarty art here.)

( Hoggywartyxmas Recs! )

And so many more gems -- a pithy, perceptive Albus/Alastor (of sorts), a delicious poetic parody of "A Visit From St. Nicholas," a well-done set of biblio-drabbles, a detailed artwork showing our friends partying at Rosmerta's, a Minerva/Severus ghost story, some lovely, bittersweet vignettes of solitary Christmases. . .I could go on, but you get the point: hoggywartyxmas is terrific.

Snape is Coming!

Probably in more ways than one.

But now that hoggywartyxmas is sadly over, we have this to look forward to!



(Love the banner -- "young Snape" by akatnamedeaster)

Do I have an entry in the fest? Why, yes. Yes, I do.