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hoggywartyxmas has finished posting (reveals Sunday the 9th), and I'm here to report the following:
1. As always, the entries were high quality and vastly enjoyable.
2. As always, participants have been super-generous with comments.
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therealsnape has been a paragon of a mod.
4. As always, I received a gift that not only Exceeds Expectations, but is absolutely Outstanding.
Title:
Earth is the Right Place for Love, Part I
Earth is the Right Place for Love, Part II
Earth is the Right Place for Love, Part III
Author:Anonymous for now eldritcher
Characters: Madam Rosmerta/Minerva McGongall/Severus Snape, Griselda Marchbanks, others
Do yourself a favor and set aside a few hours to lose yourself in this treat of a story. No rec I write can do justice to the complexity and atmosphere of this insight-packed, magical, poetic story. The style is lush and dense, even confusing at times, which is part of the magic and mystery, reminding us that not everything in the world is explicable or clear. There are lines and phrases you'll want to ponder and linger over, characterizations and ideas you'll want to savor. This is a story that repays study and rereading.
The prompt I offered was a line from my favorite Robert Frost poem, "Directive": "if you'll let a guide direct you / Who only has at heart your getting lost"
The author took this line and not only ran with it, but won the entire marathon. Written in three intertwined "canticles," the story includes and builds on cornucopia of Frost poems: "Mending Wall" and "The Black Cottage" and "Birches" and "Directive" and "The Death of the Hired Man" and (I think) "Mowing" and more that I'm not remembering at the moment. Through repetition and revision, the author weaves together Frostian images, themes, and lines into a marvelous complex tapestry. It's Frost rewritten and reinvented for HP, and it works beautifully. I was moved and breathless by the end; the atmosphere stayed with me.
Go read! You won't be sorry.
hoggywartyxmas has finished posting (reveals Sunday the 9th), and I'm here to report the following:1. As always, the entries were high quality and vastly enjoyable.
2. As always, participants have been super-generous with comments.
3. As always,
therealsnape has been a paragon of a mod.4. As always, I received a gift that not only Exceeds Expectations, but is absolutely Outstanding.
Title:
Earth is the Right Place for Love, Part I
Earth is the Right Place for Love, Part II
Earth is the Right Place for Love, Part III
Author:
eldritcherCharacters: Madam Rosmerta/Minerva McGongall/Severus Snape, Griselda Marchbanks, others
Do yourself a favor and set aside a few hours to lose yourself in this treat of a story. No rec I write can do justice to the complexity and atmosphere of this insight-packed, magical, poetic story. The style is lush and dense, even confusing at times, which is part of the magic and mystery, reminding us that not everything in the world is explicable or clear. There are lines and phrases you'll want to ponder and linger over, characterizations and ideas you'll want to savor. This is a story that repays study and rereading.
The prompt I offered was a line from my favorite Robert Frost poem, "Directive": "if you'll let a guide direct you / Who only has at heart your getting lost"
The author took this line and not only ran with it, but won the entire marathon. Written in three intertwined "canticles," the story includes and builds on cornucopia of Frost poems: "Mending Wall" and "The Black Cottage" and "Birches" and "Directive" and "The Death of the Hired Man" and (I think) "Mowing" and more that I'm not remembering at the moment. Through repetition and revision, the author weaves together Frostian images, themes, and lines into a marvelous complex tapestry. It's Frost rewritten and reinvented for HP, and it works beautifully. I was moved and breathless by the end; the atmosphere stayed with me.
Go read! You won't be sorry.