Dear fellow porn fans,

I will be mostly AFK for the next three-four days as the family has converged.

In this time of bleak darkness (no porn for me, woe!), I ask only that you continue porning admirably.

Thank you,

Eey

oh dear god, save me!

Edit: Also, my YIM time will be greatly curtailed. Carry on.

http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/2009/12/23/harry-potter-novels-make-usa-today-list-of-top-books-of-the-2000s

Novels from the Harry Potter series by author J. K. Rowling have been included in six of the ten spots on USA Today's list of the Top Ten Books of the 2000s.  Miss Rowling's novels placed along side the popular Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer and the Dan Brown novel The Da Vinci Code on this list.  The paper notes:Human readers made it a big decade for novels about wizards, vampires and a Ha...

http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/2009/12/23/new-photos-from-wizarding-world-of-harry-potter-construction-at-universal-orlando

There are a series of new construction photos from the Wizarding World of Harry Potter attraction at Universal Studios, Orlando from Orlando United and OrlandoParkNews online today.  First, Orlando United has a series of high res shots showcasing up close views of the many towers, turrets, and buildings that comprise the Hogwarts castle; the fine details of the rock and surface structures; and ...

Issue # 808: Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Hello and welcome to today's issue of snapenews. Thank you all for your continuing support and useful links! Feel free to comment (either below or at snapenews@gmail.com) and let us know how we're doing!

NEWSLETTER/ARCHIVE UPDATES

hgss_digest has been updated here and here

TODAY IN ART

Slash

A Christmas to Remember (PG; Lucius/Severus) by Anonymous in the severus_lucius Romance Fest

DISCLAIMERS: The warnings listed here are those given by the artist/author/poet. Please pay attention to all ratings and warnings when following links.

We aim to bring you the latest Snape-centric items in the fandom but some might slip through the net! You can help to ensure this doesn't happen by sending us links via email to snapenews@gmail.com. There are submission guidelines in the snapenews user profile, but for 'This week in' sections we just require the basic title/creator/rating/warnings/link info.

http://community.livejournal.com/hgss_digest/278464.html

WIPs:

A Change is Going to Come by livvy6
Rated: MA
WIP, updated to chapter 56
Summary: An accident with a Time-Turner in 1993 sends Hermione Granger back to 1973, and she is unable to return.

I Need to Breathe by FirstYear
Rated: M
WIP, updated to chapter 30
Summary: Snape survives the last battle,thanks to Neville & Hermione. Needing a guardian to see to his personal affairs, Augusta Longbottom finds a way to make sure she takes care of him. Au in that Snape lives.

Raven by gersknightlady
Rating: T
WIP, updated to chapter 48
Summary: Having fled the Wizarding World Hermione comes face to face with her past.

The Road Home by SGTRJ
Rated: L
WIP, updated to chapter 3
Summary: Sequel to "A Matter of Trust."

Unfathomable Beginnings by Fresh Water Plimpy
Rated: T
WIP, updated to chapter 26
Summary: War has ended and Hermione goes back to Hogwart's for her final year. Afterwards, she takes a part-time job at the Ministry, whilst taking weekend classes with two of her Professors.


Complete:

A Christmas to Remember by leakywitch
Rated: G
Complete, One Shot
Summary: Hermione wants to make their first Christmas together a special one for Severus, but it seems as if scheming relatives, dishonest shop-owners and even the very forces of nature are conspiring against her.

From the Corner Christmas in Knockturn Alley by coffeeonthepatio
Rated: K+
Complete, One Shot
Summary: Ophelia's second Christmas with her Daddy. See what she gives him, what Severus gives her - and, most importantly, what Severus gives Hermione. One-shot following From the Corner. Set between end and epilogue.


Holiday Hiatus:

In the spirit of the season, the mods and the elfin helpers will be spending the holidays with their family and friends. Therefore, the hgss_digest is now on hiatus, and we will resume posting updates on January 1, 2010. Thank you for supporting the community, and we look forward to returning with more HG/SS story updates and recommendations.

From all of us at the hgss_digest, warm wishes for the holiday season, and we hope you have a prosperous and safe new year.

With this one update I wish all of you a very merry Christmas!

No updates at Pure Arrogance and Malfoy Manor.

The Only Constant by LiteraryBeauty
Rating: NC-17
Pairing/Characters: Draco Malfoy, Hermione Granger, Lucius Malfoy
Status: WIP
Summary: Sequel to Some Things Change.

A year after the triad marries, they find life together is not exactly simple. Things are still changing--but is it for the better? Draco's feelings for his father are intensifying, and what Lucius wants is complicated, too. How will they make it together without falling apart?

http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/2009/12/23/looking-for-a-few-good-programmers

Hello all! Leaky is looking for some help in the programming department. If you'd like to build your portfolio with work on a major web site, and especially if you have experience with or would like to learn Ruby on Rails, please contact us at jobs@leakynews.com. Thank you very much!

http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/2009/12/23/december-issue-of-the-quibbler-now-online

Just in time for the holidays, an early present has arrived in the form of the December issue of The Quibbler, Leaky's publication that contains "all the news you won't find anywhere else."  This issue is packed with news regarding the plight of Christmas Elves around the globe.  An investigative report explores the current situation over these most magical holiday creatures, and discusses the ...

Kristmas Wish Fulfilled for: mindabbles
From: A Mysterious Member!

Title: O My King
Characters/Pairings: Teddy/James Jr.
Rating: R
Kinks/Themes Included: D/s-lite, inebriety.
Other Warnings: Boy smex, impending frottage.
Artist's Notes: Happy Holidays, everyone!

( O My King [NWS Art!] )

Kristmas Wish Fulfilled for: leela_cat
From: A Majestic Member!

Title: The World, The Flesh, The Devil
Characters/Pairings: Severus/Lucius
Rating: R
Kinks/Themes Included: sensory deprivation, bondage
Other Warnings: canon character death
Word Count: 1500ish
Summary/Description: The years spent in darkness have spiraled out, each one in a row like the ridges in a snail's shell, expanding as they go, and Severus has waited for this man. This is how he leaves.
Author's Notes: With apologies to John Donne (Holy Sonnet VI) for the title and the inspiration; with thanks to the mods for being awesome and modly; and with thanks to G, R, E, E and S, who all helped substantially with the writing and the betaing of this story in one way or another.

(  The World, The Flesh, The Devil  )

à piwi_chan. Je te souhaite une super journée !

http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/1234201.html

Wank found via </a></b></a>wank_report.

(Read more ...)

http://community.livejournal.com/hgss_digest/278076.html

WIP Fics:

Hermione Owns Her Own Life, by the-shiny-girl
Rating: M
Summary: Hermione is kidnapped by Death Eaters. Everything is taken from her, except her dignity. She is trying to keep her head high, but she's weaker with each day that passes. Can she trust her former Professor or will that trust cost her?
Updated to nineteen chapters

Married with Sex, by bgn
Rating: T
Summary: The title is a pretty good summary. A lighter look at Snape and Hermione in various situations.
Updated to fourteen chapters

Completed Fic:

You Only Cross My Mind in Winter, by Subversa
Rating: S
Summary: He makes this pilgrimage every year at Christmas, but nothing ever comes of it. Will it be different this year?
Complete in five chapters

Artwork:

Moonlight Sonata, by pythiadelphi
Rating: work-safe

Announcement:

The moderators of the sshg_exchange have made a preliminary post about the next round of the Exchange here. It isn't the sign-up post (that will come later); it's an explanation of the process for those who haven't participated before.

It's also turned out to be a place for us Exchange veterans to squee like mad.

http://feeds.reference.com/click.phdo?i=21c80dc7f86a40d5a9e2d3f485b7fe23

http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/archive/2009/12/23.html

clinquant: glittering; tinsel-like; also, tinsel.

Hello and welcome to today's issue of snapenews. Thank you all for your continuing support and useful links! Feel free to comment (either below or at snapenews@gmail.com) and let us know how we're doing!

COMMUNITIES
•sshg_exchange has a post with newbie rules

•snapelyholidays posted Week Three in Review

CHALLENGES/CONTESTS
• snupin100 posted Challenge 240: Snowed In

TODAY IN FIC

Het
•A Few Days Grace by anon in smutty_claus (Bill/Fleur, Snape/Tonks, NC-17)

Slash
•The Pleasure to be Found in Soul-Sucking, Joy-Destroying Bastards by anon in daily_deviant's Kinky Kristmas exchange (Severus/Sirius, NC-17)

•The Lost One, Returned by anon in snapelyholidays (Snape/Regulus, PG)

EDITOR'S CHOICE(S)

Fic
•The Dibley History Project by anon in Snupin Santa (Snape/Lupin, PG)

•The Cat's Paw by anon in Snupin Santa (Snape/Lupin, NC-17)

DISCLAIMERS
The warnings listed here are those given by the artist/author/poet. Please pay attention to all ratings and warnings when following links.

We aim to bring you the latest Snape-centric items in the fandom but some might slip through the net! You can help to ensure this doesn't happen by sending us links via e-mail to snapenews@gmail.com). There are submission guidelines in the snapenews user profile, but for the 'Today in' sections we just require the basic title/creator/rating/warnings/link info.

The Last House on the Left is a movie I really needed not to see any of. Ever. By the end of the opening scene, I should really have worked that out. Because, see, I can take violence and gore, but not when the point seems to be to revel in just how painful and gross you can possibly make it, y'know?

I don't think it was even half done when I finally decided I'd had enough, told Patsfan I was completely done with it, and left him to it. He came into the bedroom a few minutes later to say the worst was over. (Um, you haven't seen it before. How can you know?) I had actually been telling myself, right up until I left, that I should really stick it out and get some resolution out of it rather than just walk away with all these horrific images. But then it just kept getting worse, and, um, no. Patsfan kept trying to tell me more of what was going on, somehow not comprehending the simple sentence "I'm done." Done as in done. Finished. Do not want to hear another thing that happens in it, do not want to hear why I should've kept watching. Just ... done. I think he's finally got that through his head, or at least I hope so.

So, um, that'd be a negative number of stars on that movie review, yes?

http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/2009/12/22/telegraph-j-k-rowling-bestselling-author-of-the-decade

The Telegraph has ranked Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling in the number one spot of their list compiling the top 100 bestselling authors of the decade.  With over twenty-nine million copies sold, Miss Rowling's novels beat out books by such other authors as Dan Brown, John Grisham, J. R. R. Tolkien, William Shakespeare, and Frank McCourt.  According to the paper, sales figures the Harry Potter...

I may just be a little bit in love with the coordinating prof for Nursing 201. So far, everything seems organized and amazingly timely, two things that absolutely nothing was this past semester. I wasn't expecting even a draft clinical schedule until after the first of the year, but it just came out. And I got my first choice clinical! Wed-Thurs days at the closest hospital. Woohoo!

http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/2009/12/22/reading-of-how-to-succeed-in-business-with-dan-radcliffe-takes-place-in-nyc

BroadwayWorld.com has a report online from a private reading of "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying," featuring actor Dan Radclliffe (Harry Potter) in New York yesterday.  As readers will recall, rumors first surfaced of Mr. Radcliffe's involvement in this reading via a report in Variety Magazine last October.  Today, the report, available to read here, goes through the audience m...

Nothing new today at Pure Arrogance.

Reminder: There will be limited validations from Dec. 23, thru Jan 2. so the GE staff can take a much needed breather and spend time with our respective families. Therefore, there will be limited updates as well.

Have a Happy and Healthy Holiday everyone!

( Enchanted )

( Malfoy Manor )

Overheard at local bookstore:

Grandmotherly shoppper: I'm looking for something for my granddaughter.
Grandmotherly clerk: How old is she?
G Shopper: Twelve.
G Clerk: How about [drowned out by Xmas music]?
G Shopper: Oh, no. I'm hoping she'll sort of branch out a bit, in her reading.
G Clerk: *laughs*
G Shopper: Maybe something between vampires and...manga.
*both laugh*

http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/1234160.html

Last post deleted due to one of the wankers being underage. Sorry, folks.

http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/2009/12/22/emma-watson-launches-official-christmas-site

Emma Watson has just launched a Christmas microsite, where she has recorded a video message for her fans where she discusses being back on set after returning from her first semester at Brown University. She has also included new pictures, links to music she'll be listening this holiday season, and message area where you can say hello to the Potter star. Enjoy!