Only 6 weeks until...



I'll be announcing the actual lineup soon, once I get confirmations from all readers. (A few are straggling...)

Title: Slaughter
Author: Ravenna C. Tan
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Draco/Rabastan
Warnings: Extremely dubious consent. Implied Rodolphus/Rabastan.
Disclaimer: Non-commercial fanfic.
Compliancy: Deathly Hallows compliant
Summary: After fleeing Hogwarts, Snape brings Draco to the Dark Lord for judgment.
Author's Note: Not for the faint of heart. Thanks to clauclauclaudia for the beta read and ariadneelda for inspirational art.

( NC-17 dark!fic follows.... you have been warned! )

So here I am at Wiscon, the feminist science fiction convention, having a blast, as usual.

I will admit that in the years before I started coming to Wiscon, I was leery that feminism could be much fun. Most of my firsthand experience with feminists, of course, was with dour and/or victim-mentalitied proponents of the anti-sex movement back when I was in college. Brown had a women's studies building called the Sarah Doyle Center that I NEVER DARED SET FOOT IN until long after I had graduated and was invited back to speak as an alum.

But Wiscon is, happily, much more a Bastion of Fandom in all its Glory than it is representative of any branch of feminism.

And it is fun. And brainy. And brainily fun. And my brain is funny.

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Some recs from HD Worldcup!

I have not read everything in the fest, not by a long shot, but there have been a few stories I really enjoyed. Overall, there's not been enough sex for my taste in this fest overall, but I've really enjoyed several pieces anyway.

Also, more than half the art's really worth looking at, and not time consuming, so just go and look. Whereas the fics? OMG, they are all really long! It's like the Fest of Novellas and Novelettes! So many are 15K or longer, it's amazing.

I liked more than just these, but these are the ones I recommend the most wholeheartedly. I also notice comments have fallen WAY off the past few weeks now that Snarry Games and some other fests are going on, so I've listed these more recent stories first. Lots of them really deserve notice, but it's clear stuff in the first 2 weeks got read by like 3x as many people...

( Click for the rec list )

*hyperventilates*

Yes!!! I am going to Terminus!

I just bought my membership and made my hotel reservation!!!

*leaps with gleeeeee*

Now the really cool part:

( I've been invited to host a Slash & Fanfiction Night at Quimby's Bookstore! Click for details! )

I suppose I should add one more warning. This is a kind of melancholy story.

Title: Dormiens
Author: ravenna_c_tan
House: Ravenclaw
Rating: NC-17
Pairings: Draco/Harry, Draco/Snape
Warnings: Homosexual sex acts of various kinds.
Prompt: "Wrong" in the 50.1 prompt table at 100quills
Beta Reader: miraba
Summary: Post-war. Harry has defeated Voldemort, but has paid a heavy price. Draco Malfoy still has dues to pay.

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So, the hp_summersmut signups are now open!

Sign up here: http://community.livejournal.com/hp_summersmut/39450.html

And please say you'll write some smutty Snape/Draco, eh? ;-)

So, I finally got around to posting the round two Master List over at the Potterverse Tarot Fest on LJ. Not only that, I finally posted the awards for the best fics from the fest. Pink and I had decided on the fic winners (with some input from comm members and trusted betas) from round one before round two even started...!

I may as well post the list of winners here on JF. Some of the user journal links won't work, if people didn't move over here, but the links to the stories ought to.

The original post is: here.

I promised awards for the fest way way way back in the very beginning. I don't see fic writing as competitive so this is not a "first place, second place" kind of awarding, but rather an acknowledgment of the most exceptional fics' strengths and a reward for those authors who really made both rounds of the fest shine.

( List of fics, their awards and links to them, under the cut. )

The latest in my repostings of fics that were in comms on LJ:


Title: The Rematch
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Snape/Draco
Disclaimer: This is fanfic. It is produced for non-commercial purposes. All characters are copyrighted and trademarked by J. K. Rowling and the publishers of Harry Potter and related properties.
Warnings: None, really. Dueling can be a bit violent?
Summary: Draco Malfoy is 25 years old, single, rich, and bored with life, when an old schoolmate invites him into a very exclusive club: a dueling club.
Author's Notes: A very slantwise homage to Chuck Palahniuk's novel "Fight Club." This is still my favorite of my Snape/Draco fics. Written originally as a gift for femmequixotic in the 2006 Merry Smutmas fest.


( Come on, Malfoy. Don't tell me you're scared. )

I'm re-posting stories of mine that are posted on LJ and which I fear could disappear from there because of policy boneheadness and such...

This one was written for the HP Valensmut Fest, and I wrote it for a person who unfortunately left LJ before the fest and so I never got any feedback from them. (*cries*) And I was so proud of having stuck SOOOO closely to the request, too!

Title: Settling the Score
Author: ravenna_c_tan
Recipient: gnightg
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Draco Malfoy/Oliver Wood
Beta-reader: miss_bowtruckle
Word Count: 4600
Summary/Original Request: "Angst, PWP, Quidditch dressing rooms, Quidditch pitch, desperate erotic dreams, masturbation, watching, admiration, pain is so close to pleasure, sport is so close to sex, tarot fortune telling, wall-sex, smart talk, did I mention ANGST?"
Author's Note: I believe I got every one of the elements in the request into the story except for "watching" and "admiration." The rest fit together incredibly well. I loved this request and had a ton of fun with it! Hope what came out pleases you!

( Settling the Score )

Click on this link to increase the population of the Skyehawke Virtual City!

http://skyehawke.myminicity.com/

I was the 7th person added to the population!

Hm. Seems like Skyehawke changed the way their review notifications come? An email now comes with a link to the story being reviewed, but not to the review itself.

They seem to make it incredibly hard to find the reviews at all. Is it just me? Or is this annoying?

I started a thread about it on their forums:
http://forums.skyehawke.com/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=2636

Is anyone reading this journal? Since I started it I have yet to receive a single comment. It seems like the vast majority of comments still come to LiveJournal, with a few to InsaneJournal.

I've put two of my fics up for adoption at "Hijack Me HP!" a new comm for abandoned fics: http://community.livejournal.com/hijack_me_hp/

My brain just about melted when miss_bowtruckle passed me this Youtube link of a segment from Bravo's reality supermodel show in which Perry and Casey, two hot straight guys, do a serious "boytouching" shoot. OMFG.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_2Fdxrkka0

So gatewaygirl and helkamaria have started a new community on InsaneJournal for Harry/Marauders fics and such, called Up To No Good.

There's an intro post here:
http://asylums.insanejournal.com/harry_mwpp/354.html

Which I'll quote a wee bit from:

...a community for stories, art, and other content that focuses on interaction between Harry Potter and one or more of the Marauders (Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew, Sirius Black, and James Potter). Our hope is that by combining these pairings (which often have overlaps), we can create a community of sufficient size to flourish in HP fandom on IJ.

* Members may post fic, art, vids, recs, icons, and searches within these pairings, or with threesomes or moresomes that include one of these pairings. For posting creative work, use the posting template in the userinfo.

* Slash and gen are both allowed, as long as the interaction between Harry and one (or more) of the Marauders is central to the work. (If your on-topic fic or art contains het, that's fine too. The important thing is that the Harry/Marauder relationship is central to the work.)

* Cross-posted works and postings of old works are permitted. (For now, even encouraged! We need some start-up content.)

GatewayGirl has put up a few of her old fics to "seed" the comm. You'll need to have an age statement in your userinfo IJ to be added to the comm.

Pimpage done!

So, there's too much fic and not enough time (as always) and I have a new strategy this year when it comes to fest reading. I started working my way through the Snape Potter Daft Day Smut Swap, but then I realized I've hardly touched Merry Smutmas, or HD Holidays which I have not looked at since the summer pre-DH round!

So, I'm asking you, my dear friends, to rec me what you liked from these fests, or any other recent fic that knocked your socks off. You know what I like: any combination of Harry, Draco, and Severus, in-character, graphic sex, and plot. Point me at the good stuff.

Yes, finally, for those who have been wondering if I'm ever going to write fic again, my piece in this year's Snarry smut swap was chosen to end the fest! How fitting that it is called "Closure."

Author: Ravenna C. Tan
Title: Closure
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Rimming and light bondage. Oh, and DH spoilers, okay?
Prompt/Summary: Harry is on the verge of becoming a full-fledged Auror when he learns Severus Snape is not dead. Relevant parts of the prompt are: "Rimming, light bondage, light spanking are great... Snarky (but reluctantly, deep down caring) Snape is Love and Mature Snarky-right-back Harry is even lovelier. First-time, or first time for them."
Author's Note: Jadzia said "I love a first time fic, especially if it's a sarcastic, snarky Severus who is not at all happy to see Potter when he presents himself for whatever reason of your choosing. If that doesn't work for you, pretty much if there's smut, I'm good." So how my smutty plot bunny developed into this plotty monster, I'm not sure.
Hope you love it, my dear! Thanks to the mods who put me on to pinch hit and then were infinitely patient while my work schedule exploded and the story grew and grew. Thanks also to my emergency beta-reader clauclauclaudia.

Closure

Brilliant Snarry story rec!

Title: The Cinnabar Sling, a story from Not Groom Lake
Author: dingochow (on IJ)
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Let's see: AU. Masturbation. Dirty talk. Wall!sex, library!sex, pickup truck!sex, outdoor!sex. Voyeurism. Very mild bondage. Just rather pervy all around. (Also, some attempts at humor.)
Prompt/Summary: ravenna_c_tan wanted a story with a mature, confident Harry, angst along the road to a happy ending, intensity in the smut, and Snape's POV. She also thinks AUs are fun! (so do I …)

Wheee! The above is all verbatim from the header of the story at this year's Snarry Swap, known by its full name as the Snape Potter Daft Day Snarry Swap and now found on IJ.

I came late into the fest, as a pinch hitter, which explains why this isn't a contradiction from my earlier post about how I was burned out on doing fests and how after "Burning Day" how could I ever really top that writing experience? Well, then I saw the call for pinch hitters and...

But you'll have to wait to see the story I wrote, which isn't posted yet, but will be this week, and which is one of my best Snarries ever, I think.

But this post is about how totally fucking awesome the gift I received is. What's nifty is how really appropriate and fitting the story is for me.

I hate spoilers, so most of what I'll do here is gush. First, the writing style is excellent. It's 3rd person, Snape's POV, and is written with very nice narrative flair (read: snark). It's also an intriguing AU, yet not totally AU--you just have to read it to know what I mean by that. Very nice extensions of magical theory in it, too! Ah, I'm such a geek. The sex is wank-worthy, and ... yeah.

In my comment to the story I wrote I thought it should be considered a Snarry classic. So go find it here:

The Cinnabar Sling

OK, so who will be at Arisia this weekend? Cambridge, Mass. Hyatt Regency Hotel. I'll be there and I'm trying to figure out if I'll wear my robes or not. I wore them last year one afternoon and I hate to repeat... hmm, now that I think about it, are they clean?

For more info: Arisia web site.

So, it would seem that I have a new favorite kind of fic, which is the "Epilogue? What Epilogue?" or EWE. (You know I've never been into "Plot? What Plot?" and I tend to avoid WIP... so now I finally have three letters (besides 'XXX'--hush, you...) to call my own.

To celebrate this fact, I opened a Cafe Press store! Yes, you can now get "Epilogue? What Epilogue?" T-shirts, buttons, magnets, writing journals and more. Should I add the boxer shorts? Visit The Raven's Quill Store and tell me what you want...

Order NOW and you can still get them in time for Xmas! It's what I gave most of my fic-loving friends! (At least, those whose sizes I felt I could guess!)

( some images under the cut... )
Tell your friends!

I'll be wearing mine at Arisia! And maybe Terminus if I go!