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For the Dragon Age Kink Meme http://dragonage-kink.livejournal.com/4016.html?thread=8109488#t8109488

AU: Where the chantry is less 'lock up all the mages and kill them at the first sign there's a demon' and more 'thou shalt not suffer a witch to live'.

No circles, but still templars, finding and killing all the mages. How does this effect hawkes life in kirkwall? Does Anders seem less crazy? Was Fenris owned by a mage, or someone else? Is Bethany alive or dead?

Could be their policy from the start, or it could be sometime (pre-chantry explosion plz) they decide it's the only way, everywhere.


Thou Shalt Not Suffer )
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I've got no idea if the most recent fes is up, but... here was my contribution.

Title: Philosophy
Author: Vasaris, the Fuzzy Dragon
Rating: PG-15? R? Something like that.
Pairing: HP/SS
Summary: What do you believe in?
Disclaimer: Not mine and I'm really just doing this for S'n'Gs. Really.
Beta: My lovely roommate Tori, all other mistakes are mine alone. Mine, I tell you! You can't have them! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Archive: Part of the From Dusk till Dawn Severus Snape/Harry Potter Fuh-Q-Fest at http://www.kardasi.com/HPSS/storyindex.htm
Challenge: Wave XII: What if…? Also incorporating the "Snape in Leather Pants" challenge from Wave I.

Philosophy )
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Summary of a recent review of In Principia:

Great story (thanks)! Love how you handled homophobia! People so rarely deal with intolerant!Wizarding-world (not entirely true, but it is pretty rare). Your Snape was cool, what with being good but not nice (Thanks, that was what I was going for). Only, Ron wouldn't have done that, he's always so very loyal to Harry (you must have read a different GoF than I did)! Oh, noes! And why would the Wizarding World be intolerant anyway, since for Muggles it's all based in religion? (I was under the impression you liked having a non-tolerant Wizarding World, make up your mind)? Why didn't you explain that (I was unaware I had to do 20,000 words of backstory to explain anything in a fic)?

It's funny, the few people who complain about characterizations of In Principa always focus on OMG! Ron would NEVER do that.

Aside from obvious issues of who else in the story would drive the point of such gibbering, mindless hatred home, it betrays a failure, either in myself as a writer or in them as readers. I tend to lean toward them since most people seem to have understood what I was trying to portray.

The whole point of Ron's reaction is that he loves Harry, is generally loyal to Harry -- but when confronted with something so very deep seated in in upbringing behaves with a knee-jerk reaction. It's a condemnation of the society that Ron would react like that. Not a condemnation of Ron, himself. It's about how unthinking and stupid and horrifying such prejudices are, and what they can do. It's about my friend who told his parents -- who, before that moment loved him unequivically -- and was left with a father who won't acknowledge him and a mother who dances between "I accept you" and "You're going to hell!" Love and loyalty do not inherently stand a chance against the dictates of social reality in which you are raised.

*shakes head, torn between amusement and sadness*

It's hard to tell if, when people are so fixated on "You were mean to my favorite character!" that they actually completely miss the point of a sotry, I should laugh at them or despair for humanity.
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Warnings and/or Disclaimers )

Summary: Love is such a curious thing. Will a little potions meddling result in the ectasies of true love or result in the flames of eternal torment? MWPP-era Hogwarts.

Semper te... )
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Warnings and Disclaimers )

Warning: unbeta'd so may be subject to random editing

Some say the world will end in fire... )

With all due apologies to Robert Frost.
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Title: Duplicity
Author: Vasaris, the Fuzzy Dragon
Rating: PG
Pairing: HP/SS
Disclaimer: I’d love to say they were mine, but alas it is not so. Harry Potter and attendant characters belong to the lovely J. K. Rowling, her publishers and the movie guys with the rights to her books. I’m just playing. I promise I didn’t even kill anyone that she hasn’t.
Warnings: None, really, other than this is a bit silly, IMHO.
Beta: My lovely roommate, Tori.
Archive: Part of the From Dusk till Dawn Severus Snape/Harry Potter Fuh-Q-Fest at http://www.kardasi.com/HPSS/storyindex.htm
Challenge: 'Not here, Not now! No magic?'

Duplicity )
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Title: Music
Pairings: Severus/Regulus, Severus/Narcissa, Severus/Lily (unrequited)
Rating: R (or M, if you prefer)
Characters: Severus Snape, others as they appear.
Summary: Music is a muse, a definition, a border, a boundary.
Warnings: Character deaths. Mentions of Non-Con. HBP spoilers.
Inspiration: JKR claims that someone has loved him. Love doesn't necessarily help.
Beta: None at the moment, anyone want to volunteer? Also, anyone with a better summary, please speak up ;)
Notes: This is primarily a character study, which includes some of a young Severus Snape's life.

She sings to him... )

edited once again, because the damn bunny won't leave me alone, damnit.
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Title: Decisions, Decisions
Author: Vasaris, the Fuzzy Dragon
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: I’d love to say they were mine, but alas it is not so. Harry Potter and attendant characters belong to the lovely J. K. Rowling, her publishers and the movie guys with the rights to her books. I’m just playing. I promise I didn’t even kill anyone that she hasn’t.
Warnings: AU
Beta: Unbetad
Archive: [livejournal.com profile] mightierthan, my fic journal and eventually at HPFandom
Challenge: AU Challenge at [livejournal.com profile] hr_challenge, the [livejournal.com profile] hogwarts_rising challenge community. What do you know, it came in first. Kewlies.

“Decisions, )
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...regarding fanon vs. canon going on here in [livejournal.com profile] painless_j's journal. If you're at all interested in meta discussion... it's pretty interesting ;)
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I love [livejournal.com profile] painless_j's themed lists and have found this lovely jewel in the "Growing old" list. It's lovely. It's a death fic. Go. Read. Now.
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An alert from my stepsister (thank you dearest!)

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Keep this do-good chain of hope going.... Forward this email to others who may be interested in helping. Thanks for spreading the word!


Like the Hunger Site, a click a day, right?
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Well, since Kira doesn't appear to have the fest up just yet, for my loyal ones, I present the current fest-fic, In Principia.

Warnings and Disclaimers )

What cost, fate? )
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How attention-whoring is it to wish that someone you've just sent a story off to should reply instantly with 'You're a goddess?'

*sighs* Sometimes, I'm shocked by just how fragile and crud my ego really is. *shakes head* Anyhoo, [livejournal.com profile] isidore13 my fest fic is waiting for comments in the beta filter if you've got time, although I do have someone else giving it a look-see if you don't before tomorrow/friday, although tomorrow would definitely be better ;)

I have a life outside of LJ. Okay, it primarily seems to consist of trying to sucessfully create a *sour* sourdough starter at the moment, but I do have a life, darnit! *repeats mantra*
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Disclaimed in Part I

As I've put my next fest fic up for the loverly [livejournal.com profile] isidore13 to beta, I figured I'd release the next bit of Bellum Umbrae which [livejournal.com profile] isidore13 actually finished with a while ago ;) Yes, I'm still working on it.

Part the next )
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I'm partially finished with my fic for the next Dusk-till-Dawn. Anyone interested in the beta-sneak-peek?

(Weirdly, the fic is writing itself backwards, of all bizarre things. I've a beginning and an end and the end is creeping toward the beginning. Is weird. I promise not to make anyone read it with gaping holes near the front of the plot and am assiduously trying to tell myself we don't need a long-spawned story arc other than Ars Magica)

Pokes [livejournal.com profile] isidore13 and [personal profile] leianora, dearest betas from the last fest. Willing to stay with me?
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Okay, I wouldn't usually do this, but it's eating at me and demanding I share. *glares at plotbunny*

Title: Music
Pairings: Good question.
Characters: Severus Snape, others as they appear.
Summary: Music is a muse, a definition, a border, a boundary.
Warnings: Character deaths. Mentions of Non-Con. HBP spoilers.
Inspiration: JKR claims that someone has loved him. Love doesn't necessarily help.
Beta: None at the moment, anyone want to volunteer? Also, anyone with a better summary, please speak up ;)

She sings to him... )
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Unusually, I felt the need to answer a challenge.

From: Jayne on After Class
The Challenge )

Title: Finishing Touches
Rating: M
Genre: Humor. Okay. Dark Humor.
Pairing: HP/SS
Warnings: But they give so much away. It might be considered vaguely disturbing. One report of "severely creeped out."
Beta: None, although I may revise this later.

Disclaimer: I don't own them. Hell, normally, I wouldn't do this to them.

Oh, and... sorry, it's a one-shot. Really. If you want a sequel, let me know if you write one, I'd love to see it.
Finishing Touches )


ETA: Made some changes in the disclaimer and genre.
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Warnings and/or Disclaimers )

This starts out a bit before the ending feast and the whole second part will be from Severus' point of view.

The fight with Voldemort is over. The fight for the Wizarding World has just begun.



Bellum Umbrae, first rather small section )
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