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Art and Fic Recs from the Snarry Games!
Title: A Tempest Brewing
Artist: lizardspots
Team: Snitch
Genre(s): Mentor/Severitus (*Click for the Severitus Challenge*)
Prompt(s): Stormy Weather, The Long Goodbye
Rating/Warnings/Kinks: PG-13

This is Severitus (drum roll, please....) incest! Ah yeah, been waiting for this one, and the artist chose to depict THAT moment--you know the one that I mean, the one where the two of them have it out, because one of them knew and didn't tell the other, and instead let teh Snarry-smut go on. Oh yeah, this is angsty, and it's raining, and they're up on top of the Astronomy Tower, and you hold your breath because Harry's so angry...and then...OH YEAH. This is graphic novel style, done in pencil, and as usual Lizard's characters and detail are beautiful. And that kiss at the end is one of the best ones of the Games!


Title: Rapture
Author: Mia Ugly mia_ugly
Team: Snitch
Genre(s): Time-Travel
Prompt(s): The Long Goodbye, Achilles Heel
Rating/Warnings/Kinks: NC17
Summary: Snape sees the man, for the first time, on his twenty-fifth birthday.

Having read all the fics in the Games (except for three, which I've partially read and skimmed the rest of), I have no qualms about saying this is my favorite story in the Games. Actually, it's the best Snarry I've read in a long while. The author will dismantle you, and then put you back together again. It's an intermittent time travel fic, but never confusing. Harry's determined and desperate, Snape (at 25-34 yrs of age) is emotionally and socially stunted, to the point that you'll cry for him. The sex is real, lays bare both their vulnerabilities, and there are several times in this story that the magnitude of Snape's sacrifice, his unselfish, unwavering integrity will break through and...make you cry again. It ends in present day, fittingly, and there is hope. I'm not saying more, because embarking on this fic is a journey that everyone should experience unspoilt. I read this months ago for the first time, and it's been on my mind ever since. Rereading it, I'm finding I'm doomed to months more of the same. I don't need to tell you about the writing, or the plot subtleties, or the how the author has that ability to make you feel like you're in the very room with her characters. It's what Mia does in each and every one of her stories. So get a cup of {beverage of choice} and settle in for a few hours--you won't be able to stop once you start.\


The last entry of the Games has been posted. Thanks to everyone who followed. There's a week for 'catch-up' reading/viewing, and you can still vote!