Snupin Prophet Recs 1/2

[salinea]

Hello, I'll be your reccer for the month of June. I hope you'll enjoy my choices (and that you'll find gems you hadn't read before).

Prisoner by crise_cardiac is a pretty recent story that might have been relatively overshadowed by the fact it was posted in the middle of the month of December. For shame at it is an dazzlingly beautiful dark story with brilliant characterizations.
Post HBP, Remus is captured by Fenrir, but Severus claims him as reward. The confrontation that follows is nasty, violent, intense and hot. This is a Remus with a backbone and a good dose of anger for Snape. Snape himself is deliciously dark, ugly and haunted. The end result is hatesex, ambiguous con and a writing wonderfully chiselled.
Excerpt :

Severus, though. Severus is foul and rotten and everything in between. He could gouge those dead eyes out, kiss the sightless sockets like a doting mother, and still be immaculate compared to the monster crouched between his legs with swollen lips and saliva still connecting them. Sparring back and forth has always been his life with Severus. Now there is no reason to hold back. The Death Eater wants a game? Remus can play, too. He just has to figure out the damn objective.

Number Theory by lydialovestruck is a classic example of the best pervy_werewolf's Lust Month of May can give us (if you were yearning for even more after this year's excellent porny epics ;)

In 31 chapters, full of smut and kink, the writer explores a-chronologically Remus' sexuality from youngest accidents to finding eventually love, while going through some rather wild experiments. The characterizations, as well as the rather unique mode of narration are very interesting. When I first read it felt to me to be very sexually adventurous (though by now it might fade compared to the daily porny-goodness of the HP fandom) but in a way that was often deep and shed very interesting lights on the characters, relationships and sex. This is a story with several OCs which work very well. Another of its virtue is that it tells us about Remus' life in the obscure yeas between Voldemort's first war and PoA.
Though the story features several RemusxOthers and SeverusxOthers pairings, it's definitely a SeverusxRemus story all around and builds their relationship in a very believable and touching way.


For something a bit lighter :
Shopping List, Reading List, To-Do List by musigneus is a very funny and delightful sequence of short fics featuring one of slightly more obscure cliché of the pairing : Severus asking for a rather... personal input from Remus to use as potion ingredient. That fic is witty and plays out wonderfully with the best kind of banter Remus and Severus lend themselves to. The sex is also extremely hot and teasing. And of course, as always with musigneus the characterization is spotless.

Comments

[busaikko]

Thank you! I'd not seen the Prisoner story when it was first published--but goodness, it was wonderful!

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Isn't it ? ^^ Half the reason I voluntered to rec was to rec this fic ^^ It deserves to be on every lists of classic stories. Do check Crisis' other stories they're all gorgeous (I hope she'll write more)

[musigneus.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the rec! It makes me very happy to know that you still enjoy these pre-HBP stories. And of course I'm delighted that you like the characterizations!

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

oh, yeah, they're still a delight to read :D