Unfinished Games (repost), Snape/OFC, 1/?

Unfinished Games (repost), Snape/OFC, 1/?
Rating: G – hard-R; this chapter G
Author’s Notes:

If you don’t know what this is, please read this.

And so we begin where we left off. This is, as ever, the product of its moment in time. Except this time, when I’m done reposting what I wrote then, I will finish it now. This is at times an awful thing, and at times a beautiful one. I’m embarrassed by much of it, but it is, as the story says, the nature of women to endure. That some of you will enjoy this helps, and parts of it will always mean a great deal to me.

Despite a recent tune-up, this was written in 2001 and is not compliant with the current state of the HP universe.

Your feedback and commentary are always welcome, even for a time capsule such as this.

You can find all chapters here.

If you’re looking for slash, het, poly, Book-6 compliant Slytherin backstory please visit the recently updated Fascilis Descensus Averno a WIP written with kalichan. It features Severus Snape, Lucius & Narcissa Malfoy, Bellatrix & Rodolphus Lestrange and Regulus Black and mostly takes place in 1979 – 1981 but has forays both significantly forward and back in time.
Disclaimer: It’s JKR’s world, I just mess about with it.

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meanwhile

Crazy busy week around here. There are no down days. Fencing tonight (aie), barn dance tomorrow, lots of people to be mailed about my impending arrival in Boston and all sorts of wardrobe stuff to get in order accordingly.

I'm in a pretty good, if largely silent mood.

Today, I have to go to the post office to, among other things, return that wrong fencing jacket for the final time and get my $$ back.

And it would be batshit insane, especially since I'd leave the city a few days after getting back from Phoenix Rising, but I'm now in this hemming and hawing place about Wiscon. Because it's very affordable. If I weren't taking a gazillion other trips this year.

Tonight, I have to write my Valentine's Day SF column, which continues to take strange turns, because I realized in the course of a conversation last night, that the bulk of my list, whcih was compiled with the help of many many people, looks at love in terms of endurance. This is the nature of drama, of course, but it's something unsettling that bears examination. Alison remarks often enough that I really should be able to find a gig where reviewing stuff is also about telling personal stories (hey, I thought that's what LJ was! just without $$), but I think this gig I can actually use some of those stylistic habits, especially since it's about encouraging discussion and so forth.

overheard nyc

This is awesomely funny in a geek way:

http://syndicated.livejournal.com/overheardnyc/2116995.html

Although I am still giggling about this one from ages ago:

http://syndicated.livejournal.com/overheardnyc/2076086.html

religion and SF/F

Okay, as I finish up the Valentine's Day column, I think I want to look at religion in SF/F. This is probably my personal favourite obsession in SF, so Ia m also largely asking for a reading list here. Dune, the Kushiel books, those creepy out-of-print Edith Friesner books (Psalms of Herod/Sword of Mary), and Mists of Avalon (again), HDM (again), Narnia (duh), Aestival Tide (how could I forget The Chruch of Jesus Christ Cadillac?), The Country of Last Things (ah, suicide cults) all spring to mind in pretty radically different ways.

There's also something I keep meaning to read that I just forgot the title of, about a space mission gone horribly wrong and the only survivor is a surly priest who had been sexually tortured and won't talk -- what the hell is that book again? I really need to read it like this week.

So what have you got for me with intense use of religion from our world or not?