Fic: This Masterpiece of Nature, Snape/Regulus Black R

[anneline]

Title: This Masterpiece of Nature
Characters/Pairing: Snape, Regulus Black, Lestranges, Avery, Wilkes, Rosier, etc. A small bit of Snape/Regulus Black but really this is mostly Genfic.
Rating: R, for bad language and adult situations.
Disclaimer: Not mine.
Warnings: Angst.
Summary: Snape had friends, he still has them.

Thanks to siyamau, sor_bet, and floocrookshanks for

Comments

[anneline]

Hee! Thanks. I'm really glad you like it. I was very worried that it didn't make any sense until you beta'd it. I actually went the whole Regulus route and pimped it at blackaholics. I think that's appropriate since the story, ultimately is about Regulus and Bellatrix, too, to a certain extent. I mean I started writing about Severus but the Blacks just muscled in and took over the story which I imagine is their way.

[anneline]

Wow, thank-you. What a nice review. I'm glad you liked it. I wanted to do justice to Snape and his friends. Some of them were very evil but they were people and Snape must have really liked them. It hadn't occurred to me until I started writing this fic, how truely terrible, from Snape's point of view, Dumbledore's DADA appointments must have been. Here's the only job he's ever wanted at Hogwarts and Dumbledore gives it first a werewolf that tried to eat him and then to Moody who actually killed Snape's friends.

Oh, and thanks for the rec, too. You're too sweet!

[sinick]

Subtle and layered characterisation of all the Death Eaters: you've made each of them individuals, and given depth to their personalities. The prose style flows well. Excellent work!

[anneline]

Thanks! I was trying to flesh the Death Eaters out a bit. I'm glad they come across as individuals. And thanks for saying the prose flows well, I always think it's very clunky. I feel like I have to beat it a lot too get it as smooth as possible.

[valis2]

This is intense, astonishing, excellent. I rarely say that about fanfic, but I have to say it about this. So well thought-out, so well-written, beautiful, thought-provoking, and so realistic and smart, and I can't stop piling adjectives on.

I loved this. It's going into my "Amazing Fics" folder.

Just incredible.

[anneline]

Cool! Thanks for all the adjectives. I just love how thinking about these characters JKR sets up can evoke these complicated little stories everywhere.

[iulia_linnea]

This is one of the most understated, powerful fics I've ever read. I very much enjoy seeing the Death Eaters characterized fully---and with their canon aspects showcased so well---you make me see them as people with whom I might have spent time, and your progression through events and Severus' experience is masterful. This is a gorgeous, atmospheric, rare piece of writing, and I'm saving it to my Favorites folder.

May I friend you?

[anneline]

Oh, I'd love it if you friended my. I'll go friend you.

Thanks for nice words. I was hoping to make the Death Eaters interesting. Not less evil but fun, intelligent people one might enjoy hanging out with, so that it would be easier to understand how one can get sucked into things, bad things, like Severus was. And also just how sad and hard things are for everyone involved on either side of a war.

[iulia_linnea]

You're very welcome. I think you've done what you set out to do, and I've recced you on my journal. Cheers!

[anneline]

Thanks for the rec. You're too nice!