Fic updates: HP x5
https://apckrfansfic.livejournal.com/320002.html I finished posting Stop the World From Crying on Wednesday on AO3, FFN & my site. I'm still posting it here. Below the cut are 5 updates I forgot to post here as they went live. You should be able to access all of them via the "distribution" line of each header:
TITLE: Felt Good In His Hands
AUTHOR: Susan / apckrfan
DISTRIBUTION: My site, AO3, FFnet, LiveJournal.
DISCLAIMER: I don't own any characters. They are owned by JK Rowling, Scholastic, Warner Brothers, etc. No profit is made from this fic.
RATING: FRT
SPOILERS: General through Deathly Hallows, but canon divergent (Snape lives, EWE, and I also embellish a bit with Hermione's family)
SUMMARY: Just why is potions professor Severus Snape familiar to Hermione when she arrives at Hogwarts? It takes a few years, but she finally figures it out.
CHARACTERS/PAIRING: Hermione Granger/Severus Snape
DATE STARTED: August 2022
STATUS: Complete
WORD COUNT: 7,800 +/-
FEEDBACK: Please, I can't write better without it.
NOTES: Written for Kidansong for the Hearts and Cauldrons Gift Exchange 2022 hosted on AO3.
BETA: Sarmo - Any mistakes are mine and mine alone.
PLAYLIST: There is a 459 song, just over 29 hour long playlist on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2Af8MRjVRPlgBRtbD7UX2s?si=1b7c47bd6487417d) based on the idea for this fic titled Felt Good In His Hands. The first grouping of songs are from a band member or a band's perspective (I tried to make them all good guitar songs). The second grouping is about playing guitar or where guitars are part of the focus of the song. The third grouping (and bulk of the playlist) are just some good guitar songs. The fourth grouping are some holiday songs, again focusing on guitar. I slaved over this list, wanting to be inclusive and broad. You will find country, blues, jazz, mambo, reggae, rock, and classical guitar. A few song choices are obvious (Freebird & Stairway To Heaven), but I tried to stray to the "different" when I could. You will not find many artists featured more than once (a few are because of their different bands like Eric Clapton & Joe Walsh). As much as probably ten each Led Zeppelin, Hendrix, and Beatles songs alone are great guitar songs, I wanted this playlist to delve deeper than the same handful of groups. I tried to be unbiased (only one The Doors song tells you I succeeded pretty well). Obviously I had to like the song to begin with. There are some songs in here I don't love, but they fit the bill of a good guitar song. There are a couple of artists I debated about including because I know that their political beliefs are a bit extreme, but I couldn't in good conscience compile a guitar song list without including Ted Nugent or Eric Clapton. There is no particular order, so Pink Floyd, say, appearing where it does in relation to Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, or whoever means nothing, other than I felt that's where their song fit best in the order of things. I did try to make the segue from song to song make sense. My daughter says it's a major flex, so I hope you'll give it a whirl. And that maybe you'll find a new to you artist or two! You shouldn't need to shuffle it as it's pretty shuffled as it is.
TITLE: Just An Average Guy
AUTHOR: Susan / apckrfan
DISTRIBUTION: My site, AO3, FanFiction.net, LiveJournal.
DISCLAIMER: I don't own any characters. They are owned by JK Rowling, Scholastic, Warner Brothers, Matt Nix, USA Network, etc. No profit is made from this fic.
RATING: FRT
SPOILERS: General spoilers for all of Harry Potter and all of Burn Notice, canon divergent in that Severus Snape lives.
SUMMARY: Unspeakable Severus Snape does not like his partner's choice in dates. He knows Sam Axe, and thinks he's little more than a gold-digging cad. She should know better!
CHARACTERS/PAIRING: Hermione Granger/Sam Axe, Hermione Granger/Severus Snape
DATE STARTED: February 2023
STATUS: Complete
WORD COUNT: 3,750 +/-
FEEDBACK: Please, I can't write better without it.
NOTES: So, another cracktastic crossover idea that came to me. Working an association between Michael Weston and Severus Snape seemed far-fetched even for me (ha!), but Sam Axe. Well, he's pretty much free game and the actor was born in 1958 so would be around Severus' age.
TITLE: Danger In the Moon Above
AUTHOR: Susan / apckrfan
DISTRIBUTION: My site, AO3, FFnet, LiveJournal.
DISCLAIMER: I don't own any characters. They are owned by JK Rowling, Scholastic, Warner Brothers, etc. No profit is made from this fic.
RATING: FRM
SPOILERS: General spoilers, canon divergent as Snape lives
SUMMARY: Severus gets a mysterious visitor to help him heal post-war. He helps them, too.
CHARACTERS/PAIRING: Hermione Granger/Severus Snape
DATE STARTED: April 2023
STATUS: Complete
WORD COUNT: 6,900
FEEDBACK: Please, I can't write better without it.
NOTES: Just an odd idea that came to me and wouldn't go away. I'm trying to get better about one shots for these two.
WARNING: There is a bit of animagus/human physical touching here, but it's not very graphic.
TITLE: 'Cause I Hear It In the Night
AUTHOR: Susan / apckrfan
DISTRIBUTION: My site, AO3, FFnet, LiveJournal.
DISCLAIMER: I don't own any characters. They are owned by JK Rowling, Scholastic, Warner Brothers, etc. No profit is made from this fic.
RATING: FRM
SPOILERS: General spoilers. This is set post-war, Hermione's 7th year.
SUMMARY: Hermione has a crush. Only thing is, he’s her former professor (and the current headmaster) and he seems immune to everything she’s tried to get his attention. She ups her game a bit, getting some assistance from the Room of Requirement to go through with her plan.
CHARACTERS/PAIRING: Hermione Granger/Severus Snape
DATE STARTED: May 2023
STATUS: Complete
WORD COUNT: 2,600 +/-
FEEDBACK: Please, I can't write better without it.
WARNING: Student Hermione, though she is 19 as it’s set post-war, a make-up Year 7.
NOTES: Written for Hearts and Cauldrons Snamione Smut Fest 2023
TITLE: Treat Me Right
AUTHOR: Susan / apckrfan
DISTRIBUTION: My site, AO3, FF.net, LiveJournal.
DISCLAIMER: I don't own any characters. They are owned by JK Rowling, Scholastic, Warner Brothers, etc. No profit is made from this fic.
RATING: FRM
SPOILERS: Everything is fair game. Snape lives. Hermione never goes to Hogwarts so one can assume that many happenings from 1991-98 will be different.
SUMMARY: Post-war, a badly scarred Severus Snape is secreted away with only a select few knowing that the wizard survived his injuries to do some top secret operations in an effort to capture all escaped death eaters and followers post-war. There he meets a local (magical) barmaid he finds himself intrigued by. She seems to be, too. It turns out there’s a reason why.
CHARACTERS/PAIRING: Hermione Granger/Severus Snape
DATE STARTED: November 2022
STATUS: Complete
WORD COUNT: 40,500
FEEDBACK: Please, I can't write better without it.
NOTES: This is a soul mates fic. It is complete in ten chapters. I will post Sunday & Wednesday until it’s finished. (Chapter Two will be Sunday.)