Issue #670: Thursday/Friday, April 30/May 1, 2009

[bethbethbeth]

Hello, and welcome to the latest issue of snapenews. Thank you all for your continuing support and useful links! Feel free to comment (either below or at snapenews@gmail.com) and let us know how we're doing! (Please note that we're beta'ing cross-posting with Dreamwidth at the moment, so forgive us if some of the usernames/community names are formatted oddly for a time]

NEWS/MISCELLANEOUS

Dreamwidth, the new [fandom-friendly] journaling service, is now in open beta. Mirror sites of the LJ comms have been set up for snape100 and snapenews. Although cross-posting on the DW site hasn't yet begun, if you have a Dreamwidth account, feel free to add those communities to your reading lists.

Courtesy of snapecast: a new promotional poster for HBP featuring Snape and Dumbledore here.

CHALLENGES/CONTESTS

Sign-ups are now open for "The Dark Side of Snape/Lupin" art and fic challenge. For more info, click here.

snapedom's May challenge is Snape and Werewolves.

This week's challenge on snarry100 is May Day.

This week's challenge on quiz_sshg is another in their Prolific Authors Series, this one Warded Portal

POLLS

summerborn has a poll about header labels in post-DH fic where Snape and/or Lupin are still alive.

REC LISTS/ARCHIVE UPDATES

Is it wrong to be linking to my own recs page update? Not if it includes 17 Snape-centric recs (slash and het)

Walking the Plank (the Snape/Harry archive) has been updated with 11 fics and 7 works of art. For more info, click here.

sshp_prophet has been updated for April 26 to 29.

hgss_digest has been updated here and here and here.

TODAY IN ART

Het

Anonymous (in hp_beholder) drew "Nice Wandwork, Young Man" (Snape/McGonagall. NC-17. NSFW)

Threesome/Moresome/Other

tbranch drew "Untitled" (Snape, Lupin, Regulus...in a fusion with The Mummy. G.)

TODAY IN FIC

Het

Anonymous (in snuna_exchange) wrote "Riddled" (Snape/Luna. PG.)

Threesome/Moresome/Other

Anonymous (in hds_beltane) wrote "The Assignment" (Harry/Draco, Severus/Draco, Harry/Severus/Draco. R.)

DISCLAIMERS: The warnings listed here are those given by the artist/author/poet. Please pay attention to all ratings and warnings when following links.

We aim to bring you the latest Snape-centric items in the fandom but some might slip through the net! You can help to ensure this doesn't happen by sending us links via email to snapenews@gmail.com. There are submission guidelines in the snapenews user profile, but for the 'Today in' sections we just require the basic title/creator/rating/warnings/link info.