The following story was added to Moonshadow, the Snape/Lupin archive, during the past week:

"Standing Outside The Fire" (126 K) by azurerosa

The following art was added:

"Snupin" by Mun 2513

The archive is located at http://www.ssf-moonshadow.com

I'm following a few different fests this year aside from Snupin Santa: HP Yule Balls, Harry Holidays, Kinky Kristmas, and Snapely Holidays. Some RL/SS has popped up already, so I thought I'd do a periodic link round-up of RL/SS gifts posted in other fests throughout the month. If anyone is following other fests and spots some RL/SS, please feel free to do the same!


Stories:

A Haunting Past
Pairing: Lily/Severus/Remus
Rating: NC-17
Summary: Remembering the past is one thing, but living with it is another.
Word count +/- 4,000
Warnings: see gift post


Open Hand
Rating: NC-17
Summary: After the war, Severus must decide whether or not he wants to pick up where he left off with Remus, and Remus helps him make up his mind.
Warnings: not canon compliant in that Snape and Lupin survive the war and Teddy isn't Remus' biological child, mutual masturbation, use of Legilimency during sex, desperation, established relationship
Word Count: ~6000


Art:
A Holiday with Old Friends
Rating: PG

Title: Touch Me..., for snapealina

From: Your Secret Snupin Santa

Summary: Merry Christmas, Snapealina! You said that if you received a gift of art, you wanted something lovable and beautiful. I hope this will do. :D

Rated: Gingersnaps (PG13) - not totally safe for work or peeking at in the company of prying eyes

Medium: Pencil on paper

Notes: Please do not take and use Snupin Santa gift art for icons, wallpaper, or any other purpose. It's intended for the recipient alone.

Title: A Romance, for busaikko

From: Your Secret Snupin Santa

Summary: Busaikko wanted a non-magical AU, supermarket-aisle paperback romance with unusual careers. Here it is, sweetie, and I hope it brings to you a fraction of the pleasure your fics have given to me.

Rated: Coal and Switches (NC17)

Warnings: Canon characters pop in and out of the story, and while (hopefully) the personalities are true to canon, the relative ages aren't.

Notes: Thanks to betas T and E, and to the most wonderful N, cheerleader, hand-holder, and nit-picker. You guys rock.

Word count: 34812

Title: The Christmas Wish, for countess-hp

From: Your Secret Snupin Santa

Summary: Severus and Remus try to explain their relationship to Teddy.

Rated: Coal and Switches (NC17)

Warnings: light bondage

Prompt: 1. DH Compliment to a point. Post War. It has been six years since the end of the war and both Remus and Severus survived. However, Tonks didn't, and Remus was left to raise Teddy, along with Severus. Now it is as come time to tell Teddy about the birds and the bees. How are they going to explain to Teddy about homosexual relationships? (Somewhere Andromeda says something to Teddy about heterosexual relationships.)

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters. JKR owns all the characters and rights. No profit is made from this story.

A/N: Many thanks to my excellent beta A. Without you my words are but a meaningless mess.

Word count: 6125

Once again this year, I'm collecting Snupin Santa recs! Any story or art that is recced 3 times is eligible to be a Hot Rec in the Daily Snitch newsletter, which has a readership of around 550 on Insanejournal and a readership of over 4000 on Livejournal. I'll also be submitting recs to snapenews.

So if you've recced any Snupin Santa story or art, please drop me a comment here. I'll be keeping track of what's been recced how many times based on the comments I get, because unfortunately, there's no way I can scan every RL/SS shipper's journal looking for recs. If you want to see your favorites from this year's fest featured in the biggest HP fandom journal-based newsletters, you need to give me those recs!

I do need a URL that I can send to the newsletters to prove there are 3 different recs for any given story/art, so squee in email, IM, or the chatroom won't cut it.

I'll post a call for recs at least once a week throughout the fest.

Title: Right There, for oirowin

From: Your Secret Snupin Santa

Rated: Holiday Spice (R)

Summary: Severus finds out that his sarcasm won’t keep Remus away . . . and eventually, he doesn’t mind having the werewolf close by.

Warnings: Violence/aggression, sexual situations

Notes: Immense gratitude to those who provided the encouragement and assistance needed to see this to completion.

Word count: 3528

Title: Patronuses do come in all shapes and sizes
Word Count: 3 x 100
Rating: PG-13
For the #236: Teeth Challenge at snupin100
Characters: Remus/Severus
Summary:After the war they find themselves living in a different land, working a different occupation, meeting different people from different backgrounds.

Warning: Post-DH AU (also known as bad!fic, crack!fic, lack-of-sleep!fic). Indelicate treatment of characters and cliches.

Title: No Greater Love, for kinky-kneazle

From: Your Secret Snupin Santa

Rated: Holiday Spice (R)

Summary: When Remus learns that Severus has been spying on Voldemort all along and that he’ll be executed at the next full moon, he embarks on a dangerous rescue mission into an England reigned by Voldemort to save the man he loves. On that mission, he receives help from the most unlikely people – and ends up saving not only Severus.

Warnings: Torture, suicide, character death

Word count: 8744

Title: Interludes and Peppermint, for batmanboxers

From: Your Secret Snupin Santa

Rated: Gingerbread & Cocoa (PG)

Summary: In their fifth year, Remus and Severus are both left at Hogwarts over the holidays. They discover that they have a few things in common.

Word count: 1935

Title: [War was] the place we had to live in, for little-iago

From: Your Secret Snupin Santa

Summary: Two years have passed since the war. Severus Snape is still alive and is helping to rebuild the wizarding world. Can he rebuild his personal life at the same time?

Rated: Gingersnaps (PG13)

Word count: 4828

Notes: Merry Christmas, little-iago! I hope this is what you were looking for!

Title: A Picture of Success, for zephre

From: Your Secret Snupin Santa

Rated: PG13

Summary: Dumbledore glanced at him, blue eyes piercing, but his voice deceptively mild, “Experience has taught me that when Voldemort tries very hard to acquire something, it is better to ensure that he does not succeed.”

Warnings: implied prostitution, violence (though nothing worse than canon).

Notes: Written for zephre for Snupin Santa 2009, for the prompt: ‘Snape and Lupin assigned to work together to find some arcane artifact for the Order’. Thanks to the Snupin Santa mods and to my beta, who did a fantastic job at very short notice.

Word count: 11065

I'm in the Lupin_Snape chat room right now (as I managed to find a way around the university proxy). Come join me for Snupin Santa squees? (and nail-biting?)

Title: In the Garden, for carentan

Rated: work safe

Summary: Cartentan prefers cute art. I hope this meets your expectations :)

Notes: right-click to see a larger version of the image. Please do not take and use Snupin Santa gift art for icons, wallpaper, or any other purpose. It's intended for the recipient alone.

Title: Terrific Two's Summer of Mystery!

For: skitty-kat

From: Your Secret Snupin Santa

Rated: NC17

Summary: Prompt: An Enid Blyton-style porn fic. It's the summer hols and there are adventures to be had! There are mountains to climb, islands to explore and caves to be delved into and for two young men it is the summer of their sexual awakening. Amid ginger beer, ham sandwiches and good clean fun (while dressed in jerseys, shorts and rubber-soled shoes) Remus and Severus discover more to life than hidden passageways *ahem*, buried treasure *ahem* and getting one's mouth round a juicy pork pie *ahem*. Whoever knew you could have so much fun in a tent? Bonus points for criminals with revolvers! (they always have revolvers)

Warnings: poorly rendered British regional accents, and perhaps not quite as porny as you might have liked.

Notes: Apologies to Susan Cooper, Arthur Ransom, "The Comic Strip Presents..." and anyone who actually knows Cornwall. No apologies to Enid Blyton, however. (An excellent prompt skitty! I'm still tempted by the Flash Gordon one, as well. How can you go wrong with a villain called Emperor Voldeming?)

Word count: 8107

Title: Takes the Cake

Author/Artist: Arionrhod, MacKay

Excerpt: With a pen containing an edible ink, Remus began to carefully write out on the delicate paper his recipe for minestrone soup, a time consuming task, but one that he thought would be well worth the effort.

Commentary: Well, it is self-evident why I chose this recipe, isn't it? And this recipe of "Minestrone con Pesto" is one of my favourites, I thought it could well be Remus' too. The instructions are a bit long, I doubt they would fit on a small piece of rice paper, but maybe he was summarizing it!

Source: "The Ethnic Vegetarian Kitchen", by Shanta Nimbark Sacharoff

Current Mood: cheerful

Title: Voyage of the Leviosa

Author: busaikko

Excerpt:

Lupin had with him Mr Snape and the seaman Diggory & the Other man suffering of his Head and Died the next day & was buried. Their boat was quite Lively, which goes to prove that a diet of Oysters & Coconuts is Vitalising to the Humours. I recommend it Heartily to you and Draco our Son. – excerpted from a letter of Captain Lucius Malfoy as recounted in "The Voyage of HMS Leviosa" by the inimitable busaikko.

( Oysters Leviosa )

Wants to give a big thank you ahead of time to all the people who has created art of stories for the snupin santa exchange. And a really big THANK YOU to all the little elves who put it together. This is my favorite time of the year so again thanks to all.

Title: Troth

Author: celandineb

Excerpt:

It wasn't a wizarding restaurant, nor even a particularly high-class Muggle establishment for that matter. Cheap and mediocre Italian was the cuisine on offer, but the place close by and perfectly adequate for the days when neither of them felt like cooking. Severus confessed to liking the tagliatelle alla bolognese, while Remus was fond of the bread basket placed on every table. The owner's son was the baker, and the bread was always hot, fresh, and delicious.

Commentary: Bread. Good Italian bread with rosemary - how can you go wrong? And I would totally have Remus's response to Severus, having been fed this bread first. (Well, I would anyhow, but you know what I mean.

Source: Cook's Illustrated, May/June 1997 - Rosemary Focaccia

( Rosemary Focaccia )

Title: Breaking Bread Together

Author: celandineb

Excerpt:

Remus glanced down and realised that he had reached across the table and taken Severus's hand in his enthusiasm. It was warm and bony and he could feel the calluses on Severus's skin before he hastily let go, murmuring an apology. To cover his embarrassment, he took a sip of wine. Severus had already had a bottle open, and it was excellent.

They changed conversational topics to the less sensitive one of Quidditch as they ate the main course, another dish that Remus had never had and that Severus called a quiche. It was a sort of an egg pie, with bacon and onions and cheese mixed into the egg, and seasoned with subtle herbs as well. Like the rest of the meal, the flavour was simply marvellous, so much so that Remus was unembarrassed about asking for a second slice. Accompanying the quiche were cooked tomatoes, their sweet acidity complementing its richness.

Severus, not having taken an additional helping, finished eating first, and watched Remus as he ate his last few bites, again with that inscrutable expression on his face. Remus's breath quickened under the heated gaze, and when he laid down his knife and fork, aligning them neatly on his plate, he ran his tongue over his lips to see how Severus would react.

Commentary: Again, not exactly what Severus cooked, but I don't make real quiches. *g* This onion pie has onions and cheese and tomatoes (although no bacon) so it's kind of a combination of the two dishes mentioned in the story.

Source: Anna Thomas, The Vegetarian Epicure - Cheese and Onion Pie

( Cheese and Onion Pie )