I’m on a roll!
Turns out that the more control Hermione gains, the more control Snape loses.
Summary
Hermione has a breakthrough heat while working as Snape’s assistant. Somehow, Snape is always there when her inner Omega spirals out of control.
They’ve always had reliably good guac.
Today, it was dark and the texture and flavor were NOT avocados. Any theory about how they are ruining their guac recipe?
I’m not going back there unless they go back to real guac. That was the main draw for me.
I have spent the last few weeks traveling but also thinking a lot about this fic. I feel optimistic that the plot/outline are set. We’ll see if I stay on course :-).
Thanks for joining me on the ride.
EXCERPT
Hermione felt remarkably sharp, focused, and upbeat the next morning as she sat in the Great Hall for breakfast. She expected to be nervous about facing her friends… but she felt too good. Snape had dismissed her with a list of books to look for in the restricted section - perhaps he would finally start helping her - and she had climbed into bed and immediately fallen asleep.
She suspected she should have felt awkward about the encounter, but she did not. She felt ready to take on Voldemort and the world.
Though she tripped a little when she saw Snape sitting up at the staff table on the dais, eyes briefly touching hers. She felt a flush of heat in her belly and jerked her eyes away, wondering if it was too late, or if she had already made a mess of herself. She did not look at him again.
So, the scenting made her clear-headed around everyone else… but had the opposite effect with him.
I updated my wee lil omega-verse lite fic.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/84228286
For an hour out of each day, Snape lets himself feel.
It’s a ritual. He casts protections around his quarters, stokes the fire. He changes into a dressing gown and pours himself a nightcap.
Then he sits in his overstuffed leather armchair by the fire, with the cushions worn in just the right places. He takes his first sip of his mulled mead. He closes his eyes and locates a certain box in his mind, one that is jostling and jumping about all day, trying to get his attention.
Edited to add: thanks for the encouragement! Keeps me going!
Professor Granger’s Third Annual Performance Review.
This cracked me up so much. The student reviews are golden.
I’d say that approximately 73% of the sex at hogwarts occurs in broom cupboards, and 24% occurs on desks or tables. These are highly scientific numbers I collected through “guesstimates”.
On desks!
I was reading a fic just now where the mmc was fantasising about sex with fmc and he pictured her… spread out … on a desk.
Even in fantasy, no soft cushioned bed allowed.
These couples will never discover the joy of bed springs and the degree to which they take so much effort out of the process.
Sure, sometimes there is a reference to a cushioning charm used on the desk or someone spreads a cloak out first.
But it still makes me cringe a wee bit each time.
I’ve had sex in weird places. Once my spouse and I did it on the washing machine just because the laundry room was the last unchristened room on the house. But I don’t think I’ve ever had sex on a desk.
When a bed is not available, a sofa, chairs, or even leaning against a wall all seem preferable to a desk. To me, in my uninformed muggle state.
For one thing, desks are a wee bit tall for the process.
But wixen love to bang on desks. I get it. I’ve learned. It’s just part of the fanon.
My brain is compiling a whole list of weird things about sex in fanfics. This is the one I’ve been noticing lately, but there must be many more!
Is it just me? Do lots of people have sex on desks? Is this a normal activity I’ve just missed?
Guys, I went and added back a bonus smutty chapter. Let’s pretend it was there all along, yeah?
The new smutty interlude is now Chapter 5.
There is rope.
Excerpt
“Who would like to try it first? Of course, Hermione, the goal is to restrain you, and Severus.” His voice dropped to a low pitch on the word restrain. “But perhaps you’d feel more comfortable watching someone else experience it first?”
Hermione nodded, though perhaps reluctantly. Her eyes were fixed on the rope in Giancarlo’s hands.
Giancarlo put one hand on Draco’s shoulder and pushed him downwards, uttering “Kneel” in a way that was both soft but also loud enough for everyone in the room to appreciate. Draco dropped down immediately, and Giancarlo instructed him to vanish his shirt and trousers. “You may leave your pants on, if you choose,” he said. “Assuming you are wearing any.”
argh - I don’t know how to fix this one.
I posted a less-inspired, less-weird chapter of my silly crack fic, because it felt overdue. And today I realized I had some fun, absurd, smutty elements I meant to include and forgot about (because I hadn’t checked me notes).
So I wrote up the funny smutty chunks today and now I don’t know where to put them.
Help!
(Thanks for the help. I did my best to manage it. The smut is now… inserted).
(With a hopefully not-confusing note)
Chapter 5 is up!
Having so much fun writing this!
Though I was in a panic this morning at having yo do some Plot! But then I enjoyed where it ended up :-)
Silly crack fic! If you have any tropes I must skewer or other characters I must bring in, let me know!
https://archiveofourown.org/works/82043456
Draco attacks the problem; Harry attacks Draco. Nothing goes as expected.
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“Draco nearly died hundreds of times as a child,” Harry said with awe. “It’s a pureblood thing. His parents threw him into an active volcano once just to see what he would do.”
(Anyone willing to alpha/beta/brit read in future, please DM!)
I’ve really gotta work on my posting techniques lol!
This should have been one chapter, but it is two. I do think things are starting to get very, very interesting-
This is my own weird version of omegaverse-at-hogwarts.
Check it out here:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/84228286
Paint-a-mort feels like its trying too hard. I’m planning to write a weak, frustrated portrait voldemort in a humorous fic.
Any name ideas?
Or other ideas I should include?
Thanks!
As a newish member of the community, I’ve only just trained myself to comment more often, because I’ve been told comments give life and I don’t want my favorite writers to die.
However, my comments are of the variety : “Enjoyed!” Or “So good,” whilst I now see that for many people, the comments themselves are an art form, with hilarious exchanges and sometimes recommendations, stalking, or hero worship.
Now I feel like an inadequate commentor and I’m back to being afraid to comment. Will I be judged as boring? Should I just eat at a table by myself?
Perhaps I should find an emoji and just do that for every comment. Saying no words can make one seem mysterious and deep, right? As if one’s feelings are too ineffable to say out loud?
I labeled this “circle jerk” to hide the fact that it is my true emotional journey. Will sarcasm save me the embarrassment of being vulnerable?
Are there fics where hermione is a literal pet ie cat animagus? I have to admit the “pet mudblood” theme is one of my favorites and I’d love to see it played out in different ways.
And I must be on a roll today, because I just posted an update to my humor/crack fic, Minerva Fights Back.
Chapter 4: The Trouble With Broom Cupboards
In this chapter, Harry and Draco show up to help fight the sex curse, and Draco learns something he didn’t know about all those broom cupboards he had sex in at Hogwarts.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/82043456/chapters/215886476
Thanks for checking it out!
Trying to wrestle this pair over into a f*** or die type scenario on AO3. It’s a weird-omega verse world.
Any feedback wildly appreciated.
Holp! Are there good subreddits or discords for workshopping or finding alpha/beta/brit readers?
I’m trying to move my fic along but the plot has tangled me up and now I’m drowning.
This is a fic where snape is treating hermione as a prisoner (starts with a brutal SA) but then it’s slowly revealed that it’s an act for voldemort and that once a week or so he restores her memories and helps her do research on horcruxes, then takes her memory and they return to a few more days of prisoner/captor status.
Also interested in other recs where snape is keeping hermione prisoner but secretly protecting or helping her
I keep seeing fics where the author forbids wattpad posting but no idea what that means.
Also - anyone know what a sloopy is?
Our installer recommends a five and says he sees the 7 have issues more often. Our house is very leaky, 1973 with massive windows, 3500 sqft in maryland. Just moved in in October so we are new to the house. $8k difference in price for the 7. Getting off oil (we spent about 2-3k for this year).
Would we be just as happy with the 5? Do those of you with 5s have issues with noise or capacity?
Thanks! It’s all new to us and we don’t know what we are getting