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Title: Prince Family Portrait, 1975
Artist:
venturous

Media: pencil and photoshop
Inspired by: Family Obligations (Severus age 15, Eileen, G, gen) byesmestrella
Rating: G
Warning: sullen teen, family obligations
Artist's Notes: profound thanks to Gustave Courbet and John Singer Sargeant whose drawings and paintings inspired my characters.

Left to right: Eileen Prince Snape, Madam Prince, Phillip Prince and Severus Prince Snape

Prince Family Portrait, 1975

Current Mood: cheerful

The Founder's Gifts comm on LJ posted the masterlist today.

Here is the drawing and ficlet I made for it:

"Breaking Ground for Hogwarts"
Title: Breaking Ground for Hogwarts
Gift for: EVERYONE!
Artist: venturous 
Characters: Godric, Helga, Rowena, Salazar
Rating: G
Warnings: shirtless men, stony ground
Genres: gen
Artist's Notes:
I learned a lot researching 10th century Scots costume, namely, that attire was perfunctory and primitive in those early days, not the elaborate and generic 'medieval' one finds at say, Ren Faires. I looked at costuming for many a Macbeth, about the right time and place, and decided on basic roman-inspired garb that that could be readily made by the home seamstress.

Thanks be to the artists who made my figures possible:
Salazar inspired by a drawing by Francesco Primaticcio. Godric's torso from a drawing by Tiepolo, and Helga and Rowena from a sketch by Mantegna

(there is a wee ficlet after the art)


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Current Mood: relaxed

yikes, its been a busy summer. Portus, Terminus, art art art, and my job and family both trying to kill me. whew!!

So, here's a little recap of recent Ven artses, and things to come.

SUMMER ART LIST


hpdesmutathon  I was a pinch hitter, and drew -- Sit Up Straight, My Pretty Draco (NWS, sub!Draco, dom!Morag)

the_ass_fest -- my art, More Than Just Friends and my wonderful gift fic Truth Need Not Be Feared

founders_gifts - link to LJ comm, master list up very soon, so I can't show you my art just yet. It's a lovely small fest (join next time!) and I received a lovely gift of art, Determining Hogwarts

hp_summersmut - still posting, so you will have to guess what I did, for now, and I got a lovely gift fic, Comrades in Arms, a hot SS/LM postwar deflowering fic!

I was invited in June to join the daily_deviant !! I truly appreciate the honor and the opportunity. I now post art on the 27th of each month, and here are my first two DDs:
July: Anticipation kink:whipping warning sub!Snape

August: The Red Dress kink: Romantic Marriage, warning: Cross Dressing


Coming Soon!

Current Mood: sleepy

go take a look:

The World: HARRY'S TRIUMPH

Current Mood: accomplished

this journal is dedicated to fandom and art, but I must wail briefly about RL:
[cut for tale o' woe :]

Current Mood: aggravated

**flaps wings**

It has been one of my fandom goals to make it into the Snarry Games, ever since last year's Winter Art Games just blew me away. I am thrilled and nervous and excited and....  ready to set fire to some fabulous Snarry Art.

It appears I have some AWESOME teammates, and I'm fascinated to learn about doing this the team way.

Go Team Phoenix!!!

Current Mood: excited

My Live Long and Marry prize, which I won in the bidding on a fic fromiulia_linnea  arrived last night, the perfect treat to end a difficult week.

It's got heart, humour, smut and plot, and surprised me, in that wonderful way that fandom gifts seem to, but hitting several important intuitive sweet-spots, particularly about family peace-making and reconcilliation. I wont spoil it any further for you, go read it!

Title: Fits and Starts
Author: iulia_linnea 
Pairings: Snarry, others implied
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 8375
Summary: After the war, Harry and Severus achieve an understanding with each other in their own, imperfect way.

Disclaimer: This piece is based on characters and situations created by J. K. Rowling, and owned by J. K. Rowling and various publishers, including but not limited to: Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books, Raincoast Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.
Author's Notes: Thank you, </a></b></a>fbowden, </a></b></a>fodirteg, and </a></b></a>torino10154, for beta'ing. This fic is dedicated to </a></b></a>venturous, who won it by generously supporting marriage equality as a bidder in the livelongnmarry charitable event at LiveJournal. ♥

Fits and Starts


if you didn't follow LLAM, it was an LJ auction comm for multi-fandom fundraiser for marriage equality that raised OVER $50,000! I bid on several things, and sold a painting, still in development. Feel the love, it is really awe-some.

Current Mood: jubilant

One One's Knees, by Pir8Fancier, read with eloquent passion by raitala.

This is a wonderful treat. Probably the best H/D I have ever read. I love Draco in this: Slytherin through and through. Healer!Harry is one of my favorite tropes. pir8fancier doesnt flinch at imagining the consequences of the war, and H & D have some important discussion while they work things out. It even has two endings, depending on how soppy you want it! and, believe it or not, it's canon compliant.

Best of all, raitala reads to you in a lovely accent, and does a fine job of voicing each distinct character.

So do yourself a favor, and download this lovely story for your ipod.

The_ASS_Fest master list is up, with reveals on the many fine pics and art made to celebrate the next gen darlings.

I made a pencil drawing for auroraprimavera, HERE.

and there is a verison of it in colour HERE.

I have more reccs to come, but for starters, please read the lovely fic I received, The Truth Need Not Be Feared, by lire_casander

another one that was really great is A Wizards Guide to Pocket Dwelling, for which at the moment the link is not working.

For some pretty arts, go see

 In the Reeds, by draykonis

and Melmoe's lovely Puppies in a Heap

Current Mood: amused

Just to tempt you (or, put you off if you were expecting urban sophistication) here's a little tour of my happy little home, known as The Holy Unpredictable Manor:

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Spidermoth, Torino and I are cooking up a little slashy weekend thing. Here's a poll about it. Poll #2192 DC are Slash Retreat Oct 11-12
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

Would you attend a Slash Retreat in the metro DC area Oct 11-12?

What would you like to do?

This was an interesting one!
Your result for The Perception Personality Image Test...

NBPC - The Daydreamer

Go here to find out how to bid on FoxEstacado's radiant Lily Potter painting, a limited edition auctioned for charity

a few Terminus pics at Flickr

There is wonderful fic and art happening at Snapedom!

Snapedom Summerfest pairs artists and writers from Snape's Underground, who respond to each other's work. Much Snapey fic and art are the happy result. We still have another month of posting ahead, so check in regularly.

Go give our Underground writer and artist heros some love! Here is the Master List-so-far as of August 5:

Current Mood: cheerful

here's my lovely gift fic from the_ass_fest over on LJ, where you will find lots of stories and art about the next gen. It's fascinating to watch these new canon characters get fleshed out and explored and developed. Check out the boys, and in the process you will meet up with some old and new friends along the way.
This story features a wonderful Portrait!Snape who is both mentor and meddler, much to my delight. And, that last pairing, yeah, you read that right! *snortle*
Title: Truth Need Not Be Feared
Pairing(s): Albus/Scorpius, implied Harry/Draco, Harry/Ginny, Draco/Asteria, Dudley/Pansy
Summary: Maybe in five or ten yours and mine will meet again, straighten this whole thing up.
Rating: PG-13
Warning(s): Character death. Angst. Fluff. Swearing.
Word Count: 5591
Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended.
Author's Notes: The summary comes from The Fray's song Vienna, as well as the title, which I tweaked a bit to fit in this story. Also, there are some quotes from Deathly Hallows, which obviously I do not own.

the Truth Need not be Feared

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In all the excitement around Portus, I forgot to show off my pinch-hit drawing for the Death Eater Smut-a-thon, hpdesmutathon .

ART NOT WORKSAFE


Title: Sit up straight, my pretty Draco.
For: </a></b></a>hecticity
Pairing: Draco Malfoy/Morag MacDougal
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: femdom, bondage, nudity
Media: pen and photoshop

Current Mood: mellow

gakked from littleblackbow  -- what a great little meme!  (reposted due to pathetic coding errors  **hangs head**)



TOP FIVE FLIST CRUSHES!!

List five of your flist crushes! They don't have to have friended you back, or anything, and this is totally crushtastic, so not like trulurve or anything. And then you gotta say why.

Right?

Anyway, here are five of mine (don't get wierded out, my people, please!)

In no particular order:

littleblackbow  you're up first, since I was fanghurling your smutty art and you started sending me stuff and then I just fell in love with you. *blush*

esmestrella , for the loyalty and intensity of your devotion to Severus, I heart you.

spidermoth  , for not only making me look like a goddess, but for taking my hysterical fandom phone calls when some Snarry fic has reduced me to hysteria. She talked me down off the ledge when I finished IYAP, for this I remain eternally grateful. Not only that, but I introduced her to LJ/IJ fandom, and she has been gratifyingly obsessed.

alisanne  , I told you, it's the <i>lips</i>, guh. That, and you encouraged me to write hot Snarry!

droxy  . for obvious reasons. I only know her as stubble!Snape, but when 'he' put his strong hand on my waist I fell, and fell <i>hard</i>

You're right, 'bow, it's hard to pick the top five!I fanghurl so many writers and artists.

there is it, friends, my heart laid bare. Please be kind. **wibbles**