Two recs and a whinge

Just in case there's anyone on the flist who doesn't follow minerva_fest on a daily RSI-from-refresh-clicking base, here are two recs. I'm rather late to join the rec'cing fun, but my, it's busy. A Minerva story a DAY! I'm used to about one every few weeks, and a rec-worthy one every month or so. Keeping up with the reading-and-commenting is quite a job.

( Whinge under the cut )

But let's have some fun as well. After all, life, or at least LJ, has its compensations, and well-written Kittyhawk definitely is one. So is Amelia/Minerva. And here's a story that has it all: The Thermodynamics of the Moka Pot. It's a completely believable, beautifully written story of Minerva and Rolanda, Minerva and Amelia, Minerva and the Moka Pot, Rolanda and her Broom, and much more. And it has a red-hot sex scene. And a stream of invective that'll have you scream with laughter. Merlin-in-Lavender, indeed!
Stunningly well-written, all of it.

One teaser: Amelia Bones was united with her job in blissful matrimony. Everything else was affairs.

And then there's another one, The Conference.
It has it all: the endless meetings, the insufficient breakfast buffet, the rooms with matching curtains, the pointless "discussion parts", and my two favourite INTJ's to enjoy it.

Teaser: "Look at them! They'd kill me! Or worse, talk to me." Sums it up. And no, it wasn't a walking dinner, but poor Severus still suffered.