Monday Morning Antidote

[therealsnape]

Normally, I'm not much of a Monday morning person. But today started blissfully: three (yes, THREE new Minerva stories - winners, all of them.

I'd love to leave you one of those handy links that get you straigth to the story itself. Unfortunately I've an allergic reaction to my hands as a result of antibiotics, and something in my right wrist that feels as an inflammation of its own.

So please forgive me for getting you general directions - mouse clicking and the whole complicated copy-and-paste work is agony. In each case it's the most recent post on the journal, so click the username and you'll get there reasonably well, too.

kellychambliss posted "Still Waters", a Wilhelmina (Grubbly-Plank, need I say it?)/ Minerva story with large helpings of fish pie, chocolate gateau, and Amelia Bones. And it has illustrations by a talented young artist. It's a delight from start to finish.

lash_larue posted (hold on to your chairs, take a deep breath) a Minerva / Dobby story. For the faint-hearted: it's friendship. And a political statement on the position of Elves. And it has Mr. Toad. And it's chock-a-block with stunning oneliners.
She posted it to the marvellous new community minerva_fest. Go there, sign up if you haven't done so yet, enjoy this story.

For those who hadn't noticed yet: Minerva will be 85 this coming October, and the fest-community will celebrate that, but it's an ongoing feast there as well.

And finally acceb123 posted a Minerva/Snape that has it all: friendship, turning into a spectacular Grimmauld-place sexscene, some great comments on Albus ...

Go and have fun. Again, sorry for the lousy Portkeys, but I can only manage normal typing right now.

Comments

[tetleythesecond]

Oh yes to the recs! I'm off to re-read "Still Waters" right away -- well, you know already how much I love it.

Incidentally, was your comment to lash_larue's delightful fic screened, too, when you posted it? Mine is, and I wonder whether that's because only clicked on "watch this community" instead of joining it.

[tetleythesecond]

And sorry to hear that the hands haven't improved yet. Hope the wrist pain isn't what you fear it is.

[therealsnape.livejournal.com]

I guess my comment is screened, too. I can see it when I'm logged in, but if you can't, then it must be screened.
I did join the community, instead of just watching.
Right now, there are 4 comments: 2 from Kelly, 2 from me (that I can see). See no trace of your comment at all, strangely enough.

[tetleythesecond]

Funny...I can see yours and Kelly's but not mine. I'll try joining; perhaps that'll work. Or your comment was un-screened some time after you posted it.

[kellychambliss.livejournal.com]

It appears that comments/posting are moderated; I'm not sure why. I'll check with Vane (one of the other mods; she's the one who set up the comm).

[minervas-eule.livejournal.com]

Yes, it has been a very good Monday morning around here *gg*

But I am so sorry to hear about your hands....how awful....Gute Besserung!

[therealsnape.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the well-wishes, and glad you liked the recs!
How did the teenage-filled weekend go? Read somewhere that you survived, and that the teens were sorely disappointed in the amount of drunken revelry and debauchery that you mean staff allowed them. As they should be. Babbling band of baboons.
So I guess all was well?

[lash-larue.livejournal.com]

* Wishes fairy-kisses on your hands *

Sounds more than a touch uncomfortable, antibiotics are surely a two-edged sword. If your skin would tolerate it, those machines that melt wax for you to submerge hands in are fairly effective on inflamed joints, at least for a while.

Thank you for the shout-out on the story, and I hope you feel better soon. Ginny resents her friends being in pain.
L

[therealsnape.livejournal.com]

Ginny's a darling -- and so are you. Thanks for the well-wishes, and I'll remember the molten wax thing. It sounds ... interesting. But that's probably because I read kellychambliss story 'Truth Beyond', which is considerably hotter than molten wax (but it plays its part). On her journal, if you don't know it yet.
Don't read if you have to look calm and controlled shortly after.

[kellychambliss.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the recs, and let me join the chorus of commiseration for your hands. That really does sound painful -- as if being sick in the first place wasn't bad enough.

Do all antibiotics have this effect? Or could you try some other form next time? (The whole medicine-allergy thing is literally such a pain. I'm allergic to aspirin and ibuprofen, and paracetamol just doesn't work. So I understand the problem!)

I do hope you'll be able to find something without the side-effects. Sounds like a case of the cure being as bad as the disease.

*sending you virtual soothing ointments*

[therealsnape.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the commiseration! It's just this type that I react funny to. Sorry to end phrase on preposition.
Being allergic to painkillers must be dreadful indeed. What do you do when you have a headache? Suffer in stoic silence?
Thank god Paracetamol works for me.

Am going to see the doctor on Wednesday, to see if he can cure me from the cure. Other horrid side-effect: wine tastes funny. Now that I really won't live with for long.

[kellychambliss.livejournal.com]

Other horrid side-effect: wine tastes funny. Now that I really won't live with for long.

No, indeed. There are some things worth being suffered in silence, and some things not worth being suffered at all. Here we find the latter.

What do you do when you have a headache?

Luckily, I don't get many, but when I do, yeah, I mostly just tough it out. I have a paracetamol/codeine prescription for the non-tough-outable sort of pain; it still doesn't work well, but it's better than nothing. (You can get those pills without a prescription in the UK, which is why I become a drug-smuggler as well as a teabag-smuggler whenever I visit.)

I hope the doctor can be of help. At least you finish the antibiotics today, right? Good luck!

[therealsnape.livejournal.com]

At least you finish the antibiotics today, right? How sweet of you to remember! Let no-one say that internet friends aren't real - you're doing me a world of good with all that sympathy and attention! Thanks a million.

[pale-moonlite.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the recs! I somehow missed the Dobby story, even though I'm a member of minerva_fest.

I'm sorry to hear about your hands. I hope they'll get better soon!