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

[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.