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.

[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!

[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.
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[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*

[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!