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stungunbilly mentions:
I am increasingly of the opinion that anti-pairing and/or anti-slash etc. rants are really a plaintive cry for more stories that suit a person's taste.

which kinda. . . yeah. ::covers face with hands::

so in repentance I answered the request for Snape/Neville...

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Snape knows why he's at Hogwarts, and it's not because of Neville. Though it sometimes feels like it.

He is as frightening to the Gryffindors as he can make himself to be and, as he looks at the spoiled-soft children of Death Eaters whom he made as slow with advantage and indolence as he can get away with, he hopes it is enough. He thinks of the shell-shocked look in Neville's eyes, aged like those of trama-ward veterans, and thinks that the common decency that still somehow survives in this Longbottom man-child is worth saving.

Neville's fear is gratifying, untainted by scorn or. disgust; there was none of for once. Snape finds his eyes following him, to check that... To check, he tells himself.

Snape realizes as he watches Neville struggle his way through the crowded paths of Hogwarts, those made of his peers and those made from the legacy of his parents, that Neville has never seen victory without sacrifice.

It rings familiar.

It would be the theme for the War.

Sacrifice, Snape thinks, and looks down at where his left forearm would be, had it been still attached. He wonders who will teach Potions next, and he drags his gaze up to the Headmistress to explain his letter of resignation.

"Nonsense." Mcgonagall tuts, with a twinkle in her eye. Snape wonders if it's passed down with the position. She pulls out some parchment, "We'll just give you an assitant, another pair of hands to handle the cutting and heavy lifting."

And before he knew it the forms were signed, the agreement sealed, and he opens the door to find Neville there.

They must be kidding, Snape thought.

Neville looked up at him, the boy had grown but not so high, and said quietly, "My hands have steadied since the War." And he brought the potted ambrosia foward. "I noticed you've lacked some in your stores." And he smiled.

No victory without sacrifice, Snape thinks. And even though it feels strange on his face, he slightly smiles back as he lets Neville in.

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_{in flower language: ambrosia = love returned}

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Watched the Secret Window trailer and. ::stares off into middle-distance:: whoa yeah. sleep tousled Johnny? anyday of the week thank you please may I have somme more?

and his voice? dear. lord.

(many thanks to suffire for the link)

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...and once again ponderosa121's left me gaping with her Spike (Cowboy Bebop) and her Sands (OUaTiM).

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and this is one of the cutest pics...well, if you like white mice.

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This is *so* worth checking out:

King of Hearts by lassiterfics

It's Murder By Numbers fic and it states:
About the movie Murder By Numbers, CM has this to say: "murder by numbers is the slashiest movie ever. well, maybe with the exception of fight club, but minus the whole desperately wanting to fuck yourself bit."

Having seen the movie I will fully attest that, yes, it's probably one of the slashiest things ever. This is partly because the guy who played Richard did a Ben Hur (ie. played it assuming a homosexual relationship without bothering to tell the other actor...I kid you not, and it works.)

This is an opposite to my rec Te's fic Other People's Problems in that you *don't* necessarily need to know who the characters are before you head into the fic. It's a total characterization fic of the two boys, only the description's in the actions and the actions are in the descriptions and whoa but that's possibly *the* most laden kiss I've chanced upon, in terms of how much of *who* the boys *are* comes out from it.

In terms of backstory: Richard (popular bully and playboy) and Justin (reclusive geek) were two very opposite boys who kills a woman just to prove they could get away with it and to show how much freedom they had from society's rules.

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tiny tiny quibble here, just from a movie buff who wants to show off the fact she's read Vito Russo's Celluloid Closet:
it's not a Spartacus he pulled off, haha. It's a Ben Hur. :D Charles Laughton and Gore Vidal (the writer of the screenplay) discussed the homosexual subtext and decided to play it up without bothering to tell Charleton Heston. :D So far as I know, the obvious homosexual subtext in the Laurence Olivier-Tony Curtis-Kirk Douglas interaction was deliberate in Spartacus.

If I'm wrong of course I'd love to know more. And I'd really love to see Murder by Numbers now. Thanks for the rec.

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oops! you are *quite* right, it *was* the one with Laughton and Gore Vidal, fixed it, and thank you so much for pointing that out!!

And Murder by Numbers is...yeah. You know that bit with the face-touching and the hair being put back behind the ear in the fic? That's canon, and the boy does it SO MUCH. Besides with the other things in it and it makes you almost totally ignore Sandra Bullock whenever she appears on the screen because you're impaitient to find out what's going on with the boys...