sch_addiction ([info]sch_addiction) wrote,
@ 2005-08-12 00:34:00
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Entry tags:maryx, mid-length, post-hogwarts, snarry

At the Heart of Things
Title: At the Heart of Things
Author: empathicsiren
Category: Snarry
Rating: R
Summary: HPSS slash. Written for hpfandom.com's "Famous Last Words" Competition. After being forced to bond five years ago, domestic tranquility does not reign in the Potter-Snape household. Thinking he's found something better, Severus leaves only to discover...

Warning: Mentions Mpreg

A nice and fluffy fic (as fluffy as Snarry can get without hugely OOC major characters). empathicsiren has a rather unique  take at the Harry/Snape dynamics. We see a very quiet, almost depressingly calm househusband Harry and as he is so uninstrusive, so low-key, he's hardly more than the background before which we see Snape's transformation.
I really liked the slow changes in Snape and the way he moves towards Harry, one step after the other, but every step a little more secure than the one before. It is not easy to describe a developement in such a slow pace without it being boring. You have before you one of the very positive examples.

Maryx


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(Anonymous)
2005-08-22 05:48 pm UTC (link)
This sucked raw eggs. Really.

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[info]sch_addiction
2005-08-22 07:11 pm UTC (link)
Dear Anonymous,

I deleted your first post as it was so similar to this one that I came to the conclusion that you inadvertently double-posted.

To be honest, we had expected a slightly different response when encouraging our readers to write their own reviews.

I'm not bothered by the fact that you did not like the fic - tastes are different and we'd want to cover a broad spectrum of of different perceptions of a fic, positive and negative.
What bemuses me is the fact how you decided to utter these negative feelings.
Your choice of words for one. I like the word 'suck', but it is far better placed in a NC-17 fic in combination with the words 'cock', 'Snape' and 'Harry'. I do however regard it as slightly impolite in a public journal that we want to keep open for everyone, including kids and grandmothers.
I also want to point out that your review was rather unfair towards the author of the fic. Again, I do not want to criticise that fact that you left a negative review, it's rather the way you did it. I think it would have been better and more helpful had you said why you disliked this fic so much, giving your reasons and backing them up with examples from the fic. Constructive criticism is usually appreciated by any author striving to improve his/her writing and her/his work.
Giving constructive criticism in a serious manner pointing out the good and the bad points of a fic in good language also lifts the reviewer far above the troll level of flames, showing that he/she's an intelligent person able to express their negative opinions without offending anybody.

At the very last I would ask you to please leave your lj name or at least some kind of signature when posting comments on our journal. We requested so in our post just this very morning. As we are always striving to improve this journal we certainly want to know who visits SCHAL, so that we can cater to our reader's needs.
On a more personal note, I don't know how you can post anonymously. I enjoy the contact to other people in this wonderful fandom so much, I think I would feel so left out if I wouldn't sign my posts.

I do hope that you will understand our reasons when we do not select your review to be copied into the main body of the post.

Yours,

Maryx

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