— The Thing Is, Ellen Bass
[text ID: to love life, to love it even / when you have no stomach for it]
“If not for the hastily cast silencing charm, all of Hogwarts would have heard the anguished wail that ripped from the man’s throat. A sound so visceral in it’s nature, that Hogwarts herself being the only witness to the cries- her very foundation shook, her stone walls groaning in protest as she too grieved a long side him, as a conviction, a perception built on old wounds not yet healed, shattered before the man’s feet. Harry, was not James.” -Snape seeing the parallels between him and Harry.
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☆ The Box [Teen & Up Audience - 6,273 w] by titC
https://archiveofourown.org/works/40227426
Summary: Years after she last saw Harry, Petunia and Vernon move back North. During the move, Petunia finds a mysterious box that she’s all but forgotten… it stirs too many memories and emotions back to life.
☆ Hypothermia [Mature - 19,583 w] by inarticulateimbecile
https://archiveofourown.org/works/42296031
Summary: Prompt #4: Sirius isn’t quite right when Harry goes to live with him. No one believes Harry, since Sirius acts fine when other people are around. No one, except for Snape.
☆ From Git in a Snit to Loosed and Seduced [Teen & Up Audience - 7,480 w] by titC
https://archiveofourown.org/works/42492951
Summary: The DADA teacher had to leave her post mid-year, and Minerva McGonagall has managed to convince Severus and Harry to cover the classes for the rest of the year. If only they talked to each other…
☆ Starling [Explicit - 43,620 w] by what_alchemy
https://archiveofourown.org/works/42456291
Summary: Harry Potter disappeared when he was five years old. Twenty-five years later, Severus Snape gets the same assignment from different masters: find and deliver the Boy Who Lived.
☆ Predetermined [Explicit - 9,379 w] by brightened
https://archiveofourown.org/works/42658827
Summary: Harry becomes obsessed with a popular romance novel. He jumps at the chance to meet the mysterious author of his favourite series, though he’s less than thrilled when he finds out the author is Severus Snape. Once he realises the novels are thinly-veiled fantasies about him, he decides to offer Snape some feedback.
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— Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, 21 July 1882
[text ID: What I want and have as my aim is infernally difficult to achieve, and yet I don't think I am raising my sights too high. I want to make drawings that touch some people.]