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Welcome to snapenews - The Severus Snape Newsletter

Membership is closed to all except the editorial staff. To watch the newsletter and see it on your friends page, just friend the community or click here!

This is a fandom newsletter for anything and everything to do with Severus Snape from JKR's Harry Potter series. It provides links to gen, het, and slash fanfiction, fanart, and poetry featuring the man himself as well as anything else that the editors think may be of interest to Snape fans. Discussions, rants, and meta about Snape are also covered.

The watcher journal for this newsletter is

snape_reporter. If you would like you or your community to be added to our watch list, please email snapenews@gmail.com. If you are friended by

snape_reporter, please do not add it back.

There are mirror communities set up on four journaling sites. The links are as follows:

Snapenews on LJ
Snapenews on GJ
Snapenews on IJ
Snapenews on JF

We hope to soon be cross-posting to all four sites, but we are still discussing how we wish to go about this and evaluating the most efficient way to keep on top of all the Snape-centric news. Keep an eye on the comms for updates from the editorial staff.

This is not a rec's list. Whilst the editors will not include anything that has appallingly bad spelling and grammar or is blatant Mary-Sue/Gary-Stu fic etc., there aren't enough hours in the day to read every single Snape story. Unfortunately. However, the editors may not always have time to read every single fic that is included, so pay attention to warnings and read at your own risk. ;-P

Community Information

1. Staff

Original Chief Editor:

quasi_hayley

Current Editorial Staff

Monday:

lesyeuxverts00
Tuesday:

rm
Wednesday:

cardigrl
Thursday:

bewarethesmirk
Friday:

bethbethbeth
Saturday:
Sunday:

wonderfulwrites

2. If you have any news/fics/art/whatever that you'd like to share with

snapenews, just email snapenews@gmail.com! As long as it's Snape-related and follows the Submission Guidelines, we'll include it!

3. Affiliates

hermione_news

daily_snitch

sshp_prophet

obhwf_weekly

quibbler_report

hpgw_otp

If you would like to be an affiliate of

snapenews, email snapenews@gmail.com.

Submission Guidelines

Locked posts: We will not link to any friends locked posts. If you wish for your post to be included in the report, you must unlock it for at least seven days. Occasionally, posts may become locked after they are linked. This cannot be helped, but a simple comment letting us know will suffice and the link will be removed. We will always respect the wishes of someone to have a link (to their journal and/or a post by them) removed.

Communities: We will announce new communities one time, regardless of whether they have open, moderated, or closed membership. After that, please go to

community_promo,

hp_promo, or

hp_promotions to pimp your community. A "new" community is considered one that is less than one month old and has never been included in

snapenews. All new communities announced should be Snape-centric in some way.

Challenges: We will link to challenge sign up and prompt claiming posts, but will not link to reminders of challenge due dates. Challenges must be going on for at least two weeks. Every week

snapenews will announce the new challenge at

snape100, but that is the only exception. We will try to only announce Snape-centric challenges, though the occasional general HP fest may be linked to if the editors feel enough Snape fic and art will result from the fest.

Pairings:

snapenews will only cover a very limited amount of Snape/Harry and Snape/Lupin, as these pairings have newsletters of their own. Respectively:

sshp_prophet and

snupin_prophet.

Discussion, Meta, and Rants: We will link to any discussions, questions, meta posts, and rants that are specifically about Severus Snape (or any pairings involving him). We will need the most help from our watchers with this area, as it would be nearly impossible to catch everything.

Note about rants: As long as the rant is directed at something fictional (i.e. a particular fanfiction cliché or a fandom/canon issue) we will link to it. If it is a rant directed at a particular person and/or their work, we will not.

Recently Recommended: We will link to fics and art of any genre and/or pairing in this section that has been recommended at least three times on LiveJournal. When sending us information about a fic or art to be recommended, please include all important information about the fic or art (title, author/artist, pairing, rating, and warnings) as well as the three links to where it has been recommended. WIPs may be recommended more than once if at least five chapters have been posted since the last time it was included.

Fic Searches: We will only link to fic/thematic searches when they're for a rare pairing and/or for a specific theme. For example, we will not link to general requests for Snape/Hermione fics or post-HBP fics, but we will link to requests for Snape/Hermione fics that have religion as a theme, or a request for a specific Snape rare pair (i.e. Snape/Hooch).

Rec Posts: All rec posts must have at least five recommendations in them, and the recs must be for a Snape rare pair or a themed list. For example, a list of someone's favourite Snape/Harry fics would not be linked to, but recs of Snape/Harry A/U fics set in a non-magical world would be.

RPGs: We will not link to RP Communities or requests for players. Please send those to

hprpsearch,

daily_snitch,

hp_promo,

hp_promotions, or

hogwarts_today.

Icons and Graphics: We will link to any batch of icons and/or graphics that are just about Snape and/or pairings with Snape. Multi-fandom posts will not be linked to. There should be a minimum of 10 Snape icons and/or 5 wallpapers, headers, banners, etc. in order for the post to be linked (though this number is somewhat flexible). If there are other non-Snape graphics in the post, the post may still be linked as long as they are all Harry Potter related and one would not have to scroll too far to see the Snape-related icons/graphics on the page.

Disclaimer: The editors at

snapenews reserve the right to reject any submission, if we feel that the poster is trying to circumvent our rules or if the post is detrimental to

snapenews and fandom in general.

Other HP Newsletters

General:

daily_snitch

hogwarts_today

quibbler_report: A rec letter

Character Specific:

darklord_news

hermione_news

longbottom_wkly

Pairing Specific:

snaco_prophet: Snape/Draco

snupin_prophet: Snape/Lupin

sshp_prophet: Snape/Harry

rs_prophet: Remus/Sirius

hd_prophet: Harry/Draco
rlhp_prophet: Lupin/Harry