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Been playing around with dear Artbreeder for many weeks and *groans* it’s so good. Have tried to imagine what my fic’s MCs would look like for many months, and am slightly in love with these two.

Hermione Jean Granger X Severus Tobias Snape

#severus snape #hermione granger #severus x hermione #sevmione #snager #snamione #artbreeder #severus #Snape #Hermione #sshg

alinearthp-deactivated20250212

I’m back

saurilashen

moonychildxd

I HAD to draw him in that style

saurilashen

moderndayamymarch

one of my favorite things about the deathly hallows book is the revelation that snape and petunia knew each other. like if you asked someone in 1997, “hey which two characters from harry potter have longstanding childhood beef with each other”. I’m not sure anyone would’ve answered “harry’s bitchy muggle aunt and the mean potions teacher”. but it also makes total sense. like they are the two biggest haters.

moonlightdancer26

first of all thanks to my bff for sharing this post to me, second of all yeah I always found it so funny, especially how Petunia remembered Snape and Lily’s convo that she was eavesdropping on like 25/26 years ago and immediately recited what he said word-for-word in a conversation with her nephew. and when Harry asked her how she knew about the Dementors she brought Snape up and referred to him as “that awful boy.” Like you just know she still remembers him from time-to-time and goes “wonder what happened to that bastard who dropped a tree branch on me.” It was a shame they never reunited.

wookiecookiesfactory

Trying to unblock myself with a january baby

irenedalin

Fuck it

starn707

sleeping

ottogatto

Is it normal if I want to feel that chest... 😳 Such a handsome man!

snapeseverus

snape watering a plant

thecollectibles

HARRY POTTER 20th Anniversary Thai Edition - cover art by ARCH APOLAR

worfisproblematic-deactivated20

When English isn’t your first language, reading fanfics in your first language (if there are even any) becomes so much more embarrassing???? And sometimes I wonder why native English speakers don’t get that feeling when they are reading in their native language???

nianeyna

scrolling through the comments on this people with at least three separate native languages have chimed in to agree that English is the porn language. This… is amazing. I never knew.

audre-w

oh oui. tu m’étonnes.

manicpixiedreamgoalie

There is actually an interesting cultural/linguistic theory of explanation for this! I’m not a linguistics expert, just a person who likes learning languages, so my explanation will probably be a bit muddled, but I hope people find it interesting anyhow. You can read a relevant paper here; the authors of the paper call this phenomenon (or a phenomenon that’s very similar to it, at least) “emotion-related language choice theory,” but I don’t know if there’s a widely accepted term for it yet, despite the fact that people have been studying it for– I think close to 20 years? Quite a while, anyhow.

So basically, the cultural “naughtiness” of swear words/taboo words in your first language is something that’s very deeply ingrained– you might not hear these words at all in your early years, and if you do hear them there’s a good chance that there was some shame/reproach/anger involved if someone slipped and used them around you, or if your peers whispered them to each other on the playground to show how cool and grown-up they were. Also, people are generally very thoroughly versed in the complex nuances of how and when to use swearwords in their first language, and they fully understand the cultural weight of using these words to convey intense emotions.

When we’re reading, speaking, or writing in a non-primary language, however, we don’t bring all of that cultural baggage with us. For years linguists assumed assumed that it was easier to talk about highly emotional topics in one’s native language, because people generally feel more comfortable speaking the language(s) they’ve grown up with. A newer theory, however, posits that sometimes it’s actually easier to discuss these very taboo topics in a second or non-primary language, because we don’t have that culturally loaded sense of shame and emotional intensity weighing us down. Reading, for instance, smutty fanfic in a second language allows us to have a degree of removal from the topic at hand, which can be very liberating, because we get all the fun and excitement of reading smut with a great deal less socio-cultural nonsense.

(There’s another at least tangentially relevant thing here that I know even less about, which is a recently-studied mechanism wherein our brains basically refuse to fully translate non-primary language words with negative connotations all the way back to our native language, which lets us maintain a greater degree of distance from the negative thing, but I’ve been rambling for long enough, so I’m just gonna link the paper, and if people want to hear more about it I’d be happy to expound: link).

dianmz

Lol. Yeah. And different languages also affect how you behave. I am more outgoing and bold when speaking English; my stance is more “come at me bro. Fight me bro.” But when I speak my native tongue I become more reserved and think more…. logically?? Point is, if I read fanfic in my native language I’d be so embarrassed that I can’t even finish the first 500 words.

theredtrails

Oof big same - I don’t write a lot anymore and even less smut, but when I did it was in English! I’m not native so I’m sure my wording sounds clunky or weird at times but I can’t for the life of me picture myself writing porn in French. Definitely agree that it gives some distance, which can come in handy with guilt loaded topics such as sex - never forget that establishing oneself as a sexual individual is an opportunity not all of us have at all times (especially if you’re not cishet!). And I firmly believe that it is also true when it comes to enjoying smutty fics and the reason why I preferred them in English as a teen even though my English comprehension was shaky at best - that shit was freeing.

Also I definitely have a different voice in different languages, my voice drops several octaves in English and I’ve made the same observation with other people too!

Another thought I have is that consuming English speaking media every day and mostly exclusively has shaped my library of words, so much so that English would be my language of choice for writing fanfics because I know the words, the expressions, the tropes. It just becomes natural I guess?

chaotic-carnifex

Yeah, that last point. I can write about certain topics much better in English than I can in German, bc I read about them in English. Otoh, I have trouble explaining complex subjects in English if I only ever learnt about them in German.

kedroboiz-deactivated20221217

post hogwarts au

special operation: start/end

for the competition on the russian snager forum

sneverussape

somewhere in the slytherin dungeons on clear quiet holiday nights (when no children are around, of course)

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snapetober 2021 - old books

potions-and-potters

Dumbledore: Severus I’m still missing your photo for this year’s faculty newsletter

Severus: my apologies here it is

Dumbledore: you can’t even see half of your face. Maybe one less dramatic?

Severus: of course, headmaster.

Severus:

Dumbledore: I said less dramatic and preferably one where you’re not so alarmed

Severus:

Dumbledore: did you have a photoshoot or something

Severus:

Dumbledore: what no Severus you are not in a boy band what is this pose wait you’re not in one are y-

Severus:

Dumbledore: are those special effects

Severus:

Dumbledore: cool but still a no

Severus:

Dumbledore: dramatic and very fitting for you but you can’t have fanart as your faculty photo who even is your fan and why don’t I have fanart

Severus:

Dumbledore: bold choice going with the profile, I admit I didn’t think you’d go for it, but you can’t have a dramatic death quote on your photo either this is a school for children they still have hope at least until their first class with you

Severus: