Unbetitelt

[janeblackfyre]

You always hear the terrible ones were terrible babies. "Whe should have known. Even then we should have known". It's nonsense. Whenever he was with me, he was happy.

Game of Thrones / A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

[batwingsrosa]

„Aerion was a glad child once. He liked fishing.“🥹💔

[alicewiththreefingers]

Get up! New memes are in

[divinament]

OH OKAY FINN BENNETT, HE IS ALL YOURS.

[dana-del-fay]

The reason Baelor was so chill with Aerion up until the very end — well, it's obviously because he had witnessed Aerion's father grow up.

Maekar the Troublemaker, with his moodiness, and stubbornness, and constant fights, and let-me-kill-or-be-killed attitude, and his courage bordering on something unhealthy, and his inevitable accidents.

(Also with his appearance, which at some point suddenly morphed into the looks of an angry Valyrian god — to everyone's surprise; and an ability to somehow be borderline cross even in love; and his broad shoulders, and narrow hips, and long legs, and that positively slutty earring, and — I'm only a mortal and his brother, gods, help me.)

[theanvilsscribe]

ANYWAY, i'm glad Baelor loves Maekar so much. I'm glad Maekar was the last thing on Baelor's mind before he died. I'm glad that Baelor sent his own maester to Maekar before he even thought of sending his maester to Dunk or even himself. I'm glad that he turned a blind eyes to his brother's son and even joked about it with at the expense of their other brothers, it adds a lot more depth and complexity to him outside of being a plain toast goody-two shoes that people love to project when talking about him. It makes him multifaceted.

I'm glad Baelor would die for Maekar and vice versa, I'm glad that the two are canonically close and that he loves and cherishes Maekar and Maekar loves and cherishes him. I'm glad that Maekar gets to be a decent king that Baelor never got to be, adding to the guilt he feels, and fashions his crown to remind him of baelor, I'm glad that Maekar dies in a similar way to the brother who loved him unconditionally, almost symbolizing that it is Baelor calling him home, even metaphorically giving him the final blow so they can be together for eternity. I'm glad they are more tethered and paralleled to one another despite one being living and the other being dead for years, and that Baelor haunts Maekar. People can be as angry as they want but Baelor will love Maekar.

[ka4lina]

Fem! Maekar Targaryen

I think I can understand why she has 6 children 👀

[maekarart]

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[marauders4evr]

Some Miscellaneous Reasons Why Severus Snape Should Have Been A Vampire: An Incomplete List:

Note: I’m well-aware that this theory is as old as SugarQuill, Wrock, and Ron-is-Dumbledore (nobody talks about that one anymore). I know that everything I’m about to say has been said by fans before but damn it, this is less about “what ifs” and more about “Jo missed so much potential”:

He literally looks like one! 

Tall, gaunt, black hair, black robes, scary…

There were bat metaphors everywhere! What was the point of all of the bat metaphors if you’re not going to make him related to a bat!

It would explain why Voldemort even recruited him in the first place, like why would he have otherwise recruited a half-blood? (Yes, Tom was a half-blood but nobody else was supposed to know that!) It seems kinda dumb to recruit a blood status your evil group is trying to scorn. But we know that he was recruiting creatures. Boom! A logical answer!

There are dozens of professors at Hogwarts during the 1991/1992 schoolyear and Snape is immediately suspicious of the one that canonically smells like garlic? That is just hilarious!

Hey, come to think of it, does it ever say why Quirrell smelled like garlic? Was that just Voldy’s rotting flesh or…what was up with that?

One of the books Lockhart allegedly wrote was Voyages with Vampires and can you just imagine Lockhart sitting up at the staff table being like, “Oh, yes, of course I can detect a vampire from a mile away, more potatoes, Professor Snape?” all while Dumbledore is having the absolute best time of his life.

THE BAT METAPHORS!

THE BANTER BETWEEN REMUS AND SNAPE

“Well, well, Lupin, out for a little walk in the moonlight are we?”

“Are you quite all right, Professor Snape, you seem a bit batty?”

AND IT’S CANON THAT REMUS MAKES THEM WRITE AN ESSAY ABOUT VAMPIRES BUT JUST IMAGINE IF:

“Professor Snape made us write an essay on the signs to identify a werewolf.”

“……..Did he now? Well, class, turn to page 395. Today, we’re going to be talking about werewolves.”

“But Professor Lupin, sir, I thought we were going to study hinkypunks?”

*Remus clearly trying to force a hinkypunk back into its cage* (Trust me, Moony, coming from someone who played POA PS2, I feel ya.)

“Oh?”

CAN YOU IMAGINE JUST HOW MANY TWILIGHT MEMES WE COULD HAVE MADE IF REMUS WAS A WEREWOLF AND SNAPE WAS A VAMPIRE?

NOT TO MENTION THE FREAKING BAT METAPHORS!

[abyssalwyrm0]

I see some people saying that aside of all students hating Snape not even the professors liked him.

Well, first of all: by what was shown the slytherins didn't have a problem with Snape, and Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff weren't explored enough to we have a clear, general opinion of these houses about him. Second; Charity Burbage called him her friend in her last moments, and while some could argue it was in the heat of moment as she was desperate to save her own life maybe Snape had a good relationship with some Hogwarts staff members. Despite being a brooding, dysfunctional adult (love this guy).

[dufferpuffer]

In general we don't see anyone take much of an issue with him.

Adults seem to have quite a bit of respect for him. You'd think, since he's taught every child in Britain for over a decade (not to mention all adults in their 20s and hitting their 30s) there would be widespread distaste for the man if he was generally disliked.

Kids, parents and young adults all have experience with him - if he was horrible surely he would be a bit of a generational meme. People wouldn't trust him because they have bias against him, even from just hearing from a friend how awful he is to their kids.

Hogwarts would surely be lacking in kids taking Potions as a NEWT because students will be turned off from the subject, even if he was 'scary' enough to push them into getting decent OWLs. (pretending being scary is something that actually works on most kids.)

But we don't see this. Kids, generally, don't show much issue with him beyond him being strict and a bit of a brat.

They aren't scared of him - they'll speak up against him when he is being an arse. Percy doesn't warn Harry Snape was mean, biased or unfair - even when commenting on Quirrel being nervous around him. He just says Snape wants his job. (I'd even say his mention that Snape likes the Dark Arts was praising him: Snape wanted the Defense position because he knew an awful lot about it. It'd be weird for Percy the Prefect to put down a professor to a first year.) Harry himself thinks Snape marks fairly - even to him. His class reaches a higher-than-average standard of work, Umbridge even says so when trying to pick issues with him. We don't see a NEWT course directly but we see the NEWTs class going into 1996 is well populated. While Ron and Harry may have only scraped in due to Slughorns lesser standards and didn't have their books, there were a good spread of people who had made it and were prepared for it.

Harry and Neville are exceptions. Prophecy children he has complex guilt over, one arrogant, the other pathetic - are his Achilles heel.

We don't see any of the Hogwarts staff dislike or distrust him. Hagrid, despite Severus being a Slytherin (which he has a clear bias against) speaks in absolute defense of him. We don't see any of the Order dislike or distrust him. Remus outright says he neither likes nor dislikes Snape personally, but is thankful he took such good care of him. Minister Fudge has good chats to him, trusts him - he loses that when Snape has a mental breakdown, but before that he doesn't seem to have bias against him. (not that it counts for much) Despite having every single one of their children go through Snape's classes, and Bill apparently not liking him - Arthur and Molly Weasley seem positive about him. Molly especially is excited about having him around and demands he be called 'Professor' Snape. Everyone is shocked at Snape's betrayal, even those who knew a bit of his past.

It seems like he is a non-issue. He is strict, young kids may not like that - but as they get older they mellow out and respect his skill and trust his competence and overall fairness. There is no sign of people in general thinking Snape is awful. There is far more instances of people showing him respect and defending him, even people he has upset previously.

[omegasgrin]

Slytherins are written to be the opposite of what jkr considers “good” and “appropriate”.

You know what that means?

happy pride

[batwingsrosa]

So i had this headcanon. (I made myself cry.)

The first time Minerva breaks is shortly after the battle. She breaks under the weight of it all.

The loss of her students, the loss of the children she raised, the loss of friends she new for decades.

The loss of one of her colleagues.

A man she had thought a traitor, the murderer of one of her closest friends.

A man she had learned to hate in the last year.

A man who had been one of her closest friends.

A man who had been a boy once.

A boy she had failed like so many others.

The second time Minerva breaks she didn‘t think anything could break her anymore.

It has been a long time since the battle. And all the deaths that came with it.

It had been a normal day for her until she looked at her calendar.

It has been 16 years since that day.

And she realizes.

It has been 16 years since his death.

She has lived without him now for as long as she had known him. She had lived without his sarcastic remarks and his snarky attitude and his gloomy presence for as long as she had lived with him at this castle. Sat by his side in the great hall or in the staff room. Made bets on the quidditch matches with.

She has lived without her friend for as long as she had known him.

And Minerva breaks.

[danadiadea]

Speaking of the cat, imagine if we used the same argument about James that people use when talking about Severus and Neville's toad?

"James Potter was an animal abuser! His son almost accidentally killed their cat and he thought it was hilarious!"

We actually kinda should, lol. I think it shows the main difference between Snape and James pretty clearly.

Snape does crappy things for the reasons decent, normal people do crappy things sometimes – lack of recourses, misinformation, misunderstanding of some more complicated cause-and-effect connections, disfunctional emotional responses, conformism, use of flawed means to achieve reasonable goals, etc. Those things are still bad and can be really harmful, one should take responsibility for them of course, but it's very healthy and humane to have empathy in those cases. We all are like that occasionally – people aren't perfect, and dehumanising it is counterproductive. James does crappy things because he is sadistic, he thinks that others' suffering is funny and he's entitled to cause it. This doesn't deserve any fucking empathy, that's an indicator of an extremely repulsive person, especially if they had absolutely everything in life for healthy development.

Nothing would've happened to Trevor, and Severus didn't treat him with any cruelty (Sev using a tiny spoon to feed unusually well-behaved in his palm Trevor and making him a baby Trevor is sooo cute actually). The party who was treated unfairly is Neville, not Trevor, but that's a systemic problem, not a Snape-specific one. Using animals as test subjects is evidently extremely common at Hogwarts, testing really dangerous stuff on the students themselves - actual human kids - is not a big deal as well. Severus is the kind of person who:

1) Thinks that stress is a good motivator;

2) Prioritises physical safety over psychological comfort, and Neville is continuously dangerous to himself and everyone else in the classroom.

Severus was studying himself and then teaching in the environment where pressure, threats and even putting children in direct danger as a punishment were normalised among the stuff, he didn't have a pedagogical education, so as one of the youngest professors teaching one of the most dangerous subjects against his will while battling his mental health problems and huge workload, I'm not sure he was exactly fitting to lead a revolution in how Hogwarts approaches child psychology. We can say that the way he treated Neville had been often unfair and mostly ineffective, but not a single person is going to be fair and effective at all times, especially in highly stressful circumstances.

James finding his infant son almost killing a cat funny is just a sadistic sense of humour, and this is actually way, way closer to what knackers do than using Trevor as a motivator so that Neville counts how many ingredients he puts in his cauldron. James' behaviour stems from his cruelty – it is purposeless.

It's also extremely irresponsible parenting because Harry was ONE YEAR OLD, and they only understood they have to watch their son FLYING (!) and give him a safe space to do it after he almost killed the cat and smashed the vase??? Who the fuck does that to a 1yo kid???? Sometimes I think Harry got really lucky those dumbasses had been killed, cause he might've not made it as The Boy Who Lived with parents like Jily.

[daemontargaryenwhore]

Im a snape hater till i die but james was definitely a big part of why he turned out the way he did.They were both awful, but people only ever see one side or another.

[isroji]

I LOVE the fact that Snape fans are not the ones mad about his possible casting. Even if some of us (like me) don't like it that much because we wanted an UGLY Snape (please give me my scrawny man with a huge nose and crooked teeth), we don't give a fuck about his race.

You will see me laughing at every marauders fan post whining about the idea of being called racist.

[inthemoodforblastt]

"James Potter was a racist" era is coming and i'm not gonna complain about it.

[batwingsrosa]

I love this. I love hearing all the marauder fans whining about it.

Like stalking, torturing and sexual harassing someone is okay apparently, but racism is where you draw the line???

I hope they seem racist. I hope James Potter and Sirius Black are depicted as the horrible people they are. I sincerely hope so.

[supersparkiss]

"Now with the new series, it's going to be hard to defend the Marauders."

Nobody's forcing you to be a fan of those losers; it's up to you if you like putting yourself in a difficult position.

[inthemoodforblastt]

It’s always been hard to defend a bunch of aristocratic white kids who bullied others out of boredom, people just didn’t care before because they’re classist as hell. Now that they can’t play at being TEMU social justice warriors anymore, it hits a bit closer to home.

[severuwus]

"Snape called Lily a slur in the middle of being humiliated by his bullies as a reaction to his best friend almost cracking a smile at his expense! How could Snape! He's the worst."

The same people ignoring this scene in TDH: