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HIATUS NOTICE 1/23/25
avid reader | chaotic writer | enthusiastic cheerleader
I'm Danni! She/her, 30s, longtime (and forever) Snarry-lover, rarepair enthusiast, and astrology fanatic. Feel free to reach out, I love to chat! (Warning: I chat a lot and am also awkward; no one's perfect, okay?)
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I think it is IMPERATIVE to Snape's characterization that he grew up destitute in a muggle neighbourhood but his mummy made him wear robes. And that he wore muggle trousers with those robes. Like it's foundational to understanding him (especially if wizard kids were already starting to dress more muggle by the 70s.)
all of my writing is actually just thinly-veiled fantasy about being seen at your worst and still being loved
Comfy Snape 💜
A toast!
The Ministry signs a treaty with the Death Eaters against Albus’ will. It isn’t surrender, but it may as well be.
By Andrés Kal
I just read your snarry fic Contempt on ao3 and I'm really deeply impressed. From the beginning,yes, and more and more so as the story goes, and I just love the way you ended it.So much that I want to put my best effort to try to translate it into my first language, Chinese. Will it be ok? I'm not sure if it's okay,the way I put this and that it's been 4 years since you posted it,plus English might not be natural enough for me to communicate without any flaws, so apologies in advance and I think you are really brilliant！hope everything is well there :)
Hello! Thank you so much! ☺️ Contempt remains my favorite of everything I’ve ever written, and I would be so, so honored to have you translate it! Just be sure to link it in the Inspired By section if/when you’re ready to post it! Thank you so much for reading and for reaching out. 💖
”I have this artistic idea but not the skills to achieve it to the standard I want.”
congrats! Now you have a motif! A recurring theme! A focus for your art! Something to haunt you!
Seventeen still lives of dandelions? Three hundred poems about grief? A sketchbook dedicated to your grandmother’s house? Two books trying to unravel the complexities of familial relationships?
Don’t let the fear of it not being perfect on the first try stop you from being Weird About It!
Please view Hokusai's gradual working towards The Great Wave Off Kanagawa, over a period of 39 years.
An early exploration of the themes Hokusai would keep coming back to is Spring in Enoshima, done in 1793 when he was 33. The wave is small and there are no boats, but Mt Fuji is clear in the background, and Enoshima is in Kanagawa, so we are clearly beginning to work towards something here.
A second pass, eleven years later in 1803 when he was 44. The title of this one begins to get more familiar: The View of Honmoku Off Kanazawa. It has a towering wave over a smaller boat, but Mt Fuji is not present, and the boat is considerably larger and has a sail. But the feeling of danger in the wave and the smallness of the boat are here, and of course the general composition is definitely recognizable.
This is A View Of Express Delivery Boats, done in 1805, merely two years later at age 46. Here we find the wave and the boats almost exactly as we'll find them in The Great Wave Off Kanagawa, though Mt Fuji isn't present, and the location is uncertain. And it's a good picture! The wave is threatening, the boats are small -- but the feeling of "ocean" isn't really there yet, is it? It's unlikely this picture would have become a classic for the ages. But that's okay, there's still time.
And here we have it, a full 26 years later, done by Hokusai in 1831 at the age of 72. The Great Wave Off Kanagawa, one of the most recognizable pieces of art in the world. The boats are there, the mountain is there, the wave is there, and the FEELING is there. He did it! He reached the apex of his ongoing motif and theme!
Or did he? Because the whole point of a motif is not that you're striving to get to the perfect version of it, the one idealized image you carried in your head all along, and when it is done, you are also done. Hokusai is on record at the age of 73 saying he'd only just begun to feel like he was learning how to draw things properly, and that "if I keep up my efforts, I will have even a better understanding when I was 80 and by 90 will have penetrated to the heart of things. At 100, I may reach a level of divine understanding, and if I live decades beyond that, everything I paint — dot and line — will be alive." He had drawn The Great Wave, but he didn't believe he was finished -- he thought that he was still just beginning to get started.
And he wasn't finished with his ocean motif, either. Please check out his Mt Fuji At Sea, done in 1834 at the age of 75.
It's all there; Mt Fuji, the ocean, the wave. The boats are gone, but replaced with birds, flying with the wave instead of fighting against it. It's not as famous as The Great Wave Off Kanagawa, but that's not what motifs are for -- each successive work does not have to surpass the previous in terms of success, especially in terms of external success. They're there for you to keep playing with, keep remixing and re-experiencing, for as long as you think you have something to say.
I also want everybody to know that Google and most of the internet think that all of those paintings bar the last one are called "The Great Wave Off Kanagawa", so I had to do a sort of middling deep dive just to find their actual names. And then I was like "I don't think those translations are very accurate", so I went on a second quest to retranslate them, which was particularly difficult with painting three (A View Of Express Delivery Boats) because for some reason he titled that one entirely in hiragana, and it's all archaic words that were very hard to chase down without their corresponding kanji. Google suggested "the push-off is a transportation route", which wasn't particularly helpful.
All of which is to say that I probably spent a bit too much time on all of that, but it was fun; and at least I know what those paintings are called now.
I made a Scribbledy Snape 🤍
Dawn breaks over the Rocky Mountains, northern Colorado.
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It never occurred to me how bitchy “we didn’t even kiss” would sound getting pinged to Ilya’s phone.
Great sex man but you forgot to kiss me. 2 stars.
Why have I never thought about it this way before? Holy shit I love this. Two stars, we don’t even kiss :/. Ilya would actually reschedule his flight to go hunt him down and get his rating changed.
I’m imagining a fic where Shane keeps a notes app ranking of their hookups (kind of like that one where he keeps a secret diary) and Ilya discovers he’s been ranked 2 out of 10 for that one and loses his mind.
Or like they’re joking around flirting via text over he summer and Ilya’s like “haha it was the best sex of your life though, be honest” and Shane actually hits him with the honest scoring of their hookups thus far. Which Ilya thinks is a joke that’s not very funny but then quickly realizes Shane is being serious. And he loses his actual mind.
Maybe a version where it’s one of those Reddit threads where girls are describing the sex they’ve had with Ilya, which Ilya obviously reads, and then he discovers what must be Shane’s review and again, flips out. Also he’d stalk Shane’s Reddit and find the most boring fucking posts about protein powder and Canadian politics.
what r some of the best heated rivalry fics you’ve read i have become desperate for recs lol (yes i am up to date on frequently secretly fond of each other and obsessed with it lol)
oohhhhh well first of all thank u for the fic love!!! and second of all what a good question, i am a whore for good writing and these are the ones that come to mind first!!
Gatorade Galas & Moscow Mules by toraten - 34k, E
anyone who's reading the authors notes in frequently secretly fond of each other already knows that this fic blew my mind lmao. post-s1 fic that i kinda wish the show would base season 2 on lmao
In the Sound of Bells by villavona - 3k, E
short but very powerful and well written, set during sochi olympics if they hooked up there, with ilya childhood lore that i Loved
Alligator Bites Never Heal by flawlessassholes - WIP, 23k, E
ilya gets a bad injury and recuperates at shane's place. the writing in this fic really entranced me
as reliable as the sun by astrolesbian - 7k, T
set over their time at the cottage, them learning to fit into each other's spaces, really lovely character voices
something you can fix by some1_around - 29k, M
shane is outed while ilya is away in russia after his dad dies. there was a scene early on in this fic that has stuck with me soooo much ever since i read it. even tho how shane is treated through a lot of this is painful ;-;
Sit Tight, I'm Not Far Out From You Tonight by hollanoved - 16k, E
this is more smut-forward than most of what i read but it was SO well written with a lot of fascinating character work, and did an amazing job of playing out something (shane in lingerie) without falling onto any infantilising/problematically feminising of shane, which is a thing i hate lmao
lay all your love on me by defcontwo - 7k, M
a great take on hayden finding out by walking in on shane and ilya at the cottage!
decorate my heart by beetlesandstars, kryptonian - 15k, E
ilya unexpectedly ends up spending the christmas break with shane. this one is just so well written
okay those are all the ones i'm thinking of for now but i hope you enjoy!!
okay of all the stupid things ai is used for i truly cannot wrap my head around why it appears to have replaced the search engine for a lot of people. it is functionally identical to using a search engine except sometimes it lies to you. and you guys prefer this because..??????
I find it fucking hilarious to think that Ilya was all geared up to gently coax the nervous ingenue Golden Boy into bed, probably even willing to settle for some heavy petting since he came on so strong in the showers and he didn't want Hollander to bolt like a scared rabbit,,, only to be confronted full force by Shane Hollander Super Slut who needed Ilya's cock in his mouth roughly 3.5 seconds after kissing him. And this is AFTER Shane did his coy little "This is such a bad idea~😫" routine, mind you!!! Me thinks the lady does indeed protest too much!!! Harlot!!!!
I love sitting down in the evening and trying to decide what activity I should do to unwind and then realizing an hour later that I have neither done an activity nor unwound
everyone always surprised when you can learn bits of information about them from the characters they make... dearly beloved. you took a lump of clay with no form and shaped it with your hands and thought you wouldn't leave fingerprints? what hubris! you leave scraps of yourself in everything you make. sometimes it's a lot more than scraps but just for you i'll pretend i didn't notice
