Mostly HP meta. Mostly about Snape. Welcome to my soapbox.

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[deifiedrogue]

what’s your take on severus snape?

(satisfy my curiosity & bold your headcanons)

1. hetero | bi | gay | pan | gray | ace

2. cis m | trans mtf | trans ftm | non-binary

3. slut | sexually experienced | barely experienced | virgin | celibate

4. dominant | switch | submissive | vanilla

5. drinks heavily | drinks occasionally | social drinker only | never drinks

6. chain smoker | on-and-off smoker | smoked at one point | never touched a cigarette in his life

7. potions addicted | sometimes self-medicates | refuses to take anything

8. short | slightly below average | average height | slightly above average | tall

9. emaciated | underweight | healthy skinny | lean muscular | dad bod | thicc

10. always robed | muggle clothes when strictly necessary | muggle clothes when in muggle society | muggle clothes at every opportunity

11. very neat & organized | a little cluttered | total slob

12. early to bed & early to rise | habitual night owl | incurable insomniac

13. heavy sleeper | light sleeper | wakes up 20 times a night

14. back sleeper | stomach sleeper | side sleeper | always switching

15. clean but naturally oily | neglects regular self-hygiene | lets himself go completely

[feelabitfree]

1. hetero | bi | gay | pan | gray | ace

2. cis m | trans mtf | trans ftm | non-binary

3. slut | sexually experienced | barely experienced | virgin | celibate (somewhere in-between)

4. dominant | switch | submissive | vanilla 

5. drinks heavily | drinks occasionally | social drinker only | never drinks

6. chain smoker | on-and-off smoker | smoked at one point | never touched a cigarette in his life

7. potions addicted | sometimes self-medicates | refuses to take anything

8. short | slightly below average | average height | slightly above average | tall

9. emaciated | underweight | healthy skinny | lean muscular | dad bod | thicc

10. always robed | muggle clothes when strictly necessary | muggle clothes when in muggle society | muggle clothes at every opportunity

11. very neat & organized | a little cluttered | total slob (somewhere in-between)

12. early to bed & early to rise | habitual night owl | incurable insomniac

13. heavy sleeper | light sleeper | wakes up 20 times a night

14. back sleeper | stomach sleeper | side sleeper | always switching

15. clean but naturally oily | neglects regular self-hygiene | lets himself go completely

[spinningrims]

i’m seeing a lot of people reblogging suicide hotlines and this is just a reminder that this is a suicide help line that works like a text-based instant messenger for people who may need to talk to someone but have trouble/are uncomfortable making phone calls

[groovian-whovian]

Never don’t reblog this. There are so many people who have such bad anxiety about phone calls. This can save so many lives

[feelabitfree]

Severus Snape was, objectively, a good teacher.

Y’all: “Snape could have been a good teacher if only he brought cookies to every class and let Neville do a coloring book instead and -” Severus Snape via JK Rowling, OOTP Chapter 12, page 232: “But we have another year to go before that happy moment of farewell,” said Snape softly, “so whether you are intending to attempt N.E.W.T. or not, I advise all of you to concentrate your efforts upon maintaining the high-pass level I have come to expect from my O.W.L. students.” Dolores Umbridge via JK Rowling, OOTP Chapter 17, page 363: “Well, the class seems fairly advanced for their level,” she said briskly to Snape’s back.  Conclusion:  Snape’s students, as a whole, succeeded in potions and were overall advanced for their level, thus making Snape a highly effective (if unfriendly) teacher. His job wasn’t to coddle his students, it was to teach them potions and he did that job well. Neville was a bumbling outlier who struggled in Snape’s class and Snape struggled to teach him, but in the end he found something he excelled in and lived happily ever after. Conclusion #2:  None of y’all can read. 3/10 on reading comprehension, please try harder. 

[feelabitfree]

This remains the most successful thing I’ve ever written lmao 

[feelabitfree]

PSA bc people still don’t get this and it annoys me and I’m petty

The word “master” is an archaic fancy pants term for a teacher at a fancy pants boarding school and that is how it’s used in Harry Potter.

EXAMPLE: Snape = “Potions Master” = “Potions Teacher.” See also: Headmaster... He is not a Master of Potions. It’s not a qualification...it’s not like being a Pokemon Master. I see all these hc posts like “Snape studied as an apprentice under so and so to become a Potions Master” and like...that’s not a thing bro.  That is all.

[feelabitfree]

Severus Snape was, objectively, a good teacher.

Y’all: “Snape could have been a good teacher if only he brought cookies to every class and let Neville do a coloring book instead and -” Severus Snape via JK Rowling, OOTP Chapter 12, page 232: “But we have another year to go before that happy moment of farewell,” said Snape softly, “so whether you are intending to attempt N.E.W.T. or not, I advise all of you to concentrate your efforts upon maintaining the high-pass level I have come to expect from my O.W.L. students.” Dolores Umbridge via JK Rowling, OOTP Chapter 17, page 363: “Well, the class seems fairly advanced for their level,” she said briskly to Snape’s back.  Conclusion:  Snape’s students, as a whole, succeeded in potions and were overall advanced for their level, thus making Snape a highly effective (if unfriendly) teacher. His job wasn’t to coddle his students, it was to teach them potions and he did that job well. Neville was a bumbling outlier who struggled in Snape’s class and Snape struggled to teach him, but in the end he found something he excelled in and lived happily ever after. Conclusion #2:  None of y’all can read. 3/10 on reading comprehension, please try harder. 

[mysnarkyslytherinsecret]

Good at teaching.

Not a good person.

Reading comprehension is a Thing, anti-Snep folks.

[wikipedie]

Nobody expected Snape to offer biscuits to the class, nor ‘bring Neville a colouring book’ (like where the heck you got that from?). McGonagall didn’t. (except for one occasion with Potter) and she is one of the most beloved teachers. Why? Because while she was strict and terrifying, you knew what to expect from her and she didn’t threaten nor insult you with every occasion.

A few cauldrons away, Neville was in trouble. Neville regularly went to pieces in Potions lessons; it was his worst subject, and his great fear of Professor Snape made things ten times worse. His potion, which was supposed to be a bright, acid green, had turned—

“Orange, Longbottom,” said Snape, ladling some up and allowing to splash back into the cauldron, so that everyone could see.

“Orange. Tell me, boy, does anything penetrate that thick skull of yours? Didn’t you hear me say, quite clearly, that only one bat spleen was needed? Didn’t I state plainly that a dash of leech juice would suffice? What do I have to do to make you understand, Longbottom?"Neville was pink and trembling. He looked as though he was on the verge of tears.

"Please, sir,” said Hermione, “please, I could help Neville put it right—”

“I don’t remember asking you to show off, Miss Granger,” said Snape coldly, and Hermione went as pink as Neville. “Longbottom, at the end of this lesson we will feed a few drops of this potion to your toad and see what happens. Perhaps that will encourage you to do it properly."Snape moved away, leaving Neville breathless with fear.

That is not a good teacher. It’s just not. You’re teaching children, and even if you’re strict and you believe that students should fear you (i think they should respect you), you don’t go and threaten to poison your students’ animals as punishment for not doing well. Nor insult your students, even if you believe they’re dumb as heck.

The end of the lesson in sight, Snape strode over to Neville, who was cowering by his cauldron."Everyone gather around,” said Snape, his black eyes glittering, “and watch what happens to Longbottom’s toad. If he has managed to produce a Shrinking Solution, it will shrink to a tadpole. If, as I don’t doubt, he has done it wrong, his toad is likely to be poisoned.”…Snape picked up Trevor the toad in his left hand and dipped a small spoon into Neville’s potion, which was now green. He trickled a few drops down Trevor’s throat.There was a moment of hushed silence, in which Trevor gulped; then there was a small pop, and Trevor the tadpole was wriggling in Snape’s palm.The Gryffindors burst into applause. Snape, looking sour, pulled a small bottle from the pocket of his robe, poured a few drops on top of Trevor, and he reappeared suddenly, fully grown.

“Five points from Gryffindor,” said Snape, which wiped the smiles from every face. “I told you not to help him, Miss Granger. Class dismissed." 

He actually does it and then he takes points from Gryffindor even when the potion is done correctly.

You know what Snape is good at? And no, I’m not sarcastic. He’s a good Potions Master. He’s a good scholar. Hermione thrived under him as opposed to Slughorn because he was innovative with potions and found ways to do better. Of course that the students who like Potions regardless of the teacher would do well. Or, just ones that are very good at following instructions, which I imagine is the case for most students.

And actually, yes, teachers are supposed to take into consideration their students’ needs, including emotional needs. This doesn’t mean they need to bring coloring books with them, but maybe not amplify their anxiety regarding your subject by being an asshole is do-able. 

"As I was saying before Potter interrupted, Professor Lupin has not left any record of the topics you have covered so far—”

“Please, sir, we’ve done boggarts, Red Caps, kappas, and grindylows,” said Hermione quickly, “and we’re just about to start—”

“Be quiet,” said Snape coldly. “I did not ask for information. I was merely commenting on Professor Lupin’s lack of organization.”

“He’s the best Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher we’ve ever had,” said Dean Thomas boldly, and there was a murmur of agreement from the rest of the class. Snape looked more menacing than ever.

“You are easily satisfied. Lupin is hardly overtaxing you—I would expect first years to be able to deal with Red Caps and grindylows. Today we shall discuss—”

As a teacher, it’s unprofessional to degrade other teachers and students. Because believe me “Lupin is hardly overtaxing you—I would expect first years to be able to deal with Red Caps and grindylows” is not a compliment. He means to downplay their accomplishments, saying that they’re things that even younger children should be able to do, which is just NOT the case. I’m quite sure Lupin was following a curriculum because you have to do so. That’s one of the important teacher stuff (and that’s why you have textbooks). Also, if you think they’d learn from their pureblood families, you’re ignoring the muggleborns or those who grew up in muggle born families. Which brings me to…

“Potter!” said Snape suddenly. “What would I get if I added powdered root of asphodel to an infusion of wormwood?" 

"I don’t know, sir,” said Harry. Snape’s lips curled into a sneer.

“Tut, tut-fame clearly isn’t everything.” He ignored Hermione’s hand.

“Let’s try again. Potter, where would you look if I told you to find me a bezoar?”

“I don’t know, sir.”

“Thought you wouldn’t open a bok before coming, eh, Potter?”

 Harry forced himself to keep looking into those cold eyes. […]Snape was still ignoring Hermione’s quivering hand.“What is the difference, Potter, between monkshood and wolfsbane?”[…]

“I don’t know,” said Harry quietly. “I think Hermione does, though, why don’t you try her?”[…]

 "Sit down,“ he snapped at Hermione. 

"For your information, Potter, asphodel and wormwood make a sleeping potion so powerful it is known as the Draught of Living Death. A bezoar is a stone taken from the stomack of a goat and it will save you from most poisons. As for monkshood and wolfsbane, they are the same plant, which also goes by the name of aconite. Well? Why aren’t you all copying that down?”

God. His whole point here is to humiliate Harry. His student. He could be related to fucking Voldemort and it wouldn’t matter, you don’t humiliate your students like this on the first day. Especially since you know (and Snape knew) that Harry lived with the Dursleys and he didn’t exactly have time to read the whole Potions book just in case the teacher is an asshole and decides to quiz him on the first day. Because believe me if your teachers did that, you’d totally consider them assholes. And he doesn’t want the answer, because he ignores Hermione. He just wants to humiliate a student. (It doesn’t matter who it is. Could’ve been Malfoy himself and it still would have been bad.)

  Don’t come at me with “He’s not a good person, but he’s a good teacher.” bullshit. He’s a good Potion Master, but that’s all.  He’s not a good person and he’s not a good teacher. Those of us who do teacher courses or are actually (decent) teachers can see he’s not.

[feelabitfree]

*sigh* am I really gonna go through and refute this point by point? I guess. Nobody expected Snape to offer biscuits to the class, nor ‘bring Neville a colouring book’ (like where the heck you got that from?). I was using hyperbole for comic effect.  McGonagall didn’t. (except for one occasion with Potter) and she is one of the most beloved teachers. Why? Because while she was strict and terrifying, you knew what to expect from her and she didn’t threaten nor insult you with every occasion. McGonagall was stern, but never terrifying, and never tried to be. That is not a good teacher. It’s just not. You’re teaching children, and even if you’re strict and you believe that students should fear you (i think they should respect you), you don’t go and threaten to poison your students’ animals as punishment for not doing well. Nor insult your students, even if you believe they’re dumb as heck. 1.) Snape’s job wasn’t to coddle his students, or even be kind to them. It was to teach them potions, which he did well. Moreover, it’s a very dangerous subject and Neville’s incompetency could get himself or others injured or killed. 2.) Hermione was speaking out of turn here, as she tends to do. 3.) Snape never intended to poison Neville’s toad. He knew Hermione was gonna help Neville, even if he was a petty lil bitch about it; he was trying to get Neville to be more careful and take the lesson more seriously. Was he a tremendous dick about it? Yes. Was he also teaching his subject effectively? Yes. 4.) 13-year-olds aren’t weak little babies; they can handle a mean teacher. Neville turned out alright. So did I, and I had teachers far, far meaner than Snape. You know what Snape is good at? And no, I’m not sarcastic. He’s a good Potions Master. A lot of people in HP fandom misunderstand the use of the word “master” so I don’t blame you for this, but it doesn’t mean master as in Pokemon Master or some shit like that. It literally just means teacher in this context. And actually, yes, teachers are supposed to take into consideration their students’ needs, including emotional needs. Not really, no. A lot of teachers do go that extra mile, which is great, but the main job is to teach. As a teacher, it’s unprofessional to degrade other teachers and students. Because believe me “Lupin is hardly overtaxing you—I would expect first years to be able to deal with Red Caps and grindylows” is not a compliment. He means to downplay their accomplishments, saying that they’re things that even younger children should be able to do, which is just NOT the case. I’m quite sure Lupin was following a curriculum because you have to do so. Is it unprofessional? Sure. Is Snape correct? Yes. Lupin and Snape are polar opposites, in terms of teaching style. Lupin is the cool, fun teacher who, like described above, carefully considers students’ emotional needs and tries not to leave any child behind. Great. It’s implied, however, that along with that comes lower standards for his students than Snape, who sets high expectations for EVERYONE. Nothing wrong with either; just different styles. God. His whole point here is to humiliate Harry. His student. He could be related to fucking Voldemort and it wouldn’t matter, you don’t humiliate your students like this on the first day. Especially since you know (and Snape knew) that Harry lived with the Dursleys and he didn’t exactly have time to read the whole Potions book just in case the teacher is an asshole and decides to quiz him on the first day.  Sure, Snape’s a dick. To even point that out is redundant. It’s the point of his character - the mean teacher who turns out to be on the good side all along; it’s like pointing out Harry is an orphan. Also, Snape knew Harry lived with Petunia but he wouldn’t have known Harry was abused. That’s pure fanon. For all Snape knew, Harry did have time to crack open a book before the first day.  He’s not a good person and he’s not a good teacher. Those of us who do teacher courses or are actually (decent) teachers can see he’s not. IMO, he’s a good person. Objectively, though, he’s a good teacher. I’m sure you’ll be a fine teacher too. Have a great day. 

[ithelpstodream]

[cookie-sheet-toboggan]

so is Victory

[ashermajestywishes]

LOVE TRIANGLE

[bsparrow]

Don’t forget Truth (Coming Out of Her Well to Shame Mankind)

[justrollinon]

This must be why the Trump administration hates them all 

[acciowine]

The Four Horsewomen of the Trumpocalypse.

[krustybunny-deactivated20221129]

I’ve never reblogged anything so quick

[spectrometon]

The Ultimate Squad, comin’ to wreck your shit and save the world

[quentineliot]

Rb for that art doe

[identicaltwinhalfbrother]

Dignity here to join the girl posse.

[brainwad]

AVENGERS ASSEMBLE

[becomeunsolved]

reblogging for the second time

[athelind]

ALWAYS REBLOG

[defilerwyrm]

Let people grow.

When I was younger I was very right-wing. I mean…very right-wing. I won’t go into detail, because I’m very deeply ashamed of it, but whatever you’re imagining, it’s probably at least that bad. I’ve taken out a lot of pain on others; I’ve acted in ignorance and waved hate like a flag; I’ve said and did things that hurt a lot of people.

There are artefacts of my past selves online – some of which I’ve locked down and keep around to remind me of my past sins, some of which I’ve scrubbed out, some of which are out of my grasp. If I were ever to become famous, people could find shit on me that would turn your stomach.

But that’s not me anymore. I’ve learned so much in the last ten years. I’ve become more open to seeing things through others’ eyes, and reforged my anger to turn on those who harm others rather than on those who simply want to exist. I’ve learned patience and compassion. I’ve learned how to recognise my privileges and listen to others’ perspectives. I’ve learned to stand up for others, how to hear, how to help, how to correct myself. And I learned some startling shit about myself along the way – with all due irony, some of the things I used to lash out at others for are intrinsic parts of myself.

You wouldn’t know what I am now from what I was then. You wouldn’t know what I was then from what I am now.

It distresses me deeply to think of someone dredging up my dark, awful past and treating me as though that furiously hateful person is still me. It distresses me to see others dredging up the past for anyone who has made efforts to become a better person, out of some sick obsession with proving they’re “problematic.”

Purity culture tells you that once someone says or does something, they can never go back on it. That’s a goddamn lie. While it’s true that some remain unrepentant and never change their ways and continue to harm others, it’s important to allow everyone the chance to learn from their mistakes. Saying something ignorant isn’t murder. Please stop treating it that way. Let people grow.

[got-zayn]

Still call it out and question it ….

[defilerwyrm]

Bruh. No. Listen. Call out what people do now, absolutely. If they haven’t changed, call them out on their record. This post is explicitly not about people who HAVEN’T changed. What this post IS saying is, if someone is making an effort to be a good person, don’t go digging around in their past for evidence that they were once for what they’re now against, or once against what they’re now for, as “proof” of what they “really think,” because people’s opinions and beliefs can change. 

The obsession with finding shit in someone’s past and then claiming that a questionable or even sordid past negates all possibility of a good present needs to become extinct. Gold-star activism and purity culture are bullshit and we need to collectively reject the fuck out of them.

If someone has changed for the better, don’t harass them about what they were like before they fuckin’ changed. That’s shitty and it needs to stop.

[afrosabi]

I’m wondering why it would be wrong to call out the person’s past? If they did it, they did it. Maybe they have changed…but the fact remains that they participated in harmful actions. It would be a lot more genuine to bring it up and show the evolution of thought than to try and bury it.

So you have totally changed. Kudos. If that’s true, then you supposedly know just how harmful your past actions are and see how people can feel threatened or be skeptical. That’s kind of the whole “growth” process. If you have truly “changed”…then keep on keeping on. But you can’t blame people for looking into your past. You really did that shit.

Those that you harmed could still be in harms way. Just because YOU personally turned a new leaf, doesn’t mean they feel any safer. They fear and them wanting to protect themselves from people like the “former” you trumps your feeling of “rejuvenation” and being a “born again” Good Person™

[defilerwyrm]

[ETA: That was really unnecessarily bitchy of me, sorry. Again, just woke up.] To answer you, I’m going to ask you a series of questions that I’d like you to think about.

What good does it fucking do? What use is it to reblog someone’s post with say “hey everyone you should be aware that OP told an ableist joke in 1993 I HAVE RECEIPTS″? 

Who does that protect? 

What purpose does that serve?

 If you see a post or article or interview somewhere advocating for justice and your first impulse is to spend your time dredging through years’ worth of that person’s past opinions to try to find something Problematic™ so that you can go “A-HA, look what you USED to say, clearly this invalidates what you’re saying now!” whom exactly do you think this is helping?

When someone does that, are they really “protecting” anyone, or are they just tearing down a progressive voice out of pettiness and spite—or are they serving a more sinister agenda, like a certain right-wing blogger who got a certain left-wing director fired for horrific jokes he’d already apologized for and completely ceased to make almost a decade ago?

Do you think it’s your job to dictate to someone you don’t know from Adam the direction of their personal growth and how they manage their guilt if they didn’t fuckin’ ask you?

Do you think every SJ post, article, and tweet out there has to be prefaced with a detailed confession of past sins?

Do you think that it’s your personal business to know the painful past experiences of every stranger before they share a progressive opinion?

Do you think it’s in any conceivable way reasonable to expect lifelong perfection, especially of people who grow up in a kyriarchal society, and to exact lifelong punishment and harassment for failing to achieve it?

Do you think maybe that purposefully digging through people’s pasts to find the Problematic™ shit they’ve left behind and then treating them like escaped serial killers carrying leprosy because they haven’t been a Perfect SJ Cinnamon Roll 100% of their lives might turn people off to the whole advocacy thing? ‘Cause again…that’s what this post is talking about.

Just some things to think about on your own time. I’m going back to sleep.

[feelabitfree]

THIS THIS THIS in general but also relevant as this is a Snape blog...

[jellies-moved-deactivated202006]

OH I FORGOT. I SAW THE GREATEST CAR IN THE WORLD WHEN I WAS COMING BACK FROM THE JOB INTERVIEW I DID TODAY

[jellies-moved-deactivated202006]

[jellies-moved-deactivated202006]

I got the job I had interviewed for in this post and they started me at $13/hr and a guaranteed 20 hours a week thanks everyone for their support in the notes abt the job interview itself and no thanks to the people who said it was cursed

[commandtower-solring-go-deactiv]

Reblog the X3 HEWWO car of career success. Reblog for a decent job

[moonlight-and-mantles]

Rebwog the X3 HEWWO car of caweew success. Rebwog fow a decent job. owo

[commandtower-solring-go-deactiv]

how dawe you up stage mwe like this owo

[quicksilvermad]

While I can appreciate the fact that Snape is a complex character…

I can’t like him. I had a music teacher like him when I was in elementary school. He bullied me, called me stupid, threatened to “nail [me] to the wall” for talking, ridiculed me, called me names (after making us listen to Cats, he started calling me Jennyanydots because of my name and the fact that I have a prominent mole on my eyebrow), and just…

Because of that teacher, I taught myself how to vomit to have a reason to sit in the nurse’s office to avoid his class. Because of that teacher, I taught myself how to dissociate. Because of that teacher, I just…

He ruined a lot of my childhood.

So the fact that Snape bullies his students—especially Neville—is the reason why I will never like him. I was a lot like Neville Longbottom when I was in elementary school. So reading about how Snape treated him was quite the trigger for me.

To me, it doesn’t matter that Snape was also bullied as a kid. It doesn’t matter that he was instrumental in bringing down Voldemort. It doesn’t matter that he was a lonely person.

He bullied children.

There is no excuse for that.

[feelabitfree]

He didn’t bully children, he was kinda mean to teenagers. Your music teacher sounds worse tbh. 

[lynati]

my brain, interrupting my daydream: this is poorly researched and the narrative is not compelling

[norcumi]

Brain: “Do it again, take it from the top.”

[botheringblathers]

holy im so glad i am not the only one fuckkk

[feelabitfree]

“Scrap this, we’re starting over. From scratch bitch.”

[local-slytherin-bi]

THIS

THIS

This is why Flitwick is a great professor. He takes an interest in their students and wants them to grow outside of an academic sense. Flitwick takes the time to know his students unlike Snape who is (let’s be honest here) a huge dick. Snaps doesn’t care about the kids at Hogwarts, at least not like the other professors do. I would hate to go to Hogwarts and see the other houses with their great relationships with their heads of their house and then go into the common room and deal with Snapes bull shit.

[feelabitfree]

Oh my god the irony of this post. Read what Flitwick said again, OP.

[feelabitfree]

Severus Snape was, objectively, a good teacher.

Y’all: “Snape could have been a good teacher if only he brought cookies to every class and let Neville do a coloring book instead and -” Severus Snape via JK Rowling, OOTP Chapter 12, page 232: “But we have another year to go before that happy moment of farewell,” said Snape softly, “so whether you are intending to attempt N.E.W.T. or not, I advise all of you to concentrate your efforts upon maintaining the high-pass level I have come to expect from my O.W.L. students.” Dolores Umbridge via JK Rowling, OOTP Chapter 17, page 363: “Well, the class seems fairly advanced for their level,” she said briskly to Snape’s back.  Conclusion:  Snape’s students, as a whole, succeeded in potions and were overall advanced for their level, thus making Snape a highly effective (if unfriendly) teacher. His job wasn’t to coddle his students, it was to teach them potions and he did that job well. Neville was a bumbling outlier who struggled in Snape’s class and Snape struggled to teach him, but in the end he found something he excelled in and lived happily ever after. Conclusion #2:  None of y’all can read. 3/10 on reading comprehension, please try harder. 

[desibelle]

If you think there’s an influx of Snape hate all of a sudden, it might be because there’s a real-life resurgence of Death Eater-like ideology and behavior and also incels are getting popular and we all know what a Nice Guy looks and acts like. Shitty male behavior is having a moment.

Basically, a lot of people are seeing in Snape traits they know are vile in real life, and the fandom is grown and conscious. Snape apologists. You know damn well if you knew a Severus Snape you wouldn’t like them, and if you honestly would, you might want to sit down— I’ve got news for you.

Again: Snape was brave, yes. It’s his one redeemable quality as a person and he was a trash human on all other accounts.

[feelabitfree]

Except Snape isn’t a Nice Guy or an incel. When Lily asked him to leave her alone, he did. He never made unwanted advances at her. The fandom is grown, maybe, but not conscious so much as naive and so eager to prove how “woke” they are to themselves and/or others that they fail to realize the fact that people, like everything else in the world, aren’t black and white. It’s ironic, because this was one of the lessons in the books; Snape’s character is meant to illustrate this. “The world isn’t made up of good people and Death Eaters.”  The pendulum always swings too far before it settles, etc. Self-righteousness is addictive. Those who hate Snape do so because the idea that someone who joined a hate group - or did anything else wrong or, dare I say, “problematic” - can be reformed is alien to them. The idea that a person can be good but not kind or friendly is alien to them.  I’m Jewish. The global rise in far-right “Death Eater” ideology does scare me, and yet I have lots of sympathy and even admiration for people who leave hate groups, because it takes a lot of courage and self-awareness and soul-searching to do so. One of the hardest things to do is admit you’re wrong; to challenge your deeply-held beliefs. And when you fuck up that badly - because, as Snape’s situation shows, you can’t just leave a hate group - it’s all the more impressive when you make the choice to turn your life around. 

[showerthoughtsofficial]

Feeling tired but not wanting to go to sleep because you don’t want to miss the little time you have at home to relax from work although you are too tired to do anything else is a hopeless feeling.

[sailorlum]

What’s your favorite middle name for Snape?

Pottermore just lists his full name as Severus Snape, and Google has just informed me that it was common until recently for most people in the UK to not have a middle name (so I don’t think I’ll bother with middle names unless they are canon, for my fic) but if you give him a middle name anyway or have seen some you like in fic, what is your favorite? Is it the popular Severus Tobias Snape, or something else?

I probably won’t use it, but I came up with Severus Augustine Snape, because it makes his initials S.A.S. and Snape likes to sass people with his snarky self, and it sounded wizardy to me, and I have the Snapes and Princes being Catholic, in my headcanon.

[feelabitfree]

I also have the Princes (and Snapes) being Catholic! So...something Catholicky. Doesn’t really matter what. Martin? Idk. 

[welcometotheravenclawcommonroom]

Canon Snape was a petty, small-minded asshole who literally sucked in every possible way and yet I can’t help thinking that there was so much potential for his character- like I am very much anti-Snape but I wonder what he could have turned out to be with an *actual* redemption arc where he had to suffer and face the consequences of what he did and realise that he was a horrible shitty person and not just be glorified after dying to fix what he fucked up in the first place. Like what if there was a slight tweak in the matrix? What if he realised Harry was being abused? What if he’d decided to have a smidge of fucking humanity and not blab Lupin’s secret? What if he decided that he hadn’t kept Harry safe despite hating him just so Albus could kill him and told Harry about the horcrux beforehand so they could find another way? I am not in any way an apologist, I just think that he was psychologically fascinating and would have loved to see what he could have been if things had gone differently.

[feelabitfree]

Canon Snape did have an actual redemption arc lmao imagine being this thick 

[feelabitfree]

At my job we work with someone who’s honest to god real surname is Snape and I get such a kick out of it.