I am Sara, I am an italian fanwriter and this is my multifandom and totally random blog. I will post and reblog everything that catch my attention, and maybe one day I will learn how to tag properly or how to sort out my posts 😂
I am a multishipper and a proshipper. I can potentially write and read everything under the sun. Of course I have my preferences, so... Let's start.
First of all, my ao3 profile. In the last months I start to translate every fic I write so you can find a double for every fic, one in italian and one in english. Maybe one day I will translate my old works, who knows.
That said, my main fandoms:
Harry Potter
I am a Severus Snape stan.
My otp: Severus Snape/Lily Luna Potter, Severus Snape/Lily Evans
Other ships I love: James Potter/Sirius Balck, James Potter/Sirius Black/Lily Evans, Draco Malfoy/Hermione Granger, Rose Weasley/James Sirius Potter, Rose Weasley/Teddy Lupin, Rose Weasley/Scorpius Malfoy, Scorpius Malfoy/Albus Severus Potter, Scorpius Malfoy/Lily Luna Potter
Bonus ships I love: Tom Riddle/Helena Ravenclaw (The Gray Lady), Salazar Slytherin/Helena Ravenclaw, Rowena Ravenclaw/Salazar Slytherin, Albus Dumbledore/Gellert Grindelwald, Tom Riddle/Gellert Grindelwald, Gellert Grindelwald/Ariana Dumbledore
... As you can see I ship everyone with everyone and for the weirdest ships you can blame my bestie.
Masterlist for my fics
The ballad of songbirds and snakes/The hunger games
I am a Coriolanus Snow stan.
My otp: Coriolanus Snow/Lucy Gray Baird
Other ships I love: Coriolanus Snow/Sejanus Plinth, Coriolanus Snow/Lucy Gray Baird/Sejanus Plinth, Katniss Everdeen/Peeta Mellark
... As you can see I ship Coriolanus with everyone and for my taste I can only blame myself here. Also I am in love with the "fix-it" concept for Coriolanus Snow and I own the tag "Coriolanus Snow becomes a better person to impress his lover/lovers".
Masterlist for my fics
That's all, I suppose! Of course I am in more fandom etc, but this two had me down so bad I can write only for them. They are a constant in my life at this point, I think.
Oh, yes! My inbox is always open. You can send me asks (even anon asks); I don't know about request for fics because I have little to no time, but last time someone sent me a prompt it becames so huge that now I have an entire silly fic plotted in my mind - and I actually wrote one au of this - so you can try! The only thing I don't write about is the "x reader" tag because I don't like the whole concept of the "reader". I am sorry.
So this happens to me a lot with this fandom, specifically the Harry Potter fandom, because people who follow me on blogs know I talk about other fandoms, and all the fandoms I talk about are fandoms like adult series, with adult people and also incredibly problematic characters.
And with the Harry Potter fandom it happens to me a lot that people insist on such an absurd morality. Honestly, I don’t give a shit that Severus at 17 decided to follow a terrorist group for two years of his life as a teenager. It’s just that I like characters who have done things that, compared to that, are like Snape stealing a lighter from a supermarket. If we compare what characters I like and the characters I analyse and talk about a lot with that, it’s literally that analogy. It’s like what Severus did was stealing a lighter, or I don’t know, girl, maybe trashing a car for fun on a wild night.
So I really struggle to empathise with ideas like: Do you think Severus regretted it? Do you think Severus was actually super messed up before Lily? Like… who cares? I don’t think that’s the point of the character and I don’t think it’s that deep either. So what, he was a extremist mindset for two years of his life? Okay. There are a lot of people—and this is for those of you who are under 20, because I think you’re the ones who struggle with this the most—many people you’re going to meet when you’re adults, and I say this to people under 20 because people under 20 are not adults, even if you’re 18 or 19, and honestly I don’t even consider 20-year-olds very adult yet, will have had problematic ideologies as teenagers. A lot of people. A lot.
And there will be people who got into radical groups, people who didn’t, people who said horrible things online, people who had violent behaviour, people who followed hate speech, and they did it at 15, 16, 17, 18, 19. And then one day they’re 30 and they’re perfectly integrated into society, with a completely different way of thinking, decent citizens and good people.
And I’ll tell you something: you can have a shitty ideology and not be a bad person. You can be racist and still be a good neighbour. And you can be the most anti-racist person in the world, defending so-called rights, and be a complete asshole when you go to a restaurant and have to talk to staff. A person’s value is measured by how they act in their day-to-day life and how they treat the people around them, especially people who are in need. And there are people who, for whatever reason—because of their parents, or because of how they were raised—have certain ideologies that don’t make much sense and don’t really match how they actually treat others. I’ve met people who vote for terrible parties and are still the first to help someone in need. Where does that narrative fit in the black-and-white morality of this shitty fandom where you all act like bloody nursery school kids?
And likewise, I always say this: I’ve been in many political groups and left-wing unions, and I’ve met guys who are super pro-LGBT, super “let’s get all the rights for queer people”, super pro-trans, super willing to stand in front of the police and fight them to defend a poor neighbourhood and then they’d go and had sex with drunk women while partying and deny that it was sexual abuse, or say their exes were “crazy bitches” who falsely accused them of being violent. So I mean, the ideology you publicly claim doesn’t make you a good or bad person. What makes you good or bad is how you act in society, and that’s proven through actions, not words.
That’s something you learn when you’re an adult and you have to interact with people who don’t think like you, who have opposing views, or partially shared ones, and you have to adapt because you have a job and responsibilities and real life things to do.
So all these little brats online making such categorical statements in fandoms full of kids, because honestly you barely have the brain cells to look at yourselves in the mirror seriously, I always say it: go out of your house, stop only interacting with your four nerd friends at school, and sign up for things. Leave your comfort zone, please, because you need to interact with people and understand how reality works, because right now you’re completely out of touch.
Your reality is TikTok, Twitter, and Tumblr. And mine can be that because I’m 30 and I don’t feel like going on big adventures anymore, but you guys, what do you even have, 18? And you think having a Discord group that’s anti-transphobia means you’ve done everything in life? You’re going to meet transphobic people in real life and you’re going to have to work with them and be their colleagues and get along with them, and you’re going to have to deal with it. That’s reality.
So I don’t know, I really don’t get this childish mentality. And it spreads in general, right? Like, “do you think this character felt bad about doing this?” No, probably not. So what? Maybe he was a little imbecile as a teenager, maybe he was an idiot as a teenager, but what matters is what he did as an adult. And if as an adult he saved as many lives as he could, that matters far more than him being a stupid kid once. Obviously Snape is a much more complex character than that, but even if he weren’t, that’s what would matter. Does it matter if he’s nice? No. What matters are actions. Actions like saving lives, helping people without getting anything in return, without applause or medals. That’s what matters. And he could still be an asshole, and still have a shitty mindset, but what would matter wouldn’t be his mindset—it would be his actions. Whether those actions are good or bad. And that’s it.
Our incredibly talented creators in the SnapeShifters' Guild server reversed some of the most beloved tropes to give us a delicious dose of comedy, romance, spice, angst, and poetic prose. Check out our collection now on AO3.
📜 Fanfics:
…death do us…
by: SiobhanHazel @siobhanhazel
prompt: anti-marriage law
ship: Severus Snape/Harry Potter
word count: 1,103
balancing equations
by: MoonriverFox @moonriverfox
prompt: male sex worker, female customer
ship: Severus Snape/Narcissa Malfoy
word count: 2,041
Cursed Love 🏆 It Hurt So Good! 🏆
by: Trueliarose @trueliarose
prompt: love at last sight
ship: Severus Snape/Harry Potter
word count: 1,848
Deflowering the Boss 🏆 Steamiest 🏆
by: maraudersaffair @maraudersaffair
prompt: incompetency kink; attracted to a fumbling character
ship: Severus Snape/Harry Potter
word count: 2,032
Demented 🏆 Most Surprising 🏆
by: the_leapling @yearoftheleapling
prompt: overpopulated island
ship: Severus Snape/Lucius Malfoy/Dolores Umbridge/Dementor
word count: 1,960
Method Acting 🏆 Most Comedic 🏆
by: watching_wild_horses @asphodelevans
prompt: real relationship but nobody believes it's real
ship: Severus Snape/James Potter
word count: 2,041
Poisoned Dignity
by: SanctuaryAngel @sanctuary-angel
prompt: true hate's kiss
ship: Severus Snape/Bellatrix Lestrange
word count: 1,299
Potions with Pandora 🏆 Made Me Ship It! 🏆
by: QueenOfStormySkies
prompt: fives times something happened and the one time it didn't
ship: Severus Snape/Pandora Lovegood
word count: 1,137
Severus' Worst Day Ever
by: beanclip @beanclip
prompt: marriage of inconvenience
ship: Severus Snape & Lily Evans
word count: 876
Shadows in the moonlight
by: MitsukiSirya @mitsuki91
prompt: sour daddy: incompetent, broke, grumpy old man
ship: Severus Snape/Lily Luna Potter
word count: 1,397
Thousand-Year Storm
by: RedGummy @the-captain-and-his-beast
prompt: sharing a sofa
ship: Severus Snape & Lily Evans
word count: 688
Tomorrow and Tomorrow 🏆 Most Heartwarming 🏆
by: clear_northern_skies
prompt: it wasn't a dream, it was real
ship: Severus Snape & Minerva McGonagall
word count: 1,230
Valentine at Greenhouse Seven 🏆 Best Setting 🏆
by: SquibNation10 @blackseatwenty
prompt: impotency pollen
ship: Severus Snape/Mary Macdonald
word count: 2,041
Valentine's Climax Pursuit
by: Lili1478 @lililove1478
prompt: they were in fact not good at sex at all
ship: Severus Snape/OC
word count: 1,509
🎨 Fanart:
Crawling back to you
by: Klien2000 @klien2000
prompt: sharing a sofa
ship: Severus Snape/Remus Lupin
For My Prince
by: SquibNation10 @blackseatwenty
prompt: female knight, prince in distress
ship: Severus Snape/Nymphadora Tonks
From the Desk of Prof. M. Sprout: C. interferus
by: leap-art @yearoftheleapling
prompt: impotency pollen
ship: gen
Some Things Never Change
by: SanctuaryAngel @sanctuary-angel
prompt: old-people's home AU
ship: Severus Snape & Harry Potter
Join our server now to participate in March's flash comp!
(Header and footer images created with the help of @gingerbunz and @maraudersaffair)
The Marauders didn't stop bullying Snape after the prank. It actually got worse.
A lot of people are surprised to realize that the scene in Snape's Worst Memory happens after the werewolf prank. When first reading OOTP, people generally assumed that SWM showed escalating tension between the Marauders and Snape that up led to the prank. But in DH, we see Snape and Lily talking about the prank before SWM. This means that the Marauders are still singling Snape out and targeting him after prank. Why?
My theory is that the bullying actually got worse after the prank. Because the only way to hold their friend group together was for the Marauders to double down and rally around blaming Snape for what happened.
Think about it: How did that incident not tear them apart? Sirius not only exposed Lupin's secret – he also attempted to use Lupin as a weapon against Snape, and he could have gotten James killed in the process. That's a huge betrayal.
But Sirius isn't mature enough to take responsibility for it. Lupin isn't self-confident enough to confront Sirius about it. "James would-consider-it-the-height-of-dishonor-to-mistrust-his-friends Potter" isn't going to be the one to lay blame on Sirius or break up the group. But it's too big an issue to ignore. The only way they can get over this is to put it all on Snape. It was just a joke, and Snape is an idiot, and James is a hero.
If you compare the two incidents that the books show us of the Marauders bullying Snape, you can see that totally different dynamics are driving the bullying. This shows how and why the bullying got worse after the prank.
The first bullying incident we see is on the Hogwarts Express, when James and Sirius engage in verbal bullying of Snape, with one small attempt at tripping him up as he leaves. This bullying is a form of bonding for James and Sirius and forms the basis of their friend group. This is an example of bullying driven by Peer Group factors (source), and this sort of bullying is generally done to:
to attain or maintain social power or to elevate their status in their peer group.
to show their allegiance to and fit in with their peer group.
to exclude others from their peer group, to show who is and is not part of the group.
What we're seeing here is that the soon-to-be Marauders are in new environment and they're defining their peer group and establishing social hierarchy, trying to establish their status. The Marauders continue in this pattern of Peer Group bullying throughout their school career, as evidenced by the detention records Snape has Harry transcribe in HBP. The Marauders seem to have thrown out hexes in a scattershot way to establish superiority over other students and look cool. This casual, incidental sort of bullying is likely what Snape experienced for the first several years of school.
But what we see in SWM isn't bullying to maintain Peer Group dynamics. This bullying isn't just flinging a single insult or a clever hex. James and Sirius hunt Snape, they deprive him of his wand and ability to escape the situation, and they repeatedly hex him until Lily (temporarily) stops them. This incident is extremely personal. This is an example of bullying driven by Emotional factors, and this type of bullying is done when the bullies:
have feelings of insecurity and low self-esteem, so they bully to make themselves feel more powerful.
don’t know how to control their emotions, so they take out their feelings on other people.
may not have skills for handling social situations in healthy, positive ways.
What we're seeing here is all the fraying edges of the Marauders' friendship. Sirius has just damaged their group, but he can't apologize or address it without accepting blame, so he has to take his emotions out on Snape. Punishing Snape is a way to exorcise his guilt. And it's actually imperative that he bully Snape into silence, because he is the one who has revealed Lupin's secret to Snape and put them all in jeopardy. Lupin can't confront Sirius about the betrayal of trust, and likewise he can't confront his friends here. Not only does Lupin not have the emotional security for handling this situation, he also can't risk putting himself in front of Snape in this moment, lest Snape scream "Werewolf" instead of "Mudblood." James is here trying to work through his own insecurities – in bullying Snape he is defending his friends, but James is also trying to get Lily's attention. James offers to change his ways if she'll give him a chance, because James needs to reassure himself that he is chivalrous, that he is a hero.
Looking at the way the bullying dynamics change and escalate in those two scenes, I think it’s clear that Lupin’s line, “Snape was a special case. I mean, he never lost an opportunity to curse James so you couldn't really expect James to take that lying down,” is an understatement.
Snape was a special case because he knew Lupin’s secret, which would always make him a potential threat. The Marauders would always take any opportunity they could to reinforce that Snape was powerless to do anything to them. And they’d continue to take out all their emotions about the prank on Snape rather than confronting each other.
The true birth of the Marauders fandom and why the new one is problematic
I'll explain how the Marauders Fandom really born
I found a posts from someone who asked how to join the Marauders fandom, and these are some of the replies they received. I'm not including names because this isn't meant to be an attack on those who gave these replies; they're clearly in good faith. I'm only using them to clarify a point I addressed a few days ago in THIS post.
just read All the young dudes and the rest will fall into place. There's also an audio book on yt
The biggest marauders community is on tiktok, so that's a good place ig. I stumbled along it on there when I still had it years ago and that's how I got into it. Also reading noteble fics definitely
Yeah, it's 90% fanfic based and mostly centered around shipping them with each other.
Yes, it's mostly fan fiction. I think "All The Young Dudes" is generally considered the best of the Marauders fanfiction, and my guess would be that it's where a lot of the things people consider to be canon come from.
Welcome to the fandom :D
ATYD is definitely a cornerstone, as well as Choices, ATYD - Sirius' Perspective, and another fic that has been getting pretty popular recently that I definitely recommend, marginalia.
When I say that the modern Marauders fandom (a part of it) is damaging the HP fandom, I'm referring to precisely this.
If someone who only read the books years ago and obviously doesn't remember them well asks how they can join the fandom, the first answers they receive cannot and should not be recommendations of non-canon compliant FF.
It's obvious that they also make up the fandom, some of the most famous (which I'll talk about soon) have greatly influenced the fandom and the way of seeing certain characters, but they are alternative versions that can be read later.
They shouldn't be the first approach to fandom.
It would be like telling someone who has never read the HP books and knows practically nothing about them to read FF, where Harry is raised by Voldemort.
When I say that the modern Marauders fandom (a part of it) is damaging the HP fandom, I'm referring to precisely this.
It would give the new fan a totally distorted idea of the characters. Even worse if they then decide not to read the canon books. They'll end up thinking that Harry, son of Voldemort, is the actual version. Therein lies the damage. And I know some have a totally different idea and see the Marauders fandom as something separate, a bit like the Slytherin Boys, but the two are totally different.
The fact that the idea of the Marauders and their era is distorted today comes mostly from TikTok. Many new fans became interested during Covid and discovered the world of FF and fandom without the slightest knowledge of the rules.
This is why more and more fans have problematic attitudes.
People who censorship, people who attack other fans just because they ship canonical couples, fans who use FF as if it were publishing material and demand new chapters instead of respecting the authors and understanding that every story is a gift, etc... all these new fans have no education whatsoever on fandom rules but have problematic attitudes. and claim to dictate the law by force of numbers.
You really have no idea how many times I've read things like:
"But we collectively decided that Mary is black and was obliviated after the war"
"We decided that James Potter fanon is totally different from canon and is POC"
"We decided that Regulus was forced to take the Dark Mark."
And my reaction is always: WHO ARE WE? Who really are we?
The fandom doesn't have people with more authority than others, no one can dictate the law, the only thing that truly has more authority is the canon, and if "WE" decides not to respect the canon, then it's unacceptable for them to impose their own ideas.
I repeat it for the umpteenth time: it's okay to read and write stories that don't conform to canon, but it's not okay to pass them off as the version to start entering the fandom with, it's not okay to pass them off as canon-compliant.
It's also not fair to spread falsehoods like: "We created the Marauders era, there's nothing canonical about it, it all started thanks to TikTok." Because no, that's not true at all.
I've been in the fandom for years, I've seen how it started, I've seen the birth of the first fancasts and the first ships (when the term was still weird, like: "What do I do with a boat?" really xD).
I'll explain how the Marauders Fandom really born:
Curiosity about the Marauders era exploded with the release of the third book and chapter 18, in which Lupin talks about his time at Hogwarts with his friends, his relationship with Snape, and so on. Fans began to fantasize, writing interesting short stories with unique styles that stuck to the little we knew.
The author (you know who) then answered some questions about the Marauders over the years, and that information was added to the canon. Then, with the fourth book, the Slytherin Gang (now called the Snape Gang/the Obsidians) was added thanks to ONE LINE Sirius says to Harry (CHAPTER 27):
he (Snape) was part of a gang of Slytherins who nearly all turned out to be Death Eaters.”
Sirius held up his fingers and began ticking off names.
“Rosier and Wilkes — they were both killed by Aurors the year before Voldemort fell. The Lestranges — they’re a married couple — they’re in Azkaban. Avery — from what I’ve heard he wormed his way out of trouble by saying he’d been acting under the Imperius Curse — he’s still at large. But as far as I know, Snape was never even accused of being a Death Eater — not that that means much. Plenty of them were never caught. And Snape’s certainly clever and cunning enough to keep himself out of trouble.”
(oh look there are the em dashes, it's definitely AI, oh no, it's just English grammar, look at that)
At the end of the same book, we discover that Snape has the dark mark and was a Death Eater, and this further layered that era.
Before then, between the third and fourth books, it was unknown who Snape's friends were.
For this reason, everything focused on the Marauders, and the name was precisely Marauders Era.
Then came the fifth book, and new details were added. Snape's memories of Harry spying against his consent give us a glimpse of the Marauders' behavior towards each other and towards Snape. We see the moment when Lily and Severus's friendship ends (even though we didn't know they were friends at the time) and from there the first theories were born.
In fact, there were people who had already theorized that Snape was in love with Lily, and the author explicitly said: "I can't tell you."
Sirius and Remus tell Harry how James and Lily started dating in their senior year, not before. and how James lied to Lily about his ongoing clash with Snape behind her back.
And then we discover other names from the Marauders era or earlier thanks to the photo Moody gives Harry from the original Order of the Phoenix. Here we have characters who are mentioned only once, like Caradoc, Benjy, Dorcas etc., and it gives rise to the convenient idea for the FF writers that they were all, or almost all, at school at the same time, even if in different years. Because based only on canonical information, we had to grasp every nuance. Something like "they were all so young" was enough to make us understand that they were all barely over 18 to join the Order, that Neville's parents were Aurors and therefore were canonically at least three to five years older than the Marauders (since the author said that the Auror course lasts at least three years), and since the Longbottoms are respected Aurors, they must have had at least a few years of career.
All of this was sensible reasoning, respectful of canon, and it took time and attention. It wasn't like someone would wake up one day and say something like: "Sturgis Podmore was definitely the school's cigarette dealer!"
No, we stuck to the canonical information and then built believable fantasies from it. We then got illustrations of characters not described in the books, and we got other small pieces of information about the Marauders through the punishments Harry reads in the sixth book when he's in detention with Snape.
Slughorn talks to Harry about Lily, and we see the professor's relationship with Severus during a Slug Club party. And finally, with the seventh and final book, we get more juicy information.
We have a wonderful little snippet of the night of October 31, 1981, from Voldemort's POV, which finally shows us how events unfolded. Finally, we arrive at Chapter 33 "The Prince's Tale" where we actually see the meeting between Lily and Severus, their behavior, their friendship, and how it develops over the years and its tragic end.
We get a glimpse of Snape's sins, the first war, and the years he served as a spy and protected Harry and all of Hogwarts, as well as helping Harry during his last year on the run in search of the Horcruxes.
Everything is like a puzzle, where the pieces fit together little by little until the bigger picture is achieved.
The author then added other canonical information, such as who Sirius gored on the night of October 31st, who killed Remus during the Battle of Hogwarts, and a short canonical prequel story featuring James and Sirius during the First War.
Then, on Pottermore (the first), we had a true expansion of the canon with in-depth stories. The author reveals the disastrous meeting between James, Lily, and Petunia, along with her boyfriend Vernon. All this canonical information gave birth to the Marauders-era fandom. Everything then expanded; some fans focused on the Marauders, others on the Snape Gang, and still others tried to create credible interpretations of names mentioned only once, and everything expanded wonderfully.
So no, as you can see, everything was born long before TikTok, long before even most of the new fans were born.
And no, not even Wolfstar created the fandom. Even though it is a very famous ship today, it is not the one that drove the fandom. (Leaving aside that canonically it makes zero sense and Prongfoot is much more believable) was not born as a crack ship, that is, deliberately absurd ships made popular because, however, how was Jegulu born.
No, Wolfstar was born from a misunderstanding, from a nuance that the actors of Remus and Sirius are said to have given to the characters by imagining them as homosexual. But this is not entirely true, it is really a common example of how a story told many times becomes exaggerated and distorted. The truth is that in just one interview, Remus actor David Thewlis stated this:
O.K. but what about the revelation that Albus Dumbledore is gay? Thewlis concedes that threw him for a loop, but not for the reasons you might think. "The funny thing when Alfonso Cuaron directed "The Prisoner of Azkaban, the first film that I appear in, he had the idea that Lupin was gay and he described my character like a 'gay junkie' .And of course Lupin turns out not to be gay because he marries Tonks and has children."
So this interpretation isn't even from the actors, but from the third film's director, Alfonso Cuarón, and refers only to the character of Remus. However, this interpretation turns out to be incorrect given how the character evolves in the canon.
Furthermore, Sirius actor Gary Oldman said that if he had been able to know more about his character, as Alan Rickman did, he would have interpreted the role drastically differently.
Indeed, if we had had a faithful representation of how Sirius interacted with Remus as a young man and The Prank had been explained, Wolfstar wouldn't have had all this "success."
So I hope you now understand, at least a little, the annoyance some of us feel these days at seeing everything distorted and passed off as the product of a single, non-canon-compliant but poorly tagged FF, with OOCs and absurd distortions, or edits that, however beautiful, are the product of a much older commitment.
It's frustrating, like watching a classmate show up late, haven't studied, and then steal your homework, hand it in to the teacher, pretending it's theirs, and steal all the credit.
And the worst part is that when this is pointed out, the responses are terribly immature, like: "Don't ruin the fandom, it's our space, we can do whatever we want" and there are still people who continue to say that only a small portion of fans made the fandom great, fans who weren't even born when the first books were released.
I honestly know I'm going to sound old when I say this, but today's fandom can only run free because the first-generation fans worked on it. The new fans are left to their own devices, but instead of respecting their work, they kick them in the back, even trying to bully them and disown the canon.
icl tbosas is definitely my favourite hunger games book (and maybe even movie)… snowbaird drives me insane like no other ship like ofc snow is evil and eviler but their dynamic is so compelling
I dreamt about this meme format born on tiktok where a man in a cute anime dress, all smiling and peacefull, is in the middle of the ocean with a paddle in a hand and behind him in a barrel there is another man in a cute neko-maid dress uncomfortable and miserable... Both are standing... Nothing on sight, only sea... The first one is dragging the second one and he is singing and it seesm to say "Bana bana galush", so the meme is now called 'Bana galush', and there are fanart about it with all the ships under the sun and if a ship was drew like this it means it was 'Bana-galushed'.
It's been quiet around here, but with the continuous onslaught of GenAI slop, it's time to revive The Stick Figures Challenge!
All our homies hate AI "art" and we agree that we'd much rather see lovingly drawn stick figure art than soulless GenAI slop. So @burntblueberrywaffles and @ourdramaqueen cordially invite you to participate in
The Stick Figures Challenge Winter Solstice Talent Show
Everyone is invited to participate, from those who think they don't have a creative bone in their body (hint: you're wrong) to those who make a living from their art, and all those in between.
To participate, simply make a winter holdiay themed fanart to the best of your abilities. It can be
as simple or as detailed as you would like,
traditional or digital art,
any medium,
any style - including stick figures, of course,
featuring any winter holiday from reality or fiction, from the present or the past.
We hope it goes without saying that no GenAI images are allowed!
Need a tutorial? You can find one here!
Once you've created your art, post it on Tumblr between the winter solstice (December 21, 2025) and New Year's Day (January 1, 2026), and tag it #wintersolsticetalentshow. For those creating Wyler art, please also tag your art #wylerstickfigures. If you would like to make art for another fandom/pairing but still want to join in on the fun, tag your art #stickfigureschallenge. All Wyler and non-Wyler participants are welcome to tag @stickfigureschallenge to get their fanart reblogged!
Remember that creativity is a process, not an output! This blog was created to remind everyone of their innate creativity. Human made art has flaws and personality and most importantly, heart 🫀. That is what we respond to, and something GenAI "art" can never achieve.
She Looks Like The Real Thing, She Tastes Like The Real Thing by lysanderwarrior
Coriolanus is doing as fine as a struggling university student can be doing. He sleeps just a couple hours per night, works two jobs, tries to deal with the life he's been given and spends most of his time texting a girl he met online. Though, one day his routine is interrupted when the very same internet friend suggests meeting each other in real life. She lives in the same town as him, but there's no way he already knows her or happens to hate her… is there?
Why they love it: "this fic made me go insane the first time I read it I literally couldn't stop thinking about it between chapters - got me through some though times and it remains dear to my heart."
snow and embers part 2 by @hopefulatrocity
Why they love it: "shoutout for being THE snowbaird breeding kink fic - never thought I'd be into that and then this fic changed my life"
All Your Wasteland Flower by allbridgesburn
Lucy Gray Baird survives Coriolanus Snow. However, she's not the only one.
[post-canon]
Why they love it: "The angst and the dark romance of it all🥰😍"
by little baird (steddiemixtape)
Why they love it: "This author has produced so many snowboards fic that I love. I’d love to submit each one of them"
i get drunk on jealousy
a night out at the hob.
or,
Coriolanus doesn't like to have to share.
Why they love it: "hot. very hot."
By ninaficwriter:
The charm of the serpent
Lucy Gray is captured and taken to the Capitol four years after the 10th edition of the Hunger Games. Among the impenetrable walls erected by the relentless exploitation of the districts, an arranged marriage emerges, serving as a delicate balance between two fiercely opposing sides. Coriolanus Snow now needs to decide how far he is willing to go to achieve the desired power, as the shadow of rebellion grows in the darkest corners of Panem.
Elclipsis by ninaficwriter
Eclipsis, the clandestine nightclub, opens its doors to talented artists and silent rebels. Among the shadows, Lucy Gray is invited to be the main star, but the invitation awakens old wounds and revolutionary dreams that could decide the fate of Panem.
Veridian's Snow - Snowbaird AU
❝In a corrupted world, love can be the most dangerous of alliances.❞
Lucy Gray, a young woman belonging to the Baird family, sees her life turned upside down when her parents are murdered under mysterious circumstances. Forced to pay a supposed debt left by her father, Lucy Gray finds herself trapped in an agreement: to marry Coriolanus Snow, the heir of the powerful Snow Mafia. As the marriage starts cold, the staging of a public passion brings them closer, awakening unexpected feelings.
However, amidst secrets and power games, she uncovers truths about her parents that could shake not only her relationship with Coriolanus but also the very structure of the Snow family.
Alive and well by Anonymous
In the original universe, their last meeting took place to the sound of gunfire in the forest. In this universe, to the sound of gunfire in the forest, they met. District 13 AU.
Why they love it: "DISTRICT 13 AU"
By perfectlystill:
Was Such Still Dwelling There
Survival, even in this form, is better than death.
Lucy Gray returns home.
Why they love it: "i think about this fic like once a day, masterpiece"
Helpless, Tender, Open
When his heartbeat stutters beneath her touch, when his mouth falls open, breathing heavy, Lucy Gray pops open her clutch.
She’s the one pouring antidote down his throat.
Why they love it: "another absolute masterpiece"
The play of songbirds and snakes by MitsukiSirya ( @mitsuki91 )
"Coriolanus stood in the midst of the destruction, the last book with the torn pages lying on the floor and the papers still swirling around him, his cheeks on fire and out of breath after all the physical exertion he hadn't realized he'd made, contemplating in shock the images that had sprung up in his head.
No.
He could never hurt Lucy Gray.
Not any more. Never again.
If she had been here in front of him, Coryo would only have wanted to kiss her."
Why they love it: "I love how unhinged and down bad Coryo is for Lucy Gray, this fic makes me giggle every time I read it <3"
By tphyche: (@korlovv )
Your Selfish Ways
Ten years since her disappearance from District 12 Lucy Gray decides it’s time to return, finding a shelter and a silent life. All would be well if it weren’t for the mysterious encounters of a man cloaked in darkness. A deal is struck, twice a month she would give up to him in return for his silence of her existence. Only one condition: she’s to not ask or look at him.
For the snowbaird week 2024| Day 2 – Myth.
Why they love it: "I read this more times than I can count. Peak snowbaird writing"
Blind Faith
Father Snow is a devoted man of God, such so that he would do anything for his chapel. But his faith seemes unbalanced when a pair of brown eyes and a dazzling smile threaten to dismantle his love in God.
Why they love it: "It's feral. ;-)"
Nothing Burns Like The Snow by evilweasel
Katniss always hated burns, though as a resident of District 12 – the District of coal mines and poverty – she’s intimately familiar with them. Hot, cruel, and shiny, it’s why she avoids the stove like the plague; takes to the shade in hot weather; prefers a chilled night to a blistering one. But when her father dies, she realises the feeling of snow burns just as terribly too. Yet in the midst of the snow she catches a tune on the wind. A silhouette in a rainbow dress. A poem from an old song. Lucy Gray has conquered the snow and come back through the blizzard, just to give her a glimpse of something called hope
Why they love it: "The writing is just so fantastic. It's not complete but I love rereading the chapters. It's writing style is just so fantastic"
cri de coeur by mswyrr (@mswyrr )
Lucy Gray is drawn back into Capitol intrigue, changing the course of Panem's history.
Why they love it: "made me cry"
By MistyMunroe:
Subject 486
They fell in love in a dream (literally).
—
In a surveillance-obsessed totalitarian regime, Dr. Coriolanus Snow and his colleagues are part of a covert government dream study project designed to unlock, and ultimately control, the thoughts of every citizen.
Their mission is clear: Total control, a perfect society where rebellion is impossible. Among the cohort of forcibly recruited study participants is Subject 486. Her mind is an enigma, unpredictable, and impossible to pin down. As Dr. Snow ventures deeper into her dreams and thoughts, the more the lines blur between science and obsession, and he finds himself drawn into a strange and dangerous bond that transcends the physical realm.
Why they love it: "the story is so creative with its worldbuilding and i loved the concept of the dreamsharing within a dystopian society! the story was adventurous with unpredictable twists and such great intimacy and tension between snowbaird! every story by this author is FANTASTIC and so unique, but this is my favourite for sure!"
The Birth of Panem
“Come with me.”
"What?" Lucy Gray tries to pull away, but his grip tightens.
“There's a transport leaving in less than thirty minutes. There should be extra space for you. If we wait, we're trapped.” Coriolanus’s eyes burn with intensity. “The tremors are just a warning before it all comes down.” He still doesn’t let go. “Come with me.”
—
How did Panem, the Capitol, and the Districts, come to be? It begins on a Wednesday in the fall of 2035, when the world ends.
Lucy Gray Baird barely survives the chaos, fleeing to a large-scale military bunker alongside her enigmatic neighbor, Coriolanus Snow, a man whose charm conceals ruthless ambition. In this new world, as the last remnants of North America’s leadership struggle to forge order from the ashes of the old world, Lucy Gray must decide whether love is her greatest refuge…or her most dangerous mistake.
Why they love it: "the chemistry is muwah muwah chef’s kiss and the world building my goodness amazing"
This Is Where You’ll Find Me by pinkandblue00
She had that feeling. That feeling she got before a big storm. The feeling she got right before a trader had pulled a knife on her and her ma at the Hob. The feeling she got right before the stove caught on fire.
The feeling that something was about to happen.
Call it instinct or call it a sixth sense, but Emmy always knew. She knew when danger was lurking. Her mind and body were screaming at her, aggressively sending her the signal, the warning.
Run. But Emery was frozen.
Fanola delicately unfolded the piece of paper, her eyes promptly surveying the name. Her smile widened and she leaned in closer into the microphone.
Run.
“Emery Blue Baird!”
Why they love it: "THE BEST SNOWBAIRD BABY STORY!!!! never fell in love with an oc so quickly, i love how incredible of a character emery blue is and how she's the perfect mix of snow and lucy gray! hoping so so so bad that the story continues to see them be a deranged family together, but i'm also still satisfied with the masterpiece we have already been given!"
Don't Keep the Devil Waiting by FrostedGemstones22 (@youngbloodlex22 )
Coriolanus Snow doesn't care about fleeting high-school relationships, classroom drama, or making friends.
All he cares about is restoring his family name to glory by winning the Plinth Prize.
Even the addition of some pathetic voucher students to the Academy can't distract him. It would be laughable that they'd ever get a shot at winning it, right?
Until...a twist is introduced.
To win the Plinth Prize, you must work in a team. And worse, it has to be with a scholarship student.
Coriolanus hates Lucy Gray. And she hates him.
But together, they might have a shot at it. They both would do anything to win.
----
Modern Snowbarid!AU
Gods, lovers and monsters by Anonymous
Fate is a cruel thing with a sick-cold sense of humour.
Performing in the glamourous world of the Capitol leaves Lucy Gray wanting nothing more than to leave it. Money's great, Capitol gives the Covey what the total of three districts can't. Until she meets the man who she once trusted in another life. The man she's been avoiding— Coriolanus Snow.
A man who entangles her into an inescapable game.
Sooo, about what I was talking about days ago, the fact that not all the marauder fan are forced to share the same headcanons... I started to write my Dorcas Meadowes story.
You have to understand that back then, in the italian fandom, Sirius/Dorcas was a huuuuge ship. And then my bestie introduced me to the Evan/Dorcas. I combined both in this canon-compliant story, that is of course filled by my personal headcanons.
Enjoy!
Smoke spirals
Summary:
Watching the smoke curl from the cigarette she has just brought to her mouth, Dorcas reflects on her life, on the endless paths she could have taken - on how she could never have redemption, ever, because the blood guilt she carries is her mother's sin, sewn deep into her veins.
The world she wanted to be part of has cast her out, and the only consolation she has left is that it is for the best, given the fate of all those she loved.
Link:
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
I think I am officially Fandom Old. I am so worn out from the arguments on who's the top or the bottom (who cares), what is allowed to be written (anything you want, bejeebus), what is Problematic (I know, just tag it), what other people Should Do (they Should live their lives free of judgment). There isn't a Right Way to do things. Tag your stuff appropriately, don't read stuff you don't want to read, and leave other people (me) alone.
There is nothing quite like the freedom of having gone through all of the Discourse and come out the other side into the promised land of Not Giving A Fuck.
Idk what post that anon sent you from slithering ghost, but I had the misfortune of coming across a post from them which was like ' there's classism in fandom because they concentrate more on Snapes' domestic abuse and deny Sirius's because Sirius is rich. Rich people can get abused too!' which is very fucking funny because first of all, the fandom infact speaks to insane lengths about Sirius's domestic abuse to the point where it seems caricaturish. Second of all, there's nothing wrong in people exploring how poverty can exacerbate the violence snape faced. They also claimed that all kids laughing at snape during swm wasn't because of imbedded classism because of course, children in elite institutions in the 70s or even in 2025 aren't at all clasist but have such great political consciousness that they just KNEW snape is going to be a death eater and he deserves to be humiliated and SA'd. I don't understand how they claim to be in late 20s and have this bad of a textual analysis of a children's media of all things. Denying classism from a work of British author set in 70s is wild lmao. But how else will we make Sirius Black be the pinnacle of morality and righteousness if we don't sweep his classist treatment of snape under the rug?
In my country, people with that kind of discourse— the ones who deny the institutionalized classism intrinsic to Western cultures and on top of that try to equate the suffering of a rich person with resources and social and economic safety nets to that of someone who literally has nothing— we just call them fucking fachas (which derives from fascist) and move on. So yeah, that girl’s a fucking facha and she can choke on it. The bloody neoliberal idiot is classist as hell, what a massive moron. What a load of bullshit, seriously, we should normalize people just shutting the fuck up when they have absolutely no idea what they’re talking about.
Also may I add there is not canon evidence of Sirius abuse. Yeah, he run out and was disowned, but his room at Grimmauld Place remains exactly the same, plus the fact that he was able to decorate it as he wanted in the first place.
I understand that this is my headcanon but I think that secretly Sirius was Walburga's favourite and it breaks her heart having to disown him.
I mean, for a family when more than once a child impregnate another child (I know it's not techincally canon since it's not in the book, but it was Rowling herself who back in the day gave us the Black family tree and the dates) I am pretty sure that Sirius has just the same hot-head as his ancestor. I dare to say he is more similar to Bellatrix than he dares to admit. No one ever can force a Black to do what they doesn't want to do.
So, everytime I see a fic where Sirius is cruciated by his father or mother, I can only laugh. You are not credible here, my child.
I love it when fan fiction writers are like: “ah shit, this was meant to be one part but I started writing it and now it has to be three”. Like the fanfic is happening to them and not being created by them.
