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Lily evans knew that james potter and co was still harassing snape but didn’t care she justified it because “at least they don’t use dark magic” .
Also you guys keep saying that it wasn’t her job to fix sev and it wasn’t but aren’t friends suppose to look out for each other and check up on each other and their been best friends for years how did she not know what’s going on in his life.
Tony stark is so pretty he only uses 100 dollar bills to wipe his tears
I don’t get how in fantasy fiction, the women who actually enjoy sewing/embroidering are always painted as the weak, boring, and anti-feminist characters
Sewing and embroidery take skill, patience, and artistic talent and it was also the ultimate way to ignore the annoying men in your life in past centuries
If you didn’t feel like talking to a man, you just “took up your sewing” and he’d have to leave you alone, especially if he needed that shirt mended
Women also got together all the time to sew, weave, embroider but also talk, gossip, assist each other’s work, and enjoy each other’s company in peace
The skill the female character has doesn’t have to be sword-fighting for her to be strong, because there’s strength and power in any skill she has
Words for Skin Tone | How to Describe Skin Color
We discussed the issues describing People of Color by means of food in Part I of this guide, which brought rise to even more questions, mostly along the lines of “So, if food’s not an option, what can I use?” Well, I was just getting to that!
This final portion focuses on describing skin tone, with photo and passage examples provided throughout. I hope to cover everything from the use of straight-forward description to the more creatively-inclined, keeping in mind the questions we’ve received on this topic.
Standard Description
Basic Colors
Pictured above: Black, Brown, Beige, White, Pink.
“She had brown skin.”
This is a perfectly fine description that, while not providing the most detail, works well and will never become cliché.
Describing characters’ skin as simply brown or beige works on its own, though it’s not particularly telling just from the range in brown alone.
Complex Colors
These are more rarely used words that actually “mean” their color. Some of these have multiple meanings, so you’ll want to look into those to determine what other associations a word might have.
Pictured above: Umber, Sepia, Ochre, Russet, Terra-cotta, Gold, Tawny, Taupe, Khaki, Fawn.
Complex colors work well alone, though often pair well with a basic color in regards to narrowing down shade/tone.
For example: Golden brown, russet brown, tawny beige…
As some of these are on the “rare” side, sliding in a definition of the word within the sentence itself may help readers who are unfamiliar with the term visualize the color without seeking a dictionary.
“He was tall and slim, his skin a russet, reddish-brown.”
Comparisons to familiar colors or visuals are also helpful:
“His skin was an ochre color, much like the mellow-brown light that bathed the forest.”
Modifiers
Modifiers, often adjectives, make partial changes to a word.The following words are descriptors in reference to skin tone.
Dark - Deep - Rich - Cool
Warm - Medium - Tan
Fair - Light - Pale
Rich Black, Dark brown, Warm beige, Pale pink…
If you’re looking to get more specific than “brown,” modifiers narrow down shade further.
Keep in mind that these modifiers are not exactly colors.
As an already brown-skinned person, I get tan from a lot of sun and resultingly become a darker, deeper brown. I turn a pale, more yellow-brown in the winter.
While best used in combination with a color, I suppose words like “tan” “fair” and “light” do work alone; just note that tan is less likely to be taken for “naturally tan” and much more likely a tanned White person.
Calling someone “dark” as description on its own is offensive to some and also ambiguous. (See: Describing Skin as Dark)
Undertones
Undertones are the colors beneath the skin, seeing as skin isn’t just one even color but has more subdued tones within the dominating palette.
pictured above: warm / earth undertones: yellow, golden, copper, olive, bronze, orange, orange-red, coral | cool / jewel undertones: pink, red, blue, blue-red, rose, magenta, sapphire, silver.
Mentioning the undertones within a character’s skin is an even more precise way to denote skin tone.
As shown, there’s a difference between say, brown skin with warm orange-red undertones (Kelly Rowland) and brown skin with cool, jewel undertones (Rutina Wesley).
“A dazzling smile revealed the bronze glow at her cheeks.”
“He always looked as if he’d ran a mile, a constant tinge of pink under his tawny skin.”
Standard Description Passage
“Farah’s skin, always fawn, had burned and freckled under the summer’s sun. Even at the cusp of autumn, an uneven tan clung to her skin like burrs. So unlike the smooth, red-brown ochre of her mother, which the sun had richened to a blessing.”
-From my story “Where Summer Ends” featured in Strange Little Girls
Here the state of skin also gives insight on character.
Note my use of “fawn” in regards to multiple meaning and association. While fawn is a color, it’s also a small, timid deer, which describes this very traumatized character of mine perfectly.
Though I use standard descriptions of skin tone more in my writing, at the same time I’m no stranger to creative descriptions, and do enjoy the occasional artsy detail of a character.
Creative Description
Whether compared to night-cast rivers or day’s first light…I actually enjoy seeing Characters of Colors dressed in artful detail.
I’ve read loads of descriptions in my day of white characters and their “smooth rose-tinged ivory skin”, while the PoC, if there, are reduced to something from a candy bowl or a Starbucks drink, so to actually read of PoC described in lavish detail can be somewhat of a treat.
Still, be mindful when you get creative with your character descriptions. Too many frills can become purple-prose-like, so do what feels right for your writing when and where. Not every character or scene warrants a creative description, either. Especially if they’re not even a secondary character.
Using a combination of color descriptions from standard to creative is probably a better method than straight creative. But again, do what’s good for your tale.
Natural Settings - Sky
Pictured above: Harvest Moon -Twilight, Fall/Autumn Leaves, Clay, Desert/Sahara, Sunlight - Sunrise - Sunset - Afterglow - Dawn- Day- Daybreak, Field - Prairie - Wheat, Mountain/Cliff, Beach/Sand/Straw/Hay.
Now before you run off to compare your heroine’s skin to the harvest moon or a cliff side, think about the associations to your words.
When I think cliff, I think of jagged, perilous, rough. I hear sand and picture grainy, yet smooth. Calm. mellow.
So consider your character and what you see fit to compare them to.
Also consider whose perspective you’re describing them from. Someone describing a person they revere or admire may have a more pleasant, loftier description than someone who can’t stand the person.
“Her face was like the fire-gold glow of dawn, lifting my gaze, drawing me in.”
“She had a sandy complexion, smooth and tawny.”
Even creative descriptions tend to draw help from your standard words.
Flowers
Pictured above: Calla lilies, Western Coneflower, Hazel Fay, Hibiscus, Freesia, Rose
It was a bit difficult to find flowers to my liking that didn’t have a 20 character name or wasn’t called something like “chocolate silk” so these are the finalists.
You’ll definitely want to avoid purple-prose here.
Also be aware of flowers that most might’ve never heard of. Roses are easy, as most know the look and coloring(s) of this plant. But Western coneflowers? Calla lilies? Maybe not so much.
“He entered the cottage in a huff, cheeks a blushing brown like the flowers Nana planted right under my window. Hazel Fay she called them, was it?”
Assorted Plants & Nature
Pictured above: Cattails, Seashell, Driftwood, Pinecone, Acorn, Amber
These ones are kinda odd. Perhaps because I’ve never seen these in comparison to skin tone, With the exception of amber.
At least they’re common enough that most may have an idea what you’re talking about at the mention of “pinecone.“
I suggest reading out your sentences aloud to get a better feel of how it’ll sounds.
“Auburn hair swept past pointed ears, set around a face like an acorn both in shape and shade.”
I pictured some tree-dwelling being or person from a fantasy world in this example, which makes the comparison more appropriate.
I don’t suggest using a comparison just “cuz you can” but actually being thoughtful about what you’re comparing your character to and how it applies to your character and/or setting.
Wood
Pictured above: Mahogany, Walnut, Chestnut, Golden Oak, Ash
Wood can be an iffy description for skin tone. Not only due to several of them having “foody” terminology within their names, but again, associations.
Some people would prefer not to compare/be compared to wood at all, so get opinions, try it aloud, and make sure it’s appropriate to the character if you do use it.
“The old warlock’s skin was a deep shade of mahogany, his stare serious and firm as it held mine.”
Metals
Pictured above: Platinum, Copper, Brass, Gold, Bronze
Copper skin, brass-colored skin, golden skin…
I’ve even heard variations of these used before by comparison to an object of the same properties/coloring, such as penny for copper.
These also work well with modifiers.
“The dress of fine white silks popped against the deep bronze of her skin.”
Gemstones - Minerals
Pictured above: Onyx, Obsidian, Sard, Topaz, Carnelian, Smoky Quartz, Rutile, Pyrite, Citrine, Gypsum
These are trickier to use. As with some complex colors, the writer will have to get us to understand what most of these look like.
If you use these, or any more rare description, consider if it actually “fits” the book or scene.
Even if you’re able to get us to picture what “rutile” looks like, why are you using this description as opposed to something else? Have that answer for yourself.
“His skin reminded her of the topaz ring her father wore at his finger, a gleaming stone of brown, mellow facades.”
Physical Description
Physical character description can be more than skin tone.
Show us hair, eyes, noses, mouth, hands…body posture, body shape, skin texture… though not necessarily all of those nor at once.
Describing features also helps indicate race, especially if your character has some traits common within the race they are, such as afro hair to a Black character.
How comprehensive you decide to get is up to you. I wouldn’t overdo it and get specific to every mole and birthmark. Noting defining characteristics is good, though, like slightly spaced front teeth, curls that stay flopping in their face, hands freckled with sunspots…
General Tips
Indicate Race Early: I suggest indicators of race be made at the earliest convenience within the writing, with more hints threaded throughout here and there.
Get Creative On Your Own: Obviously, I couldn’t cover every proper color or comparison in which has been “approved” to use for your characters’ skin color, so it’s up to you to use discretion when seeking other ways and shades to describe skin tone.
Skin Color May Not Be Enough: Describing skin tone isn’t always enough to indicate someone’s ethnicity. As timeless cases with readers equating brown to “dark white” or something, more indicators of race may be needed.
Describe White characters and PoC Alike: You should describe the race and/or skin tone of your white characters just as you do your Characters of Color. If you don’t, you risk implying that White is the default human being and PoC are the “Other”).
PSA: Don’t use “Colored.” Based on some asks we’ve received using this word, I’d like to say that unless you or your character is a racist grandmama from the 1960s, do not call People of Color “colored” please.
Not Sure Where to Start? You really can’t go wrong using basic colors for your skin descriptions. It’s actually what many people prefer and works best for most writing. Personally, I tend to describe my characters using a combo of basic colors + modifiers, with mentions of undertones at times. I do like to veer into more creative descriptions on occasion.
Want some alternatives to “skin” or “skin color”? Try: Appearance, blend, blush, cast, coloring, complexion, flush, glow, hue, overtone, palette, pigmentation, rinse, shade, sheen, spectrum, tinge, tint, tone, undertone, value, wash.
Skin Tone Resources
List of Color Names
The Color Thesaurus
Skin Undertone & Color Matching
Tips and Words on Describing Skin
Photos: Undertones Described (Modifiers included)
Online Thesaurus (try colors, such as “red” & “brown”)
Don’t Call me Pastries: Creative Skin Tones w/ pics I
Writing & Description Guides
WWC Featured Description Posts
WWC Guide: Words to Describe Hair
Writing with Color: Description & Skin Color Tags
7 Offensive Mistakes Well-intentioned Writers Make
I tried to be as comprehensive as possible with this guide, but if you have a question regarding describing skin color that hasn’t been answered within part I or II of this guide, or have more questions after reading this post, feel free to ask!
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Has anyone notice that tony has soft facial features.
i need the "light side" of the hp fandom to come to their senses and see that victim blaming snape is horrible !!! and definitely not the solution !!! to all things caused by jkr's ass writing and badly written characters !!! you are not the harry potter kinnie you think you are by blaming severus for everything that goes wrong in the series when he was targeted for wanting to be in slytherin (his mother had also been in the house) on his train ride to his first year in hogwarts by two massive prejudiced dicks !!
the bullying, sexual assault , attempted murder and then having to take care of the child of the woman you have always loved that decided all the bullying you, her so called best friend, went through for years in a school that was supposed to keep you safe (but of course who could bother to help a poor slimy halfblood snake, right) wasn't enough to think about the possibility james potter a fucking magic cop isnt as twisted as some may think, and god forbid, he could make a decent parental figure !
so you find yourself, a spy between the two sides of the upcoming war, battling yourself against your two masters not even knowing if you will make it alive after the next mission; trapped in the school with people who were supposed to help you as a student, but didn't, as your coworkers. teaching children you most certainly didn't want to teach because it was just the job that was offered to you, and even if it felt like you had a choice? you didn't.
yeah he was a major asshole, he was dick to his students.
but i understand, because if i had gone through that too I wouldn't have handled the things any better.
you can dislike severus snape for all i care, at the end of the day he is a fictional character, but don't give reasons to justify your hatred towards him while acting like the marauders were saints. i dont think he would be half as bitter as he was by the time he died, had his life not been a terrible series of horrifying events, and your golden boys played a huge role in that.
If you still can't accept other people's opinions that are different from yours, then you shouldn't read this post. thanks.
Hei, sorry to bring this up, but I can't get this question out of my head.
Have you ever thought or felt that Jily was just a repserestation of JK Rowling's own misogynist and patriarchal side? She gives us the idea that it is easier for women to forgive and fall in love with a rich and handsome man, even though he is the cause of your discomfort during the last five or six years, than to forgive your own best friend who accompanied you for years?
I'm not saying that what Severus did was right, it's just that this whole thing doesn't sound "clik" on me. Plus almost the entire fandom has criticized ships for pairing two people we know as a "toxic couple" like Drarry and Dramonie, but they're okay with Jily at the same time? In fact, they have same concept: a bully who falls in love with the one he blackmailed or a bully who changes for the loved one.
In this post, I really am not ship Lily with Severus or Severus with James. I'm just expressing my opinion about them. Besides, I don't really like Snily as a couple, either. Thank you if you decided not to judging me and cursing on me.
au idea: snape left the wizarding world as a teen and finished his studies in muggle school
humor me on this one:
snape did not have a great time in hogwarts. he was bullied, rejected, outcast, abused by all the wrong people, and ignored by those who could have helped him…everything that would have constituted a nightmare growing up
when lily finally broke off their friendship during their 5th year, he finally made up his mind: he told his mam he wasn’t going back to hogwarts
eileen had her own reservations about the wizarding world (she never returned to it after all) but she would be damned if her only child would be disgraced like this when he was easily Hogwarts’ most brilliant student. for the first and only time in her life, she floo-called albus dumbledore, told him several choice words, and after a long winding discussion of which severus was not privy to, eileen emerged back in the sitting room looking triumphant and holding a sheaf of papers: dumbledore at least had put a good word in to several muggle public schools that would be more welcoming to her boy and his extraordinary mind, and was willing to foot the bill for the classes he needed to catch up with his peers, at least for the year, as a trial run. all they had to do was fill out the application forms
(dumbledore appeared once to talk to him and ask if he was sure and when he said yes, sir the headmaster sighed and performed a spell that would repress his magic and told him that if he wanted to go back to Hogwarts next year he could and severus shrugged)
severus caught up to his muggle lessons in no time. it was so much easier when magic wasn’t involved; there were less variables and more absolutes
because he had already learned to train his accent and manners thanks to his slytherin housemates, he also blended well with his posh classmates, and the scholarship he was granted made sure he had the required uniforms and school supplies, as well as extra money he could use to buy sweets or small gifts for his mam
his classmates were idiots but they were all right; at least no one strung him up or hexed him when he wasn’t looking, and there were plenty of other boys like him, who weren’t rich but had their own intellectual strengths and for once he was challenged
at that age he had also already grown taller and he was good at mimicking lucius’ stance. no one dared to mess with him, especially if they wanted his help for their chemistry or biology homeworks
he excelled in drama club too and was part of the choir
they learned muggle classics and french and greek and played rugby and even though severus wasn’t good at everything he had mates that could help him out and they would do stupid things like flicking pens at each other or sharing secret cigarettes or trying to pretend they were that bloke bowie singing about young americans
he laughed more times than he had in the past six years and sometimes he swore he could see the silhouette of a wizened old man with a long scraggly beard by the gates or on the bleachers watching him, but he would disappear before severus could take a second look
when dumbledore finally visited during the summer hols after he had spent a full year in muggle school, severus was taller, tanner, broader, and walked around with an easy swagger that the headmaster would have mistaken as james potter’s. his dark hair was cut short and he wore a simple dark sweater and pressed trousers. somewhere in the house, a record was playing, asking about it being “real life or is it just fantasy”, and when he was faced with the boy, severus looked him straight in the eye, something he did not (could not) do back in Hogwarts. behind him, eileen stood and watched, her arms crossed, looking almost smug
well my boy, dumbledore said, Hogwarts is still awaiting you with open arms. what will it be?
(he didn’t tell him of the darkness that had grown in the boy’s old House, how his old House Master lamented the lack of ingenuity in the current batch of students, how the marauders had been expelled following their continuous torment of another student, how lily evans had asked of him and how crushed she had looked when dumbledore had told her of his sudden departure, how he knew the girl had begged for the address of his new school even to eileen snape but the woman had ignored her, how there were dark times ahead and his gut told him he needed this boy back, that he would be essential to what was coming…)
thank you, severus said, and he smiled with ease, but no, headmaster. i shall not be returning. i am perfectly happy here.
i love how @byronicbat‘s tags always make me think a bit more and poke around for further ideas. tags are a goldmine.
so just some additional musings on my end – 1. i agree that severus’ soul is made up of magic (literally and figuratively because i saw him as such a pure child who just wanted to be seen and loved) and it will likely pain him to be cut off from that. i think though that if he knew he had a chance to be even just a smidge happier in a world without magic he would take it. i feel like he was so miserable and desperate as a child, he would have done anything to escape the desolation he felt (like…uh…join a supremacist group that his Housemates were grooming him for). 2. agree, there are many factors that would hold him back. he’d be physically stunted for one thing, and harsh treatment at hogwarts would have not helped with his antisocial tendencies. my ideal muggle school for him would be one with room and board and a small student body so that teachers would be able to pay more attention to each pupil under their care, and where the cafeteria ladies would mother him to death and give him extra servings and try to get him to smile more. he would hate it, but they would take care of him, and eventually he would learn their names and take their ribbings. (the school to would be in london because i fancy the thought of him going to bookstores, the cinema, parks and being utterly cosmopolitan that he’d blow james and sirius out of the water if they ever bumped into each other). 3. even though therapy wasn’t a thing in the 70s (i’m basing it purely on the rock stars that went buck wild during that era lol) his teachers would have been able to notice him and his troubles and would have reached out to him more, maybe by giving him a puzzle book or letting him tinker around in the lab with adult supervision and bit by bit they would have been able to penetrate his shell…y’know additional support that hogwarts should have and could have provided for him but didn’t. 4. don’t get me started on dumbledore, i have so much angst about that character. lmaooo. i don’t hate him, but i have very low regard of him because of how he treated severus. i have no idea why he let sev slip through the cracks when the context wasn’t the same as it was in harry’s time when they were already living under threat of an impending war caused by a madman. the marauders’ school years were pretty much problem-free, so why ignore a child like severus or treat him the way they did? we will never know.
1. I actually completely agree. I had a pretty miserable school experience growing up, but I didn’t have to experience worst at home, you know? I think any improvement would have been enough of an incentive, and that’s what’s sad about it, the idea that either way he’d have to sacrifice a major part of his life just to have a normal adjusted life that we all take for granted.
2. 😭😭😭😭😭 It hurts so much because I would want all those things for him. Especially just having the luxury of going out on the town, being himself, enjoying himself, and being accepted by those around him, all of which seemed impossible for him at Hogwarts, and let that sink in.
3. It would have been so grand if he’d had the chance to dabble as much into muggle science as he did in Potions, because he would have excelled in it, and who knows, may have even been innovative in whatever field he chose, and to have some kind of mentor pushing him along. Like I feel the future of the Wizarding World would have to be the mingling of Magic and Science, and Sev could have easily bridged both worlds, especially if he had had support.
4. As I feel about Lupin, it’s the fact that I don’t hate Dumbledore that makes me more angry about his choices. Like atleast he pulled Tom Riddle out of Wools Orphanage! He sent Harry back to the Dursley’s, but atleast remained a positive and supportive figure in his life. He threw Sev to the wolves, and then condemned him for it when he returned. Severus didn’t have to become a DE, but Dumbledore did absolutely nothing to dissuade him from that path. Like if he didn’t want to do a damn thing the least he could have done was dump the issue on the Board of Governors or something, anything. It’s unconscionable.
i’m sorry to hear you had such a tough time! :(( i hope you have had enough time to heal nevertheless. 1. the hardest bit about moving to the muggle school would really be the either/or scenario of him keeping his magic but staying at hogwarts, or bottling it up so he can attempt to thrive in muggle school. in a way it would have reflected his mother’s choice and maybe would have made them closer, especially during the first few months when he started to miss his magic something fierce. maybe eileen had a very good reason for never going back in to the wizarding world, something sev had never understood especially when he learned to control his magic a bit more in hogwarts, but she helped him through those difficult months, and after staying in a muggle school with his magic locked away and with a different set of experiences on his plate, he had to admit that maybe his mum had had the better idea and it wasn’t so bad after all. 2. ughhh imagine severus enjoying himself at a concert with his friends – actual friends who tease him good-naturedly, who’d ask him to go on double dates with them so it’d be less awkward, who’d let him borrow ten quid without any nasty comments – or watching west end plays and eating curry takeaway after, or maybe even discovering a hidden talent or penchant for art at his new school because the opportunity is there and all he has to do it try :(((( 3. RIGHT i feel like…maybe after he grew up a bit more he could be some sort of diplomat that would bridge the two worlds but he would be his own man by then and nobody would be able to boss him around, not even dumbledore because he would owe him nothing. he would be free. 4. the more i think about it the more i’m starting to consider that maybe dumbledore just didn’t like the strange dark little boy and would have been more than happy to let him melt into anonymity in hogwarts…that is, until he realized how he could be used. UGH. to act this way when you’re literally in charge of children…you’re right it’s unconscionable. that wip you mentioned though…i look forward to it!!!
Snape question of the day: what´s you weirdest/most random Snape headcanon.
wait i have more:
he has an abundance of muggle clothing that he keeps and only wears within his rooms. they’re comfortable and useful especially when it’s his turn to patrol hogsmeade during student visits. no one would ever suspect that the man at the bar in a hoodie and baseball cap is actually professor snape, freed from his usual dungeon bat robes;
he gets christmas gifts from the slytherins’ parents, usually small luxurious items as a token of thanks for his bearing with their child during the year. severus exchanges them for money and anonymously donates them to muggle orphanages and charities devoted to single mothers or impoverished families;
he’s a decent football player;
he influenced lucius to smoke and although lucius always labels it as a ‘vile muggle habit’ he’s addicted to cigarettes and always bums off of severus;
he researched the Princes and dared to venture onto their estate once. he found them abhorrent and uncouth and did not blame his mother for leaving them;
the female staff that he considers friends he gifts with personalized hand creams and perfumes, although he stopped giving minerva her share for 2 years when she dared show them to albus and revealed that he had made them for her;
his relationship with dumbledore is similar to his relationship with tobias: sometimes transactional, sometimes tense, but he can’t stop himself from secretly wanting their approval
He’s stalked around by animals of all kinds. Should he dare to come to the Forest, unicorns encircle him and some manes require a hug or lick his face. Thestrals also come to fly with him (Severus loves feeding them and he was once allowed to hold a baby thestral once). Hippogriffs follow him around, even if it means flying around his head (they recognize him as a peer, and it’s no wonder Snape can outrun a Hippogriff). Frogs jump behind his cape. His Slytherins’ cats/kneazles sleep on him. Owls all want to perch at his shoulders (he gives them lots of treats because he’s not hungry). Puffskeins invade Snape’s quarters regularly. Does and hinds come to request a hug and a scratch. Bats happily sleep in a room next to his quarters. The Giant Squid gives him high five every morning in the dungeons and outside. Ravens come to babble at him (one said Fuck You but Snape laughed and the raven pecked him gently around). Snape has developped ninja tactics so few students notice this humiliating fact.
Snape found the ultimate solution to mosquitoes. No he won’t share it with you.
After the end of term he sleeps for 28 hours.
He loves food like asparagus, spinach and garlic.
He trained at flying so now he can pretend to walk in the air. He loves flying unsupported as well, diving for the clouds.
He’s mad funny. His sarcasm is delicious, and he gives lots of good burns. Also it’s satisfying to get him to burn down someone who you hate—as he did with Lockhart.
Slytherins are super proud of their Snake Dad. They’re happy to know they’re got the scariest and a most cunning professor on their side to protect them.
He’s a bit too indulgent with those he loves, allowing them to hurt him emotionally as well.
He’s a bit of a masochist. Not for the insult, but the feelings of being roughly cared for and feeling helpless/guilty/slightly ashamed in a whole new context; to be “punished” in a positive way. He especially likes some laces and cuffs or rings. Be careful though, there’s a limit not to cross, so you have to listen.
He’s ticklish. He hates it.
The staff once went to the sea. Severus was refusing to unclothe but he got convinced enough (he gets more attention by staying clothed in black than in shorts). He tried to swim but a wave brought him far off the shore. He got scared. And because he’s cursed to attract animals there were jellyfishes all around. He got back safely, thanks god.
Hagrid also had the great idea to take Severus joyfully and swing him into the sea. Then he walked there, plunged his hand and pulled Snape out asking if he hadn’t gone too far. Well, he didn’t wait long because he pulled Snape over his shoulder and carried him around like that.
There’s a whole story chain of Snape getting stuck somewhere and here Hagrid appears to pull him out and carry him on his shoulder. Snape finally complied to be carried around like a sac.
Snape loathes soap. He loathes the smell and taste of soap, it gives him the urge to puke from that day on. So he settles for plants. He enjoys scented baths as well, from time to time.
Snape actually washes A LOT, morning and evening. It’s just that his hair keeps getting oily super quickly, just like Harry’s hair keeps being messed up. (Actually washing this often… I think it could be too much, no?)
He scratches hard at his skin when showering. That’s also why it’s sallow—as in badly taken care of.
Snape has a catholic-cultured father and a jewish cultured mother. He’s not caucasian but more on the west asian side and/or north africa. As such, like his mom, his skin was supposed to be olive-toned, not sallow.
He wanted to retaliate against Muggles partly as a mean to get revenge on those who killed his people with genocide and because he was convinced they should be controlled, as Voldemort said. Add that the discrimination against Wizards. It wasn’t about killing them for him. It was about giving them a more secure future, and for wizards a hope to be accepted.
That said, he also asserts his status as a half-blood very firmly. He’s not like Voldemort, trying to refute his Muggle heritage. He’s proud to be a “true” halfblood.
He’s got daddy issues (Tobias, Tom Riddle, Albus).
He keeps a gun in his boot.
He loves nail polish. His father loathed that: he didn’t want to have a f*g as a boy. Snape had to hide it.
He also tried eyeliner. It uh, didn’t work very well.
Before he knew homosexuality was a thing, he wondered why he’d sometimes get hard when looking at boys like Rosier or Regulus.
He also didn’t know why he loved pinching his nipples or desired to be penetrated. He wondered what was wrong with him (the wizarding society frowned upon homosexuality a lot and we know for a fact they’re late compared to Muggle social progress). AND he didn’t understand why he liked masochism a bit.
He never moans during sex unless you take him by surprise, drive him over the edge, or do teach him it’s okay and good to moan.
He’s got stumble.
Walks barefoot in Hogwarts—yes, including the grounds outside.
He loves wearing just robes and underwear when he’s really comfortable. When he succeeds in overcoming some of his trauma thanks to his therapist he sleeps with just a cotton robe.
He’s sensitive to odours. As such he keeps a lot of perfume bottles around.
Scars all over. Including his leg where Fluffy bit him.
Hagrid was a good friend to talk to during difficult times. He drank lots of tea with him. Even slept on his bed at times, as Hagrid was minding his business in his hut. He feels more heard than with Albus.
Flitwick was a very smart and understanding friend. He wasn’t that close to Snape but it was to Flitwick that Snape knew he could ask for some life advice, that he could count on.
Sinistra liked to braid his hair in the morning during holidays. Snape would doze off with the smooth hand movements.
Snape would be the one telling some jokes when he felt most at ease during staff meetings.
When they’d play a competitive game (cards, Uno yes Uno dammit, a game where you have to find those who lie, etc), he sometimes gets dirty and Legilimizes his enemies to know how to win. It paid off. He won 600 Galleons like that. McGonagall was disgusted. That was for winning the Cup with cheating from Albus.
He’s petty af. Goes childish/mad immature because of that. Funny at times.
i love ALL OF THESE especially the 1st one…dark disney prince vibes
eileen prince’s childhood
i’m sure someone’s done this before but i just wanted to write about some headcanons i have of eileen’s past. i can’t stop thinking about this character for some reason.
the princes were immigrants. they’re purebloods from The Continent, and they fled to britain during ww2 when the muggle tyrant hitler started his purge. her mother was killed during their escape and eileen only managed to portkey with her father. her father was splinched and never fully healed from his injuries, both physical and emotional;
they had been relatively well-off in their home country but had to start from scratch in britain. eileen was a child still but was left to her own devices as her father worked as a muggle salesman. they only saw each other on the weekends, and those days were some of her happiest. her father would cook traditional food, speak to her in their native tongue, and sometimes smile. he never spoke of her mother;
the other children in the village were muggles and called her names. sometimes they threw rocks. when she came home crying, her father wiped her eyes with his sleeve and told her she had to learn to take their blows, that there is no other way to survive. he would not tolerate tears. eileen never cried again, for fear of disappointing him;
when she turned 11, a wizard named professor dumbledore visited their ramshackle house and told her she was to study in hogwarts. it was one of the best days in her life;
she didn’t know her father had begged dumbledore to take care of her. months after she left, she was called to headmaster dippett’s office. her father had died. they did not tell her how, but she was to remain in hogwarts indefinitely;
the only time she went back to their house was to collect the last of their things. the only thing she took of her father’s was a family photograph. when she came back to hogwarts, professor dumbledore called her to his office and told her that one of the students in his house had offered to have her stay with them. she too had lost a parent in the muggle wars, and now lived with her mother in a house too big for the two of them. the student was minerva mcgonagall. eileen said yes. she learned to trust minerva with her life.
i don’t have concrete thoughts yet on why eileen would have left the wizarding world, or even how she met tobias. but i feel like her parenting style with severus was greatly influenced by the loss she had felt as a child. the minerva hc is also something i play with and change up a lot because i feel like they should have known each other. eileen would have also known tom riddle imho.
It’s 2020 and some of y’all have still not realized that your perception of Severus Snape as “creepy” and James Potter as “feminist” has everything to do with classism, lookism, and ableism and nothing whatsoever to do with textual evidence because James is the one who threatened and blackmailed Lily into dating him in one of their only (and the longest) canon interactions whereas Severus never did anything to violate Lily’s autonomy and only once indirectly called her a slur (that also applies to himself!!!) in response to James’, his abuser’s, taunting while he was being assaulted and traumatized.
But, sure, your Hot Take that being “greasy” (a very classist and ableist insult in of itself) and having few friends/social skills is evil, but a rich, conventionally attractive white boy sadistically abusing people for fun and ‘because he exists’ is just Boys Being Boys (despire the fact that they literally Did Not “grow out of it”) is soooo woke and not at all the ideology of every single privileged bully. Mmhmm.
covert or “polite”racism and white feminism
Fandom talks alot about the death eaters being racist. But why is nobody talking about the weasleys their “POLITE” racism towards muggles and squibs and fleur (and possibly people who don’t talk or act like them) or how hermione granger completely forgot that she a muggle born and doesn’t seem to care about muggle issues. Look I know this novel was written by white feminist but again why is nobody talking about this? @kahran042 @mikeellee
because jk rowling, like many other white feminists, don’t classify microaggressions as racism, they just don’t. white feminists, and white people in general, like to think of racism as this very obvious in your face type of phenomenon like brazenly waving nazi or confederate flags, and they like to discredit any forms of racism that aren’t inherently aggressive or life threatening.
it’s an escape for them, because if they think of racism as this obvious thing that only nazis are capable of, they can put themselves in a little bubble and ignore any criticism that might be going their way so they can use the excuses, “i’m not like them,” or the dreaded, “i have _ friends of a certain minority group.”
because otherwise they might have to look inside themselves and fix their own prejudice. they get off on being seen as “white saviors” not because they care about poc, but because they think as long as theyre not violent, they are morally superior. that’s why white authors love allegories for racism, they love being viewed as heroic and progressive, but don’t like writing microagressions or systemic racism, because that might translate to real life, so they write a certain type of racism that is “cured” or “obliterated” in their made-up universes just by getting rid of the violent racists.
white feminists hate being made uncomfortable more than they hate racism, that’s why allegories for racism often aren’t applicable in real life, because their idea of racism is rooted in the idea of a couple of bad people, not centuries of persecution, systemic oppression, and yes, microagressions, like real racism is.
quite frankly, it’s hard for me to like the weasleys and other “good” wizards because they have the same sense of moral superiority white people do when condemning violent racism while at the same time practicing passive racism, aka microaggressions and viewing a certain group of people as inferior while “caring” about them.
jk rowling doesn’t write racism well because she doesn’t care about all the pieces that make up racism. also, no child only starts to experience racism when they are put in a vicinity with other kids, it’s something they, unfortunately, grow up with.
like a woman clutching her purse when she sees a member of your race, like a snide remark about the way you talk, like a nasty comment about your hair being “unprofessional,” or like how the crimes against your community will be blamed on members of your own community, microaggressions play a key part in upkeeping racism via fear and stereotypes, and even in fiction, acting like they aren’t bad because they’re not inherently violent at the moment is ignorant as all hell.
It’s for a group on Deviantart I’m modding. I had a fun setting up the charts and adding the information. I always love wings so I wanted to do something with it for fun. The top picture is what I aesthetically enjoy, haha. I was inspired by Haibane-Renmei on the process.
Geez being am angel looks line a lot of heard work… guess I will settle for a bull horned demon.
Sev was taught to sing by his mother after 5th year he tired out for a musical in muggle london and hasn't looked back since.
(Assuming it’s 1984, ‘The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole’ opened at the Wyndham’s and as much as Severus in ‘Starlight Express’ amuses me...)
- when Tobias was out at work/down the pub, Eileen would put on a record of her favourite musical (‘My Fair Lady’) and she’d join in with her favourite songs.
- she encouraged Severus to join in and discovered he had a fine singing voice.
- one afternoon, she spotted a sign in the local newsagents for the local amateur dramatics society. Severus wasn’t entirely keen on the whole thing but it got them both out of the house and away from Tobias.
- a general shortage of boys meant that Severus was a frequent cast member in their amateur musicals. Shortly after his fourteenth birthday, a man approached him after a performance and handed him a business card.
- he was a theatrical agent and wanted Severus to try out for a new musical in London.
- Severus thought about it. He wasn’t overly keen on going back to Hogwarts, the magical world had definitely lost it’s charm in the recent years and he was fairly disenchanted by the entire experience.
- after talking with his mum, they decided it was worth a shot so off they went to London where Severus found himself cast in the title role in ‘The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole’
- the musical wasn’t a success but it opened up a whole new world for Severus.
alfred x ragnarssons arranged marriage AU
You can imagine that AU Athelstan doesn't go back with ragnar stays with ecbert athelstan becomes king of all england with just being a political genius. And them we find out ragnar who been missing all this years has been the (Unofficial) prince consort of england all this time and has been planing with the king to take the capital of frankia tournai and the city of paris but they need more men so ragnar goes back to kattegat tells his sons the plan with the promise if they successfully conquer both cites King Athelstan promises that after a year or two his men will them help then take all of denmark and norway so bjorn can become king but one of his younger brothers has to marry crown prince alfred all boys are interested(HELL! even bjorn is interested) all the stories they heard from their father's old friends were alright that their father's monk was (still is) the most beautiful jewel of england and now england has another precious jewel waiting to be taken.
I kind of wanted ivar and alfred to be the darker version of athelnar. because i notice looking back on ragnar and athelstan relationship ragnar was borderline obsessed with athelstan. Later on putting an idealized version of athelstan in his head ragnar couldn't go on living. I believe ragnar loved his children and the rest of his family but no one could compare to this idealized athelstan.
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