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@shatteredangel04
I should’ve said this sooner but I tend to be a silent observer on Tumblr rather than an active participant. I’m writing my first HP fanfic! It’s a Hogwarts Gen Severitus, featuring a Slytherin!Harry. 33 chapters already out and another fifteen in the process of being edited. Feel free to join me on this crazy journey!
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be kind and respectful to fanfic writers
be kind and respectful to fan artists
be kind and respectful to people in your fandom
be kind and respectful to people
as a writer, it’s very important that you know this: whenever you tell yourself “this will only be one-chapter-long” that is a lie. your brain is lying to you. it won’t, in fact, be just a short one-shot
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insane to me how, to some people, this is not a common sense
It’s the way "Marauders fans" talk about Severus Snape that really finishes me off.
Like, they’ll sit there in their comfortable rooms and preach about how "nothing excuses his actions," but they will never, ever understand the view from the bottom. They see a bitter man; I see the kid who had nothing. I see the greasy hair and the mismatched, oversized clothes and I don't see a "villain"—I see the kid who didn't have enough money for soap. I see the kid whose parents were too busy drowning in their own war to notice he was being hunted in the hallways.
And the "bullying victims" who hate him? Those are the ones that hurt the most.
If you were a TRUE victim of that kind of soul-crushing bullying, you wouldn’t be able to stand the Marauders. You wouldn't be able to look at James Potter and see a "hero."
How can you say you were bullied and then turn around and justify the Marauders? You’re doing the exact same thing everyone did to you. You’re looking at a kid who was a scapegoat, a kid who was humiliated for his appearance and his poverty, and you’re saying "Well, James and Sirius had a rough life too, so it’s okay that they targeted him." You’re literally doing what your bullies did. You’re giving the "privileged" bullies a pass because they’re charming or because they "had it rough" in a way that’s easy to pity—like a strict family—while turning a blind eye to the raw, grinding survival of the kid they targeted.
And don’t even start with the "he bullied children when he got older" argument. You want to talk about how he turned out? Let’s talk about what happens when you spend your entire childhood being the punching bag for "golden boys." Let's talk about the bitterness that rots your soul when you realize the world will always prefer a charming bully over a poor, "scary" victim.
You think you and Snape went through the same thing? Then how can you forgive the people who broke him? You’re just proving my point. You’re choosing the side of the people who never had to dig in the trash for a "toy." You're choosing the people who have a safety net, while the rest of us are just trying not to drown in the silence.
It’s the absolute hypocrisy of the "SA victim" to card being used to silence anyone who defends Snape. How can you claim to care about consent and bodily autonomy, and then watch a scene where a boy is levitated, pinned, and stripped by force in front of a laughing crowd, and not call it exactly what it is?
It’s assault. Period.
But because it’s Severus, everyone suddenly develops selective amnesia. Because he’s "the weird kid," because he’s a Slytherin, because he’s "ugly" or "bitter," you decide his body doesn't belong to him. You justify James Potter and Sirius Black stripping him in public as "just a prank" or "schoolboy rivalry."
If that were any other character—if that were a girl, or if that were one of the "Golden Trio"—you would be screaming from the rooftops about the trauma of that moment. You would be talking about the lifelong psychological damage of having your privacy and your body violated for the entertainment of your peers.
But no. You’ll look a real survivor in the eye and say it’s different. You’ll say it’s okay because of who he became later. Since when does being a "bitter adult" retroactively make it okay for people to have assaulted you when you were a fifteen-year-old kid with no one to protect you?
How dare you.
How dare you use the language of survivors to protect the bullies and the predators just because they’re "charming" and "heroic." You’re not standing up for victims; you’re standing up for the people who think they have the right to touch and humiliate anyone they deem "lesser" than them just for EXISTING . If you can watch that scene and laugh, or even just shrug it off, you aren't a champion for victims—you’re just another person turning a blind eye to the reality of assault because the victim wasn't "likable" enough for you to care.
It’s the sheer isolation that follows that kind of trauma—the kind where you realize that your body isn't yours and your dignity can be erased in a single afternoon for the amusement of the "heroes."
How can you not see the psychological prison he lived in after that?
Imagine the next day. Imagine walking into the Great Hall and having to meet the eyes of every single student, wondering if they were there. Wondering if they saw everything. Wondering if they’re replaying the moment you were stripped and humiliated while you’re just trying to eat your breakfast. Every laugh in the corridor, every whisper behind a hand—it all becomes a weapon. You stop looking up. You stop making eye contact. You become a ghost in your own skin because it’s the only way to feel safe afraid of ripping your skin with your hands if you don't feel safe.
And the "house" that was supposed to be his family? He became a stranger there, too. When you’re the "poor kid" who got publicly shamed, your own housemates don't always rally around you; sometimes they distance themselves because they don't want the "loser" scent to rub off on them. He was isolated in the one place he was supposed to belong.
Then there’s Lily.
Everyone talks about how "he called her a name," but nobody talks about the context of a boy in the middle of a mental breakdown and physical assault. He was being violated, his adrenaline was red-lining, he was humiliated beyond repair—and in that moment of total powerlessness, he lashed out at the only person he cared about try to actually stop instead of just talking or hit the four boys who were actually hurting him.
That small detail—the flicker of a smile before she "caught herself"—is what makes the blood boil. It’s the ultimate betrayal.
Imagine being at your lowest point, being physically violated and publicly mocked, and looking to the one person in the world who is supposed to be your "safe place," only to see them enjoying it for even a split second. That smile confirms every dark thought a person in poverty has: Even the people who "love" me think my humiliation is funny. Even the people who know my heart think I’m a joke.
It’s that specific, cruel brand of "holier-than-thou" behavior. She gets to play the saint later by "defending" him, but that momentary smile proved she was just as entertained by the Marauders' cruelty as everyone else. She was a spectator to his assault before she was a protector, and you can’t just erase that.
It makes her "mercy" feel like pity, and her anger at his slur feel like an easy exit strategy—a way to stop being friends with the "poor, weird kid" without having to feel guilty about it. She used his mistake to justify abandoning him when he was at his most broken.
And she walked away. She refused his apology. She saw a boy being assaulted and focused on a word instead of the trauma. She left him to drown in the aftermath of the Marauders' "joke" because it was easier to be offended than to be a witness to his pain.
And the teachers? The adults? Total silence. They watched it happen. They knew the Marauders were relentless. They saw the "greasy," poor kid being targeted day after day and they did nothing. They validated the bullies by letting them get away with it. When the system that’s supposed to protect you decides your humiliation is "harmless fun," where else are you supposed to go?
You don't just "get over" that you don't tell a victim they should get over what screwed them up in their life like they're entitled you and time
And you know what that comes from? ME WHO WAS CALLED SCARY FACE AS A KID FOR JUST EXISTING I HATED MY FACE FOR THAT. I was Blamed for my cousin actions towards people and was harassed because of that for something I couldn't control I tried multiple times telling him to stop and his friends to yet they didn't listen and I was blamed and hated by the majority of the girls at school for it so don't you dare or rather come on try to defend your marauders in a logical way and I promise you I'm gonna write back and bite like a dog for it bone if I see you justify their actions you understand me? Try a true bullying unattractive poor victim here sweetie
My dash is full of struggling writers rn.
"It wasn't sexual assaul-" Suspending someone in air, stripping them while also making them choke on soap, amounts to sexual assault under any sane legal system.
Sincerely, A law student-who was bullied and sexual assaulted by 5 guys for many years and got into Law school to ensure no such man who commit such crimes walks free.
Severus’s existence challenges this perfect image the marauders fandom has for the marauders which is why they always mischaracterize him in the worst way possible
Like Severus was not called diff versions of faggot only for you to headcanon him as homophobic.
He wasn’t shown to have lived in poverty only for you to headcanon him as some rich snob.
He is not an incel or obsessed or a stalker. In fact between James and Severus only one of them told Lily they’ll leave their friend alone if they went out with them (hint: it wasn’t Severus)
What's weird to me is that they apparently can rewrite everything... But they HAVE to keep in Snape and the Marauders as enemies, just switching the positions each party took. It's not like they haven't had characters who became DEs as friends with the Marauders. It's specifically Snape they insist on villainizing... as if they couldn't just erase the conflict in the first place.
THIS. I saw a post the other day that literally said if you do it to a fictional character, you’ll do it in real life.
No. Just NO.
I’m so glad someone put it into words.
In art, we can be fucking nuts.
Art is the place to safely explore all those other sides of you
Messaging people for the first time is so hard. What am I supposed to say? Like, "You seem really odd and your blog intrigues me. Do you want to have philosophical conversations or perhaps talk about fictional characters?" What! Whatever. I will just follow you back and stare at your blog with my big beautiful brown eyes.
Reblog if you're okay with people coming into your DMs with the "you seem really odd and your blog intrigues me, do you want to have philosophical conversations or perhaps talk about fictional characters"
not my tweet or my fic (and there’s a good chance of this comment being a bot) but yeah, don’t do this. sure, some writers wouldn’t mind having fanfics (or direct continuation) of their fanfics written by someone else. some may even be thrilled and happy. but the fandom etiquette is that if you want to write a fanfic or a continuation of someone’s fanfic, YOU POLITELY ASK THE WRITER FOR THEIR PERMISSION. not their readers.
also 5 months isn’t long at all. 5 months is 5 minutes when it comes to fanfics. I’ve waited years for my favorite fics to get updated (one of my favorite fanfics was updated by the author after 13 years) and I’ve never said anything to them about “it’s been ___ years, I don’t think it will get updated anymore”. because another fandom / fanfic etiquette is that fanfic writers write for free in their free time, they don’t owe you anything. maybe they will update one day. maybe they won’t. if you want your favorite fic to get updated, you comment something like “this is good!! I’m excited for what happens next” and maybe your positive comment will motivate the author to update. but you don’t say “it’s been ___ months or years”. fanfics writers write for themselves and their own enjoyment. they’re just kind enough to let you read their works for free. stop being rude and entitled to fanfic writers.
does it feel like fandom and fanfic communities as a whole has gotten a lot more... entitled?
I blame ai witch hunt, the normalization of screenshoting fics just to post and mock them online (cough, tiktok, cough), and purity culture (still looking at tiktok). all of these somehow give people, especially those who are new to fandom space, the wrong idea that “fanfics are something for them to consume and criticize”. and unfortunately I believe this mindset is also tied to how people treat contents they consume on a platform like tiktok — where content creators post their stuff for the sake of algorithm, engagement and going viral.
people being rude to content creators on tiktok is unfortunately very normalized there. the same people who are comfortable being rude to tiktok’s content creators and influencers somehow (wrongly) believe ao3’s fanfic writers are content creators and influencers the way content creators and influencers on tiktok are. and so they just… think they can be rude and entitled to fanfic writers too.
I’d say these people were young and most of them were minors. but even then there are so many young people and minors who understand the very basic concepts of “being kind and respectful to people”. so like, some people, who are rude and entitled, are just rude and terrible people. and a platform like tiktok — where influencers create with the purpose to please their audiences and going viral — just enables their toxic views that they can be entitled to strangers, fanfic writers, without any consequences.
why would we ask the writer when the writer hasnt asked the original writer of the fandom theyre writing for? /gen
for those who might be confused by the lack of context, this is about “asking fanfic writers first before writing fanfics about their fanfics”.
there’s a huge difference between canon writers —who make millions of dollars and write something that’s consumed by millions of viewers worldwide, canon writers who write as their careers and work with a multi billion dollar corporation — and fanfic writers who write for free, as their hobby, and are just normal people.
(even if it’s a small fandom that not a lot of people know about, the point of source material is that canon writers wrote these things with the main purpose of monetization and having them consumed by audiences.)
the unspoken rule is that: having fanfics written about a media that is consumed by millions of people worldwide is sorts of expected. you can’t expect millions of fanfic writers to each write a formal letter to disney or netflix if they could write silly fanfics about the avengers. fanfic writing is a hobby and fanfic writers do not monetize their works. a fanfic that is written by another fellow fanfic writer is something that fanfic writer wrote for themself. they didn’t write it for it to be monetized. so while most fanfic writers would be thrilled and honored to have fanfics written about their fanfics, the right thing, the most polite thing to do, is to ask for their consent first.
Correct me if I'm wrong but Severus Snape was an abused, vulnerable child who was harassed by the 'good guys' for a large part of his life and joined the Death Eaters likely because there was nowhere else for him to go. He turned away from the dark and back to the light because of his love for his dead friend/almost sister, but that doesn't make his sacrifice any less heroic, does it? I mean he was a 20(?) year old who basically sold the rest of his life away in devotion to the light side.
Regulus Black was a kid from a rich, aristocratic blood purist family who was proud and happy to join up with the death eaters at 16. He was a misguided child, yes, but he went through with it happily when he had different options (going with Sirius) and probably did a whole lot worse than call someone a mudblood. I'm pretty sure he had a whole fangirl poster of Voldemort in his room or something, but I may be misremembering that. The only reason he betrayed Voldemort was because Voldemort hurt his house elf, and when it comes down to it, he died a pretty worthless death. His heart was most definitely in the right place and he did what he could, but there were... smarter ways to go about things, to say the least. In canon, this is more or less all we know about him. He was loved and adored by his parents, and for all we know, he never changed his views on muggleborns and muggles.
Why is one of them creepy and obsessive and weird for their love, while the other one is a 'soft baby' who is adored by Marauder stans?
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