S E V E R U S.

𝐒𝐍𝐀𝐏𝐄 ! it was always 𝐒 𝐍 𝐀 𝐏 𝐄 ! —

[ssevruss]

         𝐒𝐍𝐀𝐏𝐄, the sleeping  𝐒 𝐍 𝐀 𝐊 𝐄 ,                                                           who had  𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐂𝐊  at the top of the 𝐓𝐎𝐖𝐄𝐑 .

 𝐀 𝐒𝐓𝐔𝐃𝐘 𝐈𝐍 :   loneliness, mistakes, consuming guilt, rectification,              GRUDGES, the greyness of morality, FORCED APATHY, overwhelming intelligence,  CARNAGE FOR THE GREATER GOOD, painful lies,  birth, && death, && life, && REBIRTH —                                              — && never, EVER, cowardice. 

                                                      𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐕 &&  𝐒𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐕𝐄                                                headcanon, book && movie based                                           Severus Snape of  𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐑𝐘 𝐏𝐎𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐑                                                    ( this blog is very anti-jkr )​​

      carrd ( slightly under co. ) |  mains / exclusives  |  headcanons  |  important headcanons.

[ssevruss]

* hacks my guts out unattractively on the main stage *  

[ssevruss]

// it’s my birthday !!

[ssevruss]

𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬. 

rules: bold what applies to your muse, italicize what sometimes or sort-of applies, strike through what’s antithetical to your muse. repost, don’t reblog, and have fun !

warnings: mentions of alcohol. credit.

𝐦𝐚𝐣𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐚: a long journey, a feeling of raw energy, putting a name to something unknown, an elaborate patchwork, unexpected catastrophes, unexpected blessings, vivid dreams, sudden awakenings, the feeling of shedding your skin, the echoes in holy places, bright lights, deep shadows, feeling the earth move beneath your feet, wandering in museums, the strange clarity of moonlight, thunder and lightning, an unfamiliar road, coming back to the place you started as an entirely different person.

𝐜𝐮𝐩𝐬: being overwhelmed by emotion, finding something to celebrate every day, finding something to mourn every day, connecting with others, the scent of ocean air, making food for your friends when they’re stressed, the remembrance of something lost, sublime confusion, cool colors, a cozy cafe, a bustling bar, calm waters - hidden depths, getting tipsy in the afternoon, summer rain, comfy sweaters, flowing skirts, a house by the sea, deep conversations after midnight.

𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬:  the scent of spices and dark wood, making something just for the sake of creation, dry heat, crackling fire, a bolt of inspiration, refusing to apologize for your passion, stubborn optimism, taking on more than you can handle, hot tea, warm colors, getting up early, staying up late, bright fire - fast burnout, tacky thrift store finds worn with the utmost confidence, the thrill of starting a new project, spring storms, hotel rooms, perpetual restlessness.

𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐬:  the scent of rich soil after a rain, hard and diligent work, solid ground - strong foundations, the satisfaction of a long-awaited payoff, generosity that comes with a catch, work boots and heavy jeans, silk and jewels, resting on your laurels, seeing your work through to the end, harvest time, fresh bread and rich soup, earth tones, jewel tones, a lush garden, sunlight through the trees, dark chocolate, a home in the farmlands, a sprawling house in the old part of the city.

𝐬𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬: the scent of fresh air, focusing on the intellectual at the expense of the emotional, freshly fallen snow, burying yourself in action, tending to your own wounds, a foreseeable disaster, crisply tailored suits, starkly elegant dresses, refusing to admit defeat, cold air - clear thoughts, old hurts, fresh starts, overthinking your overthinking, the harsh glow of street lamps, black coffee, a cabin in the mountains, an apartment downtown, the quiet before the dawn.

tagged by: stolen from @marblecarved !! <3 tagging:  @conjvring  ( Credence or/and Lucius ) ,  @thebarebonesisters  ( Chastity )  ,  @iselwyn , @wuhlfruin , @lupiinee , @kuhbulz  ( Trelawney )  && you !!

[firefox-official]

“youre so mean” if you guys werent fucking stupid i wouldnt have to be mean to you. change starts with you

[ssevruss]

What’s your relationship like with Minerva?

𝐔𝐍𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐀𝐒𝐊𝐒  |  𝓐𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝓐𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 !

   ❝ Minerva and I get along quite well. Whilst there is the proclivity for unfriendly, and borderline aggressive competition once the Quidditch season starts, off of the field, things are quite different, ❞

   ❝ Occasionally we have tea.  Minerva has quite the ear for gossip, and though both of us are quite … Stubborn … In our beliefs that our House is superior, occasionally a bit of slander is just what is needed at the end of a long week.  I very much enjoy telling her about the utter idiocy I am forced to deal with on a daily basis, over a cup of chai, and hearing that she somewhat shares my bitter exasperation with these students — and I particularly enjoy hearing her slander her own pupils — is equally as enjoyable. ❞

   ❝ That is not to say we do not threaten each other with very nearly unforgivable hexes, when the time comes to count House Points, or settle beside one another on the stands of the Quidditch pitch … We do. That is also not to say that we will not employ every psychologically damaging insult against one another that we hold in our arsenal — But I suppose we are … Friends ?  Above unhealthy competition. I have known the woman for over 20 years, I daresay no matter how many times the pair of us threaten each other with murder, time has given us no other option than to enjoy each other’s company. ❞

[rollingstoneboycomplex]

when Lemony Snicket wrote “I will love you if I never see you again, and I will love you if I see you everyday” that hurt me

[heavensickness]

Full paragraph hurts even more.

“ (…) I will love you as we find ourselves farther and farther from one another, where once we were so close… I will love you until your face is fogged by distant memory. I will love you no matter where you go and who you see, I will love you if you don’t marry me. I will love you if you marry someone else and I will love you if you never marry at all, and spend your years wishing you had married me after all. That is how I will love you even as the world goes on its wicked way.”

[ssevruss]

  // Severus, despite being highly anti-social at ALL of the Slug Club meetings && dinners, was actually quite a big fan of being a part of it, for the activities that came along with it. 

   The monthly show of events was one of his favourite bits ; the chance to not only mess around with his creative proclivity in Potions  ( && demonstrating his superiority in the ‘ subtle and refined art of potion making ‘ ), but to show that he also has quite the knack for coming up with charms ( the curses were more-or-less left out of the peacock-like show of skills ).     For the little talent shows weren’t only to demonstrate what you already know, but were a chance for Severus to experiment on the sidelines, a chance to be creative, and show that occasionally benefits can be reaped from not quite following the norm -- && what Severus so enjoyed about this, purposefully bending the rules && what is known, expected, was that this happened to be one of the only circumstances where this was something to be REVERED, rather than scrutinized or made fun of.              Severus, as a person, did not fit into the ‘ norm ‘, and so having those who, in Sev’s opinion, were of higher status, ‘cooler’, generally just not him, APPLAUD him for this atypicality was great ! 

   Severus’ Slug Club ‘branding’, of sorts, also helped him post-graduation. It fast-tracked his entering into a Potions Mastery with the Ministry  ( specifically the London Laboratory of Brewing Magical Medicine, he apprenticed pharmaceutical potioneer Cobalt Hearth, one of the best, if not slightly corrupt, Medical Potioneers of her time ).  Whilst somewhat distracted, what with being a Death Eater and all, Severus did earn himself a master’s degree in Potioneering --- Both because of his skills ( and mostly because of his skills, )  and because of Horace’s good word  ( because I cannot lie to you and say Cobalt was not frequently done with Severus && his attitude ). 

[ssevruss]

// the Slug Club essentially was a little secret society. It was more-or-less known of, yes ( so not that secret ) but highly selective, and only those with particular skill sets were allowed in. They had a badge and everything, I bet.

// I like to think that on top of the little parties, and dinners, Horace would take his Slug Club students to the Room of Requirement or occasionally outside the school to make a monthly event out of having the students show off their respective talents.

Students particularly skilled at duelling would have a day dedicated to turning the RoR into an arena -- 

For the Potions prodigies ( prob Slughorn’s favs ) it would be a massive laboratory. 

The Herbology students would have the room as a greenhouse, the CoMC students would be the catalyst for a Slug Club trip to the edge of the forbidden forrest.

Sometimes they go on excursions to well-known magicfolk’s Manors, sometimes the little parties would be hosted at grand places, ballrooms, dining’s halls, where past students of Horace’s ( && their respective connections, of course ) would come to also flaunt their successes in life.

// Only the best of the best ( or the richest of the rich ) were a part of this little coup, && only they get the added status to their person of having been a part of such a thing. Only they get the luxury of the connections that come based on the branding of Slug Club member. Tell me that’s not a little secret society.

[lifeinpoetry]

I take the soil in my clean fingers and to say I weep is untrue, weep is too musical a word. I heave into the soil. You cannot die. I just came to this life again, alive in my silent way. Last night I dreamt I could only save one person by saying their name and the exact time and date. I choose you.

— Ada Limón, from “Invasive,” The Hurting Kind

[ssevruss]

𝐅𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐂 𝐁𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐒  𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐄 ; 𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐋 𝐈𝐍𝐅𝐎 .

Severus was born January 9th, 1897, and grew up in Spinner’s End, in the industrial town of Cokeworth, England — He was born to Pureblood Eileen Snape, and Muggle Tobias Snape.

He attended Hogwarts from 1908 to 1915. In his 6th year at Hogwarts, Severus began taking Alchemy as an elective, as well as continuing to take Potions, && taking all of the other  mandatory classes. He took N.E.W.T. level Potions, Transfiguration, Charms, Herbology, && Defence Against the Dark Arts as well as Alchemy, with the goal of being a potioneer — Specifically working in medical draughts — after graduation.

Post-Hogwarts, he bounces around quite a lot between the Wizarding world, and the Muggle world. World War One raging on quite furiously, Severus, on his father’s wishes ( though Tobias would have preferred him to go to war, ) he begins working in the filling factory stationed on the outside of Spinner’s End in his hometown of Cokeworth. The factory was soon obliterated via bombing, and without work, Severus returns to the Wizarding world.  In 1917 he begins apprenticing known Alchemist Nicholas Flamel.

Severus never joins either side against the Wizarding War between Albus Dumbledore and Grindelwald. He doesn’t care enough to, frankly, and is mostly on the side of ‘himself,’.  He does, however, quietly support Grindelwald for a time, on the basis of his general dislike for Muggles based on his father’s abuse, and his experience with the first world war.

His apprenticeship turns to partnership after a while, and Severus gains the title of Alchemist in 1922, at the age of 25. 

In 1928, he establishes his own small Apothecary.

 // and the rest is left to plotting && interactions !! i tried to keep this as basic as possible, to give more room for alternate things to happen

[ssevruss]

// *cracks my knuckles* — okay time for me to actually write up my fantastic beasts verse info

[kedroboiz-deactivated20221217]

spring flowers

[ssevruss]

// i want to write, but alas, my brain is full of worms .  later, perhaps.  BUT, in the meantime, i am thinking ab severus nonstop  ( && at all times, really, )  so if you wanna plot a thing, or scream ab muses in general, come kick my door down <3

[ssevruss]

// thinking about severus & regulus’ friendship today …. Them

[spellwrites]

IMOGEN SELWYN

indie harry potter oc | anti jkr | est. oct 2020 | promo credit

Daughter of Death Eaters Inventor of Enchantments

[leneemusing]

SOFT  DETAILS  FOR SMUT  &  INTIMATE  MOMENTS 

[ TRUST ]  sender gently telling the receiver “just let go” as they get them to finish.  

[ TRUSTED ]  receiver gently telling sender “just let go” as they get them to finish. 

[ GRATIFY ]  sender asking “is that better?” after finally penetrating receiver after teasing them. 

[ GRATIFYING ]  receiver asking “is that better?” after finally penetrating sender after teasing them. 

[ CONTROL ]  sender stops stimulating receiver and tells them they have to be still if they want to continue. 

[ CONTROLLED ]  receiver stops stimulating sender and tells them the have to be still if they want to continue.  

[ GAZE ]  sender taking receiver’s jaw and saying “look at me” during sex or foreplay.

[ GAZING ]  receiver taking sender’s jaw and saying “look at me” during sex or foreplay.

[ HOLD ]  sender holding receiver close during an especially intense moment and whispering “i’ve got you.” 

[ HELD ]  receiver holding sender close during an especially intense moment and whispering “i’ve got you” 

[ CLOSE ]  sender wrapping their arms around receiver who is on top after they’ve finished,  holding them close against their chest with their face hidden in their neck while they recover. 

[ CLOSER ]  receiver wrapping their arms around sender who is on top after they’ve finished,  holding them close against their chest with their face hidden in their neck while they recover. 

[ JOY ]  sender getting louder than usual which makes receiver start laughing affectionately,  taking the opportunity to check in. 

[ JOYFUL ]  receiver getting louder than usual which makes sender start laughing affectionately,  taking the opportunity to check in. 

[ TIMID ]  the submissive partner getting self conscious and covering their face,  laughing softly at the intensity.   

[ COAX ]  the dominant partner gently moving the shy or overwhelmed submissive’s hands from covering their face so they can kiss them,  breathing praises against their skin. 

[ ADORE ]  sender whispering “you’re perfect” to receiver after undressing them. 

[ ADORED ]  receiver whispering “you’re perfect” to sender after undressing them.