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[inthemoodforblastt]

you've mentioned that you are a huge movie buff, so I gotta ask.. if he did, what kind of films do you think snape would watch and enjoy?

Honestly, I think Severus would be really into classic cinema, horror films, and social-realist cinema, so a bit of everything. Here are some films that I can very easily imagine him liking:

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, 1920)

M (M – A City Searches for a Murderer) (Fritz Lang, 1931)

Faust (F. W. Murnau, 1926)

The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)

Hiroshima Mon Amour (Alain Resnais, 1959)

Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)

Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray, 1954)

In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000)

Kwaidan (Masaki Kobayashi, 1964)

Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa, 1957)

The Exterminating Angel (Luis Buñuel, 1962)

The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)

Sabrina (Billy Wilder, 1954)

The Devil's Backbone (Guillermo del Toro, 2001)

Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)

Crimson Peak (Guillermo del Toro, 2015)

Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson, 2008)

Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975)

The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006)

Léon: The Professional (Luc Besson, 1994)

This Is England (Shane Meadows, 2006)

The Remains of the Day (James Ivory, 1993)

Rumble Fish (Francis Ford Coppola, 1983)

Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone, 1984)

Made in Britain (Alan Clarke, 1982)

Scum (Alan Clarke, 1979)

City of God (Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund, 2002)

The Outsiders (Francis Ford Coppola, 1983)

Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese, 1973)

Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976)

La Haine (Mathieu Kassovitz, 1995)

Quadrophenia (Franc Roddam, 1979)

My Name Is Joe (Ken Loach, 1998)

Kes (Ken Loach, 1969)

Sorry We Missed You (Ken Loach, 2019)

Stuart: A Life Backwards (David Attwood, 2007)

Fish Tank (Andrea Arnold, 2009)

Giant (George Stevens, 1954)

Lovers of the Arctic Circle (Julio Medem, 1998)

1900 (Novecento) (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1976)

Anyway, I'll stop there because this is already getting too muchhahahahaha

[susankaufman]

Imagine Severus Snape as a real person and infer his film taste from his personality, background, values, and emotional life rather than from superficial aesthetic stereotypes. Consider his upbringing in the impoverished industrial environment of Spinner's End, his intelligence, introversion, academic interests, fascination with the dark and uncanny, experience of social exclusion, lifelong guilt, emotional repression, and enduring attachment to lost love.

Assume that Snape prefers serious, intellectually challenging cinema over mainstream entertainment. Focus on films that explore themes such as isolation, class, alienation, moral ambiguity, sacrifice, obsession, memory, regret, political oppression, outsider identities, and unfulfilled love.

Prioritize European art cinema, British social realism, German Expressionism, psychological horror, Gothic cinema, international classics, and auteur filmmaking. Draw heavily from directors such as Ingmar Bergman, Andrei Tarkovsky, Akira Kurosawa, Luis Buñuel, Ken Loach, Alan Clarke, Wong Kar-wai, Guillermo del Toro, Fritz Lang, F. W. Murnau, and similar filmmakers.

Avoid obvious fantasy recommendations simply because Snape is a wizard. Do not recommend films based on magical content alone. Instead, choose films whose atmosphere, themes, characters, and moral concerns genuinely align with Snape's worldview.

Create a list of 30–50 films Severus Snape would most likely love. For each film, provide a brief explanation of why it would appeal to him.

my promp on chagpt god your list.

[robertfagden]

at some point The Character stops being a character and starts being a close personal friend

[thevampiresums]

My personal friend Armand De Manipulator ♡

[susankaufman]

Can you please ask your personal friend Armand , why he lost an eye ? Also tel him i like his patch.

[yellalovesvampires]

Rotten Tomatos article:

"lestat sees louis as cooler than louis sees himself“

Meanwhile Louis in season 1+2

Of course…

[susankaufman]

If Jacob Anderson is abel to play Louis even cooler and even more lovable then in season one and two , then i am here for it.

[drabbles-and-rambles]

I saw a post about Shane and Ilya being sad that they can't thank each other in their acceptance speeches like other can with their spouses and it got me thinking:

Ilya wins his first awards and hes got nobody he really wants to thank after his team and coach cause he he hates his family but he knows his speech is too short so on impulse he goes "And I want to thank Shane Hollander for being slightly worse than me this season". Everyone knows it was going to one of those two, so everyone thinks hes an asshole to say that but whats new so it works for him. But from then on it then becomes a bit for both of them to thank each other in their speeches in a snide way as a reason they won.

Shane winning the Art Ross Trophy (Awarded to the player who leads the league in total points at the end of the regular season). and going "special thanks to Rozanov for missing at least 5 shots this season, he was a huge help"

Ilya winning the Conn Smythe Trophy (Awarded to the most valuable player for his team in the playoffs.) "Just want to give a quick shout out to Hollander for getting knocked out in the second round this season. Must hate to see me up here."

They find a way to mention the other in their speeches every time all the time.

[susankaufman]

Also they are not stopping doing this after they out and married.

They are like : Thank you to my team mates

Thank you coach

Thank you to my parents (in law)

Thank you to guy who married me (for his weak backhand)

[op-la]

"Who are you, Louis?"

For @ldpdlweek2026 day 4 - guilt | reconciliation and forgiveness

You can get this as a print here

[susankaufman]

Maybe one of the best fandom art work i saw in my life . love it.

[artificialcaracal]

Julia Serano said something about this once, in her book Whipping Girl. This sort of oppositional sexism, the idea that genders are total opposites of one another. That if performing feminized reproductive labor is the role of women, then not doing it is the role of men. In a magnificent show of making tails wag dogs within this sexist framework, this argument claims that Knight is stating that the puppygirl is a man when she points out her not participating in this feminized labor. This wholeheartedly goes against transfeminism as a gender politics, insinuating that the puppygirl surely cannot still be considered a ‘real woman’ if she has not taken up the role of the feminized within the gendered division of labor. As it stands in this argument, who is actually performing this labor and who isn’t is far less important than playing the game of cisheteronormative categories. “Well Dump Your Puppygirl states that the puppygirl is not actually occupying the role of feminized laborer, which is the only position a woman can ever hold in the home, so it must be calling puppygirls men”. All of a sudden through this lense, every daughter who does not perform housework suddenly takes on a ‘mannish character’. Is that two year old really a girl? I don’t see her doing any dishes, so she must be male-socialized. If one is going to cry transmisogyny, at the very least have the decency to not regurgitate the same “women belong in the kitchen” rhetoric every reactionary misogynist does.

Within this argumentative space, this is simply TWERFism V. TWERFism. TWERFism for me, but not for thee, as it were. It is fine because this rhetoric is now being used to silence and lambast ‘the right trannies’, an idea heretofore unheld by any tranmisogynist prior. This is the first truely righteous crusade. The bigotry was never wrong, in this view, it has only been misapplied to the wrong people. However, now that it is aimed towards someone who has been found to be distasteful, these ideas are all of a sudden not wrong and bigoted, but incredibly correct and critically resonant! All within the moment it became rhetorically convenient for it to be.

[susankaufman]

I disagree with the original post in every meaningful respect.

The problem in Dump Your Puppygirl is not “failed femininity,” nor is it some clever exposure of transfeminist contradictions. It is a straightforward, and frankly unglamorous, asymmetry of care. The protagonist receives no meaningful reciprocity — emotional, practical, or otherwise — while being structurally positioned as the one expected to absorb all stability, patience, and care-work in the relationship. If she were to fall apart or need support herself, there is no evidence of any corresponding system of care returning to her. That is not a gender theory problem. It is a relational failure.

The attempt to reframe this as “she is policing real womanhood through domestic labor expectations” is simply incorrect. It only works if one already assumes the very oppositionally sexist framework that is supposedly being critiqued: that womanhood is defined by feminized reproductive and care labor, and that deviation from that labor produces some drift toward “maleness.” That is not analysis; it is just rebranded essentialism.

What is also consistently missing in this kind of response is any serious engagement with caregiver burden. There is a very convenient tendency to treat care-work as infinite, obligationless, and morally compulsory for the caregiver, while any articulation of exhaustion or limits is immediately reframed as cruelty or oppression. This is not radical politics. It is just the old expectation of feminized self-sacrifice, repackaged and redistributed.

The comparison to a two-year-old is, frankly, a category error dressed up as argument. Nobody expects toddlers to participate in reciprocal care because they are not capable of it. That fact does not magically become relevant to adult relational dynamics unless one is already committed to flattening all distinctions between capacity, responsibility, and role into gender symbolism.

So no: this is not a “TWERFism vs TWERFism” situation, and it is not some ironic inversion where reactionary logic becomes correct when applied to the “wrong” target. It is a bad argument built on unstable premises, selectively rebranded as critique the moment it becomes rhetorically convenient.

[this-is-trans-joy]

Trans women are so cool. Shoutout to my moms who are three trans lesbians! (two trans women and a transneuteral sapphic!)

This is trans joy!!!

[susankaufman]

Shout out to the the woman who birthed this ungreatfull anon. I hope she has more kids who are loving and chering her.

[susankaufman]

i hope you get help for your mental illness :( it's sad to live such a deeply unhealthy and miserable life

Is this ableism ?

[hon3yblv]

I fear I’m not getting into a relationship any time soon, since intellectually ignorant men piss me off and the world is full of them.

[this-is-transandrophobia]

James Barry.

He was a surgeon. He was a pioneer of medical science for the female body, and helped perfect the c-section in the western world. He lived most of his life as male, and didn’t want his body to be uncovered after death as he didn’t want people to discover he was born female. However this wish was not fulfilled, and now many terf flavored feminism spaces parade his face and legacy around, calling him a “brilliant woman” who “had to pretend to be a man in order to become a surgeon” as a story of powerful historical women. This was never true. Despite the misogyny of the time, James had the opportunity to become a surgeon as a women, yet chose to present and live as a man, and continued to do so into retirement and until the day he died.

James Barry was a man. Him being a man doesn’t take away the accomplishments of the many amazing women of his time, yet people always treat it that was when him being a man is brought up.

This is transandrophobia

[susankaufman]

This is misogynistic bullshit. James Barry "transitioned" in 1809, the medical womas act allowed from 1869 allowed woman to study medicine.

New rule if the trans comunity wasnt to claim a womans achievements as the achievements of a trans man. They have to woman atleast five woman with same background(place and year of birth, social class, family background, education) those who have achieved the same or even more.

[transmasc-theory]

A moment of silence for the trans men who, due to their assigned gender at birth, have been legally banned from speaking in public in areas under Taliban rule.

A moment of silence for the trans men who, due to their assigned gender at birth and religious backgrounds, have been taught that they are forbidden from being anything but broodmares to a man they may or may not consent to marriage or sex with.

A moment of silence for the trans men who died in childbirth from a pregnancy they may or may not have consented to.

A moment of silence for the trans men who dropped out of high school after getting pregnant.

A moment of silence for the trans men who only knew their desire for masculinity, but were beaten to death for it and told they were going to hell.

A moment of silence for the trans men who had their clitorises mutilated by female genital mutilation.

A moment of silence for the trans men who died without ever once getting to wear pants or cut their hair the way they wanted.

A moment of silence for the trans men who committed suicide rather than be seen as a woman anymore.

A moment of silence for the trans men who never were allowed to learn how to read.

A moment of silence for the trans men with perfectly treatable conditions who were allowed to die to avoid violating "modesty" rules.

A moment of silence for the trans men subjected to honor killings.

A moment of silence for the trans men who were murdered by abusive partners.

A moment of silence for the trans men who were subject to "hymen checks."

We remember all of you, past and present.

[susankaufman]

A moment of silence for the cis woman who, due to their assigned gender at birth, have been legally banned from speaking in public in areas under Taliban rule.

A moment of silence for the cis woman who, due to their assigned gender at birth and religious backgrounds, have been taught that they are forbidden from being anything but broodmares to a man they may or may not consent to marriage or sex with.

A moment of silence for the cis woman who died in childbirth from a pregnancy they may or may not have consented to.

A moment of silence for the cis woman who dropped out of high school after getting pregnant.

A moment of silence for the cis woman who only knew their desire for masculinity, but were beaten to death for it and told they were going to hell.

A moment of silence for the cis woman who had their clitorises mutilated by female genital mutilation.

A moment of silence for the cis woman who died without ever once getting to wear pants or cut their hair the way they wanted.

A moment of silence for the cis woman who committed suicide rather than be seen as a woman anymore.

A moment of silence for the cis woman who never were allowed to learn how to read.

A moment of silence for the cis woman with perfectly treatable conditions who were allowed to die to avoid violating "modesty" rules.

A moment of silence for the cis woman subjected to honor killings.

A moment of silence for the cis woman who were murdered by abusive partners.

A moment of silence for the cis woman who were subject to "hymen checks."

We remember all of you, past and present.

[this-is-anti-masculinity]

Holy shit fuck this.

I get the point that they’re trying to make. I really do.

But please. Please stop.

Please stop pretending that men don’t experience psychiatric abuse. Please stop pretending that men don’t and have never experienced MSA/medical sexual abuse. Please stop. Fucking stop.

Especially since, yeah, some of the people complaining about being lonely as men are incels who use “I’m lonely” to mean “the women around me have standards and won’t tolerate my open misogyny”. But some are ND and experience compounding social isolation from that and expectations from men. You know, the primary targets of psychiatric abuse. The neurodivergent and Mad. I sent an anon about this once, but some level of psychiatric abuse being driven by misogyny doesn’t mean it affects NT women more than visibly ND/Mad men. That’s who you hurt when you openly mock the idea of a man being subjected to this because of “loneliness”. The incels don’t care.

I shouldn’t be sending asks when I’m nauseous from flashbacks earlier today. But that’s why I am. You don’t get to say this shit. Even if you’re trying to make a point about misogyny and misogyny in the medical/psychiatric field towards women experiencing loneliness. There are ways to do it without attacking people’s trauma.

This is androsaneism.

I really don't have anything to add. To pretend like men don't suffer medical/psychiatric abuse is so incredibly insensitive and cruel.

[thearthistorianblogoffa]

If you get the point why don't let them make this point?

Are you calling men out every time there are misogynistic?

Would cut out a men out of your life because woman ask you to do it ?

No you would not? Then please give woman the place to vent about men, give space to be like they want to be , without caring if they hurt men.

Give woman space where men are only an afterthought .

[susankaufman]

You are so right girl!

[thisisexorsexism]

Comment i found on a tiktok

this is exorsexism

[susankaufman]

I am confused, i always thought a Lesbian is woman(cis) who only loves other woman(cis)?

(Or a person from Lesbos).

Who should i call myself if am cis woman who only wants to date other cis woman , when not a Lesbian ?

[the-unflappablewolf]

[squirrelstone]

Love how a certain flavor of HR fans will see a comment saying the book was written for straight women to fetishize mlm and that that’s still visible in the show’s marketing and claim that’s “spreading misinformation” because the show was made by a gay man. Just because it wasn’t his intent to target straight women doesn’t mean it isn’t true of the book and the marketing strategy.

[susankaufman]

What is wrong with straight woman as an audince?

[technicolorgalaxy]

There is a special kind of hatred in my heart for people who shit on people who don't use the English language "correctly". That being said:

Dyslexic and Dysgraphic people who struggle with spelling, grammar, handwriting, physical pain when writing, grip issues, alignment issues, organizing ideas, sentence formulation, vocabulary/expression, fluency, word retrieval, pronunciation, narrative flow, speech speed, comprehension, stuttering, and/or articulation, I love you.

People with ASD/Autism Spectrum Disorder, ADHD/Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, DLD/Developmental Language Disorders, SLI/Specific Language Impairment, Cerebral Palsy, or any other developmental disability that impairs language skills, I love you.

People with Down Syndrome, Fragile X Syndrome, FASD/Fetal Alcohol Spectrum disorders, or any other intellectual disability that impairs language skills, I love you.

People with aphasia, dementia, TBIs/Traumatic Brain Injuries, brain tumors, meningitis, CAS/Childhood Apraxia of Speech, or any other neurological disorder/brain injury that impairs language skills, I love you.

Deaf and HoH/Hard of Hearing people who struggle with language, I love you.

Blind and partially sighted people who struggle with language, I love you.

People with a cleft palate, congenital facial issues, or other physical/structural impairments that affect speech, I love you.

Scottish, Welsh, Anglo-Romani, Brogue, Irish, Euro, AAE/AAVE (African American English/African American Vernacular English), Cajun, LVE (Latine Vernacular English), Indigenous, High Tider, New Orleans, SAE (Southern American English), Afro-Seminole Creole, Gullah, Hawaiian Pidgin, Aboriginal, Caribbean, Central and South American, Asian, African, Oceanic, South Atlantic, any other pidgin or "broken English" language, Interlanguage, or any other English speaker who experiences accentism, I love you.

People with low literacy skills/non-literate English speakers and writers, I love you.

English Signers, AAC users, or others who communicate non-verbally, I love you.

English Language Learners, I love you.

No one should ever have to face discrimination for the way they talk, write, or otherwise communicate. Your dialect, accent, or way of speaking is not an indicator of your intelligence. You are a beautiful person who has the right to be listened too regardless of how you communicate your ideas. There is no wrong way to communicate.

TL; DR: I love you regardless of how you communicate. You're awesome.

[susankaufman]

I strongly disagree with putting accents and disabilities in the same category. Doing so shows a lack of understanding and, frankly, a lack of education and empathy.

This kind of thinking also feels very typically American in the sense that it flattens important differences and applies a one-size-fits-all perspective. There is also an underlying imperial mindset in treating all forms of English as if they exist on the same scale of “correctness,” instead of respecting linguistic and cultural diversity.

Accents are part of culture and identity. They reflect history, community, and belonging—and they must be preserved. Accents should not be erased or “corrected,” but actively valued and maintained as an important part of cultural heritage. An accent is a unifying feature for an entire community. Speech difficulties are not the same thing.

Disabilities, on the other hand, are a completely different matter. People with disabilities may face real challenges in communication and often need support to improve their abilities if they choose to.

A person who makes fun of accents is uneducated and classist. A person who makes fun of people with disabilities is ableist. You are being uneducated, classist, and ableist when you put accents and disabilities into the same category or treat them as the same kind of issue.

Mixing these two things together ignores both realities: it diminishes the cultural importance of accents while also downplaying the very real struggles that come with disabilities.

[technicolorgalaxy]

Respectfully, what are you talking about? How is it in any way bad to acknowledge these two things in the same post? I was talking about them in the same post because the post is about how the way people communicate isn't wrong, regardless of how they do it, which is why including both accents + dialects and disabilities. If the post was about ableism only or classism (AND RACISM) only, then I would not have put them together. I brought them both up because I wanted to talk about people who get mocked for speaking "wrong" and there are multiple reasons that people are mocked for that. I also never claimed that they were the same issue and I don't know how you could have gotten that from this. It's saddening to me that the first thought you had when reading a post expressing love for the various ways people communicate was that it was bigoted for not using the exact language you thought it should.

Also, please don't try to talk to me about empathy; there is nothing inherently wrong with lacking empathy, and frankly, I think it's saneist to bring it up as a gotcha.

You said, "There is also an underlying imperial mindset in treating all forms of English as if they exist on the same scale of “correctness,” instead of respecting linguistic and cultural diversity.

Accents are part of culture and identity. They reflect history, community, and belonging—and they must be preserved. Accents should not be erased or “corrected,” but actively valued and maintained as an important part of cultural heritage. An accent is a unifying feature for an entire community. Speech difficulties are not the same thing."

I don't know what you're talking about here. Did you read this and think I genuinely thought these people were speaking English wrong? Because when I put "correctly" in quotes, it was meant to signal to you, the reader, that they aren't actually speaking wrong.

Also, I don't know why you would say "accents must be preserved" and go on to say "speech difficulties are not the same thing" in the same paragraph. I don't want to misinterpret your words, but this reads like you are saying people with speech difficulties shouldn't have them?

I am not stupid. As a disabled person myself, I am perfectly aware that "People with disabilities may face real challenges in communication and often need support to improve their abilities if they choose to". Many of us can't improve our abilities, though. Even if we choose to. Many of us will just have to live the way we are, and we should be able to do that without people trying to fix us. And it seems like you think speech difficulties SHOULD be corrected? But again, I could be misinterpreting things.

I don't know what could have possibly led you to say or think these things. And frankly, I don't know why you're calling this "typically American" as if Europeans are somehow better than this. Like, you are being genuinely classist when you say that. I don't know why you think you're superior for being European, and I think it's gross that you're trying to act like you're above me, actually. Are you disabled? Do you have speech and writing issues? Do you have a marginalized accent or dialect? If the answer to all of those is no, I don't know why you think you have any place to talk like you have any idea what I'm saying

[susankaufman]

"Are you disabled? Do you have speech and writing issues? Do you have a marginalized accent or dialect? If the answer to all of those is no, I don't know why you think you have any place to talk like you have any idea what I'm saying"

unfortunately for you, the anwers to all your questios is yes.

I have dyslexia and an nordig accent. I am also abel to understand different dialects , iam not abel to speak properly because a historic goverment of my country tried to erase all dialects.

So the answers of your post came from person with a lot of experince.

[toastpandadraws]

all the respect to Billy Piper for being able to put on a believable performance as a whiny teenager but all the disrespect to Rose Tyler for being a whiny teenager

[susankaufman]

Yess !

I love Billie Piper ! But Rose...