#ace snape

[thekindslytherinn]

All we know about Severus Snape's sexuality is that he was in love with the same woman for thirty years. Even though his feelings were never returned, and he never experienced physical intimacy with her, his feelings never faded, and he never showed interest in anyone else. Therefore, there is canonically more evidence that he is in the ace spectrum than reason to believe he is straight.

WHO SAID THAT??

[kahran042]

Although I headcanon Severus Snape as asexual, I do ship him in a purely platonic mentor-protégé relationship with a NEWT-level student who shares his passion for potions and the Dark Arts, maybe trying to subtly coax said student into using their talents and passions for good in a way he couldn't as a student, and maybe even succeeding.

[ottogatto]

AU where Lily is the one head over heels for Severus (whether as a teen or as a teacher) and he’s either oblivious or just satisfied with friendship or doesn’t want any particular contact? The bastard is impossible to live with but Lily somehow melts at his sight, no matter how much she tries to make herself stop loving him. She starts to think she’s got a problem is she can get off his "meanness". And Severus just... either realizes he doesn’t hold any flame for Lily anymore (he just hung on the idea of her but now he’s losing that delusion), or doesn’t realize Lily loves him this way since he doesn’t himself, either way he’d prefer to be alone on the romantic/sexual aspects of his life.

[thekindslytherinn]

Thought process behind my characters

(Pt. 1)

Welcome to me answering questions nobody asked. Today’s episode is:

If I think Severus is queer coded, why the hell did I choose a woman when I had to create a character who was supposed to be his partner?

The answer is pretty simple: ace representation and gender roles.

I wanted to explore Severus Snape as an ace character, and in doing so, I needed to openly defy specific stereotypes I hate in narrative. The first of which is: a man and a woman can't love each other without their love being sexual.

Because they can. There are a billion forms of intimacy a man and a woman can share beyond the physical one. And THAT's what I wanted to talk about.

And so, I have created Omegas. A woman who's just as uninterested in physicality. A woman with which he bonds through their shared intelligence, cynicism and conversations. Because that's what feels realistic when l imagine him in a relationship.

I wrote her to be similar to him enough to be plausible they fall in love, but I queer coded her the opposite way of Severus: she’s probably the most masculine character I have ever created.

And it's never stated explicitly if they've ever been intimate with each other. Not once in 760k words; it's left ambiguous.

Because that's not important.

Because a man and a woman can love each other without ulterior motives, and without gender roles being involved in their relationship.

I also gave her the aesthetic of a giant asexual flag because the idea genuinely made me smile :)

Thanks for staying with me while I yap about my hyperfixations!

[thekindslytherinn]

Me: I want to write a silly little fic with Severus Snape pov in which he’s ace and autistic and he meets someone who’s also ace and autistic, and it ends with them being happy. Ten chapters at most

Me, a year later: it’s a saga, five long fics, 150k words each, they morally adopted five kids without realising, one of them is Harry Potter—

[thekindslytherinn]

Happy pride month

[janacariad]

so I've been writing this ff for 9 years and I love it, but now I'm having an existential crisis because the next chapter will have Sev and his girl figure out that he doesn't want s*x (my Sev is ace. took me some years to find out and he probably doesn't know there are words to describe him in that respect) and I'm scared of my (mostly silent) readers' reactions 😂 I can't believe that I'm having these worries... shouldn't it be my story, written primarily for me? yes, it should. have I still given it to three people to get opinions pre-publishing? Maybe... Anyway... Love my ace Sev as much as all the other wonderful Sevs I've seen around 🖤🤍💜

[roswordsmanart]

You think that love, such a powerful and complicated thing, would be as black and white as ‘in love with her romantically and sexually’ or not? You are severely mistaken. Love is broad, ever-changing, and even more deeply complex than amortentia.