#annalittlethoughts

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My favorite pastime is reading Severus-centered fanfiction written by people who like Severus and enjoy studying this character. These fanfics are always SO interesting, and so well written. Because people are trying to understand where his behavior comes from, his traumas, the differences and similarities between young Severus and Professor Severus.

It's fascinating. Because you don't see a caricature of a ugly and with a big nose villain, which is what people who dislike that character usually write. You see a 3D person.

[annanaoana]

My favorite Draco will always be the Draco written by the authors of Drarry. They describe him as a coward, egocentric, selfish, petty... did I already mentioned coward? And it's SO funny. The funniest lines I've ever read were him complaining about how his life is a mess, and it's always because he gets involved with Potter, or helps Potter, or simply thinks about Potter. And he always feigns a false bravado, but inside he's terrified. My favorite version of him lives in Draco Malfoy and the Mirror of Ecyrude.

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It's funny when I read someone saying that Snape was obsessed with Lily and wouldn't leave her alone... wasn't James exactly like that? he heard a million no's from Lily before she got tired and said yes, he apparently loved her the first second he saw her and everyone calls it love. Now Snape, who was Lily's friend for years, is called a stalker, obsessed, and other names when he says he will always love her...

I'm sure if James wasn't described as handsome people wouldn't ignore that poor Lily had no peace. None of them gave her peace.

And I say this as a fan of the Marauders and Snape's gang. It's kind of tiring, all this hypocrisy.

[annanaoana]

Every now and then when I read some Marauders fanfiction, I have these thoughts that Lily from the fanfics is just a redhead version of Hermione, and Regulus is an aristocratic version of Severus. They don't seem original, just a copy of other characters. Which is pretty crazy because in the Marauders fandom everything is invented and nothing is canon, and sometimes the authors can't come up with an original personality for these characters.

There were two posts on tumblr that I wanted to read but I lost them both. One was about people writing Regulus with Severus's personality. And the other was about how Lily, Marlene, and Mary were just the female version of the Marauders. Two very interesting topics that I would like to read about.

edit: I found a VERY interesting post on Reddit about the similarities between Severus and Regulus, and there are also some very good discussions in the comments.

[annanaoana]

It's kind of stressful that I'm seeing more David and Superman edits than Milly and Supergirl in the month that the Supergirl movie is coming out.

[annanaoana]

This whole "Paralives is better than The Sims" thing is such a stupid discussion. People get into such a pointless argument, as if it were forbidden to play both.

Play The Sims if you don't want to play Paralives, play Paralives if you don't want to play The Sims. Play both if you can't decide. It's that simple. But no, I need to tell the whole world that you can only play one of the two because I make the rules. So fucking stupid.

[annanaoana]

Two things I don't fall for in fanfiction:

1. When they turn Ron Weasley into an ignorant fool who only knows how to yell, get angry, and be jealous. Bashing Ron Weasley is one of the most senseless things in the world. It's never, and I repeat, it's never necessary to turn Ron into the villain for the villain to achieve redemption (usually it's Draco). To me, it's always a sign of the author being lazy and wanting to make everything too easy for their story.

I'm sorry, I just can't believe that someone who's so good at chess is too dumb to understand human interactions, or plans, or anything else. Turn Ron into a monster, separate him from his friends, having any kind of Weasley Bashing is enough for me to know that I'm not going to like that fanfic.

2. When any Slytherin simply stops believing in blood purity. It's not about changing their mindset, but about how easy it is sometimes. I don't buy it. When they are the biggest advocates for the cause, yeah no. Anything we learn as we grow up takes root, and it's not so easy to unlearn. Sometimes it's impossible. For example, catholicism. It's been almost a decade since I left religion behind and I don't believe in anything, but I'm still terrified of thinking the wrong thing and going to hell. I consider myself agnostic because the thought of believing with conviction "god doesn't exist" terrifies me, deep down. Out of fear of going to hell, and I don't even believe in hell.

So no, the Slytherins wouldn't simply leave behind years and years of a way of thinking that was instilled in them from birth. They would still say prejudiced things from time to time, they would still think about it and would have to constantly remind themselves that it's wrong. Or that they're not like that anymore. But sometimes in fanfics, they're simply able to have relationships with Muggleborns and have Muggle experiences, or coexist with Muggles. Very easily. Yeah, I'm not buying that.

[annanaoana]

drarry is such a strong ship that even when I'm reading dramione fanfiction, I can still find drarry within it.