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john fante would have loved songs for the deaf if he hadnt died twenty years prior. rip arturo bandini u would have loved overzealous deadbeat music🥀

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Idk if u answer hp related questions, but what books do you think Snape would read? (Specifically adult Snape)

Ive seen a lot of ppl hc that he'd read books like Lolita, Bell Jar, American Psycho, and so on

Of course I answer! I mean, what I really want with this blog is for it to be multifandom and not centered on just one topic, while also getting rid of all the noise from the other blog, which is basically anons being a pain in the ass. But obviously you can ask me questions like this freely. Actually I appreciate it, because lately I wasn’t getting questions on the other blog, just endless opinion messages about the Marauders fandom.

So, about Severus, I don’t see him reading Sylvia Plath, because Severus is a guy born in 1960 in a deeply industrial area with no money. And Sylvia Plath is very much for the girls who hate men and want to kill themselves, and I understand projecting onto a character and that’s lovely, but I insist: Severus is a MAN born in the 60s xdd. American Psycho doesn’t fit him either, that’s much more of a Sirius book. Actually I think Sirius would jerk off to that book and then to the movie, because he’s exactly the type to be obsessed with cool macho-men fiction. He’d be a Fight Club fan for sure.

But no, no, Severus for me goes in another direction. I think that in his early years he’d be interested in the classics because he has that drive to improve himself, to rise above his status. So I see him as a kid reading Dickens, Shelley, trying out Byron, Wilde, and actually I see him deeply enjoying Oscar Wilde during his early adolescence. I also very much see him reading Kafka (The Metamorphosis or Letters to Milena are extremely him) and being absolutely enchanted, and later discovering Dostoyevsky (his canonically literary teenage moment, honestly) and losing his mind over it. I also really see him reading stuff like The Count of Monte Cristo (fits him so much omg), Les Misérables, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, The Man Who Laughs (this one fits him SO well too) ugh, Victor Hugo in general is peak Severus.

And well, after reading classics, as he grows and refines himself, I think he’d adore Hesse, Severus is EXACTLY the type to feel like the most special guy in the universe at 17 reading Steppenwolf, fight me lmao. Along those lines, Sartre’s Nausea too (although I see that more around his Hogwarts years in 1991/92), and The Stranger or The Fall by Camus completely fit him. In general, Camus is extremely on-brand for him. Yukio Mishima also fits him a lot, and even for lighter moments, Murakami, because he writes so much about nostalgia and youth mistakes, so that too.

And honestly, on a more personal level, that working-class part of him, because Severus Snape is a guy raised in a slum with no money for clothes in an industrial 1960s city, and who has a muggle side, but not just any muggle side —a working-class pub-factory-grimy-neighborhood kind — I think he’d love Irvine Welsh’s novels (Trainspotting), John Fante (especially Wait Until Spring, Bandini and Ask the Dust), Raymond Carver; and if we’re talking poetry, I’m sorry, but outside of classical poetry, if Severus Snape enjoys contemporary poetry, it is NOT Sylvia Plath, he is undeniably a Charles Bukowski guy.

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Yeraltı edebiyatının öncülerinden, Charles Bukowski'ye yazmaya başlaması için ilham kaynağı olmuş İtalyan asıllı Amerikalı yazar John Fante'ı aramızdan ayrılışının 43. yılında saygıyla anıyoruz.