Zarinari Writes

Hannah | 28 | Writing Snape the way he deserves Author of Wandless & Real Enough Slow burn | Gothic atmosphere | Emotionally devastating 💚 Asks open | Masterpost pinned

[zarinari]

✨ Zarinari Writes Masterpost ✨

Severus Snape fic | Slow burn | Emotionally devastating

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📚 Wandless (Snape/OC)

An American witch expelled from Ilvermorny. A broken wand. A soul bond neither of them wanted.

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Links: AO3 | FFN | Wattpad

🤍 Enemies to lovers | Dream bond | Grief & healing

📚 Real Enough (Snape/Reader)

You think you’re falling for an AI chatbot of Severus Snape. He thinks he’s falling for a mysterious entity that sends him messages through a magical book. You’re both wrong about what the other is. You’re both right about the feelings.

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🤍 Mutual pining | Text-based

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[madocasmagic]

Hey there ❤️

If you been following my posts, you know that I've been struggling to keep bills paid and, recently, got another eviction notice. I will have to move once again next week because I ran out of any other options an now I only have a week left to leave.

I set a goal on ko-fi so I can find a place and not be unhoused again. I'm also lowering my prices temporarily until I reach the goal. If you can buy a commission or help me in any way, I promise to deliver my heart in your art. I will draw any OC's and any fandom you want.

Thanks for reading ❤️

Ko-fi.com/itolynart

[zarinari]

I know I say this every time, but I need to fix my note system. It works fine when I was just working on it last night and continuing it today, but it's been over a month since I updated RE, and I pulled up my notes, and I might as well be decoding hieroglyphics because what is any of this? What does this have to do with what just happened? How am I supposed to get from point A to B before I worry about whatever that is?

I need to make a timeline or something.

[zarinari]

My stepdaughter just made it back home today. ❤️

(I know I didn't mention it here but I said on Discord earlier she got sent to short term behavioral care a little over a week ago. 🥲)

[zarinari]

I would like to skip to the end, please.

I woke to the slow awareness that she was already watching me. This was, in itself, irregular. I tended to wake before her—habit and constitution conspiring against any morning during which I might otherwise have slept past dawn. It was not, by my reckoning, past dawn, but the grey light at the edges of the curtains suggested it was not far off either. I had slept longer than I usually did, and I had slept more deeply. She was on her side, propped on one elbow, her gaze fixed on me. Her hair was still loose from sleep, and she had the patient, unhurried expression of a woman who had been content to wait for me to find my way back to the surface. She reached over and cupped my jaw, turning my face towards hers with the certainty she applied to most decisions concerning my person. "Good morning to the most handsome man in the world." She kissed me. It was the slow, lingering kiss of a woman who had nowhere she needed to be, and I, having nowhere I needed to be either, let her take her time about it. I would have let her do a great many things in that moment; I was not, by any reasonable measure, awake. I was somewhat more awake when she pulled back. I studied her for a moment. She was watching me with the expression she wore when she had decided something and was waiting to see whether I would catch up. "I cannot imagine why you bother lying to me. I am not that gullible." "It is not a lie." She slid out from under the covers and swung her legs over the side of the bed. Her mouth had curved—the small, private smile she wore when she had set a trap and was waiting to see whether I would walk into it. "You are the only man I look at, Severus. The competition is rather light." "Charming. So I win only when I am the only contestant." She had begun walking towards the bathroom by now. At that, she stopped, turned, and continued backwards—her eyes on me, her expression the particular kind of triumphant that meant she had been hoping for exactly this. "What—are you complaining you have no competition?" I declined to answer. Instead, I reached for her pillow and threw it at her. It caught her square in the chest. She caught it on the rebound, her hands closing around it on instinct, and the look on her face—the genuine, startled outrage of a woman who had not expected the projectile—was, I confess, not without its rewards. A laugh escaped her before she could stop it. "I cannot believe you just did that." She tossed the pillow back onto the bed beside me and pointed at me—a gesture of considerable conviction. "I am going to get you back for that, Severus Snape." I made a small noise that I judged adequately dismissive, lay back, and closed my eyes. The bathroom door clicked shut. I heard her laughing through it—properly now, the unrestrained version she had been saving for the moment she was alone. Only then did I allow myself to smile.

[zarinari]

Currently revising the last Wandless chapter I posted. I had my husband read over the posted version for me, and he snickered when he read this line, thinking it sounded like an innuendo, and now I'm having a hard time reading it as anything else. 😐

[cinnam0nr011]

“Wandless” by @zarinari

[cinnam0nr011]

“Wandless” by @zarinari

[cinnam0nr011]

This reminded me of Snape for some reason

[cinnam0nr011]

@zarinari the 2nd chapter of undercurrents 💀

[zarinari]

This post was legit the inspiration ✨

[zarinari]

Good morning everyone! I keep getting messages asking for updates, so I figured I'd post publicly rather than trying to explain individually.

My stepdaughter is going through a rough period with her mental health right now. We found out at her therapy appointment this past Wednesday, and her therapist wants us to keep a closer eye on her until her next appointment. So since Wednesday, I've been more than a bit distracted.

For fic: I didn't get the RE chapter out by Friday like I was hoping, and I'm not fully satisfied with the last Wandless chapter either (it reads more formulaic than I usually do, and I'd like to revisit it). For now I'm removing the due dates I put on myself and just following the dopamine wherever it leads until the immediate stressors pass.

(I know some of you are tempted to tell me to put it down completely, but I still have to go to work, and I have one of those jobs where I just monitor constantly, so if I have to stare at my computer screen for 8 hours with nothing to pass the time, it'll likely just make it worse lol.)

Nothing is abandoned, updates will come as soon as I can make them. Thank you guys for continuing to be so supportive. I really appreciate it. ❤️

[zarinari]

I need a little spoiler about this: "Why did me trying to figure out her birthday end up with me sketching out a Deathly Hallows plotline for the past hour? "

🤭🤭🤭🫣🫣

As vague as I can be:

I already had a planned subplot about Heather's blood status in the Deathly Hallows book. So to figure out her birthday, I had to consider when her parents' relationship would be to figure out when she would have been born. It let me flesh out the subplot quite a bit. :)

[zarinari]

Do you have a date for Heather's birthday? If it was in the text, I either missed it or forgot it, and I was wondering what sign she might be 🤔

Why did me trying to figure out her birthday end up with me sketching out a Deathly Hallows plotline for the past hour? lol

February 28th, 1961

[cinnam0nr011]

“Wandless” by @zarinari chapter: 31 mood board

Thoughts

- snape finding any excuse to touch her 😭

- wait are they, working together for once 😧

- okay so Heather was in a neglectful marriage…

- I’m surprised he didn’t ask for more details on what she saw of him. Then again maybe he doesn’t want to know.

[zarinari]

The most civil they've been in 31 chapters 😬

[zarinari]

Of course his first concern is the herbs.

From Wandless - Chapter 31

[zarinari]

I finally finished the drafts!

So for the workskin itself: I've added timestamps. Not constant ones, but the way normal text conversations show them. If the conversation exceeds 15 minutes before the next message arrives, there's a timestamp above the new message. I think it's a cool aesthetic (and helps keep track of where we are in the timeline too 🥰). I've also changed the AO3 comments design to look more like the actual default AO3 site design (sans profile pics). They also have dates on them, so even more timeline assistance. I also narrowed the text bubbles so they don't stretch too far into the middle on desktop.

Before:

After:

The actual text changes were fairly minimal in these chapters.

I cut a lot of stock physical reactions and tried to replace them with ones specific or unique to Reader. (One in the top screenshot above: "Your heart did something embarrassing." ➡️ "That gave you, embarrassingly, an honest-to-god flutter.")

I changed the name of Chapter 6 from Convenient Coincidences to Your Standards Are Concerning.

I updated the summaries for all edited chapters.

I reduced two overthinking spiral paragraphs to just two sentences instead.

I changed Reader's reaction to initially revealing the romance story reveal.

I removed the unnecessary video essay scene in Chapter 5.

I cut the opening from Chapter 4 (it was just literally Reader waking up and wondering why he didn't message yet, it was better in media res later in the morning.)

I changed his grading of seventh-year essays to fifth-year essays in Chapter 5.

And that's pretty much it. Some word swaps, some sentence cuts, some rewording. Mostly small changes overall.

I have 1-7 posted on AO3 already. Wattpad will take me a little longer since it requires me to work up the messages in HTML and take screenshots of all the messages.

Speaking of Wattpad, Real Enough is #1 in the SnapexReader tag atm. 👀

Thank you for your patience in letting me catch up! I will be working on the next chapters for Wandless and Real Enough next. ❤️

[zarinari]

Happy Wednesday everyone!

Update on the drafts: I'm currently working on Chapter 5 for Real Enough, which when I finish will be two chapters short of the goal of 7. I haven't posted the drafts yet; I was doing it initially but kept going back and changing things, so I decided to stop posting until I was finished and could fix the formatting for the chapters at the end.

Was not expecting it to take this long (I still feel it's unreasonable to be taking this long lol) but something about editing these chapters has my brain going in circles in a way it didn't when I edited the Wandless chapters. I've just been getting dizzy staring at it for prolonged amounts of time. I finally found my groove on Monday, but Tuesday I had a public speaking thing and went right back into not being able to concentrate. The plan is to power through it to 7 by tomorrow, then instead of jumping into editing the two Wandless chapters, I'm going to write the next Wandless and RE chapters first and go back into editing afterwards. I'm getting a bit antsy going a full week without writing anything 😬

As for the poll results: I've decided to keep the RE fic recaps to keep the story simpler. Editing has shown me that the appeal of this story is keeping it simple on the surface and complicated in deeper levels. However, I am playing with the idea of posting the internal fic as a separate fic, so those who are curious can read it but those who aren't can enjoy the current story without the added layer. If I ever decide on this for sure, I'll give an update.