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More feral Severus Snape?

Like, I already proposed a Severus that goes back in time and chooses to turn his back to the WW, but now I feel more like getting a Snape that takes a look around, realizes he's back, takes a deep breath, rolls up his sleves, cracks his neck and goes...

"Very well... Bring it on."

A bit like "Falling apart", but with a bit more crack, maybe?

He just doesn't give a fuck, he's got no more shits to give about what's going on. His goal is to have a quite, paceful and solitary life, but he concludes that, with the war going on, he won't get it.

So, he goes around with a single goal in mind. He does consider leaving Hogwarts altogether, but decides to stay just to freeload on the castle while he applies to take his OWL's and NEWT's earlier. He wants a life, after all.

The werewolf pranck? He laughed at Sirius face.

The lake incident? He blocked the levitating spell and punched Potter in the face.

Lucius trying to recruit him? Bleached Hair got a middle finger.

Slughorn trying to talk to him (a weak half-meaning attempt that was more insulting than anything)? An eyebrow raised and no words.

Detention? Ha! Sure... Who do this dumbasses think he is? (A student, Sev... They think you're a kid). He's got no time! He has a Dark Lord to stop!

And when Dumbledore wants to "speak" with him - read: Interrogate him on his latest activities that are getting him out of the castle and into the forest and Hogsmade (and all over Diagon and Knockturn Alley, plus many other places, though Albus doesn't need to know that) -, Severus speaks circles around the old man.

He's tired and angry, and can't stand people anymore, and he is going to get out of there and fix things so he won't have to ever put up with any of them again.

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Just a reminder that Harry never compared his father to Malfoy (with whom he had a rivalry) but rather to Dudley (who bullied him as a child) when he saw Snape’s memories. This is a clear way of showing that Harry never thought of his father and Severus as rivals—he saw his father as a bully, which is why he was horrified. You’re welcome, James apologists.

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When I started my transition and began to come out to a few more folks than the tiny few that knew about me, there was something I kept saying as a part of my spiel…

“This is what I am, not who I am.”

I think I believed it fully at the time.

But then the interaction in the comic above occurred this past summer and completely changed my mind.  Sure, being trans is something that I just am, but it’s also something that can be part of who I am as well. 

Seeing that kid completely light up the way they did sparked in me a desire that I really didn’t think I’d ever have.  Suddenly, that kid made me want to be visible.

Like the comic says, I wasn’t ready to be publicly out so I felt safer lying about myself at the time, but I truly hope that the next time I’m up there they have the opportunity to see me…

…a transgender person who’s included and having fun, just like we all should be.

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If you know you know.

... Extrapolating from incomplete data be like...

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We have already averted truly apocalyptic levels of global warming.

Yes, read that again. Let it sink in. This is what the science now says. We have already averted truly apocalyptic global warming.

To quote David Wallace-Wells, author of The Uninhabitable Earth, from his huge feature in the New York Times:

"Thanks to astonishing declines in the price of renewables, a truly global political mobilization, a clearer picture of the energy future and serious policy focus from world leaders, we have cut expected warming almost in half in just five years... The window of possible climate futures is narrowing, and as a result, we are getting a clearer sense of what’s to come: a new world, full of disruption but also billions of people, well past climate normal and yet mercifully short of true climate apocalypse." (New York Times, October 22, 2022. Unpaywalled here. Emphasis mine. And yes, this vision of the future is backed up by the current science on the issue, as he explains at length in the article.)

So we've already averted truly apocalyptic warming, and we've already cut expected warming IN HALF in just the past five years.

The pace of technology, of innovation, of prices, of feasibility, of discovery, of organizing, of grassroots movements, of movements in other countries around the world, have all picked up the pace so fast in the last five years.

Renewable technology and capacity are both increasing at an exponential rate. It's all S-curves, ones that look like this:

-via The Economist, June 20, 2024.

How much more will we manage in another five years? Another ten? Another twenty?

I know the US is about to fucking suck about the environment for the next four years. But the momentum of renewable energy is far too much to stop - both in the US (x) and around the world.

(Huge shoutouts to India, China, and Brazil for massive gains for the environment in renewables, and Brazil for massive progress against Amazon deforestation.)

We're going to get there.

Say it with me. We're going to get there.

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Every time I go get something done to my car the dudes at the shop are always like, "wow you drive a stick shift even though you're a girl." What the fuck do those two things even have to do with each other. "Wow you eat lettuce even though you're brunette" ???? hello

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Pro Snape whispers pt. 3

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Severus Snape sitting on the dusty curb of Spinner’s End during the summer between his fifth and sixth year, thinking he really has nothing and no one left, smoking a cigarette while the sound of his parents screaming serves as the soundtrack to his bleak and decaying view of a neighborhood falling apart, with people growing more tired, more fed up, dirtier, and more scarred. Severus Snape in his worn-out muggle clothes because the little he has goes toward buying things that might be useful in the wizarding world, but his father won’t let him walk around dressed like a “clown” because he doesn’t want his muggle acquaintances saying anything about that weird son of his. Severus Snape with his anxious teenager’s dark circles under his eyes, his weary gaze, and his sixteen-year-old wish to just die already, thinking that this summer doesn’t even have the small consolation of calling Lily to hang out from time to time, because Lily doesn’t speak to him anymore. And the screaming continues in the background, and the gray people pass in front of him, and he doesn’t want to go back inside, but he also doesn’t want the holidays to end because he doesn’t see much point in continuing at that school. And maybe the only reason he does is because, among his peers, they’ve told him there’s a way to send everyone to hell. To stop hearing the screaming and living in the filth and being surrounded by muggles who all seem on the verge of collapse. A way to leave it all behind. A way to make everyone go screw themselves, and, well, given how little of a future he sees for himself, he doesn’t really understand why he shouldn’t give it a try.

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i REFUSE to believe for even a moment, for even a SECOND, that Severus Snape isnt just straight up, unironically, Lucius Malfoy's sugar baby. And Narcissa's too, for that matter. A man like Snape? Tall, slim, with memorable and striking features? He is built for fashion. He is born for The Runway™ and Narcissa Malfoy née Black can never resist the urge to dress him up in pretty things any more than Lucius Malfoy can resist buying and watching him wear said pretty things.

Snape may or may not realize it, but he is absolutely, unequivocally, undeniably being sugared out of his mind.

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“Fatherless behavior” stop giving my DAD credit for all the work my MOM put into making me a terrible person!! Stop erasing women in history!!

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When you say a fandom is dead, it’s a bit of a blow to people who are still producing and enjoying work for that fandom. You’re basically saying what they’re doing doesn’t matter, doesn’t count, which might discourage them from continuing to participate.

If one person is creating content, the fandom isn’t dead.

If one person is consuming content, the fandom isn’t dead.

If two friends are chatting on skype about their OTPs, that’s fandom.

If someone doodles drawings of their favorite characters on a napkin, that’s fandom.

Just because someone is producing content for one fandom doesn’t mean they have to leave another.

Not every fandom can be the big, new, shiny and popular thing.

Not every fandom *should* be the big, new, shiny, and popular thing.

It’s okay to have small, tight-knit fandoms. They can be just as fulfilling and entertaining as the big ones.

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Marauders fans just be having double standards on the point they proud themselves the most on: Diversity

They be like "let's make James brown" (ik that it's in the whole fandom in general but ykwim) and reject the Jewish-looking guy

They be like "let's make Lily obese" and reject the underweight guy

They be like "let's make Regulus abused" and reject the canonically abused guy

They be like "let's make Regulus get groomed into joining the DEs" and reject the canonically groomed guy

They be like "let's make Barty's actions look right by saying it was for love" and reject the guy who did everything for the girl he loved (platonically or not)

Double standards, double standards everywhere.

Diversity only exists if Snape is not involved

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Harry: You're not my favorite person today.

Severus: I'm not your favorite person on any day.

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Albus: Summary of this Christmas holiday?

Severus: Alcohol, headaches, insomnia...

Minerva: You know you can't go on like this?

Severus: Hey, I have a sensitivity too. Don't deprive a man of one of his few reasons to live.

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Severus Snape kept Remus Lupin’s secret for 18 long years

Severus Snape kept Remus Lupin’s secret throughout his years at Hogwarts, even while enduring relentless bullying from the Marauders. He kept it when Lily Evans, the one person he cared for most, accused him of being ungrateful and selfish. He kept it after he graduated. He kept it even as he joined the Death Eaters. He kept it when he returned to Hogwarts as a teacher. He kept it when Lupin was appointed Defense Against the Dark Arts professor—a position Snape had long coveted. Even after Lupin, as a teacher, by suggesting an idea to Neville Longbottom, caused a Boggart to transform into a parody of Snape in women’s clothing—making him the laughingstock of the school—Snape still kept his secret. He kept it when Sirius Black, believed to be a murderer, nearly broke into Hogwarts, even though Snape suspected Lupin might have been helping him. He kept it when he believed Lupin had given the Marauder’s Map to Harry Potter and was holding secret meetings with him under suspicious circumstances.

But there came a moment when Snape could no longer protect Lupin’s secret. That moment came when Snape realized Lupin had betrayed Dumbledore’s trust:

Lupin knew that Sirius Black was an Animagus. He knew about the hidden passages in and out of Hogwarts. He knew Harry was aware of them too. But Lupin said nothing. His silence put the school in danger, nearly leading to three students being mauled by a werewolf. Worst of all, it allowed Sirius Black—who Snape believed to be one of Voldemort’s most dangerous allies—to escape. A man Snape thought responsible for Lily’s death, the murder of twelve Muggles, and an attempt on Harry Potter’s life.

In that moment, Snape realized the cost of keeping the secret had finally outweighed the price of revealing it.

Yes, Snape hated Lupin. He despised the Marauders and carried the scars of their cruelty for years. But when the moment came, His priority was not vengeance, but the safety of others. In the end, Snape was a man who understood the weight of responsibility—no matter the cost to himself.

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Day 15: Snape’s Strengths

I think his greatest strength is continuing to endure unbearable conditions while being such a sensitive and emotional person. It’s kind of sad, though. - webcomic - patreon - ao3 -

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i need someone to write smt like

mcgonagall: why did you suddenly attack mr. potter and mr. black?

severus: i was bored

mcgonagall: you know it can lead to your expulsion, right?

severus: oh, i thought "we were bored" was what they told you last time they attacked me and all you gave them was detention?