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These are all just really rough concept sketches but... My point is if I ever make a 600 Strike animatic, it will be so freaking unhinged
Ever since I wrote that essay about the vulnerability in this scene, I've been so normal about this scene, I swear (I say like a liar who lies very lyingly)
#epic the musical#epic odysseus#epic the vengeance saga#epic poseidon#poseidon epic#odysseus epic#600 strike#six hundred strike#look what i did#Listen it's about the intimacy okay#This scene without forced feeling uncomfortable intimacy isn't correct#I'm afraid I'm gonna have to#poseidon x odysseus#odysseus x poseidon#odyseidon#Tag this#nnnshsjsjskksns#HEAR ME OUT OKAY I WROTE A WHOLE ESSAY ABOUT WHY THIS SCENE IS ACTUALLY ABOUT VULNERABILITY AND INTIMACY#Just yk induced through extreme violence#Bc how else would one even try to make poseidon understand
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justin 😭😭😭 my babyyy
#the way i would have legit melted down at this 😭#public speaking is my worst fear#i can literally see justin having a mini anxiety attack up there 😭😭😭#in my mind he's staring directly at ja'marr and joe BEGGING for help#so many thoughts on how the original lsu trio all have their shy introverted sides (and probably all prefer to stay like that)#but developed an outgoing socializing mask at lsu with the other two#because forcing yourself to be uncomfortable is part of growing up and isn't that what they did at lsu? grow up together?#joe's very obviously introverted and i've talked a lot about how meeting justin at lsu brought ja'marr out of his shell#bu i also think justin has that same quiet side#like he did an interview after his extension where he was like 'i like being alone and at home and that's why minny's perfect for me'#which doesn't fit what a lot of people think when they think of justin jefferson#we talk so much about perfect pr-trained justin but how much does that take a toll on him?#i'm sure he does adore being the center of attention wherever he goes - but it must get exhausting sometimes huh#and he CONSANTLY talks about how he has two masks: justin (himself) and jets (jets being the flashy confident wr1 on the field)#(ok my headcanon that ja'marr gave justin the 'jets' nickname makes this just 😘)#he does like being that charismatic guy that laughs off mistakes on the prompter -but that's not who justin really is#never forget that justin was a two star recruit all scrawny with horrible grades before coming to lsu#like -i think justin brought ja'marr out of his shell but i also think ja'marr also gave justin more confidence#and he's blossomed into the guy who's constantly decked out in jewelry and isn't afraid to wear this amazing glittery suit#isn't that so beautiful? changing someone and being changed by that same someone in return?#lmao just realized i wrote a whole essay analyzing justin#disclaimer that i don't actually know these men lmao#justin jefferson
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You're always so on point with your posts. On that note, it made me realize that; Considering the themes of desires in DunMeshi. It's also to say that what you think you want isn't what you actually want.
Like, Marcille thinks she wants the handsome prince from the novels she reads... But what she actually wants is someone maybe more like her father who she admired so much. Kind, virtuous, caring to a fault, a family man. Things she later finds in Chilchuck.
Because as traumatizing as it was to see her mother's spiral after her father's death; Her memories of her father itself are some of the most important to her. And it fits with her pursuit to increase her loved ones' lives, because she does want what her mother and father had.
Sipping. I do go over ‘what you think you want vs what you actually want + what you need’ in my (upcoming) Marcille & Chil arc analysis ;) It’s a part of Dunmeshi that I really like and is super fascinating, I’d honestly like to make an analysis-post on the topic: all the different threads and characters in canon that reflect that, desires vs wants and themes of idealization in Dunmeshi, but it’s one of those things that’s just so huge to make. See this is the freaking problem with doing Dunmeshi meta you start talking about the themes or a narrative and everything is so interwoven you get distracted with tangents BUT IT’S ALL COMPELLING AND RELEVANT
I know that’s something laimar does a lot too, the dad thing, with Marcille in a post-canon comic knitting beside him paralleling her parents and whatnot. I don’t know if I fully agree on the angle but there’s definitely stuff to dig at there…
Like I know that I’d like to analyze Marcille’s succubus more, it comes up in my analysis draft but it’s not the point I’m trying to make there so I focus on other stuff but… I always saw the focus of Marcille’s succubus as that she sought out an emotional connection most of all, it’s romantic and courtly in nature but more importantly there’s personality and behavior there and it’s a character she already loves and knows deeply from having read the series, so it’s not like Chil where it’s just a pretty face whose identity doesn’t matter. A friend of mine though, @room-surprise, goes with the angle that it shows she isn’t ready for a relationship and that the appeal is very self-centered, and I def think compelling points are made…



Point I was trying to make, the succubus is definitely at the crux of figuring what it is Marcille wants and craves in someone I’d say, where she’s emotionally at wether consciously or subconsciously, or how she sees herself being involved in romance at least… It’s true Marcille is enthusiastic about romance, but always someone else’s, never hers, and she seems unwilling to examine her own relationships with people. She oversteps boundaries either obliviously or carelessly and doesn’t like change…
And then there’s how complex people’s relationship to fiction can be on top of that and graaaaah
Edit in bc I forgot I wanted to mention this like an idiot: OH and I do think the Daltian Clan serves a role in the general tapestry of Dunmeshi as well, sometimes in in depth ways that Room-Surprise will tackle in their research paper way better than me I’m sure. My understanding of the importance of general Hagreus in a more general narrative sense is that he reinforces the theme of idealization/fantasy vs reality that’s super present through the manga. Beyond just Marcille’s arc and his importance to her he’s designed uncannily close to Mithrun, it parallels real elves and their very flawed military system and the broken people it cultivates vs the romanticized elves put on an aesthetic pedestral in novels, especially considering it’s "general" Hareus

To give some previews of the analysis wip: Thus the succubus targets Marcille’s wish for a perfect knight who could cherish her forevermore, someone safe and known and fantastical, just hers in a way, free to see and construct however she wants because he’s a character to interpret Dungeon Meshi is in part about resisting desires, the irrational cravings, mostly through the character of the demon. I mentioned needs earlier, and to ideals vs wants we also add vs needs, both emotional and physical. And needs alongside wants are what Dungeon Meshi wishes to promote for a healthier person. Dungeon Meshi illustrates very well with the dungeon lords that you can be a slave to your desires. Dunmeshi prones the important of balance for both a healthy body and a healthy mind, and the arc of optimism vs pessimism with Marcille & Chilchuck is one such case <3
Ouuuugh how flawed relationships with flawed people can still be made into somehing good and healthy that make the world brighter…
We’ve gone far from the topic of how her family shaped what she seeks in relationships haha, I think you put it well already though I don’t have much to add on that front Edit in 2: SIKE! I’ll add that there’s an interesting thread in the manga of Marcille maturing and becoming more like her mother, which would be interesting and fun to pair with the fatherhood of Chil. Because Marcille is sometimes a mother figure as well: she’s the mom friend. I go over it here, and since when I made that post I’ve seen more interesting analysis on the topic too, like noticing she hides behind her mother’s portrait in the nightmare chapter, perhaps the inspiration behind her more mature reserved academic persona she sometimes has. Her parents are def important to her so it’s interesting to see how all the dynamics and her own psychology fit into that….

But yeah I think what she (thinks she) wants out of romance has a lot of layers, both conscious and subconscious… I haven’t gone into the bigger picture of how fiction affects her relationships here but it’s the central topic of my Marcille & Chil arc analysis so. She idealizes the trope of the prince charming and finds it attractive but is that what she would actually latch onto… Is it fully superficial, is it more about herself than it is about her potential partner... Is it mainly because she wants to get validation, from being special that she typically gets from high academic performance… We do see she can be rather insecure and worried about others’ perspective of her, that they think she’s not useful or capable enough, especially in the mandrake chapter… Unconditional love perhaps
What is your emotional landscape Marcille. How emotionally intelligent are you. I don’t think she knows what she wants romantically. I think she has a job so she don’t really care about that rn I’m just not sure if we can figure out what she ~actually~ wants on her behalf that might be too many levels of interpretation but idk idk, thinking on it still
#Ask#marchil#Spoilers#Dungeon meshi manga spoilers#As an aroace obviously obsessed with shipping. Me 🤝 Marcille very possibly being uncomfortable at the thought of being in a relationship#Considering her fear of loss + loss of control at categorizing her relationships and the Falin bath scene analysis yk the one#How she pushes herself to think of Falin as a kid still bc it’s more digestible and less scary. Bc change and aging and vulnerability#Like she could totally be super on board to get into a romance at a snap of fingers buuut there’s enough material where also could be not#The post ended up not being very marchil but yeah… in the end i ship it bc i think chil is both what she wants and needs in a lover#It’s ok even if they don’t do much pda she’ll just romanticize that it makes it more special#Marcille donato#Meta#Btw big recommend the youtube video essay on OFMD season 2 by The Sin Squad… Makes me think about Marcille v much
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oh boy i love finding new people to block in a post that wasn't even about kal and as far as i can tell he wasn't even directly mentioned in any of the notes
#verp talks#'haha let me look at the replies on this post about CODY'#>300 word essay on the fanon version of kal that is factually incorrect in several ways#(sighs and hits block)#i dont block for many things but parroting the fanon version of kal is the main one#i see where the criticism started and if some of the things hes done makes people uncomfortable thats totally fine#but the problem is that its gotten parroted so many times that its like that mp3/midi file of all i want for christmas is you#im begging you to read the fucking books before you hate on a character!!!#'hes a deadbeat dad who considered his birth kids adults once they turned 13 and then washed his hands of them'#YOU DIDNT READ THE BOOKS AND I DONT THINK YOU ACTUALLY READ WHATEVER POST GAVE YOU THAT IDEA EITHER???#THAT LITERALLY DIDNT HAPPEN
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hey girlie it’s me, sam winchesters gay lover, your mootie 🥰🥰🥰 i just wanted to let you know, that your tags on the post about that wincest video are based and i agree with every word, hashtag slay couldn’t agree more i loved reading your essay in those tags heart ❤️
omg thank you!!! i'm basically only capable of talking in essays whether people want me to or not, unfortunately
i just have a lot of feelings on this topic and the whole "canon or not canon" argument is weird to me; the themes are pretty darn clear in supernatural (it is NOT known for its subtlety) so idk man. they don't have to kiss to be canon. and they don't have to have a romantic relationship to be canon either. how many times do they get into relationships with other people only for it to be treated as cheating/betrayal/abandonment, only for them have to give up that relationship in order to reaffirm their devotion to their brother
that's just what the text says. i'm not under any kind of delusion that they have some secret sexual or romantic relationship, but that doesn't change that sam and dean are each other's most important person regardless of that. which is really awesome imo, that romance isn't treated as more important than whatever horrible thing they have with each other, and that they don't have to consummate their relationship with romance/sex in order for it to be the most important one they have
(and of course there's romantic/sexual subtext, like parallels and metaphors and misunderstandings and jokes, but to me that just provides a solid foundation for presenting this relationship between them as the most important even though it's not romantic or sexual—because this language of romance is the only one we know, really, when it comes to writing important relationships between characters. it's the only one we know in our own personal lives, to a large extent. so you use the romance/sexuality to symbolize the actual bond they have. which is so much worse lmao)
anyway i think spn is fairly unique in this way because of how no other relationships can really ever stand parallel to the one they share; even in other shows that center male friendship, romance is allowed to coexist with brotherhood. for sam and dean, it's not, and that becomes a point of tension and conflict and resolution many, many times over the course of the show. so like yeah!!! just because it's not romantic or sexual doesn't mean it's not canon, in the sense that their relationship is the point of the show, and it is the most important relationship they have. they chose each other above all else, every single time. yknow, it's "the epic love story of sam and dean" and all that
#ask#sorry. i did not intend to write another essay about this#but as i said i am only capable of talking in essays. my apologies#to be honest the only reason i have so much to say about this is because i have seen some truly baffling takes about what sam and dean are#and every time i see one i have to sit here and think about it. like how did you arrive at that conclusion. what are you watching#mostly in terms of like. people saying sam and dean are not weird and codependent and enmeshed with each other#that's just blatantly not true because again. this show is about sam and dean and their relationship. textually subtextually metatextually#the concept of even having to defend their relationship as canon is as confusing to me as having to defend umm rubysam is canon#or something#like it happened. they were together in canon. we saw them have sex. you can't say rubysam isn't canon because it's right there#same thing with sam and dean. the difference is the nature of their relationship and the fact that i guess people don't want to like#think of it as canon when it's not romantic????#it's such a no-brainer kind of thing. like the fact that i'm sitting here trying to explain myself is embarrassing me bc it's like#no shit sherlock#but again the only reason i am thinking about this so much is because i keep seeing people trying to deny or downplay their relationship#in the first place#which is BIZARRE to me#like idk i don't see people trying to deny that ummmm fuck. killua and gon hxh aren't canon friends#that they don't even like each other#wow i'm seriously rambling. apparently i have more to say about this topic than i originally conceived#idk man i get people are uncomfortable with incest but the point is that it's like. not. their canon-ness is not related to incest#they're just insane about each other and they are each other's most important person. they are more important than romantic pursuits#the uniqueness is that it trumps all other relationships and cannot coexist with any others. that's what's so canon about it#it's not just friendship. it's not just brothers. it's not just husbands. it's everything and nothing and so much more all at once#shrugs. sorry for rambling AGAIN#i hope i'm making sense here#supernatural#wincest#spn posting
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Having a fixation on a character where the fandom is majority catered to thirst and lust can be very difficult sometimes.
#walks into the 'objectifying blorbo' room “WTF this is objectifying and uncomfortable”#but also#please look at him like a human being sometimes? the way you guys talk about folks with STIs/sexual diseases is.... freaky.#you love to talk about his cock and how crazy he is but then mental health gets treated like a gotcha.#i would rather ppl explore this part of themselves in fanfic than reality though.#just promise me to write an analytic essay when u achieve post nut clarity. make sure youre not self affirming some fucked shit.#thats all i ask. be weird be goofy but also recognize when youre being weird where ANYONE can see you
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my job is forcing everyone to create personal development plans detailing not just what professional skills we want to gain or whatever but also what personality flaws we want to work on over the next year and i have never empathised with anyone more than the guy at the desk behind me who gave up on the form and said "i don't have any ambitions"
#i phoned my manager in tears because i was so uncomfortable with it#he helped me make up some personality flaws to work on lol legend#its not that i dont have any just that the idea of writing a little essay on them for HR to read made me want to die so i didn't do that
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I have work to do, a lot of work to do actually
Brain doesn't want to cooperate
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#EliGoRamble#EliGoHaveABreakdown#It's so funny that I have to make a video essay of a song that's the antithesis of what I like#Everyone else got stuff I actually would enjoy#But no. have the slow love song with asmr bits that make you physically uncomfortable#Sidenote: I don't like most asmrs for they actually make me physically uncomfortable#Turns out that someone whispering to my ear activates my fight or flight instinct. It makes me squirm#Plus I have to make a presentation and a program (again)#At least its in teams (again)#And I genuinely coordinate well with my teammates#So that's a plus
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Just started thinking about my department and my program and now I'm stressed out again
#i have to pick an advisor. hell and death#i mean i have an advisor it's fine ig#but still. hell and death#AND i looked at the feedback email again and got stressed#which is 100% on me like i need to learn to have emotional reactions that aren't run away and hide in a corner#it honestly is overall a very positive letter like apparently my professors liked my essays and my thoughts in class#but there is the question of the absences which is definitely a problem and it's called i have undiagnosed somethingaruther for sure#see the issue there is that i need to get a diagnosis. and put in the work. and i don't want to do that ;-;#<- i do but it's just hard and my ability to difficult things has died a terrible death in the last three to five years#perce rambles#i HAVE to get better at doing things that scare me and/or make me uncomfortable. regrettably that is. you'll never guess it.#also a scary and uncomfortable thing. which we are not good at rn#and thus the vicious cycle continues
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#forced gender is a kink that makes me so uncomfortable and if i could be objective#i could write a whole essay on what ive been seeing called force m*sc which is positive and uplifting#and force f*m which seems to always involve slurs#yall looooove reinventing the binary huh
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The med school primary application asking if my work and activities are meaningful, like by simply going out of my way to do anything doesn’t have some kind of impact on my life.
#are we not the sum total of all our memories and experiences#peace speaks#yeah I know it wants the most meaningful#but I think it's so dumb#like I volunteered in the respiratory ICU during the height of covid#I didn't really do much but it sure left an impact when family members kept desperately asking me if they could see their loved ones#and I had to tell them not yet because the doctors were doing something#like that didn't massively change me as a person or alter my viewpoint#it just made me highly uncomfortable and have the desire to go into a field where I never have to interact with patients#but I can't say that because med schools don't like you saying things like I want to go into forensic pathology#because they want you to be open to new experiences#which they can clearly tell from the fact that I have both a science and art degree#participated in college sports#and also shortly worked at a shipyard#not once has anyone said my life is boring when I have to do the rundown of why I'm currently doing anything#even explaining where I'm from takes at least a few minutes due to how often I've moved#meanwhile all the stupid example essays I've seen are just#I've wanted to be a doctor ever since I could remember#how does that make them a better applicant than me#they should just let everyone in and let them fail out like nature intended
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Every college students has to write essays. My major, in particular, requires a ton of those.
So it's normal to receive late night messages where your friends ask you to read whatever they've written. It helps to check whether or not we were clear and engaging enough, both traits that are fundamental for our (future) job.
I'm very serious when it comes to checking my friends works, I usually ask about the kind of feedback they want to receive and the try my best to think like the audience the content was made for.
However, I've never been able to check my own work as thoroughly as I do for my friends' ones. There's many variables involved, usually after staring at your laptop for hours, struggling to finish an essay the least you want to do is read it all again from start to finish.
Nonetheless, it's an objective fact that you, as a writer, will never get to experience your own writing as the audience those. Even when I pick up stuff I forgot I had written, I'm still deeply aware of the fact that I was the one that made those.
So, today when I found someone whose "writing voice" was eerily similar to mine, it felt like having an out of body experience.
Finally, I could experience and judge my writing like other people do.
And oh god. Both me and the person who writes like me (the person who I write like?) have lots of development opportunities.
But, what struck me the most was how wrong it felt to be reading that. I genuinely felt as if I had met my doppelganger. Sure, it's amazing to be able to dissect yourself from an outsiders perspective but GODDAMN was that something wrong that should never have happened.
#this is one of those memories I'll ponder on with extreme skepticism cuz I can't even believe it#like#really#I swear to god#we wrote in the same style#the quirks were there#and perhaps it's common#I would'nt dare say that ny academic essays are special literature#but god#it was genuinely eerily similar#to a point it makes me uncomfortable#I'm spooked guys#no more psycodelic magic realism plot that involve literature for me#at least not for a week#gosh#the person's essays had such a cute subject that it feels surreal how much of a bad trip I had reading it#but I swear to god I can't stop thinking about it#it could quite actually be an essay done by 1st year me
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watching a very interesting video essay and I feel like my brain is enlargening it's. SO good.
#catfish speaks#ironically it is about being ok with being uncomfortable and growing being uncomfortable#and i feel like taking in all the philosophy ideas it talks about IS uncomfortable for me in that it takes me a while to parse#makes me confront the reality that i really don't engage with actual philosophy a lot#and i feel lacking for that#and confront my own biases and weaknesses in my own ways of engaging in community#and my guilt associated with that#i think. one thing i can do. is tackle my guilt. im not sure how yet but i want to think about it more#while continuing to try and do things that do help#help my community where i can and engage with that#the video is the leftist cooks spiderverse essay btw#its very good
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exams and tests are like. the worst way to assess someone's knowledge. I could write such an awesome paper about schizophrenia and the dopamine and glutamate hypotheses and how different antipsychotics affect different brain pathways and different symptom groups but nooooo I have to go into a classroom with like 30 other people and sit at an uncomfortable desk in total silence and answer questions with a pencil and paper with no reference or help at all. and im full of anxiety and uncomfortable and distracted the whole time. like that's not an environment that's gonna make me good at remembering and explaining stuff!!! why do I need to remember all this stuff in a vacuum and in a stressful and uncomfortable environment!!! this isn't how it works in the world!!!! when I start working in the psych field I'm gonna be able to reference stuff all the time!!! I won't NEED to just have all this memorized. I should be able to just write a paper for this class instead of having to take an exam. and it's gonna make my hand and arm hurt bc I have dysgraphia and its three pages of hand writing short answers to questions. it's FUCKED.
#mine#collegeposting#vent#sorry i just HATE exams. i prefer papers so much. like its so much easier for me to express what i know#in essay format than test format. id be doing better in this class if i was able to just do papers instead of quizzes and exams.#IVE GOT CRAZY ASS ADHD AND AUTISM AND DYSGRAPHIA!!! JUST LET ME TYPE A PAPER IN THE COMFORT OF MY OWN ROOM#INSTEAD OF DROPPING ME INTO AN UNCOMFORTABLE SCARY AND DISTRACTING SPACE WHERE I HAVE TO WRITE A BUNCH WHICH MAKES MY HAND AND ARM HURT.
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the dr told me i have to be at ease in an uncomfortable space
#ranting and raving#making this post and thinking about how to actually do this becuse let me tell ya this essay is an uncomfortable space and i am not at ease#im gonna kill epistomology#prof probably unaware that the theoretical underpinnings of his stupid category game would trigger my current most challenging insecurities
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“if harry, who has every right to hate snape, can see that it was horrible and call out sirius and remus who he loves so much, why can’t you?”
THIS. THIIIIIIISSSSS.
Harry was so upset over this memory of Snape. Even while thoroughly disliking Snape, he still could not comprehend why his father would do such a thing. Harry tried to make sense of it, to blame Snape, and yet could not! Because he himself said replied (heatedly mind you) to Sirius with "I'm fifteen." when Sirius (and sadly Lupin too, really) downplayed what happened.
For reference, I'll add under this cut excerpts from The Order of the Phoenix with the parts I believe most relevant as to how Harry was feeling and dealing with this situation:
(And what I've based a lot of my opinions on James, Sirius and Lupin (I still love you Lupin, your case is more complex.))
"He had no desire at all to return to Gryffindor Tower so early, nor to tell Ron and Hermione what he had just seen. What was making Harry feel so horrified and unhappy was not being shouted at or having jars thrown at him; it was that he knew how it felt to be humiliated in the middle of a circle of onlookers, knew exactly how Snape had felt as his father had taunted him, and that judging from what he had just seen, his father had been every bit as arrogant as Snape had always told him." Chapter 28, Snape's Worst Memory
"He felt as though the memory of it was eating him from inside. He had been so sure his parents were wonderful people that he had never had the slightest difficulty in disbelieving the aspersions Snape cast on his father's character. Hadn't people like Hagrid and Sirius told Harry how wonderful his father had been? (Yeah, well, look what Sirius was like himself, said a nagging voice inside Harry's head ... he was as bad, wasn't he?) Yes, he had once overheard Professor McGonagall saying that his father and Sirius had been troublemakers at school, but she had described them as forerunners of the Weasley twins, and Harry could not imagine Fred and George dangling someone upside-down for the fun of it ... not unless they really loathed them ... perhaps Malfoy or somebody who really deserved it .
Harry tried to make a case for Snape having deserved what he had suffered at James's hands: but hadn't Lily asked, 'What's he done to you?' And hadn't James replied, 'It's more the fact that he exists, if you know what I mean.' Hadn't James started it all simply because Sirius had said he was bored? Harry remembered Lupin saying back in Grimmauld Place that Dumbledore had made him prefect in the hope that he would be able to exercise some control over James and Sirius ... but in the Pensieve, he had sat there and let it all happen ...
Harry kept reminding himself that Lily had intervened; his mother had been decent. Yet, the memory of the look on her face as she had shouted at James disturbed him quite as much as anything else; she had clearly loathed James, and Harry simply could not understand how they could have ended up married. Once or twice he even wondered whether James had forced her into it ..."
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"Lupin returned with Sirius at his heels moments later.
'What is it?' said Sirius urgently, sweeping his long dark hair out of his eyes and dropping to the ground in front of the fire, so that he and Harry were on a level. Lupin knelt down too, looking very concerned. 'Are you all right? Do you need help?'
'No,' said Harry, 'it's nothing like that ... I just wanted to talk ... about my dad.'
They exchanged a look of great surprise, but Harry did not have time to feel awkward or embarrassed; his knees were becoming sorer by the second and he guessed five minutes had already passed from the start of the diversion; George had only guaranteed him twenty. He therefore plunged immediately into the story of what he had seen in the Pensieve.
When he had finished, neither Sirius nor Lupin spoke for a moment. Then Lupin said quietly, 'I wouldn't like you to judge your father on what you saw there, Harry. He was only fifteen--'
'I'm fifteen,' said Harry heatedly.
'Look, Harry' said Sirius placatingly, 'James and Snape hated each other from the moment they set eyes on each other, it was just one of those things, you can understand that, can't you? I think James was everything Snape wanted to be--he was popular, he was good at Quidditch--good at pretty much everything. And Snape was just this little oddball who was up to his eyes in the Dark Arts, and James--whatever else he may have appeared to you, Harry--always hated the Dark Arts.'
'Yeah,' said Harry, 'but he just attacked Snape for no good reason, just because--well, just because you said you were bored,' he finished, with a slightly apologetic note in his voice.
'I 'm not proud of it,' said Sirius quickly.
Lupin looked sideways at Sirius, then said, 'Look, Harry, what you've got to understand is that your father and Sirius were the best in the school at whatever they did-- everyone thought they were the height of cool--if they sometimes got a bit carried away--'
'If we were sometimes arrogant little berks, you mean,' said Sirius.
Lupin smiled.
'He kept messing up his hair,' said Harry in a pained voice.
Sirius and Lupin laughed.
'I'd forgotten he used to do that,' said Sirius affectionately.
'Was he playing with the Snitch?' said Lupin eagerly.
'Yeah,' said Harry, watching uncomprehendingly as Sirius and Lupin beamed reminiscently. 'Well ... I thought he was a bit of an idiot.' "
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'How come she married him?' Harry asked miserably. 'She hated him!'
'Nah, she didn't,' said Sirius.
'She started going out with him in seventh year,' said Lupin.
'Once James had deflated his head a bit,' said Sirius.
'And stopped hexing people just for the fun of it,' said Lupin.
'Even Snape?' said Harry.
'Well,' said Lupin slowly, 'Snape was a special case. I mean, he never lost an opportunity to curse James so you couldn't really expect James to take that lying down, could you?'
'And my mum was OK with that?'
'She didn't know too much about it, to tell you the truth,' said Sirius. 'I mean, James didn't take Snape on dates with her and jinx him in front of her, did he?'
Sirius frowned at Harry, who was still looking unconvinced.
'Look,' he said, 'your father was the best friend I ever had and he was a good person. A lot of people are idiots at the age of fifteen. He grew out of it.'
'Yeah, OK,' said Harry heavily. 'I just never thought I'd feel sorry for Snape.' Chapter 29, Careers Advice
the one thing that will always make me furious is the way marauders fans downplay what happened in snape's worst memory. they had snape in the air, in front of a whole crowd, and exposed his underwear to everyone obviously against his will, then threatened to remove that too - which we have no reason to presume they didn't do. james was riled up and being cheered on, there was nobody there to stop him, no teachers nearby and we all know that remus wasn't going to say anything even though he was a prefect.
that is a form of sexual harassment, even if the underwear did stay on, and regardless of intention. and if you still can't see it, imagine how it would look if snape had been a girl. not a prank or joke or argument. call it what it actually was!
there is just simply no excuse for it either. snape was not a death eater, he hadn't done anything to them. he was a child simply sitting under a tree and minding his own business. and i truly believe that this is part of why it was his worst memory - yes, partially because he lost lily in this scene, but that's not the only reason. what happened here could leave anyone traumatised. he did not deserve that, in fact nobody does. this scene already disgusted me the first time i read the books way before i even liked snape. hell, it disgusted harry too. if harry, who has every right to hate snape, can see that it was horrible and call out sirius and remus who he loves so much, why can't you?
#severus snape#i will die on that hill#sorry for the hella long add to this post#this in particular is something i feel very strongly about (if it wasn't obvious)#bullying. assault. humiliation are NEVER okay and I could write a whole mf essay about that specific scene#actually I could write a whole essay on all of the “pranks” that were done to Severus and point out the correct terminology#both for what was happening and how it could affect a person#someday ill make a whole rant#and like honestly#I'm not hating on the marauders#I WISH i could like them and that era!!!#but almost every memory or flashback throughout the book made me so uncomfortable that I genuinely could not#I don't hate any of the characters tho. I just have a lot of opinions on them#so like not really...#antimarauders#?#but I definitely understand how it can come across as such#however definitely#pro severus snape#pro snape#harry potter#too#Snape's Worst Memory#this lives rent free in my mind in one of the worst ways possible tbh
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