#no more bullying harry potter fans because you're the exact same as them.

[detectivenyx]

biting my lips and telling myself it took several years for rowling's TERF-y opinions to be so well known it damaged her public reputation, before realising that cawthon's donations to conservative politicians were made known while trump was still the fucking president

[shakespearean-snape]

Thanks for answering!

I'm in the same page club when it comes to Snily and Jily. In truth, I struggle with shipping Snape with many of the canon Harry Potter characters for various reasons so it's one of those cases where I try to go looking for good Snape/OC fics when I really want to read a pairing featuring him and hope for the best (not quite as big a fan of the Canon/Reader phenomena because I don't like inserting myself or imagining myself as the OC, I prefer fully fleshed out and developed original characters who are not me to read about paired with my favorite canon characters but I've read a few reader fics I actually did enjoy in this fandom).

I never really saw Snily happening and I got the very strong sense that Lily had been emotionally distancing herself from the friendship even before SWM and that was part of the reason she was so ready to be done with it all. She'd likely been looking for an out because her continued association to Snape was becoming a source of inconvenience and a point of contention for her among some of her other friends within her own house (especially as her popularity grew and Snape became more unpopular and with the war going on outside the school only heightening the Slytherin-Gryffindor house divisions).

I don't think harshly of Lily, there were a lot of factors at work and she was ultimately a teenage girl who was probably more conscious of social pressures on top of everything else. However, I also doubt Snape was casually or frequently espousing anti-Muggleborn views around her as some of his detractors like to claim based off her accusation outside the Gryffindor dorm. It paints her in a very unflattering light if he was, because it means she didn't draw the line with him referring to Muggleborns as Mudblood until it was her on the receiving end.

I genuinely got the sense she had wanted to end the friendship (and had already emotionally checked out) but because it was an old friendship there was a lot of internal conflict and guilt and when Snape said what he said it was justification to finally end it without feeling too badly (also why she did NOT want to give him any chance to apologize and the reason for the hyperbole because if she let him apologize and accepted it as sincere then she'd be back to square one wanting out of a friendship only he was still very emotionally invested in by then).

I've also been in Lily's position somewhat; not entirely exact to it but close enough. Don't get me wrong, I don't end friendships lightly but I can understand being in a spot where you feel badly because the other person still clearly wants to be your friend but emotionally you're in a different place and can't connect in the same way and you're trying to find a way to step back without hurting them. I am generally someone who tries to be kind and I dislike hurting people so I always have struggled with break-ups, be it romantic or with a friend.

I also think she was already attracted to James (even her telling him off was basically her exposing how observant she is of his mannerisms and why he does what he does) because JKR just loves the problematic trope of "girls deny attraction and play hard-to-get" and she was likely also talking to him when Snape wasn't around to know about it. She made James work for an actual relationship with her but, in the end, I think she had been wanting to date him for a bit before SWM (in the very least the signs were there of interest and a likely attraction) and being friends with Snape made that very complicated for her. The sad truth, I think, is that Snape had become an inconvenient friend until he wasn't and he gave her a convenient reason to end the friendship other than just peer pressure from her friends and a private interest in dating one of the boys who bullied him.

More than anything, I ship Lily with being single a little while after graduating from Hogwarts. With being able to realize her own full potential and have her magical skills shine, especially as part of the war efforts. Not spending her days in the shadow of James Potter, isolated in a house with a baby (while James seems to have made more use of his cloak to come and go) all of twenty-something and unable to have any adult contact or conservations aside from with her husband's friends, an elderly neighbor and the few people from school she writes to in the Order that she didn't seem to lose touch with entirely when once she was so popular.

As far as Snily, I can't get past how even glimpses into their friendship showed how frequently they argued and misunderstood each other. There was dysfunction there. Granted I saw dysfunction for Jily too (which is why I ship Lily with her own single life and chance to grow into herself a bit more post Hogwarts) but I also don't object to people finding something to enjoy in either of those ships. If there's one thing fandom has taught me it's that in the hands of truly dedicated writers and fans even the oddest pairings (the crackiest of the crack even) and the not-so-well-written ship magic can still happen. More power to the people who put their efforts into creating something enchanting for these ships, no hate at all from me there!

From the ship ask, since it looked like fun to me.

"What is the most overrated ship, in your opinion?"

Hi! Ty for the ask!

it's hard to say, since i tend to like almost all ships. I guess if I really had to say, it would be snily? like I know it isn't that popular right now, and there are a few great fics, but- idk. I honestly am not the biggest fan of Jily or Snily- would rather Lily be gay ngl - its just, it seems like such a lazy ship. Its the sort of thing I would expect in shitty ya novels- nerdy kid gets his childhood crush- i just, idk how to explain it, but i genuinely feel like both Lily and Snape would be better off without each other, and a romance between them is not something that's appealing to me. I never saw Snape's love for Lily as romantic and Lily obviously didn't feel anything. No hate whatsoever to those who ship it- it could be cute i guess, but it's not something I'd ever seek out.