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a writer who writes the most fucked up “dead dove: do not eat” problematic pairing and fully tags and warns for the content they create will always be worthy of more respect in my eyes than people who call others weirdos because of who they ship. This is because a writer who writes disturbing things but gives me plenty of warning about them has demonstrated, regardless of what happens in the fic, that they value the consent of real people, and that they value my consent to see such content and will always offer me the option to avoid or withdraw. On the other hand, a purity cultist who demands I explain my trauma and exactly why I might be drawn to dark content, regardless of whether they’re the purest fluff writer to ever write, has demonstrated a lack of respect for my boundaries and the attitude that they are entitled to whatever they want to take from me. 

There are a lot of things that bother me about purity culture, but I think the most disturbing is that it clouds the very definition of consent, and then teaches this confusing version (you must consent to deep dives into your trauma and how it affects you for the benefit of strangers who have already decided you’re a bad person, and not consenting to that automatically makes you an abuser, also no one can consent to reading or thinking about disturbing content ever because thinking about it means you want it irl) to young, vulnerable, and often traumatized individuals, thus making it harder to understand their trauma and easier for them to ignore the real warning signs of abuse (like demanding that you agree with the abuser otherwise you’re literally the worst and most harmful person ever) because it teaches that abusers only come in one type, and that all abusers are “nasty shippers”.

This is especially dangerous because real life abusers teach their victims that the abuse is happening because the victim is a bad, evil person. One of the diagnostic criteria for PTSD is literally “Places undue blame on themself or others for what happened”. Teaching traumatized people that consent is a luxury only “good” people are allowed to have is incompatible with support for abuse survivors. tl;dr a writer who tags “dead dove: do not eat” has demonstrated respect for the necessity of consent. A purity cultist who sends anon hate has demonstrated a lack of respect for consent. 

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demigod severus snape

demigod severus snape who is the son of aphrodite

demigod severus snape who is not beautiful or conventionally attractive because he is the son of her war form

demigod severus snape who uses charmspeak, who can manipulate and convince like no other

demigod severus snape, who represents everything that the greeks tried to erase about aphrodite. who represents her bloody and violent aspects, the living reminder that love is war and war is love, that love is sometimes something that mutilates your heart and carves your ribs into thorns

demigod severus snape, son of Aphrodite of War (Areia), or Aphrodite The Dark One (Melanis), or Aphrodite the Gravedigger (Tumborukhos)

demigod severus snape, who cries to his mother “why did you not make me beautiful” and she tells him “you are the child of love, and sometimes love is not beautiful”

demigod severus snape, researching his mother and realizing that if she can be both heavenly and bloody, if she can be worshiped and loved while mothering fear and panic, then so can he, he can both be sinful and loved, realizing his sins are what make him godly

demigod severus snape, accepting that his sins do not make him any less a child of love.

demigod severus snape, who grows to accept himself in his mothers name, because that is what Aphrodite is, and he is her child, made from her perfections and her sins, and that the sins are not only from his mortality

demigod severus snape, son of Aphrodite

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Forever upset all of the Marauders died before they could find out the boy they bullied relentlessly would become more instrumental in winning the war against Voldemort than any of them

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Me when I love the characters she made and neglected but JK Rowling sucks eggs

Well I like it but it’s not very well written. Also it’s a visual mess. The plot doesnt make any sense and the creators suck and its politics oscillate from mildly problematic to frankly baffling. I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone. However. the character

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PROMPTS

31 prompts for 31 days of December! Reminder that you do not have to participate every day. You can join us for 1 day or 10 days or 20 days or all 31, if you want, but no pressure. We're here to spread the love and have fun!

Day 1: First fic you read/first fic you remember reading

Day 2: a fic rated G

Day 3: a fic not on AO3

Day 4: a comfort fic

Day 5: a romantic fic

Day 6: fic for a ship you don't normally read

Day 7: the best of your OTP

Day 8: rec a fic that was recced to you

Day 9: a WIP

Day 10: a fest/event fic

Day 11: an underrated fic

Day 12: A fic from your favorite author

Day 13: a rare pair

Day 14: a fic rated T

Day 15: a fic over 50k

Day 16: a podfic

Day 17: a fic that makes you cry

Day 18: a fic that makes you laugh

Day 19: fanart

Day 20: a fic with fanart

Day 21: a fic rated M

Day 22: a series

Day 23: a crossover or AU fic

Day 24: Holiday (vacation)

Day 25: Holiday (national holiday)

Day 26: a fic under 5k

Day 27: smokin' hot fic

Day 28: a fic over 100k

Day 29: a fic rated E

Day 30: fic on your TBR that you're most excited to read

Day 31: Most recent fic you loved

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The only reason people love Regulus and not Snape is because Snape survived.

Narratively, Marauders fans obsess over Regulus because he is a tragic character with a rough childhood who turned down the wrong path only to betray the dark lord and redeem himself.

Sound familiar?

Snape, too, had a shitty childhood; he grew up impoverished and abused by his father. He, too, turned to the Death Eaters in his youth and would turn on Voldemort.

AND Regulus's reason was no more noble than Snape's. Regulus found himself to be a pawn in a larger scheme and realized the error of his ways; Snape heard the prophecy and realized the scope of his actions (via the realization Lily would be harmed) and devoted his life to stopping Voldemort and protecting her son.

The largest difference between these two characters (besides Snape not being viewed as conventionally attractive and being poor, though that's a topic for another rant), is that Regulus died before his future actions (and moral greyness) could be scrutinized. If anything, Snape did far more to redeem himself than Regulus ever did.

I won't delve into the incident of Snape calling Lily a mudblood as will inevitably be mentioned as I can't explain my thoughts as eloquently as some others have done, but simply put I can't and won't fully justify his actions in that moment - however - I will argue that this does not make his character irredeemable.

But as for Snape's future as a professor and spy, he has the unfortunate disadvantage of being described in the HP books by a teen boy predisposed to be suspicious and negative toward him, and Regulus never had the opportunity to be scrutinized in a similar way since he died before the events of HP books even take place (though due to the nature of his character it is unlikely he would have been a saint).

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Severus was the victim.

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In the Forest of Dean.

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Imagine serving, slaying, man-whoring, male-wifing yet still being called a villain???

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Being a Marauders Era Multishipper is the best thing ever.

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the overwhelming joy of finding a community in fandom vs. the unspeakable aggression at others with the same interest (no one likes this thing like I like this thing syndrome)

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it's truly haunting how snape's face is described to look like a death mask when voldemort questioned him about the elder wand. snape has been trying in vain to find harry but voldemort wasn't having any of it. then voldemort makes it clear that snape's time is up. if snape dies before telling harry the truth, it's all been for nothing. nagini hasn't even touched him yet but he's already dead.

this is also why i do not think snape as he lays dying only sees harry as the boy with lily's eyes or james potter. i thinl he sees him, probably for the first time as just who he is. harry. because he was practically begging voldemort to let him go and find him. he was desperate, seeking him out. so when he does see harry, he is seeing harry. just harry.

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"I don't have a type!" I say confidently.

Little did I realize... My type is men likened with snakes

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"I don't have a type!" I say confidently.

Little did I realize... My type is men likened with snakes

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Let me go severus please :')

The way Severus spoke in this scene in particular always impressed me. Respectful even when trying to tease him against his wishes? The way he tried to act and kept himself was really hilarous and incredible. We all know how hard Albus pushed him, right, so it means more when Severus uses his words in this way. And how he didnt't want to kill him and everything- God... I can't fall for him again ╥﹏╥

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Severus Snape wasn’t a hero, he was a survivor. The cemetery is full of heroes, but if the world moves forward and keeps turning is thanks to the survivors, because it’s easy to die but not to survive. You need such guts for that. Dying is quick, surviving is something else.

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"Oh golden boy, don't act like you were kind, you were mine but you were awful every time"

Merry Christmas, Please Don't Call - Bleachers