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The “That’s immoral you shouldn’t write that, we need to get that taken down” discourse on tiktok right now is PISSING ME OFFF

Wdym you want censorship for a literal ARCHIVE are you fucking stupid

Ao3 was literally founded to preserve works that were largely getting taken down due to censorship

Censorship is the opposite of what Archive of Our Own stands for

The TAGS and WARNINGS are there for a REASON. Use them and stop complaining

The universal rule—don’t like, don’t read

It’s THAT simple

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I love fandom, I love making shit up, and I love evil characters. I love morally gray characters, nuisances, losers, and villains! I love completely inventing backstories and character motivations and all that jazz.

That all being said, I find something profoundly frustrating about the Marauders fandom and their view of Snape. If you choose to believe that Regulus was lead astray by the Death Eaters, then you have to think the same about Snape, because it’s true! If you think that Regulus is a hero for betraying Voldemort, cool! But he did it for even MORE selfish of a reason than Snape, and then he died. Snape lived the rest of his life working to defeat Voldemort, he is also the reason that Harry survived ANY of the books, and is the reason Harry found out he was a Horcrux. Was Snape wrong for calling Lily a Mudblood? Yes! Do you honestly believe that Regulus, Barty, Evan, and Bellatrix weren’t calling people Mudbloods left and right? Be so fucking fr right now. Snape was groomed to join a cult, he was a completely vulnerable member of society with nobody supporting him, no rich family, no one standing up for him, and the people on the so-called “Light side” were tormenting him nonstop. To me, that’s much more sympathetic than “his rich family told him to join the death eaters so he did!” Fandom Regulus is kind of repackaged Snape tbh, and I’d be fine with it if it didn’t come along with so much Snape hate. Snape is mean, vindictive, and spiteful, and I love him for that. I also love Regulus for being Kreacher’s number one supporter and having a homemade Voldemort collage in his bedroom! It’s fun! And that’s what fandom is about! Also, about Snape being a mean teacher, when I was a kid and I read the books for the first time, I straight up never thought he was that mean. I was raised doing ballet, and any Vaganova technique teacher is wayyyyyyyy more mean than Snape lmao. (Not that Snape wasn’t mean, don’t get me wrong, he was, but I can still like him lol)

I guess in conclusion, people need to stop hating on Snape tbh it’s getting really old. Why are any of the Death Eaters (former and otherwise) fine and good in Marauders fans eyes except for Snape? He’s the one who actually contributed to the good of the world. If you can like Barty fucking Crouch Jr then you can like Snape lmao, one of them was a complete creep and it’s sure as hell is not Snape! Snape serves cunt too.

Anyways lol

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Pro Snape whispers pt. 4

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super self indulgent doodle..... guess my favorite animal.... also:

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my friend is in a sorority and because of the name of her school I consistently read their username as "trans yaoi" and they posted something that said "alpha love" and

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The Battle of Hogwarts was not the end… Snape survives AU for May 2nd event.

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‘people are less interested in Snape’s complex character traits because he’s not conventionally attractive’ i say into the mic. the crowd boos. I begin to walk off in shame when a voice speaks and commands silence from the room.

‘she’s right.’ she says. I look for the voice. there in the 5th row, Lily Evans herself.

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Chapter Three of The Rise and Fall of the Half-Blood Prince

https://archiveofourown.org/works/62313319/chapters/160913569

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Those who plan and those who do.

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It continues to shock me how much the Snaters really don't know the canon.

First, Lily never rejected Severus the two of them have been best friends for years. The one pestering Lily to go out with him was James.

Second, the scene where Snape goes to Godric's Hollow doesn't exist in the book, it's just an addition in the movie to make everything more dramatic. (If we want to consider movie scenes canon then most of the accusations made don't exist since they don't happen. These people are really too confused) And then what? Or if we take the scene from the film at face value, Snape hugs the woman he loves instead of helping Harry, so what? This poor man was destroyed, can we leave him alone for two seconds to cry?

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I try not to respond to hate like this, but it was posted on the main Snape tag which is against fandom etiquette, by the way.

1. There is no evidence to prove Snape was "obsessed" with Lily or even had romantic feelings for her. The latter is just inference. If anything, it was James Potter who was insistent on getting with Lily; he continuously badgers her after she said no.

2. I can't say that Snape was a personable or even kind man, and his comments toward students are not wholly defensable. However, the seriousness of his barbs are often exaggerated in fanon.

3. James' bullying of Snape did NOT completely cease. He only acted that way to appease Lily.

4. There is literally nothing in canon that says Sectumsempra was invented for James Potter or with the intent to kill anyone.

5. I wouldn't care about the life of the man who bullied me relentlessly for seven years, either. Also, he conceded and told Dumbledore to save the entire family.

6. This was an artistic choice only made in the movies meant to visually convey Severus' care for Lily. This did not happen in the books.

7. Yes, he changed sides for Lily initially, but is love not a gallant reason to want to change? However, later on he realized the complete error of his earlier beliefs and dedicates his life to rectify it of his own volition.

8. He not only saved Harry, he saved everyone he could. When asked how many people he had let die he responds, "Lately only those I could not save." He did not save all of those people out of love for Lily, he did it out of humanity.

I think snape was a good man he gave his life to profesor dumbledore in order to protect what Lily has left and that is harry. His story is actually so sad

I absolutely hate his character tbh.

1. He was creepily obsessed with Lily. He called her slurs n then said she was his best friend n crush.

2. He bullied innocent kids. Like.... why?! What did they do?! He traumatized God knows how many kids n this bullying can't be excused on past bullying

3. Even if he was bullied, he didn't mature up when James did. James became better for Lily later. But Snape never left the grudge. He didn't give 2 shits about the fact that James was Lily's husband.

4. He invented spells to KILL James. Like... Sectumsempra is not a normal thing dude, we saw what happened to Draco

5. He didn't care about the fact that a whole family was dying. Forget about the whole family, he didn't even care about a baby being in danger. He just wanted to save Lily. He was like "Let her husband and 1 year old kid die, but save her"

6. He walked over the dead body of her husband, ignored the troubled crying kid n straight went to hug Lily's dead body. Like... bruh... first take the kid n run!

7. He was a death eater but he changed sides when he realized that LILY was in danger. He thought it's okay if her child dies. But then he realized Lily was gonna get killed too, he was like, "I'm gonna change sides to keep my obsession safe"

8. He didn't save Harry out of humanity like a normal person would. He didn't save Harry cuz he was Harry James Potter, he instead bullied him due to that. When it came to saving, he saved Lily's son, not Harry (James) Potter

Hope you get what I'm saying😁🙂

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This is your daily reminder that Harry James Potter sacrificed himself for the wizarding world at the age of 17 and still, some people manage to call him selfish.

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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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At least two major artists (Lady Gaga and Chappell Roan) making a point to vocally support trans people the Grammys is a big deal in this political climate.

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The insistence on portraying Severus’ love for Lily as “creepy” and “incel-ish” is so strange because there’s just no basis for it in the text. Every single headcanon about him stalking her or using legilimens on her when they were teenagers is OOC fanfic. The most they can tear their fucking ligaments stretching for in canon is to say Severus standing outside Lily’s dorm room to APOLOGIZE (when she’s the one who left him to be physically abused by multiple people while unarmed) is “violating boundaries”. Which is real rich from people who find James trying to blackmail Lily into going on a date with him after she’s repeatedly said “No” charming. Apparently when it’s conventionally attractive neurotypical rich boys breaking sexual and romantic boundaries it’s “cute”. When hooked-nosed, greasy-black haired, neurodivergent-coded poor boys have any (possibly) unrequited feelings for an innocent pure little white girl, it’s predatory and disgusting by default. Hmm… nothing to read into there!

Also, the books never even confirm that Severus was romantically in love with Lily, that’s commonly inferred but you can definitely read it as Lily was just his first real friend. Friendship is consistently the most important relationship in the series, Lily is to Severus what Ron and Hermione are to Harry. Was he in love with her? Probably. If their friendship hadn’t broken up, I’m sure they would’ve ended up married because there was tension from both sides for sure. But his devotion to her memory after she was dead I believe had far more to do with the friendship they had than any romantic relationship he may have wanted. And an “incel” is a member of misogynistic hate groups or a man who responds to rejection with violence, they see women as purely objects who owes him sex. No incel on Earth would risk his life and do a job he hates out of honor, love, and loyalty to a woman he will never be able to have sex with except in the afterlife, learn what words mean.

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“and his face was suddenly demented, inhuman, as though he was in as much pain as the yelping, howling dog stuck in the burning house behind them,”

rereading the books for the snape scenes

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What Snape fans and Marauders fans could be if they joined forces