Sirius calling Severus "Snivellus" while Severus has spent years holed up in the slum his parents left him, a place that only brings back memories of misery and violence, without so much as flinching meanwhile Sirius spends literally two days in his old family home and the first thing he does is grab a bottle of firewhiskey, claim his mother's bedroom, and drink dramatically while having tearful conversations with a hippogriff is one of those ironies that will never stop being absolutely hilarious to me.
Sirius siempre está quejándose de la familia Black, pero el quejica es Severus.
Existential Nihilism Squad™
"We need more male sa representation!"
You couldn't take Snape seriously though? You're constantly saying that it wasn't SA and trying to make it seem as if he was in the wrong the whole time? You can't even admit that James and Sirius were wrong for what they did. You put SA into a box as if it only needs to be sexually charged for it to count - as if what matters is what the offender was thinking and not the victim.
Hello! If someone is uncomfortable with their clothing being removed in front of a group of people, then that counts as assault. To sexually assault someone isn't to just want someone sexually and attempt to rape them. It's also a way to make the victim feel humiliated, powerless, and disgusted with themself, or hopeless if you want some more seasoning. When someone gets assaulted, would you really focus on what was going on in the mind of the assaulter?
They aren't the one that got assaulted, and most likely, they don't care. They find it funny, or lighthearted. The victim does not.
"it's just boys being boys"
And just like that, you have invalidated SO MANY men who've been assaulted. It's not just boys being boys. It's bullying, it isn't fair, it isn't okay, you can't pin the blame on the victim. Snape was minding his business. He wasn't harming the Marauders in any way. Saying that he's the one who made the spell/charm wtvr is so immature. Are you going to say that if a girl gets tased with her own taser, it's also her fault for carrying it on her? While trying to protect herself?
Severus is a fictional character, and honestly, this isn't completely about him at this point. It's about the fact that sexual assault has been watered down in multiple fandoms. It makes me squirm uncomfortably. I hate it so much that this is something people aren't educated on.
Dear Human, I am writing to you as a human being like you. I am part of a family that is going through difficult times amidst this genocide. My brother suffers from bipolar disorder, and we only need €60 to buy his essential medication. The situation has become even more difficult than before, with the crossings being closed for over a month. We ask you to stand by us, whether by donating, sharing our story, or talking about us. 🙏💔
Don't forget Gaza.
do i care at all about this dumb hbo reboot? nope.
do i find it incredibly telling that people who have hated Severus with a passion for years are beyond mad that they cast a black actor to play him because "he cannot be black, he is a Wizard nazi and it's thus relevant for him to be white!!!"?
the race allegory with regard to blood status has been always flimsy at its best (most "fantastic racism" allegories in fantasy and sci-fi are, imho, but that's neither here nor there) and the axis of oppression does not primarily focus on race and ethnicity (it doesn't ignore them either, see Pansy racially insulting Angelina, but that would deserve a much much longer post). considering all that, it makes perfect sense why a non-white pureblood would support the Death Eaters.
But if we take the race allegory and run with it, so anyone with non-magical ancestry is Actually a person of colour - yeah, of course Snape is of mixed race. Duh. Of course he is! In the "rules" of this world, it's the logical conclusion for Severus Snape to be biracial - as it is for Harry from the side of his mother. Yes, even if his maternal aunt, a woman of colour, is utterly heinous towards him. The Dursleys are thus also people of colour - even if they are a parody of a certain type of white Brits (see... this is where the allegory already starts to break).
Maybe instead of performative outrage over a casting, people could just be honest and say they wanted him to be white so they could continue to hate him, free of guilt and with a sense of justice.
[ image description: a digital drawing of Mai from Avatar: the Last Airbender in my style. She is a light-skinned woman walking towards the viewer but looking to the left/her right and holding knives. She has gold eyes and black hair tied in several buns. She is wearing a red ruqun outfit consisting of a blouse with a high collar and wide sleeves, a wide sash, and a long, gored skirt. She is standing in front of a brown Fire Nation sign ]
The problem with black hair is you just can't see any of the details 😭 inspiration and influences under the cut, with the usual reminder that there's a lot of nuance and detail missing since these originally came from Instagram slides that I made:
I know that theorically Lily should have been the "most vulnerable person" in the magic world due to being a muggleborn... but with what we see in the books, it's kinda hard to believe it's really true, you know?
Like, if being a muggleborn was so bad, how come Lily was so popular and beloved by everyone? Did she face any disadvantages at all? Or is being called a mudblood the worst thing she had to face? I'm not saying that's easy to handle - we know that's awful, especially for a teenager - but if we look at the kind of bullying Severus faced, it seems small in comparison. Makes me wonder, if we were supposed to think Lily is the most vulnerable, why is she not the one who was targeted in bullying?
Maybe it's just bad writing, even for a kids' book series. We are told that muggleborns are discriminated against, but it's usually in a very superficial way. So it's difficult to believe that Lily was vulnerable in the magic world because we don't get to see her struggles.
Lily was popular and had lots of friends (supposedly, because we never actually see any of them—what a plot hole). She was considered pretty, the richest and most popular boy in her house was after her, the teachers adored her to the point that an idiot like Slughorn wanted her in his club, she was the favorite daughter of her parents who adored her and always spoke well of her. Can someone explain to me what her vulnerable situation was supposed to be? That she didn’t have as high a social status as a pure-blood? So what? I mean, objectively, she was in a much higher social position than Severus—not only because no one ever stripped her in public or had a gang of rich kids relentlessly chasing her to make her life hell, but because she was socially recognized. Even prejudiced professors adored her. She had parental support and maybe she came from an industrial town, but her family could afford to buy decent clothes for both her and her sister—she wasn’t poor. So I don’t know if I’m supposed to see Lily as a poor little helpless girl who has to hide in the school bathrooms in fear of being killed for being Muggle-born, but that is definitely not the impression we get from everything we’re told about her. On the contrary, beyond being called “mudblood” once in a while, that girl never knew what it was like to feel marginalized. And I’m really sorry, but equating a slur with physical violence, sexual assault, extreme poverty, social exclusion, and lack of economic or family support isn’t just sociologically and politically illiterate to a staggering degree—it’s also the kind of thing only people with fewer than two active neurons would say, because it’s downright offensive.
Para mí es peor discriminación el que pusieran leyes que dijera que los magos de sangre impura no pueden trabajar ahí o Slughorn hizo un comentario que también es purista aunque no diga sangre sucia "para ser hijo de muggles era muy habilidosa" o algo así. Y no sé, te quedas ojiplatico leyendo.
There were so many comments under this post criticizing Lily for marrying Snape's bully and ruining his life, knowing that Snape liked her. They sympathized with him.
"SHE IS THE WORST EXAMPLE OF FEMINISM FOR CHOOSING A R4PIST!" I even saw such a comment.
Some even claimed that Snape betrayed Voldemort on his own record and not because of Lily. They thought that he did not fancy her but was a good person at heart who wanted to save everyone, and that's why he did so.
Hypocrite? Fake friend? Are we seriously talking about Lily like this?
Fake friend, my ass.
Let's deep dive into their friendship story.
Young Snape was the one to approach young Lily first. They lived in the same neighborhood. Initially Lily was not glad to have him around since he looked down on her sister, Petunia, for being a muggle and insulted her (not as if Petunia didn't insult him back... Both were at fault.). She decided to ignore his pureblood ideology, thinking that he wasn't at all serious.
However, Lily stuck with Snape since she was a Muggle-born and had no idea about the new world that awaited her. He was her first and only wizard friend.
When she comes across James, he is an arrogant boy who is so full of himself. Yes, he was so extremely talented that people envied him. When he constantly kept asking her out, she was disgusted and annoyed. Snape kept asking her to stay away from James, knowing how arrogant James was and also probably because of jealousy, and she listened to him. (Yes, jealousy. Accept it or not, the books clearly say that everyone envied him. But he was so full of himself at that time that his big head outweighed his talents.)
As years passed, Snape interested himself in dark arts, and his pureblood ideology only deepened. Lily was left concerned about the influence his Pureblood Slytherin friends had over him. She constantly reminded him about their horrible actions and how dangerous they were, asking him to distance himself from them. However, Snape never listened to her.
Lily had always ignored his horrible influence and had always stood in support and defense of him until that one incident in the 5th year when the term 'mudblood' slipped from his tongue. That was when she realized that he had reached a point at which they could no longer consider themselves friends.
He had chosen dark arts over their friendship. For the sake of her self-respect, she chose to stand up for herself and not defend him.
(Mind you, mudblood is not something 'oh-so-cool' to say. It was a horrible and demeaning insult for someone.)
After the incident, she also found out that Snape was present with his Slytherin gang of friends, who picked on Lily's friend, Mary, who was another fellow Muggle-born and did horrible things to her. That was when she was horrified by the person he turned out to be and immediately decided to break the friendship.
Now, let's compare Snape and James and talk about how she made the right decision by choosing James over Snape.
Snape probably had fancied her; in fact, many did. However, he probably never had the guts to confess and ruin his long friendship.
But he definitely ruined the relationship by taking an interest in dark arts, evil and sadistic ways to harm people, inventing curses for such a sadistic purpose, and hanging around with pureblood supremacist Slytherins, who did horrible things to Muggle-borns like her.
'Mudblood' was never a slip of the tongue. He was not being forced by James at that time to call her that word. He did it on his own record.
He never defended and protected Lily's friend, knowing how disappointed Lily would be once she heard what happened to Mary. It could have been fear of being a target. But the problem is that he was never apologetic or guilty. While Lily accused his Slytherin friends, he kept defending them instead of feeling any remorse.
He chose his interests over their friendship. He definitely had a choice. Lily does not deserve to be hated for a choice he decided to make. If he suffered because of her loss from his life, he should have held himself responsible and not blamed James for 'stealing' her from him.
As time passed, Lily had thought that he would mature and give up on dark arts, but how wrong she was. He always remained an immature boy who never wished to grow up.
Now about James.
He had many talents that people were envious of. However, as I mentioned above, he was arrogant and so full of himself. Lily was right about feeling disgusted by the boy in the early years since he was a shenanigan. He was wrong to pick on Snape and, too, throw a spell at him while he was unaware and unarmed. How he publicly humiliated Snape can never be forgiven.
However, the reason why some Snape fans do not understand why James is considered to be better as a person than Snape is because he reflected on his past and grew up. There are definitely some James fans who justify the bullying, which is very wrong. However, if we were to talk about the unbiased Potterheads, James seems more redeemable than Snape. When James was made the head boy in the final year, he gave up on his stupid antics and lived up to the role and responsibilities.
It was actually Sirius who had a huge dislike towards Snape and wanted to trap him when Snape was desperate to find out Remus' secret and expose it to everyone. He had led Snape to the werewolf form of Remus, and James had to step in to save Snape from the danger.
After their final year at Hogwarts, James actively indulged himself in the 'Order of the Phoenix' to protect Muggle-borns, half-bloods, and half-breeds, who were in danger since Voldemort was rising to power and he was gathering more followers.
Let's keep feminism aside and not taint its name since feminism has nothing to do with romance.
(We are only here to debate why Lily chose James over Snape, not to justify James and Lily's relationship. Personally, both of them are a pile of shit.)
Lily chose a man who changed for her; a man who reflected upon his mistakes and improved himself just for her, a man who wanted to protect her from danger and protect everyone around her.
She gave up on a man who made her feel less, a man who insulted and looked down upon people like her, a man who claimed to protect her but ruined people around her.
She was a simple woman who chose a person who valued her, not devalued her.
So, my dear women (not just women, but everyone!), if you ever wish to be in a relationship, choose a person who is willing to improve themselves for you, protect you, and respect you. Do not choose a person who would want you to change yourself entirely for them and be forgiven every time due to sympathy.
Believe me, I've had many friends in the past who made me feel less and made me change myself for them. I hung around them since I was not a social butterfly and had only them as close friends. But every time I hung around them, I would only feel insecure and disappointed.
If we exclude Snape, we have Liiy who married to the man threatened to hex her and used her best friend to a coin for having a date. I don't see the feminist part of marring the person to threatened to hex you. It's the same of threating to hit someone.
Did Lily has good friends who advise her about her companies??
Yangvik Week 2025 will take place from June 29th to July 5th. This is the official prompt list for the event, with each day having three different prompts. These prompts are just for fun and inspiration; feel free to use as many or as few as you'd like when creating your works!
Day 1, June 29: Honeymoon Suite || "Long time no see" || Flustered
Day 2, June 30: A Night on the Town || "Don't get caught!" || Tattoos
Day 3, July 1: Trust || Jealousy || Sky & Sea
Day 4, July 2: Alternate Universe || Kataang and/or Korrasami Parallels || Tea
Day 5, July 3: Baby || Schemes || Rumors
Day 6, July 4: Comfort || "I almost lost you" || Protectiveness
Day 7, July 5: How it started/How it's going || Hands || Confession
