merryhaze

[merryhaze]

Glances

Hi everyone! I literally have not used this blog in about 100 years, but I have been lurking on tumblr since rereading THG series a few months ago, and I have been inspired to write Everlark fanfics. I am kind of proud of my first one and would like for it to get some more traction on AO3, so I'm posting it here. I'm not sure what I want this blog to be or where I see it going, but for now it will be used to cross-post fics as I write them.

Here's a snippet of my writing. Link to the finished one shot is at the end. Hope you enjoy it! (If you do, I'm currently writing a longer piece) :)

Glances

His father points her out to him, an introduction paired with a story of a love once lost. He takes in her hair, two braids falling down her back, and her outfit, a simple red plaid dress. Both spin with her as she twirls and laughs with glee, her hand clutching her father’s finger as they walk - dance - along the school yard to the entrance way.

He cannot look away.

When she stops spinning, her eyes find his, and she meets him with a big smile, which he returns with his own. He wants to run to her, to welcome her, but soon she’s twirling through the front doors.

Later, in music class, when the girl eagerly says her name, Katniss, and volunteers to sing The Valley Song, he perks up at the chance to hear her voice. He listens and knows he's a goner. And when she sings, he locks his eyes on her, but hers are too lost in song to meet his in reply.

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Her stomach rumbles, and she pulls out her rucksack with her lunch. Some fresh picked berries and a squirrel leg courtesy of her father, and a cold porridge from her mother. It’s nothing special, but she knows she can’t be picky, so she’s grateful nonetheless.

No matter how grateful she is, however, she cannot help but notice the boy in her class’s lunch - the one she sees look her way on occasion. He has a hearty piece of bread and a thermos full of stew. To finish it off, he has one perfect cookie, cut into the shape of a star. As he bites into it, she notes how the delicately piped blue frosting perfectly matches the color of his eyes.

She has to force herself to drop her gaze.

To keep reading, go here.

#everlark

[merryhaze]

When Snape gives his first DADA speech, he talks about needing to be “flexible and inventive.” This is the part that Hermione says sounded like Harry.

In the same chapter, Harry gets the Half-Blood Prince’s book. He says that the Prince seems to have taken issue with nearly every instruction, and later talks about how the Prince doesn’t just stick to potions. Hermione hates that he uses the book’s instructions, and although Ginny gives her a perfect excuse later when Ginny is upset about Harry following the instructions of an unknown author, that isn’t why Hermione is upset from the beginning. She hates that Harry is outperforming her, yes, but I don’t think it’s just a matter of pure pride. She doesn’t get upset about Harry outperforming her in DADA the year before, and even asks him to teach them. She specifically hates that Harry is outperforming her by not following the same instructions. Personally, I think Ron’s got it right when he responds to her initial objection that it’s not Harry’s own work by saying that Harry is still following directions just like everyone else, he���s just following different ones. Harry is not the one thinking outside the box or trying to find clever ways to solve practical problems like the difficulty of cutting up sopophorous beans; he’s simply doing what the directions in front of him tell him to do. He may not deserve credit for being a potions genius, but he doesn’t deserve less credit than Hermione. Frankly, as someone whose entire job is following SOPs for performing chemical testing I don’t really see what the big deal about potions is, except for the fact that the author of their NEWT book is apparently an idiot whose instructions would never pass our internal audit *shakes fist*

We don’t yet know the identity of the Half-Blood Prince, so we have no reason to connect Snape’s philosophy about facing the dark arts with the inventiveness of the Prince’s problem-solving. But it does set this comparison up, and it also puts Harry’s greatest strength against Hermione’s greatest weakness, which is her refusal to deviate from the expected way of doing things. She is very book smart, and she has reasoning skills, as shown by the way she solves the puzzle in the first book — also, as it turns out, Snape’s — but she lacks innovation. In fact, Snape sneers at her answer in his DADA class for being “straight out of the Standard Book of Spells”; he can’t say she’s incorrect, and yes, he is of course being a jerk, but I think that he also has little respect for that kind of rote knowledge. I would argue that it’s a better educational strategy to encourage students to find ways of applying knowledge and thinking beyond memorisation than it is to just mock them (beyond just being unhelpful to make students afraid to answer, none of them register that he wants them to show original thinking, they just think he’s being a dick for no reason), but that’s not the point. Even as Harry and Ron use the Prince’s instructions to great success, and no harm comes to them because of it, Hermione refuses to change her mind about it, and when they offer to let her use the same instructions, she stubbornly insists on using the faulty original directions that give poorer results, for no reason other than her unwillingness to accept that the official version is not always best.

Hermione is marked by an implicit trust in authority the same way Harry is marked by a natural mistrust of authority. She changes over the series as it becomes clear that authoritative sources like the Ministry have their own agendas, but she still mostly believes that following the rules just because they’re the rules is the best course of action. Hermione is the one who is most reluctant to believe, as Harry and Ron do, that Snape is a villain, even when the evidence points that way, not because she has any reason to actually know better but because he’s a teacher and therefore she doesn’t think he could be capable of working against Dumbledore. She continues to try to impress him even after he’s mean to her over and over because he’s a teacher and that’s what you do in class. The fact that she fails to impress Slughorn as much as Harry does annoys her not because she thinks it means she’s stupid or bad at potions or that she won’t get recognition but because one of her most fundamental expectations about how the world works is challenged by that. She is following the directions to a T and still coming up short relative to someone who is deliberately not. And even when this is obvious, she is unable to change course and try a new approach — the Prince’s approach — because that just isn’t how she thinks the world ought to work.

Harry, on the other hand, is not rebelling just for the sake of being difficult. He tries the official way first, finds that it doesn’t work, and is willing to try a new approach. This is how he is similar to the Prince, whether he wants to think so by the end or not. Interestingly, he at first wants to believe that the Prince is his father, even though everything he knows about the Prince points against that, and it would be in character for James to break the rules, but the difference is that James broke rules for the sake of breaking rules. Harry, for all his propensity for trouble-making, hotheadedness, and rashness, does not break rules just for the sake of breaking rules, or because he’s so arrogant he thinks they shouldn’t apply to him (which is how Snape interprets his many foolhardy attempts to break his own neck, based on what James was like). He is good at DADA for the same reasons Hermione mentions when she draws the comparison between his speech and Snape’s — he is brave and quick-thinking and does not get himself stuck by patterns that don’t work, at least not when he’s in a crisis situation. His unwillingness to listen to authority is not arrogance but rather a lesson learned from a childhood where no adult was on his side and authority never showed itself to be trustworthy. He does not go after Neville’s remembrall to show off, but to help a victim of bullying when no one else is there to help him, it never occurring to him that eventually the teacher would come back and punish Malfoy. He doesn’t go after the philosopher’s stone for personal glory or gain, but because he truly believes that no one is taking the threat seriously. And this is, after all, the only reason he is able to get it. He does not go into the Chamber of Secrets for a thrill or because it’s forbidden but because his friend’s sister is in danger and, after attempting to give useful information to the proper authority designated to handle it and finding out that he was not interested in helping, he felt it was up to them or else no one would save her. So it is relevant to his personality that he tries the regular version first and only changes when it’s clear that isn’t working. He is more than willing to take advice and help from others when he needs it. It is not an attachment to rules, like Hermione, a desire for recognition and success, like Ron, rebellion, like James, or even curiosity, like the Prince, but flexibility. So while he is an aggravatingly lazy student at times, and his priorities are often irritatingly wrong, he does succeed. Who else would have tried to fight the Dark Lord himself with expelliarmus (oh look, another thing Snape taught him…)?? But he used the knowledge he had and didn’t hesitate to act, as opposed to getting locked up because he doesn’t know a spell that will deflect avada kedavra, or to summon horcruxes, or to take down a dragon.

Snape, in comparison, is driven by a curiosity and intensity that Harry lacks. Like Harry, authority has failed him, and like Harry, he does try to go to the authorities first, like he does about Lupin, but his motivations are to protect himself, not to help others. It is not a crime to survive. But it does show an important difference in him and Harry. Unlike Harry, he didn’t have good friends he could count on, and he gets through life playing everything close to his chest. This ends up being useful and enables him to play a necessary role on defeating Voldemort, but Harry’s selfless willingness to let himself be killed for the sake of the whole world — as opposed to Snape doing it for the sake of the love of one person — is also necessary. And Harry does this because there is one authority figure he obeys no matter what, Dumbledore. So it is interesting that all of these characters have defining personality traits and motivations but are often most notable for the times when they break the patterns of their personalities.

#severus snape #harry potter

[merryhaze]

"women live life on easy mode" is what men tell themselves when they don't wanna recognize the female sex has been oppressed, shunned, abused and punished since the dawn of time. objectifying women and raping them for money is not the privilege they think it is. "ooh but women can live off selling sex" KILL YOURSELF

#radical feminism

[merryhaze]

Rick was in love with his son’s best friend. Michonne was in love with her best friend’s dad. 😊

It’s cute thinking that, before 6.10, Rick and Michonne probably both were hesitant to act on their feelings for each other based on how Carl might feel about it - only for Carl to be immediately on board and not surprised in the slightest once they got together 😋

I love how much Richonne loves their eldest son, and how Carl has always played a huge part in Rick and Michonne’s love story. Since the moment Rick and Michonne laid eyes on each other, Carl was there helping bring them together and ultimately helping them realize they were meant to be family. And years later, even from the other side, Carl helped bring Rick and Michonne together again. 🥲

#richonne #i love them so 🥰 #& i loved that line in ep 5 so much - richonne had been falling for each other a long time #the walking dead

[merryhaze]

“Our brains were two million years in the making. That long, slow accretion doubled our cranial capacity. And the first thing we did with it was say thank you. We drew the megafauna and the megafemales, sculpted and carved them. The oldest known figurative sculpture is the Goddess of Hohle Fels, and 40,000 years ago someone spent hundreds of hours carving Her. There is no mystery here, not to me: the animals and the women gave us life. Of course they were our first, endless art project. Awe and thanksgiving are built into us, body and brain. Once upon a time, we knew we were alive. And it was good. 

And now we leave the realm of miracles and enter hell. 

Patriarchy is the ruling religion of the planet. It comes in variations―some old, some new, some ecclesiastical, some secular. But at bottom, they are all necrophilic. Erich Fromm describes necrophilia as “the passion to transform that which is alive into something unalive; to destroy for the sake of destruction; the exclusive interest in all that is purely mechanical.” In this religion, the worst sin is being alive, and the carriers of that sin are female. Under patriarchy, the female body is loathsome; its life-giving fat-cells vilified; its generative organs despised. Its natural condition is always ridiculed: normal feet must be turned into four-inch stubs; rib cages must be crushed into collapse; breasts are varyingly too big or too small or excised entirely. That this inflicts pain―if not constant agony―is not peripheral to these practices. It’s central. When she suffers, she is made obedient.” 

― Lierre Keith, ‘The Girls and the Grasses’ 

#radical feminism

[merryhaze]

235 FAVORITE SHIPS OF ALL TIME (ranked by my followers) 76. betty cooper and veronica lodge - riverdale

#will forever be funny to me that they are canon but jarchie isn't lmao #beronica #riverdale

[merryhaze]

Riverdale Web Weaving Masterlist

Veronica and Jughead: Fate, Death, Struggles of Womanhood

Veronica and Jughead: Growing Up Together, Found Family, and Eternal Devotion

Betty and Jughead: Processing Childhood attachment and the Transition to Acceptance of themselves in Adulthood🏳️‍🌈

Death of the Father: Dawson Leery and Archie Andrews 🌈

Dawson's Creek Masterlist

#riverdale

[merryhaze]

Succession Web Weaving Masterlist

* is for weaving with explicit csa/incest warnings

# can only be seen via the Tumblr update website link

Individual (Roman is in the Last Section)

Kendall

# Kendall: Survival

Greg (Links are Normal Again)

Greg Coming of Age in a Childlike State

Greg: Childhood and Coping with how people love him

Connor (Links are Normal Again)

Connor Roy : Coping through Childhood Neglect

*Connor Roy: The Laborious Pain of Family and Acceptance of Himself

Shiv (Links are Normal Again)

Shiv's relationship to Womanhood

Shiv Roy: Traumatic Conception, Pregnancy and Survival

Couples!

Logan and Frank (Links are Normal Again)

Frank and Logan: A everlasting love

Logan, Frank and Ken: A Family

Ken and Stewy (Links are Normal Again)

Stewy and Kendall: Finality in the Matter Of Love

Logan/Frank and Stewy/Kendall Parrellels Part 1 : Commitment and Betrayal

Logan/Frank and Stewy/Kendall Parrellels Part 2 : Stepdad and Family Dedication and the Role of Mother in Defense and Longevity of the Family

The Children of Logan Roy

Goldene Trio and Con

The Children of Logan Roy: Sense of reality, struggle and reliance on eachother

Golden Trio(Ken Shiv and Roman) (Links are Normal Again)

The Golden trio: Belief and Struggling through disaster

Kendall: Parental Duties to Roman and Shiv

Shiv and Ken (Links are Normal Again)

Kendall/Shiv Dawson/Joey: Mother/Daughter Sister/Brother Dynamics

Shiv and Kendall Siblinghood Part 1 and Two

Shiv and Kendalls relationship to identity

Connor and Kendall (Links are Normal Again)

Ken and Connor: Fatherly strengths and failures, Unbearable burdens and Dependence on the other's functionality for Survival

Meta Web Weaving/ Incest CSA Related/Tomgreg/ Tom Wambsgans Related

Tom and Greg (Links are Normal Again)

Tom and Greg: Love and Consumption

Tomgreg: Ghosts

Greg's love for Tom: Survival and Truth

Succession: Trials of the Son

Character Related Metaphorical Positioning (Links are Normal Again)

Tom is Tree Meta (Web Weaving Addition)

Succesion Subtext: Time Death and Rebirth: The Ariel Part 1

Succesion Subtext: Time Death and Rebirth: The Ariel Part 2: Kendall Journey to Rebirth

Succession Motifs: Boats Part 1

Succesion Subtext: Life,Death, and Generational Family Transitions

Succession: Gothic Elements, Greek Goddesses and Cinderella Part 1

Succession: Gothic Elements, Greek Goddesses and Cinderella Part 2: Femmine Power and it's Limits and A Traumatized Mindset

Succession: Gothic Elements, Greek Goddesses and Cinderella Part 3: The Abducted and the Aftermath

Succession Tom/Logan Hybrid Senseability and Transformation Part 1: Denial of Death

Succession Tom/Logan Hybrid Senseability and Transformation Part 2: Tom/Logan/Shiv Supernatural Incestous Father/Daughter Terror For the sake of power

Succession Tom/Logan Hybrid Senseability and Transformation Part 3: Tom/Logan/Greg The Failure of Grasping the Helpless Unknowing Child

Tom Secretly being a Roy Child Metas (Links are Normal Again)

Tom Shiv Greg Family Meta (Directly Plot)

Succession Family Dynamics: Shiv and Tom Biological Parental link to Greg

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7

Succession and the Gothic: Illusion as Survival,Tom's Gothic Manhood and it's effect on Shiv and Greg as his Victims Part 1

Succession and the Gothic: Illusion as Survival,Tom's Gothic Manhood and it's effect on Shiv and Greg as his Victims Part 2: Disease, and Bodily Damage as Metaphor and Reality

Tom and Shiv: Love, Death and Inevitable Suffering together

Kendall's Behind the Scenes Protection of Roy Family From Itself (Links are Normal Again)

Kendall's Behind the Scenes Protection of Roy Family From Itself Part 1: Greg's Existence as a Everpresent Danger

Kendall's Behind the Scenes Protection of Roy Family From Itself Part 2: Shivs Process of Choosing her own Safety

Kendall's Behind the Scenes Protection of Roy Family From Itself Part 2a: The Gothic Horror Reality and Kendall's Grips and Strategy Within It

Kendall's Behind the Scenes Protection of Roy Family From Itself Part 2b: The Gothic Horror Reality and Kendall's Gripes and Strategy Within It

Shiv and Greg: Persphone in Terror of Toms Hades Godlike Perception of Himself Part 1

Shiv and Greg: Persphone in Terror of Toms Hades Godlike Perception of Himself Part 2: The Mothers Duty: Kendall and Caroline as Demeter

Kendall's Familial Role in the Trippy World of Victorian Womanhand 🤪Part 1:The Father's Control of the Daughter

Kendall's Familial Role in the Trippy World of Victorian Womanhand 🤪Part 2:The Father's death and Kendall's Transition/Attempt from Eldest Daughter to Official Patriarch/Matriarch

Twin Sagas (Links are Normal Again)

Succesion Twin Sagas Tom Wambsgans and Marianne Hirsch Part 1: Intro and Tom Wambsgans Journey

*Succesion Twin Sagas Tom Wambsgans and Marianne Hirsch Part 2: Marianne Hirsch and her Role as a Surrogate Mother to Greg

Succesion Twin Sagas: Greg and his Secret Sister Kitty 1: The Artemis and Apollo of it All

Succesion Twin Sagas: Shiv and Rome

Ewan Roy as the Surrogate Grandfather and his Role in Greg's Demise

Roman Csa Grooming *(Links are Normal Again)

Aria and Ezra in Pretty little liars/Roman and Gerri in Succession

Succession Twin Sagas: Rome and Shiv Part 1:Rome is a Dog

General/Not Specific (Links are Normal Again)

Succession: Animalistic Identity formed through abuse

Compulsory Heterosexuality, and Gender Confinement, and Platonic Relationships: Disease

#succession #web weaving

[merryhaze]

serena crane, judith and holofernes

#catherine of aragon #katherine parr

[merryhaze]

The potions prodigy 🧪🪄🌿✨

#severus snape #he

[merryhaze]

idc what your opinions are on the morality and meat of his character snape has the best aesthetics out of anyone in the entire franchise

#severus snape

[merryhaze]

arya did not become a literal slave for yall to continuously disregard the importance of valar dohaeris in her arc. she literally had to work to the point of exhaustion, until her hands bled, serving men who would abuse her - and could have killed her with zero consequence because poor people are disposable to the westeros elite . 

when you ignore that and apply valar dohaeris solely to other characters - particularly ones who act only within upper class parameters (ie: ordering servants around from a position of privilege) you’re saying the work of the poor is less important than that of the rich. its classist and gross

these sayings - valar morghulis and valar dohaeris - were never meant to be broken up. they exist within “ALL” people. thats the entire point. 

#arya stark

[merryhaze]

Arya Stark Month 2022 - Day2 // Nymeria

1) Arya seeing Nymeria as something more than a wolf, and more like comfort or something that loves and understands her.

" Nymeria was waiting for her in the guardroom at the base of the stairs. She bounded to her feet as soon as she caught sight of Arya. Arya grinned. The wolf pup loved her, even if no one else did. They went everywhere together, and Nymeria slept in her room, at the foot of her bed. If Mother had not forbidden it, Arya would gladly have taken the wolf with her to needlework...."

2) Name of Wolf Nymeria:

(i wanna point out which i forgot before so edited, that arya's wolf name is so unique specific and a choice by her that well surely reflects her mentality and she names it after nymeria who she also tends to idolise, unlike just naming wolf after any other thing so this feels to me like powerful attribute of how she sees power, status and women too! :) thanks)

" –Arya had named her after the warrior queen of the Rhoyne, who had led her people across the narrow sea. That had been a great scandal too......

3) Using Nymeria's thought as strength to her in times of peril:

"She found the wall again and followed, blind and lost, pretending that Nymeria was padding along beside her in the darkness–"

"The stroke made her jump and howl. I won't cry, she thought, I won't do that. I'm a Stark of Winterfell, our sigil is the direwolf, direwolves don't cry"

"—I'm not an evil child, she thought, I am a direwolf, and the ghost in Harrenhal. She put her broomstick back in its hiding place and followed him from the godswood......

As a symbol of rebirth of herself, she also says and again refers to the wolf,:

"—You are Arya of Winterfell, daughter of the north. You told me you could be strong. You have the wolf blood in you."

"The wolf blood." Arya remembered now. "I'll be as strong as Robb. I said I would." She took a deep breath, then lifted the broomstick in both hands and brought it down across her knee. It broke with a loud crack, and she threw the pieces aside. I am a direwolf, and done with wooden teeth...."

4) Arya Warging into Nymeria - v important since she finds her lady mother's dead corpse only in the river and confirms she is dead.

"— Only the scent mattered. She sniffed the air again. There it was, and now she saw it too, something pale and white drifting down the river, turning where it brushed against a snag......... She shook it to make it move, but there was only death and blood in her mouth. By now she was tiring, and it was all she could do to pull the body back to shore. As she dragged it up the muddy bank, one of her little brothers came prowling, his tongue lolling from his mouth. She had to snarl to drive him off, or else he would have fed. Only then did she stop to shake the water from her fur. The white thing lay facedown in the mud, her dead flesh wrinkled and pale, cold blood trickling from her throat. Rise, she thought. Rise and eat and run with us..........

Arya confirms to Sandor herself when asked about her mother that she is dead and she saw it in 'dream' after this event ^^

"–This thing about your mother . . ."

"It doesn't matter," Arya said in a dull voice. "I know she's dead. I saw her in a dream."

This was the most bone chilling sad and important scene for arya lovers and readers overall because of the realisation of her being a warg seeing her dead mother Catelyn and also overcoming her grief finally and resorting to move on as she does and accepts her death. she gets a closure of her mothers and brothers death finally at least as a last evidence or piece in jigsaw and this is only because of the dream she saw and warged. this does indicate how much she loves nymeria and it was because of her wolf she does this mesning the wolf nymeria could also be alive. their dynamic is very rich and different from other starklings too. so meaning again they could be reunited. But these were my fav moments of arya-nymeria and in riverlands chapters u get mooore and so many of hints anyways.

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#arya stark

[merryhaze]

“Michonne is home.” – Andy Lincoln

#richonne #the walking dead

[merryhaze]

Do you ever think about how Jon and Sansa are the only stark kids to explicitly refer to themselves as ‘the blood of Winterfell.’ Because if I think on it too much I’ll go insane …. I don’t get how people can say this is delulu ship when new things are discovered everyday it’s just so thematically, textually rich on a narrative level on a character level on a personal level

#jonsa

[merryhaze]

Snape Fic Rec

Snape is my favorite character in Harry Potter, but he’s also one of the hardest characters for me to find fic I genuinely like him in. These are all fics that I read and enjoyed. Some are shipping, some are probably a bit OOC, but all are worth giving a chance. In no particular order:

Not Entirely Tedious by MMADfan: This fic reminds me of a lot of the things that I liked about Sherlock fanfic when I was in that fandom. A snarky, nasty Severus and cautious McGonagall are stuck waiting for a meeting to start. Snape and McGonagall friendship.

Third Time’s a Charm by steph7of7: Technically second in a series, but you don’t need to read that one to get this one. Snape lives through the Battle of Hogwarts. Has some of the best characterization I’ve ever seen, not only of Snape, but of McGonagall, Harry, Neville, and Luna as well. The pairing, when it does come in, is realistic and absolutely adorable. Neville x Snape, if you can believe it.

a life of smoke and silvered glass by dirgewithoutmusic: This made me cry when I read it. Just steps away from canon, with a wonderful Severus and Lily friendship and a painfully manipulative yet human Dumbledore. Also gets props for actually showing Snape being a spy. Snape and Lily friendship.

The Deal by sheankelor: On the other hand, you have this. The Deal Universe spans 11 stories, but this one is the one I rec purely based on what I love about this series in general. Slightly goofy, but still realistic characterizations, with the Heads of Houses being mutually supportive of each other and a delightfully nerdy Severus.

Immortality by sheankelor: As you can tell, I love sheankelor’s Snape. This one has a Snape who actually has friends (shocker, I know!), friends who are more than willing to help him when Voldemort sets him up for an impossible task. Has some background Dumbledore x Grindelwald. Also, dragons!

Desolation Row by starcrossedgirl: Oof, right back to heartbreaking. Harry and Snape are captured by Death Eaters. There’s angst, there’s blood, there’s psychological torture. Snape x Harry and dark as fuck.

Six Years, Six Applicants by Sarah1281: So Snape applied for the DADA position every year, right? Yep, this is about that. Goes from hilarious to heartbreaking in seconds, and has a perfect ending.

I am silver and exact by Amatara: Seven times Snape refused to show weakness. Includes my favorite thing: Minerva realizing how difficult him being a spy is.

Secret Keeper by ermalope: Dumbledore makes Snape the Potters’ Secret Keeper. Manages to be realistic while at the same time showcasing the hilarious awkwardness of the entire situation. Also has one of the best twists I’ve ever read.

Four Ways of Dealing with Dementors by Swallow B: Takes a throwaway line from canon and turns it into a delicate study of Snape’s experience in the Dark Arts and his teaching style in general. Also has hints of Jewish!Snape, which is one of my favorite things.

Apothecary and Auror by Pasi: One of the best start of darkness fics I’ve read, and an original setup to boot. Snape takes a job on a secret Ministry project in Azkaban.

Thirteen Ways by Sinope: The gold standard of Snupin fic, imo. Delicate, haunting, and intimate. Manages to be satisfying in a wholly unsatisfying manner. I won’t say any more without giving it away. Snape x Lupin.

In Infinite Remorse of Soul by perverse_idyll: I genuinely have no idea if this is OOC or not. A fic that takes a hard look at the fucked up power dynamics between Dumbledore and Snape, giving them a sexual under/overtone that wasn’t there in the books but slots seamlessly into canon. Disturbing, powerful, and with a Snape I love as much as I loath him. Dumbledore x Snape, unrequited Snape x Harry.

Faces by samvimes: I just… I love this fic so much. It’s a little fluffy, a little angsty, a little introspective. It also gives Tonks some unexpected and much-needed emotional depth. Snape x Tonks.

#severus snape

[merryhaze]

really love dynamics that are like 'it honestly doesn't matter if you view them as romantic or platonic, the point is that they love each other. the type of love is inconsequential, all that matters is that it's there'. gotta be one of my favorite genders.

#jonsa