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knitting tutorial made by a twenty-something knitting influencer: 18 min long, 12 of those minutes being the intro and a sponsor plug, they show the first few steps of the tutorial at the slowest speed known to man, they show the most important steps at a neck-break speed, they stop every five seconds to talk about what they just did, 40,000 comments filled with questions ranging from insightful to “how do i knit”, filmed with a camera that costs more than a car, the tutorial is incorrect.

knitting tutorial made by a seventy-something grandmother: two min long, filmed 17 years ago, shows you what you want with the skilled patient hands of a beloved deity, made with the world’s shittiest camera, the best video on the fucking internet, four comments and 30 views, you lose the video and never find it again.

#knitting #crafts #crochet #artisanal

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I reached the Snape's Worst Memory chapter. Honestly I find this to be one of the hardest things to read in the whole series. The protracted, wanton cruelty is awful - and especially horrifying is the way most people in the scene look on and do nothing, or laugh.

The fact that Snape can never just relax on a nice day. He has to hide himself in the shadows for fear of being attacked and tormented is so sad.

We know what kind of person Wormtail grew up to be and we see here that he was always attracted to hanging around powerful, cruel people who could provide him with sadistic entertainment. He traded James & Sirius for Voldemort once he got out of school of course. But I think it says a lot about the kind of people they were at the time. This wasn't an isolated incident that went especially far, but a regular type of entertainment.

It's really just sick what happens here. They're basically magically waterboarding him at this point. James is exactly the kind of person Harry would have stood up to if they'd gone to school at the same time. I mean after this memory he is so shaken he falls into a depression and wonders if James and Lily ended up together because he forced himself on her.

And to be clear I actually like the narrative potential of Harry discovering that the father he looked up to so much actually was the type of person he despises. I wish a bit more had been done with this though.

The fact that James takes out his frustration with Lily's rejection by tormenting and humiliating Snape more says a lot about him. I also think it's really interesting Sirius is the one who says "[i]f you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals" but he never really connects that sentiment with how he and James treated Snape.

(As an aside I will also never get why JKR thinks James and Sirius are redeemable for this behavior even though we never get to see anything in canon to prove that James or Sirius ever truly acknowledged the depth of how wrong what they did was or regretted it, but somehow she gets all mad at people for suggesting that Draco, who did canonically regret his actions and change his ways and who never did anything like this, was somehow irredeemable.)

#pro snape #pro severus snape #harry potter meta #anti james potter #anti marauders #anti sirius black #anti jkr

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Severus Snape, around 1973, angrily taking notes. Maybe he sees someone he hates.

#What a cutie #he needs all the hugs #Severus snape #pro snape #pro severus snape

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And it's always Alan Rickman being made to look most unflattering.

I am so sick of seeing AI Snape art on my dash every day I have to block someone new 💀

#anti ai art

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via @indiarosecrawford

𝑓ₒᵣ ⲕᵢ𝑛𝑔 ₐ𝑛𝑑 𝑐ₒ𝑡𝑡ₐ𝑔ₑ

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Severus Snape - 1985

#severus snape #snape #pro snape #severus snape fanart

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“‘Sirius Black showed he was capable of murder at the age of sixteen,’ he breathed. ‘You haven’t forgotten that, Headmaster? You haven’t forgotten that he once tried to kill me?’

‘My memory is as good as it ever was, Severus,’ said Dumbledore quietly.”

like are you kidding me? are you being fr rn? snape is a better person than i am because if someone said that about my bullying and abuse i would’ve gotten scrappy and scary. victim of abuse that he knows about and his best teacher and the only one who tried to protect anyone or fix anything and is basically the reason lupin had wolfsbane at all that all just got thrown back in his face in the worst ways possible. i would’ve been in jail ten minutes later actually. holy shit man

#severus snape #snape #pro snape #anti dumbledore #anti sirius black #anti marauders #pro severus snape

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Two crows were observed perched silently atop a street light during a misty morning in coastal California. ♡

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I reached the Snape's Worst Memory chapter. Honestly I find this to be one of the hardest things to read in the whole series. The protracted, wanton cruelty is awful - and especially horrifying is the way most people in the scene look on and do nothing, or laugh.

The fact that Snape can never just relax on a nice day. He has to hide himself in the shadows for fear of being attacked and tormented is so sad.

We know what kind of person Wormtail grew up to be and we see here that he was always attracted to hanging around powerful, cruel people who could provide him with sadistic entertainment. He traded James & Sirius for Voldemort once he got out of school of course. But I think it says a lot about the kind of people they were at the time. This wasn't an isolated incident that went especially far, but a regular type of entertainment.

It's really just sick what happens here. They're basically magically waterboarding him at this point. James is exactly the kind of person Harry would have stood up to if they'd gone to school at the same time. I mean after this memory he is so shaken he falls into a depression and wonders if James and Lily ended up together because he forced himself on her.

And to be clear I actually like the narrative potential of Harry discovering that the father he looked up to so much actually was the type of person he despises. I wish a bit more had been done with this though.

The fact that James takes out his frustration with Lily's rejection by tormenting and humiliating Snape more says a lot about him. I also think it's really interesting Sirius is the one who says "[i]f you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals" but he never really connects that sentiment with how he and James treated Snape.

(As an aside I will also never get why JKR thinks James and Sirius are redeemable for this behavior even though we never get to see anything in canon to prove that James or Sirius ever truly acknowledged the depth of how wrong what they did was or regretted it, but somehow she gets all mad at people for suggesting that Draco, who did canonically regret his actions and change his ways and who never did anything like this, was somehow irredeemable.)

#pro snape #pro severus snape #harry potter meta #anti james potter #anti marauders #anti sirius black

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#VoteBlue

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Not voting in 2024 is surrender. #VoteBlue

If you want to be a single issue voter, let this be your issue. This is your wake-up call.

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This has probably been said before but the quote

'You can not heal in the same environment that hurt you'

is actually so relevant to Snapes character. Hogwarts is the place that hurt him, where he experienced so much trauma and grooming. And he was forced to return to that place after only a short time away and then spent the rest of his life there. And it's not only about the place but also the people. His former teachers who stood by and did nothing when he was harassed and assaulted were now his colleagues. Maybe some of his own students in his first years as a professor were kids who stood by and laughed when he was assaulted publically since they went to school at the same time at one point. He really did never get a chance to heal, he couldn't possibly in the environment he was in, with no support or anything, who would not be miserable and bitter in this situation? Ultimately this sacrifice he made redeemed him and this is what truly shows that he was dedicated to the cause and changed as a person.

#severus snape #pro severus snape #pro snape #harry potter meta

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Voldemort theories I could swear are canon but it turns out I just implicitly thought them:

The curse on the DADA job is manifested through the diadem Horcrux. Dumbledore could never break it because he doesn't know about the room of hidden things. Incidentally, he doesn't know about it because he's so powerful the room of requirement really doesn't have much to offer him, except, I guess, a toilet.

Harry resisted the imperius curse in class and in the graveyard because of the accidental Horcrux. Barty Jr does not have the will or ability to overpower his master, and Voldemort can't imperius himself.

Thank you very much

#harry potter #harry potter meta

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Good news, fellow artists! Nightshade has finally been released by the UChicago team! If you aren't aware of what Nightshade is, it's a tool that helps poison AI datasets so that the model "sees" something different from what an image actually depicts. It's the same team that released Glaze, which helps protect art against style mimicry (aka those finetuned models that try to rip off a specific artist). As they show in their paper, even a hundred poisoned concepts make a huge difference.

(Reminder that glazing your art is more important than nighshading it, as they mention in their tweets above, so when you're uploading your art, try to glaze it at the very least.)

#icymi #artists #anti ai art #anti ai