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25: Age Chart

Something to come back to.

Hey everyone! Our next event is AU Month, which will be taking place from November 5th to November 25th!

What is AU Month? AU Month is a month-long event dedicated to everything alternate universe that involves Severus Snape. The month will be three weeks long and each week will feature a different AU theme.  As always your submissions must be centered around Severus Snape.

What can I submit? You can show your appreciation through any means, whether it’s through a text post, cosplay, video, graphics, meta, headcanons, gifsets, fanart or fanfic, etc. just no reposting other people’s work please (unless you have permission/give direct credit).

AU Month schedule:

Nov. 5-11: Snape Lives AU Week

Nov. 12-18: Canon AU Week (click here for more info on what this is)

Nov. 19 - 25: Muggle Snape AU Week

**Be sure to include the tag #snapeloveposts within the first 5 tags of your post so that they’re all collected in one place for everyone to see.  And also include an @snapeloveposts in your caption so we can see it and reblog it. And if you won’t be around for the event or a certain week you can queue your posts in advance or submit them later on. **

Our next event coming up is POC (Person of Color) Snape Week! This event will run from October 1st to October 7th.

What is POC Snape Week? POC Snape Week is an event dedicated to POC headcanons, meta, and is an opportunity to showcase any POC Snape content you have in mind. This is an event for POSITIVE representation so racism of any kind will not be tolerated.

Things to keep in mind:

If you personally don’t identity as the ethnicity you’re headcanoning Snape to be then please be respectful of the culture and stay away from harmful stereotypes when creating your work.

Don’t use slurs in your work unless you’re personally reclaiming that slur.

Research is your friend. If you’re unsure about something you’re writing about then research it.

If you don’t have any POC headcanons and feel the need to proclaim how you only see Snape as white in our tag or on someone’s post, don’t. It’s rude and uncalled for.

The Prompts:

Day 1:  Severus travels to his ancestral home

Day 2:  Severus’ does magic specific to his ethnicity

Day 3: Severus and religion

Day 4: Severus and food

Day 5: Severus and traditional clothing 

Days 6 & 7: No Prompts / Free Days

What kinds of content are we looking for? Anything! We’ll accept: Gifsets, moodboards, graphics, videos, playlists, fan fiction, drabbles, headcanons (serious or non serious), fan art, silly text posts, etc. Whatever you come up with we would love to see, so try not to get hung up on whether it’s good or not, the point is to just show your appreciation for POC Severus Snape!

**Also, be sure to include the tag #snapeloveposts within the first 5 tags of your post so that they’re all collected in one place for everyone to see. And if you won’t be around for that week you can queue your posts in advance or submit posts later in the month. **

First of all, he had no safe space. He was abused at home and then he left to a boarding school, where he thought he could finally be accepted and valued, but then he was abused there too. 

And he was put in a house he used to dream about, just to learn that he had to find a way to mingle with some people who 1) were from rich and powerful families and 2) were pureblood and despised those who weren’t… while he, well, was neither.

He had a total of one friend who loved him for who he was, without second malicious interests or power struggles. And 1) he lost this friend mostly due to his own doing and 2) she ended up being murdered due to an information he provided.

Now struggling with unbearable guilt over what happened, he then decides to become a spy and this one decision perpetually screwed any chances he had to ever form a meaningful relationship ever again.

The last point is what really made me write this post. I’ve seen people talk about how everything would have been different to Severus if only he got over Lily. Like if he still became a double agent, but had let go of his feelings for Lily, thus being happier and less of an asshole to his students and just a nicer, probably healthier person overall.

And that makes no sense, not only because the reason he couldn’t get over what happened to Lily was that she had such a unique and fundamental role in his life (as one of the few chances he had of knowing love) that the guilt and grief he felt was too great; but also because his role as a double agent prevented him from forming new connections with other people.

He had to constantly stand in an ambiguous position with both enemies and allies. He had to play enemy to his allies and ally to his enemies, so he couldn’t truly connect with any of them, not fully. He had no chance, not if he was to play his vital role at winning the war. He had no chance of a “normal life”, of making new friends, finding new lovers. The sacrifices he had to make in order to somehow make up for what he saw as his mistakes with Lily were part of what prevented him from ever forgiving himself and starting over.

Dumbledore was basically all he had, maybe the only person who knew where he really stood, who he really was and what were his true motives. And then he had to look him in the eyes and kill him.

Sirius: PEEEETERR give a kiss to your new girlfriend!! Peter: aaaah! Get that thing away from meeeeeeee!!!!!

Bonus: 

Tobias Snape before worse times…

Thank you everyone for sending in prompts! We received an overwhelming amount of submissions and in the end decided to go with 30 prompts in total to split between the Writing & Drawing categories as to not have an overwhelming amount of prompts to choose from. So, if you don’t see your prompt included please note that we couldn’t include everything but appreciate your submission.

The 2018 Severus Snape Writing & Drawing Fest will start on Sunday, August 12th and will run until the 31st of August. During that time you can submit a piece for a prompt whenever you want. You can also choose to do multiple prompts or do multiple submissions for a single prompt.

Ground rules: In order for us to reblog your submissions your work must include the following!

Title (this goes for both writing & drawing)

Word-count (if it’s a fic)

Content Warnings (if it’s a drawing that could be triggering please put it under a read-more)

Must be Snape-centric

Your submission must be written or drawn. We will not accept other types of content for this fest.

Must include a #snapeloveposts tag in the first 5 tags OR have @snapeloveposts in the caption, otherwise we will not see the posts. 

We will also accept submissions that are sent to us through the submit feature. If you have any questions feel free to send us an ask!

The Prompts:

Hey everyone! We’ll be running a Snape Writing & Drawing Fest this August and we’re looking for prompts, the prompts can be related to anything but must be focused around Severus Snape.

If you’re interested in submitting prompts please do so by replying to this post or by sending us a message. 

*If a prompt is specifically for writing or drawing please be sure to specify.