From hell's heart I stab at thee

Good luck with your story!  :)

The difficult thing about British slang is that it differs depending on region, and you have words that are carried locally if they’re not succeeded by a national phrase - so a word might be Mancunian in origin, but may spread to other areas as people move around.

So part of the issue depends on where you place Snape, and who he is talking to, and when it is/was.  For instance, 20 years ago I might have said something good was mint or sound or wicked, but I wouldn’t really do so now.  If you’re writing phonetically, you might want to consider how words are pronounced with an accent.  Some are easier to transcribe than others, such as the dropping of a ‘h’ or ‘g’ sound, or t-glottaling, or omitting ‘to’ - or depending on the setting, you might change how the word is said in informal terms…say, for example, right is also reet.

These are all words/phrases that stem from around where I am:  

coss - tell offmither - botherkaylied / rat arsed - drunkmooch - wander aimlesslyskive - avoid without permissioncadge - begshufty - glancedock off - massivelozzock - lay aboutsorted - fixednarked - irritatedscrikin - cryingowt - anythingnowt - nothingscruff - unkempt personmucker - mateneck - quickly down a drinkcaned - quickly consumemuggins here - foolish medo one - go awaycob on - sulkfilch - pinch (as in steal - but only something minor, e.g. filch a pen)mard (mardy / mard-arse) - sulkingbrassic - skintslat, chuck - throwmaul - heave with difficultyscran / grub - foodbrew - cuppacanny - smartgood hiding - belting / beatingkecks - trousersin all / and all - as wellgawp - stare rudely without shamecop off / get off - pull (a person) hanna - have notdancers / wooden hill - stairsmush / chops - mouthgrots - sweetsclobber - clothesdoddle - easyus - me (as in ‘give it us’)snicket - alleyclocked - noticedkip - napbobos - sleep (used with kids especially)tra - byeheckers like - definitely not, used scornfully

Since when has “faggot” meant “meatball”, the only meaning for it I knew was “thing you use to fuel the fire” which is where “fag” for “cigarette” comes from. Also I have a friend from Birmingham who insists that they use “mom” around there.

If you’re not sure on something like this, a quick Google can always help you out:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faggot_(food)

It’s even referenced on the Wikipedia page about the pejorative use itself:  

Originally confined to the United States,[8] the use of the words fag and faggot as epithets for gay men has spread elsewhere in the English-speaking world, but the extent to which they are used in this sense has varied outside the context of imported US popular culture. In the UK and some other countries, the words queer, homo, and poof are much more common as pejorative terms for gay men. The word faggot in the UK typically refers to a kind of meatball, while fag is most commonly used as a slang term for “cigarette”.

Tag a fan - it can be a mutual, meta writer, shitposter, an artist, a fic writer, even just a friend, whoever and how many you want!

@potionsmasters for her lovely art

@mollymcgiftens for her wonderful metas and arguments

@twosidestodarkness for her fanfics and snep love

@jodie-got-her-gun for her snep inspired playlists and being a snep connoisseur

@xochiquetzl for her fics and snupin fics

@ch4n71c0 for her headcanons and helping so much with poc snep

@ancient-lich-heart for his snep art and the snep cosplay

@ladyfluff for some of the best snep posts I’ve read

@cassius-warrinqton for the original moodboard content and support

@galaxydelly for chatting snep with me and also just being wonderful

@patior-palmitor for their excellent quality posts and just having so many interesting things on their tumblr

@itme-nofaithleft for being being a Rickman and a wonderful snep supporter

@circusilksandtea for her snurrito and talking snep with me

@bluesardine for being an awesome friend and lover of snep

@madnessbeyondrealms because we love snep together too

@masaothedog for the excellent snep art

@sevi-seviyorum for having the best Sev username that always makes me smile

@plushybuttons for being a cute snepling

@potterpourii for being able to come to the snep side and being a nice person

@kythereia-nekoda because I like reading your pro-snep posts

@gryffinpctter for that lovely snarry the other day

@elenianz for some of the best Severus art I’ve seen

@snaketonguedgod for her metas and talking snep with me and being awesome

@euphemiaspotters for being a cute snepling

Actually this will be too long sooooooo:

For being wonderfully pro-snep and making my dashboard a happy place

@lillymoid @sonserinissima @witch-of-fanart @prefect-slytherin @raven-star7 @the-spy-on-the-inside

I know I’ve forgotten some people and I’m so sorry if I did, I just did a quick list

@wilczawisnia and @deathdaydungeon for awesome meta and for being cool and kind people! 

@patior-palmitor for being super-nice and super-interesting and super-supportive.

@potteryet for the great John Nettleship post and for her amazing moodboards! 

@raven-star7 for being someone who followed me with the comment, “Are you me?” and I often feel exactly the same.  My sib from another crib!

@lazarusquince for the saplings, and for meta. 

@plushybuttons and @cassius-warrinqton for being snupineers!!!  <3  And for moodboards and art. 

@alis-anne for general awesomeness. 

@deathdaydungeon for being a blessing to this community in every way. I remember when Snape fans were receiving death threats on the regular, and their diligence, and intelligence turned the tide. This community is a much more relaxed and fun place because of them. Also their inner Snep is the closest to mine.

@doewept For being a true poet, and sharing even all the hard things.

@elenianz for their wit, view of life, and artistic gifts…its like Christmas with every post.

@lazarusquince another pillar of the community who’s honesty and authenticity I’ve honestly come to rely on.

@doodlebat & @snuffles-groovy-doghouse oh man, everything you two give to all of us, and how you effortlessly balance keeping things light-hearted, while also being true to your vision of the characters and of life. Two beautiful souls among us.

But to mention some people: @deathdaydungeon @wilczawisnia and @professormcguire for providing me the reason to stay on tumblr through their amazing meta

@patior-palmitor for being even more enthusiastic than me about the best poly ship ever (Is there a name? Snucissa?) and helping me out with content

@xochiquetzl for writing such an engaging Severus, honestly, I have to read all your fics, woman

@vagina–dentata for reblogging my stuff and making the nicest rants in the tags (I love reading everyone’s tags, guys)

@snapeloveposts for keeping us together with all the lovely events

@jill-s-alg @lifeofapottedplant @chanccart and all other artists for their beautiful fanarts , especially @elenianz (I’ll never get over the forbidden DE!Snape fanart <3) 

- every fanartist and fanwriter around,

- the whole snapedom in general

and in particular to:

@deathdaydungeon @pazithigallifreya for their meta and analyses

@xochiquetzl @raven-star7 @patior-palmitor @potteryet who usually nail on the head what I can’t exactly express with words

@sternbeere @raptured-night for engaging in enjoyable discussions with me every now and then

@lazarusquince for being awesome and being quite a bit of driving force around here

@vhizen for absolutely stunning fanarts; they are immediately recognizable

the people behind @snapeloveposts for running the Severus Snape events (they are fun to participate in)

Shout-outs go to (in no particular order)

@emmatrustsno-one and @deathdaydungeon for giving me so much insight into the British Culture and for the wonderful class metas. 

@mollymcgiftens for wonderful metas, questions, discussions and talks we had.

@likorys-shimenawa for pointing out the flaws in the HP text 

@idealistic-realism00 and @raptured-night for the wonderful comments and the metaphors in HP.

@snuffles-groovy-doghouse  and @doodlebat for the wonderful cosplays

‘…My school is older than your entire town.’

‘Sorry, you think *how far* is okay to travel for a shopping trip?’

“All right, it’s going to be a long bus ride, so make sure you’re prepared for that.”

We all brace ourselves.  A long bus ride?  How long?  We’re Americans; a long bus ride for us is a minimum of six hours with the double digits perfectly plausible.  We can handle a twelve hour bus ride as long as we get a bathroom break.

The answer.  “Two hours.”

I seem to have grown up immune to the distance thing, which is lucky as I lived in Russia for a while. In my last job I had a commute of an hour and ten minutes each way and people treated me like I was insane. When I told people they'd be like 'how do you cope??!'. I think it might stem from petrol prices tbh though - it's a lot more expensive here than in the States.

ooooooh

& “Professor, is there a way for me to send letters to my parents the muggle way?”

“Are owls not good enough for you?” Poor Snape is Harry’s head of house, since Hyacinth has instilled a very noble sense of ambition in Harry. (“But which house is more prestigious?” “Off to SLYTHERIN you go!”)

“No, it’s just that if I send an owl, it’ll hide in order to prevent muggles from seeing it.”

“…correct.”

“So how will the neighbors know I’m sending letters to my parents? My mum would be so disappointed at the thought of the postman thinking I don’t write to her.”