A Pirate is Me

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Toys For Bob and Activision be like: You’ve just been served.

maybe it's because he's feeling under the weather that his usual facade cracks. the illness is just a conduit, an excuse to be 'needy', because he finally has something he can blame for feeling bad - something specific that he can pinpoint, one he can share. without meaning to, without any intention or conscious awareness that it's what he's doing, he's seeking the comfort and sympathy he's always been starved for. what would it take to be considered needy, anyway? turning up repeatedly for potions from madam pomfrey, even though he could brew them himself? coughing/sniffing dramatically in the staffroom, sitting by the fire looking like death warmed up, and playing it up a little?

i'm not sure he'd get much, though. in the game, madam pomfrey tells people he's needy, which doesn't suggest sympathy and actually feels a bit mean, telling other people that. when he speaks to the students, he tells them to stop gawking at him with 'feigned pity', suggesting that's what he's used to:

getting back into 'canon' extrapolations from book characterisations, i expect that the other teachers would hardly be sympathetic... (i went on a bit of a ramble so have broken it down below)

But holy shit.

Him leaving those potions everywhere and taking care of everyone until he runs out of supplies, then getting desperate enough to go to Poppy only to be shooed away...

Snape in the books I think rubs his lips and in the films fidgets with his fingers a lot. I like to think he also does really subtle things (or was forced into subtlety by his peers/parents' judgement) like biting his cheeks, rubbing his fingers in his pockets, stroking the fabric inside his pockets, wiggling his toes, tapping his leg, but like...multiple of these all at the same time, all the time. Low-key think he's a skin picker, too, in private (bleeding cracked fingers and open wounds nation unite), but I have no evidence for that except Vibes. Primarily searches his upper arms for blemishes and picks the dry skin on his fingers, and his hair is often greasy where he searches his scalp in private (projecting here, but maybe someone once asked him if he had fleas bc his hands were always in his hair as a kid loool)

When he's eating food he really enjoys he can't wiggle openly so he has to wiggle his toes. Secret sweet tooth and in his rooms at night he has sweets and sometimes finds himself wiggling and has to put a stop to it, just in case someone's watching, even though nobody is watching

I also feel like he's a sniffer. He'll sniff just about anything (and esp any potion ingredient) placed under his nose. He tells people it's to ascertain the freshness and quality of the ingredient. Sniffs all his food and drink (subtly). Sniffs the potions. His favourite to sniff is obviously Amortentia, being his favourite smells. He sort of enjoys the burn from the harsher smells though

It's almost as if... young Snape didn't actually do anything against the maradeurs, and his worst "crime" was saying slurs as a teenager - which is bad, but doesn't warrant the level of violence against him.

Severus Snape was and is a tender soul who always kept his hands to himself if he could help it.

It’s utter, weapons-grade bullshit.

Look, on the one hand, it’s perfectly normal that the only thing that comes to his mind is saving the person who matters to him and that he forgets everything else. That’s a very human reaction. But even if it had all been completely calculated and Severus were the cold, scheming bastard everyone insists on turning him into in that scene, what sense would it actually make for him to ask for anything other than Lily’s life?

James was not Lily’s husband to him. James was his fucking abuser. He was a guy who spent seven years tormenting him, who gave him a dehumanising and humiliating nickname, who constantly hunted him down, and who went as far as publicly sexually assaulting him. Why on earth should he save him? Why should he beg for the life of someone who abused him? I’m sorry, guys, but I wouldn’t do it either.

People make up this idea that Severus wanted James dead so he could “have” Lily, but in what universe does Lily have anything to do with his problem with James? Severus’s issue with James is not about Lily. It’s about the fact that James was an abuser and Severus was his victim. And no victim of abuse owes their abuser compassion, empathy, or mercy. Full stop. Everything else is pure victim-blaming designed to demonise Severus and cover up the real nature of his hatred for James—which has nothing to do with possessiveness or objectifying Lily, and everything to do with the abuse and mistreatment he suffered at James Potter’s hands. End of story.

People focus way too much on the house, when in reality Severus’s problem wasn’t just Slytherin. Being in Slytherin made it easier for him to be recruited by the Death Eaters because the environment he moved in was very closed-off and most of his peers came from pure-blood families, but what really led him to join and become alienated was that outside of that environment, he had nothing.

Outside of it, there was only his family, which was terribly dysfunctional, violent, and poor. In fact, his biggest aspiration was probably to enter the wizarding world because the expectation of going there was much better than what he had, since what he had was a pretty miserable life, lacking both financial resources and emotional support from his parents.

Then he becomes even more withdrawn within the school itself, because when he gets to that supposed place where things should be better, he ends up being mocked, bullied, and mistreated by a group of rich boys who supposedly care about social justice but actually just exploit their social advantage to mess with people for their own amusement. The Marauders didn’t treat him badly because he was in Slytherin, it’s confirmed that James’s issue with him wasn’t his house but his friendship with Lily. James was jealous that Lily was friends with another boy and basically targeted him because of that.

So even if he had been in Ravenclaw, it’s quite likely Severus would still have become a target of bullying simply for being Lily’s friend, because at the end of the day James was pretty toxically masculine. If that had been the case, I think Severus would have ended up aligning himself with whatever he perceived as opposed to or in conflict with the Marauders anyway.

Pantsing is usually defined as pulling down someone’s pants as a joke or prank. It’s immature, invasive, and often done for laughs. It's also quick and done and over with. That said, why is pantsing okay? Why is that the go to defense that pantsing somehow morally acceptable behavior. Maybe its okay thing to do among your friends, but to do to someone who you are not friends with, and who you mess with constantly...? In every other form of media pantsing is humiliating and degrading to the person, and that usually shown to be bad. So why it's used to justify James and Sirius here in have no fucking idea outside of people hate a character so they're cool with it. SO even if you DONT THINK ITS SA Pantsing is still wrong...