Angst fics for the soul

Thoughts, plural. "He dropped the last silvery strand" also implies that he removes more than just one memory (there has to be more than one if something comes last).

We know from Harry's previous excursions into the Pensieve (in GoF when he falls into Dumbledore's memories of various Death Eater trials) that more than one memory can go into a Pensieve at a given time. We also know that when this is the case, once one memory ends another begins, but as far as we know, you have to get through the one to move on to the next. It's unclear what order they go in, but I assume chronological?

I’m assuming Dumbledore had granted Snape use of the Pensieve to ensure that Voldemort, through Harry, will not discern something that puts Snape at risk. Therefore, I believe the other two memories are memories that would be utterly damning, that Snape would not be able to “spin” if Harry/Voldemort were to see them, which are:

1. Snape going to Dumbledore on the hilltop and promising him “anything” (this contradicts the story he’s been telIing Voldemort and the DEs, that Dumbledore took him on only after Voldemort’s defeat, when he spun a tale of “deepest remorse” of his DE days)

2. His agreeing to protect Harry in memory of Lily (Voldemort doesn’t think Snape truly loved Lily, and seems like he hadn’t heard about her in years, and doesn’t think she was part of his “tale of remorse” that he spun to Dumbledore. I think Snape would loathe anything about their true relationship being known to Voldemort, so I think this probably contradicts whatever Voldemort think he said to Dumbledore to convince him to trust him.)

So in this way, I actually think SWM is the anomaly here. I think Snape’s choice of depositing this one in the Pensieve is not necessarily for his or the Order’s operational security like the other two are—he could easily spin it if necessary—but out of an overwhelming sense of shame alone. To have Harry see his greatest shame (seeing, with Lily’s eyes, mind you), to have Harry see him choose to intentionally hurt the girl who was the best part of his life…completely intolerable for him. This isn’t an unintentional or uninformed or abstract harm like his handing over the prophecy, which I think he could count on Harry not understanding anyway. This isn’t the slow-dawning realization or a grapple with his conscience, but something that he can and does perceive as an inflection point for him.

That makes Harry’s seeing this one in some ways all the worse, given it’s the only one he put in there specifically so Harry wouldn’t see it. But I always felt like Snape’s anger when he pulls Harry out of the Pensieve isn’t just fueled by shame, but the type of anger one feels when you narrowly avoid a fatal mishap. He’s shaking and pale; there seems to be an undercurrent of fear here. So I believe that Snape arrived only just in time before Harry/Voldemort saw something truly catastrophic to Snape and the Order.

YES. I think this is a really good observation and makes so much sense.

"All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you; digger, listener, runner, Prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed."

Simon:*peers at it through his reading glasses* Because it’s wanted for murder and being hunted for a large bounty?

The jingly celebration outfit that Rocky wore was probably Extremely Slutty by Eridian culture (going by what I know of them from the book I’ve yet to read)

I for one, fully subscribe to the idea that Rocky went a bit crazy in his decades of solitude and became a nudist as a result. He fully set himself free from the buttoned up collar modesty of Eridian society, eating included.

Because Eridians all normally wearing clothing makes total sense for echolocation rock folk. The texture and shape of the fabric ‘blurs’ the 3d image others hear. Even more so if the fabric is thick and sound absorbing. So him wearing a sweater in the books makes sense.

Now, for a eridian to dress up and want be the center of attention, they would want to wear something that is literally loud. Crinkly fabrics, lots of jewelry. A chain mail dress to them would be a sequin dress to us. But to wear such outfits ‘respectably’ is wear them while still wearing underwear. Be cause if you let the decoration bounce against your core, the metal colliding with the stone body will echo and show everyone your hole by sound alone.

And to wear Only the loudest jewelry ever while totally naked?? That’s down right public indecency. The kinda stunt pulled by streakers running across a public sports field for the attention.

The truth comes out about this aspect of Eridian culture over half way to Erid. When it fully hits Rocky that he’s going home and gonna be surrounded by Eridians again. So he should probably start wearing cloths again.

Rocky does not say anything to Grace about it at first, just starts slowly wearing more and more cloths again. Until the day that Grace asks Rocky if he made himself these little outfits to emulate human culture. Something Grace thinks is a really sweet gesture of friendship between species.

Hey! First post in here. I'm obsessed with these guys

i live! here's part 3 🎉

(working on this again after having to rush to finish work for finals has been a balm on my weary soul, but also i feel slightly insane bc i was tired of drawing and i am recovering by drawing🧎)