Novalia

by Yeon Hajeong

ALBUM PARALLELS (2019-2025): Lover // evermore // The Tortured Poets Department // The Life of a Showgirl

if you love canon so much why don’t you fucking think about that again

don't playyyyy he is literally hated for a reason 😭

just because he didn't do something doesn't mean he deserves a gold star 😭

Please, Snape haters trying to get me on canon, that's hilarious.

It's canon everywhere that Snape didn't know Sirius was innocent. Genuinely, I don't think you can use the argument to follow canon and then spew such bullshit, like how.

First, ARE YOU FKN STUPID, if he knew Peter was a Death Eater, he would have told Dumbledore, because he'd be a huge threat to Lily's life. That's literally Snape's whole life goal at that moment, to save Lily, so obviously he wouldn't ignore such a huge threat.

Second, ARE YOU FKN STUPID, Snape goes mad in front of the Minister of Magic because he thinks that the man who betrayed Lily escaped. Snape is ridiculing himself in front of the two most powerful men in the country, because he's convinced what he says is true.

Third, ARE YOU FKN STUPID, it's made clear in the book that Snape only got in the Shack after Sirius was done explaining his story, so that even then he wouldn't have learned about Peter being the traitor.

Fourth, ARE YOU FKN STUPID, Death Eaters wear masks because it hides their identity, not for a fashion statement. We're directly told that their identities were mostly kept secret from each other in the first war.

"hE kNeW sIrIuS wAs iNnOcEnT"

them fuckers are FUCKED UP

snape snape seeeeverus snape

On the other hand, no one is saying Severus was a good teacher or that his behavior was appropriate. But Severus wasn’t the only awful teacher in that school. You could, for once, talk about ALL the faculty members who knew what Snape was like and never did anything about it. Not to mention several of their methods and the way they treated the kids at times, which also left a lot to be desired.

The Poppy War characters ❤️❤️

this emphasizes the horror of genocide. millenia of culture and history, individual lives filled with love, pain, and passion, just completely wiped away. there were only two surviving speerlies. one of them was too young when he was taken away, and probably doesn't remember much. the things he did remember was also probably buried under years of abuse and drugs people were plying him with. the other one didn't even know she was from speer until the last few months of her life, and there was really no one around to teach her about their culture. and if there was, life as she knows it was falling apart. learning about her dead people's culture probably didn't even cross her mind.

without saying any of these things and by intentionally leaving readers in the dark about what speer was truly like, rf kuang said so much about the horrors of genocide. by not saying anything, she said everything. she did the "show me, don't tell me" tip for writers and it was brilliant.