The Snape dictionary

The artist call form is live, you can find it here.

If interested in participating, please submit your name and contact information before August 13th. If more than 13 artist respond, 13 names will be drawn at random. 

The artist call form is live, you can find it here.

If interested in participating, please submit your name and contact information before August 13th. If more than 13 artist respond, 13 names will be drawn at random. 

Hello snovelies. Would you like some Snapes to brighten your 2022? You would? Great news! The Snape Calendar (or Snalendar) 2022 is almost here, featuring 13 unique pieces of Snape artwork created exclusively for this project. 

2021 has a lot of us feeling like we could use a change, so the theme of the 2022 Snalendar is Snape with alternate careers. Keep your eyes open for teaser images on this blog. 

Follow the directions below, and you will receive a .pdf file, a calendar featuring the artwork of our talented artists. 

Step by step guide to getting the Snalendar

Donate at least 10 USD to Coalition of Rainforest Nations at rainforestcoalition.org/

Shortly after making a donation, you will receive an e-mail titled Donation Receipt

Take a screenshot of the receipt, make sure the amount and Payment ID are visible. You may cover personal information. Example below. 

Send the screenshot to [email protected]

You will receive a WeTransfer link to the files

!! Our distributor will start sending out the files in late December. You may send proof of donation earlier to make sure you get your files as soon as they’re available

!! Keep in mind that the sending of the files is done manually by one person. It may take a while for you to receive yours. If you have any questions or want to make sure we received your proof of donation, please contact [email protected]. 

!! After our distributor sends you a link to the files, you have one week to download them from the server. If you miss this window, no worries, just contact us at [email protected] to receive a new link. 

Example of donation receipt:

The information that must be visible is marked with red dots. 

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unwanted tags or apparitions, please tell me <3

/snə-ˈsem-blē/

Hello, snovelies. 

The Snalendar is looking for illustrators for the 2022 edition of the Snape Calendar. We’re doing things a little differently this year. Anyone interested can submit their name and names will be drawn at random to decide the illustrators. 

The names will be pulled around August 11th. If your name gets pulled, @snalendar-snofficial will contact you on Tumblr around August 11th-August 15th. People who aren’t chosen will not be messaged. If you have any questions, please contact either @snalendar-snofficial on Tumblr or send an email to [email protected].

Did this last year for @snalendar-snofficial 2021

I suspect Snape probably believed he’d perish before the end of the war; it’s hard to see how either side would let a spy or a traitor survive, and when he agrees to off Dumbledore, Snape effectively signs his own death warrant.

But I can sort of imagine that whilst Snape possibly had a rather cavalier attitude to his own life, by those final few hours, I think he may have hoped that he might see the end - that he might witness Voldemort’s fall.  I think he spent a very lonely year, and I think he may have desired redemption - he may have wished to see Minerva rocked by the revelation that he was a good guy after all.

The curious thing about Snape is that we see so little of him, so we know very little about what (if anything) interests him.  We know he’s a teacher out of necessity and not perhaps interest - but underneath his snark, does he like teaching, or does he despise it?  We know he’s a competent fighter, so would he have had aspirations to be an auror in a different world?  Or would he open his own Potions apothecary? 

But we know so little about Snape, and what we do see rather suggests someone entirely disassociated from the world (his lack of interest in his appearance, his lack of interest in his home at Spinner’s End), and we have barely any indication of friendships or relationships - which would all be tainted by his spying. 

The only thing we really know about Snape is that his remorse over Lily was enough for him to dedicate his entire adult life to the cause.

I’d have loved for him to have survived, but because we know so little about him, I struggle to imagine him post-war.  After 18 years of fighting, spying, betraying…  I can’t imagine what he’d want to do next. 

Yet, like @deathdaydungeon I also believe he was aware of the implications of him being planted with the Elder Wand, which always added to the tragedy of that scene for me given Snape knows what is coming for him and he’s terrified because deep down he no longer wishes he were dead and he does want to survive, not just to find Harry and fulfill his role but for his own sake. And he certainly doesn’t want his final moments of life to be spent in the Shrieking Shack of all place yet, in spite of all too human fear, he still continues to play his role until the bitter end because everything depended on it. 

Well now it’s Snape’s turn to learn at the last moment that he was planted with the Elder Wand and had to die; that he’s been raised like the pig for slaughter as he was “trying his strength” for redemption, just to be killed like another of Dumbledore’s sacrifices.

After all this is what Alan Rickman said about Snape’s future:

«He might get married to somebody beautiful and live happily ever after and stop wearing black.»

Noun, singular, feminine

Snappy-ness

noun, feminine, singular, also written: snappyness, snappiness (homonyms)

Being snappy, being like Snape.

ex: believing in snappy-ness is believing that you can be snappy, which means being happy and and snappy like Snape, or happy being like Snape and snappy, or a Snape that’s happy and snappy.

snappiness (posted Aug 30th 2018)

/ sneɪplɪŋ /

noun plural: snapelings

A baby snover. Either new to the Snapedom or young compared to the other people in the Snapedom. 

The site we use to send you all the Snalendar files only stores the shared files for a week. If you missed that window and can’t download them, don’t worry, just contact us through email at [email protected] or Tumblr and our distributor will share them again. We know when someone wasn’t able to download the files and don’t want anyone to miss out on lovely Snape art just because of a missed deadline. 

Snappy New Year everyone!

updated 1.12.2020

It has been a crazy year. The Snape calendar is almost here to hopefully improve any Snape fan’s 2021. The new Snalendar will be released at the end of December, but you are more than welcome to make your donation already.

Follow the directions below, and you will receive a .pdf file, a calendar featuring the artwork of our talented artists. The calendar will be available until April 30th.

Our team has picked two charities this time. To get the calendar, you must make a donation of 10 USD to either colorofchange.org or ilga.org  

Step by step guide to getting the Snalendar

Donate at least 10 USD to either  colorofchange.org or ilga.org  through their website.

Shortly after making a donation, you will receive an e-mail titled Thank you for your contribution to ColorOfChange! (Color of Change) or  Receipt - Donate now! (ILGA)

Take a screenshot of the receipt. Make sure the donated amount and transaction/order # are visible.

Send the screenshot to [email protected]

You will receive an email from WeTransfer with a link to the files. 

Our distributor will start sending the files at the end of December. Keep in mind that this is done manually by one person so it might take a few days for you to receive yours.

Thank you.