#literally never

ive been seeing a lot of severus snape love recently. and this is fine, obviously, y'all can love whomever you want. but. i need to rant or i will explode. if we're talking about canon. severus snape spends his adult years, seven books of it in fact, abusing children. and his excuse for this is the girl he loved (tho not enough not to join a group actively trying to exterminate her) fell for the hot jock instead of him (a tragedy indeed, i weep 4 him, i really do). and also she died, which, admittedly is very sad.

it is simply crazy 2 me 2 look at that and think *romance* or *genuine care and affection*. LIKE. fo real. snape calls her a slur in public, apologizes in private, hangs out with dudes who commit hate crimes against her friends (CANONICALLY, she says "you've been hanging out with that douchebag Mulciber, how could you do that after what he did to Mary???" this is not a direct quote but like, it's close enough). lame. loser behaviour.

"Oh but what about regulus" i can hear you say "he loves James potter but snape doesn't love lily???" well. idk. maybe. bit different tho, innit? due to james not being the demographic regulus is attacking (which doesn't make regulus a better person but does make the dynamic between him and james different). ALSO. Regulus chooses to turn against voldemort without hope for anything in return. snape doesn't seem to give a shit about voldemort, he's just sad he's not gonna get to bang lily evans. he switches sides for that reason alone. also doesn't care about what happens to her husband or her son which like. considering lily would be pretty fucking destroyed if they died. once again points to my whole, he doesn't really give a shit about her, theory. lame. loser. behaviour.

also. im sorry. I"M SORRY. but what snape does to neville? to hermione? to harry? gross. a grown ass man out here telling an eleven year old neville he's worthless or hermione she's ugly and annoying. or spilling harry's potion and refusing to grade him for it???????????????

reg and draco are children when we see them at peak suckage and therefore they feel like they can be redeemed much more compellingly (CAN be, not SHOULD be, not HAVE to be, just narratively i think they are easier to turn into interesting, sympathetic characters). but snape? snape grows up into a garbage adult. like he doesn't get better. and again, the only real excuse we're given is his obsession with lily. not very demure. not very cutesy.

ALSO. yall remember that time he got a destitute, struggling Remus Lupin fired from the best job he ever had just because he felt like it? remember that time snape weaponized Remus's lycanthropy and people's prejudice against him just cause. like. literally just cause??? his ego was bruised after the shrieking shack incident so he was like "get wrecked Lupin I'm going to tell everyone your secret so you will be forced back out onto the streets" DO YALL REMEMBER THAT BITCH ASS MOVE????????? THAT HE DID AS A FULL ADULT.

Who is this anon and why don’t you have hobbies? Why do you need to rant and fill up other peoples inboxes instead of just using your own blog?

I have never, on any occasion, negated any of these statements, but even if I did, why are you so fired up about it?

I have seen so many other creators that have posted about this troll which makes it all the more evident that they have no life.

Imagine saying hateful, horrible things to the girl you love, feeling like you're swallowing poison all the while. Imagine hating the person you pretend to be so thoroughly that you wish only to forget, forget it all or throw yourself from the roof, yes, that would be better than this. Imagine how, in your most vulnerable moments, you are yourself: a sweet, loving young man, a man who grins freely and tosses himself across the room to hug your loved ones.

Imagine confessing to the girl you're in love with, so happy because just the night before you held her and she hugged you and you think finally, finally everything is right and you can be yourself again, and you can love her-

and she tells you no.

she's going to marry your best friend.

he asked her only a few hours ago.

and neither of you can tell him, ever.

And now, suddenly, you're back to square one. You love her. She loves you, you think, it was in her eyes tonight and in her touch last night. But she is too good, and you love him too much, and you must pretend that she is like a sister to you. That you are happy for his marriage; that you would be happy to stand beside him at his wedding.

Everyone around you is happy and you must, for their sake, pretend to be the same. Just as you have been pretending for five years. As you thought you wouldn't have to ever again.

My sister told me she's decided to run a 5k on the 4th of July. Today I sent her a pic of a pair of size 10 (high waisted of course lol) shorts and told her I was planning on fitting in them by her 5k. 20 mins later I sent her this pic and said maybe I need a new plan 😏