#psydic

1. Your favorite thing about Snape?

It’s impossible to choose just one thing…so, I suppose, I’ll just pick at random from a list of personal favourites of mine:

The finely crafted juxtaposition of this man who possesses such dark and fairly twisted sensibilities but who chooses to do better in spite of them. It doesn’t mean he isn’t still deeply flawed and bitter and nasty, but his unfailing focus on doing The Right Thing™ is such a fascinating facet of him. 

He’s such a complicated, many layered character and it confounds me daily how people reduce him to this one-noted “incel who bullied Harry Potter!!1!!1″

2. How old were you when you decided you loved this unwashed man? What’s the story, child?

Eh… *sweats nervously* I was older than most Potterheads, I suppose. I wish I could say I grew up with them but my best friend was the one who broke me down, insisting that I read them a couple years before I finally did. I read the first three books shortly before the first film was released, so it would have been at the beginning of high school for me. 

I fell for Snape’s brutal sarcasm almost instantly. There were plenty of moments where he tested my cool and my resolve, but I loved the mystery surrounding him from the get-go. He’s such a snarky, cold bastard and that was a large part of his appeal for me. 

List your 10 favorite characters from 10 different fandoms!

In no particular order…

Dean Winchester - Supernatural

Patroclus - The Song of Achilles

Brian Kinney - Queer as Folk

Luna Lovegood - Harry Potter

Icarus - Greek mythology

Tyrion Lannister - Song of Ice and Fire series

Captain Holt - Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Charlie Kelly - It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Gaius Baltar - Battlestar Galactica

Janis Ian - Mean Girls

Yeeeeeeeeesss. Such a good show!!

1. I keep every single movie stub in a cookie tin I’ve had since I was 14

2. I lettered 5 times in High School.  They were 3 times in academics, 1 in choir, 1 in drama

3. I was in a barbershop quartet for several years.  I sang baritone in the group

4. I interned at the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (oh the stories I could tell)

5. My favorite color is gray.  I feel like I am being mocked every time Mr. Jones by the Counting Crows plays (however, I love that song)

Here is the part I find most interesting though: Achondroplasia is most commonly caused by a 'de novo',  i.e. spontaneous, mutation that happens in the gamete, almost always the sperm (not the egg), and the frequency of this mutation positively correlates with the age of the dad.  The older the dad is, the more likely his sperm will have the mutation causing achondroplasia, and his child will be born with the condition.

I find it interesting that Tywin Lannister is always treating Tyrion like a piece of shit because of his dwarfism and the fact that he thinks his son was the cause of his beloved wife's death.  I don't think that it is fair to think of genetic mutations and disorders as faults of any parents, but if Tywin is going to blame anyone for his wife's death, it should be himself, since that mutation (with like 99.99% certainty) came from him.