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Our incredibly talented creators in the SnapeShifters' Guild server wrote amaaazing fic and drew briiiilliant art around the theme of "Snape & Pets" for this month's flash comp event!

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Banner art by the amazing the_leapling (AO3)

🖌️Art

Keeping Watch prompt: Ghost!Pet; it couldn't let Snape go. ship: Severus Snape & Original Small Pet Characters creator: Trueliarose

Share that boba tea prompt: Snape and Nagini actually get on well. Voldemort has no idea his pet has defected. ship: Nagini & Severus Snape creator: SquibNation10

the enemy of my enemy is a friend prompt: Snape and his pet actively hate one another but hate everyone else even more ship: Severus Snape & Original Snake Character creator: bloodlineofbriars

"Is he talking about his cat or Ron…?" prompt: Trying to figure out if Snape is talking about his pet or his partner ship: Severus Snape/Ron Weasley, Severus Snape & Original Cat Character creator: SiobhanHazel

🖋️ Fanfic

As You Know, Deductive Reasoning Was Never My Strong Suit prompt: Trying to figure out if Snape is talking about his pet or his partner ship: Remus Lupin & Severus Snape, Sirius Black/Severus Snape word count: 795 creator: DivinityInMotion

Black Wing and I prompt: Snape illegally has an XXXXX classified pet ship: Severus Snape & Original Pet Character, Remus Lupin/Severus Snape word count: 1 293 creator: MoonriverFox

blame me all you want (just take me back) prompt: After someone dies, Snape takes in their pet ship: Severus Snape/Emmeline Vance, Severus Snape & Original Clabbert Character word count: 2000 creator: SquibNation10

Found prompt: Snape finds a dirty, too thin, half starved animal and can only see himself in it ship: Severus Snape & Original Dog Character word count: 1 962 creator: JustAnotherPrince

His Warm, Broken Heart prompt: Snape and Nagini actually get on well. ship: Severus Snape/Voldemort, Nagini word count: 1 420 creator: maraudersaffair

Never Alone prompt: Ghost!Pet; it couldn't let Snape go. ship: Severus Snape & Original Small Pet Characters word count: 1 494 creator: Trueliarose

Toad Prince prompt: Someone else's pet adopts Snape ship: Severus Snape & Trevor the Toad word count: 1 426 creator: the_leapling

What the Warrior Queen Inspired prompt: Snape praises his pet in public and unlocks something previously unknown in someone nearby ship: Severus Snape/Original Non-binary Character, Severus Snape & Original Doxy Character word count: 1 939 creator: Limerence_Petrichor

thank you very much for the asks, anon and @midnight1404! you are cultured kindred spirits!

i really like snarry - and i really dislike snamione - as pairings, but i'd never devoted any time to thinking about snon as a ship before.

and yet now i'm pretty intrigued...

because i think you're going to have with this the same thing that you have with pairing ron with voldemort [which i have become a pretty ardent champion of this year] - that, while ron's canonical relationship to either man completely lacks the overt narrative connections which help make snarry and tomarrymort plausible, his character traits, above all his tendency to occupy a caring role within the trio, gives him a way to establish a connection which could feasibly be made to work as romantic.

because ron doesn't like snape - obviously - but his enmity with him is much less profound than harry's - he just dislikes a mean, unfair teacher, rather than having to bear the burden of snape's hatred of james and love for lily - and therefore something easier for him to put aside. while he holds grudges with far more commitment than harry does, ron is also canonically pragmatic and a strategist - and he is usually the member of the trio who grasps big-picture plot arcs [including the purpose of dumbledore's beyond-the-grave machinations in deathly hallows] the quickest for this reason. i actually think it's extremely likely that he accepts that snape's loyalties were to the anti-voldemort cause the moment harry tells him about the memories, and that - in a scenario in which snape lives - he would regard it as entirely reasonable for snape to be pardoned post-war and spared azkaban.

[i also think ron would think without hesitation that snape saved george's life. and that this would matter to him.]

ron was also raised correctly, which means that when harry insists on visiting spinner's end the day snape's let out of st mungo's he's going to accompany his best mate to make sure snape doesn't try to hex him. and he will, therefore, find himself turning into his mother the second he realises that snape's cupboards are bare and that he doesn't have a clue how to look after himself.

snape would obviously loathe being fussed over. but what's he going to do about it? he's lost most of his blood.

not good but like

'LETS FUCK SHIT UP TOGETHER!!'

Night:………yes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Pfffft