art recs

Now that it's August, I turn 33 in three weeks. When did that happen? O.o

Here, have some art recs. All are worksafe. I'm going to fall back on just links because man I cannot be arsed to manually construct the dA links with thumbnails and all right now.

Except this one. Because this one is majestic. I don't know why punky/gothy/metal/emo/simply-inexplicably-rocking-out-on-the-bass Severus pushes my buttons so dang hard but IT SURE DOES.


Dee Dee Snape by madoldsquib on deviantART

The AU Files: Teal Niffler by someoldcat. There is also a hilarious ficlet to go with it!
oh okay I lied. that's this:


Some other straight-up Snape art:

Half Blood Prince by ithelda
Spy by Natalliel
Snape. by joeyv7

Severus/Lily:

Severus and Lily by katikut (OMG SO CUTE)
The Reason by Cissy-88
a l w a y s by Randomsplashes

And a couple of things spotted on tumblr (with the usual grumbles about how it means I often cannot really track back art to an originator):


(thanks to irielle for pointing out the source on this one: http://www.etsy.com/shop/MarsupialMenagerie . Seems like they don't have any of this particular one in right now or I would link to it directly.)

p.s. Call him Severus already, wouldja? If you're going to be using other people's first names? Especially in this context, otherwise it makes him seem like something very "other" than her and not also a human being who might have deserved to be loved back. I dunno, I am probably being weird here. I mean, I understand if someone has a considered personal reason to prefer sticking to his surname (like logospilgrim) but in most cases I find his naked surname (as opposed to the respectful "Professor Snape") distancing, unsatisfying, saddening somehow. (Maybe it's just that I can't grok how one would not prefer to wrap one's tongue round the much nicer syllables of "Severus", not that "Snape" isn't fun to play with in some other ways.)


(http://severusandlily.tumblr.com/post/8226037460)
I have never liked the smush name "Snily", but saying Severus/Lily would be far too long here.

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I have 34 Dreamwidth codes at the moment between my two paid accounts, if anyone wants one. (Note to self, must get around to posting them in dw_codesharing.)

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Alan Rickman talks about his role as Severus Snape in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 and the other Potter movies.

As others including drinkingcocoa have picked up on, this bit is very intriguing:

...we did have a phone conversation. She certainly didn't tell me what the end of the story was going to be in any way at all, so I was having to buy the books along with everybody else to find out, 'And now what?' No, she gave me one little piece of information, which I always said I would never share with anybody and never have, and never will. It wasn't a plot point, or crucial in any tangible way, but it was crucial to me as a piece of information that made me travel down that road rather than that one or that one or that one.

Like many, I always figured this secret bit was that Severus loved Lily. But I can't call that anything but a crucial plot point, so this really makes me wonder what it was she did tell him that he's been carrying with him all these years!