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Severus Snape 2 by perselus

Sometimes, there's fanart that the canon-hound in me knows is wrong, wrong, wrong. And sometimes, I just don't, don't, don't give a flying rat's arse.

Pottermore

Ok, so, clue 5 is open right now. And unless the Order moved from number 12, Grimmauld Place to some other house number, I'm sure I have the right numerical answer. But when I plug it in to the URL like you're supposed to I just get redirected to the Scholastic website. Am I missing something? Or is this maybe like the second question on the "Insider" page:

I solved the clue for Day 4 but I couldn't find The Magical Quill. What happened?
Due to huge demand today, not everyone who solved the Day 4 clue was able to find The Magical Quill. To ensure no one missed out on the chance to register for early access to Pottermore, we decided to direct people who successfully solved the clue straight to the Pottermore registration page, where they were able to register as normal.

Do I just need coffee?

eta: Too late now, it's closed again. I would be interested to hear from those who have successfully registered, though, what they saw or did next when they entered the solution address.

On the nature of Snapes

lilyevans_snape posted an interesting question in her deviantART journal recently: Snape Fanfiction - What is Left to Say...? This was my response, and a response to a response from her.

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It's always been a little dismaying to see comments like "OMG, he's not a Byronic hero, get over it" because to me he's definitely got more than a whiff of that about him. (I wonder if people are misunderstanding "Byronic".) To me he is definitely a dark-romantic character; I understand the problem with excessively romanticizing him (there are parts of his past and his character which are, simply, ugly), but it's not right to just make him a simple bastard without that compelling aura. And you may have seen me rant before about how I don't get or like how "emo" is used as an insult. True he is not the weepy mushy type but it so often comes across to me like people are trying to deny him feeling, deny him the deep passionate heart that makes him him (how else do you carry a torch like that all those years).

I've had a hard time finding my way in Snape fandom over the past couple years actually because I don't know what's okay to think anymore. Every time I think I've settled on an expression or version I feel comfortable celebrating or sharing, I see people I consider friends saying "don't you hate it when people ____?" "Oh god, I know, right? how can they think that way?" and I'm like oookay, well, better keep my mouth shut then. Time and again I get the message "it's not okay to think the way you do", from all sides of the map, and I just don't know what to do.

As far as fic and what is left to say: It's not so much that I'm out of things to say, or at least not that I am bored of saying the same things over and over again, because I love them and I am not tired of them (as *ls269 said elsewhere). It's more that I don't know how or where to start or how to continue. Or something. I can get vague scraps of ideas; there's a private "ideas" tag in my journal with various bits of bunny fur, and I have like four unfinished fics in various stages in my WIP folder. But mostly I just sit there afraid of doing it wrong, and/or just don't have the energy ("spoons") because I'm so brain-fuzzy these days I can hardly do more than read the internet. Drabble prompts and the like spark no response, not because I think there's nothing left to say about Severus, but because of some fault or empty place in myself.

I went way off the original question there didn't I. ( Read more... )

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Completely Unhelpful Summary of the Day:

Severus/Lily. "What, did you lose an earring?" he said weakly, in case he was wrong about her intentions.

I know that mostly what we call "summaries" at the tops of our fics are really better described as "teasers" or "descriptions of the setup", because they do not describe the story in full through to the end. And a pull quote can sometimes serve the purpose of being a teaser. But, um. Yeah.