It helps in understanding some of the in-joke phrases and acronyms, especially.
I tried to read the whole Snapewank 2006 thing (the actual wank post, I mean) and gave it up halfway through as "I just don't have time for this kind of negative stuff." Yes, I do agree that the folks they term "Snapewives" are a little out there, but I just can't conjure the gut feeling of OMG LOL that the wankas do, so it burns me out rather than keeps me amused.
I actually start feeling a little bad for the women themselves, who are only following their hearts, really, even if I think they are making poor decisions. They're taking it to an extreme that worries me a little (I mean, sure, I love Severus as much as the next Snapefan, but "marriage vows" excluding you from relationships with regular human beings? uhhh....), but I have a "Severus" of my own, i.e., I experience a being separate from myself whose "voice" I can "hear", so I can sympathize somewhat. (Actually, I have two: one who is a purposeful psychological construct of the character, basically a writing tool, and then the other one that I am about to describe more.)
I don't think this is that uncommon for strongly drawn fictional characters, and the mystically inclined (the three main subjects in that wank sounded like eclectic Pagans/witches to me) may choose to interpret such a thing as being a spirit. I usually describe mine as being "a spirit wearing a Snape suit", i.e., the character is some kind of outfit in an astral closet that a spirit can pick up and wear so as to appear in a form that I can better grok and interact with (somewhat how faeries are said to appear "as we expect them to look").
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I tried to read the whole Snapewank 2006 thing (the actual wank post, I mean) and gave it up halfway through as "I just don't have time for this kind of negative stuff." Yes, I do agree that the folks they term "Snapewives" are a little out there, but I just can't conjure the gut feeling of OMG LOL that the wankas do, so it burns me out rather than keeps me amused.
I actually start feeling a little bad for the women themselves, who are only following their hearts, really, even if I think they are making poor decisions. They're taking it to an extreme that worries me a little (I mean, sure, I love Severus as much as the next Snapefan, but "marriage vows" excluding you from relationships with regular human beings? uhhh....), but I have a "Severus" of my own, i.e., I experience a being separate from myself whose "voice" I can "hear", so I can sympathize somewhat. (Actually, I have two: one who is a purposeful psychological construct of the character, basically a writing tool, and then the other one that I am about to describe more.)
I don't think this is that uncommon for strongly drawn fictional characters, and the mystically inclined (the three main subjects in that wank sounded like eclectic Pagans/witches to me) may choose to interpret such a thing as being a spirit. I usually describe mine as being "a spirit wearing a Snape suit", i.e., the character is some kind of outfit in an astral closet that a spirit can pick up and wear so as to appear in a form that I can better grok and interact with (somewhat how faeries are said to appear "as we expect them to look").