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Melancholia

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sev running errands

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the young potion master

old drawing I finished today, I have so many to finish… Anyway!

the flowers used are some that make up the 'Draught of Living Death': Asphodel, Valerian, and Wormwood leaves. References kindly taken from medieval illustrations.

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Joy glowed from her

Don’t get your hopes up, this is the happiest I will probably manage to draw Severus Snape. Someone mentioned to me here ‘feral Lily and Severus’ and it reminded me of being a dirty, scuffed-knee little kid always collecting worms in jars and picking flowers (weeds) to bring inside.

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Severus Snape headcanons?? (the young one or the adult)

HI sorry it took forever to reply but here are some random

As an adult, Snape genuinely doesn't care about the size of his nose, any attempts at demeaning him for its shape or size completely fall flat

He really doesn't realize he's an actual potion genius because no authority figure bothered to tell him. Which explains his zero tolerance for bad potion students, he's convinced they're just arrogant and lazy rather than them actually not getting the subject

Cokeworth is in the black country of England, his original accent is from that area

Teen Snape picked up smoking after his 4th year, taking a smoke break was just something everybody did at his summer job

However he quit cold turkey (half as a self punishment, the usual) at 25 when he noticed he was wheezing walking up the grand staircase. It's hard to appear menacing when you're out of breath

He has a rather contagious laughter tho most people will never find out

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About Eileen's family, I also don't think the Princes are an elite pureblood family because their name isn't part of the "Sacred 28". So at the very least they're not recognized as anything special by the other purebloods.

1, 11, 27 for Snape asks!

thank you for the ask, pal!

1. do you have a snOTP? what is it?

answered here - the tl;dr is:

11. what are your favourite scenes with book!snape?

it's a toss-up between the ‘i know what a nickname is’ scene in half-blood prince - in which harry's deciding to be a comedian and snape is clearly losing his mind - or him running rings around bellatrix in the same book. the line about 'endless reminiscences of how unpleasant azkaban is'... i gasped. he ate her up!

27. do you think snape was close to his mother?

no.

eileen snape’s standard fanon persona seems to be that she’s someone who’s extremely distant and cold. hints of this are there in canon, especially in how she behaves at king’s cross in ‘the prince’s tale’ - and how the child snape behaves around her - although i think we should extend her the grace of recognising that having joy gradually sapped from you by the twin yokes of poverty and domestic abuse would make anyone ‘sour-faced’.

many children who grow up around domestic violence feel the need to become ‘protectors’, and take on a responsibility for soothing and caring for the parent - who in almost 100% of cases will be their mother - who is experiencing abuse. the adult snape, however, has such a tendency to loathe people who are self-pitying, who complain, or who regard themselves as experiencing unfairness or difficulty that i’m afraid to say that he’d fall into the ‘you should have left him and you were selfish for not doing so’ camp, and blame his mother for her entire life for staying with his father.

even though it is, of course, never that easy. 

while we’re on eileen: my hottest take is that - contrary to the standard fanon surrounding her - there’s no way she can actually be from an elite pureblood family if her marriage to a working-class muggle man is announced in the daily prophet. the only person who ever suggests she might be is harry, who does so on the basis of no evidence, in order to force a comparison between snape and voldemort as a way of soothing his furious grief over dumbledore’s death. but one of the central jokes in voldemort’s background is that he is - by far - the most aristocratic character in the entire series, in both the magical and muggle worlds, but he is denied access to the social cachet this brings in the muggle world because he’s raised in an orphanage and never acknowledged by tom riddle sr. and in the wizarding world because he has a muggle name which means he’s denied access to the lineage-based hierarchy of wizarding society, even though he’s descended from slytherin. it doesn’t make sense, then, for snape to be in the same position - the uniqueness of voldemort’s parentage is the point.

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What u looking at?

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That Awful Boy

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Severus 🐍

Aside from Harry and Hermione, he is arguably the next character whose pov I read about the most (gen or ship wise). Can't help that he's too interesting of a character for me to ignore when written right.

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Snapetober Day 11 - Water

There was, in Cokeworth, an old well: it was said to be a thousand feet deep and a thousand years old, and to have been sealed when a child had almost fallen in it, many many years ago. It was closed with a heavy wooden lid, itself now suspiciously ancient-looking, and that lid was pierced in one place where there had been a knot in the wood. The little hole was round, and big enough for stones and coins to be thrown into the void: it had become a tradition in its own right.

One day, two small children, about ten years old, came to the well. The boy had dark hair, the girl was a flamboyant ginger: one after the other, they put a coin in the hole and made a wish. They waited a long time for the coins to hit the water, for a sound, even a slight echo, to come back to them. But the well swallowed the money in complete silence.

The boy's wish was: may Lily believe me. The girl's wish was: may Severus never lie.

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At thirteen years old, Severus, flat on his stomach and holding a torch, attempted to look at the bottom of the well. But the light did nothing: it lost its way in the darkness just like it when pointed at the sky, at night.

He threw another coin, and wished for a real family. Lily wished for Petunia to like her again.

Two coins, no sound.

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At fourteen, Severus wished for protection, and so did Lily.

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At fifteen, Severus came alone and sat on the dirty ground, keeping a watchful eye on his surroundings. He sat there a long time, looking at the hole with a cold fury that often gave way to sickening despair.

In a fit of rage, only visible from the outside by the trembling of his hands, he took a handful of mud and plugged the hole.

On the morrow, however, it was unsealed, and he wondered what Lily had wished for.

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He did not come back until he was 21, and that day he wished to be dead.

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From ages 31 to 37, he wished, although with heavy irony and a mental sneer, for quiet years. He came back every summer to grumble about Potter's latest suicide mission and, while doing so, cleared the place of overgrown weeds with a flicker of his wand. People in Cokeworth thought he had a green thumb.

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In 1996, he wished for Albus to stay.

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At some point in the summer of 1997, a silhouette appeared at dusk and stayed immobile in front of the well for a long time: the weeds were granted the right to live.

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In the summer of 1998, the city hall finally decided to renovate this part of town, and initiated large-scale construction works. A team of five men was sent to unseal the well and draft a report on how it could be permanently plugged. In substance, the question was to know if there would be a need to drain water out of it.

They were quite surprised to discover that the well's bottom, full of mud and stones, was completely dry: the foundation contractor declared that there hadn't been water in there for the last 50 years.

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My favourite thing in fics is when someone takes care of Snape against his will, so here he is. He got some tea and biscuits to heal his soul.

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Don't look - drawing process.

Um, okay I thought I can show it. It took around four and a half hours and first time in my life I didn't do a total mess in my psd file while adding colour 😂 Also there should be more frames with the sketch part because I did some fixing before cleaner line. But I am potato and deleted some layers. I actually didn't know I'll do this little gif with process, so... maybe next time I'll keep everything?

Hope you can enjoy it ɷ◡ɷ

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HELP TO MY BELOVED ARTISTS

References is the artist best friend!!!

so here it is some resources for you to use! Please share, so you can help more artist uwu.

i can update this post if i find new things.

LAY FIGURE:

JustSketchMe

Magic Poser Web

Design Doll (this one isn't online, and you have to download)

Easy Pose on Steam (this one isn't a free app, and is more focused on "anime art style")

3D MODEL:

Female body - Sketchfab

Male body - Sketchfab

a lot of poses - POSEMANIACS

Reference Angle

Head Construction - guidelines - by Marc Brunet.

BACKGROUND:

Room Sketcher

SketchUp

BLOGS THAT HELP A LOT:

this amazing post made by starrify-everything

Pose Reference

BONUS:

this amazing hands brushes made by poxamarquinhos

a lot of pinterest bases

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some young and smoking snape.

very quick sketches, i drew this in my free time in college.

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