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This is bad: I was totally on point on Instagram, but neglected to post the Snapey Birthday here. *is ashamed*

So - happy belated tumblr birthday, Professor Snape!

(This is my 2023 Hoggywarty submission.)

#severus snape #happy birthday severus snape #harry potter fanart

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#sir gawain and the green knight #Youtube #gawain #green knight

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Merry Christmas!

(I am still writing and sending my cards, I am soooo late this year...)

Have an Ygraine dreaming of Spring!

#arthuriana #gawain comic #ygraine #igerna #arthurian legend #la reine aux blanches tresses #christmas

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Camelot (1967) souvenier book

Full book under the cut

#camelot musical #resources #camelot #arthuriana

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My Little Severus, Lily and Tuney picture got nominated for the Snapedom Awards - I don't know what to say! I'm just happy it got picked up! Thank you ☺️!

I must confess that I didn't know there was such a thing as Snapedom Awards, but I'm very happy to see that there is. I'm kind of filled with nostalgia for the old Snapedom days on LJ, and delighted to see that the actual term is being revived on tumblr. Snapedom has always been a good place to be, you see.

VOTING IS NOW OPEN and these are your nominations in the Art category. Please check them out in the links below, as they can't be fully appreciated in the snapshots above!

Favourite Funny Art

@dranna - I Hate People

@ari-leah-arts - Severus Snape is a Teacher

@keister-meister - Severus Snape death scene (Family Guy)

@beebox-illustrations - Someone ought to tell Harry

Favourite NSFW Art

JIUdiee - Snape on His Back

@chipartwork - Do You Dream, Severus?

@chipartwork - What Have You Done?

@simper-maximus - Young Snape Smut

Funniest Meme

@zealouspickleeggdragon - Snape’s Animagus

@somesnapefan2 - Harry under the cloak

@moonlightdancer26 - Snape as a Tweet

@smilingformoney - Do It For Him

Favourite Angsty Art

@ham-tuitui - A Wound That Can Never Heal

@ebysse - The Martyr

@sneverussape - Burnout

@ari-leah-arts - Harry Was Not James

Favourite Fluffy Art

@gulingyin - On Christmas Eve

@dingqianerer - Snape & His Little Cauldron & Their Adventures

@roytaiyo - Thank You, Pomona

@thetalesofprince - Don’t You Dare

Favourite Young Snape Art

@wookiecookiesfactory - All Grown Up

@myobscureimaginarium - The Ugly Duckling

@alinearthp - Snape and Lily

@gawaincomic - Doctor Who

Favourite Professor Snape Art

@madfantasy - The Doe Man

@ebysse - The Spy

@swallow-the-bird - An Imperceptible Smile

@thetalesofprince - A Little Walk in the Moonlight

Favourite Post-War Snape Art

@snapes-shadow - Snape with Twins

@ebysse - Scars

@thetalesofprince - A Terrible Patient

@aurus-3d - Good Morning

Favourite Snape x OC Art

@chipartwork - May I See?

@serpenera - His Assistant

@aurus-3d - The Beginning of the End

@thetalesofprince - A Prince and His Goddess

Favourite Snape x Canon Character Art

@foxyx - Gone Home

@thedevildoesnotjest - Before the 70s Died

@dranna - Ad Infinitum

@rubusart - Professa Pottah 

Favourite Miscellaneous Art

Bisexual Harry - Snape Lives

@serenaew - Nocturne

@smilingformoney - How the Story Goes

#snapedom #snapedom awards #severus snape #fanart #fanfic

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Said Snape…

An analysis inspired by my username :)

There are about 300* times in the series that Snape’s delivery of dialogue contains additional descriptives beyond “said”, giving us insight into his tone. I thought it might be interesting to take a look at what this can tell us about Snape’s character. And if you’re a fic writer looking to have your Snape reflect canon!Snape as much as possible (or even if not, and you’re looking to make choices that will distinguish him from canon!Snape), I figured this might be a helpful resource.

[Adverbs] Snape says things…

...softly or quietly, most often, followed by coldly, coolly, or icily, and then smoothly, silkily, or sleekly.

This trend holds when we look across not just adverbs modifying “said” but all verbs of speech. Here's how those descriptors are used across the books in the series:

And here's what that looks like split up by the different eras in Snape's life:

Snape is most often described as saying things “repressively” or “dismissively” as well as “calmly”, “slowly”, or “deliberately” in his double agent days, which are adverbs that convey a certain amount of control over the conversation, information, and his own temperament. Taken together, this may reflect his increased caution and the high-stakes nature of information at this stage.

Although Snape displays little patience for those not at his level even in his teenage years (“just shove a bezoar down their throats” comes to mind) his dialogue only reflects this with adverbs such as “sharply” or “curtly” once he has established himself as an authority figure. We will see a similar pattern below with verbs and adjectives conveying impatience.

[Verbs] When Snape doesn’t simply “say” something, he…

...Most often is expressing a negative emotion: shouting, yelling, bellowing or snarling and spitting. The largest portion of Snape’s shouts occur in HBP, specifically in Flight of the Prince, as he tries to direct the Death Eaters to leave and faces Harry. But looking across these first two emotionally-charged categories, about 30% of these (perhaps not surprisingly) occur in Prisoner of Azkaban.

However, he's not always shouting or snarling; approximately 15% of the time he is whispering or hissing, which complements the 25% of the time that he is speaking softly or quietly.

Let's look at this in relation to Snape's timeline:

It's fitting that the majority of Snape’s inquiries occur after Voldemort’s return, when he returns to his double agent role, gathering intelligence.

I also think it’s interesting what we don’t see in Snape’s school days. In childhood/school there’s relatively little superciliousness—instead, we see more argumentation; Snape argues, demands, pants, splutters, and backtracks.

Snape’s brand of snippy impatience and condescension (sneered/snarled/snapped, etc) is most evident in his days as a professor (before Voldemort’s return through his years as a double agent). In his deep cover years it declines; he no longer has the time; he’s focused on the task at hand.

Let's now look at the adjectives used to describe Snape's tone. Snape says things in a tone of voice that is…

...Most often soft, low, or quiet, followed by cold or icy, and then by sneering or sardonic. I find it fitting that Snape’s tone is described as impatient in GOF and HBP, both books in which Snape spends the year on tenterhooks, waiting for the axe to fall.

When we look at how these adjectives are distributed across Snape's lifetime, we can see that Snape’s vocalizations described as “terrible” only three times, and they occur at pivotal moments: Lily’s death and his own. Additionally, Snape’s unconcerned or bored tone comes out during his double agent years, and 3 out of the 4 times it is used as an affectation.

Misc. notes: It is also notable when there are a lack of descriptors surrounding Snape’s speech altogether. There are definitely fewer in the first two books, likely given their shorter length and lower reading level. However, there are three moments in Deathly Hallows that, taken together, really stood out to me: The Dark Lord Ascending, Voldemort’s visit to Hogwarts to take the Elder Wand, and Snape’s meeting with Voldemort in the Shrieking Shack (that is— up until the moment of Snape’s murder, during which he protests and lets out a terrible scream). The lack of any description of Snape's speech is a neat nonverbal way to convey to us readers the effect of Occlumency.

Anyway, hope this was interesting, and I’d absolutely love to hear any additional insights you all pull out of this!

*This is by no means meant to be the definitive, exhaustive analysis of Snape’s speech. This was completed doing simple searches for dialogue with “Snape” (didn’t have the raw text to write a script or anything), so it’s entirely possible that I’ve missed several instances of Snape speaking when referred to as “he” and the dialogue in question is several lines away from his name. However, I believe those cases are relatively few, so I fairly confident that I have a majority of the instances in which Snape’s dialogue is described with with an adverb, adjective denoting tone, or with a verb other than “said”. It’s likely the remainder would follow similar trends if they are dispersed sporadically throughout the series.

#severus snape #snape #analysis #excellent

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I was wondering and you seemed like a likely candidate to know, do you know when red-headed Gawain first became a thing? It seems to have become the standard for his character, but I've never come across a description in the original sources that mentioned his coloring whatsoever. Did this start with T.H. White's depiction? Or *is* there an earlier description in a source I haven't read yet? (I'd also be curious if there are any og sources which give him a different hair color entirely!)

@luanna801 Thank you for the question! As you have guessed, this is something that really interests me, and I have looked into it in the past.

To be sure, I haven't read *all* the sources (I'm still reading) and some of my reading happened ages ago, so - maybe someone can correct me on this. But here is what I have found:

I can't recall a single medieval source that mentions Gawain's hair colour. Not one. I assume that the colour of a knight's hair was of no interest to medieval authors and readers, as long as he had a 'noble countenance'. This fact is striking to me because today, we often like to describe characters' appearances in great detail, but - nope, I personally haven't found any descriptions of his appearance except in the most general terms. (His clothes, yes!)

As far as I have been able to ascertain, red-haired Gawains are indeed descendants of T. H. White's Gawaine. I'm not sure I'd call the red hair 'standard', really, because I've found blond and brown and black-haired Gawains in post-White books, but it's clear that White has had a very powerful influence. Then again, his Gawaine is a striking character. It's also White who made Gawain Scottish and Gaelic. Medieval sources don't touch upon that at all (indeed, some say Lot is the king of Norway, so that would make Gawain Norwegian, but whether he's British or Norwegian, none of it seems to have any real impact on his character). Also, I've noticed that when people write a red-haired Gawain, they often give him character traits that also come from White.

For me personally, red-haired Gawain was a no-brainer because I really only picked up on him as a character in The Once and Future King as a twelve-year-old, and next I read Rosemary Sutcliff and Anthony Mockler, both of whom write Gawains who are clearly influenced by White. So that's the image that got fixed in my mind. But clearly, there are also a number of post-White Gawains around who are not particularly White-inspired.

Off the top of my head: Phyllis Ann Karr's Gawain in The Idylls of the Queen is blond, and Gillian Bradshaw's Gwalchmei in the Hawk of May trilogy is dark. Bernard Cornwell's little Gawain is blond too. In Het Zwevende Schaakbord, a 1918 Dutch novel by Louis Couperus, Gawain / Walewein has brown hair and brown eyes (OK, this is clearly pre-White but I'm putting it out here anyway). I've also found blond and brown-haired Gawains (and, indeed, a Black Gawain) in comics - and of course, there isn't a single red-haired Gawain on screen, a fact I deeply deplore 😅.

#arthuriana #sir gawain #illustration #arthurian legend #sir gawaine #gawaine #gawain's appearance #red-haired gawain #t. h. white #the once and future king #gillian bradshaw #phyllis ann karr #rosemary sutcliff #anthony mockler #king arthur

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I'll never get over this 'costume' in a film that has historical pretensions. Those aren't even clothes 😂. They're just a few straps. What ON EARTH could this be based on. Certainly nothing the least bit practical, or protective in battle.

Okay she has trousers. With some ... netting? ... and ... flappy bits?

I don't get it. Aaah well. This film. I liked Keira Knightly in it though.

#questionable costume design #king arthur #king arthur movie #'barbarian' cliche that I hate #only Romans wear proper armour right? #guinevere #uughhhhh

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Bookish Gawain.

I think Camelot would totally have a library - which explains the sheer number of books on that shelf.

It's rare that I'm happy with my watercolours, but I think I pulled this one off rather well. The background could have been darker, I guess - that's always a difficult thing for me. I made it muted, that's something.

#sir gawain #sir gawaine #gawain #gawaine #arthurian legend #arthuriana #illustration #watercolour #watercolor #dark ages #early medieval #ginger #ginger cat

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This was secret for such a long time that I pretty much forgot to post it, which is a bit of a shame because I am rather proud of how this turned out. It was a commission for a friend of a friend, who commissions an artist for each month of the first year that his child is in the world. What a dad, eh? 🥰

Anyway - he asked me to do something HP-themed and also suggested 'family' or 'children'. So here are Petunia and Lily Evans with that awful boy, Lily's bezzie mate Severus Snape. I also couldn't resist slipping in a second fandom, because the timing was just right!

#severus snape #pro snape #snape #lily evans #petunia evans #lily potter #petunia dursley #doctor who #cyberman #illustration #watercolour #snapedom

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Naaais! I'll try to join in - it's always a good time to celebrate some Snape :).

“Break out your best hats and robes, because a special event to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Battle of Hogwarts has been announced by the Ministry of Magic. The noblest families of all are expected to attend, from the Malfoys to the Notts, and the soirée promises to be a night to remember.

However, what your humble correspondent knows is really on everyone’s minds is the mysterious wizard whose alleged death took place that same fated 2 May. Severus Snape was left for dead by the Dark Lord. Only following the tragedy did the Wizarding World come to learn of his true allegiance, but even after the dramatic and now mythical revelation, some things remain unsolved. Do not miss Rita Skeeter’s most astonishing journalistic feat yet, as she reveals long-hidden truths and exposes lies, aided by a very exclusive source, and theorises on what might have really happened to Severus Snape.”

The Daily Prophet, 23 April 2023

Keep reading

#snapecelebration2023 #severus snape #snape #pro snape #snape community #snapedom

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Sorry but NO.

I have said 😅.

I mean, my dislike for all those 'Gwaine' and 'Guh-WAINE' pronunciations may be totally irrational but I'll stand by it.

#GAHwen all the way #gawain #sir gawain #sir gawaine #gawaine

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It's Professor Snape's birthday, so the Hoggywarty reveals are up! This was my contribution this year, as well as my Snape Enthusiasts Christmas card.

Happy 63rd Birthday, Professor!

🦇

#happy birthday severus snape #happy birthday severus #severus snape #harry potter fanart #holiday cards #pro snape

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Monty Python’s Lancelot is super accurate.

https://makeagif.com/i/OISXuo

what if you just talked about your feelings instead

Then he threw down his mantle so he would be less encumbered, entered the palace with sword in hand, and found some twenty knights watching two people playing at chess. He struck among them, enraged and angered by the suffering and travail he had endured that day; he began lopping off heads and arms and shoulders, sending the men fleeing this way and that, killing indiscriminately. He was like the wolf come from the wood who suddenly attacks the sheep, slaughtering and strangling them before they have realized he was upon them. Lancelot was just like that, for he was hungry and easy to slaughter them. They were as frightened as baby lambs and could do nothing to defend themselves, for they were so afraid of being killed that they were blinded and confused. He slaughtered and wounded them at will; and in short time had sent fourteen souls to their just rewards; he dashed through the chambers and upper rooms to see if he could find anyone else. In the master room he found the lord of the castle and rushed at him with his sword raised, ready to split his skull, but he was so afraid of death he dared not wait to face the blow: he leapt out a window to save his life, but fell so hard upon a pile of rocks that he broke his neck and died at once.

As soon as Lancelot saw that he had fled, he hurried into the main hall to see if he could find anyone else to kill; when he saw there was no one anywhere, he returned to where he had left the maiden, and she asked him how he had fared. “By God,” said Lancelot, I don’t think there’s a man left alive up there. I killed every one I found.”

— Lancelot Part V, Chapter 154, William W. Kibler translation

or perhaps had a nice soothing cup of tea

#lancelot #lancelot du lac #Sir Lancelot #monty python and the holy grail #vulgate

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Happy New Year, friends.

#christmas card #new year #gawain #sir gawain #sir gawaine #gawaine #walewein #gringalet #gringolet

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I know I haven't been very active around here for a while, and I haven't got round to continuing my comic either... It's all a bit of a chaos. But I did get my Christmas cards off to the printer just now and I can pick them up fresh from the press in just three days.

So: this is the time to let me know if you want to receive one. I'll have a Gawain card and a Snape card. Just send me your name and address in a pm, and let me know if you'd like a Snape or a Gawain. I send cards all around the world. Just be aware that your card will arrive kind of late (as usual :p).

If I get a lot of requests, I may not be able to fulfil them all, but to be honest, I usually only get one or two, so don't be shy :).

#christmas card #holiday season #christmas 2022

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If you are a native speaker of English passing by this tumblr, could you please help a non-native speaker out?

I was wondering:

Do you ever receive e-mails, letters or notifications that address you as 'Dear', used as a noun or just as an adjective somehow not followed by your name or by a noun? Like this:

"Dear,

Thank you for subscribing to our newsletter.

Best regards,

[Some shop or organisation or something]"

I mean: am I wrong to assume that if in English you address someone as 'dear' (as in, 'you haven't left the kettle on, have you, dear?', not as in: 'dear Madam', which is formal, or 'dear Ms Jones' or 'dear Tammy'), you sound like that someone's old-fashioned and somewhat posh spouse?

If a friend asks you something, would you ever reply 'Yes dear' without it being meant as a joke? Would you even address your girlfriend or boyfriend as 'dear'?

I'm just trying to figure out if this is a Thing and I'm just behind the times, or if my English skills are still up to scratch and I'm simply receiving e-mails from people whose skills are less so.

Thanks a lot!

#english #english grammar #english forms of address #modern english #ask a native speaker