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snapeling · 2 years
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That's....the USA wear much father ahead in nuclear sience. For starters. The organisation against it stemed from activits who thoght it was bad.
hot take: on the scale of energy disasters, chernobyl wasn't even that bad. and the only reason it exists in the collective awareness as this horror movie-esque experience is because it's politically and economically convenient for a lot of people. it's convenient for the capitalist powers to play up the errors and failures of the soviet union, and it's convenient for fossil fuel companies for the average person to quake in fear at the thought of nuclear power.
the death toll was bad, but nothing compared to coal mine accidents or dam failures. the cancer caused by the radiation? awful, of course... but living near an oil refinery increases the chance of cancer, too. by a lot. not living near an oil refinery that has an accident - just living near one that works perfectly fine.
not to say that chernobyl was a great thing or anything. it was definitely the most serious nuclear accident (though still not the most deadly one). but nobody makes award-winning grimdark docuseries about oil spills or pipeline explosions or the millions of people breathing and drinking poison, shortening their lifespans every day, from the use of fossil fuels.
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snapeling · 2 years
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The thing that cracks me up about the Addams Family is that they literally live in their own family cemetery, but no one ever asks the most important question: what the fuck kills an Addams?
Like, they literally have cartoon invulnerability. They intentionally put themselves through physical torture, electrocution, falling from ridiculous heights, etcetera, and they always come out completely unscathed. In the movies, they’re actually shown giving the baby a mixture that includes raw egg and vodka, among other things, for regular feedings, which, if you need to be told is bad then you ought to have your parenting license revoked.
So, how do all of the graves get there? What horrid fate could possibly KILL an Addams? The world may never know.
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snapeling · 2 years
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People be like oh you’re in your 20s you have a whole life to live but I already feel as if I’ve missed every opportunity and made all the wrong decisions and it’s just fucked now
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snapeling · 2 years
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dumbledore: are you a warrior?
snape: yes, i worry a lot.
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snapeling · 2 years
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Headcanon that you can't be a Secret Keeper if you make a Horcrux, your soul can only hide secrets if it is undamaged. This would explain why Voldemort doesn't use the Fidelius charm to hide his Horcruxes, since he would not trust anyone other than himself to be a Secret Keeper.
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snapeling · 2 years
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comfort character? no, im the one whos gonna give them comfort. come here, lets get you some proper love and affection
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snapeling · 2 years
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Maybe a combination of fear from a more agitated social climate, increased fear of Muggelborn /Muggel and also the social climate created by that, maybe yes some before Voldemort?
Danger and the Black Family
"It's ideal for Headquarters, of course. My father put every security measure known to wizardkind on it when he lived here. It's unplottable, so Muggles could never come and call — as if they'd ever have wanted to — and now Dumbledore's added his protection, you'd be hard put to find a safer house anywhere."— Sirius Black regarding 12 Grimmauld Place
It's common in fanfic to see Grimmauld Place as a magical fortress, the ancestral fortress of the Black family, with wards (I know that it's a fanon term, but it's a useful one so don't @ me) as ancient as Hogwarts itself. And that make sense, after all, doesn't Sirius tell us so in the books? Well yes and no. Sirius does say that the house is warded, and heavily so ("every security measure known to wizard kind"). Sirius is exaggerating here, since the house doesn't feature protections like the Fidelius (until Dumbledore added it), but it's meant to show that the House is heavily protected.
The bit I'm interested in is the part I highlighted in the quote above. My father. The protective spells were not modus operandi for the Blacks, they're something new. It isn't him renewing spells his father cast either, since Arcturus dies after Orion. It makes sense that they're not standard procedure, after all they're wealthy and influential in the government. As pure of blood as one can be. They consider themselves wizarding royalty. Why would they take measures to protect themselves from those they consider their inferiors? Now, the question that naturally follows is: What changed? What prompted Orion to feel threatened enough that he felt the Black family residence needed reinforcement? I have my own elaborate headcanon about this, but I'd feel interested in hearing other theories first.
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snapeling · 2 years
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Snily work doodle💚
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snapeling · 2 years
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That's wrong.
Logicaly speaking attheists also commited massmurder, slavery (albite in a diffrent form) etc..
Otherwise argumented faith made some people, for example in Nazi Germany, stand up against Hitler.
I would say rather we have to have values of freedom we can aknowlege all people to have.
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“Religion must die for mankind to live. The hour is getting very late to be able to indulge having in key decisions made by religious people. By irrationalists, by those who would steer the ship of state not by a compass, but by the equivalent of reading the entrails of a chicken. […]
Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It’s nothing to brag about. And those who preach faith, and enable and elevate it are intellectual slaveholders, keeping mankind in a bondage to fantasy and nonsense that has spawned and justified so much lunacy and destruction.”
– Bil Maher, Religulous.
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snapeling · 2 years
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I keep thinking how Severus’ Doe Patronus was so fucking strong that it burned Harry’s retina.
Though the darkness had swallowed her whole, her burnished image was still imprinted on his retinas; it obscured his vision, brightening when he lowered his eyelids, disorienting him.
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snapeling · 2 years
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Pinky Promise!
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snapeling · 2 years
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took you long enough to get here.
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snapeling · 2 years
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I mean it just IS much greater if they wear genuinly best friends.
Lily and Sev
Lily and Severus´s friendship fucks me up, like listen, I hear your analysis about how Snape was a toxic and emotionally dependant friend that basically guilt-tripps Lily to stick with him and how Lily was rather cold and probably did not care that much about him and wanted to ditch his friendship a long time ago.
buuuuut
I reject it, I am sorry but that sucks, I want them to be friends, good friends that genuingly loved each other but a bunch convoluted bad decisions and ocurrances made them drift apart slowly until Severus pulled the last straw.
I want lily giving longing looks to Severus when he is not watching, because he was her friend for so long, the one that laughed at her sardonic jokes that her other friends thought were too crude.
I want Severus feeling completely misarable in the summers because, now he has to stay in his horrid home all day while all the previous ones he had spent the afternoons in Lily´s room listening records, leaving just before her parents came home ( because they didnt like the awful boy from spinner´s end at all)
I want Severus telling avery and mulciber that if they even dare to look at Lily he will kill them
I want Lily getting angry at Sirius for insulting Severus´s old shabby clothes because what does a rich asshole like you know?
like, I know lily had way better social skills, was friendly and became close friends with many people later on her life, but Severus was her bestie! and it hurt so much to sever thier friendship even if she was doing the right thing.
Please, I can´t bear the thought of Severus dedicating the rest of his life to a person that didnt even care that much about him, its physically painful and I blame JK for writing the friendship with so many missing pieces.
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snapeling · 2 years
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It’s been a while so here some Adoptive daddy Snape :) ¯\_( ͡❛ ͜ʖ ͡❛)_/¯
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snapeling · 2 years
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a severitus for harry’s birthday! 🎈
belated happy birthday, harry james potter :)
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snapeling · 3 years
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I’m supposed to start a part-time job, and I’ve never had an actual, regular job; the premise had been terrifying to me since I’ve been 11. It’s been presented to me as a completely impossible feat – every single time I’d try to get a job, I’d get sabotaged.
I’ve been told over and over again that I am incapable of anything, worthless in every sense, unhireable, bound to mess up the simplest jobs, I couldn’t do anything, nobody would hire me, it was impossible for me to work, I was a lost cause, I’d never be independent, or able to survive without family. Once I finally got my confidence up and was 18, I said I’d look for a job, only to get crushed by a well aimed ‘You? What can you do?’ followed with a fit of laughter from my mother. At that point it was enough to destroy any confidence I had spent weeks putting together. I believed she knew the truth about me, more than I did.
Looking back, it feels so insane to think actual parents would repeatedly tell these things to their kid, in a time where a job is the only possible survival for all humans. Were they saying all these things because I truly was, a lost case, the worst most useless person, from the age 11? Of course not. If I had been so utterly incapable, they wouldn’t have to say anything, it’d be their job to help me to get capable, so that I could survive. So why would they fill their very hardworking kid’s head with all this 'you won’t ever get a job and you’re worthless to even try’?
So I could never leave. Because I was next to no cost to be kept alive in their house (they didn’t tell me that, of course, I was told I was a huge burden), and they wanted to have a half-alive scapegoat at home at all times to abuse, to force to work with no credit or compensation, and of course, to keep all of the secrets of what they did to me safe. If I’m in their house, I’m too terrified to tell anyone. Any hint of me feeling brave enough to try to gain income meant I was a step away from leaving so this had to be crushed in the most brutal way possible. But, that’s only half of what they’ve done to keep me from working.
I’ve been working for my parents, ever since I was 6, of course I didn’t know this, it was presented as 'you can’t live if you don’t work’ until I understood I’d do what I’m told, or I will be left for dead. It was all manual labour, I wasn’t allowed to learn a skill. I lost most of my memories of it, because it was accompanied by, well, torture. While working, I was humiliated, screamed at, beaten, injured, forced to do the work with false instructions so I could be punished for it, and of course, at the end I was told that all my work was worthless and it would have been better if I had done nothing. I wasn’t allowed to back out or stop working, because remember, death threats. And it was a sure way to invoke violence, regardless of me being sick, injured, mourning, starving, distressed, devastated. I wasn’t allowed to say no to work. I had no right to live if I did that.
Now that.. left a trace. I could tell, since 11, that I’d be too scared to work for anyone after that. It’s been a lot of years of additional work abuse (child abuse while child is forced into labour under a death threat?) since then, so after all that, I couldn’t work anymore. The mere idea of someone telling me to do something would invoke terror, rage, paranoia, panic, expectation, of violence, humiliation and death threats. I simply had no other experiences for my brain to connect it to anything other than that. Work and trauma became one and the same. I truly became incapable to work. Courtesy of my parents.
At that time I’d already done so much work, I’ve had physical symptoms of a person who damaged their body with work, my back hurt, my muscles were spent and aching, I was spent in my 20s from manual labor like people get at their 70s. Only I had nothing to show for it. All benefits went to my parents. I got broken and barely escaped with my life.
So, I’m still alive now, and I’ve been trying to recover from this for the last 5 years, feels funny when I write it like that, doesn’t it? Decades of abuse, but I expected 5 years would settle this. It wouldn’t, of course.
I’ve received some job training, and my brain was completely blank during it because, it still doesn’t feel safe to be aware of reality in a work-related situation. My brain did the best it could to protect me – and dissociated the hell out of that one. Ever since, I’ve been feeling the effects of work abuse on my body stronger, heavier than before. All my muscles hurt, I’m too exhausted to move, I hear screaming in my head, I have a looming feeling of 'I have to quit or I will die’ and also there’s a voice repeating 'I can’t do this, I’m not capable’ in my head. It sounds and feels bad, it’s actually next to unbearable, but I know my body is doing this to protect me. If I work, even part time, I will get triggered to the decades of abuse, I will be forced to re-live it. I’m not in state of mind that could safely handle this. It’s a risk. If I manage to take this, maybe my brain will somehow, mercifully, create new connections between working and being okay, having financial safety for the first time since I existed. Maybe it can be done. But it will hurt, and it will put me thru hell.
I’m mad they did this to me. Nobody deserved this. In a world where we all depend on a job, to have it be this painful to have one? It shouldn’t be this hard. It shouldn’t destroy me like this. I shouldn’t be put thru this, nobody should. I shouldn’t have had to work as a child to deserve to be kept alive. I shouldn’t have been put thru such traumatic work situations I now find it unbearable to handle. I shouldn’t have my entire organism thrown into panic and death fear at the idea of work. I’m naturally hardworking. I should already have worked normally for years, saved up. If I had been brought up normally, I wouldn’t be in financial stress and poverty, I’d be safe! I wouldn’t be scared of whether I will recover fast enough to survive. I wouldn’t be in traumatic exhaustion. I would be okay.
If you have endured any of the traumatic work situations by the hands of your parents, know that a crime is being committed against you, and the consequences are painful. While underage, you do not need to work to deserve to eat, or sleep, or stay alive. You do not need to suffer abuse while working in order to have human rights. It’s your parents responsibility to provide you with 100% of your resources, and if they claim you owe it to them, they’re lying. They had unprotected sex, they had a kid, it’s absolutely none of your fault, and you do not have to pay for it. Parents do not have the right of exploiting children for work. And when they give themselves this right, it’s abuse.
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snapeling · 3 years
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Reverse Severitus:
Harry forces Snape into being a father figure
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