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forever my favorite o'hara

#poetry

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april in northern california, 2024

#california poppies :') #fave #also for: river :) #photography

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#LMAO

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Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn't have to be a romantic walk in the park, spring at its most spectacular moment, flowers and smells and outstanding poetical imagery smoothly transferring you into another world. It doesn't have to be a walk during which you'll have multiple life epiphanies and discover meanings no other brain ever managed to encounter. Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don't find meaning but "steal" some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn't make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.

Albert Camus, from Notebooks 1951-1959

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some things are always the same

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I've seen the same post a hundred times now. Sometimes it's a few days old, sometimes it's from years ago, but it's always the same. Some anti posts about how they don't understand how anyone can like Snape because he was so awful, and then there's a long reply that goes something like, "imagine this happens to you, and then this, and then this" to describe Snape's experience. Sometimes there's some James Potter hate thrown in.

Look. You can go through describing a character's entire experience but you don't really need to. Here's the thing that antis don't understand:

For all her faults (and they're big, bigoted ones) Rowling understood a really integral part of the human experience and conveyed it through Snape. Everyone needs love and to feel accepted. It's that simple. Snape became a Death Eater to seek acceptance (Rowling has confirmed this, though I can't remember the source - whoever wants to add it please do), because it was the only way he could find any.

Snape's understanding of morality, like everyone's, is subjective. Some readers understand this and some don't. When faced against a morality that says there is good and bad in the world, everyone makes choices based on their personal experience. Context is everything. Someone who experiences pain and suffering will not see the person inflicting it on them as moral. That's it. 'How can this person be good when they caused me so much suffering?' = human psychology. Most of the people who think 'I'm a bad person and deserve this' have been gaslit and abused into thinking so, because it's not a natural reaction - it's one that has to often be socialized into someone at a young age, exactly because it's not natural. Everyone is the hero of their own story; no one sees themselves as a villain, because they see the valid aspects of their own perspective.

You can write essays on how vulnerable people needing acceptance is what cults and fascists exploit to recruit vulnerable people, or on how the standard anti's un-nuanced reading of Snape both ignores canon and displays a disturbing lack of empathy or compassion, but at its core it just boils down to context. From Snape's perspective he experienced cruelty, therefore the people inflicting it must be cruel. Again, it's that simple. He was a person, like any other, except he was fictional so he wasn't even real. On the flip side is James Potter, who, for all his faults, didn't get to live long enough to get a chance to change and grow unlike Snape, and I think the Snapedom also needs to acknowledge that.

They're fictional characters representing things an author wants to say, not sports teams, not martyrs, and not all good or all bad emblems that define your identity depending on how you feel about them. It's depressing how much time is wasted arguing with bullies and trolls whether from the Marauders fandom or just random antis. I literally can't find more than three blogs to follow without this argument coming across my feed daily. I know the Snapedom is Not OK™ and that's kind why we're all here, and I know that my take is super unpopular but like Snape, I don't care what others think: this fandom has been having the exact same argument for years and nothing has changed. There's fanart and meta and fic and so much content out there appreciating this character, you're not going to change an anti's mind who's deliberately trolling in the tags, so why are you trying? What are you getting out of it? What does it give you? It's exhausting just scrolling past it.

#snape #hp #meta

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Red Angel- Zale Central Cemetery. Ljubljana. Slovenia

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mentally im friends with a lot of u guys even if we dont talk or never have talked and probably will never talk directly. its ok. the warriors bond transcends words

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Nose bleeds 🩸

Obsessed with tired Snape these days 🙂‍↕️

#art #snape #hp

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Palestinian girls playing in the snow, Jerusalem, Palestine, 1921,

#photography #history

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Unknown ,  Laundry - Carin Bengts , 2014.

Swedish, b.1946  -

Oil on canvas, 120 x 150 cm.

#art

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I made this for another someone who needed a smidgen of kindness (they're a big Snape fan, hence our grumpy star center-stage, here). But tonight, I was feeling super frustrated with myself and quite exhausted after yet another night of not being as productive as I had set out to be. Did I work for another 3 hours after working a full day, including 1 hr of driving time, then errands, then cooking dinner? Yes. Is my wrist inflamed? Yes. So I realized I needed the Snape Drawing, too.

Maybe one of you needs the reminder as well. Take a breather ♡

#snape #art #hp #<3

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“the trans girl analogue is the least funny character” 🚩🚩🚩🚩

Do you know any un-funny trans girls? I thought not. Ergo, James Derry Girls is not a trans girl

#accurate af #derry girls

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#shxhgkgkghygjjwgjk

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you bottle Miette??

#this never gets old :)))

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Don’t mind me. Just cleaning your dash

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the smallest artist i listen to? probably the bird outside my window