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[info]sylvanawood
12/30/08 04:01 pm
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  • [info]geri_chan
    1/2/09 10:42 pm (UTC)
    You said you were focusing on Snape cliches this year, and I thought of a couple:

    1) Squib Snape--there seem to be a lot of fanfics where Snape loses his magic post-war, either permanently or temporarily. How does he react? Is it traumatizing to lose his magic, or does he find it easy to leave the wizarding world behind and slip into an anonymous Muggle life?

    2) Snape slash--one of Torino's weekly questions was on "Snape's other women," and I thought it might be fun to do a "Snape's men" question or challenge. Why do we like to slash Snape, and whom do we like to slash him with? And maybe a separate het challenge so as not to discriminate against the non-slashers, or just a single general challenge on Snape romance?

    For a more serious challenge, I was thinking of Snape and the Malfoys, but when I double-checked, it was already a Torino's weekly question, so I don't know if that would be too redundant.

    • [info]sylvanawood
      1/25/09 10:47 am (UTC)
      Great suggestions, thank you. Sorry to be so late with this. I'll certainly take them up... and instead of Malfoys, just possible friends would be possible. Not really a cliche, but I'm using the cliches only when I can't come up with something better.

  • Possible challenge topic

    [info]00sevvie
    1/21/09 03:25 pm (UTC)
    Based on Severus' history (the Shrieking Shack incident) and his interactions with Lupin, it seems to me that the subject of Snape and Werewolves could be a meaty one (yes, that was deliberate).

    We know there's already a prejudice against werewolves in the WW, and that Snape has some kind of particular fear/horror/hatred of werewolves - particularly Lupin - stemming from the Shack incident. Yet he learns how to brew the Wolfsbane, a complex potion that demands time, care, energy and material resources and for which we never see him receive any actual remuneration (outside of keeping Lupin sane) or other public acknowledgement. Possibly he just likes the challenge, possibly it's also tied in with his desire to keep Lupin sane and therefore relatively harmless. It could be interesting to delve deeper into his views of and feelings about werewolves, including V's use of them in the war, their position in society, etc.

    Also, how do you think Severus would react, in the short and long term, to being turned into a werewolf himself (either by acccident or as a punishment from Voldie)?

    • Re: Possible challenge topic

      [info]sylvanawood
      1/25/09 10:49 am (UTC)
      Great ideas, and I'll certainly include them. I only use the cliches when I run out of ideas.

  • [info]greedyslayer
    2/10/09 08:29 pm (UTC)
    Snape and Voldemort/Tom Riddle, any and every thought about their relationship (i.e. I've heard often enough little remarks that Voldemort seemed a better Master to Snape than Dumbledore...)

    • [info]sylvanawood
      2/12/09 07:51 am (UTC)
      How could I forget Tom Riddle? Great sggestion, and it will be done soon.

      • [info]greedyslayer
        2/12/09 10:05 pm (UTC)
        Cool. :)

        It occurred to me 'cause of this really great theory I love about them--but I'll just save that for when the challenge comes up (and share it with proper credit to to who came up with the theory).

        Also, I've been thinking about Voldemort/Tom Riddle a lot. And I can't really find a place to vent about him. How I wished he would've been a character. An interesting villain. It bothers me 'cause he had potential, but just ended up kinda flat to me by the end. Too much of an archetype/symbol for The Evil. Evil from the start, doomed from the beginning--like someone said once, I wanted to see him struggle in his past between good and evil and then fall--not be given the air of inevitability. So much choice. I wanted tragedy, and a fall would've been tragic--instead, not much of an emotional punch at all.

        And I'm usually such a Villain fan, finding their appealing and complex traits--and Voldemort had that potenial. But it was wasted.

        • [info]sylvanawood
          2/13/09 04:33 am (UTC)
          Heh. We'll have to make the Riddle challenge very soon then, methinks.

          BTW, you can discuss almost any subject here if you do it under 'fannish magic'. I really need to get my faq and rules section updated...

          'Fannish magic' means that you can take a characterization or magical invention or description, whatever takes your fancy, from any Snape fanfic and discuss it here. Provide a link to the story, ask the author if you're not sure, and describe the element in that story you want to discuss in your post. Since Voldemort is in very many Snape stories, this would be an option, too. But as a challenge it's great as well. We've had one or two fannish magic discussions in the past. It has a tag, check them out.

  • [info]greedyslayer
    5/27/09 10:58 pm (UTC)
    In July, anticipation and reactions to the movie version of Half-Blood Prince.

  • [info]sylvanawood
    8/5/09 08:24 am (UTC)
    Suggesting one myself, since I just got the idea from reading Droxy's journal and looking at her 'Snape and children' pics: Snape as a father, a match made in heaven or a horrible fate. Could be the October challenge, after Snape and his Women in September

  • [info]00sevvie
    8/13/09 12:14 am (UTC)
    One of the things that gets repeatedly connected to Severus is the notion of bravery, and how courageous he is. So perhaps it might be interesting to take a look at the flip side of that, fear - explore what Severus might be afraid of, or how he would react to fear, etc.

  • topics...

    [info]territesting
    10/5/09 02:54 pm (UTC)
    When did we last do Severus and the Dark Arts?

    • Re: topics...

      [info]sylvanawood
      10/5/09 03:01 pm (UTC)
      I don't think we did, at least not in the monthly challenge. Thank you!

  • "But Snape is just a bully, right?"

    [info]mary_j_59
    10/14/09 01:15 am (UTC)
    As you may know, Sylvanawood, a Sirius fan chimed in on my journal - we continued the discussion privately on hers, and she told me that it hurt her to look at my icon (Snape and young Harry, by Sigune)! because she saw Snape as abusive and a bully. And - I think she is reading the character as Rowling would like her to, but why? What convinces so many people that Snape is a bully by nature, and abusive? And why do people like me - who can see that he actually does bully, and is even abusive on a couple of occasions - insist that, nevertheless, Severus is far more victim than perpetrator, and is neither habitually abusive, nor an habitual bully?

    That seems to be the real gulf between the Snape lovers and the Snape haters, and it's a sore point. Would it be worth discussing? Or would we merely be inviting more wank from the Snape haters?

    • Re: "But Snape is just a bully, right?"

      [info]sylvanawood
      10/28/09 01:49 pm (UTC)
      I'm sorry that this is late. I would love to have this as a theme, but would also like to postpone it into next year. When the Birthday Bash is done, I have more time for snapedom again, and if we all pay attention and nip wank in the butt, we should be fine with it.

      • Re: "But Snape is just a bully, right?"

        [info]mary_j_59
        10/28/09 02:10 pm (UTC)
        Thanks! That makes sense. And it actually goes along with Snape as a father. I'm sure Neonorne would insist that Snape would be an abusive father, whereas I and others see him as struggling to break the chain of abuse -and succeeding. Again, Rowling would like us to see Harry this way, but she never shows us Harry holding back, being sorry, reconsidering his actions - all of which she actually does show us in Severus. So I can't buy the "happy family/Harry as good father" picture she tries to sell us in the epilogue. I can, on the other hand, see Snape as a good father, perhaps most of all because he does have a conscience (however rudimentary - this sets him apart from just about everyone in the Wizarding World) and is not afraid to discipline the children in his care.

        But it would also be interesting to do these two themes separately. I do think they are related, though.

        • Re: "But Snape is just a bully, right?"

          [info]sylvanawood
          11/7/09 10:31 pm (UTC)
          We could do them back-to-back... :)
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