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This challenge was suggested by 00sevvie:

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)?

have not been forgotten, but come late, as usual.

Att.: geri_chan, the_bitter_word, wynnleaf, -L, mary_j_59, janus, 00sevvie, greedslayer, ether_bunny, hafren, duj, Hwyla, oryx_leucorix and terri_testing!

I'm very pleased that we're getting so many entries to the challenges, even if that means that I'm posting the banners here to avoid swamping you with images.

Under the cut is just one, for viewing. All the others can be picked up at the snapedomfan account. If you feel left out or I made a typo, please tell me. Don't be shy, it really isn't a problem and quickly remedied.

Oh yes, this one is a bit large... you can downsize it yourself. ;)
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Something a little different: You may or may not know that I'm one of the organizers of the severusbigbang. Which means that I am distracted often and don't come here quite as often at the moment, since I know that snapedom more or less works well without me.

If, however, there is something you want or need, don't hesitate to send me a mail. The address is on the profile page.

Time flies, and soon the time will come to prepare for:

:D

April Challenge: Squib Snape

This month's challenge comes from geri_chan :

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?

Have fun with it.

Who would have thought that the question 'Is Severus sexy?' would generate such a response?

Mind you, there were only a few posts, but there was so much great discussion there that I didn't know where to look and was wondering if I should just make a banner for all participants.

I made one for everyone in the discussion who posted more than a short paragraph. So, if you feel left out and would like a banner, yell here, please.

This banner is different from the others, since it is made with original art. Expel_Hun kindly gave me permission to use her picture Naked Snape for the banner. This picture of hers is one of my favourites, go and check out her other art, it's fabulous. And don't forget to leave a comment.

And so, att: -L, alisonven, caravaggio49, cardigrl, ensnarryed, esmestrella, ether_bunny, geri_chan, heathersparrows, Hwyla, mary_j_59, phantomf, raisin_gal, the_bitter_word, totalreadr, and vern: your banners are here: The snapedomfan mod journal for technical stuff. Go and download, if you like.

I don't need to tell you how much fun I had making this banner. ;)

It looks like this, just with the different names:
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Last week I asked the question if anyone was organizing a big bang for Severus' 50th birthday. There have been offers to help, but no one seems to have planned organizing one.
And since I want to have a big bang, I'll do it. Unless *you* want to do it, then I'll hand it over. ;)

I've created a community on livejournal: severusbigbang

and an asylum on insanejournal: severusbigbang - but please don't join unless you want to help. There isn't much there yet anyway, I've just invited people who offered to help and want to start the brainstorming.

You can watch though, and public announcements for sign-ups and such will come during the next few weeks, telling you what will happen.

We do need a lot of helpers, if you'd like to help, leave a comment on the community or asylum, please. For helpers, it would be good to have an account on both platforms, since we want to crosspost on livejournal and insanejournal.

Feel free to ask question here, on snapedom, or on one of the communities.

I've just signed up for the Hermione Big Bang, a fic and art celebration on livejournal for her 30th birthday in September (which won't be interesting for most of you here, since so many here hate her). And then it occurred to me: It's Severus' 50th birthday next January.

And thus I ask:

Does anyone know about plans for a Snape Big Bang?

I can't be the only person who noticed that. If someone plans to organize it, I'd like to know where, who, how etc. If we can help promote it here, I'd like to do it, or help in any other way, if wanted or needed.

This month's challenge was suggested by greedslayer. Details about that suggestion can be seen here.

Apparently Severus was Voldemort's right hand man. Was he really? Why? Was that intentional and pushed by Dumbledore or not? How did Severus' ego react to that position? Did he like it, hate it, not care about it? Did it affect his relationship to other Death Eaters? Was he always a trusted servant or only after the second rising? And, and, and...

So, after several lighter topics, we're having a heavy one this month. I'll make my way through your suggestions and try to alternate between lighter and heavier.

The tag for this challenge is march09

Att.: geri_chan, caravaggio49, ships_harry, skitty_kat, janus, shanti_writes, sigune, odogoddess and perverse_idyll: here are your banners.

I only had three 'official' posts, but a lot of long and well thought out comments to those, and so I gave banners to the longer commenters. It's a bit unscientific, but well, if you don't want a banner, no need to take it, and if you feel overlooked, complain here and you'll get one.

To make a long story short, here they are,

This is meant to help me revamp the rules:

our normal, traditional monthly contest goes like this:

The winner of the past contest is the host of the next one, that means they set the theme and give out a prize if they want to, the prize is optional. In the past, the winner also chose the winner of their new contest.

Now, when we had the first contest here on snapedom, things got a bit confused. severed_lies did an admirable job of starting the first contest here and introducing it, and I can't thank her enough for that, since at the time I was overwhelmed with RL, as so often.


But: the chosing of the winner got confused. She chose the winner through the number of comments on each post, which was something I wanted to use to replace the polls. Polls, however, only were used for special contests, never the regular one. Confused already? Bored? No? ok... ;)

If we keep up the chosing according to comment number, the winners lose one of their priviledges: chosing the next winner. And so I'm asking you what you prefer, you who participate regularly: do you want the *regular monthly contest* winner determined by the host or by comment numbers? Please comment here with 'host' or 'comment'. If you couldn't care less, well...

Thank you for your attention, dear Underground, and of course I'm just smoke-screening the fact that I don't have your banners ready yet. But almost... ;)

Currently I'm going through older posts and organise tags. As long as I have time. You'll know by now that that can change and I'm buried in work and vanish for weeks again... but that's the plan anyway.

After I've done that, I'll get the link lists organized, taking off the older challenges and making a summary page for those.

Since no one seems to have objections, we now allow art. Link to your Snape-related art or post it here whenever you want. And by all means, enter the snapeartcontest. You don't have to be an artist to do that. Grab your mouse and scribble away. Stick figures can be as funny as masterpieces.

Please keep recs for other people's art to Fridays as usual. It's not a crime if you don't, but you'll be reminded for next time. I think we did well enough with that policy over the last year.

I'll look over the rule section and will ask for your input frequently, since I want to have it a bit less confusing than it is now, but that's in the future.

In February, perhaps from the 12th to the 17th, we'll have a Valentine's party, our chance to cover Sev in pink and hearts. Snort, how he'll love that. ;)
We've had a lot of fun with it last year, let's do it again.

We're still growing slowly but steadily in numbers, so giving you a bit of homework is in order, I think. Severus wants to take the Underground register again, and that's your opportunity to introduce yourself, self-pimp, tell us what you like and give us a list or make a page with the Sev-related art/fic/meta you do, here and elsewhere. We did that at the beginning of snapedom, with the Underground member essays, but it may have been forgotten. How about refreshing that list now or making a new one?

I wonder if finding old entries would be easier if I give users name tags to use? Should be doable, unless there is a limited number of tags on paid accounts, too?

I tried to cheat and look old entries up in google, but there's so much... and I once again got caught up on STFU. Gosh, I didn't think the idiocy of fandom_wank could be beaten, but I was wrong. STFU has to be the tops. And boy, do they love us there. I'm almost tempted to invite you all to spork the funniest of their gems... but wouldn't that be a waste of time and better spent writing fic, meta, doing arts and crafts, because we're a FANdom? I suppose they are as passionate about their, ah, insights as we are about Severus. ;)

It's about the Friday recs. You may remember that we've agreed on this in the past. We want fic recs on Fridays, because we want to keep the focus on the discussions on snapedom.
We also included art and vids into that rule. Which was fine until now.

Now, however, we have the snapeartcontest here. And the artists who contribute to the contest should and are posting whenever they made that art. Telling other artists not to link to their art whenever they finished it and allowing the snapeartcontest to do so would be unfair, I think.

So melusin and I were thinking that we should allow the linking to your art whenever you want to. Please keep the rec-ing of other people's art to Fridays, as always. Since we don't have that much art, that shouldn't 'fill' the community too much and distract from the discussions.

And: if we remind you of the Fridays, you don't need to take your posts down. Just remember it next time

What do you think?

I shamelessly recycled this from an old ArtPad contest.

Let's write a birthday boy round robin. Beware, it can be silly, multi-or no ship, and you can even enter art to illustrate. Let's just start it, shall we? (And don't forget to pimp the party to your friends!)

His 49th Birthday

Snow was falling. Severus sat in front of the fireplace in his cottage and savoured the taste of the old port that was given to him by Lucius Malfoy. It had become a birthday tradition.

And so he raised his glass to himself and drank to a birthday he never thought he'd live to see.

(to be continued by:?)

ETA: TBW, the evil, posted a comment and deleted it. I can't count, I think I pulled a JKR there. Or maybe I live in the past. I did like SnaSyl as a new ship, though. :p

I know, I know, you're all tired of fests, the sshg exchange has started, other things happen in the fandom... but don't forget to raise your glass and post a bit of silliness and/or serious wishes for the second birthday of our so not-dead Severus. Come on, Underground!

And thank you to all who posted comments about the snarc/snapedom merge and other things, thanks severed_lies for starting the new contest, thanks esmestrella, for putting up the masterlist!

Ahem, it's cold outside and the Summerfest is finished.

I'll get to all these things in more detail tomorrow, hopefully. And now, let's party!

snapeartcontest merges with snapedom.

The Society for Nonsensical ArtPad Enthusiasts (S.N.A.P.E.) has played with Severus for years. It's been a fun time, with great entries and wonderful people.

I can't maintain three communities, though, and since not many people play on snapeartcontest at one given time (it's more a spread through time), we can easily welcome them into our fold and have fun.

The snapeartcontest will have monthly contests that either center around a famous work of art or some theme chosen by the winner of the previous contest. Rules will be posted with the first contest. It's severed_lies' turn to post a contest, I think.

As a new rule, entries won't be restricted to ArtPad art, but can now also be made with any media of your choice. Photomanips will still be excluded, however.

The most important rule for the snapeartcontest is to keep it funny. We make fun with Severus, not so much about him. Almost always he has the last laugh. And in this sense:

Welcome, snapeartcontest!

...and we want to have a party, don't we?

We had one last year, and it was fun. Why don't we just continue with the same?

We'll celebrate Severus' birthday together from January 7 to January 13. His birthday is January 9.


For entertainment:

- Write drabbles/ficlets. Possibly about a good birthday moment, or some other good/decent moment for him. There was misery enough, we want to see him smile (even if it scares us). Let's make it a 1000 word limit.-

- Write and paint/make postcards. This can be joint projects between artists and writers.

- Make art, sing a song, dance a dance, knit a plushie... but show us the pictures here.

- I'm not going to organise a snail mail campaign with birthday cards for Severus to JKR... you'd have to do that on your own. ;) I m of the opinion the less she says, the better.


For food and drink:

- Post your favourite Severus-party recipe.
- Post your favourite drink or cocktail recipe (alcoholic)
- post your favourite non-alcoholic recipe.

Try some of them and raise your glass to the wizard. What you do on this community on the day of his birthday is up to you. :D

As usual, this will be a very informal party.

I'm always looking for ideas for new challenges. If you want to see something in the monthly challenge, please post your suggestion here.
You can see the old challenges by looking at the side bar, or by using the tag challenge.