The August Challenge
was suggested by geri_chan
Severus and his Men
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?
A separate het challenge so as not to discriminate against the non-slashers will be issued next month.
This has the potential to get heated, but I'm asking you to keep in mind that there are good reasons for or against slashing Severus. We don't want to see any 'why Snarry/Snupin/Snucius/Snwhatever" is the best and eeewww, het. Remember: no shipping wars, no disparaging comments about other ships.
What we want to see is an exploration why a certain pairing could work well, or what would be detrimental for an involvement.
Suggestions for future challenges are always welcome. Please leave them here.
Severus and his Men
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?
A separate het challenge so as not to discriminate against the non-slashers will be issued next month.
This has the potential to get heated, but I'm asking you to keep in mind that there are good reasons for or against slashing Severus. We don't want to see any 'why Snarry/Snupin/Snucius/Snwhatever" is the best and eeewww, het. Remember: no shipping wars, no disparaging comments about other ships.
What we want to see is an exploration why a certain pairing could work well, or what would be detrimental for an involvement.
Suggestions for future challenges are always welcome. Please leave them here.
Do you mean internally or externally? I.e. pointing out slashy subtext, these are ways in which I think Severus and ____ might come to like each other given what we see on the page, etc., or more meta reasons why people like to see certain pairings at work, such as "Severus and Sirius are mirror images of one another" (to take an example from my own head)?
The most astonishing reason I see given is: "because he had greasy hair." Not sure how to explain all those greasy-haired people wearing wedding rings...
But I will behave. Easy to do, since the present challenge has nothing to do with perpetual virginity! :-D Heh.
Canon indicates strongly that he didn't live as a monk with the hint at 'other women, more worthy'.
;)
Bothering with the Snape-haters, yes; none so blind as those who refuse to see. ;-) It's the ones who call themselves fans yet make such leaping assumptions from the text, e.g., he loved Lily and fought Voldemort to "make amends" to her memory, therefore he LOVED LILY AND ONLY LILY AND DIED A VIRGIN FOR LILY!!! that make me want to scream.
But I can't be personally responsible for making every person on the planet understand that textual interpretation might require a little more effort and between-the-lines reading than so shallow a reading. I know this. I still wish I were All Powerful. :-D
And then there are those who, despite being Snape fans, still think his greasy hair is a bad thing (I don't prefer it myself, but it ain't a sentence of doom, and lots of people can't help it). Someone who attended my workshop on Severus Snape at Writercon twittered a friend of hers, in which they both agreed that between his greasy hair and his "obsession" with Lily, OF COURSE he died a virgin.
You and I, of course, know better. ;-) And that he's not dead, yet.
Canon indicates strongly that he didn't live as a monk with the hint at 'other women, more worthy'.
And of course those are only the ones he told Voldie about. ;-) *peeks into Sev's secret closet of Muggle women and a variety of men*