Snapedom

Original poster: sylvanawood

Ok Underground. We've had a great, long bithday party and Severus was pleased.

Now we go back to normal procedure.

No fanfic! You can post on your journal and link here every Friday. Short passages as teasers are allowed, of course.

No fanart! You can also post on your journal and link here. Thumbnails as teasers are allowed.

This is mostly to keep the community 'clear' for the discussions, otherwise it's difficult to find things. As reply of a challenge or party, meta-fic or drabbles are of course allowed. Likewise art of all kind.

To avoid clutter, I'm also asking you to put longer entries under a cut.

'Transgressions' will be persecuted by me, so don't count on detention with the Potions- or Defence- or Headmaster. As you all know, I'm tough as butter in the sun when it comes to that, so better be good!

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And now: let's get prepared for Valentine's Day. I don't think I'm mistaken when I think that you'd want to show your Snape-love? I thought we could have a party again. A bit smaller this time. I'll post a table of prompts, and you chose one (no limits or other restrictions, no announcing that you chose it necessary) and then post what you did with it on Valentine's day (or how long it takes.)

And so I'm asking you: please give me prompts. We'll collect them here in this post, and I make a table of them all next week. We'll collect prompts until the 30st, midnight, and I make the table on the 31st or 1st of Feb. That way you have time to pick your prompts. The prompts don't have to be specific, it's up to the ones who chose them what they do with them.

Original poster: _grainne_

After surviving dunderheads, Dolores, Death Eaters, and one dirty great snakebite, Severus Snape only wanted one thing for his birthday...

Original poster: sylvanawood

He did try the Victorian swimming trunk bit, believe me. But in the wizarding world, he constantly ran into old acquaintances who turn out to be just as 'dead' as he is. He wasn't very excited about that, so he moved and decided to go Muggle.

See what I mean under the cut.

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Original poster: bohemianspirit

Pizza and Guinness will have to wait for the weekend, after I get paid. ;-) But I still wanted to make something just a little festive for the occasion, last night, and serve it on a properly festive plate: Morningstar Farms mini corn dogs with ketchup--I later added mustard, because I like dipping such things in a blend of ketchup and mustard--and a mug of root beer. Root beer is dark, like Guinness, even if it doesn't pack quite the same punch.

Anyway, I was so pleased with the effect of it all artfully arranged on a solar plate with a celestial mug, that I had to take a picture:



Please note that that tiny strip of kitchen counter on which the plate and mug rest is the sum total of my kitchen countertop space. I love my new apartment, but the kitchen is truly tiny!

Happy Birthday again, Severus, even if you (probably) wouldn't go anywhere near vegetarian corn dogs. ;-)

Original poster: valady

We made it to Fandom_Wank!

http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/1125820.html


ETA: They now know that we know! :)

ETA 2: They spotted us. But maybe they spotted the parallel universe FW where we all believe that "Harry Potter Is A Christ Figure Because His Blood is Holy and Good And Would Have Cured Voldemort Of His Crazyshitness".

emestrella wrote a new essay just for us on that comm, but I haven't read it. Please don't go troll the comments. Signing out.

And sisterelwood thinks we should all be shot. (or something to that effect)

Original poster: sylvanawood

To help us Snape/Snapedom fans chose a name for ourselves, our affiliate, snapeartcontest is running a special contest to illustrate the names on our list. We can then use the illustrations for our winner when we want to present ourselves. If someone illustrates our winner.

The contest runs until December 2nd, regardless of the outcome or duration of our poll here. You can find the details for the contest in this post.

Different from most snapartcontest contests, this one is open for all media, not just Artpad. Go and play! :)

Original poster: sylvanawood

One of the rules on the community is: no fanfiction or fan art, reccing should be on Fridays. I made this rule, because I want this community to be focussed on Snape-related discussion (more or less), and I see on other comms that posting fics and arts quickly becomes the main focus. However, I want this community also used as a writer's resource, and I think creative meta could fit into that context.

I, personally, liked the idea to use fiction to discuss a theory for quite some time now, and I always liked to pack my own theories about the books (pre DH) into my fics, rather than into an essay, because you have more freedom to explore possibilities. So I would be inclined to introduce and include the concept of 'Creative Meta' on the community. It should be gen, not longer than 1000 words, and open to critical discussion (of the content, not the style). It should focus on a Snape-related theme/thory.

Is that interesting for the rest of you, too, or should I just stuff it?

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And the naming procedure: ETA: I updated the list

You've made it quite clear that you don't want to give me my moment of dictatorship – blast! ;)
Alas, you want to vote yourself, so be it, then. We'll leave the old poll up as announced, until Sunday. Then I'll post a new one. And we continue with a shoot-out after that with the names that get most votes. Last name standing, so to speak. I will make a cut-off point of five votes for each name. Every name that gets less than five votes in the polls is out. The others go back in. I give you until the end of the running poll (Nov. 18th, midnight) to add new names to the suggestions here.

Severus tells me that he finds our activities rather suspicious and watches us closely.

Original poster: sylvanawood

Many more interesting suggestions for the names have been submitted. The poll seems to go against my dictator tendencies, so the next poll then will contain all the new suggestions. So far we have:

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Someone, I think it was bohemianspirit apologized for answering a general question before I could. By all means, don't hesitate to do so. I'm often away for days and want you to chat to each other without minding me much. melusin_79 is around more frequently than I, in case something comes up that needs an admin.

Yesterday I bragged that we had reached the 200 member mark. Bragged too early, one has left us. Weeps.

ETA: We're at 204 now, so I brag again. ;) Our numbers have been rising steadily since we started. I've written them down at least twice a week. Maybe I post a nice growth curve for the comm one day. Yes, that's how I am. Be afraid...

Original poster: greedyslayer

Right, silly crossover plotbunny.

Anyone seen Monsters, Inc., that Pixar movie for Disney?

While trying to draw one of the characters, just had the thought of switching the 2-year-old Boo for a little Snape and having him deal with the Monster World...full of monsters that actually fear humans, and can be as normal as Muggles, in some fashion.

Original poster: sylvanawood

Here are a few things to laugh and giggle about.

the_bitter_word has posted a link to the Black-Snape DH review comic in her reply to the affiliate post, but to make it a bit more visible, for those of you who haven't seen it featured on the newsletters, here it is: The BS Book Review

Something else, funny and very satisfying (at least for spiteful, vengeful me) I found while checking Snape stuff: The Final Battle

And, here's proof that Severus is alive. He showed up in my chat window yesterday:




And so we had a little chat. You can read the whole thing behind the cut. But you don't have to. In fact, I'd rather keep him to myself. But if you must...

Original poster: sylvanawood

A list of funny and/or interesting articles and essays that have some connection to Severus Snape

Ooh... Spooky - melusin_79 talks about The Secret Language of Birthdays

Harry Potter: The Complete Obituaries –– Vulture, New York Magazine