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No habría llegado a los 2500 «Me gusta» sin vuestra ayuda. ¡Gracias por este sueño!

Wow, I'm gone for two weeks and I have +99 on the "activity" tab. Is this how celebrities feel?

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Wow, I'm gone for two weeks and I have +99 on the "activity" tab. Is this how celebrities feel?

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Is Ao3 under maintenance? Did they announce it? I didn't notice!

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Reasons I Don't Like Severus Snape

The topic has been covered extensively over the years, but I thought I’d take my turn. This is a comprehensive roundup that focuses on my feelings toward the character himself, as well as the arguments that are frequently used to defend him. No Severus Snapes were harmed in the making of this post. 

He was a grown adult teacher who bullied his students. 

He repeatedly and publicly humiliated an innocent 11-year-old child, mocked a young girl’s physical appearance until she cried, sabotaged students’ work, tormented Neville constantly, tried to poison his pet, was Neville’s worst fear, goaded a teenager about his dead family, and played favorites when handing out punishment.

Teachers have legal, physical, and emotional control over students’ academic careers. Hogwarts being a boarding school means this power imbalance extended inescapably into their ‘home’ lives. Side-effects of bullying include depression, health problems, behavioral problems, and decreased academic achievement.  Bullies are bad teachers.

I’m a TA. My kids are sweet, mean, obedient, un-academic, loud, brilliant, hard to discipline - whatever your kids are like, whether you run your classroom like a tight ship or a party boat, they are children not military enlistees, you are an adult and they are your responsibility.

If you are a teacher and you fucking torment your students I will fuck you up. Please eat worms in a ditch. 

The idea that Snape ‘needed’ to be cruel to 'maintain his cover’ is hilarious. He went a bit above and beyond that call of duty, no? Besides, you know what’s a thousand times more useful to Voldemort than cruelty? Being someone Harry trusted, like Quirrell or Moody - a favorite teacher, an old friend of his mother’s, who when the time came could bring Harry right to Voldemort.

He was horrible to a child.

No child deserves horrible treatment.

Unless we’re talking The Omen. However, Harry Potter is not the literal Antichrist.

“But Harry’s parents -”

No.

That’s Harry’s parents. Harry was blameless. If you mistreat a child for something beyond his control - because he reminds you of the woman you loved, his existence contributed to her death, or he looks like the man you hated - you are a piece of shit.

Snape was biased against Harry from day one and willfully blind to his objectively good qualities. (“….mediocre, arrogant as his father, a determined rule-breaker, delighted to find himself famous, attention-seeking and impertinent….“  / "You see what you expect to see, Severus. Other teachers report that the boy is modest, likable, and reasonably talented.”)

Rowling herself said that if Harry was not Lily’s son, Snape would not give a single poop about him. Snape protected him for Lily. This means that if Neville had been the Chosen One, Snape would have let him die. Snape didn’t care, in principle, about the newborn baby that wizard!Hitler wanted to murder in his quest for genocide. We know this because Snape told the Prophecy to Voldemort to begin with. (“Have you grown to care for the boy, after all?” / “For him?” shouted Snape.)

Risking your life to protect someone does not absolve you from all the other shit you have pulled. Snape fans should be familiar with this concept, seeing as they often bring it up when discussing James Potter and the Whomping Willow.

He didn’t care about Lily’s agency.

Loving someone does not mean you will do right by them - not if you ignore their opinions and choices.

He was ready to sacrifice Lily’s husband and son, in blatant disregard for her feelings and the life of an innocent baby. (“Could you not ask for mercy for the mother, in exchange for the son?” / “I have… I have asked him….” / “You do not care, then, about the deaths of her husband and child? They can die, as long as you have what you want?”)

If this does not bother you, please imagine someone pulling you from a house fire and purposely leaving your child/friend/significant other to die.

What was he expecting to happen afterward? Her husband and son die, a genodical maniac wins the war, and Lily is supposed to be… happy?

He also ripped a photo of Lily with her family in half and stole it.

She was right to end their friendship. No one should have to ‘be there’ for someone who is calling them slurs and signing up to murder their friends. Suggesting that 'losing’ Lily is a valid excuse for his Death Eater involvement is gross, and you are gross. Women are not things to be won or lost.

He was deeply prejudiced.

(“Wouldn’t spy on you, anyway,” he added spitefully, “you’re a Muggle.”)

(“Mulciber! D'you know what he tried to do to Mary Macdonald the other day?” / “That was nothing,” said Snape. “It was a laugh, that’s all.” / “It was Dark Magic, and if you think that’s funny….”)

You can blame his upbringing for this, but growing up in a prejudiced (or abusive) situation does not absolve you of violent bigotry.

Andromeda Black, Sirius Black, Regulus Black, Albus Dumbledore, Dudley Dursley, Victor Krum (grew up at Durmstrang), Remus Lupin (not abused but suffered terrible pain and discrimination, partially at Snape’s own hands in PoA), Draco Malfoy (arguably), and Harry Potter all learned not to perpetuate the cycle of violence and bigotry in adulthood.

James Potter being an asshole as a teenager does not excuse Snape’s actions. Similarly, there’s talk about how awful it was of James and Harry to use Levicorpus and Sectumsempra - but Snape invented those spells.

If you don’t hold people responsible for their actions, you enable bad decisions like joining the Wizarding equivalent of the Nazis or KKK.

Snape joined the Wizarding equivalent of the Nazis or KKK.

(”I’ve made excuses for you for years. None of my friends can understand why I even talk to you. You and your precious little Death Eater friends. You see, you don’t even deny it! You don’t even deny that’s what you’re all aiming to be! You can’t wait to join You-Know-Who, can you?“)

He willfully participated in a genocidal hate group, with fun recreational activities such as torture and murder -

Of people like Lily Evans. The entire goddamn point is that Lily was not special. I don’t mean she wasn’t an amazing person, I mean that she was a Muggleborn girl in a world of Muggleborn girls being tortured, killed and terrorized. They are all Lily, and deserved to live because life is a human right - not because someone fell in love with them.  And because he turned against Voldemort for Lily, we have no proof that he would ever have rejected Death Eater values on an ethical, ideological, or humanitarian basis.

If you really need more, I have a Snape Hate Tag.

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I'm poor, and yes, I know that technically (I think) the book isn't canon, but does anyone know where I can read the PDF of "Tatooine Ghosts" online? I'm very interested because apparently Leia finds some recordings of Shmi Skywalker and I'm curious.

And if anyone already knows about the book "The Princess and the Scoundrel" or the Queen trilogy...

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The YouTube video called "Fallen Angel" where Vader visits Padmé's grave... The soldiers should have respected the mourning and left, they would have survived.

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I just saw the song "The Fruits" by Paris Dove and between "Angel, he calls me" and "I feel your hands grabbing my throat" it's Anakin and Padmé's song.

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There's a panel in Star Wars 17 where Vader tells Luke "Your strength in the Force has grown since last we met" and Luke corrects him "My connection to the Force, Vader," and this is interesting for what it says about the difference between Sith and Jedi philosophies but it's also an interesting character note that Luke feels compelled to be pedantic even in the middle of a goddamn firefight.

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Okay, I don't know where I read, but credit where it's due, that in reality, Gotham, or at least some older members of Gotham, don't believe in Brucie Wayne's facade.

Why? Because Thomas and Martha Wayne were smart, Bruce was a genius in college, he's still the head of a major corporation, etc.

And because depression medications have certain "happy" effects

So the adults who have managed to survive so long in Gotham, every time they hear about Brucie Wayne's new prank or see him taking a pill for something that happened to him while Bat-ing, they only think that he witnessed the murder of his parents at age eight.

Again I am explaining myself like a closed book, I hope you understand me.

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With how similar the names are, no one can deny that, knowingly or unconsciously, Obi-Wan named his eopie Akkani after Anakin

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People from other countries, what are you saying about the power outage? In Spain, they've already denied that it was due to weather. Now they're talking about software. And if it had been a hack, the power wouldn't have been restored "so quickly"... I was without power for fifteen hours.

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Well, I just got back from watching the re-release of Episode 3 in theaters. Damn, it's worth it.

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I need a story where Anakin is a nursery teacher at the Jedi Temple.

That's it.

Just that.

An Anakin who, although he likes the Force, although he likes ships, lightsabers, and missions, also loves spending time with the Temple's babies. Sure, they're whiny, drooling, and can hit you over the head with things that levitate. But they're also small, adorable, and have toothless grins.

So the war begins, and Anakin, when he's knighted, says, "Very well, thanks for the vote of confidence. Sorry, but I'm staying in the Nursery."

And he may be a good warrior, but what's the council going to do? Force him to fight?

And that's how Palpatine loses his favorite pawn: because of babies.

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I just found out about her, but an idea for a crossover between 911 and Percy Jackson has already come to mind: the unfortunate actress Felisa Valdez is Leo Valdez's cousin.

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I just watched a YouTube video again about that Reddit post about a crazy op who was "in love" with her married neighbor, with three daughters and a baby on the way. And then she took care of the daughters when his wife had an accident and he went to her side. Then the neighbor got the post and cut off contact with the op. Well, it's like the cliché of "mortal meets percabeth" stories, isn't it? Even because of how this op describes the neighbor and his wife.

By the way, while the op deleted the post, here's the link from someone who saved it.