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The Apothecary Diaries as Text Posts

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The mentality some people have that Snape wasn't a victim of bullying because he wasn't "the perfect victim" is so dangerous. Yes, you may be talking about a fictional character, but it's a daily reality of how society refuses to take victims of abuse seriously just because they chose to fight back. People in this fandom feel so comfortable saying things like "Snape wasn't an innocent victim who has no possibility to defend himself, he's not innocent" or "Snape was not a helpless victim of bullying" without feeling the slightest bit of shame.

He was forcibly stripped naked against his will in front of a crowd. "But it's okay, because everyone was laughing, he clearly deserved it."

He was nearly killed by a prank from one of his bullies, "He deserves it, it's his fault for going there alone at night."

He was ridiculed with a mocking name for 7 years, his name replaced with a dehumanizing one: "Snivellus, he deserves it."

Severus Snape was 11 YEARS OLD when the bullying started. Severus Snape hadn't even arrived at Hogwarts when James and Sirius were already calling him "Snivellus" and making fun of him. Severus Snape had to endure the teasing, harassment, and dehumanization by the Marauders. to him for 7 YEARS

And not once, NOT EVEN ONCE, was there a responsible adult who stood up to him or put a stop to the bullying. The fact that so many people believe themselves worthy and better than him to come and judge him for being a scared, defensive teenager who had to learn to defend himself is outrageous.

Because it's easier to blame the victim, isn't it? It's easier to say it's his fault for causing a scene and disturbing the peace of others than to keep quiet and endure it like a "good victim" would, because it's easier to say he deserved it, because it's easier to condemn and judge one's future than to risk the bright and promising future of four others who were just boys being boys.

And I repeat, it's the fact that they feel so comfortable admitting and saying this kind of thing that bothers me the most, because all they do is NORMALIZE AND JUSTIFY abuse, create a victim prototype where if a person steps outside the parameters considered acceptable, then they no longer deserve justice or empathy. It's creating the idea that abusers are more deserving of empathy and a good future, while the victim is frowned upon for holding onto resentment and refusing to forgive someone who never offered an apology.

A victim doesn't become less deserved of empathy just because they fight back, and the bully isn't any less innocent because their victim resists.

So let's get this clear, Severus Snape IS/WAS a victim of bullying, this is a canon fact and you guys can tried to twist the narrative, try to paint him as the bad guy for standing up for himself, but that won't erase the truth.

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Waking Up 💚💜

(please Tumblr don’t make me censor this 😭)

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Anon should invest that energy for the REAL LIFE racist white men.

For real!

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jinmao <3

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yeah ignore my ask the way you previously ignored all the woman of colour who called you out for worshipping a racist white man💀

I don't even remember who called me racist and when? And how can I know if someone on tumblr is a woman of colour? You all are some pixel on a screen and usually the propic is not a photo of yourself (mine too, ehy that's my cat anon!) 💀☠️

Yeah keep hating and trolling as you want 👌🏻

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the way you talk about snow and snowbaird makes me think you dont give a fuck about racism. multiple woman of color told you that hes a racist misogynist and you keep defending him and downplaying his actions. you can ship what you want, but at least embrace the fact that hes an abusive piece of shit instead of deep-throating him like a handmaiden.

I... What? 😂

Well, belive what you want, anon. I don't have energy to deal with anon hate today nor to give in and go in a rant defense. This ask speaks more about you than me 😂

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Loved your Tom/Eileen fic! Will you write fluff on then someday with a happy ending

Sorry if I am late to reply, anon!

Right now I am in a bit of a writer block ^^" but who knows?

Thank you for your love 💖

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Bro I’m gonna have a fucking conniption over my cnap class

This fucking teacher has done fuck all but assign us work and tell us to do our dual enrollment work.

THEY HAVE NOT FUCKING ONCE TOLD US HOW TO DO SAID WORK!!!

THEN THEY JUST SAY “aSk YoUr ClAsSmAtEs FoR hElP” MOTHERFUCKER THEY DONT KNOW IT EITHER

TAKE YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR ASS AND TEACH US SOMETHING INSTEAD OF BRINGING IN SOME DICKHEAD TO HAVE A NETWORKING OPPORTUNITY

FUCK SAKE

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Sunrise on the Reaping Review 🪺

This was absolutely too long for storygraph so here are All Of My Thoughts. Please be warned, it grew legs. Spoilers are marked!

I approached this book with a fair bit of caution. I love Suzanne Collins and I think her books are often misinterpreted or dismissed just because the way they’re written is accessible to a younger audience, and I really didn’t want this to turn out to be a cash grab given it’s now the second prequel to the main series. BUT I think in the last few chapters of the book I was convinced that it kept true to the overarching messages of the hunger games universe, it made me cry, I think it was extremely important that this story in particular did not have a happy ending and I think S.C. did an excellent job in landing that message with genuine emotional weight.

I was pleasantly surprised with how well the story fits with what we already know from the existing books without feeling like it’s re-telling something we’ve heard. The details of the Games (that become edited out for the final cut Katniss and Peeta watch later) are filled with new messages unique to this particular time period in this universe. Above and beyond this, they are also a well-executed mechanism for introducing plot that we haven’t seen before within a story that we have.

The story

mild spoilers (general discussion of character development) ahead!

Throughout the book, we know how Haymitch is going to end up, and we already know a fair amount about how the story must end. I found that this was necessary to ground a lot of the earlier scenes, through his sardonic commentary and general perseverance in the lead-up to the Games; without this impending doom I would have found some chapters unrealistic or suffering from typical YA narration (derogatory).

One of my favourite parts of the original series is how realistically Katniss’ mental state is narrated for the stress she’s put under, and how she doesn’t suffer at all from God’s Special Narrator syndrome. She’s often rash, late to the point, or oblivious to herself and others; none of this is spun in her favour, nor does it feel cherry-picked for the plot. It just informs her decisions, relationships, and the way the plot unfolds, in a way that feels completely organic.

At times I worried that Haymitch lacked this depth. Perhaps, it was the contrast with his older and more complex character in the main series that made his younger counterpart feel a little too confident and naïve. By the end of the book, though, I felt he had come into his own; mostly because S.C. really Knows How To Write Grief.

Message

Spoilers for plot ahead!

In terms of message, I think this book fit nicely inbetween the two existing storylines (tBoSaS and tHG). If tHG was about awakening the courage to overthrow an oppressive regime and the cost that doing this good still incurs (with large doses of a ‘lesser of two evils’ and ‘ends justify the means’ deconstruction in Mockingjay), and tBoSaS about what structural and societal evils may allow this kind of regime to implement itself successfully, then SotR was about the dangers of idealism - heroism, martyrdom, bold or impulsive strikes - against oppressive regimes.

Suzanne Collins’ messages are always directly related to the political landscapes she writes from. When writing tHG (and please take this with a pinch of salt as I was not very politically sentient when these were released), 4th-wave feminism was just beginning to gain traction, and criticism of the US’ publicly broadcasted decades of military intervention was increasing in volume. It’s my opinion that the message of tHG responds and contributes to this landscape with a story that highlighted what she saw as the problems with this society through a caricature. The message I take from the original series is that uprising and revolution can be absolutely and clearly necessary, but that that does not make it straightforward, painless, nor - crucially - righteous, as both a source of hope and warning to budding revolutionary ideals across the country. I could write an entirely separate post about this, but I am restraining myself.

The environment that tBoSaS responds to is one of Trump’s imminent re-election, where people both American and not seek discussion of how oppressive attitudes were able to gain such influence. The message of this book, following a young aspiring Snow, is that evil is (specifically ‘evil’ leaders such as Snow are) fostered through small, reinforced acts rewarding those in power for contributing to a structure that harms those it is designed to. In the original trilogy, even in his old age and after decades of spearheading the Games, Snow is never reduced to a two-dimensional evil - in contrast, the rare information we are given about his actual person is very humanising. Katniss and Haymitch, 24 years apart, both find their impression of Snow to be that he is startlingly mortal. The prequel doubles down on this - Snow starts the book a morally fairly neutral character, self-centred but motivated by those he cares about. Again and again, he and the people around him are punished for compassionate or humane acts, and rewarded for upholding the status quo or for ruthless ambition. I could ALSO write an entire post on this, if you can tell.

What I’m leading up to is that SotR is also Suzanne Collins shining her particular torch on today’s issues. The world Haymitch lives in is bad, bad enough that many conspire to rebel at his own games 25 years before the successful revolution, but importantly - it doesn’t work. Some characters just die, the rest are psychologically maimed in a way that ensures they understand the might of the regime well enough to completely resign themselves to it, and their plans are all completely and utterly foiled and scrubbed from history such that nobody will ever know they tried. Haymitch begins the book acquainted with the capitol’s evil, but not directly at the butt of it: he knows hardship, but not true fear; he knows love, but only distantly knows loss; as such he is strongly motivated towards bold and idealistic plans against his oppressors without realistic fear of the consequences.

He may of course be suffering from being a teenager, but I believe Collins’ message to today is that people who are not fully aware of the capability of their opponent make poorly-made and overly heroic plans for revolution, and their efforts are not rewarded, not even as martyrs. The regime only better learns how it might stamp out dissent.

This feels particularly relevant for a large portion of Collins’ intended audience - the Average™️ American, particularly pro-revolution instagram activist girlbosses, the primary consumer of dystopian fiction - who, whilst rightfully angry about their government and the oppression it keeps them under, do not know war, and in that sense are immature compared to the state. Particularly with the absolutely bleak ending to this book compared to the resolution of the other two storylines, I feel that Collins is trying to emphasise that an oppressive regime cannot be defeated without being able to fully understand its horror, and attempting insurrection whilst naïve to your enemy will cost you and any insurrective movement gravely.

My final thoughts

I think Collins doesn’t consider the American people well-equipped enough to carry out the change they wish for their government, and I think this book serves as yet another overarching warning against the horrors of war, for any cause, for any side.

As always, the book contains easter eggs of criticism on current events: an allegory for generative AI is even mentioned, and her (negative) opinion of it is made clear. The interplay of mass entertainment and violence is discussed again in a new, intermediate angle that slots perfectly between the raw and unpopular Games of tBoSaS and the highly polished and commercialised Games of tHG. This theme will always be relevant - humans have used violence for entertainment even in our most ‘civilised’ eras, hence the nod to the Roman allegory in the name of the setting, Panem - but as always, Collins’ commentary is both eternal and current.

It’s still not my favourite out of the universe - the original series remains in first place - but I am pleased to be rewarded for my faith in Collins’ writing 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

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Everything will be okay, Sev.

I need to pay this month’s bills, so I’m opening commissions 0/5.

DM

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Hug your weird dungeon dweller friend today! He needs it

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I think so many fan accounts who have years of their own fanlore, victors, etc..are letting their bias speak for them when it comes to SOTR. Saying its badly written, a bad book. No. You're just upset that SC, the author and literal creator of the hunger games universe, is invalidating your headcanons. I'd be annoyed if I was her, if I wrote a book for a series I created, and random people on tumblr started claiming they know better than me about my own characters. No, sotr isn't badly written. You just don't like that your incredibly niche headcanon about someones aunts gran isn't true. I mean I've seen people complaining about Asterid's name for fucks sake. No book is immune to criticism. But when this is coming from people who also claim the character are OOC (theyre HER characters. SHE KNOWS THEM BETTER THAN YOU! you're just a fan) it's like..just admit it. It's so insignificant but it's something that immediately annoys me. It's a pet peeve. If you hate the canon material so much then don't engage in it.

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“wyd?”

thinking about how pretty “lenore dove abernathy” sounds

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The silly photos I share with my husband and besties and the more "curated" photos I shared elsewhere, like on my socials, are two completely different things enterely. It's almost scary how a simple angle can change everything in a matter of seconds.

It’s been said before but don’t trust before/after photos from anybody trying to sell you something. Posing and lighting (not to mention more egregious tricks) can make a person look totally different in a matter of minutes or hours.

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marauder stans ☕️

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I read the first as "Snily" and yep, that too 😂