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“It was our wedding, yet not in chapel walls. The scent of the lilacs was strong in the rain... and when I reached the altar, you weren't there... Standing before me, all in black... was... Death.”

Nosferatu ✏️

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just remember it could always be worse. we could still have PE.

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This!

And there’s no canon evidence he interacted or attempted to interact with her at all after the incident. No mention whatsoever.

The only time we see him “watching” her is when they first meet and he’s just a little boy, probably nervous and anxious, hoping to make a friend, waiting for the right moment to finally say something.

And the one thing I see repeated so often is that he was obsessed with her, because he still loved her “after all this time?”

Just because a person has died doesn’t mean we stop loving them.

It also has a lot to do with that he feels guilt and remorse because he’s the one that passed on the prophecy which resulted in her death. He spends the rest of his life trying to right that and to help take down the wizard who did kill her. Not because he was “obsessed”.

Like, you wouldn’t try to do the same if you were in his shoes?

I don’t understand their logic.

The insistence on portraying Severus’ love for Lily as “creepy” and “incel-ish” is so strange because there’s just no basis for it in the text. Every single headcanon about him stalking her or using legilimens on her when they were teenagers is OOC fanfic. The most they can tear their fucking ligaments stretching for in canon is to say Severus standing outside Lily’s dorm room to APOLOGIZE (when she’s the one who left him to be physically abused by multiple people while unarmed) is “violating boundaries”. Which is real rich from people who find James trying to blackmail Lily into going on a date with him after she’s repeatedly said “No” charming. Apparently when it’s conventionally attractive neurotypical rich boys breaking sexual and romantic boundaries it’s “cute”. When hooked-nosed, greasy-black haired, neurodivergent-coded poor boys have any (possibly) unrequited feelings for an innocent pure little white girl, it’s predatory and disgusting by default. Hmm… nothing to read into there!

Also, the books never even confirm that Severus was romantically in love with Lily, that’s commonly inferred but you can definitely read it as Lily was just his first real friend. Friendship is consistently the most important relationship in the series, Lily is to Severus what Ron and Hermione are to Harry. Was he in love with her? Probably. If their friendship hadn’t broken up, I’m sure they would’ve ended up married because there was tension from both sides for sure. But his devotion to her memory after she was dead I believe had far more to do with the friendship they had than any romantic relationship he may have wanted. And an “incel” is a member of misogynistic hate groups or a man who responds to rejection with violence, they see women as purely objects who owes him sex. No incel on Earth would risk his life and do a job he hates out of honor, love, and loyalty to a woman he will never be able to have sex with except in the afterlife, learn what words mean.

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NOSFERATU (2024) + ❄️ dir. Robert Eggers

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Nosferatu ✏️

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“He was probably the bravest man I ever knew”

My charcoal pencil drawing of Severus Snape in a copy of the Half-Blood Prince

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“All work and no play…” ✏️

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Betelgeuse and Lydia's Wedding - Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)

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Maggie 💔✏️

A charcoal drawing I did of her in a copy of the Chamber of Secrets a few years ago

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Midnight Mass ✏️

A little graphite pencil study in my sketchbook

Thought I’d share this again

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“More human than human…” ✏️

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Rhaenys Targaryen and Meleys HOUSE OF THE DRAGON S02E04 | Alan Taylor

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“I am the sea” 🐙✏️

Davy Jones in my sketchbook

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Midnight Mass (2021) || Book V: Gospel (1.05)

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Jane Wyatt & Mark Lenard as Amanda Grayson & Sarek

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“I go to my fathers, in whose mighty company, I shall not now feel ashamed” 👑✏️

RIP Bernard Hill

Done in both graphite and charcoal pencils in my copy of the LOTR

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Hamish Linklater photographed by Jenna Jones.