....-.-

[reenka]

Now... if you make fun of me for this, I will be very sad. Sad, I tell you! So like... don't. Okay, then.

Eeeeeeee, I just found this gorgeous goth Snape photography site(!!). Snape being all melancholy in a graveyard (well, and on Lily's grave, but it doesn't matter), and it's so beautiful and omg, real, somehow and now I want to write beautifully-grieving!Snape which is just... kind of disturbing and OOC, but who cares!!

Ack, I have such a not-so-secret fetish for goth photography and this is giving me a serious squee attack!! Aaaaack! I feel all Victorian and swoony now!! Saaaave meeeeeeeeee....! (Or, well, save Snape, I suppose, heehee.)

No, seriously, this is a very striking image to me. So many people draw Snape as all menacing-yet-sexual or just menacing or um... dryly sarcastic-- I love this vulnerable, self-destructive man. Paaaaain, my pretty. I like the paaaaaain.
    And this definitely makes me want to write (bad) fic of some sort. *siiiigh* 'He' seems younger here, and... I dunno, I'm just a sucker, what can I tell you??! (There's just... something about a man in black out cold on cemetery steps. *weeps* Are my roots showing?)
    There are more Snape portraits here, but uh... they're not as... convincing, shall we say :>

...just leave me to my gothy woes, dammit.
/over-defensive

EDIT - Eeeek! I feel like some love center in my brain just -burst- or something!...!..!..!! My dear woobie adorable raging 11-year old!Harry!<3333!! Aack, Glock's Harry is my faaaaavorite <33333333333

Comments

[penelope-z.livejournal.com]

Perhaps we can commission something...

I'm curious, which grave did you substitute Lily's with? I can't imagine Snape in such a state over anyone's grave, unless he's got a really bad hangover.

[malafede.livejournal.com]

Meh, because I am obsessive, I always go back to Draco dancing on Harry's grave. I wonder if I could write a fic about it. It wouldn't be long. Draco would compose lyrics to dance to.

"You're dead!
I'm not!
Ahahah!
I always said you stink!
And now you stink even worse!
Ahahah!
Who's the hero now!
I am the hero!
Someone starts writing!"

etc.etc.

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

...he sounds like a little goblin from a fairy-tale. Like Rumpelstiltskin :> Or Gollum. I can definitely see Draco as Gollum -.-

[malafede.livejournal.com]

...he sounds like a little goblin from a fairy-tale. Like Rumpelstiltskin :> Or Gollum. I can definitely see Draco as Gollum -.-

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

....AHAHAHAHAH. um. I just meant that duuuude Draco-as-Gollum is not a pretty image in my head. And also that yah, he is that pathetic. Hence the "-.-" heheheh.
... -.-
:D

[malafede.livejournal.com]

Gollum is the shit.

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

I like him as a character, man. It's just... I wouldn't want to slash him with Harry, for instance. If you know what I mean :>

Y'know... small... green... insane... that kind of thing :>

[malafede.livejournal.com]

You just inspired me to write fic. I spent three hours doing research on the hp lexicon. How professional of me.

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

I didn't think of a specific person from canon--I was seeing him more in a state of despair over his own life. The grave was just a convenient thing for him to lean on while he was regretting his own situation, so he didn't even know whose grave he was at!

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

Yeah, exactly!! :D!
*is all happy* I love it when you say things for me >:D!
Snape's 'state of despair' is something I'm really fascinated with-- most people seem more interested in his bitterness or sarcasm or Slytherinness of whatever sort, but I'm (as usual) more into the pale underbelly of it all. I think I've never really felt like I had a 'grasp' on Snape 'cause people's ideals concerning Snape don't tend to touch me.

And all of a sudden, this Christian-mystic approach with the focus on despair, guilt, wretchedness, forgiveness & self-sacrifice (monastic ideals of sorts) really resonated with me. And it's not that I think Snape -does- act like that, but I think there's a useful symbology there to work with (for me) in understanding him better and attuning myself to him as a character.

I sort of want to write a post about all this (that sort of ascetic/monkish mysticism when applied to Snape), but I don't quite know where to start. It's such a weighty subject, and I'm slightly afraid I'll be laughed at ^^;;;

[malafede.livejournal.com]

this Christian-mystic approach with the focus on despair, guilt, wretchedness, forgiveness & self-sacrifice (monastic ideals of sorts) really resonated with me.

Also with the impossibly judgemental mentality: only person in the world he respects is Dumbledore, because he thinks Dumbledore is Christ or something. Anybody else is unworthy.

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

...I find it funny that the only 'non-judgemental' characters would probably be the Hufflepuffs and the Hufflepuffs we know are Ernie Macmillan & Zach Smith, both rather judgemental -.-

I'm actually unsure how he gets on with McGonnagal, for instance. I think he's just really hard-put to find anyone better/more intelligent/powerful than him that is also a compassionate human being (or a student, hahah). Actually, the Dumbledore thing makes sense if you were once Tom Riddle's follower, since Dumbledore's supposed to be the only wizard as powerful as Tom :>

[ladyrelaynie.livejournal.com]

I always get the feeling (or maybe I just like to think) that Snape gets on rather well with Professor McGonaghall. I always think of the Gilderoy Lockhart/Ginny disappearing scene in movie!Chamber of Secrets . . . united in taking the piss out of Gilderoy, they act like comrades, somehow. Also, in OoTP when Harry's about to curse the crap out of Draco and McGonaghall interrupts, there's a certain lightness to the conversation between her and Snape.

Also, Reenka ... I'd love to read that post about monastic!Snape, and thanks for the pictures, they made my day.

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

Hehehe if I wanted a friend for Snape, it'd be someone austere and no-nonsense who wouldn't take any of his shit, preferrably female 'cause he'd prolly get more defensive/stubborn around men. :D :D Heeee. Men are like that, it seems like-- some, anyway-- they seem to open up and/or become more communicative (if not soften) around a certain type of female. Even gay men, like.

I know what you mean about those scenes, yes. And now for some reason I'm having a weird association between McGonnagal & Katharine Hepburn o_0

[malafede.livejournal.com]

What about Susan Bones?

[malafede.livejournal.com]

He's grieving on his own grave for the waste that was his life?

[malafede.livejournal.com]

Dumbledore.