pervy snape fancier

I'm very amused that DanRad's guest star bit on an episode of The Simpsons to be aired next year is an Edward Cullen parody.

Is every character getting their own Big Bang now? I've seen Sirius, Severus, Ginny, Hermione, George (I think? might be wrong), I could swear there was a Weasleys-collectively one, and now Draco. Sheesh.

Happy belated birthday to venturous1/venturous!

sailorlum pointed out in prof_snape that the words being sung by the choir in that HBP deleted scene (where Severus is standing so moodily and dramatically, among other things) are these:

In Noctem

Carry my soul into the night
May the stars light my way
I glory in the sight
As darkness takes the day

Ferte in noctem animam meam
Illustrent stellae viam meam
Aspectu illo glorior
Dum capit nox diem

Cantate vitae canticum
Sine dolore actae
Dicite eis quos amabam
Me numquam obliturum

Sing a song, a song of life
Lived without regret
Tell the ones, the ones I loved
I never will forget
Never will forget


I don't know if this was written specifically for the film, and I'm guessing in any case they meant it to foreshadow what's about to happen to one Albus Dumbledore, but still. *shivers*

Thats yer horoscope 4 2day by ~ChiboaTheRat on deviantART

*snickers*

If you have a hard time reading the pink text or in fact getting the joke at all, it says

CAPRICORN!!
The stars say that you're an exciting and wonderful person
But you know they're lying
If I were you I'd lock my doors and windows
And never never never never never
Leave my house again

which is a snippet from a Weird Al song, "Your Horoscope For Today" (see this on YouTube for instance).

...lookigotnuthinitjustmademelaughokay??

So there's a deleted scene from HBP recently released that's making the rounds (first one here; the other two are behind the scenes clips I didn't watch), and it has a few seconds of fantastic dramatic Snape content prior to the Astronomy Tower scene, that you really gotta wonder why they cut out of the film, unless because it makes it too obvious that he doesn't want to do what he's about to do. But yeah, it's just oh, oh Severus *heart breaks*. If you don't care about the other two, here it is:

Disclaimer: Do not take too seriously; I am not necessarily saying the fics in question are bad ones. Sometimes they are horrible, but more often they are just mediocre, and sometimes quite okay, but they all had something in their summaries that I found goofy, misused, or amusing in some other way.

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Oneshot, Hermione died and somebody has to pick up the pieces.

Since the killer had used liquid nitrogen and a sledgehammer.

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A new Fifth Year Girl has the Marauders of Hogwarts feeling nervous and unsafe. What is it about this new girl that has them feeling this way?

Her .50 Desert Eagle?

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Here is a story about Harry and his life it will be very AU starting in the muggle world. james and lilly are alive but has not raised harry. he was kidnapped by OC and will live with this man for some years. but he will know about magic slash .

He's in for a treat, then, as those of us who already know about magic slash can tell!

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I submitted some fic prompts to hp_art_tales. I dunno if anyone will take me up on any of them, but it's worth a shot. I'm toying with the idea of maybe trying to write for someone since they're allowing a really long time (over four months), but if so, maybe I won't do it by officially signing up to write. Not like someone would turn down a fic for their art just because it wasn't in an official venue, right? I dunno, though, of the other 89 comments (not sure how many are art, but artists can submit up to 10, so there were numerous options) nothing has yet turned my crank, possibly because there's somewhat of a dearth of Severus Snape (of course, my standards on what would constitute sufficient Snape are certainly unusually high, and possibly downright absurd ;) ).

In the process of cancelling my Blu-ray order for the first two "ultimate editions", I actually read the list of the features and includes. I'd been focusing on the content of the discs, really, not looking at the rest of it, when trying to figure out if there was something the Blu-ray had that the DVD did not. Then I saw this:

Collectibles include: 48-Page Photo Book with never-before-seen images from Years 1-7 and 2 Ultimate Edition Character Cards (Card No. 3: Rubeus Hagrid, Card No. 4: Severus Snape)

I actually squeed. God, I'm such a fangirl. *eyeroll*

(Actually, I suppose it wasn't a given -- at two cards per film, that's only sixteen cards and he could easily have gotten left out. I wouldn't have put it past them.)

Quote from a fic (which it seemed at first was kinda trying to be "My Immortal" maybe without knowing that existed, and while it shares some characteristics, is really its own majestic sort of fail):

I entered Snape’s house and saw he was nowhere in sight. At least he wasn’t here. I hated him around no privacy. I sat at my laptop and saw Spade was online.

elethian: Apparently Snape has the internet? [at Spinner's End]
enotsola: Maybe she's pirating wi-fi.
elethian: *sporfle* LOL! from where??
enotsola: ...Starbucks?
elethian: *dies*

A while back I pre-ordered the Blu-ray versions of the "Ultimate Edition" or whatever they're calling it of Sorcerer's Stone and Chamber of Secrets. In the process of proving last night that the thing in the Fry's ad which showed a set of all five films on Blu-ray was not this edition, but just a boxed set of the films, I noticed that the "Ultimate Edition" is also available on DVD for about ten bucks cheaper.

I thought well, there must be something extra on the Blu-ray version, or maybe I didn't know I had a choice. I looked at both pages on Amazon, though, and aside from the fact that the Blu-ray crams both the theatrical and extended cuts on a single disc whereas that takes up two discs in the regular DVD version (3 discs and 4 discs total, respectively), I couldn't see any difference.

The television that is hooked up to our Blu-ray player (read: our PS3) is, um, kind of the opposite of HD, so while we can watch Blu-ray discs we don't get to see any of the actual benefit of buying in that format. So unless there's something different about the content, there's really no reason for me to pay the extra money.

Can someone reality check me here, and make sure there's not something I'm missing? Because if not, I think I'll cancel the Blu-ray order and go for DVD instead.

from a recent post by Wil Wheaton:

I've been struggling lately to turn a lot of ideas I have into actual stories. I kind of feel like my writing mojo has taken a temporary leave of absence, and the harder I look for it, the harder it is to find. It has been incredibly frustrating.

This morning, in Warren Ellis' BAD SIGNAL e-mail, he said:

At least half of all writing involves just sitting and staring into space. Letting your brain out to hunt down ideas, bringing them back all warm and bloody between its teeth.

This is something that I knew to be true, but had temporarily forgotten. As writers, it's vital that we meet our deadlines, of course, but we also have to build time into our work schedule to read books, take walks, visit doctor whisky, play with our dogs, and do the other things that may not look or feel like work, but are integral to our creative process.


The image of one's brain as a cat or hunting hound bringing back warm, bloody game was amusing. Also, IHNJ, IJLS "doctor whisky". lol.

discussion on fanfic and copyright

This doesn't sound right to me. Despite the OP's having "talked to a copyright lawyer" and "looked it up" (re: US copyright law) I think there may be some misunderstanding and also some mixing up of copyright and trademark. My understanding is that when I write a story featuring Harry Potter at Hogwarts or anything else recognizable from the series, yes, I am making use of someone else's intellectual property without permission, i.e., I am infringing on JKR's rights (setting aside for the moment arguments that fanfiction should be considered either 1. parody or 2. transformative enough to be protected also, edit: "use of property w/o permission" =/= "infringement" under all circumstances, obviously, and I didn't mean to imply such; I was referring to this specific kind of use, and whether it is "transformative" or merely "derivative" and therefore typically requiring of authorization remains undecided). But the specific sequence of words I choose to set down my plots and descriptions, isn't that copyright mine as soon as I manifest it, like any other work? For example:

"I was just curious," she continued in the same low voice, and let one corner of her mouth quirk in what she hoped was a cutely mysterious fashion. (She was only eighteen, after all, and just starting to learn the fine art of seducing eighteen-year-old boys, something which was probably easier than she suspected at the time.) "I wanted to... I wanted to see you."

That's an excerpt from one of my Lily/Severus fics. Is this passage magically the property of JKR because I happened to use characters recognizable as her creation? (notice that they are not named here, although they are elsewhere) She (or her agent) can tell me to cease & desist and/or claim damages, but that doesn't transfer the production/distribution rights to her, does it? It just means that her right to dictate how her intellectual property is used trumps my right to produce/distribute my own (infringing) work?

edit: Long story short, I'm correct that those rights don't somehow lie with the creator of the original work, and the OP has since corrected herself (nothing to do with me, I didn't comment there). Those interested in this topic may like to read elf's comments on the subject on my DreamWidth post, since she's someone I consider very knowledgeable about this sort of thing (dare I say, immersed in it).

Snarry 3 by ~Umino-aka-Morskaya on deviantART

So sweet. I love Severus's glasses and apparent age and the contented familiarity in him ruffling Harry's hair.



Connichi 2009 - poking Snape by ~HowellJenkinsSama on deviantART

There are some other photos of this interesting Snape cosplay as well. Normally I would say that nose prosthesis takes it over the top into slightly cruel caricature, but somehow it really brings this particular costume together.



The Long Road by ~TGP on deviantART

I loved the moody colour and how a frightened child grows into a sullen teenager, a disaffected adult, and then a total mystery with his back turned to the viewer. Very simply drawn but quite effective.



The Banes of Her Existence by *Vizen on deviantART

This made me LOL IRL. Just look at Severus and Minerva's poses and expressions, and Albus's drink with the umbrella! Poor woman, being headmistress and sharing an office with those two...

( ten fic recs behind the cut: gen, Severus/Lily, Harry/Draco, Severus/Harry, Sirius/Harry )

I've been sitting on these for a while not feeling very articulate or creative. Not that I do right now either, of course, but I'd rather they were out of my inbox without the total cop-out of just deleting them outright. So I give you one of the Fandom Top Fives I was asked back in September.

from janus:
5 fave wizarding artefacts (includes sweets).

I don't know if you meant to include things like potions in this, but I'm going to include one.

Amortentia -- I think the way it smells different to each person and telltale of the object of their affections is neat. I wonder, though, does that mean that if two people are each in love with the same person, does it smell the same to each of them? Or could there be some variation based on what each person personally associated with the object? And would it change if you got dosed with it? I.e., if person A gives Amortentia to person B, would the scent of it change from hinting at person C to person A for the duration? And what if there's no one in particular you're attached to at the moment -- do the scents somehow symbolize what you're attracted to in general? (Or is that what it's doing anyway?)

The Knight Bus -- It's wacky and all, but it's really a very impressive feat of wizarding engineering when you think of all the spells that must be involved in its operation.

The Marauder's Map -- Ethical implications aside, how genius do you have to be to cook up that kind of magic when you're ~16?

Pensieve -- Being able to replay memories like recordings would be great. None of this degenerating "Well, I think it went like this, but um, I don't really remember..." business.

Fred & George's Daydream Charms -- Thirty minutes, wow! Hard to find time for that in my day nowadays. I wonder how much control the user has over the content.

Disclaimer: Do not take too seriously; I am not necessarily saying the fics in question are bad ones. Sometimes they are horrible, but more often they are just mediocre, and sometimes quite okay, but they all had something in their summaries that I found goofy, misused, or amusing in some other way.

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(I appear to have lost the link to this one... oops)

Rebecca Johnson is your worst nightmare. Sirius Black is every girl's dream boy. They say that opposites attact... but that's just one part of this couples' story.

elethian: So... Rebecca is the opposite of Sirius? And a Black is the opposite of a Johnson?

enotsola: That's not the way I hear it.

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Hogwarts newest 6th yr isn't all that she seems. Selene and Harry

Ohhhh dear god KILL IT WITH FIRE. Selene Tournetquet, no less. (Hmm, suddenly I have a better idea than fire...)

become best friends and as the year goes on find out about all of Dumbledore's manipulations. Soon Draco and his family will become involved with them. Pairing: Selene/Draco Harry/ secret

Who's strong enough for a man, but made for Harry.

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(please also note the title of this fic: Salviles Severus Salazar Tobias Prince Snape)

This a story about Severus Snape and Febrir Snape's son. Fenrir Grayback is nice and not a werewolf and not a deatheater.

And heck, just not Fenrir Greyback.

Also i change his apprince and personality. He is considered a female so he can bear children like any female.

Wouldn't it have been faster to start from scratch, rather than disassembling an existing character and putting him back together all backwards and upside-down?

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I just saw a summary on FFN that mentioned Harry's godmother coming to fetch him when Sirius died. Obviously this is an OC and no such person is mentioned in canon, but it's an interesting idea; godparents usually come in pairs. Who do you think might have been Harry's godmother, if anyone?

LOL, wrisomifu. For those who can't hack NaNoWriMo, there is Write Something You Miserable Fuck! Never mind novels or fic, just do 10 minutes a day of whatever crap you can possibly squeeze out.

...How sad is it that I know I can't even do that? (because despite it being permitted, I know you don't want 10 minutes a day of shopping lists.)

Disclaimer: Do not take too seriously; I am not necessarily saying the fics in question are bad ones. Sometimes they are horrible, but more often they are just mediocre, and sometimes quite okay, but they all had something in their summaries that I found goofy, misused, or amusing in some other way.

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Harry finds his true love in the most unlikely place. Will he be able to have the woman of his heart or will he be doomed to live a life of Unrequited Love.

Sorry, Harry, but there's only room in this series for one dark-haired hero carrying a huge torch for an unattainable woman.

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Just a small drabble set in Hermione's and Harry's Transfiguration class. Stupid.

Well excuuuuse me! How was I supposed to know that without reading the summary? Talk about your hostile attitudes, sheesh.

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Huh. I didn't know the Joker wrote Harry Potter fanfic.

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SIX PAIRINGS I LIKE:

1. Severus/Lily
2. Severus/Sirius
3. Severus/Harry
4. Severus/Draco
(seeing a theme here?)
5. Severus/Regulus
6. Severus/James (done carefully!)

THREE SHIPS I'VE ABANDONED:

I don't think I've ever really "abandoned" a ship. These are more like "things I tried and do kinda like but never cared enough/had the time to really get into":

7. Sirius/Regulus
8. Harry/Draco
9. Severus/Lucius

THREE SHIPS I'VE NEVER LIKED:

10. Severus/Hermione
11. Harry/Ginny
12. Severus/Dumbledore

TWO SHIPS THAT HAVE PIQUED MY INTEREST:

ummm...

13. Severus/Sinistra
14. Fred/George?

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