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[ SECRET POST #3830 ]

⌈ Secret Post #3830 ⌋

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[Drake Bell and Josh Peck from Drake & Josh]

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[Death in Paradise, Ardal O'Hanlon]

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[Dreamwidth Roleplay]

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[Final Fantasy X & X-2]

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[Outlander]

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[Animal Crossing/Legend of Zelda]

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[Daredevil TV]

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I'm angry. Angry about Harry Potter headcanons.

Now you know you can't say that and not tell us whose and whats.

It's a reaction to the "Snape is a trans woman" piece that's going around the Internet. And really headcanon is the wrong word, because of course it doesn't bother me at all as a headcanon or an interpretive reading of the text, or even as a fan theory.

But framing it as a revealed truth, the way the piece does, is just fucking weak.

Wow, I haven't seen that.

Please don't tell me it's just because of the thing where Neville made an image of Snape in his grandmother's clothes? Or just because Snape is an outcast?

Actually, the second one would bug me more because the first one is just obviously stupid, but the second one seems like something some people would latch onto. I'm getting really tired of the outcast/misfit = LGBT thing some people have been pushing lately.

Yeah the second option was my first thought :/

https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/bjx8xm/the-shockingly-convincing-argument-that-severus-snape-is-transgender

Like

I don't think any of the arguments advanced are necessarily unreasonable, in and of themselves, when you're talking in terms of a relationship with the text and an interpretive strategy that goes beyond the text. Like, really, all you're doing in that case is choosing to emphasize specific textual ambiguities and use them for your own purposes. Which is fine. Going beyond the text is a fine way of reading. I have no beef with doing that, and I think the actual Snape fans in the piece mostly frame it that way (feels like ~80% percent).

It's really the Vice article itself that's framing it as HIDDEN SECRETS OF HARRY POTTER REVEALED that bothers me. Especially because it 100% is not a HIDDEN SECRET OF HARRY POTTER in any kind of authorial intent sense, I tell you that much straight off the motherfucking press.

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Wow I just read that and... good lord. “I can’t fathom Snape not being trans. The contextual clues all point to it." Really?

And their contextual clues are that Snape is protective of Harry (bc only women are protective apparently), his patronus is feminine, and also that the Snape-boggart gets put into women's clothing???

They use his feminine patronus as proof? Did they miss the fact that it represents Lily? Is Tonks secretly a werewolf because hers turned into Remus?

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yeah like

it's tricky, cause if someone just wants to take those elements and elaborate on them, I think that's great and dandy, but at the same time, there just is a massive distance between that and textual clues allowing us to conclude anything

And Hermione thought his handwriting looked feminine! Or claimed she did, since she was obviously trying to make a point about how one shouldn't assume an unknown person is male, and Harry and Ron weren't really buying it.

Trans woman Snape's Lily fixation would play into all kinds of icky predatory trans/predatory lesbian tropes, though.

Also, it's the Wizarding World. How would she not have just fucking transitioned via magic, already?

Yeah, even if a method didn't already exist, I feel like Snape the crazy obsessive Potions genius would have moved heaven and earth to devise one, so.

Yours or someone else's?

I had to blacklist muggle because of all the stupid muggle headcanons that I couldn't get away from.

Wait what on earth is a muggle headcanon. "I headcanon that they don't enjoy using machines to go from place to place"?

I'd like to know too.

I remember muggleborn headcanons being a thing last time I was on Tumblr. All these ideas about in-jokes they would have that the purebloods wouldn't understand that got old for me pretty quickly.

More like this:

https://goo.gl/images/xcXGVH

https://goo.gl/images/kJkRpx

https://goo.gl/images/obzQ83

Oh I like some of those, honestly. The Spongebob one is kind of weird because while it did have cultural osmosis around the world I don't think it'd be something so popular multiple students would get at once.

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Anon is probably talking about those muggleborn headcanons that make the rounds on tumblr. Where people list off all the wacky hijinks muggleborns would surely get into at Hogwarts, like making lots of modern pop culture references to smart off in class or whatever.

They're... pretty dumb.

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I really hate them, so very much. They're never funny culture clash, they're all "muggleborn are so cool and awesome and purebloods are stupid backwards hicks."

Like I especially hate the "Muggleborn has a patronus that's godzilla/The Rock/Elsa From Frozen/Bandycoot Cumberbund and all the purebloods are all O_O SO KEWL OMg!" Like in canon it's pretty obvious it's a normal animal, and if it could be something weird then why wouldn't purebloods have dragons and gryphons and thunderbirds and shit? They're going to go "That's a weird ugly dragon, what kind of dragon is that?" Not "OMG GOJIRRA!!!!111!!1evenentyone!"

There are some of those I liked, but mostly because I always found it a little weird that apparently all muggle-born witches and wizards would ignore muggle things that would probably be a lot simpler than the wizarding equivalent. Like, why would no muggle-born kids ever prefer taking notes with a ball-point pen in a notebook over doing it with a quill and ink on parchment? I've done calligraphy, that shit takes forever to dry!

But the pop culture focused ones get really obnoxious really fast.

Me, I'm loling:

When Snape tells the class that she doesn't "expect you will really understand the beauty of the softly simmering cauldron with its shimmering fumes, the delicate power of liquids that creep through human veins," she invokes classically feminine witchcraft symbolism.

Or he's a guy who's really into cunnilingus.

Well, in some of the fic I've read...

I will agree on that. Wink wonk :V

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