[ SECRET POST #3830 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3830 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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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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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 11 secrets from Secret Submission Post #548.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

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.

[sarillia]

Wow, I haven't seen that.

[(Anonymous)]

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.

[morieris]

Yeah the second option was my first thought :/

[(Anonymous)]

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.

[miss_yuka]

"Shockingly Convincing"
lmao

"if she had written Snape as a cisgender woman, no part of Snape's story would be greatly affected."
Really, for how many characters would changing their gender actually affect the story though?

And are they seriously convinced that this bullying manchild has some sort of motherly feelings for Harry (instead of just guilt that he got Lily killed)? Jesus Christ.

[(Anonymous)]

"Really, for how many characters would changing their gender actually affect the story though?"

This, SO MUCH. I'm always boggled that Eisenhower-era thinking about gender has resurged to such an extent. The idea that certain personality traits are absolutely male, and others female, and all are mutually exclusive, and the only way to embody the 'other gender's traits' is literally to change your gender?

Such such... ugh. *smh*

[(Anonymous)]

"if she had written Snape as a cisgender woman, no part of Snape's story would be greatly affected."

Well, for one thing, unrequited love for Lily would probably be treated differently...

[(Anonymous)]

On Tumblr, a community of Harry Potter scholars

I bust out laughing at this. I'm sorry.

[(Anonymous)]

"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."

Yeah, isn't it weird that a character in a world where witchcraft exists, who practices witchcraft, and actually teaches at a school for witchcraft, would be associated with WITCHCRAFT, of all things? Why else would the author have done that, unless it was to say something about the character's gender?

[(Anonymous)]

geez, that statement is sexist as hell.

Because no one but an ovary-carrier could have aesthetic appreciation of a craft?

[soldatsasha]

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???

[sarillia]

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?

[(Anonymous)]

Did he ever give her a hickey, because....

[greenvelvetcake]

SHOCKING NEW HARRY POTTER THEORY FROM EXPERTS ON DREAMWIDTH!! IS TONKS SECRETLY ALSO A WEREWOLF?

[(Anonymous)]

"experts"

[(Anonymous)]

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

[(Anonymous)]

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.

[(Anonymous)]

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?

[(Anonymous)]

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.