I could have embedded many more art links, but I assembled this whole thing between the unholy hours of 3 and 5 o'clock in the morning, and it occurred to me I ought to stop at some point and declare it mandatory sleep time.
Oh, I wouldn't claim this is completely representative of my views on Snape. I don't know if I have a definitive Snape, to be honest (although sometimes I'll read a fic and be smitten with the certainty, "This is it. This is perfect." And then I'll despair.) This is just me seizing on certain aspects of canon and leaning on them hard to counteract authorial influence. There's a fluidity to fictional characters that allows for different versions in different contexts. I certainly feel that way when I'm writing Snape; it's the Snape to fit a specific occasion, as it were. Also, I was so far past the point of exhaustion when I wrote this it was inevitable a little feverishness would creep in. There are approaches to Snape that don't get a voice here because I'd taken the theme in my teeth and was having too good a time running with it.
Argh, can't you give me a little hint about your own 'third' view? (In quotes because I suspect we shouldn't stop at three - there are Snapes yet unmeta'd roaming around out in fandom.) How other people perceive my favorite characters is endlessly fascinating to me. The problem with meta is that it steals time that would otherwise be devoted to writing fic. (Er, in some ideal universe, that is.) So if no hints are forthcoming, I'll be good and wait semi-patiently until your next story appears.
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Re: Why Snape? - pt III
Date: 2014-02-14 05:21 am (UTC)Oh, I wouldn't claim this is completely representative of my views on Snape. I don't know if I have a definitive Snape, to be honest (although sometimes I'll read a fic and be smitten with the certainty, "This is it. This is perfect." And then I'll despair.) This is just me seizing on certain aspects of canon and leaning on them hard to counteract authorial influence. There's a fluidity to fictional characters that allows for different versions in different contexts. I certainly feel that way when I'm writing Snape; it's the Snape to fit a specific occasion, as it were. Also, I was so far past the point of exhaustion when I wrote this it was inevitable a little feverishness would creep in. There are approaches to Snape that don't get a voice here because I'd taken the theme in my teeth and was having too good a time running with it.
Argh, can't you give me a little hint about your own 'third' view? (In quotes because I suspect we shouldn't stop at three - there are Snapes yet unmeta'd roaming around out in fandom.) How other people perceive my favorite characters is endlessly fascinating to me. The problem with meta is that it steals time that would otherwise be devoted to writing fic. (Er, in some ideal universe, that is.) So if no hints are forthcoming, I'll be good and wait semi-patiently until your next story appears.