This is the main blog for the event now (no longer based on a sideblog), if you’d like to keep track of it! We’d be happy to have you onboard in any capacity if you’d like to participate, contribute, or give advice. Thank you! xxx

— Trans Snape Week 2022 Mods 

The council has voted

Happy Snape Week is a go

Dates: 9th to 16th January 2021

Old rules apply: wholesome, happy, snep-centric stuff

Medium: fanfic, fanart, headcanon, themeboard, wrong quotes, and if you're ambitious, playlists, dances, and videos lol

If you want/need a prompt: velcro vs buttons ;)

Submissions: @ us, our open ao3 collection, our submission link

Now go forth and create!

Any suggestions for when we will have Snape Appreciation Week?

With Bring Back the Bastard still ongoing, I feel like we need at least a month's break before we can attempt another fan week. If November isn't a good month for this, with all the holidays, we can have a Snape Appreciation Week next year. What do you guys think?

Bring Back the Bastard Daily Prompts

Hello, folks! I'm posting these two weeks before we begin our fest, on September 1st, to give folks some inspiration on what to write each day as we celebrate Severus Snape's pettiest, most dastardly moments. I specifically picked out moments Snaters always harp on, that Snapedom personally enjoys--from any moment with Trevor to bitching at Lupin at Sirius, to the moments that Lily turns away and Dumbledore's face flashes with disgust--sure, he's a bastard, but he's our bastard, and that's what we like about him. You don't want him? Good. We'll keep him. Here are 30 scene prompts for 30 days--it's a long list, pulled chronologically from all seven books, but I found that it reminded me of everything I love about this character. The moments where he's called deranged, the moments where he slips into all-caps, the ugliest moments of the soul. Hope yall enjoy. Excited to kick off the fest starting September 1st, and absolutely excited to see what Snapedom will do. Let's Bring Back the Bastard! The prompts are below the readmore.

The prompts are live! 30 scenes for 30 days, starting September 1st! @dastardly-lemondrops @snapeloveposts @snapescapades can yall help promote?

but anyway I hope we get to do another trans snape week this year (looking at you @snapeloveposts ) because I already maybe have an idea for what I want to write

Bring Back the Bastard Fest

putting it out there that I'll be running a Severus Snape-centric celebration next month, reviving my absolute favorite writing fest from the LiveJournal days--the Bring Back the Bastard Fest!

This festival is meant to celebrate Snape at his absolute worst--the pettiest things he's done. Got your dark Death Eater headcanons? Your nastiest tongue-lashing at Neville as he quivers over his melting cauldron? The shittiest thing he ever said to Harry? This is the space for it!

We want your bastard!Snape!, your rude!Snape, your petty!childish!nasty!crude!Snape. No Snape hate, of course--but just a celebration of the wonderful, flawed (anti)hero that he is. Judging by how much traction this gets, I'll post a list of prompts--31 of Severus' best putdowns and oneliners, one for each day, and set up the @bringbackthebastard blog. I'll put up an AO3 collection at the start of August. Because of the nature of Snaters, we'll vet what gets added to the collection and reblogged to the blog, to make sure all our fics & art are made lovingly. I don't know about you, but I love this character because he's sarcastic and nasty--and I'd love to celebrate that side with the fandom at large. :)

I was going to participate in the neurodiverse Snape week but then I started having a depressive episode and it was hard coming up with ideas.

My contribution is Snape probably had depressive episodes where even tne idea of teaching would make him exhausted. He often relied on energy potions to get through those days.

Neurodivergent Snape Week 7: discovery ‘I believe you may have a personality disorder, Severus,’ his therapist, an older half blood woman called Greta, told him. Severus sneered and furrowed his brow.

‘A what ?’ he asked. It sounded like she was saying he was pathologically obnoxious.

‘A personality disorder. Everything you’ve described about the way you cope with stress, your attitude about relationships with your colleagues, and,’ she said, pausing. ‘Well, without touching a nerve, your sensitivity to perceived criticism.’ keep reading

That stupid check-up

It was supposed to be a check-up. Just a bloody check-up. Severus wished with all his heart that it would go unnoticed. But of course it wouldn't. With such a big amount of students showing signs of serious problems, the school hired the best phsicologists and phsichiatrists to check on the kids. But he still hoped that they would just tell him to ask his parents to take him to therapy. Yet, there he was, sitting in Dr. Anna's office, waiting for the revelation of what he'de been suspecting. "Severus's got depression." It wasn't well recieved by the family. Tobias started yelling at Dr. Anna. "THAT IS IMPOSSIBLE!" He said "HE'S JUST A KID!" Eilleen, well, Eilleen started crying. She had depression herself and the last thing she wanted was her son to go through the same she was. As for Severus, his attemp to make a shocked face went totaly wrong and he ended up with a 'tell me something new' face. Luckily, Tobias didn't notice. He wasn't very good at reading expressions, half of the beatings were due to that fact. Times when he mistook a sad defeated face with a challenge one. When he stoped yelling at Anna, she handed Eilleen a recipe for anti depressants and told them to leave. But... Tobias would never let Severus take them, even tho they were free. He didn't want a 'sensitive weak son of bitch', like he said, on his house. He gave Severus even more housework, expecting that it would heal Severus' "drama". But of course it didn't. It would just overwelm him, and, a few time later, he got diagnosed with anxiety. Yet, Tobias still wouldn't take it serious. He would hit Severus when he saw him crying, while telling him how useless he was. Anna was dead worried, not seing any improvenment. One day, when she told Eilleen and Tobias to leave, Severus ended up telling her everything. Her face was just getting paler and paler as she heard what was happening. She procedded to help Severus, going to Spinner's End daily, making sure Tobias wouldn't overwelm him. After all, that strong eight year old that showed up in her office only a few months ago, had became more than a patient. He was a friend.

Neurodivergent Snape Week 6: reaching out The end of Severus’ third year was a mixed bag. He didn’t have to see Potter and his friends for a few months. He did have to put up with his dad, though. He’d spend as much time away from home as he could, evading his dad’s anger and neediness. Even when Lily was busy, he’d claim to be going to see her and then go off to the park by himself. More and more, Tobias didn’t like for him to go off by himself.

‘If you have no good reason to go out, I want you at home,’ he’d say. ‘I have plenty for you to do here.’

Afraid Tobias might catch him in a lie, he decided to spend most of his time with Lily, even those times he’d prefer to be alone.

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Neurodivergent Snape Week 5: order and chaos

Severus had just turned 9 years old. He’d been living in Cokeworth since he was 7, and he still had no friends. Mostly, he stayed to himself at school. Other students and teachers just knew him as a rather serious, rather strange, extremely sensitive little boy. He wasn’t particularly good or bad at school. Sometimes his teachers thought he was rather bright, but he often seemed distracted, and he sometimes fell asleep in class.

He knew that his teachers thought of him as unremarkable. He took some comfort in that. In his experience, getting a lot of attention was never a good thing. Although he got very lonely at home sometimes, he dreaded the times that he got any attention.

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Neurodivergent Snape Week 4: secret world When he got in this state, he would search Hogwarts for a place to be alone. Usually he’d hunker down in some storage closet, but one day in his second year, he found something incredible on the seventh floor.

That early spring day, he was stressed. He needed to find a place to be alone, or he would lose hold of his daydream. He didn’t want to miss the opportunity for that escape. He was pacing in the corridor, thinking about how much he needed a place to play out his fantasy when a door he hadn’t noticed creaked open. He jumped at the noise and snapped his head toward it--doors opening suddenly often had that effect on him. He had no idea what the room was, but it had a magical glow that seemed to call to him.

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Neurodivergent Snape Week 3: isolation

‘Anyone can see that you push people away, my dear boy,’ Albus said. In the past five years of Severus’ tenure at Hogwarts, Albus had gone from having open disdain for him to appointing himself the young man’s mentor. He insisted Severus come by for tea in his office once a week now. Severus hated it.

‘Considering my position as your spy, I--’ he started.

‘That’s just another excuse. You’ve been doing it since long before you showed up here asking for refuge,’ the older wizard said, taking a thoughtful sip of tea and adjusting his glasses. ‘Why, just look at how you sabotaged your friendship with Ms Evans. You’d like for people to believe that wasn’t on purpose, but anyone with half a wit could see that it was.’

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Neurodivergent Snape Week 2: fixation Potions making was something Severus was able to freely exert rigid control over, and only this condition allowed him to feel comfortable enough to actually be creative. Typically the idea of being creative scared him. It required impulsivity and letting go, and these were just not Severus’ strongpoints. He’d often been accused of being tightly strung and told he should just let go and relax. People just didn’t understand that he really wasn’t capable of that.

However, when he was alone in the lab, as he preferred to be, he could set up the rigid and ritualistic conditions that allowed him to be experimental and free without paralysing anxiety.

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