Snalendar 2023 Artist Call

The artist call form is live, you can find it here.

If interested in participating, please submit your name and contact information before August 13th. If more than 13 artist respond, 13 names will be drawn at random. 

Stay Snappy! 

Final call for artists. The form has closed but if someone missed it, please shoot a dm at @snalendar-snofficial :) thank you

Snalendar 2023 Artist Call

The artist call form is live, you can find it here.

If interested in participating, please submit your name and contact information before August 13th. If more than 13 artist respond, 13 names will be drawn at random. 

Stay Snappy! 

How to get the Snalendar 2022

Hello snovelies. Would you like some Snapes to brighten your 2022? You would? Great news! The Snape Calendar (or Snalendar) 2022 is almost here, featuring 13 unique pieces of Snape artwork created exclusively for this project. 

2021 has a lot of us feeling like we could use a change, so the theme of the 2022 Snalendar is Snape with alternate careers. Keep your eyes open for teaser images on this blog. 

Follow the directions below, and you will receive a .pdf file, a calendar featuring the artwork of our talented artists. 

Step by step guide to getting the Snalendar

!! Our distributor will start sending out the files in late December. You may send proof of donation earlier to make sure you get your files as soon as they’re available

!! Keep in mind that the sending of the files is done manually by one person. It may take a while for you to receive yours. If you have any questions or want to make sure we received your proof of donation, please contact snalendar@gmail.com. 

!! After our distributor sends you a link to the files, you have one week to download them from the server. If you miss this window, no worries, just contact us at snalendar@gmail.com to receive a new link. 

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Snassembly

/snə-ˈsem-blē/

Snalendar 2022 Artist Call

Hello, snovelies. 

The Snalendar is looking for illustrators for the 2022 edition of the Snape Calendar. We’re doing things a little differently this year. Anyone interested can submit their name and names will be drawn at random to decide the illustrators. 

The names will be pulled around August 11th. If your name gets pulled, @snalendar-snofficial will contact you on Tumblr around August 11th-August 15th. People who aren’t chosen will not be messaged. If you have any questions, please contact either @snalendar-snofficial on Tumblr or send an email to snalendar@gmail.com.

If you’re interested, please follow this link. 

Did this last year for @snalendar-snofficial 2021

Tip the artist? | Commissions are open!

My art for January for @snalendar-snofficial

Snalender May 2021

The one thing that will always get to me about Severus Snape, was that he never had a chance to be happy after he’s played his part in the war. He was miserable his entire life, and if anything in the HP series, it’s that he had no chance at redemption

The worst moment is when it dawns on him that he was planted with the Elder Wand, and he realises it’s all over.

I suspect Snape probably believed he’d perish before the end of the war; it’s hard to see how either side would let a spy or a traitor survive, and when he agrees to off Dumbledore, Snape effectively signs his own death warrant.

But I can sort of imagine that whilst Snape possibly had a rather cavalier attitude to his own life, by those final few hours, I think he may have hoped that he might see the end - that he might witness Voldemort’s fall.  I think he spent a very lonely year, and I think he may have desired redemption - he may have wished to see Minerva rocked by the revelation that he was a good guy after all.

The curious thing about Snape is that we see so little of him, so we know very little about what (if anything) interests him.  We know he’s a teacher out of necessity and not perhaps interest - but underneath his snark, does he like teaching, or does he despise it?  We know he’s a competent fighter, so would he have had aspirations to be an auror in a different world?  Or would he open his own Potions apothecary? 

But we know so little about Snape, and what we do see rather suggests someone entirely disassociated from the world (his lack of interest in his appearance, his lack of interest in his home at Spinner’s End), and we have barely any indication of friendships or relationships - which would all be tainted by his spying. 

The only thing we really know about Snape is that his remorse over Lily was enough for him to dedicate his entire adult life to the cause.

I’d have loved for him to have survived, but because we know so little about him, I struggle to imagine him post-war.  After 18 years of fighting, spying, betraying…  I can’t imagine what he’d want to do next. 

For so many of the characters, the war is an awful problem that they wish would go away so they could go back to their previous content lives (e.g. Weasleys) - but for Snape, you can’t help but feel that it gave him a reason to live.   If Dumbledore hadn’t required Snape’s assistance with Harry, then I don’t think Snape would’ve made it to 1982 - let alone 1998.  

This is such an interesting perspective on Snape, particularly because it manages to both align with and diverge from my own headcanons about him. I always had the impression that the state we saw Snape in shortly before his death (e.g. pale, stumbling over his words, etc.) was more than just the panic and desperation of wanting to find Harry before he died. I also tended to interpret it as evidence that, for better or worse, Snape may also have still not wanted to die. 

Yet, like @deathdaydungeon I also believe he was aware of the implications of him being planted with the Elder Wand, which always added to the tragedy of that scene for me given Snape knows what is coming for him and he’s terrified because deep down he no longer wishes he were dead and he does want to survive, not just to find Harry and fulfill his role but for his own sake. And he certainly doesn’t want his final moments of life to be spent in the Shrieking Shack of all place yet, in spite of all too human fear, he still continues to play his role until the bitter end because everything depended on it. 

That thought always delivered a bit more of a gut punch for me. The idea of a Snape who may have known the likelihood of his death but still didn’t want it and feared it all the same. A Snape who came full circle from the young man in his 20s whose grief and guilt had him lament his own life and devote himself to protecting Harry for Lily to die as the man who intrinsically valued life (of others and his own) and who died not out of guilt for Lily or as recompense to her but for the sake of the cause he had come to believe in as strongly as her. 

That breaks my heart to a million pieces.

I’m writing a fanfic where Sev duels Voldemort in the end if that makes all of you feel better.

I just forgot to add: Remember when Snape learned he had to tell Harry at the last moment that he had to walk to this death for a sacrifice? How he blamed Dumbledore for raising Harry like a pig for slaughter, and Dumbledore says “don’t be shocked, how many men and women have you watched die” or “we have protected him to let him try his strength”, Harry who had the Horcrux implanted in him?

Well now it’s Snape’s turn to learn at the last moment that he was planted with the Elder Wand and had to die; that he’s been raised like the pig for slaughter as he was “trying his strength” for redemption, just to be killed like another of Dumbledore’s sacrifices.

It’s like another wonderful post said: Snape is horrified on Harry’s behalf, but it‘s been him, the pig raised for slaughter. Another clue as to why Harry and Severus are so much alike.

In the end I think he was attached to life. Even if Rowling said he could have saved himself but he didn’t want to… That was the moment where he knew everything had been planned to that specific moment, his death, Dumbledore’s greater good. That must have been too much to bear. He let go. But he desperately needed some kind of redemption, he did everything he could to become the best version of himself despite being so bitter and traumatized. He had wanted to live, there had to be a moment in which he said: fuck you Voldemort, fuck you everyone, I’m going to fucking live and fucking love again, shame on everyone who think I can not.

After all this is what Alan Rickman said about Snape’s future:

«He might get married to somebody beautiful and live happily ever after and stop wearing black.»

Alan Rickman during the Prisoner of Azkaban Premiere, on what he would like to see happen to Snape in the future movies.

Alan—tearing my heart away—Rickman; this is basically what I want for post war Snape x Happiness.

Snappiness

Noun, singular, feminine

Snape × Happiness, the happiness Snape would get if he survived.

Not to confuse with:

Snappy-ness

noun, feminine, singular, also written: snappyness, snappiness (homonyms)

Being snappy, being like Snape.

ex: believing in snappy-ness is believing that you can be snappy, which means being happy and and snappy like Snape, or happy being like Snape and snappy, or a Snape that’s happy and snappy.

@snictionary

snappiness (posted Aug 30th 2018)

Thank you for your snontributions for additional definitions!

snapeling

/ sneɪplɪŋ /

noun plural: snapelings

A valid question from @pommur

I would personally call anyone who's younger than Snape was when he left the death eaters a snapeling. So, assuming you're not new to the Snapedom, in which case a person of any age can be a snapeling, you stop being a snapeling around 21.

A bit of information

The site we use to send you all the Snalendar files only stores the shared files for a week. If you missed that window and can’t download them, don’t worry, just contact us through email at snalendar@gmail.com or Tumblr and our distributor will share them again. We know when someone wasn’t able to download the files and don’t want anyone to miss out on lovely Snape art just because of a missed deadline. 

Snappy New Year everyone!

- The Snalendar team

How to get the Snalendar

updated 1.12.2020

It has been a crazy year. The Snape calendar is almost here to hopefully improve any Snape fan’s 2021. The new Snalendar will be released at the end of December, but you are more than welcome to make your donation already.

Follow the directions below, and you will receive a .pdf file, a calendar featuring the artwork of our talented artists. The calendar will be available until April 30th.

Our team has picked two charities this time. To get the calendar, you must make a donation of 10 USD to either colorofchange.org or ilga.org  

Step by step guide to getting the Snalendar

Our distributor will start sending the files at the end of December. Keep in mind that this is done manually by one person so it might take a few days for you to receive yours.

Thank you.

- The Snalendar team

The first round of the Snape calendar 2021 files are being sent out today. Thank you everyone who has already donated for your patience. 

- The Snalendar team

Could I interest you in some Snape for 2021?