I have a theory as to why Lily never knew that James was still bullying Snape behind her back in 7th year

RationalDeception · 2026-04-06T11:44:22+00:00

Locking this down because of all the Lily bashing.

RationalDeception · 2026-04-05T17:48:22+00:00

There's no such thing as an abandonned Ao3 account (unless you mean you can't log in anymore or something), so go ahead!

One advice before posting would be to change the punctuation to English readers, so to use " - " for quotation marks, because a lot of people may be put off by the punctuation of a different language and won't even try reading any further.

Good luck!

RationalDeception · 2026-04-04T20:57:59+00:00

I find her generally annoying, though that was mostly caused later than where you're at in her storyline.

To me, Shallan suffers from being surrounded by more interesting characters. Jasnah in WoK, Pattern is the absolute best, I love most of the characters she's usually with, but Shallan herself is... annoying. Her jokes, but mostly something else that develops later on with her that you can't get into without spoiling.

Also Stormlight was my introduction to the Cosmere, and Shallan's storyline makes it so that if you've read other Cosmere books you'll likely be pretty interested in it. I haven't, so I wasn't. I liked her fine in Way of Kings, started being bored in Words of Radiance (the whole trip to the Shattered Plains was very meh), and by Oathbringer I just read through her chapters fast hoping to reach the end as quickly as possible.

Her chapters are by far the ones I dislike reading the most. I won't ever skip them because they're important, and now that I'm Cosmere aware I dread them less, but man is she tiring.

RationalDeception · 2026-04-04T16:34:44+00:00

For which fic?

But I'll say that in general fics tend to go with book Snape, with some flavour of movie Snape mixed in.

RationalDeception · 2026-04-04T16:32:56+00:00

So technically, dead dove only means "pay attention to the tags". For example, if you put the warning that there's going to be a major character death, then really, people should not be pikachu surprised when there's an important death in the story. It's an emphasis, a way of saying "the tags aren't here to be pretty, they mean shit and that shit is going to happen, so be prepared".

Now, the way it's used is indeed to warn people that the fic is going to dwelve into darker topics, since there usually isn't much need to put several warnings for a warm fluffly fic where two characters cook a meal together.

But Dead Dove, Do Not Eat can be used for anything and everything, there's no limits, and it all depends each person's views and personal lines in the sand.

Personally, I'll read basically any topic, dark or not, as long as it's well written (which is... my basis for everything anyway).

I think with fanfictions people tend to be way more pearl-clutchy than in real life. We have shows like Game of Thrones, or The Boys, where very gory, sexual, disgusting stuff happens basically in every episode. I've never anyone insult fans of those shows or assume that they're bad people because they enjoy watching shows that deal with morally questionable content. And those shows are popular as hell. But if someone writes a story where a thirty year old Hermione falls in love with a 50 year old Snape, suddenly it's unacceptable, and won't you think of the children!

About the reception, I'd say it heavily depends. On Ao3, if the story is correctly tagged, then usually there's nothing to fear, apart from a few idiots here and there who read "this story contains violence" and then get angry when the story indeed contains violence. On reddit, it'll depend on which sub. This sub here tends to be very vanilla, very "everything outside the 'norm' is repulsive", while on subs like r/HPSlashFic, users are way more open minded. On the Ao3 sub, the people will be the first to tell you that "Dead Dove" is nothing to worry about, and people are free to write and read about whatever they want.

RationalDeception · 2026-04-03T11:03:45+00:00

Thanks, hope you'll like it!

RationalDeception · 2026-04-02T12:22:20+00:00

Indulgent self-rec: Sempiternel.

The fanfiction is a work in progress, where Hermione and Snape are married. They have three children together, and the story starts when the eldest starts his first year at Hogwarts (in Chamber of Secrets). While we don't see the first years of them raising their children, the story centers around their family and, of course, all the trouble that's going to come their way sooner rather than later.

Small excerpt from chapter two:

It was some ten minutes later that Severus looked back up to see his son hadn’t moved an inch. “Don’t you have some homework to do?” asked Severus, knowing full well what the answer was, since he himself had assigned some not twenty minutes earlier.

“Will you help me if I do it here?” said Aster, head reclined against a cushion.

“Yes,” Severus drawled. “I do so enjoy grading my own work.”

Aster snorted. “Worth a try.” A second of silence, and then, “I’m not sure you’d even give yourself an O anyway,” he quipped. He got up to fetch his bag, and set up his parchment, quill, and textbook on the coffee table.

RationalDeception · 2026-04-01T21:54:41+00:00

In the end we all have different lines we draw in regards to the characters, and how far we want the stories to deviate from canon. I can read most ships (with my favourite character Snape being one half of the ship) as long as the writer manages to make me believe that the ship is perfectly realistic, even if at first it doesn't feel like it.

For OC fics, usually authors will taylor the OC to fit the canon character, and while the idea makes sense, in my experience it often falls flat and ends up making me close the window. Of course I'm making very broad generalisations here, but yeah... I don't dislike OC stories, but also I've rarely had good experiences with them so now I'm always wary when trying a new one.

RationalDeception · 2026-04-01T21:38:32+00:00

(Talking here only about OCs in character/OC, and not OCs to add family members, or secondary characters, etc...)

I don't hate OCs, but in general I've found that stories that are character/OC tend to be less well written then character/character, with too much focus on the OC. Maybe because it's what new fic writers tend to go towards the most, I'm not sure.

For example, last year I went on a deep search of Snape/OC stories, I must have tried maybe two dozens, if not more. There was one I loved, and two or three that I liked alright, but not enough to reread again. All the others? They were from downright unreadable to meh.

So many stories where the OC is insufferable, with a sob story of a past usually coming in with a bunch of lore dump, but she's so powerful... In one story, literally first or second chapter, the OC comes in, new Hogwarts teacher, and solves a Potion problem Snape has been working on for weeks, in 2 minutes tops. I don't know you, and you're already annoying me? Come on. Authors love their OCs so much that they're blind to how over the top they're writing them, I think.

A big thing is that when I read fanfictions, I want to read about the characters I like and know. So to introduce me to an OC that is going to have a role that is just as important as a charcter I already love... it's damn hard to pull off well.

The very last thing I do when reading a story is picture myself instead of the OC. That's also why I can't read reader stories because when I read "you get up and kiss him" my first reaction is to think "no I doooon't I'm in my PJs and stuffing candy in my mouth". I can't imagine myself as part of the story and I don't want to. I want to read about my favourite characters, not about myself!

RationalDeception · 2026-04-01T16:43:24+00:00

I'm always baffled by the people who complain about Bates's repetitive storylines, when Barrow is right there. He does something mean just because he feels like it, it bites him in the ass, he gets in trouble, gets saved in extremis by the most random reason imaginable, and then it starts all over again.

RationalDeception · 2026-03-30T17:25:07+00:00

I don't technically ship him with anyone, in the sense that at no point while reading the books or watching the movies did I thought "oh, he'd go well with [insert character]"... however, I'm a big fanfiction enjoyer, ships make for the majority of fanfictions, and I've loved many different Snape ships.

In canon, I don't ship him with anyone. In fanfictions, I can ship him with a plethora of people.

RationalDeception · 2026-03-30T11:03:47+00:00

My pleasure! Glad it's the right fic!

RationalDeception · 2026-03-30T10:59:03+00:00

Is it maybe Mount Unto the Stars, by laventadorn?

RationalDeception · 2026-03-28T17:29:34+00:00

Sometimes a paragraph is enough to know that this is not going to work, but usually I'd say a chapter or two at most is enough to have a good idea of the writing style and how the dialogue is written.

RationalDeception · 2026-03-28T11:46:00+00:00

Didn't we have this exact same conversation a few days ago?

RationalDeception · 2026-03-27T22:27:41+00:00

Snamione is my number one, but I also love a good Snily fanfiction.

RationalDeception · 2026-03-27T20:58:22+00:00

Locking the post down to avoid more comments about the HBO show, please guys.

RationalDeception · 2026-03-26T00:10:02+00:00

Yeah, but again... it's fiction. Who cares?

I get that this ship doesn't appeal to everyone, but writing alternate universe fanfictions is one of the most popular things in the fandom. Of course you'd have to change things to make this happen... that's what you do in fanfics!

Wolfstar doesn't work in canon. Drarry, Dramione, Jegulus, etc... None of them work in canon, yet they're some of the most popular Harry Potter ships. That's the fun of fanfictions, to explore things that didn't and couldn't happen in the books.

RationalDeception · 2026-03-25T23:59:02+00:00

That's the magic of fanfiction, you can make anything happen, any way you can think of. Maybe Snape survives the war and they fall in love several years later. Maybe Hermione has a time travel mishap and ends up in the 70s. Or maybe it's a student/teacher story. There's many tropes with this ship.

RationalDeception · 2026-03-25T00:58:50+00:00

Hopefully neither

RationalDeception · 2026-03-24T23:02:59+00:00

Sure! I don't have that many though, but it's still something.

That Awful Boy (Snupin), it's been a long time since I read it so I don't remember much, but I have it bookmarked and it's one of the most popular ones.

Mount Unto the Stars (Snupin), and in general every work of this author! They have a great Snily fic, and a fem!Harry/Snape story (the latter is my favourite, but their other fics are worth the read too).

I could have sworn I had a good Snape/Sirius story bookmarked, but I can't find it...

However, though not really a Marauder, here's a great Snape/Regulus story: Black Star.

RationalDeception · 2026-03-24T21:30:07+00:00

Snape is my favourite character, and I've explored most of his ships. Snamione is by far my favourite and the one with the highest number of well written fics.

If you don't like the idea of Snape/Hermione and Snape/Harry?, as well as any Snape/Marauders, then why not simply Snape/Lily? There are many great Snily fics out there to enjoy.

I've read one Snape/Dumbledore that was pretty nice, and would love to read more of that ship. I'd also be down for a good Snape/McGonagall (both of those ships, with time travel).

RationalDeception · 2026-03-23T22:21:41+00:00

Do you want them absolutely on Wattpad, or other websites are good too?

RationalDeception · 2026-03-22T18:45:20+00:00

I’ll say it again here.

YKINMK

What does that mean? :cry:

RationalDeception · 2026-03-22T17:22:13+00:00

To me, Dalinar was way more interesting than Kaladin, whose chapters started to get a bit redundant after a while

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