*grumbles While Sobbing In A Corner* Motherfucker Has Me Crying And I Haven’t Even Seen The Damn Special

TBE - tired bitch energy

How I feel when I'm reading a really good fanfic and the author hasn't updated in over a year.

Louder for the people in the back please!

I know this has been discussed to death but

The double standards anti-Snape people have regarding his behavior as a child/teenager are like... ridiculous.

When other characters display immature and bad behavior as children, it's attributed to them being just normal, ignorant, immature kids who can't be expected to know any better yet.

When Snape does it however... it's him being BAD and evil on purpose, because for some weird reason his haters just expect that he, a neglected and mistreated child, should know better? It's like he's not allowed to be an ignorant kid like the others, as if he should be expected to act like a mature, mentally sound adult (that he never was) all the way back when he is an actual child, and when he doesn't act that way, it's taken as proof that he's choosing to be human excrement and deserves everything bad that happens to him.

When James butts into his conversation with Lily on the train and insults the house he wants to go to? It's James just being an ignorant, stupid kid with no self control yet – it's no big deal. He's just being a kid.

When Snape hits back and insults James' favorite house (in a much milder manner even)? He's openly disrespecting James' opinion AND insulting James' family for being Gryffindor – what an intolerant douche! He should act more mature and know better than to take the bait!

When Petunia disrespects him on the playground? Well, she's an ordinary, middle-class child, how can we expect her NOT to judge that greasy weirdo from the bad neighborhood jumping out from the bush and claiming to be a wizard? That's just how children are – they judge other kids for being weird, because they don't know any better. It's no big deal. She's just being a kid.

When Snape retaliates and is more or less like 'Well I don't respect you either, you're a muggle and you don't matter to me'? He's an evil bigot, judging Petunia for something she can't help. How dare he not turn the other cheek and act kindly and respectfully towards her, even if she doesn't do the same for him? It would be the right and mature thing to do.

When the Marauders as teenagers create a magical map that they can use to invade others' privacy by practically stalking their location at Hogwarts at any time, it's just wholesome and endearing, a cool thing for a brilliant and mischievous group of friends. When 11-year-old Snape and Lily read Petunia's letter from Dumbledore (because he's curious about a muggle writing to Hogwarts), it's a borderline criminal breach of privacy, an awful act of disrespect and most importantly, all his fault.

The list of examples could go on and on.

People act like Snape owes respect to people who disrespected him first, but they don't hold other characters to the same standard. It's so ridiculous. You just know that if it was the other way around, if young Snape was the one going around disrespecting others first, everybody would be cheering the insulted characters on to hit back at Snape twice as hard. You just know. It's in the fics.

But Snape is different. He's ugly and weird and poor, so he should just accept some amount of disrespect and disdain from his betters other people. He is not allowed to hit back at all – he is expected to respect everyone around him regardless of whether they have earned it, yet nobody else is expected to give him that same basic respect. It just rubs me the wrong way.

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Words to describe facial expressions

Absent: preoccupied 

Agonized: as if in pain or tormented

Alluring: attractive, in the sense of arousing desire

Appealing: attractive, in the sense of encouraging goodwill and/or interest

Beatific: blissful

Black: angry or sad, or hostile

Bleak: hopeless

Blinking: surprise, or lack of concern

Blithe: carefree, lighthearted, or heedlessly indifferent

Brooding: anxious and gloomy

Bug eyed: frightened or surprised

Chagrined: humiliated or disappointed

Cheeky: cocky, insolent

Cheerless: sad

Choleric: hot-tempered, irate

Darkly: with depressed or malevolent feelings

Deadpan: expressionless, to conceal emotion or heighten humor

Despondent: depressed or discouraged

Doleful: sad or afflicted

Dour: stern or obstinate

Dreamy: distracted by daydreaming or fantasizing

Ecstatic: delighted or entranced

Faint: cowardly, weak, or barely perceptible

Fixed: concentrated or immobile

Gazing: staring intently

Glancing: staring briefly as if curious but evasive

Glazed: expressionless due to fatigue or confusion

Grim: fatalistic or pessimistic

Grave: serious, expressing emotion due to loss or sadness

Haunted: frightened, worried, or guilty

Hopeless: depressed by a lack of encouragement or optimism

Hostile: aggressively angry, intimidating, or resistant

Hunted: tense as if worried about pursuit

Jeering: insulting or mocking

Languid: lazy or weak

Leering: sexually suggestive

Mild: easygoing

Mischievous: annoyingly or maliciously playful

Pained: affected with discomfort or pain

Peering: with curiosity or suspicion

Peeved: annoyed

Pleading: seeking apology or assistance

Quizzical: questioning or confused

Radiant: bright, happy

Sanguine: bloodthirsty, confident

Sardonic: mocking

Sour: unpleasant

Sullen: resentful

Vacant: blank or stupid looking

Wan: pale, sickly

Wary: cautious or cunning

Wide eyed: frightened or surprised

Withering: devastating

Wrathful: indignant or vengeful

Wry: twisted or crooked to express cleverness or a dark or ironic feeling

I mean i 100% agree with this, but when you go somewhere that clearly stated that the actors wouldnt touch you ( there was a special thing where they could touch you but i in no way shape or form spent money on that shit) and then half way through one actor grabbed my arm (resulting in a huge hand bruise), i screamed and told him to let me go your hurting me, and he said no im not you bitch, and ended up not letting go till i kicked him in the man junk. So yes i agree not to harm the people you pay to scare but if they harm you well... a girls gotta do what a girls gotta do.

When you go to a haunted house, it may seem like you’re being funny by trying to scare the actors or jump out at them when you go through a second time, but guess what? ITS NOT FUNNY.

You pay us to scare you. It is your choice to go, so don’t fucking go through if you’re going to ignore the rules and get too close to the actors as a ‘joke’.

These bruises happened because over the course of 4 hours, several people ignored the instructions that CLEARLY stated that they were to wait in the front room until told otherwise. Rather than listen, they ran into the next room and slammed into me- effectively throwing me into the wall. This didn’t only happen once. It happened ten times at LEAST.

Then we had this asshole who thought that once I ‘died’ for the haunt, he could pretend to kick me to see if I’d moved. I, being used to people abusing me- jumped back and slammed my head into the concrete wall.

YOU ARE NOT FUNNY BY BEING RUDE AT A HAUNTED HOUSE. WE ARE PAID ACTORS THAT YOU CHOOSE TO COME AND SEE PERFORM. YOU PAY US TO SCARE THE SHIT OUT OF YOU, SO DONT HIT US WHEN WE DO

I feel that this is relevant considering it is October and more Haunted Houses are opening up. I know it seems funny to scare the ‘monsters’ but all you do is hurt real people. So stop.

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