Rec! Rec! Rec!

[sigune]

While I'm hanging around, I must take the opportunity to pimp two gen rec lists:

ani_bester is setting up a Gen Art masterlist

and

chthonya is setting up a Gen Fic masterlist.

Please, dear flistees, help Gen survive in this harsh world of fandom, where the poor phenomenon is threatened by strangulation with smut, kinky hanky-panky and other porn. Please recommend any Gen gems you may have encountered during your roamings on the web, and vote for those you like that are already on the list, so that we may all share in them!

Comments

[sigune.livejournal.com]

NO, not Snape Manor?!?! Honestly!
...Well, I suppose I say that because I never ever would have connected Snape to any manors, even prior to HBP :P. I should give it a try...

[thirteen-ravens.livejournal.com]

Lol - and he's a Pure Blood in this fic too... Just thought I'd warn you of that as well! XD

But of course, we knew he couldn't be a pureblood because of the matchbox quote.... (*snicker* Do you remember that old PRESTO discussion back in 2003?)

But yes, the "Snape Manor" thing has always been quite laughable. (As if whatever he owned was going to be grand and in good condition!) I always thought he would be in either some old and tatty 1930's semi-detached house in suburbia somewhere, or some dilapidated house in woodland (Like Mr Rochester's "Ferndean" in Jane Eyre...the Gothic Character rears it's head again it seems...LOL :P)
But then Mr Rochester is probably also to blame for all the Manor ideas....
*sigh*

[sigune.livejournal.com]

LOL! No, I can't remember the matchbox discussion - I made my début in fandom in February 2004 :D. I'm not sure how to explain it, but from my earliest fandom days I never could believe that Snape was a pure-blood, was rich, or was in any way aristocratic, though I was always firmly convinced that he must have been jealous of those who were. I didn't even think about the matchbox quote, though it does have a point; it was just a hunch based on his general behaviour (and the spitting, perhaps?).

It sounds unforgivably vague, I know, but I cannot pinpoint what made me think that way. Maybe it was also the fact that I found no interest in writing about a rich pure-blood aristocrat; there was much more conflict and irony in a poor young man of mixed blood who pretended to be one, and Snape fitted that so well. From the first I gave him a pure-blood mother (okay, I have to admit she was pretty aristocratic, but very poor :D), a father with a Muggle mother, and a small house in a suburb of London (yes, I was obviously totally wrong geographically, but as I wanted to know what I wrote about I had to make him live either in London or in Oxford, LOL).

I have to admit being allergic to Rochester- or any other Byronic Snapes XD. Frankly I can't see where they come from either. That's why I joined that excellent institution, PRESTO!

[thirteen-ravens.livejournal.com]

I agree about the spitting too. Aristocrats don't spit. As far as I remember Draco never ever does anything like that. But me, I went to a basic state school where a lot of the guys (and some of the girls) spat because for some bizarre reason it made them look "well hard" and tough.
My current idea is that Snape's father was definitely a manual labourer, perhaps a steelworker. Definitely a tough Muggle, though not half so horrible as fandom often depicts him. (I still think he married Eileen for genuine love - no trickery involved.) If we ever get to hear about him I'll bet Snape inherited a lot of his father's hardworking attitude.

I was just looking back at the old threads for the matchbox and came across this very interesting point made by Dark griffon.

"It is not his name that makes me 'tick' and by the way>>>>>also 'sever' in Russian means 'the North'"

Knowing what we know now...that Snape's a Northern Lad....that's quite interesting!

And it appears I started the mint sauce debate back on PRESTO IV. (Because people were arguing about Snape's culinary tastes) *snigger* I totally forgot about that.

And I also said, "I see him as a red wine drinker, though. - so maybe he has the odd urge for the continental stuff."

adred agreed with this too, (she of PRESTO lurkdom, and also the stories about Snape/Narcissa in a relationship.) We got together to read book six and we both almost spazzed out when we got to Chapter two...red wine and Snape/Narcissa in one chapter!!

(But back then I was also convinced that Snape was polyjuicing as Lucius for Death Eater meetings. Er, how about...no... XD )

Ooh....long reply....bit like my PRESTO posts...*snerk*