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A century or something ago I posted this meme in which people could ask me to blog about something I don't usually blog about.
Now, as my new job has disastrous consequences on my leisure time and I don't get round to checking my private e-mail anymore, my journaling activities are at an all time low. But that doesn't mean I don't try to keep in the loop, and I do attempt to do something with all those hours I spend on the train. As I have no means to be on the Net while on the move, the best thing I can think of is to draw. The circumstances are not ideal, but I do manage more or less. In any case: the next entry in the meme blogging series is a picture, drawn on the train.
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ellecain asked, "What d'you think would happen if Oscar Wilde and Severus Snape met accidentally on the street?"
Well... Actually I would have a hard time thinking of two men who are more unlike. Wilde was by all accounts a charming (if pretentious) man, a very talkative man also, who liked to laugh out loud at his own jokes. He loved life, he loved art; he was whimsical, promiscuous and absolutely artistic. Of course he could be deeply serious also, and he had great learning.
Now, Snape... Frankly, I have never bought any of those stories in which Snape is cultivated or artistic, much less both. In fact I am inclined to believe that Snape would despise most of the things Wilde stood for. Oh, and I do think it likely he's homophobic, despite all the slashing that goes on in fandom. So here is what I make of that chance encounter:
;-)
Now, as my new job has disastrous consequences on my leisure time and I don't get round to checking my private e-mail anymore, my journaling activities are at an all time low. But that doesn't mean I don't try to keep in the loop, and I do attempt to do something with all those hours I spend on the train. As I have no means to be on the Net while on the move, the best thing I can think of is to draw. The circumstances are not ideal, but I do manage more or less. In any case: the next entry in the meme blogging series is a picture, drawn on the train.
ellecain asked, "What d'you think would happen if Oscar Wilde and Severus Snape met accidentally on the street?"Well... Actually I would have a hard time thinking of two men who are more unlike. Wilde was by all accounts a charming (if pretentious) man, a very talkative man also, who liked to laugh out loud at his own jokes. He loved life, he loved art; he was whimsical, promiscuous and absolutely artistic. Of course he could be deeply serious also, and he had great learning.
Now, Snape... Frankly, I have never bought any of those stories in which Snape is cultivated or artistic, much less both. In fact I am inclined to believe that Snape would despise most of the things Wilde stood for. Oh, and I do think it likely he's homophobic, despite all the slashing that goes on in fandom. So here is what I make of that chance encounter:
;-)
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I have trouble believing the Princes were an important family. We haven't heard a word about them. Though of course with all the other holes in canon that you can drive a truck through, they may have been great and wealthy regardless :P.
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::spends several moments daydreaming::
There's arguably some proof in canon that Snape can sing (the incident with Draco), although for me there's something much more intimate and expositional about singing, so even if Snape can sing, I somehow doubt that he would.
I agree with you about the Princes. I interpret Snape's nickname to mean that he is proud of being a Prince, which makes me think that it has some significance...but not necessarily importance. It's perhaps significant because the Princes used to be a well-known pureblood family, but no longer. Eileen might have been disinherited like Andromeda Black and that's why the Snapes had no money (or so we're meant to infer, I think), but I kind of fancy the idea that the Princes were like the Malfoys many generations ago and then with every generation, lost more and more money and status until by Eileen's generation, they were like the Weasleys. Except much smaller in number, heh.
I'm babbling, sorry. Snape does that to me. X)