sigune: (Oscar)
sigune ([personal profile] sigune) wrote2008-04-02 10:29 pm

2.

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.

[livejournal.com profile] 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:





;-)
ext_53318: (Young Wilde in a Hat)

[identity profile] sigune.livejournal.com 2008-04-03 07:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you!

Yes, you are right, Wilde very simply wouldn't like the sight (and grease) of Snape to begin with :-). There would have been far more chance of a chat if he had been blond golden-haired and angelic Greek-looking, no matter his temperament...

Ah, those boys!

[identity profile] perverse-idyll.livejournal.com 2008-04-03 08:10 pm (UTC)(link)
no matter his temperament...

*cough* Bosie *cough*