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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.

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:





;-)

Comments

[protowilson.livejournal.com]

Hahaha! That's great!
BTW, what's that on the next page that I can just see? A pram?!

[schemingreader.livejournal.com]

I love this. <3

I think that even if Snape is queer, he's still homophobic. That's just the kind of self-loathing guy he is.

[nemesister.livejournal.com]

LOL, agreed!

[veradee.livejournal.com]

Perfect!

Admittedly, I know next to nothing about Wilde and make the mistake of equating him with some of the characters in his play, but I can very well imagine that he and Snape wouldn't have much in common.

[color-me-verde.livejournal.com]

LOL @ Snape calling Wilde a Poofter! I love that sketch XD

[bluestocking79.livejournal.com]

~cackles~

That's so perfect! I suspect you're right about a streak of homophobia in Snape, especially given his background, and the philistine comment is probably on the mark, too. Although Snape obviously has some artistic flair (a certain fondness for poetic phrasing, the way he swishes his robes and makes dramatic exists and entrances), I can't believe in sensitive aesthete!Snape, who plays the piano like a virtuoso, when he's not reading Shakespeare and Tennyson. ;-)

[redvelvetcanopy.livejournal.com]

Actually, I think you captured it very well!

[a-t-rain.livejournal.com]

Hee! That is BRILLIANT!

[mary-j-59.livejournal.com]

I agree with everyone else - brilliant! I will add that I can't believe you did that on a moving train! You should see my handwriting in such circumstances. )

[venturous1.livejournal.com]

wonderful!

[perverse-idyll.livejournal.com]

Also, Wilde was a hedonist and I'd bet money that part of Snape's repressed nature is due to his Puritanical streak. The drawing catches that perfectly. What's more, Snape's considered ugly, and Oscar generally didn't waste his time on chance encounters with ugly men.

So, yes, it's likely that Wilde would find Snape distasteful and pathetic, and he'd probably drive Snape up a wall.

A marvelous idea, and a marvelous drawing to go with it.

[msavi.livejournal.com]

I largely agree with you about cultivated!Snape. Although a part of me really likes to think that he plays an instrument. Don't most parents force their kids to learn an instrument? Maybe that wasn't such a big deal to Tobias, but if the Prince clan was one of those high-powered pureblood families, I think it's at least possible that Eileen wanted little Severus to be familiar with some of that stuff. Then again, maybe she chucked it all when she married Tobias. Who knows? Still, even if Snape does play an instrument, I could never see him as a secret virtuoso who sneeks out of Hogwarts on weekends to play to appreciative audiences packed into a smoky Muggle piano bar. More like he sneeks off to play by himself in the Room of Requirement, and under a Muffliato.

Anyway, lovely and amusing pic!

[pennswoods.livejournal.com]

LOL! You are an inspiration m'dear.

[ex-neke.livejournal.com]

Lovely! ^^

[redwine333.livejournal.com]

He He!
I think the picutre is great- I love their postures- says so much about the charecter inside ! Thanks for sharing :)

[ellecain.livejournal.com]

Hahaha! This is so perfect. Wilde probably would not look twice at Snape and Snape would think Wilde was pompous and full of himself. It's fabulous! And I've secretly disagreed with violin-player versions of Snape, so this post and the comments make me smile. :-)

[lunafish.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha! That's excellent--the positioning of the shoulders and chins esp.