hello dear people <3
hello everyone! 🙂
i'm so glad that i found this forum and that there are actually people here actively appreciating this wonderful snape! i'm so excited to meet you all! how old are you? how long have you been fans? do you write fanfictions? and how do you feel as fans – rather extremely informed and appreciative – or rather (like me at the moment) longingly smitten like a teenager and at the same time full of sweet, bitter pain?
by the way, i'm 31 years old. i started writing fanfictions when i was about 15 (and stopped around 18) – nothing to do with the harry potter universe. the first time i really lost myself in this world was about 6 years ago, but i wasn't writing fanfiction then.
now it really hit me again!
i don't even know exactly why right now. maybe it was the combination of having to sit at the computer and write all the time because of my master's thesis, which suddenly inspired me to write prose – and then i stumbled across snape content and suddenly i was just sucked in by this profundity of his character and this abnormal, incredible beauty!
unfortunately, in addition to my parasocial love experience, a wave of painful sadness washed over me only a short time later. realizing how many years have passed since the publication of the books and films. and the thought that the wonderful alan rickman, who embodies the role i so adored (not just the role, but him too), is no longer with us since such a long time. 🙁 i was also gripped by concern: are the fan communities even still alive? is anything still going on? in my search, i've come across some rather empty forums, which completely shocked me.
well, i'm all the happier to have found this forum now. and i'm so glad to finally be able to get everything i just said out, because it's not something i would tell my friends or boyfriend in this form, haha! i hope i meet similarly obsessed people here. <3
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Hello @antlia,
I am also rather new here! And just like you I was rather recently mesmerized by Snapes character, started to read fanfictions, and looked for a forum with like minded people. The forum does not seem extremely active, but at least it is alive! I enjoy the (almost daily) memes posted by @naaga and others (sorry, I am just very lazy with hitting the like button). There are many interesting old threads to browse, my TBR list has grown endlessly since I found this place! I have also found many new favorite writers, there seem to be many talented people active here!
I don't write fanfics (though I am considering to try). I have got about ten years on you, and would probably have been writing fanfics and hanging on forums as a teen, but the internet was rather undeveloped in the late 90s, and with one shared family computer it was not possible. Also the forum would have been rather different. Back then, if I remember correctly, I was madly in love with Lestat and obsessed with all books by Ann Rice. Naturally, the current obsession is Snape!
What I really wanted to say is that I can so relate to the part of not telling your boyfriend! My husband does not even sail on the Fantasy ship, I cannot imagine his reaction to reading fanfics... So I really understand your need to express your feelings somewhere and I am glad you too found this forum!
