While The Castle Sleeps.

i love when im scrolling and this app just randomly closes. ur right ive seen enough.

— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

[text ID:   Yesterday I advised you not to write me every day, I still hold the same opinion today and it would be very good for both of us, and so I repeat my advice today even more emphatically- only please, Milena, don't listen to me, and write me every day anyway, it can even be very brief, briefer than today's letters, just 2 lines, just one, just one word, but if I had to go without them I would suffer terribly.]

"Severus, please."

Maybe this was a mistake…

Regret is pooling and he hasn’t even seen him yet

“What have you done this time, Mr. Snape? This is the third time I’m escorting you to the hospital wing this week!”

This is so sweet, thank you so much Danni!! 🥰🥰🥰

inarticulateimbecile (@inarticulateimbecile)! Ole buddy ole pal! They are such a sweet lovely human and I adore them! Their art first drew me in, and I've been a fan since I saw the first one. (And they very kindly let me fawn at them in their DMs about them haha!) I love how much character their work has. (Best of all, how ugly-sexy Severus is; exactly as he should be!) Their work has such incredible detail, gorgeous coloring, and it forever strikes me through the heart. I get all of the feels! I don't feel art-smart enough to leave proper commentary, but I sure try for them!

Not to mention, they leave the most generous and thoughtful comments! I swear, I cry whenever they leave me a new one. They are so perceptive and they connect with every intention and all of the same details I'm so passionate about! We had good long chats about Contempt, and our love for Severus Snape (and how we love him!) They also very kindly gifted me art for Contempt, too! You can see it at the bottom of the fic itself here, or in the raving Tumblr post I made here. (That also made me cry.) (I'm a crier, what can I say?)

Not to mention on top of being such a fabulous artist and passionate fan, they are also a remarkable writer???? Their fics blew my socks off, I swear.

Anyway, inarticulateimbecile is pretty much a rockstar and you should definitely check out their work!

Art:

Ivy (Snarry)

threats of bodily harm (Snarry)

Embers (Severus)

Addiction (Severus)

Stuck (Severus)

Fics:

Hypothermia

Harry/Severus. Rated: M. Words: 19,582. Abuse. Unhealthy relationships. Forced kiss. No smut. Alcohol abuse. Angst. Snarry Adopt-a-Prompt.

Prompt #4: Sirius isn’t quite right when Harry goes to live with him. No one believes Harry, since Sirius acts fine when other people are around. No one, except for Snape.

Post Mortem

Harry/Severus. Rated: E. Words: 17,343. Reluctantly falling in love. Character study. Mild dub-con. Hogwarts 8th year. New fave!!

A tale of hero worship and failing to pretend.

for an explanation about Mutuals March, or to figure out why i wrote you a thing, please check out this post.

the whole of my heart is an infinite cauldron of honey, for you. remove myself to make room. to house you with these bones as tired as blue ocean. im a good beggar. have the teeth for it. knelt to you for my knighting. waiting, a trembling dog, for you to name me beloved or beheaded. the weight of the world in your yes, in your hurricane decision. no sugar runs over. i clean my mouth after every kiss. i clean my wounds like ritual. this cauldron of honey, where flies sink & drown. this brittle collection of limbs ive coddled for you to make a bed out of. my loathing made small & menial in the shadow of your love. dwarfed by the hands you cast over me. your hands, touching me, that could smother any fire, could clench quick as a snake strike. your hands polishing me until i bleed honey into the mattress.

Silas Denver Melvin, from Grit: Poems; “Backdrop made beautiful by pity”

Snape version of Bowie's The Man Who Sold the World album cover