I Think One Of The Reasons Snape Fans Get So Aggressively Defensive About Him Is Bc A Lot Of Us Relate

I think one of the reasons Snape fans get so aggressively defensive about him is bc a lot of us relate to him hard. we see a lot of our own trauma and unhealthy coping mechanisms in him and obviously our need to comfort our traumatised selves comes out as a desire to comfort Snape

so when people come out with (often factually wrong) hatred towards him, we take it personally bc to a lot of us, he is us

and I may just be speaking for myself here but. as an autistic woman I am often misunderstood in the way Snape is often misunderstood. so when I see people misread him, I see the same people who misread me and try to tell me I’m something I’m not. often in those situations I don’t get to defend myself, so when it happens to Snape I want to defend him. and yeah I get aggressive about it bc like I said, to me it’s personal

anyway TLDR we don’t just like Snape “because of Alan Rickman” (Alan is just a very sexy bonus)