'Mudblood'

This post is going to reiterate two things: 1) 'Mudblood' is NOT a racist term, contrary to popular Snater fanon belief, and 2) Why Severus wasn't actually wholeheartedly devoted to the pureblood ideology.

'Mudblood' is a classist term, even a bloodist one, not a racist one. A racist term would indicate prejudice between magical and non-magical folk, or creature such as Goblins and House Elves. Mudblood ('dirty blood') is more akin to a class status based on your percentage of magical blood, which also includes Half-Bloods. It is a prejudice term, yes, but not a racist one. Mudblood is no where near the equivalent of the N-word, which has more horrific historical implications than it does of the equivalent in the magical world, which should not even be comparable. Anyone who compares Mudblood to the N-word is well off the mark, and in fact vile to those still suffering the actual implications of racism in the real world. Please never compare real world issues to magical, fictional ones.

2. Severus Snape was never wholeheartedly devoted to the cause. "As he moved up the school, he gathered about him a group of dedicated friends; I call them that, for want of a better term, although as I have already indicated, Riddle undoubtedly felt no affection for any of them. This group had a kind of dark glamour within the castle. They were a motley collection; a mixture of the weak seeking protection, the ambitious seeking some shared glory, and the thuggish gravitating toward a leader who could show them more refined forms of cruelty. In other words, they were the forerunners of the Death Eaters, and indeed some of them became the first Death Eaters after leaving Hogwarts." - HBP

The Death Eaters were not just about blood purity, but about power and domination. There was more than one reason why vulnerable people would join such a cause, and it wasn't always because they actually believed in pureblood supremacy. Which, given the ratio of actual remaining pureblood families, doesn't leave much to be desired. Hell, even Voldemort himself posed a pureblood, when he wasn't.

Reasons Severus wasn’t as magically prejudiced and not wholeheartedly in the belief of the pureblood ideology, as many detractors claim:

He willfully befriended and remained friends with a Muggleborn for about six-seven years of his life, during which that time was overlapped those years rooming with the likes of Avery and Mulciber.

He gives himself the name of Half-Blood Prince. No one immersed within the pureblood ideology would acknowledge he was half-anything, thus implying he was comfortable with the idea of being a half blood and his Muggle blood to an extent. If he truly loathed the Muggle side of him, he would never have named himself as such.

We have been told Severus was calling 'everyone of Lily's birth a Mudblood', but how much of this was actually true/exaggerated, and how ingrained in the ideology was Severus at this point? No one that prejudiced against Muggleborns (supposedly) would still remain friends with one, especially at the same time he was rooming with pureblood Slytherins, including Lucius (during the time he was still in Hogwarts). Severus has a knack for blending in where he needs to, so rooming with such Slytherins would invoke more of the typical cunning for self-preservation. Since we have no other evidence he was deeply rooted in the ideology, I believe he did so to ensure he wasn't bullied and attacked by his own for going against those beliefs, so he hurled Mudblood around as protection whilst he was with them.

We’ve only seen Severus interact with two Muggles – Petunia, who showed disdain for him from the get-go and mocked his appearance, and his father Tobias, who abused his mother, and most likely him.

He was friends with Charity Burbage – Although we don’t know what her blood status was, she taught Muggle Studies. By Voldemort’s standards, she was a blood traitor.

Severus is one of the rare magical folk we see in this series who is never fully integrated into the magical world. He still lived in his house in a Muggle suburb, once inherited by his Muggle father. His neighbors were likely Muggles.

He berates a portrait for referring to Hermione Granger as a Mudblood, when no one else was around to witness it.

He was willing to immediately defect from the Death Eaters, to approach his enemy, to plea for the life of Lily, a Muggleborn he has known since childhood, after spending the previous two years a Death Eater.

Severus may have a difficult past with certain Muggles he has had the misfortune of interacting with, but given what we know of him and what I've outlined above, he was never truly dedicated to the ideology.

He sought security, dominance, knowledge and power, not the purification of a world with anyone not pure of blood.

Because after all - Voldemort was recruiting werewolves and giants to his cause, along with Half-Bloods, and yes, even Muggleborns. Because we know he even asked Lily to join them.

Voldemort recruited those who were useful to him, regardless of race and blood.

You either join, or risk losing your life.

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So Gumball is crossed but not SU?

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Some finales from this era brought tears and happiness to our eyes

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Something that sort of breaks me in “The Circus” are the realizations of why Stolas unintentionally hurts the people that he loves. Plenty of fans already thought that the cheating happened because he was unhappy with Stella (and the episode more than confirms it), and there’s also more.

Him taking Octavia to an amusement park she hadn’t enjoyed in years instead of talking about why she was sad? His father took him to a circus and “bought” a friend to him because he didn’t want to deal with his crying. His perverted behaviour? Paimon didn’t manage to remember his name because he had fucked many people and therefore had many children.

The reasons as to why he crossed Blitz’s boundaries and made him feel like a sex toy was because he was out of himself with joy at being with his first ever friend, plus the fact that he had probably never witnessed a healthy romantic relationship before, much less been in one. He wanted to love Blitz, but he didn’t know how, and he only realized it when Blitz had enough.

The whole episode shows that Stolas only ever wanted love and company throughout his whole life, but he was deprived of it as a child due to the expectations and duties of a Goetia, and as an adult he screws his own chances because of what he was forced to learn.

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I was looking through the Helluva critical tag today and I had some thoughts about how Vivzie writes her traumatized characters after seeing others complain about it. The way that Vivziepop writes her traumatized characters is so infuriating to see as someone who has "ugly" trauma symptoms and it reminds me of how writers tend to approach writing traumatized characters who don't have "soft" symptoms in general.

There is definitely a place for representing traumatized characters with anger issues and personally I'd love to see this actually done well without demonizing nor avoiding accountability for the character. However, Vivzie cannot hold her characters accountable, because if she does, then it takes away from them being her sad soft uwu babies. Loona physically lashing out at people is just seen as a funny joke instead of something Loona has to actively work on. Blitzo SAYS he's going to change how he treats Moxxie in Truth Seekers, but he never does and the show continues to treat Blitzo's behavior either as a joke or as just something for the audience to go "uwu so sad" at. Angel Dust out of all the other characters is the most tolerable to me personally, and I understand that we really only know how he acts from the pilot and the Addict video. However, I agree with other people that sometimes he acts way too aggressive and he isn't held accountable for that by anyone except Vaggie, but the audience is just supposed to laugh at Vaggie being mocked for no reason. I hope that in Hazbin the writers make him ACTUALLY complex, and give him a mix of kind and standoffish moments while showing his journey to opening up and being more friendly to people. I don't want him to be another Blitzo and it would be a shame if he went to waste.

It feels like writers, mostly neurotypical ones, don't know how to write these types of characters without either implying that they can never heal or making them avoid accountability. Even characters who I enjoy like Catra have issues with them. Catra gets held accountable in season 4 when Adora and Scorpia leave her for good, and she has to earn back Adora's trust by sacrificing herself for Glimmer in season 5. However, the show makes her redemption arc last for only one season, so everyone is forced to completely forgive her in a short amount of time when it would have made more sense for everyone to save her from Horde Prime, but still be cautious around her before fully trusting her. The season also doesn't even focus a lot on Catra getting new coping mechanisms other than Melog, and it feels like Catra's personality and symptoms change too quickly.

I'd love to see a story have a character with anger issues from their trauma or any other trauma symptom that's seen as "scary"/"ugly" (control issues, doing things to push others away because you think you don't deserve them, etc.), but actually handle it properly. It feels like stories will either treat the characters as a lost cause or act as if everyone is mean for not wanting to be bullied or outright abused. It is not a Vivziepop exclusive problem, but one that makes me upset to see in any context. If writers can't even handle writing general trauma victims or characters with PTSD who have "scary" or "ugly" symptoms, then I'm very scared of how writers in the future will tackle other lesser written mental disorders that are often caused by trauma (BPD, ASPD, etc.) My biggest hope is that more people who actually experience these symptoms (who don't excuse bullying people with them) will write characters with these issues, because so far it seems like I can only find other mentally ill people understanding the nuance properly.

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