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Some Snape Headcanons: Substance Use

Snape has been chain-smoking since he was a teen.

He used to steal his mum’s cigarettes and he and Lily would go smoke by the river the summers they were 14 and 15. Those were some of his last good days with her, when he felt like the two of them were still really best friends. It wasn’t like that at school anymore.

While Snape is a professor he makes sure that very few people at Hogwarts know about his smoking habit. It wouldn’t do to have the students find out about that little vice. Dumbledore knows of course, but that man knows everything, and Minerva thinks she knows because she had caught him as a student and won’t be convinced that he quit. She doesn’t have any proof though. 

Madame Hooch knows because she stumbled on him one day in the out-of-the-way alcove which used to be her old smoke break spot. Even though she doesn’t smoke anymore, she still goes there to think sometimes. They bump into each other there every few month and hang out in companionable silence. 

Snape prides himself on the fact that in nearly two decades of illicit smoking, Filch has yet to catch him.

Smoke breaks in between teaching classes is one of the few indulgences he allows himself and probably the only way he stays sane.

Snape doesn’t drink – the smell brings back bad memories and he knows that there is alcoholism in his genes. Best not risk it. 

He is, however, adept at making it seem like he drinks and has pretended to be drunk at Lucius’ parties before. It’s a useful skill for a spy to have, and he does nothing to discourage the reputation of being somebody who occasionally drinks.

For Christmas, his colleagues usually gift him expensive alcohol since that is the “nice” gift you get somebody when you don’t know what else to get them. He surreptitiously re-gifts some of it to the Malfoys, or even back to his colleagues if it’s been long enough that they won’t remember where they last saw the bottle. Even so, there’s still a huge stash of unopened bottles hidden in his office. He hopes that whoever takes the office after him will be pleasantly surprised. 

Snape drinks an obscene amount of coffee. On top of being a bit of an insomniac he is not a morning person. Minerva sees him gulping his third cup of coffee at breakfast where he hasn’t eaten anything but half a piece of toast and wonders how he isn’t dead yet.

During the beginning of his teaching career Snape abused Dreamless Sleep. There may have been an accidental overdose or two, and a few less accidental ones. 

A problem with Dreamless Sleep is that taking it for a prolonged time wreaks havoc on the brain and causes hallucinations, because suppressing REM sleep isn’t actually great for one’s health. Snape could tell he was losing it and forced himself to go through withdrawal before his colleagues caught on and staged an intervention. 

He relapsed once or twice in the years since, but it never got as serious as it did in that first year after Lily died. 

He settled on experimenting to create a less risky and more potent version of the potion and got used to the nightmares again. After all, he’d had them nearly his whole life, and they hadn’t killed him yet.

Snape’s encounter with Nagini left him with long-term damage and chronic pain. They gave him some very good drugs at St. Mungo’s, but didn’t tell him what to do for the pain once he left. He’s a potions master, he supposes. He should be able to figure it out.

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COCKS AND HOW TO DRAW THEM

This is my 3000th post, and rather than have it go by without a passing glance, I will instead use it to help YOU, MY LOVELY FOLLOWERS, by giving you references for and tutorials on how to draw a whole lotta dicks.

TUTORIAL 1 BY onta TUTORIAL 2 BY krisCrash DRAWN REFERENCE SHEET 1 BY itsbaru DRAWN REFERENCE SHEET 2 LIVE REFERENCE SHEET (on the various states of erection) FROM wikipedia

All of this is obviously very NSFW, so take a quick glance around to see if anyone’s within peeping distance of your monitor before popping these babies open.

And, of course, ENJOY.~

(VERY LATE EDIT: Sources provided by Tokitoide.)

The ministry: you two were like brothers

Albus: oh, we were more then brothers

A minister: *uses the memmory wand thing*

This pops up:

The ministry: ….

Albus: ….

The ministry: …

Albus: ….can I got back to teaching now or???? Cause that *points at the memory* that’s just gonna keep being more vivid

Tyrannus Basilton Grimm-Pitch

"Baz is standing in front of a full-length mirror, wearing—I swear to Merlin—a flowered suit."

Rainbow Rowell, Wayward Son

Because Will’s therapy hours still left…

Research for Writers: How to Do It

So, you want to write a story involving something that you know literally nothing about. (Cool, same!) We’ve all been there before; if you’ve landed at this post, you’ve come to the right place. In this post, we’re going to cover the basics of research and using information, as well as verifying your sources, and other ways to reach out.

But first: why should I do research in the first place?

There’s a whole boatload of reasons you should conduct research in your writing. Here are some of the largest or most popular reasons:

You’re writing a story set in a different time period, and you want to be historically accurate.

One of your characters does or knows something you don’t know as much about.

You’re writing about a character who is a part of a community that you’re not in, and you want to be respectful.

You’re doing world-building and want to learn about different biomes and climates.

Bear in mind, these are just a few of the reasons that you might choose to do research - any reason to learn more about something is a valid one! Let’s break down how to do quality research for your writing.

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thoracic aorta (chest & heart)

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brachial artery (upper arm)

radial artery (hand & forearm)

common carotid artery (neck)

aorta (heart & abdomen)

axillary artery (underarm)

popliteal artery (knee & outer thigh)

anterior tibial artery (shin & ankle)

posterior tibial artery (calf & heel)

arteria dorsalis pedis (foot)

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Guide to Story Researching

A Writer’s Thesaurus

Words To Describe Body Types and How They Move

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