The Joy of Snape collection

[Inkwolf]

This thread is for gathering together the images and other items we Snape fans intend to send to JKR on a CD. If you have an image of Snape, or Snape-related fan art, or a Snape fan fic you want added to the Snape appreciation CD, please post a link to it or post it here. :)

Original work only, please! Don't submit someone else's stuff!

(Note: If your previously-posted image or fan fic has been relocated to the Spoiler tank, please let me know, and I will dredge it up!)

[Kassandra Amparo]

Here's my Snape-in-a-kilt :D

I know i posted it somewhere but i couldn't find it,and also, this one is a bit bigger and clearer.

[Inkwolf]

Excellent! :) Maybe we should have an entire section for off-the-wall ones, like Keskin's ballet-dancer snape, and my Snape on a Bike and your kilted wonder. :D

BTW, I also want to include our Snape POV's in the fanfic section. :)

And I haven't bothered linking my own stuff, since I'll be gathering the stuff for Dink and know where my own all is. ;)

I suppose I'll have to start PMing artists about using their work soon, though...sigh. Keskin's on holiday, I may just feel forced to take her permission for granted, since no Snape disk would be complete without her.

[rotsiepots]

Lestrange should definitely submit her Elvis-haired Snape. That had me chortling for ages. ;)

Erm, I'm not particularly talented at drawing, but I'll encourage everyone else to submit. Perhaps I'll start drawing some pictures of Snape progressing through the various stages of male, pattern baldness?

Now there's an idea!

*runs off to the laboratory*

[Snaped]

I put my submission in The Library, in the fan art section. You can find the thread here (http://www.cosforums.com/showthread.php?p=553491#post553491).

That Snape-in-a-kilt is hilarious, by the way.

[Kassandra Amparo]

Yay! It wouldn't be completed without our POVs. :) I hope you can manage to pack them all in the disk.

Inky,are you sure Keskin is on holiday ?It's not quite time for holiday 'cause it's still in schoolyear here. I think she's just busy with her school work. Have you tried to email her ?
And thanks Snaped for liking my Scottish Snape. :D

[vagos]

i want to add this.

[Inkwolf]

Lovely wash work, Vagos! Is it brush or digital? :)

[vagos]

Lovely wash work, Vagos! Is it brush or digital? :)
brush :D

[true_heir_of_slyth]

this is such a brilliant idea- please use my fanfic (harry potter and the potion master's daughter) because i'd love her to read it :) and my snape cartoon- its in the gallery- do you need links to them?

LOL Slythy xx

[IchLiebeSirus]

bhmm

[Inkwolf]

I'll just remember that you okayed it already, True Heir, when I'm digging through the gallery. :p

Er....what does bhmm mean, IchLiebeSirius?

[.:tehanu:.]

Great idea, I want to participate!! :) I think both my Snapes are in the spoiler tank... I'll also try to make a proposal for the cover if I can...

[Mulciber]

Huzzah! Wonderful idea! Sadly, my creative and art skills are rather lacking, so I don't have anything to contribute. We are including stuff from the AASS thread, right?

Is this for COS forum-Sevages only, or can we drag in outsiders? There's a wonderful fanfic on ff.net by TextualSphinx called Why Slytherins Are Sexier, in which Severus explains exactly that. I remember reading somewhere that JKR can't figure out why anyone would like Snape or any of the Slytherins, really. It'd be fun to include, and the author loves to share her work. I could get in touch and ask her about it, if you all are interested. It can be found here:
http://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=339569

Maybe we should pass along a copy to AR too, so he knows we appreciate his role...

[Inkwolf]

I dunno...I sort of think we want to keep it a CoS Forums project. I'm not the final and total authority or anything, though, so if others want to encourage non-CoS Snape fans to contribute...

[Mulciber]

Meh, it was just a thought. I'll keep it in mind incase we need anything else. *snort* Right. Like we'd ever run out of things to say and share about Snape...

[Loz]

Do you guys think I should submit my short Severus pieces, and maybe my Severus Monologue?! How about my Rickman photoshopped wallpaper?

[Inkwolf]

Submit whatever you like. :) No specific rules except that it has to be about Snape.

[Virtuousdream]

inky, what about if I do a story involving the photo gallery on my Sims? Except I don't know how to get access to the photo album outside the game...

[Inkwolf]

That could be cool. :) (If I remember right, all the photos are saved in one of the game folders as JPEGs....)

[Virtuousdream]

I suppose I can't show any of my explicit scenes involving Snape, McGonagall and the vibrating bed.... :sad:

[Inkwolf]

Er....we don't want dear Joanna to throw Snape out of the books for corrupting young minds, now do we? :lol:

[Loz]

So absolutely no RWP then? *snicker*

[Virtuousdream]

:rotfl: no not really inky, that would be a shame!
Tragic though, I could have made an excellent X-rated Photo album story of the tales of Snape, McGonagall and his iguana :lol:

[::celeste::]

Here it is for the CD XD

Snape’s Trip to the Tailor
::celeste::

Snape narrowed his eyes in a very aggrieved manner as he gazed into his wardrobe. Among the various (or not so various—since the only colors within were a few shades of gray and, of course, midnight black) articles of clothing, he could find not one set of teaching robes that did not posses some sort of ghastly stain on them. A few even possessed gaping holes that looked as if acid had eaten right through the fabric. All of them were courtesy of the singular greatest disaster to have ever stumbled and bumbled their way through Potions Class—namely Longbottom.

With a furious scowl he slammed the doors shut and began pacing back and forth like a caged tiger within the confines of his comfortable quarters. The more he tried to think of some solution, including (Merlin forbid) sewing, the more he realized that there was no other way around it.

He was going to have to go shopping.

With a curse that would have made Mad-Eye blush, Snape stormed out of his bedroom and into his sitting room. There, he turned to the portrait of Septimus the XI and carefully tilted the painting aside to reveal his private safe. With a few waves of his wand, the wards dropped away and he whispered the password before tilting the golden latch aside and reaching into the frigid air. Within, his fingers passed by the documents and rather questionable artifacts of a decidedly illegal nature before grasping a light velvet pouch.

He pulled it out and shut the safe, which automatically released his great grandfather back over the wall with a muffled ‘oomph’ before pulling the golden chord open. Inside was his savings for rainy days, otherwise known as the ‘when one of the little dunderheads finally lands me in St. Mungo’s fund’. He quickly riffled through the collection of galleons, mentally counting them, before drawing the pouch back closed and stuffing it within his trouser pocket.

Snape then picked up the cloak and tossed it about his shoulders before stalking his way out of his rooms and further through the dungeons. His walk took him past several students still milling around on the weekend, pesky little things, which hurriedly jumped out of his way as he swept by them. Since his cloak was much heavier than his robes, there was a distinct lack of ominous billowing that the Potions Master felt was very, very, off putting to his usual menacing self.

Perhaps so much so that even Longbottom might not have been quite so frightened as usual, and that unpleasant notion prompted him to throw up the hood to cover most of his face. Ah, he thought as several Hufflepuff third years paled at his passing, much better.

He passed from the Dungeons through the Main Hall rather quickly thanks to his long strides and was out onto the grounds and headed for the boundaries of the anti-apparition wards without anything very notable occurring. Snape disapperated away from Hogwarts with a soft nearly inaudible pop once he was outside of its barriers.

He appeared within Diagon Alley, which was relatively free of any bustling crowds, and quickly made his way through the winding street without so much as a glance at anyone passing by. He was, after all, focused on getting what he needed and then getting out. And with only a cursory glance at the Apothecary’s he turned and headed straight down Knocturn Alley.

Even a few of the hags down here made Snape cringe as he passed them, his nostrils twitching with annoyance as his heightened smell caught whiff of some horrid concoction they sprayed themselves with. He nearly shoved a peg legged man out of the way who was attempting to sell him magical eyes (as if he wanted to look like Moody as it was) and soon came upon the partially hidden entrance to Boris’ Robes. He wrenched open the door and stepped inside.

The shop itself was as he remembered it, decidedly shady with a heavy dose of atmosphere. The dolls wearing the ‘latest’ fashions all pranced around in a decidedly Lockhart manner as the showed off the latest in Wizarding wear, and he was horrified to note the gaudy pastel colors of a few. Boris must have been loosing his ruddy mind.

With a fierce scowl he tugged open his cloak and deposited it neatly on a hook by the door before making his way to the desk. Which was, he was somewhat annoyed to discover, absent of the proprietor. The tiny bell on the counter quickly rang out with a curt smack from Snape.

“Coming,” replied a voice from what he assumed to be a storage room. Snape frowned momentarily. The voice was not the harsh grating tone of Boris, but rather feminine. Snape’s scowl seemed to multiply. Where the bloody hell was Boris?

Soon a figure immerged from the back, and Snape’s scowl turned into a full bloom sneer complete with slight eye twitch. He recognized the girl as non other than Celeste Renair, a girl who he had been more than happy to be rid of when she had graduated from Hogwarts four years prior. He had been quite relieved when the tiny hearts and initials of SS and CR on her Potions Essays stopped flooding in. He didn’t have a very great problem of students with crushes, but when he did they seemed to be extremely persistent. She was no exception.

What was she doing working at a shop in Knocturn alley?

She paused as she took note of who had entered the shop, and her eyes suddenly widened. “Professor Snape!”

His eyes narrowed into slits as he sent her the glare he usually reserved for exceedingly dimwitted children. “Miss Renair.” He replied, wondering if it was too late to turn around and high tail it out of the shop.

“Heh,” she smiled nervously, “been a while.”

“Not nearly long enough.” His eyes seemed to dart between the girl and the exit again.

Her smile faltered a bit, but then brightened nearly four times as much. For a Ravenclaw, she was exceptionally slow on the uptake. “What can I do for you, sir?”

“Where is Boris?” Snape asked, with a sliver of hope. Perhaps he was in the back stocking.

“Vacation in Bermuda. I’m helping out while he’s gone.” She informed him in that same cheery voice that never failed to grate on his nerves. “Uncle on my Mum’s side.” She added, and he thought rather unnecessarily.

“Fascinating.” He muttered, glancing again at the door.

“Uh—“ She paused and arched a brow. “You’re missing your robes.”

Snape glared at her. “How very astute.”

A nervous chuckle followed, and he resisted the temptation to just bolt there and then. Robes be ****ed. He could always teach in just his frock coat and be done with it. “I take it you need some new ones?”

Snape mentally sighed and resigned himself to fate. “You would be correct, Renair.” He folded his arms and sent her his most intimidating sneer. Hoping it would discourage her from doing anything—foolish.

“Right.” She stated, her mouth pursing for a moment as she tapped a finger against her chin. “We just received a really handsome velvet set of green from Paris, if you want I could-“

“No,” he said, holding up a hand to stop her before she even got started. He was afraid that if she did, she wouldn’t shut up. “Black. My usual. Make certain they’re spelled to deflect minor hexes and curses as well.”

“Oh.” She seemed slightly crestfallen. “You sure?”

Another glare coupled with a vicious sneer sent her scurrying towards the racks.

It was another ten minutes of fumbling worthy of Longbottom, Snape had watched as she managed to bring down yards of fabric down on her head, feeling uneasy about allowing her near enough to take measurements. The more he watched her wrestle and search for the fabric, the more certain he was that this could only end in misery.

Finally it seemed she had found the right one, and after a quick inspection he nodded his agreement. A less chaotic ten minutes of searching for the right pattern, and she now stood before him with her wand raised and ready to begin the actual fitting.

Snape was, understandably, very concerned.

“You do know what you’re doing?” He asked, as her face became the definitive picture for single-minded concentration.

“Oh yeah,” she replied with a voice that seemed less sure than the words, “piece of cake, really.”

He wondered what sort of cake she ate. Did it have teeth?

“Alright now, here we go.” And there was a flick and swish.

Snape paled as the pins and needles flew at his face while the fabric unwound itself and began draping around his frame. The scissors were a blur, and it was probably for the best he couldn’t tell where they were going, as they began snipping all around him. He looked up and sent a short, but furtive, prayer that all would turn out satisfactory. Then the measuring tape nearly strangled him. “Bloody hell!”

“Sorry about that,” she said apologetically as she gave another flick of the wand- attempting to impose some sort of order onto the chaos. “They don’t really like me. Use to Uncle B. Um, you might want to watch out for the-“

“YOW!”

“…pins.” She finished rather sheepishly. “Sorry.”

Thirty minutes went by, and at the end of it Snape was not only livid, but also quite certain that torture by continual poking was something the Dark Lord may have been interested in looking into. Dashed lines of chalk ran across his already pale face, and he was certain he was bleeding in several areas. His eyes flashed as Renair continued to pull on the robes here and there. The fact that she seemed to be paying a bit too much attention to the way they fitted in the back also made him near the point of raging.

Finally she stepped before him and smiled widely at him. “They look great to me, sir! And, if I may add, you look very dashing.”

Snape barely contained his compulsion to reach out and throttle her. Instead he snarled before stepping off the pedestal and began a brisk pace (swoop) back and forth as he studied the mirror. Suddenly, he paused and frowned before turning on Renair with a look of pure contempt. “They aren’t billowing.”

She blinked with a blank expression before asking, in a completely dead pan tone, “Billowing?”

“Yes,” his hands fluttered as he tried to go into details that her flighty mind would follow, “menacing, scare the bejeezus out of little children, ominous tide of doom, billowing.”

“Er..” the dazed and confused look was back, “I always thought that was a walk thing. You know. Your style.”

He pursed his lips and resisted the urge to perform several Unforgivables. “It is, in part, a walk as you put it. But they also need a bit of weighting.”

“Oh. Oh!” She hopped before retrieving her wand (a movement which caused him to wince) and then the scissors and needles were off again.

This time, he came out of it miraculously unscathed and set about gliding again. This time, he was vastly more pleased to note that they did billow more to his satisfaction. He let out a sigh of relief and turned to her, nodding. “Much better.”

She lit up like one of Filius’ ghastly Christmas trees. “Glad to please, Professor.”

Snape decided to ignore the strange inflection in her voice and cleared his throat. “Yes, well, I’ll just pay and be on my way then.”

She seemed deflated for a moment before that grin was back. “Are you certain you don’t need anything else? Perhaps some new underwear?” Before Snape could even make some scathing comment, she was already pulling out several different pairs of hideously colored undergarments. She then held up a pair of green silk boxers, and a rather standard set of white briefs. “Boxers or briefs, Professor?”

Afraid of what he might end up doing, and the time in Azkaban that would accompany any gruesome acts, he slammed down a handful of Galleons and turned on his heal. Swooping in a Snape-ish way to his cloak, tossing it over his shoulders, and quickly bolting through the door as if the very hounds of hell were nipping at his feet.

Celeste, back in the store, watched the door shut with disappointment and sighed as she lowered her hands. “And I was this close to solving the mystery.” She stated sadly before her Ravenclaw intelligence finally seemed to kick in. “Maybe there’s a log!”

With that happy, and disturbingly stalkerish sort of thought, she skipped back behind the counter and hummed as she flipped through the book of purchases in search of the answer.

[SevSnapeisMine]

Well, I did already let Rowling know how much I adore the Snape she gave to me, but here's a link to my Snape poems/story anyway! :clap: Good luck guys!!
http://www.fanfiction.net/search.php?typeid=2&categoryid=0&keyword=love+of+severus+snape&action=ready

http://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=1492293

[Snaped]

Here's Marilyn MonSnape for you. :)

http://www.cosforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=8345

[Remquo]

What a fantastic, wonderful, incredible idea! :D

Please put anything of mine you think worthy in; comments, POV's, theories from the AASS thread, anything! List me as an incorrigable, loyal-to-the-point-of worship-Sevage, while your at it too!

Please, this has inspired me to try, and I stress, TRY my first Snape fanart. I'll post it if it's any good...

When were you planning to get this together and send it off, Inky? I need time, time I tell you! LOL

Love Remmy, xxx

[Inkwolf]

The idea was originally Dink's. She thought that the original All About Snivellus Snape thread should be sent to JKR, to impress her with how much we loved and were fascinated by the character of Snape. She is currently trying to edit the 80-page monstrosity down to a size that Rowling might actually read. :) The idea just snowballed from there....

Looking forward to seeing your fan art, Remquo!

[dink]

No wait! Hang on... It wasn't my idea at all, Inky, was it? It all happened so many posts ago that I'm getting confused but I'm fairly sure that Helhorns mentioned it before me, and probably quite a few of the other old-timers on the O-AASS. All I did was volunteer to send the thing, and try to help with the editing process.

Better to think of it as an idea that was floating around in many people's minds, and gradually bubbled to the surface in the old Snape thread - we're all responsible for it, in a nice, democratic, collective kind of way. Aahhh :)

[Inkwolf]

Okay, then, I don't really remember whose idea it was (anyone, feel free to step forward and take credit!) but I know it wasn't mine, and I was afraid of accidentally hogging someone else's glory. :D

[dink]

Inkwolf: Well you certainly deserve a big chunk of the glory now, don't you? :) You've become the big creative drive behind this whole idea - organising CD covers, collecting Snape stuff, starting this thread. Very pro-active, very good - essential.

If it was left to me then all she'd be getting would be the basic Snape thread in the post, and nothing else... but then, I am a lazy gubbins :D

[The Black Adder]

Inkwolf, Are you organizing the Snape POVs by book and in order? That's what I've done with my "favorites" that I have copied off the thread to make the scenes easier to find and read.

Rowling has said that she doesn't read fanfiction, but it may be that the concept of re-writing her own work from Snape's POV might just intrigue her enough for her to want to check out specific scenes, eh?

Good luck with your project.
The Black Adder

[Barbara Kennedy]

Hey, Inkwolf.
I would be very honored if my little vignette found its way onto the disk as well.
A link to it is in my Signature line.

[Picko]

I'd include my Secret Agent: Sexy Severus Snape fanfic but it's a ten parter and I've only written four and I figure you'd have sent it off before I got anywhere near finishing it :)

[sscourtney]

*sigh* I wrote Snape story but it's far from finished :rasp:
If you do send everything to JK let us know :)

[Virtuousdream]

I was one of the originals to mention we should send off the O-AASS but it was Dink who made it happen and I am helping her by editing half of it, great it happened dink :D

[dink]

Oh, Helen. Which half am I supposed to be editing? I'm afraid I haven't done much with it since the Great Re-Formatting. Don't be cross. I've been a bit side-tracked... :) Let me know,anyway.

[Virtuousdream]

Well I replied to you email, I havn't done much anyway, and like you said in your email, you know now what side we're doing!

[Loz]

What exactly are you editing, if you don't mind me asking? Like... what are you getting rid of et al?

[dink]

Hey, Loz. Helhorns doesn't want JKR to think she's crazy, so she's removing some of the really rude things. JKR doesn't like slash anyway, so I don't think RWP would go down very well. ;) We have a 380-page MS Word document, and we need to cut it down to something like 40 pages, if there's any chance at all of getting JKR to read it. Also, it's a more realistic amount of paper to send in the post. Do not be dismayed, however, because I think Inkwolf is planning to copy the whole unexpurgated thread onto the Snape CD. :)

[Loz]

Ahh.... okay :)

Thanks!

[Inkwolf]

Oh, you're still planning to send a hard copy?

I was just expecting to gather the fan fics, POVs and artwork and burn them on a CD to send to Dink, thinking she'd burn a new CD with that stuff plus the condensed (and the complete version, too)

Now we have a new thread to add, BTW--they just closed the AASS2! :wow:

[Loz]

And started Mk III. Not to worry :D

So there's a hard copy and CD? Heh, poor JK.

[Barbara Kennedy]

:whistle: Mmmmm, I know you don't need anything else dropped on you right now Inkwolf, but has this project been dropped?

[Inkwolf]

:whistle: Mmmmm, I know you don't need anything else dropped on you right now Inkwolf, but has this project been dropped?

No, not dropped. Temporarily delayed, again. Maybe we won't be able to do the AASS threads on it, I don't know how far that bit went, and if the closed ones were lost. And my printer died, so printing the CD labels is going to have to wait till I get a new printer.

But the POV thread is going strong, and the Gallery gets new Snape pics practically every week, so the longer it gets put off, the better it will be. :p

[dumbleedore]

You can add my 'Living In Your Letters' and 'Living In Your Letters II: Dear Diary' if you want.

Part I is complete and Part II is about a 1/4 in.

[Ducken]

Hey Inkwolf, I'd really love it if you included my Snape POV about Snape and the house-elves in the kitchen when he's trying to get Winky. Do you know which one I mean? It was a while ago, so if you don't, I can get you the link.

[Inkwolf]

Hey Inkwolf, I'd really love it if you included my Snape POV about Snape and the house-elves in the kitchen when he's trying to get Winky. Do you know which one I mean? It was a while ago, so if you don't, I can get you the link.

I'm planning to send everything in the POV thread, if nobody objects. :)

[Ducken]

Thanks, that's great, I'm sure she'll love them all. There's some brilliant writing on that thread. :)

[harryfantotheend]

WOW! :wow: This is a great idea!
I don't have anything to contribute, but as soon as I do, I'll be sure to put it right here!
Also: Can somebody please keep us updated on the whole project?
I LOVE THIS IDEA!! :love:

[whizbang121]

I suppose I can't show any of my explicit scenes involving Snape, McGonagall and the vibrating bed.... :sad:Um, could you post a link? (giggle)

[Serpentine]

If the project is still running, Inky, you can add my fics too if you want. The two short ones (bottom line of my sig) are one-shots, and "The Red Light of the Sun" is finished now. "Reflections" may still take a while, but is about 3/4 to 4/5 done.

[Inkwolf]

Well, I think the project fell by the wayside a bit....though I might consider reviving it!

[UselessCharmMaster]

But it exists, it still exists! It's ALIVE!!!*happy*