Snapecentric Chats with the multitalented SerenaEW about her stories, podfics, and filks, as well as the Severitus Big Bang, fanworks permission statements, and more!

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Art: ⁠SerenaEW⁠

Music:  ⁠Emotional GuitarMusic⁠ by ⁠ZHRO⁠ from ⁠Freesound.org⁠ licensed under ⁠CC BY-NC 4.0⁠

To celebrate Alan Rickman’s birthday this year, we decided to review all the Snape content of the eight Harry Potter movies. With the help of a survey of the Snapedom, Jal, Masao and Snapecentric were joined by Irem and Amelia for an awesome discussion.

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Art: Opal Chalice ⁠tumblr⁠ ⁠Instagram⁠ ⁠DeviantArt⁠

Music: ⁠Spellcraft⁠ by ⁠Geoff Harvey⁠ from⁠ Pixabay

Celebrate Snape’s 64th birthday with Megs, Masao, arabellawrites, and Snapecentric. Listen with them to awesome fics by paracosim, Arrisha, senlinyu, perverse_idyll, Lexin, Icarus, and arabellawrites. It’s a party you won’t want to miss!

⁠Visit our Additional Reading page for these great stories and more!

Art:  snake-queen7 ⁠tumblr⁠  ⁠X⁠  ⁠Instagram            Music:  ⁠Happy Birthday -Piano Variations⁠ by⁠ Trygve Larsen⁠ from⁠ Pixabay

Fair warning: NSFW after about 1:40.00

Megs, Snail, masao, and Zigadenus join Snapecentric for a marathon holiday listening party. Included are fics from Gen to Spicy, from Zigadenus, kendom, inmyownlittlecorner, bunnybopper, thefrenchpress, and Suitesamba

Fair warning: the last fic is very NSFW

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Art: Aline Peres ⁠tumblr⁠ ⁠ko-fi Instagram⁠

Music:  ⁠Magic Christmas⁠ by⁠ Grand_Project⁠ from⁠ Pixabay

Snapecentric talks with the prolific and well-loved author thefrenchpress, who then reads from her story, “The Funeral Portrait”

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Music: ⁠Witches Cauldron⁠ by⁠ Geoff Harvey⁠ from⁠ Pixabay

The topic for this super-sized program is Snape and Lupin, aka Snupin.  Regulars Megs, masao, and Snapecentric are joined by artist SafePlaceSnupin, and authors nocturn, and Gertrude_Crow for an amazing discussion. 

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Art:  SafePlaceSnupin tumblr   AO3

Music: ⁠Midnight ⁠by ⁠Aleksey Chistilin on Pixabay

Snapecentric talks to artist, author, and game maker Ac1d about his creations. Then, Ac1d reads from his fic, Theriac Therapy, for which he also created the music

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Music: Curse of the Manor  by geoffharvey on Pixabay

Snapecentric, LevonSnape, LadyHeliotrope, Masaothedog, and JalapenoEyePopper discuss illness and disability and how it relates to Snape in both canon and fic, including physical, mental, and emotional challenges

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Art: MaPhy tumbler ko-fi Twitter

Music: Let the Mystery Unfold by geoffharvey on Pixabay

Listen in as Snapecentric talks to Heatherlly about her fics, digital art, and especially her new Snape-centered website, ⁠AlwaysSnape.com⁠. Heatherlly then reads portions of her fics, ⁠Non Omnis Moriar⁠, ⁠Obscura Nox Animae⁠, and ⁠Veritas Omnia Vincit⁠ .

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Art: Heatherlly

Music: Reflected Light by⁠ SergePavkinMusic⁠ from⁠ Pixabay

Join Blendi, Masao, Megs, and Snapecentric as we celebrate Snape and Music. Snapecentric has collected Snape – inspired music for about 2 years, and her Spotify playlist has grown to over 160 songs. We listen to a few of these at our listening party.

Visit our Additional Reading and Guest Links pages for great stories and more Art: SyndromeAlice tumblr ko-fi Music:  Stranger Things by Music_Unlimited from Pixabay

Listen in as Snapecentric talks to pet_genius about her meta and fics. Then SnapeSnailTape reads a couple of Pet’s wonderful stories

Visit our Additional Reading and Guest Links pages for great stories and more Art: Dranna tumblr ko-fi Music:  Magic in the Air by Geoff Harvey from Pixabay

Snapecentric is joined by smilingformoney, sevsnapes, Maria_de_Salinas, and jalapeno_eye_popper as we discuss Snape and Original Characters.  They are all Snape x OC authors, and we have a great discussion about the pluses and minuses of writing original characters.  Then each author reads excerpts from their stories.

Visit our Additional Reading and Guest Links pages for great stories and more Art: skiloij Music:  Feral Angel Waltz by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed underCC BY 4.0

Join Snapecentric and TashaYar25461 as they discuss Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman. Excerpts are played from the audiobook to give a taste of the book.

Visit our Additional Reading and Guest Links pages for great stories and more Music: Piano at Night by Purple Planet Music

Snapecentric is joined by Acid, Jalapenoeyepopper, Maria_de_Salinas, masaothedog, and Snapesnailtape as we celebrate Snape’s birthday, or Snirthday.  This time we read excerpts of great fics by Maria_de_Salinas, Grooot, Cunegonde, Acid, and evejenson (rentachi). Enjoy the show!

Visit our Additional Reading and Guest Links pages for great holiday stories and more Art by Pangolin2b Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under CC BY 4.0

Celebrate the holidays with Blendi, jalapenoeyepopper, masaothedog, and Snapecentric! We listen to seasonal fics by Cunegonde, pet_genius, starstruck1986, danpuff, MarshmallowMcGonagall, and Subversa in a jumbo-sized show.

Visit our Additional Reading and Guest Links pages for great holiday stories and more Art by willwediejustalittle Music:”Holiday Weasel” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under CC BY 4.0

First, Snapecentric speaks with author Grooot about her writing, the patriarchy, and everything.  Then we talk to the creators of The Snapedom awards, Millie (@smilingformoney), and Rebecca (@sevsnapes).  Then Megs gives an important public service announcement.

Visit our Additional Reading and Guest Links pages for lots of great stories by Grooot and more The Snapedom Awards Page Art by MyWitch Music:”Dreamlike” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under CC BY 4.0

We went there!  Listen in as jalapenoeyepopper, greenmegsnoham, danpuff, and Snapecentric have a wide-ranging discussion, including  Snape as a virgin, to Death Eater speculation, to casual sex vs. love, and common smut tropes.  

Content warnings for discussion of sexual violence, noncon, dubcon, self-harm, depression, kinks of various kinds, as well as an explicit description of a sexual act  If you want to avoid the latter, skip from approximately 1:28 to about 1:46 of the show.

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Art by incrediblemrviper  tumblr  Twitter Music: Bens by Texas Music Forge licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0

In this episode Snapecentric speaks with Masao, creator of the Dastardly Lemondrops webcomic. We then visit with professional seamstress Miss Measured about the Harry Potter films’ costumes. Lastly we chat with Heatherlly about AlwaysSnape.com, her new all-Snape fansite.

Visit our Additional Reading and Guest Links pages for lots of great fic recs and more.
Art by Masao Music by Vitaliy Kalaida-Dunay from Pixabay.

Listen in as Snapecentric speaks with author nocturn and writers and artists TheFrenchPress and nikkori about the Snape-Luna pairing and why it is so appealing.

Art by nikkori Music:  Dieter van der Westen –  Heading for Bamako Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND

Listen in as Snapecentric talks to author Arrisha, author of the most popular Snarry fic ever, The Syntax of Things. Passages from this great fic are read by Megs. We also discuss her writing process and advice to new authors.

Art by Pangolin Music: Hesitation by Maarten Schellekens

Our special guest pet_genius joins Megs, danpuff, and Snapecentric as we discuss events in Snape’s life, whether they’re good, bad, grey, or something else.

Music: Rock Guitar Solo by zagi2

Listen in as Snapecentric talks to Marshmallow McGonagall about her writing, Snape and Tonks, and advice to new writers. She reads from her stories, The Topography of Winter and Driftwood. Visit our Additional Reading page for these and other selected fics by Marshmallow McGonagall Art by MadFantasy.

Music: Twirling Twins by Independent Music Licensing Collective (IMLC)

Snapecentric is joined by special guests Guljerry, LadyHeliotrope, and Zigadenus for a discussion of Snape’s trans/queer/femme coding, as well as Semitic and Neurodivergent tropes in Severus’ depiction.

Music: Guitar & Bass Impro by M33 Project

Snapecentric talks with artist suffer-my-displeasure about her work, the Snalendar, Louboutin boots, and Snevor.

Music: midnight ride by Zagi2 

Snapecentric, Heatherlly and Snapesnailtape discuss Sev and Lily’s relationship, from its beginnings in the Playground to Lily’s legacy. And of course we talk about Snily fics.

Music: Indie Rock Groove by Zagi2  

Listen in as Snapecentric speaks again with Zigadenus, about Snape’s coding, Nazism and Death Eaters, JKR, cultural appropriation, and Death of the Author, Marauders and bullying, Hermione and teaching, fandom and haters.

Special guest Jalapeno Eyepopper joins danpuff, Megs, and Snapecentric in celebrating Alan Rickman’s birthday!

Music: Humbug by Crowander

Listen in as Snapecentric speaks with Zigadenus, author of Inkstains and more! Visit our Fanfic Recs page for links to Zigadenus; wonderful works!

Music: Dark Eyes by Teddy and Marge   

Join us in celebrating Snape’s birthday! First, danpuff, Megs, and Snapecentric read some fic and talk about his big day. Then listen in as Snapecentric visits with grooot and MyWitch, author and illustrator of their collaboration, the amazing Happy Birthday.

Music: Little Grass Shack by Voodoo Suite

Listen in as Snapecentric speaks with Sneverussape, artist extraordinaire

Music: Grave by Dee Yan-Key

Join Megs, danpuff, Snapecentric, and willwediejustalittle as we celebrate the holidays. We read fics from Drarry Quite Contrary/Green Megs no Ham, evilbean, Viridiantly, danpuff, and Mersheeple. Then we talk to willwediejustalittle about her holiday art.

Music: Why Moody D Sharp by aceinet

Join Megs, danpuff, Snapecentric, and our special guest, author LadyHeliotrope as we discuss Snape’s mental health. Then Snapecentric talks to LadyHeliotrope about her life and work. 

Music: Why Moody D Sharp by aceinet

Join Megs, danpuff, Snapecentric, and our special guest, author evilbean aa we talk about clues and theories regarding Snape’s survival. Then we sit down with evilbean to talk about her and her work.

Music: Mystery by ispeakwaves

Join regulars Megs, willwediejustalittle, Snapecentric, and special guest, Snamione author CRMediagal and we discuss the Snape/Hermione pairing. Then we talk to CRMediagal about her work.

Music:  Haunted Blues by FoolBoyMedia

Join Snapecentric, author Danpuff, artist willwediejustalittle, Nathan, and Megs (Care of Magical Shippers Podcast) as we discuss Cokeworth and Snape’s origins.

Music: Sadness Cosmo by Bruno ph

Join Snapecentric, author Danpuff, and Megs (Care of Magical Shippers Podcast) as we discuss Slash fanfic in general, and Snarry fic specifically. Followed by an interview with the excellent Snarry author Danpuff.

Music: Guitar Strumming/Picking with Reverb by Keffi.Stay I Cover art by Capybara.

Join Snapecentric, Fermion, and Megs (Care of Magical Shippers Podcast) as we discuss the vast world of fanfiction! Why we read it, what we write. What is so captivating about Snape’s character in fic? Followed by an interview with Harry Potter / Severus Snape fanartist, Nyx (MyObscureImaginarium / Dimitriwix).

Cover art by MyObscureImaginarium.

Join Snapecentric and crew as we discuss our love for Snape. What was so intriguing about his character? Followed by an interview with Harry Potter / Severus Snape fan artist, Capybara.

Cover art by Capybara.

What is Snape Chat? The Host’s Snapey Journey Call to Collaborators Dedication – Alan Rickman About Snape Chat The voice of the Snapedom, exploring the world of Snape, in art, fanfic, meta, music and more.

Cover art by Capybara.