You see weird stuff when you work the night shift, sometimes when you're on shift, sometimes when you're slogging your way back home as the sky is lightening and everyone else is climbing out of the bed you've jilted for a job. Tobias Snape tended to leave his torch at home, gloomily confident in the knowledge that there was nothing weirder or more eldritch roaming the streets and empty lots of Cokeworth than his own damn son and that redhead girl from the other side of town. He whistled at night as much as he pleased, if anything, that tended to encourage Severus to scamper off rather than spring an another accidental ambush.

For Unofficial Snapetober 2023 Prompt "Crepuscular" (my personal favorite word in the English language); generally referring to animals (such as many birds) that are most active at dusk and dawn. Sev and Lily also had tapetum lucidum to Tuney's terror in this piece

Also, a more desaturated version with more exaggerated eyeshine, trying to mimic the "wildlife camera caught something weird" look:

Strictly silliness as the idea (because of this post) wouldn’t leave me alone: Sniper!Tobias Snape Saves The Day (and I have no idea why Eileen kept committing insurance fraud)

(Severus, neck hastily bandaged and blood all down his robes, shoving cauldrons and books and ingredients and jars full of “stuff” and clothing and loose-leaf tea and a stuffed alligator into a bag and muttering to himself; “I have at least an hour before someone decides to go down to the Shack to desecrate my body, that’s plenty of time to get packed and well on my way to Jamaica...”)

Spitballing an AU idea (that needs more angst and seriousness than I’m good for)

Severus Snape time-travel AU, but from Tobias’ external perspective (probably a less abusive Tobias than whatever it was Pottermore implied.  Messy and awful and not liking anything much and estranged from his son for nearly a decade despite sharing a roof, but also just a human who'd had the world yanked out from under him and hasn’t yet stopped falling).  So, how would a Severus Snape who’d just died thinking he failed (failed Lily, Dumbledore too, perhaps) after he’d spent a suffering year as the Headmaster at Hogwarts react to having another chance (albeit from after SWM) and what would that look like from the outside?

A mystery story: Who is this Severus?  What has happened to his son, aged sixteen, home for the summer, only yesterday so full of rage (still so hurt over Eileen’s death last winter) and somehow no longer friends with that Evans girl?  Why did Severus save his father’s life (and how had he known where to be?) when just the other day the boy had glared like he wanted to put Tobias in the grave himself?  Can you build a father-son relationship on a foundation of sand and ruin when the son has suddenly become a stranger with some personal mission to stop a war and save the very people that wouldn’t’ve spit on him if he were on fire (that boy is acting like a soon-to-be saint grimly rushing towards martyrdom!)?

Years ago Tobias hadn’t wanted to believe in magic, when it was undeniably real, he’d resented magic (he still didn’t like magic).  But Severus is acting like it’s his job to save the magical world and maybe there's a chance that he might need his muggle father, maybe it isn’t too late for Tobias

(I like the image of Severus seeing Tobias’ approval in the Mirror of Erised.  I like the idea of a very human Tobias who was utterly blindsided by magic being a thing and in over his head and still, possibly, capable of being better.  But I’m not terribly prone to making angsty things or taking stories seriously for very long at all, so if it sparks any interest feel free to grab and go running)