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I think that if you want relationships depicted in your fiction – whether primary media or fan-work – to be emotionally compelling, there's really no getting around the fact that one of the most compelling relationship dynamics in fiction is "hey, wouldn't it be fucked up if".

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i’m sawry to say but no one can ever convince me remus & regulus would be more than passive acquaintances. vague friends. they put up with each other for james & sirius’ sake and they don’t actively dislike one another at all but they’re not close good friends and they wouldn’t go out of their way to spend time with one another. 

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just thought about how gansey asked ronan to dream him the world and ronan literally did by dreaming cabeswater which would become gansey’s actual lifeline and heart and personhood and time is a circle and gansey felt things slipping into place every time he met one of his friends but ronan was The First and it all starts and ends with them and

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esp if remus is a rape victim. don’t liken being bitten by a werewolf to being raped when lycanthropy is supposedly meant to represent queer men you are inherently calling them predators. link below as to where she said it. there’s probably clearer links out there but this was the first one that came up

https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/j-k-rowling-remus-lupin-s-werewolf-condition-is-a-metaphor-for-hiv-a3340516.html?amp

the trope of remus lupin being HIV positive in muggle au fanfiction is homophobia

#marauders #remus lupin #marauders era #jk rowling #prev tags

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the trope of remus lupin being HIV positive in muggle au fanfiction is homophobia

#marauders #marauders era #remus lupin #jk rowling #jkr has compaired lycanthropy to the aid’s epidemic as if they’re on any way the same scale #not only does it portray queer men as predators (greyback) #but it compaires being HIV positive to being a dark animal

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“Hello, old friend.”

#wolfstar #ahhh #omg this is so good

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“Sheep and Lamb” Otagiri mug (1984)

source

#omg

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[baltholomewstheworstbrother]

another sexy uquiz folks this time it's which greek god would you take as a lover?

#athena #ngl it was all me wanting somebody to vent to about norse mythology or shit

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i think it’s good for kids to read at least one horrifically dark, graphic YA series when they’re too young to fully get it. gives them some flavor.

#noughts and crosses #i was eight #and also khaled hosseini’s at thousand splendid suns aged nine or ten? not ya but

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bitches will be like “my ot3 💕💕” and it’s a woman who could murder them, a guy who hasn’t had a good night’s sleep in six years, and another guy who almost got both of the other two murdered. it’s me i’m bitches

#in order: james remus sirius #marauders

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Finally finished the gangsey!!!! fuck yeah!

#trc #the raven cycle

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gansey you are such a simp

#gansey #blue sargent #bluesy #trc #the raven cycle

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I just love the fact we all have collectively agreed, and by collectively I mean mostly just following Blue’s example, that Gansey DID NOT wear polo shirts and boat shoes, but he did most definitely wear loafers, grandpa jumpers, and corduroy trousers.

#trc #richard campbell gansey iii #gansey

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headcanoning the SHIT out of Snape's Worst Memory in shameless favor of the marauders

DISCLAIMER: I'm not shitting on anyone else's opinion, I'm blatantly trying very very hard to make james and sirius look good, if you don't vibe with this, please just move on, I don't feel like starting an argument, but if you HAVE to leave a critiquing comment, try to be civil.

firstly, in my mind, this is a low point for... pretty much everyone. it's exam season, so everyone's probably stressed out, and I'm trying to make the marauders to look as good as possible, so I line up my fanon so they all had a fight the night before or something, so they're already on edge.

oh also, there's a war going on, remember? and they're fifteen, coming of age, old enough to actually be aware of what's happening in the world, (also this is about when the war is getting serious) so everyone's stressed out because of that.

my point is: it's a blip in the data, they're not usually like this. why? because it's snapes worst memory. like, worst of all time. so if james were more of an asshole layer, wouldn't THAT be higher on his list?

this is the darkest hours/turning point in james's character arc and he recognizes his asshole-ness and immediately pledges to improve after this (or falls even deeper into his arrogance spiral and someone like say mm regulus black has to pull him out) (this is a stretch but stay with me).

narrator harry notes that remus looks "a bit pale an peaky (was the full moon approaching?)" which means yes it definitely was, so he's probably tired, which is probably why he spends this entire scene reading, or pretending to, instead of being the moral compass (because he's the least involved in the whole james/snape/lily ordeal). not that that's his job, I just feel like remus could've stepped in and like fuckin touched james's wrist or closed his goddamn book and it would've done something. heck, he could've nodded at sirius to get his head out of his ass and stop it before it went to far. I blame the moon.

if headcanons aren't enough, which is fair, here's the play-by-play, along with increasingly passionate arguments in the marauders' favor:

1) james says "all right, snivellus?" and snape pulls his wand on them, so james disarms him and sirius trips him 2) snape makes a vague threat, which sirius laughs at 3) snape "let[s] out a stream of mixed swearwords and hexes" (which don't do anything because he doesn't have his wand), so james magically covers his mouth in soap.

here's an observation: james and sirius are only ever reacting. if you count making a threat or drawing your weapon as an attack (which I do, because the marauders know snape, they're already sworn enemies, and snape is looking for a fight, so they're not "overreacting" by assuming snape is going to attack them, they're making a logical conclusion and reacting accordingly), then snape initiates everything and consistently escalates it every round, james and sirius are just matching him, and they do take it too far, but it's not like snape hasn't done anything.

so up until this point they're even. okay, not even, but james and sirius haven't done anything blashphemously terrible (also, note: sirius has been harsher than james. not sure if that means anything, but if you want to try as hard as possible to explain their assholeishness then sirius does have a tragic backstory to fall back on??? I guess????)

and then lily shows up and james is a dick to her for a bit, and snape uses the distraction to cast SECTUMPSEMPRA. at james's FACE.

so james-- dare I say instinctively-- levicorpuses snape, revealing his underwear in front of half the school, which is not a cool move, by any means, especially to a fifteen-year-old, but can we look at the fact that snape just magically carved a fucking slash into james's cheek?? I kind of feel like embarrassment and bullying is warranted by literal assault, and not just a punch or something, according to HP wiki, Sectumpsempra "lacerates the target and causes haemorrhaging". in not-doctor-speak: bad.

the marauders (minus remus, who's still ignoring all this) all laugh, and lily asks james to let snape down. james complies, but snape's still upside down so I doubt it was very comfortable, and he immediately gets up for another attack, so sirius petrifies him. I kinda feel like this is fair? were this a court trial, I would certainly plead self-defence, and sirius didn't even hurt him.

if you remove magic from the situation, this is how it's gone so far: three fifteen-year-olds get into a fight, it's two-on-one, and one side is obviously winning even though they're not the ones that initiated it. Losing Side throws a couple punches, which Winning Side blocks, and then gets a few hits in, and then Losing Side pulls a goddamn knife out and stabs someone on the Winning Side in the face. Winning Side pulls Losing Side's pants down and knocks him over, and then Winning Side safely incapacites Losing Side.

and then lily asks james to take the curse off, which was sirius's doing, by the way, and james listens??? he "sigh[s] deeply" and that is the extent of his whining?? his face is still bleeding from when snape, yknow, cast sectum-fucking-sempra ten seconds ago??

and then snape calls lily, his savior, a fucking slur, and I'm pretty sure this is the final fracture in their relationship. she calmly insults him, and james yells at him to apologize, and lily says "you're as bad as [him]." james is offended, because while he's an asshole, he's not a bigot, and he genuinely does see himself above snape, so lily whips aroundand releases a cacophony of insults, not just surface name-calling and shit, but like, actually calling out his character and pointing out how arrogant he is, which is like, the worst thing you can do to an arrogant person.

lily's aspect of all this is interesting to me: she originally is pissed at james and trying to save snape, and then snape is a dick, which gets her really angry and probably seriously hurt, but she directs all that anger at james because switching sides in the middle of a fight is not a thing you do.

anyway, this is where james stops being civil: he's clearly very shaken by this ("'what is it with her?' said James, trying and failing to looks as though this was a throwaway question of no real importance to him.") because he's genuinely in love with lily, and she just made a shitton of good points as to why he's, like, a bad person, along with saying he's on the same level as "snivellus", who he sees as fucking scum.

so he levicorpuses snape again, unwarranted this time, it's not a reaction, he's literally just being a dick, and that's the end of the memory.

up until that point, james has been totally sane and cool-headed and his reactions are called for, and at least the most assholeish of all his actions has an explanation behind it.

ugh idk what my point here is, really, I just think all of that plays into why I don't think of the marauders as the demons that snapeists make them out to be. also this wasn't really supposed to be snape slander but I totally wasn't trying to plead his case or see his side at ALL so it probably came out that way.

anyway, I'm a marauders stan, and here's how I explain all of their admittedly not-great actions for my better enjoyment of the series as a whole. anyone's a good person if your rose-tinted glasses are thick enough. and hey, it's a work of fiction, I can view it how I want.

again: THIS IS MY OPINION IF IT OFFENDS YOU PLEASE JUST BLOCK ME AND MOVE ON, OR AT THE VERY LEAST TRY TO BE NICE

#snapes worst memory #marauders

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‘i thought about you while reading this book’ yes i will marry you