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So I have a question.

When does Ash choose his alias? Like his mother named him Aslan but nobody refers to him that way (unless for legal reasons like when we see the cops going over his profile).

But when did he choose it? Because his father calls him Ash, Griffin does too, so when?

Was it something his dad called him? Perhaps because he thought the name wasn't a good one or it reminded him of Ash's mother?

We know that Ash has mixed feelings about his birth name given that his mother named him, but then she abandoned him for unknown reasons. So when did these feelings begin to arise? Was a name change something he came up with?

Like, did he interrupt his dad and Griffin to inform them: "It's not Aslan, it's Ash." and then it just went from there?

I wonder

#ash lynx #banana fish #random bs vale has to share #aslan jade callenreese #banana fish ash #this was some fucking rambling #I'm finally writing some stuff for my bf fic lol

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Jily (Flowerpott) Rant

A confession: Jily really hasn't meant much to me until the Jegulus blow up (especially on TikTok).

It's not that I disliked Jily but in the main HP series, it was just a fact that it existed, and when I joined the Marauders fandom they became more than names on paper and I was able to see them as more, but still, I was mainly focused on Wolfstar.

And to be clear, this is not going to be a Jegulus hate rant even if I don't ship it. Yes, I've read Choices and enjoyed it to a certain extent. And this is where lies the problem.

One of the main things that I disliked about this specific fic (no hate to the author though) was how pureblood politics/prejudice was handled. And at its core, we know that HP is a (bad) allegory for WW2 and Jewish people have expressed their dislike at how it was handled. I won't comment further on this part as I'm not Jewish, but when I first read HP in middle school I took it and still see it through a race lens.

And let me tell you as woc I'm not saying that people can't write or read about magical racism but I would rather it be done right. And to me, a lot of Jegulus content doesn't handle this correctly which is what turns me away from it, because when it isn't done right it takes me out of the fic and has me remember irl interactions/situations that are what I'm actively trying to not think about when reading fics.

And it also includes the idea that many people within the Marauders have raised that because most of what we know has been built off of crumbs of crumbs there are several depictions of the same character and sometimes they can contradict each other.

So when I see James Potter have a romantic relationship with a person who tries not to use slurs in front of him and insinuates (even admits at one point) that he doesn't think or care much about muggleborns and in fact upholds blood purity by being a bystander fucks me up because that also makes James a fucking bystander and upholds blood purity imo one of the worst ways possible as well as deviating from his fanon characterization that has been pretty stable pre-Jegulus.

It's literally giving "liberal" yt women with conservative boyfriends.

Again, I'm using Choices as the specific fic to explain my frustrations because it's a fic (I'm assuming) most people have read and know, and/or it's the fic that introduced them to this ship.

And it irks me that in the fic Regulus called Lily a mudblood which is canonically a slur and there were people defending his actions because of his trauma and circumstances. And yes, Regulus suffered the consequences of being involved in an alt-right allegory group, but in the end, is awarded by being able to join James in the afterlife.

I'm aware of kids and teenagers in the alt-right like Regulus can go through their own struggles like seen in the fic, but it doesn't fucking excuse the fact that kids who are minorities are suffering as well.

Just because Regulus went through SA doesn't excuse a lot of the horrible things that he did. And many people like to point out the fact that he tried destroying a Horcrux and died doing so was something that absolved him of all his previous actions. Especially when in Choices, my interpretation of this situation was that Regulus didn't like being a Death Eater not because it was wrong, but because it hurt to be at odds with James. And that he wanted someone to defeat Voldemort because he wanted to be with James, not because non-pureblood wizards also had a right to live.

Lily in Choices was better than because if I found out that the person my s/o had a secret relationship with in high school was the one who called me a slur b/c at the end of the day he was a (magical) racist and allowed his friends to harass and call me slurs too AND LATER CHEATED on me with while pregnant then yeah Harry would've been fatherless for a different reason.

On a less serious (?) note, what has pushed me away from enjoying Jegulus content is the idea that mlm ships are often more shipped within a fandom compared to f/m ships. This often happens when f/m ships aren't properly handled and authors don't care enough to actually give the female romantic interest a personality so the fandom focuses on the male lead with their best friend who seems to have more chemistry.

And yes this turned me away despite the fact that I have many mlm ships because I've seen (some) Jegulus shippers say that there isn't much to be explored with Jily and I wholeheartedly disagree with that. They also say that it's a het ship and my question is, is it really? Because why are we assuming that they're both cishet? When has the ever stopped us from having hc like perhaps both James and Lily are bi? Never, so why not explore that in a Jily context?

Because it's the 70s and while gay and lesbian people were at the forefront of change in regards to LG issues, bisexual people or non-monosexual people were not only excluded from cishet society but from the queer community. We still are tbh with biphobia deniers but that's for another rant for another time.

So why not have Jily explore bisexuality within this context. Why not explore their friendship before dating in their 7th year which can lead to them having relationships with others that lead to questions like why do I feel jealous, they're one of my best friends and they can date whoever. And then they figure stuff out before they realize yeah they're the one for me.

Why not explore their bisexuality within the wizarding world and the muggle world? You can even explore pureblood politics with them as well if you really want. Like while James sees himself as one of the good purebloods he still is one and doesn't know the extent of the discrimination and prejudice muggleborns and halfbloods go through. It doesn't have to be Lily specifically teaching him, but he could learn himself when he observes how Lily's family like other muggle families doesn't have accessibility or the appropriate information about the wizarding world.

There are so many other things we can explore with Jily and it would be wonderful to see an f/m ship that's written well because again most f/m in media are half-assed and not appropriate for young audiences to have them on a pedestal especially since so many allow for internal and external misogyny, so why not try for a healthier relationship?

Anyways, these were just some of the thoughts in my head, so if anything doesn't make much sense it's because I wrote this without any outline in mind and just went with it.

I might come back to this to elaborate on certain points but who knows.

#lily evans #jily #marauders #jegulus #random bs vale has to share #james potter #james and lily

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I’ve been going over the petekey masterdoc and I’m in tears again

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It’s a weird but not unpleasant feeling when I’m scrolling on ao3 to come across on one of my own fics lol

#fanfiction #random bs vale has to share

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There should be no reason for me to gather evidence of my academic history for a class I’m qualified to take just because the office of registrar fucked up my shit.

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Can’t believe I’m crying over merthur again

#merthur #random bs vale has to share

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Kicking and screaming

#had to share it here too #random bs vale has to share #given #given ova #Spotify

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Not Otter!YanWushi and Platypus!ShenQiao lmfao

#random bs vale has to share #thousand autumns #yanshen

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I have little money…

Did I just use it to pre-order MDZS?!

…Yeah, fuck my broke ass

I CAN FINALLY HOLD IT IN MY HANDS AHHHH

#mdzs #mo dao su zhi #grandmaster of demonic arts #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #mxtx novels #mxtx #random bs vale has to share

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I’m still debating whether to keep the BF rewrite canon-compliant or not, ughhh

#banana fish fanfiction #banana fish #banana fish fic #random bs vale has to share

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I overestimated my ability that I would be able to write a good BF rewrite in a short amount of time lmfao (like there's not even a time limit)

#banana fish #banana fish fic #asheiji #random bs vale has to share

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It wasn’t exactly intentional to go this hard on Blanca in my BF rewrite fic lol it was just subconscious slander

#banana fish fanfiction #blanca #random bs vale has to share #banana fish fic

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For my Ash has a daughter fic: I’m debating whether to kill Ash’s 14 year old crush right after she gives birth or give her a couple of weeks of life…

#banana fish fanfiction #banana fish fic #random bs vale has to share

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I have my timeline ready for this BF fic but now I need to actually start writing it…

#banana fish fanfiction #banana fish fic #random bs vale has to share

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Update: I finished half an hour ago but I’ve been sobbing for a few hours at these last chapters, still am

#wolfstar #atyd wolfstar #random bs vale has to share

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I haven’t been on here in so long ahhh but I’m caught up on Miraculous ✌🏽

#miraculous ladybug #random bs vale has to share