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This articulates my feelings perfectly.

It might feel like the whole world is against you at the moment (and I’m so sorry you have to experience that), but these events do not represent the wealth of love and support that exists for you out there.

Countless people are aching for you, holding you in their hearts, and have been and will continue fighting for all of us no matter what happens.

You are not alone.

Know that you are loved, supported and cared for. That there is always a space for you, and people here who will stand with, by and for you. That we have existed forever and will continue to love and to fight for as long as it takes.

Please keep yourself safe, remember there is no wrong way to cope or feel.

Existing shouldn’t be political, and your sharpest weapon is to stay alive.

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Happy Birthday, old man!!!

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domestic jegulus my beloved, save me. animagus regulus my beloved, save me. scrub daddy easter egg my beloved, save me.

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we don't know each other yet, but why not try a bit of trick or treating? :) I leave the pairing to you, unless it contains Ron or Hermione - but the prompt is: Spooky :) (and I don't mind if it's a headcanon, snippet or microfic. I appreciate everything)

Given that the general theme for Halloween costumes is ‘spooky’, here’s a non-exhaustive list of headcanons about how the Marauders and co do not at all abide by that.

Contrary to expectation, Wolfstar and Jegulus do not do couples costumes together. Regulus and Remus coordinate on an extremely obscure literary couple practically nobody has heard of (they’re mildly disappointed when people don’t recognise their costumes). James and Sirius, on the other hand, take great delight in finding the most ridiculous punny costumes possible (they’re VERY disappointed if people don’t immediately guess the pun).

All parties are perfectly content with this compromise (and have a good laugh when strangers incorrectly assume who is together).

Evan prefers to stay off the streets during Halloween, people that would usually avoid eye contact due to his offputtingly uncanny appearance are crowding around him to compliment his ‘costume’ and its weird. Barty agrees (he’ll keep this weird little guy for himself thank you very much).

Pandora is either an extremely elaborate borderline angelic fae or a literal eldritch creature, no in between.

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You know, I'm discovering that half the appeal of jegulus for me is that it forces rosekiller and james to interact in a non-antagonistic way. And that dynamic is soooo fun. I need more. Like. Just some highlights for ya'll:

Evan: Great. You don't want Regulus to die. We don't want Regulus to die. Now we just have to make sure REGULUS doesn't want Regulus to die.

James: Fantastic, but have you met Regulus?

Barty, kicking down James door: POTTER!

James: What the HELL are you doing in here? Scratch that HOW the hell did you get in here?

Barty: Regulus told me, now WHERE ARE YOU GETTING YOUR BOOZE?

Regulus: James. You know how you said you'd do anything for me? Well. . .how much did you mean that?

James: With my whole heart. Anything. What do you need?

Regulus: Evan?

Evan: We need you to find Barty. He went into one of his fits of exam-stress-induced madness and he's been missing for three days.

James, suspicious that Reg blabbed about the map: Okay, why do you think I'd know where he is?

Evan: Because when you and Regulus were in your painful pining phase you were somehow able to avoid us AND stalk him everywhere. I don't know how you know where everyone is all the time, I just know you're doing it somehow. If you can't find him, I'll have to assume he finally made good on his threat to fling himself into the lake.

James: Is? Is this a recurring problem for you?

Evan: OH, and you've NEVER lost track of YOUR boyfriend OR your best friend because they were spiralling and have a complex from their shitty upbringing?

James: . . . Point taken. Give me 5 minutes.

Evan: *grabs James in the hallway and slams him against a wall*

Barty: Alright Potter, start talking!

James: Dammit you two! You know you can just ASK Regulus how it went after we go on a date, right? He'd probably be thrilled to tell you! Don't you two keep complaining about how much he won't shut up about me?

Evan: EXACTLY. If we encourage him, then we'll REALLY never hear the end of it. Now, did you do the thing we told you about?

James: the praise thing? Yeah, he reacted really well. Which you'd know if you ASKED REGULUS!

Barty: See, what did I tell you? He loves it! See you same time next week Potter!

James, yelling after them as they leave: I STILL WANNA KNOW HOW YOU FOUND OUT ABOUT THAT BY THE WAY!

Evan: NO YOU DON'T!

Idk, I'm a sucker for not quite friends James and Rosekiller. I need more.

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crimson rivers marylily

my gorgeous girls 🫶 fanart of ‘crimson rivers’ by bizarrestars on ao3

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Ooh opportunity for angst if you headcanon that Mary obliviates herself after the war: she destroys everything related to her past life but can’t bring herself to part with the album.

So she’s left with a photo album full of strangers, and every night she feels compelled to take it out and stare at the pure joy immortalised between the pages. On the nights where she stares until her eyes burn or the glasses she sipped at got away from her, she can almost picture herself in the curly locks of hair that sometimes peek around the edges of the camera frame.

headcanon that mary loved taking photos! she had a camera gifted to her by all her friends (they pooled their money to buy it) on her 15th birthday and took it everywhere with her. mary took photos of everything significant and insignificant; the food in the great hall, the marauders' matching halloween costumes, and flitwick's bright purple hair, courtsey of lily who had always been particularly good at charms (no one ever suspected her). she compiled it all into one large photo album, planning to give it to her friends when she turned 25, to thank them for ten years of friendship... but on october 31st 1981, when the world crashed around her, she would never remember to take another photo of lily and james again. <3

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Honestly how most interactions with my uni classmates feel.

I LOVE when children who juuuust barely understand ten percent of something find somebody (a toy or a smaller child, usually) who understands zero percent and they’re like “come hither and I shall take you under my wing and teach you my instant wisdom.”

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This would be a really interesting storyline for trans Regulus (especially if it were extended to all pureblood families)! CW for transphobia and Walburga’s A+ parenting though.

Walburga furious after discovering a masculine name that clearly doesn’t match her newborn’s biological sex (they’re traditional, of course they all have extremely gendered names) and forcing Regulus to dedicate his entire life to concealing it.

Ensuring Regulus never learns about the existence of trans people and teaching him he’s a ‘mistake’ instead, that he should be ashamed of the mark everyone around him flaunts as a sign of their blood purity/status.

Regulus attending Hogwarts and meeting James who’s extremely open about his own trans identity (within their friend group where it’s safe), and sees his mark as a source of gender euphoria and an affirmation that he’s meant to live the way he feels happiest.

Regulus being utterly confused by this until he has some hard conversations with James/Sirius and his life suddenly starts making a lot more sense..

For some reason this really speaks to me, maybe I’ll write it when I achieve the ever elusive ‘free time’…

members of the black family are born with their names on their skin. a prophecy of who they will be.

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james is greedy with love, he’s all grabby hands and bite marks. he was raised generously, he could play rough with his toys and they would be fixed the next day.

regulus is gentle in love, he’s all cheek kisses and hair-playing. he was raised to be delicate, his dolls were porcelain and ready to cut him if he loved too hard.

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Miss Lily Evans the ICON :))

(also omg look at me finally posting again!!!)

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Barty. Not because he’s stronger but because he’d sabotage in a manner so unexpectedly unhinged James just freezes in shock.

Okkk so picture this- Reggie finally admitting that he and James are dating and Barty immediately challenges James to an arm wrestling (you know so James acc has to fight for Regulus) and James acctually accepts so I guess

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August Ollivander - Autumn Headcanons 🍁🍂

AKA an overly poetic brain-dump for people sharing my extremely niche and enthusiastic interest (@floreanfortescuetruther & @ravenwordss + other Autumnflower lovers).

August Ollivander thrives in Autumn. He stubbornly wears jumpers the entire year anyway, but finally he can comfortably cosy up without Florean casting subtle cooling charms at him every chance he gets (he tries to do it secretly but August always notices, he’s come to love the sensation of magical chills trickling down his spine).

October signals the beginning of the season during which August can return his boyfriend’s care, always bundling him up with an extra scarf or pair of mittens before they leave the parlour. This is particularly appreciated because Florean always forgets that it’s cold outside; a pleasant summery temperature is magically maintained within the parlour for optimal icecream enjoyment year-round.

For August (Squib headcanon), Autumn is the time of year where magic is most present in the Muggle world, and he spends hours wandering the forest with his sketchbook trying to capture its essence. It’s a magic wizards don’t quite understand, one that paints the leaves in fiery hues and sends leaves swirling through the air, compelling passers-by to chase after them and surrender to childlike joy for a few precious moments. Grandiose spells can’t begin to compare to spontaneous laughter or people’s unbounded delight at Autumn’s natural wonders.

August busies himself painstakingly writing and decorating ice cream labels for the parlour’s seasonal flavours, preventing colour-blind Florean’s nightmare as displays flood with hues of orange and preemptively festive crimson and green.

Autumnflower lovers I would love to hear your headcanons; let August thrive this season!

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If I wasn’t convinced before this would do it.

jegulily is actually so powerful

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I’m still laughing this is priceless 🤣.

on social distancing…

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The charm of a ship being the same height is criminally underrated, there is so much potential.

Awkwardly fumbling through hugs as they try to wrap their equally gangly limbs around each other in the most coordinated way. And just when they’ve figured it out their friendship transitions into a relationship and they have to navigate kissing (no James I can’t just tilt his jaw up - tilt it to where?!).

One of them wanting to lay his head on the other’s chest during sleep, but shifting that low makes his feet hang off the bed so they settle for a bizarre diagonal laying angle to maximise mattress length. Remus gifting Sirius a painstakingly knitted hugely oversized blanket at graduation so they can both be properly covered when cuddling like this.

The Marauders never letting Sirius live it down when they discover Moony is bigger than Padfoot (finally they have an answer to who is taller).

Shy first years that avoid eye contact constantly mixing up the pair because they’re both ridiculously tall (and they’re pretty much attached at the hip anyway).

And infinitely more possibilities.

Thank you for entertaining my sleep-deprived rambles if you got this far; in short, yes. Yes I love it please expand.

what would happen if someone said they think remus + sirius are the same height……?