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For the record:

How I dress right now:

The Necklace in question:

And my brother said the necklace is giving too much grandma?

(Org: zu Oma mäßig)

Me: * wears my great-grandmother's pearl necklaces on the daily. Almost exclusively wears my grandmother's rings. puts my great-grandmother's brooches on my sweaters in the winter*

Me: look at these pretty necklaces I found on Etsy! Should I buy it?

My brother: nah, it's giving grandma

Huh????

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Me: * wears my great-grandmother's pearl necklaces on the daily. Almost exclusively wears my grandmother's rings. puts my great-grandmother's brooches on my sweaters in the winter*

Me: look at these pretty necklaces I found on Etsy! Should I buy it?

My brother: nah, it's giving grandma

Huh????

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Sometimes I have a really cool idea for an AU but then I realise I know nothing about the Jobs/ World I'd put these characters in and don't really have an interest for it either. It would just be cool. But it would be. So. Much. Research.

Like, yeah, a Restaurant AU would be great - What do you mean I have to look up food words in English? Techniques??? How kitchens work???

If I have an interest in the thing this is the best part - ballet AU, victorian AU etc. I love research for things I care about.

But the mob? How football leagues work? Art history??? The music industry??

I'll leave it to other Authors I guess 🤷🏻‍♀️

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The feminine urge to respond "Heiress" when someone asks me what I want to be when I'm older...

I'd be so good at it, I swear 😩

No more law exams

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“That ship is toxic ! They're so unhealthy—”

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So... I wrote it <3

The Sirius & Regulus as twins rarely fits a story, but hell, I love it <3

More Twins Regulus & Sirius Shenanigans

Sirius and Regulus are attending two different universities, and James has never met Regulus before. He just knows that they're brothers, and has heard Sirius referring to Regulus as his "baby brother."

The day Regulus is scheduled to visit Sirius for the first time, James picks Sirius up from the building where he has his last class at. He puts his arm around him and yaps and yaps and yaps all the way back to their dorm. He is so excited to meet his brother, and damn, what a day he has had! The cute redhead he met in the cafeteria isn't interested in a second date. Should he try to ask her out again anyway?

Sirius says, definitely not. He should look for someone new to date. Maybe a guy, this time?

James goes on, yapping about his classes, his sports and how excited he is to cook for Sirius's brother and see if he can handle more spice than his twin. Back at the dorm, he changes his shirt in front of Sirius, as he always does, asking whether his brother would be very judgy of his clothes.

Sirius says, probably yes. Maybe he should show up naked just to be safe.

Then, the door opens again and... Sirius walks in?

James looks confused from one Sirius sitting on a bed to the other by the door.

Door-Sirius grins and hugs the other. "Reggie, there you are! I thought you wanted to wait for me to finish my classes? James, this is my brother Regulus."

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Hi! I have a question about your fic I adored you. Would Jegulus ever tell Euphemia about Regulus being a man? I know they told Monty and he was ultimately alright with it. But it does make me wonder especially if they’d expand their family with kids, if they’d ever want to have Euphemia around to help but then she’d have to know. Also another question, when they have kids, how would they go about interacting with their kids in front of other people. For example if their kid is used to calling Regulus “Papa” but then he has to dress up as the viscountess for some event, how would they deal with potentially having their kid call him by that name in public? Or would kids under a certain age never really be seen in certain social settings?? I’m not sure if this makes any sense or not but yeah I was just wondering how they’d navigate hiding Regulus’ secret while also maintaining their family unit. Also, I hope you have a great day!!!

Since I'm still not sure when / if I'll ever post the sequel, I guess I can answer this question

In my mind, Euphemia, who at this point is a widow with James being her only surviving son, would want to be very involved in Regulus's pregnancy / their children's lives. She invites herself into their home because she insists on supporting her "daughter in law" through the pregnancy, birth etc. Regulus, who has to dress up on top of being dysphoric during his pregnancy, hates this ofc - and James is trying to get his mother to leave, but also, it's like 1899 and that's his mother. He doesn't want to hurt her. So, Regulus decides that they will tell her and should she be unable to respect Regulus as a man, she would be banned from their home and denied access to the grandchildren. - James also makes this very clear. Protecting Regulus is more important than keeping his mother around, he'd just prefer it if he could have both.

Monty was a progressive man who loved, supported & followed every new progress / theory in science. That's why it was easier for him to accept Regulus.

I don't think Euphemia would understand quite as quickly, but she would try her best & respect Regulus - because she does like him as a person, & genuinely wants to help with the pregnancy and kids.

In summary, they will HAVE to tell her at some point, because she's a lonely widow who wants to be closer to her son, and neither Regulus nor James want 1. to cut her out and 2. make Regulus dress up all the time.

The question about the kids is easier. They wouldn't be part of any social event until their late teens - 16 earliest, or even only after coming out to society. They would call Regulus "Papa" as children and in private. by the time they'd interact with him in front of other (non-servant) people, they'd be old enough to understand when Regulus had to be the countess / maman / mother. You have to imagine that nobles spent like maybe one hour a day with their children, when the nanny would bring them for bonding / play time. Children would not even have dinner with the family until they were 15 or 16 years old. I think as young nobles there are so many rules for the children to learn that this entire gender ordeal would be one of the easier things to get right 😅

Have a great day <333

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This reeks of "I act like I don't know what you're talking about just to be nasty"

I trust that you are aware that when we talk about "The Marauders" - be that fanon or canon - we're talking about the teenagers. We're talking about the Hogwarts-students-versions of them. And when people say "I miss the canon Marauders" they are also talking about them. The three to four broken adults in the books aren't referred to as "The Marauders" by anyone, and I think you are aware of that. If you don't know that when discussing "The Marauders" or "The Marauders Era" we don't mean the adults who meet Harry, maybe sit this one out?

So, do we meet Peter, Remus, Sirius, Snape? Sure. But the adult, thirty-something-year-old versions of them, who went through wars, prison time, and losing about every person that was ever important to them. I don't know if you've ever met an adult, but they're typically not the same person they were as a 16-year-old kid. So, no, we do not get to know these characters, we meet their adult, traumatised, war-riddled counterparts. And you know that when people say they miss the "canon Marauders" they're not talking about Professor Lupin or Professor Snape either.

Fine, let's talk about narrative. "Narrative works in a way where the author shows exactly what they want the reader to know about a character. So if Rowling chose to show only negative things about James, it’s because she wanted the reader to know that James had been a total piece of shit."

Not quite. Let's remove this from the HP context for a moment, because that sentence hurt. Narrative is the interplay between characters, point of view, setting, voice, plot, language, tone & structure. The author employs characters and point of view to shape the reader's perception of the plot and other characters through the narrator. They don't show exactly what they want the reader to know about the character, they show the characters through the lens and experience (point of view) of another character. It's a pretty basic principle: If you have a character who has an issue with another, everything that they say, feel, or that is told in narration from their point of view, will be influenced by that issue. It's a common technique in storytelling (a lot of times authors play around with this, that's how we get 'unreliable narrators'.) JKR fell in love with her own character at some point which influenced her writing of these characters, and maybe she isn't good enough to employ this technique, but to say that a character is 100% what the narrator shows them to be in one conflict-driven scene, and claim that that's how narrative works, is just plain incorrect. Like, from a literature science level "narrative works in that way" is just incorrect. Authors never speak directly to the reader, not even via omniscient narrators.

I do admit that I was apparently wrong about the pensive showing memories objectively (which might be the most nonsensical thing I've ever heard but okay). However, this still supports my point that there isn't enough canon. Even if that one scene, in which James and Sirius were objectively in the wrong, 100% happened like that, it's not giving enough material to claim that these four boys are some canonically fully-fledged characters. They're not. Canon Marauders (and again, you know that this refers to the teenagers. the fandom isn't exactly writing about the 30-yos in masses) have in total one pensive scene? Two? And then adult Remus and Sirius reminisce about their time at Hogwarts in two scenes and Madame Rosmerta tells one story. And the amalgamation of that is what are the "canon Marauders."

It's nothing. Basically nothing. Not enough to cry for "canon marauders" to be back. The reason this fandom is built on headcanons is that there is basically nothing to go of here. You yourself described Peter as "personality-free cheerleader" - so what canon personality is it that people want back?

Also, unsure why you had to be nasty, offensive and weirdly personal through this entire thing. I'm a 23yo law student with a bachelor's degree in literature and linguistics, I'm not "projecting myself into popular high school groups", or whatever. (Very offensively American terminology btw.) My problem is that 2 out of 3 times, when people are screaming for "canon Marauders" they're just talking about a less queer, still fanon version of them, because there is no real "canon marauders."

Go eat your bananas in Lima, or whatever the fuck that last part was.

ppl be posting shit like "I miss canon Marauders"

Babes, there is no "canon" Marauders. Most of the shit ya'll think is canon, are just old headcanons that used to be widespread before other (usually queerer) headcanons gained popularity.

There is so little information about the "canon" Marauders - and even the info we have cannot be trusted because it's usually memories, influenced by a character's bias - that trying to make a somewhat comprehensive character out of the given material is impossible, let alone 4 characters.

Everything is fanon. Everything is headcanon. And that's the beauty of this fandom.

(Ofc my favourite part is when something actually is canon via the books or movies, and people reject it as fanon.)

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On that Note: There is also no "Fanon" Marauders.

The term implies that there is a general consensus regarding those characters - and that is rare.

There are so many ideas, headcanons & characterizations floating around, it's impossible to press them all into one character and say: This is the fanon version - especially because a lot of them depend on a certain context, AU, etc.

"I hate fanon Sirius Black" - oh yeah? Which one? Cis-gendered, straight bicycle-fanatic idiot Sirius Black is, to an extent, fanon. Do you mean cis-gendered gay Sirius? Skirt-wearing Sirius? Long-hair Sirius? Short hair Sirius? Trans Sirius Black? Gender fluid Sirius Black? nail-polish wearing Sirius Black? Dramatic Sirius Black? Serious, selfish, arsehole bully Sirius Black? In love with Remus Sirius Black? Soft Sirius Black? In love with Marlene Sirius Black? Mechanic Sirius Black? Artistic Sirius Black? Studious Sirius Black? Naturally talented, hates studying Sirius Black? Hates his family, likes parts of his family, physically, psychologically, magically or not at all abused Sirius Black?

Which one? They're all fanon. Depending on which corner of the Fandom you frequent, you'll see more of one than the other, but that doesn't mean that there's one, fully-fledged fanon version you can call "Fanon Sirius Black."

ppl be posting shit like "I miss canon Marauders"

Babes, there is no "canon" Marauders. Most of the shit ya'll think is canon, are just old headcanons that used to be widespread before other (usually queerer) headcanons gained popularity.

There is so little information about the "canon" Marauders - and even the info we have cannot be trusted because it's usually memories, influenced by a character's bias - that trying to make a somewhat comprehensive character out of the given material is impossible, let alone 4 characters.

Everything is fanon. Everything is headcanon. And that's the beauty of this fandom.

(Ofc my favourite part is when something actually is canon via the books or movies, and people reject it as fanon.)

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ppl be posting shit like "I miss canon Marauders"

Babes, there is no "canon" Marauders. Most of the shit ya'll think is canon, are just old headcanons that used to be widespread before other (usually queerer) headcanons gained popularity.

There is so little information about the "canon" Marauders - and even the info we have cannot be trusted because it's usually memories, influenced by a character's bias - that trying to make a somewhat comprehensive character out of the given material is impossible, let alone 4 characters.

Everything is fanon. Everything is headcanon. And that's the beauty of this fandom.

(Ofc my favourite part is when something actually is canon via the books or movies, and people reject it as fanon.)

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"since youre literally actively in the HP fandom" last i checked, supporting fanfiction about pansexual james potter and gay trans regulus black graphically having sex didn't give a terrible person that supports the suffering of anyone different than her money, but maybe thats just me

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If you want a new marauders movie/show/reboot then you are supporting jkr and also not appreciating the already beautiful fandom created by queer people for your entertainment for free. Pls leave.

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When I was 15 - 17 I was reading a lot of fanfiction on Wattpad. Back then "I dated them as a prank / dare but then I fell in love with them and when they found out all hell broke lose" was a big thing. Like, the amount of Frerard stories I've read with that premise is insane, (considering it had nothing to do with their personalities.)

You can think it's an awful trope all you want, but considering that's THE most stupid rich teenage boy thing EVER, I don't understand why it's not a staple in the Marauders fandom?! You want canonically awful public school wankers as Marauders? This is your trope!

The potential alone of Sirius daring to date a Slytherin, and James trying to get it on with Regulus to get back at him for this awful idea? Everyone is hurt? Everyone is angry with everyone? The drama???! The self-reflection and growth afterwards?

It works for every single Marauder x Slytherin, Marauder x Marauder, Marauder x Gryffindor girls, Marauder x OC ship

We all love Operation Walburga's Arbitrary No Kissing Ever Rule - think that, but intentionally.

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not me posting a new chapter of my fanfic 20 minutes before it goes down for maintenance 🙃🙃🙃🙃

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For no reason in particular and aimed at no citizens of any singular country, (as I believe all of you should think about this) I'd like to tell you a bit about German History Education.

Mind you, I attended school in Brandenburg from 3rd to 10th grade. Brandenburg is a state not exactly known for quality education. Education might vary from state to state, even school to school, so this doesn't apply to every German, but it's not an uncommon experience:

4th Grade (2009/2010)

German Class: Discussion of Anne Frank, we didn't read it but we discussed why she was hiding, and how she lived & we watched a movie that was part re-enactment and part documentary

5th & 6th grade (2010-2012)

in 5th and 6th grade we had politics, history, and LER with the same teacher, so everything is a bit muddled in my memory

LER means "Lifestyle Ethics Religion", a subject in which we talked about human rights, children's rights, important holidays & symbols of Christianity, Islam and Judaism. In secondary school we discussed racism, homophobia, aids, bullying, depression, suicide, & ofc the Holocaust

we talked about war in general and had to bring a piece of media that concerned war (I brought the book "Nothing new on the western front" someone else brought the song "Zombie" by the cranberries)

we looked at photographs of people on the day they were freed from the camps. We had the option to leave or look away. One girl had to throw up. It was the 6th grade, I think, so I was 10-11, the others were 11-12 yo. In these pictures, and I'm saying this in the most respectful way, the people didn't look like people. They were walking skeletons.

(Interlude: after the 6th grade, my father watched Holocaust movies with me at home. The Story of the Family Weiß, La Vita e bella)

8th - 9th Grade (2013-2015)

History: German History, from the Kaiserreich, over many wars with France, to the world wars, Weimarer republik, reparations

History: we now discussed the actual "war" part of the world wars for the first time. All those details about "Blitzkrieg", axis, allies and what have you that ppl are obsessed with are taught far later than the actual horrors of the Holocaust

LER: we watched "The Boy in the Striped Pyjama", other classes watched La Vita e bella and similar movies. we also looked at anti-Jewish propaganda and antisemitic comics (this might have been in history tho)

German: We read a book called Der Gelbe Vogel (org: Alan and Naomie) by Myron Levoy. It deals with a little girl and the psychological consequences of the persecution of the jewish people (she had to escape France at the time and her father died during the escape) (it's a good read, I recommend it) we also watched the corresponding movie

10th Grade (2015/2016)

History: we talked about how Hitler came to power, book-burning, mass deportation, concentration camps, basically the entire timeline of the Holocaust

German: We read "Der Vorleser" by Bernhard Schlink, which, among other things, also deals with the Nürnberg trials.

usually, students visit a concentration camp at this point. (my brother attends a school in Berlin and has been to 2 camps in the 9th and 10th grade). Other classes in our year did, too, but we didn't, I assume due to scheduling or budget issues. instead, we had a 3-day project week. We did the following:

visit the Anne Frank Zentrum in Berlin, at the Hackescher Markt, a Holocaust museum, which, if memory serves correctly, used to be a workshop for disabled people, and the owners tried to prevent their workers from getting deported

on the same day, we talked about Stumble Stones and looked at a few of them and went to the Holocaust memorial

We visited the Wannsee House, where the "End solution to the jew-question" was discussed. Basically, the place where they decided to murder everyone. It is now also a museum. One of the most prevailing memories of this was the table where they sat, had tea & cake while discussing the camps, and charts explaining the race purity rules

we got a tour through an East-German Stasi-prison by a person who was incarcerated there. (It was so awful, I was holding on to my boyfriend's arm for dear life. That day is the reason why I've never went to visit an actual concentration camp outside of school. I don't think I could handle it)

12th Grade (2017/2018) I moved back to Berlin at this point. One thing about the German school system: You can leave school after 10th grade with a degree and get an apprenticeship. You can also stay for another 2-3 years and get your Abitur. You need an Abitur to study at a German university. No Abitur = No University. In Berlin (& some other states) you are required to take the last two semesters of history education. No last semesters of history = no abitur = no university

we began with a quick run-down of European / world history by groups of people holding presentations about important events (French Revolution, Cuba-crisis, 1st World War, Weimar Republic etc)

we repeated in detail how Hitler became popular after the First World War

we discussed (and our exam was about this) whether Hitler "seized" power or "was given" power

instead of the details of what happened during the holocaust, the focus was on, how did all of this happen, how could it happen etc

we analysed propaganda, how it worked, etc

we discussed the Nürnberg trials and watched the movie "Im Labyrinth des Schweigens" which deals with the time leading up to the trials around Auschwitz

in the final semester we talked about the cold war, East-Germany, propaganda in east-germany etc (if I were to make such a list for our education regarding East-Germany, it would be much, much shorter and I think that's an atrocity)

Do with this what you will. Maybe reflect on the education given to you about your own countries. Or maybe start listening to Germans when we tell you whether something is a Nazi salute or not, because chances are high that we know what we're talking about

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Do you guys ever think about the fact that Buckbeak got a trial and Sirius Black didn’t?

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There's this one tiktoker who is on my fyp as Walburga with skits of her being a good / normal mum (BekkaLupine)

I've seen them so often, I crave to write a story where Regulus and Sirius are doing some dark-magic shit and land in a different reality where their parents, while still employing dark magic, are good parents who love them, are attentive and teach them cool, forbidden magic but don't use it against them.

And maybe it should just be that.