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I love when this happens

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chat, i’m so unwell about wolfstar

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remus lupin they could never make me hate you.

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Me? What’s my OTP? I don’t have an OTP. Every ship and dynamic has something special of their own, and every character brings something unique to every— Wolfstar. It’s Wolfstar. I would die for Wolfstar.

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Every time someone hates on Wolfstar, Remus and Sirius fall even more in love.

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I'm massively coffee obsessed and I always get a little bit sad when people write coffee shop aus and they make NO sense logistically 😭😭 they're still cute and fun and I'll read them but I just get a bit sad inside xoxo

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My favourite ship dynamic—Wolfstar

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Born to yap about the marauders all day, forced to go to work.

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Let Peter 5th wheel then 😭 this wasn't about ships lmfao it was about Pete erasure

I'm never going to stop being sad that the marauders fandom predominantly presents the main friendship group as James, Sirius, Remus, and Regulus.

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I'm never going to stop being sad that the marauders fandom predominantly presents the main friendship group as James, Sirius, Remus, and Regulus.

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As someone who is aroace and HCs Reg and Mary as aroace characters over other marauders characters, reading everyone's thoughts has been making me think.

People are saying some very interesting things, but I think the reason an agreement isn't really being reached and OP's point hasn't been entirely responded to is because of an issue that extends beyond the fandom.

People view asexuality and aromantacism as irrevocably conjoined, and able to be summed up through the term ace. It doesn't just happen within the marauders fandom, it's why I go out of my way to tell people that I'm aromantic over anything else, because it's the aspect of my sexuality that, to me, feels the most overlooked by others. Within the fandom, though, people will ignore ships with characters like Peter or Severus because 'oh well they're ace so'. There's a startling lack of knowledge surrounding the aro and ace spectrums, and it's why this is such a difficult topic to nail down.

There is fetishization in the fandom. There's a lot of hyper sexualisation in a lot of fandoms. People often value two characters in a ship through sex/smut scenes in fics, because so many people equate romance to sex. For many, it's linked, but for many it isn't. People can be asexual and still enjoy sex, seek sex. A person can be a sex repulsed asexual and not aromantic, and still be in a healthy relationship.

At this point, it's going to be near impossible to destroy the view that romance and sex are always connected, but if people can dismantle the belief within themselves, I think this issue would be a lot easier to discuss, because it wouldn't be so difficult for people to view asexuality as aroaceness.

i’ve been thinking about why it’s always the same characters that are thrown into ships (james,regulus,evan….) but that other characters have been labeled as ace ever since i can remember?

why is peter always ace? because he is not as attractive as the others? because he’s bigger?

what about snape? besides the snily delusionals, i’ve never seen him with anyone else? why is that?

do you guys only like making characters gay and/or in love when you think they’re pretty and skinny enough to fetishize them? because it seems to me like timothee chalamet as regulus black is the perfect exemple of this.

or think about the lack of sapphic ships and depth to them. they are always background characters. or used in mlm relationships as objects

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Who else thinks that sirius and remus should kiss

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I get wanting to give the black brothers a happy ending and having reg leave with sirius, but something about Sirius being disowned, leaving his one ray of light from the family that will haunt him forever, and going to his adoptive brother is so genuinely heart wrenching and important that I care less about the black brother's story when they get closure.

The abuse they suffer tears them apart and it's fucking addictive to read.

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Okay I did it it's here

Someone needs to ask me about the parallels between orpheus & euridyce and wolfstar otherwise I simply might explode

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orpheus and eurydice vs wolfstar?? i NEED to hear your thoughts!!! (as a classics nerd marauders fan i can't believe i didn't think to draw parallels between ships n mythology sooner)

Reblogs, this ask and an ask from @transwolfstar has officially convinced me.

I've always gone back and forth on who was who in this scenario, but I've come to the conclusion recently.

Orpheus is Remus, Sirius is Euridyce 100%.

Orpheus is what I believe Remus would have been if he hadn't been attacked by Greyback. He grew up loved, and as sheltered as he physically could have been from the world until he went to school. Orpheus was one to see the best in the world, what the world could become. He was a loner through and through, which is so Remus coded tbh. Remus is connected and grounded, which I fully believe Orpheus was, based on the way he used his musical talents.

Euridyce being Sirius is something I'm so genuinely passionate about. He sees the world for what it is because he's been through such extreme hardships. Euridyce and Sirius are kindred spirits through and through. Not only that, but in the original myth Euridyce was a nymph. The way Sirius' beauty is so heavily emphasised throughout his mentions in the books and films (to the point that I lowkey love the being part veela headcanon) is so Euridyce.

This leads me on to THEIR LOVE. Orpheus falls head over heels for Euridyce, but not just because she's a minor deity, because of her. Because she's his soulmate, his everything, the person he's willing to literally go to the end of the earth for. This is so fucking paralleled by Wolfstar. They love each other so genuinely unconditionally (according to all canon that I read too much into and a lot of fanon), and Remus is willing to fight, even kill an old friend, with very little real confirmation/context, at the drop of a hat for Sirius.

Remus loses Sirius for the first time tragically in the same way Orpheus loses Euridyce (on their wedding night). For both, it isn't permanent, in spite of the fact that they believe it will be. Euridyce is in the underworld, which is known to be a genuinely traumatising afterlife that causes you to lose all sense of identity, and Sirius is in Azkaban, which feeds on your positive memories and forces you to lose all sense of self.

Orpheus seeks out and cares for Euridyce so deeply, using his skill set (his music) to save her from the underworld. This is a bit of a stretch, so you can completely disregard this one, but Remus is a more subdued character (because he grew up in more hardship than Orpheus, moulding his character into a more reserved one), making his staying with, looking out for and understanding Sirius without words his own variation of this.

All of the waiting; both Orpheus and Remus knowing that every second in their own respective torture was stripping them of their soul, their identity. Then, when they're finally reunited, they get no time together. Orpheus has to lead Euridyce, walking for days, without looking back, without ever knowing if she was really following him, if the gods had tricked him, if she had been taken or hurt at all on the way back. Remus and Sirius are immediately thrown back into a war, with no way to keep one another safe. Every day was one of uncertainty, and they had Harry, the child of their dead best friends, to look out for every single step of the way.

They both end in tragedy.

Orpheus, when he's out of the final stretch, the cave, turns. He looks for Euridyce. Whether it's on instinct, because she trips, because he believes he's been tricked, or because he could hear her crying the entire time and finally reached his limit, he turns around. He loves her so much that he searches for her, and he loses her because of it. Remus, however, allows Sirius to walk into the trap. He hears the panic, he knows that Sirius will go straight after Harry, will walk straight into the trap on his own, and brings the Order. He tries to keep Sirius safe. His problem is one of looking away. Of being so caught up in the war, that he can't even register what is happening until it's over. Until Sirius has been taken from him, even though he did everything he did to keep him safe. For both of them, it looks like they're going to make it, that everything is going to be okay, until it isn't. One painfully human moment, and they're both gone. Orpheus because he doesn't trust his circumstances and looks back, Remus because he trusts them too much and looks away.

Still, there was never an ounce of blame appointed to Orpheus or to Remus. The poem Metamorphoses by Ovid puts it perfectly. “Eurydice, dying now a second time, uttered no complaint against her husband. What was there to complain of, but that she had been loved?”

Sirius is taken through the veil. Remus doesn't know if he is truly in the afterlife, or if he's trapped in between, suffering helplessly and wishing for relief. Wishing that he could take it all back, or that he could just die. He can't even go after him and find him. He has to hold Harry back, hold him together. Orpheus doesn't know how long it will take Euridyce to lose her mind in the afterlife. For everything that he fell in love with to be stripped away, for her to become nothing but a being of eternal suffering. He attempts to use his music to get back to the afterlife, but he cannot.

Orpheus is eventually killed, as is Remus. Both too soon, both not soon enough.

Right person, not enough time.

It's absolutely heartbreaking, and it's what I spend my every waking moment thinking about.