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Remembering ATYD at the moment

Figured I’d draw the mauraders in my style💖

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So I hate saying this, but hear me out: Barty Crouch Jr is the one thing JKR did better than the fandom.

Canon Barty is actually interesting. I don't mean likeable, I mean fascinating. He has more backstory than the entire rest of the Marauders era combined. Why is his canon so ignored? It has so much to it to dive into, so many angles to explore, and everyone chooses cute little Slytherin skittle instead.

You know how fucking sharp you have to be to impersonate someone for ten months? Not one tell, not one slip up or moment of weakness. To know their personality and mannerisms so well that not even their friends recognize the difference? To not mess up your schedule and forget to take the polyjuice potion even once?

Barty Crouch Jr got 12 OWLs for a reason. That kid is a fucking GENIUS. No one lesser could pull all of that off.

I may not like him, but I respect his game.

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Today I hung out with the person who introduced me to ATYD (and therefore the marauders fandom). Every time I get together with her I am reminded that for someone I only really knew for three months, she had a profound impact on my life.

In a butterfly effect way, I never would have read or written marauders fanfic, I never would have joined an ATYD book club and made those friends, I never would have gone to Scotland.

Separately, since she introduced me to my church community, I never would have known those people, and I wouldn't have been able to turn to them after I had surgery and couldn't recover alone.

Also: she named her daughter Lily and one of the three reasons she chose that name was for Lily Evans Potter. She's a gem. ❤️

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Don't even get me started, the OC-ification of Barty Crouch Jr is one of my least favorite things in this fandom. Why would you make him adorable when you can make him a complete psychopath and an absolute menace?

You know how fucking sharp you have to be to impersonate someone for ten months? Not one tell, not one slip up or moment of weakness. To know their personality and mannerisms so well that not even their friends recognize the difference? To not mess up your schedule and forget to take the polyjuice potion even once?

Barty Crouch Jr got 12 OWLs for a reason. That kid is a fucking GENIUS. No one lesser could pull all of that off.

I may not like him, but I respect his game.

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What's the dumbest ship? I don't mean dumb to ship, I mean the two (or more) dumbest people who have ever been shipped together?

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THANK YOU!!!!!!!!

That was everything I needed it to be and more!

Canonically, Crookshanks took to Sirius immediately. He had a human understanding of reading in order to get a list of Gryffindor passwords to Sirius. He helped him get into the shack. He protected him when the Golden Trio were ready to go after him. There's a distinct loyalty there and a human understanding of the situations he was in.

He also tried to attack the rat repeatedly as though he knew the rat deserved to be hurt.

It all feels distinctly human. But if Crookshanks was an animagus, he never revealed himself to Sirius. Who do we know who might have been deeply loyal to Sirius but wouldn't be willing to talk to him? Who would know the rat turned on him? Who would go to great lengths to protect him?

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I unfollowed the jegulus tag because I can't stand sweet and cutesy jegulus, and what the fandom has done is so not working for me anymore

But I miss angsty icy jegulus with hard edges, I miss the morally grey hard to love regulus who hates himself and everyone else, I miss James who has to fight with himself about the fact that he loves regulus and wishes he didn't, I miss the fire and ice that they can be together

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Oh honey. Sirius didn't live to see 40.

"he's fragile!" i scream, holding a forty year old man who's survived an abusive childhood, a war, being in solitary confinement for twelve years, a nauseating amount of guilt and self-hatred close to my chest, "he's just a baby!" i yell as they drag me away

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"Crouch is cute 😍😍"

"Nazis aren't cute"

"In this fic he's not a Nazi, he's an adorable little skittle"

Then he's an original character. You've lost all semblance of Barty Crouch Jr. His entire characterization is sycophantic follower of wizard Hitler. Give your character a new name and an OC tag. You're not talking about Crouch anymore.

It's okay to write original characters. But know that's what you're doing.

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I "love the marauders" but I actually vehemently hate canon Remus "Harry abandoner" Lupin, vehemently hate James "incel but it's okay because he's hot" Potter and vehemently hate Peter "at this point what didn't he do" Pettigrew

So what I'm saying is the part of me that loves Sirius Black runs so so so so deep that even despite all of that I love the marauders.

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There's a store on Victoria Street in Edinburgh (real life Diagon Alley) called the Museum of Context, which is just a little Harry Potter themed store.

It was all pretty standard and run of the mill until I got to a shelf with books labeled "Vintage." It was these.

I am a thousand years old.

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i’m working on a project that’s taking me ages and i know it’ll fl0p bc i haven’t posted any drawings in a month but i REALLY don’t want it to fl0p UGHH

take a sneak peek (nobleflower>>>)

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When people make fan art that's great but spam tag every character and you can't even tell who it was supposed to be

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Sirius Black would have loved Luigi Mangione

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Hello from Greyfriar's Kirkyard, Edinburgh. Every map I've found online completely sucks, so here's a map of where the graves with Harry Potter names are and photos of each one.

Tom Riddle Sr. and Jr. You can't miss this. There will be a crowd.

Black. Continue along the path from Riddle, just after the bend is Black.

Moodie (maybe. This is just an Internet theory). Continue past Black, almost to where the walkway meets back with the path, and it's on the wall. It's the second or third from the right and more tinted than the others.

McGonagall. Far corner of the same section of the graveyard, the last marker on the wall.

Potter (but this is cheating, this isn't who that name is based on, but it was fun to find.) In this section of the graveyard, it's the one that is two sections wide with a cross on top. Super easy to spot.

Scrymgeour. To the right of Potter there are three smaller graves. It's in that group.

Cruikshank. Alone along the wall in this section. We missed it several times because it's very hard to read. Most of the grave is worn away, but that name remains.

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"a guest" just left kudos on 7 of my fics and I don't know if that's one person but if it is I want to know who they are so they can be my new best friend

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OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG

MY FRIEND HAND BOUND TEMPTATION EYES AND GAVE IT TO ME AS A GIFT. IT'S GORGEOUS. LOOK AT THIS. I'M IN LOVE. IT'S PERFECT. BOOK BINDERS ARE MAGIC. I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS IS REAL, I HAVE A COPY OF IT!!!!!

THANK YOU @selin1005 YOU TALENTED GENIUS!!!!!

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