#(especially Barty)

[pandoraistheloml]

at this point I think I’m just a weird mixture of all the marauders. Like every part of me can somehow relate to one of these twinks.

[cherrybombb8]

While I do love the (main) characterisation of Barty Crouch Jr in this fandom (he livens things up for sure) I had a different way of thinking of him.

First of all, I always thought he'd be a ravenclaw (some fics do have ravenclaw Barty which I loveee) that boy got 12 owls, he was a proper nerd.

In most fics (that I have read at least) Barty is a bit of a 'crazy guy' who is doing everything he can to piss off his dad. While I think this is accurate, I think this happened a lot later - not during his Hogwarts years.

The way I picture Barty is a golden boy - perfect grades, prefect, never gets in trouble, friendly, his teachers like him. However, even though he does all of this, he's still not good enough for his father. I think Barty would spend most of his teenage years trying to live up to his dad's expectations - its only when he leaves school and goes into the world that he realises he doesn't need to do this.

I think that that is when Barty would of flipped out. I mean, at the trial, Crouch Senior is in shock - he never expected this of his own son. Sirius even says in gof "he might have been in the wrong place at the wrong time" - if Barty had been a rebellious nutcase at school, Sirius would probably not have had such doubts of Barty's guilt.

I like the storyline of Barty being a quiet, studious ravenclaw at school - following in his father's footsteps - and only when leaving school does he realise that his father doesn't see him, will never truly see him, so Barty falls in with the death eaters. To quietly, but surely, do the absolute worst betrayal he could think of - become the very thing Crouch Senior is fighting against.

Just. Thoughts?? I think this would make his character very interesting, but I've never really seen him portrayed that way. (Any fic recs??) I mean, even in atyd he's a total dick who's attacking muggleborns. I really think Barty would be a star student who turns sour when it's least expected.

[futurequibblerjournalist]

It will forever piss me off that people need to make one part of rosekiller some uwu feminine soft boy when they’re literally the most dudebro ship out there

[dyl-z]

178 | 179 | 180

cw: mental health issues, disjointed thinking, fluctuating self-worth, paranoia, disassociation, light suicidal ideation

Sirius is very much an unreliable narrator

[maladaptivewriting]

you know how when you read smut, you can instantly tell whether the author has had sex or not?

well the same thing is true for people who have or have not been a part of big friend groups, especially in their teen years

[viviandarkbloombartylusversion]

And what if I said that the slytherin skittles/pantheon were theater kids???

Evan is strictly working backstage and has never been in a production but he's a great rehearsing partner

Dorcas has only been in one or two productions, absolutely adoring working in costumes and props

Pandora has been in the most productions, auditioning for every play and musical and everyone she works with loves the vibe she brings to rehearsals

Barty has also been in a lot of productions, but his favorites are the ones where Regulus also has a part

Regulus has been in a decent number of productions, his favorites to be in are tragedy's and he loves being on stage the most when his friends are too, he's the most trusted when it comes to help casting and even though they don't really see the light of day, he writes his own plays that he lets the group act out just for fun

[one-awesome-beetle]

listen, I hear your "regulus has white streaks in his hair like narcissa!!" and I offer you: barty has grey streaks in his hair (like his father) because of genetics + stress

[bri-cheeses]

“how can you not like Snape but like Regulus, Barty, and Evan?”

Because, in my mind, Snape was a bitch (derogatory), and Regulus, Barty, and Evan were bitches (affectionately)

[norry-yippee]

I love regulus black thirst edits

[foursaints]

taken straight from the bartemius crouch sr school of parenting

[lovesickmarauders]

Rip barty crouch jr you would've loved MCR

[sarahkrolokfan]

I hate fanon-ization of Lily, James, Regulus and Barty (Evan, Dorcas, Marlene etc. are literally only mentioned in the books, there is nothing to mis-characterize)

Lily is side-lined for a non-existent, non-sensical ship (yeah, I hate jegulus), her Muggle origin is overlooked even though it played a MAJOR role in her life (heck the entire Marauders era takes place during the war against a wizard-supremacist, Muggle-hater and his racist followers). Her relationship with Snape and how his words and newly found ideologies affected is completely overlooked when he was her only magical friend during her entire childhood. Her relationship to her son? (yk, that one thing that set the entire series in motion...) - pfft, don't be silly, she is just a surrogate to James and Regulus.

James is portrayed as a ray of sunshine, good boy whose biggest sin was being a bit sarcastic. No, he WAS an arrogant asshole who mercilessly bullied another student simply for his own enjoyment. Yet he was also incredibly loyal man who didn't hesitate to share his home with his friend after he ran away from home and who grew out of his arrogant phase and changed himself for better because of a woman he loved (loved so much he died protecting her and their son later).

Regulus is portrayed as an edgy yet kind-hearted little aristocrat boy whose parents forced him into being a Death Eater - no, he wasn't pressured into becoming anything, Regulus for the longest part of his life WAS a Voldemort supporter. He collected newspaper articles about Voldemort, he talked to Kreacher about how great Voldemort is and how great his ideas were - yes, he realized later he was wrong but it doesn't suddenly mean he was pressured into anything.

Barty is portrayed as a silly little babygirl who has an IQ of goldfish. No, he was one of the smartest characters with multiple talents but was also a mentaly-unstable young man (Azkaban/Dementors have horrific influence on everyone but while other Death Eaters managed to last 10+ years there he was already on his death-bed in a year and started to scream for him mother the same day he was brought in) who went completely insane and evil by the end and craved for father figure so deeply he was ready to become a murderer/torturer to get one. His manipulativeness and sadism? Non-existent in fanon...

In the end... I truly dislike the overall state of "Marauders era" fandom - like, they are a generation impacted by war and ever-changing politics who essentially needed to choose a side while they were still children, some betraying their families and loved ones - and then you try seeing stuff in Marauders fandom and they are turned into edgy teens who all wear crop-tops and black nail polish, listen to Taylor, go to Starbucks and talk in a Tik-Tok slang....

[bloodbruise]

Evan fucking regulus on the bed and barty and James jerking each other off, watching entrances as their boyfriends fuck

every time i open my inbox its like that tiktok audio "what is it finna play.... WOAH"

[serenisastar]

Marlene and Barty would match each others freak guys

[theonyxstate]

official plea to fanfiction authors

Please, I'm actually begging you all: stop making your sibling!characters so incredibly possesive. It's not healthy, and all the breaches of privacy I see from the characters are straight up abuse sometimes. They cannot just physically keep reader from their partner and friends, walk in on them all the time, intrude their space, go through their things, demand that reader leaves their friends/partner(s) multiple times & hell knows what else. What about supportive siblings? What about brothers who don't claim the right to control their sibling's life? WHAT ABOUT HEALTHY SIBLINGHOOD??

Just please, give us some siblings who won't make your sibling audience want to gauge your characters' eyes out.

~ sincerely, a sibling reader who would hex, curse, get into physical fights & worse the first time their sibling would try to pull up something that you describe as routine behaviour of your sibling characters.

tl;dr: posessive siblings controlling half the aspects of your life when youre like 16 are so incredibly frustrating (& unrealistic for me & all the siblings i know irl) i want to maim them through the screen, not to mention how unhealthy, toxic, & rare this kind of dynamic actually is

no hate towards any author, i love you all!!! im just asking

[wolvesandshine]

Also just realised I should have probably mentioned this ages ago but feel free to give me any writing prompts to write (only for the marauders era as of now tho)