#- James and Sirius at some point

[courfee]

17 December 1975 / 15 May 1976

[wolvesandshine]

Sirius: Momma didn’t raise no quitter

Regulus: Actually our mother didn’t raise us at all so I am in fact, a quitter

[itsriotmotherfuckers]

Sirius caused the longest hat stall in Hogwarts history when he was sorted, by the way

[sophsicle]

LISTEN, listenlistenlisten. james will never hate sirius. he cannot breathe without him. he cannot eat without him. he cannot sleep. they are all wrapped up in one another - blood and bones and gore. but. BUT. i will never believe any telling of the prank in which james does not lose it on him. not for some moral reason, not for something so trivial as sirius doing the wrong thing. but because, in that moment, sirius violates the most sacred thing to james. his boys. his family. the four of them. it has nothing to do with right or wrong or snape being, or not being, killed. it has to do with the betrayal of remus. of this thing. this thing between the four of them - this home, this hearth, this fire that warms our skin and lights our way. it is meant to be the most important. it is meant to be sacred. james would die for it. he would kill for it. he would eat himself alive for it. and he believed - in his heart of hearts - he believed that sirius felt the same. and then. AND THEN. im sorry but there is no way that james shrugs that off. i mean this betrayal is biblical. blood of my blood. bone of my bones. how could you do this? and more than making him question sirius, it makes him question himself, does he even know himself? what kind of person is he? he flicks through a thousand memories, picking them apart, for all the moments where he let remus down. let peter down. his world is shaken by this. he will never hate sirius. he will always let him back in. always forgive him eventually, because he cannot live without him. but the prank is a bruise that never heals. that they, all four of them, press on every once and a while. to remind themselves what a sharp blade love is.

[shrewfern]

things about all the young dudes i really like (my atyd annotations so far)

note: i was going to post this when i was done reading it, but it’ll be while before i finish. i’ve been reading it for about a day now (spread over the past two-three weeks; i don’t have a whole lot of free time </33), and i’m on chapter “fourth year: january”. also, i’m reading atyd on a pdf file, so i can’t see the chapters numerically. any chapters named specifically will be done by year and title. <3

edit (05/06): part two!!

remus cannot read

james is tone deaf (relatable)

sirius can raise one eyebrow

james cannot. to compensate, he wiggles them.

“that sirius black grin.”

remus being excited to be thirteen, fourteen, so on…

for their birthdays, the marauders get the whole gryffindor table to sing “happy birthday”.

“birthdays are family occasions.” –narcissisa black (carrying a slumpy regulus black) to sirius black, before promptly intimidating the elder black brother to have lunch with them.

regulus being absolutely criminally offended that james touched sirius’ shoulder.

james running his hand through his hair.

james and peter nominating a “ban on bowie until the end of the year”.

remus’ gay awakening was from watching a david bowie concert on the world’s shittiest tv.

i had to keep my jaw from dropping when sirius said walburga's making him marry his cousin.

lily uses a ‘muggle-expression’. james doesn’t understand it, remus does.

james and sirius trying to tape their hands to the table while wrapping christmas presents.

after walburga (boooo tomato tomato) kidnaps sirius during christmas break, regulus sends james and remus an owl saying sirius is home and do not try to contact him.

MR AND MRS POTTER GOT THE MARAUDERS MATCHING QUILL SETS!!!!!

james yells “come in!!!!!” to mary, marlene, and lily (who are outside the door) in a room bound with a silencing spell. 

‘“One day you’ll all read Hogwarts: A History, and I can finally rest.” Sirius sighed…’

^AND HE DID!!!

remus’ favorite flavor of chips is salt and vinegar (me to!!).

‘remu’.

‘goulash’ (‘gilgamesh’).

foreshadowing with the epic of gilgamesh.

i love the implications that no one in the black family wants to be there.

ALPHARD BLACK IS GAY.

domestic sirius black!! give remus that toast!!!

‘the two m’s.’

remus, with zero context, to lily: it’s a trunk full of umbrellas.

‘telling-bone’.

sirius likes his albums alphabetically organized.

‘remoony’

‘He [Remus] didn’t want someone as cool as Ferox thinking he was a wuss.’

remus doesn’t like cats.

‘Sirius had been listening to “Black Dog” on repeat for weeks now.’

THE SHADE thrown at peter is BOMBASTIC. /pos /ihatepeterpettigrew

‘stupid o’clock’.

when talking about something important, james relates it to quidditch.

‘lumpy elephant dung’ 💀💀💀

mary is me irl.

‘James handled the invitations – which as far as Remus had seen involved shouting at various students telling them they’d better be there or else.’

good writing, feels very natural.

‘“...marry Prince Charles if you want to…”’ –remus lupin

^ as a royal family watcher, i damn near flipped my lid at this (i love you, diana!!!!!).

andromeda saying that she doesn’t think nymphadora will marry anyone at the table…

marauders should build a treehouse. not related, just a silly thought.

marlene is also me irl.

sirius point blank refused to sign marlene’s petition to remove the whomping willow (‘“it has the right to be here as anyone else!”’).

james being nice to peter got me fuming.

sirius intentionally does poorly in astronomy to piss off his parents.

ok i’m reading marlene’s break-down chapter (third year) and she IS ACTUALLY ME.

NOT SIRIUS TELLING REMUS IN TOTALLY PLATONIC CONTEXT ‘Have I told you lately how much I love you?’ 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀 (third year, marlene chapter)

madame pomfrey being the nicest person alive! i wish we got to see more of her in the actual books.

the conversation between remus and ferox in “third year: greyback” mirrors that between remus and harry in the prisoner of azkaban.

‘one emotional crisis at a time.’ me every day.

gang remus >>

lanky weedy remus is real and he lives inside your walls.

first fourth year chapter’s off to a good angsty start!

‘[remus’] laces didn’t match, red on left, yellow on the right. He’d thought that looked really cool back in July, but now it looked a bit silly.’ 

^me who wears two different colored shoes 👀👀👀

sirius pronouncing ‘cigarette’ with a french accent.

i want to be sirius or remus so badly aAJBSHSDGBSKBJ i love them both sm sdfkjgbsjkblsgnjskbgsbgjkjjbkbkjbkfkdjkbgdkjbgjk.

oh, no, not the chicken sandwich being symbolic.

‘one might assume that a hungry werewolf would fancy a chicken sandwich…’

james trying to court lily (year four) got me grinnin frfr.

lily hates being called ‘ginger’ bc the kids in elementary school picked on her for it (i would too. it’s nothing personal; i just see a ginger and i gotta bring out my flame thrower.)

mcgonagall telling the commentators to stay on-topic during quidditch match.

^this is something i love in the official books, too!

‘“please mr. moony, step into our office,”’ james says, inviting remus into his bed (not like that, you shitface!!!)

sirius doesn’t like sticky things.

‘“we seem to have some pranksters in our midst,”’ *everyone immediately looks at the marauders*

as a great gatsby enthusiast, i greatly enjoyed “year four: christmas”.

^THE GREAT GATSBY IS NOT A ROMANCE!!! well, it kinda is but NOT IN A GOOD WAY!! it’s more of a dramatic tragedy imo.

^sorry. i see anything great gatsby related and i just pop off.

^I SHOuld have been in the theatre with remus!! he would’ve loved the great gatsby if i was there! we would’ve squawked about what a narcissistic bitch daisy is and how fucking gay nick and jordan are!! and i could’ve explained the social parallels and the symbolism and why daisy is a WHORE and love vs deperation vs obsession vs want and why i would absolutely KICK f. scott fitzgerald’s ass if i ever met him. and the green light. THE GREEN LIGHT. ugh remus why aren’t you real we could’ve had such a good time…

^i get even crazier about the greatest showman.

remus freaking the fuck out after being told to calm down.

‘Since Dumbledore’s visit to the Potters Sirius’s hatred for anything remotely Slytherin had increased tenfold.’ as a slytherin and the #1 sirius simp, i do not like this sentence.

[viviandarkbloombartylusversion]

James Potter makes charity friends.

These are people he talks to and lets hang around with him just to be "nice" but he actually does not give a fuck about. Sirius hates whenever they're around, he calls them James' groupies and charity cases cause he knows they're unimportant.

[belovedcampfire]

SOCMED au where James, Lily and Regulus start a series/account or something where they document trying to get Remus and Sirius together (cause they’re blatantly in love but don’t admit it). It takes ages and they get super popular, and eventually the finale comes out.

It reveals that not only did Remus and Sirius get together, but throughout their attempts to get wolfstar together, the owners of the channel end up also in a relationship.

(Take this as Jily, Jegulus, Jegulily, that one version of Jegulily where Regulily are a qpr etc, literally whatever you want)

[comets0ksure]

firm believer that at SOME POINT when the marauders were at school, james had a crush on sirius

just a little baby crush-

but it definitely existed

(and it was definitely reciprocated)

(and it was more than a baby crush)

[oliver-the-raggedy-doctor]

My favourite marauders fics (all on ao3), both cause I keep forgetting what they're called and also recommendations if people want them:

I want your complications (goose), by rachelwrites

Botany kills, by raritysimp

Crimson rivers, by bizarrestars

Hazy shade of winter, by orphan_account

Beneath the ocean waves, by aron_kristina

Unlimited rice pudding by mephishto_616

Wading in waist-high water by colgatebluemintygel

Furious by loveinkwell

The cadence of part time poets, by motswolo

Art heist, baby by otrtbs

Mistigris by calypte

Of bookshelves and baby carriers by poppunkpadfoot(StormVandal)

Under the eucalyptus by xinasvoice

Edit:

Ice ice baby, by calypte

Chocolate fixed everything, by solangelo_writes

[smurfsondrugs]

I'm bleeding through my pad, and I just wanna smoke. So i'm thinking about the marauder boys trying the period cramp simulators

Sirius: It can't be that bad

Also, sirius crying after level 4

James: I'm just glad i don't have to go through that a again

Peter: I already know I'm not making it to the end

Remus 'basicaly has a period': Well it's not fun

I think the girls would really enjoy torturing them with this <3

[courfee]

now if they're watching people to gossip or watching them to pine a little is up to your own interpretation

[hptrash-lookaway]

Idk if literally anyone else thinks about this, but I’m also always thinking about Harry being all sad because people don’t really see him when they look at him, they see the bwl or his parents

And yeah there’s a ton of people who do see Harry as just the bwl, but like,, outside of like,, the order and a couple of others, most people probably aren’t seeing Harry’s parents in him, like Lily and James weren’t famous till they died (outside of James being the sole heir to an old line, although it does raise the question of if people took issue with him marrying Lily since she was a muggleborn, anyways how many people would care that much about James being the last Potter outside of other old family lines?) so outside of the people they personally interacted with, most probably didn’t pay that much attention to them, whereas Harry is hella famous and has been that way for most of his life

Idk if I can actually articulate my point but anyways once again thinking about a lot of people from the marauders generation ending up in the hp generation, and Harry’s all worried about no one caring about him anymore because he thinks most people only care about him as a replacement for his parents, but a lot of the people from his generation are only excited to meet them because they’re Harry’s parents

Idk it’s also funny to me to think about it being like still in the middle of the war and the order really caring about Lily and James being back and feeling more confident, and outside of like Snape, most of the death eaters and Voldemort aren’t fully sure who they’re looking at for a few seconds, like they’ve just been so focused on Harry for so long, only caring about them when that prophecy came out

(and considering it had to have come out around when Harry was born because due dates are so fickle and he was 1 when they were killed, it had to be max a year till they were found, not too long in the grand scheme of things)

Also I’m imagining that this is more teenage James and Lily, so it doesn’t help that they don’t look exactly how they did before dying

(My reasoning for most death eaters not caring about James and Lily before the prophecy is that I believe the theory that most order members weren’t public knowledge, they didn’t have to go into hiding until the prophecy was made (if DE’s cared about them, no way they wouldn’t have been in a protected house from the start), we don’t really know what defying Voldemort means so it could’ve been anything, doesn’t necessarily mean it was in a way Voldemort would’ve cared about till he sat down to figure out which family the prophecy could be about and was like “oh wait”, and some other reasons that make sense only to me and idk how to word them)

(Like I really think they’d be in the same amount of being famous as Tonks would be pre-prophecy, she’s an order member, she’s an auror like James who probably doesn’t take shit from all those death eaters who should’ve been in Azkaban and are now living normal lives, and she has a dramatic family history, her mom was completely disowned from a very well known family for marrying her dad, when they didn’t even completely disown Sirius!! And then she had a baby with a known werewolf, yet there’s not ever really a sense that she’s that famous or that death eaters care that much about her)

[itsriotmotherfuckers]

Fanon keeps making Sirius the one who looks up to James, and I agree with that to an extent, but I think James was the one looking up to Sirius most of the time (James stopped playing with the snitch for Sirius when he wouldn’t for anyone else; you don’t do that if you don’t look up to someone!).

Imagine James who sees Sirius’ many, many piercings and, even though he’s scared of needles, gets his lobes pierced. Imagine James who sees Sirius’ tattoos and gets a little paw print on the inside of his wrist. Imagine James who sees Sirius’ quick wit and sharp tongue and tries to emulate it whenever people are mean to his friends. Imagine James who sees Sirius leaving his tie undone and starts doing that, himself. Imagine James who sees Sirius and wants to be like him, so effortlessly cool and funny and handsome.

[a-great-tragedy]

James and Sirius refer to each other as babe or love or darling even if they are “platonic”

[klarolinexluv]

And if I added a rosekiller interlude into Don’t Blame Me… then what?

[kaleninya]

I made some Crimson Rivers playlists that are very personal to me, so naturally I thought I’d share: