#Just a teensy rant on the marauders fandom

[sorcave]

There are many things I dislike about the marauders fandom despite being a part of it for years now. Yes, I was one of those people who were there when we were still establishing the very first fancasts. The days where the only relevant people were the main 4.

For all the mess the fandom is, there's a lot to love about it. But in recent days it's just not been great imo. For one, there's the twinkification of Sirius. I mean like, sure I guess, but it doesn't sit right with me because wdym he's a fragile little baby bird who needs to be protected by Remus at all times.

Second, there's the edgy Remus portrayal. Like that is an awkward shy kid who goes "uhm actually...-" but to each their own I guess.

A lot of these I can forgive. I can even forgive the weird kind of infantilisation of Regulus whenever he's with James sometimes. (Like that is very weird and I see this in a concerning amount of fics.) But you know what I can't forgive? The absolute erasure of Peter in a lot of the fandom.

I barely see him in fanart, he BARELY has a presence in fics if not only there for the betrayal, they never flesh him out if they do somehow make him a presence, and the people just forget him all the time. Like what the fandom is doing to him is equivalent to how the characters treated him in canon 😭 And it's extremely saddening.