#My new favourite past time is studying the marauders fandom

[olivers-cocoapuffs]

I’m doing a social experiment and your answer would be much appreciated (any hate will be deleted as I am not trying to trigger anyone I am simply curious)

[nardaviel]

for the fanfiction questions: how about 9, 14, 20, 36, and... hmm.. 45?

thank you!!! :D

fanfic questions meme

9. What are the best things about your current fandom?

boueibu fandom is sweet ;; and like .. i know ive said before that its not really drama-free like some people claim, but it actually is rly chill compared to other fandoms ive been in. and its small and cute!!!! which i wouldnt have thought was a good thing when i was in big fandoms but its nice to be able to recognize everyones usernames and stuff

14. Go on, who are your BroTPs?

i like everyones friendships in boueibu!! if i dont ship it its probably a brotp. i guess if i had to choose just one then en+yumoto?? but tbh i love all friendships involving en and/or yumoto

…. i know that this isnt a boueibu fandom-specific meme but honestly boueibu is the only thing i really love rn. i only ever have one super intense fandom tbh all the others get put to the side

20. Any ships which you surprised yourself by liking?

ibuatsu. i didnt think id dislike it or anything?? but i didnt think id be so enthusiastic about it

36. What’s your favourite genre to write?

idk?? … actually i really love writing long plotty fics but ive only recently started actually doing that and publishing it lol. and angst!!!! i love to write angst. preferably with a happy ending or at least the hope of a happy ending. so: long fics that are too involved to just have one genre, and angst

45. What is your all time favourite fanfic?

i answered this a long time ago in a different meme so im going to go find and paste my answer bc it was long and excited:

shoebox projecttttttttt it’s the single best derivative work i’ve ever encountered i think

OK i came back to gush about sbp since i realized i just linked it and went “this is great” and said nothing else. it’s a harry potter sirius/remus (harry potter otp!!!) and secondarily james/lily fic that starts when they’re at hogwarts and ends soon after they graduate

like all fics from that era it’s overshadowed by the enormous fucking tragedy that is the marauders, but the fic itself (or i say “fic”, it’s mostly fic but also has art and like… pictures of notes the marauders passed that the ficwriters actually physically wrote and scanned) is i think humorous at heart. it certainly starts out as a humor fic. but it’s hard to pin down a genre in the end because like… what genre is a person’s life, you know? it’s these people’s stories, and they are very funny people who do ridiculous things so their stories have tons of humor. but the fic has some excruciating awkwardness too and teenage angst and real genuine tragedy and struggles with sexuality and of course romance (although the sirius/remus is an unbelievably slow burn. excruciatingly slow. you kind of start to wonder if they’re ever going to get their shit together even if you’re reading it for the fourth time) and always in the background there’s the growing sense that something really really fucked up is going on in the outside world. and then they’re in the outside world, involved in the war themselves and that’s a whole new side to the story, though only briefly before the story ends

and it’s a beautiful character study of all the marauders and lily. they’re all so fucked up and flawed but you see them all grow and become better people. even lily!! although of the five of them she had the least work to do at the start of the fic tbh. sirius and james are clearly distinct characters, which is not always the case in marauder fiction. peter is written as an actual person whose defection is understandable, not a caricature of evil or bumbling uselessness, although he is kind of bumbling and useless. that sensitivity towards peter is actually depressingly rare.

i just ….. i really love sbp a whole lot. it’s practically required reading for r/s fans or even marauders fans in general i think. one of those things that’s so well-read and well-loved that a lot of marauder fanon actually comes straight from sbp. so many r/s fics are wannabe sbp fics and while it’s kind of annoying i don’t blame the writers, i wish i’d written sbp too. and i want to go reread it again now except it would take about a million years because it’s huge