#TikTok has brought in an wave of newbie fans to tumblr and fan spaces

[birdiebats]

Thought I would add some stuff to this cause I was feeling a little sassy when I wrote it lol

Someone in the comments mentioned that the appeal for them comes from the tropes and narrative drama they can inspire and yeah, I completely understand the appeal.

Personally I just prefer the narrative dynamics without jegulus haha

I’m not bothered by jegulus as a ship, moreso the larger issue among all fandoms of ignoring or delegitimising the female characters and wlw ships. I have seen a number of people in the fandom complain about Jily or that Lily interferes with the jegulus dynamic or decentre female characters in favour of the ship.

Quite frankly I am indifferent to jegulus (if you ship it, I’m not bothered, it’s not that deep) and am just sick of the larger patterns of misogyny in fandom culture.

But then again what would the internet be without an undercurrent of casual misogyny /j

thank u for defending jily I don’t understand how jegulus event exists it is possibly one of my greatest confusions

Although it has existed since earlier in the marauders fandom, it blew up (originally as a crack ship) on TikTok a couple years ago

Theoretically it was to have more queer ships in the fandom, however that doesn’t make much sense since there’s plenty of queer female headcanons in Marauders fanon. Although that would mean ppl would have to actually write female characters (gasp!)

Personally I prefer James as hetero (shocking I know) but even with queer!James it’s an odd choice to ship him with Regulus????

It’s mostly done for the Sirius-James-Regulus angst and imo to have a marauders equivalent of drarry