#american marauders fans

[maladaptivewriting]

since the tiktok ban, i've been seeing a lot of stuff where people blame americans for jegulus and i can't stop thinking about it. i don't know why people feel this way, but i am prepared to make an argument. so please allow me to make my case.

[also this is completely based on generalizations. i know americans that hate jegulus and love jily, and i know british people who hate jily and love jegulus]

so i've never been a jily girl. even years before i found jegulus, i never cared about that ship. i straight up didn't even know that people wrote fics about them specifically. (i actually still don't know if people do write fics about only them because i would never seek out something like that).

originally, i'd thought it was just because i only cared about the golden trio characters and occasionally sirius and remus, but the more i got into the marauders era, the more i realized that james and lily together were the standouts, i just really didn't care for them.

it got to the point where i only read fics that referenced jily if they were extremely background to the story (which they almost always were bc there is just not that much to say about them) or preferably if both of them were already dead and it was just remus, sirius, and harry who remained.

shortly after i really started getting into the fandom and writing for jegulus, i spoke to someone who hated jegulus and loved jily, and i told them that i'd always felt like james and lily were on the road to divorce before they died. this person was SCANDALIZED. they could not understand why'd said that.

now granted, this person was in their early twenties and in my experience, if you haven't lived long enough to see a lot of your friends go through divorces, then the idea that james and lily might divorce may seem crazy.

however, and this is where the american thing really comes in, i realized after this conversation why i felt that there was no way that james and lily were going to make it and that was specifically because of growing up a conservative christian bible belt ass place.

do you know how many couples i knew in high school who started dating their senior year even though they seemingly had nothing in common, had sex one time and didn't use protection because sex education is extremely limited down there, got pregnant, and had to have shotgun wedding?

so. fucking. many.

do you know how many of them are still married?

only one.

so when i see jily, two characters who have nothing in common beyond being gryffindors, get together, have a kid, and get married (not necessarily in that order) all within like two years, i know that the odds are not in their favor. those two aren't staying together. don't play with me.

now i don't know how people feel about young marriages in other parts of the world, especially in the uk, but i've spoken to a lot of americans, especially ones from the south, and so many of them have had the exact same experiences with their peers. i just can't help but wonder if that lends itself to less people being interested in jily.

i have other arguments to this, like that jily is not as entertaining as almost every other ship that james or lily could be involved in and americans being partial to entertainment above all else, or the american (and christian) obsession with the concept of redemption and self sacrifice making regulus a more compelling character than one that lived and died good (lily and james), but this was the one i wanted to focus on today.

[afterglowsainz]

we used to have more pt. 2 | oscar piastri

part 1 part 3 part 4

pairing: oscar piastri x reader

summary: after oscar gets back with his ex you found yourself coping in the best way possible: running away

fc: different girls from pinterest

warnings: some very questionable work dynamics that i’m pretty sure are not accurate at all (good thing this is fiction and i can do whatever i want for the plot!)

a/n: thank you so so so much for all the love you gave to part 1! this story is like my baby and i’m truly so happy people liked it <3

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[kalinara]

So as someone who immensely enjoys disliking Charles Xavier, I have to admit, I was utterly delighted when the X-Men Unlimited Infinity Comic (in Krakoa age, one of the rare times it did not involve Nature Girl murdering people) decided to do what is, essentially, an "It's a Wonderful Life" plot for the guy.

So if even if you've never seen the original movie that the plot comes from, you've undoubtedly seen a parody or homage, (at least if you're American). Sitcoms particularly like to use the idea, but occasionally even serious shows will do it too. A character goes through some shit, is dreadfully unhappy, and is shown what life would be like without him.

Now the thing about X-Men, is that we did see what the world would be like without Charles Xavier in the Age of Apocalypse storyline. And admittedly, it's pretty bad. Scott has long hair. Enough said.

And of course, the gist of this story is that Xavier ends up in the Age of Apocalypse world (or maybe just dreaming about it), and introduces them to the Krakoa concept and gets a big ego boost.

It is what it is. The part that amuses me is what drives Xavier to the point of needing this ego boost. And it is an AMAZING level of petty.

Since there are a lot of scans, I'm going to put them behind a cut. Enjoy! (These are all from X-Men Unlimited Infinity Comic #62, by the way.)

So we start off with Xavier's daily schedule:

It's a pretty busy itinerary, admittedly. So now, let's see how Xavier's day actually goes.

We actually start off with Xavier waking up, disgruntled, at 6:00 AM. I'm not actually going to show this, because I am not a morning person either and can't make fun of him for it.

Also, he's shirtless, and not being named Max or Erik, I am not into that. Sorry.

But, let's look at the rest.

6:30's resurrection of Rusty Collins

Xavier was apparently a bit slow, and Hope decided to resurrect the dude without him. That happens. You can hardly blame a teenager for leaping at the chance at grown-up responsibility.

Also, she's a Summers. So it's pretty much inevitable.

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So then we get the 7:45 meet and greet.

A small child adores Kitty. Kitty is a little meta here, but not wrong. After all, part of what the Marauders do, at this point, is rescue people.

Now, Xavier looks kind of neutral here, but given that this is part of the litany of disappointment, contextually, one must interpret this to mean he is disappointed.

But here's the thing, Chuck. You're not an "X-Man". You're the dude who sends them out from the shadows. You didn't even publicly admit to being a mutant for decades. And while, yes, you did have some physical issues that made being a field operative impossible, it's not like you're going out on rescue missions NOW.

Sorry, I shouldn't rant. There's more to mock.

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So how does the 9:15 teaching session go? We don't actually know. Presumably it's not notable. Despite the fact that teaching is the one thing Xavier can claim he actually does.

Instead, we skip ahead to the 11:05 parole hearing:

I mean, you can't actually be surprised by this. I'm not even sure that Sabretooth is still IN there. But he's busy torturing people, if he is. So no, he's not getting out.

You could let the kids out though. Poor Idie.

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This bit makes me laugh:

Got stood up by the guy whose mind you forcibly wiped. You can't be shocked by this, Chuck. That was a fucking dick move and you know it.

(Especially since you decide that Franklin isn't a mutant after all.)

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How about the X-Corp Review?

Huh, who'd have thought that multi-millionaire business people would have the business shit handled?

I mean, to be fair to Charles, he does seem to never lack money, so he likely has business sense himself. But meh. I can't blame Warren and Monet for wanting to go off and canoodle or whatever.

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I admit to some sympathy here, just a bit:

I've mentioned that I'm not a really a fan of the Arakko focus on Omega mutants, and how that kind of spoils my enjoyment of Storm basically being amazing up there. (I feel like it'd be more satisfying to have a non-Omega show them that sheer power isn't the only measure of awesome. I did like watching her use teamwork to kick Vulcan's ass though.)

That said, why did you not realize this would be a thing, Xavier? Arakkans make no secret of how their society works.

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Now, sadly, we skip the legal conference about the X-Babies. Presumably it goes well and no one mocks Xavier, but I'm kind of fascinated by the idea.

But then we get the official Treehouse lighting ceremony:

...are you really feeling left out because your two former child soldiers are getting honored as "mutantkind's greatest heroes".

Fucking REALLY?

Are you living among humans and saving them from various threats? Heck, are you sticking around to help hand out meals, as the mayor mentions? Because you're not down there, and your itinerary says you'll be having a meeting about Orchis with Beast in like an hour.

It presumably goes well, because we skip ahead to sparring with Logan.

This goes pretty straightforward. They have a heart to heart, which I appreciate, because I'm still utterly boggled by that bit in X Lives of Wolverine where he claims that, despite their respective ages, Logan sees Chuck as a father figure.

By the way, Logan doesn't act like a "son" in this scene at all. He does give some legitimately good advice though and asks the question that's the point of all this:

And for FUCK'S SAKE, Xavier. The fact that this is apparently an armor piercing question, after a day where the WORST thing that happened to you was having a few appointments go on without you, getting stood up by a dude who's got every reason to dislike you, and seeing Kitty, Scott and Jean get SOME MEASURE of weak recognition.

THAT's what leads to the "It's a Wonderful Life" moment?

I mean, presumably, the interview with Trish Trilby which happens before the sparring match goes well. Meaning you're going to be on the fucking news as the face of Krakoa again. But that hardly matters because the Mayor of New York considers your SURROGATE CHILDREN to be the greatest heroes.

You couldn't even be HAPPY for them?!

(I also can't help but note that upon meeting AoA Cyclops, who assumes Xavier is an escaped clone and tries to kill him, we see no sign of the ACTUAL character's complexity or depth. He's just a random villain here. Because in the end, it's all about Xavier's ego.

He does refer to Scott as "the most pragmatic man I've ever known", which is a really interesting description that I'm not sure I agree with. But that's an analysis for another day.)

Anyway, as mentioned, the rest of the story is basically just fueling Xavier's ego. I mean, Age of Apocalypse IS a hellhole. (Though a friend of mine suggested once that possibly the only thing Age of Apocalypse proved that Xavier was necessary for is preventing Mr. Sinister from regaining control of Cyclops. I think I'd have to reread the story to see if I agree, but since I hate Xavier, I DO like that thought.) And he does bring them Krakoa and joy.

But I'm just going to bask in the fact that Xavier's deepest pain on Krakoa is that someone occasionally recognizes other people instead of him. I bet he hated Scott's Rolling Stone cover too. :-D

[noblehouseofgay]

Finding out a fuck ton of British marauders fans celebrated us all getting banned from tik tok🧍‍♂️

Fuck you ig? Bc you realize a lot of your favorite fics are by americans

[honora-antares]

as some of you may know, tt was banned in the usofa for like, essentially a night, and in that time, Americans in the Marauders Fandom got shit talked because of Remus's jUmPeR.

ANYWAYS, it was so sad to come back to videos about us "Americanising" the fan base.

WELL, I'll have you know that I've spent HOURS researching words and slang and sayings and HOLIDAYS AND CUSTOMS AND PLUS!

I even have printouts of calendars FROM THE UK from the time they entered Hogwarts to when they graduated just to be a bit more accurate for Remus's transformations.

But I guess that's not enough.

So I'm debating about starting to write all my works in Spanish.

On that note, here are the names I've come up with to replace the English ones!!

Severiano - Severus

Lilia - Lily

Caridad - Charity

Siro - Sirius

Ramiro - Remus

Jaime - James

Pedro - Peter

Mariana- Mary

Marianela - Marlene

Dorotea - Dorcas

Efrén - Evan

Paloma - Pandora

Bartolomé - Bartemius "Barty"

Régulo - Regulus

Lmao, I'm embracing my Mexican inside of me for this! Let me tell ya, I DON'T know how to properly write in Spanish (even though I speak it fluently![thank you mami!]) but damnit if I see ONE MORE VIDEO I will orphan all my works and rewrite them in Spanish!! ���

[talesof-old]

so when i got back on tiktok after the ban, tell me why im seeing british marauders fans flay american marauders fans for not always using british slang 😭 like i get it, but also this is an issue with every fandom?

it’s a little disheartening ngl, like people write fanfiction for free and some of the most popular fics are written by americans

like obvs i haven’t been writing much but wowwww

i could do a whole think piece on how it doesn’t surprise me when british people are xenophobic but it doesn’t make it any fun to hear

[beesunshiny]

Here’s my opinion on canon v fanon James Potters & the big fanon revamp debate:

Let’s get it it out of the way…canon James is definitely white because we all know she who must not be named is NOT a fan of non-white characters.

Meanwhile, fanon James:

I’m on the Desi James train until I pass away. I say this because I’m pretty sure (correct me if I’m wrong) the Indian population is one of the largest ethnic groups in the UK, so I feel it would make the most sense to have an Indian James.

HOWEVER

If we were to USA-ify the Marauders & play a quick game of “if the Marauders were American…” I’d ride hard for the Latino/Hispanic James agenda. This is because Latino/Hispanic people are (if I recall) the 2nd largest ethnic group in USA. Therefore, it would make the most sense for him to be Latino/Hispanic.

Please do not take any of this post the wrong way. I honestly don’t feel bothered by either Desi or Latino/Hispanic James (or even white James). I just wanted to have a fun little convo on how I prefer fanon James casts.

(For funsies the USA-ified Black brothers would definitely be nepo babies who live in either Tribeca or Upper East Side New York & they definitely are broadway babies because I said so)

If you’d like a pt 2 where I do the other two (Remus and Peter) feel free to check it out

[enbysiriusblack]

GENDERBENT MAURADERS HCS PLSSS

YES YES YES

sirius is butch. she's very into mechanics (as sirius always is) and is also part of a dyke biker gang

remus almost constantly wears like long suede skirts yknow the kind?? like brown and beige ones

femme peter. she's also goth and wears a lot of black flowy skirts and shirts and black makeup (as well as like other colours. gives me big eyeshadow fan vibes)

james who's super jacked and wears really short dresses and skirts and shorts. also she has long messy hair that she ties back in a super sloppy ponytail often

also in this au thing the girls are still girls and not genderbent.

^ so yes. wlw couples galore.

wait wait omg. yes peter having a similar style to severus (both fem goths) and when sirius points this out, peter immediately changes her style to practically the opposite (begins wearing more pastels and shit)

james who literally only ever wears sports bras

and sirius who never wears bras

also thinking about name change: sirius still being sirius, james being jamie, peter being petra, remus being either reema or remy (can't decide)- and severus being severina and regulus being either still regulus or regina (as i said, au where everyone is a woman 🫢)

my genderbent peter fc is nicola coughlan but i don't have one for the others

also if we're thinking fraternity then james is in charge of it and it's kinda like all four marauders (+lily) who are in charge of the new recruits and the hazing stuff (i am not american so all ik of like these things is from films so apologies if none of that is what happens in fraternities)

[slaybestieslay946]

someone pls take the word “lad” away from american marauders fans they dont get it 🥲

[maladaptivewriting]

by the way, if you made a tiktok complaining about american marauders fans and celebrating them losing their rights, then you’re a xenophobic asshole and you deserve all the hate you get from here on out

[themoonandstarsss]

okay real question wwhat was with all the hate on american marauders fans??

like i joke about hating americans (I DO NOT) with my friends but i love them. they contribute so much to the fandom and i literally love all of them and theirs hcs, fanfics, art and so much more.

they're literally amazing.

and on another note, i get that some people get annoyed when reading a marauders fic and someones using american spelling and all that but like it isnt that big of deal i read fic with ten spelling mistakes every two sentences you can deal with the word 'mom' and 'color'.

i dont want to come off as horrible but PLEASE PLEASE don't corrupt fandom space for an entire country by making them scared to post just because you don't like americans.

(i am from the UK)(

[messrsrarchives]

Hi! Amarican tik toker here. I’m actually too scared to look, but you wherent one of the marauders fans who where happy we where gone right? Like I came back and found out y’all hated us and it legit hurt my feelings

NOOOO absolutely not !! i posted a silly story like "now that the americans are gone can i post snupin again" because most of the hate i've had on that has beeN BUT NOO THAT WAS A FUNNY HAHA i didn't think people were actually being mean! and then the things i posted before yall came back ere "marauderstok... something awful has happened" about yall leaving, and then a gilderat yap tehehehehe but this is the FOURTH ask i've gotten about it and two comments on tiktok saying they were stuck on the american hating side AND i'm live atm (americans can't see it for some reason???? what's going on there???) and i asked them if they had seen any and apparently yah. this is a thing. sigh.

but no! do not hate you, do not hate anyone <3 i was chilling happily on the "DAY/MONTH/YEAR !!!!!! CELSIUS !!!!!!! 24 HOUR CLOCK !!!!! THE LETTER U !!!!!" side of the app

[bowiebrokenbystardust]

Does anyone wanna help me write a marauders era fan film? I write scripts all the time, I'm just American and have trouble with the slang and the 70s things. I can send some scripts I've written already to see if you like my vibe :)))

(I don't know what i really want the film to be about right now, I just thought about it lol)

[serendipitouslyyyyyy]

a lot of people have been talking about the general cultural exchange happening on xiaohongshu, but not a lot of people are talking about what's happening specifically in fandom spaces on there. take the the harry potter fandom, because it seems to be the biggest one that both american and chinese people really care about. the americans are introducing the chinese to jegulus. grindelwald x dumbledore is surprisingly popular there? it might be their wolfstar? i saw a comment where they explained that chinese people like that ship because it's not explored in canon and leaves a lot to the imagination, and all the americans in the replies were excitedly explaining that we do the same thing with the marauders and how we have a whole world for them. their ship name for wolfstar is dog wolf. the american fans and chinese fans are both making so many edits and you can't even tell which is which anymore. they call enjoying a ship or strongly shipping it "eating" and it feels like such a tumblrism i'm honestly shocked we haven't picked up on it sooner. i saw a bunch of posts talking about "dream material" and i think they might have a shifting community???? they thought we don't like gay ships and we thought they don't like gay ships but we were both wrong. idk i think it's just so cool that fandom is different but also the same wherever you go

[haunting-hufflepuffs-basement]

Welcome to the Basement:

I am both tired and a coward and have made a separate account to interact with the Marauders/Harry Potter fandom without having to deal with the TERFs every time I open tumblr. I must make it clear that I DO NOT support JKR in any way. I WILL NOT tolerate bigotry and WILL block you and tell others to block you too if I see any.

You can call me Spectr. My pronouns are she/her, and I'm aroace. I'm older than 18, but I'm sex repulsed so I basically won't ever reblog smut or NSFW. Minors are welcome, but I swear a lot, so maybe don't stick around if that makes you uncomfy.

This blog is for all my Harry Potter and Marauders headcanons, hot takes (and ice cold takes), art, fanfic if I ever get around to it, and general discussion. And yes, I consider the Harry Potter fandom and the Marauders fandom to be two wildly different beasts.

LINK TO MY MARAUDERS ERA SHIPNAME SPREADSHEET

More about me under the cut:

I'm a LOUD AND PROUD HUFFLEPUFF! BADGERS UNITE! Seriously, literally every test I have ever taken, Pottermore or otherwise, good and bad, has put me in Hufflepuff. I am so agressively Puff it's not even funny. My secondary house is Ravenclaw, and my Ilvermorny house is (probably) Pukwudgie.

I put waaaaayyyyy too much in my tags, seriously (siriusly. Heh). Check the tags of any post I put tags on, and you will find at least half of them are disorganized rambling.

I currently cannot pick a favorite marauder. I love them all too much. My favorite HP character is probably Ginny Weasley.

I am very much a book fan, not a movie fan. I've read all the books at least 5 times, but have read the Sorceror's Stone and The Prisoner of Azkaban more times than I can count. I have watched the first 3 movies all the way through once and have only seen the later movies in bits and pieces. I don't hate them, but they're not my favorites.

In case you didn't catch it in that last paragraph, I'm American, and nothing I write will be Britpicked. Sorry.

I love Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, but I don't watch them on official platforms because JKR sucks. I don't have a favorite character; Newt, Tina, Queenie, and Jacob are all favorites.

While I loved Harry Potter as a kid and have a deep emotional attachment to it, it is a children's book with a LOT of worldbuilding and story issues. I like to use the world and magic as a sandbox to play in, less as a strict rule.

I don't really care too hard on ships. My aroace ass honestly says "the less you focus on it the better," but if you write it well, any dynamic can be good. That said, my usual likes are as follows:

Marauders: wolfstar (I'm basic trash), jily (again, basic trash), peter thinks everyone is hot but never gets to seriously date anyone r.i.p., marlene mckinnon/mary macdonald (although marlene has a fat crush on Dorcas Meadowes that never really goes away), Dorcas Meadowes/Pandora Lovegood, and optional Rosekiller but I get sad if we spend too much time with the Slytherins.

HP: Ron/Hermoine, Ginny/Harry if you like or Ginny/Luna if you don't, Perciver, dislike Tonks/Lupin but I don't care that much, and I really really don't give a shit about anyone else.

I hate muggle AUs with a burning passion (no shame if you like them, just not my cup of tea), but I do like it when we get to let the wizards use muggle tech and in general be more integrated into the muggle world.

Peter Pettigrew is a marauder and I will DIE on this hill. I will defend this slimy turncoat disaster rat man to the end of my life. Please fight me, I'm excited.