#and is sofia bryant not mary anymore?? theyre changing her?? what 😭

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I have a probably controversial Marauders fandom take of my own, but what is it with the weird ageism towards women in the fancasts, especially coming from a fandom that’s mainly female.

Don’t get me wrong, I also agree that a 30-40something woman would indeed be too old to play a high schooler, but it seems like every 5 years only the popular female fancasts get younger replacements.

For example, Lily Evans: First it was Karen Gillan, then it was Sophie Skelton, and now it’s Annalise Basso (i’ve also recently seen like two or three fancasts with Harley Haisley, a tiktoker that recently turned 18, as Lily and one of them still used Aaron Taylor Johnson as the James of that fancast), yet the popular male fancasts are the same ones from 2012, despite the fact that Ben Barnes and Andrew Garfield are in their 40’s and older than all of these “old women” that were fancasted in the past.

I get that the edits are using young footage, and I actually really like Beabadoobee as Marlene and Sofia Bryant as Mary when the 2012 fancast is out of the picture, but what is the excuse behind the female fancasts getting replaced every few years? are the current young female fancasts going to get that same treatment in the future while Timothee Chalamet still remains as Regulus in his 30’s-40’s?

Maybe it’s not that deep, maybe I’m overthinking it, but it’s all so bizarre to me.

bro i am not caught up on the fancasts in the marauders fandom im so sorry. like i know of atj and ben barnes and andrew for the main three but aint got a clue about no one else (except timothee chalamet… that one is fairly popular and ive gotten complaints about him as regulus on here before). so im afraid i cant add much to the discourse 😭

it very much couldddd me misogyny. it could also be because girls are customising themselves better? they just look more interesting than boys, no offence to men. personally i find it much easier to fancast girl characters than boy characters so that might be a factor, but im not sure about the dynamics in the marauders fandom!!