#anti regulus black stans

[alexandriastark76]

Initially, I was very indifferent to Regulus Black, but with all the unnecessary bit of information which is not even canon that gets shoved down my throat every time I’m on Pinterest or Tumblr EVEN WHEN I DONT FOLLOW A MARAUDER TAG OR REGULUS BLACK’S TAG, is making me hate that dude.

You take a man with like one phrase in the books, give him a bunch of traits which are stolen atp from Severus Snape and Sirius Black, romanticise it, wrap it in a shiny package as James Potter’s boytoy and present him as a feminist queer people’s ally who hated Voldemort, when the dude literally had a shrine dedicated to Voldemort and joined him willingly until his house elf’s life was on the line.

Y’all are making OCs at this rate and calling him “SlYthERiN’S hErO” “HaRrY sHouLD’vE nAMeD hIS sOn aFtER hIM” bro stfu Harry didn’t know about Regulus’s existence until Sirius told him that he had a brother, and didn’t think of him after the first horcrux was destroyed.

Bro consorted with all ardent death eaters and you lot go “HE WOULD AVENGE HIS BOYFRIEND’S DEATH” BABE JAMES POTTER HATED REGULUS BLACK. JUST SAY THAT YOU MADE A WHOLE NEW UNIVERSE WHICH HAS NO RELATION TO THE OG HARRY POTTER MARAUDERS WHATSOEVER

[soraya-snape]

Marauders Stans: We don't hate Snape because he is unattractive, but because if Voldemort had targeted Neville he would still be a death eater.

also Marauders Stans: Let's fancast Regulus Black as a conventionally attractive guy so we can love him despite him only defecting because Voldemort chose to harm his slave. Let's also ignore that this didn't change his views on muggle-borns and that he didn't spend several years helping to defeat Voldemort. He actually made the horcrux hunt way harder for Harry.

[albi-bumblebee]

Crazy how none of those things are true😭We don’t know his birthday, or whether or not he’s neurodivergent, he’s probably not French, we don’t know enough about his personality to give him a Meyers-Briggs, we don’t know his sexuality. “The real Slytherin prince” none of the important canonical male Slytherin’s in HP are good people die mad about it. The last two are subjective but idk how you can compare a guy who never even shows up in person the page to Sirius, Bellatrix and Narcissa and think he’s the best, or compare that guy to Lily, Remus, Snape, James and Sirius and think he’s the best😭there is no fucking competition.

[maxdibert]

If I have to read one more time some idiot Slytherin Skittles or Jegulus fan saying that Regulus “I have my walls covered in pro-Voldemort propaganda and was canonically the role model my mom always praised” Black was a poor abused child forced to follow the Death Eaters, I swear I’m going to explode.

No one forced Regulus to do anything. There’s no evidence of that in the books, no indication that he was abused — Sirius himself says his mother always reminded him how much better his brother was than him, lol — or that he was pressured. Regulus was a rich aristocrat perfectly aligned with his ultra-conservative family’s ideology, who chose to follow Voldemort because Voldemort represented everything he had always believed in, though he eventually got in over his head because he wasn’t cut out for war. He’s clearly a parallel to Draco Malfoy, who always believed what he was taught at home until it turned against him. Stop treating him like some poor soul who didn’t actually have such awful beliefs, because he absolutely did.

The same goes for Barty Crouch Jr., who was so much worse. At least Regulus regretted his choices, but Crouch was a fanatic willing to do anything because of his unresolved daddy issues that drove him to follow Voldemort in search of paternal validation. He tortured two people into permanent insanity, condemned his mother to die, killed his father, and kidnapped a disabled man, keeping him locked in a damn box for months. What tragic figure is Barty supposed to be? He’s not a tragic figure; he’s a freaking Jeffrey Dahmer, and you ruin his character by turning him into some “uwu poor baby who didn’t know what he was doing.” He did know what he was doing, perfectly well, and he loved it because he was a sadist.

The fact that you have the audacity to say Snape is the worst monster in the saga or claim that his actions are unforgivable while excusing these privileged brats is straight-up aporophobia and classism, and honestly, it’s starting to creep me out.

[shiftingwithmars]

Hey by the way, “Don’t like, Don’t interact” goes both ways. If you don’t like people making anti posts then just block the tag and move on with your life.

[suncchaser]

Regulus Black stans after creating an entire storyline for their irrelevant fave while ignoring every single piece of canon information on him:

[mrstellmeafuckingsecret]

no offence but if my younger sister told me she not only agreed to ethnic cleansing ideals and found it alright, but personally wanted to be part of it and kill children i would not really like her that much. and tbh. i think thats justified.

[lonely-linn]

What is it with regulus stans and making sirius look bad??? "he left regulus behind!" Umm wasn't he the favorite child cononically 😭😭😭

And it isn't sirius job to sit there and coddle his brother regulus is not a baby for fuck's sake

[s-lorelei]

I hate the "omg Sirius is so cute in a skirt and it's even cuter that Remus defends him!" crowd.

I literally cannot stand people who are that delusional.

Can marauders stans please stop saying that they "reclaimed" the characters from JKR? Because you didn't. In fact, you made a horribly monocultured fanon HP world that is the exact opposite of diverse. Using ethnicities that aren't yours for race-swapping characters and not doing any research to write them properly? Not diversity. Making all the characters queer? Yeah, news flash: That isn't diversity.

It would be better if people would normalize writing fanfics where one of the marauders era characters comes out as gay or lesbian and the rest are like, "oh, wow, that's cool." and try to learn and understand their feelings and emotions as a queer person. Straight allies are so endearing and I really don't think anyone realizes that.

Hell, I would die if I saw more than 96 aroace Regulus fics on AO3 istg. He literally screams aroace.

[siriusblackdevotee]

why do you hate regulus

I'm sorryyy, regulus didn't actually do anything, I lovee canon him and a few fanon versions of him but...it's more how the fandom talks of him that makes me despise him. So I just hate, most fanon versions.

It's the versions that make him out to be this badass, smart, over powered, traumatized, hot character that makes me go...yikes. because I do not like that. (Same goes for Gryffindor casanova, academic weapon, tall and muscular Remus, just yikes) Everything we know of canon Regulus is that he's kinda stupid, not at all powerful, well he is a bit badass actually, I'll give him that, but he's not traumatized, definitely not that hot. I wished people kept some of his lesser characteristics but most of the fandom prefers describing as this misunderstood untouchable divine being 😔

But also I get where it comes from. All fans of pretty evil characters do this, where they invent stuff to make them a misunderstood evil character, or when the character is their favorite, make them out to be really badass. This is average fandom behavior I guess but that doesn't mean I like it 💔💔

I... honestly this is just a preference but he's also depicted with a twink model and I ddonnttt like thattt. He played for the Slytherin Quidditch team!! Yeah he's described as uh, smaller than Sirius? But Sirius is constantly described as this macho guy (despite being malnourished) so I don't think you need to pay attention to that all that much. (Same goes for... actually twink Sirius is okay)

Especially on the misunderstood part. I hear people saying that Regulus became more nuanced or multi dimensional (??) when they started giving him other motivations for becoming a death eater (ex: took Sirius's place) but honestly imo, he just became less interesting because he "was a good guy the whole time". Canon him is more interesting, he was fully on board with Voldemort's ideals and this was during a time where Voldemort was gradually gaining power so they were probably terrorizing, killing the muggles. He agreed with all that but he draws the line in uhh extremely dark, taboo magic? Or protecting Kreacher? That's interesting!! I don't get this guy's morals!!

He was much cooler when he was apathetic to muggles getting killed, probably supportive of it, but then hates when death/magic is cheated or if a belonging of his comes to harm. I love that guy.

....well he's not that cool either. Having your kpop Voldemort shrine discovered by a bunch of teenagers is just....ha

especially in defense of Regulus, a lot of his fans get... irrational. I hear "everything we know of him came from biased sources (Sirius&Kreacher) so we actually know nothing!!" which like...jkr wouldn't be depicting him in such a horrible light if she wasn't trying to tell you that he is a horrible person. It's just like...why do they have this need to turn him into this misunderstood, innocent angel...I really hate that. (James fans do this too, a lot of marauders fans actually, with SWM, again JKR wouldn't just show James & co being little shits if she wasn't trying to say they are little shits!!)

So in general,...fanon Regulus is just, sigh. I think canon would hate him. But I don't completely hate him. Zars's Regulus is literally my 💞💞💞. I really want. Flawed Regulus. SO MUCH.

WAIT. And I'm talking about canon universe? Canon divergent? Canon compliant? Those types of regulus..es. I don't care about Regulus in another au, like a coffee shop. He's just a guy there so. We're chilling.

[itsriotmotherfuckers]

Trans!Regulus makes makes sense to me for a few reasons, honestly.

For one, it explains why it took so long for Sirius to be disowned. We know that the House of Black had very old values, so I can picture them not being accepting of trans people and not wanting a “woman” to be in charge. We know they disowned easily— think about Alphard— but they didn’t get rid of Sirius until he ran away. I could picture them keeping Sirius around to try and have a viable heir.

For two, it would give motivation for Regulus to rethink things. In the end, he did betray Voldemort, but, before that, he was wholly devoted to the cause. Maybe the reason he rethought things is because he realized he didn’t fit the mold, causing him to ask questions, before he figured it out and backtracked.

For three, I just like trans characters. Fuck JKR, she deserves to be pissed off by us making characters trans. I’d make Regulus trans if only to make her upset.

[hp-confessions]

Regulus is so overrated in the Marauders fandom. The guy makes no mistakes, apparently, because everything he does is justified because he's a pure victim of his family :( When in canon, he was the biggest Voldemort supporter. The fandom always says Sirius abandoned him and puts all the weight of what happened to him in Sirius's shoulders as if he wasn't a child himself too, as if Regulus was his responsibility. Fuck that.

Sirius makes a mistake: he's reckless, immature, and never thinks before he acts.

Regulus makes a mistake: It's not his fault:( he's a poor baby who doesn't know what love and good is.

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[starrylayle]

Regulus’ character in fanon is so funny coz — guy who gets abused by his parents? Gets peer pressured to join the death eaters? Highly intelligent? An excellent potions master? Like babe ur describing kid Snape u can come out of the closet as a snapie I promise u are still loved (maybe)

[shiftingwithmars]

Supporting and joining a racist dictator makes you racist btw!

[suncchaser]

One thing I find absolutely endearing is how 90% of Regulus stans are losers just like their little prince. No wonder they always project so heavily onto him

[lonely-linn]

What the FUCK is regulus doing in the lily tag like justice for my wife can't even have her own tag without that bitchless pussy being there can she