#crying about art heist baby

[reggiecantswim27]

Join the mauraders fandom they said. It’ll be fun they said. Now I’ve been crying for hours over Art Heist Baby. I need a happy fic please.

[otrtbs]

here’s the thing. the absolute joy and wonder i feel whenever someone tells me they came across ahb! and are now taking an art history course / majoring in art next year / went to their local art museum for the first time in ages is exponential. when yall send me your favorite artworks and tell me about them or tell me you went to x museum to see x painting mentioned in ahb??? it’s just so so wonderful. because never did i think something i wrote out of love for art and love for art history would lead anyone else to research art or talk about it or seek it out for themselves and that’s so much more than i could ever imagine would come out of a very timid first attempt at creative writing/fandom involvement.

i wrote it out of love and y’all have all reciprocated that love tenfold and ran with it to talk about art and explore it and share it with me and those around you. and it’s just been a very special incredible thing that makes me emosh. :,)

[ofseaandstarz]

i don’t want to sleep

i don’t want to think about art museums

or orange muffins

or houses with green and red shutters

or late night tea

or dancing on kitchen counters

i don’t want to think about the sky

i don’t want to think about Copenhagen



[she-atti-on-my-lyus]

why do the black brothers have to be devastating in every fucking universe i can’t do this anymore

[ricochetyears]

your perfect painting quiz <3

thank you sweetheart @weasleytriplets for the tag xx

take the quiz here 🐰

lol the brainrot is so severe the first painting reminded me of ahb 🧎‍♂️ oh mamma mia let me go

tagging bc i wanna see what you are 🫶 @overthemoons7 @smn-you-know @talesofmoony @jaychrilo1144 @tenaciousmilkshakecandy

you don’t have to take it but it’s just so fun to tag nice people so I’m sorry in advance :3

[urmomsmattress]

please send me thoughts and prayers for today for i have to people person for a 14 hour work day and i REALLY just wanna daydream abt sirius black

[agent-tempest]

Art hest, baby! is sad for multiple reasons but one of the things that gets is how much time James and Regulus got to spend together. James was in him 20s(?) when he met Regulus and they got about an year or so together. What breaks my heart about "Time continued to pass. He never did fall in love again" is that James had so less time with Reggie but their love was so strong that it was enought for James to live throught a lifetime and more

[takemetoterrasenpls]

I

I just finished Art Heist Baby

There's a reason why I always avoid MCD tags.

I'm so not okay right now.

What do I even do? How do I even continue with my life after reading that? Fuck.

[cara-mel5]

this fic is going to break me and make me cry

"and he was happy" BRB ENDING IT ALL 🤠🤠🤠

why the FREAK would you make them talk about their future. about brazil. about christmas shutters and candyfloss and love. i hate you. I HATE YOU!!! AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[poussieredetoiles-stardust]

Guys I just finished AHB and I’m broken?!?!?

[lemonswrite-sing]

Just finished ahb…..I don’t think I’ll ever be the same again….. anywho I’m gonna go look at orange muffin recipes now.

[terymlxyrstdus]

People who like their mental helf don’t read the last three chapters of Art heist baby

[apricusapollo]

me looking at my friend's text that says "are you ever going to recover from ahb?" as I listen to baby I'm yours and think about ahb jegulus dancing in the back of my mind

[n0blefl0wer]

A conversation I just had with my boyfriend

My boyfriend, walking into the room: whatcha doing?

Me, not looking up from my phone: guess

Bf: reading?

Me, starting to cry: yup

Bf: fanfic?

Me: yup

Bf: jegulus?

Me: yup

Bf: Art heist baby?

Me, looking up, tears in my eyes: love, Reggie is about to die!!!

[pages-and-1nk]

PLEASE IF YOURE A JILY OR JEGULUS SHIPPER READ THIS BECAUSE IT HAS TO FUCKING STOP U GUYS.

I’m done with the ridiculous conversation on Jily shippers harassing Jegulus shippers. (And vice versa, this one just covers Jily hate on Jegulus) Please read my breakdown response to the most common argument presented as to why Jegulus is bad.

🙏 PLEASE 🙏 .

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Oh okay jumping RIGHT into it. *Deep breath*

No. No it’s actually not. As a gay trans man, your take is incorrect and actually so fucking wild it astounds me you think that way. To break it down MISOGYNY is the hatred or prejudice against women. Someone taking two male characters- even if one has a canon gf- and shipping them together does not in anyway promote misogyny nor the erasure of the gf. Infact, implying that in order for Lily to be important or developed she has to date James is actually, ironically, misogynistic.

Now is that to say all jegulus shippers ARENT misogynist or have such views? NO, ofc there are bad apples everywhere- doesn’t mean the whole bag is spoiled. Misogyny is not preferring a gay pairing to a cannon heterosexual pairing. Thats frankly a stupid argument and you’re just attaching words with negative connotations to a ship you don’t like, to then make your ship seem more morally righteous and superior and discredit anyone who argues with you by labeling them as misogynistic. (That does more harm then good btw as it discredits and devalues actual misogyny in fan spaces)

As for fetishization, also not inherently. People enjoying a masc and a twink together is not fetishization inherently. Now, it’s a thin line to walk, and in order to do that you must have critical thinking and be able to understand THESE FAKE GAY MEN are not ALL REAL GAY MEN, but it being the dynamic of a ship you like is… not fetishization. Obsessing and harassing REAL gay men and being invested in their sexuality and sexual experiences is fetishization. Please understand the weight of the words you are using, and how throwing them around in such a context not only makes you look like a buffoon but also is wildly undermining to the weight those words hold.

Smh.

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Gonna go cry myself to sleep now brb.

But SERIOUSLY? Implying that Regulus is watered down to “James’ twink” tells me you have never actually engaged with Jegulus shippers before and have made broad assumptions about a ship you’ve never even given a chance.

Crimson rivers, choices, art heist baby, only the brave, teach them how to dream, whatever happened to the young young lovers, I COULD GO ON. All of them have well rounded character designs for Regulus- but because you can’t take your head out of your ass and are too focused on how bad of a ship Jegulus is, you’ll never read them!

(Which valid, you don’t have to like Jegulus Jily shippers, in fact- you can loath it as much as you want, but you can’t talk about characterization when you’ve uh… never actually read the characterization)

And those last few sentences? Oh man. James cheating on Lily is like SUCH A SMALL fraction of fanfic/works, such a small fraction. Unless you imply that James could stake a claim to Lily before Lily even agrees to them dating which uh… *cough cough*…. I smell misogyny again… *cough cough.*

Like bsffr rn. 😐

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Oh god I think I threw up in my mouth hold on-

First- yes. Jily is an amazing ship that can be wholesome and lovely, and is such a beautifully tragic form of love I will ALWAYS respect it and the people who ship it. Me personally, I don’t read fanfic with Jily, but I def engage with Jily related content bcs it’s GOOD.

But you see, people like you simply ruin it for those who are Jegulus shippers and want to Drabble in Jily because you are TOXIC.

No one is reducing Lily to a baby maker for Jegulus. In fact, I’ve seen more fics with TRANS REGULUS GETTING PREGNANT than I have with surrogate Lily. And even in the surrogate Lily fics, it’s usually well written and Lily has a personality beyond “baby maker” and is just a friend consensually agreeing to help a queer couple out with having a child.

There’s also fics where they co-parent Harry, and if that’s what you’re talking about AGAIN that’s literally normal. I’m a child of divorce, my parents co parent- that’s just how bloody divorce works it isn’t misogynist.

As for the canonical death eater bit- please tell me which part of the canon text refers to regulus being a blood purist. He joined Voldemort, correct, he also rebelled against Voldemort- correct. All of the reasons for him doing both of those things are ASSUMPTIONS MADE BY INFERENCES FROM A BIASED PERSPECTIVE.

Obviously you can have your own preferences on what regulus was like, as can I, because CANNON INFORMATION is LIMITED. Therefore, you can do what you want.

And even if it wasn’t you could still, do what you want BECAUSE ITS FICTIONAL.

Please, I am begging you, for my sanity and your own, just stop. All of it needs to stop. You get no where by tearing another ship down, it won’t stop and you just leave a bad taste in the mouths of people who want to ship Jily but are Jegulus shippers.

This applies to both sides BY THE WAY, Jegulus shippers have a problem with inserting themselves in Jily spaces, or within other ships, or feeling the need to comment on ships with Regulus or James in them and say things like “Jegulus is better” or “ew that’s so weird” (I saw this in particular with kittywater) We all need to realize that unless we just stick in our lanes and fuck off, we’re going to continue promoting toxicity in this fandom.

I love Jily, I love Jegulus, IM PROOF WE CAN LIVE IN HARMONY JUST KNOCK IT OFF, PULL YOUR PANTS UP, AND GROW TF UP!

Anyways thanks for coming to my ted talk, I’m really upset over this post and I just needed to rant. Please reblog this so it reaches more people.

(Also I have not tagged the creator of this post, because I don’t want harassment to befall them. Signed- the author)

[ariannabananasstuff]

okay i made a tiktok post about this but you guys get to hear it now.

“We’ll Never Have Sex” by Leith Ross

“if i said you, could never touch me, you’d come over and say i looked lovely.”

and it’s crimson rivers wolfstar

“oh you kiss me, just to kiss me, not to make me cry.”

and its art heist, baby! jegulus