#marauders fandom discourse

[marsabillions]

in light of recent discourse, i have to hold myself superior by saying i’ve been disliking regulus black content for 7 years

[maladaptivewriting]

the people who make tiktoks like “what’s a sirius black headcanon you hate?” are soooo annoying. like get a new thing. make original content. jesus christ

[northlt03]

Seeing much discourse on twitter about marauders stans being the same as harry potter fans and how all we have are headcanons and I wont argue on that hellsite bc I hate it as a principle and I think people who use ONLY use twitter are out of touch with their roots (tumblr)

But like no??? Idk about all marauders fans but lately I see mostly non hogwarts aus. Sure, there are fandom favourite fics set in the wizarding world which was created by jk rowling and as such has her influence and horrible world building. But like???? what fics I see more are muggle aus.

And yk what? Yeah all we have are headcanons. WHO CARES ??? I USED TO MAKE MY BARBIES KISS AND NOW I DO THE SAME TO MY SPECIAL GAYS !!! WHERE IS YOUR WHIMSY??? WHERE IS YOUR IMAGINATION???

make them gay and trans and stupid! reblog art and read and write fanfics! and above all else, never participate in fandom discourse just scroll away, kids, it's for your own good 👍

[florenceafternoon]

You're not less of a marauder fan for not having read/ not liking popular fics btw

[aithusarosekiller]

keep your jegulily shit the FUCK out of the jily tag. nobody wants to see your pro-fascist mental illness. YOU ARE NOT WELCOME IN OUR SPACE FUCK OFF

I didn't want to reply to this but...

Lesson in etiquette: being aggressive and accusatory will NEVER get anyone to listen to you :) If you were polite I may have listened but now you're just throwing around LARGE accusations and extremely immature language that demonises real issues such as mental illness and bigotry, which will never make anybody like you or trust you.

I tag jily because jily is in the content! They are 1/3 of the ship so tagging them is logical and reasonable. If you don't like it you can block me or block the jegulily tag :) you don't EVER have an excuse to hide your face and come onto somebody else's account spitting vitriol and hatred over fake characters from a CHILDRENS BOOK

Next: stop equating fictional characters to real issues because it's disgusting and you're minimising real loss of life and suffering so you can make a point. I don't blame you for hiding your name because that's a pretty gross thing to do! People who have lost loved ones to events like the holocaust have begged you lot to stop equating their real trauma to made up characters so you can feel better than other people. And mental illness is also a real issue that you are making out to be trivial and laughable. You sound like so many real bigots I know when you imply that someone you don't like existing must mean mental illness. If only you put this much energy into real issues! Your priorities are clear.

(A little off topic but it's also pretty interesting how it's never the Jegulus fans that get angry at me for correctly tagging content, yet people always portray them as the evil ones?)

[sparsilees]

there’s something sinister about the way certain parts of the fandom choose to depict harry and james as persons of colour... and highlight their athletic musculature and physical strength while simultaneously reducing them to knobheads.

ah, yes, boorish brawny brown boys who are helpless buffoons without a pale pureblood romantic interest—a refined creature of grace, pedigree, and erudition—who deigns to be seen and interact with them, and even educate them on their manners and letters (bonus points for mocking them for their empty brains occasionally)

[that-one-gay-from-the-gay-club]

Hey hey hey

I really really didn't want to make a post on this but I've been seeing a LOT of anti marauders fandom stuff recently, and not even tagged with anti marauders, so this is your daily reminder to just.... not interact... with media you don't like..

Like it's literally not that hard

Filter your tags

Literally just ignore fandom stuff you don't like??? It's literally not that hard?? There's no need to hate on people, no need to be an ass, just literally scroll past it. It's not hard. Just let people like what they like, enough of the character bashing and ship bashing

For example, one ship I don't like is bartylilly. I don't think its feasible and I'm a firm rosekiller Stan. However if you go through my blog, do you want to know a secret? I don't talk about it. I don't bash it. I just ignore it. It's that easy. I know this is shocking information for some of you but take a deep breath, you'll be ok

Let people like who they like and let people do what they want a ship what they want (with like pedophilia exceptions ofcourse) and just move on with your life. Tumblr is The Safe Space and that's why I joined this app, but recently it's been feeling more and more hostile.

If you've made it this far, reblog. Make sure people see this. Or make your own post if you don't want to reblog.

[jellybellyblimp]

I’m kind of glad tumblr “died” because it means this website is now mostly populated by adults who survived the fandom insanity of the early to mid 2010s and are now much more chill for it. Sometimes I see teenagers getting into fandom discourse on TikTok or Twitter and am immensely grateful that this site is no longer the primary stage for vitriolic fandom fervor

[claybyte]

being a rare pair shipper is fun and all until a good chunk of the fandom wants your head on a pike for it

[suncchaser]

It’s hard to explain this but there is something incredibly bizarre and nearly sinister about being obsessed with mlm ships to the point your characterisation of the individuals relies so much on the dynamics you envision for these relationships while claiming that the women in the series were ruined because they got married and had children with men when they should have remained single and independent.

Your main interest in the fandom, the majority of the content you engage in are all about ships, relationships, “love” stories and yet you exclude women from it and your excuse is that the feminist pathway for them would be to be single and alone?

If you don’t see the value in Lily, Bellatrix, Tonks, Andromeda, Molly, Narcissa, Ginny outside of their marriages and motherhood, that’s your problem. That’s your misogyny coming to light. You love shipping, you love love. You don’t love the female characters and you don’t believe their loving relationships are worth being explored.

[elwynsdream]

I love jegulus, but there are moments sometimes where I question certain things about the fandom. I'm a trans boy, and it's nice to see the popular headcanon of Regulus as a trans man, but cmon!! Why is he always the girl when people talk about jegulus variants? I know we have the right to be whatever we want (fem, masc, etc) but it's really uncomfortable to see Regulus constantly be feminized (? If I can call it that. Anyone can be trans, there is no requirement; you are who you are and that's it. But when we talk about media, which is a reflection of how large groups of people see reality whether we want it or not, it feels weird to see mlm ships where one of the characters (usually white) is made to be "dainty, delicate, needs help or protection" and the other one (usually POC) is "masculine, dominant, the protector type". I don't want to ruin anyone's fun, because fandom should be a safe place for everyone to enjoy their favorite characters however they want, but I wish to see if anyone feels the same (:

[marsabillions]

how it feels admitting you hc a beloved character as a trans woman on marauders tumblr

[allaboutlov3]

I got a random question for you ppl. Do you think James would have been able to forgive Peter if he had survived? Because in my head James is this loyal guy who’d die for his friends and trusts them with everything he has, with everything he is. But then again he also values honesty and loyalty and I think he couldn't even stand the thought of his friend betraying him like that. So how could he ever forgive him? But also how could he not? Because ppl make mistakes, right? He believes in that, too. He believes in second chances. Loyalty is such a big mess sometimes.

So what do you think? Would James have forgiven Peter (eventually) if he had survived that night?

[hedgehog-troops]

tbch i think the anti marauders fandom/anti jegulus/anti wolfstar etc fandom needs to CHILLLL. like we who love these ship and the fanon marauders are not always talking about how much the antis need to get a life, how they need to be realistic, nor are we sending them death threats or hate messages.

we are genuinely just all little nerd beans trying to have fun.

if you hate jegulus/wolfstar/fanon PLS GO AHEAD. just do it in a not so hateful way??

like i LOVE LOVE LOVE jily. (but i do still love jegulus more) and i hsed to enjoy jily content sm but now most of jily videos and posts i see always have people bashing jegulus in the comments/tags/caption???

like it genuinely puts me off

but you do you <33

(yes ill tag these with both pro and anti tags, i need people to SEE this)

[soulfullives]

can’t believe we’re doing this again but hey guys if you don’t like what someone writes, and bonus points if you are not an author and you do not know how this kind of behaviour impacts writers, please shut up and refrain from posting and commenting on things that you deem to be wrong (which, to some, means that characters or certain situations are not written the way they see them to be.)

writers, like fanart creators and creators in fandom in general, put out on the internet free content for you to enjoy and engage with, and you throwing a hissy fit over things you don’t like and leaving hate comments and going on anon to complain and bitch about things just shows how entitled fandom really has become, recently.

i do not know in depth what happened with greenvlvetcouch and their fics because i do not follow fandom drama much, the very same way i did not follow the bizarrestars / mayzarbewithyou drama and i majorly found out about it from tiktok and mutuals, so i won’t be diving too much into named dramas but, as a fellow writer in fandom, i think that this fandom consumes content in an unhealthy way, and this is what makes many writers leave / take a step back from such spaces. after this maelstrom that happens, everyone’s wondering why said people leave fandom.

why?

because popular fandom creators or creators in this fandom that have written popular fics (i.e. bfb, cr, black mass, so forth so forth, i just named a few examples off the top of my head) are treated like celebrities and expected to write what appeals to the public, said public forgetting that the content they are consuming is put out for free access and you literally do nothing in order to consume it (which you do, for example, when talking about books and movies, but that is a whole another conversation), and unpopular fandom creators are brushed to the side and ignored. this behaviour affects everyone (both sides mentioned), and the leaving from the fandom is done by both sides.

i thought that after the zar situation, we’d take a moment to reflect on our actions and how our behaviour has an impact on our content creators. please, for the love of god, think about the consequences of your actions, even though they are behind a screen and not in the real world, and refrain from unasked for criticism and comments.

[aithusarosekiller]

regulus wanted muggleborns dead and you ship him with lily? you're a disgusting bigot. james and lily would spit on regulus's grave he deserves no respect and you are a fascist sympathiser

Hey so I hate to break it to you babydoll but these characters are actually fictional!

You should be worrying about real bigots instead of fictional characters that aren't hurting any real people and don't have ANY say in the morality of the people that like them. Trying to compromise somebody's morals over a FICTIONAL character not only reduces real issues down to a pathetic little play-card so you can try to one-up someone, it erases any real experiences they may have with bigotry as a REAL PERSON on the basis of...made up stories? My people actually are being 'exterminated' as we speak and nobody seems to care so you saying this BULLSHIT not only reminded me of this, it makes me feel sick to be compared to the people who are actively trying to kill ME and my brethren when I know I am nothing like them and some made up people do not dictate that.

If you looked at my page for a single second you'd know that I hc Regulus as a meek young boy who was tricked into making wrong decision and had great opportunity to grow into a good person (which is also Sirius' opinion) but even if I didn't....it doesn't matter because he's not real. And if we're being all holier-than-thou about characters, you don't know Lily at all if you think she'd spit on anyone's grave, especially that of a brainwashed child who appears to have tried their best to escape the cult-mindset they were fed.

On another note, this implies that watching ofmd means that you must want to blow people up or watching Hannibal means you eat people in your free time. There's no correlation and trying to make fandom about morality in order to push your preferences as 'better' than another interpretation is ridiculous and cheapens real humanitarian issues.

So get a life, go away, and get bigger problems xxx