#maybe jegulus maybe jily

[eleanorrigbyrice]

MARAUDERS FIC IDEA: would anyone be interested in reading a (super long) fic where the marauders are at a boarding school but there’s no magic, just your generic this-boarding-school-is-super-old-and-has-many-dark-and-dangerous-secrets-that-will-be-discovered-by-the-main-characters AU? i want to write it but i’m not sure if everyone will think that’s super boring (and yes i know, you should write fanfiction for yourself - but i need motivation). anyway, lmk if that’s something you’d read! <3

[mikalilys]

Please stop publicly hating on fanfics. PLEASE!! Especially in a comment section of a video that’s about the fic or the fandom, because whether you’re aware of it or not, the author could have a social media account on that platform and see the hate. The hate on something they did for fun, for free. If you want more content then you have to stop hating. these authors aren’t celebrities they don’t have pr teams or people dealing with hate for them, they’re participants in fandom, and they’re real people.

Fanfics are not books, yes some are amazing enough to be, but you do not buy them, they’re provided to you for free. A fanfiction being popular is not like a book you bought sitting on your shelf, you should not feel obligated to read it because you spent money on it. Because you didn’t. it’s free. Fanfics no matter how popular should not be treated and reviewed like books, you do not get to publicly criticise or say “how are people buying this?!” Because they’re not. It’s free. It doesn’t matter if you think it’s overrated, it’s something someone did for fun, and you don’t get to criticise that, especially because it’s public for you to read!! Don’t be mad that something’s overrated, be glad that it was even up in the first place, someone could have easily just left it as a draft and never posted it, but they did. They decided to share this piece of themselves, to the fandom for anyone to read and that is a gift.

Ao3 is an uncensored website for fanfics, you can write about literally anything. And yet I see “no don’t read that fic it’s problematic!!” In a comment section. Fanfiction is not censored, if you want morals and every character being perfect and making the ‘right’ choices, then get off ao3. Also reminder that an author can write characters making decisions that they don’t agree with, for depth of the story. Just because your favourite character, that you see as the pinnacle of righteousness, makes a bad decision or says something mean does not make the story bad or problematic. It also doesn’t make the author agree with that decision. All the time authors of published books write about morally grey characters or villains. But when an ao3 author does it all of a sudden they must have committed the war crimes that they wrote their villain to commit. Do you realise how stupid that sounds?? 😭

Also don’t post vague negative videos about something/someone even if you don’t say who or what it’s about, it leads the comment section to gossip about who they hate and that’s just not cool. And tagging the fandom that they’re in??? 90% of the time they’re going to see that.

Public hate is not cool, if you don’t like someone, talk to you friends about it if you’re craving other peoples validation so badly. You don’t need to post something publicly. And I know hate gets more popular then love in fandom, no matter if it’s headcanons or fics or creators, but that doesn’t make it good. I don’t know why people are so negative all the time, like I don’t care what headcanons you hate, why do you even spend that much time thinking about something you hate?? I want to hear what headcanons you like, I want to know you fav characters, your kins, literally anything.

Sorry this is so long, it just pisses me off to see a fun video about fandom and then I open the comments and it’s filled with hate. This is a fandom, have fun with it!!! Please. 😭

[outromoony]

Sometimes reading fanfiction is the only reason I wake up in the morning

[comradekarin]

ngl jily gang- why am I seeing little to no fics on archive that’s actually about them? and why am i seeing so much snape sympathy shit in the archive tag? snape has a heart? lily forgives snape au? snape cares about harry? lily and james bashing in JILY fics for bitchass snape of all people? don’t get me started of all this newfound jegulus- do not piss me off gang like what the fuck are we doing-

[maladaptivewriting]

being on marauders tumblr has made me realize that a lot of people would actually share anne rice's (terrible) opinion about fanfiction if they didn't write fanfic themselves.

[lunar-skylar]

Me seeing fanart or content on Jily: We’ve all seen the pictures, she looks absolutely beautiful

Sees Regulus (for whatever reason): um- and he’s there…

[moondustinfj]

"No, you won't commit atrocities." *takes his hand* "We will commit atrocities."

[bambxsstuff]

“All I wanted was you,”

But its Pandora to Lily

Lily to James

James to Regulus

Regulus to Barty

Barty to Peter

Peter to Evan

Evan to Barty

Peter to James

Dorcas to Marlene

Marlene to Mary

Mary to Lily

Lily to Pandora (but she’s burying her feelings) 😀

[propussyslayer]

i don't condone toxic relationships, i do, however condone fwb wolfstar who like each other but won't do anything about it other than making one another jealous

[binvibin]

its very rare that i read a mischaracterization of the marauders. like whether a characters style is different, i can still see the character in your writing

[hp-confessions]

i say this as a jily hater and "lily deserved better" advocate, but the existence of jegulus feels so misogynistic to me, lol. regulus didn't have any dialogue or personality other than "questionably repentant fach", and even rowling corroborates in interviews that he didn't do all that for the muggles, it was family attachment/protectiveness (what people judge about snape all the time, lol, "oh, he did it for lily! he didn't really change!" but when reggie does it it's cwute and he's a vwictim 🥺🥺🥺🥺). lily haunts the entire narrative way more than james himself did. it's her love that kept harry alive. it's snape's love for her that kept him acting steadily and loyally to the order, and until the very end. she's HEAVY important for the story, but the hotz yaoiz are more alluring i guess. two men with no personalities are more interesting i guess 🤷🏻‍♀️ i oppose to jegulus in the sense they could never be as good and interesting as her. i also support it because it keeps lily out of the equation as well.

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[justafandomgirly]

When you found your soulmate but he already found his

[mikalilys]

Guys guys guys

Do any marauders fans like the next step???

I was obsessed with it when I was younger and I just saw someone compare ballet dancer Regulus and street dancer James to that one James and Riley duet and now I’m in desperate need for a marauders tns au!!!!!!!

Obviously based off season like 1-3 but I desperately need it so if anyone wants to write it please please please do and link it or something

Oooo with minnie as miss Kate or something or maybe have James’ parents own it with Effie as miss Kate and Monty as Chris(?) the choreographer

I know logically the slytherins would be a different troup like elite but that wouldn’t be as fun it can just be random people like other schools or something

[phoebebuggers]

guys if i started a series of fics that are my interpretation of the marauders universe with all of my headcanons and such but pretty canon compliant would we be interested

[sachsoup]

though i like to indulge myself reading the anti jegulus tag (and agree with some sentiments) I don't have grrrrrrrrrrrrr hatred for it. i personally think it wouldn't just exist in my idealised fanon. maybe it could but personally, I think regulus having a puppy crush on james would be more silly and it causes him to doubt everything but regardless, it's one-sided for me...

[rewritingcanon]

no girl tell us what you think about jegulily!! im so here for it (tone is weird but I mean that genuinely, I don't ship them so I'm not here to be weird)

dw bae ur tone is fine ! (i’ve been waiting for an ask like this 💀) i think jegulily is... yeah its…. like usually as long as its legal idgaf as long as shippers portray their characters right but regulus fans are literally incapable 😭🙏 WHY WOULD U PAIR A MUGGLEBORN AND A BLOOD SUPREMACIST IM SO DONE WITH DIS FANDOMMMM!! that actually goes for a lot of lily ships like bartylily as well (no clue where that came from either but it’s equally as stupid lmfao).

and jegulily just feels like shoving in lily because people feel bad for ditching her, or shoving in regulus because some people like jily and jegulus and want them (for some reason) to coincide even though it makes zeroooo sense for it to. like, idk if i said this with jegulus before (i yap sm on this account i forget what i say), but like it, jegulily can be done well if a realistic dynamic is taken into account, but the marauders fandom is allergic to nuance and so just chalks up everything regulus does and believes to his neglectful homelife. hes not all-bad, sure, i do feel bad for him, but im nowhere close to shipping him with a woman whos part of the people hes trying to eradicate, or with her man who purposefully went against all pureblood tradition (which is such a large part of james’ character— he is a pureblood that chooses to be seperate from that culture hellooooo plz wake uppppp).

marauders fandom has a chronic “i can fix him” mentality when it comes to wizard neo nazis, i have never understood it. but thats a topic for another day.

jegulily should be filled with envy, toxicity and prejudice stop nerfing it to be some fluffy feel-good polyamorous stable marriage where they raise harry together. yall are looking over the potential. this ship has blood and guts in it plz act like it or else idk what to say 😭 if it doesnt end with at least one of them getting murdered i dont want it.