#not to babygirl-ify them all

[violaobanion]

MASTERS OF THE AIR (2024) a very serious war drama about very serious WWII pilots

[zrllosyn-art]

An array of Kaiju 8 ocs.... [ft. @izfaish's Yamato and @snailpost's Pati]

[running-with-kn1ves]

No flippin way we almost have 5k followers!! thats more people than I've ever heard of in my life man. What would yall want for a 5k special???? I'll do p much anything to show my gratitude (in moderation, ya filthies) but I have no clue what you do to comemorate these kinds of things.

[welivetodream]

✨ My BSD hot takes/unpopular opinions ✨:

1. Identifying BSD characters as Queer, is not problematic. STOP being so Heteronormative. Gay characters are not gonna kill you.

If I see another "BuT tHe ChArAcTeRs nEvEr SaId tHeY aRe GaY" I would bomb you 💣/j

2. Skk/SSKK/Fyolai/other popular ships, exist because people like it. If you don't ship them, don't engage with their content. Not all shippers act crazy and toxic. Stop blaming everything on shippers.

3. Atsushi/Kyouka is problematic, stop justifying it with "only 4 year age gap". Kyouka is a CHILD, ship her with Kenji if you want. Atsushi, like a normal 18 year old would never look at a highschool freshman and date her. Even if they date in the future, he knew her when she was younger and they had a sibling like dynamic. Lucy is a way better love interest to Atsushi (Don't know if this is an unpopular opinion tho, but I saw some people justifying it 😐😐😐)

4. DAZAI IS NOT EVIL. HE IS FAR FROM EVIL. He is, despite being super popular and the face of BSD, the most mischaracterized and villified character. Morally grey characters exist??!!!

5. Mori is a way worse person than Dazai ever was.

6. PM members get a free pass for any heinous crime they commit by being hot or babygirl-ified (still love them tho, we do not often discuss how bad their actions have been, you can like criminals and acknowledge they are criminals in fiction. I would add DoA to this too, but it's worse with the PM)

7. Akutagawa's abuse of Kyouka shouldn't be forgotten just because Dazai abused Akutagawa.

8. Mori emotionally manipulated and abused Dazai when he was a teen. Just because it wasn't physical, doesn't mean it was nothing.

9. Atsushi is NOT a soft boy, he is way bitter, salty and sarcastic than we give him credit

10. Poe is important to Ranpo and their friendship/relationship is wholesome as hell

11. Ranpo and Yosano's friendship is way better than them being in a relationship in the future

12. FukuFuku is better than Fukumori (imo!!!!)

13. Buying real authors work after watching BSD is actually a really good thing, since more Gen z kids (or other people) will read classics

14. There are layers to Atsushi and Akutagawa relationship/rivalry, and they have the MOST important relationship (not meaning romantic, just in general) in the entire canon.

15. Kunikida and Yosano could be a power couple

16. Fyodor is not a great villain (yet)

17. Nikolai CARRIES the DoA

18. Sigma shouldn't be in the ADA, he needs a happy home, family and some time to adjust to normal life

19. Q and Elise are both underused characters and could become a great dynamic

20. Ango deserves more love, the amount of pressure and stress he deals with is INSANE

21. It's OKAY if everyone joins the fandom for Dazai or skk (I did at first too!!)

22. Higuchi is annoying as hell. I do not get her hype, I like her but not as much as most people (just personal opinion, do not flame me 😭)

23. Everyone in The Guild is forgettable or boring (except Fitzgerald, Poe and Lucy. I like Louisa, but I forget her all the time)

24. Hetero ships are just not that great/interesting in BSD to me 🤷🏻‍♀️ (except maybe AtsuLucy or rare pairs) and female characters are not best utilised, I wish they play more major roles (can't wait for Agatha to arrive!!)

25. Some fan theories/arts get the story better than "canon" stuff at times. Fanon is NOT always the worst (sometimes enjoyable when the canon gets too dark or sad)

26. Toxic ships are okay in fiction as long as they are legal. Humans like toxic things, we consume it like junk food 💅🏻

(These are all personal opinions of mine and do not matter. Feel free to disagree. But, do not hate or be toxic!!!! 😇😇😇😇)

(PS: I compiled all these because of posts I have seen in, Reddit, Pinterest, Twitter and sometimes Tiktok. These aren't really abt you Tumblr folks. I meant to post this on reddit but did not have the courage or mental strength lol)

[dundeey-art]

Had no thoughts about prowl. the majority of the fandom thinks he's an asshole and they either hate him for it or love him for it.

So I read the entire wreckers saga for Verity initially, but you know what? Prowl really stood out to me. I wanted to see more of him, so I read the issues he was in and I truly don't understand where the whole "prowl is an asshole" came from, yes he does some bad stuff (so does everyone else) but i interpreted this as a means to an end.. i think he's always thinking about the future and the end of the war, and his actions reflect that. I'm pretty sure he even mentioned that he "has to make tough decisions for a better tomorrow" but don't quote me on that

I think trying to moralize anyone in the IDW comics is a bad idea LOL, love them as they are (￣ー￣)ｂ

I find it really interesting how prowl is like.. public enemy #1 in the fandom when there are others who are worse and get so much love. LIKE RODIMUS OH MY GOD DO NOT EVEN GET ME STARTED. He annoyed me so much while reading MTMTE. Seriously, the way everyone babygirl-ifies him and never talks about his wrongs, you'd swear rodimus is a pretty decent guy. He's infuriating, painfully immature, and egotistical, and those traits get people killed. Like at some point, he ignores advice from ultra magnus because he's petty, and it ends up a disaster... I'm not even gonna touch on his horrible friendship with drift.

I dunno how this turned into a rodimus rant (；ω；) BUT ANYWAY!! prowl is pretty incredible, and i didn't know for such a long time because of the fandom's mischaracterization of him.

— dream (*＾3＾)/～☆

holy fucking based...

YOU HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD!!!

indeed, if you just read the material, you'll see that prowl is wildly misinterpreted and exaggerated by the fandom. personally i like rodimus, but what you said is true. almost every character in IDW has committed terrible crimes, but those get excused or overlooked way more than prowl's do. prowl supposedly being the biggest war criminal in the story is a joke that gets boring really quickly.

its most likely about more than just his actions, though. i think prowl's personality puts people off. like hes a bit too unfriendly, not cute or quirky enough. but i like prowl, he's one of the few i can actually tolerate. but i guess thats just not the popular opinion. really, though, i think people that genuinely think prowl is an asshole are annoying. we probably wouldnt get along irl.

personality aside, i genuinely think prowl is an incredibly admirable character. he's like the anti-hero to me. it's clearly shown in his actions and motivations. far from the antagonist that some people claim he is.

im so glad you read it for yourself to come to your own conclusion and gained all this insight! thank you for sharing!!

[asmo-d3us]

hi! Just found your blog. I was wondering if you could help me cuz I'm new to the fandom and kinda confused. I thought Barty crouch Jr was a deatheater? Also, who's Evan rosier and what's his relation to barty? Not trying to be rude, just curious!

Thank you for the ask, and welcome to the fandom! :)

So basically, Barty and Evan were both death eaters, and they were both evil in the movies and the books. When we dug into Barty’s background, it was actually kind of sad and I think people in the fandom felt bad for him and decided to make him a character who was evil, but with the valid excuse to be?

I don’t like when people say we “babygirl”ified them, because that makes it sound like we made them into some cute little characters, when we DIDN’T. Yes, these characters aren’t good people. Yes, they’re murderers. And yes, they’re pureblood supremacists. But this is a fandom, and a fandom of an author who’s racist, transphobic, and homophobic. Who says we can’t grab these characters and make them our own?

And this is the overall reason why The Slytherins even exist and why we write them. Some people write them as bad characters, and others write them as characters you pity or feel sad for, and sometimes even relate too because of their problems. So Barty basically has a villain origin story if you think about it that way.

What does Evan have anything to do with Barty? Well, in the 4th movie is when we meet Barty, and when he’s in court, the prisoner who’s in the cage starts saying who was in the scene of the crime and stuff. The man in the cage says the name of the people who died, including the death eaters, and says “Evan Rosier”, who was Barty’s partner in the mission (and possibly in all his missions?)

When the man speaks this name, Barty has this reaction on his face that was indescribable. People immediately felt a spike in their gaydar and I guess they just decided to make them boyfriends since we didn’t know the truth between them, and because, again, this fandom is diverse and gives us freedom to choose and decide what we want for these characters.

Or, people didn’t even watch that scene and just made them boyfriends because there was no one else they could’ve been with. I think it started off as a crack ship (a joke ship), but then ended up getting VERY popular and nearly everyone LOVED the ship.

That’s basically it, or at least my interpretation of it and how I began shipping Rosekiller. Don’t take me as a professional or that I know everything about it lmao I don’t have a single idea how it even became a ship but most ships in this fandom are different on purpose and unexpected.

[dervampireprince]

ASMR | Fear and Hunger - Enki x Listener SFW Trying To Rest With The Dark Priest Enki

[M4A] [No horror from the game or description of those horrors in this audio] [Listener is in the dungeon with the characters] [Nightmare comfort but without the comfort because it's Enki] [Established that you've been travelling together for a while at least] [Flustering Enki] [Slightly implied romantic/sexual feelings]

If you aren't familiar with it, do not look up Fear and Hunger without reading it's trigger warning lists first, you can find them on doesthedogdie.

It's not like anyone can stop me from babygirl-ifying Enki. So yes the person who can't handle horror has gotten into Fear and Hunger by wanting background noise video essays on in the background while he draws and stumbling upon one Funger video essay and then watching like 5 more and then saying yes it's interesting but I'm not going to get properly into it and then oh no I drew fanart on stream and then oh no I've recorded an audio 3 days after discovering the games. This is just like with Astarion all oVER AGAIN WHY.

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Old public spicy audios on sound gasm (link in pinned post). 2 Exclusive spicy audios on Patreon every month. I also stream on Twitch every week @ dervampireprince . [minors + ageless blogs dni. this blog is for 18+ only.] [do not repost/reupload/edit any of my content]

[i-will-change-this-someday]

My thoughts on Frankenstein:

(This is incredibly long)

Victor is definitely autistic or something right?

It’s honestly shocking to me how much of the book was just describing the scenery.

Also, because I self project constantly, Victor seems kinda Ace to me, maybe Aro with a QPR with Henry, but that might be actual romance.

Kinda surprised that no one ever stops Victor to ask why he’s collecting so many body parts, they’re just like “eh, Victor’s experimenting on corpses again, I guess.”

Absolutely wild for Caroline to adopt a child for the sole purpose of “gifting” her to her son.

I wish I could be motivated in to a hyper-focused frenzy where I actually complete my projects, maybe not for 2 years though.

Alright time for all my unpopular opinions. (this will likely be very long)

Y'all are babygirl-ifying the Creature way too much. My dude murdered at least 4 people. (Technically murdered 3 and framed the 4th for murder.)

Hey, remember when the Creature murdered a child? Yeah, that happened.

Or when he framed a woman for murder, knowing full well what would likely happen to her? (The Creature didn't even know she had any connection to Victor, he fully decided to frame her because of the idea that she would reject him)

or when he murdered 2 people just because Victor cared about them?

I'm not saying the the Creature isn't sympathetic, and it really is unfair that everyone shuns him, but that doesn't mean he gets a "Murder innocents" pass.

On a similar note, and this is maybe just me, but Victor is way more sympathetic than anyone gives him credit for.

When he made the Creature he was a dumb kid that was messing with things he really shouldn't have, but he was grieving his mother and coping very poorly.

So he thinks "what if I could bring her back?" or at least "Maybe I can prevent losing anyone else" so he tries """Playing God""" but it's not because he has a god complex, he's mourning a loss and is doing anything to not think about it while also trying something that might prevent such loss in the future.

I do think he's a bit self-centered, but not in a "I'm superior" way , more in a "Why is this happening to me?" way that makes him forget others' perspectives or how his actions may affect them.

I don't think he's always thinking about how every other person is dumber than him or how great he is.

I do think he has a very strong desire to have his achievements seen and known, because for quite a while everyone dismissed his interests. (Which, just saying, can really do some damage on a kid)

Should Victor not have abandoned the Creature? Yes, but he also didn’t exactly have the mental or emotional capacity to care for the Creature at that time.

When the Creature awoke, Victor was faced with the reality of what he was doing; he wasn’t bringing someone back to life, he was creating something else entirely, so he ran. And afterwards the Creature was gone, and then Victor had a psychotic break for like several months. He wasn’t really in peak parent mode then.

(Side tangent, but any of those “I wouldn’t run from the Creature” people are absolutely lying, you’re really going to react calmly to a 8ft shambling monster made from dead bodies?)

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying Victor is entirely innocent, but there's a lot of things that he get's blamed for that were not his fault.

Not one of the deaths in the book are Victor's fault.

William died because he screamed and revealed his family name, so the Creature killed him to hurt Victor.

Justine died because the Creature framed her because he thought she would reject him and because she was pressured in to pleading guilty.

Henry died because the Creature wanted to hurt Victor.

Elizabeth died because the Creature wanted to hurt Victor.

If you think any of those deaths are Victor's fault, then you're victim blaming.

Yes, the Creature likely wouldn't have done any of that had Victor not ran, but you know what else would have prevented those deaths? If the Creature didn't kill them.

The Creature is an incredibly intelligent being, by the time he kills William he has learned enough to properly frame a woman for murder.

You can not say he accidentally killed William, he knows what death is.

He didn't accidentally frame Justine for said murder.

He didn't just so happen to kill Henry because he got caught off guard by him.

He wasn't looking for Victor to kill on the wedding day.

He chose to kill every single one of them, and to put all the blame on Victor is unfair to Victor and the Creature.

The Creature is his own person, which means he also needs to be held responsible for his actions.

You can understand and sympathize with the Creature, but that doesn't mean he's infallible.

The Creature has every right to be mad at the world, his first experience in the world is being abandoned by the one who gave him life, and then he is constantly shunned, feared, and hated for the rest of his life, it's not right.

But that doesn't mean you murder people, or if he had to, he should have killed Victor, the person that actually wronged him.

And listen, I understand every minority feels a kinship with the Creature, but for me, there's something about Victor that is so unbearably relatable.

The thing about Victor is that he has people that care for him, but none of them understand him in the slightest, even Henry, he may love Victor but I don't think he really understood him all the time.

So you have Victor, who has people who care for him and who he cares for in return, trying his best to act normal, to pretend there's nothing wrong.

He's trying so, so hard not to worry the people he cares for, but on the inside he's miserable, paranoid, and overall just incredibly mentally unwell.

And that is something that is just so intriguing to me. (Not saying the Creature isn't also very nuanced and complex, just that Victor scratches some itch in my brain.)

Anyway, this is already very long, I honestly have more I could say about it, but this is good for now.

[lycheesodas]

🌷 LYCHEECAFE 2024 MENU ✨

[Likes & Reblogs greatly appreciated!]

Hey everyone! Commissions are open again :D I'm opening only 3 slots at a time.

The merchstore is also open! Now updated with new goods that I usually bring to conventions (❛◡˂̵ ̑̑✧) And new stuff is always in the making! If you have any suggestions on which of my art I can make into merch, you can send them my way as well :3

WHAT'S NEW

🐱 Animal sidekicks! Get a portrait with your pets, or your favorite character getting eaten by an alligator. Or whatever you like, I suppose.

🌼 Chibis! A cuter and more affordable option. Also a great pick when you want to further babygirl-ify your blorbos.

🍡 Custom Emotes! Send cursed emotes to your friends, but with their own face on it.

TERMS & CONDITIONS

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Mutuals and returning customers, you can simply DM me wherever we chatted last time to place an order, no need to go through the Ko-fi menu since I trust you guys lol

If you have any questions before placing an order, my ask box is open (Anon asks are enabled. No trolls pls, I will block you.)

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I'll update you at each stage and you may make 1 revision each time.

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✅ Will draw:

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Mecha

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I may ask for permission to use the final piece on my own social media or portfolio.

If you're posting the finished piece on Tumblr/Twitter/Instagram, please tag me so I can share it on my page as well!

[reigningmax]

Max/Charles Fic Recs

New-ish fic recs! * Favorite ** Smut

*home (is wherever I'm with you) by @sunshineyoujustwait

Charles leaves Ferrari, tries to win a championship, and learns some things about belonging. All the while, Max is there.

(one of the best Max’s written, I fucking loved this)

Ribs by anonymous Charles injures himself before the last race of the season. The only option is to power through it.

*How to Babygirl-ify Your Boyfriend by anonymous Charles sees someone on the internet call Max babygirl. He’s instantly obsessed.

**an unconventional surprise by anonymous Pierre walks in on Charles and Max and is suddenly rather intrigued about how it would feel to bottom for the first time.

***if you pay right by @drivestraight When Pierre came out and confessed he was going through the does God still love me? crisis/cliché, Charles just could not bear to tell him he was starting to think that God didn’t love anyone.

Silly me by @nyoomleclerc “We’re not asking you to ‘woo’ him,” Christian says, looking pained at having to say the word ‘woo’, “We just need others to think you’ve wooed him.”

*backs against the wall by anonymous Max is trying to get over a crush, and Charles makes it very difficult indeed.

***want it good want it all by anonymous When Max puts the disc into the cartridge of his PS4 he isn't sure what to expect.

***objects in the mirror by @drivestraight Two Formula 1 drivers walk into a bar and accidentally have a heart-to-heart.

(the holy grail of the lestappen fics)

***like fire and powder by @grandprix-ao3 

“He told me that some Alphas, they submit. He said that submissive Alphas like to be fucked. Like girls. Like Omegas. Fuck them enough, and they will become one. You can make them your bitch.”

[wen-kexing-apologist]

Hello. For violence, number 12 & 13 please. Have a wonderful day! Rose💜

Hello Rose! Thank you for choosing violence today.

12. The unpopular character that you actually like and why more people should like them

Dynamite Chuchok. 

(I love you baby boy, don't you worry)

I do not understand why so many people hated that boy. I love me a happy!sad, and that boy was one of them. I loved how vibrant and open he was about his sexuality, with how vocal he was about his feelings for Fire, that boy is so so brave. He has suffered a lot, he has lost so much, and he refuses to live his life inauthentically. He knows when to push, when to back off, he knows where the boundaries are, where to take space, make space, give space, and he understands exactly why Fire is scared to come out to his Mom. I mean, Dynamite (and Prem) jeopardizes his friendship with Unky in order to keep his relationship with Fire secret and experiences the consequences of Unky being mad that Dynamite didn’t out Fire. 

It is very rare that I feel compelled to write posts about characters in order to defend them, but that is exactly what I was doing when I wrote this Dynamite body language post.

Also, because this is the Choose Violence Ask Game. I will throw out a hot take:

if Mark Pakin had played Dynamite and the character had been exactly the same, we would not have seen the level of hate for Dynamite we saw for Aungpao's Dynamite. So.

Other characters I love with my whole being but that seem to have some contentious relationships to fandom are: Sailom from Wedding Plan, Patts from La Pluie, and Teh from I Told Sunset About You and I Promised You The Moon.

13. Worst blorboficiation

First Kanaphan. 

Not a character I know, but it has to be said. 

I love that man, but holy shit we need to stop baby-girl-ifying him. And when I say ‘we’ here I don’t just mean BL fans. I mean GMMTB themselves. First is an incredible actor, but the writers and directors always end up babygirl-ifying his characters by the end of their shows. Let! That! Man! Act! 

He can cry so well, it’s true. I understand the desire to let him cry on camera. I understand that his face and those stupid big brown baby cow eyes make it really really easy for him to become blorbo-able but dear GOD I am BEGGING someone to LET THAT MAN HAVE A CONSISTENT CHARACTER. I love Akk, I love him, but the way they handled his character makes him mushy, Sand started out really sarcastic with a kind of take no bullshit attitude and then became this simp, Yok was a phenomenal little slut who FUCKED A FUCKING COP and then cried when the cop (surprise surprise) betrayed him. 

As a point of comparison, the first show I saw Khaotung in was The Eclipse, so you could color me surprised when he showed up all tiny and timid and kind in A Tale of 1000 Stars. Because Ayan was kinda an asshole the entire show. He had a very specific personality that was sustained throughout the show. First did not have the same luxury.

Make Me Choose Violence

[callmegaith]

Hi! I’m new to the rusty lake fandom and I wanted to ask why is David Eilander so babygirl-ified? This isn’t hate, I’m all here for it (and the art is incredible!) I’m just curious if I might have missed some lore about him or if the fandom just really likes his character

(sorry if this ask is rude aaaa)

Hiii welcome to the fanbase!! I hope you enjoy your stay and that you feel welcomed and embraced by the lake.

Don't worry at all you don't sound rude. 💜

So years ago this wasn't the case. People did used to hate him but there was a shift later as, I assume, people realized that when you meet David in Paradise, he's just a 15 year old. He's a dumb teen in a cult, who doesn't know any better cuz he's probably just going along with his family.

David is one of the most interesting characters in the series when you give his character some thinking. His journey sticks out from the other characters yet remains unexplored (for now)

As I often get asked about him (being the self-proclaimed #1 David fan xD) I'll link you to an ask I got that is similar to yours.

Cuz I could talk about this guy alllll day and I don't wanna bore you, Anon.

I think people, with time, simply started thinking about David more deeply which gave them a better picture of who he is. Just a boy who never got to be a kid, like his siblings.

I will say I did have a hand in that especially recently where I started working on a comic that explores his character more which also prompted others to view David differently (it sounds like a humble brag I'm sorry 😭 but I'm just relaying the responses I've gotten from the fanbase)

TLDR; David is a character you need to look into beyond surface level to really understand. He is the one that set off the domino chain that led to Dale being where he is now after all. He's important to the lore but has yet to be explored fully.

Hope this gave you a good picture, anon. Personally to me, he's always been my son. I loved him 6 years ago when no one did, and I still love him now, and I know I always will, because at this point... I know he's capable of crime and I still support him fully 😌

[carnation-notebooks]

This will bring a new wave of Desert Bluffs girlies. And i have one note for them,

Please do NOT babygirl-ify Kevin. Hes sooooo fucked up and strange and thats the point. He can be ur baby girl, but dont make him sad and patheic, or at least He doesnt think Hes sad.

That is all. I just do not want people to make him all nice and uwu and baby hes sooooo messed up/pos.

Hes the " aw a little guy!" -> "Oh hes a little messed up actually" except a lot messed up

[sunshinemarauders]

Why do people babygirl-ify Death Eaters?

Hi everyone! I'm back with more of my research!

After returning to the marauders fandom to study it, I was particularly interested in why fans were drawn to characters that were canonically death eaters. I understood the obsession with Regulus Black and Draco Malfoy- they were canonically children and they canonically defied the Death Eaters, but I was curious about Evan Rosier and Barty Crouch Jr. To my (pretty extensive) knowledge, all we know about them is that they're Death Eaters, they're Wizard Nazis. So why did I, in doing my research, keep finding people saying these two characters were their "babygirls"? It concerned both me and my professor, who thought it indicated a bigger problem within fandom as a whole. The ability to think that making a character queer erases them of their ties to the Death Eaters is, in my opinion, dangerous. How will this be played out in the real world? Will we see actual Nazis, or actual terrorists, or actual war criminals be called babygirls?

This is a short summary of why people said they think people "babygirl-ify" Rosekiller (Evan Rosier and Barty Crouch Jr.) from my research. As always, if you have any questions or if you want to chat about any of this, reach out to me! My asks are open

Because its fun

I truly think it has less to do with their evilness, and more to do with what we have in canon. We know characters Draco Malfoy, we know what they're like, what they've done. Then, we see something 'uncharacteristic' and it stands out, like a literary uncanny valley. It stands out, and if someone was to try, I know I'd just swipe past it. However, when you compare them to "empty vessel" name-only characters, because we don't have many fully-fleshed out evil characters in the material, it's easy to slap a babygirl sticker all over him, and be like oh its my headcanon. A popular character, with facts and details about them, will stand out when you make a new headcanon that doesn't fit inside what we know about HP. I think characters like Barty, Evan, and even Regulus, are ragdolled around and basically original by the time nearly anyone writes them. This isn't a condemnation! Just how I understand it.

People started to realize that Regulus was an interesting character himself, rather than him being a bratty younger sibling to Sirius. Therefore he had to have friends, so we started to see a surge in Evan and Barty. In the early Reggie appreciation era (early 2022) we saw quite a bit of Bartylus, but that has died down as people like to think of Jegulus as their endgame now. I also think that fanfiction greatly shapes the minds of the fandom, especially well written popular ones. The first and most prominent one that Rosekiller character appears in is Just Lovers (like we were supposed to be) on ao3 by bizarrestars. Here, they are playful and sarcastic best friends of Reggie who help him through his lil emotions. Everyone loved them so much that the zar (the author) gave us their own lil intermission of it.

Because it's fun! I really don't think it's deeper than that. People started liking Regulus and then they decided that his friends could be nice too, and then they decided that his friends could be queer or even dating each other and they could be babygirls and who cares it's just fun. I'm not a big Rosekiller shipper and I'm more of a Wolfstar girl lately (but that's just because most of the Jegulus fics are sooo poor quatlity, like yes I know that Regulus is mean, but if you make him an absolute ass with no redeaming qualites I'm not gonna want them to get together) so I might not have the most insight on this, but I don't really with there's a deeper reasoning here other than the fact that it's fun.i guess because people just wanted to see them as "normal teenagers" like the marauders, like to remember that before they became death eaters they were boys as well doing stupid things and getting in trouble like everyone else did, and also because they fit well into regulus' potential circle of friends, idk i like the idea that the three of them (evan, barty and reg) were friends in school and then they took different paths where regulus "got" his redemption arc and the others just went insane following voldemort's ideals, i guess i just love angst and it would be a tragic story of how their friendship ended tbh

For a long time we had very few Slytherin students in the Marauders era, and whether we like it or not Slytherin is the most popular house of Harry Potter, people love characters with tragic pasts and dubious morality and also they are characters with very poor description and easy to shape in their personal desire, I don't think that's wrong, but I have no interest in them as characters, to me they're just irrelevent, occasionally appearing in my ideas for fanfics I'll never write, usually as future death eaters

i think the current fandom is less inclined to read/write self-insert fics or OCs, and evan and barty are essentially blank slates that authors can overlay whatever personality they want to that will help fill out their story. also, it’s fun to add characters to the slytherin house during years we don’t know much about. also x2, most fics aren’t writing about them killing people and enjoying it. i don’t think the fact that they were death eaters is the reason people are babygirl-ifying them or wanting to ship them.

this is a very interesting question, and i haven’t thought about it in these terms. personally, as i mentioned briefly in the last question, i hate babygirl-ification in general. i don’t like the way that it infantilizes men, and despite the fact that in this case they’re fictional, i’ve seen it happen with real people several times (dan and phil, crankgameplays, even markiplier a little bit). it has very weird connotations and i just don’t vibe with it at all. he’s not your softboy cinnamon roll babygirl, he’s a man in his 20s. it’s just odd to me, and i’m FTM transgender, so i’ve seen it happen to trans men too and it just feels gross to me. like i’m not softboy cinnamon roll i’m just. a guy. i am literally just a guy. but like in general i hate the concept of babygirl-ifying anyone, as for it being characters without a redemption arc, i think it’s because they got popular in a fic where they were never evil in the first place. i could be wrong, but from what i noticed barty and evan only became liked characters in Just Lovers, which is a no-voldemort AU, meaning they were never death eaters. and they were given nicer roles in the story to serve the plot and further regulus’ character development. like they only got a better reputation because the author needed them to for the plot and they were in a setting where that made sense, and ever since then they’ve been big characters. like i don’t think it’s necessarily about them in canon at all. i think people liked who they were in that one story and it just kind of exploded from there and now they’re being written with redemption arcs in other works too. and really, i don’t see anything wrong with that. i will say i am Not A Fan of those AUs where someone joins the death eaters to save someone else, like james joining for reg, i refuse to touch them. that’s icky to me. but yeah idk. i don’t like babygirl on the whole, i think it’s gross and infantilizing and weird, but as for why these characters are getting that treatment, i think it’s literally just because of a fic they read where they were interesting characters and weren’t morally reprehensible and it’s snowballed from there.

[saetoru]

just finished reading your break up makeup richboy gojo fic and it was the first in a while that i felt so many things at once especially when gojo was so desperate to bring reader back in his arms 😭😭😭😭 you are so talented ilysm

also side note i’d like to think that in the long run it would be reader who’d propose first as a way of confirming that satoru really is it for them. their lifeline. especially after he fought hard to win them TWICE 🥹 and also as a way of self-acceptance that they really are deserving of gojo’s love huhu i seriously love their trope and could ramble on and on i love both them and you so much

PLEASE you’re so sweet thank you 🥹 i’m so glad you liked it sobsob kissing your forehead gently <3

satoru deserves a grand gesture or two atp he’s been dedicated ENOUGH he deserves to be babygirl-ified by reader now it’s what he deserves. we should buy him a bunny suit !! a fancy and expensive one !! all in favor raise ur hands !! ok everyone raised there hand that’s great <3

[elysianymph]

for ship bingo: jegulily (only ship i can currently think of it takes up most of my brain power)

ur so real for that bc they take up 99% of my brain too (the 1% goes to all of the unexplored sibling dynamics in the fandom 😔)

here's the 200 word essay i promised:

LISTEN i love them so much. like the one good thing marauders tiktok did was introduce me to this ship bc i genuinely could not choose between jily and jegulus if you put a gun to my head. and the dynamic between regulus and lily??? the younger siblings who were abandoned by their older siblings?? shared trauma hello??? TALK ABOUT THEM MORE

i feel like people look past the ship really quickly because it's 1) a poly ship and 2) a ship including a character most hc as gay (reg) and a character most hc as lesbian (lily). not even gonna mention that regulus is a death eater bc that argument has no value when we've babygirl-ified him in every other aspect in this fandom. like now you wanna bring it up?? 🤨🤨

but their dynamic is just ??? chef's kiss. i have no words like you got rivals to lovers in almost every aspect (jegulus with quidditch, jily has their... thing, and regulily could even be academic rivals if you wanna go down that route??). the drama of a blood traitor pureblood, a muggleborn and a pureblood from a traditional family in ONE relationship??? top tier.

james is the sun, regulus is a star, lily is the sky. or alternatively; james is the sun, regulus is the sea, lily is the earth.

i love every version of them. no voldemort au hogwarts jegulily being awkward teenagers? canon divergence fix it with regulus coming to james and lily's doorstep for help? modern au? regulus as the kindergarten teacher that little harry is trying to set up with his parents (new fic idea just dropped)? band au (i'll get to it one day i promise)? regulus raising harry after jily died?? I WILL LOVE THEM IN EVERY UNIVERSE

also i love their alternative ship name sunflowerseeker JSHSJSJJA