Me Tryna Read A Marauders Fic Without Regulus Black In

Was bored out of my mind so made some fresh facts for you guys

The length of Percy Jackson and the Olympians series and the Heroes of Olympus series was 1,104,648 (by Rick Riordan)

The story of Regulus Black (from 1-7 years) was 1,509,984 (by WickityWhack)

Crimson Rivers, Just lovers and The Best Friend's Brother was 1,515,830 (by bizarrestars)

All the young dudes (by MsKingBean89) and All The Young Dudes-Sirius's perspective (by rollercoasterwords) was 1,155,147

The Cadence of part-time poets was 979,868 (by motswolo)

AND WE ALL NEED THERAPY

the owner of this shop is homophobic btw

Have some random Marauders meme (mostly the skittles)

since the tiktok ban, i've been seeing a lot of stuff where people blame americans for jegulus and i can't stop thinking about it. i don't know why people feel this way, but i am prepared to make an argument. so please allow me to make my case.

[also this is completely based on generalizations. i know americans that hate jegulus and love jily, and i know british people who hate jily and love jegulus]

so i've never been a jily girl. even years before i found jegulus, i never cared about that ship. i straight up didn't even know that people wrote fics about them specifically. (i actually still don't know if people do write fics about only them because i would never seek out something like that).

originally, i'd thought it was just because i only cared about the golden trio characters and occasionally sirius and remus, but the more i got into the marauders era, the more i realized that james and lily together were the standouts, i just really didn't care for them.

it got to the point where i only read fics that referenced jily if they were extremely background to the story (which they almost always were bc there is just not that much to say about them) or preferably if both of them were already dead and it was just remus, sirius, and harry who remained.

shortly after i really started getting into the fandom and writing for jegulus, i spoke to someone who hated jegulus and loved jily, and i told them that i'd always felt like james and lily were on the road to divorce before they died. this person was SCANDALIZED. they could not understand why'd said that.

now granted, this person was in their early twenties and in my experience, if you haven't lived long enough to see a lot of your friends go through divorces, then the idea that james and lily might divorce may seem crazy.

however, and this is where the american thing really comes in, i realized after this conversation why i felt that there was no way that james and lily were going to make it and that was specifically because of growing up a conservative christian bible belt ass place.

do you know how many couples i knew in high school who started dating their senior year even though they seemingly had nothing in common, had sex one time and didn't use protection because sex education is extremely limited down there, got pregnant, and had to have shotgun wedding?

so. fucking. many.

do you know how many of them are still married?

only one.

so when i see jily, two characters who have nothing in common beyond being gryffindors, get together, have a kid, and get married (not necessarily in that order) all within like two years, i know that the odds are not in their favor. those two aren't staying together. don't play with me.

now i don't know how people feel about young marriages in other parts of the world, especially in the uk, but i've spoken to a lot of americans, especially ones from the south, and so many of them have had the exact same experiences with their peers. i just can't help but wonder if that lends itself to less people being interested in jily.

i have other arguments to this, like that jily is not as entertaining as almost every other ship that james or lily could be involved in and americans being partial to entertainment above all else, or the american (and christian) obsession with the concept of redemption and self sacrifice making regulus a more compelling character than one that lived and died good (lily and james), but this was the one i wanted to focus on today.

Credit to @likeafunerall on insta for artwork 💕

I will literally pay someone to draw this as regulus, James and Barty

I’m looking at you @alexsays-no

Jegulus variants

the cuties

Added the promised second part y’all!

It’s really weird to read a harry potter fic as a marauders fan. like in marauders tom and voldy is like the villain in almost every fic and in harry potter fics hes like “😍😎💀🥀🥺”

Fuck drugs. Have you ever been addicted to reading angsty fanfics about Harry Potter's dead parents and their friends? That shit will kill you.