the headcanon of regulus just being able to cry on command is horrifying but also the funniest thing i’ve ever fucking heard. like i imagine regulus is hanging out with the marauders, post black brothers reconciliation, and him and sirius are bickering and sirius JOKINGLY goes “well it’s not MY fault it’s impossible for you to show any emotion” and regulus blinks. and then just fully starts sobbing.
and james and remus and peter are all like ?!?!?! what the FUCK . RIGHTFULLY SO. and james’ heart is hurting so bad because he’s never seen regulus cry before and he’s trying to comfort him and hold him and regulus, (who is gay and a little shit) is just letting himself be hugged and letting james pet his hair or whatever and remus is like. sirius what the fuck apologize to your brother??????? because sirius has been sitting there the entire time unmoving and he just raises his eyebrows, completely unimpressed and deadpan when he goes, “you guys do know he’s faking right”. and then when remus and james both are like HUH??? torn between bewildered and angry with this reaction, regulus just extracts himself from james, face completely neutral but with tears drying on his cheeks, no sign of the heaving, hyperventilating sobs he’d fallen into literally a second ago and says “i win”. it terrifies peter so bad that he can’t look him in the eyes for a week
I've just finished Crimson Rivers. It's 3.37am and I'm sobbing my soul out of my body. I am not the same person I was before 3.37am. This beautiful great big tragedy will haunt me for the rest of my days. Regulus Arcturus Black and I are the same person. Jegulus dynamic is the most precious thing to me in the world. Wolfstar healed me while traumatizing me. I'm a fucker for Black brothers angst, their lore knows no limits when it comes to shatter me whole. PRONGSFOOT MY BELOVES. There was a landmine. A landmine a landmine a landmine a landmine a landmine a landmine a landmine a landmine a landmine a landmine a landmine a landmine a landmine a landmine a landmine a landmine a landmine a landmine a landmine a landmine a landmine. NO ONE THINKS TO LOOK UP UNTIL THERE'S A SOUND (I think I will not sleep tonight). There are sosososo many things that will stay with me forever from this story. I'm so grateful and so broken after Crimson Rivers that I can assure I am not the same person. "You're hesitating, love" I screamed the three times I read that. Always his little brother.
The Marauders didn’t just break my heart; they rewrote my entire definition of friendship, and now I can’t look at anything the same way.
you know a fic is good when it has this
Guys I'm sorry but there's no way Xenophilius is cis like that is either a non-binary spec person or a trans femme idk they're just SOMETHING like come on dawg named themselves that name to add some sparkle
Remus: Caffeine no longer gives me the rush I need to finish work, so instead, I have Sirius periodically message me "we need to talk" to give me the right amount of fear and adrenaline to keep me going.
Regulus : *hands and face covered in blood, exhausted, gaze piercing, angry, about to murder someone.*
James Potter : OK, hear me out.
everyone lowkey judging jegulus’ relationship bc james is a YAPPER and literally never shuts up and it seems like reg can never actually get a word in
but behind closed doors regulus talks and talks and talks until he can’t possibly talk anymore and james just sits and smiles as he listens bc he ADORES to hear about anything and everything that regulus has to say
i love them sm someone sedate me
“you’re always crashing out” god forbid i have a hobby
i love how every fandom’s got its fics. you know the ones, that one way or the other, everyone has and probably will read at some point in their lives? and no one else would understand. like i could say “you’re hesitating, love” and an entire group of people will fall to their knees in a target
everybody behold my favourite tumblr post
“It’s no use, Regulus, we’ve gotta have it out,” James cried, “I have loved you ever since I’ve-”
“Stop quoting Little Women at me, James,” Regulus said through gritted teeth. “We are not getting married.”
“But-”
“I’m seventeen, you are eighteen. We are not getting married,” Regulus repeated.
“I have loved you ever since I’ve-”
“James.”