Vacation - A Wolfstar Microfic

tell everyone one fact about you, one unpopular opinion you have and your top song on your on repeat playlist and then spread this to five followers you love ❤️

oh hi rae 🥺🥺 omg thank you this is so sweet 💕 also received one from @madefortherain, thank you very much 💕💕

one fact about me: i’m a college student majoring in women & gender studies with minors in legal studies and history!

one unpopular opinion i have: THIS WAS HARD AKDKABDKJA hmmmm um. avocados are disgusting. sooo gross. hate em. also eggs (eggs in things is fine, i mean just straight eggs. like an omelette or something).

top song on repeat:

this is from the lotf playlist and it’s a song i really love in general so this is not surprising!

Nothing will turn me away faster from a fic/video/art than the mention that they used fucking chat gpt.

I don't fucking care if you "just" used it for ideas or to "polish" your writing because english is not your first language - I literally don't care. If you lack ideas then maybe rn is not the time to create but to experience to gain access to the creativity you obviously lack. If you can't write English well? Then learn it. Do it badly. Honestly, I'd rather read terrible grammar and spelling than ai crap.

Get a fucking grip, people.

Happy Passover!

Will never not be upset when people hate on and are rude about the genderfluid/transfem/feminine Sirius headcanons.

I genuinely don't understand why people get so peeved off about it,"it's just to make Wolfstar straight", no it's not, it's for representation, it's because people see themselves in Sirius, it's because the person who created him is a raging terf, or maybe it's just because that's how some people imagine him in their heads, and there is nothing wrong with that. (The only situation i can accept this complaint in is when it's cis woman Sirius x cis man Remus, but otherwise who cares?? Making characters trans doesn't hurt anyone.) Making Sirius genderfluid/transfem/feminine also doesn't take away their queerness and the queerness of their relationship, Sirius is still queer, Remus is still queer, it's not a straight relationship. It's also not something worth sending people death threaths over, I too see headcanons that I don't like, but I just scroll, or I hit not interested and maybe block if it's something like that (that' literally their purpose, interacting with a post you don't like will just get more posts like that on your dash), it's literally not that hard to not be a fucking asshole, it's basic fandom etiquette.

Also this is just my opinion, but I think the gender non-conforming Sirius headcanon makes so much sense for who he is as a character.

(My Sirius has been genderfluid (he/she/they) for literal years, I'm not going to change my opinion just because someone sends a hateful comment. I also really love t4t Wolfstar, I love headcanoning Remus as genderqueer/transmasc, I kick my feet everytime i think about them.)

(Also this post's purpose isn't to send hate to people who headcanon Sirius as a cis man, if that's how you see him, that's completely valid.)

I don't like this notif 🥲

remus lupin via snapchat

remus lupin is wild unkept curls, crooked diy hair cuts, chapped teeth, a big hooked nose, picked at finger nails, freckles and exzema, acne scars, deep cuts, big brown eyes with long lashes, an almost too big mouth, constant pout, furrowed bushy brows, pale on naturally tan skin, visible bones and too long limbs, stretched out and tall, bumping his head on door frames, ink spills on his lips from biting his pen, scoliosis, loose belts with diy holes, leather books bags that cut into his shoulders and make him walk askew, hoarse voice and a sputtering laugh, bad hearing because he puts his music on too high volume, picks at his scabs and scars, mismatched socks, falling apart trainers, wide shoulders but skinny arms and torso, hunched posture and walk, resting bitch/disinterested face, low appetite but extremely sweet tooth, manual labor skills, book worm and reading glasses, annotated books with broken spines, rjl written into the covers.

I think a lot of what makes fanfiction so magical is writers taking the time to explore tiny elements that were imagined into existence in the source material and then abandoned. It's the deep dive into that t-shirt, the forgotten gift, the nickname, the spare key, the anger they swallowed down, the trauma they supressed, the love they denied, the story that wasn't mainstream enough to make it. It's the little things getting their moment to shine and I fucking love that and I will fight for it always.

this is also why yes, Remus Lupin is canonically disabled (i don’t give a fuck if he only uses a cane in the movies, someone not using a mobility aid doesn’t make them nondisabled?? that’s such a ridiculous argument, plus just because harry didn’t mention him using a cane in the small amount of time he saw remus doesn’t mean he literally never touched a mobility aid. not to mention the movies are part of canon) and yes, it is ableist and really shitty to erase that and write him as able bodied. and this is why he will always always always be queer AND disabled in anything i write or draw.

I think some of y’all missed several days in queer history class so I’m just gonna put this as simply as I can:

If we accept the fact that lycanthropy is an AIDS metaphor (JKR has said she intended it as such so idk what to tell you), then it’s actually NOT queerphobic to extrapolate from that that Remus should be read as queer. I would argue that it’s more of an issue to read him any other way.

I know some of y’all like to make a big fuss about how it’s problematic because AIDS isn’t a gay disease. Babes, idk how to tell you this, but in the historical context in which Harry Potter was written, in the real fucking world during the AIDS crisis, for all intents and purposes, yes it was.

The powers that be in the US and UK governments knowingly and intentionally let the AIDS crisis get as bad as it did because of their belief that it was a gay disease. Were they correct? Did it ONLY kill gay men? No. But did it disproportionately affect gay men? Yes. Did we lose MASSIVE numbers of gay men during the 80’s and 90’s because the government was letting them die on fucking purpose? Baby, yes we did.

And to erase that from a text which is ostensibly a metaphor for that disease is to erase the violence enacted upon that specific population. They died quietly, and without fanfare, and so you have been allowed to forget that their deaths were targeted. They were targeted with inaction on a deadly disease and they were targeted because they were gay. It doesn’t matter if you like it. In the 80’s and 90’s, when the lycanthropy metaphor was written, when the books take place, AIDS was a gay disease.

Further, in that context, it only makes sense to read Remus as queer. The “one good werewolf” in this lycanthropy=AIDS=queerness simply cannot be read as straight.

First chapter of my new fic is up now!!

Featuring Remus who is…

Extremely pathetic

A university student

Asexual

Chronically ill

And Sirius who is…

Really quite gorgeous

A Businessman™️

An artist

Way too sweet and way too good at flirting (at least, if you ask Remus)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/63646900