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You reblog so many defensive posts when you like all the mainstream characterizations and ships in the fandom lol nobody's attacking you just because they talk about not liking something or they critique how the fandom represents a feminine man or how American-centered Americans are even in their writing and headcanons.
i’ll soon be posting my ultra american fic where remus lives in new york and grew up in wisconsin and reblogging extra feminine sirius posts just for u xxx
*grabby hands* WOLFSTARBUCKS CAFE AU!!
ok there’s really not much else to say on this one, sooo snippet!!
i am absolutely not writing this one in chronological order so they are already together in this snippet but it is a getting together fic, they start out as strangers and everything.
also this is almost entirely unedited.
Remus attempts to pick up where he left off like everything is normal. Because it is. A minor accident, that’s all it was. Standard. Run-of-the-mill. Accidents happen.
His boyfriends seem to disagree.
They’re both standing from their stools, and James is already reaching out to take his hand. Their fingertips brush, and he yanks his own back as if the touch is what burned him.
“Moony, baby, come on, let me see,” James says softly.
“I’m fine! I need to finish your drinks,” he replies, a bit snappier than he intended. He’s just…embarrassed. And stressed.
i promise they’re happy he’s just being dramatic 😭😭
Oooh. Pain au please 💙
ooh yes i was a bit nervous about this one.
this is very much still in the planning stages, i’ve written a little 150 word snippet but the rest is just brainstorming. basically the premise is remus has a fantasy version of fibromyalgia/tactile allodynia and anyone he touches experiences that pain too. i’ve done a lot of Thinking about this one—mapping my own pain onto remus, aligning his backstory in the fic with his canon backstory—and i am definitely going to write it. i’m not 100% sure if it will ever see the light of day though. it’s by far the most personal thing i’ve ever even considered writing, drawing really heavily from my own experience of those illnesses, so i’ll have to wait and see if i feel alright with sharing it publicly.
(and yes it will have wolfstar too haha it’s just a lot less fluffy than my others)
wip game
thank you @brandileigh2003 for the tag!!
Rules: make a new post with the names of all the files in your wip folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Tag as many people as you have wips. People send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, then post a little snippet or tell them something about it!
Love on the Fly
Remus/Sirius/James Cafe AU
Pain AU
no pressure tags: @madefortherain @tiredfinch @greyfavorite
just to add on, this is absolutely true when it comes to people shitting on fics just to shit on them (eg not liking characterizations). this does NOT apply, however, when people are calling out racism and making other such important and valid criticisms. (this is not directed at op, they didn’t say anything about this! i just wanted to say it because i’ve also seen some people yelling at people for calling out racism and that is not okay)
Yall need to remember that no matter how popular a fic gets (even if it’s literally the most popular fic on ao3) it still goes against fandom etiquette to publicly hate on it or say that it’s bad. Those opinions belong in private conversations or in your private bookmarks, nowhere else. Fanfics are gifts that we aren’t entitled to, and we have to treat them as such.
Wolfstar are the type of couple to move into an abandoned house and renovate it into the most beautiful home you’ve ever seen
I do think people should embrace blurring the line between strong platonic and romantic love. I think time spent with loved ones these days is time well spent.
You all need to hear this:
1. You probably dont suck at your craft as much as you think you do, I bet a lot of people are amazed at what you can make, and
2. If you actually are the Literal Worst In The Whole Wide World at your craft... who the fuck cares? What are they gonna do, call the police on you? Keep making your shitty little things, youre the boss of you, fuck the haters.
Just some food for thought because I too have been seeing lots of posts about Remus being mean/not being mean, and my main thought is that there's a big difference between snapping at your friends when you're angry or tired or upset, and being degrading and verbally abusive!! I think 100% Remus could and probably would be snappy or sometimes a little unintentionally mean/maybe even intentionally mean when he's super tired or in pain or hurting. And yes, sometimes I think he could very well be capable of causing harm to his friends! But I do think he would feel really bad immediately, and would either apologize or avoid the person he was rude to for a bit out of guilt. I do not think remus is the type to be degrading and horrible to his friends—or to his partners—and then use his pain/exhaustion as an excuse. If anything, I think he would internally feel that the wolf makes him angry or mean, and that would outwardly cause him fight tooth and nail to be in control/not lash out at people
this is an interesting discussion to have tbh and i like getting to hear other chronically ill people’s thoughts on it! same thing applies for my rambles here, not saying this to invalidate your experiences or your perspective, just want to share my own thoughts on it since i didn’t rly add anything to it before haha
i think a lot of this honestly just depends on the person and the chronic illness. different illnesses obviously have different symptoms and different people experience things to different levels of severity. so i’m def not by any means saying no chronically ill person can or does have good grades, bc that would be factually false and ableist.
i’ve had almost perfect grades up until this point in my college degree, to the detriment of my own health like remus may have, but this academic year is honestly a lot harder on me for reasons im unsure of—i think some of it is a cumulative effect though, and im only doing a 4-year degree compared to the 7 years of Hogwarts. plus, this is not mentioning my high school career, in which i got Ds in most of my classes and missed so many days of school i nearly didn’t pass high school at all just based on attendance. we don’t even know if there’s an attendance requirement at hogwarts! but in a modern day college or high school au there might be.
there’s also the fact that hogwarts is huge, and has a ton of stairs with, canonically at least, no elevators or ramps, meaning he’d have to use more energy on a daily basis than a lot of us in the modern real world have to with ADA (this is not to say all campuses are accessible, but a lot are at least partially so). there’s the fact that some of the classes, like DADA, are a lot more physically involved than the classes many college students are taking in the real modern world. and going back to the attendance itself, we don’t know if hogwarts grades on attendance but a lot of modern day public schools require attendance and if you miss too many days you cannot move on regardless of grades. as for college, a lot of professors at smaller universities grade on attendance and hogwarts seems to have relatively small class sizes. so if professors aren’t willing to be flexible on that? his grades would be shit just from sheer number of absences.
then there’s the fact that remus may not be old but he has been ill for a very long time, having been bitten so young. if we think of lycanthropy as a progressive illness, which seems likely based on various canonical descriptions, it will have had a lot of time already despite his young age.
also what makes lycanthropy different from a lot of real illnesses is the routine nature of the flares. he will have at least one flare every single month. with a lot of real illnesses people can go months without flares when they’re on proper treatment. they’re unpredictable and randomized, you might have twelve one semester and two the next. lycanthropy guarantees he will be sick for at least a day every single month, but likely more (because i don’t think there’s a lot of detail on this in canon but i find it immensely hard to believe that the full moon would only affect him the night of).
and lastly for many chronically ill people success in academia depends quite strongly on how accommodating and flexible professors are. we don’t know much about the marauders era professors iirc, so we don’t know if they’re decent people who would allow him flexible deadlines when he’s ill or not. we don’t know if they’re prejudiced against werewolves and refuse to accommodate one. i might be forgetting some details bc i haven’t read the canon series in many years but even if we meet some of them i know for sure we don’t know them all. plus just because someone seems nice from a 2-minute flashback doesn’t mean they aren’t ableist etc. and depending on the illness, the severity, etc pushing through just is not always physically possible! yes there is a certain extent to which you can ignore your needs and overuse energy you don’t have but it’s not always possible. my brain fog has been really bad this semester. i can force myself to do all the readings for my classes, but i physically cannot force the information to stick in my brain, so going through the motions does shit for my grades. we don’t really know what kinds of symptoms he has but if remus is injured and physically cannot, say, go gather plants from the forest for herbology, or he gets dizzy/lightheaded and cannot brew a potion bc the steam/heat will actually make him pass out, or whatever else, it won’t really matter how hard he tries or wants to push through. to be completely candid about something i’ve not even said out loud yet, i’ve had to give up on my dreams of going to law school because i am physically unable to maintain the grades necessary to get into a decent school, or to do the amount of reading law school entails, despite my best desperate attempts at pushing through even when it’s destroying me mentally and physically.
anyways, as i said this isn’t to negate anything anyone else said, it’s just my own interpretation of things! ultimately we’re working off of very little canon information about this and i’m not here to tell anyone their experiences are wrong. i think it’s a really interesting conversation to have though.
people who think rjl would have really good grades have never been chronically ill and had to miss school consistently because of it. I'm sure he was smart! I'm sure he did really well on tests! but there has never been a character I'm more sure struggled to achieve the academic success that he was capable of.
people who think rjl would have really good grades have never been chronically ill and had to miss school consistently because of it. I'm sure he was smart! I'm sure he did really well on tests! but there has never been a character I'm more sure struggled to achieve the academic success that he was capable of.
No one owes artists anything.
But existence is lonely and sometime you throw hours and hours of effort into a void, on the slim chance it will say something back.
someone on twitter is trying to claim that use of an em-dash is an indication of AI-generated writing because it’s “relatively rare” for actual humans to use it. skill issue
i want to write a chronic illness remus fic so badly but every time i try it starts to feel like a diary entry and i have a stop
"Why didn't they just communicate?? They're so stupid!" Have you considered that communicating with someone you love and value and don't want to hurt is scary and that vulnerability takes practice and that perfect characters with perfect words make the most boring stories of all
wednesday snippet!
sneaking in just under the wire. thanks to @madefortherain for the tag <3
this is from the same wip as my snippet from a few days ago, which i mentally refer to as my embarrass remus as much as possible fic even though it has a real title :)
“Morning, sleeping beauty,” the pretty stranger says. Remus is sure his face is positively glowing by now. Is there even any blood left in the rest of his body?
“H-hi,” he stutters softly. “I am so sorry, oh my God, I can’t believe I fell asleep on you and—um...” Remus finds he cannot finish this sentence, cannot admit to drooling on a stranger’s shoulder after sleeping on him for who knows how long. While the man couldn’t even leave, because they are on an airplane.
“Oh, you mean the drool?”
The flushed warmth in Remus’s face spreads rapidly down his throat. He drops his face into his hands, wondering if he can stay there, avoiding eye contact with this pretty man, for the rest of the flight.
“Don't worry, the flight’s long. It’ll dry,” says the man in a light, playful tone. When Remus looks up out of pure shock more than a conscious desire to come out of hiding—his eyes lock with the man’s just in time to watch as one of those pale grey irises disappears in a wink. A wink. Remus feels a bit faint. Oh, he is a pathetic, useless man. And he is not going to survive this flight.
no pressure tagging @littleoldrachel!
I also just want to say that BRTC reached 1k hits the other day, and is only a few kudos off from 100, and i’m absolutely mind-blown that my little trans disabled Remus fic has been looked at that many times and paid a little compliment by that many individual people. I really had no expectations for this fic when I posted it. I had hopes, of course, but I didn’t expect anything to come from it, so having it get this much love is absolutely incredible. Thank you so much to everyone who’s shown interest, checked it out, given it kudos, and commented 💛💛💛
hello hello ask game!!! i’m greedily asking for three of them i’m sorry ahdjfndjd
3, 4, & 11 if i may :3
okay hello i am finally answering this! sorry it’s taken me so long, i posted the ask game and then my life immediately fell apart lmao. this ended up being really long so answers below the cut :)
if you’d like to submit an ask i’d still love to answer more! ask list here.
3. What’s your favorite line of dialogue?
Rather predictably, it’s this one: “‘Your gender is about you, not what other people think.’” It’s just…something that I struggle with myself, and that I’ve seen a lot of other trans people talk about struggling with too. Transition is complicated but I think doing it for yourself is so important.
4. What’s your favorite line of narration?
This isn’t a single line (how do people pick out single lines??? Impossible) but! This one: “It’s that Sirius accepts, and loves, the parts of him that make him trans. It’s that he helps remind Remus that […] it’s a part of his identity, one that he’s allowed to be proud of. Sirius loved Remus as a girlfriend and loves him equally as a boyfriend; and he loves Remus now not just as his boyfriend, but as his trans boyfriend.” This sort of gets at the same concept as the one above—I have so many thoughts and feelings about concepts of transition and passing and stealth and they’re all such complicated, nuanced topics that are different for everyone, but something that’s a big deal for me is trans pride and nonconformity. I don’t want to assimilate into cis ideals; I don’t want to pass as cis. Part of this is probably since I’m nonbinary so there aren’t really cis ideals for me, but I know binary trans people who feel similarly.
11. What do you like best about this fic?
The truth is the trans rep. You know this since I talked to you about it but I was really, really nervous about the trans rep in this fic. It feels the most truthful to my own experience, but it doesn’t fit with the popular cookie cutter narrative, the narrative that’s most easily digestible and understandable to cis people. And of course there’s nothing wrong with that experience but it’s not the only one. And it’s been so lovely to get comments from other trans/non-cis people saying that they relate to the rep in this fic too.
Aside from that, because I feel like I’ve talked an awful lot about the trans rep in this post, it’s just the way they love each other. It’s so soft and gentle and it was lovely to write and fun to revisit to pick out my favorite lines.
in honor of valentine’s day here’s a little snippet from my current wip! in which remus has a very embarrassing meet-cute (or is it a meet-ugly? idk) with sirius on an airplane
Playing w Remus like he's a Barbie doll but in the way where I'm cutting his hair off and drawing all over his face with markers before flinging him off the balcony
If you want a new marauders movie/show/reboot then you are supporting jkr and also not appreciating the already beautiful fandom created by queer people for your entertainment for free. Pls leave.
nooooo way dude you hate when men are too feminine? in the fandom for books written by Notorious Transmisogynist? that’s so brave of you to say wow who else is speaking up about the horrible crime of men wearing skirts these days
i think it would be sirius' personal mission to make remus look less like one strong gust of wind could finish him off. which means sirius always made a point of sitting next to remus during meals in the great hall. remus would often pick at his food because his appetite was ruined by the toll of his monthly transformations. sirius would pile remus’s plate high with everything he thought the boy needed—roast chicken, mashed potatoes, treacle tart, you name it, it's on remus' plate, and then threaten (affectionately) to feed him himself if he didn't start getting on with it. james would 100% back him at this endeavour as a certifiably insane mother hen ♡
sirius: we NEED to put some meat on all those bones! i can almost see through you!
remus: it sounds like you're trying to fatten me up like a sacrificial lamb, black *shoves some more mashed potatoes in his mouth*
okay real question wwhat was with all the hate on american marauders fans??
like i joke about hating americans (I DO NOT) with my friends but i love them. they contribute so much to the fandom and i literally love all of them and theirs hcs, fanfics, art and so much more.
they're literally amazing.
and on another note, i get that some people get annoyed when reading a marauders fic and someones using american spelling and all that but like it isnt that big of deal i read fic with ten spelling mistakes every two sentences you can deal with the word 'mom' and 'color'.
i dont want to come off as horrible but PLEASE PLEASE don't corrupt fandom space for an entire country by making them scared to post just because you don't like americans.
(i am from the UK)(
my babies
tired
Remus, Sirius, Marlene and Dorcas at pride
a wolfstar drawing I did back in December
I somehow lost the password to this account and then completely forgot about its existence but I’m back and I’ll continue posting my art on here :)
Sirius is the type to realize pretty quickly that Remus has a crush on him and he's like yikes, that's gonna be weird which turns into Remus is kinda pathetic, like a wobbly puppy kinda way to why is he kinda...he's kinda adorable...to dang I think he's cute, I think I like him. And then he's like, since he likes me and I like him, I guess we're dating now.
Sirius is the type to forget to tell the person who likes him that he likes them back, and just, assumes they are dating.
So wolfstar is just, one sided established and one sided unrequited. Remus is hardcore pining pitifully and Sirius is like, yeahhh we're so in love and cute.
R "we're dating?? Since when??"
S "??back in 7th year winter?? I realized I like you back so i--"
R
S
R "so you??"
S
S "...so i-- well I meant to ask you out."
R " you meant--??!!"