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James has a tiktok series called "Is my boyfriend weird or just French?" where he posts clips of Regulus ( and sometimes Sirius) doing random shit.

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”i’m a boy” “i’m a girl”

ok?? but the church bells won’t stop ringing??? for an undead wedding day??? and you spent the summer drinking???? while i spent it being erased??? and i tried to hide the feeling???? but it just won’t go away?????? let’s pretend nothing happened??? i agree???? but you’re a much better actor than me???!?!??

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The one consolation I can give people about me taking so long to update my fic is this: The new chapters take so long because they are long af

I could have updated last week and posted an 8,000+ word chapter; however, according to my writing plan, that's only 1/3rd of the planned story for the chapter. o.o

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WHAT YOU READ OR WRITE ABOUT DOES NOT MAKE A COMMENT ABOUT YOUR MORALITY OR DESIRES

This a hundred times over !!

I too enjoy reading some darker things now and again. I avoid talking about them openly because certain people cannot seem to grasp this concept, and instead would use it to question my real life stance on these things.

I assure you, my opinion on real life people doing certain things and people writing about FICTIONAL CHARACTERS doing the exact same are very, very different. - and that's healthy. Its normal. It's the same for the majority of fandom people.

I once heard someone on tiktok explain it like this:

Pro ship is basically just "ship and let ship" to the extreme.

And that is completely true and how this should be approached.

And also, some people seem to believe that "proship" is short for "problematic ship". I don't know who told you this, but it's wrong

Pro-ship versus Anti-ship: A short lesson for those of you that need to learn

Recently I've gotten some asks inquiring if I'm proship or not and implying certain things about the morality involved in that. Here's the thing. Some of you here in this space and in fandom in general have been misinformed about certain definitions and what they imply. You may also have been introduced to fandom through tiktok, which is lovely for certain things, but absolutely godawful for others. Tiktok, unfortunately, has turned fandom into a more supply-and-demand type thing, in turn causing people to treat fanfic writers like content creators or influencers. Which is just not true or fair.

THIS IS ALSO NOT HOW FANDOM WAS MEANT TO BE.

Once upon a time, fandom was a much less-populated, much more accepting place to inhabit. And I strongly believe we need to get back there.

So let's talk about proship versus antiship.

The definitions of these two words seem simple: Pro-shippers are people who are for all ships. Anti-shippers are against certain ships.

Now, reading this, most people might think they are anti-shippers. For example, I do not like reading Blackcest. For me, personally, it makes me uncomfortable. But am I anti-ship?

NO

Being proship doesn't actually mean you, yourself enjoy all ships. I could list thousands of pairings that I don't like, for whatever reason! It could be as simple as that I don't see those people together, or a more in-depth "hey, this thing makes me feel icky, I don't want to engage in it."

Being proship means that you don't give a shit who people ship with each other because guess what? It doesn't involve you and it doesn't hurt anyone.

It means that I ship my ships, and you ship yours. It means that I don't CARE what you read or write about in your spare time.

Because here's the thing that I keep saying, and you all need to hear it:

What you read or write about does not make a comment about your morality or your desires.

I have spent a LOT of time writing about Barty and Evan fucking in morgues. As someone who gets anxiety attacks during funerals because I HATE dead bodies, I have no desire to do anything like that.

People who write canon-compliant fic spend a lot of time writing about death and murder, but odds are, they have no desire to kill.

And

People who read or write Dead Dove content most likely do not have any desire to do those things irl.

Sure, there are some people out there who might have things to work through, but I PROMISE you, I KNOW people who read and write Blackcest, and not ONE of them has expressed any interest in fucking their sibling. Why do they write it? I have no idea. I don't see the appeal. But I also DONT CARE, because it's FICTION. It doesn't mean ANYTHING and it DOESNT AFFECT ME.

When we try to censor certain ships (AKA BEING ANTI-SHIP) we are opening the door to censorship in fandom in general.

Many people I see expressing outrage at proshippers are young and they may not have been around long enough to know this but in the past, fandom HAS been censored. But it wasn't just the taboo topics you're talking about that were censored. It was MLM ships. WLW ships. Anything queer at all. Fics were just deleted from sites for being queer!

When you want to censor inc*st or CNC or NC fics, you are opening the door to censoring the things that YOU enjoy, too. Even simple, vanilla wolfstar.

The thing is, ao3 has a tagging system for a reason. USE IT. Filter out what you don't like. In order for fandom to be the open space it is, in order for your favorite fanfic writers to feel welcome to write what they want, in order for your favorite MLM ship to even exist, we need to Ship and Let Ship.

You do NOT have to go to your local court and lobby for inc*st to be legalized in order to be proship. You can still filter out anything that makes you uncomfortable. You can still say "hey, that's not my cup of tea!" But you have to leave people alone and stop judging, or fandom will stop existing.

And yeah...that's all I have to say on that.

Also for the love of GOD, writing Death Eaters a smol babygirls does not make you fasc*st for fuck's sake! People need to touch grass....

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Fanfic idea: Haunted Island

TW: murder, nsfw

James Remus & Peter are Ghost Hunters with a YouTube channel who go to haunted locations to either debunk them or find real ghosts. (Muggle AU)

They go to a deserted island which is supposedly haunted (it used to be a plague isolation camp, then an asylum etc).

On this island they meet two brothers, Sirius and Regulus, whose family yacht had shipwrecked near the coast and they could only save themselves by swimming to the island.

James, Remus & Peter agree to take the brothers back to the main land, but when they return to their boat, it's broken. Peter and James try to repair it. They calm the brothers because their friends and family know that they're on this island and will send help in a few days if there is no contact. So worst case scenario: The boat doesn't work and they have to spend three days on this island.

So this happens.

They make camp in one of the abandoned buildings. Remus keeps filing everything, especially the hauntingly beautiful brothers.

He and Sirius are instantly attracted to one another and hook up, while James is flirting obnoxiously with the quiet, judgy Regulus.

But then strange things begin to happen. They find out that the island is indeed haunted. The three days of beach vacation and content filing turns into a horror movie in which they have to escape vengeful spirits, sentient plants and maze-like buildings.

Peter is the first one to die.

James becomes dangerously obsessed with Regulus.

When Remus wants to watch some of the footage on his camera, he realises that the brothers are acting weird and sometimes flicker unnaturally.

Sirius appears and kisses Remus. They have sex again.

Afterwards Remus gently asks Sirius question about when they shipwrecked, for how long they've been here before they came etc.

Sirius realises what he's doing. He decides to show him something and leads him to another abandoned structure, the place where they hooked up for the first time. There, in a wooden box, Remus finds his own corpse. He's been dead since the first day, since before Peter even. Peter had to die because he saw the footage of the murder on camera.

Remus is freaking out but Sirius says, everything will be okay because they be together forever on this island. He then shows him his own corpse not far off. It has already turned into a skeleton, meaning he has been dead and trapped here for a long time.

Meanwhile, James, who has grown unnaturally obsessed with Regulus, kisses him for the first time and is promptly attacked by another ghost. They're able to fight them off and kiss again.

James professes his undying love for him. Regulus asks if he means it and would like to stay with him forever. James swears it's what he wants.

Remus comes running to them, to warn James and get him away from Regulus, who is (unnoticed by James) already holding a knife to his throat.

It is revealed that Regulus drowned in the shipwreck and then haunted the island. He killed his parents, his brother, some other adventurers, Peter and Remus. He also controls many parts of the island, including many of the vengeful spirits, who see him as their king and do his bidding (like the ghost (Barty) who attacked James and Regulus just moments before).

James snaps out of it and realises what is happening. It is too late, Regulus says he has wanted him since the moment he sat foot on this island and his fate is sealed. He murders James.

Some days past. Police comes looking for the 3 ghost hunters. Regulus and Sirius hid their bodies in a mass grave with all of Regulus’s victims and the ones who came before them, so they couldn't be removed from the island and the spirits couldn't leave.

Some years later, a new group of ghost hunters come to the island to uncover what happened to James, Remus and Peter.

Regulus finds James and asks if he wants to play with the new people. James ignores him.

"Oh, Jamie, you can't possibly still be angry with me."

"You killed me, remember?"

"Yes. But I only did it because I liked you so much." He pouts at him, then laughs.

He climbs on top of James, straddling him and points at the innocent adventurers by the shore.

"You looked so handsome when you came off your boat. I needed to have you. Can you blame me? ... Look at them how smug they are, how excited. We can have so much fun with them, my Darling."

James finally relaxes, wraps his arms around him and let him kiss him.

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I was up studying until 11pm the other night and this was my cat at the end of it

So the next day I bought him a new toy

…anyone have anything fun I can look at…?

Idk something that could possibly keep me from crying :D

Love you guys.

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barty is hot and I want his kids. badly.

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I think Barty would try to dig up Evan’s grave with his bare hands just shortly after his lover’s passing. He refused to believe that his beautiful, charming Rosie was dead. Perhaps he thought in those moments of madness that Evan was suffocating, trapped in the coffin buried six feet under. Whispering to the ground beneath him, Barty would reassure Evan that he was “almost there” as he continued his desperate attempt to reach the dead corpse that would not awake.

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Barty: Ugh. There’s always that weak bitch in the group that isn’t down for murder.

Barty and Regulus: *glares at James*

James: Well SORRY I have MORALS-

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Sometimes we have to remember that at the end of the day, the Marauders are just... guys.

So, in that spirit: James gets a 3D printer and they spent days just plotting & printing random shit.

Regulus’s aesthetic, dark academia home is now filled with plastic plants that are actually chess boards, toothpick holders and magnets.

He can't even complain to Barty & Evan because they immediately hit James up and then they just sit around the printer & *watch* intently.

Regulus considers cutting all contact and moving to the carribean at this point.

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As someone with a bunch of framed pictures of her cats I agree. In fact, I think Regulus would not bother to hang up photographs of him and James, but decorate with pictures of the cats - cue James being jealous of the cats once again

regulus and james have framed pictures of their cats in their house

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regulus and james have framed pictures of their cats in their house

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after some people saying that yungblud's music is barty coded (i totally agree) i started to realize that dominic himself gives barty vibes

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I thought we were clear about this: do not watch the new harry potter reboot if you care for human rights. Do not watch the new harry potter reboot if you're an ally. Do not watch the new harry potter reboot or support JK Rowling financially if you CARE for real people that are loosing their legal rights and trying to be erased from society.

Do not support a bigot racist and transphobe who built an empire portraying prejudices towards marginalised communities.

I'm a big fan of Harry Potter too, I love the Marauders fandom too. But I can love something and engage in this fandom ethically without supporting a person that thinks people like me aren't real and it's actively working to take away my rights and the rights of discriminated people.

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Oh absolutely

You know at every Yungblud concert there's that moment where a bunch of mentally ill kids scream "cause parents ain't always right" at the top of their lungs - Barty & Sirius are this moment personified

after some people saying that yungblud's music is barty coded (i totally agree) i started to realize that dominic himself gives barty vibes

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I remember when I was in 10th grade (I was 14/15, everyone else was at least 1 year older than me, which I think also played a role in this) - there was a group of girls who always had 18-20 yo boyfriends they met on *Tinder*. The app just came out and when we were skipping PE together & they were on their phones swiping on tinder. I always sat there completely baffled when they talked about those boyfriends, who (in their own words) cheated on them and used them for sex.

I always said, "well, I'm pretty sure that's still illegal, so your parents can report them" - but apparently that would go "too far" because they did nothing wrong.

Like, it was truly crazy for a while out there & I think dating apps played a huge role in it. I'm glad that this mindset is changing.

That being said, I also think that some people are just super weird & insane about age gaps. When I got together with my first boyfriend, he was 2 years older than me so I just turned 14, he was about to turn 16, but we were *classmates* - literally in the exact same life stage. And people have tried to convince me on multiple occasions that this people-pleasing, naive, nerdy, soft idiot who doesn't know how to say "no" was indeed a predator.

“Everyone’s so weird about age gaps now” I prefer that to when I was in middle/high school and nobody gaf about it so I was just watching my friends get into public relationships with pedophiles while nobody did anything about it

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Fic Idea: Jegulus Auror x Private Investigator

so, some of you may know that I absolutely love crime shows, so here is another Jegulus AU for you:

James is an auror and had a workplace affair with Regulus. Regulus, who is well-versed in the dark arts, became frustrated with so many things being outlawed that could help him in his auror missions/investigations. Finally, he is fired, put on a watch list, and in the midst of all this, breaks up with James, who didn't want to risk his own job to help him.

Then, Regulus and his genius, yet insane, friends start a private investigation agency where, yes, they sometimes employ forbidden/dark/dangerous magic to solve their cases.

A few years down the line, James is called to a murder investigation. The family of the victim is weary of the aurors because the victim & killer were also practising the Dark Arts, so they believe the aurors wouldn't be interested (& unable) to solve this. The family asks Regulus's agency for help.

Now, James needs to solve this case while keeping Regulus "in check", who is his beautiful, smart ex he still isn't over, knowing he can't solve this without Regulus's help.