#thread: bellatrix + regulus.

[warfollows]

WHO: Bellatrix Lestrange & Regulus Black ( @inferidrowned ) WHERE: Grimmuald Place WHEN: Afternoon

The family expectations had always included keeping eyes on the younger kids, and even now, with them grown enough to keep themselves in order -- she couldn't turn it off. Did that mean she had to drop in on them without warning? Probably not... but was that going to stop her? Absolutely not. She'd show up as much as she needed to if he didn't fancy leaving his metaphorical four walls.

The pop of apparition echoed around the home, and if she had to gamble, he knew she was there, but she didn't set out looking for him. Instead, she moves with her arms full of bags into the dining area. She begins unpacking the chaos, unsure of what exactly she's got packed away. "Oi, Reg. I've come to bring you all the good snacks that the house elves made. Get your arse down here."

[impcrios]

@purfanatic

where : mask-making workshop .

regulus had never been much of a crafts person, but he had always loved samhain, so he found himself here regardles, he looks over to his cousin and smirks at his shit attempts at a mask and says, "tell me, cousin, do this look threatening?" he had never been good at crafts but he did try his best.

[battle-scvrs]

Bellatrix was more infuriating than his parents, at this point. Once he'd taken the mark and shown some initial devotion to the cause, his parents had backed off content in the knowledge that at least one son was doing the right thing. Without him being marked, Regulus would never have been allowed to move out of the family home, or take his job at the ministry which allowed him more freedom than he'd ever had. But Bella's care manifested in intense devotion, and he worried that he would never be able to get her to give up on this desire for him to be better than he was. All Regulus wanted to do was live his life in peace, and study the intricacies of magic at the Department of Mysteries. It would be a quiet life, but it was his - and that diverted from his family's view.

He was just thankful that they hadn't started pressuring him to take a wife and to continue the line.

Regulus knew his cruciatus would disappoint his cousin immeasurably. He had seen her wielding it on missions, and though he hated the curse, he had to admit that watching Bellatrix cast it was almost like an art form. Watching Bella lift her wand after his first poor attempt had panicked him, fearing that the curse was heading his way, and it was that panic along with his earlier fury that led to a slightly stronger second attempt though it was still poor.

His chest was heaving with the effort of casting even such a weak curse, sweat beading at his brow. "But I..." he trailed off, stopping himself. He had been about to say that he didn't love it, which was potentially the worst thing he could say in the presence of his cousin beyond confessing to his muggle-born lover. The rest of his thought was cut off as he stared down the end of his cousin's wand, pupils dilating in fear. He knew that he'd been poor, but he hadn't anticipated Bella torturing him for it. As red flashed, Regulus flinched away, shrinking into himself to try and protect himself from the inevitable pain. He could hear Bella laughing, and the sound sickened him. After a moment, he realised her curse had been directed elsewhere - and when he looked back at his cousin, there was something new in his gaze. The faintest hint of disgust, hidden behind the layers of fear.

"I don't need you to tell me it was poor, Bella. I know it," Regulus sneered, pushing away from the table as he stood. Thinking back on Rabastan's teaching Regulus dug into his confused emotions as he stared at his dishevelled cousin, and with his voice dripping with disgust he held his wand steady and cast "imperio." Tilting his head slightly, he went for the same command he had given Rabastan. It would upset Bella as much as it had upset Rabastan. "Your wand. Give me your wand."

Regulus was testing Bellatrix's patience. Truly, this was more demanding than any mission gifted to her by the Dark Lord. She could not torture the boy, and neither did she want to. She could barely manipulate him, since familial intimacy meant he knew her well. Force had not benefited her with Regulus and she felt that she was losing ground. It was a situation most perturbing and undeniably irksome. Her rage still lingered as he spoke reassuringly, her palms still splayed against the couch as though she were trying to ground herself. Yet even then, she managed to locate an ounce of pride, acknowledging that the boy did not give up easily. Regulus was proving to be a challenging project. He did want to learn and he respected the need to study magic further. She would give him that much. It was admirable despite his misplaced tutelage. Had she known that he had mastered Occulmency, she would have thought of him more highly. But she knew nothing of it.

"Very well." Arguing was going nowhere. She was growing tired and bored and frustrated. She wanted to move on. "As I promised, I will make no further demands after you show me your curses."

They were one curse down and she was looking forward to seeing his Cruciatus. By far her favourite of the Unforgiveables, Bellatrix wielded it with devastating adoration. Her skill with it was calamitous. It fed her sadism and brought her a high like nothing else. Nothing could compare - not sex, not drink, not even death itself. So when Regulus's spell danced from her dress without so much as even a feeble tickle, she sighed with dramatic disappointment and raised her wand to show him how it should be done. Fortunately for him, she hadn't expected his second attempt. It stunned her, crushing her back against the chair with something akin to an electric shock. Her shriek pierced the silence like a knife cutting silk, then she laughed wildly, gasping for air and sliding halfway down her chair as the spell receded.

There was pain. It did hurt. But not as it should. Regulus's spell lacked substance and finesse. Since her own wand had fallen to the ground, she reached down to retrieve it, her normally steadfast fingers trembling in the aftermath and her hair now askew at a tremendously jaunty angle.

"You didn't mean it, cousin. You need to want it. You need to love it." Wand now in hand, she directed it mercilessly between Regulus's eyes, wanting to see what emotions would reveal themselves in that flicker of an instant. Her breath was still ragged, her position still lopsided against the chair. Insane, some called her. But that was a lie told by fools and enemies. There was no madness within Bellatrix Lestrange. There was only pure, unadulterated awareness. She knew exactly what she was doing and she knew that she adored it. With a slashing motion, she cast the curse at a portrait, the flashing red causing the illusion of blood as the picture's occupants screamed in horror. Their disarray clashed horribly with Bella's laughter, her mirth ringing true and bold with shamelessness. Even in her mildly weakened state, that curse would have been crippling. She would spare Regulus from a direct hit.

Slowly, she pushed back up into her seat and steadied herself. She wouldn't bother giving him an assessment. He knew it had been poor, but she supposed he'd tried his best. "Now the Imperius. You weakened me-" She paused, shrugged dismissively and wryly simpered, "well, sort of. But it should help you nonetheless. Let's see if I can resist."

[crimsononsnow]

House of Secrets

inspired by way to much tiktoks about this situation lol

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The Black family estate never truly slept. By day, it was a mausoleum of whispered traditions and cold-blooded elegance. By night, it breathed differently—shadows stretching long against the stone, candlelight flickering in gilded sconces, the hush of old magic curling in corners. And tonight, it held secrets within its ribcage, waiting for the moment they would collide.

Sirius crept down the corridor, feet silent against the dark wood. He knew every loose floorboard, every painting that stirred if you lingered too long. The house had tried to smother him since birth, but he had learned its weaknesses, the small defiant ways to move unseen.

At the turn near the library, he felt the warmth of Remus before he saw him, that familiar scent of parchment and something wilder underneath. His fingers brushed against the threadbare sleeve of his jumper.

"You’re late," Sirius whispered, smirking.

"And yet, here I am," Remus murmured back, lips quirking, eyes glinting in the dimness.

Before Sirius could pull him into the dark, footsteps. Another figure emerged, just beyond the reach of candlelight.

Regulus.

He wasn’t alone. A mess of untidy hair, round glasses reflecting the torchlight—James bloody Potter.

Sirius froze. Regulus did too. For a second, the silence was sharp enough to cut.

"Oh," James said, blinking. "Er. Hello?"

"Are you fucking my brother Prongs?" Sirius hissed.

"Shut up," Regulus snapped, a flush creeping up his neck.

Sirius turned indignantly to Remus. "Did you know about this, Moony? Oh, of course you know."

Then—another sound. From the opposite end of the corridor, two more figures drifted in, wrapped in hushed conversation. Andromeda, moon-pale in the dimness, a freckled, golden-haired Ted Tonks beside her. His hand had been at the small of her back, a brief touch before she stepped away.

Sirius barely had time to register this before another set of footsteps.

Narcissa. And—Alice Fortescue?

"Well," James muttered under his breath, rubbing the back of his neck. "This is… unexpected."

A final rustle of fabric, and Bellatrix stepped from the darkness, Rita Skeeter’s painted nails curled around her wrist.

Silence.

Ten pairs of eyes flickering between each other. The air thickened, tangled with disbelief, realization, the weight of what this meant.

Bellatrix was the first to speak. "What," she breathed, voice all sharp edges, "in Merlin’s name is happening here?"

Sirius found his voice. "That’s my line."

Rita let out a slow, delighted laugh. "Oh, this is rich."

Narcissa’s lips parted in shock, her usual poise faltering. "Bella, you—?"

"Andromeda," Bellatrix cut in, eyes narrowing. "Explain."

"I believe," Andromeda said evenly, glancing at her sisters, "that we all have more in common than we thought."

Sirius let out a breathless chuckle, shaking his head. "Brilliant. Absolutely bloody brilliant."

Regulus groaned, pinching the bridge of his nose. "This is a disaster."

"Depends how you look at it," James offered. "Bit of a miracle, really. All of us sneaking about in the same house, for months, without realizing—"

"Shut up, Potter," Regulus muttered, but there was no venom in it.

Silence stretched again, but this time, it felt different. A truce. A fragile thread connecting them, woven through shared defiance, shared recklessness, shared rebellion.

Then, Bellatrix straightened, Rita still coiled at her side. "This never happened."

"Agreed," Narcissa said swiftly.

"Absolutely," Andromeda added.

"Obviously," Regulus muttered.

James grinned. "I don’t know, I think—"

"Shut up, Potter," Sirius and Regulus chorused, and for the first time in years, their voices didn’t clash.

No more words were needed. One by one, they vanished into the shadows, slipping back into their separate secrets. But something lingered in the air, something unspoken, something undeniable.

The house of Black had always been full of ghosts. Tonight, it simply gained a few more.

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[lycoryspreachin]

the black sisters as the fates or the moirai is such an obvious yet scarcely explored parallel. three sisters bound by their eternal duty, destined to thread life, to twirl and strain and extinguish the existence of all beings. a sister who implants the seed of life, one who navigates it, and one who cuts it inevitably. andromeda for the new life she offered herself and her family, narcissa for carrying and witnessing the lives of everyone around her ( her parents ( she made sure she fulfilled the expectations of her house ), her own family ( lucius including when he went to azkaban and draco), her sisters, harry, regulus probably,  etc…)  and bellatrix for spreading death and being the only one of the sister whose death we know of. the three of them present a glorious portrait of the moirai, showing their implication and perhaps explaining their link and connection to all of the characters.

[trothplighted]

could you say more about the Black family and hereditary mental illness? I’ve seen the term “Black family madness” used in ways that made me feel kind of uncomfortable like there was a certain amount of voyeurism and sensationalizing occurring. I haven’t really seen the concept treated seriously/respectfully.

Sirius is clearly deeply depressed in OOTP, Tonks is deeply depressed in HBP (though I feel like HBP Tonks is in pretty stark contradiction of her OOTP characterization and I very much dislike her confronting Lupin about rejecting her in front of their whole social circle). Bellatrix clearly very much the worse for wear after Azkaban but not in an especially great place before going in either? Andromeda has almost no dialogue or action, so it’s hard to say how she’s doing, except that she gave Tonks a very Black Family First Name which is an odd choice for a person who was disowned after running away. Kreacher describes Walburga as mad with grief after losing Regulus. Do you think her portrait’s behavior accurately represents her end of life behavior? Other portraits don’t seem to deteriorate into that kind of instability. Regulus himself has a bit of Q-Anon energy.

I guess I sort of talked myself through this in your inbox! Still very interested in your thoughts, though!

There’s a couple things I want to get out of the way.

The first is that hereditary strangeness, illness, unspecified trouble, etc - all that is a pretty classic feature of gothic literature. If you’re a House Black fan and you haven’t read “The Fall of the House of Usher” (the Poe original. We don’t acknowledge Mike Flanagan’s existence on this blog) you really should, because it’s Patient Zero for a lot of fan discourse on this family and for a lot of tropes around gothic families. Beyond that I’ll recommend Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak, the self-proclaimed ‘first gay gothic novel’ Gaywyck, V.C. Andrews’s Flowers in the Attic, and Ava Reid’s Juniper & Thorn if you want further reading/watching material in this vein. The idea that families in gothic novels pass down what’s wrong with them to their children and great steps must be taken to escape the influence of their houses and ancestries, and that inherited illness can define your life for good or ill, and that prestige or arrogant pride or aristocracy or some other kind of influence in a community is a corrupting rot, is a central theme in all of those cited stories. Incest is also a central theme, overtly or subtextually; those two threads wind about each other until they’re inextricably bound together.

So from that angle, the Black family madness is simply an expected end goal of putting a gothic family right out of The Shadow over Innsmouth into a middle grade urban fantasy series, especially with the motifs of decay and intermarriage/inbreeding and mouldering wealth and isolationism. Ignoring that is imo willfully ignoring their literary ancestry, and failing to engage with their narrative DNA. (An alternative flavor of gothic family is found in the Gaunts, and yet another flavor in the Dumbledores of 1899 - this is a trope Joanne returns to repeatedly.)

There are going to be people who discuss it in an ableist fashion, because ableism is baked into our society on a truly fundamental level. There are also going to be people who discuss it in a slightly sensationalized fashion, because in all of the above examples the sensational and sensual tone of the story is purposefully done. But it’s not a clear-cut question of “good, respectful representation” and “bad, voyeuristic representation”. People who see themselves rendered faithfully and respectfully in “bad” stories exist, and people who believe the most authentic versions of their mental illnesses or family relationships are found in “unrealistic” stories are going to continue to fight for their right to exist in an ugly, non-idealized fashion.

I’m one of them. I have an aunt who had multiple psychotic episodes with serious lasting delusions throughout her life and whose career and family and stability were all trashed and ruined thanks to her untreated illness, and I share many of her diagnoses. I have addicts and criminals in my immediate and extended family. I have a family history of incest on both sides and very narrowly avoided being one of the victims. I have deep and lasting generational trauma on both sides because fuck colonialism. And so I see myself in the Blacks, and especially in the complicated mess of loyalty and revulsion and yearning to escape and knowing nobody else will ever know you as well as the people who share your name do. Add in the homophobic repression and the abuse and the toxicity and it gets even more relatable, unfortunately.

So for me, ignoring the Black family madness or arguing it doesn’t exist because it’s all ableism by the fandom or claiming that nobody involved in the plot was mentally ill - it carries the implication that my own life and my own family history are Bad Rep, which is something that I get sick and tired of when it comes to fandom takes on mental illness. Sometimes you are going to be sick forever and sometimes you’re also going to either be heroic or villainous. Sometimes your illnesses will directly lead you into being cruel to other people. Sometimes you’ll be both intensely violent and toxic and highly highly susceptible to grooming and abuse. Sometimes you are also going to want to find some romance or dark beauty in your own life, and if your life is never going to be a healthy one by abled standards that can include finding things to sensationalize or render sensually about your own brain.

Because that’s what’s really at the heart of all this. I am not going to get well. I can get better. I can fight to become stable and keep myself in check. I can improve. I can settle into the house of my bones and find peace. But I won’t get well. Cognitive behavioral therapy and medication and being a Good Little Insane Person who’s properly ashamed of her illnesses and works to render them in fiction in ways that are palatable to sane readers won’t save me. And there’s nothing I or anyone else can do to make the sanes love me or tolerate me. There’s nothing gained by trying to make them accept me or love me, either. I’d rather take my chances with the Blacks.

There isn’t much for me to say on the individual characters that you didn’t say in your initial ask. Nobody we see who’s connected to that House seems to be okay. All of them are marked by tragedy and all of them are kind of nuts. The only thing I’d add is that it’s probably very likely that Walburga deteriorated over time as a result of personal stresses - the death of her brother, the death of her favorite son, the loss of her heir, the death of her husband. She suffered immensely, and she took it out on the world in warped and unhealthy ways. And that’s sadly typical of all of us who live inside brains full of knives. It doesn’t erase or justify her racism and eugenicist philosophy and abuse. She’s still responsible for all that. But being abusive and antagonistic doesn’t magically make her sane, either.

[klinefelterrible]

Regulus: I have two things to tell you

Regulus: I’ve decided to join the death eaters, just for fun

Sirius: wh—

Regulus: man they are lacking staff and security

Sirius: wha-

Regulus: I stole this main guy’s piece of jewellery from his „secret spot”

Sirius: whAT THE F-

Regulus: secret spot my ass, I’m telling you these guys are literal idiots

Regulus: and I joined only to fuck with them

Regulus: I also learned a brilliant little spell, let me show you

Regulus: Bellatrix! Come here!

Sirius: what the fuck are you doing

Regulus: bro hush, you need to see this

Regulus: it’s gonna be hilarious but please act surprised and angry

Sirius: I AM SURPRISED AND ANGRY!

Bellatrix: *entering* Hail the Dark Lord!

Regulus: yeah sure

Regulus: Bella, look at this sad, sad motherfucker

Bellatrix: oh is the old dumb doggo upsetto because his smart little brother joined The Right Ones?

Regulus: yeah, doggo

Regulus: I am with The Right Ones now

Sirius: you dumbest little shit

Bellatrix: you better shut the f-

Regulus: *sways a wand* carpettack

Sirius: *notices that Bellatrix’s boots are now tied together by carpet threads*

Bellatrix: *looks at Sirius with a triumphant smile*

Regulus: *nods at the door behind Bella* n o w

Sirius: OH MY GOD WHAT IS THIS?!

Bellatrix: *turns around quickly and loses balance*

Sirius: WHAT’S GOING ON?

Bellatrix: *falls on her face with a grace of a wooden plank*

Sirius: *soundlessly, to Regulus* WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON

Regulus: *likewise* IT’S SO MUCH FUN

Regulus: check this out *the carpet is glowing and the threads are moving towards Bella*

Bellatrix: help me! *her body overwhelmed more and more by the carpet*

Regulus: what’s going on, Bella?

Bellatrix: *opens her mouth* *carpet suffocates her* Mmph!

Regulus: BREATHE, BELLATRIX!

Sirius: you are right this is kind of fun

Bellatrix: HNMMMPHMHHHH

Sirius: but isn’t it downright cruel?

Regulus: I am a death eater, that means I am ruthless

Regulus: I will now pee on her

Sirius: but do you have to do it on my carpet

Regulus: I AM RUTHLESS

[myprongsfootera]

Prongsfoot Microfic: Glare

Regulus and Sirius were glaring at each other from across the hall. James let it go on as long as it needed to, and then he stepped in front of Sirius. 

“Enough, mate, let’s get out of here.”

“I can’t believe that little ingrate-” Sirius began.

James put his arm around Sirius’ shoulders and turned him away, and Sirius allowed himself to be led.

“He’s not there yet. But you told me what he said to Bellatrix last summer, right? He could get there. He will. It’ll just take time.”

Sirius grumbled unhappily. 

“Why’s he got to be like this now? Worthless little demon, I’d rather anyone else were my brother.”

James squeezed him closer for a moment before letting go.

“You just have to wait until he’s ready. I’ll be your brother ‘til then.”

A laugh burst out of Sirius that neither of them were expecting.

“Prongs,” he chastised, “you could have said that last year, or the year before that, but you can’t say it now.”

He threaded their fingers together and bumped their shoulders to make his point. The brother comparison would be a little weirder now.

But James was undeterred. 

“I’ll be anything you want me to be, Pads: brother, boyfriend, best friend, soulmate. I’ll be it all.”

Sirius tried to frown but it was soft enough to be called a smile.

“Yeah, yeah, okay,” he said, “you’re still my brother.”

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@prongsfoot-microfic - 7/23 - 235 words

[thistlecatfics]

Thistlecat's Ao3 Wrapped! Featuring stats, reflections, and goals for 2025

(graphic design is not my passion but boy do I get sucked into Canva when I get an idea I don't have the skill to execute)

Kudos: 730 Comment Threads: 113 Bookmarks: 220 Word Count: 81,183 Hits: 14,697

Total Fics: 11 M/M: 8 F/F: 2 Gen: 1

As someone who mostly (though not this year) writes femslash, stats are so wild to me because it's like... oh I can just throw together some slash pwp and it gets 20x the hits of a femslash piece I labored over for months. Anyway!

My goal this year was to post 100k words, and I got close with 80k, significantly more than my writing output last year which was 40k. My first two years of writing fic I managed 150k each year, but that was with the help of regularly drinking a bottle of wine by myself each night when writing, something I stopped doing for obvious reasons.

Top Fics by Hits:

what if he’s written “Mine” on my upper thigh only in my mind? (1k, E, Sirius/Regulus)

Oh Golden Boy, Don’t Act Like You Were Kind (9k, E, Sirius/Regulus/James)

Merry Christmas, Please Don’t Call (25k, E, Sirius/Regulus)

Waxing Gibbous, October 1981 (6k, E, Remus/Sirius & Remus/Fenrir)

Instructions for a Stable Boy (600 words, E, Remus/Sirius/OMC)

My Personal Top Five:

Waxing Gibbous, October 1981

Bellatrix Black: An Elegy (5k, E, Bellatrix/Andromeda, Bellatrix/others)

Merry Christmas, Please Don't Call

Andromeda in Bello (30k WIP, M, Andromeda/Ted)

Basiationes Non Latebrosae (the wolfstar Latin fic)

Proudest Writing and Fandom Accomplishments of 2024:

my 'Talking about Incest in Public' essay

I wrote a fic in Latin!

really using fic as a space to process some of the darkest parts of my experience and psyche that I was scared to touch only a few years ago

I enormously enjoyed writing at times

Friendships <3

Writing and Fandom Goals for 2025:

Take part in a gift exchange. I didn't do one this year, and I love them!

Three more chapters of Andromeda Liberata, my poor neglected longfic

Run Blackcest Fest again & maybe even create a discord server for the fest

Complete the full 12 weeks of The Artist's Way

Be louder and angrier about being a lesbian and being a feminist. I've been treating a lot of subtle misogyny and anti-lesbian sentiment on tumblr and on discord servers as annoying internet discourse and not worth engaging in, but I think it's actually worth intervening against, given the larger patriarchal backsliding that's happening.

Begin a writing project looking at incest from the clinical/therapeutic lens. Even in the trauma therapy field, it's a pretty neglected subject. I'm not sure if this will turn into an anonymous blog or a thesis if I ever go back to get my doctorate or a book, but I'm feeling very compelled to engage in the subject as a survivor and as a clinician. I think writing fiction has really created space in my mind to write nonfiction.

Keep being weird. keep exploring the darkness. keep getting braver and braver every year.

[irlmango]

I made a thread a bit ago on andromeda's reaction to regulus dying so... what about andromeda's reaction to sirius dying?

Andromeda adored both of her baby cousins when she was still at home, treating them with such kindness which wasn't something they were used to. After she left home, when he had heard that Sirius had been sorted into gryffindor she was estatic. Over the moon with joy and happiness that someone in her family hadn't fallen under the spell of slytherin (she still loves her house but just understand how that must feel). So of course she sends him letters and they become even closer because she's the only person in the family that's displayed any love for him. And as they get older he becomes so much more important in her life. He would babysit Tonks on his holidays and she would meet all of his friends when he visited, and when he finished Hogwarts they'd meet up for dinner at each others homes often because they were all each other had.

When he went to azkaban she was devastated, crushed and so confused and so lonely again because she didn't want to believe that her little cousin would ever side with Voldemort, not after seeing him grow up. She refused to believe anything that the news had published but that doesn't mean it was mental torture to hear of it constantly for years (and having to hear of Bellatrix's imprisonment at the same time). But then he escaped. and she read the news, and no one could find him. She even considered going to look for him herself because she had a million things to say to him. but she decided against messing with ministry matters, well until her daughter joined the Order and told her of Sirius' existence, confirming that she had been correct and how he could never side with Voldemort ever. She would send letters to him through Tonks and get updates of how he was doing from everything her daughter could tell her, and it calmed her. She was at slightly more peace with the fact that her cousin was at least somewhat safe from harm. She knew that he would'nt get hurt now but she was so wrong.

What was supposed to be a lovely evening at the start of summer was the opposite of that, she was rushed to St Mungos hospital with Ted by some order members that her daughter was badly injured. Only to find her daughter barely awake, sobbing, with newspapers of Voldemorts return. All she could understand through her daughters cries was the broken sentences of "she had killed him". So many death eaters had been apprehended by the ministry and so many Order members were injured, conveniently there was one name missing from the list of death eaters captured Andromeda knew that Sirius was dead, and she knew that he had been killed by Bellatrix. How her heart broke knowing that the her own sister had become the murderer of their cousin. Knowing that someone who was supposed to protect her had directly caused her too much pain. Not comfortable with people seeing her cry, Andromeda locked herself in the hospital bathroom and let everything out. She was terrified for her life and for her daughters life and for her husbands life, what would she do if her sister hurt any of them?

[muzelor]

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▐  DISCLAIMER  ;  all characters are written from my own perspective. some are canon compliant (those with no link attached to them), whilst some were taken from canon and rewritten almost entirely (those with links). all disney characters are from storybrooke, with the exception of alex. all lost boys characters besides paul are taken from either the craft or my babysitter's a vampire, but they're all from santa carla. only their location has changed, their backstory remains the same. after the fandom name, you will find a hashtag along with two-three words inside straight brackets [...]. for a better experience for all of you, please blacklist all the fandoms you do not wish to see! if, by any chance, you wish to write with a muse from said fandom, i will make sure not to add the tag on our thread(s).

▐  THE VAMPIRE DIARIES  [#vampires hide] ;  tatia anderdottir , kai parker , hayley marshall , henrik mikaelson , davina claire , josie forbes , kol mikaelson , elena gilbert , hope mikaelson.

▐  HOEGWARTS  [#wizards hide] ;  dorcas meadowes , ginny weasley , bellatrix lestrange , josie dumont , fred weasley , regulus black.

▐  DISNEY  [#fairytale hide] ;  red riding hood [ruby] , esmeralda fernandez , elsa arendottir , anna arendottir , alex russo [rashid] , evie grimhilde , mal , snow white.

▐  STRANGER THINGS  [#experiments hide] ;  barbara holland , kali prasad , veronica ecker.

▐  SCOOBY DOO  [#meddlers hide] ;  velma dinkley , thorn , shaggy rogers , daphne blake , sibella.

▐  THE LOST BOYS  [#night sluts hide] ;  paul downs , nancy downs , erica jones , sarah fox , benny weir.

▐  ALICE IN BORDERLAND  [#gamers hide] ;  kuina hikari , karube daikichi , akane heiya , aguni , chishiya shuntato , usagi yuzuha , arisu ryohei , niragi suguru , mira kano , hatter , ann , banda.

▐  HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER  [#fahrampton hide] ;  robin sherbatsky , marshall eriksen , barney stinson , lily alrdrin , ted mosby , tracy mcconnell.

▐  BIG BANG THEORY  [#geniuses hide] ;  leonard hofstadter , melissa cooper , penny teller.

▐  ADDAMS FAMILY  [#goths hide] ;  pugsley addams , thing , morticia addams , gomez addams , uncle fester , ophelia frump , lenora frump , lurch , michael langdon.

▐  LEAGUE OF LEGENDS  [#champions hide] ;  evelynn , jinx , caitlyn.

▐  MATTEL  [#dolls hide] ;  stereotypical barbie , singer barbie , beach ken , backflip ken , magician ken , allan.

▐  DC + MARVEL COMICS  [#heroes hide] ;  harley quinn , joker , peter parker , eddie + venom , morgan stark.

▐  ARCHIE COMICS  [#horrors hide] ;  cheryl blossom.

▐  ROMANIAN MYTHOLOGY  [#folklore hide] ;  georgiana dumitrescu , viviana olteanu , ecaterina ivan , narcisa lupu , daniel , parascheva.

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▐  FOLLOWING  ;  if i follow you, it means i want to write with you. everything is opened to mutuals (people i follow that follow me back)  :  sending anything through my inbox, yelling at me through ims or over discord, tagging me in stuff, mentioning my characters in other threads, selling me to the dark lords. if i don’t follow you it’s probably because (1) i can’t see our muses interact or (2) i can’t find your age anywhere listed. being 18+ is mandatory, as this blog contains mature and gore content. it’s important to note that, if i don’t follow back and you have ideas in which our characters could interact, you can shoot a message or sent me an ask to let me know. chances are high that i will follow you back. if i’m breaking mutuals, i will either softblock or hard block (depending on your preference, if it’s listed anywhere in your rules). if you want to break mutuals with me, please hard block. if you must softblock, here’s a chill message for you to send before softblocking : always gonna give you up, always gonna say goodbye. you’d be rickrolling me and breaking mutuals like the legend i know you are.

▐  FORMATTING  ;  small text, double space, bold, italics, strikethrough and underline text. because i have too many muses, i will only be using banners with their name, but if you want icons / gifs for our threads, i think i can work it out hopefully. i also write a lot, but don’t feel like you have to match my format. i usually accommodate my writing partners with the length, but mistakes happen and i get carried away sometimes.

▐  SHIPPING  ;  yes, please. grabby hands. i need it. chances are, if you ship it, i most likely shipped it for a while now. chemistry is important no matter the dynamic, so if you want to try something, never refrain from yelling at me in private. i will yell back. wanted dynamics are  :  platonic , familial , romantic , antagonistic , to name a few. if you want to get into specifics, take a look at this meme and let me know either by sending the emoji through my inbox or telling me in private (ims/discord).

▐  MUN  ;  howdy potential new friend. i'm veronica, a 21+ cryptid from eastern europe. i got my bachelor degree in sociology with specialization in criminality and deviance and right now i am taking a master in sociology of consumerism and marketing. i am a gemini and i own two cats, jinx is a persian mf and kira is half persian half demon, if you ask me. i can always provide proof. i am addicted to coffee to the point if i don't drink 2 a day i become two of snow white's dwarfs... grumpy and sleepy. one of my favorite authors is paulo coelho, i fell in love with his work on the witch of portobello. i like to present myself as a halfblood since on my dad's side i am rromani. english is my third language, first is dumbass and second is romanian. you want proof of my first language? in highschool i was sent to a psychologist because i thought it'd be funny to make a gore video of joker (2019). i also have loads of really stupid or really creepy stories, feel free to ask me about them. and if you want to break my brain, ask me what's my favorite song. i seem to forget all songs i've ever listened. if you read everything, i'm sorry. here's a knock knock joke so i can make it easier for you to hard block me: knock knock. who's there? a dwarf. a dwarf who? a dwarf who can't reach the doorbell, that's why he's knocking. you may hard block me now.

▐  OTHER BLOGS  ;

miercolaes  —  a single muse blog, featuring the cryptid that is wednesday addams. i’ve taken all canon material and decided to rewrite it and we still didn’t end up with something good, babes. so if you’re looking for a psycho with psychic abilities that struggles to understand human emotions and would fight you just because, this is your blog!

bahrbae  —  a single muse blog featuring the actress barbie doll. legend has it she was owned by joker which would explain her fuckedupness. so if you’re looking for a fucked up doll with a knack for horsies (which apparently does not equate to patriarchy????) with many other verses, this is your blog.

salemarked  —  a single muse sideblog to #miercolaes featuring dorcas goode. you may know her canonically as goody addams but guess what, you shouldn’t trust everything you see or hear! that’s how they get you. but if you’re looking for ancestral rage and a top tier manipulator who has a very unfortunate history, this is your blog!

[caramello-koalas-for-feminism]

Here is all of the ship names I know of, to the best of my ability, from the very basics to the niche:

Wolfstar - Remus x Sirius

Jegulus/Starchaser/Sunseeker - James x Regulus

Jily/Flowerpot - James x Lily

Jegulily - James x Regulus x Lily

Rosekiller - Barty x Evan

Rosestarkiller - Evan x Barty x Regulus

Rosestarkillerchaser - Evan x Barty x Regulus x James

Wolfstarbucks - Sirius x Remus x James

Bartylus - Barty x Regulus

Dorlene - Dorcas x Marlene

Marylily - Mary x Lily

Pandalily - Pandora x Lily

Snily - Snape x Lily

Snupin - Snape x Remus

Blackrose - Regulus x Evan

Moonwater - Remus x Regulus

Moonflower - Remus x Lily

Prongsfoot/Starbucks - Sirius x James

Pegulus/Ratwater (not that I've seen much of this) - Peter x Regulus

Nobleflower - Alice x Narcissa

Fralice - Frank x Alice

Quillkiller - Rita x Bellatrix

Blackinnon - Sirius x Marlene

Partyvan - Peter x Barty x Evan

Lilypad - Lily x Sirius

Bitchkiller - Sirius x Barty

Sunkiller - James x Barty

It's 1am, I can't see properly, and I'm not into every ship on this list, so a few may very well be wrong/missed, but I hope it was slightly helpful nonetheless (lmk if anyone has any to add/edit). This is an incredibly confusing fandom lol. There's also quite a few random websites/Reddit threads/powerpoints etc. people have created online if you wanted to look into it further

Being new to the marauders fandom is 98% just trying to figure out your wacky ass ship names.

Someone tell me who is rosekiller, sunseeker, and I’m assuming starchaser is James+Regulus? Aka jegulus? And why are they so creative and then the others are just like. LilyMary.

[cruciatvs]

regulus and bellatrix.

where: lestrange manor.

when: about an hour before the gala ( and extracurricular activities ) kick off.

with: @frcgmented​

“Regulus,” she whispers, hisses, demands, pulling her youngest cousin close, a perfectly manicured finger around his collar. A gesture that turns more soft when he looks at her, a hand on his shoulder. She hopes he realises how lucky he is, to have the opportunity to be at the forefront of the action tonight when she has to play happy host, lovely wife, the pureblood woman her mother had wished her to be. Not that she doesn’t enjoy selling the world a picture of perfection that stands opposite of the brutal truth. How, after all, could the delightful host of a charity gala possibly behind a red trail of blood that haunts the wizarding world? The only thing blood-red about this Bellatrix is her lipstick.

“You look very smart.” The compliment is made with care, not something that comes natural to her ( even when he does, in fact, look quite smart ) and so it almost feels insincere. She straightens his tie a little, gives him a look. “Have some fun for me, will you?” Her smile turns a little, from something almost affectionate to something more demanding. “Make us proud.”

[fieldsofpoppies-in-salt-air]

  “Mr Black, could I see you for a moment?” McGonagall asks. Sirius glances at James before standing up. “Uh, yeah. Do I need to bring my books?” She shakes her head. “No, come along, quickly now.” 

Sirius follows her dutifully from the Charms classroom. “Er, am I in trouble?” he asks after a few minutes of walking. “No, I just need to speak with you and your brother,” She leads him down to the dungeons, stopping in front of the potions classroom. “Wait here.”

Sirius shifts uncomfortably, pulling at the threads on his robes. A minute later, McGonagall steps out of the room, Regulus trailing behind. He gives Sirius a questioning look, and Sirius shrugs. 

  “Follow me to the hospital wing, please.” 

When they reach the hospital wing, Madam Pomfrey leads them all into her office. 

  “All right, do either of you now why you’re here?” Pomfrey asks gently, gesturing for them to sit. They both shake their heads, taking a seat. 

Madam Pomfrey hums, sitting across from them. “Well, as you know, Regulus broke his arm last week during a flying lesson. While I was healing him, a noticed a bit of scarring on him,” She pauses, watching the way Sirius scoots his chair a little farther in front of Regulus’s. “I also noticed that when I was healing Sirius’s leg before Christmas, you also had quite an accumulation of scars up the back of your legs. Now, at first, I thought perhaps you’d been harming yourself, but when I looked closer, I realised that they’re magical. Sectumsempra scars is what they look like, in fact-” Sirius stands, pushing his chair back and interrupting her. 

  “What are you suggesting?” he asks angrily. “I’m not suggesting anything dear. We simply need to know if someone has been using this spell on the two of you, and who,” Madam Pomfrey explains gently. “We’re concerned for your well being.”

Sirius scoffs, pulling Regulus up. “We’re not being hurt, right Reg?” He glances at his brother, who’d began shaking slightly. “No, no of course not.” “Exactly, we’re fine, we were just clumsy children. Maybe you should get your eyes checked. Now, if you’re done accusing my brother and I, we’ve got classes to be in.” Sirius snaps, putting an arm around Regulus’s shoulders and pulling him out of the office.

Minerva and Poppy glance at one another, sighing softly. “Bellatrix, Andromeda, and Narcissa responded the same way.” Poppy murmurs, rubbing her eyes tiredly. 

  “There’s nothing we can do until one of them admits it, or we have substantial proof...” Minerva says quietly.

[rollercoasterwords]

HI YOU!! for the ask game ooh. well actually i would love in general to hear your thoughts on peter i don’t know if i’ve seen you speak about him b4 xx and i guess for the sake of the game my unpopular opinion in regards to him is that. i sort of do sympathize with him as a boy at least more than general fandom seems 2…feel like the tendency to erase him from the narrative altogether sort of. undermines the significance of his eventual betrayal + also the way he is treated by fandom compared to other equally terrible characters like barty or tom riddle or evan whatshisname…a little suspicious 2 me!! anyway i am front row in the lecture theatre ready to hear your takes hand em over xx

ridi!! welcome 2 my lecture hall i am clearing my throat + taking a sip of water + tapping my little microphone <3

ok for the sake of summarizing: unpopular opinion that peter is underrated

strongly agree | agree | neutral | disagree | strongly disagree

so like....i agree with this but idk if it is in the way i sometimes see people agreeing with it. like i have seen people who go "omg peter was actually a great fantastic guy!!! he was amazing i love him!!" in an effort to combat him sort of getting left to the side and. well. i do not think peter was a great guy lol. and of course u can do whatever u want with him in an au but i personally do not usually take an interest in characters unless there is at least a few threads or connections to their canon characterization, bc that's what gets me interested in the first place, y'know?

i actually have talked about peter somewhere on this blog before so maybe i will go and hunt down that post bc i kinda put like. a bunch of my takes in there. (found it here u go!) but basically in the context of a canon universe i think peter's betrayal is incredibly interesting and can be read in a variety of different ways all of which can be fun to explore. i've written two canon-compliant fics where in each of them i took a slightly different route for what i did with his character, but both times peter was one of the characters whose motivations and interiority felt the most complicated to me and i had to spend a long time like....sending voice notes to my sister to work through how i wanted to portray him.

however that being said as with characters like regulus or barty or bellatrix or whoever i am not a fan of people trying to rehabilitate peter's character by erasing his canon flaws. he was a villain in canon for a reason and i think his betrayal + the flaws that go along with it are crucial to his character, so i just find it boring when someone tries to pull a 180 and make him this super-duper nice guy who's never done anything wrong.

i also don't blame people writing aus or whatnot who just....don't really care much about peter and don't want to spend a bunch of time writing him. i think that's valid! the same way that i don't really blame anyone who just isn't interested in certain side characters and doesn't really care about taking the time to write them. HOWEVER. i do agree that there is an interesting bit of discontinuity in the way people sidestepped peter as a villain + death eater + instead became obsessed with characters like barty + evan, and i do think part of that....may come from the fact that peter is portrayed in canon as unattractive (which...jkr's fatphobia is a conversation for another post lol) and the ways i have seen many people engaging with other death eater characters involves making them ummmm. very conventionally attractive. which! idk. i hesitate to generalize abt this issue bc i don't necessarily think it's like a driving force so much as one slightly suspicious variable in a whole host of variables for why anyone might be interested in barty crouch jr. but not in peter--like some people obviously are not gonna care about alice + frank as much as james + lily + will be happier to redeem the longbottoms' villain than the potters', etc etc. overall i think that is just a whole can of worms that i need 2 think abt more before opening lol