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I can’t really multi ship when it comes to James bc in my head he was HEAD OVER HEELS for Lily, he was crazily in love with her, loves everything about her or that related to her but to him it comes as breathing, like wdym people aren’t obsessed with everything about her, what are they doing then???? He worshiped the ground she’s walking on, The man would do anything that she wants without a second thought, He'd bend over backwards, jump through hoops, whatever it took to make her satisfied.

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Sevy

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Something that drives me mad in the marauders fandom is that Regulus is given Severus’ traits and personality and Pandora is given Sybill’s traits and personality. Why is Regulus the “heroic boy who rebelled against Voldemort” when that’s literally canon Severus? And why is Pandora “a misunderstood, weird seer” when that’s literally canon Sybill? Also the fact that some female characters are basically just female versions of male characters. Are you lot unable to invent new characters? Do you only know 3 character tropes? Please be original for once.

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This!! Honestly I like Finn Wolfhard as Regulus (even though he's also a popular Severus fancast). My other Regulus fancast is Noah Jupe (but Finn remains my favourite Regulus fc)

Why do we fancast Timothée Chalamet as Regulus Black. I get that he has Regulus vibe I guess but still he does not look like a 16, 17 year old boy. He looks like a grown man, because Regulus died when he was 17 and Timothée does not look 17 in my eyes. I get he’s been the Regulus fancast for awhile but I’ve never gotten it. It’s my opinion, we need a new regulus fancast.

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My question is.

Why did we stop making Barty a Ravenclaw, blonde and freckled. Don’t get me wrong I love the punk rock version but the goodie too-shoes easily scared and a wicked genius Ravenclaw version of Barty. I could rant about goodie too-shoes Barty all night to be honest.

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Everything wrong with the marauders fandom ── rant

Long rant about everything that I think doesn't make sense in the fandom since marauders TikTok is driving me crazy (I did not proofread this and I don't know how much sense it makes but I hope you get the point).

People in the marauders fandom ship characters and make friend groups based on tropes and the personality of the characters (e.g. Regulus being with James bc of the brother's best friend trope and because their personalities are cute together) instead of taking the characters' morals and opinions into account (e.g. James (canonically) hates Slytherins and blood supremacists, therefore he wouldn't like Regulus (romantically or platonically)). By doing this, the characters are reduced to stereotypes without morals. Everyone likes each other (the Death Eaters are friends with members of the Order) and there's no room for a plot. Why would blood supremacy exist if not a single Death Eater or member of the OOTP actually upholds their beliefs? What's the point of the Harry Potter novels if everyone is best friends with each other? (I'm not saying personality doesn't matter or that the tropes make no sense, but ignoring everything a character stands for is taking it too far).

Characters are limited to being "bad people" and not being allowed positive qualities or "good people" who don't have flaws (e.g. the Marauders being perfect (except for Peter) and Snape being irredeemable and the devil incarnate). Why is it always so black and white? You've already stripped characters of their morals and now you're also not allowing them to have both good and bad in them?

So basically friend groups and ships don't make sense, lore doesn't actually matter anymore, and talking about anything is pointless since everyone is arguing about headcanons (which can't easily be disproved, cause if you say someone's headcanon isn't realistic, they'll start talking about how "nothing is canon so it doesn't matter!!!" Which is just plain out wrong by the way).

The ideas of a good work of fiction and character analysis are ruined since no one cares about the canon things we know about characters. They are under the illusion of not having any canon information, even though there's actually quite a lot of info in the books. Character headcanons should be an expansion of said person, an elaboration of what they're like. Making random things up is not valid unless we genuinely don't know a lot about someone (e.g. Dorcas, but even in her case we still know she was against Death Eaters and blood supremacy, so saying she'd be friends with Death Eaters is a reach unless you're claiming she actually doesn't have strong morals or you think she was friends with them before they got blood supremacist beliefs).

Also please come up with better names cause what are "Slytherin skittles", "Partyvan" or even "dead gay wizards"? I'm sorry this might just be the hater in me but I cannot take this anymore. Being gay has become some kind of quirk and making every character lgbt is seen as a good fandom trait (the dead gay wizards name has been around for a while, but point still stands).

The fandom claims to be oh so inclusive because everyone is gay, yet they make Sirius a femboy because God forbid two masculine men are in a relationship. One of them has to be feminine, right? You're definitely not promoting negative stereotypes by doing that! Also Jily and other straight ships being seen as boring because "all heteros suck and only gay characters deserve a fandom!" You're literally setting us back under the false narrative of "being inclusive". You're perpetuating stereotypes (again) and you're acting like being gay is some special personality trait.

All the characters from the Marauders era are so interesting and the era has so much potential, but it's being wasted because of the fandom's poor understanding of fiction.

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People forget that Barty literally got 12 O.W.L.s. Sure, he was probably always late and didn't give the impression of being at the top of his classes, but he was secretly one of the biggest nerds at Hogwarts. Barty was up there competing with James, Sirius, and Lily grades-wise. He, along with Sirius and James, was one of those students who you think would be failing all their classes but who was actually one of the best students out there.

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Evan calling Barty 'Bartemius' to get on his nerves.