#alltheyoungdudes

[penseesduncookie]

couldn't choose between those 2

[the-colourful-witch]

The All the Young Dudes book covers project

I've been working on this fun project in my time off from social media. It consists of three illustrations to use as book covers for All the Young Dudes by MsKingBean89 on Ao3. This book has been the foundation of my involvement in the fandom. It's the first fic I read about the Marauders and I loved it so much! I laughed, and I cried, it was a real rollercoaster. After making the cover for A Brief History of Dragons by Eyra, I caught the bug and started thinking of more covers to illustrate. I loved working on the first cover, but I didn't love doing it on my tablet. At heart, I am a traditional illustrator and for this kind of illustration, I felt paper might work better. So I got to work. I knew I wanted to make three covers. From what I've seen online most people bind their own copies of All the Young Dudes in three parts: Year 1-4, Year 5-7 and Until the End. Therefore, I made three covers. I have not yet digitalized these illustrations, but I'll turn them into downloadable covers for binders to use for their book projects. I am working on binding my own physical copies of AtYD too :) It's fun! Right, to the covers. There's so much to say!

Book One

This is the start of Remus' life at Hogwarts and his friendship with the other Marauders. I wanted it to feel a bit like reading Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone for the first time. It's the realisation that magic is real, it's that first spark you get when picking up a book you instantly connect with. That was the feeling I wanted to incorporate in this first cover. There are a bunch of little easter eggs for the story and I hope you'll pick them all out. Let me know in the comments what you think they are. Also, for this project, I studied the language of flowers. I am not sure if all my information is correct, but in this one, I put dandelions in the top corners. Dandelions represent new beginnings :)

Book Two

The second half of the Marauders' time at Hogwarts. This part is all about love and loyalty; something I liked a lot! It's also the time when the Marauders complete their animagus transformations. The animals had to be on the cover! That, I knew for sure. I went for a forest theme for this second cover, because of all the mischief the Marauders got up to in the Forbidden Forest during full moons. I used flower language here as well. For every Marauder I picked a flower I felt represented who they are. For Peter, at the top, I chose Bleeding Heart and Belladonna. Both of them represent betrayal and death. Nice and cheery :) For Sirius, on the Right, I chose Bluebell, which represents loyalty. For Remus, on the Left, I chose Acacia, which represents secret love or forbidden love, because he's hiding his sexuality for most of the book. But it's a love flower and in his core Remus is caring and loving, despite his rough edges. For James, on the bottom, I chose violets. And violets represent love at first sight. I know we all know why <3 I like this cover a lot. The picture is a bit grainy, but like I said, I'm still working on digitalising.

Book Three

Last but certainly not least. This book is about war, love and loss. It was definitely the most challenging piece out of the three, but worth the trouble. On this cover, I put Hogwarts at the top, because that's where it all started and where it ends. On the bottom, there's a prophecy, which is about Harry and Voldemort. There are a few gravestones at the bottom. Very cheerful, I know, but if you pay attention, you see a Deathly Hallows on one of them. On the sides are my favourite parts. I like the lily flower in the arms of death, because it's obvious, but also beautiful. I like the Death Eater on the other side because it's spooky. The snakes represent rebirth and Slytherin House, which is important to the story of the Second Wizarding War, connecting good and evil. Once again I put all the flowers in this piece, scattering them around because they're all interwoven in each other's stories. Finally, I want to say something about the three central images. In the first we see Remus as a child. He's alone and scared of the big scary wolf. The three images are a timeline. It represents Remus' relationship with the wolf in him. At first, he despises it and is scared of it. And finally, he stands with it, not quite embracing it, but he's not scared anymore. In the middle, I wanted to show Remus with his friends, because they banished his fear whenever they were together. With his friends, the wolf didn't control Remus and he could control the wolf. I hope it's all clear. I loved working on these pieces and I hope you like them too!

[mssrsmoon]

Y’all KNOW that James had no reason to be getting up at 3am for extra quidditch practice in ATYD.

Sirius and Remus were oblivious af to the fact that actually james was meeting Regulus in the astronomy tower

the best kept secret of Harry Potter

[rosiexjo]

Regulus for @fircbolts ‘s DTIYS on instagram // i was first going to draw him playing piano but I actually love pairing Regulus with the deep soothing sounds of a cello. There’s something dark and romantic about the cello but also sombre. I think that suits Regulus well. What instrument do you think Reggie would play? //

[dragonsrfire]

THE LEAD UPTO TTPD

DEBUT - A PLACE IN THE WORLD

FEARLESS - THAT'S THE WAY I LOVED YOU

SPEAK NOW - ENCHANTED AND BACK TO DECEMBER

RED - ALL TOO WELL (10 MINS VERSION)

1989 - SAY DON'T GO

REPUTATION - GATAWAY CAR

LOVER - PAPER RINGS + LOVER + AFTERGLOW

FOLKLORE - MIRRORBALL + MY TEARS RICOCHETT + THE LAKES

EVERMORE - RIGHT WHERE YOU LEFT ME + CHAMPAGNE PROBLEMS + CONEY ISLAND

MIDNIGHTS - MIDNIGHT RAIN + MASTERMIND + YOU'RE ON YOUR OWN KID???

THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT - ???

NO CONTEXT BUT PURELY VIBES - TTPD HAS ALREADY BEEN CLAIMED BY THE DEAD POETS ALREADY

[kjmarauder]

Mum: what are you always reading?

Me: Thebestpieceofliteraturesthateverexistedintheworld😇

[junk-ren]

Young James Potter!! also known as Prongs hehe 🦌

Guess who's been reading Marauders stuff and fell in yet another hell hole 🤣

[waterfall13]

also, im doing a list of all the fanfics ive seen recommended on tiktok and what are they about (ill post it in like two days, so if you want an update, comment and ill let you know when its up)

[ffoulkes]

Narcissa Black from All the Young Dudes 🐍

[lamariamagdalena]

RIP Remus Lupin he would have been the type to tell you Tame Impala is just one guy

[wolves-and-stars]

Safe & Sound

When Sirius was around five his father got him a dog, that was back when they hadn’t really realised Sirius was not going to be the ideal Black, but still long enough for them to realise the importance of leverage with their children.

Sirius was clearly too young to question Orion’s motives and just went along with it, daring to hope that maybe his father was going to be nice for a while again.

When Sirius was seven and refused to learn French in his free time his father had his dog killed.

Now, Sirius mostly thinks about how his animagus looks like his dog.

However, sometimes late at night very briefly, when he’s sleep dazed and has let his guard down, does he think about how he’d loved the dog so much that it made him physically sick.

Sirius would hold the leash extra tight while walking him because of the pit in his stomach and the voice telling him if he let go the dog would leave and get hit by oncoming traffic, get lost, or fall into a ditch.

When the dog refused to eat he’d cry himself to sleep worried he’d be dead the next morning.

The constant anxiety of having to care about anyone being alive was exhausting because he didn’t have any practice with it.

He didn’t really care if his parents lived or not. And he hadn’t met Regulus enough to want him alive either.

In said sleep-dazed thoughts he’d realise how much he hated loving things. It made him sick to his stomach like it was the worst feeling in the world.

He’d let the people that loved him do anything close to killing him without a single question in his mind.

James could put a knife in his back and Sirius would say thank you. Anything they did to him was acceptable.

Anything anyone done to them wasn’t.

That’s why he was constantly trapped in the middle of these confines, the ones where he wanted to vomit until he passed out because if they died he would die and the ones where he wanted to throw himself off of a building because he couldn’t stop this.

He couldn’t stop them.

Maybe that’s what the Aurors saw when they arrested him, for their murders.

Relief.

Relief that it was finally over and everything he was worried would go wrong had gone wrong.

Now that they’d died he didn’t have anything to be worried about nor did he have anything to fight for.

It was the first fight he had with Remus before they got together. About how he didn’t want to be with Remus, because it would crush Sirius’ soul and he wouldn’t be able to take it.

Not with Remus.

Never with Remus.

Remus fit perfectly and it made him feel ill. He hated that he could imagine him staying forever and he hated it even more than he wanted it.

Family would never be a part of his equation.

He s hours at the night begging, to a god he was sure didn't exist when he didn't have anyone to love, to keep Remus safe and alive.

Having nightmares about having everything taken away from him when he couldn't do anything about it, about James betraying them and hurting Remus while Sirius can't stop him.

Bile crawls up his throat.

Remus breaks all of those parts of him that he’s spent so long building up and it’s completely terrifying.

Remus is it for him.

Remus has a chokehold on him and one day he's going to suffocate.

Eventually, when he starts believing that Remus was the spy he was ready to forgive him, ready to join the other side for him, beg James and Lily to join them too.

Anything for Remus.

Anything.

Except when he brings it up, the look of hurt flashing across Remus' eyes, the hurt the betrayal, the sentiment doesn't transfer.

And he can feel himself choking as Remus leaves him, safe and sound.

[bisexualgregorsamsa]

when taylor swift said "i don't want to keep secrets just to keep you" and sirius said to remus "tell me a secret, a nice one." I SCREAMED

[mssrsmoon]

love jegulus but can we pls stop having them get married

[rosiexjo]

Happy birthday Remus!

A little pattern I’ve been mucking around with recently. What do you think?

[moonydirection]

remus motherfucking lupin with double lip piercings and a star tattoo behind his ear:

pls give me a little love bc i started drawing recently and i'm still unsure if they're actually any good <3

[thiare-wolfstar]

It's 00:49 am and I found this image, and I remembered one of the most precious mental scenes that I keep in my mind, Sirius always saw Remus for what he was, a beautiful being despite his little furry problem.

Sirius and Remus, Remus and Sirius, they belonged together in ways that can't be explained, sometimes love is complicated, but I guess when your heart is in the right place, nothing else matters.