#butch/femme dorlene

[mvnvgedmischief]

evergreen

tags: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Marlene McKinnon/Dorcas Meadowes, Marlene McKinnon, Dorcas Meadowes, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Lesbian Marlene McKinnon, Butch Marlene McKinnon, femme dorcas meadowes, Butch/Femme, Alternate Universe - Non-Magical, Alternate Universe - no Wizarding War, No War AU, Period-Typical Homophobia, 1980s, Original Character(s), Minor Original Character(s), mechanic marlene mckinnon, Healer Dorcas Meadowes, marlene has a lesbian posse that she hangs out with, one of whom took her in when she ran away dorcas and friends have all felt pretty abandoned by her

summary: Marlene Mckinnon used to be one of the most promising witches at Hogwarts. she used to have friends, she used to have dreams, she used to have a lot of things, but none of those things were authenticity. Running away seemed like the only option, so that was what she did. She built a life in muggle London, with friends who cared about her, a job that fulfilled her, and found herself. She found a way to express herself, and her butchness, without fear of whispers and hexes, and without fear of her friends finding out. Now, seven years later, everything has changed. But her world was about to shift once more, when she found a familiar, beautiful, stranger out one night with her friends.

words: 5,709 chapters: 2/16

this is a butch/femme fic predominantly from marlene’s perspective! this is a no war au, in which marlene has become a muggle mechanic. she has a muggle friend group, and has integrated herself into muggle life, after running away seven years ago in the midst of her final year at hogwarts. dorcas is a healer at st mungo’s, living a life without her best friend for seven years. how will things change when marlene’s past confronts her, and the two lives collide?

read it on ao3 here!

[lesbianremu]

marauders butch hcs!!

in conjunction with my last post, here r some butch hcs to get the ball rolling!!

marylily: femme4butch

butch: lily

femme: mary

lily realises she’s a lesbian after she kisses james.

she instantly feels this detachment from womanhood n doesn’t feel as connected to femininity as she once did.

she starts experimenting. she cuts her hair shorter, she wears vests n baggier clothes to give her a more masc shape.

mary doesn’t know how to deal with it, bc her best friend is suddenly the most attractive person she’s ever seen.

lily regularly flusters mary, which is a big deal bc Nobody flusters mary.

lily’s confidence grows tremendously and she loves being called handsome.

dorlene: butch4butch

dorcas has always presented masc.

she hates the wizarding robes bc they feel too similar to dresses, so she always breaks dress code n wears pants.

she likes wearing button downs.

her locs must always be kept above her shoulders; she hates having long hair.

marls forces people to call her just that, bc she hates her full name. she deliberately won’t respond to her full name bc it makes her feel feminine.

she grew up ashamed of being tall n lanky, but now she loves it bc it’s affirming.

dorcas exclusively used to pursue fems bc she felt like she had to. being butch, she needed to find a “complementary” fem so she suppressed her feelings for marls.

it wasn’t until she let go of this binary way of thinking, that they got together.

eventually it all builds to a point where dorcas can’t keep up her charade, pretending she doesn’t love marls when she really, really does.

marls was unsure about dorcas’ feelings bc of who she always pursued. she tried not to let it get to her, but she couldn’t understand why dorcas stared at her.

why dorcas should look, when marls isn’t what she wants.

dorcas tells her she looks bc she’s everything she’s ever wanted, n it was the only way she could have her without taking what she wasn’t “supposed” to have.

pandorcas: femme4butch

(my personal fav)

butch: dorcas

femme: pandora

the femme identity is intrinsically linked with butches. it is inseparable from the act of loving butches (platonically or romantically), n in the 70s this was paramount for lesbian couples.

pandora uses her privilege as a femme to protect dorcas and together, they protect each other by being perceived as a cishet couple.

they’re childhood best friends n have always had this solidarity between them b4 they ever fell in love.

dorcas having always presented masc, pandora would help her affirm her identity.

pandora would help with dorcas’ loc retwisting to keep it at that shoulder length dorcas needed.

she would fashion button downs and rings for dorcas out of any materials she could find — they got better with time.

pandora felt her most beautiful whenever dorcas complimented her n when they were just friends, she never understood why.

dorcas who also learnt how to make her own clothes over time, returned the favour n made pandora any dresses or skirts she said she wanted but couldn’t afford.

when they’re older n they have their own house, they experiment with different clothes n styles. their sewing room is so messy, u can hardly see the floor.

they’re each other’s muse, n they create together until their fingers r too stiff to do anything else but hold each other.

[saintsenara]

Sorry again for the number of asks. What do you think about the popularity of Marlene McKinnon/Dorcas Meadowes as a ship? It is apparently the 22nd most popular pairing on a03 in 2O23.

thank you very much for the ask, pal!

having a bit more femslash in the world is a good thing, and while there can be some issues in femslash spaces - especially the fact that the overwhelming majority of femslash fics tend to favour conventionally attractive femme characters - which it's always worth us being cognisant of [as, indeed, there are in m/m and het spaces too], i think it's good for all of us as fandom citizens that a femslash ship is becoming so popular. i vibe with that a lot.

what i don't vibe with - the hill i will fight to the death on - is that dorcas and marlene are not the same age as the marauders and that the fact that they're pretty much always written as being so makes the ship less enjoyable for me than it could be.

i hate this fanon! it makes no sense! dumbledore is not running the order of the phoenix as a child army! the death eaters' targets in the first war are - almost exclusively - politicians and other prominent civil servants, and the order exists as a paramilitary group which was primarily formed to offer resistance within the confines of the wizarding executive to voldemort's sustained campaign of ministry infiltration.

all of which is to say... if dorcas meadowes has the dubious honour of being the only person other than james and lily who we know to have been killed by voldemort himself during the first war, and if marlene mckinnon's entire family was wiped out by one of the top death eaters, then this is not because they were plucky twenty-one year old freedom fighters. it's because they were incredibly prominent politicians.

give me dorlene where they're both hard-nosed, fifty-year-old ministry dykes who could have mad-eye moody crying with a single raised eyebrow, and i will tune in. but i kind of don't care about dorlene in which they're just the same bundle of 'isn't it tragic how young and pretty we are' tropes that all other marauders-era pairings so frequently become. middle-aged butches deserve their doomed love stories too.

[mvnvgedmischief]

me: idk i never write smut because i don’t know how to describe sex between two men

my gf: but aren’t u writing lesbians rn

me: uh huh

my gf: so write smut for them i know for a fact u understand lesbian sex

[mvnvgedmischief]

evergreen master post: read the 80’s dorlene fic sweeping the nation on tumblr here!

tags: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Marlene McKinnon/Dorcas Meadowes, Marlene McKinnon, Dorcas Meadowes, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Lesbian Marlene McKinnon, Butch Marlene McKinnon, femme dorcas meadowes, Butch/Femme, Alternate Universe - Non-Magical, Alternate Universe - no Wizarding War, No War AU, Period-Typical Homophobia, 1980s, Original Character(s), Minor Original Character(s), mechanic marlene mckinnon, Healer Dorcas Meadowes, marlene has a lesbian posse that she hangs out with, one of whom took her in when she ran away dorcas and friends have all felt pretty abandoned by her

summary: Marlene Mckinnon used to be one of the most promising witches at Hogwarts. she used to have friends, she used to have dreams, she used to have a lot of things, but none of those things were authentic. Running away seemed like the only option, so that was what she did. She built a life in muggle London, with friends who cared about her, a job that fulfilled her, and found herself. She found a way to express herself, and her butchness, without fear of whispers and hexes, and without fear of her friends finding out. Now, seven years later, everything has changed. But her world was about to shift once more, when she found a familiar, beautiful, stranger out one night with her friends.

words: 9,348 chapters: 3/16

this is a butch/femme fic predominantly from marlene’s perspective! this is a no war au, in which marlene has become a muggle mechanic. she has a muggle friend group, and has integrated herself into muggle life, after running away seven years ago in the midst of her final year at hogwarts. dorcas is a healer at st mungo’s, living a life without her best friend for seven years. how will things change when marlene’s past confronts her, and the two lives collide?

read it on tumblr here!

chapter 1

chapter 2

chapter 3

read it on ao3 here!

[mvnvgedmischief]

evergreen

tags: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Marlene McKinnon/Dorcas Meadowes, Marlene McKinnon, Dorcas Meadowes, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Lesbian Marlene McKinnon, Butch Marlene McKinnon, femme dorcas meadowes, Butch/Femme, Alternate Universe - Non-Magical, Alternate Universe - no Wizarding War, No War AU, Period-Typical Homophobia, 1980s, Original Character(s), Minor Original Character(s), mechanic marlene mckinnon, Healer Dorcas Meadowes, marlene has a lesbian posse that she hangs out with, one of whom took her in when she ran away dorcas and friends have all felt pretty abandoned by her

summary: Marlene Mckinnon used to be one of the most promising witches at Hogwarts. she used to have friends, she used to have dreams, she used to have a lot of things, but none of those things were authenticity. Running away seemed like the only option, so that was what she did. She built a life in muggle London, with friends who cared about her, a job that fulfilled her, and found herself. She found a way to express herself, and her butchness, without fear of whispers and hexes, and without fear of her friends finding out. Now, seven years later, everything has changed. But her world was about to shift once more, when she found a familiar, beautiful, stranger out one night with her friends.

words: 3,206 chapters: 1/16

after much fanfare, i’m finally publishing the first chapter of my dorlene fic! this is a butch/femme fic predominantly from marlene’s perspective! this is a no war au, in which marlene has become a muggle mechanic. she has a muggle friend group, and has integrated herself into muggle life, after running away seven years ago in the midst of her final year at hogwarts. how will things change when her past confronts her, and the two lives collide?

read it on ao3 here

[mvnvgedmischief]

dorcas: everybody shut the fuck up snow wife just dropped a new song

marlene, already throwing ass to it: …

[mvnvgedmischief]

evergreen chapter three just dropped

i’ll put together a promo post tomorrow!

[mvnvgedmischief]

snippet tag game :)

thank you for tagging me @itsjamespotter

two snippets for the people!!! count ‘em two!!!

evergreen, chapter 1 (the long awaited butch/femme dorlene fic):

McKinnon. A name that once commanded a high level of respect across the entire wizarding world. Marlene would be lying if she said that didn’t intimidate her. With the number of siblings she had, maybe her disappearance wouldn’t impact the respect of the name. Here, it commanded nothing, and that was exactly what she had been hoping for.

unremarkable days, chapter 22

He was shocked out of his stupor in the cool toned light of the fridge by his buzzer. Sirius hadn’t been expecting anyone, and Regulus wouldn’t be home for another three hours. Why would anyone be here? He had shut everyone out. He didn’t have a clue who would show up. After his blow out fight with James, he was assuming the other man was trying to give him space. Texts and calls went unanswered, but James was not at the “show up at his house” point in this fight.

tagging: @lesbianmckinnonn and anyone who wants to do it i always get so nervous about tagging ppl idk why

[mvnvgedmischief]

in my butch femme dorlene fic there is going to be cruising and i’m SO EXCITED to write it i need to finish unremarkable days asap