#the lack of bartylus fics

[crimsonlovebartylus]

why the fuck did I get the sudden urge to read duplicity? like ok dark harry styles, that was an era i left behind and now my soul has been wanting to read dark harry??????????? wtf

[dramaticallycryingblood]

Things I don’t get about the marauders fandom as someone who’s been obsessed with them for literal years

1. How we let so many characters be only children?? like I get that people don’t necessarily want to make OCs but HOW did it get to this? James, Marlene, Peter, Remus, Mary, Barty, Dorcas, Alice, Frank and so many others! Idk maybe it’s just where I’m from but look me in the eyes and tell me you know that many people who don’t have siblings ALSO the ratio is so off and barely any of them have only child energy. It’s just not right.

2. How sooo many of you aren’t multi shippers. Like what do you MEAN you can only see James with Regulus and Regulus with James?? What about bartylus? what about sunrose? what about draksun/sunkiller? what about moonwater? what about jily? what about prongstail? WHAT do you read?? Aren’t you bored??? WHAT DO YOU MEAN you only have ONE ship for each character???? As a multi shipper, I can be convinced of any ship with anything ranging from a real good fic or a pretty edit to an enthusiastic rant from a random person on TikTok and it just makes things interesting. Maybe my adhd brain just needs more ships to focus on or maybe some of you just lack flexibility ( or imagination), but we need to fix this cause there aren’t enough fics with the ships I like 😭😭

3. THE SHIP NAMES. I can’t be the only one who thinks some of these suck right? Like why are we saying jegulus when starchaser and sunseeker are RIGHT THERE?? Same with jily and flowerpot, and bartylus and starkiller. ALSO some names make me wonder if some of you just haven’t grasped the concept of ship names or if I just got it all wrong cause marylily and jegulily are just annoying, why are we keeping the L in Lily? The point is to merge the names together not stick them one beside the other, I just say marily and jeguily because it rolls off the tongue so much more easily

4. The Peter erasure. I just don’t get it, it’s so easy to include him in things, you don’t have to make him a main character, but just mention him every once in awhile. Sometimes I’m reading an important scene in a fic and everyone is mentioned EXCEPT for Peter! It’s so easy, just make him roll his eyes at his friends being idiots or something. And it’s not like you’ll get his personality wrong, ALL THESE CHARACTERS PERSONALITIES WERE MADE UP BY FANS but I understand that some people lack imagination so here’s some things about Peter I like to imagine: he’s a HUGE gossip, like my man sees and hears everything and he takes notes!! He likes to randomly turn into a rat and take a nap in one of the other marauders’ pocket, he does it so much that they had to tell the girls that they had a pet rat cause they were asking too many questions. He’s really perceptive and his friends are all oblivious so it leads to funny scenarios like:

Remus & Sirius after YEARS of pining: we’re dating

Peter: I thought you guys had been together since third year?

Sirius: I’ve literally introduced you to people I was dating?!

Peter, shrugging: look mate I don’t question you lot anymore, you do whatever you want, I don’t care what you’re into, I just don’t wanna know about it

He also pulls people, like he’s really nice and will gossip to anyone who’s in his vicinity so he’s friends with basically everyone and he’s funny and pretty and he’s got charisma so he just charms everyone and when I say everyone, I mean everyone, even the slytherins have a soft spot for him (that’s how he gets accepted among the death eaters during the war actually). In pranks he’s the lookout so he often has to distract the teachers so he asks them random things and spits out half-made up facts about anything so he’s besties with most of the teachers which means he doesn’t get many detentions.

5. The Black brothers, more specifically the way the speak to each other in most fics, like they call each other “brother” so often and as someone who has a brother I’ve never called him that. Is it an anglophone thing? Like do people who speak English at home all do that or are fic writers only children?? (That would explain my first point actually) Or is it more a rich people thin?? Cause I know it’s not a francophone thing that’s for sure (also special mention to people who don’t know anything about French writing Sirius and Regulus as French speakers, I can tell you don’t know what you’re writing about but I eat it up everytime anyway)

6. This is actually just about ao3 but I WANNA BE ABLE TO LEAVE MORE KUDOS!!! I just loooooove fics but I can’t leave kudos at every single chapter and I’m bad at writing comments so I can’t show the author how much I love their work, I hate itttt 😭

7. Why there aren’t more fics about the Black family, and not just Sirius and Regulus, but Andromeda, Bellatrix and Narcissa as well like that would be so interesting and maybe like a deep dive into the Black family ideals and all that (if you have fic recs I’m all ears!!)

8. How jegulily is a pretty popular ship (which I LOVE) yet SO FEW people ship Regulus and Lily outside of it! They are a power couple and I love them and they don’t need James to work!!!

9. Why there isn’t more background Minnie x Poppy cause they are my mothers and I wanna see them moooooreeee

If you read all of this I love you 🥰 have an amazing day/night

[birlwrites]

i simply must scREAmm

ttdl: “could you help me? please?”, ‘softly “of course”’, ‘the good parts of today” CRYING SCREAMING SOBBING they’re so so so sweet to each other 🥺😭🥺😭 i cannot wait till they get together 😭

tyrant: it IS very sweet how regulus keeps gravitating towards evan…they’re basically CUDDLING who would’ve thought 🥺😭

also sirius and regulus interactions in both fics are just so good and so painful and just *kisses* i love them and regulus saying “hallways can feel very long when they’re completely deserted” my HEART he’s still just 15 😭

on another note i’m also currently experiencing bartylus brain rot 😭 they are just so wonderful as friends AND romantic partners i adore them i also adore regulus/evan/barty they’d be so powerful quite frankly….unfortunately im also experiencing an extreme lack of content for any three of these couples so ig i’ll just suffer 😔

anyway ur writing is excellent and i look forward to your updates a lot 🫶🏼🫡

THEY CARE ABOUT EACH OTHER SO MUCH AND REGULUS IS SLOWLY FIGURING OUT THIS WHOLE 'VULNERABILITY' THING AND ALSO NEXT CHAPTER THERE WILL BE CHARMS TUTORING

i think in order for it to be true cuddling evan has to be at least 2 steps further away from a nervous breakdown but he's slooowly adjusting afjskghjdkf

don't think about how sirius saw all of that and is wondering if maybe he missed a pretty big shift in regulus's life because none of the slytherins seem particularly surprised by regulus being all over evan but sirius definitely was Not expecting that

ive fixated so much on 'regulus/evan and also barty is there because how could barty possibly NOT be there' afksghsdjflsgdsjkf truly all three of them as a group are so powerful regardless of the particulars and we are in a DROUGHT for content

thank you!!!!!!!!

[crimsonlovebartylus]

with the lack of bartylus fic, i've resorted on reading crack fics with some weird pairings just to skip and read the bartylus parts 🤓