There Is Not Enough Lily Bashing.

I love the idea of a Trans Regulus AU (ftm) where he fakes his death and transitions while everyone mourns him, only for the marauders to randomly see him somewhere like the place he works a few years later. Imagine the confrontation

Regulus : *deer in headlights*

Sirius : *absolute disbelief*

Remus :*shocked and mildly impressed that Regulus pulled off smth like this*

Peter : *confused*

James : *brain rebooting as he stares at Regulus, practically drooling*

"Lily is treated as a surrogate and Regulus is being made the parent of her child."

I've read maybe 3 fics where Lily was a surrogate and only a few where she wasn't involved in Harry's life (usually because she was dead). Most of us aren't taking away her role in his life. Co-parenting is a more popular story where James and Lily have harry but date other people. That doesn't take away from Lily's role as a mother at all. Once again, she's not focused on in these stories because they are not about her, they are about James and Regulus. If you want more stories with Lily raising Harry without James, write them.

"Saying Regulus is a more interesting character than Lily is misogyny"

First of all, I agree that there is a disproportion of content for male and female characters and that's a problem. However, preferring Regulus' character over Lily's and finding it more interesting isn't misogyny, but Personal opinion. Sure, some people might have this opinion because of misogyny but the majority don't.

"Regulus' parents didn't force him to become a death eaters. They didn't join Voldemort."

Walburga and Orion were always blood supremacists and agreed with Voldemort. They raised their children with these beliefs. We dont know if Regulus joined willingly or they pressured him into it, but he was 16 when he joined. He was a child and it was their responsibility and their fault either way.

"I'm tired of seeing female characters being hated on for 'getting in the way of a ship'. Lily Evans, this is for you—"

Genuinely curious, what ghosts are y'all fighting? I have never, not once, seen Lily get hated on for any reason, much less for getting in the way of jegulus for example, contrary to what some of you accuse us jegulus shippers of doing?

In what fandom spaces are y'all in?

Like, I understand that this might actually be done, but it is not happening to the degree some of y'all are acting like it is.

I can confidently say I would know otherwise, I've been balls deep in this fandom for a long time.

And it's an issue I consistently see in many other fandoms as well.

Like, no one is hating on Utahime bro, trust 🙏

The only character I could get behind is Uraraka, but again, I see so many more people criticize bkdk shippers for hating on her than I've ever seen actual bkdk shippers hate on her. Frankly, I've seen maybe one or two instances of my girl Uraraka being bashed.

And I find it simultaneously fascinating and irritating. I'm one hundred percent sure that the majority of people complaining about a female character getting unfairly hated for "ruining a ship" just start complaining about it without ever seeing it for themselves.

The anti jeguls and anti regulus people calling everyone fascists are starting to get on my nerves. Especially because they're flooding the jegulus tag while complaining about us flooding the other tags. Hypocrisy at its finest.

"The babygirlification of death eater characters is problematic."

We're writing fanfiction about dead wizards from a world that doesn't exist, it's really not that serious. Besides, in most of the fics where this happens, they're not racist??? the whole point of fanfiction is that we change Canon to fit our own made up stories. Nobody is glorifying fascism or racism, please stop fighting invisible enemies, its getting embarrassing. If you want more stories about the 4 marauders doing marauders shenanigans like ATYD or whatever, write them, meanwhile I'll be enjoying my Regulus centric Jegulus fanfictions over here, because that is what I enjoy and there's nothing wrong with that.

"Regulus was a fascist/racist/bloodsupremacist."

I'm not going to say that he wasn't, because I don't know. He's a fictional dead character so we will never truly know. However, I have to point out that Regulus offered himself up to drink the poison and die in that cave rather than letting Kreacher do it. Blood supremacists believe themselves to be more valuable than any living thing, but Regulus preserved Kreachers life and not his own. People like Lucius Malfoy, a confirmed blood supremacist would have left the houseful to die, but Regulus didn't. Furthermore, Regulus was 18 and all he had ever known was his family's ideology. He was raised by his parents in this ideology and then spent his time in Slytherin which at the time was filled with blood supremacists and future death eaters. If we say for a moment that he was racist, as bad as it is, its not really his fault because he was a child and didn't know any better. Does that make any racist actions okay? of course not. But some of you are forgetting that he was a child. In real life, most people dont break away from bigoted beliefs taught by their parents until they are taught better, and Regulus probably never was. Stop holding child characters to the same standard as adult characters If you can do it for Peter and Snape and even James then you can do it for Regulus.

Solidarity. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜