"Saying Regulus Is A More Interesting Character Than Lily Is Misogyny"

"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 Marauders fandom:

“Cannon Divergent”…?

Nah bitch, this is a “CANNON DIVORCE”

We’ll dismantle cannon with our bare hands, throw out the shitty plot holes & rebuild it way more gay! They can’t stop us!

Viva la revolución!

"Jegulus is being forced down our throats"

No it's not, block the tags of you dont like them it's not that hard. Yes, tagging incorrectly is a problem that needs to be solved, but if you're gonna be in the main 'Marauders' tag, you should expect to see any and all ships. Stop complaining, please. I'd you think something has the wrong tag on it, ask the person NICELY to remove it.

That awkward moment when someone you know in real life finds your online fanfiction.

"Regulus only changed because Voldemort hurt Kreacher whom he saw as his property."

Based on the information that we do have from Canon, this cannot be true. we know from Kreachers stories that Regulus was always nicer to him than most people, which means that he probably saw Kreacher as more than an object, maybe even a friend if he was willing to die instead of him. Either way, Regulus didn't just decide to go against everything he'd ever known just because his houself had gotten injured. This was probably the breaking point that led to his decision.

This is so true. Just like with any character, their actions as children are excusable but anything horrible they do as adults cannot be forgotten about or excused. This goes for Peter, Regulus, Barty and even James and Sirius too. There is a difference between young characters and old characters as well as between canon characters and fanon characters.

Imma say it:

I’m pro CHILD AND STUDENT snape but the second he’s an adult my sympathy is lost. Sure kids do stupid shit, but the dude was an adult when he was perfectly fine murdering some random women’s baby until he found out it was lily’s.

"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.

Jegulus Celebrity AU where James has two tiktok accounts, his verified one and a private one.

He only posts regularly on the second one but if you go onto the reposts of his "official" account, you'd only find edits of Regulus.

He also uses that one to comment on his favourite ones and the fans love it

(Sirus has James' verified account blocked because he was tired of seeing edits of his brother on his fyp)

"Jegulus is misogynistic because Lily is sidelined in the story as a result of the ship."

I dont think that's misogyny because if it's a JEGULUS story, and she isn't the main character, why would her story be prioritised. Once again, if you want to see more Lily content or any female character, why dont you start by making some yourself. Personally, if I want a specific fanfic but I can't find one like it, I WRITE IT MYSELF. Complaining without doing anything to make a change is just annoying and unhelpful.