Latest Posts by astronomically-doomed - Page 2
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!
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.
Assigning taylor swift albums to marauders characters. This is purely my opinion so don't come at me pls.
Regulus - Folklore and Reputation
James - Folklore and Lover
(I could write essays defending these choices for Jegulus,don't test me)
Remus - Folklore and Evermore (hes one angsty boy)
Sirius - Reputation and Speak now (you cannot tell me he wouldnt interrupt a wedding dramatically for Remus)
Peter - 1989 and debut
Lily - Red and Evermore
Mary - Debut and Midnights
Marlene - Midnights and Reputation
Dorcas - Midnights and 1989
Pandora - Debut and Fearless (she would be an og swiftie fr)
Evan - Red and 1989 (can i explain this? no, but im sticking with it anyway)
Barty - reputation, midnights and a splash of Folklore (its giving chaos)
imma say it
There is not enough Lily bashing.
LOOK okay; ive read james bashing, ive read sirius bashing, ive read remus bashing, ive read marlene bashing, ive read peter and mary and frank bashing. Ive read alice bashing, ive read dorcas and even bashing, ive read barty and snape and regulus bashing. Its harder to find a character bashing i haven't read at least once.
Lily however? it doesn't happen. Because, imo, everyone seems on edge about bashing her as they'll be called a misogynist. "Even" in non-jegulus stories, it doesn't happen.
I love lily, and i think shes a great character, but sometimes the avoidance to write her as yeah kind of the asshole makes the writing worse. Its less realistic.
Guess what, sometimes people aren't calm and understanding even when they should be and definitely when they shouldn't.
A weird amount of fics go out of the way to avoid any conflict with lily by just not writing her or writing her as bland or without any spark which is what attracts a lot of people to the character.
The amount of fics ive read where lily has been like "i understand" no matter what happens is kind of bs. she looses her fire.
Let lily get mad
let her loose her shit over little things
let her yell a bit more, even if she isn't in the right
please, for the love of the marauders, write Lily Evans as Lily Evans
(i'm fine to debate this but honestly i see nothing wrong with this opinion)
Tw: Opinions
What annoys me the most about this fandom is that people are always arguing about the most ridiculous things.
Why is it that we as a fandom seem to feel the need to attack each other for what we like and what we dislike.
Why does one character or ship have to be better than others?
If you don't ship something just keep scrolling. It takes more effort to open the comment section and leave a hate comment than to just find content that you do like. it's not that hard.
I think some people forget that we don't all have to agree. It's okay to ship a rare pairing that other people might find odd and it's okay to make a seemingly 'bad' character more three dimensional.
As long as its not harmful content that someone is making or consuming, why should it matter to you.
At the end of the day, it's all made up so who gives a damn.
I can like Regulus as a character without hating on lily because guess what, there is no reason to be constantly pitting them against each other. They are FICTIONAL.
Jegulus is not better than Jily or the other way around, they're just different.
I love Lily and the other female characters but it is possible for someone to dislike one of them and not for misogynistic reasons. Not everything is an attack on women.
Sometimes I like reading fics where certain characters I like are villanised because it seems funny, including Lily. That's not misogynistic. Especially not if I read ones where James or barty or sirius are the bad guy sometimes.
It's okay to like snape. I don't and you might not but that doesn't give you a right to attack the people who do.
What Im saying is, leave people alone and stop attacking them for having different opinions. If you're going to criticise a ship or character at least have the decency to do it in a place where the people who like said character or ship don't have to see it.
It really isn't that hard.
This fandom is supposed to be a free space to enjoy content you enjoy but sometimes doesn't feel like it because of the people who behave like their opinion should be fact and those who disagree can be harassed and bullied until they leave.
Just try to remember that just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's wrong.