Lily Evans in a suit.
i used to be a jegulus to jegulily or a jily to jegulily gal but now I'm 100% a regulily to jegulily bc like i love it sm no other words
the porn bots are after me
regulus black is not one of your little slytherin boys
THAT MAN IS GAY
Was actually the first in the marauders to be punk. Remus insists that he was the one who introduced punk to everyone but Marlene just sits there glaring at him because she knows she’s always been way more punk than this nerd.
At thirteen she was the one who strutted around with black nail varnish and oversized band t-shirts. Punk women owned her entire heart.
Biggest Blondie fan in Hogwarts.
Cut her hair short once and wore a boys’ uniform because she was feeling ✨masculine✨ one year. Every single one of her friends experienced gay panic.
Had her ears pierced by Dorcas.
She has a golden retriever. Idk why she just gives me major golden retriever vibes.
Irish Marlene anyone??
They decide to go by all pronouns bc gender doesn’t mean shit to them. They still identify as a lesbian though: he/she/they butch lesbian Marlene.
She can sing but her voice is a little husky from all the cigarettes she smokes. This actually makes her sound even hotter, at least in Dorcas’s eyes.
They were Lily’s queer awakening and the two definitely made out more than once before Marlene got together with Dorcas.
She loves horror movies. And I mean loves them. They are her favourite genre and she absolutely loves the aesthetic of “hot person with blood splattered all over them”. Rip Marlene McKinnon you would have loved Heathers.
Fuck it, one year Marlene just straight up looks like Matthew Lillard in the first Scream movie lol.
Okay if anyone has read About a Boy (and I mean read the book not watched the film) she has almost the exact vibes of the character Ellie McCrae. No more needs to be said.
She plays electric guitar because I say so.
Her and James are besties. Not friends, not best friends, besties.
Sirius’s motorcycle did not in fact belong to him at first. It belonged to Marlene who was literally so careless that Dorcas begged her to give it up out of fear of Marlene’s own safety.
Marlene has dyslexia and her and James bonded over not being able to fucking read quickly and hating their homework (James has ADHD). They both set up a little study group where they helped each other and figured out different ways to make reading and writing easier for themselves, even if that meant just being there to support each other.
Marlene definitely wears a shirt that says dyke on it.
What guts me about OOTP is that the entire order felt safe at the cost of one order member feeling triggered, unsafe and depressed. It’s such a coldly utilitarian outlook on part of those who are essentially the good guys to just go “suck it up” everytime Sirius subsequently displays signs of depression or anxiety. Like the idea of an unplottable safe house is so convenient, what’s one convicted mass murderer (who’s a Black) innocent or otherwise in the grand scheme of the greater good? Who cares if justice is never achieved and the innocent remain oppressed? What use is a paltry pardon when it’s over a decade of lost time, reputation, mental stability? What difference does it make given that Sirius was from a magical bloodline prone to mental health issues and would have gone off the “deep end” anyway? What did the life of one man matter against the weight of glorious destiny?
I adore the trans regulus headcannon and it’s something that brings me so much comfort, but I feel that we always just say he cuts his hair and wears stereotypical boys clothes and suddenly he passes completely, and I just feel as though we should sometimes delve much deeper into him NOT passing, and how that affects the way he lives life, because not everyone’s trans journeys are the same, and not everyone passes, and yet in things like fanfics and stories the trans characters pass even though that’s not true to the experiences of lots of trans people, and although I don’t know if other non passing trans people feel like this, it makes me feel like I’m less or not valid because people wouldn’t look at me and think that I was a boy.
Stop writing marauders fics and making peter this outcast that they ignore and didn't love. His betrayal hurt for a reason. Remus truly believed Sirius did it. And Sirius didn't want Pete dead because he let him go to Azkaban. No, he wanted him dead because he did what they promised they never do and that's hurt each and he did that. And I know for a fact James would resent him because he didn't just put James and Sirius in danger, he put lily and harry in danger. But secretly he'd forgive him. He'd pray it was a trick and peter was tortured. Or he was being a spy for Dumbledore and had to say something. James loved peter. Remus loved peter. Sirius loved peter. PETER IS A MARAUDER WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT. That doesn't mean you have to hate him. But stop making him this terrible, evil, scheming, person.
"why can't they just be friends-"
Because for centuries queers have had to live in the margins and the subtext and it's all we had, and now that we don't have to keep it secret anymore, you can shut your fucking mouth and just happily watch your canon hetty couple get together for the millionth time.
Straight cis characters will always outnumber queer ones, 1000 to 1, so shut the fuck up about subtext and leave the queer portion of the fandom alone.
Go sob about how Bella and Edward are made for each other and leave Charlie Carlisle fans alone.
James “bastard” Potter
Remus “orphan” Lupin
Sirius “son of a whore” Black
Peter “and a Scotsman” Pettigrew