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youdrewstarsxaroundmyscars · 10 months

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omg new fic idea

ok so what if it starts out like unrequited starchaser angst right where regulus is like "i wish i were heather 😩" about lily right cause he's jealous of the fact that james is head over heels for her and he wants to be with james but thinks he's not good enough and all that yadda yadda plot angst shit. BUT THEN.

THEN.

regulus and lily are paired up for potions right (cause that's how it always goes obviously duh) and ofc it's cause he got moved up a year whatever that's not the point. THE POINT IS james is now looking over at them and regulus gets upset that he has to deal with james pining over lily when he's right there but also lily is perfect as as much as he tries he can't hate her and they have to work on a project or smth so they become like reluctant friends to actual friends and bond over ✨older sibling issues ✨ and he finds himself falling for HER TOO and he goes about unlearning prejudices and all that fun stuff but like also his feelings for james aren't going away and so he's now stuck being in love with both of them while watching lily be oblivious and james pining for her BUT

what he doesn't realize is james is having a crisis on his own when they get paired together cause oh my god lily what a goddess 😍 but also damn regulus is lowkey looking really good rn wtf 🫣 so HES now navigating his feelings for the both of them and trying not to freak out every time they're in class and he watches them whisper to eachother and smile and is all hopeless and shit cause look at them they're perfect for each other

AND MAYBE

lily is also freaking out a bit cause maybe she's from a more conservative christian household where it's "😡one man one woman😡" (you get one wife! that's the way the world works!!) but oh no the boy who wouldn't stop making fun of her and "fake asking her out" and actually kind of attractive now?? and not quite what she thought he'd be like??? and he's making eyes at the pretty slytherin boy to her left now and moved on from her but yk she can't blame him cause the pretty boy on her left is actually really pretty 😫 and she has a DOUBLE freak out when she realizes she wants both of them while dealing with the religious trauma side of things and also her own insecurities as well while having to watch them both pine at eachother from afar and maybe it hurts

cue the three of them being stupid pining idiots for eachother but very slow burn and gradual and very "oh fuck" "oops" "shit" of them

anyways

james "has two hands" potter BUT ALSO

lily "has two hands" evans AND EVEN

regulus "has two hands" black

cause why stop at james???

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faeringfolk · 6 months

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This time he’s going to do it; the final push.

Yes, he’s aware that this is a tad dramatic. And yes, he knows that Sirius would either laugh hysterically at him for doing this, or scold him relentlessly, but he simply does not care. Regulus is past caring. He hasn’t cared about anything since James left.

So, he paces on the rocks, sending a furtive glance down to the crashing waves climbing up the cliffside.

The water is furious today. It’s battling with the raging winds slapping it around; waves high and dangerous. It could pull anything under its deadly blanket, send it under, and drag it down to the very bottom.

Regulus tells himself that this is good. If anything was going to send a sign to James or any of the Potter’s to come back and save him, this is it; deadly waves and a death wish to jump in.

Either he’ll die, or James will come back to him.

Both of these options sound perfect in Regulus’ mind.

#jegulus new moon au drabble #i have no idea if this is gonna reach the intended audience but god i hope so #jegulus #marauders #the marauders #drabbles #i wrote this like 9 months ago - it's time for labour #i'm kinda liking this idea? should i make a whole fic out of it?!#new moon au #sirius black #regulus black #james potter #crimson rivers #all the young dudes #marauders era #marauders fanfiction #james x regulus #jegulus fic #jegulus au

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billy-reads · 5 months

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Regulus Black is dead to the world. Dead to the islands. Dead to the people who resided on them. Dead to the crew he used to sail with, and the ones he didn't.

Regulus Black was dead to the world when his families ship sunk in the East sea. Their ship, Toujours Pur had sank. Taking its sturdy wood and sails deep under the harsh waves, along with the residents on it. The Black family was gone; par from the disowned, of course.

Gone for 4 years, in fact.

So,

Why on their earth did Lilly Evans have his diary clutched in her sweaty palms? Why was Regulus Black's diary in her hands?

Why was it just sitting there on her desk after a long day manning the lands and her pesky pirate friends?

Why did she read it? The riddle screaming from the worn out pages was a tough one to crack, it was tricky to untangle. But Lilly Evans was a smart woman.

The riddle was a key, a secret, a clue, a pain in her arse to be quite frank.

Regulus Black was alive, and he wanted to be found. He knew something they didn't... something big.

She had to tell the Captains, she had to tell her crew, she had to tell them.

Regulus Black was alive and he wanted to be found. And he, Regulus Arcturus fucking Black, knew how to take down their biggest rival.

The Sacred 28 Fleet of Death Eaters.

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- a fic I might put on Ao3… but I couldn’t help but post the summary 😅

#No idea what this is #New ao3 fic?#Jegulus because they are life rn #regulus black #James potter #jegulus #other ships will be included #you know the gang of the gays? yea? them.#pirate au #1600

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panevanbuckley · 10 months

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i'm doing it. it's taken me two years but i'm finally writing my second jegulus fic!

#cannot believe it's been so long #but also don't blame me is so dear to me and consumed me in a way no other fic has and i've always been scared to do anything else for them #but i couldn't NOT write this new idea so 🤷#hp #jegulus #james potter #regulus black

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orionsgirl7lovegoodravenclaw · 9 months

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Under the oak tree, but Jegulus! James as Riftan, and Regulus as Max. And James comes and saves Regulus from his abusive, repressive family, The Blacks! Although, I refuse to make Sirius evil too 😬

#new fic ideas? me? never.#did this one come to me in the shower? possibly #under the oak tree #Jegulus #James Potter #Regulus Black

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saintsenara · 8 months

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You mentioned fanon turning barty crouch jr. into an uninteresting character. I don't know much about what the new fanon characterisation has really done with him, but I'm curious for your thoughts on why he's a canonically interesting character. I agree that he is, but it sounds like you might have some interesting thoughts on it that are already fleshed out.

thank you for the ask, @jamesunderwater, and i'm sorry for taking so long to drag myself around to answering this.

as you may have gathered if you’ve read my views on jegulus or wolfstar, the common fanon interpretation of marauders-era characters and i don’t really get on.

this is not a new development - me and goofy fanon sirius have been beefing for over a decade at this point, i fear - but our enmity has taken on a new form since (roughly) 2020, when the emergence of what we might call the modern marauders subfandom brought with it a whole series of expectations about characters, ships, personalities, and appearances in first war stories which, let me state my position immediately, have absolutely nothing to do with the characters as they are in canon.

i could talk about sirius or regulus or james or snape or lupin until the cows come home - as, i’m sure, could many of us - but i also dislike the expectations the marauders subfandom has around its supporting cast. these characters - who largely fall under the categories of women, slytherins, or both - have names that we might recognise from canon, but they are - to all intents and purposes - original characters.

to do some marauders fan defending, i do understand the rationale behind this. hogwarts is a school, and it needs to be filled with the sort of incidental characters that lightning-era writers can pull from the canon text (shoutout to ernie macmillan, the mvp). if you’re writing about lily, then she needs friends - why not have them be alice, marlene, dorcas, emmeline, pandora etc.?

[well, because dumbledore isn’t running a child army. it makes no sense for the entire order of the phoenix to be in the same school year - and the idea that alice is probably around ten years older than lily, that pandora is around the same age as narcissa malfoy and isn’t a pureblood, and that marlene, dorcas, and emmeline are hard-nosed ministry bitches in their fifties who can have mad-eye moody quaking with just a look is something which can be prised from my cold, dead hands.]

and if you’re writing about the epic highs and lows of high-school football going to school during a sectarian conflict, then you need some antagonists. which is to say, you need some slytherins.

the issue i have is that the three key slytherins who seem to have been elevated to principal cast in the marauders pantheon - regulus black, barty crouch jr., and evan rosier - get what can only be called the smol bean treatment. that is, that three teenagers who all canonically join a terror organisation are turned into soft and tiny babies who thought lord voldemort was just feeling silly when he said, ‘my aim is the eradication of the muggleborn population through violent means.’

and even fics which do acknowledge that the three willingly become terrorists often go out of their way to provide justifications for this which don’t contextualise their decision (something which is important - you can’t write about snape becoming a death eater without acknowledging the way that poverty, loneliness, and a sense of hopelessness make someone an easy target of radicalisation) but which minimise it. sometimes, their violence is turned into romantic vengeance - i’ve seen a fair amount of suggestions that barty goes to torture the longbottoms because frank was the auror who killed evan. sometimes, authors imply - or even outright state - that there’s no need to see these boys as aspiring villains: voldemort is right; the class system is good and should be maintained; and purebloods (usually james, sirius, regulus, barty, evan and maybe a token woman or two) should stick together while the half-breeds and the mudbloods go hang.

this - like all aristocracy wank in this fandom - annoys me enough with regulus and evan. but it’s particularly grating when it comes to barty crouch jr. because - unlike evan, who is literally just a name in the text, and regulus, who isn’t much more - he actually has a canon personality.

and it’s fascinating. indeed, i would even go so far as to say that barty crouch jr. is the greatest villain in the harry potter series.

[my apologies to lord voldemort.]

after all, even though he’s been imprisoned under the imperius curse for over a decade, barty is still so lucid and powerful that he is able to:

produce magic capable of tricking the goblet of fire, which is treated by all the adult characters involved as unprecedented.

pull off a year-long impersonation of a man whom dumbledore evidently knows extremely well without being clocked until his mission has been successful, even though his opportunities to observe the real moody can have been virtually non-existent. he is in character within seconds of his ambush on moody’s home - after the intruder-alert dustbins are set off - and is able to persuade ministry personnel who can be presumed to have met moody personally (including both amos diggory and arthur weasley, who appear to know him not only personally, but well) that he is the real deal. he maintains his performance even under close scrutiny from the teaching colleagues he has to interact with daily at hogwarts, despite the fact that he presumably can’t get a great deal out of the real moody, since he’s having to be kept deliberately weak and docile under the imperius curse.

manipulate multiple people into become accessories to his crimes, without ever being suspected of doing so. with the hindsight of knowing who he is, the first defence against the dark arts lesson in goblet of fire, in which ‘moody’ deliberately distresses neville by using the cruciatus curse directly in front of him, before swooping in to be the person to cheer him up so that he can plant information which will help harry win the triwizard tournament and deliver him to voldemort, is chilling. he just gets unlucky that harry has the biggest martyr complex in human history.

commit murder on hogwarts’ grounds without ever being suspected of wrongdoing.

execute lord voldemort’s plan to kidnap harry and use him in his resurrection ritual flawlessly. the plan itself may be convoluted - but dark lords are allowed to have a flair for the dramatic, as a treat - but, crucially, it works, and barty succeeds in every respect.

but, i concede, we’re talking about the adult barty here. perhaps he was once a sweetheart who went unfortunately off the rails after his father sent him to prison and then - in effect - drugged him for years. that wouldn’t be a ridiculous suggestion.

except for the fact that - canonically - the teen barty was just as clever, sly, manipulative, and - above all - ardent in his support for voldemort as his adult self.

at his trial in the early 1980s, young barty gives the performance of a lifetime. he screams, he shakes, he looks terrified of the dementors, he is pale and weak and harmless-looking, he begs his mother to help him, he pleads with his father for mercy, he maintains his innocence as he is dragged off to his cell. he gives off the impression of simply having been in the wrong place at the wrong time so well that harry potter is almost certain that his conviction is illegitimate. so too, it is implied, is albus dumbledore.

indeed, barty plays the part of the wrongfully imprisoned so well that - as canon tells us - he not only influences public opinion to be broadly in favour of his probable innocence (or, at least, his diminished culpability - sirius suggests that the widespread view was that he was probably there, but that he only ended up involved in what was clearly bellatrix’s idea because of his father’s failure to relate to him properly), but also changes public opinion against the government’s anti-death-eater strategy entirely. following his imprisonment, his father - a man who never met an extrajudicial punishment he didn’t like, and whose ruthless approach to dealing with the death eaters in the first war (such as his use of internment for suspected terrorists, his order to aurors to shoot to kill) was, we are told, enormously popular with the wizarding public - is forced to resign in disgrace from his role as head of the department of magical law enforcement. crouch sr. is quietly shuffled off into a boring bureaucratic position, his ambitions to be minister in tatters, and his only way forward to free his son from the prison cell where he is languishing for the crime he very literally did.

[as an aside, i do think that we are supposed to read that bellatrix is the ringleader of the torture of the longbottoms. but, all too often, that gets reduced to her doing everything while rodolphus, rabastan, and barty just stand there gormlessly. they were clearly performing the curses too!]

now, barty’s unusual cunning can - of course - be explained by narrative reasons. the text needs to conceal that he’s the villain (since, as with philosopher’s stone, it wants to imply that the dark lord’s faithful servant at hogwarts is severus snape) until the very end - and this naturally requires dumbledore to not think too hard about whether his good judy alastor is behaving even more strangely than usual.

the text also needs to suggest that he is innocent in order to properly stick the landing on the narrative role of his father - barty crouch sr. as with dolores umbridge in order of the phoenix, crouch sr. exists to show harry (and the reader) that the rot in the wizarding world was not caused by - and will not stop with the defeat of - voldemort. his ruthlessness and inflexibility, his lack of respect for due process, his astonishingly cruel treatment of winky (brutal beyond even the standard way in which wizards abuse their enslaved elves) all serve to teach harry that the anti-voldemort cause can become just as easily corrupted as the disillusioned young men in voldemort’s orbit. the suggestion that crouch sent his own son to azkaban without good reason, simply because he would not deviate from his beliefs, is an important lesson to harry about what ‘justice’ actually means.

but, despite this, barty is also able to pull off his deception because he’s spectacularly talented. it’s not all just narrative.

and his talents are caused by characteristics which aren’t good or bad in and of themselves. he’s clearly very intelligent (he got twelve owls, the series’ benchmark for genius). he’s hyper-observant, creative, adaptable, good under pressure, and possessed of nerves of steel. he shares these traits with other villains in the series - voldemort above all - but he also shares them with plenty of the heroes. harry, for one.

which is to say that all of his personality traits could be put to non-criminal uses. but - as with harry, who is capable of being quite sinister when he wants to be (for example, when he manipulates slughorn into giving up the horcrux memory) - they would give a non-criminal barty an edge. and this doesn’t seem to be present in his standard fanon persona - as sweet and goofy as all marauders-era men - to any great extent.

finally, there is another aspect of barty’s character which is absent from his fanon version - that he clearly has some sort of childhood trauma, but that this does not excuse any of what he does.

even though crouch sr. is right to send him to azkaban, he was clearly also a cold and distant father, who had absolutely no idea how to relate to his son.

[as another aside, this emotional negligence is bad enough without it needing to be written as having been accompanied by extreme physical and/or sexual abuse. there seems to be a real tendency in fan-fiction - not only in marauders-era stuff, although the exaggeration of orion and walburga black into despotic villains is one example of this - to make childhood misery ‘worse’, in order to justify a character’s later actions.]

voldemort demonstrably uses barty’s terrible relationship with crouch sr. (and his absolutely flagrant daddy kink) to groom him into taking the dark mark (not least because there’s otherwise no explanation for why he cheerfully informs him that he too is named after his dad), which he may very well end up taking when he’s still at school. my reading is that he’s recruited to inform on his father - since voldemort would undoubtedly wish to keep the head of the department of magical law enforcement under constant surveillance - and that this is why the dark lord pays him the attention he is so obviously lacking.

but, as with snape and regulus and draco malfoy and all the other young death eaters, barty also colludes in his own radicalisation. voldemort is a master at ensnaring recruits, sure, but he’s also a busy man. he only bothers to make the effort because the clever, creative, cunning, manipulative young man - who wishes to avenge himself on the father who never paid him attention (sound familiar?) - he finds before him is very much determined to become a spectacular part of his terrorist organisation. and stories which feature him owe it to him to give him that dark complexity of character

show the series’ best villain some respect.

#asenora meta #barty crouch jr #characterisation #asks answered

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my-castles-crumbling · 13 days

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Focus On Me- New Jegulus Fic!

I...completely forgot to post this on here!

So, I've been super excited about this idea for WEEKS and I finally got around to starting it!

Pairing: Jegulus (background wolfstar) Rating: Explicit (minors DNI) Length: 3k (WIP, 1/7 chapters completed) Important tags: Trans!Reg, Nonbinary!Sirius, model!Regulus, model!Sirius, photographer!James, AU (modern, no powers, everyone lives), NOT a slowburn, VERY explicit

Summary:

"And then, throwing caution to the wind, he slowly lowered himself back completely, resting his body on the bed, before arching his back and biting his finger, as if to stop himself from making a noise. He held the pose for a moment, expecting some direction, or the click of the camera, but he heard nothing. So he looked up, his eyes meeting the hazel ones he’d admired earlier. And there James was, his mouth a bit agape, staring at him both through the lens of the camera and over it, looking like he’d been hit over the head with a bowling ball." - James is a photographer in need of a model. It just so happens that Regulus is a model. And there are LOTs of ways that one can take a picture.

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starrylayle · 3 months

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Marauders Fandom > "There is no canon !!" and other rhetorics

Guess who's back in their marauders phase after 2-3 years of being dormant lmao?? ((spoiler its me lol)). Anyways, a lot has changed since 2021 in this fandom so I just wanted to talk about the direction i think it's going.

I remember in 2020-21 the fandom started to boom in popularity on tiktok --> esp with the rise wolfstar + atyd. I remember people were so suprised with remus' characterization as 'rougher around the edges' instead of the 'soft boi' thing, and how that influenced the new wolfstar dynamic. [Just want to add that the atyd characterisation is much more complex than this and its one of my fave fics --> I'm more talking about the fandom at large's reaction to this)

And since fandom is incapable of having two nuanced and characters who are not stark opposites,, their roles were basically reversed and now Remus is the toxic dom alpha male and sirius is the cute girlyboy twink --- which um,,, the oc-ification is so real its embarrassing but whatever (omg don't even get me started on jegulus 💀)). I just assumed these would stay as headcanons. But now we have people saying, that 'we barely know anything abt the marauders in canon' or 'isn't the whole point of fandom to make shit up?' which i have sO many issues with so let me just try and compile my thoughts into dot points for the sake of coherency.

'we barely know anything abt the marauders in canon' ---> First of all, Remus, Sirius and Severus are fully fleshed out characters in the og series -- why do you think people would care enough to create an entire fandom based on their backstories if they were 2d flat characters in canon?? Like bffr. I saw a post on here (forgot who it was by, let me know if u know!) that said, 'I didn't cry over sirius' death in OotP just for ppl to say that we know nothing abt him in canon'. Like, its just mind-boggling to me lol.

'isn't the whole point of fandom to make shit up?' --> Ok y'all. For a fandom to work, there have to be some guidelines, some kind of source material, some point of reference so people can build upon it and make content. I think we can all agree on that. One reason why HP is such a popular place for fandom is the world-building and potential plots/storylines. I see some people argue that jk rowling was a shit writer anyways so might as well contradict everything she says. Now, I don't disagree with that point in particular, Jo is a pretty mediocre writer and a terrible person. HOWEVERrr, I'd argue that it is a lot more fascinating when people expand or work on the concepts in HP. JK Rowling has a lot of great ideas but executes them terribly -- I love when fic writes do this, which prolly explain why I love atyd as it is still very much canon compliant but executes themes on class, disability and queerness that jkr could barely do in subtext. This doesn''t mean I only think canon compliant fics are valid. That's not the case! I think as long as the charcterization is consistent to the character and the particular circumstances/world they're in, its fine! In fact, I love seeing how the same character would function if in a different place! I also love seeing explorations of the magic and magic systems in aus or fix it fics (or even canon compliant ones) that still fit in with the canonnical system that we know.

I guess what I'm trying to say I wish the marauders fandom explored the world and charcterizations more deeply instead of creating shallow oc-fied version of the characters that fit into whatever's trending -- like just write your own book or smth lol -- booktok will eat it up i promise.

Also, kinda related kinda not but um,,, why are we romanticising fascists -- like babe no evan rosier is not your babygirl he canonnoically tortured multiple ppl and became a death eater soo... not saying that I wouldn't want an exploration of his character or even a relationship with barty -- (who's not some cool dairk-haired edgelord but a actually a cowardly fascist murderer with blond hair -- yes the blond hair is important) -- I'd just want them to be portrayed as the not morally good people they are. Like,, if u want to oc-ify a character like pick someone whos not a death eater or has little info on them like dirk cresswell or frank longbottom,,, or ya know,, one of the MANY female characters in the fandom ((This fandom also has a problem with women and sapphic ships in general but that's a whole other issue lol).

I know this 'babygirlification' of death eaters doesn't mean to do this, but it also ends up watering down the themes of oppression, bigotry, etc and leaves us with not nearly as complex characters. Also one of the issues I had with the og HP world is that JK will introduce concepts like wizard racism and slavery and then just like,, not really do anything about it or just have half-arsed redemption arcs whilst not ever actually exploring the root of the issue. And now i feel like the fandom is following in those footsteps unfortunately.

Anyways, i've been rambling for too long so I'll just leave it here. Sorry if this came off as mean spirited in anyway,, I just have a lot of thoughts�� and my family is sick of hearing them lol. These opinions are not set in stone however so I'd love to hear your thoughts on this subject! At the end of the day this is fandom and we're supposed to have fun -- so yeah !! thanks for reading if you made it this far!

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weirdtinkerbellversion · 5 months

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Dec 1. Prompt: Snow. Word count: 197 @jegulus-microfic

This is my first ever microfic (or fic or anything really) I’ve written for the fandom. I’ve been scared to do it ‘cause I haven’t written fiction in years, so please be nice, I’m sensitive and I will cry. It’s just a bunch of fluff because I need it, and I love the idea of the black brothers trying new things that they were deprived of during their childhood. No warnings :)

“James, what is that?” Regulus asks, scrunching his nose at the colorful concoction in his boyfriend’s hand.

“A Piragua!”

Reg raises his eyebrow, waiting for an explanation.

“You know, like a snow cone, except better.”

When the look on his boyfriend’s face doesn’t budge, James’ smile falters and he shakes his head. “I hate your fucking parents.” Who doesn’t, Regulus thinks.

“It’s shaved ice and flavored syrup. The perfect combination of cold and sweet, like you.”

Regulus rolls his eyes at his boyfriend. “And you chose Rainbow vomit flavor?”

“Oh, I couldn’t pick just one flavor so I mixed all of them,” he says, shrugging his shoulders.

Reg stares at it, wondering how to even start. James, ever the mind-reader, produces two plastic spoons from behind his back, and uses his to take a big chunk off the top, trying to get all the flavors in one bite. Reluctantly, Regulus pokes at the shaved ice then finally takes a small spoonful of red to try while James stares at him expectantly.

“James?” “Yes mi amor?” “We’re going to need a second snow cone” “Anything for you, my little pi…” “Don’t you dare call me a piragua, Potter.”

#jegulus microfic #jegulus #My first ever fic!#A whole lot of jegulus fluff cause they deserve it and we deserve it #Leaning into the latinX James headcanon cause why not?#marauders

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jegbigbang · 17 days

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Mod Announcement (Re: Fic Ideas)

Hi everyone! We are so happy to hear that so many of you are excited to join us!

Even though some of us mods have been talking about this since last year, we didn’t factor in the fact that a lot of people weren’t expecting a Jegulus Big Bang and some questions regarding fic ideas have popped up. As is detailed in our FAQ, in order to maintain anonymity when we are doing artist and writer pairings, we require all fic ideas to be new.

That said, as this is our first year and we popped up without much warning, we have discussed within the mod team and have decided to allow people to submit ideas that they may have posted about or discussed in online spaces before, within reason.

If you have a fic idea and have briefly discussed it on Tumblr, you have until sign ups open on May 1st to scrub mentions of the idea from your blog. The sooner the better. Any works that have already had a chapter posted or been extensively promoted are still ineligible for the fest. However, if there’s an idea you made a couple of posts about you are free to delete and choose that idea for your big bang fic!

If the Jeg Big Bang continues in the future, we won’t be allowing this again—but there’s always going to be some teething issues on the first run! Once again we are so thankful for all the responses we’ve had, and are so excited to hear everyone’s ideas!

– Shan & Maggie

#jegbang #jegulus #hp events #hp fest #james potter #regulus black #starchaser #jegulus big bang #faq #mod announcement

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acewitch-writes · 9 months

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Since I privated all of my fics and all I have on my ao3 is a dark!Remus AU oneshot, I figured I would share a snippet of a fic that I was working on before I lost inspiration. I'm not sure if I'll ever return to this idea (maybe someday), but this idea features Slytherin!Sirius and was intended to be a rivals/enemies to lovers wolfstar (with background jegulus) that follows the marauders through each year at Hogwarts.

(When I said "idk I'm new here" I meant it, so idk if I'm doing this right but HERE WE GO)

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Remus' worst subject is Potions.

This is largely due to the fact that Professor Slughorn is the worst and seems to think it's a good idea to assign everyone a "potions partner." And since that's not horrible enough by itself, he decided to pair each Gryffindor with a Slytherin for a partner since they share the period. He calls it "a gesture of house unity."

Of course, Sirius is a masterful potioneer. It's honestly infuriating the way he doesn't even have to reference the textbook in order to brew a perfect potion. He always does a one-over of the ingredients and the instructions, closes his textbook and tucks it away, and never glances at it again as he proceeds to create a flawless potion.

So James ended up paired with Severus. Peter is paired with Mulciber. And Remus was lucky enough to be landed with Sirius Black.

Meanwhile, Remus always ends up making several trips to the ingredients storage cupboard because he keeps forgetting something and he has to reference each step in the potion-making process in the textbook about a million times before he's confident that he's doing it right.

So naturally, Sirius is usually finished with his assignment early on while Remus is still frantically chopping ingredients or stirring the cauldron with immense concentration to make sure he gets the number of rotations exactly right.

And Sirius gets bored. And when Sirius gets bored, he entertains himself with cruel taunts and pranks.

Today, they are attempting to brew sleeping draughts. It's a simple enough potion, Remus actually thinks he stands a shot at scraping through this particular lesson. But Sirius has other ideas.

"Those aren't asphodel petals."

Remus grits his teeth without looking up from the task of counting out exactly 13 dried petals. "Yes, they are."

Sirius likes to make Remus second-guess himself. He seems to think it a fun game to convince Remus that he's mucking up every assignment. Remus ended up ruining his potion and filling the entire classroom in a cloud of purple foam when he fell for it last time. He has found that his best chance at success is ignoring any advice from Sirius.

"Nope, those are hyacinth petals," Sirius says matter-of-factly, leaning against the table and eyeing the white petals coolly. "Trust me, you don't want to add hyacinth petals to this potion."

Remus almost falters. Either Sirius is very persuasive or Remus is very naive because he knows better than to fall for this. "I know what ingredients I have. The label said asphodel."

"Then it was mislabeled," Sirius quips back. "Because those are not asphodel petals."

Remus can't help it. He pauses for a moment to peer at the white petals, frowning uncertainly. He glances at the picture in the textbook, and it doesn't really help to clear his self-doubt. They look like the same general shape and color, but it's hard to tell since they're all dried and shriveled.

He decides to stick to his gut this time and pointedly begins the task of grinding the flowers into a fine powder. Because even if he's wrong, at least it'll be an honest mistake and not the result of childlike gullibility.

Sirius shrugs and pushes off the edge of the table. "Fine. Don't say I didn't warn you."

Remus looks up at him. Sirius smirks back. He's bluffing. He's just trying to trick Remus into fucking up his potion.

Remus defiantly tips the powdered petals into the cauldron, and right as he does so, Sirius backs away from the table. And Remus has about 1 second to realize that he was, in fact, not bluffing this time before the world goes dark.

Waking up is humiliating. Remus finds himself blinking back into consciousness lying on the floor of the dungeon. His vision is all hazy and his mouth tastes funny and he is surrounded by a crowd of onlookers. Professor Slughorn is leaning over him, lightly slapping the side of his face to rouse him.

"Come on, my boy, up, up. You're alright, just a small mishap," he says, nudging Remus until he sits upright. "It appears you've mistakenly used hyacinth petals instead of asphodel, it's a common error, the fumes from such a concoction will knock a Hippogriff unconscious upon contact." To the class, he raises his voice to add, "Do be sure to double check the labels in the store room so we can avoid incidents such as this one in the future!"

James comes forward to help Remus to his feet, and Remus can't help swaying a little once he's standing. His head feels terribly woozy and he thinks he might vomit.

"I tried to warn him, Professor Slughorn," Sirius pipes up, expression perfectly innocent. "I told him he had hyacinth petals, but he wouldn't listen to me."

Remus shoots a glare at Sirius, but there's no use trying to defend himself. Slughorn adores Sirius, he's one of his most favorite "Slug Club" pupils, and he can do no wrong in Slughorn's mind.

Slughorn lets out a huff of disappointment, shaking his head. To the class, he declares, "Well, then, let this be a valuable lesson! We should not allow pride to close our minds. We should always be willing to accept genuine advice from others, even those we don't necessarily get along with." He directs that last part to Remus with a stern look. Then, he gestures at Sirius. "Sirius, m'boy, since you have already completed today's assignment, would you be a lad and escort Mr. Lupin to the hospital wing? Simply a precaution, I'm sure there is nothing to worry about, but Poppy may wish to administer a Pepperup potion to counter the effects of the sleeping gas."

Sirius starts to agree when James cuts in. "Sir, I've finished my potion, too, so I could escort Remus to the hospital wing. If that's alright?"

Remus doesn't have a chance to feel grateful to James because Slughorn immediately turns him down. He goes on one of his ruddy "house unity" spiels and insists that Sirius be the one to accompany Remus. So Remus resigns himself to the ongoing humiliation of trailing out of the classroom behind Sirius fucking Black.

Remus is still a little unsteady on his feet and he has the unyielding desire to just lie down and sleep on the floor. But when Sirius offers out his arm to steady him, Remus ignores him and pointedly staggers ahead.

Sirius just shrugs and follows after him. "Hey, it's not like I didn't try to warn you."

"Yeah, you're such a bloody saint," Remus mutters. "Slughorn certainly seems to believe your act."

"Aww, have we still got our knickers in a twist over the girding potion last month?"

"You swapped my doxy eggs for fairy eggs!"

"Or maybe you're just really bad at Potions," Sirius snarks back. "The only resemblance between the two is the size. Doxy eggs are black, fairy eggs are brightly coloured. It's your own fault you didn't notice."

"Yeah, I'm bad at Potions," Remus grumbles. "Which means I am perfectly capable of mucking it up all on my own, without any help from you. Can't you just let me fail in peace?"

"Where's the fun in that?" Sirius laughs. "I've never met anyone as hopelessly gullible as you, Loopy, you make it too easy."

Remus clenches his jaw and falls silent for the rest of the walk. When they reach the hospital wing, Sirius turns on his "innocent-good-boy" act for Madame Pomfrey and informs her of what happened before Remus has a chance to open his mouth.

She thanks Sirius for being so bloody chivalrous for taking the time to escort Remus here and tells him that he is free to leave as she bustles off to fetch some Pepperup potion from the storage room. Sirius departs with a charming smile, but he pauses in the doorway once Pomfrey is gone.

He looks at Remus and smirks wickedly. "I swapped the labels."

#remus lupin #sirius black #acewitch snippets #fanfic #wolfstar #Slytherin!Sirius

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snarky-magpie · 22 days

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Nobody asked for this, but maybe somebody will find it interesting. Either way, I want to put it out there for accountability :D

So, here we go. My current writing projects (and by that, I mean active WIPs, not the zillion ideas in my folders for 'when pigs fly'). 1. Of Cats, Flowers, and Soulmates: Jegulus, soulmate AU (shocking, given the name, I know) written, partially edited, will post the first chapter on the weekend. 2. Something New: Jegulus, 'there was only one room/bed', enemies to lovers, written, needs to be edited. 3. Like An Old Friend: Jegulus, second chance, exes to lovers, currently writing (yes, I have no chill), a sequel to Something New. 4. A Drop of Luck: Jegulus, my next long fic, enemies to lovers, Hogwarts but canon divergent (no Voldy), outlined in excruciating detail but haven't started yet.

#on writing #writing stuff #fic writing #jegulus #my writing #the marauders

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futurequibblerjournalist · 5 months

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˗ˏˋ✎ ´ˎ˗marauders masterlist

Friendly reminder: I take fic requests! (If you have a general idea, pop it in my ask box with a ship and I'll get around to it!) — I have very few marauders era ships I won't write, so even if you don't see them between the stuff I've already written, you're still very welcome to throw them at me!

AO3

currently updating

trempé de sueur || E | 2.1k | 1/? | jegulus | After spending most of his summers reading and simply lounging around as a way to distract himself from the heat of France and the intensity of his family, Regulus finds a new distraction in the handsome stranger his brother brings along one particularly eventful summer. Even a summer that seems to last forever will eventually come to an end and what then, when Regulus no longer finds himself satisfied with the romances he's gotten so used to reading about but never quite experiencing?

completed

routines || G | 1.4k | oneshot | wolfstar || Sirius during his time in Azkaban spends his time trying to remember his routines and most importantly, Remus.

laughter in the bedroom || E | 3k | oneshot | jily || Lily brings up the idea of pegging to her boyfriend. (Possibly getting a sequel)

addicting stage presence || E | 6.3k | oneshot | wolfstar || After going to a bar with Lily and a few other friends, Remus finds himself on his knees in a back alley after eyeing the bassist of the band that's been playing all night.

less than ideal study techniques || E | 2.3k | oneshot | rosekiller || Worried about flunking his N.E.W.T's, Barty needs to study. Evan decides to wave a carrot in front of his boyfriend with the help of some cockwarming.

when the stars shined a little brighter || G | 1.8k | oneshot | no ship, Black brothers/Sirius centric || Sirius remembers his last birthday celebrated with his younger brother.

reverse dress up || E | 3.8k | oneshot | rosekiller || While Evan is determined to find a shirt for their upcoming night out, Barty is determined to be a menace after deciding the shopping was too boring. Luckily Barty was also quick to decide Evan needed a bit of help in the dressing room.

A Very Merry Christmas Cliché || G | 70.6k | 10/10 | jegulus || A Hallmark inspired Christmas fic featuring divorcé James trying to give his son Harry the best Christmas ever — with the help of event coordinator Regulus, who's newly arrived in Godric's Hollow after leaving many years prior.

a losing game || E | 3.6k | oneshot | jegulus || Regulus finds his hands wandering down south after he causes Slytherin to lose a match against Gryffindor, all due to the fact that he couldn't stop ogling their chaser.

sharpshooter || E | 4.7k | oneshot | rosekiller || After spending far too long unable to, Barty gives Evan the sloppiest, messiest blowjob in the nearest bathroom.

coming soon

stab/stalk au || rosekiller | After discovering the case of missing Judge Bartemius Crouch Senior, Evan Rosier finds himself intrigued by both the case and the family that surrounds it. Within just a few months he finds himself deeply curious in especially Crouch Senior's son, poor Bartemius Crouch Junior, a young boy around Evan's age, who was left to care for his sickly mother all on his own. Though the more Evan learns about Bartemius, or, as he likes to call him, Barty, the more he is forced to realise that perhaps tragedy doesn't just follow Barty on accident.

Strictly Come Dancing AU || jegulus | Regulus, a well known dancer on the show Strictly Come Dancing gets assigned to partner up with athlete James. Despite them suiting each other well in looks alone and people having high hopes for them as the queer couple of the season, the two have absolutely no chemistry. Strictly curse, will they, won't they? Regulus wants to win more than anything, but to what lengths will he go to, to do so?

#marauders era #marauders #hp #hp fandom #hp marauders #masterlist #fanfiction #fanfic #fanfiction masterlist #ao3 writer #wolfstar #wolfstar fic #rosekiller #rosekiller fic #jegulus #jegulus fic #jily #jily fic

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