Ace

Call me Ace. 29. They/she. Canon Remus Defender. I write Wolfstar fics

[carried-away-with-cleverness-de]

I’ll forever be confused how we (the marauders fandom) looked at the whole cast of characters and concluded that the sarcastic ones were Remus and Regulus. I can’t recall Remus ever being sarcastic in canon, and the only words we get from Regulus are incredibly earnest and pompous and compared to Percy Weasley in tone.

While the characters who do engage in sarcasm—Sirius, Severus, and ‘cheeky’ Lily—are relegated to “too vapid to understand sarcasm", “pompous prat with no sense of humor” and “incredibly sweet until she’s not”.

[caslyra]

YES!

I see Remus more like a dry humor kind of person (without any spite).

'Think I did. One: He's sitting on my chair. Two: He's wearing my clothes. Three: His name's Remus Lupin...' (Remus to James when he asks if he got his DADA exam right ('give five signs to identify the werewolf')

But Sirius is sarcastic af in canon:

'Where’re you hoping to go, seeing as you’re neither?' (Sirius (aged eleven) to Snape after Snape said to James that there's nothing wrong with wanting to go to Gryffindor if you'd rather be brawny than brainy)

'Reading between the lines, I’d say she thinks you’re a bit conceited, mate.' (Sirius (aged sixteen) to James when James asks him what Lily's problem is - after she ranted about him and just called him an 'arrogant toerag' and refused to go out with him in 'Snape's Worst Memory')

'Well, as everyone thinks I’m a mad mass-murderer and the Ministry’s put a ten thousand Galleon price on my head, I can hardly stroll up the street and start handing out leaflets, can I?' (Sirius (aged thirty-five) to Harry when he asks how the Order acquires new recruits)

'I look forward to it.' (Sirius to Molly when she suggests to clean the curtains the next day)

[acewitch-writes]

Fandom decided to make Remus a hyper-masculine dom, and for some reason, this involved stripping him of all of his kindness and softness in the process. Because I guess a character cannot be gentle and kind AND masculine. Only fem characters are allowed to have a character trait as soft as kindness.

If that wasn't bad enough, they also stripped him of any flaw that could be perceived as emasculating. His well-established avoidance and cowardice? His insecurity and passivity? His people pleasing tendencies and self-loathing? His devotion to Dumbledore and his deep admiration (and perhaps envy) for James and Sirius? All gone. Doesn't exist. Fanon Remus is the coolest, smartest, bravest, and most capable of all the Marauders.

Even his appearance was completely altered to ensure that Fanon Remus is just oozing with raw, unfiltered masculinity. This is a topic I am especially heated about as someone who is chronically ill. I relate deeply to Remus because I see my own struggles in the ways his Lycanthropy affects him. It makes him sickly and pallid, he is described as thin and worn down, both from the effects of the disease itself and later from the struggle of keeping himself fed and housed due to the stigma surrounding it.

But Fanon Remus? He's huge. He's buff. He towers over everyone else around him, intimidating and aloof with a cigarette hanging idly between his lips for optimum sex appeal. He is so strong, with his broad shoulders and his rock hard abs, and his Lycanthropy just makes him super fucking aggressive and horny around the full moon. He can lift Sirius up over his head with one arm. He's the Casanova, everyone wants him because he's just so hot and so cool. The fact that he is a werewolf only serves to elevate his primal, masculine allure.

[acewitch-writes]

I actually do think Remus is a pretty good liar/ has a good poker face. The nonchalance when Snape confronts him with the map is legendary.

OKAY SO

Yeah. Remus really can't afford to not have a poker face considering that he has had to carry around a deep, dark secret all his life.

But consider: he's not actually very good at it. Remus has to lie, and at first, it's easy because no one is invested in him enough to dig deeper than surface level. But once he starts making friends and adversaries? He starts to flounder.

I mean, James and Sirius figured it out really early on, according to canon. It was stated that they spent the better part of 3 years learning to become Animagi, and they became Animagi in year 5. Which means that they found out Remus' deepest darkest secret which he guarded with his life around 2nd Year. Which means they were, like, 12/13 years old.

Snape also figured it out by 5th Year (or maybe 6th?). And in the scene with the map, I'm not convinced that Severus believed a word Remus said, so I can't exactly give him credit for having an awesome poker face there. They both knew he was lying. Snape just couldn't prove it in that moment, and so he decided to bide his time.

Later, after the war, Remus struggled to maintain work even though he was unregistered. His Lycanthropy was still a secret to the world up until the end of POA, but he couldn't keep a job because of "what he was." Which tells me that he really wasn't all that good at lying and covering himself without his friends around to help if his employers kept finding out.

So I feel that Remus has a good surface level poker face, but it doesn't hold up under scrutiny.

[acewitch-writes]

thoughts on the pottermore remus lupin write up?

As a rule, I consider Pottermore to be a sort of grey area of "sub"-canon. I see it as being on par with headcanon, so I take it all with a grain of salt. I pick and choose bits of Pottermore to incorporate into my own HCs.

I do appreciate the way pottermore expanded on Remus' family life, and I especially love the background that includes Lyall being prepared to fend off Albus Dumbledore to protect his son. I'm a sucker for the HC that Remus had good, loving parents. The rest of his life is so rife with suffering and pain, so it's just nice to give Remus something happy to hold onto. I don't mind when Remus doesn't always have great parents in fics, though, because it's not something that was ever explicitly stated in canon. I just hate when folks in this fandom go around repeating the mainstream fanon "Remus was an orphan" or "Remus had shitty parents" as if it is undisputed canon.

I also really like the background on how Lyall and Hope met and the way it ties the whole Lupin family together with Boggarts being the common thread. Lyall saved Hope from a Boggart, and they had a Boggart wedding cake topper! What a cute and quirky family! And then Remus goes on to teach DADA and his first lesson is, you guessed it, BOGGARTS! And then he taught James Potter's son how to defend against Boggarts! I love it so much, the link between Boggarts and fear and Remus' Lycanthropy and the fear/cowardice that burdens Remus as a character and—

I'm going to write a detailed analysis on this someday because I just find it so fascinating.

I'm less fond of the way pottermore retconned R*madora, and the comment that Remus made about how "Sirius got all the women", not simply because I'm not a fan of that ship but also because it willfully goes against the already-established canon trait that Sirius was not interested in girls/dating and paid them little attention. I prefer to read it as Remus feeling jealous/envious of Sirius, of the way he never even had to make an effort because he was just so effortlessly handsome and charming, while Remus felt this immense pressure to be good enough and had to work twice as just to be liked and respected (while also feeling unworthy of these things due to his Lycanthropy).

So yeah, all in all, I consider Pottermore to be above fanon, but not necessarily above well-thought-out and nuanced headcanon.

[kazuza-art]

I did you a Sirius again @metalomagnetic hope it will cheer u up 🥹❤️

James/sirius friendship is one of my fav part of Turmoil actually. It soooo wholesome and angsty and honestly everything seems to happened behind the scene but somehow it’s as compelling than the main pair XD

[acewitch-writes]

I was skimming the books to freshen up on canon, and I have been noticing a trend with Remus in DH where he tends to start shouting or speaking too loudly when he is overly excited or nervous and I think that is the cutest thing ever omg I love him so much

[acewitch-writes]

Someone sent me an anon to ask where this happens in DH, and I am here to deliver!

Sooo there's really only two scenes where this happens in DH, but Remus only shows up a small handful of times overall (and most of the time he is desperately miserable)

First, when he arrives at Shell Cottage in chapter 25 to announce the birth of Teddy, Remus is beside himself with joy, he's described as being "dazed by his own happiness." He was so excited about being a dad. Here's the part where he starts shouting from excitement:

Lupin fell over the threshold. He was white-faced, wrapped in a traveling cloak, his greying hair windswept. He straightened up, looked around the room, making sure of who was there, then cried aloud, “It’s a boy! We’ve named him Ted, after Dora’s father!”

Hermione shrieked. “Wha — ? Tonks — Tonks has had the baby?”

“Yes, yes, she’s had the baby!” shouted Lupin. All around the table came cries of delight, sighs of relief...

The next time is in chapter 30 when they are preparing for the Battle of Hogwarts and Percy comes bursting into the scene, creating a tense and awkward situation for all present:

Percy spluttered into silence. Evidently he had not expected to run into most of his family. There was a long moment of astonishment, broken by Fleur turning to Lupin and saying, in a wildly transparent attempt to break the tension, “So — ’ow eez leetle Teddy?”

Lupin blinked at her, startled. The silence between the Weasleys seemed to be solidifying, like ice. “I — oh yes — he’s fine!” Lupin said loudly. “Yes, Tonks is with him — at her mother’s —”

Percy and the other Weasleys were still staring at one another, frozen.

“Here, I’ve got a picture!” Lupin shouted, pulling a photograph from inside his jacket and showing it to Fleur and Harry, who saw a tiny baby with a tuft of bright turquoise hair, waving fat fists at the camera.

“I was a fool!” Percy roared, so loudly that Lupin nearly dropped his photograph.

[acewitch-writes]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!

i hope you have an amazing day 🥳🥳🥳🥳💕💕💕

THANK YOU!!!!!! 🥰🥰

I will try to make the most of it!

[acewitch-writes]

happy birthday 🎂🙌🏽

Thanks anon! 🥰💜

[acewitch-writes]

Happy birthday! <3

Thank you!!! 💜🖤

[impishtubist]

It is always such a breath of fresh air when someone draws fanart of Sirius where he has muscles and body hair.

[acewitch-writes]

Happy birthday!

Aww thank you anon! I love you 🥺

[acewitch-writes]

Someone read the first, like, 15 chapters of my fic today and left a few hate comments about Remus' characterization (they didn't like how much of a pushover he was, or that he felt bad for being mean while in a pain flare up at one point lmao) and Sirius' characterization (he was too stuck up and self absorbed)

They then edited each their comments to add even more hate (one edit was just adding "daaaaaammmmnnnnnn" after a rant about Sirius being a douchebag)

And then, apparently, they realized that leaving hate comments on an author's fic because you disagree with the characterization is a really shitty thing to do, and they deleted all the comments.

[plecotusauritus]

People frame Sirius leaving GP12 and getting a found family from Potters as a sob story for Regulus who lost his brother but I would argue that fascists don't deserve great brothers

[starrylayle]

To all those shippers that depict Sirius as a self-absorbed, short, fem twink with a flare for dramatics -- and Remus as a tall, angry, buff, dom werewolf daddy -- go ahead, it's a fully rounded dynamic! You're actually shipping Gilderoy Lockhart x Fenrir Greyback though! Remember to tag correctly folks! Hope this helps 🥰 🥰 

[acewitch-writes]

Some people in this fandom:

"I love canon Remus, he is such a pathetic loser!" (Insert some obligatory reference to damp socks or wet noodles or crumpled paper towel)

Those very same people:

*exclusively posts/writes/interacts with Fanon Remus who is tall and broad and muscly and cool, often right alongside funsized dainty white twink Sirius who is at least a full foot shorter*

Me:

🤨🤔

....are you sure

[acewitch-writes]

You are so correct. As someone else who is also chronically ill, I don't understand how fandom managed to take lycanthropy, a chronic illness, and turn it into something that makes you huge and strong and buff and horny. I can only conclude that none of these people have ever been ill in their lives, because that is NOT how it works.

Thank you!! It drives me insane the way this fandom pretends to be so progressive and subversive and yet the undertones are SO fucking ableist and comphet??? And yet I'm the one who is ableist for not vibing with the mainstream angry characterization of Remus (or so I have been told many, many times by Fanon Remus stans).

Lycanthropy in canon isn't the best chronic illness rep, but it has so much potential that we could expand on. Instead, fandom fetishized it. Remus' chronic illness gives him superpowers now and makes him huge and muscular with a cock to match. I just can't understand how so many people are blind to the blatant ableism in these headcanons.

[acewitch-writes]

Fandom decided to make Remus a hyper-masculine dom, and for some reason, this involved stripping him of all of his kindness and softness in the process. Because I guess a character cannot be gentle and kind AND masculine. Only fem characters are allowed to have a character trait as soft as kindness.

If that wasn't bad enough, they also stripped him of any flaw that could be perceived as emasculating. His well-established avoidance and cowardice? His insecurity and passivity? His people pleasing tendencies and self-loathing? His devotion to Dumbledore and his deep admiration (and perhaps envy) for James and Sirius? All gone. Doesn't exist. Fanon Remus is the coolest, smartest, bravest, and most capable of all the Marauders.

Even his appearance was completely altered to ensure that Fanon Remus is just oozing with raw, unfiltered masculinity. This is a topic I am especially heated about as someone who is chronically ill. I relate deeply to Remus because I see my own struggles in the ways his Lycanthropy affects him. It makes him sickly and pallid, he is described as thin and worn down, both from the effects of the disease itself and later from the struggle of keeping himself fed and housed due to the stigma surrounding it.

But Fanon Remus? He's huge. He's buff. He towers over everyone else around him, intimidating and aloof with a cigarette hanging idly between his lips for optimum sex appeal. He is so strong, with his broad shoulders and his rock hard abs, and his Lycanthropy just makes him super fucking aggressive and horny around the full moon. He can lift Sirius up over his head with one arm. He's the Casanova, everyone wants him because he's just so hot and so cool. The fact that he is a werewolf only serves to elevate his primal, masculine allure.