#marauders conversation

[c0smic-spir1t]

people take pride in not reading the actual canon books or not following them, their "canon" is a bunch of popular fics (all of them with unrecognizable Remus and Sirius characterizations. ATYD even has a disclaimer about it in its summary!). I honestly don't understand how they're so proud of saying that they can't handle reading books aimed at 8-12 year olds, but I guess that explains why they're all so creatively bankrupt.

It’s baffling to be honest. If you solely base everything you know about HP on fanon and fanfic only, you are gonna end up with a completely different story!

I can understand teenaged Sirius and Remus (and Peter) having slightly different characteristics/being ooc in marauder era fics since they have yet to live through the shitstorm that is their early 20s and beyond and are just students. However the level that some people change their characters makes it almost impossible to line them up with the characters you see in the canon series, and from things labelled “canon compliant” or that have “slight divergence from canon but still relatively canon compliant” it can be quite off putting.

I am all for headcanons, i have quite a few myself, but to claim that someone’s headcanon/OC is part of the canon narrative is very annoying! *cough cough* Grant Chapman *cough cough* And then using that fanfic/headcanon/OC to justify and back up their arguments about stuff that happens in the canon storyline is just mind blowing!

I think the thing that personally annoys me most about atyd is the people who try to use this fic as gospel. That claim that this story is the actual canonical story of the marauders at Hogwarts. The people who get so pissed off if you say 1 negative word about it. (Well I have a lot of negative words about it and I’ll gladly share them 😅)

Besides the people who take pride in not reading the canon books are missing out on a LOT of lore and characterisation of some characters, but that’s their loss. Also kind of a stupid thing to take pride in but oh well, gold star for them I guess, you managed to avoid a children’s book series 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[mistermxxnys]

Thank you, thank you, thank you for your jily art!! It's always so delightful and joyful to see "new blood" in our fandom, especially new artists or writers, especially since jily lovers have become rarer 🥺 they deserve the best! You don't know how happy it made me to see your posts yesterday 🥹

No, thank you for this incredibly sweet message!! It makes me incredibly happy (I immediately showed this ask to my fiancé because it made me BEAM) to hear that!!! I joined the Marauders fandom when I was 12/13 - originally by lurking and then eventually by fanfic creation myself. Back in the day, Jily was such of a commonplace ship!! When I was 17ish? I started getting into art, and I created some very rough Marauders fanart because I was very immersed in the world & fandom. Unfortunately, during the big bad Corona, I started to fall out of love with the Marauders fandom due to all the controversies within it - and the rise of certain ships I personally disagreed with. I felt like I had to conform to the new look of Marauders content or cease creation. (This wasn't ACTUALLY the case, I just didn't have the headspace and growth mindset at the time to realize that inherently other creators or myself are doing nothing wrong by simply just doing what they love.) I've always wanted to create a blog specifically for the Marauders, but I felt as though I missed the "prime". I've since realized that is not true!! The Marauders are an incredibly fan-nurtured niche in the canon Harry Potter fandom! The fans keep it alive by breathing new life into it. So, I decided with this blog, I would create a space where I felt comfortable to share the part of the Marauders that *I* personally originally fell in love with. That's what I think is the beauty of this fandom- at its core - we all share these characters and nobody has the right to make anyone feel unwelcomed in it! Personally, one of the things I love about the Marauders is Jily! It's been a dream come true to see that there are such supportive and kind people in this fandom - like yourself - who support new creators even though the content may not be as popular as it once was. So, really from the bottom of my heart, thank *you* for taking the time to send this in my ask box! And thank you for bearing with my needlessly long post lol

[themaraudera]

*at harry’s birth*

Remus: now that our circle of profanity counts amongst its members a pure and innocent soul, i vow to exclude all swearing

Sirius: heck

Remus: what the fuck did i just say?

Remus: shit

[hogwarts-in-beaconhills]

“Padfoot, my brother, my absolute bestest friend in all of the world, my second favorite human after Lily, will you tell your boyfriend to give me chocolate?”

“Prongsie, I’m honored, but what makes you think I have that kind of power? Moons would tell the Queen of England to kiss his arse if she told him to give her chocolate.”

“Probably, but I might share if she asked very politely.”

“No you wouldn’t Moons.”

“That’s fair.”

-Hale

[i-am-shitpost]

The marauders as things my friends and I have said and done...

Remus and Sirius: and now we are husbands

Sirius and James: *sings story of my life at top of lungs*

Peter: Every car is a Subaru if you believe

James: you know who wasn’t an angsty teen? MC Hammer

Sirius: It’s like height communism

Sirius to Remus: you just said mmm to chocolate covered cannabalism

Sirius: it’s noon 03

Peter: why would anyone put not crunchy slime in the crunchy slime hashtag

- -

Remus: Chewbacca isn’t a Weasley

James: What do you mean?

- -

Sirius: what happens when I’m not the center of attention? FiNd OUt iN thE NeXT EPiSODe

All of them: *sings never gonna give you up at top of lungs while spinning as fast as humanly possible on a merry-go-round*

James: I’ll kill you with my nub nubs

Sirius: be the zamboni to my sins, cleanse me

Remus: how dareth thee show your shoulders

James: Say Reylo again and I’ll pee your pants

[thescamanderboys]

Sirius: It's not my fau-

James: You were the only one there.

Sirius: And???

James: Remus already told me it was all you, it's too late.

[the-marauders-ask-blog]

Well that's awkward

Remus played by @loony-loopin

[c0smic-spir1t]

I've seen your post in #anti atyd and I wanted to share something.

First and foremost, I am a Remus Lupin die hard fan. I recently got back on tumblr to feed my obsession with this character. I was not previously aware of the "marauders era" or aware that atyd even existed. I honestly hate it. What I hate the most is when I am trying to look for Remus content and I'm hit with freaking Andrew Garfield propaganda. Are you kidding me?

I love Lupin because he is a grown man with experience, strength, maturity, and wise knowledge. I'm not interested in some edgy teenagers you know? I also believe the way he is portrayed in atyd is so out of character...

Don't get me wrong. It is entirely OK that atyd exists and that the author wrote it and had fun and that people are enjoying it...but so much of it is pushed as "canon" and it just pollutes my feed and I guess I'm just tired of seeing Andrew Garfield. I also feel like the atyd side of the marauders' fandom tend to romanticize things that should not be romanticized and it's uncomfy. Like they can't accept that canon marauders were not nice and perfect popular boys. They were bullies and did bad things.

Anyways sorry for the rant but I feel like there is no safe space for me to express those thoughts without getting jumped by angry people.

Thank you :)

I can see where you’re coming from. Remus Lupin is my favourite character in the whole of HP and I love all the intricacies of his character. He is not just the soft, uncle type character he is incredibly flawed and it adds so much to him so some of the depictions of him in fanon are kinda annoying.

I won’t lie and say I don’t see Andrew Garfield as young Remus as I personally love it but I can see where the repetition and constant in your face fancast can annoy you as that’s me with George MacKay (fancast for Grant Chapman) who is a phenomenal actor but the constant pushing of him does make you slightly annoyed every time you see his face.

I’m looking at the next bit without any bias based on my favourite characters and personal preferences:

I also kinda hate when people act like the Marauders do no wrong and were the saints of Hogwarts (even though the marauders are some of my favourite characters) they did bully other students but I think people also take Snape’s memories as fact and don’t remember that Snape fired back just as much. They think that it was all the marauders but it was equal footing between them. This however doesn’t mean that one side needs to be idolised and the other demonised, they were all teenagers who should’ve known better but they also grew up in different environments and during a war so I suppose that might’ve influenced them as well.

But yeah feel free to rant! It sucks that there aren’t really like separate tags for the canon versions and the fanon versions of characters but I guess since it’s the same character it makes sense for them to have just 1 umbrella tag for them. Unfortunately people are always gonna be dicks about opinions they don’t agree with, some people just don’t realise people can have different thoughts about things.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts, it’s always interesting to see what other people think and feel about things :)✌🏻