#operation wanker

[middleagedenragedmama]

I made three of these for friends. The art used in the bind is from @courfee , @alex_loga_02 (ig), and @mrmumus.

I used printable htv on the cover for the Polaroid photos.

This was a really fun one to make. If you’ve not read it, you should. It’s fake dating perfection!

Bookcloth- Hollanders Verona

Htv - frogg, htvront

Endpapers - paper packs from Michaels

[cat-crowned-8]

bc y'all def asked, here's my top fic recs

marauders edition

(organized from shortest to longest)

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forget-me-not - rxgulus

my summary: James gets hit with an amnesia spell, and basically only remembers his boyfriend regulus. regulus is not in fact his boyfriend.

wordcount: 13,325

james is WHIPPED, basically all fluff, very cutesy

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a bee for the honey - rxgulus

my summary: James finds out regulus is a honey badger animagus and brings him little gifts of honey and sweets

wordcount: 20,670

my summary is hesitant bc I haven't read in a while, planning on doing so soon so I'll be back to change it if anything is different. I know I thought it was rlly cute tho. James is a simp

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The Barista, the Burglar, and the Sofa - orphan_account

my summary: struggling barista Remus comes home to find sirius (a stranger) in his flat, who continues to break in to furnish his home

wordcount: 21,344

sirius basically sugar daddies his way into remus' life

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nothing happens (series) - jaywalkers

my summary: childhood friends James ang reg form a very codependent and minorly toxic friendship that will begin to cross boundaries

wordcount (so far): 43,795

i'm actually obsessed with these characterizations, James is kind of a douche sometimes but their devotion to each other! anticipating the next installment

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the coffee shop au - third_crow

my summary: sirius w Harry come into remus' coffee house and they both continue to pine endlessly

wordcount: 54,626

haven't read in like a year but I remember absolutely adoring it

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Operation Walburga's Arbitrary No Kissing Ever Rule - courfee

my summary: 10 things I hate about you inspired, sirius asks James to "fake" date regulus so Sirius and remus can get around a curse walburga placed on them. reg was unaware any of it was fake

wordcount: 91,325

literally just reread, quite frankly think that the angst could've been drawn out more, James frustrated me a lot but he's trying

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whatever our souls are made of - damagecontrol, solmussa

my summary: hanahaki disease, a no Voldemort au, reg comes VERY close to death

wordcount: 157,821

THIS ONE IF YOU ARE GOING TO READ ANY OF THESE LET IT BE THIS ONE. I absolutely adore this, and its probably my favorite hanahaki fic of all time. its literally the reason I'm making this post, people need to talk about it more

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The Long Game - lackadaisical_lizard

my summary: in high school, jock James and artsy regulus work on a project together and bond

wordcount: 250,008

literally THE muggle high school au, James becomes regulus' muse its adorable

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Kill Your Darlings - MesserMoon

my summary: regulus follows sirius to play hockey and they heal (yes it's jegulus), features deaf remus

wordcount: 303,706

this was my first true introduction to rosekiller, and its what made me fall in love with them. the wolfstar was so sweet, but honestly I remember rosekiller the most from it

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Sweater Weather (+ sequel) - lumosinlove

my summary: PT Remus and NHL captain Sirius fall in love, has a whole cast of OC's that are super cute

wordcount: 423,079

one of the first non-magical wolfstars I ever read, the ensemble really add so much to it

[courfee]

The first chapter of my 10 Things I Hate About You Jegulus fic is up!!

[courfee]

quick rant because i can't stop thinking about it

there was one (1) person who pointed out that reg and sirius are also at fault in how things went down. two other people pointed out sirius' part in it, overgoing reg. everyone else is only blaming james

and yes, i am the biggest defender of james potter doesn't have to be perfect, let james have flaws and fuck up, but maybe i'm just too good at that, because somehow i keep writing myself into these kinds of situations

like i let james do wrong things and i let all my other characters also do wrong things, but because i keep writing from james' pov, he takes on a lot of the blame, even when unjustified, whereas he keeps finding reasons and excuses for the people he loves. and again, maybe i'm just that great of a writer in this regard (toot toot) that i just manage to convince the reader of the same thing as james is convinced of, but i do have to admit that it does make me a little sad that this is the second long jegulus fic i'm writing, and the second jegulus fic wherein reg, sirius and james as a combined force lead to problems between regulus and james and everyone only blames james and a lot of people say regulus should never forgive him for his actions

why can regulus and sirius do things wrong and it is a given that james forgives them, but as soon as james does something wrong he becomes irredeemable?

is it because the black brothers tend to have more extreme reactions to being hurt, whereas james is more the person who smiles through the pain and tries to figure out what he did wrong that this happened to him? because i'm trying to imagine the situations reversed, if the exact same thing happened the other way round i feel like, just based on the way the characters would express their reaction to it, people would still think james is at fault