wee wain

james isn't stupid

sirius isn't a damsel in distress

remus isn't COOL or CALM or BRILLIANT

peter is irredeemable

regulus isn't an animagus ffs

regulus isn't brilliant

regulus could NEVER save the entire world

barty is ten times cleverer than regulus

evan rosier put up a good fight with moody but DIED

volvol is literally a street urchin. he's poor and he was raised in an orphanage. his upbringing was religious as fuck

when james asked lily out in front of snape it was to stick it to snape, not to get her to agree. her saying no actually helped in his endeavour, "see, snivellus, she wouldn't go out with the most brilliant popular boy in school even to save your arse" sort of way

lily's brilliant but she doesn't PUT PEOPLE DOWN FOR IT

walburga is a cunt and irredeemable as well but she would never use the cruciatus ffs

walburga put up with sirius' shite because she fucking admired him, she preferred him over regulus

it wasn't remus who worked out how to become an animagus (one of the most dangerous and difficult things you can do) it was JAMES AND SIRIUS and also peter but it's inferred that peter needed quite a bit of help

peter wasn't useless. he was very good at magic, only sirius and james overshadowed him a LOT because they were simply better

remus doesn't "put up" with james and sirius, he's in AWE of them. he can't BELIEVE they call him friend

sirius didn't ABANDON regulus, he left an abusive household

sirius would NEVER choose regulus over james. people who say so truly don't know what having a best friend means

jegulus was fun when it was just a joke on tt but it lacks nuance in a way that is disturbing. as if james was boiled down to a simpering idiot and regulus was raised to the state of perfection

wolfstar is just the response to having jily as a ship and wanting some m/m. and that would be FINE except there is a heavy power imbalance in every iteration. and don't even get me started in the fucking cis-het characterisation of their relationship.

sirius is a fucking forest fire, not a bumbling bitch

the strongest person in the whole marauder's era is SIRIUS. he was raised in an abusive household and, against all odds, ended up with a strong moral compass and the ability to love with his whole heart. when he fucked up, the prank, he owned up to it almost immediately and told james. his best friend DIED and his first instinct was to protect his child. when that was denied, he was clever enough to know that there was no future for him and he, instead of breaking, sought revenge. when that failed, he was sent to azkaban, which is a place where MOST people die within weeks and fucking KEPT HIS SANITY, and a good part of his health. he was confined to the place he escaped , grimmauld, and he still was able to function (with a minor alcohol addiction. could be worse, given his situation). he was pleasant, collected, incredibly clever. he had the strength to forgive remus, who left him as if he'd never existed, for TWELVE YEARS. he was civil enough to the person who was responsible for the death of his best friend and who emotionally abused his godson, the only person he truly loves at this point. put up with being absolutely bashed and ridiculed by hermione, molly, even remus and arthur. put himself in arguably the worst and most dangerous place for him, an escaped convict, to save his godson and then he died, not losing a duel against bellatrix, but actually being hit by dumb luck with a stunning spell and falling through the veil.

james potter, arrogant, funny, beloved, said to be incredible on a broom, head boy, clever as fuck, had the biggest heart of them all. sacrificed himself without even batting an eye. put himself in danger numerous times, not least every full moon and ESPECIALLY when the prank happened. where was peter, huh?

My fanart for this snippet from my WIP. After the Prank

sirius black, whose rebellion is purely political, utterly ideological, and not rooted into aesthetic like what this generation is so obsessed with. he appreciates modern and muggle things because they’re interesting and fun, not lesser, but he’ll always prefer dragonhide over cow leather. his favourite leather jacket is just a transfigured outer robe for the motorbike, for the off-chance that he rides it on the roads and needs to look the part.

🙃 Regular reminder that while Hozier has amazing love songs, he is ALSO very outspoken about his leftist politics, specifically anti-fascism, anti-racism, reproductive rights, Palestinian rights and more.

Take Me To Church and Foreigner’s God are scathing critiques of organized religion, specifically the Catholic Church.

Moment’s Silence is about oral sex but it’s ALSO about how that specific sexual act is often distorted to a show of power rather than that of love.

Nina Cried Power is an homage to various civil rights activists from the US and Ireland and a call to follow their path.

Be specifically criticizes anti-migrant policies and Trump and his ilk.

Jackboot Jump is about the global wave of fascism.

Swan Upon Leda is about reproductive rights and the violent colonial oppression of Ireland and Palestine.

Eat Your Young is about the ruinous way the 1%/capitalism prioritizes short-term profit over everything else to the detriment of the youth/99%.

Butchered Tongue is about Irish and other indigenous languages being suppressed and erased by imperial powers.

“What was there to be gained by fighting the most evil wizard who has ever existed?” said Black, with a terribly fury in his face. “Only innocent lives, Peter!”

This is not a person whose morality is fragile. This is not a person who needs handholding from Remus Lupin or god forbid even James Potter to know the difference between what is right and what is not. He didn’t join the Order to rebel against his parents. He joined because he wanted to protect innocent people. He died fighting for his beliefs and the people he loved long after his entire family was dead. He spent twelve years in Azkaban because he felt so tremendously guilty for something that was not even his fault. Not the traits of a self obsessed narcissist that the fandom loves to portray him as.

Sirius said “maybe I’ll go against tradition” at age eleven and gave the Order his childhood home even though it drove him insane just cause they needed a safe house. He tolerated their condescending remarks under his own roof even as he battled PTSD, depression and tremendous amounts of unprocessed grief in his house of triggers. Sirius was spitting in the face of fascist ideologies and indoctrinations when he was barely hitting the double digits, left behind parents and security and luxury when he could have comfortably kept his head down and avoided the whole war. Sirius who was betrayed by the family who should have loved him and the light side, whom he sacrificed everything for.

Sirius who was bleeding and broken and still so damn defiant when it came to defending the Remus Lupins and Lily Evanses of this world against some fascist with a god complex, while Regulus was still decorating his bedroom with newspaper clippings of Voldemort.