Moonlight Serenade

In reality, Harry should have fucking REBELLED against the system. In my mind he’s a gnc stoner who sucks dick for money. My guy plays the drums and listens to fucking screamo music. He has tattoos on his top surgery scars. He makes out with guys at the bar. Everyone is wrong about him especially his own fucking author oh my GOD I can’t believe this bitch tried to pretend to us that she was progressive in any fucking way it’s actually so sad and hilarious. Okay ma’am I see you making Hermione Granger Minister for Magic to tick the Hollywood box of “women can be in power too!” It’s a shame your little feminist message is undermined by the fact that all your female characters are married and with children by the time they’re thirty.

I myself have to hear my deadname on a daily basis because i’m not out yet, and if I wrote a story about a character in a similar situation I’d be really pissed off if someone told me it was problematic. Once again tiktok seems to lack complete nuance when it comes to this sort of stuff. Trans people have deadnames and unfortunately, they have to be used sometimes before that trans person comes out, and if I want to write about a trans character who’s still in the closet and still has to hear their deadname then I have every right to. I understand how deadnames can be triggering, but all trans experiences and stories deserve to be written about by those who experience them, and yes... that includes misgendering.

I feel like it is quite a privileged take to say that trans characters having deadnames is problematic. I understand people not wanting to read about trans characters being misgendered for personal reasons if it’s triggering, but that shouldn’t mean I can’t write about a character who is in a similar situation to me. I don’t have the freedom or the ability to live my life without hearing my deadname, and if I want to write about that, I’m going to.

okay imagine Remus and Sirius living with in a werewolf village in Wales together and because it’s so community based, they end up accidentally adopting an orphan werewolf kid (not technically a werewolf but werewolf parents) and that kid is Teddy Lupin.

I’m obsessed with this AU actually.