caustic

obsessed with lily and barty doing something so wrong it scares them into normalcy for years and theyre trying so hard to be regular people. not religious or traditional but just Normal. and they have a house and they talk about normal things but they both know neither of them are human and they both hope to god no one will find out what they do when theyre desperate enough to feel real.

Regulus is so weird for me in modern aus because like in a traditionalist not normal humans household in the 70s, journaling incessantly and not listening to music ever is passably normal but like popping him into the modern day and telling me he has an instagram and Spotify account is hate speech actually

@katakosmos

popular girl lily who is begged by barty to fuck him because he just wants to get all of his firsts over with and hes sooooooo pathetic she gives in and they do it and hes so whiny and barely even lasts and lily is very very embarrassed to say she fell for that loser

They say ooooh be a good boy for daddy and you'll get a reward. But then the reward is just gay sex. This is bullshit. I wanted a skateboard

Then they say if you're a bad boy daddy will punish you. But what's the punishment? More gay sex! You can't escape it. This whole damn place is in the pocket of Big Sex

literally the biggest problem is james potter’s life was that the girl he had a crush on didn’t like him back

thinking about it, it doesn’t make total sense that THIS is the character we chose to make a poc. as i said in the tags, he lived in a bubble of nepotism and privilege, and he was deliberately made to be a morally grey character, in a similar way to snape!! a lot of the behaviour we see james exhibit is recognisable in those with white privilege, and imagining that a poc, whatever race you hc james to be, would have the structural power within 1980s britain to be popular or well-liked, let alone a bully, is absurd. to push the traits of a being in a racial minority upon james would naturally detract from his canon personality, and to push his canon personality would leave us unable to adequately portray the poc experience. i am all for racial diversity in this fandom, and i don’t at all think there’s enough of it, but simply taking a character with (white) lived experiences and declaring that they will be the representation is simply not enough. to effectively push diversity and representation, it is so much more meaningful to create new characters, or take those who’s life we know little about, and create their lived experiences in line the whole time with being a poc. even snape would be a much more interesting character to explore this with, but i struggle with it being the ultra-privileged, wealthy, popular, spoilt, arrogant character.