It Felt Like Home

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I think it’s because they make him feel like a real person.

I am forever pushing the “James struggles with feeling like a real person agenda” and I think that initially Lily/Regulus genuinely didn’t like him as a person and that is what made him initially attracted to them. James is one of those “everyone loves him, he’s a literal ball of sunshine” people. But James is nothing if not a people pleaser so he’s always trying to be someone that people like and sometimes he’s not sure that the person he is, is real or just an act.

But they don’t like the person that he shows everyone (because they can subconsciously feel that something is off with James). And no one (excluding Snape and people he doesn’t like because he’s not performing for them) has ever told James that they don’t like him.

First of all, this survey is not being used for any real research or study. I’m just very autistic about fandom culture and history and I felt like this would be the best way for me to get responses to the questions I have in a well organized manner. I really hope to hear from a wide array of fans in a wide array of communities! It’s completely anonymous of course so please feel free to be honest! I do plan on sharing some of the open question responses at the end however so please be aware of that.

Second of all, my actual questions and what I’m looking for. I’m very interested in the culture and attitudes around shipping and fanfiction, and the terms pro/anti-ship. I want to know when other people recall seeing these terms first pop up, and I want to hear from people who may self identify as one or the other, or neither or something else entirely. There are several open ended questions and optional spaces to elaborate on your thoughts so please feel free to add on as much as you’d like!

Here is the link to the actual survey :) I’m posting this on July 21st, 2024, and I plan on leaving it open to responses until August 21st, 2024, to hopefully have time to get more feedback. I may repost this same post a couple of times between now and then in various fandom tags so please feel free to block the tag ‘Allen’s fandom survey’ to avoid seeing it again if you don’t want to (or feel free to block me akdhsjdhdk).

Anyways! I appreciate it if you read this far and if you decide to respond to the survey! It would also really help if you could share it so it reaches more people in even more fandoms and communities, but that’s not really necessary. You can message me for questions or let me know if you want to be tagged when I eventually start posting about the results and my findings! Thank you, here is a picture of my cat for your troubles :)

Read below for the link and all fest Info!

Important Dates

July 8th-19th: Fest Sign-Ups

August 26th: Deadline to post to the collection

TBD: Posting begins

Sign-ups

Click here to sign up for the fest! When you sign up, you must pick one Conan song to inspire your work. More than one person can pick the same song. You do NOT need to claim any prompts on the AO3 collection.

After signing up, please look out for an e-mail to join our discord server!

Rules and Requirements

You must be 15 by the end of sign-ups (July 19th) to participate.

At the time of sign-up, you must declare if you are writing a fic, creating an art piece, or both. You may change your mind later, if you want.

At the time of sign-up, you must pick one Conan song to be your inspiration for your work by declaring it in your sign-up form. The song does not have to be quoted or referenced in your work, it can just be an influence somehow. More than one person can use the same song.

All works must have at least one Marauders-Era character included, to fit the theme. Ships are not required- you can do a platonic fic, a fic about family members, whatever you'd like!

If you are writing a fic, it must have a minimum of 1k words. If it is a multi-chaptered work, at least the first chapter must be finished by the due date.

If you are above 18, you are more than welcome to write/draw NSFW/dead dove content. However, please take the time to tag your work appropriately, so we can protect everyone viewing the work.

Works must be posted by August 26th to the Fest collection. This will give mods time to review the works before we reveal.

You are more than welcome to do more than one work! If you already know you want to, please complete a sign-up form for each work you'd like to do.

If you have questions, please leave an ask! We are SO excited to see what you create!

Not stupid at all, hon! It's the Conan Gray Marauders Fest- a fanfiction/fanart fest for people in the fandom who also like Conan Gray and want to create work inspired by that. I'm part of the group that's running it :)

Read below for the link and all fest Info!

Important Dates

July 8th-19th: Fest Sign-Ups

August 26th: Deadline to post to the collection

TBD: Posting begins

Sign-ups

Click here to sign up for the fest! When you sign up, you must pick one Conan song to inspire your work. More than one person can pick the same song. You do NOT need to claim any prompts on the AO3 collection.

After signing up, please look out for an e-mail to join our discord server!

Rules and Requirements

You must be 15 by the end of sign-ups (July 19th) to participate.

At the time of sign-up, you must declare if you are writing a fic, creating an art piece, or both. You may change your mind later, if you want.

At the time of sign-up, you must pick one Conan song to be your inspiration for your work by declaring it in your sign-up form. The song does not have to be quoted or referenced in your work, it can just be an influence somehow. More than one person can use the same song.

All works must have at least one Marauders-Era character included, to fit the theme. Ships are not required- you can do a platonic fic, a fic about family members, whatever you'd like!

If you are writing a fic, it must have a minimum of 1k words. If it is a multi-chaptered work, at least the first chapter must be finished by the due date.

If you are above 18, you are more than welcome to write/draw NSFW/dead dove content. However, please take the time to tag your work appropriately, so we can protect everyone viewing the work.

Works must be posted by August 26th to the Fest collection. This will give mods time to review the works before we reveal.

You are more than welcome to do more than one work! If you already know you want to, please complete a sign-up form for each work you'd like to do.

If you have questions, please leave an ask! We are SO excited to see what you create!

Marauders tweets pt 7 I THINK

can you tell I've been watching sex education??