hii! how are you? i hope you're feeling well! 🥰
i just finished love like the movies today and moon and tides aahn three or four days ago and i wanted you to know that I loved them both a lot!! I'm loving, actually, since they aren't finished yet!
i adore your characterizations of all characters and was so pleasantly surprised with how you did regulus in both (as a sister, siblings relationships always gets me) and well, I just enjoyed both stories a lot, a lot and I hope you get to finish them soon and that no more fandom nonsense gets to you and can't wait to read the rest of them!! 🩷 (hopefully hoping for a happy ending in both 😁)
AHHHH THANK YOU SO MUCH!! You made my day, I'm so happy you've enjoyed my fics! It never fails to make me blush and kick my feet and grin like a fool when people compliment my characterizations 🥰
I think I've reached a point, finally, where the fandom drama doesn't affect me anymore. It was very upsetting at first, of course, to see my work publicly criticized because some of the mainstream folks in this fandom can't stand any characterization for the Marauders that doesn't fit in their personal little box. I started writing these fics by hand in notebooks for myself during the pandemic and I wasn't even going to share them originally. But I was really proud of them and decided to type them out to share with the fandom. I've been writing fanfic since I was 12 but I hadn't published anything for several years before I posted Moon and Tides & A Love Like the Movies on ao3.
I have never experienced anything like the hate I have seen in the Marauders fandom in any other fandom I've ever been a part of. I had to get marauderstok off of my tiktok algorithm because of how incredibly toxic they are over there. But at the end of the day, I wrote these fics for me and if other people resonate with my work, yay! If not, that's fine too. If anonymous trolls feel the need to shit on my work, I just delete their comments now.
And YES! I fully intend on happy endings for both fics! I put these characters through too much to not give them a well-deserved happily ever after 😁