Sirius: How Is It That You Can Say The Same Thing Fifty Different Ways?

hey! donate to uk trans charities today because it’s gonna be a rough one

remus lupin via snapchat

things rjl would cry over

Unread books

A shop having an opening ceremony but no customers are there

Deactivated tumblr accounts

A bug dying

The pyramids

The pig war (he feels bad 4 the pig)

A broken laptop that's unfixable

small cars

Baby ducks

A post w 3 notes

An ad poster that has a tear in it

loose change

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thank you to @moonysentropia for the tag!

this got long so answers below the cut if you want my rambles and oversharing lol

3 ships i like: Wolfstar obviously, Wolfstarbucks, and ummmmmm. hmm…tbh i’m not sure there is another? i really don’t ship characters that often 😭 (editing this to add prongsfoot! prongsfoot is cute on occasion! yes i clearly have very specific tastes)

first ship ever: the very earliest was probably percabeth? or hinny? idk. but i didn’t care super strongly about either (also i do Not ship hinny anymore HAHA at that age i very much just happily went along with any canon ships presented). the first ship i actually like read fics about and stuff was destiel i think. or drarry, not sure which was first. really exposing myself here 😭😭😭

favorite childhood book: suppose it depends how early we’re talking but other than HP i loved the Magic Treehouse series a lot! oh and Rainbow Magic omg

currently reading: fanfic wise, aka the more interesting part, I Didn’t Come Here to Party, I Only Came for the Cake by attheendoftheday. It’s a gbbo au with messy flawed sirius and mysterious remus (who’s also chronically ill!), very cute, sweet, lighthearted (so far, there’s some mental health stuff in the last few chapters). book wise, just a few books for classes - Gaming Sexism by Amanda Cote, Medieval Tastes by Massimo Montanari, and bits and pieces of others.

currently watching: nothing actually! just finished the babysitter’s club a few days ago so i am tv show-less now.

currently consuming: i just ate a bowl of granola bc cereal for lunch is superior

currently craving: sleeeeeep always 😭 or friendly company tbh.

pets: none!

np tagging @brandileigh2003 @madefortherain @outromoony (i think you all have not joined but i can’t recall so i’m sorry if you have already!)

Chapter 7 of BRTC is up!

In which Remus removes chest tape and Sirius learns about it.

The next chapter of BRTC will be the final chapter, which is so surreal to say!

New fic alert! Silver fox

(Sirius made me do it)

Happy birthday loml. I usually project my confusion and anxiety and pain on you but me and sirius decided you needed to have a happy one and get to be an old man celebrating.

remus lupin is wild unkept curls, crooked diy hair cuts, chapped teeth, a big hooked nose, picked at finger nails, freckles and exzema, acne scars, deep cuts, big brown eyes with long lashes, an almost too big mouth, constant pout, furrowed bushy brows, pale on naturally tan skin, visible bones and too long limbs, stretched out and tall, bumping his head on door frames, ink spills on his lips from biting his pen, scoliosis, loose belts with diy holes, leather books bags that cut into his shoulders and make him walk askew, hoarse voice and a sputtering laugh, bad hearing because he puts his music on too high volume, picks at his scabs and scars, mismatched socks, falling apart trainers, wide shoulders but skinny arms and torso, hunched posture and walk, resting bitch/disinterested face, low appetite but extremely sweet tooth, manual labor skills, book worm and reading glasses, annotated books with broken spines, rjl written into the covers.

this is also why yes, Remus Lupin is canonically disabled (i don’t give a fuck if he only uses a cane in the movies, someone not using a mobility aid doesn’t make them nondisabled?? that’s such a ridiculous argument, plus just because harry didn’t mention him using a cane in the small amount of time he saw remus doesn’t mean he literally never touched a mobility aid. not to mention the movies are part of canon) and yes, it is ableist and really shitty to erase that and write him as able bodied. and this is why he will always always always be queer AND disabled in anything i write or draw.

I think some of y’all missed several days in queer history class so I’m just gonna put this as simply as I can:

If we accept the fact that lycanthropy is an AIDS metaphor (JKR has said she intended it as such so idk what to tell you), then it’s actually NOT queerphobic to extrapolate from that that Remus should be read as queer. I would argue that it’s more of an issue to read him any other way.

I know some of y’all like to make a big fuss about how it’s problematic because AIDS isn’t a gay disease. Babes, idk how to tell you this, but in the historical context in which Harry Potter was written, in the real fucking world during the AIDS crisis, for all intents and purposes, yes it was.

The powers that be in the US and UK governments knowingly and intentionally let the AIDS crisis get as bad as it did because of their belief that it was a gay disease. Were they correct? Did it ONLY kill gay men? No. But did it disproportionately affect gay men? Yes. Did we lose MASSIVE numbers of gay men during the 80’s and 90’s because the government was letting them die on fucking purpose? Baby, yes we did.

And to erase that from a text which is ostensibly a metaphor for that disease is to erase the violence enacted upon that specific population. They died quietly, and without fanfare, and so you have been allowed to forget that their deaths were targeted. They were targeted with inaction on a deadly disease and they were targeted because they were gay. It doesn’t matter if you like it. In the 80’s and 90’s, when the lycanthropy metaphor was written, when the books take place, AIDS was a gay disease.

Further, in that context, it only makes sense to read Remus as queer. The “one good werewolf” in this lycanthropy=AIDS=queerness simply cannot be read as straight.

if you only want to write smutty drabbles, write smutty drabbles. if you don't want to write smut at all, don't write smut. if you want to write tropes that have been written 85838593929 times, write them. if you've already written a specific trope and want to write it again, do it. if you want to write for a character but feel like there's no demand for that character, do it anyway. don't feel pressured to reach a certain word count, don't feel pressured to stick to a posting schedule. you're literally doing this for FREE, in your free time. whatever YOU want your writing/fanfiction experience to be is valid - it doesn't have to be like everyone else's, and you don't have to cater to what you think people want 🫶🏻

tell everyone one fact about you, one unpopular opinion you have and your top song on your on repeat playlist and then spread this to five followers you love ❤️

oh hi rae 🥺🥺 omg thank you this is so sweet 💕 also received one from @madefortherain, thank you very much 💕💕

one fact about me: i’m a college student majoring in women & gender studies with minors in legal studies and history!

one unpopular opinion i have: THIS WAS HARD AKDKABDKJA hmmmm um. avocados are disgusting. sooo gross. hate em. also eggs (eggs in things is fine, i mean just straight eggs. like an omelette or something).

top song on repeat:

this is from the lotf playlist and it’s a song i really love in general so this is not surprising!