Inner Dialogue From "Worst Case Scenario"

hurt/comfort with kink discovery. oh my

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me tryna read a marauders fic without regulus black in

since the tiktok ban, i've been seeing a lot of stuff where people blame americans for jegulus and i can't stop thinking about it. i don't know why people feel this way, but i am prepared to make an argument. so please allow me to make my case.

[also this is completely based on generalizations. i know americans that hate jegulus and love jily, and i know british people who hate jily and love jegulus]

so i've never been a jily girl. even years before i found jegulus, i never cared about that ship. i straight up didn't even know that people wrote fics about them specifically. (i actually still don't know if people do write fics about only them because i would never seek out something like that).

originally, i'd thought it was just because i only cared about the golden trio characters and occasionally sirius and remus, but the more i got into the marauders era, the more i realized that james and lily together were the standouts, i just really didn't care for them.

it got to the point where i only read fics that referenced jily if they were extremely background to the story (which they almost always were bc there is just not that much to say about them) or preferably if both of them were already dead and it was just remus, sirius, and harry who remained.

shortly after i really started getting into the fandom and writing for jegulus, i spoke to someone who hated jegulus and loved jily, and i told them that i'd always felt like james and lily were on the road to divorce before they died. this person was SCANDALIZED. they could not understand why'd said that.

now granted, this person was in their early twenties and in my experience, if you haven't lived long enough to see a lot of your friends go through divorces, then the idea that james and lily might divorce may seem crazy.

however, and this is where the american thing really comes in, i realized after this conversation why i felt that there was no way that james and lily were going to make it and that was specifically because of growing up a conservative christian bible belt ass place.

do you know how many couples i knew in high school who started dating their senior year even though they seemingly had nothing in common, had sex one time and didn't use protection because sex education is extremely limited down there, got pregnant, and had to have shotgun wedding?

so. fucking. many.

do you know how many of them are still married?

only one.

so when i see jily, two characters who have nothing in common beyond being gryffindors, get together, have a kid, and get married (not necessarily in that order) all within like two years, i know that the odds are not in their favor. those two aren't staying together. don't play with me.

now i don't know how people feel about young marriages in other parts of the world, especially in the uk, but i've spoken to a lot of americans, especially ones from the south, and so many of them have had the exact same experiences with their peers. i just can't help but wonder if that lends itself to less people being interested in jily.

i have other arguments to this, like that jily is not as entertaining as almost every other ship that james or lily could be involved in and americans being partial to entertainment above all else, or the american (and christian) obsession with the concept of redemption and self sacrifice making regulus a more compelling character than one that lived and died good (lily and james), but this was the one i wanted to focus on today.

It’s really weird to read a harry potter fic as a marauders fan. like in marauders tom and voldy is like the villain in almost every fic and in harry potter fics hes like “😍😎💀🥀🥺”

The Black brothers, 1964

Walburga is screaming for Sirius to smile, in return he gives the sourest cabagge expression, regulus likes to hold his brothers hand, Kreacher, who is taking the picture, is tired.

Jegulus as ivantill from Alien Stage

it’s hard to tell what ivan’s true intentions were, but above all else i believe that he did what he did during r6 because he was SURE that till wouldn’t care.

that’s why it’s so heartbreaking to me that the memory of ivan is clearly a TRIGGER for till in r7

remember? ivan criticized sua because her eventual death would only traumatize mizi. that’s why he kept himself at arms length from till — because he never wanted to become a source of trauma for him. as much as he craved till’s affection, he didn’t want to hold till back.

but ivan didn’t account for till’s real feelings. till — while it was not in a romantic sense — cared for ivan more than ivan was lead to believe.

and just like sua was for mizi, he’s nothing but a source of trauma for till. he became something luka used to exploit.

and it’s genuinely so heartbreaking because that was the last thing that ivan wanted.

hi guys i'm just your gentle reminder that IN 2 DAYS IT WILL BE JEGULUS DAY GUYS SO BE READY I WILL POST LIKE 9149101010283857572910 SHITTY THINGS BOUT EM

btw this is also an informative post bcs i know not everybody knows bout jegulus day

so here's the thing:

every year, the sun (james) and the star of regulus (obv reggie duh) meet up for a conjunction on august 23

SO YEAH ITS GONNA BE THEIR DAY

I CANT WAITTTTTTT IM GONNA POST JEGULUS THINGS ALL DAY (not like i don't already do this shhhh)

btw reblog to let more people know bout jegulus day and obv post something jegulus related for the jegulus dayyyyyyy

<3

James "In the back of my mind" Potter

Regulus "In the back of my mind" Black

James "You died" Potter

Regulus "I killed you" Black

James "And I didn't even cry" Potter

Regulus "I didn't even regret it" Black

James "Not a single tear" Potter

Regulus "I can't believe i said it" Black

James "And I'm sick of waiting patiently for someone that won't even arrive" Potter

Regulus "I hate you" Black

James ''I hate you" Potter

Jegulus but its Anti-hero jegulus (could be canon complaint jegulus too)

Fuck drugs. Have you ever been addicted to reading angsty fanfics about Harry Potter's dead parents and their friends? That shit will kill you.