Credit To @likeafunerall On Insta For Artwork 💕

Maybe controversial but if Jegulus were a colour, they'd be brown

And I know most people think gold or red or smth but it just feels right. And I don't mean it in a dull and boring way, I mean warm sepias and rusts. Rich browns and deep oranges. They're warm and timeless and secretive and their energy is deep and homely. They're nighttime meetings and sitting in the abandoned corridors of an ancient castle in silence admiring the stars. They're a shitty apartment in urban France lit by the streetlights and moon. This is what I mean:

The whole time I was reading choices while it was updating I saw it through this colour grading and I still read fics with this colouring in mind pretty often

Regulus Black

Jegulus fanfic writers for some reason

MWAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

“I’m scared that i’ll become a drug addict in the future”, “I’m scared that i’ll be still single in the future” well you know what i’m scared of? That i’ll get out of my marauders era phase and that reading jegulus fics will just be a faint memory. That reading all this black family or regulus centered fics will be just a “habit” that i used to have as if it didn’t consume my whole life back then. I don’t care if it’s unhealthy for me because i want to read my favorite or new jegulus fics till i die. Those masterpieces will always be part of my daily life.

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.

Points to the wall covered in Voldy-related newspaper clippings in Regulus' room, "This is an investigation board Regulus has done when he realised he had to bring Voldy down. This is not like your 1D poster wall in 2014."

The crowd boos.

"Finally," it's Regulus Black muttering, annoyed that half of this fandom doesn't recognise Harry's unreliable narration.

I will literally pay someone to draw this as regulus, James and Barty

I’m looking at you @alexsays-no

Regulus black they could never make me hate you

“You attract what you fear”

Suddenly I’m afraid of Regulus Black