I’m Sorry But Regulus Is The Strawberry Daiquiri To James’ Piña Colada I Don’t Make The Rules

It’s not my favorite truth, but it is one and I respect that.

Contrary to popular belief, Remadora and Wolfstar can coexist. I for one love the bittersweet, realistic concept of Sirius being Remus' first love that he eventually grew out of as things changed, and I always saw it that way. I think we have a lack of fics exploring love in that (very human and very bisexual) way.

AU Fic idea

James and Reg dated. James broke up with Reg and started dating Lily (the break up was very much not mutual)

James is an actor playing Marius and Reg is the director for Les Mis.

Imagine Regulus explaining ‘On My Own’ to the actress playing Éponine, trying to open her up and get her emotional and shit. And James is just hearing everything he’s saying and realizing that that’s how he felt when they broke up.

He had to watch James love Lily openly. Listen to him practically write sonnets in the hallways for her. Every time Reg was hanging out with all of them after the breakup James would always steer the conversation towards Lily and Regulus just had to go along with it.

He watches Reg explain to the actress how Éponine knows that he doesn’t love her, but that won’t stop her from loving him. That she accepts her suffering because she can’t make him love her back. Reg explains it like he’s telling a personal story. James can see the actress start tearing up as she embraces the scene.

And it’s that ‘oh’ moment when James actually realizes what Regulus went through. That this is a personal story to him. He knows it wasn’t mutual but he didn’t realize how much Regulus hurt because of it.

Tw: mentioned child abuse

In almost every fic I read, Sirius and the marauders deny Regulus ever being abused (usually in fics where Reg is emotionally abused and/or manipulated)

But I want one where Reg denies they ever did anything wrong and Sirius is always trying to convince him other wise.

Sirius tries to be gentle with him but Reg never listens. One day during an argument in the halls, Reg tells Sirius that if he just stopped fighting, their parents wouldn’t punish him.

Sirius is just so tired of hearing it that he says, « oh really? Then why do you flinch when someone moves too fast? Why do you look for an exit when you enter a room? Why do you bite your nails so often? Why can you tell who’s walking just by the sound of their footsteps? Why do you shut down minutes at a time? Just because your scars aren’t on the outside doesn’t mean they’re not there. You are just as fucked up as I am. So don’t stand there and tell me that being perfect would change anything because you are living proof that it wouldn’t. »

Regulus felt so exposed. He didn’t think anybody could see it. But with Sirius’ and his own friends looking anywhere but at the two, he understood that they all knew about both of their abuse. It’s the first time Regulus says to his brother, « I hate you. »

He walks away from the crowded hall and cries in a hidden room in the dungeons for hours. Apparently, he hadn’t fooled anybody with his act. His friends just didn’t care.

Sirius felt terrible for saying it how he did. In front if a crowd of people, in the form of an insult, and insinuating that his own scars were visible. He wanted Regulus to admit it to himself before he heard anyone else say it out loud. He took a thousand steps back in helping his brother and proper communication was nowhere in sight.

YES THIS ENERGY ONLY😎

The best part about being a marauders fan is there is pretty much no character information so we get to have these characters with very light information and do whatever the fuck we want with them and no one can say otherwise? All of them are gay? Sure! James is desi? Absolutely! Remus is welsh? Yes please! Marlene played quidditch? Yep! Lily and Remus were besties? Totally! Dorcas uses she/they pronouns? Hell yah! Regulus was in love with James? He is now!

There are no rules and she can suck it because they’re not her characters anymore. Every single minor character, every ship, every head canon is canon if we say so!

I APPROVE THIS MESSAGE

me trying to convince you to read "when you were mine" by battlehamster on ao3 and I'm only on chapter 10

- a scene in which regulus shouts via face time at james because he doesn't fucking know which roses to buy for his garden that regulus is fixing as his own + a random woman saying: aw, the married life, isn't it?

- james calling regulus Princess because he has his ankle injured so he has to carry him bridal style all around the house while regulus is just a gay mess

- the marauders being single parents and raising harry while being in college

- UNCLE WORMY

- UNCLE MOONY

- UNCLE PADFOOT

- UNCLE REGGIE (I hope it gets to the point I'm which is just "dad")

- regulus pretending he is james mistress in a very VERY exaggerated way bc he can't leave the house and the nurses are trying to get him into a fucking ambulance

- sassy bold regulus

- trans!peter

- Indian!james

- so yeah go read it

Things Regulus would call James

Jamie (everyone does)

Lover (As I said before, James calls him love)

My king (he’s the king of Gryffindor)

Bumble bee or bee (James reminded Reg of spring so he called him spring related things -also James has bee vibes)

Sun (James insisted on giving him a star name so obviously he’s gonna give him the sun. Bright, warm, etc.)

Four eyes (he couldn’t resist)

Also broom boy (just as affectionate)

Reg never used any of these in front of other people except for ‘Jamie.’ He found nicknames super personal and didn’t think everyone should know about them.

James knew how Reg felt about nicknames. He felt so special to be called anything by him. His face lit up even when Reg called him four eyes.

NEVERMIND I FOUND IT THANK YUO FOR TRYING TO HELP ME I LOVE YOU ALL ITS ‘definition of insanity’ by bizzarestars

Idk if people do this anymore but I need help finding a fic that I read like a month ago. It’s a jegulus fic where Regulus doesn’t have a car so Sirius has James drive him to work. James says he’s straight but him and Reg have this flirty lil relationship. One night James comes to Reg drunk and they canoodle but James is gone in the morning I think?? I’m a lil fuzzy on that detail. After that Reg starts dating Kingsley because he’s not gonna fuck with a straight boy again. Then Kingsley moves away and they break up and then Reg and James get together. Also Sirius and Remus fell in love doing porn together and that’s their little side story

The fic was like three chapters but the word count was probably around 10,000-40,000, I can’t imagine it being longer than that.

I loved it and it was fun but now I can’t find it so SOMEBODY ANYBODY HELP ME PLEASE

academic papers about black sails

Jones, Clint, "Black Sails as Philosophy: Pirates and Political Discourse"

Myrvang, Olav Kjetil, "Because I don’t want to be a pirate" - A Contextual Study of the Representation of Long John Silver in Treasure Island and Black Sails

Carcas, Leyres, “HETEROBAITING”: BLACK SAILS AND THE SUBVERSION OF QUEERBAITING TROPES

Schneider, Elisabeth, "RECLAIMING QUEERBAITING: A CALL TO ACTION"

Friedrich, Kathrin, "‘Evil Heroes’ in Black Sails – A Case Study: How Character Complexity and Nonverbal Actions Invite Positive Viewer Responses"

Razman, D. C. (2020) “Black Sails, Rainbow Flag: Examining Queer Representations in Film and Television” [click for pdf]

Srividhya Swaminathan, (2017) “The New Cinematic Piracy: Crossbones and Black Sails” (in ‘The Cinematic Eighteen Century: History, Culture, and Adaptation’ (2017, 1st ed.) edited by Srividhya Swaminathan and Steven W. Thomas)

Dirksen, S.J. (2019) “Constructing the Identity of the Popular Pirate: The Outlaw, Marginal Identities, and Utopia in Black Sails (2014-2017) and Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag (2013)”

Min-Chi Chen (2024) “Weaponizing Monstrosity: Starz’s Black Sails and the Power of Monstrous Narrative” (in Chapter 2 of ‘Monsters and Monstrosity in Media: Reflections on Vulnerability’, 23, 2024, edited by Yeojin Kim, Shane Carreon)

Jessica Walker “Civilization’s Monsters: The Doomed Queer Anti-Imperialism of Black Sails” (in ‘Pirates in History and Popular Culture’ (2018) edited by Antonio Sanna) [entire book in pdf]

“From Dogs to Kings” https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1332062/FULLTEXT01.pdf

*Story involves Drarry (probably the only drarry I’ll ever post)

This has been floating in my head for a while:

So Regulus and James dated but then broke up and Jily happened.

Regulus doesn’t join the death eaters and they all survive the war.

So one night Harry wants his whole family to meet his new boyfriend. So James, Lily, Sirius, Regulus, and Remus are all in the living room when Harry comes home holding hands with Draco.

They all look at this emo slytherin boy who’s the son of Narcissa Malfoy née Black. Then they see this tan boy with crazy hair and the biggest smile. Sirius just bursts out laughing.

Harry doesn’t know why his dad and Regulus are staring at them in shock or why Sirius is dying laughing. He asks what’s wrong.

Sirius composes himself and just says, “Do you also happen to fancy a ginger?” Regulus kicks him out of the room for that comment.

That’s the night Harry found out his dad and Regulus used to date.

for everybody going through tough times, believe me, mr. worldwide has both been there and done that ✊😔