Anti Jegulus - Blog Posts

I hate fanon-ization of Lily, James, Regulus and Barty (Evan, Dorcas, Marlene etc. are literally only mentioned in the books, there is nothing to mis-characterize)

Lily is side-lined for a non-existent, non-sensical ship (yeah, I hate jegulus), her Muggle origin is overlooked even though it played a MAJOR role in her life (heck the entire Marauders era takes place during the war against a wizard-supremacist, Muggle-hater and his racist followers). Her relationship with Snape and how his words and newly found ideologies affected is completely overlooked when he was her only magical friend during her entire childhood. Her relationship to her son? (yk, that one thing that set the entire series in motion...) - pfft, don't be silly, she is just a surrogate to James and Regulus.

James is portrayed as a ray of sunshine, good boy whose biggest sin was being a bit sarcastic. No, he WAS an arrogant asshole who mercilessly bullied another student simply for his own enjoyment. Yet he was also incredibly loyal man who didn't hesitate to share his home with his friend after he ran away from home and who grew out of his arrogant phase and changed himself for better because of a woman he loved (loved so much he died protecting her and their son later).

Regulus is portrayed as an edgy yet kind-hearted little aristocrat boy whose parents forced him into being a Death Eater - no, he wasn't pressured into becoming anything, Regulus for the longest part of his life WAS a Voldemort supporter. He collected newspaper articles about Voldemort, he talked to Kreacher about how great Voldemort is and how great his ideas were - yes, he realized later he was wrong but it doesn't suddenly mean he was pressured into anything.

Barty is portrayed as a silly little babygirl who has an IQ of goldfish. No, he was one of the smartest characters with multiple talents but was also a mentaly-unstable young man (Azkaban/Dementors have horrific influence on everyone but while other Death Eaters managed to last 10+ years there he was already on his death-bed in a year and started to scream for him mother the same day he was brought in) who went completely insane and evil by the end and craved for father figure so deeply he was ready to become a murderer/torturer to get one. His manipulativeness and sadism? Non-existent in fanon...

In the end... I truly dislike the overall state of "Marauders era" fandom - like, they are a generation impacted by war and ever-changing politics who essentially needed to choose a side while they were still children, some betraying their families and loved ones - and then you try seeing stuff in Marauders fandom and they are turned into edgy teens who all wear crop-tops and black nail polish, listen to Taylor, go to Starbucks and talk in a Tik-Tok slang....

Im in a mood so im just gonna rant about jegulus

(tbh i think it’s cute and i like it as a background ship but I hate how it’s taking over the entire fandom)

Regulus denyed his crush on James, but James always flirts with him. I always see fanart with reg threatening to hex james and james just being like “i want to kiss him”

SOUND FAMILIAR? THIS LITERALLY WAS THE JILY DYNAMIC!?!?!?!

Fanon turn Reg from an awesome complex character into Lily in another font. The sarcastic, book loving personality. The younger sibling who just wants to be enough, but is never seen that way by their older sibling. The person who secretly loved James’s obnoxious flirting. The black cat girlfriend/boyfriend to the golden retriever boyfriend. Oh, and fanon always makes regulus very short- always around what would be lily’s height.

The only reason Jegulus is more popular than Jily, or ships like Dorlene and Nobleflower (Same dynamic as Jegulus) is because Reg is a guy, because of the fandom’s misogyny.

Why are people so delusional when it comes to the hp or marauders era fandom? Every single time I look up jily or jily supremcy in tiktok it's always some jegulily/ jegulus BS like some of y'all are deep in the delusion and headcannons. Why are people trying to replace Lily? Why are ppl making Sirius this super feminine man when he's not that? Why are ppl making Remus super aggressive? And making James the literal devil towards snape and then a people pleaser towards everyone else. And peter non existent? What are y'all doing!?

These are not the same characters any more. Once again the whole theme of hp/ marauders is love. James and Lily loving each other despite the danger that comes with it. They love Harry and Harry loves them. The marauders being best friends in school. The golden trio. The grief that came for Sirus, Remus, and Harry regarding James and Lily . The betrayal of Peter. This story isn't about DE and their "sad, horrendous" back stories. It's about Lily, James and Harry.

Shipping James or Lily with any DE character requires you to ignore their morals and ideologies against the pure blood DE characters to make it work. You would have to change everything about them.

Lily and James died for their son. They most likely knew the risk of having a baby, getting married, staying together but they did it anyway. James, a pure blood wizard put a target on his own back just because he was in love with a muggle born woman. Lily already had a target on her back when she came to Hogwarts.

These DE characters can be down right sadistic and evil and some ppl will still ship these characters. In reality these characters would kill each other on sight. And some will say "it's all fake anyway, let people ship" but that's the problem

Fiction relates to reality. Stories, poems, movies are all related to real situations, people, places and ideas, that's why some people can see themselves in certain stories. And by making these problematic ships, some ppl think it's cool and okay to let these situations happen irl.

It's not just shipping, it's an idea that could turn into action.

Lily and James are so important and ppl that don't like them don't understand them. Like without them Harry wouldn't exist. There literally wouldn't be a story. James and Lily being together went against everything the DE pure bloods believed in. Having a kid together was an act of defiance. James and Lily marrying each other despite a whole war going on is like the bravest thing they could've done. The point is Lily and James are the base, the standard, the originals.

The doe and the stag

Comes from people who don't engage with fanon, so they think of canon James and Regulus and cannot comprehend why or how it became so popular.

The funniest thing about jegulus haters is that they are SO opposed to a completely average ship. like... it's an age-appropriate queer rivals to lovers/best friend's brother, and you're hating on that?

Why don't you go bother snily shippers if you mind the death eater/order member trope? Why don't you go bother james/severus shippers for taking away from jily? Why don't you go hate on Tom/anyone fic for being toxic or ooc? (I do not condone hate on any ship, I am pointing out the principle!!)

As someone who plays around with weird (generally problematic) ships and tropes, I've never got a mean comment, but Jegulus riles you up?

J*gulus shippers are just closet Snily fans

Half of their hcs and fanfics sound something like this

"Okay so! Regulus betrays Voldemort because his love for James shines through,,, hes heartbroken that James eventually chose Lily instead of him and opts to die trying to help him instead of devote himself to Voldey (Kreacher?? whos that???)"

Literally stole their whole damn story? the whole dynamic is snily? and then at the same time they probably portray Sev as some misogynistic asshole like bro your favorite character is a Sev rip off.

Dolores Umbridge was a raging bitch with a good girl teacher's pet persona during her time in Hogwarts and since Regulus Black couldn't stand her nosy ass poking in every direction he decided to fuck her and make a whore out of her to teach her a lesson. Little did he knew Jane was actually into hardcore and they started to test each other's limits and fast forward they got into BDSM and then they fell in love somehow but since she's a half blood he broke it off with her because his family wouldn't allow him to marry a blood traitor and then he tragically dies and Dolores becomes sad and broken and yes your honor it's cannon because I said so.

The way I'm absolutely enjoying these jegu*us shippers getting their knickers in a twist whenever they come across a kittywater ship, they try to tell us that it's totally not possible and unrealistic, that it came outta nowhere just because they were born during the same year...girl bffr, don't forget your own ROOTS bro James is literally married and you're shipping him with a death eater that committed crimes against his wife and had no interactions in cannon...LMFAO was this how jily shippers felt when jegu*us was on the rise? Babe remember who u are 🤪🤪

Honestly I have no idea how jegulus got so popular. Like, prongsfoot is literally right there. Absolutely heartwrenchingly tragic, romantic, very mindful, very demure, and also very canon (you can't convince me otherwise). No hate to jegulus shippers out there but prongsfoot just..hits difference. They're soulmates, just like how the sun always rises from the east and sets on the west and vise versa.

”platonic prongsfoot” they’ve been inside each other

Goodnight to everybody except people who think Regulus is better than Sirius (he literally made it harder to destroy Voldemort in the end)

No way in hell I just saw someone say Jily doesn’t make sense??? HELLO??? ITS THE BACKBONE OF THE ENTIRE SERIES?????

LITERALLY! Because at least a boggart can’t choose whether or not it’s dark, whereas someone else can.

James Potter would sooner start a family with a boggart than ever be romantically involved with someone who has even the remotest interest in the Dark Arts.

Me when I can’t get Jegulus/NobelFlower/PandaLily/MaryLily/Remadora off my fucking feed:

hello i am wondering if you are anti jegulus in the 'just not my thing' way or anti jegulus in the 'jegulus shippers should kill themselves way' because you have very good takes and i feel like we would get along well but i am also a jegulus shipper who has been called a nazi entirely for liking regulus multiple times and i don't want to risk it again :D

Holy shit what— people are like that? No, that’s not me. I don’t understand or like Jegulus, I never have, but I will never actively and directly hate on people who do (so long as it doesn’t get pushed on me, obviously, but if you’re going to ask this I doubt you will lol). I’m not the biggest Regulus fan, and I’ll probably post about disliking (CANNON) Regulus and not enjoying Jegulus, but if you’re alright with that I’m totally open to being friends with anyone. Alternative perspectives are nice to hear sometimes.

Long story short, I don’t care for Jegulus but I don’t think anyone who ships it is like. An awful person or anything.

Trans!Regulus makes makes sense to me for a few reasons, honestly.

For one, it explains why it took so long for Sirius to be disowned. We know that the House of Black had very old values, so I can picture them not being accepting of trans people and not wanting a “woman” to be in charge. We know they disowned easily— think about Alphard— but they didn’t get rid of Sirius until he ran away. I could picture them keeping Sirius around to try and have a viable heir.

For two, it would give motivation for Regulus to rethink things. In the end, he did betray Voldemort, but, before that, he was wholly devoted to the cause. Maybe the reason he rethought things is because he realized he didn’t fit the mold, causing him to ask questions, before he figured it out and backtracked.

For three, I just like trans characters. Fuck JKR, she deserves to be pissed off by us making characters trans. I’d make Regulus trans if only to make her upset.

Soooo tired of people talking about how Regulus was “going against his family” and “the scapegoat” and “an outcast of the Blacks” because like… he wasn’t. He did exactly what his family wanted at all times. He joined the Death Eaters completely willingly. He was a blood supremacist. He was a shit person. He was the favourite child.

Now, if you ARE looking for someone who actually spent their whole life going against the Blacks, was an outcast, and was the scapegoat, I would like to introduce you to Sirius Black. Or maybe you’re looking for Andromeda Tonks? Because you’re sure as hell not looking for Regulus Black. Bro had a damn shrine to Voldemort. And, sure, if you really want to argue that he changed at the end of his life, maybe he did, but that is not the same as being like Sirius or Andromeda.

And listen to me for this one, yeah? When Sirius called Regulus “soft” in OOTP, he did not mean that Regulus was a sweet, touchy, kind-hearted, loving little thing. He meant that Regulus was naïve, too trusting of their parents, and had no spine when it came to their family, thus becoming a prick. Regulus was not a cute little baby, he was an asshole.

I joined the Marauders fandom to obsess over the Marauders, not join the Death Eater sympathizers club.

(Mind you, I have absolutely made Regulus and the Pantheon end up being good people in some fics, so maybe I’m a bit hypocritical. This does not mean that in cannon they were anything other than pieces of shit. Let’s also note that having fun is okay, and you don’t need to always abide by the books. It just ticks me off when people manage to get the things we know about these characters so egregiously wrong that they claim that the cannon and fannon Pantheon are the same.)

HOW DO I GET JEGULUS OFF OF MY FEED? HOW? I’M HERE FOR WOLFSTAR AND SUNFLOWER AND DORLENE NOT JEGULUS PEASE HELP.

Remus John Lupin is a dorky nerd in tweed and cardigans who is only strong enough to carry books around, and lets everyone walk all over him, and cries when people go on discriminatory tangents about werewolves/queer people, and makes Sirius help him study, and folds his underwear/socks, and drowns in jumpers that are too big because he’s so skinny that he has to choose between them being long enough or tight enough, and he’s always cold, and he has back joint/back pain, and has a snort-laugh, and a little overbite you can only see when he smiles, and his clothes have elbow/knee patches, and he never gets angry because he’s so scared of being a monster

YESYESYESYESYES YOU’RE SO RIGHT!!!

I love Remus being tall but so lanky and skinny with literally no muscle on his body because he’s literally a nerd and hates exercising he will literally die if he has to do a push-up. Sirius is big and buff and tall (almost as tall as Remus is, fight me) and he has stubble and tattoos and HE IS THE ONE THAT GETS ANGRY and he plays quidditch and he fight and hates authority.

I saw a post with sapphic WolfStar (which is great, don’t get me wrong!) where *Remus* is the big buff butch and *Sirius* is the tiny little femme?? Like no Remus’ fragile little bones (thank you full moon and bad genes— I am a firm believer that he needed a cane by the time he graduated because of all that) would shatter if he tried to lift anything other than a stack of books and his chocolate because he’s so soft.

Sirius is canonically so smart too, but that’s always butchered, as well?? Like he was described as brilliant by literally everyone????? Bro was a straight O student and no one can convince me otherwise. Remus is always made to be the one helping Sirius so he doesn’t fail but, in cannon, it was *Sirius* that helped teach *Remus*, who is a halfblood and therefore didn’t know as much about magic, how to do things. Honestly I hate what everyone is doing to them.

Jegulus also makes no sense and, while it’s not a dealbreaker if it shows up (mostly because if it was I would have to drop a billion fics), I don’t like it and it’s WAY too prevalent.

i think maybe the reason the portrayal of remus in the marauders fandom in the last few years is so upsetting to me is that the reason i got into this fan base was because of how much i related to him. i started getting into the fandom when remus was still a skinny gay book nerd who was shy but funny and sweet and endlessly loyal. wolfstar was soft love and more about fluffy-teeth-rotting moments between remus and sirius.

now we have buff alpha bad boy remus who can’t read and tiny twink sirius with a full face (including lashes) and a mini skirt.

genuinely what happened to classic wolfstar? what happened to rowdy punk rock sirius with his band t shirts and leather jacket and stubble? where’s soft, lanky remus?

in attempting to wrestle wolfstar away from jkr you’ve stripped remus and sirius of all of their defining characteristics that made them so interesting in the first place. they’ve lost all characterization and relatability in exchange for this horny,booktok, smut-obsessed bullshit i can’t escape from.

so yeah, i’m not a fan of modern wolfstar.

(this isn’t even touching on all of the jegulus stuff)

Best straight ship?

James and Lily

Best wlw ship?

Female!James and Lily

Best mlm ship?

James and Male!Lily

Best canon ship?

James and Lily

Best Ship?

James and Lily