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i dont think its fair to sat the marauders fandom is mostly gen z when a lot of the OG millennial fans are still here and making fanworks. the older fans just don't like to interact much with this new iteration of the fandom due to disagreements over characterization and focus.

This is a lovely and creative video essay for a lovely and creative fandom. The fact that writers can integrate diversity into a (mostly) cracker white, cisgender heterosexual cast and spin a beautiful story with wit, humour, and elegance is truly astounding. Picking up one line of text, often less, and running with it to create a whole universe is a difficult task. I admire the creativity of writers who make fanfictions for the Marauder Era. Thank you for creating this wonderful video essay. (Also, you have earned my respect for including that clip of "Portrait Of A Lady On Fire" at around 0:22!)

what an amazing video

i'll tell you what the surge was from, it was from the 2020 draco thirst imagines or whatever bringing the hp fandom back into full swing

9:27 FOUUUULLLLLLL

As a millennial who has heard of the marauders but never knew what it was, thank you for making this. I didn't know it was fully created by the fandom and I didn't know about that fanfic. I've been reading fics, including hp fics, for more than 15 years, so I'm both ashamed and excited. I'm DEFINITELY going to read ATYD and I already know I will fall in love with this fandom, thank you for the informative vid <3

i love that we basically turned JK Rowlings story into a queer fandom, I mean like dorlean, jegulus, rosekiller, wolfstar, pandalily, drarry, blairon, deamus, pansimione, the list goes on!

that's olnly my opinion but I think that Wolfstar became popular as a great way for fans to say "hey girl I'm here I want to be represented too" and this, this is so special Wolfstar and Dorlene literally helped me understand myself as a girl lesbian and I couldn't be more grateful to this fandom, honestly I want JK to explode but everything this fandom does has changed my life a little bit and I will be forever grateful for this gay fandom pandemic ❤

YALL i’m here just to tell you the best marauders fanfic after atyd, “sunburnt summers” by citrusandsunscreen (on ao3). thank me later💋

The best marauders fic imo is Only The Brave by Solmussa on Ao3. Thank me later.

I know that everyone hates The Cursed Child play/book…but Albus and Scorpius is just too cute😭🫶

I'm not a fanfic reader. I didn't know wolfstar existed. But ever since I watched this video, the existence of ATYD has been in the back of my mind ever since. Tried to ignore it, cause its 2000 fucking pages, and I already know they ALL DIE in the end, but my fate was sealed. I'm now almost finishing the first book lol. Thanks i guess?!

Ok,apesar de ser uma brasileira perdida num vídeo gringo eu preciso falar sobre os Marotos. Durante mto tempo da minha vida(até hj no caso kkkk) o universo Harry Potter me ajudou mto,desde momentos bons de alegria quanto os ruins onde eu só queria embarcar no Hogwarts Express e viver em Hogwarts. E a uns 6 meses eu pensei "eu curto drarry,e tenho vontade de ler wolfstar,vou ler all the young dudes",eu acho q essa foi a melhor decisão da minha vida inteira. Pela primeira vez eu me senti pertencente a alguma coisa,quando eu estava tendo um dia ruim eu só pegava os fones,colocava David Bowie(q só ouvi por causa da fanfic)e ia ler,era uma espécie de válvula de escape. E pensar q a pessoa q criou um universo tão maravilhoso quanto esse é uma pessoa tão horrível me deixa mto mal. Ent é realmente impressionante como os fãs são dedicados ao ponto de criarem algo tão confortável e lindo como a Marauders Era com umas mínimas migalhas de jilly e wolfstar é algo impressionante. Fico mto feliz q eles tenham feito isso(ok me estendi mto,se algum brasileiro ler vai ser lucro kkkk)

im not joking when i say the marauders saved my whole life<3

2000th like.

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Amazing video essay. I've been binging marauders content all day and also new sub

Remus and tonx actually make MORE people like Wolfstar. Think about it like this, your lover just died and you are sad, he was a shell of himself and you are lonely. Then, his hot younger cousin who can shapeshift starts liking him. She reminds him of his dead lover before the war bc they are SO SIMILAR. They hook up, which he was resistant about at first, and he gets her pregnant. The thought is now they get married. This also sets up genderfluid Sirius bc why wouldn’t it? Also I may be biased bc I am in the marauders fandom and have hc and everything. I LOVE tonx/fluer/bill, it is great. I’ve seen everything and honestly Wolfstar is supreme. Tbh I feel like we don’t talk about the age gap enough tho. Like, Remus was 35-40 and she was fresh out of school 20-22. Nothing against it if he didn’t meet her when she was a little kid but there is a chance that he knew her when she was little and that is strange. She also was a bad ass character and I am mad that jk Rowling made one of her main traits be pining after Remus.

7:58 had me dying lmao 💀

I appreciate the work you put into this. For about a year out of nowhere fan art from this fandom has been creeping into my TikTok fyp and I never really knew what it was about. Eventually it kept showing up so much that I had to look deeper into it and you explained it all for me. I never imagined I would want to read a fan fic until now.

Me at 4:30 ATYD. it was ATYD.

Marauders walked so Goncharov could run

she may have written the books, but we made it what it is today. Our home, the one place people like me and you can all return to, and it will always be there. that is Hogwarts.

Me and my friend actually want to write an thesis about this for school

i love our little gay magical corner of the world

0:30 deh

can you really call something a "queer utopia" if its creator so vehemently is against and dislikes queer people

On the one hand, I love this (particularly with she who must not be named coming out as a bigot). On the other hand, the depth of this fandom which I only just discovered is making my mind ache.

I have only been in the Marauders fandom for almost a year now and I can relate to it so much, like a little safe space. Thanks for creating this video it brightened my day!! :3

I've seen a lot of comments mentioning regulus + other death eaters so here's my take on this. in fics I love seeing people's interpretations of regulus' character and I usually like him even though he makes some *very* bad choices along the way. I however do NOT get the hype around barty and evan. they didn't get any kind of redemption. they were with voldemort until the end and didn't ever have the realization of oh this is kinda fucked up (or they just didn't care). I never understood how the fandom can babygirlify characters whose only known trait is basically evil 💀 at least regulus has complexity and his final act was a good one. finding a good wolfstar fic and seeing rosekiller in the tags is the most devastating experience istg some of these ships materialize out of thin air. I've actually read some jegulus fics too because I'm interested in their dynamic even though I would never want that in the canon universe and rosekiller is always shoved in there too like I'm supposed to care about genocidal maniacs who in canon were not complex they were just really fucking evil edit: I read modern au's with barty and evan and I take everything back I was unfamiliar with their game omg. canon rosekiller boooo fanon rosekiller yayyyy

11:11 had me cackling 😭

Respect J.K.Rowling, she's awesome

5:27 EVEN THE NAMES SYNC UP THIS IS LITERALLY PERFECT

i only just have gotten into the marauders fandom and this is so good. as someone who really held hp close to my heart as a kid, the marauders fandom has been a great outlet to me as an adult to rediscover the world i loved without the guilt of supporting JKR

THE LAST ONE HSHKSCLSKCHLSD

6:29 STRXDSEGRAGREAEGRAH

Have literally never watched any of your videos before, but this is so well written I'm shocked you aren't famous or something. I have only recently joined the marauders fandom because I can totally relate to marauders sirius and my girlfriend is literally remus. I do love this fandom even though it has a horrible trend of changing things that I don't personally agree with. (for context i'm not a big jegulus fan) Wonderful Video.

I always got impression that sirius remus were friends because of james and because of sirius prank on snape their friendship gone downhills. That is just my opinion, but them being boyfriends just don't fit.

hot take but i dont really think that continuing to support a piece of media like harry potter that is owned by someone who has stated on multiple occasions that she doesn't appreciate or support queer/trans people is what a queer utopia is. why are we continuing to support someone who does not care about us? why are we expending our energy and our creativity on a fandom for an author that derides us? why do we continue to support and breathe life into characters where we have to hunt for representation by reading between the lines or make it up where it doesn't exist? this is my own experience as a desi person, so i cannot speak to all other desis, but i really dislike when people rewrite james potter's character as desi, since i don't want to have some kind of shoehorned representation in a story that didn't take the time to be explicit about it or give the representation the nuance and care it deserves. i--we--deserve more than that. there are so many really good fantasy series with queer and poc rep. is this REALLY the best that we can do after decades of this? like, sure, you can argue that the fanfic that people write is independent of whatever jk rowling did, but you cannot deny that there are people who continue to buy merch /her books and push content that either directly or indirectly support her some way. she's hated queer and trans people for ages just let her legacy die. idk i thought this video would dive deeper into those aspects but ig not. why are we still supporting a series that was never written for queer people in the first place? all of this just puts a really bad taste in my mouth and makes me sad.

can someone give me the link to the r/s thing? can't find it anywhere :(

4:10 I AM DYING- DO YOU HEAR ME I AM DEAD💀💀💀I AM CRYING OF LAUGHTER I CANT DO THIS ANYMORE😭

Why did this make me cry! Your voice is so pretty and the way this is put together just makes me so happy🥹💗😭

*my friend dragged me into the marauders fandom and forced me to read all the young dudes and I have no regrets*

It's good and all, but as someone who is going through it and struggling against it, i will never endorse the normalization of obesity.

6:50 THE BEST ONE 🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶

I read all the young dudes in like October and when I say I went from smiling, laughing, awww-ing, to sobbing in a matter of a few chapters I mean it. It was AMAZING. I want to re-read it again soon it was that good. I absolutely adore how everything was portrayed. It was magical. 🐾⭐️

Im fucking crying

ATYD is such a conforting fanfic! It's a fact that Remus is most completely ignored the whole book and movie series,not being a well explored character and leaving by a shallow and depthless idea of his lycanthropy,wich could be such a interesting topic in the Canon books that when i meet the fanfic i was so envolved by it and Remus life that i felt bad while reading the ACTUAL books. Remus was a close friend of Sirius and James who were well explored in the series,so why they left him behind like that? Characters such as him,the Mckinnons,Macdonals,Pettigrew and Regulus who where cited on the books but not well explored are just the most interesting thing to read,and to be honest,i cant understand why JKrowling didnt wrote her own Canonic book about the Marauders Era,saying she 'doesnt like spin offs',but made a Series of THREE movies and a book talking about Dumbledore's Past!? I really love Wolfstar,the wizarding world,everything that surrounds Harry Potter and it's so frustrating to know that Jk did them so dirty,in the movies is even WORST!!! Yet,the fanfic is definetelly a conforting escape for me from the reality and im very grateful to MskingBean89 and the translator of the portuguese version of the book,because it was probably the best fanfic i've ever read,well written,based on actual facts of the movie,full of emotions and uncannon characters that actually increase something to the books!

I miss when the fandom was not toxic.