i hate the marauders fandom
maybe a controversial opinion but im so sick of marauders fans. i have soooo many complaints lol so heres some of them?? prepare for a long rant with awful grammar!
- the babygirlification of canon death eaters and terrible people. marauders fans have turned literal awful people, such as barty crouch (who helped torture the longbottoms into insanity), into their uwu soft boys. these characters (most likely) willing followed voldemort. even for characters like regulus who defected from voldemort arent actually shown to stop believing in his ideals, only how they reached them. also, saying peter was imperiused or, to quote a tiktok i saw, ‘thats such nonsense i would never do that’, is honestly ridiculous. now i dont have a problem with headcanons but i find them a bit annoying when they severely effect canon (ex: hcing hermione as being black even when it’s mentioned shes white doesnt effect the plot, but saying peter was imperiused does). i think its fine to make content about these characters but i think its strange to make them good people.
- the way they treat the women. female characters from the marauders era are constantly shoved aside or ignored. i see so many people say ‘oh we should talk about the women more’ but they never actually will. this point is also connected to the last one, with people romanticising the male characters that have approximately two mentions, and not even bringing up female characters that are actually relevant to the story like narcissa, bellatrix, umbridge and even lily? how you cast aside one of the most important characters is truely beyond me. i also think if ur going to make male death eaters your babygirls you may as well be able to do it for the women right? if u get to blab on about jegulus and rosekiller im going to start shipping lily and alecto or mary and narcissa?
- fancasts i personally think a lot of the fancasts are pretty awful. they dont seem to have any understanding of how race works, because if ur sirius fancast is irish/japanese then ur regulus has to be irish/japansese (which timothee chalemet is not) and ur black sisters also most likely have to be irish or japanese. ive also seen thomas weatherall fancasted as james and while i dont have a problem with that, i have a problem with the americans who have no understanding of Aboriginal Australians. they also have a habit of seeing any brown person and deciding theyre indian, which i have seen too many times
apologies for the horrificly long rant, if you bothered to read this mess please share your opinions!