Regulus ready to set the world on fire for his fiancé...

🚨SPOILERS FOR CH 55 OF CRIMSON RIVERS🚨

The SECOND I saw that Lily and Remus reunion I was like ooohhhh I’m drawing that shit right away. I even downloaded a real art app for it instead of continuing to use my freaking notes app!!!

Apparently it’s becoming a theme with me to post new Crimson Rivers art every update day😭😭 the brainrot is real smh

@mayzarbewithyou

"slap a picture of me on a chair" HE'S SO FUNNY

Alright! So I finished hand binding Crimson Rivers by @mayzarbewithyou :) this was my first time bookbinding so excuse the mistakes I am far from great, but all in good time! This fic basically changed the trajectory of my life so I thought I’d give it the love it deserves! the spine is regulus standing looking up at the tree and he is purposely put on the last book because he finally learned how to climb and grow. I’m so emotional over the end of the fic so this is very emotional to me. I did the typeset myself and there are some cool details I’ll try to put in another post, but basically I added all of Zar’s end notes as footnotes to the specific scenes he talks about! All very fun and the dingbats match the theme for the books and the backs each have quotes the correspond. I split it into 5 just because it didn’t feel right to have the epilogues in the same book as the war. They were two completely different parts of the story so I separated them. Anyways I’ll make another post. This was a labor of love and I hope I did it Justice :)

Marauders fans be like “i read AU’s to escape the pain of cannon” and then the AU is the bloody Hunger Games

I'm so obsessed with the fact that the fandom finds this to be very important as a collective. Like, PLEASE. Who could disagree?

crimson rivers sirius and regulus are very personal to me

By likeafunerall, and reposted with permission.

regulus “and i wouldn’t marry me either, a pathological people pleaser” black and james “i like shiny things, but i’d marry you with paper rings” potter

Crimson Rivers-Zeppazariel

James and Regulus first interview

Hallow is Hallow

Their Pictures for the arena

Regulus: my brother is a drama queen he won’t let us date-

James: leave that to me

*later*

James: *sneezes*

Sirius: Bless you

James: what?

Sirius: i said bless you

James running to Regulus: I TOLD YOU I COULD DO IT- HE GAVE US HIS BLESSING

Regulus in disbelief: holy shit you actually did it

Sirius: wait what

James brushes his lips over Regulus' cheek as the last croon of the song fades out, and he whispers, "Will you marry me?"

It is spoken softly beside Regulus' ear, like a secret, even though no one can overhear. James has never felt more at peace than when he says the words, and he feels so calm, so content, when Regulus eases back to gaze at him.

"We're already engaged," Regulus murmurs.

"I know," James says, and then, "but will you marry me?"

"Yes," Regulus breathes out, "I'll marry you."

"Reg," James says, breathless, hand coming up to Regulus' jaw, fingers curling to grip his chin. "Reg, love, let's get married."

"Okay," Regulus whispers, a soft laugh tumbling out of his mouth, eyes bright in the sunrise glow of the fire. He breaks out into a smile and nods vigorously. "Let's get married."

Crimson Rivers, @mayzarbewithyou

Aaaaand we have Regulus Black✨ I really like doing these little character sketches lol I think I might do them for all the Marauders.

SO. WE HAVE:

Regulus Black from “Crimson Rivers” by @mayzarbewithyou

Regulus Black from “Best Friend’s Brother” also by @mayzarbewithyou

Regulus Black from “Art Heist, Baby!” by @otrtbs

Aaaaand Regulus Black from “just lovers (like we were supposed to be) by… you guessed it, @mayzarbewithyou

It didn’t hit me that I used all of Zar’s fics on this until just now lolololol well what can I say Zar’s Reg is superior😂

I think I will be doing all the Marauders now this is far too much fun🙃

everyday i fear for crimsonrivers!marlene and I would like to thank zar for not killing her today

Babe wake up the latest Crimson Rivers chapter just dropped

“oh, well you haven’t read the big three—” i’ve read the big three. i have read the big three.

i have some thoughts on zar’s exit from the fandom & their decision to delete their fics and how the fandom is reacting to that. and the fandom is reacting horribly.

and the irony of it all! because, arguably, crimson rivers is what zar is most known for. crimson rivers, set in the hunger games universe, created by suzanne collins to criticize capitalism, the entertainment industry, and consumerism patterns of offered media and how it varies based on a social class. and zar’s work added so much nuance to what suzanne collins had written. zar had done an excellent job writing james, sirius, and regulus as victors and exploring their respective traumas when it comes to being in the public eye.

regulus (and james, too) constantly felt like he had no autonomy and no choice because he was thrust into the public light and pressured into doing exactly what was expected of him. and sirius? oh, sirius. sirius won his games and was made into this galaxy-sized celebrity by the hallows, expected to conform to every assumption made about him, to follow all the rules his new role as a mentor & a victor burdened him with. but most importantly—the hallows viewed sirius as nothing more than what he could offer to them. they looked at him and did not see the person.

zar wrote that, and tens-hundreds of thousands people read it and completely misunderstood. because zar wrote 865k words exploring how traumatizing it is to be made into an Image, to be stripped away of your autonomy for the sake of entertaining others. zar wrote that, only for the marauders fandom to do the exact same thing to them that the hallows did to sirius, to regulus, to james; to victors.

and that. that is fucking infuriating.

because, yes, zar is a brilliant writer, but first and foremost, zar is a person. and the way a large part of the fandom has been treating them is completely dehumanizing.

STOP saying “i respect/support zar’s decision but [insert a paragraph about how devastated you are and how you cannot stop crying]”.

STOP sharing the pdfs/epubs of his fics on literally all social media platforms when it’s the one thing zar explicitly asked people to not do.

STOP feeling entitled to the creative work that does not the fuck belong to you. STOP thinking that you have any right to demand anything from zar. STOP hiding emotional manipulation in-between words of illusory support and respect.

and to quote zar: for fuck’s sake, STOP calling them zeppazariel.

zeppazariel is a brilliant writer who was elevated within the fandom to a height so big that it hurts when you fall and crash, and the fandom pushed zar down. the marauders fandom made zar into a full-blown celebrity, but

zar is a person.

REMEMBER THAT.