omg i love them
Regulus had gotten used to it.
Seniors. Friends. His classmates. Even the teachers sometimes.
He never could get out of Sirius’s shadow and the nicknames basically proved it.
Baby Black. Younger Black. Slytherin Black.
He’s heard all the variations and he hated every single fucking one of them.
But over the years, he’d learned to tolerate it.
Yet it didn’t escape his notice that of all the people his brother and family included - only James Potter had never used that nickname.
He had never really thought too hard about it until they were paired up for prefect rounds, and even over the course of a couple of months, James had only referred to him as Regulus or Reg.
Finally, Regulus couldn't take it anymore.
"Why don't you call me baby Black?"
James stared at him, raising an eyebrow. "I thought you hated that nickname?"
Regulus opens his mouth. "Yes but -" It's not stopped anyone before.
James carries on with the previous conversation, ignoring the pause - as though it's really that simple. Regulus didn't like the nickname and therefore, James didn't use it.
And maybe it really is that easy.
the only way to win at chess ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)👌
I present: Topaz being jealous because she thinks that numby likes ratio but numby is actually just an aventio fan
(Insert Rain On Me by Lady Gaga) BUT HAPPY BIRTHDAY AVENNNN
the pookies
Snacks?
I love Regulus with the whole “I know I will be dead long before you read this but I want you to know it was I who discovered your secret” thing. Like yes, I too couldn’t bear the thought of not getting credit for doing iconic shit even after my death.
Sleep is a rehearsal of death
bust... or maybe i'll take it all!
despite everything, it’s still you—?
The red that binds our fate
🔴SPOILER🔴
Spoiler/// In the morning I read the leaks about Aventurine being saved by "a knight of beauty", and it was damn funny.
how about a kiss for good luck?
Remus: James have you ever won an argument with Regulus.
James: We never argue. He speaks French and I shut up.
I want some real love, baby
James' and sirius' borderline codependency was cute. Admirable, even. Until it wasn't.
And the saddest part about it all is even with Remus and regulus around James and Sirius will always gravitate towards eachother. James is hurt? Where's Sirius? Sirirus had yet another nightmare? James' name is the first one past his lips. This drives their respective partners mad. Makes them feel like their affection isn't quite enough. What no one understands is for just how long these boys had only eachother to rely on. James was, at the ripe age of 12 holding Sirius while he slept, getting him to eat after Sirius' mother reached her hands across the dining table, down his throat stealing the appetite right from his stomach. Sirius was the one there to rub james' back when, bless their hearts, his parents were quite able to understand the ache in their sons lungs. And it's hard, to come down from that high. When you've found your constant. That one person in the world who with no more than a glance can take the thoughts from your head and sop up the pain in your body with a nod of the head and an "I know" and they love their boyfriends, of course they do. But you can't, no matter how hard you may try, writhe your way between the seems of a bond once made by two scared eleven year old boys. Regulus hated James when he was young, despised him even. Because James took his brother away. James stole Sirius attention the moment he'd walk into the room and now, now regulus hated his own brother for that same reason. Remus knew how much Sirius loved him. But the shame he'd fill with when he had to call James up and ask how to handle his own boyfriend. His whole soul hurt when Remus fought tooth and nail to get that poor boy home from Azkaban and the only request when Remus offered "anything. Anything at all." Was James fleamont potter. Remus even often thought that if Sirius really had to choose between them, when it all boiled down to, Sirius just could not live without james. And Regulus knew that James would throw his whole life away for sirirus. He'd give the very blood from his veins to that man, utterly unbeknownst to the idea that the life he gave sirirus may as well have taken the air from regulus' lungs, because sirirus needed James. Bad, sometimes. But regulus needed him too. And he wasnt always there in that way he so consistently could be for regulus' brother. So when James and sirirus fall to their knees in that helpless, tearful way they always seemed to, Remus and Regulus can only stand awkwardly off to the side, offering eachother a sympathetic glance over a bond they will never know, and a sort of love that they will never feel.
And it's no one's fault. Because sirius couldn't trust anyone quite the way he did james, and James couldn't quite explain what that meant in any frequency the others could understand.
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Uhm anyways I hope you cried or something.
Cause I did.
reblog if you're literally remus lupin. he's so you
sometime in their school years, harry and draco get into a vicious argument that ends in bloody fists and a month long detention from mcgonagall. harry realizes he's just so incredibly tired from having to fight off voldemort AND uphold his feud with draco so he decides to put an end to it by making amends and striking up a truce (friendship) with draco.
when asking for tips on how to go along with it from his close friends, knowing it will be difficult to get close to draco, they suggest that he go about it in the pureblood manner of "offering friendship," a lengthy ritual that's sure to work on someone as uptight as malfoy.
as per hermione's instructions, harry finds the book on the subject in the hogwarts library and proceeds to start the process on malfoy except the book has been charmed, by a previous reader so that it's not "the magical guide to compliant camaraderie" but rather "to woo a wizard: the beginner's lessons on courting."
instead, draco finds himself as the recipient of an ancient courting method and is just baffled at it all thinking it's a prank but slowly starts opening up to the idea of it while harry is following the instructions with the end goal being draco's friend, not realizing he's given hope to an already hopeless romantic who's been pining after him for way too long.
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James, smirking: excuse me, sir, what time do you have to be back in heaven?
Regulus:
Pandora: oh no
Evan: it was nice knowing you, Potter
Dorcas: Reg is going to tear him to shreds!
Barty: oh I can’t lose the show
Regulus:
Regulus: *giggles*
Everyone:
Barty, with horror: he broke him
Regulus "have you ever wanted to cry but no tears came out, so you just stare blanky into space while feeling your heart break to million pieces?" Black.
james potter is sixteen the first time he looks at regulus black and sees the most beautiful boy in the world.
he is sixteen when lily's slytherin girlfriend, pandora, leans in as she passes behind him on her way to the supply cupboard in potions and whispers, "chocolate frogs are his favorite."
he's sixteen when he spends a full day walking around hogsmeade with regulus, neither of them saying much and both of them wanting the day to continue. "this isn't a date," regulus insists. "not till i leave my parents."
and sirius said he would never do it.
james is sixteen when regulus first sends him a wink that makes his knees go weak, and he's sixteen when the smallest touch sends shocks through his spine.
"don't hurt my brother," sirius tells him through a bitten-back grin.
"don't get too attached," regulus tells him through a too-sweet smirk.
the black brothers, peter told him once, getting all philosophical as he does, they'll be the death of you. james doesn't think that'd be so bad.
james is sixteen when gryffindor loses the quidditch cup to slytherin. he runs across the field to regulus, but when he goes in for a hug, regulus pulls back, smiling.
"not yet, mon amour," he says, and it's not until marlene dumps her water bottle on his head fifteen minutes later that james fully comes to.
james is sixteen when he goes home for the summer before his seventh year and regulus squeezes his hand before he leaves the train. "soon," he says, and then he's gone. james curls into remus and prays that this means what he thinks it does.
it's a week away from his seventeenth birthday when the owl comes, bringing with it a letter in regulus's perfect scrawl reading, i did it. see you on the first. james spends the entire evening telling first an exhausted sirius and then is mum about all the dates he'll take regulus on once they're together.
james is seventeen on the first of september, and when regulus jumps into his arms, it feels like coming home.
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james and regulus laying on the field after quidditch practice.
regulus: what the fuck james!
james: watch your language
regulus: oh my bad good sir, whom the sexual intercourse
*sirius listening proudly*
James going for an eye exam/checkup and the optometrist is some new young guy who’s all stone-faced business, barely looking at him, flipping through paper work, “are you having any problems with your current glasses,” etc and James is just stumbling over his words practically drooling at this man and also flirting unashamedly with terribly cheesy lines. Something about “the eyes are the windows to the soul you know? see anything you like in mine?” and reg’s just like “well your vision sucks so they’re pretty shit windows if you ask me” and then he watches James’ pupils dilate cartoonishly in response and is like where did this man come from and why does he clearly have a degradation kink of some sort. And then he does the thing where he makes James look at him while he moves his finger back and forth to test his peripheral vision or whatever but James keeps accidentally following his hand instead of looking straight ahead because he’s getting distracted by all the rings and picturing how they’d feel on him and and Regulus is like “please for the love of god just look at me” and James is like “oh I’ve been” and then he finally averts his attention from his hands but now he’s just staring into his eyes, jaw slack, down bad and regulus is like “okay can you see my finger still. Mr. Potter. Mr. Potter are you listening to me.” and James is just mumbling “oh I’m listening baby I’m all ears” and it’s the longest fucking checkup regulus has ever had to give but he secretly doesn’t actually mind at all
Bad moon :")
Jegulus Valentines special 🍫
deku’s team !! 💚
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