#grant chapman
Currently doing my book project over All The Young Dudes and I’m trying to decide if I should just bite the bullet and use their names in the analysis. Do I just fess up to doing this project over a piece of Harry Potter fanfiction? Or should I just try to subtly skip over their names, or use the nicknames moony and padfoot (maybe my teacher hasn’t read Harry Potter) orrrr if I should just make up names. I chose quotes that I could easily erase their names from but then I realized when it comes to talking about the quotes, I need to talk about Remus like 17,000 times and I can’t just skip over his name that many times without it looking weird. Hmmm idk.
(Also, luckily I started saving quotes from the fic into my notes during like year 3 and so I already had 100 quotes in my notes)
Happy national toast day! Enjoy some moony toast, you deserve it!
I thank god every day that all the young dudes ended before Sirius died. Because I cry every day over having to read Remus‘ reaction to the deaths of Marlene, Lily, and James. In the epilogue we hear Grant like briefly mentioned remus briefly mentioning Sirius’ death, and that made me cry, but if I had to read Remus react to his death I don’t think I would ever recover as a human being, I’d always be an empty husk.
I just thought y’all should know his exists and the first 15 chapters are out so far!
⚠️SPOILERS FOR ALL THE YOUNG DUDES⚠️
I cant catch my breath, I’ve literally been sobbing for hours, this hurts so bad. I literally made my mom hold me, I am going to be 17 soon and I made my mom hold me as I cried over this story.
How do I go on knowing my favorite written thing ever is a wolfstar fanfic??
I just finished year 7 and I can’t move on to The War chapters. I emotionally can’t do it, I’ll never stop crying. So while I put that off, will you guys tell me your favorite quotes or moments from All The Young Dudes. Thank you in advance. I need some happy or romantic moments, the idea of reading the last chapter of the war is breaking my heart.
CW: sexualization/ fetishization
So this probably won’t get as much attention as my other ATYD posts because this one’s actually serious, instead of “oh my god this fic is sad!” But I feel like it’s a crucial conversation we need to have.
I feel like for the most part, people in this community do really well with talking about how mlm is fetishized, but I’m becoming increasingly concerned because of the posts I keep seeing where allies are trying to make sure wolfstar or gay ships aren’t being fetishized, when in reality sometimes it’s okay for things to just be slightly sexual.
Sexuality is not taboo and we need to be careful not to make it out to be taboo.
I feel like the LGBT and MLM communities have come so far and I think it could be harmful to our communities to reintroduce a stigma around gay sex and gay people being sexual.
It is not fetishizing to talk about gay sex in passing, and it is not a bad thing.
For example, I saw someone make a joke about Sirius and Remus having a sexual relationship (specifically in all the young dudes) and someone called them out (politely) asking why they had to go to a sexual place to describe the relationship between Sirius and Remus. And while I think it is important to have these conversations and check our internal biases about gay men and make sure we are not constantly sexualizing them, sometimes, things are just related to sex, sex can be a subject and not be inherently bad.
I then saw someone else saying that ATYD can get fetish-y because of the way Remus is more sexual around the full moon. But that’s not a bad thing! And it actaully fits the story perfectly, around the full moon remus feels everything deeper. Magic,emotions, and so it makes sense for his desires to also increase. 
This is been all over the place but basically what I’m trying to say is yes it is good to check our biases and politely call people out when they might be accidentally fetishizing gay men. But we can’t talk about sex, specifically gay sex, as something that is improper or wrong, because it is the opposite of progress to denormalize talking about gay people being sexual. Gay sex isn’t a subject that we should discourage having conversations about.
I really wish I could better articulate what I’m trying to say but I’m tired and I cant word things to save my life, just be careful when trying to deconstruct fetishization of gay men, because as much as that is bad stigmatizing gay sex isn’t helping anyone either.


Ok so, doing a book project over All The Young Dudes, and this is how I decided to start it, hopefully my teacher doesn’t mind it’s a fanfic.
i want to give grant a hug
“you feel like home, you’re like a dream come true”
i feel like this line from when we were young be adele perfectly sums up how remus thought about grant
Everyday is loving Grant Chapman day. @lobsterbang
And here’s my latest project! My magnum opus, the fanfic that got me to put my phone down and go:“I need to get into bookbinding, RIGHT NOW! I bound 16 books in half a year before attempting this one because I wanted to get as good as possible at it first.
"All The Young Dudes” by mskingbean88 on ao3 or @lobsterbang . I just loved it so much. The cover was designed by the amazing @swifty-fox and it also has fanart made by me and them inside. I also had a lot of fun with the typography in these ones. And I finished them this week!
So, I know people are very much in love with the original Marauders fancast, but to be perfectly honest, I feel like it’s gotten just a tad old. So I thought I’d share MY ideal fancast!
Let me know what you all think!
Dev Patel as James Potter
Dyllon Burnside as Remus Lupin
Takeshi Kaneshiro as Sirius Black
Harry Michell as Peter Pettigrew
Sophie Skelton as Lily Evans
Simona Brown as Mary MacDonald
Susan Wokoma as Dorcas Meadows
Imogen Poots as Marlene McKinnon
Aaaaand then of course for all my All The Young Dudesfans…
George MacKay as Grant Chapman
Rebecca Hazlewood as Yasmin Patel
remus: you saved me. i owe you my life.
grant: no thanks. i’ve seen it and i’m not very impressed.
