So I’ve kept mostly quiet about this on tumblr (mostly because my main audience is on tiktok)
But I designed a 3 part cover set up for anyone wishing to print/bind All the Young Dudes for their own.
So yes, this is entirely free for you to use as long as you do not erase the watermark and you can find further resources on it here in the Gdrive link.
This was such a fun project and SUCH a privilege to have so many people supporting me in this!
Remus & Sirius. I just finished reading mskingbean89/@lobsterbang‘s “All the young dudes” on AO3. God, it broke me, but it’s wonderful and funny and sad… So this is for them- and for myself to cope with the heartbreak haha
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)
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 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??
Ok so yes, I have been sobbing since I read chapter 172, 173, and 174. I cant breathe. And it all hurts so bad, I cannot even begin to explain how awful this is, the pain I mean. But I am now on chapter 180 and there is a question I need answered ASAP.
What happened to Lily’s cat.
James got Lily a cat as a Valentine’s Day gift in their seventh year, and then we hear about it again in one of the war chapters, I desperately need to know what happened to that cat.
1st, did it go into hiding with them. And 2nd, where is it now, where did it go after losing its caretakers, I need these answers so bad.
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.
So I have just started the first chapter of year 7 and I have had the realization that I’m going to never stop crying. It’s canon compliant. I’ve never cared about James and Lily all that much because we didn’t really know them, and now I love them endlessly and would die for them. How am I supposed to go on reading knowing I love all of these characters so deeply and almost every single one of them will die. Like they are all enjoying their last summer before everything changes, before war. The couples took so long to finally get together and they won’t have enough time. I’m not ready for them to graduate, I want more time of this group I love just living peacefully together.
There is a certain cruelty not being able to put down this amazingly written story, knowing that every single one of your favorite characters will die.
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.
