So recently i’ve started to feel a
little bit of annoyance when reading fics featuring teenage!marauders
where they react to everything like Experienced Adults™. i mean i
would still read the fic if i liked it, it’s just that i will groan
whenever it feels like i’m reading about 30 -something instead of
14y/o.

But i also started looking back at my
(abandoned for now) work “mentally unstable teens against
humanity” and mentally cringe everytime bc of how embarassed i
am of certain aspects of it, in the way the characters express
themselves (and yes i hate cringe culture, i very much try and stop
doing that)

and i realized that i cant
simunateously wish for more authentic teenage marauders and also be
ashamed of the “””ridiculous””” teenage things they did in my fic. Like, sirius unironically calling
himself a social justice warrior ? that might look stupid to me
now, but it’s actually a very plausible thing for a young teen to do. And
it’s actually the parts where i tried to write them as more mature
and adult that i think i would change if i tried to rewrite it.
just… embrace the teenage awkwardness, even if it doesn’t make the
fic look as cool and “sexy” as some other works

idk, it’s just some food for thoughts.
I guess my message here is : teens may look super awkward and
stupid to you, but it should be embraced and seen as a natural part
of the “getting to know yourself” process. And i would
really love to see more of young!marauders written with this angle

and also another moral to the story :
something what you dont like about your fic at the moment will be
your fav thing about it afterwards