![]() All I could think about was how young they were, especially in the war. But I think with the pain it also brought me a lot of healing as Remus went through and dealt with his troubles along with his friends. ![]() Even the happiest moments made me sad because of the canon. It hurt a lot because all I felt for about half of it was the constant ticking of time towards the events of 1981. I don’t know if I fully have the words yet to determine how I feel about All the Young Dudes. It reminded me why I had fallen in love with the wizarding world when I was 6, and let me know it was still okay to feel that love. This fic brought back a lot of that joy, as well as so much pain. I’ve spent a lot of time over the past few years being angry at the person who created a world that defined my life for the better part of 15 years, and angry at myself for losing the joy I felt as a Hermione-cosplaying child. These creators are mainly making edits for the Wolfstar pairing of Remus Lupin and Sirius Black, but many now include actor George MacKay as a faceclaim for the original character Grant. It's popularity on TikTok has also led to a rise in a new generation of vidders. Among countless memes and fancasts dedicated to the story, people have even posted clips of themselves printing and binding the entire, 500,000-word fic so they can have their own physical copies. The spinoff hashtag #atydtiktok has 45 million views in and of itself. Few of of them have anything to do with the Mott the Hoople song, although almost every single TikTok that uses that song is about the fanfiction of the same name. Over on TikTok, the #atyd hashtag on TikTok has 704 million views. It has its own TV Tropes page, and there are hundreds of posts in the Tumblr tag, which includes some phenomenal fan art. It has almost 9,000 ratings on GoodReads and a 4.82 star average review score, which a lot of published authors would kill for. People have taken it upon themselves to read it for audiobooks in a practice known as podficcing. ![]() There are now YouTube reviews of this fic. ![]() And now it now has more than four million hits on Archive of Our Own. Jump to January 2021: By the end of the month, the story had reached just under a million hits. By November 2020, it had just under 300,000 hits. By mid-2019, it had somewhere around 100,000 hits on Archive of Our Own. Here’s some more numbers: The fic finished publishing in November 2018. All the Young Dudes in particular really had its moment in the second year of the pandemic, starting around the winter. The growing interest in All the Young Dudes of late has this movement of reclamation to thank, but there’s another factor: Fanfiction TikTok. Grant Chapman, a particularly well-loved OC from the story, has started appearing in other fanworks. Jokes about how MsKingBean89 actually wrote Harry Potter are somewhat common. Many fans, especially Gen Z fans, consider it their canon version of the Marauders and some prefer to consider ATYD-influenced Marauder fandom as separate from regular Harry Potter fandom, particularly as it rose to fame after Rowling's controversial statements about trans people and fans' subsequent desire to distance themselves from the author. It is also the highest both by comments and kudos in the fandom. It is a canon divergent fic that fills in the Marauders timeline and is focused on Wolfstar ( Sirius Black/ Remus Lupin), spanning from their arrival to Hogwarts and all the way until the events of Order of Phoenix & Deathly Hallows and is a total of 526,969 words long (188 chapters).Īs of April 2021, it is the first English work on Archive of Our Own to reach 2 million hits. All The Young Dudes is a Harry Potter fic by MsKingBean89.
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