James/Regulus

Jegulus is the slash ship between James Potter and Regulus Black in the fandom Harry Potter.
==Canon==
They do not directly interact on-page in canon. They canonically attended Hogwarts together for several years, from 1972 or 1973 to 1978. Regulus’s older brother, Sirius Black, was during this time one of James’s roommates and best friends. Both Regulus and James canonically die within a few years of each other (the former in 1979, the latter in 1981), defying Voldemort in the first wizarding war. 
==Fandom==
===Pre-2020===
Some of the earliest James/Regulus fics date back to 2005 on LiveJournalhttps://web.archive.org/web/20220815002337/https://reggieblack.livejournal.com/.
The regulusjames LiveJournal community was active from between 2008 to 2012, seeing both fanart and fanfic contributions. The regulus-fest on LiveJournal ran in 2010 and received three James/Regulus out of 15 fics, the second most common ship behind Barty/Regulus with 4 submissions.
From the mid-2010s to 2019, the ship continued to see sporadic activity of a handful of fics a month on AO3https://www.futurephotons.io/shipwatch/?filter=James%20Potter/Regulus%20Black.
===2020 and beyond===
2020 marked the start of a period of high interest in both Harry Potter Marauders era and this ship specifically; a sharp increase in the number of James/Regulus works in early 2021 followed the surge in popularity of the Marauders era longfic All The Young Dudes in late 2020. (It is worth mentioning that All The Young Dudes does not contain James/Regulus but rather the canon pairing James/Lily and Regulus is a fairly minor character, so any relation of these two trends is likely to be indirect rather than direct.)
For further evidence of its meteoric rise, James/Regulus was the #17 most popular ship on AO3 in 2022https://archiveofourown.org/chapters/110618514 and #43 most popular ship on tumblr in 2022https://fandom.tumblr.com/post/702448526072987648/ships-if-its-not-canon-at-least-theres-always, a new entrant on both these lists.
====Possible reasons for post-2020 popularity====
Fans on TikTok accounted for a significant part of this rise in popularity, in particular a “joke ship week” in March 2021.
===Fandom controversies===
====Jegulus Writers Strike / No Post November 2022====
: In November 2022, there was a call for Jegulus writers and shippers to refrain from posting any Jegulus content for a month to protest abuse and harassment within the fandom. A number of writers also chose to withhold posting for other ships during the month of November; Sirius Black fest, for example, which typically begins posting on Nov 3 (the character's birthday), delayed posting in 2022 until Dec 1https://archive.ph/wip/I1NKe.
====BNF departure in May 2023====
In May 2023, zeppazariel / mayzarbewithyou, the author of several of the most popular fics for this pairing on AO3, hid their works and deleted their tumblr accounthttps://archive.ph/jpvYr, to much fan response:
==Common Fandom Tropes==
* Sunshine x grumpy, in which James is the former and Regulus is the latter
* Canon compliant angst, unhappy ending with major character death
* Hogwarts era
* AU canon divergence
* Transmasc/trans man Regulus
* Desi James Potter
* Non-magical AU
* Raising Harry
==Fanworks==
===Fanart===
* James and Regulus with baby Harry by Betwndyingstars (twitter) (tumblr)
* Maybe it’s the first pride month for Regulus 🏳‍🌈✨☀️ by emeriart (tumblr) (twitter)
* Domestic lads (featuring Regulus with top surgery scars) by industrations (tumblr) (instagram)
* t4t jegulus! by Betwndyingstars (twitter) (tumblr)
===Fanfic===
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* Art Heist, Baby! by otrtbs 
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* Choices by MesserMoon 
* Crimson Rivers by bizarrestars 
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=== Meta ===
*Jegulus (James & Regulus) Deep Dive! by Coffeekoe
==Communities and Resources==
*#jegulus tag on Tumblr
*Regulus Black/James Potter works on AO3
==References==
Category: Harry Potter Relationships
Category:Slash Pairings
Category:Marauders Relationships