#*cough* Jily *cough*

[maladaptivewriting]

i personally don’t read infidelity. i actively avoid it. i find it super triggering, so i heavily rely on tags to warn me if that’s going to happen.

so rest assured, if your fanfic has untagged infidelity, i am praying on your downfall.

[thecasualauthor]

@jilymicrofics March Prompts Day 20: Melancholic

This one is happy I promise!!

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The castle is very melancholic as of late. 

This war is doing a number on them. All of them. Sirius is quiet, Remus is more and more reclusive, and Peter’s started jumping at every single sound. 

Even he feels like he can’t do it anymore at times. 

But then Lily comes around. 

Lily, who is sunshine and joy and life. Lily, who makes him want to keep fighting, who makes him want to be the best version of himself. Lily, who makes him whole.

She’s everything, really.

[everythingsbetterunderthestars]

Help for some reason my brain decided to have tons of fanfiction ideas except I literally DO NOT HAVE THE TIME to write them at this point in my life so for now I’m just playing them out in my head 24/7 waiting for the holidays to come so I can start up on at least ONE project because I quite frankly CANNOT LIVE LIKE THIS ANYMORE

[reggie-the-inferi]

unpopular opinion but i hate atyd-

i’m not even kidding like i liked it when i first read it (i was like 11-12) but like i didn’t even finish it😭

you could not pay me enough money for me to reread it (that’s a lie i’d do it for like a dollar)

[not-rab]

this with jily BUT james ends up falling in love with the therapist (*cough* regulus)

[midnightsvinyls]

why i prefer jegulus to jily

1. this is probably my main reason— lily isn’t the kind of person to publicly dislike someone for years and then one day just go huh. he’s not as bad as i thought? omg let’s get married! it just seemed kinda forced—like some of jkr’s other heterosexual relationships *cough* remadora and hinny *cough*

2. also (it’s not a canon event but most of the fandom has accepted it as canon) james repeatedly asking lily out doesn’t sit right with me. he’d respect her when she said no and wouldn’t constantly pester her. he’s not that kinda person (in fanon anyways)

2. jeggy’s dynamics? hello? rivals/ enemies to lovers, best friend’s brother, grumpy x sunshine, thinks he’s unlovable vs loves everyone— i could go on and on

3. jegulus’s ANGST. its never fails to rip my soul out, tear it to shreds, set it on fire then put it back into my chest and do it all over again. i’m not saying jily isn’t also heartbreaking— it 100% is. but jegulus is just UGH.

4. also there’s so much comedic potential with jegulus. sirius’s reaction? gets me every time. tie swapping? hell yes. slytherin vs gryffindor quidditch matches but they’re just checking each other out? GIVE IT TO ME

5. platonic jily is one of the best friendships in the fandom imo. they’d be that duo that had like a month-long relationship but are now just friends and get super embarrassed whenever it’s brought up. especially because i hc lily as a lesbian and that’s just the cherry on top

i am by no means hating on jily— all ships are valid. it’s just my opinion so please. no hate

[charmsandtealeaves]

*cough* Well here it is, chapter 1. Hope it lives up to the hype it seemed to generate.

Spitting Image - Ch1

James Potter always knew he wanted to build a family, he just hadn’t found the right person to build it with - yet. Freezing his sperm at Gringotts Sperm Bank was a no-brainer really. He’d have children when he found the right person, and now he had an insurance policy. Then Lily Evans walked into his place of work with her son - the spitting image of him

Jily, Muggle AU, WIP, Rated M

Read it on AO3

[aludraslytherin]

If they lived scenario :

So, since it's the 70s, homophobia was super there among the muggles. (I choose to make the wizard community really open minded tho, except a few pureblood families *cough*Black*cough*)

My ultimate ships are Jegulus and PandaLily. They have a hold on my heart, and they never let it go.

Anygays !

So, to fit in their muggle town, jily married each other and regudora did too, but they all four of them live in the same big ass mansion.

Wanting to have kids, Lily and Pandora got pregnant the non traditional way (imagine what you want to imagine) and BAM ! first Harry and then seven months later Luna.

But I also think that they would've been a big family, so (with the non traditional way ofc), Pandora would get pregnant with James, and Lily with Regulus.

Just a silly headcanon I have for this, please don't hate me for it

[starrylayle]

I am in desperate need of some long-form, magical canon-ish marauders fic recs y’all — I can’t keep rereading atyd lmao. The issue is is there are plenty of fics like this nowadays, but they all have jegulus in them and I’m sorry but I just don’t like that ship 😭. I read ‘choices’, ‘just lovers’ and ‘only the brave’,, and as well written as they were that’s enough jegulus to last a lifetime lol. I know there’s a lot of wolfstar long form fics but idk some of them are a little bit fetish-isy (cough cough casting moonshadows) and a lot of older ones aren’t really up to my taste (e.g. the shoebox project, the lost generation). I also feel like a lot of fics don’t really delve deep into themes of queerness, disability, race, class, etc. (Which is totally fine btw!!! I just personally prefer when they do). And as much as I love jily I don’t like ships centred on them because i only like str8 couples as side pairings in my fics lol. Also for some reason everyone’s white in those long jily fics 😭

The last two long-ish fics I read that I enjoyed that basically hit all my requirements (besides atyd lol) were ‘The Hand that Feeds’ (dorlene my loves <33) and ‘As the Worm Moon Dies’ (both by Rollercoasterwords I’m actually they’re biggest fan fr). They’re so well written, explore deeper themes and flesh out characterisation,,, and ATWMD makes my world building heart so happy coz it addresses all the issues I had with the magic system and life style in the og series and takes a much more critical/interesting approach. Actually side tangent to say that everyone should read ATWMD — it’s a wolfstar au where voldy won and sirius is a death eater and remus is in an illegal werewolf-fighting ring and it’s literally SO GOOD!!

I’ve also read ‘That’s the art of getting by’ (I forgot who it was by) and I enjoyed it coz I love my magical fix it fics too. I’ve heard, ‘It never gets out’, ‘the penigwens marauders series’ and ‘the last enemy: the howling nights’ are interesting portrayals of world and characters so I’m wondering if anyone would recommend them?

Also I’m open to a fic being centred around any characters/themes as long as it has some gay stuff somewhere lol. Like an exploration of peter’s character as he slowly succumbs to ‘the dark side’? Yes please!! The Black sisters family dynamic? Yummy. lady zabini and bellatrix having lesbian murder sex as they kill their husbands? fuckk yeah. Anyways point is i just want a long form marauders fic to obsess over and would love some recs!!

[jamesunderwater]

Dying Fires: a jily micro-oops

@jilymicrofics @jilymicro-oops - march 13, prompt: lonely - words: 2,007 Summary: James attempts to comfort Lily by a dying fire, but finds this will require restraint in a number of ways.

As they burst through the portrait hole, James and Sirius jostled each other so hard that the latter nearly fell to the floor, still cackling as he stumbled. 

“Did you see his face?” James wrapped an arm around his ribcage and held his muscles tight. They ached from laughter. 

Sirius wiped the tears from his eyes with the edge of his hands. “I think he might have actually been purple with rage,” he coughed as laughs continued to fall from deep inside him. 

“You don’t think he has the passwords to the common rooms, do you?” James asked, only slightly alarmed by the thought. He found the idea of Filch chasing them around the Gryffindor common room like an eggplant-faced ghoul entertaining more than frightening.

His friend pulled a face and shook his head. “Surely not. He’d have strangled us in our sleep by now if he did.”

James snorted and threw an arm over Sirius’s shoulder, the two falling in step as they headed for the dorms. Just before they reached the stairs, James noticed hair sticking out from behind one of the sofas that faced the fireplace. The dying fire left little light in the room, but James thought he recognized the head as belonging to Lily Evans, who he’d never seen in the common room past eleven. 

He hesitated without knowing it, breaking their stride. 

“What?” Sirius asked, then followed James’s gaze. “Ah,” he said knowingly.

“She looks…lonely, don’t you think?”

Sirius shrugged. “Can’t really tell from the back of her head.”

James paused, considering. “You go on up,” he said finally.

He could tell Sirius made an effort not to sigh. “Fine. See you in the morning, then.”

Once he’d gone, James stepped gingerly towards the only other occupant in the room. He considered saying her name, but there was still a chance he’d misidentified the person. By the time he was close enough to know for sure, she addressed him. 

“You don’t need to check on me, Potter,” Lily said in a thick voice, sniffling. “I’m fine.”

He assumed she knew how unconvincing she sounded. “Er, actually, I was just a bit cold. Thought I’d warm myself up–”

“By the embers?” she questioned, and he could hear her raised eyebrow even if he couldn’t see it. 

Read the rest on AO3!

[valoflunar]

I want to write a platonic jily fake dating at high school au where everyone (excluding marauders Valkyries and skittles) regards them as the “perfect popular x popular couple” even though their fake relationship is just really platonic and started fake dating with each other just to hide from extremely homophobic people (cough cough black family cough rosier family) that Lily is dating pandora and James is dating regulus plus everyone thinks that regulus is dating pandora so noone (excluding Valkyries,skittles and marauders) suspects Jegulus or Pandalily to be dating since they think their all straight

[starchaserdreams]

Whispers of Lilies: A Jily Short Story

I wrote a 2,500 word Jily Hanahaki fanfic. If you're wondering if this is out of my norm, yes it is. But the story was calling to me and I couldn't resist writing it. Hanahaki absolutely screams Jily to me.

An excerpt:

"Lily there they are again," Mary whispered in the hallway between the Charms and Potions classroom on a Tuesday.

"Look I see more!" Marlene cried out late on a Friday night as she, Mary, and Lily all returned to the Gryffindor common room.

"There's more blood on these than the last ones," Lily said slowly on a Wednesday morning as she took in the mess in the greenhouse.

It had started a few weeks earlier: flower petals throughout the castle. Lily had never seen anything like it before, but she knew the old witch's tale: when unrequited love became too much, it began to consume the lover's very being. Flowers would grow in the lungs, causing the lover to cough up bloody flowers. The realm of magic was called Hanahaki, and it was incurable. Whoever was suffering was deeply in love with someone who didn't love them back, and their body was slowly succumbing to their mental anguish over it.

"There's so much blood," Marlene agreed. A week ago, it was just a trickle. Whoever it is must be getting sicker.

Lily nodded, a sinking feeling in her stomach. Because these weren't just any flowers, they were lilies. And everyone who understood Hanahaki magic knew that that very likely meant that the person was in love with Lily herself.

"It's got to be James Potter, right?" Mary asked. Even as she spoke, there was regret in her tone.

"James Potter's love is not pure," Lily scoffed. She knew enough about James' childish nature to know that him calling out to her across the grass was just for his entertainment. Him staring at her across the lunch table was for attention. When he picked up her books and offered to carry them, it was to play act as a hero.

James Potter was no sincere lover.

It's on AO3 here!

[uncertainwallflower]

Who am I to deny the vibes? *Cough* fantasy medieval Jily *cough*.

[nena-96]

Alight With Happiness- A Married Jily Fest

@mppmaraudergirl (I hope it’s alright that this is a bit late!)

Day 2: The little Doe-mestic Moments

James’s Man-Cold <- link to ao3 or read it here

All morning the sounds of sniffles and coughing had filled the room, a stark reminder of how her husband was currently fighting a huge battle. Yes, James Fleamont Potter, the man who captured her heart before she even knew what love actually meant, was currently bundled up on the sofa, almost in a fetal position. All due to a vicious, “Man-Cold,” it was heartbreaking really the git-oops she meant her loving husband was unable to do anything except-

“Lily….ily.”

“Yes, James?” She replied, as she walked carefully towards him. Lily tried not to spill any of the warm soup onto the floor.

“Wha- er…you doing?” James croaked, before nuzzling deeper into the blanket. Lily did her best to not roll her eyes, “I’m bringing you soup, love.” She gestured at the bowl in her hands, before placing it onto the table.

“No, you mustn’t- I’ll get you sick” James shook his head wildly, causing her to chuckle. “Oh, James,” she pressed her hand to his forehead, “I’m not going to leave you, to fight this horrid cold.” Lily spoke gently, as she moved her hand from his forehead and gave him a soft kiss on his not-so feverish skin.

Hmm, it was almost as if her loving husband concocted a plan to get out of going into town to shop for a gift for her sister, Petunia. Thinking back, James wasn’t this “sick” a couple of days ago, then again one can argue that a cold can surprise anyone, regardless if the symptoms are there. Plus, her loving husband wouldn’t do that…there was simply no evidence that shows that he’s guilty, right? Those hazel eyes that she looked into a few weeks ago when she recited her vows on their wedding day, didn’t have a single trace of lying in them. However, at this moment his eyes were a bit clouded with guilt and a hint of-

“Veally, do you mean it?” His nasally voice filled her ears, thus ripping her away from her little discovery. She pondered for a moment, taking in the sight in front of her, it wasn’t until she noticed the corners of his lips quirk up, that she realized her suspicions were indeed correct.

‘Of course, there’s no one in the world that’s more important to me than my loving and honest husband.” She answered, and pretended not to notice the way a blush was making its way to James’s cheeks. “I hate seeing you this way, I thought maybe some delicious warm soup could cheer you up, but if you feel so out of it then maybe we should take you to see a Healer?”

“No! I-erm..I pleade no.” James said,as he let out a few coughs and sniffles for added measure. Lily tried to suppress a smile, well if James ever wants to go into the world of acting, he could definitely play any role if he tried. Ah, well, maybe in another lifetime, but for now she wants to see how far he’ll go in pretending to be sick.

Minutes go by, as the silence fills the empty space between them, not even a single sniffle to be heard. Before Lily could say anything, she watches as James slips out a hand from underneath the blankets, and reaches for her. “They don’t ‘ave want I need to feel better.” He said, and gently squeezed her hand before placing it over his chest, well to be more precise over the fluffy blankets but she’ll let him have his moment.

“No ‘ealer can ‘eal me because your love is the reason I live, Mrs. Potter.”

[jmagnabo92]

GGSB Fest 2024 - Day 3 - Saying Goodbye is Hard to Do

@goodgodfathersiriusblack

Prompt - Jily Graves

Sirius gets freed despite losing Pettigrew, and learns that Harry's never been to Jill's graves. Thus, a goodbye trip is in order.

AO3

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One of the best things that Sirius ever did was making sure that he was able to take Harry and clear his name, even after losing Pettigrew in the scuffle that night.  It had taken two weeks into the summer, but at least he’s finally free, and allowed to take his kid in for the summer.  Although it was strange pulling up on his bike in front of the Dursleys and riding away with his kid to the house in the country, it was the best feeling in the world to give his kid the dream come true that he’d been dreaming up for years.  Harry had looked at him like he hung the moon, and Sirius was thrilled that he could do that for him.  

Fortunately, their first week, their first month, their first summer together had gone well.  Harry had been thrilled to decorate his own bedroom, get to go on fun adventures, and get to know more about his parents.  They had bonded far faster than Sirius anticipated, but he was thrilled.  They both had a lot to work through, but together, they were making it work and heal together.

Unfortunately, Harry let slip that he’s never been to his parents’ graves, and thus, Sirius made a plan to visit those graves and give them both the chance to move on and say goodbye on Halloween.  He’d gotten permission for Harry to visit home for the weekend, so that he could take him to properly honor his parents instead of ignoring them like everyone else does.  Too busy celebrating the holiday.  

A proper visit, a proper goodbye, just the two of them.

Which is what they’re doing today.

They’re both a little more dressed up despite the fact that they’re both riding the bike on the long ride to Godric’s Hollow, and he could’ve just used magic to get there, but Sirius wanted the drive to think.  To think about where he is right now.  How hard it is to properly say goodbye, even if it is thirteen years too late. 

Sirius, despite knowing that Pettigrew would’ve done it anyway, still ached over his part in what happened.  His husband and wife were killed because he let someone else protect them.  Sure, he had no way of knowing what Pettigrew would go on to do when they’d been so tight knit at Hogwarts and afterward in the Order, but he still could’ve found another way to pull the wool everyone’s eyes. 

Yet, he didn’t.  And his family suffered.

As he pulls into the lot next to the cemetery, that’s all he could think about.  He sits frozen on the bike, even as Harry gets off of it, staring at the cemetery, wondering if they were angry with him.  If they hated him the way he hated himself.  

“Pads?” Harry questions after he sits there far too long.  “We don’t have to do this if you’re not ready.”

Sirius shakes his head to clear his thoughts.  “No, no, I am ready, and this will … help, for sure.”  He gets off the bike and gives Harry a side-hug.  “Don’t worry about me, kid.  This is your chance to say goodbye, too.”

Harry gives him a soft smile before they head towards the cemetery.  

Although, he’d never been there before – definitely couldn’t do this on his own – he knew roughly where their graves were.  He leads the way to their graves quite easily.  Finding them in moments and offering his arm to Harry to put around him in a side-hug. 

“Here they are, kid,” Sirius says.  “Do you want to say a few words?”

“Well, I – I’d like to, but I – I am not sure what to say,” Harry states, uncertainly.

“Just speak from your heart.  They love you no matter what.”

Harry coughs and clears his throat.  “Well, er, hi mum, hi dad.  It’s Harry – your, er, son.”

He looks at Sirius for assurance and Sirius nods at him.  “Go on, kid.”

He looks back at the graves and just starts talking about everything – his life before, how he hopes that they’re proud of him, how happy he is to be with Sirius (although he uses Pads), how he’s looking forward to honoring them every day… and then, he tells them that he misses them.  That he didn’t know what he was missing until Sirius came back into his life, but he knows now, and he truly misses them.  

“But I know that you would want Pads and I to be happy, so we’ll honor you and remember you.  We’ll love you, but we’ll also know that it’s okay to – to move on and be happy because I know you’d want us to be.”

“They sure would, kid,” Sirius assures him.  He knows that no matter how difficult it is to say goodbye, to move on, especially given… well, everything… they would want them to be happy.  They wouldn’t want their husband and son suffer.  “They loved us, and they’re watching over us.  They would be telling us that no matter what happened.  I know that, deep down.  They would want us to be happy and move on because they loved us.”

Harry nods, letting Sirius pull him into a proper hug before letting go. 

“And they would be so proud of you.  The young man you’ve become and man you’ll grow into someday,” Sirius states.  

“They’d be proud of you, too, Pads,” Harry offers.  “I’m sure of it.  You – you saved me from… and you’ve been so good to me…”

“I’m your Pads, kid,” Sirius states.  “I’m meant to love you and take care of you because I’m your Pads.  Still, I understand the sentiment.  I know I messed up even though we all agreed to the change, but I want to make up for it now.  They know that, I’m sure.”

He doesn’t have to say the words he’s feeling out loud.  He just looks at the graves and thinks to himself: 

I know that you loved me.  I know that the dementors lied.  I know that I screwed up.  I know that I let you down.  Despite this, I know that you’ll forgive me – if you haven’t already.  But I also know that I will always love you and I will spend the rest of my life making things right.  To you both and to our son.  I promise – I won’t screw up, again.  I just hope you believe me.

He can feel the wind through the air and smell the light scent of flowers, and he knows that they do.  His husband and wife watching over him, they know what he feels, and they know that he’ll keep his promise.

Harry nods and turns back to the graves.  “I love you, mum, dad.”

“And I love you, too,” Sirius says.  He turns to Harry, “Are you ready to go?”

Harry nods, again.  “Let’s go home, Pads.”

“Yes, let’s.”

[t1oui]

what's up tumblr (yet another blog intro)

i've decided to redo this post itself every time i want to make a new intro instead of making a new post :)

hi everyone, i'm tas, and i post a lot of hp stuff

note: everything in bold is either a favorite of mine or something important

hey everyone :) you can call me tloui or tas. my pronouns are he/it. i'm aroace. idk if there's much else to say there lol

i don't post about much other than harry potter on here, but i do have other interests (of course). my favorite musical artists are ajr, troye sivan, and tate mcrae. my favorite movies are vengeance (2022) and moneyball. my favorite books are red, white & royal blue, the catcher in the rye, project nought, and this was our pact. i also really like all the riordianverse books (and i do actually reblog things about pjo on a regular basis). lastly, my favorite colors are blue, green, yellow, pink, and red, which you can probably tell from the banner image and dividers i made for this post.

as for what i post myself, it's harry potter. just harry potter. (yk... minus that one tbosas post). i despise both jkr and pretty much all canon events (it was a canon event) so if you ship almost any canon ship, you're probably out of luck here. (i do ship some canon ships [cough cough drastoria and jily cough cough] but i almost never post about them anyway lol)

my favorite character is percy weasley and i post about him a lot. i'm a slytherin percy weasley truther all the way and love perciver (it's one of my otps) so if you ever wanna chat about percy (or penelope, oliver, and marcus) i'm here :)

even though my favorite character is percy, most of my fics & fic ideas are set in the marauders era. i'll also write some next gen stuff occasionally, and while i have a ton of ocs for next gen, the ones i reference most are lucy, skye, and katie (perciver oc kids) and henry and luella (deamus oc kids).

out of all ships, i write jegulus the most. even if it isn't the main ship, it's featured in a lot of my fics & wips

⋆ first and foremost, you can find my ao3 here! ⋆ note: fics with a ★ next to them are part of my series as it should be, which is a group of unrelated oneshots in muggle and/or no voldemort aus.

i slam the door and i'm on my way - jegulus, wip, teen and up. currently 3 chapters and 6.8k. ↳ regulus joins sirius at james's house during his sixth year. together, james, regulus, sirius, and the rest of their friends (both the gryffindor crew and the slytherin skittles) work together to bring voldemort down.

if you stayed - jegulus, complete, general. oneshot, 5k. ★ ↳ regulus leaves his family for good and stays with james and harry while he gets back on his feet in exchange for him looking after harry while james works. regulus is sure james is going to make him leave when the summer ends and harry goes back to school, but this might not be the case after all.

one big family - multi, complete, general. oneshot, 1.3k. ★ ↳ harry celebrates his eleventh birthday with his parents, his sister luna, and their friend neville. a no voldemort au with background jegulus, pandalily, and more :)

not quite bright - penelope clearwater & percy weasley, complete, teen and up. oneshot, 1.8k. ↳ a oneshot with penelope & percy where they're pushed to the sidelines, nobody quite understands them, and the world kinda sucks, but maybe that's ok. basically just queerplatonic (& very neurodivergent coded) penelope/percy.

home at last - jegulus, complete, general. oneshot, 352 words ★ ↳ the ao3 version of this tumblr post i made :) just a fluffy little jegulus microfic about how they got together

as a last note, while i do post almost exclusively harry potter stuff on here, i do make my own stories, and a lot of them. i've only made one post about my original work on here, but i might make more if i feel like it, so i thought i'd add a small section talking about basic bits of my original wips

tsbom - tsbom is the world where i put any character that exists in our world, aka a world without magic or fantasy elements. the characters live across the us, but they're all connected somehow. (this is the universe that my one oc post has come from).

tlotlk + the realms - the realms is the wip as a whole, and tlotlk is the first book, which i'm currently in the process of writing. this series follows a boy as he becomes a knight & falls in love with the prince of the kingdom he's protecting :)

twoa, tcon, ion, & bote - these wips all take place in the same universe, which is also collectively called twoa. this is a universe where gods exist and different human/humanoid people are spread throughout the universe. earth shows up a few times, but isn't the main focus of the series. almost all characters are gods, demigods, or mages, but there are also a few other magical beings & mortals mixed in.

tcor - a story about a girl falling into a world she doesn't belong in with few memories and the knowledge that something is after her. (no it's not horror lol). with the help of a few friends, she's determined to get to the bottom of the mystery and fend off whatever's hunting her down.

beachside - ten kids end up in a replica of their hometown, except they're alone and this version of it is considerably more hostile. just a lot of found family honestly.

these aren't all my wips, but they're the majority of them, as well as the ones i work on the most. while it may not be mentioned in the summaries i gave here, all of them are queer & include romance, usually multiple romances. (i may be aroace, but i write a lot of romance.)

thanks to everyone who read through this whole post :) hope yall enjoyed it.

if anyone ever wants to talk about hp/the marauders, my dms are always open! i'm a multishipper to the core so i promise you we will find some common ground

see yall around :)