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Possibly Lily did not fall in love with James Potter that night, but, she would later conclude, there was no time after it that she did not love him.

Jules. (via smileitsinfinite)

This is honestly my fave part

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sometimes I think that Jules wants us to wait until we’re all able to say: “I did my waiting!! 12 years of it!! In Azkaban!!!”

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So, in an attempt to hide from my stress and quell my Life and Times withdrawal I went through everything we know about Chapter 37 and made myself a little guide. Here it is for general viewing pleasure (and I will update it when we get more information/excerpts!)

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From The Life and Times by Jewels5

“Sometimes, she thought that if she stepped off the Astronomy Tower, she would just float away.

He could not remember the last time he’d looked before taking a leap.

She believed in God.

He smoked too much.

She had her first kiss in a sun-soaked garden at the age of fifteen.

He lost his virginity to a girl named Sarah at the age of fifteen.

She wanted to write.

He wanted to play Quidditch.

She thought she was in love and disliked the fact.

He knew he was in love and positively hated it.

She smiled and laughed a great deal.

He did, too.

She was dramatic.

He was dynamic.

She was precise.

He was impulsive.

She excelled in diplomacy.

He excelled in diplomacy, but often resorted to throwing punches instead.

She served seven detentions in as many years.

He served seventy four.

She thought he was barking mad.

He thought she was positively insane.

Whatever else this may turn out to be, it is first and foremost a love story. It is the story of how a boy and a girl came to be- and then realize that they were- in love with one another. You see, it is probable that falling in love was the most important thing that they ever accomplished, and they accomplished a number of quite important things. He was James, and she was Lily, and one day they shared a kiss, but before that they shared many arguments, for he was cocky, and she was sweet, and matters of the heart can require time.”

One of the best introduction of the characters I’ve ever read.

Chapeau.

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Here you go, all the Jily fluff, in one place. Should I add all the angst from Halloween 1981? The James and Lily POVs of what happened that night?

I would appreciate opinions on this.

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Missing you

Short but sweet bit of Jily

Non-requested

Lily’s heart was fluttering a hundred beats per minute- like butterfly wings, pounding as hard as they could, trying to stay afloat…

She couldn’t breathe. She was trembling like a leaf, pacing back and forth in her dressing gown, trying to stay calm.

Once again, she glanced at the clock. It was thirty six minutes past twelve.

Where was he?

He was meant to be back at midnight. ‘At the latest’, he’d said. He was late often enough, yes, but never this late.

“What if something’s gone wrong?” that voice in the back of her head whispered- that nasty one that always piped up if she wondered if her hair looked a mess, or her dress looked too tight. Was she just being paranoid? It’s just the nerves, she told herself. It was the stress, the panic that had been clawing at her stomach all day as she waited for James to return, so she could tell him.

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Lily: So you're all illegal animagi?

Marauders: Yes.

Lily: Sirius is a dog. Peter's a rat, and James - you're a stag?

James: Yes.

Lily: What species?

James: Majesticus Asfuckus.

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a slip of the tongue.

when james deflates his head and matures a bit, he actually manages to become friends with lily evans

like, really good friends who have comfortable conversations and make each other laugh, and it’s great, really great

but there’s a problem: james is still in love with her

like, crazily in love and he tries to hide it, but he automatically smiles when she walks into the room, and his eyes soften when he sees her, and his gaze flickers to her lips when she speaks and he cannot help it

and it is painfully obvious to literally everybody… except lily

she somehow remains oblivious to the fact that the boy who is quickly becoming one of her closest friends just wants to hold her and run his hands through her hair and tell her every day how desperately in love with her he is

(he also wants to push her against a wall and snog her senseless, but that’s neither here nor there)

and james can accept things as they are because lily really doesn’t see him in that way and he’s not going to risk losing what they have

so he just swallows his feelings and feels like he’s dying a little every day, no big deal

but then they’re all in the three broomsticks, squeezed into a smaller booth than normal, and when james ends up next to lily, he’s positive the universe hates him and he’s going to go mad because he’s never been so close to her in his life and it’s simultaneously ecstasy and torture

but he manages to play it cool because lily seem completely unperturbed by their proximity (damn)

what he doesn’t realise, because she manages to play it cool too, is that lily is actually very aware that james is pressed up against her; they’re literally shoulder to shoulder, hip to hip, knee to knee

and it gives her tingles

‘oh,’ she thinks. then it clicks. oh. oh no

because it suddenly hits her that maybe the way she’s been thinking about james lately, like admiring his physique in his quidditch uniform or the cute way he adjusts his glasses or the captivating way he runs his fingers through his hair, hasn’t been exactly platonic

and now it’s all she can think about; he’s all she can think about

and suddenly it’s her turn to try and hide the fact that she’s in love

she does about as a good a job of it as james does

and he does about as a good a job as her at being oblivious

(everyone else in the school is going mad)

at the next hogsmeade visit, when they somehow end up alone together because everyone else is conveniently busy, they both try not to make too big a deal about it and fail horribly because it’s a massive deal when you’re in love with the person sitting across the table from you and shit, did this count as a date?

but they’re still friends, so they somehow manage to get through lunch despite the romantic and sexual tension between them

then james steals some of lily’s food

“oi!” she moves to slap the back of his hand, but it’s too late and he laughs as he comes away with a handful of chips

she shoots him a murderous glare which just makes him laugh harder and she adores the sound of his laughter so she laughs, too

she shakes her head. “you’re incorrigible!”

“you love it,” he jokes

“i love you,” she says

shit

shit shit shit

they’ve both frozen; james has forgotten how to breathe and lily is wishing she could sink through the floor

“do…” he starts, but trails off because he’s scared, terrified, of finishing the question, because maybe she’ll give him an answer he doesn’t want to hear

and lily does briefly consider taking it back; she knows she could add, ‘as a friend!’ to the end of that sentence and they could pretend it never happened and everything would go back to the way it was and they could stay friends

except she’s so bloody sick of being his friend, she’s so tired of pretending that friendship with james potter is enough for her when it isn’t, it’s never going to be enough

so she takes a deep breath before whispering, “yes.”

she watches in awe as a familiarly warm grin spreads slowly across his face

“you’re the only person i’ve ever been in love with,” he finally admits and when her face lights up, it feels like he’s swallowed a sun

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Listen. Harry James Potter was an accident. 

You cannot convince me otherwise. Lily and James were 19 when they got pregnant. There’s no way that was on purpose. 

Please picture it. 

Lily tells James they’re pregnant. James panics, leaves, finds the other Marauders and demands a lads night, you know, no reason, just some drunken shenanigans for no reason at all with friends! Remus notices something seems a bit off and keeps an eye on his friend, but no one says anything. It’s only several hours later, when James is drunkenly crying and wailing on the floor, “He’s going to be so small! How can I protect him? SO SMALL!” that they realize what’s going on. They ask him if he is going to be alright. He sobs, tears and snot running down his face, and nods furiously. “This is the happiest I have ever been!” The others look at each other, shake their heads, and pull him to his feet. Sirius marches him back home to Lily, who has been waiting, scared, alone, and more than a little pissed off at her boyfriend for the better part of the night. She softens when she sees James drunkenly leaning on Sirius, Sirius shrugging in apology, because James is a mess but at least he’s home now. James falls to his knees in front of her and says, “I’m so sorry I ran off. I got scared. I’m still scared. But I’m happy too.” Lily can’t help but smile. “It’s alright, James, we’ll figure–” But James loudly shushes her and points at her stomach. “Wait. I’m talking to my son.” Lily glares at him and reminds him that it could be a daughter. Sirius adds, “Could be twins! Or quintuplets!” Lily glares more and tries not to laugh while James murmurs into her belly, “’M gonna ask your mum to marry me, but keep it secret ‘cause I have to buy a ring first. And a broom. Not for the wedding. For you. Do you like quidditch? You probably don’t know what that is yet. Don’t worry. I’ll teach you. I’ll teach you everything.”

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Jily/Marauders FanFic Masterpost

I wanted to make my own contribution to the fanfic master posts on Tumblr because I know plenty of good tics that haven’t been on any that I’ve seen! My personal favourites are in italics and bold.

Multi-Chapter

Complete

Lead on to Fortune by cgner (Royalty AU)

Runaway Love by WhtChoc (Modern AU)

Definitely Not Perfect by chaseroftheyear

New Year by scared of clouds 

The House with the Blue Window by live.in.books

Blood Binding by SphinxScribe (Jily come back to life AU)

Porcelain by SpazzAvalanche (TW: Anorexia/Bulimia)

Turning Tables / My Kind Of Love by scared of clouds

Asleep in the Common Room by the potter family

Four Matches (or The Red and Gold Prophecy) by quettlequorn

Summer Surprise by Claudia Crazyfangirl

The Pregnancy Scare by livy bear

To The Ends Of The Earth by Tapi20

If We Only Die Once by Apalapucian

The Rise and Fall of the Stag and the Doe by SiriusUntiltheVeryEnd

In Progress

The Life and Times by Jewels5

Red Amongst the Blue by twilight stargazer (Pirate AU)

The Trials and Tribulations of Hogwarts ‘78 by cassdaft

Fighting Fate by scared of clouds (Pirate AU)

The Potters and the Choices Made by MSupernatural

Odds and Ends by KisstheRain14

Letting Him In by Mwac

Evolution by TidalDragon87

Their Seventh Year by Enlightened Piglet

Petal in the Rain by pratty-prongs-princesse (Royalty AU)

All the Difference by AutumnBelle (Jily come back to life AU)

Alternative Rebirth by Nellark (Jily lives AU)

Series of Oneshots

Light by ohprongs

Alternate Moments by twilightstargazer (AUs)

Nah, She Didn’t! by fawkkes

Defining Moments by scared of clouds 

Fear is Only a Verb by percychased

Moments by twilightstargazer

Oneshots (I read so many oneshots so there are like 6 million here)

And the Wolves All Cry by monroeslittle

Lie In by Emmaphantastic

Protect you by wowcute

The Other Loss by livy bear

A Sister’s Wedding by moreofaguestage

Why Yes, Yes You May by WhoaItsAmber

The Darkest Hour by MaraudersInFedoras

By Morning We’re One by Suzie’s Q

Excalibur by Galindaba

Father of the Year by alwaysmarauders

Test Results by TealShootingStar

Her Realization by alijoz97

Fall For You by CokeBottleK

Push by hannah415

Four Times by twilightstargazer

di immortals by ohprongs

15 - Seeking Solace by kaahiescheck

Thrice Defied by iRawrPirate

The Peace In War by amamour

Three Quarts of Milk by snapslikethis

Today by bullet.sophia

Ten Points From Gryffindor by dance-in-storms (Snape/Lily/James)

Compromises by APhoenixRising

Twenty-four by YumiOCS

Now There’s You by KJ7311

Optimism by october31st1981

The Girl in the Upstairs Bedroom by Layla Wolffe (Nazi Germany AU)

Don’t care about anything else by GinnytheQueen

Luna Plena by Alstromeriae

Who Would You Marry? by PenguinBuddy

What Happened on the Tower by flawsmadebeautiful

Bonus: My Favourite Fanfiction Authors

snapslikethis ( ff.net / tumblr )

twilightstargazer ( ff.net / tumblr )

ohprongs ( ff.net )

SiriusUntiltheVeryEnd ( ff.net / tumblr )

scared of clouds ( ff.net / tumblr )

Jules ( ff.net / tumblr )

livy bear ( ff.net / tumblr )

Happy reading :)

(my ff.net for anyone interested: rosetylerandthedoctor

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EIGHT DAYS (PART 5/10)

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James & Lily. 

So I watched Anastasia (1997) again and I couldn’t help but think: Anya and Dimitri are so Jily together. I guess this is one of those times I love to make fanarts <3

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Sometimes I think and wonder how much of an extraordinary person Lily Evans must have been….I mean, her characterization doesn’t have much to go on, but really, if we analyze it, it’s obvious that she captivated the attention and admiration of so many people; Slughorn adored her, always admiring her cheekiness, bravery and wit + her inexhaustible intelligence. I mean, she really must have been truly a great person for James to chase after her for so long and never find himself capable to shake his feelings for her. Lily Evans was an explosion of personality; she was charming, clever, intelligent, cheeky, kind, caring, vivacious, and seemed to run more on emotion than logistics, despite the fact that she was very smart. I think it’s safe to say that her death was at least a little bit of a blow to her professors and people she met even in mere passing. Remember what Slughorn said from HBL: “Liked her?” said Slughorn, his eyes brimming with tears once more. “I don’t imagine anyone who met her wouldn’t have liked her….Very brave….Very funny….It was the most horrible thing….” She was radiant and always affected the people around her in positive ways. Lily Evans is everything someone should aspire and hope to be. She’s such a wonderful, lovely character and I desperately wish there was more that we knew about her.

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hc that james and lily get so good at loving each other that they actually don’t know how to be with anyone else:

say that. like. at some point after they’ve left school. they get in a real big fight over something stupid

‘REGULAR DIGESTIVES ARE NOT BETTER THAN THE CHOCOLATE COATED ONES’ ‘YES THEY ARE, JAMES’

and somehow they end up at the conclusion that they need to take a break

‘well, do you want to date other people’ ‘sure’ ‘no problem’ ‘fine’ ‘cool’ ‘awesome’

and five minutes later james is despairing into a bottle of firewhiskey and sirius is telling him that he’s an idiot

and lily is over at marlene’s and she can’t seem to stop repeating the words ‘what the fuck. what the f’

basically they both work themselves into a stupor and end up spending several nights at bars and clubs trying to get themselves a date

sirius takes james to one and sits in the back with his head in his hands because james has completely lost it

he has to keep ushering girls away from himself to concentrate on what james is saying

and it’s a whole lot of ‘uhh do you like…quidditch? ‘quidditch.’ ‘i like quidditch.’ ‘have you ever played quidditch before?’ ‘these bar crackles are stale’

and all he can think about is how this girl isn’t lily and how she’s totally different and doesn’t hold herself in the same way and doesn’t look like her or sound like her and he doesn’t like it

but the girl doesn’t mind bc this james potting fellow is handsome af

they end up making out in the back of the bar for two hours

and james doesn’t mind

but like

it’s not the same

and he forgets

he forgets how to do this

he forgets that only lily likes it when he bites slightly on the underside of her jaw or loosens his grip around her waist or rests his cheek against hers’

he forgets that only lily likes muggle tv shows and shitty romance novels and fresh daisies and he makes assumptions

and he doesn’t know what to do

and it’s not the same

across town lily has been dragged to several shitty cafes and groups and classes and she hates it

the only good thing abt it is that there are so many cute girls at the baking sessions and the movie nights but they’re all straight and lily ends up a disgruntled mess with red cheeks and marlene and mary end up looking at each other like ‘this is a fucking stupid idea’

but then at this one little village shop she meets this lanky boy who wears tweed blazers and has spiky, caramel coloured hair and sea-green eyes who introduces himself as seth

and she’s taken aback bc he’s cute and he’s nice and he likes books

he takes her out and she has dinner with him and he’s a little awkward and endearing

but he’s not as capable as james

his hands don’t quite fit around her the way james’s do

and lily forgets

she forgets that only james likes the smell of the extra-soft washing powder and he listens to the bee-jees when he thinks she isn’t watching and he’s scared of learning how to drive a manual

she forgets that he likes it when she straddles his hips and bops her nose against his and presses kisses along his jawline

she forgets

and it’s not the same

and basically neither of them last more than a two months and it takes all of their strength and self-preservation bc they’re both stubborn and childish af

but then there’s a cutesy dinner party that mary and marlene host completely inconspicuously and very subtly forget to mention to either james or lily that the other will be there and so james wears his shirtsleeves rolled up with dress pants and forgets to muss his hair and wears the same aftershave he always does and lily has her hair soft and wears a dress where the cotton is fraying slightly and paints her lips red

and she walks in from the kitchen

and he walks in from the front door

and there are fairy lights strung all across the living room and mary is playing swanky jazz and the fire is going and sirius is making several crude and unnecessary remarks

and they stop

and lily has to turn away for a second

the dinner is stunted and quiet and brash

the food is nice and the conversation is stilted but james can’t quite stop looking at lily and lily can’t quite stop giving sideways glances at james and biting her lip

she ends up standing in front of the fire, just looking into the flames

and he musters up all the courage he has and goes to stand beside her

and instead of saying something measured and meaningful all that comes out is ‘you have lipstick on your teeth’

and lily looks at him completely shocked and her eyes widen and then she starts laughing

‘james what the fuck i haven’t seen you in two months and the first thing you say to me is you have lipstick on your teeth’

and he starts smiling

but the moment splinters and breaks

and lily looks at him with the most strained and heartbroken expression

they look at each other for a full thirty seconds before they walk silently down the hall and into the broom closet outside the kitchen

she switches the light on and he locks the door and she starts pacing and he sits down on an upturned box and she bursts out with ‘ok. ok. i can’t do this anymore.’

and he looks up at her with something really harsh and unrestrained in his eyes and says ‘thank fuck’

and then he’s kissing her

and it’s all tongue and teeth and messy and yet completely the way it was meant to be because they fit

his hands fit perfectly around her waist and her legs end up straddling his hips and he manages to sneak in kisses around her neck and she loops her hands around his shoulders and presses her lips to his jawline and they fit

they work

and by the time they stumble

stumble

out of the closet

and everyone’s in the living room looking at them and smiling quietly

and lily’s hair is disheveled and james’s shirt isn’t buttoned properly and she’s flushed and now james is the one with lipstick on his teeth

and then sirius says ‘i think that went rather well, if you ask me’

and lily laughs and james calls sirius a fuckface

‘well, it worked, didn’t it?’

james and lily leave holding hands and drive home together

and the night is dark outside and lit by the street lights and the beatles are playing softly on the radio

and neither of them can stop smiling

‘ok but chocolate covered digestives really are better than regular ones’

‘oh for fUCKS SAKE JAMES’

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I want Lily to look at me the way Sirius looks at himself.

James, probably (via ravenclaw-and-proud-to-be)