#Jily

[garforprongs]

Merry Christmas! 🎄

[rottensouldier]

its the most wonderful time of the year for jily christmas ✨

[my-castles-crumbling]

kid - December 21st - slight wolfstar - @taylorswiftmicrofic - word count: 132

"Sirius Orion Black!" Lily thundered, stomping into the elaborately-decorated sitting room and placing her hands on her hips.

"Yes, Evans?" Sirius replied sweetly, batting his eyelashes and grinning.

"Evans-Potter," Lily corrected with a frown. "And why the fuck is my kid's Elf on the Shelf sitting in the Barbie Hot Tub with a shrunken bottle of Butterbeer and a naked G.I.Joe?"

Sirius stifled a laugh. "I genuinely don't know. Maybe this is the elf's way of coming out to you all?"

Lily rolled her eyes. "You're insufferable."

"You love me!" Sirius called as Lily walked off again.

But as he turned to Remus, who was next to him, his smile turned to an impressed smirk. "The G.I.Joe, Remus? That was genius. Even better than what I had planned!”

Remus just chuckled. “Thanks for taking the blame, love.”

[constancezin]

Angel Lily and nutcracker James dancing together

I hope you had a marvellous Christmas

[liv45no]

*right before Walburga’s funeral*

Sirius: I don’t know what’s wrong. I just... I look so GOOD!

James: it’s okay, we can sort it out. Just take some of your make up off.

Sirius: I’m not wearing any make up!

James: WHAT?!

Sirius: I don’t know what happened, I just woke up and I looked amazing! And now everyone’s gonna think I got a facial for my mother’s funeral!

Remus, walking in: oh, what the hell, you look incredible.

Sirius: I don’t know what to do with my hair, it just keeps falling in this really chic way!

Lily, walking in: sorry boys, people are starting to arrive. Pads, you don’t have to greet them if you- GOSH, you look GORGEOUS!

[norry-yippee]

mlm ships are not to blame for misogyny in the fandom, it you who only sees purpose in Lily as a character when she is with a man, it’s you who won’t read wlw ships even though they are just as complex and well written.

[wearingaberetinparis]

Coming this Christmas: The Parent Trap

After falling pregnant at university, Lily Evans and James Potter are co-parents to their seven-year-old son, Harry. When James unexpectedly shows up at Lily’s Cokeworth flat on Christmas Eve, a blizzard traps them inside together. Forced to spend Christmas under one roof, old tensions between the former lovers resurface. A 3-Part Second Chance Jily Romance

No one asked for this, but I wanted to gift all of you a little something this Christmas. Over the next few days, I will post a chapter each day for The Parent Trap.

24 December = Chapter 1: Christmas Eve

25 December = Chapter 2: Christmas Day

26 December = Chapter 3: Boxing Day

Find a snippet below the cut!

“Dad!” Harry launched himself into James’ arms the moment the door opened, nearly knocking him off balance. James barely managed to drop the overstuffed bags of brightly wrapped gifts before their seven-year-old son clung to him like a monkey, arms and legs wrapping tightly around his father. “Hello mate,” James’ entire face softened as he spoke, his previous smugness – upon her having opened the door, the “All right, Evans?” and the hand that had gone to his curls irritating her to no end – dissolving in an instant. The look in his eyes — warm, tender, full of love — made it impossible for her to look away, even though she wanted to. She hated how easily he could still do this: make her heart melt when she wanted nothing more than to be angry with him. “Jeez, Harry,” James said with a playful groa n, hoisting the boy higher. “When do you stop growing, huh?” “Not for another eleven years at least,” she interjected dryly, leaning against the wall with her arms crossed tightly over her chest. James’ gaze shifted to her, his eyebrows quirking up in that maddeningly familiar way. The sharp lines of his uniform did him every favour, accentuating how fit he still looked, and he knew it. She clenched her jaw, determined not to let her gaze linger—he didn’t deserve the satisfaction of knowing exactly how good he looked.

[thistlecatfics]

I do think this gets into how difficult it is to do broad fandom histories pre-ao3. Fandoms were so diffuse before ao3, and, in particular, there was a lot of divide between slash and het shipping communities. I can totally see why someone would have trouble identifying an accurate fandom history of a sub-fandom they were not directly involved with -- especially a slash sub-fandom if they mostly shipped het at the time.

(I genuinely thought Bellatrix/Sirius was a pretty big ship in 2006 but that was because those were the circles I ran in on LJ lol.) (I got involved in fandom in 2004ish or so and just lurked because I was 12 years old reading taboo smut fics on LJ and random fan sites. those are my credentials in this discussion lol.)

It is definitely true that wolfstar wasn't the fandom dominating juggernaut ship it is now back then (second multiple years in a row on ao3 ship stats!), but it was one of the more significant ships in the fandom from the very start.

I recommend the wolfstar fanlore page (and I really recommend that if anyone has any history to add to it they do so! it's a great community resource!) (please add to it!)

Just saw a post that said wolfstar birthed the marauders fandom and now I need to throw down some facts as a 33 year old grandma who’s been in this fandom long enough that she could write a book about everything that’s happened.

2003 - The second the “I’d rather go out with the giant squid” sentence was read by people in June of 2003 the world shifted. I personally watched marauders fanfic take over fanfic.net with a 50% increase in reviews and saves. The primary ship? Jily.

2004-2010 THE GOLDEN JILY YEARS

2007 - Commentarius is reposted to FFNET

2009 - The Life and Times posted to FFNET

2010 - tumblr marauders fandom really starts to take off—specifically the jily fandom on tumblr. We are taking the internet by storm The ship really takes off as MP3 files are made, headcanons are formed, and fanfics were being pumped out daily. It was a beautiful time to be alive.

To put it in perspective, within that time frame of hundreds of jily fics being posted plus new fans entering the marauders fandom and tumblr becoming a thing…only one person was historically really consistently writing and posting wolfstar. @MinervaEvenstar on fanfic.net…and their first fic wasn’t even until like 2005!!!

Wolfstar didn’t become super popular overnight either. It wasn’t until about 2012 that wolfstar became a more popular headcanon among marauders era readers. 2012 was a major shift in the jily fandom dynamics, which I think attributed to the shift in what were “popular” or “unpopular” ships, as the fandom had fractioned off into little cliques.

[outromoony]

Lily "fuck you" Evans and James "Yes, please. When?" Potter

[percyweasleyapologist]

Sirius: You need a hobby. James: I have a hobby! Sirius: Fawning over Lily isn’t a hobby.

[acrosstheconstellationsandmoonys]

kaz and inej

nina and matthias

tao and elle

james and lily

feel free to add more honestly its too early for me to Think

Straight ship so good that even the gays weep for them

[m00neroni]

To be honest with you, I don't think Wolfstar fandom is precisely Jily stans enemy, so the things I am reading in my dashboard right now are confusing. Like, obviously they are both "original" ships, but why so mad about Remus/Sirius having been there and with a very important fanbase since the beginning? And where's all this animosity against R/S stans coming from J/L ones? I'm looking at you in confusion.

[bookshelf-crier]

watching the harry potter movies again as 1. an adult and 2. a marauders’ fan is a painful experience:

the mirror of Erised scenes make me cry now. also the fact that they aged up lily and james makes it worse because i keep picturing them as 21 years olds. harry was 11. they were only 10 years older than him. it is actually horrifying. when ollivander said that it felt like yesterday that his parents were buying their wands, it had only been 21 years.

anytime harry is in the dorm room i think about the marauders. i reckon the castle was funky and he ended up in their old dorm room. maybe even james’ old bed. i make myself upset. what if there are little carvings in the bedposts of all their initials?? what then??

every time harry sits by that little window in the dorm my brain goes to wolfstar smoking (together or alone) by that window. i can picture it so clearly.

when mcgonagall looks at harry i just know she is seeing james (and lily). but those quidditch stunts he pulls like standing up on his broom in the first movie to catch the snitch definitely reminded her of sirius and james. there is no way they wouldn’t pull that sort of dangerous crap and then end up in the hospital wing.

oh and snape. he sees his bully and his best friend in harry. just thought i’d throw that in there.

and of course. the resurrection stone scene. i bawl at that anyway, with the marauders stuff on top… i fear it will break me beyond repair. again, a reminder that james and lily were only 3 years older than harry in that scene. they were still babies and they were comforting their baby as he goes to die. it is so heartbreaking.

if sirius had seen ginny and harry together, for a second he would have seen james and lily. PAIN.

[yallthemwitches]

Jily is everywhere if you just believe.

(Happy holidays cuties)

[kristhething-blog]

Jily is dying because you guys left it to die.

This fandom looks like me when I come home and act surprised that my plants are dead after 5 months without water 😭

I come back to the Marauders fandom after 5 years and why is everyone now obsessed with Death Eaters???