#May jilychallenge 2023

[charmsandtealeaves]

@jilychallenge @jilychallenge2023| partner: @athenasparrow | May: Mothers Day | Prompt: toddler Harry tells Lily her top is ugly and James later insists she remove it so as not to offend their son's delicate sensibilities. “it’s for the sake of fashion lils, no ofc this isn’t a ploy to get you undressed… i would never”

AN: May is a busy and shitty month for me so this challenge is gonna be short compared to my last couple, but I hope you like it all the same. Read it on AO3

[arianatwycross]

Hi my tumblr name is arianatwycross (this is not my real name but you may call me A or Ari) I'm a pommy that lives in Australia, I have a golden retriever that owns my heart and I'm addicted to cheesy romance novels.

I write mostly Jily but have been known to delve into Romione and am dipping my toe in some wolfstar!

last updated 18.03.24

Jily

Multi-chapters:

The Process of Wanting- University Muggle AU / Jily-microoops March prompts

Headlines - Muggle AU / Popstar James

once upon a dream - WIP Hogwarts AU / Lily has a crush

To send or not to send? - (Two Parts) 2023 April Jily Challenge / Theme: Letters, Notes and Texting

A (not so) bad day - (Two Parts) - Hogwarts idiots in love

We'll be a fine line -WIP a chapter a day for jilytober 2022 / a muggle au

Only for the Summer -WIP Rated E / Muggle Job AU / Friends to Lovers

Beach Reading -  Rated T. July 2022 Jily Challenge / Theme: Summer Prompt: “i really, really need this summer job, so please stop distracting me with your wiles/good looks. you’re going to get me fired”

The Art of Fake Dating - WIP written with @vertraymer / For the Mixed Up Writer Fest 2022 / Prompt: Fake dating AU!

Unlearnable - WIP, Rated M. Muggle AU. Angst.

Strawberry Lipstick State of Mind - Rated E. Canon. Seventh Year.

Just a touch - Rated E

Teenage Kicks - Rated E / Celeb AU with minor wolfstar

you are the sun - Rated M (Three-parts) Muggle AU/Secret Relationship

One Shots:

Skinny Dipping Part 1 - a jilymicrofic

Just the two of us - Hogwarts / Forced proximity, Hurt/Comfort

A Sweet Meet Cute - Muggle AU, small town romance

A romance of their own - Jily Valentine Gift Exchange 2023 / Celeb AU

Wet, Cold & Bothered - Rated M / 2022 Jily Challenge December Christmas challenge; prompt: Snowball fights

Muggle Christmas Traditions - Rated G/ 2022 December Christmas Jily Challenge. Prompt: The night before Christmas

The One Where Remus Has no Filter - Rated G. Jily Challenge December Christmas challenge

a year and 22 days - Rated T. Summer of Jily 2022 / lyric: all that I know is you caught me at the right time —"golden hour" (kacey musgraves) Scenario: late evening with friends in the garden

The One Where Petunia Can't Drive - April JilyChallenge / Meet uglies + prompt "i hit you with my car/broom and was the only one to visit you in the hospital"

two fools - Rated T / Feb 2022 Jily Challenge romance theme + prompt " “It’s not like I've thought about kissing you, or anything…”

Shut up & Kiss me - Rated M / December Jily Challenge, Winter theme. Muggle AU

Crush Phase - Rated T. Muggle AU

A Year Later - Rated M / Jily Challenge August 2021 . Muggle AU

consciously unaware - Rated GA / Jilytober 2021 bingo (5 prompts in one). Canon, friends to lovers.

Say my name - Rated M. Canon.

Romione

Multi-chapters:

Backseat Rider - Rated T / Muggle AU

One Shots:

Willow - Rated GA. Written for M.Windsor for the 2021 HP Romione Discord Secret Santa!

It’s better In the front seat… - Rated M (Backseat Rider One shot)

Confessions - Rated E / Canon

Books & Freckles - Rated T

Nobody Compares - Rated T / Muggle AU, professional football player Ron

Wolfstar

Skinny Dipping Part 2 - a wolfstarmicrofic

Teenage Kicks Spinoff coming soon!

[jilychallenge]

Last year we celebrated a Taylor Swift June Jily challenge, and snow fell on beaches. This year in order to celebrate our Southern Hemisphere jily fans and writers who write wonderful winter vibes in their summertime, we decided there should be some more snow on the beach!

Theme: Winter in June. Expect wintery prompts (Keeping each other warm after a snowstorm, being stuck due to frozen railroads or closed mountain passes, teaching or learning how to skate, sharing the last hot chocolate and snowball fights.) Participate in the June Jily Challenge and give us some spicy winter jily moments⛸🕯🧊🥶❄⛄☃🏂⛷.

Each pair of creators will receive a prompt from us to spark your ideas. You are always free to use and interpret your prompt as loosely as you want.

how to enter:

please reblog this post by the 31 of May tagging with what you'd like to make (for example #one-shot, #writing, #art, #drawing, #mood board, #playlist etc. You can be as vague as or specific as you like)

At the beginning of the month, we will assign you a partner and you will receive your prompt (here or on JilyChallenge Discord). Keep an eye on this blog or Discord and please check your messages on Tumblr.

(optional) please follow the jilychallenge Tumblrblog and @jilychallenge2023 for updates.

(optional) join the Jily Challenge on Discord (send an ask for an invite) for beta help, chatting and mental support.

when posting: 

creators should try to post their entries by the end of the month (What to do when you miss the deadline?)

please tag your partner and the jilychallenge in your post (including the theme and your prompt, if possible)

we will reblog all entries tagged #jilychallenge

if you post your art or story on ao3, please add it to the collection of Jily Challenges 2023

If you have any questions at all, don't hesitate to send us a message or ask! If you have an idea for a theme for an upcoming month we'd love to hear it!

[wearingaberetinparis]

August 2023 Jily Challenge

As you may have noticed, I've been a little absent in the past three days. This has to do with the fact that my best friend is visiting me from the UK right now! I don't expect any updates until Tuesday next week, but to tide you over I thought I'd post the first two parts of my @jilychallenge fic. This month, I have been paired with the amazing @abihastastybeans and despite the fact that the prompt we were given should probably not have inspired a Jily Regency AU, this is what it did.

I hope you enjoy So I Can Never Go! All other works I'm working on are clearly still WIPs and I'll return to writing all of them next week!

“Not –” the young Lord licked his lips, eyes catching Lily’s for a moment and her pulse picked up, feeling faint all of a sudden as she realised what he had come here for, whom he intended to propose marriage to. “Not Miss Evans, Sir. I’m in love with the other one,” a brief pause as all air appeared to leave the room, her sister’s smile turning into something she imagined could be the look of horror described on the face of the heroine in her most favourite Gothic novels. “I’m in love with your youngest, Miss Lily Evans.” Written for the August 2023 Jily Challenge.

[arianatwycross]

JILYCHALLENGE NOVEMBER 2023 | @jilychallenge

Theme: Nostalgic Tropes

Prompt: Accidents with a certain potion (Amortentia) - although there was less accident and more Lily being painfully oblivious

Partner: @charmsandtealeaves

I was only able to write something short and sweet this time and I used the prompt loosely but please enjoy!

James lunges straight for a bowl of oatmeal. His typical breakfast, one that has served him well for Quidditch training, is crucial in his daily routine. With a healthy dusting of cinnamon sugar, he tucks straight in, all while trying to advertently listen to the girls chat about yesterday afternoon's lesson. 

Amortentia, the most powerful love potion in the world. A potion that ultimately smells different to each person, according to what attracts them. A potion that caused infamous chatter when the subject of the class was first revealed by Professor Slughorn just last week. Even the boys had been nervously chattering about what the potion would smell to them. 

The Gryffindor’s had their lesson yesterday afternoon, James' potion aroma did not surprise him at all, but Remus and Sirius were still reluctant to describe theirs. Peter was still preening over his smelling exactly like his girlfriend, the Hufflepuff girls currently cooing over him as he sat next to Lucinda.  

As he takes another spoonful of oatmeal, Lily rolls her eyes playfully as Alice sighs over Marlene’s love potion description. He’s been desperate to hear what Lily’s potion smelt like, desperate to either finally get closure or get the courage to take the next step. 

“So, Lils, what did yours smell like?” Marlene waggles her eyebrows suggestively. 

“First, I want to explain how Amortentia works. It smells like what attracts you, that could be anything from what we’re sexually attracted to something that just smells good. Hence, why mine smelt like chocolate.” 

“It did not smell like chocolate.” Alice scoffs, behind her coffee mug. 

Lily frowns, the little divot between her eyebrows making an appearance. 

“It did!” Lily frowns, yet James clocks the redness flushing her cheeks. 

“What else did it smell like, Lils?” Marlene asks carefully, a secret smile on her face as she pours milk into her cereal. 

Lily rolling her eyes once again, takes a moment. He watches as her eyes look at the various condiments in the centre of the table. 

“It smelt like lavender…” She says quietly. 

“Like our dorm room?”

“Yeah, suppose it just smells like home for me.” 

“Anything else?” Marlene adds. 

Lily bites down on her lip, almost causing James to miss his mouth with his spoon. “It smelt like cinnamon sugar,” she says quickly. 

Marlene’s spoon halfway to her mouth, pauses and watches Lily expectantly. Alice’s attention, meanwhile, flickers to James and back to Lily, an excited smile on her face. 

Now it’s James’ turn to go red. 

His heart may be climbing up his throat, but he watches Lily as calmly as he can. 

“Oh?” Alice prompts. 

“Mmm, I mean I like cinnamon sugar, but I don’t remember any sort of situation where I’ve been attracted to the smell?” 

Lily looks thoroughly confused now, so confused that James stops eating, puts down his spoon and arches a brow at Alice. 

Alice beaming under James' gaze flashes him a conspiratorial grin. “Cinnamon sugar? I mean, I can think of one person that has a penchant for the taste every morning…” 

Lily arches a questioning brow at Alice, “Who?” 

Before Alice can respond, a thump interrupts the group. Sirius landing heavily next to James and Alice, gives the group his usual mischievous grin before announcing very loudly for the entire table to hear, “James, mate, would you like some oatmeal with all that cinnamon sugar?” 

[charmsandtealeaves]

2023 Year In Review

I first did this post last year after getting back into the swing of fandom and thought it would be cool to see what a difference another year has made. This year saw the creation of the @jilymicrofics & @jilymicro-oops blogs respectively, which will have their own review post in due course. Looking back I once again managed more than I thought I did this year.

Let's start with some AO3 Stats:

User Subscriptions: 103 Kudos: 2,732 Comment Threads: 781 Bookmarks: 594 Subscriptions: 315 Word Count: 267,425

All of which had a significant increase compared to last year which makes me a little giddy!

Now it's time for an AO3/Tumblr Breakdown:

Jilychallenges: My goal for this year was to complete every @jilychallenge month this year, and I did! (I'll link a proper master post here later.)

January, Firsts & New Beginnings: One and One is Two February, Butterfly Moments: Feelings Keep Running the Red March, Soul Mates: Ties That Bind April, Letters, Notes & Texting: Meet Me At The River May, Mothers Day: Mothers Day Mix-up June, Winter: Ice Breaker (@jamesunderwater collaboration!) July, Summer: Midnight Dip August, Movies & TV Quotes: A Reason To Fight September, Back To School: Sugar Quills November, Nostalgic Tropes: The Exchange Principle December, Holiday Calendar: Mistletoe Mishaps

@jilytoberfest: I didn't contribute to this as much as I wanted to this year 😢

Discord G & M Jilyexpress Trains, M Tumblr Jilyexpress Train Masquerade Event: Laundry Day Romcom Event: Love Birds

Jilymicrofics Prompted Fics:

Snap One Time Thing (and its sequel: No Such Thing) Runner's Stitch Summer Rain How Times Have Changed The Entire February Prompt List Behind The Tapestries Gift Exchange Event, for @startanewdream: The Owl and the Pussy Cat Mystery Microfic May Event: Darkest Before Dawn Early Mornings

@mppmaraudergirl's Blackevans BFF Week

Detention With a Difference Padfoot's Nose Knows Something Black and Blue

Collaborative Projects:

Stripped Back To Basics, with @athenasparrow Ice Breaker, with @jamesunderwater

Completed One-Shots:

Supreme Pizza With Extra Mushrooms Rose Tinted Glasses Lily Evans Doesn't Believe In I Love You's Evans Guide To Quidditch (and Seducing James Potter)

Completed Multi-Chapters:

Brown Boots & Breakfast Bagels Revenge Tastes Sweeter, a gift for @joyseuphoria Call Me By Name & Incoming (The CMBN Universe)

Ongoing Multi- Chapters:

Wake Me Up (When September Ends) A big thank you to @annabtg for helping me edit this fic!

Goals for 2024:

Finish Wake Me Up (When September Ends)

Another year of jilymicrofics + their events

As many jilychallenges as I can feasibly manage

Work on + publish some other backburner WIPs

~ Ray

[charmsandtealeaves]

Pretty average week this week as far as reading goes. Interested to see how next week goes as my partner will be back at work so might be less reading time.

Read this week:

Jily Week 2023 Drabbles by @kay-elle-cee Complete (805), Jily, Rated T

Drabbles and Double Drabbles for 6/7 of the Jily Week 2023 Prompts.

And it feels like home by kay-elle-cee

Complete (1.8k), Domestic Jily fluff, Rated G

A little moment after a long day. The first moment of the rest of their lives. Or: James and Lily's first night in a flat that's theirs.

You are my heaven by @jamesunderwater

Complete (1.8k), Jily Reincarnated, Rated G

What, you thought all they got was a few years together? this is for anyone who has watched what dreams may come (1998) and it's a wonderful life (1946) and is also a pisces. 'cause you get it. written for the jilychallenge 2023 december advent calendar -- prompt: A is not dressed for snow, B lends a shawl, hat, gloves etc.

Call and Response by jamesunderwater (itsjamespotter)

Complete (6.6k), James Potter, Rated T

A series of vignettes showcasing how, despite his own personal tragedies, James Potter never fails to show up for the ones he loves – which might be his greatest strength and his greatest weakness. Set in a world where James and Lily never got together in school, the Marauders, now twenty, are fighting in the Order at the height of the war.

Promises To Keep by jamesunderwater (itsjamespotter)

Complete (1.1k), Dorcas/Marlene, Rated T

Marlene and Dorcas have run out of ways to say goodbye.

Midwinter Magic by @practicecourts

Complete (2k), Canon Divergent Jily, Rated G

Midwinternight is said to be different. a night on which Magic flows free and strong and the divides between separate worlds are as thin as ice, or so Lily hopes. She hopes that’s true because she can't go on like this.

Do you want to build a snowman? By practicecourts

Complete (2.9k), Jily , Rated G

A young James Potter feels a little lonely and there is snow outside so really he should be outside having fun. Eleven years later he finds himself home again, and the world outside very white. And yet again on a winter's day eleven years after that.

Mind Games by @mppmaraudergirl (ch.1-3)

WIP, Amnesia + secret relationship Jily, Rated M

A cauldron explosion erases the last six months of Lily Evans' life at one of the most critical times in her career. As she struggles to not lose focus on all she has worked toward, a nagging voice inside her mind urges her to piece together the tattered memories of her past.

The Road Back To You by mppmaraudergirl

Complete (64.8k) Jily Muggle AU, Rated M

This is a story about second chances. A story about coming home and finding friends who become family. And most of all, perhaps, it is a story about the inevitability of falling into—and out of—love, even when you fight against it.

And You Heard About Me (Ooh, We’ve Got Some Big Enemies) by @wearingaberetinparis

Complete (12k), Fake Relationship Jily, Rated M

Lily Evans is a Grammy-winning singer-songwriter and global superstar, who recently broke up from her latest and long-term actor boyfriend Amos Diggory. James Potter is a professional football player who plays as a forward for Manchester United and has never been quiet about his celebrity crush: Lily Evans. When Lily Evans thus plays at Wembley Stadium - a place he is more than familiar with due to his being part of the England team - he just has to go and see her perform, embracing his inner, besotted fan boy, while the woman on stage is completely oblivious to his presence. Or is she?

Quest for Camelot by @petalsinwoodvale (ch.3-5)

WIP, Quest for Camelot AU Jily, Rated T

All Lily has ever wanted is to be a knight, like her father, Sir Lionel. After Camelot is attacked and the magical sword Excalibur is stolen, she finds herself teaming up with James, a young blind hermit, as they embark on a quest to find the lost sword. Together, they face the threat of the evil Ruber, navigate challenges with a two-headed dragon and an ogre, and discover that they're more alike than they initially thought. Will they manage to return the sword to Arthur in time, or will they lose not only each other but also their dreams and the precious Excalibur?

Pinky Promise (Tummy Hurts) by petalsinwoodvale

Complete (3.1k), Hogwarts Jily, First Kiss, Rated T

He was just too smart for his own good. It’s what got him into trouble the most. It got Lily in trouble too. Turns out, she had a type, and arrogant jocks with good grades were it.

Toerag (Affectionately) by petalsinwoodvale

Complete (1.1k), Hogwarts Jily, Rated T

"You'd defend Lily even if she kicked you in the balls," Peter chuckled, prompting Sirius and Remus to conceal their knowing grins behind their food. "I'm a strong supporter of women's rights," James hastily defended himself, "including Lily's right to beat the shit out of anyone who irritates her."

Lying in wait by @missgryffin

Complete (part of short stories), Jily, Rated M

Randomly listened to some Hamilton over the weekend, ended up with "Wait For It" stuck in my head, and wrote this in a couple hours today. I think it's angst, but with a nice dash of crack? Idk 😅 But I hope it makes you smile! 🫶

[jilychallenge]

April Jily Challenge: Letters & Texting

Sign up for this month's Jilychallenge: Letters & Texting

Writing secret notes during class, writing love letters to each other during the long Summer months, finding a note with a secret, texting the wrong number or hitting send on a message you just wanted to type and look at? Sound like it could be Jily? We think it does! Come participate in the April Jily Challenge to create your version of a James & Lily love letter.

Each pair of creators will receive a prompt from us to spark your ideas. You are always free to use and interpret your prompt as loosely as you want.

how to enter:

Please reblog this post by the 31 of March, tagging with what you'd like to make (for example #one-shot, #writing, #art, #drawing, #mood board, #playlist etc. You can be as vague or specific as you like)

Alternatively, you may also sign up on the JilyChallenge discord.

At the beginning of the month, we will assign you a partner and you will receive your prompt (here or on JilyChallenge Discord). Keep an eye on this blog or Discord and please check your messages on Tumblr.

(optional) Please follow the jilychallenge Tumblrblog and @jilychallenge2023 for updates.

(optional) join the Jily Challenge on Discord (send an ask for an invite)

when posting: 

creators should try to post their entries by the end of the month

please tag your partner and the jilychallenge in your post (including the theme and your prompt, if possible)

we will reblog all entries tagged #jilychallenge

if you post your art or story on ao3, please add it to the collection of Jily Challenges 2023

If you have any questions at all, don't hesitate to send us a message or ask! If you have an idea for a theme for an upcoming month, we'd love to hear it!

[jilychallenge]

Thank you for signing up for May Jilychallenge Shirtless & Mother's Day

This month's pairings: 

@abihastastybeans & @cdailaincao @constancezin & @startanewdream

@charmsandtealeaves & @athenasparrow

When posting your work please tag this blog as well as @jilychallenge2023

Feel free to add your work to the ao3 collection jilychallenge 2023

Check your Tumblr DM or visit theJily Challenge discord for your prompts (they should be there!)

Good luck & Enjoy!

[jilychallenge]

Sign up for this month's Jilychallenge: Shirtless & Mother's Day. Each pair of creators will receive a prompt from us to spark your ideas. You are always free to use and interpret your prompt as loosely as you want.

how to enter:

Please reblog this post by the 30 of April, tagging with what you'd like to make (for example #one-shot, #writing, #art, #drawing, #mood board, #playlist etc. You can be as vague or specific as you like)

Alternatively, you may also sign up on the JilyChallenge discord.

At the beginning of the month, we will assign you a partner and you will receive your prompt (here or on JilyChallenge Discord). Keep an eye on this blog or Discord and please check your messages on Tumblr.

(optional) Please follow the jilychallenge Tumblrblog and @jilychallenge2023 for updates.

(optional) join the Jily Challenge on Discord (send an ask for an invite)

when posting: 

creators should try to post their entries by the end of the month

please tag your partner and the jilychallenge in your post (including the theme and your prompt, if possible)

we will reblog all entries tagged #jilychallenge

if you post your art or story on ao3, please add it to the collection of Jily Challenges 2023

If you have any questions at all, don't hesitate to send us a message or ask! If you have an idea for a theme for an upcoming month, we'd love to hear it!

[jilychallenge]

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! Time for pairings and prompts!

Partners:

​@sosohh & @flowersgrowback

@constancezin & @stonecoldhedwig

@wearingaberetinparis & @missgryffin

@shhhhharpat & @petalstofishfanfics

@chierafied & @mppmaraudergirl

@suzyq31 & @oneofthesirens

@harryissuchalittleshit & @practicecourts

@charmsandtealeaves & @theresthesnitch

@annasghosts & @bookeatingbean

@abihastastybeans & @juliemarauderfan

As a reminder, make sure to tag @jilychallenge when you post so we can reblog it for you. 

Prompts should arrive in your inboxes very soon, but let us know if you haven’t received anything by 2/1/2023.

If you post your work on ao3, please add it to the jilychallenge 2023 collection.

If you want to join the jilychallenge discord you may use the link here💛

[jilychallenge2023]

lovely!!

@jilychallenge @jilychallenge2023| partner: @athenasparrow | May: Mothers Day | Prompt: toddler Harry tells Lily her top is ugly and James later insists she remove it so as not to offend their son's delicate sensibilities. “it’s for the sake of fashion lils, no ofc this isn’t a ploy to get you undressed… i would never”

AN: May is a busy and shitty month for me so this challenge is gonna be short compared to my last couple, but I hope you like it all the same. Read it on AO3

[practicecourts]

yes yes yes! Legend you 🥳😘😘😘 can’t wait to have time to read this!

@jilychallenge @jilychallenge2023| partner: @athenasparrow | May: Mothers Day | Prompt: toddler Harry tells Lily her top is ugly and James later insists she remove it so as not to offend their son's delicate sensibilities. “it’s for the sake of fashion lils, no ofc this isn’t a ploy to get you undressed… i would never”

AN: May is a busy and shitty month for me so this challenge is gonna be short compared to my last couple, but I hope you like it all the same. Read it on AO3