this tumblr is a horcrux.

some with arrows, some with traps

james potter/lily evans | 31k words | complete

much ado about nothing, but make it jily and texting and muggle AU

Then: James Potter was a beloved child star and the lead of a popular YA franchise. Lily Evans was just getting her big break as his romantic lead in the third installment. While their chemistry got rave reviews, if the rumors are to be believed the two actors can barely stand to be in the same room together.

Now: Lily’s paid her dues and ten years later she’s the most in-demand actress in Hollywood. And James...after back-to-back flops at the box office, he’s just looking for a break and a chance to prove he is the amazing actor everyone thought he was going to be.

with a big cake, happy birthday

james potter/lily evans | 1.5k words | complete

some with arrows, some with traps companion piece

It wasn’t an ideal way to spend a birthday, that was for sure.  Sure on television the Oscars looked so glamorous.  But, in reality, it just meant you had to wake up early to be poked and prodded, and sometimes quite literally sewn into a suit, and spend several hours without food.  Of course, if things had gone a little differently, James might have enjoyed his evening a bit more.

love, james

james potter/lily evans | 6k+ words | 7/20 (updating bi-weekly)

love, rosie, but make it jily. written for the jilytoberfest 2023 rom-com event | magic AU

james likes lily. and lily likes james. how the hell did it get so complicated? | 

london is lonely 

james potter/lily evans | 18k+ words | 10/?

someone left a note on my car last week asking me to coffee, so I ignored the text and made it jily | muggle AU

Hi.

I realize this may come off as horribly creepy, but I saw you heading into Sainsbury’s and thought you were cute.

If you’d like to get coffee, here’s my number

+44 7700 900058

James (the guy who parked next to you)

the girls of london is lonely || the boys of london is lonely

laundry day

james potter/lily evans | 10k words | complete

Shreya asked how the hogwarts laundry works and things got out of hand.

No matter how much time Lily Evans spent in the magical world, there were just some things she’d never understand. The laundry at Hogwarts being one of them.

the midnight duel

james potter/lily evans | 12k words | complete

A new year's gift for Suze.

Lily had always known James Potter was objectively attractive. She’d seen him shirtless enough times in the Quidditch changing rooms to know this. But, thankfully, his personality had done enough to prevent any sort of crushes from forming on him for the last five years. Unfortunately for her, them becoming friends this last term had…complicated things.

don't marry him

james potter/lily evans | 3.2k words | complete

jily week 2025 day 2: green eyed monster

Lily Evans is about to make the biggest mistake of her life. Good thing James Potter is there to stop her.

with funny glasses and lots of fizz

james potter/lily evans | 3k words | complete

A new year's gift for Devyn.

'Twas the night before new year's and all through the house James Potter was frantically searching for a partner to waltz.

champagne problems

james potter/lily evans | 8.5k words | 2/3

the first of many vignettes based around taylor swift’s albums folklore and evermore, AU

Summoning the courage of thousands of Gryffindors before him, James sank to his right knee and pulled the unassuming black velvet box from his pocket. The room around them faded into warm shapes and colours. James didn’t know if Sirius had paused the music or if he’d gone temporarily deaf. It was only the two of them, James thrusting his mum’s ring out towards Lily and Lily looking at James with a bemused sort of grin.

After several long moments, or maybe a half an hour, or possibly several days, Lily spoke.

“James, let’s - we should talk.”

It was supposed to be perfect.

hope is a dangerous thing (for a woman like me to have)

ginny weasley/harry potter | 26.5k + words | 7/?

ginny weasley’s 6th year at hogwarts

As soon as they found Dumbledore’s body, some unconscious part of Ginny knew that their relationship would have to end. She knew Harry, who’d lost so many people, couldn’t bear to put her in danger. She understood his reasoning, in fact, if she were in the same position, she might even do the same. But, it wasn’t fair. Why couldn’t she go with them and help take down Voldemort. She, after all, was the closest link to Tom after Harry, having spent a year entwined with his teenage self.

glad he’s gone

ginny weasley & lavender brown | 2.8k words | complete

an unexpected conversation between unlikely allies

Of all the things Lavender could have been crying over, Ginny had not expected this. Granted, she knew Ron wanted to end things with Lavender just as much as she’d wanted to end things with Dean. But, she supposed she was a bit preoccupied with her own public break-up to notice Ron’s first romance imploding a mere few feet away. She briefly wondered if Lavender was just as oblivious to her relationship ending as Ginny was to her’s.

love it if we made it

ginny weasley/harry potter | 4.7k words | complete

ginny and harry reunite after the battle of hogwarts

And it all came crashing back. Harry, Ron, and Hermione returning to Hogwarts. The Order coming to fight. Spells being shot back and forth. Hogwarts crumbling from within, but also fighting back. Voldemort and his army of death swarming the castle. Fred. Remus. Tonks. Harry, dead. Harry, not dead. Bellatrix. And then Voldemort and Harry, facing each other in the Great Hall, where Ginny had eaten every meal during the school year with her friends. Voldemort falling. They’d won. The war was over.

spontaneous & romantic

scorpius malfoy/rose weasley | 1.9k words | complete

scorpius surprises rose

“Well, when I hear things at my window, my first thought isn’t often, ‘oh, how sweet my boyfriend is throwing pebbles at my window,’” I said giggling.

26. do you ever "prep" your fics with outlines or warmups before you start writing, or do you just dive right in.

okay, so...I am a discovery writer first and foremost, so my instinct is always to just dive right in. this works for some fics, but I also get pretty burnt out from other fics using this approach. as I move into my own original work, I've been really trying to work on outlining as best I can, but also still being able to discover as I write, so that I'm actually able to complete a novel length work. I've found the snowflake method has been the most useful to my needs.

for my fics, I'd say it really depends on the fic in question whether I'm outlining or warming up. for swa, I don't think I did any outlining aside from deciding which beats of much ado about nothing I wanted to keep and which I would lose for the story and how they would flow together. for london is lonely, there is no outlining, which is why it gets published when the muse hits. for love, james there's actually been a bit of outlining in that I watch the film and jot down what I'd like to do in the jily version and what chapter it is. I'd say the political jily fic I'm working on right now is the most outlining I've done, please see a screenshot from scrivener below (obviously there is more to the outline than this, but I do not want to spoil)

but as you can see I've planned for 3 acts and two interludes and I know exactly what happens in each one.

30. have you noticed your style change over time?

omg, I love that I'm not shouting into the void! I think it depends project to project. I will say though, that fantasy is EXPENSIVE. And generally streamers make way less and a lot of times will weigh how big the readership is versus how expensive it would be to build this world.

Fourth Wing broke massive numbers in terms of readership, so Amazon has decided, you know what, this has unprecedented levels of readership, we will take this risk and spends millions of dollars making these dragons look good and build the world, because we think people will come to the platform for this show.

Apple just paid a ton of money to option Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere books and invest in Brandon Sanderson as a whole. They did that because they know his readers show up.

I saw someone a few days ago on instagram reels go, "only a based on the book buy carly fortune, what happened there????"

Everyone thinks the multiple hockey shows getting made are in response to heated rivalry.

they are not.

they are getting made because all of these are very popular books and were optioned ages ago (off campus was shot and in post production before heated rivalry was released) and studios/streamers don't want to take a lot of risks so popular books are an easy way to guarantee eyeballs.

and hockey romance is INCREDIBLY popular in the publishing space. ergo... 3 hockey shows (or more).

fourth wing will be the first romantasy out of the gate (in this era, rip shadow&bone) but I would bet there will be 4-5 shows right after (but because there's a little more differentiation between fantasy worlds it'll feel less crazy than 3 hockey shows).