While the increased proximity to James makes it difficult to screw her head back on straight, it helps to have something else to focus on. She'd been so miserable in Cokeworth that, aside from arguing with her mum, sister, and Vernon, she feels like all she did was think about James or write letters to him.
Classes start on the Monday immediately after they return, and Lily commits herself to focusing.
Her plan is derailed almost immediately when James and his mates sit down beside her and Mary at breakfast.
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The Shoebox Project !!!! So vintage!!!! This one takes me BACK, man. Wolfstar + Jily as told by a collection of letters/photographs/other paraphernalia found in a shoebox under Remus Lupin's bed.
Commentarius by BC Daily - THEEE classic lily evans diary fic. Canon compliant, but written pre-HBP.
SO many of ghostofbambi's fics, but will shout out two of my faves (both modern AUs): n00b and choose your own (sexy) adventure
some with arrows, some with traps by isahorcrux - modern retelling of much ado about nothing with delicious group-chat drama
Hepburn Avenue by stonecoldhedwig - multi-POV uni modern marauders texting fic (which i inhaled while ill with food poisoning, so please see my unhinged comments accordingly)
What About The Two of Us? by betweenfactandbreakfast - jily + wolfstar (and some hinny!) daisy jones & the six AU told via interviews
Ultraviolet by deadlysansa - another modern au told via emails. the case of lily evans's missing notebook! or rather, the notebook held hostage by james potter.
I'm certain that I'm forgetting many incredible fics, so I hope others chime in too :)
Here's a few others :) Quite a few texting fics here xD.
The Prophet's Journal by petalsonparchment
Summary: Lily liked to believe (no, she insisted) that she could handle the visions. That if she just stayed calm and clever enough, she could outwit fate like it was an overdramatic entry in her diary, not a prophet's fable.
The trouble was, fate didn’t seem particularly interested in being rewritten.
-Hogwarts AU, Lily has visions of the future as she describes through her journal entries.
New Age Romancing by clarewithnoi
Summary: "Sirius: ok what’s this about u being in love
James: Padfoot she’s AMAZING
James: most beautiful girl I’ve ever seen in my life I swear
James: like she could kick me in the throat and I’d thank her tbh
Sirius: as would I
James: … rude??"
-Modern University AU Jily texting fic.
here's to never growing up by elixirsoflife
Summary: A group chat documents the lives of four highly dramatic teenage boys as they navigate their A Levels. Or, like, die trying.
- jily + wolfstar texting fic.
Meet Me At The River by charmsandtealeaves
Summary: A chance encounter with a misplaced owl leads to a correspondence between pen pals. Lily confides in her mysterious Flea and finds herself falling along the way.
-Hogwarts fic, also a one-shot.
haha, unless... by ohmygodshesinsane
Summary: Lily Evans is not a problem-causer, really, truly - she's just surrounded by them. How is she supposed to have a normal life when her roommates are completely barmy, her sister hates her (and is planning a wedding), and now some random blokes from Marlene's class are barging onto her sofa every week to interrupt a hitherto sacred space? It's not as if she wants James Potter to be attacked by chavs, become Jesus, buy her coffee, or listen to her ramble about Petunia. Mostly that's his fault. Really.
-Another Modern AU Jily Texting fic.
Welcome to Pettyville by womeninthesequel
Summary: When Lily Evans accidentally sends a text to the wrong number, she isn’t expecting to find the right person behind it. She can’t stop talking to Prongs. The only thing is, Prongs can’t stop talking about the girl in his class. What could go wrong, other than the number?
-Texting fic and some delightful secret identity shenanigans.
The White Album by cgner
Summary: James poses as an advice charm in Lily’s diary. He’s really got to start thinking through his shenanigans.
-Mostly prose but the diary is also the centre of the fic so I thought I'd mention it. Hogwarts fic.
I feel like I need to share this because idk if Europeans are familiar with the presence of Aldi in the US, but at least especially in my area they’ve been growing a lot recently. Like Aldi bought out some local failing grocery chains where I live (Louisiana) and have opened Aldis in all these somewhat rural communities and small towns, which for the record I’m fine with
But as a result of this they are advertising a lot more in my area and also in many cases, the people in these areas have never been confronted with Aldi or any European grocery store. So the ads that Aldi is pushing out to its new US customer base feature a cowboy shopping at Aldi who is explaining to new Aldi customers how Aldi works. Like this cowboy is explaining you gotta put a quarter in the shopping cart and why there are very little name brands. A cowboy is how they want to reach their American customer base. They gave us a cowboy
We’ve had Aldi for years here (so Indiana) and I love it but the commercials are new and I adore our little cowboy! I feel like Aldi execs are like what’s the most American thing there is? Of course it’s cowboys
Harry leaned forward eagerly, expecting some dazzling display of magic. Instead, a white blur shot through his eyesight.
“Hedwig!”
Before either boy could react, the snowy owl landed squarely in Ron's lap, snatched Scabbers in her talons, and launched herself back into the corridor.
“My rat!” Ron shouted.
“Hedwig, no!”
The two boys burst from the compartment and sprinted after her down the length of the Hogwarts Express.
“I can't believe Harry Potter's owl ate my pet!” Ron yelled.
Students poked their heads out of compartments as they raced past. Laughter, pointing fingers, and confused shouts followed them down the train.
Harry could feel his face burning. This was ridiculous. He desperately hoped Hedwig wasn't actually eating Scabbers. If she was, Ron might punch him. Or worse.
Harry imagined himself being sent home before even reaching Hogwarts.
Sorry, Professor. My owl murdered a rat. The story sounded ridiculous in his head.
The Dursleys would never let him hear the end of it.
“Ronald!” A pompous voice cut through the commotion.
“You should not be running on the train!”
“Harry Potter's owl is eating Scabbers, Percy!” Ron shouted over his shoulder.
They neared the end of the train car just in time to see Hedwig swoop toward the end of the carriage.
Then everything happened at once.
Ron crashed into Harry.
Harry crashed into Hedwig.
Hedwig slammed into the wall.
There was a loud crack.
For a moment, Harry thought they'd broken part of the train.
Then he blinked.
Instead of a rat dangling from Hedwig's claws, a short, balding man in shabby robes was sprawled across the floor.
Hedwig was furiously pecking his head.
“Scabbers?” Ron asked weakly.
Harry stared.
“Is it normal for rats to turn into men in the wizarding world?”
Ron shook his head. “No.”
The man scrambled backward on all fours, wild-eyed and trembling. He looked around frantically before his gaze landed on Harry.
His expression turned to horror.
“James?” the man squeaked.
“No,” Harry said. “I'm Harry.”
The man swallowed hard and then he bolted. He darted into the nearest compartment and immediately began struggling with the window latch.
“Is he trying to jump out?” Ron asked.
“He knew my dad's name,” Harry said, a strange feeling twisted in his stomach.
“Stop!” Ron shouted, grabbing the man's robes. “What did you do to my rat?”
The man yanked free with ease. Unfortunately for him, he threw himself backward at exactly the wrong moment.
CRACK.
His head connected with the window frame. He collapsed instantly.
Ron and Harry looked down at the unconscious man.
Then at each other.
“I don't think that's what the spell was supposed to do,” Harry said.
“No,” Ron agreed. “Definitely not.”
By the time they arrived at the train station, Hagrid was gathering the first-years.
“First years! Follow me!”
Harry hurried over.
“Hagrid, there's an unconscious man on the train.”
Hagrid blinked.
“A what?”
Harry quickly explained.
“Well, I'd better talk ter the conductor. He can send a message ter Professor Dumbledore.”
Soon, Harry found himself crossing the dark lake with the other first-years. The illuminated castle rose above them, magnificent and impossibly large.
When they reached the shore, a tall witch with square glasses was waiting.
“Hagrid,” she said. “Professor Dumbledore received your message. Please take the first-years to the Great Hall. I will escort Mr. Potter to the Headmaster's office.”
Harry's stomach dropped. This was it, he was being expelled.
He'd barely been at Hogwarts five minutes, and already his owl had apparently attacked a man who used to be a rat.
Professor McGonagall led him through winding corridors until they reached a stone gargoyle. Waiting beside it stood a tall wizard with a long white beard and a purple pointed hat.
“Welcome to Hogwarts, Mr. Potter,” he said warmly. “I understand you had an eventful journey.”
Harry stared at his shoes.
“I'm sorry, sir.”
“On the contrary, Mr. Potter.”
The old wizard's expression became grave.
“I believe I owe you an apology.”
Harry looked up.
“Sir?”
“I have just had an opportunity to speak with the man found aboard the train. His presence reveals that I have made a very serious mistake.”
“I don't understand.”
“No,” Dumbledore said quietly. “I suspect you do not.
“I am about to tell you the story of a man named Peter Pettigrew, who, until this evening, we believed to be dead. I am also going to tell you about a man named Sirius Black, who has spent the last ten years imprisoned for Pettigrew's murder.”
Dumbledore paused.
“And, Mr. Potter, I am afraid both of those men have a great deal to do with your father.”
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Hi! Will Amelie ever be returning? Ofc not as romantic or sexual interest but as a genuine friend—James’ friendships with the girls of Hogwarts will always be one of my favorite things
Also I don’t know if you’ve ever read this series, but “nothing left (except blood where the body fell)” is incredible https://archiveofourown.org/series/2027170. It’s diff than a lot of Jily fics because it fleshes out other relationships and the world more but the underlying current of Jily is rather electric (and Bruce Springsteen is only the greatest ever)
The central storyline is finished as well before the author orphaned it
hi anon!
i'm breaking my usual fic-writing norms for this fic. meaning: i don't really... have a plan... 😆
i do have a loose plan of where this is going and obviously i know how i want jily to get together in the end. but everything along the way is very chapter by chapter (and has even been influenced by you guys at certain points of this story!!!) so that being said... i don't know if amelie will be making a reappearance or not. she's not in chapter 9 because i'm mostly done with that and it's pretty much all james, lily, and sirius. but i shall take your interest in seeing james have a friend who is a girl under advisement 📝😉 (i can promise amelie won't be back as a sexual interest of any sort. the only girl he is thinking about henceforth in this fic is lily evans.)
and oh thank you for the rec! i have not read it! i don't read a tonne of fic these days because i spend most of my "fandom time" writing or talking with people on tumblr (see: right now... hahahah), but i'll put it on my list!!
random PSA, I know a lot of people use duckduckgo as a Google alternative search engine, but it always kind of annoyed me when I was using it because it felt like No Name Brand Google
I have switched to using Startpage.com and vastly prefer it. for one thing, instead of displaying an "AI summary" at the top of the search results (unless you turn it off, yes I know), it displays the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article, with link, whenever it finds one that's relevant.
also a waaayyyyy better sense of design than duckduckgo
also private, European based, least annoying search I've used lately (RIP old "don't be evil" Google)
i have one of those, scraped from multiple different rec posts:
Search Engines
Infinity Search is an alternative search engine with a special focus on privacy
DuckDuckGo is a popular search engine for those who value their privacy and are put off by the thought of their every query being tracked and logged. Uses bangs, ![site] for in-page search (sells your data to microsoft and draws from fucking bing)
WolframAlpha is a privately owned search engine that allows you to “compute expert-level answers using Wolfram’s breakthrough algorithms, knowledgebase, and AI technology.” A data search engine.
Boardreader is a search engine for forums and message boards. It allows you to search forums and then filter down results by date and language.
Based in France, Qwant is a privacy-based search engine that won’t record your searches or use your personal details for advertising. Uses “&” as a bang search.
Another privacy-based search engine is Search Encrypt, which uses local encryption to ensure that users’ identifiable information cannot be tracked. Metasearch across multiple engines.
Offering unbiased results from several sources, SearX is a metasearch engine that aims to present a free, decentralized view of the internet. Can be self-hosted.
Gibiru’s tagline is “Unfiltered private search” and that’s exactly what it offers. Requires AnonymoX Firefox add-on for privacy.
Disconnect allows you to conduct anonymous searches through a search engine of your choice.
Swisscows provides fully encrypted searches to protect your privacy and security. Built-in violence/porn filter cannot be overridden.
MetaGer offers “Privacy Protected Search & Find” through its anonymised search. A plugin will allow it to be made a default.
Gigablast is a private search engine that indexes millions of websites and servers real-time information without tracking your data, keeping you hidden from marketers and spammers. Variety of filtration and refinement options for searching.
Oscobo is a search engine that protects your privacy while you search the web. By not using any third-party tools or scripts, your data is protected from hacking and misuse. Has a Chrome extension to allow use in toolbar.
https://search.marginalia.nu/ an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed. Use old-school searching rather than query-based for the best results.
https://www.mojeek.com/
https://wiby.me/ - It’s goal is to index as many personalized websites as possible, and NOT commercial sites.
https://4get.ca/ it works a lot like SearX, but honestly better. It doesn’t have its own index, but pulls from many others. I think it’s the best for research, since it allows you to search for answers from different indexes, is easy to configure, add free, and avoids censorship as much as it can.
https://www.searchenginemap.com/ for more on how search engines relate to each other.
https://yep.com/ is a crawler
https://www.etools.ch/ retrieves from Google, Mojeek, Bing, and Yandex, like Searx
https://www.dogpile.com/
https://searxng.org/ (next gen Searx)
https://luxxle.com/ - possibly conservative?
https://presearch.com/ - good for academic?
https://kagi.com/smallweb - free/randomised Kagi.
Other Searchers
www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.
www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.
https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.
www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.
http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.
www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.
www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free.https://cosine.club/ is an electronic music similarity search engine
I personally don't have any problem with Lily taking James's surname, becoming Lily Potter, and completely dropping Evans. It was 1979, she grew up in a budding war atmosphere as the marginalized, and the Potter name was strong.
You can't dismantle someone's feminism or strength — and call them a tradwife — just because they chose the safer option and used her partner's institutional privilege to protect herself.
Not for the first time, Remus wonders what the fuck he’s doing with his life.
He’s sitting in the canteen one afternoon in mid-October, watching the early stages of a windstorm move pieces of ice around the harbour. Sirius Black is sitting opposite him. Remus didn’t invite him to have lunch; Black just turned up, with the air of a man who has decided that every inch of this planet belongs to him, and that there is nowhere that is not enriched by his presence.
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I'm really glad that I let this chapter marinate for a couple of days because I wrote it, came back to it, and realised it was a complete info dump about the life cycle of emperor penguins. There are still quite a lot of penguins in it.
S/o to @bloodonthetracks93 for the moral support, and also for accepting texts like these without question:
I love @annabtg and I love @shirtlessjamespottermay so what could be better to write a fic celebrating both. My one issue was that my James never wears a shirt, he wears robes. So his robes had to go. So sad. Also features robeless Lily Evans. We don't discriminate. Or make the rules.
‘Whoever managed to get James Potter to take off his robes in this weather deserves a Nobel Prize,’ grinned Vera Haart.
‘A nobility prize?’ asked Lizzie Vane, frowning.
‘Never mind.’
Vera’s chocolate-coloured eyes found Lily for a second.
‘Whatever the prize, they definitely deserve it,’ agreed Maeve Ryan, who ogled James as avidly as the rest of them.
‘You share a changing room with him,’ remarked Lily, a little impatiently, but then she could hardly be blamed. Everyone was behaving as if they’d lost their minds. Though she couldn't quite explain why she was outside in this weather, watching James Potter getting undressed in front of the Black Lake either.
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Thank you to my dearest spouse @siriuslychessi for beta-ing.
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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 3/15
Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: James Potter/Lily Evans Potter
Characters: Lily Evans Potter, James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew, Marlene McKinnon, Severus Snape, Mulciber Jr. | Severus Snape’s Schoolmate, Evan Rosier, Minerva McGonagall, Albus Dumbledore, Horace Slughorn, Mary Macdonald (Harry Potter), Petunia Evans Dursley, Euphemia Potter, Fleamont Potter, Alastor “Mad-Eye” Moody, Dorcas Meadowes, Original Characters
Additional Tags: POV Lily Evans Potter, POV Third Person, Hogwarts Seventh Year, Marauders Era (Harry Potter), Head Girl Lily Evans Potter, Head Boy James Potter, Blood Purity Prejudice & Pureblood Supremacy (Harry Potter), First Wizarding War with Voldemort (Harry Potter), Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Angst and Romance, Angst with a Happy Ending, Explicit Sexual Content, Explicit Language
Series: Part 4 of Willow
Summary:
Lily Evans’ sixth year ends with a bang: after accidentally witnessing classmate Peter Pettigrew transform into a rat, the witch is left drowning in conspiracy theories about the ever-so-mysterious Marauders, at the centre of which stands James Potter and his confusing character. Much more so after the bloke is appointed Head Boy to Lily’s Head Girl. What follows is a final year at Hogwarts that upends Lily’s tidy little world, forcing her to face fears and insecurities she’d worked very hard to ignore. Amidst a brewing wizarding war, a fight with her best friend and the tumultuous start of an unexpected romance, Lily suddenly sees herself in the eye of the hurricane, having no choice but to make a decision that will forever change her life.
In their sixth year at Hogwarts, Lily witnesses James being harassed for a date several times by a particularly persistent girl. When the tables are turned on him, James realizes something about his situation with Lily, and her view of him changes drastically.
insane that we aren't taught about sleep in school. like 75% of people in my country report poor sleep and we don't spend one biology class learning about it? here's what I've learnt from a variety of sleep courses:
your body does pretty much all it's physical rest and repair processes ('stage 4') in the first 4 hours of sleep, so if you've slept for four hours, congratulations the essentials of your physical health are taken care of
the part of the sleep cycle that takes care of your brain and mental health (REM) happens later in the night, hence why waking up too early makes you brain foggy, and why it's so helpful to train yourself to wake up about the same time every morning
we are evolved to wake up several times in the night; we don't usually remember it, but worry and fixation can make us more likely to remember these
sleep under the influence of alcohol is chemically altered and not effective no matter if it helps you sleep - it's fine to have a drunken night of course but don't use alcohol as a sleep aid to 'knock yourself out', being drunk unconscious is not sleep
the best thing you can do for your sleep is follow a routine; go to bed and wake up at the same time most days, and have a 'wind down' routine, preferably including writing down whatever's on your mind to clear it before sleep
for long-term sleep improvement, it's better to wake up at your planned time regardless of sleep quality than to get a full nights' sleep
missing a night of sleep is NOT the disaster certain scaremonger-y sleep 'experts' will tell you - 'slept debt' does NOT exist and you will recover from a missed night of sleep within a few days of normal sleep
meditation is the best alternative to sleep if you're either unable to sleep or feeling the urge to nap (napping is bad for sleep!) - guided ones can help you not to fall asleep, but literally just lying there with your eyes closed and thinking about something neutral is good
acceptance is the best way to alleviate insomnia; do something else, use meditation to supplement that rest, and accept that you aren't sleeping (often, ironically, this will cause you to fall asleep)
TL;DR: DON'T LISTEN TO THE FEARMONGERS! poor sleep isn't killing you it's okay to miss some sleep! just make sure you're resting when tired and trying to stick to a routine of night time rest
It's so interesting to me how more people don't headcanon Lily as a lower-class, class-conscious person, considering she grew up in a heavily industrial town in the '60s and '70s and literally befriended Severus -I'm wearing my mother's blouses because of how poor I am- Snape for YEARS.
Like, why would she not also be poor? Her family was 90% likely from the working class, living on minimum wage. I don't mind when people make her middle-class, but for me, reading about her being upper-middle-class and comfortable with money is atrocious. I don't think the Evans family struggled as much as Snape's did (considering JKR literally slaps you and yells POOR POOR POOR in your face when describing young Snape), but they probably could barely manage to pull themselves together after spending a day in Diagon Alley buying Lily's yearly school requirements.
I've never seen people talk or write about this possibility, and like I said, it's SO baffling to me because in my head, it's almost like canon. It also explains how comfortable Petunia was with making Harry spend years in Dudley's hand me downs. (while spoiling Dudley rotten, which is a literal trauma response)
it also has SO MUCH potential as a dynamic when she starts pining with james, who absolutely has NO concept of money (although I think it has a massive risk of turning into a richalphaguy-pooromegagirl slop)
I write about it because I love bringing class dynamics into fanfic spaces to deepen the characters, but I'd LOVE to see more people talk about it.
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'Under babied' is a dystopian term. It removes men from responsibility and commitment. It sounds very sterile and detached. Dr. Oz sounds loveless.
Republican men see women as white baby-making machines. They want mothers to be on the verge of destitution. They envision desperate mothers as more controllable. These misogynist men are given way too much influence in conservative politics.
I agree - underbabied is a terrible term. But also? Also? They are upset because teen birth rates have lowered! This…. Is a good thing. It’s something we have celebrated in the past but they have listed the declines in teen birth rates as a negative. Yes 19 is an “adult” but it’s still very young to have children. I think the category was 14-19? Someone known for sure? Anyway. Yuck.
“James, you fly for God’s sake!”, Lily’s exasperated voice sounded from behind him as he gripped the handles of the bicycle.
And she was right, he did fly, but a broom wasn’t some metal death trap that required he power it from his legs.
“How on earth do they make children, do this?!”, he ignored the laughter bubbling from Mary and Remus behind him, “I lost exploding snap, I did not agree to die!”.
“Mate, they let children play Quidditch. A sport where the balls try to kill you!”, Remus said.
“And you agreed to a bet of our choosing, so firewhiskey or not these are the consequences,” added Mary.
Lily cupped his jaw, smacking a kiss on his cheek, and tightening the straps of the helmet, “You got this, love,” a smirk split her face, “Now peddle”.
So he did, hunched over the contraption, Lily jogging behind him, holding the seat steady, he peddled. And he was moving!
“Fuck! Don’t let go, don’t let go, oh Merlin, I’m doing it!”, James was grinning like a madman. It was actually working!
Strangely enough, it was a bit like flying, only his hands trembled so much he pointedly did not look at the ground.
After a minute he noted a lack of footsteps behind him, “Lily? Lily?! No!”, he was shrill to his own ears, his girlfriend had betrayed him!
“You let go!”,
“I’m supposed to!”, Lily stood panting to the side, but James was still plowing forward, and with much panic, he found he couldn’t stop.
With his head still turned he saw the three of them cackling, red faced and hysterical. The utter gits!
His arms swerved this way and that, trying to find balance, and—shit.
In a great thud, he fell sideways into a bush, legs sticking out one end, and the bicycle poking out the other.
Three heads eventually loomed above him, red faced, still chuckling. He shook a fist at them, “Lils, you let go!”.
“I had to!”, She took his hands to haul him out the bush, not before he registered Mary snapping a photo.
“But you did so good! Sure we thought for a moment, you’d take a dip in the lake, but you were going for a full three minutes!”, Lily pecked him on the temple.
Shaking his head solemnly all their smug faces, He took off the helmet and balanced it on his hip. He was never drinking again.
