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a little fic in honor of my dear friend @chdarling​ ‘s birthday.

When Lily jokingly tells her owl to deliver a letter to “the love of her life”, i.e. Marlene McKinnon, her owl misinterprets the directive and, to her horror, her ode to James Potter’s arms lands squarely in his lap.

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Lay All Your Love On Me | Rating: M

Chapter Seventeen | Beginning

Prompt: strong Summary: The first time Lily kisses James, he doesn’t even know. 

CW: more chats (and arguments) about the non-consensual exploits of one drunken Lily Evans

Thx for all your works♥️♥️♥️

hi hello! Welcome! There really is so much out there but considering you're new(ish?), I will rec some fics that play closer to the canon realm:

The Last Enemy series by @chdarling is where you need to start if you haven't already. You won't regret it. Superb characterization! Feels like stepping back into the magic of the original series.

Here are some other stories that have come to mind. I haven't read them all but I've heard amazing things about them all:

the price we pay by @possessingtheproperspirit

We Can Be Heroes by @blitheringmcgonagall

Cliche by @tumbledfreckles

The Mapmakers by @dizzy--bird

Come Together by @thequibblah

Bond and Free by @clare-with-no-i

They include Jily and most also have some Wolfstar. Combined, these are well over a million words, but if you're still looking for more (lol) I can recommend more Jily-centric stories. Follow @jilyarchive, @jilyawards, @jilymicrofics, and @jilyradar blogs.

Some great Jily recs (broken down by categories such as angst, fluff, multichap, etc.):

Jily Awards 2021

Ahh @athenasparrow thank you so much for recommending my fics! For anyone who might be new to my stuff, I'd recommend starting with my smutty one-shots Stolen, Vindicated, and A Night to Remember 🫶

More smutty one/two-shots I *highly* recommend are:

Set Ablaze by @maraudersftw (I cannot scream about this fic enough!!)

Wild Nights! Wild Nights! by @wearingaberetinparis (Hogwarts FWB Jily that is so sweet 🥲)

Dive by @elanev91 (such a classic, once you know, you know)

Fusion by @tumbledfreckles (highly recommend reading all of All About the Chemistry, but this chap is 🔥 on its own too)

the deep end by @efkgirldetective (everything Emma writes is entrancing—start here and then read all the rest)

such hot blood by @lilymanaged (poolside jily hits different 🤌)

@ohmygodshesinsane @charmsandtealeaves @practicecourts @mppmaraudergirl @maraudersftw @annabtg

Fic authors self-rec! ✨ When you get this, reply with your favourite five fics that you’ve written, then pass on to at least five other writers.

I was tagged for this a couple of times (thank you!) and I’m super late, but here we go! I’m going with wizarding world fics for this list!

Words, 2.6k rated T

Lily Evans loves words. Loves their meaning, their versatility. How they are rhythmic and made into ballads. How they burst out through laughter, can be waspish in a whisper, even low and gravely when breathless. They define and describe the real, the imagined, and every galaxy in between.

James Potter is a thousand words and she wonders how she could ever have thought one word would be enough to capture the essence of who he is.

Potter Exposed, 113k rated M

Lily Evans has been eagerly awaiting a promotion to reporter ever since she began working for the Daily Prophet. Now her first-ever assignment finds her undercover, posing as a seventh year Hogwarts student, set to discover some of the school’s most thought-provoking secrets while juggling academia, making friends, staving off admirers, and getting to know her professors.

We Can Still Be Friends, 14.3k rated T

Falling in love? Like most things in life, this came easy to James Potter. Being in love? That is a different story. (Or: another story where Lily and James break up because of blood supremacist harassment.)

Remarkable, 2.3k rated T

“He is remarkable,” James says when the house stills around them and they are left for the first time as a family of three. “You may be a bit biased, as all I’ve done is clone you it appears.” James laughs—not for the first time, nor the last, but just one of a number that will dwindle soon to zero. (Warning: Major character death)

The Best Kept Secrets, 8.7k rated M

Teaching at Hogwarts is difficult enough and made all the harder when you are secretly in love with a fellow professor. Some secrets are better left unspoken. Others? Perhaps not.

chapter 12

He sets the pad of paper and pencil on the desk behind him, rolling his shoulders in a stretch as if he is deliberating an answer. “Are you hinting at something?”

“Me? What would I be hinting at?”

“Hmm,” James says, slipping off of his chair, sights set on his bed. “Dunno… but I’m sure you’re trying to have me read between the lines here.”

“Doubtful,” she says, stoically; James slips onto the bed beside her, but she plods on, “I’m very direct. Not subtle at all.”

“Very direct,” he repeats, carding an arm around her waist as he presses his nose to her neck. “My room is drafty but you don’t want to put on more clothing. Guess that’s where I come in, is it?”

She laughs, curling her fingers through his hair as he settles next to her. “See. Very direct.”

James pulls her chin up and plants a pair of kisses on her mouth, gentle and slow, before pecking her nose. He closes his eyes after, allowing her to curl into him, face pressed against his sternum. “Better?”

She hums into his skin.

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fireworks - beginning - new

She’d never had champagne before. The bubbles tickled her nose uncomfortably after a hasty first swig. Fortunately none of her friends or housemates seemed to notice her reaction—not that she would necessarily expect them to in their current states.

The Gryffindor common room was surprisingly lively for ten minutes to midnight during the Christmas hols, although not so surprising in that it was New Years’ Eve. Music from someone’s borrowed wireless bounced between the laughter, settling warmly like fire in the hearths. A larger-than-usual number of students had stayed behind this year, including the entirety of the seventh year.

They were all, perhaps, a bit sentimental about their last Christmas at Hogwarts; Lily suspected she was a touch more than the rest.

Somewhere in the back of her mind, in the place where she could never quite turn off the Head Girl Voice (as her friends liked to call it), she was rather pleased with how everyone was conducting themselves. While very few people were completely sober, no one was tripping over themselves drunk. Lily suspected this was to avoid bringing the ire of the Head of House down on their last night of 1977.

Suddenly Lily felt the gentle touch of fingertips on her shoulder and turned around while nearly upending the rest of her drink.

“All right, Evans?” came James Potter’s grinning remark.

His cheeks were rosy, pink like his kissable mouth.

Yes, James Potter had a kissable mouth. It paired well with his touchable hair and heart-skip-inducing eyes. Realizing these things weren’t a recent discovery by any means, her feelings far from new, but it was starting to become a nuisance.

Because James Potter, her fellow Gryffindor, her co-Head and Potions partner, her friend (of all things!), wasn’t interested in her that way. He was at one time, Lily knew, but time was proving again and again that the ship has sailed.

The champagne made it harder to hide her disappointment in this fact.

“All right. Ready to kiss seventy-seven goodbye?”