#effie making Remus chocolate cake>>>

[weirdtinkerbellversion]

Dec 11. Prompt: Boots. Word count: 195 @wolfstarmicrofic

The four boys were sitting on the floor in their dorm room, an array of snacks they stole from the kitchen in the middle, and a half-eaten cake that they had attempted to make. Sirius, the birthday queen, had a crown on their head and was ripping open presents. First was the new record from Peter and some Zonko’s products. James’ present was a picture of the four of them in a handmade pasta frame (he saw them in Lily’s bedroom when he went to visit that summer and became obsessed!) and some of Effie’s famous biscuits. Remus’ gift was buried in a box under an unhealthy amount of chocolate. Sirius looks at the four little boots then up at Remus, confused.

“They’re dog shoes, so Padfoot’s paws don’t get wet in the snow. Your hands are always freezing when you turn back.” He looked worried, about Sirius’ hands but also about Sirius’ reaction. Did he get her the wrong present?

That’s when Sirius slams into the boy next to him and they fall in a heap of limbs, Sirius wrapping their arms around him and kissing his cheek. 

“I love them, thank you Moons”

[jaylienpotter]

I'll be offline for the next few days. Spending the weekend out to celebrate New Years! 🎉

So here's the Marauders holidays headcanons requested by Anon on my tree! Before it's January lol.

James

He LOOOOVES the holidays. So much. Christmas is probably his favourite day of the year. Along with his birthday. Family - and friends, since the Potters kidnap take in all the unfortunate kids - gathering together? Celebrating together? Giving gifts? James is in heaven.

He wouldn't shut up when he found out about Santa's reindeer, either, calling himself Rudolph's distant cousin.

Although he likes receiving gifts, he lives for giving them. And he's amazing at choosing too, you'll always get something big yet meaningful. He'd propose to play secret santa every year but he prefers giving all his friends something instead.

His favourite season is summer and he hates cold, but snow? Snow is an exception. It doesn't matter how old he is, if he sees snow, he will point to it and jump excitedly before running outside (and probably catch a cold).

Sirius

He used to dislike Christmas, or at least not care for it. It was nothing but a facade of pureblood gatherings and fake smiles, behaving like the heir of a family he hated. And there was nearly always some family drama (that part Sirius enjoyed). Him and Reg used to place bets on who would be the first family member to start a fight. It was often Sirius.

When he moved to the Potters, Christmas became a family holiday. A family that wasn't his blood but loved him much more. A family that chose to have him be a part of theirs, even if he wasn't perfect. Even if he was unstable. He didn't dread the holidays anymore.

He isn't as excited as James, but it's close. He loves cooking cookies with Effie, he wasn't allowed to cook in the Black Mannor, as it was seen as a low class activity. Secretly, his favourite part now is receiving gifts. See how others thought of him. Loved him. Especially his new family.

Remus

He enjoys the quiet holidays, not a fan of the parties and loudness. Malls are avoided. People are avoided. He'd much rather sit in an armchair by the fire, curled up with a book. Sip tea. Drink hot chocolate. Listen to the rain. It's calm, peaceful. He never had big Christmas celebrations, it's always been just him and his parents - helping his mom in the kitchen, getting a few humble gifts and watching a movie together if they were lucky. It was perfect.

And of course, the amount of chocolates! When people don't know what give you for Christmas, what to they usually go for? Chocolate. And there's so many different available types during this time! Yep, Lupin enjoyed this festive season.

Except the fact that everything became Christmas-themed. All the songs that play anywhere. Any type of decoration. Fake plastic trees everywhere. But oh well.

Once he hit Sirius in the head with a book because he called his - NORMAL, non-christmas sweater - an "ugly sweater".

Peter

He really likes Christmas, not obsessively like Prongs buuuut he's one of those people that start decorating their house on the November 1st, right after Halloween. His home always has a big tree, fully decorated. Every room smells of baked goods. He decorates gingerbread houses, bakes traditional cakes, makes sugar cookies... It's fun, it's calming, it's delicious!

Poor Pete always gets sick around this time of the year, sensitive to the change of temperature. He will complain about it. Sometimes he's not even sick, but he enjoys being babied and taken care of.

If there's snow, he'll for sure make snow angels and try to make a snowman with his friends, enchanting it afterwards to give it life for a few hours or days until it inevitably melts. And if his friends start a snowball fight... he hides behind a wall of snow or a tree and shoots blindly. He never won the game.

[mythicalwindss]

𓍢ִ໋❀⋆☼ how i perceive jily (christmas version)𓍢ִ໋❀⋆☼

happy birthday nooters!! hope you enjoy<3 @everwalldigan

⋆𖤓⋆ james fleamont potter:

- he/him

- pansexual

- aries

˚✿˖ lily josephine evans:

- she/her

- bisexual

- capricorn

˚𓍢ִ໋❀⋆☼

lily and james would always host christmas at their place, they’d make sure they were stocked up on snacks, drinks, hot chocolate, and blankets.

every year, on christmas eve, they would always have new pyjamas waiting for the others to change into, they were always christmas themed. they would always watch christmas films, play christmas games, talk about their time at hogwarts and share new life goals. by the end of the night, everyone would be sat in the living room, by the fire, all cozy in their christmas pjs, hot chocolate and biscuit in hand, talking about anything and everything.

on christmas day, everyone would wake up with presents and stockings filled, and everyone will sit around the fireplace in the morning opening their gifts from one another. once all the gift openings were done, james and lily would go and prepare food with effie, they’d make all kinds of food (mostly party food) so they can have at least one thing that everyone likes on the table. lily and effie would make gingerbread cookies every year, and sometimes even have competitions on who can make the most gingerbread.

james loves decorating all the cakes and cookies, he’d wait around and watch lily and effie make everything and as soon as they were done with one thing, he’d immediately go and get ready to decorate it. they would never have a christmas dinner on christmas day, instead, they’d have it on the 26th, so it’s friends only + effie and monty, and they can have christmas dinner as a family.

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james would always know what to get lily, he’d plan everything MONTHS AND MONTHS before christmas. if lily said she liked a scarf once in a passing comment, james will go home, write it down, and then get it for her. lily would be shocked that james remembered she said she liked something one time. he would always get their friends something that mattered to them and they will keep that forever, like the one time he brought sirius his first pair of docs, and he didn’t want new ones until james forced him to because the shoes were falling apart or the time he got marlene a moth ring, and she has never taken it off since, because rings are their favourite jewellery piece and moths are her favourite animal. he remembers the littlest things about his friends and buys them these things in gift form.

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lily is a maker, she writes, draws, paints, makes everything and anything. she will spend weeks and months making something for all her friends. she once took three months to paint mary’s favourite flower, and took weeks making dorcas a jewellery stand. she has bound countless books for her friends (most of them being for remus), where she paints the covers and pages to match the books, she would also make matching bookmarks and annotating bags for those who like to annotate their books. she has made james many glasses cases, each one having some sort of deer on it as she knows that prongs means so much to him, which makes james fall more and more in love with her (like he isn’t already deeply in love with her anyway).

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[irrevocablecondition]

hc that james was feeling homesick at hogwarts in first year and pete's the one that found the kitchens.

james putting on a brave face and acting like it's fine and then breaking down when pete takes him to the kitchens and cooks one of effie's meals (because ofc effie had taught him, pete and effie 🤞🏻) and then after every quidditch match, pete has a plate of effie's meals sitting under a stasis charm. james being sad that they don't offer food that he feels connected to so pete does it himself and teaches the house elves as well - one day international cultural dishes pop up randomly on the table and pete just sits back blushing as a bunch of kids get excited.

pete and plants!!! pete finding some kind of way to lace honeydukes chocolate with healing ingredients and leaving bars on the pillow of remus' hospital bed after a full moon. can't get remus to take care of himself nuh uh but you absolutely can get him to eat chocolate. (one time pete tried to explain how proper nutrition would aid his transformations and remus went insane over the idea of, gasp, balancing his plate. the inly way to shut him up was a chocolate bar and pete fled the room with the idea)

sirius isn't the kind of person who likes complex meals, okay? he's spent 11 years at fancy dinners and being scolded for picking up the wrong fork etc etc. sirius would happily eat cereal out of the box for dinner if it meant he didn't remember family dinners. pete. making. family. dinners. and no, they aren't complex meals. he could definitely do it but that defeats the purpose. pete makes a spag bol or a basic soup or SOMETHING BASIC okay. and he lays the table for everyone to sit at and sirius is so scared the first time but wow, the food is good? and the conversation is good? and oh. is that what home is? pete is so conscious of the fact sirius hasn't had good experiences with food before - whether that's being deprived of it as punishment or complex meals that aren't even nice but make the family look posh - so he shows sirius that it can be a labour of love and it can be simple and oh how simple it is to love sirius black.

pete not being as naturally academically intelligent as the other marauders. study methods just don't work for him and he's not sure why but something about developing or following a recipe works for him. he'll stand and chop up vegetables and recite revision materials in time with his hand, or he'll be making cake batter and practice how slow his stirring is meant to be for the potion he messed up that week.

pete being obsessed with food because his mother is just absolutely lovely and he's not as good at words as james is or physical contact like sirius is or reasoning like remus is so This. this is his love language.

Don't get me wrong i love all peter hcs. Like actually I'm desperate for more because it's lowkey rare but I'm getting a little tired of food obessed pete. But not in a cooking way from what I've seen, mainly eating way. It's not nessecarily bad or harmful it just feels off that it's one of his primary persoal traits.

This is also not me saying that he can't be obessed with food, it just feels like we're not doing anything else with it than him just wanting to eat food. What if he's obessed with food because he likes to cook and seeing how amother popular is that he's well versed with plants i think they'd pair together, that he'd know what cooking spices to use and not to use and that he has a mini garden of spices instead of buying it off the store

[myheadisemptyffonly]

How I imagine the cooking of these characters would be:

Lily can't cook to save her life. She could find the cure for Alzheimer's, but make a soup? Most likely she would create a new disease in the process. But hey, she has immaculate knowledge of the best places to eat and an incredible instinct for finding them.

Regulus is fucking Gordon Ramsay, you get into the kitchen and you walk out with no self-esteem. Unless you are an elf or a child, then he is the nicest person you will ever meet. Once Barty tried to cook with Regulus and Evan had to get him out of there before Regulus could start insulting him in Russian for mistaking parsley for coriander. He ran out of ways to say imbecile in English and French.

Fun fact: he prefers to cook desserts.

Mary is the only person Regulus can cook with, Mary clearly knows what she's doing and more importantly she knows the difference between capeado and battered. Curiously, she learned to cook instinctively, so she sometimes does weird things but they always work.

Sirius can cook, and that's all. It is not the eighth wonder but it is not a crime against humanity either.

For some reason Remus only knows how to make different variations of eggs: scrambled, crashed, poached, hard boiled.

James knows how to cook and he does it quite well, he learned from Monty and Effie but it's not really something he enjoys because he has to concentrate a lot not to forget a step, but if asked he makes a very good risotto.

Speaking of Effie and Monty. Effie makes the most amazing cakes and cookies in the world, that woman could win the British Bake Off without trying. Monty is the one in charge of the food, the heavy dishes and especially the spicy dishes. Curiously, Effie doesn't really like sweets but she does like spicy and Monty doesn't like spicy but he likes sweets, so what they cook they do with each other in mind.

Peter can make every English dish known to man and that's amazing and terrifying at the same time. He is also very good with Mexican food.

Anything Barty does always lacks salt.

On the other hand, whatever Evan does is always over-salted.

Dorcas makes the best desserts. You just have to tell her one and she will figure out how to do it and improve it in the process.

Marlene learned to cook from Mary and is basically her kitchen assistant. She's scared of fire though.

Pandora is like that Tiktok chef who has his show on Netflix and does everything with chocolate. The first time she ate her pencil in the middle of class Evan nearly had a meltdown and Barty cast a spell on her to make her vomit. She's Remus favorite for obvious reasons.

Frank doesn't know how to cook and no matter how hard he tries he always ends up melting a pan.

Alice is an expert in making seafood and she also banned Frank from the kitchen permanently.

[lulublack90]

Prompt 18 - Date

@jegulus-microfic June 18, Word count 585

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“Monty, I need you to either adopt me or marry me because if those two idiots break up I won’t survive not having this cake in my life,” Sirius gushed dramatically, while Regulus groaned and tried to disappear into his chair. James pulled him back up while the others laughed loudly at Sirius’s words. 

“Son!” Monty cheered, throwing his arms wide for Sirius. 

“Father!” Sirius bellowed as he crashed into Monty’s arms.

“Brother!” James jumped up and joined the hug. 

Regulus slid down again. 

“You know,” Remus said to him from the opposite side of the table, mischief dancing in his eyes. “If Sirius is now adopted by Effie and Monty, that means he’s James’s brother, and you’re Sirius’s brother, which means you are officially dating your new brother,” Regulus’s face twisted into a grimace as Remus snickered over the table. 

“Remus Lupin, you are a doctor, behave yourself,” Effie scolded him. “Regulus darling, will you help me make the coffee?” She didn’t wait for an answer, grabbing Regulus’s and dragging him next door. 

“Are you alright, darling?” She asked kindly, busying herself with the kettle and finding enough mugs for everybody.

“Yes, Sirius is just loud,” He lied swiftly. Effie raised a knowing eyebrow. 

“Whatever you say dear,” Effie smiled at him as she handed him the towering tray.

“Yes, Monty!” Sirius said loudly, nearly making Regulus drop the tray, “Reggie, Reggie guess what! Monty and I have a date!” Regulus ignored him and put the tray down. James came to his side and pulled him in close. 

“Dad’s going to show him how to bake the cake, that’s all,” He reassured Regulus. 

“Sirius, put my husband down and come have some coffee,” Effie ordered as everyone took their seats again. 

Regulus was relieved when the time came to go home. He accepted the warm hugs from Effie and Monty without fuss and promised to come back soon. Sirius ran back for one more hug and Regulus used that as his distraction and booted Remus out of the back of the car. 

“What the?!” Sirius said, surprised when he opened the back door and found James staring back at him. 

“Get in the front, loser. It’s our turn in the back.” Regulus glowered at his brother. Sirius slammed the door shut and climbed into the front. 

Regulus leaned over and rested his head on James’s shoulder, letting out a quiet sigh. He couldn’t wait to get into bed. Maybe he’d have a nice hot bath first, maybe with a hot chocolate, maybe with a naked James. 

Sirius pulled up outside the house and froze. 

“Regulus, stay in the car,” He said evenly. Regulus tensed up. 

“Why? What’s wrong?” His voice shook. Sirius was only like this when it was bad.

“Just stay, okay. James keep him in here.” Sirius got out of the car and Remus followed him. 

“He doesn’t want you here! Leave him alone! If I have to call the police again on you I will!” Sirius’s angry voice travelled into the car. 

“Jealous Sirius that for once you’re not the centre of attention? That I prefer Regulus over you?” Barty. Barty was there. Regulus burst out of the car and ran towards the house. There, standing under the stoop, leaning against the door, was Barty. “Hello, lover,” Barty lowered his voice into a growl. Regulus felt a chill run through his veins as he looked into Barty's eyes. This couldn't be good.

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[lulublack90]

Prompt 16 - Puddle

@jegulus-microfic June 16, Word count 837

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He watched James and his brother run off into the crowd towards the biggest ride at the fun fair. A soft chuckle from Effie reminded him that James had just left him with his parents. At least he had Remus still. He turned his head to check and his brother’s boyfriend was slowly trying to back away unseen. Regulus shot his hand out and grabbed him by the forearm, giving him a warning look, daring him to try and leave him alone with the Potter’s. 

“Effie my darling, I can see a teddy bear with your name on it,” Monty crooned at his wife, linking her arm and walking her away from them. “See you later, boys,” He winked over his shoulder as he and Effie disappeared towards the prize games. Regulus felt a sudden warmth for the elder Mr Potter.  

“What was that Lupin?” Regulus hissed as he turned on Remus, dropping his arm. “You were totally about to abandon me,”

“Hey, they're your in-laws, not mine,” Remus joked at him. Regulus raised an eyebrow. 

“Well, judging how well my brother gets on with James and his parents, my guess is soon you won’t be able to make that claim,” Joking with Remus was quickly becoming one of Regulus’s favourite things to do. “Besides, I thought you were taking me on a date. Not a great start, leaving me to the wolves when we've barely gotten through the entrance.” Remus snorted and rolling his eyes, linked Regulus’s arm much the same way Monty had Effie’s and walked him into the fair.

“So what shall we go on first?” Remus asked, turning his head to look around the place. 

“Waltzers, obviously,” Regulus drawled. Remus, having spotted them, pulled Regulus along to wait in the queue. They sat beside each other in the small space and waited for the operator to come around and check that all the doors were closed before he set them going. Regulus grabbed hold of the wheel in front of him and Remus copied his actions. 

A sudden jerk had Regulus bashing into Remus’s side before the ride started moving. Their car began to slowly turn, gaining speed with each rotation of the floor beneath them. Remus gave Regulus a wicked grin and turned the wheel they were holding, increasing their speed. Regulus accepting the challenge helped spin it too. 

Soon they were spinning faster than any of the other cars and showed no signs of stopping. They spun the wheel as much as they could before the main floor began to slow. Their car refused to stop, and the operator had to grab hold of it and yank it to a stop. Remus flew onto Regulus, pinning him on his seat. They exited and thanked the man as the world around them continued to spin, laughing their heads off. 

“Candy floss,” Remus barked and pointed at a stand. It was Regulus’s turn to grab him and drag him away. The kind lady sticking sticks into the machine and floating candy floss onto them happily added double the amount to the sticks for the smiling pair. Regulus was sure it would spoil their dinner, but at that moment he didn’t care he wanted the sweets. 

He took a bite and savoured the sweet sugar as it dissolved into a puddle on his tongue before he swallowed it. He was about to take a second bite when he saw his brother tear past him. 

“Hi, love!” James called over his shoulder as he chased after Sirius. Regulus tutted at them before releasing a groaning when he saw Effie and Monty making their way towards him and Remus. He plastered a smile on his face and gave them a little wave. 

James’s parents were torturing him on purpose. There was no need to describe the way a chocolate cake oozes in the amount of detail that Monty Potter had. He’d finally been forced to send a message to James begging him to hurry up when Monty had begun to describe how he had slathered the ganache over the cake and spun it under his palate knife to smooth it over the entire cake. He stole a glance at Remus, whose facial expressions screamed with ravenous hunger. 

“Oh, where are those two?” Effie grumbled over the missing boys. She turned to Regulus. “Darling, would you be terribly upset if Monty and I headed back to the house? I need to finish up a few things for dinner, or we won’t eat until midnight,” Effie asked him. He nodded furiously. 

“Of course, Effie. Go ahead. We’ll wait for Sirius and James,” She smiled at him warmly and pecked him on the cheek before bravely moving on to Remus. Regulus had been worried about the woman for a split second as Remus was still glassy-eyed at the thought of the mouthwatering food waiting for them. 

No sooner had the Potters driven off, than James and Sirius came bounding into view, both carrying huge stuffed animals and beaming madly. 

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