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The Jily Fandom Rec List 2024 is a compilation of Jily stories our readers want to keep an eye on for this year's awards.

APRIL

Choose Your Own (sexy) Adventure (WIP, 214.9k as of 30 April 2024) by @ghostofbambifanfiction. Rated E.

Too many cooks can occasionally write a story.

green light (completed, 4.7k) by @apalapucian. Rated T.

there are yellow roses on the kitchen table. a cup of coffee charmed to keep warm for a time. a scrawled "morning! :) –james & harry" on a scrap of paper, the torn bottom of a receipt for... milk, she finds. and strawberries. harry was signed by harry himself, and lily wants to cry at the shaky strokes, the crooked lines. she can hear them in the other room where james's window seat project is almost finished. harry is laughing. he asks questions, mocks his dad's shabby handiwork, drops the things he's asked to hand. roses and handwritten notes and coffee and giggles nearby. this is her life now. she skims the flowers, the sun itself in her heart. or: the war is over. everybody lives AU. (well, not everybody everybody, but the potter family + sirius + remus + even peter* live.) old fic rewrite. * = you'll see.

To Bring Down a Kingdom (WIP, 18.5k as of 30 April 2024) by @mppmaraudergirl. Rated M.

“If we do this…” “For all of time, they will say it was our love that brought down a kingdom.” A story about forbidden lovers, the battle between duty and love, and the cost of betrayal. Inspired by the film Tristan and Isolde.

your love thawed out (completed, 13.8k) by ML_Fox. Rated E.

He felt her pain in ways that made the cores of his bones ache, but by the end of it, she glowed. She beamed and laughed and cried happy tears that made her shine. Harry squalled and squirmed as she held him close to her chest, crying and sobbing and falling heavily against James, and the weight of both halves of his heart leaning against him made him feel like he was finally complete. Like falling in love all over again. In the first few weeks after Harry's birth, James tries to recover from the trauma of the delivery. To help him are moments of domestic bliss, happily married life, and mad, chaotic friends who will spoil the hell out of his beloved son.

Find the previous months' recs here!

Remember that all eligible Jily fics (written and/or updated anytime between Nov 2023 and till the end of Oct 2024) are welcome on the list, so don't forget to send in your suggestions!

Happy reading!

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Monday snippet

Tagged by @squintclover, thank you!! ❤️❤️

Going to share a little something from my new WIP, the Ironmaster AU I've talked about before (tentatively called Revanche):

“Severus Snape? That miserable sod couldn’t compare to your little finger.” He lifted the hand that held his Firewhiskey glass as though toasting to James’s superiority, then took a sip. “I remember him from school. Slimy son of a witch trying to make a name for himself by fraternising with those vile bigots. No woman in her right mind would choose him over you.”

Tagging @charmsandtealeaves @jamesunderwater @kay-elle-cee!

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For the writing game: I love your Jily banter

Artemisia!! I'm so glad that you do!! ❤️ I don't usually consider banter my strongest suit but it seems like people are enjoying it and that makes me really happy! 😊

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I am gonna go cry in a corner now

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HIII!!! nsfw jily comic is done!!

obviously, i can't show the whole thing here or else tumblr will have my head but i posted the entire thing on ao3, so you can see it in full HERE

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when I see something dated 2019 I think “oh that’s not too long ago” and then I remember that 2019 was not only five years ago but those five years have somehow contained several lifetimes

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I challenged myself to paint at least(!) one Sirius Black art a month this year, so here is the April painting! And as I haven’t had much time in April, I made a more detailed artwork :') Well, but it was a lot of fun! I also added a close up because I really like his face in this one :)

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vampires have been drinking human blood for centuries they don't give a fuck about guys on eight different antidepressants. they were sucking on asbestos factory workers

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james potter u will always be dear to me

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Revision in the common room!

James is rambling about the rubbish in his transfig book, and it seems that's it's not the first time as everyone ask him to shut up!

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ship james with whoever you want but nothing is gonna hit as hard as jily does. bc james chose to walk right into war, james chose to risk his life because being with lily was worth risking everything.

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Sirius/Lily is worth it for just the amount of bi panic they would cause in people

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Jily and the marauders

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Rip Barty Crouch Jr you would have loved getting matching friendship tattoos with your besties—oh wait

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yeah sex is cool I guess

but have you ever had someone leave a comment with a paragraph-long review of your fanfic containing genuine praise, thorough criticism, and an in-depth analysis of all the lore hints you dropped that you spent ages intricately crafting

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Regardless of setting, you’re always able to retain jily’s essence in their banter, that push and pull

Ah!! That's so great to know, anon!! Thank you!! ❤❤

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