#jfleamont rambles

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Look at what the wonderful @constancezin showed me! Lily's dress is based on the last one in this post I made earlier, and she asked me to post this.

I'm in awe, it's so beautiful I could cry. And James looks so handsome, too! Thank you for letting me show the world this beauty ❤️

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“No one would have made me a prefect, I spent too much time in detention with James. Lupin was the good boy, he got the badge.”

“I think Dumbledore might have hoped that I would be able to exercise some control over my best friends,” said Lupin. “I need scarcely say that I failed dismally.”

*photos are from the with a little help from my friends scene in across the universe (2007)

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James after his parents told him he couldn't use his broomstick indoors

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Lily trying to explain her crush on James to the girls

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@jilytoberfest @jilymicrofics - 337 words - Week 2 Prompt:

Smoke

“I am finished.”

“You're not.”

“McGonagall is going to take my Head Girl badge away.”

Lily was looking straight ahead, and if the circumstances had been different he would have thought that she was just enjoying the view from the Astronomy tower, but she was avoiding his gaze.

“Oh, come on, she only saw you smoke, and she didn't say a word. And, she's seen me doing worse things.”

She shook her head. “You should have seen the look on her face! And it's different, James... No offence, but you're not risking much. You're a pureblood.”

“McGonagall isn't.”

Her head turned so fast that he was afraid she got whiplash. “What?”

“Her dad's a muggle. And you know she doesn't care about that stuff. It's our first week back and you're just nervous, I get it, but you're overthinking this. Plus, it's not like it was, you know... pot,” he whispered the last word, shooting her a knowing look.

“I don't know what you're referring to.”

She had a great poker face, he had to admit it.

“Mmh. I probably just dreamt that you were high as a hippogriff this summer at my house.”

“Yes.”

“And I must have imagined you trying to ride Sirius's bike, right?”

The left corner of her mouth turned up, and a dimple appeared. “You have a creative mind, what can I say?”

“Lily,” he admonished her.

“James,” her chin high in defiance, a challenge in her eyes.

He raised one eyebrow, and that was all it took to break both of them. Her laugh was loud and bright, and she had regained that mischievous glint in her eyes.

He recovered first and, still smiling, leaned on the railing again, looking at her out of the corner of his eye.

“You know, I broke into Minnie's office once. I'm 96% sure she has a secret stash of catnip and if she catches you while you're high, I'll get that for you so you can blackmail her.”

“Ah, my knight in shining armour.”

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let's play a game! you guys stop tagging other ships or characters in the jily tag and I'll stop reporting your posts as spam! fun, right?

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all of us rn

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James after Lily tells him she'd rather go out with the giant squid

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I normally wouldn't post this but the Jily tag needs some love and it just so happens that I spent the day painting with my friends so here's Lily.

The last time I painted was probably in middle school - which was at least fifteen years ago - so this is why this is terrible... That and the big ass brushes that were available that prevented me from painting the details properly. Also, this canvas is basically the size of my hand. I've been told she looks like Ariel but I also tried to make the ends of her hair look like tentacles, so there's some Ursula in there I guess, but obviously there was no clear goal and I was just making it up as I went.

Happy jilyposting ❤️

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harry your father was a hot piece of ass

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Hey for your jily muse, out of order <3

Okay this is unforgivable, I know. You sent this prompt over two months ago. TWO. This ask has been sitting in my inbox since the 18th of January, so you probably won't even remember sending this but I promise you I've been thinking about it constantly and waiting to have free time to work on it and I have this tendency to leave things unfinished so this is me working through that as well lol

Without further ado, here it is ❤️

Out of Order - 744 words

Evans is in the boys' bathroom. She's in the boys' bathroom and she's crying.

One of her hands is gripping the sink, while the other fruitlessly wipes the tears that keep escaping.

She hasn't noticed his arrival, and Sirius doesn't bother clearing his throat. “I'm sure there's a perfectly logical reason for this.”

She makes a startled noise and turns to face him, her expression a mixture of anger and sadness. It's comical, really, so Sirius laughs.

“There is,” she mutters as she wipes her nose with the sleeve of her jumper. Her voice lacks the edge she usually aims at him— and at James, too, though Sirius can't help but notice a slight difference there.

He walks towards her and hands her his monogrammed tissue - he's never used it for this purpose specifically, but it has proved to be useful during the occasional prank or after a rough full moon - which she grabs immediately. She doesn't thank him, but he doesn't expect her to.

“Ah well, that's all I needed to know. It's not like you're invading my personal space or something.”

She lifts an eyebrow and eyes him curiously, looking more like her usual self. “I'm sorry, is there a plaque or an inscription that I haven't noticed? Does House Black monogram bathrooms as well as tissues?”

“Not that I'm aware of, no. Don't give my mother ideas, though, she might actually try to do that.”

She makes an attempt at a smile, but it quickly turns into a quiet sob.

“Apparently there can only be one crying girl per bathroom, and Myrtle has claimed the one across the corridor as hers so it's out of order,” she explains as she tries to regain control of her emotions, “and I thought this one was empty since everyone is heading down to watch the match.”

“You were right... for the most part. Why aren't you going then?”

“No reason,” she replies, her voice even, but she's not looking at him.

Sirius thinks he knows why. He suspects it has to do with the good luck kiss that Cornelia Kettleburn gave James at breakfast and how quickly Lily disappeared after that.

“Cool. I'm not going either. Fancy going to the Astronomy tower for a smoke?”

She looks taken aback. “I— wait, why aren't you going?”

In truth Sirius wants to go, and James is going to kill him for this, but lately he's been claiming that he no longer has feelings for Lily, and Sirius hates being lied to, so technically this is just payback.

“James got on my nerves so I'm skipping the match in protest,” he adds with a shrug and it's the truth, because it wouldn't be fair to lie. “So, are we smoking or not? Got a fag I can borrow?”

She's not an idiot: she knows this is an olive branch of sorts. Sirius can tell she's deciding whether to believe him or not; after a moment she sighs, and Sirius knows he's won.

“Haven't you got your own? Merlin, you're cheap,” she says while producing a pack of cigarettes from her satchel and handing it to him, a smirk on her face. He's glad to see that she seems to have calmed down significantly.

“I'm trying to quit so I stopped carrying them around,” he replies and grabs one, putting it in the breast pocket of his vest.

“Looks like it's working,” she notes as she fixes her appearance in front of the mirror and readies herself to leave the room.

“Absolutely.”

“Why are you mad at Potter anyway? Thought you two were inseparable,” she asks as she walks towards the door, a step ahead of him so that he can't see her face.

“Can't tell you, it's a secret.”

She huffs. “You lot are starting to sound ridiculous with all these secrets,” she whips her head towards him, her disapproval clear on her face, though he's almost certain this is just another way of disguising her curiosity. “Is this little group of yours a cult or something?”

“It's a counterculture,” he explains as he exits the bathroom, “how else are we going to beat those bigoted dickheads? The only way to fight a cult is with another cult.”

He's just joking, but the idea doesn't sound half bad to his ears.

Apparently Lily disagrees, because she snorts. Loudly. “Not sure about that logic but you do you, I guess.”

“Thanks for the support.”

“Anytime, Black.”

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this is definitely James and he's one 'I love you' away from proposing

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Honestly James could never be a Seeker. Harry spent most of the matches hovering a few feet above everyone else waiting to get a glimpse of the Snitch and it definitely got boring at times so imagine James having to stay still and possibly wait for hours? My boy doesn't have the patience, he needs to move

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Guys, I want you to tell me your ideas of Lily's wedding dress. No sleeves? Long sleeves? Which fabric? What do you think it looked like in canon? It's the late 70s, but keep in mind that wizarding fashion doesn't necessarily reflect that.

A few different options that I like:

If you want to do the same thing for James, please do! I'm so curious ❤️

Here's an idea, but imagine these pieces with more embellishments and different colours perhaps:

I'm asking because I have a Pinterest board for wizarding fashion but I've always wondered what other people see in their minds while they read.

Reblog with your own suggestions!

P.S. How about modern muggle AUs? What does her dress look like?

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I don't think this post will be seen by people outside the Jily tag but I'm still going to try: we've been asking for a while for you to stop tagging posts incorrectly, and it wasn't aimed at a specific ship since there were many of them. As a matter of fact, it goes against the community guidelines to tag multiple things in an attempt to make your posts more popular: Tumblr doesn't work like that and has a different algorithm, and tags are used to archive posts in different categories. And this has been happening in other tags too, so it's a general issue and not just ours. We asked you this, and I don't think it was a big ask, but we only got even more mislabelled posts in the Jily tag: every correctly labelled Jily post was followed by at least two incorrect ones. So you can understand our frustration, right? We've been through this many times, but this time we decided we wanted to do something about it so we started making memes. Stupid, ridiculous and completely harmless memes that we still tagged as Jily. So finding out that people think we're somehow spewing hate comes as a surprise. I'm still perplexed, honestly. I don't know how else to make you understand that we only want to be left alone and for our tag to be functional again.

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Lily watching James give orders to the Gryffindor team (she likes it when he's bossy)