#sunshinemarauder

[cascader]

Can I ask for 15, I've been watching you all night and I can't take it anymore?

(Also if u see me just follow you I accidentally hit the unfollow button LOL)

hi Kat!!! here ya go, officially two months later!!! this is a continuation to this drabble but in James's POV! hope you enjoy <3

(rated T)

“You’re not listening to me,” sighs Remus. 

“No,” affirms James. “I’m not.”

He could watch her and listen to Remus simultaneously, he knows. He doesn’t want to.

Remus rolls his eyes and turns to follow James’s line of sight, but she’s momentarily obscured by a cluster of recently-growth-spurted fourth years. “Who are you even staring at… Marta?”

James bites down a laugh. “No, mate. Not Marta.”

Remus sighs again, this time louder, and claps James on the shoulder before saying something he doesn’t quite catch and disappearing to… somewhere. He doesn’t know.

Lily doesn’t wear dresses often. He’s used to seeing her legs, but in skirts — her bloody legs in those bloody skirts. He can’t say if he’s grateful for those skirts or hates them. (He’s grateful.) So that’s not it, whatever’s stirred in him at the sight of her dress. 

It’s the lines, he reasons, as she turns to the side in a leisurely walk to the boys’ staircase. He follows the curve of her neck down to her chest, to her waist, to—

She catches his eye again. Seems to know. Winks. 

She’s up the stairs, and he puts his drink down somewhere and says bye — or says something, at least, maybe, who knows, to someone, or maybe he doesn’t. He doesn’t fucking care. 

James takes the stairs two at a time, the music fading behind him. He usually relishes their dormitory being seven stories up from the already-seven-stories-up Gryffindor Tower, but today he curses it. 

Something in his chest tightens and burns when he catches sight of her, half a dozen steps ahead of him. She pauses, hearing him, and slows, her hand reaching out for the railing. Her fingers skim it. 

He catches up to her on the landing outside the sixth-year dorm. 

“Lily,” he gets out, a little out of breath, on an exhale. He didn’t even need to call for her — she’s already turning around, and she’s got that look in her eyes, the one that just kills him, and she reaches for him as he closes the gap toward her. 

“Hi,” she whispers, now smiling a little, as he skims his hands up her arms and shoulders to cup her jaw. He steps forward until her back’s against the stairwell. He thumbs at her lip. Her head tilts back at his touch, exposing her neck to him. 

“I missed you,” she says, eyes closed, head tilting to the side. 

James ghosts his lips up her neck, across her jaw, loving the little puff of air she lets out. 

“I missed you too,” he says, dropping his forehead against hers. 

She winds her arms around his shoulder in the way he loves, squirming herself closer. 

“The terms of their bet… who would win if we just told everyone now?” she asks. 

“Padfoot."

“And he’d be…”

“Insufferable.”

A sigh. “Yeah.”

When James opens his eyes, all he can see is impossible green, shining at him with something indecipherable that scares him a little and thrills him a lot. 

He presses his lips to hers, slowly, surely. She lets out another little puff of air and slants her lips back against his immediately. He knows she’s risen to her toes by the way she presses up into him. 

He feels the familiar electricity crackle up his spine. He ghosts one of his hands down her side to wrap tightly around her waist. Her hands move into his hair, tug it gently. He groans. 

James feels her mouth open and her tongue against his and he breaks away abruptly, panting. 

“Fuck,” he says. “Fuck, okay, fuck. Not here.”

Lily follows him as he pulls away, catching him on the corner of his mouth, his cheek. “Yeah,” she says mindlessly, now kissing his neck. “Not here.”

James groans again, feeling heat… everywhere. 

He slants his mouth back over hers, pressing her back into the wall. Her hands are everywhere, tracing his biceps, down his torso, tugging up his shirt.

“Okay, fuck,” James says between furious kisses. He palms her arse, hip, thigh, and then hitches her leg over his hip. “Come on, babe. Up.”

She acquiesces, jumping up a little to wrap her legs around his hips. James stumbles for a moment and pulls her tighter to him, bracing them both against the wall. He breaks their snog to kiss her cheeks, one after the other.

Lily giggles. “Can you even get up the stairs like this?” 

James leans in for another deep kiss, then breaks away. Forehead against forehead. “Pretty sure I could do anything right now.” 

[kay-elle-cee]

@hprecfest Day 15: The Last Fic You Bookmarked

what would you do? by @sunshinemarauder

Ship: James/Lily Rating: Teen Relevant Tags: Canon Compliant, Pining, Unresolved Sexual Tension, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, Hogwarts Sixth Year, Fluff and Humor Warnings: N/A Word Count: 2,868

“You can be such a prat, you know, when you go around hexing people for the fun of it and acting like you’re the king of the castle. Sometimes I want to—” and here she starts getting agitated, her pale cheeks reddening rapidly: “—to shove your head down a toilet and leave you there until all that arrogance seeps out of your stupidly large skull. “But sometimes,” Lily continues in a way that he can’t describe in any way other than heated, and then says: “Sometimes I want to cut off all your air circulation.” That’s typical, James thinks, picturing her hands locked around his throat, staring him down with that scorching stare as he slowly perishes. Then: “With my mouth on your mouth.” His brain flatlines. -- Lily Evans has always had an effect on James. He's a total fool for her thick red hair, array of freckles, and bright green eyes. But he never once stopped to consider if he might have just as much of an effect on her, too, until one day... she snaps.

[emeralddoeadeer]

😭🛳

Hello dearest,

😭 A fic that ripped your heart out (but it hurt so good)

While foreigner's god owns me and I'll shout about it forevermore, the derelict art of letting go really, REALLY hits, both @clare-with-no-i masterpieces <3

🛳️ A fic that brought you aboard a new ship

I'm quite committed to my ships so rarely branch out, I did return to Gilmore Girls (literati) after reading distilla truant, but Jily is my #1 ship to sail.

Thanks for the ask <3

Fic Rec (ask meme)

[aidanchaser]

66!!

Okay. Well. I feel like I owe you harry potter, BUT you did give me 66. So I'm feeling... Order 66 vibes....

And it's go boys, go They'll time your every breath And every day you're in this place You're two days nearer death

The fumes of Mustafar would have killed the average man, but neither fumes nor the heat were the thing Anakin feared as he trekked across the lava fields between the black obsidian palace and the landing shuttle.

It was the ghosts.

It wasn't Padmé's cry of anguish nor Obi Wan's desperate pleas that haunted Anakin. It wasn't regret.

It was the moment the light had changed in their eyes, when heartbreak had turned to acceptance.

Their pale eyes seemed to wink at him, neither judging nor accusing. Simply disappointed.

With a heavier heart and heavier limbs, Vader boarded the shuttle.

But you go --The Chemical Worker's Song - Process Man, Great Big Sea

[theesteemedladydebourgh]

Hi dear I miss and cherish you and your writing xx

hiiiii 🥺 i miss and cherish you!! my writing misses me too tbh, but I’m hoping we’ll have a nice long reunion this summer 💕

[thequibblah]

looks like I’ve said too much on the internet 😨

[clairelutra]

hi claire! for all the fic that you removed off ao3, will you be posting them on your dreamwidth account?

ngl it was a lot more work than i thought it would be so it will be slow going if i do manage it, and i've mostly come to a standstill about it now

you can download the fics in html, epub, and mobi from either of the links here, though.

[unknowableroom]

66 <3

hi bb! ok as aligned upon elsewhere since I’ve already done 66 (live and learn, the cardigans), here’s 60 instead: a bop!!!!

send me a number 1-100 and i’ll tell you the song it corresponds to on my top songs 2022 playlist!

[letthebookbegin]

gold-orange for color! but more orange

aww i love that kat!! <33

what colour do you think i am?

[booksarelife-stuff]

Rereading the baby series..... definition of treating urself

Self-care at it's finest

Thank you for reading 🥰

[florenceafternoon]

━。゜✿ jily fic recommendations ✿ ゜。━

Because I will never get tired of them, here are some more fic recs. These fics are set in the wizarding world but aren’t necessarily canon complaints.

For reference, anything in italics is an extract from the summaries on ao3.

Never Quite Awake by @sunshinemarauder 

“Endings are nothing unfamiliar to Lily Evans; she’s seen the ends of sisterhood, friendship, and innocence, all from miles away. But this is an end unlike any other. An end that was never supposed to happen.”

If to love someone once is to break their heart, to love them twice is to break yours.

Lily falls for James in her seventh year. But the couple are sent onto two diverging paths when a life-shattering altercation halts their burgeoning relationship. Five years later, she's a curse breaker and he is a soldier.

When they meet again, it feels like coming home.

All the angst that comes with a jily second chance romance that takes place during wartime. A fake dating subplot, cursebreaker!Lily, pining!James. What more could you want. France (country) - a relevant tag

Through The Rain by @bookeatingbean

James and Lily's first kiss, and the story behind it. There's some fluff, some character study, and some good old-fashioned angst.

If you're looking for a character study that shows how they grew up through their school years. This fic shows you that Lily was not a perfect person and James was a bully for the sake of it but he grew to understand that the world does not revolve around him and strives to do better. Or Lily is stubborn and James is the definition of a ride-or-die

It's been a long time by writtenbyfreckles (on ao3)

It's been ten years since Lily left Hogwarts. She's returned to England to work as a Healer on the "ward of the wacky", only to find home isn't as safe as she thought it was. An attack leaves her locked in a ward with her patients, a bunch of Death Eaters and an Auror she hasn't seen for a long time.

I need more cannon divergence Auror!James and Healer!Lily

The Guide To Becoming A Better Man For Lily Evans by @padfootswhiskers

prompt: I decided to walk outside shirtless (accidentally) but I forgot it's winter and why're you screaming at me like that? And oh gosh, you're very pretty.

lingering days, short-lived nights by letthebookbegin (on ao3)

The summer before seventh year, James is desperately trying to think of anything but Lily, who's burrowed her way into his mind and looks quite comfortable there.

The summer before seventh year, Lily is craving a distraction. Avoiding her sister, she picks an ice cream shop for shelter.

At the end of a long summer day, their paths cross - and the rest, as they say, is history.

Ties That Bind by @charmsandtealeaves

Lily Evans grew up with old wives tales about soul mates, but she'd never put much stock in the idea. Not until after she learned about the world of magic and the fact that soul bonds were a thing that actually existed. Which makes these strange new feelings and experiences that much more difficult to manage.

So I read this a while ago but stupidly forgot to bookmark it and then I spent nearly an hour trying to find it again. Needless to say, I ADORE this fic and you should all go read it. Like, right now. Then come back here to talk to me about it.

Lily Evans Doesn't Believe In I Love You's also by @/ charmsandtealeaves

“Did you hear Lily Evans doesn’t believe in I love you's?”

It wasn’t exactly a secret. But no one knew why, until she decided to share a bottle of fire whiskey in the astronomy tower with James Potter.

Same Lily, same

Meet Me At The River also by @/ charmsandtealeaves

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.

I can't remember if I've recommended this one already, but even if I have I'll rec it again because I love it so much!!

Your Friend, James by @thelighthousestale

It is the summer before their 7th year, and Lily and James spend the entire holiday writing letters to each other as their relationship slowly changes from friends to something more.

Just the ending of this one is everything. James and Sirius are never beating the codependent allegations

Castling by @missgryffin

When they were still very young, Remus Lupin’s dad married Lily Evans’ mum. It changes everything.

Lily and Remus are like the little brother who got bullied and then found friends except he invited them over for the first time and they all act weird because they're mildly terrified of his older sister. Friends to lovers jily is only rivaled by academic rivals jily.

Just the Two of Us by @arianatwycross

Head Students James and Lily face a perilous twist when a malicious potion surfaces in hate mail directed at Lily. Dumbledore orders a week-long quarantine in the Head Students' suite. With unspoken crushes lingering, the duo navigates close quarters, leading to unexpected revelations, lingering looks and forehead kisses.

silence and patience, pining in anticipation by @kay-elle-cee

Lily’s been hung up on James for years; a tipsy conversation might be the push she needs to do something about it.

DRESS IS A JILY SONG FOREVER AND ALWAYS

The Devil in the Cloak Room by @chiechie97

Getting your heart broken when you’re 17 seems to alter your brain chemistry more than you would think. Which is the precise reason why Lily has no intention of reconnecting with the friends she lost at the end of school.

And besides, she has no chance of knowing anyone at the masked Halloween party her friend drags her to. Especially not the guy in the devil mask. Right?

Usually I rec complete works but this one is so good I had to include it

Deception and other ways to find love by @annasghosts

“I’ll be your fake girlfriend, Potter.” And this is how Lily Evans embarks on the adventure of (fake) dating her former Hogwarts nemesis (and crush, but ssssh, it’s a secret). Will she be able to keep her cool? Will he?

Class of '78 by @emeralddoeadeer

Class of 1978 Five Year Reunion - July 29th, 1983

Now is the time to look upon our shared experience, our similarities must unite us rather than letting our differences divide us. Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry invites the Graduating Class of 1978 to return to the castle for a weekend of reconnecting, reminiscing and recreation. We hope the passage of time has been kind to you all and look forward to welcoming you soon.

Professor Albus Dumbledore, Headmaster, Order of Merlin First Class, Grand Sorc, DWiz, X.J sorc, S of Mag Q

It's been five years since graduation, and while many things have changed, some things never will.

James Potter Won't Go Quietly by la_plus_heureuse (on ao3)

Lily Evans remembers plenty about James Potter from Hogwarts. But an assignment from Mojo Magazine to profile the Quidditch star turned activist makes her realize what she remembered was all wrong.

canon divergence staring quidditch player James and journalist Lily

On A Scale of One to Ten (requires an ao3 account) by @petalsinwoodvale

Lily starts falling for an insecure, yet charming auror named James who is recovering from injury in her ward. No one else on staff will sit and talk to him, mostly due to septic skin covering most of his upper torso. Lily, however, finds him charming and funny. Naturally, when James' injuries start healing, he grows more and more handsome. The other healers suddenly take interest in James, romantically ...

foxy by lizpaige (on ao3)

Lily joins the boys at the shrieking shack on a particularly difficult moon in her new animagus form.

Lily & Remus friendship is so special to me

[cascader]

jily | 7k | rated t | canon divergent

for @sunshinemarauder — happy holidays, kat, you superstar! <3 welcome to trope central; we hope you enjoy your stay :)

She didn’t tell him when it counted. She’s daydreaming of a redo.

READ ON AO3

[kay-elle-cee]

happy birthday dear kelsey! from the prompt list - 31. "this is me swallowing my pride" or OOOOH "silence and patience, pining and anticipation"

Thank you, sweet Kat! I've gotten additional requests for BOTH of these prompts (you're very good at picking prompts, it seems), so here's 31, and I'll tag you for the other!

(I didn't expect this to come so easily to me, but the idea that there was never a mention of Harry's Godmother has been rattling around in my brain for aWHILE.)

Read here on ao3 or below the cut!

(and tagging @nena-96 since she requested this one as well!)

“I really can’t express enough how much I hate this idea.”

Lily’s answering sigh is exhausted. It’s not the first time they’ve had this argument over the past few days, and the combination of that and the ‘new-parent-lack-of-sleep’ situation they’ve found themselves in has resulted in a shorter-than-normal fuse.

“It’s just ceremony, James,” she snaps, before carefully lowering her voice to not wake Harry, who’s currently asleep in his father’s arms. “It’s not like he’d ever go to live with her if something happened to us, alright? I’m not that daft. It’s just…” she trails off, chewing on her bottom lip and blinking away tears that honestly have no business being in her eyes in the first place.

“You think this could help fix things,” James finishes softly, carefully watching her.

“Maybe,” she shrugs. “I mean, I feel like the ask means more to our world anyway, you know? Godmother. There's a foundation there, in the religion we were raised in. Not that our parents were particularly strict with it but I just think it would mean something to her—an olive branch. And she’s a mother now, too…I don’t think I’m crazy in believing things might be different now.”

Lily’s words settle in the silence, the dim lighting of their living room warm and cozy around them.

“And…what if she says no?”

James’ words aren’t barbed, but they pierce Lily to the core anyway. She knows without a doubt that it’s because the probability exists more than James’ bringing it up, but she hangs her head in her hands regardless, hears him shift to move next to her. His arm circles around her, lips pressing to the side of her temple as he carefully balances Harry.

“I’m sorry, Lil. I just want—”

“I know,” she whispers. “It’s something to consider. Something to brace for.” She turns to look at him—notices how his brows knit together with worry, how his jaw is set as if holding back his fully unfiltered thoughts about just what he thinks of Petunia (it’s nothing she hasn’t heard before, she’s sure).

“Even with all of that…I want to do this, James. I want to ask her, at least.” She leans into him, burying her forehead in the crook of his neck and squeezing her eyes shut. “Sirius is Harry’s Godfather. Sirius is our first choice. If Sirius is all he has, at the end of the day, I’m content with that. But I’d at least like to ask. She’s my sister. It would mean a lot if you could get onboard.”

She can feel the muscle in his neck tighten, his arm pulling her closer as his cheek rests upon her head. “Of course I can, Lily. We can go into town and post the letter tomorrow.”

[emeralddoeadeer]

💞 and 🤔!

Hey Kat! Thanks for the ask <3

💞 A fic that led to you making friends with the author

I don't know, can I cop out and say I made a ton of writer friends all because of the ultimate fic that is come together ... Before, I sat quietly in my corner admiring from afar many talents who I now consider friends - yourself included!

🤔 The first fic you think of when I say [insert word here]

That goes to some with arrows, some with traps @isahorcrux wrote a masterpiece within a masterpiece, every time isa mentions the prequel and sequel I elmo-fire-scream a little!

ask for a fic rec

[aidanchaser]

4 and 5!!

4. 3 recommendations (and i'll even make it from 3 fandoms just for the hell of it)

HP: I will recommend the lost generation by JennBob until the day I die

Miraculous: I haven't finished A Werecat in London by ThornQueen yet but I ADORED it when I read it at its inception and then after its lengthy hiatus I just have not had the time to get back to it but I will reread it from the beginning and finish it

Star Wars: It's not exactly fic, it's a comic strip but Our New Hope by OonaLuna is incredible, powerful, and a must read.

5. Fanfic pet peeves

I hate to be an English teacher about this but improper grammar, punctuation, and paragraph breaks KILL me in fanfic. I know fic is a space for writers to learn and grow but oh man I can't stand it. Sometimes it's not so bad and I literally just rewrite it in my head as I read but especially with dialogue if it's not punctuated properly I will nope out of it.

I also don't care much for first person, and will often nope out of a fic if it's in first person. I really couldn't tell you why. It's like a cat touching a bathtub. I open it, I see the wet, and I get out. I'll only read a first person POV if it comes highly recommended by a trusted friend.

[theesteemedladydebourgh]

blaze <3

😘

The feeling trickles down her spine, blazes through her veins. I love him.

What a silly, selfish thing to think in a hospital. 

Send me a word and I'll post a line from a WIP that has it! 🥳