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Nom De Plume (46.5k). Completed, rated E. Favourite Canon Divergent Long 2024. Rec'd by @charmsandtealeaves, @joyseuphoria, @neverenoughmarauders and @practicecourts.
James Potter, renowned potioneer, has a secret side career as an erotica writer under the pen name of Scarlett Goldwing. When his latest book starts to take off, and Scarlett is asked to promote it at a public event, he has no other option but to recruit his colleague Lily Evans to pretend to be Scarlett. The only problem is, Lily Evans hates his guts… or does she?
Fixed Luck (1.3k). Completed, rated T. Favourite Angst 2024. Mind the tags! Rec'd by @abihastastybeans, @kay-elle-cee, @neverenoughmarauders and @tedwardremus.
The books warn: excessive intake can cause giddiness, recklessness, and dangerous overconfidence. But good luck is addictive.
Oh My God, She's Insane (7.7k). Completed, rated M. Favourite Canon Divergent Short 2025, Favourite Humour/Crack 2025. Rec'd by @blitheringmcgonagall, @charmsandtealeaves, @neverenoughmarauders.
When the Order of the Phoenix discovers that Lucius Malfoy, rich bachelor and womaniser extraordinaire, may secretly be a Death Eater with access to an item that could be the key to bringing down Voldemort, Lily Evans comes up with a brilliant plan: to seduce him into inviting her to his house, and then take the opportunity to snoop around for information.
James Potter, her mission partner, is less than thrilled with this idea.
Readers' favourites (under the cut):
The Chaperone (7.5k). Jily, Petunia Evans, Sirius Black, canon. Completed, rated T. Rec'd by @casquecest, @neverenoughmarauders and @plecotusauritus.
When Lily's father won't let her go out alone on a date with James, she has to resort to desperate measures: make it a double date with Petunia and Sirius.
Halloween Specials (867 words). Jily, James & Sirius, Rosmerta. Canon, 6th year. Completed, rated T. Rec'd by @neverenoughmarauders.
It's Halloween Eve. The Three Broomsticks is packed with Hogwarts students.
At the bar, two funny, handsome young men are chatting to the barmaid.
Her Favourite (1.1k). Minerva McGonagall, James Potter, canon. Rated G. Rec'd by @neverenoughmarauders.
If Minerva McGonagall had a son, she would have wanted him to be like James Potter.
Two Steps At A Time (1.4k). Slytherin!Lily, Sirius Black. Completed, rated G. Rec'd by @neverenoughmarauders.
Lost in the vast Hogwarts castle, first-year student Lily Evans finds her way to her common room with the help of an unlikely classmate.
White Swan (930 words). Jily, fluff. Completed, rated G. Rec'd by @charmsandtealeaves.
“I thought we were only going to watch,” he teases. “I didn’t realise you were the night’s prima ballerina.”
It’s been years since Lily was forced to abandon that dream – since she exchanged tutus and ballet slippers for black robes and a wand – and there’s no bitterness lingering. Still, she crosses her arms over her chest and raises a challenging eyebrow at him. They both like a challenge – revel in it, really. “Are you making fun of my outfit?”
“Not at all. I’m just saying, nobody’s going to be looking at Odette when you’re looking like that.”
James and Lily go on a date to watch ballet.
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i love the linguistic trend of expressing something difficult to describe by just not including an adjective where there usually would be one. “i had a day today,” or “he’s definitely one of the characters of all time.”
it’s like i can’t describe this so i just won’t. you get it tho.
maybe this is not my place to say because I am monolingual, and I'm sure it's part of a larger, more nuanced discussion about visibility and accessibility on the internet, but I think it'd be cool if people posted in their native languages more instead of in english. I see people do it way more on other platforms than on tumblr which is almost exclusively in english
El problema es, como bien has dicho, la accesibilidad y la visibilidad.
Tumblr en concreto es muy anglocentrista y un gran número de los usuarios no habla más que inglés. Si quieres que tus cosas lleguen a gente con gustos u opiniones similares, escribirlo en inglés asegura que la gente por lo menos lo pueda leer. Suma a esto el hecho de que bastantes series y tal son originalmente de habla inglesa (y a veces ni se traducen a tu lengua madre), lo que crea un fandom principalmente angloparlante.
Más allá de eso, también hay que tener en cuenta las diferencias culturales que surgen entre fandoms de distintos idiomas. Por ejemplo, durante mucho tiempo el fandom de Vocaloid angloparlante y el hispanohablante han chocado con respecto a temas como la piratería. En ocasiones es complicado manejar estas expectativas, y si sabes varios idiomas, peor incluso.
A mí me gustaría subir cositas en español y encontrar a gente que comparta mis gustos, pero en Tumblr en concreto es casi imposible. Tumblr ya es de por sí mucho más «nicho» en espacios hispanohablantes que otras RRSS como TikTok o Instagram, y si tus intereses no son muy populares, despídete.
La lingüística de los espacios de fans también está hipercentrada en el inglés. No es una pareja, es un ship; no es un universo alternativo, es un AU; no es destripar, es hacer spoiler, etc. Incluso las siglas: en español es LGTB, pero lo que sueles ver es LGBT. Parece una tontería, pero esta disonancia cognitiva hace que resulte muchísimo más complicado hablar en tu propio idioma en un fandom. Por no hablar de las innumerables referencias a posts o a memes... en inglés todo, por supuesto. Como te atrevas a hacer cualquier referencia cultural no inglesa, no te entiende nadie. Pierde la gracia.
Casi todo esto se puede achacar al imperialismo cultural estadounidense. El inglés es útil para comunicarse con gente de todo el mundo, pero su omnipresencia sirve de barrera para todos los demás idiomas. Quizás habría que reflexionar un poco sobre por qué coño el resto del mundo tiene que tragarse años de clases de inglés para hablar del juego que le gusta en una red social mientras muchos angloparlantes no se dignan ni a meter un texto en un traductor automático y prefieren pasar de largo.
This bit is exactly what Sirius was talking about when he said "Nah, she didn't" in response to Harry lamenting that Lily hated James lol.
Because you can't convince me that our girl wasn't staring at James Potter that afternoon by the lake just as hard as he was staring at her. She brings up him playing with the Snitch as if it's something he does all the time — when literally just minutes earlier, Remus asked James where he'd gotten it. Her eyes were glued to that boy.
"Messing up your hair because you think it looks cool to look like you've just got off your broomstick" … girl, just say YOU think he looks cool when he gets off his broomstick.
had a friend who used to make new ones up on the spot. The only one that stuck with me was 'good golly jelly beans'. If something catastrophic happens I go for 'that's not ideal.'
When Harry doesn't know how to tell Ginny how gorgeous she is and especially if he's a bit drunk or otherwise inhebriated, he just goes 'pretty...' instead (while smiling dumbly) and Ginny thinks it's adorable
24. a character you've wanted to talk about
Arthur Weasley! I know it's easy to let Molly lead the conversation and honestly I have done that myself too but Arthur has enormous emotional intelligence and you can see his fatherly skills shine through when he talks to Harry and you know Harry doesn't do well with authority and isn't very trusting but you know that Harry deeply deeply respects him. It's one of the only adultsHarry confides in and Arthur doesn't completely hear him out but he does tell Harry what's in his best interest. Arthur has a lot of integrity and bravery and that's so so important. Also he raised 7 skilled intelligent children. He's just cool and I'm working on showing off his character a bit more in my fics
I honestly think Gen-Z and younger simply does not understand how recent widespread smartphone adoption is.
I am not that old, and I didn't have a smartphone until probably late high school. For most of my life, many if not most people were not walking around with a magic internet machine in their pocket that they pulled out and used constantly for everything.
