June 2026 JILYCHALLENGE is here! ALL THE FLUFF for your favourite Lovely dovely JILY4EVAH!
please reblog this post by the 31st of May 2026 tagging with what you'd like to make (for example #one-shot, #writing, #art, #drawing, #mood board, #playlist etc. You can be as vague as or specific as you like)
At the beginning of the month, we will assign you a partner and you will receive your *FLUFF* prompt (here or on the JilyChallenge Discord - dm for an invite). Keep an eye on this blog or Discord and please check your messages on Tumblr.
BRING YOUR OWN TOOTHBRUSH!!!
Each creator makes their own creation, collabs are encouraged but not the aim of this challenge.
(optional) please follow the Jilychallenge Tumblrblog for updates.
(optional) join the Jily Challenge on Discord (send an ask for an invite) for beta help, chatting and mental support.
when posting:
creators should try to post their entries by the end of the month (What to do when you miss the deadline?)
please tag your partner and the jilychallenge in your post (including the theme and your prompt)
we will reblog all entries tagged #jilychallenge
if you post your art or story on ao3, please add it to the collection of Jily Challenges 2026
If you have any questions at all, don't hesitate to send us a message or ask! If you have an idea for a theme for an upcoming month we'd love to hear it!
Daily reminder to leave comments on fics to make someone's day after so much hard work 🥰
Kudos are great, Reblogs are great but it can feel so quiet without the comments. Even just a few words of encouragement, appreciation and deserved gratitude can go a long way!
If you don't know what to say, you can always:
say how the work made you feel: made you laugh, cry, sad, happy. Point out which parts made you feel what
quote the parts you really enjoyed or stood out to you and say why
say where you were or what you were doing when you read it and how it affected your day (there were so many instances when a great fic completely derailed my plans and I had to sneak out somewhere to scream internally and fangirl lol)
discuss characters, plot and theories, once you get talkative it will start pouring out lol
you can even use a meme!
honestly, at least just say "thank you" and how much you enjoyed it
extremely relevant bonus point: if you like the story so much that you're gushing about it with your friends and recommending it to them, the writer would love to hear all of that gushing even more than anyone 😂
if collabs are not the aim of these challenges, what 'assigned partners' are for exactly?
Hi Anon,
Thank you for asking.
Partners share the same prompt, and they can of course collaborate, but the idea is also to meet another jily fan, who you can brainstorm with, as well as it is more fun to be 'in something together' than it is to work on something solo (we know some people don't mind going solo at all, and not all pairings will become online fandom soulmates (maybe just soup-mates;-) but it's a great way to meet another Jily enthusiast!
Thank you for signing up to the Medieval May Jily challenge.
Because we do feel shirtles MAY is always a thing, for all of our lovely participants we suggest making the most of the historical fact that washing and personal hygiene were definitely a thing back in the dark ages (apparently, don't ask for my sources but do with this knowledge what you will).
Other than taking a refreshing bath, it's not unthinkeable that shirts and mail would have to be stripped away in order to have a better look at any injuries (or ceremonial bathings before a knighting or crowning could take place).
Anyway, your proper Medieval May prompts will be with you soon (on the jilychallenge Discord)
@petalsonparchment 🏰 @charmsandtealeaves
@formerlympp 🏰 @constancezin
@sapphireleo 🏰@annabtg
Tag the @jilychallenge when posting, so we can reblog your work.
Add your works to the Jilychallenge AO3 collection for 2026 (check the Discord information FAQ channel if you are unsure how to do this)
Bit late due to real life... BUT REBLOG BEFORE 5th of MAY to join in !
Knights, castles, black death and fair fiery shieldmaidens, with magical powers or as muggle as you want... Jily in the dark ages is this May's jily challenge theme!
reblog with what you'd like to make to sign up. Pairings and prompts to come to your inboxes or discord on may 6-7 (yeah we know that joke is old, so are we ;-)
Yes!!!
adopt don’t shop, but then for jily prompts! Sharing with other jily fans and creating more jily for us all to enjoy!!! How is this not absolutely wonderful?
Mystery Microfic May is back for another year!
If you would like to participate as an author this year:
Please reach out to one of the jilymicros mods (@annabtg, @charmsandtealeaves or @eastwindmlk) for early access to the May Prompt list and important participant info!
Enter your microfic into this anonymous collection prior to April 30th 2026.
1 Fic per author, maximum word count 1k words
Must feature jily in some fashion
Fics will be released simultaneously here during May, and then authors will be guessed via poll.
No author is to confirm or deny guesses
Authors will be revealed once all polls have closed.
*Authors can still submit normal May micros to the usual collection - they just won’t be part of this event.
Any questions? - Check out the FAQ below the cut.
Feel free to reach out on discord, via asks or DMs to the mod team!
Mystery Microfic May - FAQ
1. Do I have to be part of the discord in order to participate?
It’s not a requirement, but we’ve found discord is the easiest platform for talking about events and giving updates. You can send us an ask (or DM one of the micros mod team) to get access to the prompt list if you don’t want to join the Discord.
2. What happens if two authors select the same prompt?
Not an issue! There’s no claim on prompt words
3. Can I submit for more than one prompt?
We allow for up to one submission per author. You may use as many of the prompt words in that submission as you like.
4. Does it matter if I’m new to the jily fandom and haven’t posted much or at all yet?
No! All the more reason to participate - this is all just a bit of fun. We’d just love to see more jily content out there.
5. When will authors be revealed?
Once all polls have closed.
6. What if I want to do prompts but don’t want to take part in the event?
That’s totally okay! That’s why we have a separate AO3 subcollection for the event. May micros will still run as normal with the prompt list pinned and you can add them to the usual AO3 collection - micros added to the regular AO3 collection won’t be included in the event.
April JILYCHALLENGE is almost here! For each pairing we will have a set of flowers (with their meaning and special properties) as prompts.
how to enter the challenge:
please reblog this post by the 31st of March 2026 tagging with what you'd like to make (for example #one-shot, #writing, #art, #drawing, #mood board, #playlist etc. You can be as vague as or specific as you like)
At the beginning of the month, we will assign you a partner and you will receive your prompt (here or on the JilyChallenge Discord - dm for an invite). Keep an eye on this blog or Discord and please check your messages on Tumblr.
Each creator makes their own creation, collabs are encouraged but not the aim of this challenge.
(optional) please follow the Jilychallenge Tumblrblog for updates.
(optional) join the Jily Challenge on Discord (send an ask for an invite) for beta help, chatting and mental support.
when posting:
creators should try to post their entries by the end of the month (What to do when you miss the deadline?)
please tag your partner and the jilychallenge in your post (including the theme and your prompt)
we will reblog all entries tagged #jilychallenge
if you post your art or story on ao3, please add it to the collection of Jily Challenges 2026
If you have any questions at all, don't hesitate to send us a message or ask! If you have an idea for a theme for an upcoming month we'd love to hear it!
Laura Berlin as Lily Evans ♛ Cory Monteith as James Potter
↳ March 2026 @jilychallenge | Adopt Don't Shop
She has the kind of energy and beauty that James would have expected in a Queen.
She even sits at the head of their table like she’s holding court, even if it’s just the two of them. But if this was a court, and she was the queen, would that make him a jester, or a king?
Laura Berlin as Lily Evans ♛ Cory Monteith as James Potter
↳ March 2026 @jilychallenge | Adopt Don't Shop
She has the kind of energy and beauty that James would have expected in a Queen.
She even sits at the head of their table like she’s holding court, even if it’s just the two of them. But if this was a court, and she was the queen, would that make him a jester, or a king?
Prompt: Muggle AU James has a very strict lunch time no matter how it inconveniences anyone around him because every day he runs into the same person. He doesn’t usually talk to her, beyond pleasantries, but plans to when he has the perfect thing to say. Which turns out to be '“That’s my sandwich” when she reaches for the last one.
Partner: @petalsonparchment
Complete. 2.2k. Oneshot. Rated G. Jily.
Read on AO3
James Potter was watching the clock.
12:28 pm.
Two more minutes.
All across the office, keyboards clacked and phones rang in cubicles, and Marlene McKinnon’s voice floated from reception as she transferred a call to one of the agents in the back. James, however, was laser-focused on the digital numbers glowing at the bottom corner of his monitor.
12:29 pm.
Sirius Black leaned back in his chair across the aisle and spun once, slow and dramatic. “You know,” he drawled, “If the building were on fire, you’d still wait until 12:30.”
James didn’t look at him. “Correct.”
12:30 pm.
James stood up so abruptly that his chair bumped the cubicle wall behind him.
“There he goes,” Marlene called without looking up from her own work. “Like clockwork,” she sounded half-teasing, half-annoyed.
“Predictable,” Sirius muttered, but there was a hint of a smirk there. James had covered for at least three of Sirius’s “smoke breaks” this week alone. Which really just meant that Sirius was actually lying on the roof of the building, doing absolutely nothing.
James grabbed his coat and was halfway to the stairs before anyone else could ask him for anything.
Marlene McKinnon, the receptionist at the office, called it a “routine.” Several of his coworkers at the company called it “inconvenient” because, regardless of the rest of the agenda for the day, or how overworked they were, or understaffed, James always went to lunch at exactly 12:30 pm.
The truth was a little more complicated than people thought. Everyone assumed that James Potter took his lunches at the same time every day because he was obsessive and self-centered, which was sort of true. He could be self-centered at times, but this wasn’t really a selfish decision, he reasoned to himself more than once.
It actually had to do with a girl, which sounded a bit dumb.
There was this little cafe on the corner, two blocks down from the office, called Edmund’s. It was a quaint little red brick building that served coffee and a variety of teas, as well as a daily special of sandwiches and bagels, all of which were made in-house.
That wasn’t the reason he chose that cafe, though.
There was this pretty redhead girl. To be clear, she was not one of the baristas, he wasn’t that cliche.
She was a fellow customer who showed up every day around the same time as him, as long as he took his lunch at 12:30 pm. It took James about three minutes to get from his work cubicle in the office down the two flights of stairs and then down the two blocks to the cafe every day. Five minutes if the crosswalk took longer or if someone tried to stop and chat with him on the way out of the building.
He had even talked to the girl before. Sometimes he held the door open for her if he got to the cafe at the same time as her, and she would say “Thank you,” and he would reply with the appropriate “You’re welcome.”
One time, he got to the cafe as she was leaving, and they did that awkward dance people do when trying to get through the doorway at the same time. He collided with her in what had been the most humiliating thirty seconds of his adult life. He had gone left, and she had gone right, then they had corrected at the same time twice before he’d just frozen and waved her through like an idiot.
He had meant to say something clever that day. Instead, what had come out was, “Sorry.” Groundbreaking. Truly.
