fall in love (again and again)

writer of jily love stories gryffindor ❦ she/her

[missgryffin]

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2026 updates: Beneath the Beech Trees (WIP, 14k words, E) Sundress (850 words, T) Eternal Summer (WIP, 149k words, E)

[missgryffin]

update: I wrote ~1,800 words of a scene that I'm 99% sure is going into ES and then had a surge of ideas as I was trying to fall asleep that I tried to capture in my notes app in the dark 😅 I'll still need to decipher them in the light of day but overall I'm very excited to have written something!! 💃🤞

[missgryffin]

woke up in the mood for jily and I am *determined* to make something out of it!!!!

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[missgryffin]

Haha, YES to AllieDean giving Jily!! Allie is almost Lily to a T, Dean is way to much of a womanizer for me at the beginning to imagine him as James (even tho he obviously is still respectful and all about consent) but at the ending of episode 5 it clicked for me and I was like ooooohhhh, this is almost like I’m reading them in one of missgryffin’s fics 🤭 And it’s so interesting to me, because they don’t look like Jily (which usually makes it hard for me to see people as characters when they don’t align with how I imagine them visually) but they are just giving that cute but HOT energy, like especially in the photo booth scene ?!! Also sue me could be Lily’s song at this point in ES 😏

This!! It’s much more about personality/chemistry than it is about parallel looks, which I get could be throwing people off. And the photo booth sceneeee!!!! Gah I love them. And it definitely could!! All the music in the show was 10/10.

[missgryffin]

I would say to still read Garrett's book, he's such a teen boy and he was giving me such ES ver.1 James vibes all the time 👀

I’m going to be so honest anon, I saw some snippets of Garrett’s POV that gave me the ick and I am CRINGINGGGGG over that reminding you of 1.0 James 😭💀😅 (He was that cringey though, this is why I had to rewrite it lmao.)

[missgryffin]

Dean and Allie are SO Jily vibes and I am fully here for it. The idea of season two fills me with so much joy (everything can be linked to Jily if you try hard enough to believe)

Saaame I’m so excited for season 2!! I want to read their book too. And bahahaha for real!! I see Jily everywhere now 😂 and tbh what was different for me with Off Campus was how immediately the lead couple wasn’t Jily for me. It usually doesn’t happen like that!

[missgryffin]

Dean and Allie, really?? I don't get Jily vibes from any of them tbh

[missgryffin]

recent reads! 📚

beach read - emily henry | the graham effect - elle kennedy | broken plea - christopher whitcomb | the god of the woods - liz moore

[missgryffin]

sooo here for your reading era girl <33 just share all ur recs with us too ;)

🥳🤓 absolutely! Should I share book recs too or just stick to fic?

[fellshish]

a lot of writing is sort of watching the film in your head like oh sorry can’t write the chapter yet i have to repeat hallucinate the dialogue first

[missgryffin]

lol @ the bicep pic needing a content label

[gigglesandfreckles-hp]

chapter eight

“So let me get this straight.”

James groans into his pillow. “No thanks.”

“The moment you find out there’s a chance Lily Evans might actually be attracted to you, you immediately turn around and start shagging someone else?” Sirius gives him a look of genuine disgust. “What the fuck is wrong with you?”

“Thanks for that,” James mutters. “I’m so glad we had this talk.”

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[missgryffin]

checking in

felt inspired to write a little note 🫶

I'm really sorry for leaving you guys hanging with my fics!! I know it's fic, it's fun, it's a hobby, all the things, but even though I know that, I still feel guilty. I miss them, I miss writing, I miss sharing writing with you. I just don't have a lot of gas in the tank right now. I thought I'd gotten past it / averted the burn-out, but work has kept down-pouring and I'm just tired 😔 I've basically replaced all my usual writing time outside work with other things to cut down on screen time, since I was having some really bad eye strain symptoms, and that's been helping me a lot mentally/physically. I've also been reading a lot more, and without the creative energy to write, I've been building out my little libraries in Notion and doing crafty things in there to still have fun with books, characters, etc., in a low-pressure way. And it's been really fun! I feel like I'm just staying afloat most of the time, but I'm trying to do my best with it and take care of myself so I don't burn out completely. And since I do have the capacity to read (and honestly have been leaning on it like a crutch lol, I literally bribe myself throughout the work day, "do this project and you can read a chapter," etc.), I'm trying to embrace it and look at it as an opportunity to catch up on books and fics that have been on my tbr. Please please know that if I could be writing right now, I would be!! In the meantime I will definitely share fics I read/rec 🫶 Thank you for your patience!! 💓

[missgryffin]

finished reading All This Time by @thejilyship today and I didn't want it to end!! such a cozy fic 🥹💓

[formerlympp]

“If things were different, if we lived in a place without duty, would you be with me?”

“That place does not exist.”

Read Part II: An Infallible Champion | Start from Prologue

A story about forbidden lovers, the battle between duty and love, and the cost of betrayal. Inspired by the film Tristan and Isolde