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2025 on Tumblr: Trends That Defined the Year
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@nought-shall-go-ill
Nought-Shall-Go-Ill Master List: Read on Ao3.
Until the Tree Dies: Multi-Chapter, Completed [10,379 words]
The Light Coming Shining: One Shot, Completed [22,058 words]
The Mountain Tomb: One Shot, Completed [7,025 words]
The Other Half of the Sky: Multi-Chapter, On-Going [28,071 words]
Tumblr Drabbles & Challenges:
The Fleeting
Quiet Mornings
Never Just “Nice”
Enacting Effort
piece of media you feel crazy about at formative age is truly like the hotel california. you can check out but you can never leave
Explore Greece with Jily
Have you always wished to see Greece but fanfic is your only escape? Fear not, I've got you! The genuine Greek experience in a Jily fic near you, by your favourite tour guide (= me!):
Syros: The Lady Of Kini
Zakynthos: To The Edge Of The World
Vytina: Arcadian
Bonus: Customer In Law, not taking place in Greece but featuring half-Greek James and fully, annoyingly, unapologetically Greek mother Euphemia (based on true events!).
I hope you enjoy reading!
I turned @elodieunderglass's little poem into a song!
(Asterisk: do not pet the wild ferret-badger in Taiwan!)
Oh my goodness this makes me so happy! I adore your voice of course, and what a jaunty little tune! You’re amazing !
Thanks Elodie ^^
I couldn't quite get the Aotearoa and Australia lines to scan, so I stole a bit of Modern Major General for that part😄
I noticed that! My admiration for you increased significantly over that!
Let people grow.
When I was younger I was very right-wing. I mean…very right-wing. I won’t go into detail, because I’m very deeply ashamed of it, but whatever you’re imagining, it’s probably at least that bad. I’ve taken out a lot of pain on others; I’ve acted in ignorance and waved hate like a flag; I’ve said and did things that hurt a lot of people.
There are artefacts of my past selves online – some of which I’ve locked down and keep around to remind me of my past sins, some of which I’ve scrubbed out, some of which are out of my grasp. If I were ever to become famous, people could find shit on me that would turn your stomach.
But that’s not me anymore. I’ve learned so much in the last ten years. I’ve become more open to seeing things through others’ eyes, and reforged my anger to turn on those who harm others rather than on those who simply want to exist. I’ve learned patience and compassion. I’ve learned how to recognise my privileges and listen to others’ perspectives. I’ve learned to stand up for others, how to hear, how to help, how to correct myself. And I learned some startling shit about myself along the way – with all due irony, some of the things I used to lash out at others for are intrinsic parts of myself.
You wouldn’t know what I am now from what I was then. You wouldn’t know what I was then from what I am now.
It distresses me deeply to think of someone dredging up my dark, awful past and treating me as though that furiously hateful person is still me. It distresses me to see others dredging up the past for anyone who has made efforts to become a better person, out of some sick obsession with proving they’re “problematic.”
Purity culture tells you that once someone says or does something, they can never go back on it. That’s a goddamn lie. While it’s true that some remain unrepentant and never change their ways and continue to harm others, it’s important to allow everyone the chance to learn from their mistakes. Saying something ignorant isn’t murder. Please stop treating it that way. Let people grow.
Still call it out and question it ….
Bruh. No. Listen. Call out what people do now, absolutely. If they haven’t changed, call them out on their record. This post is explicitly not about people who HAVEN’T changed. What this post IS saying is, if someone is making an effort to be a good person, don’t go digging around in their past for evidence that they were once for what they’re now against, or once against what they’re now for, as “proof” of what they “really think,” because people’s opinions and beliefs can change.
The obsession with finding shit in someone’s past and then claiming that a questionable or even sordid past negates all possibility of a good present needs to become extinct. Gold-star activism and purity culture are bullshit and we need to collectively reject the fuck out of them.
If someone has changed for the better, don’t harass them about what they were like before they fuckin’ changed. That’s shitty and it needs to stop.
We can’t change the world if we decide people can’t change.
Gold-star activism and purity culture are bullshit and we need to collectively reject the fuck out of them.
We really need to start asking where this purity bullshit came from. I’m not Christian and was not raised Christian but there has been a lot evidence that much of gold star activism and purity culture originated in of evangelical youth movements and then infiltrated progressive left-wing and center-left politics when those youth left their churches but failed to leave behind the black-n-white puritanical “you’re going to hell if you stray one inch from the righteous path” style of thinking they were taught.
I distinctly remember some conversations I had in the late 00s and very early 2010s with long time social justice activists who were baffled and disturbed by the new crop of youth activists who were practicing something that was decidedly NOT social justice despite stealing that phrase from us.
In the decade and a half that has passed since then, all of this gold-star activism and purity culture has done exactly what I predicted back then: empowered the far-right while sowing division everywhere.
Folks. This shit needs to stop.
The thing about hobbits is that when there’s something important to do they will do it.
Basically every hobbit that’s ever lived has mostly wanted to stay in place but the second that the world is in peril or their friend is on the run from somebody, no questions asked, okay we’re doing this now.
There’s a grumpy hobbit farmer early on in the fellowship of the ring that hears that Frodo is on the run from some mysterious guys on black horses and no questions asked he’s like well I’d better sneak you over to the river then.
Hobbits do NOT like any form of change whatsoever but they are also ride or die no questions asked. Oh you’ve gotta save the world? Well I don’t like walking that far but obviously you’ll need help with that so I’m coming. No arguments. We’re off to kill Satan together.
tbh im not entirely immune to a villain with a tragic backstory but i do think villain origins are a lot more interesting when the focus is less "here is the original sin, the first big bad thing that happened to them that made them who they are" and more "here is the first time a person who maybe otherwise felt powerless in their life realized that they could hurt someone and get away with it"
you can get a lot more mileage out of analyzing a truly abhorrent character through the lens of like. what sort of conditions would allow or even incentivize this kind of cruelty? what kind of person benefits from those conditions and how? over the more typical who hurt them type analysis. imo.
hyperfixating on a fictional woman who went underdeveloped in canon is literally FUN and the 80-90% of fandom people who only do the same for background character men have no idea of the degree to which they are fucking missing out
no tumblr i have faith that this post will be found by the enlightened 10-20 percent
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hour 1 of thinking about an underdeveloped woman: idk it would've been nice if she had more screentime
hour 100 of thinking about an underdeveloped woman: ok but despite having only eight lines of dialogue she is literally THE most interesting nuanced and tragic character in the entire series and these writers had no idea what they even had. how is no one else seeing this it's literally so objectively obvious
Some Silly, Stupid Part
“God, you’re such an arse,”Lily laughs, unable to hold back. “So you’d like to put your date through some sort of trial—”
“No,” James cuts in with a grin. “It’s just—I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but I’m not so good at surface level things. Talking about the weather, exams, sitting in the same old pub—it’s so boring. I’d want my date to have a little adventure. To do something we’ve never done a million times before—to—”
“Sit in a pile of rubbish?”
As if on cue, wind gusts up the alleyway and rustles the crinkled chip wrappings at their feet. James turns to her, eyes wide and deliberate.
“Sure,” he says quietly, “If that’s what she’d rather do.”
Happy 2026 and HAPPY BELATED BDAY to my fav mess, Lily Evans. Here's some pure fluff because I don't have much left in my brain for anything else.
Read on A03!
WIP Tag Game
Rules: make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous and tag as many people as you have WIPs. People send an ask with the title that most intrigues them, then you post a snippet or tell them something about it!
Thank you so much for the tag, @formerlympp and @nodirectionhome--ao3! I haven't done one of these in a hot second and tbh I don't have many WIPs I haven't put on this list in previous tags since I was so focused on ISOSM last year. But alas, here we go!
Politic Fic
in the latter days
broken up/still hooking up
lily as a new prefect
wisdom teeth
owl post hospital wing
"jamie"
Devil Take the Hindmost
Time Loop
IBFIBG James POV
Potions Sisters
Petunia finding Harry, reflecting
Assorted restless waves oneshot ideas
Will Turner POV (not Jily)
More than I expected to find (and lots I want to jump in and play with!). Definitely too many to tag so uh....I'll tag a few people I don't think I've seen be tagged and then declare an open tag if you want to play along :) @isahorcrux @ghostofbambifanfiction @emeralddoeadeer @nought-shall-go-ill (no pressure, ever)
Thank you for tagging me, lovely @kay-elle-cee !
I’m afraid I’m recovering from a short hospital stay (I’m fine, guys!), so I’m going to bow out of this one. But I’d love to tag @seriousbrat so their fic What About The Two of Us? gets its dues (and their other WIPs too ofc). Of course, no pressure to do it though.
WHAT ABOUT THE TWO OF US? a marauders era band AU
Lily Evans is now known internationally as one of the greatest female artists of the 21st century. But before the fame, before the success— she was just Lily Evans, the super-groupie blamed for the downfall of legendary rock band the Marauders and that of their rivals, post-punk pioneers Death Eaters. Until now, nobody from either band has been willing to speak about what happened. So when up-and-coming musical reporter Ginny Weasley gets the opportunity of a lifetime, she takes her chance. This is the story of Lily Evans, as told through interviews with Lily herself, and those who knew her best. This is a story about how the heart's not rational— at least, not when you want it to be.
(a daisy jones & the six-inspired AU. 17 chapters, updates weekly. Rated M.) READ ON AO3.
Pairings: James/Lily, Remus/Sirius (main) Snape/Lily, Sirius/Lily, Marlene/Lily, Remus/Tonks, Harry/Ginny (secondary) Content warnings: drug use (a LOT of it lol), addiction, discussion of suicide and sexual violence, some infidelity, many pretentious musical references, sex, some violence, rock and roll
🎵official playlist🎵
I just want to absolutely scream out to the world how wonderful this fic is. I’m obsessed with it. I love it. I can’t wait to see what happens next.
Lily Evans had been stuck working a dead-end job at the Cokeworth Herald for six years when she was suddenly offered the role of a lifetime — Travel Editor at The Quibbler, London's most prestigious biweekly. Except for her, it's not the role of a lifetime. She never wanted to be a travel writer, nor is she very good at it. And worst of all, she's stuck travelling the world with the infamously pigheaded James Potter. What follows is a story of love and prejudice and personal growth — and how these can all stem from the most unlikely of places.
Chapter 2: In which Sev is a dick, Marlene is an HR nightmare, and James Potter just.won't.stop.turning.up. Read chapter 2 here.
Lily Evans had been stuck working a dead-end job at the Cokeworth Herald for six years when she was suddenly offered the role of a lifetime — Travel Editor at The Quibbler, London's most prestigious biweekly. Except for her, it's not the role of a lifetime. She never wanted to be a travel writer, nor is she very good at it. And worst of all, she's stuck travelling the world with the infamously pigheaded James Potter. What follows is a story of love and prejudice and personal growth — and how these can all stem from the most unlikely of places.
I did a thing! After a two/three year hiatus, I'm back on the Jily train with this wee little plot bunny. Read chapter 1 here.
Life has really decided to choose me as its personal punching bag this week, but I truly hope I can get the next chapter for this by the end of tomorrow.
Lily Evans had been stuck working a dead-end job at the Cokeworth Herald for six years when she was suddenly offered the role of a lifetime — Travel Editor at The Quibbler, London's most prestigious biweekly. Except for her, it's not the role of a lifetime. She never wanted to be a travel writer, nor is she very good at it. And worst of all, she's stuck travelling the world with the infamously pigheaded James Potter. What follows is a story of love and prejudice and personal growth — and how these can all stem from the most unlikely of places.
I did a thing! After a two/three year hiatus, I'm back on the Jily train with this wee little plot bunny. Read chapter 1 here.
WIP tag game
Tagged by @annabtg! Thank you so much, Anna. I thought this would be an excellent way to kickstart a more involved return to the wonderful July community.
How many WIPs/main WIPs do you have?
Hmm, let's count shall we. I haven't had a look in an awful long time.
The Other Half of the Sky (remaining chapters)
A Cat Called September
Practical Magic (working title)
A Well-Spoken Woman
The Inconstant Stars (working title)
The Man in the Yellow Boots (working title)
Lilacs of the Dead Land
So, 7? There's very likely more than that too, but those are the ones I've flitted between recently.
Which WIP have you done the most on?
Probably The Other Half of the Sky, but that's been part of a very slow stop-start process. A Well-Spoken Woman and A Cat Called September are probably closer to actually being finished.
Which WIP do you dislike the most?
The Other Half of the Sky definitely has the most flaws. Both in terms of what's already out there (can you say waffle?), as well as in terms of the tightness of the plot. That said, some parts of it I absolutely adore — and we haven't even got to those parts yet! I also have a love-hate relationship with Practical Magic, because it sort of wants to become a country house novel, and I just never thought I'd be writing one of those.
Which WIP do you like the most?
I think The Inconstant Stars has the capacity to be really something quite beautiful.
How many of these WIPs have you "stopped working on"?
None of them and all of them at the same time. I think most people would say The Other Half of the Sky though.
If you had to keep working on one WIP, which one?
Hmmm. Well, if I could work out all the kinks and get my mojo back, I'd say The Other Half of the Sky. But, for ease and sanity, maybe A Well-Spoken Woman, because that's almost done really.
Tagging... I have absolutely no idea who's still active. Um, tag yourselves?
Seen someone say sirius black would love chatgpt and a part of me died because WHAT are you talking about
sirius black would burn down an AI server farm
