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Happy birthday legend!!! 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

Thank you!!! 🫶

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Hi suze, I been thanken... what are CT James and Lily's moon signs? Been very very curious about this since my epic reread!

now bear in mind that i made these charts two years ago so while i had my reasons and stand by them, i don’t remember what they WERE… james is an aries moon & lily a pisces!

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NUMBER FOUR:

"In the process, James’s gaze flicked up to meet Lily’s, and she felt it with the force of a physical blow. He looked incandescent — or perhaps he was always lit from within like so, rising and falling, crackling and subsiding, like a fire in the hearth. Something like home."

😭😭😭😭😭😭

NUMBER FIVE:

"Lily noticed now how Sirius rarely spoke in such straightforward absolutes…but somehow he did when it came to James, as if his friend was so solid, so sure, that he changed the shape of Sirius’s language. Even talking about James seemed to bring his easy confidence into the room, like a breeze."

Maybe an underrated line but shit this means so much to me.

i DID really like that last line when i wrote it ahhhhh :""")

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NUMBER TWO:

"He shrugged, looked away, rubbing the back of his neck with one hand. “I think I’d like to live someplace where caring is easy.”

Ughhhhhghghhhhh 💛💔

NUMBER THREE:

'She squeezed Bet’s hand tight enough to silence her. “You don’t get it. Anyone in here could fall in love with him.”

Her gaze swept across the whole of the dance area, the boys in tight trousers and the girls in torn stockings and the soundless movement of their mouths along with the song. And no longer did they seem to be in their own separate worlds. They were all in this one, their breaths in time with hers, their smiles the same as the one she wore. Lily could have believed — and she did, she did believe, with all the fervour she could muster — that they all thought of James Potter just as she did then, just as she had been all night. She thought of him even when she wasn’t thinking of him.

They all exhaled her soft little laugh; they all thought his name, or perhaps murmured it, the whisper passing through the crowd like the wind amidst trees. Maybe they all loved him, or hers was enough for all of them.'

This like, love is bigger than me love isn't individual it's communal it's generous it goes outward not inward -- SUZE. It's hard to pick just one thing that makes CT the best Jily fic of all time, but its ethic must surely be up there!

AHHHHHHH!!! AHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! theres no way i can adequately or eloquently respond to this so please just assume i'm screaming and yelling!!!!!

what line or passage from my fic do you remember me by?

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Tumblr won't let me copypaste all of CT in here :'''( sniff. So I narrowed it down to five, and some of them are really long?? Sorry I guess???? Many moons have passed yet still I cannot help but adoringly spam you 😇

NUMBER 1:

“Audentes fortuna iuvat. Yet another Hogwarts mystery,” Lily said, smiling wryly at him over her shoulder as she tried to go through the portrait hole.

Tried being the operative word; she missed the step, because— Well, no, not because… It simply just so happened that at the moment she turned to smile at James, he was in the middle of running a hand through his hair. That was hardly the cause of what came next — which was this.

Lily missed the step and stumbled, letting out a yelp, and would have flailed her way to the stone floor if not for James, who grabbed her arm and hauled her upright once more. She cleared her throat and backed away from him as soon as she’d regained her balance, only to nearly lose it again by bumping up against the same blasted step. My life is a joke, she thought with quiet desperation.

“Second time,” James said, seeming quite rattled himself. At her quizzical look (she’d managed to walk through the portrait hole without any further disasters, and he followed) he added, “That’s the second time you’ve tripped on something in front of me in the past few weeks.”

Gaaaawd I still remember how I felt reading this for the first time, the work that this scene did 😤😤😤😧😧😧

excuse MEEEE your adoring spam is life and living to me! i cannot believe you picked FIVE i feel so very appreciated and honestly i might hang on to the other four just to gaze upon them lovingly :"""""")

what line or passage from my fic do you remember me by?

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@ecthelionstrife​ on your own head (and pride!) be it...

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SUZE I'M -

😵😵😵😵😵😵😵😵😵 how am I only just SEEING THIS I'M IN HOT SWEATS - 😤😤😤😤😤

HAHAHHAAHAH there was much discussion in the ct discord about if this was

1. because they kiss

2. because i want you all to think they kiss and it’s a double bluff

3. because i want you to think it’s a double bluff but actually they kiss

4. because i want you all to—

and so on. enjoy speculating

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@sunshine-marauders @ecthelionstrife no…. unless…. no…. UNLESSS