Can I say i'll be fine, i'll be good for this one too? I'm not sure if I'm allowed to since I've already answered it for some others.
NO YOU KNOW WHAT?
it's (always) you! Having to come up with 31 different meet cute universes for an entire month was a CHALLENGE, and I knew that going into it. I had a lot of fun trying to figure out how James and Lily would meet in every universe and while not all of them are winners, I'm both really glad I challenged myself, and I'm happy with how the collection turned out!
ooh it’s something I haven’t started on at ALL but I’ve thought about it enough to make a doc😂
Basically, a canon compliant fic of a conversation that takes place in Grimmauld Places during OotP, between Harry and Sirius, about their similarities. The families they had to grow up with and how parents should love their children and how James and Lily loved him and would’ve loved him so much 😭 and how it wasn’t ever meant to be like this. Their lives were stolen from them 😭😩
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I would love to hear your director's commentary on the "I can’t just pretend that I don’t feel this way anymore"/"can you try?" part of ibfibg!! I think you probably have Things To Say about that!
Ahhhh Cam! Thank you so much for this ask, you are absolutely RIGHT! Putting it under the cut for spoilers :)
Ask me for director's commentary on any fic scene!
So I always knew this scene would happen in my outline—James confessing his feelings while Lily was losing herself in a breakdown—but other than the initial "You matter to me" line leading into an "I love you", and the fact that Lily would be too scared and overwhelmed to properly respond, THAT exchange came in the moment when I was writing.
It was important to me to make Lily respond almost dismissively at first (James' "Don't laugh" when she laughs at her mattering to him breaks my HEART), and then kind of get swallowed up by her own desperation as James became more and more insistent of his feelings. Because of course James is going to double down when the girl he loves doesn't think she's worth anything!
And James' confession (because it's a confession—you can tell it pains him to do it, that he knows she doesn't want to hear it) just barrels out of him, unprompted, and she's just standing there panicking.
And for awhile I had "I love you"/"Can you try not to?" but I just didn't gel with it. I think it's something with the framing of his feelings and Lily's response (I hope this makes sense). In this original example, Lily's response is more asking him to repress something, vs the addition of him justifying his love with "I can’t just pretend that I don’t feel this way anymore" and Lily's "Can you try?" almost having an edge of hopefulness that he can refute the feelings and do better than her (and thus save himself from the pain their demise).
And James picks up on this immediately and tries to tell her she deserves better than she's used to getting and he's going to be the one to stay and prove it to her...and then it devolves into a heavily charged classic James/Lily back and forth because that's something that's comfortable to them, even if there's this intense current underwriting that argument.
But then James falters and tries to turn the conversation back to sincerity and Lily knows if she hears him say anything kind to her again she's at a point where she might not be strong enough to resist so she just acts. Emotions are so high and honestly I go back and forth between whether James knew this was her coping or if he thought this was her way of responding to his words in kind without having to say it back. (Would love to hear how people interpreted it!)
Whatever it was, he definitely didn't expect her to leave afterwards. But I'm a devious angst-maniac so 🤌🏼 ✌🏼
Thank you again! This is one of my favorite scenes I've ever written 🥰
22. What is your most-played artist of the year so far?
A little tricky to tell, but my guess would be Taylor Swift since I was obsessively listening to her entire discography to prepare for any possible surprise songs earlier this year before my Eras date 😂. But after that probably Paramore (new album) or The Sonder Bombs (fic playlist).
I'm curious about "but if the story’s over why am I still writing pages?" for the wip game!
Thank you for the ask!
So this is a 7th year breakup/secret relationship/makeup fic that I’ve posted several snippets about (a roundup of those here). I wrote a little something for Jilytober last year and it’s grown and I’ve had fun plotting it out! Excited to dive into the angst when I get back into this doc!
A little snippet I don’t think I’ve posted.
She missed him. She was allowed to miss him, even if all of this was her doing in the first place, right?
