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please please please does ANYONE have longgggg jily fic recs????????? I have read atyd so it’s lowk ok if it’s just in the background as long as the fic is good I’ve also read the last enemy which was like amazing the characterizations were perfect so please anyone?
"That’s cheating!” cried Remus.
“Well, you kicked me!”
“You tackled me first! Honestly, if I wasn’t a werewolf, I’d bite you, you — mmmnnph!”
Sirius had nonchalantly placed a hand over Remus’s mouth. “So,” he said to James, “I believe we were investigating the cuddliness of werewolves?”
“Indeed we were.”
“Trial three?”
“Mmmmnph!” said Remus.
TLE1
Just imagining what they were going to do to him in trial 3 warms my heart... xD I love, love, love these marauders moments! The way Sirius said he knew the werewolfs are immensely cuddly ..is too much! Arghh the subtle wolfstar is my serotonine!
P.d. I hope Sirius realizes soon that even though he hardly likes physical contact, he loves touching Remus.
Mandatory congratulations for finishing TLE2, but my heart is still stuck with TLE1 because of the way you dealt with SWM and the willow tree prank. So seamless! So natural! So in character! My itch has finally been scratched! These events are so pivotal to the central characters, and fans discuss them endlessly reaching dead ends and grossly distorting it - because SWM puts James in too bad of a light, how can he possibly be likeable after? How can he morally bounce back from that? How can we forgive Remus for being so much of a coward? Most people choose to deny everything, but you found the answers! You tied it all together! The willow prank leaves so many loose ends - did Snape know, did he suspect? Why did he go? What did he expect? And once again, you wrapped it all up beautifully, put a ribbon on top and gave it to us.
I appreciate this so much, thank you ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
just me sliding into your inbox to shout about you and tle (per the ushe). one of my favorite things about fanfic is being able to read stories as they are posted. there is anticipation and theorizing all within a community. we're social creatures and I think we're meant to share the experiences of consuming media together (anyway I digress). but I think in some ways reading a story a chapter or two at a time takes away from the magnitude of what is accomplished.
rereading TLE from howling nights to the latest dark marks chapter was a joyful reminder of this fact. and in case you aren't told enough, you are absolutely incredible! it's hard enough to tell a cohesive multichapter story in one or two POV, but you juggle several while keeping the narrative flowing and immersing readers in the world. you never miss! Sirius is Sirius every time. snivvy is his slimy self every time!
anyway, like I said, I think this can sometimes get lost in the world of fic, so I wanted to remind you (and I'm sure others would agree). thanks for sharing your gift with us ❤️
PS Acorn Nut Still Slaps
🥺🥺🥺
Why are you the nicest person on the planet? I have been clawing my way out of a “wahhh everything I write is garbage” slump, so I so appreciate this, and I so appreciate you. 😭
Thank you for being the loveliest friend ❤️❤️❤️
ps - true, but also: acorn nut should still be slapped
Ok so the whole reason I was avoiding reading The Last Enemy series was because of the length but I just read An Unexpected Attraction, which was 97 chapters and absolutely destroyed me, so that’s no longer valid.
Sooooooo here I go!
I was procrastinating my procrastination so I drew a little Alodie doodle and I’m weirdly fond of it 🙃
Wait I completely missed the detail about Sirius rescuing Reg from Bellatrix trying to drown him! That makes it all so much more heartbreaking omg. Which chapter was that detail in? Clearly I’m overdue a reread!
It’s from TLE1, Chapter 28: The Heir and The Spare. 🤭
(One of my personal fave chapters, actually.)
“Do you really think you’re so secure in your inheritance?” Bellatrix asked softly, picking up a razor and gently trailing her fingers along its blade. “Do you really think they’ll let you — you, the blood traitor — become the heir of the Black fortune?”
“Going to kill me, Bella?”
His cousin set the razor down and turned to face him, that twisted smile back on her face. She leaned casually against the ceramic sink. “You’re not the only male heir available to us, wittle cousin. You’d do well to remember that.” Then she sighed. “How time has changed us. Do you remember what fun we used to have, when we were children? You…me…and little Reggie.”
And with that, she left.
Sirius simmered in the tub, trying not to let her get to him, trying to dam up the deluge of memories threatening his mind. With a grunt of frustration, he submerged himself in the bath. Images flooded him.
Regulus in the tub, underwater, spluttering, spitting, struggling…
“Stop!” Sirius cried. “What are you doing?”
“Why,” said Bella with her schoolgirl plaits and her twisted smile, “it’s a baptism.”
Sirius bolted up, spraying water across the green-tiled floor, coughing, choking on the memory. He pulled his knees to his chest and buried his face in his palms.
“And if you don’t help me, baby cousin, you’re next…”
I was wondering how Remus’ career advice meeting with McGonagall went in tle1? Was it anything like Lily’s? Or was there nothing McGonagall could say to sugar-coat it? I imagine Remus must’ve gone in there with zero expectations
Early on in my TLE1 draft, I had that chapter from McG’s POV. I eventually decided I didn’t want to do a one-off POV chapter and that inserting the professors’ POV kind of undermined the general vibe of the story, but at one point I had a rough outline of everyone’s career advice. Of course I can’t find it now. 😩
Anyway, yeah, Remus basically went in like “ha ha ok we both know this a waste of everyone’s time” and McG went into like “I am going to treat him like any other student and discuss his interests and aspirations” and because Remus is a people pleaser he played along and he left feeling utterly devastated but like he couldn’t actually talk to anyone about it.
The only part of this that ended up in the final draft was a brief little observation from Sirius, returning from his own less-than-satisfactory career advice meeting:
Sirius slumped into an armchair with a dramatic heave. “Well, let’s see: Me and Minnie had a real heart-to-heart, and after a rousing hour of deliberation, we concluded that my true path lies in Himalayan Hinkypunk herding.”
Remus glanced up from the book he was reading. “Do they have Hinkypunks in the Himalayas?”
“Search me,” said Sirius.
“Hm.” Remus went back to his book. He was the only one who had shown no interest in the career pamphlets, undoubtedly because he felt his career prospects were severely curtailed by his ‘furry little problem,’ as James would call it. Sirius felt a surge of affection for the boy werewolf.
“This is all a big waste of time anyway,” said Sirius.
There was a lot of secret emotion behind that “hm.” 😂
This is part of a larger theme in TLE of McG not quite getting it, but that’s another subject 🙃
