None Of This Nonsense, Please

writer of lots of kissing, nibbler of croissants. jily 🫶 pjo renaissance ✨ jewish, she/her. TERFs begone, fuck JKR!

[theesteemedladydebourgh]

latest updates

- magnolia ch. 3 'anger' (ao3)

- the first time divorcees club ch. 8 'June I: in and out of focus' (ao3 + playlist)

- everyone but you (ao3)

- vermillion and firecrackers (ao3)

AO3 account // FFN account

Full masterlist below!

Magnolia

Rating: E Exploding Ministry memos and one or two requisite dragons and cursed magical objects. Old school romances with a dash of new workplace flirtation. James Potter and Lily Evans may have missed each other the first time around…but not this time, if Ministry regulations have anything to say about it. The jily-didn't-date-at-Hogwarts-AU + Unspeakable! Lily and Auror!James. WIP (currently 2/9 chapters, 9,179 words)

Everyone but You

Rating: M

“If I have to spend one more minute with your stupid face I’m going to—” “Fall in love with me?” Part-time bartender, full-time oncoming trainwreck Lily Evans sleeps with famous actor James Potter. Love (?) and shenanigans ensue. (Starstruck AU). 

Complete (1/1 chapters, 15,458 words)

Vermillion and Firecrackers

Rating: M (violence and brief smut)

War is a tale of despair, but also of hope. (Lily and James, across the war years 1978-1979). Complete (1/1 chapters, 15,441 words)

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The First Time Divorcees Club

Rating: E (language and smut)

“We should start a club.”

“Of what, failed relationships and questionable life choices?”

One’s in love. One’s in denial. 12 months of marriage, go. [sequel to Jingle—Holy F*ck] WIP (currently 8/17 chapters, 234,980 words)

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but what if i told you i loved you in october 

Rating: M 

It’s an odd story, how Lily buys a house with her illustrator. 

London, 6 Years Ago. Lily Evans is the rising star on the bestseller list with her new acclaimed murder mystery series. If only the public knew that she was on the verge of a mental and financial breakdown four months before. And if only her newfound business partner, the infuriatingly gifted, Cambridge-educated artist, James Potter, who is now inextricably linked to her success, didn’t know so much. 

Normandy, The Summer Of. She’s in love with her best friend. It is both less of and more of a problem than it should be. 

 WIP. COMING AT SOME POINT.

witness me, like fire weeping from a cedar tree

Rating: T (language, some violence)

It’s the summers of roses and falling for the sun. Some things are different. Some things are the same. The chosen ones of the gods are molten gold, in every lifetime. Blistering, burning, trickling from the cupped palm of someone else’s will, to be molded and hardened in freezing water into a cast. A weapon, a blade, something that aims true. Even the beautiful things are sharp. But what happens when the droplets of gold spill into water…and shape something hollow?

(what if jily were percabeth and the world was breaking a little bit).

WIP (currently 1/2 chapters, 18,263 words)

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dear lily evans...i love you

Rating: T

1978, without the war. Lily Evans and the soft, uncertain stumble towards love. James Potter, who fell long ago. Winter. Summer. I love you. WIP (currently 1/2 chapters, 11,591 words)

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to love, softly

Rating: E (language and smut)

1439 days. Carnival lights. Sea breezes. Summers spent together, summers spent apart. To the lover that got away. Childhood-friends-to-lovers. Normal People AU. WIP (currently 3/9 chapters, 29,737 words)

playlist || moodboards

When You Kiss Me

Rating: M (smut)

they’re seeing each other, but they’re not. they’re friends, but they’re definitely more. the falling is not so hard, amongst all of that. summer of jily prompt #3. Complete (1/1 chapters, 3,624 words)

we should just kiss like real people do

Rating: T

acceptance and the lack of it. certainty and the lack of it. love and the lack of it. love and the tender inevitability of it all. (a character study in one shade of lily evans) bi!lily fic with lots of pining. Complete (1/1 chapters, 7,404 words)

romancing the miscommunication line (or, don’t you know what they say?)

Rating: M (language)

misplaced text messages and drunken flirting. in-depth discussions about the proper sort of erotica and when or when not it is appropriate to send it to football stars. Complete (1/1 chapters, 5,887 words)

take a quest, pull a witch…or something

Rating: T

Lily is a witch. James isn’t. A great deal of trouble stems from that fact.

 Complete (1/1 chapters, 11,543 words) 

Jingle—Holy F*ck

Rating: E (language and smut)

Lily Evans and James Potter fell in love, broke apart and graduated Hogwarts. Ten years later, one failed engagement (her), a prestigious career as an Auror (him), and a diverted flight that lands them both in the middle of Muggle Ireland right before Christmas might be the thing to bring them back together. An unreliable car is procured, emotional baggage is tossed in the boot, snow is forecast and it’s jingle all the—oh look, a detour. Complete (24/24 chapters, 131,764 words)

teaser || playlist || moodboards by the lovely, incredible @raissassampaio​

​Love Is Complicated

Rating: M (suggestive language)

Three years. Longing. Academic shenanigans in Egypt. Almost-kisses. A snowed-in office on Christmas Eve. Or, the one time James Potter’s (who is not Indiana Jones, no matter what he thinks) spur of the moment passion quest isn’t for an ancient artifact. [Potterverse Gift Exchange 202] Complete (1/1 chapters, 12,186 words)

new year's eve don't fuck around

Rating: E (language, drinking and smut)

Sparkly dresses. Champagne fountains. Kissing. All this and more at Sirius’s Black’s annual themed New Year’s Eve party! Complete (1/1 chapters, 9,843 words) [December Jily Challenge]

this love left a permanent mark

Rating: M (language, drinking and minor smut)

In early January, James contemplates letter writing, love, and the past. [companion to Jingle—Holy F*ck & The First Time Divorcees Club] Complete (1/1 chapters, 7,082 words)

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Good Old Fashioned Love Letters

Rating: M (language, drinking, smut)

Summer in Diagon Alley is hot and the tension between Lily and her flatmate’s aggravating brother is hotter. Smutty/funny modern AU. Complete (7/7 chapters, 96,854 words)

playlist || the months after

The Tale of You & I

Rating: M (language and smut)

Museum Curator!James meets faerie land of Elfhame escapee!Lily in Florence, Italy. Forbidden romance and magic ensues. Faerie AU. WIP (currently 3/5 chapters, 34,200 words)

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The Last Sad Love Story Ever Told

Rating: T

1971 to 1981. It was aggravating, it was heartbreaking, it was messy, it was hilarious, it was imperfect and somewhere along the way, Lily Evans and James Potter fell in love. [a collection of chronological drabbles for Jilytober Fest 2021 Bingo + 31 Prompts] WIP (currently 9/17 chapters, 6,410 words)

When We Lost One Another

Rating: E (language and smut)

At seventeen, Lily fell in love in secret. At eighteen, she said no to a marriage proposal from a man she loved. At nineteen, things that were always meant to be come back together. (How Lily and James fought a war, lost each other, and fell in love a second-first time). [Jilytober Fest 2021 Bittersweet Challenge] Complete (1/1 chapters, 19,006 words)

I Want It to Be Us in the End

Rating: M (language and smut)

"You sneak out the window and into my arms Tell me where we’re going baby" // London, 1979. West End actors and former classmates James Potter and Lily Evans enter into a secret love affair. Complete (2/2 chapters, 22,932 words

[theesteemedladydebourgh]

Hi!!! I just binged Jingle F**** and realized it had a follow up book that is still in progress. Is The First Time Divorcees Club abandoned or do you think you will pick it up again? It's such a fun story and the first one ended on such a cliff hanger with them having to live together!!

It's still in progress! I've got most of the next chapter written, there's just some pretty substantial final scenes at the end left to write and my life is so busy that I haven't had the time.

But I will definitely update once I've got time to finish it!

[blvnk-art]

The way he's always so careful, so nervous around her.

[blvnk-art]

When Lily noticed James was quite a gentleman before snogging her.

(I think it's been like 2 years since I've drawn a comic, I hope you guys enjoy!)

[theesteemedladydebourgh]

reading your latest post mentioning the floor plan of a flat in camden just brought this home to me - in 2021 i had freshly graduated uni and jumped straight into a masters degree and was young and anxious and your fics were a source of so much joy and sunshine in that summer of uncertainty (good old fashioned love letters is my favourite all time fic ever) and i've lived in london for a fews year now and i carried the world you painted so vividly with me in a way that made my transition out of uni and into adult life a year later so much easier so anyway this is just a little note to say thank you, i love your writing, your james and lily are my favourites and even if you don't finish it, the new girl fic sounds incredible and i look forward to reading however much you do write!

anon this is the sweetest message I've ever received! I'm so touched that my writing helped you at a difficult time (it has certainly done the same for me, by writing it). I so hope your life only holds lovely, hopeful things for you going forward 💗💗💗

I am so endlessly humbled that so many readers are still around when I haven't been very active for the last few years, and I want you all to know I appreciate all of you ❤️

[theesteemedladydebourgh]

OKAY so I don't know if I will be able to finish this but I've suddenly got 2k of a New Girl-adjacent hookup fic written for Jily Week???

The plot is smut and what if Jily were simultaneously Nick/Jess + Cece/Schmidt and I'm gonna be honest that's about the extent of it. Also James wears a suit. That's important.

[theesteemedladydebourgh]

my love @ghostofbambifanfiction sourced an actual Rightmove listing for a loft in Camden including a floor plan (!) to plot where James and Lily's rooms are in relation to each other, which has produced a riff on the Jess and Nick angry make out/fish tank scene in 2x19 so if this gets written it's 100% because of her 🙌

[theesteemedladydebourgh]

OKAY so I don't know if I will be able to finish this but I've suddenly got 2k of a New Girl-adjacent hookup fic written for Jily Week???

The plot is smut and what if Jily were simultaneously Nick/Jess + Cece/Schmidt and I'm gonna be honest that's about the extent of it. Also James wears a suit. That's important.

[sunshinemarauder]

Announcing... JILY WEEK 2026! 🌟🌟🌟

Kelsey ( @kay-elle-cee ) and I are thrilled to host Jily Week for the third year in a row. After being treated to 80+ creations each of the past two years, we can’t wait to see what all of you talented people will come up with this year. GET EXCITED for the week of August 17th to 23rd!!

To participate, post a creative work corresponding to the daily prompt – fanfiction, fanart, playlists, metas, moodboards, etc. – anything goes! You can participate in as few or as many days as possible, but we challenge everyone to try and create something for every prompt, even if it's only a hundred-word drabble or a 5-minute sketch! Don't stress about meeting the exact prompt or the deadline - the most important thing is to have fun with it!

Remember to tag your works with #jily week 2026, mention @sunshinemarauder and @kay-elle-cee, and add any fic you write to the Jily Week 2026 AO3 Collection.

🌟 PROMPTS:

☀️ Day 1 – 17th of August – Mistaken Identity

Or: when the road to love is obscured by mistaken identities. Secret superhero identities, masquerades, love squares, or wrong numbers can complicate things… but don’t worry, they’ll get there eventually.

☀️ Day 2 – 18th of August – Star Power

Romance is hard as it is, but it can get even more complicated when you’re in the limelight. Put one or both of our favorites in the public eye, and you get a recipe for delicious fanfiction. Make ’em celebs, actors, royals, athletes – anything goes!

☀️ Day 3 – 19th of August – Break Up / Make Up

You’ve heard of Angst vs Fluff – now get ready for Break Up / Make Up. Choose your fighter: break hearts or put them back together?

☀️ Day 4 – 20th of August – Mythos

Whether you choose to modernize your favorite myth or place James and Lily on Mt. Olympus, this is the perfect time to pull out all the obscure folkloric trivia we know you’ve been waiting to put in a story. (Percy Jackson crossovers WELCOMED.)

☀️ Day 5 – 21st of August – Damned to Detention

We all know the Marauders spent much of their Hogwarts years in and out of detention. Though Lily may have been a Prefect, she wasn’t so removed from their antics. Who’s the unlucky one this time?

☀️ Day 6 – 22nd of August – And There Was Only One Bed

You know it — a trope as old as time and a forever favorite.

☀️ Day 7 – 23rd of August – Write a Fic Rec

There’s a wealth of fantastic Jily works out and about. Take a moment to shine the spotlight upon a current fav/recent read/comfort fanfiction. Write the recommendation the author deserves and introduce it to a new audience!

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Feel free to message either of us or drop an ask if you have questions! 🌟

Now let’s run it back...

[ghostofbambifanfiction]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[theesteemedladydebourgh]

woooooooooo🥵🥹😭😭😍😍 (my emotions reading this chapter)

[blvnk-art]

Lily and Harry.

[theesteemedladydebourgh]

heyy have you abandoned magnolia?

Nope! None of my fics are abandoned, writing is just slow and hard.

[pomegranatefae]

You disassemble John? You disassemble John for eating peanuts and also doing countless atrocities? Oh! Oh! Disintegration for Mercymorn! Disintegration for ten thousand years!

[annabelle--cane]

if none houses with left grief has no fans I am dead. if the world is against none houses with left grief then I am against the world. she studied the blade? I could take it or leave it. you can't just ask someone why they want to become a lyctor? I would nuke it from the timeline and all human consciousness if I could. none houses with left grief? I will defend her until my dying day. my #1 stupid as all fuck hill to die on.

[sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog]

As recently as 1890, more people in the U.S. died of tuberculosis each year than died of heart disease and cancer COMBINED.

The idea of heart disease and cancer being leading causes of death is younger than Dr Pepper or Maxwell House.

Scientific discovery has utterly transformed the world in which we live, increasing life expectancy and alleviating suffering. It's the greatest success in human history. Failing to share these innovations with all humans is the greatest failure in human history.

[april]

women are like diamonds: synthetically-produced women are not meaningfully different from naturally-formed women, and anyone trying to tell you otherwise is probably trying to justify keeping their women mines open

[deerly-departed]

James vs Squid: Part 2 | [ Part 1 ]

[amezure]

Alysa Liu sketch! Her joy is super contagious!! 🥺💛