"Well, I’m sorry that I love you! I tried not to, but.”
Airplane meetings
🎶Every rock and every river. Every sore and every splinter. I would climb every mountain with you🎶 The Mountain Song- Tophouse
Complicated handshakes
“It is remarkably easy to buy an axe in Central London.”
Love confessions when the other is sleeping
🎶Nothing makes me happier than watching you win. Hey that’s something new, I was a selfish kid🎶 Jellyfish by Slowly, Slowly
Watching TV shows together
"I'll be the one in white."
Theatre plays!
🎶I'm a little pawn still in your game, And you ignore my advances, I turn my head and I look away, But I can't control my eyes around you🎶 Alright with me by Kris Allen
Prank wars!
“Stop laughing before I tell my joke!”
🎶I want to know your story, So make the story last, I want to know each twist and turn.🎶 A Thousand and One Nights by Twisted by Team Starkid
Loving you was blue 💙
🎶And if you remembered me, You could save me from the way I tend to be.🎶 The Way I Tend to Be by Frank Turner
Divination class
🎶would it be enough if I could never give you peace🎶 Peace by Taylor Swift
A little white lie
"Maybe we both die—probably—but maybe not. Maybe...maybe everything works out. And we end up somewhere else."
Fever dreams
🎶I know we only met but let's pretend it's love" Live while we're young by One Direction
Remote cabin
🎶and we watch the sunset over the castle on the hill🎶 Castle on the hill by Ed Sheeran"
Stomach summersaults
🎶Wars will never cease, is there time enough for peace🎶 Lily of the valley by Queen
Accidentally holding hands
“I'm totally, absolutely, not drunk at all!”
Truth, dares, spin the bottles
🎶So it's one for the chaos, And one for the craic, One for the kiss, I should not have done that🎶 Doodles by Rose Betts
Leaving a pumpkin on someone's doorstep after their party
So apparently round umpty-zillion of “people are killing fandom by not commenting” is going around, and I’ve seen a few posts trashing people for lurking/viewing/reading instead of actively participating.
My journal and my fic has always been a lurker-friendly zone. I think lurkers are great and people can fight me on this. Here’s why:
We all started out as lurkers. Or at least most of us did. Come on. I’m sure some people out there must’ve jumped into fandom with both feet and started writing and commenting right away, and good for you if you did! But I sure didn’t. I lurked for YEARS. And even now, though I’ve been in fandom since before Y2K, whenever I get into a new fandom or a new social media platform, I still lurk. I hang out around the fringes for awhile to get a feeling for the place before starting to participate. Back in the mailing list/bulletin board days, it was usually recommended that people do that on purpose, watch and listen and learn the local lingo and social rules before diving in. So you know what? You are not doing anything wrong and you are not doing anything that most of the people you see out there commenting and creating and reccing things haven’t done themselves.
We all have lurker days, weeks, months …. Nobody is 100% “on” all the time. Participating in fandom (commenting, reccing, creating content, and so forth) is WORK. It may be fun work, but it still takes effort! Even if you’re sometimes very active in fandom, then you’ll have life fall on your head or the brain weasels flare up, and you won’t have the time and energy to give. Don’t feel guilty about not being able to give fandom your extra spoons. No one in fandom has a right to demand a single spoon from you that you don’t want to give.
Some of today’s lurkers may be your friends tomorrow. How do I know this? Because I’ve made friends with some of them myself! I’ve had people delurk in my comments to say hi after YEARS of reading my fanfic without saying a word. Which I am totally okay with, by the way. And some of these people are good friends today.
So, in conclusion:
It is okay to feel too shy to come out of lurkerhood in fandom until you feel more comfortable there. It is fine, in fact, if you never do.
It is okay to be too busy and have too few spoons to comment or create stuff. You still have a perfect right to be in fandom and read and reblog whatever you want.
It is okay if you meant to comment on that fic or go back and press the kudos button but never got around to it.
It is okay if you have too many accounts already and don’t want to create a new one just to comment/participate on a social media platform.
It is okay if your personal situation (a stalker ex, controlling parents) makes it unsafe for you to create an account or comment on things.
It is okay if you can’t or don’t want to comment or do any of the other things that constitute non-lurkerhood, and you don’t owe anyone an explanation for why.
This post is a good way to balance a lot of the “COMMENT ON FIC COMMENT COMMENT COMMENT” stuff that I post here. Content creators will always be happy to receive comments, and comments do in fact breed more content but… sometimes you can’t, and you aren’t obligated to. It’s fine to passively enjoy content for whatever reason.
’He kept messing up his hair,’ said Harry in a pained voice.’ is maybe one of my fav lines jkr has ever written like Harry actually cannot deal with what a complete moron his father is
“Naturally. Never saw one without the other, did you? The number of times I had them in here ooh, they used to make me laugh. Quite the double act, Sirius Black and James Potter!”
I'm excited to announce that I have signed a book deal with Del Rey at Penguin Random House in the US and Michael Joseph in the UK for my debut novel, Alchemised, a standalone dark fantasy set in a war-torn world of necromancy and alchemy, in which a healer with amnesia is taken as a prisoner of war and must fight to protect her lost memories and the secrets hidden among them. It will grapple with themes of trauma and survival, legacy, and the way that love can drive one to extreme darkness, and it is, as you may be able to tell, a reimagined version of Manacled.
I know I’ve been rather quiet about my publishing journey, and a lot of that has been because I didn’t want to spark any concerns or worry that I might be abruptly taking away a story that is such a deep part of myself and that I know has meant so much to so many people. This process has unfolded very slowly and quietly because I have tried to be mindful as I could be in every step of the way.
As most of you know, I have been a reader in fandom long before I ever began to write. Fanfiction is incredibly special to me, and I have tried to do my best not to undermine its legal protection or allow my works to do so either. During the last several years, there has been a growing issue with illegal sales of Manacled, putting both me and the incredible community that shares fanfiction freely in legal jeopardy.
After consulting with the OTW as well as other lawyers, it has grown clear that as a transformative writer I have limited options in protecting my stories from this kind of exploitation, but I wasn’t sure what to do; I didn’t want to just take the story down, in part because I worried that might only exacerbate the issue, but I didn’t know what other options I had. Then I suddenly had this idea of alchemy, which was peculiarly appropriate; an academic world filled with unique transmutational abilities, and a necromantic war against people who had discovered the secrets of immortality, and I could see a path to reimagining the story while still holding on to as much of the original spirit of Manacled as possible.
I began redrafting the concept privately around Christmas 2022, and then as if the universe had aligned, just as I was finishing, Caitlin Mahony and Rivka Bergman of WME reached out to me and were delightfully enthusiastic about concepts and ideas for my new alchemical world and the ways I had reimagined the story.
I'm thrilled to be working with Emily Archbold, my visionary editor at Del Rey, along with Rebecca Hilsdon at Michael Joseph in the UK, to polish this novel for publication in Fall 2025. I feel uniquely privileged that both my publishing teams are familiar with Manacled and understand how special it is to so many people, and how important it is that this reimagining captures the same spirit while also having its own wings.
Manacled is not going anywhere at present. It will remain online throughout 2024, at which point it will, if you’ll pardon the pun, alchemise for 2025 and be removed from AO3.
I'm so thankful to all of you who've enjoyed my works, and I hope that I can continue to rely on your support as I take my next steps as an author.
i love mutual pining to lovers because it gives some of the vibes of a love triangle without the needless drama. alternatively it’s like a love triangle except the third person is just mutual stupidity.
Hello everyone, this is the official JilytobeFest collection!! You can add all the fics written for jilytober (even if they aren’t related to any of the fest’s events) in this collection.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
And the following is the collection for the masquerade! Please submit the fics for the masquerade by the 2nd! Thank you!!
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
And this one is the collection for the RomCom event:
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
The following tags for the fics can also be used JilytoberFest 2023 , Jilytober2023 , Jilytober
We all know James and Lily live a long happy life together but do you know how they met? Was it on the Hogwarts Express where one accidentally bumped the overhead luggage and caused it to drop on the other? Or was it because Lily wanted to know who lets their dog pee on her lovely Petunia that she keeps next to her door and waits to yell at him as he went about his morning routine? Who knows? Who will tell? And just so everyone can know the different answers to the above question, this year’s theme for jilytober fest is…🥁🥁🥁🥁 ‘MEET CUTES/UGLIES!’
Disclaimer: this post is a lil’ long
Bittersweet
We all know honey gets sweeter when you stir it up, but can you make it bitter too? What happens when we give you a fluff prompt but ask you to give us angst? We get bittersweet jily, addictive and delicious. Oh and how about when you turn our angsty prompt into sweet nothings and sugar coated love declarations? Absolute delight! Come ask for your prompt and twist it to your flavour
The participants will be given a fluff prompt which should be interpreted as angst. And vice versa. Those interested in participating in this challenge can send an ask, and a prompt will be assigned to you! (Yes, both writers and artists can participate 🥰). There is no deadline to register for this event.
Masquerade challenge
Are you as good as a Marauder at detective work? Can you sniff an authors tells at the poker table? Can you sense the writer before the end of the story? Can you tell which James loves Lily the most? If you think you can come have a guess 😉
A few writers will write and anonymously submit their fics to the challenge collection (will be posted soon). Readers have to match the fics to the writers. The options for authors will be given via a tumblr poll. Everyone is encouraged to participate :)
To be a writer, send an ask saying that you wish to participate by the 20th of September (so that you get enough time to write)
Jily sprinkle moments!
At the beginning of each week, 5 one word prompts will be posted. They can all be connected together to make one fic, or as many as one wants. There is no limit! Go grab that jily moment and put it in <<101 words! (If inspiration strikes, feel free to go crazy) Everyone is encouraged to participate! (Artworks, fics, moodboards, playlists—anything can be made). Do tag this blog and @jilymicrofics so that your works can be reblogged
Readers Bingo!
We’ve been spoilt with so manyyyy jily fics this year, were you able to keep up?? If you were, you will rock the bingo weekends this year!
The official bingo templates will be posted every Friday at 12AM GMT and to win it, one would have to get a bingo by Monday 12 AM GMT. This year, we will have 4 bingos (🎉🎉) for each category— general audiences (6th-8th), teen and up(13th-15th), mature(20th-22nd), explicit(27th-29th). Every single person in the fandom is encouraged to participate :)
Whoever finishes the bingo first, each week, wins! They should also post a photo of their finished template on Tumblr and tag this blog. Each winner has the chance to win a bonus of eternal fame (in the author’s minds) and love ♥️♥️ if they have left a comment, as well as have read the fic :)
The JilyExpress - A collaborative fic writing event
All ready to start and head straight to Hogwarts is the Jily expressway 🚂🛤️🚇 so…
Get your ticket through this form before 20th September. Everybody is welcome! (All readers, artists, writers)
The fest mod will start a story on 1st October - It shall only be 1-3 (complete!) sentences and no more.
The next person on the list will continue the story the next day, 2nd October, by writing 1-3 more (complete!) sentences. This continues till the 31st of October when a complete fic, with all the authors credited, will be released on ao3. Based on the number of sign ups, the order and the number of times each author gets to write will be decided and announced in a later post
The writers are to post their lines as a reblog chain with proper tagging (the jily express and @jilytoberfest ) and numbering (date). In case you want your sentence to be anonymous, you can send an ask to this blog after the person before you has posted their sentence, and we would post yours!
First years and Heads of Houses (readers, artists and writers) all can get tickets (since it’s only max 3 sentences) so, hop on, enjoy the fun ride to make sure James and Lily arrive at their destination (happily ever after) safely
ROMCOM event
Ever wanted to combine your favourite rom com with your favourite couple? Here’s your chance, because James and Lily are just a boy and a girl standing in front of an audience asking them to write their love story
And that’s what we’ll do! If you have any romcom books/movies you’d like to recommend, please mention it in the comments of this post! A post with the entire list of movies/books will be released by the 5th! You can choose which movie/book to write as jily in the comments/reblogs of that post!
31Prompts!!
31 prompts for 31 days is back again this year with even more exciting prompts for all! P.S. we now also have lyrical prompts included in the list
The prompts will be posted tomorrow!
And lastly, for the very first time… SURPRISE EVENT!
I think most of you will love this one 🤞🏼🤞🏼. I’m hoping everyone participates in this (yes, readers included). The details will only be revealed on the 29th October, so stay tuned!
Hi so Besides Ginny, do you have any other favorite Weasley?
I could write a love letter to every single Weasley. Not just a crappy little “I Heart You” Valentine– a full-on, Darcy-worthy, three-page letter in calligraphy with a wax seal fastening the back.
Even Percy. I also owe him an apology because I keep cutting his best lines in my WIP.
However, about fifteen minutes ago I fell into another subtle Molly-bashing fic. She’s on my mind this morning, so let me throw some love her way.
If you start to think about it, the Weasley kids are accomplished. Smart, funny, capable. Also, consider that none of them (save the twins, but that’s an entirely different subject) have the same interests, the same passions, the same temperament. That doesn’t happen in spite of parenting, it happens because of it. Despite the fanon idea that Molly Weasley is controlling, the fact that her children follow their passions, are brave enough to forge their way forward (and yet, still visit all the time) would seem to indicate that Molly Weasley allows her children the room to grow, discover and be themselves.
She does, though, have boundaries and they tend to revolve around safety. Not a woman who is freaking out about every scraped knee, though. She’s got perspective: here’s a woman who lost her two brothers in a war – her concept of loss is not theoretical, she knows it, she lives it – there are Gideon and Fabian shaped holes in her family, and if she pushes back on the idea of her teenagers being in a war, or doesn’t want them listening to Order meetings, that’s why.
The saddest thing (and most unappreciated) about motherhood is if you do it right, your kids are independent, strong, responsible and they don’t need you anymore. Good grief, the whole job is to make yourself redundant in the end. She’s done that. Her kids take for granted her way of providing safety: home, hearth, a good meal, a laugh, a shelter in a storm.
And that’s okay – it’s the way it’s supposed to be.
Except for Harry. Here comes this kid who needs Molly Weasley’s particular kind of love language so desperately- he recognizes it for love, he sees its value. At a time in her life when her kids are pulling away – as they are supposed to – in comes a kid who needs a Molly Weasley in his life. What her kids see as fussing or hovering, Harry sees as love.
Harry’s as much a gift to Molly as she is to him. Harry gives Molly an “I see you, I value you, what you do and how you do it is important.” He doesn’t even have to say it, he just thrives under her care, she can see. Of course she’s going to stuff him full of treacle tart, made especially because he likes it.
OF all the truths @fizzyginfizz has dropped in her impeccable writing, nothing has ever resonated with me as much as this:
The saddest thing (and most unappreciated) about motherhood is if you do it right, your kids are independent, strong, responsible and they don’t need you anymore.
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