trying on a metaphor
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PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
Aqua Utopia｜海の底で記憶を紡ぐ
Cosimo Galluzzi
wallacepolsom
we're not kids anymore.
Not today Justin
Origami Around
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Sade Olutola
Kaledo Art
if i look back, i am lost
Alisa U Zemlji Chuda
One Nice Bug Per Day
JVL
occasionally subtle
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
I'd rather be in outer space 🛸
Three Goblin Art
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The dementors’ chill did not overcome him; he passed through it with his companions, and they acted like Patronuses to him, and together they marched through the old trees that grew closely together, their branches tangled, their roots gnarled and twisted underfoot.
Ac: @silveryones
oh nothing just thinking about sirius black finding james potter’s body on this night 43 years ago and being haunted by his ghost for the rest of his life with nothing but rage and grief and guilt to fuel him.
you know. the usual.
October 31st angst🪦
The idea of Sirius finding them and immediately breaking bc he’s just lost his soulmate- I’m unwell
jily fic recs
hello! i’m most definitely missing a lot of great jily fics but these are just some of my absolute favourites i could remember off the top of my head! i’m also linking some resources to find other really awesome fics that may not be listed in this post
@jilyfest
@jilyarchive
@fyeahjamesandlily
my ao3 bookmarks
my ffn profile (check the favourites tab!)
my jily fic tag
NOTE: It goes without saying but any other fic by the authors listed below is equally as amazing and you should definitely check them out! enjoy (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧
Canonverse
complete fics
Out Of Print by gpoy (under 5k, hogwarts fic)
Snaps by @itreallyatemyhand (under 5k, hogwarts fic)
Since We’ve No Place To Go by @padfootdidit (under 5k, christmas fic)
Pepper Up, Peppermint by @snapslikethis (under 10k, christmas fic)
Cricket Bats and Fireflies by @snapslikethis (under 50k, wizarding war fic)
Kiss and Tell by SunshineDaisiesWindmills (under 100k, hogwarts fic)
Boyfriend by @mollyraesly (over 100k, fake dating fic)
Love and Other Tragedies by Fancyeyes (over 100k, hogwarts fic)
Buried Treasure and Transmogrify by Rienna Hawkes (over 100k, hogwarts fic)
works in progress
Commentarius by @bcdaily (over 100k, hogwarts fic)
Alternate Universe
complete fics
Mother Deer by @ghostofbambifanfiction (under 5k, coffee shop au, euphemia potter is amazing)
maybe i saw it sideways, maybe you did (under 5k, told from the pov of james’ baby sister)
Pretty Kind Of Dirty Face by @alrightevans (under 5k, there’s crime and it’s amazing)
Texbooks, Time Scarves and Tea by @fetchalgernon (under 10k, snape is a dick, james is a barista)
Lessons in Lesson Planning by @fetchalgernon (under 10k, fake dating)
Bookmarked by @sunaprincess7 (under 10k, library au, the cutest)
This Is Not The End by @prongsno (under 10k, tesco meet-cute)
Sing a Reckless Serenade by @hiddenpolkadots (under 10k, fake dating!)
You and Me Both, Kid by @hiddenpolkadots (under 10k, single parent!james, teacher!lily)
Key Limes by @fetchalgernon (under 50k, celebrity AU, royalty AU)
Provisionally Yours by @snapslikethis (under 50k, royalty AU)
Elevator Love Song by @bcdaily (under 50k, jily get suck in an elevator)
Sunshine In My Eyes by @argyledpenguin (under 100k, set at hogwarts but lily is mcgonagall’s niece)
Playing The Hero, Being The Fool by @fetchalgernon (over 100k, miraculous ladybug AU)
works in progress
Love, Potter by @yulbos (under 5k, love rosie AU)
Summer of ‘81 by @snapslikethis (under 5k, magical tattoo shop au)
19 by @apalapucian (? words, the most beautiful thing in the world)
So Let the Love Tear Us Apart by @steeveharrington (under 10k, pretty much the best au ever)
Say When by jamespotterthefirst (under 50k, uni au, it’s wonderful)
The Bakes of Wrath by @duchessofbooks (under 50k, great british bake-off au, social media)
Her Oddest Customer by @sunaprincess7 (under 50k, royalty au)
Covet Thy Neighbour by @bcdaily and @ghostofbambifanfiction (under 50k, neighbours au)
Eight Days by @bcdaily (under 50k, quidditch player!james, reporter!lily)
Saying it out loud
sirius “no one wanted to play with me as a little kid, so I've been scheming like a criminal ever since, to make them love me and make it seem effortless” black
first dates, winter nights.
Lily, Harry and James!
Jim Weitzer wins the Happiest Raoul Award™ and I love him
“They played at hearts as other children might play at ball; only, as it was really their two hearts that they flung to and fro, they had to be very, very handy to catch them, each time, without hurting them.
“Stay forever!“ “I’ll stay with you“
Essen 2005 | Anne Görner and Nikolaj Alexander Brucker
Marius runs into Cosette. Literally.
Broadway - January 15, 2020 (Matinee) - Ryan Vasquez (t/r Alexander Hamilton), Krystal Joy Brown (Eliza Hamilton), Jimmi JJ Jeter (s/b Aaron Burr), Mandy Gonzalez (Angelica Schuyler), Nicholas Christopher (u/s George Washington), James Monroe Iglehart (Marquis de Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson), Wallace Smith (Hercules Mulligan/James Madison), Daniel Yearwood (John Laurens/Philip Hamilton), Elizabeth Judd (t/r Peggy Schuyler/Maria Reynolds), Euan Morton (King George III)
it's sorta funny to me how president snow basically ignored peeta until mockingjay, despite peeta being veeery similar to snow when he was young. they were both:
experts at lying and manipulating (peeta successfully lied to the entire nation on multiple occasions, and snow made everyone think he was a sweet, studious, polite person when underneath it all he was a snake).
star crossed lovers with a singing black-haired girl from the seam who was initially only in the relationship for survival (although in lucy gray's defense, it might not have been entirely for survival. she might have genuinely loved snow to some degree, we don't really know. snow perceives her as a user who played with his feelings, but it's just as likely that she truly liked him and he just thinks she's a manipulator bc he got dumped in the end lol).
relationship with said girl starts in the hunger games (although snow is a mentor and peeta is a tribute. I'm probably reaching but there could be some meaning in this? at least in peeta and katniss' relationship, they were both tributes, so they started off as equals in their relationship. whereas as snow was in a position of power over lucy when they dated. he basically abused his authority, although he doesn't seem to realise it).
jealousy over a boy from the seam despite their love interest either a) no longer having any feelings for that boy bc he hurt her too badly (lucy) or b) never having any romantic interest in that boy in the first place (katniss). (although peeta is way more reasonable and not toxic about it like snow was, which shows the difference between the two of them).
both charming and charismatic, and use this to their advantage. they know how to talk to ppl, they know how to make the audience like them.
both always thinking five steps ahead. they're extremely intelligent, neither of them are dumb blonds.
both from upper class families in their society (peeta was from the wealthy merchant class of district 12, snow was from the aristocratic snow family).
and in spite of them both technically being upper class, they also struggled with food insecurity. peeta's family couldn't afford a varied diet and they had to live on stale bread. and snow's family lived on cabbage and lima beans and he often went hungry.
they have one nice parent (peeta's dad, snow's mum), and one cold parent (snow's dad, peeta's mum).
the connection to poison. peeta (accidently) poisons foxface, and then tries to commit suicide via nightlock. snow gives lucy rat poison to use on her opponents in the arena, and then begins to directly poison ppl himself who he thinks stand in the way of him gaining/maintaining power.
they both have flower motifs. peeta decorates cookies with flowers, and is compared to a dandelion by katniss. and snow has his grandmother's rose garden, the rose powder and compact belonging to his mother, wears a rose in his lapel at events, gives a rose to his tribute, and later on uses roses as his calling card in the main series.
they even have the same hair and eye colour.
i know snow was focused on katniss bc she was the one who pulled out the berries and sparked the rebellion and reminded him of his ex-girlfriend but considering how self-centered snow is, you'd think he would have taken more of an interest in peeta, who was so similar to him. I feel like peeta is what snow could have been, if he hadn't lost his parents, fallen into poverty, and developed a need for control and status bc of that, and if tigris, lucy and sejanus' influence on him (trying to convince him that humans are inherently good) had outweighed dr gaul's influence on him (convincing him that humans are inherently brutes and need to be tightly controlled in order to stop society from collapsing). the main difference between them is that peeta was selfless, while snow was very similar to him in every other way but with a big dose of selfishness. peeta was fundamentally good, and never could have taken the dark path that snow did, whereas snow was morally grey but had the potential to be good like peeta. unfortunately he ended up rejecting the good traits he had in favour of furthering his career.
i’m gonna go on a rant for a minute about the hunger games bc i need to get this off my chest
the hunger games is such an important and well written story and the mainstream media really did it dirty in such an ironic way.
the story is about children killing each other- actual children being forced to fight to the death for the entertainment of the 1%. katniss’ whole story in the first book is that people only cared about her once she started ‘dating’ peeta. the capitol only stopped the games when katniss and peeta were the only ones left and would kill themselves instead of one killing the other. the story isn’t about romance, it’s a war story. a heart breaking war story starring a 16-17 year old girl. the mainstream media made it a romance. they turned a terrible war story and turned it into an edgy romance. people were ‘team gale’ or ‘team peeta’ instead of actually talking about what the book was about.
the 1% saw did exactly what the capital did and we all fell for it, including me.
i was in middle school when the movies came out and i was obsessed with the books. i fell into the same trap, but now that i’m older i can actually understand the meaning of the book, and i’m disgusted with it’s media portrayal. the story is about katniss and though peeta and gale are main elements in the story, they’re not the purpose. it’s not ‘let’s fall in love and over through the government’ it’s ‘let’s over through the government, but bc of symbolism i have to choose one of you.’ that’s the important part, and it’s the part that hollywood ignored. they said, this is about the love triangle only not the war, the war is more like a subplot when it should be the other way around.
did i even watch the same movie as most people? i watched children get slaughtered by older children in the games. the cornucopia scene changed my life in middle school, and watching it now changes me even more. but no- the main fan base at the time had discourse over peeta and gale. the capital is supposed to be a take on hollywood and the media played into it.
but also-
the one thing that i think thg has that other dystopian books don’t is an actual purpose. the systematic oppression directly benefited the capital. there was a war, the capital won, they think the games are the only way to keep the districts in line. it’s insane, but the system makes sense. other books ‘like divergent’ have their dystopian society that doesn’t make sense. okay, it’s like this, but why? who is being benefited, why are they being oppressed, what does this system actually do? they don’t have a purpose, but thg does.
i think thg should be more credible and seen as important to american literature. if it wasn’t a ya book, it would have gotten the recognition it deserves. we should have more people talking about it and it should still be incredibly relevant in pop culture, bc it’s incredibly relevant to current events.
all in all, thg is an amazing series that we need to go back to and start talking about, not about romance, but about plot and themes. thg trilogy is such a beautiful series that’s so well written and so topical.
READ AND WATCH THE HUNGER GAMES
they are on a date
