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Dahlia/Lily anon, please DM me!! 😊

#I have a question haha

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It is May 1st yet?! I’m so excited for LFTS! I hope you’re well ☺️

Ahh yay this makes me so happy! 🥰 I'm so excited to bring it back for you guys!! I'm well, just been busy and working a lot, so I'm very much looking forward to the weekend 😎

#there will be lots of iced coffee and football and lfts formatting involved and I can't wait 🤓 #ask #lovely readers #love for the summer

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someone said that the marauders lived the teenage years the golden trio didn’t and the golden trio lived the adult life the marauders couldn’t and i seriously needed a moment to reflect cause wtf

#😭😭😭 #between queue and the giant squid

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Bright blue sky shining just for us Might've just been July, but it felt like love End of each night praying for another Yeah, love for the summer

#jily #jily aesthetic #missgryffin mood boards #love for the summer #coming back may 1st!!! #🌻🫶💛

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#oh i love this #so cute 🥺 #marauders fanart

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DEAD SKIN CELLS For @jilymicrofics April 2024. Prompts: fireworks, fete, enchantment, rational. Words: 157.

In her heart? Fireworks. A fête of light, rushing light, colour flooding her mind and blurring her thoughts, merging and spitting and frothing up like laughter in her throat. At her neck was James, his mouth grinning as he urged her to yes, yes, say yes, his fingertips at her nape and on her shoulder blades, thumbs palpitating, front pressed to hers, trapping her mind in this bright enchantment, this happy slither. Irrational and ridiculous and overflowing with mirth and youth and bodies with hearts beating and lungs breathing and lips that could kiss.

Their laughter settled in the gaps of the floorboards and the cracks in the plaster. The dead skin cells of their young love would remain for years, caked. Befuddled by euphoria, sparkling water in the veins, they giggled as small children do and kissed and laughed and watched the dust motes dance and they were young and they were cotton and in love.

AO3

#oh i love this #so beautiful #my heart 🥹 #missgryffin recs #uncertainwallflower

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Limited Vocabulary

Read on Ao3 || 3k Words || Rated E || Jily First War AU Smut

UPDATED 4/18/24 - a bit longer & a lot jucier ;) @jilymicro-oops based on the jilymicrofic prompt: urge Lily and James never got together, too busy being afraid of the war, too busy fighting it. But some urges are simply too hard to fight, especially when you're alone, hurt, and there's a soft fire going...

“Lily…” he responded, reaching up to wipe one of them away. When he went to pull his hand away, she pressed it back against her cheek, holding it there. “Lily,” he said again, that same look in his eyes. “I don’t know if I can be your partner on missions anymore…” she whispered, staring at him as her heart pounded. He furrowed his brows and pulled his hand back, though neither of them let go, their hands tangled messily together. “Why?” He sounded so hurt, she was sure he didn’t understand. He hadn’t seen the look in her eyes. Her heart was in her throat now, but she thought of them lying with the broken bits of building, thought of fate. “Because…” Maybe all they’d ever have was this night in this quiet house, for once away from the madness. But she needed it all the same. Needed to feel for herself what those looks meant. Swallowing hard, she twisted her hand around to lace their fingers firmly together, and tugged him forward. They fell together like they’d always been meant to, his free hand coming to her waist, her hand reaching up to tangle in his hair. When their lips met, Lily was sure this was the first time she was truly breathing. His mouth was astonishingly soft, and she wanted to cry with relief at the feel of it. “James,” she mumbled against him, and he moaned softly, and she was floating. 

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#oh?? 👀 #I am such a slut for fireside scenes 😍 #tbr #missgryffin recs

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The best quality a fictional man can have is being deeply, pathetically, wretchedly in love with someone, I think

#yep yep yep #this right here

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#yessss #this is jily 1000% #until they finally give up the game and give in #🤌🤌🤌

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Hello, semi-new reader here! You have upcoming fics called Eternal Summer and Love for the summer titles with have similar vibes. I assume both are set in the summertime before 7th year? Can I ask how those fics summary differ cause I keep on getting them mixed up?? (only if you’d like to share) ❤️

Hello! Welcome! Aha I'm so sorry, this was very confusing of me 😂 But yes, I'm happy to share and clarify!

Eternal Summer is my big canon seventh year (potentially also post-Hogwarts) multi-chapter fic. I initially posted it January 2021 through January 2022, and have since taken it down to embark on rewriting it. Despite its title, it's not summery 😅 It was initially inspired by rewatches of Gossip Girl and The Vampire Diaries, so those shows' aesthetics and tone have largely informed this fic. It's dramatic, a little dark, a little soapy, a lot smutty, etc.

The title itself comes from song lyrics, but I later realized the phrase is also in Sonnet 18, which was a very kismet thing for me. The way the phrase is used both in the song and the sonnet is to evoke nostalgia ("and if our days are numbered, we'll find eternal summer, I see it all in bright color" / "but thy eternal summer shall not fade"), and this is also how it's meant to function as a title. It's about hindsight and that feeling of a certain time (in this case, Jily's seventh year) being just the height of happiness. Though it wasn't without challenges, I see their seventh year as a really golden time for them. It was the only year Jily got to be together as a couple in Hogwarts, and it was their last year all together as friends in that way you only have in a very picturesque, insulated school environment. For this cast of characters, seventh year is an "eternal summer" in their mind that they yearn for and dream of finding again after they leave Hogwarts.

Love for the Summer is not overtly connected to ES, but is subconsciously connected, both for me and (I think) a lot of readers. I started writing LFTS in the spring/summer of 2021 when ES was updating, and it was really just an outlet for me to write plotless and indulgent fluff and smut 😂 But because we were suffering from the angst of ES at the time, it kind of felt like/was perceived as a "fix-it" fic of ES?

But that history aside, LFTS is a standalone light-hearted, fluffy, steamy, rom-com kind of fic that has allll the summery vibes. Really, it's just a place for me to indulge myself in a bunch of summery tropes with Jily being super lovey and having no drama 🥹 The title is also from a song, but this one's far less deep and is really just a summer bop.

#ask #eternal summer #love for the summer

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Do you think, canonically, James dated and had sex with someone before he went out with Lily (but after SWM)?

So my answer is really the same thing I said here, which is that I don't have a hard-line opinion either way on this, and I've written it in a variety of ways to explore all the different emotional dynamics at play with different scenarios. It's definitely plausible he did, and it's also plausible he didn't 🤷‍♀️

#ask

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Of course he wouldn't cheat on her. She was hot as fuck.

Fully agree, anon!

#ask

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What about having sex with other girls without he got with lily?

So I’m a little confused by this question. If you’re asking about previous partners before Jily get together, I don’t have any firm hc’s about that and have explored both options (i.e., having previous partners vs being each other’s first time) in my fics. But if you’re asking about James not getting with Lily, then I definitely I don’t have any hc about that because Jily is my OTP and they will always be endgame in my stuff.

#ask

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hc that Lily Evans and James Potter were loyal Gryffindors who loved and respected each other so much that they never cheated on each other

#or even thought about it tbh #🙃 #jily

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Hello! I don’t usually write to authors, but I just needed to tell you how much I love your writing. That’s all, I hope you had a great weekend.

Ah thank you so much!! 🥰

#ask #lovely readers

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It's a Match! by takearisk

Harry and Ginny keep matching on dating apps. This goes on for several years. Will they ever move past their casual acquaintanceship and go on an actual date? (epistolary au)

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#omg this was gifted to me and I'm speechless??!?!! #everything about this fic is adorable 😍🥹 #thank you so so much 🫶 #this made my day and left me in the happiest mood! #missgryffin recs #it's a match! #hinny #have I ever even tagged that before who am I 😅 #consider me an official Hinny Reader now!

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I loved your ES side alongs fic! Any plans to resurrect those gems after ES goes up again?

Aha thank you! No plans right now other than the ones that still fit within the narrative of ES will actually be worked into ES itself. So given that, I guess anything leftover feels like it would be obsolete?

#ask #eternal summer