#lily deserves much better

[inthe-echo]

Harry did not, in fact, get enough love

#james and lily would have been heartbroken to see their baby growing up without love #he deserved so much better #harry potter #james potter #lily evans #hp #harry potter fanart #hp fanart #fanart #marauders #angstober #artist on tumblr #my art

[evansisasadist]

Mary watches from behind the slightly ajar door. Sirius is kissing Remus. Kissing him like he could die right this moment. 

He’s never kissed her like that before. 

Remus moves his hands down the other boy’s back and Mary watches, her heart breaking. She wants to storm in there and scream and shout at them. But she doesn’t. Instead she resigns herself to watching the boy she loves kiss the boy he loves. And there's a little bit of her brain that says "You were never good enough for him anyway". She thinks it's right.

#the maruaders #mary macdonald #sirius orion black #remus lupin #marauders era #sirius black #lily evans #marlene mckinnon #james potter #peter pettigrew #harry potter #wolfstar #mary deserved so much better #sirius was a shit boyfriend #atyd #all the young dudes #sirius x mary #regulus black #regulus arcturus black #pandora rosier #pandora lovegood #evan rosier #dorcas meadowes #barty crouch jr #barty crouch junior

[mppmaraudergirl]

this is a lily evans potter appreciation post

#lily evans #lily evans potter #u deserve the world #and so much better than some people treat u

[sneverussape]

currently in grad school thesis hell so wanted some academic au lily n sev doin their phd and postdoc✨📚

#lils is on a working break #the thought of 2 kids from the wrong side of the tracks getting into oxbridge or other top-tier institutions means so much to me #they deserved to have made a better life for themselves #and i love the thought of them enjoying studying and the endless quest for knowledge #i surely am not rn lmaoooo #my art #snape #lily evans #au #hp

[last-pages]

somewhere out there i want ronan lynch to know that i would do anything for him. THE DREAMER. THE KNIGHT. adam's.

#the raven cycle #the raven boys #the dream thieves #blue lily lily blue #the raven king #ronan lynch #adam parrish #richard gansey iii #blue sargent #i just have so many feelings about him all the time #him and opal... #my favourite farmer #he deserved so so much better

[impatiencegyu]

Do you ever think how "New Romantics" would be just the song for the happy times of the Marauders, and "The Great War" for the angsty ones?

#marauders era #they deserved so much better #the marauders #sirius black #remus lupin #james potter #peter pettigrew #regulus black #pandora rosier #evan rosier #barty crouch jr #lily evans #marlene mckinnon #mary macdonald #dorcas meadowes #dead gay wizards from the 70s #jegulus #jily #wolfstar #harry potter #Spotify

[acakemadeofmud]

thinking about Noah Czerny…

#maggie stiefvater #the raven cycle #the raven boys #the dream thieves #blue lily lily blue #the raven king #noah czerny #he deserves all the love #he was so sweet #he deserved so much better #it keeps me awake at night #books and reading #booklr #bookblr #books

[lionmythflower]

hc where canon everything happens but the skittles are friends w the marauders and Evan doesn't become a death eater and instead becomes very close w the marauders after regulus dies

And Evan hearing Sirius laugh at some point when he's at the potters and smiling before he starts crying because the laugh sent him into a flash back of Barty's idiotic jokes and regulus occasionally laughing at the jokes when they're weird enough and Evan smiling at both of them and gods he misses them

#Sorry #But at least Evan doesn't die in this #in my mind at least #i'm spiraling #someone help #evan rosier #marauders #slytherin skittles #james potter #barty crouch jr #regulus black #peter pettigrew #remus lupin #lily evans #Regulus & Barty & Evan #I'm having a lot of Evan thoughts today #he deserved better #they all do #they all deserved so much better

[regheart]

i'm having snape thoughts lately and i'd like to share them

snape as characters is always under scrutiny, his misdeeds are compared to others', we try to measure his good traits and bad traits to give some sort of ultimatum: is he good or evil?

when it comes to the narrative, that doesn't really matter. it's more of a question of whether he should be redeemed or not, by the readers, by harry.

and there's an attempt at the epilogue to answer that question. harry names his son albus severus and calls snape one of the bravest men he ever knew. my very personal opinion on this is 1) all of harry's children's names SUCK 2) i really think albus more than anyone should be named something else.

i don't really think harry would feel so strongly about snape to name his son after him, but that is the way of the narrative saying he's good, he's forgiven.

my issue here is something that i've felt since the first time i read ootp. we, the reader, never get catharsis from harry and snape. we see harry relating quite strongly to snape even if he despises him, but snape looks at harry and sees his father. and treats him accordingly.

and yes he was plotting with dumbledore all along he loved lily yadda yadda. but we only learn that after he dies. and it's the first and only time in seven books in which harry learns something substantial about his mother.

my point here is that the narrative dooms it all. by trying to have a twist at the very end, it fails harry (never acknowledged by snape by who he truly was and very often unfairly accused by him), it fails snape (can't get proper catharsis without the albus severus bullshit) and it fails lily (god please let lily have girl friends who love her and tell harry about her i'm seriously so pissed about this).

#hp meta #harry potter #harry name your children something else #jkr is good at characters and bad at narrative #lily deserved so much better #severus snape #professor snape #lily evans #lily potter #pro snape

[starchaserdreams]

I don't hate Lily

I hate James when he's going after Lily

I actually love Lily

I want her to respect herself enough not to fall for an incel just because he's hot

When James is going after Lily he's the same as Snape

James needed to grow up in a way he never could within that dynamic

He needed to be free of the incel vibes and move on so he could be a better person, a better partner

And I just don't think he ever could have done that with Lily

Lily deserved better

Lily deserved not to settle for a bully who spent years chasing her without respecting her

And James deserved the chance to be better

#this is gonna be a very unpopular opinion #but i love lily so much #too much to want to see her settle #and i love james but only after he grows out of that #they BOTH deserved better #i havent decided yet who lily in my fic is going to end up with but itll be someone who treats her well #so not james or snape #james potter #lily evans #jily #marauders #marauders era #dead gay wizards #regulus black #jegulus #starchaser #sunseeker

[slytherindisaster]

web weaving: frily + happy ending

requested by @ginevrastilinski

lemony snicket / unknown / shattered (2022) / giovannis room by james baldwin / the seven husbands of evelyn hugo by t.j. reid / alessia di cesare / @/gayassnatural / good trouble / richard siken / amy nezhukumatathil

#hp golden era #lily anne collins #fred weasley #fred weasley x oc #frily #web weaving #tysm for requesting them!!! #i am going feral #they deserve so much better

[musicrunsthroughmysoul]

I don't know that I've ever mentioned this before, but finding that quote by Ruth Pointer about the Pointer Sisters' Break Out album reminded me that I have also never really liked its title (even though it's one of my all-time favorite albums). I get that whoever suggested that title (why do I assume it's their producer? Richard Perry, to be specific?) thought it was going to be like their 'break out' album and apparently confidently named it accordingly, but I also think it did a disservice to the Pointer Sisters, suggesting that their material for the past ten years was never good enough to warrant "true" hits of a 'break out' status. I feel that kind of title, for that album at that time, greatly discredited the work they'd done thus far and the effort they'd put into getting to where they were; PLUS, seemingly based on the concept of being a self-fulfilling prophecy, it also seemed to suggest (by popularity, and by quality) that they'd peaked, as none of their albums following Break Out were able to surpass, much less match, the success (chart-wise) of Break Out. I just think it was a shitty move, naming the album that, and the Pointer Sisters deserved better.

#crystal visions of lilies in the valley #sorry for the rant #I haven't even listened to all of the Pointer Sisters' discography but I've listened to at least five of their albums and #I just love them and think that they always deserved better. I don't care how many hits they had - #I think it would've been more interesting had they had more say in their material (early on especially) because #given the quality of the songs written by the sisters I would not be surprised if more of their songs had been passed up on their albums #(by producers) in favor of covers that were 'hit' material. well fuck that. hit material can be written by the singers themselves too! FFS. #but oh no sexism doesn't exist in the music industry. much less misogynoir. oh no. (SARCASM) #especially because the Pointer Sisters resisted genre labels especially early on...or at least they had massive amounts of crossover appeal #AND THAT WAS EVEN WITH THE SONGS THAT *THEY* WROTE THEMSELVES AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH #not to sound like a conspiracy theorist but to quote a completely different song and group: #''they just don't want a woman to control her body/or have the right to choose/ ... /they just want a male finger on the button'' #(because what IS a woman's right to choose? a woman's right to choose what? ...you know? IT'S ALL interconnected...is my point.)

[lena-kuragina]

Fuck this 🥰

#lily you deserved so much better

[kubrick4ever]

#lily rose depp #she deserved so much better

[padfootswhiskers]

the absolute atrocious characterisation James gets from some of you…wtf. my man used to be a bully and a pompous airhead, yes, but he was also GOOFY and loyal and brave to a fault?? be fair.

#this just in: characters can be three dimensional #just read a fic where he called lily a sl*t and was just…so fucking awful #like no. no did you read canon? he made a fool of himself everytime he saw her #my boy was so head over heels in love he was literally tying his shoelaces together if she so much as #looked at him #not to mention he gave up his life WITHOUT HESITATION #at the age of 21–barely a fucking adult #to save his wife and son. he stood up #to the darkest wizard who ever lived #UNARMED….the fucking bravery. the PURE love…..ughhh #he deserves better takes #james potter

[britts-galaxy-brain]

even if the fanfic you say was written by lily was, that doesn't make her a predator. i wrote some horrible pairings between adults and minors when i was big into my artemis fowl phase and i've drawn characters in ways i shouldn't have before. lily having made mistakes in the past doesn't make her a bad person. ee all fuck up sometimes. it's not the important thing. the important thing is that she tries to keep attention off that kind of thing and limits sexual stuff to stuff we can all click off of. if i didn't want to see her stream or watch her videos or whatever, i could and can just hit the back button. yeah, i guess flashing is kinda cringe, but cishet dudes do it all the time and no one calls them predators. it's just a thing some people do. It's not great but it's not anywhere near as graphic as the stuff guys at my school do, joking about raping girls and who they wouldn't fuck even if they were too drunk to see straight etc.

it's maybe five seconds of boobs. that's NOTHING. and it's transphobic that people slam her for this but if guys at my school joke about wanting to facefuck me it's "boys will be boys lol". why should a trans woman get so much more anger for a sexual joke so much more minor? what has she done wrong that the cishet guys who i CANNOT escape with a simple click haven't? i've never seen her flash but if i did it's one click away from being out of my life. the old dude who stares at my boobs in the library is way worse than lily. if she wasn't trans no one would give a damn.

and for your information, she has messaged me after i sent her fanart - and we talked briefly about fanart and how to navigate the tags on a fanart website i use that she's unfamiliar with. that's it. there was nothing sexual, nothing inappropriate, no red flags. just a pretty normal conversation and then she moved on. she's not evil or predatory or whatever. she's just some woman on the internet. all she's guilty of is maybe having written some bad fics and showing a few inches of skin. i've been raped. i know what abuse is. "hey how do you exclude tags on this site anyway? i keep looking for ___ character and only getting art of them with ___" is not abuse.

...Oh my. Yall I'm gonna need some help here.

There are screenshots of Lily's old Tumblr where the first three were linked, Lily talked about it openly, she even used to have a NFSW blog dedicated to it despite the fact that its most notable plot point involved grooming and molesting children and a young teenager. There are also video clips of Lily herself admitting to writing it. She was writing the sequels long into her 20s, which is well beyond the age an adult should be writing about those ages.

The people at your school are just as disgusting and the fact that they aren't getting reprimanded immediately is a sad failure of the adults around you. The adults in your life should be taking that just as seriously as we're taking Lily's behavior. It is just as predatory and sick, and I'm truly sorry the adults in your life are failing at this. I grew up in a similar situation myself, and it was a huge reason I ended up getting involved with adults I shouldn't have been involved with. Much like you, it had become normalized in my head, and I justified the adults who were taking advantage of me. It didn't make it right. They were predators who knew what they were doing, and wanted to manipulate and use me.

Lily uses a lot of maliciously manipulative tactics to get her audience, notably people your age, to sympathize with her. It's a form of emotional manipulation. None of us are transohobic in any capacity, and at least three of the people who are or have called her out for this are trans themselves. Accusing us of transphobia is one of the many lies she tells her audience so she can pretend to be a victim, and manipulate her audience into immediately disregarding us. If she can get her audience to believe we're terrible bigots by playing into their emotions, they're less likely to want to look at the hard evidence and corroborating experiences many of us have had with her.

Anon, I can promise you Lily has been lying to you to keep you around for her own selfish purposes. None of us are right-leaning in any capacity. Many of us are trans or otherwise not cisgender. Many of us aren't straight. Many Natives have spoken out against her. Many black people have spoken out against her. Kinksters have spoken out against her. Just about every group she performatively fights for has called her out for horrendous misinformation, racial fetishization, promoting extreme violence, pathological lying, smear campaigning, sockpuppeting (that she still does to this day by sending herself fake anon asks on a regular basis), zoophilia, and pedophilia. The last two have more than enough hard evidence out of her own keyboard to back up.

I'm truly sorry for what you're going through IRL. What those boys around you are saying is still predatory, still disgusting, and should absolutely be addressed by the adults around you. The fact rhat they aren't doesn't mean what those boys are doing is normal or okay. And it certainly doesn't mean what Lily is doing is normal or okay. People like Lily prey on people in your situation, who unfortunately haven't been shown that this behavior is abusive and horrible. This is what she relies on, and why she refuses to set up a revenue stream on a more adult-oriented website. There are many popular sites where she could be openly sexual with other adults and get paid well for it, but she refuses to go to those sites. It's because she gets off on the audience she has now, which consists of a lot of minors in situations like yours. Her and I are the same age, and I can tell you what she is doing is not something someone our age should EVER be doing. Period. It is predatory, she knows full well it is predatory, yet she's doing it anyway and lying to people so she doesn't get caught.

Please be safe, anon. I know it gets heavy as all hell dealing with what you're dealing with. There are people out here that genuinely do want you safe and I hope you get out of your current environment soon.

#this is heartbreaking #godspeed anon #you'll get out and be okay #you deserve so much better #lily peet #lily orchard #peet post