snapslikethis:

snapslikethis:

K I just got anon asking if I wrote Comm. I have my own accounts - snapslikethis at ao3 and ffn. Here’s my writing tag. And here is a comprehensive list of everything I’ve posted to AO3 and/or FFN:

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CHILDHOOD

Your Next Great Adventure
Eleven-year-old Lily is packing for Hogwarts, and it’s a dream come true, but it feels more like saying goodbye to her childhood than hello to her next great adventure.
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Your Next Great Mischief
Eleven-year-old James Potter’s last night at home before he goes to Hogwarts.
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Love, Unbroken^
The Evans family as told through Lily’s interactions with her mother’s old pearl necklace.
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HOGWARTS YEARS

Cards on the Table
James surprises Lily with an unexpected visit to a Slug Club party.
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Chin Up, Head Down^
James gets into an altercation with some Slytherins and finds himself in McGonagall’s office.
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Feels Like Love^*
Lily & James try using each other’s wands for the first time.
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A List is Just a List 
The Marauders think the parchment James just dropped is a list of the places they’ve pulled pranks, but Lily knows better.
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Pep(per) Up, Peppermint^*
Sixth year Lily is home, sick, at Christmas. Can a visit from her friends cheer her up?
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The Power of Prongs*
Lily uses all the Marauder nicknames casually, except for James’s. He’s rather upset about it…until she tells him the reason why.
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The Sweetest Morsel^
Sirius, Peter and Remus work hard at exact revenge on their best mate. Do they know him well enough to pull it off?
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Your Other Pillock Boyfriend
“Mum thinks I’m a pillock, and Dad reckons I’ve been hit with too many Bludgers. They’re not wrong, but I need to explain why we weren’t at the house after you returned from taking the girls home.” James writes to Lily to explain a few things.
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POST-HOGWARTS

Shining Stars^
The ’78 Hogwarts class—Gryffindors, mostly—gather at a pub to catch up when someone brings up who, exactly, was to blame for Breda Padgett’s broken ankle, sixth year.
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Worth Fighting For
Lily and the Marauders receive an offer from Dumbledore. What now?
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Cricket Bats and Fireflies^*
James and Lily have been fighting non-stop for months. When Moody orders them on respite, they retreat to Lily’s old stomping grounds. More specifically, camping grounds.
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Come to my Window
In which James has problems with windows.
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GODRIC’S HOLLOW

Three Quarts of Milk^*
James and Lily have been in hiding for two months. James is stir crazy and trying not to show it. Lily jumps into action.
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Christmas at Godric’s Hollow                            
Lily and James are shut up in Godric’s Hollow with Harry. They invite the boys over to decorate the cottage for the holidays. This will be incorporated into Something Stirring.
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Blanket Fort
alt, 1753 words of Potter family fluff 
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An Ordinary Day
James, Lily and Harry celebrate his second Halloween.
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AU

Hello, Mister*
Me and my housemate just spent twenty minutes trying to take the lid off of a blender and had to resort to taking it to our next door neighbor, who we have never spoken to before. He opened in it about six seconds.
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One Week Since U Looked @ Me*
James and Lily are fighting, and it’s 100% the other person’s fault. Everyone is just a little bit unhinged. Text fic.
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Provisionally Yours^**
Lily Evans discovers she’s been married off to James Potter without her knowledge. She and the spoiled count (in whom she appears to have finally met her match) have three days, for better or worse, to decide whether to accept the contract. With her sister adamant to make her life miserable, and a husband who is equally determined to repel her, what else can possibly go wrong? Royalty AU
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Saving Kittens Thing*
Bleeding heart James Potter does his level best to save seven cats from a terrible fate, but Lily Evans, his heartless monster fiancée, tries to thwart him at every turn. Text fic.
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Subtle Arrangements^*
Prompt: Lily owns a flower shop. James storms in one day, slaps twenty bucks on the counter, and says, “How do I passive-aggressively say ‘fuck you’ in flowers?”
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Summer of ‘81^
After his mother’s passing, Lily returns to her childhood home and opens a tattoo shop. James and his mates, working for the Order, are glad to find a small, nondescript town where they can lay low. When he passes by her shop, however, an old memory resurfaces, and they both realize this might not be a simple as they’d intended. Tattoo shop AU
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The Flip Side ^*
What if the Potters had found themselves on the flip side of the prophecy, and Neville had been The Chosen One? They might have had their chance at happily ever after.
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• 1 – Nov 1981 – Deadly Stairs and Rumors 
  The Potters wake up to find themselves on the flip side of the Prophecy.
• 2 – Aug 1984 – Broomsticks and Little Sisters
  Harry struggles to grasp the concept of sharing.
• 3 – Oct 1986 – Slicing Jinxes and Peter Pan
  Harry wants to celebrate the Muggle way.
• 4 – Dec 1980 – Jealousy and Christmas Pudding
  James and Lily visit his parents for Christmas. Baby Harry causes drama he knows nothing about.
• 5 – Oct 1996 – Semantics and Insubordination
  James receive a disciplinary owl about “there’s no need to call me ‘sir,’ professor.”
• 6 – Cartography and a Talent for Trouble
  On the eve of his first day at Hogwarts, Harry learns of the existence of the Marauder’s Map. Can he continue the Marauder legacy and nick it back from Filch?

The One That I Want*                                           
James and Lily end up at the same costume party dressed up as two members of a famous fictional couple. Everyone makes them take pictures together and quote lines from the movie. It starts out really awkward but then Sirius, dressed as a pirate, finds them making out in the bathroom.
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updated for anon

meraudurs:

i wish harry was able to remember the time he spent with james and lily. when they dressed him up for his first halloween. when they’d make funny faces at him. pick him up and swing him around and laugh as harry laughed. when they’d smile fondly at him and told him they loved him. i wish he remembered the touch of their lips on his forehead as they put him to sleep. but nah, he remembered his mother screaming just before she was murdered.

i like to imagine mcgonagall calling harry + ginny + the kids into a meeting in her office for some stupid stunt (probably james’), gathering her thoughts and offhandedly saying ‘have a biscuit, potter’, and then being incredibly unsettled when four arms stretch out

OKAY BUT

hurricanetonks:

hurricanetonks:

DO YOU THINK THAT WHEN HE WAS YOUNGER FLEAMONT & EUPHEMIA HAD JAMES STAR IN SLEAKEAZY COMMERCIALS????

Maybe that’s why James messes up his hair so much? Because literally all of the wizarding world has seen his baby pictures and he wants to minimize the resemblance…

if-dementors-were-pink:

maisy-the-fangirl:

meganzez:

my favorite thing about harry potter is how attractive the whole potter family is like its understood that harry is one of the hotter boys at school and ginny is fine as hell and teddy who’s an honorary potter can make himself prettier than all of them combined and we all know james and lily were the it couple and i bet james 2, albus, and lily 2 were drop dead gorgeous athletes who were super smart and famous just like their parents like wow they probably have their own fan club and its me i am trash i am their fan club i love the potters

Literally, in the beginning of The Half-Blood Prince, the SLYTHERINS were talking about how fine Ginny was. They said even Blaise (who had the highest standards imaginable) thought she was hot and HE DIDN’T DENY IT. Of course he said he wouldn’t go out with a blood traitor but still, my point stands. And then like every girl in the freaking school had a crush on Harry. Other houses came to the Gryffindor Quidditch tryout because Harry was the captain. Hermione even said it didn’t help that he grew almost a foot over the summer. Just imagine their kids though. There’s no way they weren’t attractive.

#if they were real #i would follow their family like some people follow the kardashians (via thepeverellthree)

snapslikethis:

what i would love: james potter had an absolutely normal middle name (harry, after his grandfather, for instance, or none at all), but his parents realized their toddler (already) had an ego larger than his hair and made the unilateral decision to change it to fleamont, or at least tell him it was fleamont. you know, to grow his character and (hopefully) steady him a bit

lotstradamus:

elizzabethdarcy:

Tbh because there’s no good reason not to.

All the blood status in the hp universe is a metaphor for racism but you know what’s boring? Metaphors for racism that only involve white people. Harry is often described as “dark” and like if James Potter’s family was desi and Lily Evans’s was white, that would enhance Harry’s feelings of otherness while growing up with the Dursleys because lbr Vernon was probs a flaming racist.

“Potter” could easily be an anglicized version of a south Asian last name like Potdar or Potluri, and you could make an argument for a pure blood family like the Potters engaging in and profiting from cultural exchange through the British colonization of India so there was an opportunity to establish generational wealth there.

Also on the night he died, James was making pretty-colored lights for Harry. That was October 31st. In 1981, Diwali, the Hindu Festival of Lights, started on October 27th. It lasts five days.

#gavel bang case closed

therealgeekygiraffe:

marauders4evr:

Before Pottermore ruined it I had a decade-long headcanon that Remus’ father walked out on him and his mother, after they couldn’t find a cure for his lycanthropy. His mother tried her best and loved her son, dearly, but they were dirt poor and she could only give him so much.

I also had the headcanon that Peter’s parents always wanted him to be the best, which caused him to have major self-esteem issues.

And of course Sirius’ parents were abusive jerks.

Meaning that James’ parents became the de-facto group parents and they were more than happy to take on the role and they were wonderful at it.

The Marauders had “sleepovers” at the Potter Manor at least once a week during the summer. The manor was out in the country, so the boys spent most of their days running through meadows and flying on broomsticks and climbing trees and staring up at the stars and all of that wonderfulness. Mrs. Potter sent Remus home with a garbage bag full of food. Sirius often didn’t go home for several days. Nobody minded.

Mr. Potter having long conversations with Sirius about how the world isn’t black and white and how it’s not split into good people and Death Eaters, how we all have light and dark inside of us.

Remus offering to help Mrs. Potter around the house. (It’s the least he can do, after accidentally hitting a Bludger through the window.) Mrs. Potter giving him a hefty allowance. They both understand the subtext but neither one mentions it.

When Sirius is old enough, he pulls his long hair into a bun, securing it with his wand, and joins Mrs. Potter at the stove, creating some of the most delicious meals that the other boys have tasted. Mrs. Potter exclaiming that he has a true talent for cooking, something that surprises and pleases Sirius.

Peter giving Mr. Potter - Wizard Chess Extraordinaire a run for his money. The entire living room erupting into cheers as Peter’s able to capture Mr. Potter’s king. Mr. Potter is cheering the loudest of them all.

The Potters assuring Remus that there’s nothing wrong with him and treating him as they treat everyone else.

The Potters also putting in a bunker in case Remus wants to stay over during the full moons. He accepts the offer once and Mr. and Mrs. Potter sit outside all night, in case he needs them.

Sirius and Regulus arriving at Grimmauld Place the summer after their third/second year, only to find that Orion and Walburga are gone. (It wasn’t uncommon for them to go on vacations and forget about their children) They survive off of crackers in the pantry for three days, before Sirius drags Regulus onto the Knight Bus and they make the hour-long journey to the Potters. They stay there for a month and though Regulus would never admit it, it was the best month of his life.

It’s around this time that Sirius gets his own bedroom, complete with his own decorations and a wardrobe of spare clothes. Just in case.

Mr. and Mrs. Potter not forgetting Peter, giving him all sorts of advice and trying to help him study so that he can impress his parents, while taking the time to tell him that they are already impressed with him and that he doesn’t ever have to feel the need to prove himself.

And of course, one day, Sirius shows up bloody and bruised and he doesn’t leave. The Potters fought to get custody of Regulus as well, but the Blacks fought harder. It was one of the Potters’ greatest sorrows and they only hoped that Regulus would be okay. (He wasn’t.)

Remus being able to hold himself together in front of Peter, struggling to hold himself together in front of Sirius, slipping in front of James, and falling apart in front of Mr. and Mrs. Potter, because he’s seventeen-years-old and what’s he going to do with his life and nobody’s going to hire a werewolf. Mr. and Mrs. Potter comforting him and giving him advice and never once judging him, especially not judging him for breaking down.

The Potters taking the boys, their boys, on vacations and giving them Christmas presents and sending them letters of encouragement when they’re at Hogwarts, along with sweets and small presents. The Potters giving them advice and hope and love.

Mr. and Mrs. Potter eventually passing away and Sirius, Remus, and Peter crying just as hard as James because they were their parents just as much as they were his.

It’s the one group of headcanons that I refuse to let go of, to be honest. That and the headcanon that James’ father was an Auror. I’ll never give that one up. (It works so well, you don’t understand.)

:( I’m crying. Literally crying. THE FEELINGS JESUS

Now tell me, who are you & why do you feed off of my pain?

prongsmydeer:

Consider, for a moment, the Potter family line from the 20th century until the present 

• Harry
  
• FLEAMONT
  
• James
  
• Harry
  
• James