parents please check your kids' halloween candy. just found hieronymus bosch’s garden of earthly delights inside of a peanut butter cup.

The Cigarette's you left at Mine

A Jily Microfic for @jilymicrofics

Prompt: Smoke

The smoke curled around her tongue, it's acrid taste a bitter reminder of the man who had left them in her flat.

"Lily?" Mary called from inside. "He's at the door again, should I—"

"Tell him, to fuck off."

James Potter had never been good at taking a hint. Or no for an answer.

She thought things were serious between them. She thought he knew how she felt.

But apperantly he didn't see things the same way. She'd taken one look at the letter from Clara Clearwater on his kitchen counter and seen enough.

'You looked good last night. I'll see you this weekend for the charity ball. I still love you.'

All written in a letter that had arrived that morning.

She'd balled up the letter and thrown it at his face, yelling at him for being a prick, for leading her on, for making her think there was something serious between them.

Lily took another harsh drag of the ciggarette, watching the smoke from it swirl between her fingers like a snake.

The door to the terrace slid open behind her, the warm air from inside sliding up her back.

"Is he gone?"

"No."

She whipped around, the cigarette falling from her hand as she turned to stare at James.

"I thought I told you to fuck off."

"And I thought you told me smoking was a filthy habbit."

He had bags under his eyes, his shirt was rumpled and untucked from his trousers. Since leaving Hogwarts he'd become considerably more put together, but at that moment he looked like shit.

She glared at him. Stomping out the the remains of the fag that had fallen onto the floor of her balcony.

"Lily, please just listen to me for one minute. Let me explain." He had his hands up deffensivley, like he was waiting for her to strike him with her words.

"You have one minute."

He sighed in relief. Hand jumping to his hair, which was more unruly than usual.

"Clara and I ran into eachother at a dinner party my parents threw, I didn't know she would be there I haven't spoken to her since graduation."

"And she just sends you a love letter out of the blue?" Lily questioned, arms crossed angrily over her chest.

"You know our parents were hopeful for a relationship when we were in school. I have a feeling her parents still haven't dropped that idea." He explained.

"And yours have?"

"Yes." He emphasized, taking a step closer to her. "Because they know how crazy I am about you."

She sucked in a breath, an unwanted flutter in her chest lit up at his declaration.

"Do you swear that nothing has happened between you and Clara?"

"I swear on my life."

Lily starred at him for a moment, assessing the sincere and desperate look he was giving her.

"Alright."

"Alright?"

"Alright I believe you."

She pulled his pack of cigarretes out of her back pocket, her hands shaking with a deep sense of relief. "Do you want a smoke?"

He grinned, accepeting his own cigarette before reaching out to light the one she had put between her lips. His hand brushing against her cheek.

"Smoking is a filthy habit." He said, parroting her own words back at him.

"So are you."

James Potter in Ten Songs

Lily Evans in Ten Songs

yeah the dark academia asthetic is great and all but I have thick thighs and eastern european hips so I just look like a middle aged office manager with two kids and a buick encore.

y'all out here making head canons that a bunch of random stranger things characters are gay and then ignore the actually heavily implied/queer coded characters, opting to instead head canon them as homophobic bc they don't fit your little soft cute gay criteria. why don't you stop your goofy head canons that gay people must equal adorable angels first

Yo nothing is funnier than ppl saying they hate a yt women but then simping over a yt man

The misogyny jumped out there, huh?

The ste/ddies are being homophobic, biphobic and transphobic again *pretends to be shocked*

I say this as a queer woman, but not only does this invalidate people like me, but what the fuck is wrong with cishet people liking a ship??

"god grace is so problematic. i mean, look at her-"

the things they hate about me/make fun of me for: likes fanart of my character, plays video games with cool streamers, goes to conventions to meet people in the fandom, defends myself against people who send me hateful msgs/ss/replies on my posts, shipping my character with another character (when my co-star and i talked about making it a flirtatious scene when filming).

i can recommend my therapist but she might say no to you...

Steddies who headcanon Chrissy as lesbian are so performative because there was a post on twitter calling them out saying they only do it to get her out the way of their ship and they’re all mad at it.

If y’all are so passionate about lesbian Chrissy where are the fanarts? The fanfics? The headcanons? Are you genuinely interested in lesbian Chrissy or is the only way you can stomach her being anywhere near Eddie?

They will edit a lesbian flag onto Chrissy’s cheek and then say “that’s enough activism for today!”

Imagine if the roles were reversed, how often they’d remind us that Eddie almost threatened Chrissy’s life by holding a sharp object to her throat, how he told her he wouldn’t have jumped into the lake after her but she should consider giving Jason another chance because he didn’t hesitate to dive in straight after her. How often they’d remind us that Joe confirmed he was in fact flirting with Steve and he did intentionally play their scene in the forest together with romantic intrigue. How often they reminded us that Eddie made a fool of himself and threw his whole body on the floor as he pretended to be stabbed in the heart just to make Steve laugh? How often they’d remind us that Steve remembered Eddie’s band from middle school and how Eddie invited Steve to watch him play at the Hideout?

If they’re insufferable as they are now just because Eddie happened to be selling Chrissy drugs, just imagine how worse it would’ve been.

The point I’m making is that if you replaced Chrissy and Eddie with Steve and Eddie I would’ve shipped st-ddie but if I replaced Steve and Eddie with Chrissy and Eddie I wouldn’t have shipped hellcheer. If I can’t see the potential even when I imagine my ship in the place of their ship, then I’m genuinely not interested.

And to clarify, this isn’t to tell anyone they can’t ship their ship, they can! I just want them to let us ship ours and stop being hypocrites by constantly bringing up that Chrissy and Eddie canonically made a drug deal but get mad bc in response not unprovoked (unlike them) I decide to say okay your ship did this in canon and you still ship them so what’s the big deal? Ship and let ship.

Also I literally don’t care that Eddie was going to sell Chrissy drugs because Eddie is a drug dealer and it’s literally what he does, I can guarantee there are fics where Eddie sells Steve drugs. I know you’re just pretending to be puritans. Watch me headcanon Chrissy and Eddie getting high together, try and stop me.

Them: you ship a m|f ship that has a canon foundation and not this m|m ship where the only foundation is them being hot white dudes who are friends with the same kid - you are a traitor to your kind. please turn your bisexual badge

Me: fuck man, we got badges? I came out like five years ago - why haven’t I gotten a badge? Is this something I need to like apply for?

*Meant as a slander against the Eddissy antis telling us we're homophobes for shipping Eddissy, not against the Steddie shippers in general!

I'm straight and Hispanic and yes, I do ship eddissy/hellcheer and most of my ships are m/f ships.

Just because I don't ship their fetishised m/m ship, that they probably don't give a shit about, that makes me homophobic?

Get the fuck out of here with that bullshit.

Stop throwing that word around loosely and making false claims of people that they don't even know!

I have no respect for these antis/haters. Ya'll can go suck on a 🌵 cactus.

The funny thing is they shame straight women who don’t ship their mlm ship but a lot of straight women who ship mlm ships are fetishisers so basically they’re shaming straight women who choose not to fetishise mlm.

Them: you ship a m|f ship that has a canon foundation and not this m|m ship where the only foundation is them being hot white dudes who are friends with the same kid - you are a traitor to your kind. please turn your bisexual badge

Me: fuck man, we got badges? I came out like five years ago - why haven’t I gotten a badge? Is this something I need to like apply for?

*Meant as a slander against the Eddissy antis telling us we're homophobes for shipping Eddissy, not against the Steddie shippers in general!

Eddie and his true love ❤️