You did this for me?
I know how hard it can be to make a fresh start. I really do. I also know that sometimes you need help. I don’t know… a whole lot about your story, but from what I can tell, you’ve… you’ve been through a lot. Maybe this place can… offer some comfort? A place to call home.
I drew this in January, and here, finally, updating here:“D If you’re ever interested, I have instagram and twitter where I post (more) regularly. I feel like I’ve abandoned Tumblr completely:(
i will never be over vernon dursley telling people at his wedding that james potter was some kind of amateur magician, implying that he wasn’t even that good
100% believe that if petunia hadn’t cut lily out of her life, james would have just rolled with it and learned muggle magic tricks and performed them at various family functions, like
try to wear the full magician costume to dudleys christening
“you can’t wear that james” “it’s the only way i’m going, lil” “fine but give me your wand” “my real one, or the fake one that shoots out flowers?” “both, and you’d better tidy the handkerchiefs are trailing out of your trouser leg before we leave”
“I’m not a magician, marge, i’m an illusionist.”
petunia walks in on james pretending to saw toddler dudley in half for toddle harry’s amusement
actually incorporating magic into the tricks and freaking the hell out of vernon’s extended family
standing up at christmas and saying that he’d like to perform a magic trick. and vernon and petunia are HORRIFIED and lily just pours more wine but marge says ‘let him do it’ so she can mock him?? and he tries/fails to ‘vanish’ the napkins 3-4 times and it doesn’t work, until the fourth time when it DOES and it freaks the hell out of vernon’s extended family
and that is probably when petunia cuts lily out of her life for Real
guys this is a very important post and i’ve been thinking about it all morning
Holy shit I love au jily so much
This isn’t even AU like this would genuinely happen
I know fanfiction is like this big joke and everything, but man, have I read some fics that have completely knocked the wind out of me. New York Times Best Sellers could NEVER.
I think that to some people, fan fiction might be a joke…especially the media at large where they use it as a punchline to show that a character is nerdy or whatever…
But it’s never been a joke to me. When I discovered that other people wrote stories for the media they loved, often improving on the actual canon, it was like discovering that there was a whole magical world that I could be a part of. I had always been so ashamed and afraid to share this part of myself, but there were other people out there…such talented, endlessly generous and kind people, who had this same passion for storytelling in a way that was fun and easily consumable
I don’t know exactly what I’m getting at but what do humans do better, and what brings us together more than storytelling? How could anyone call that a joke when it’s engraved so deeply in us? Why do certain people get to decide which writing and storytelling is “high art” and which writing is a joke?
