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"i'm struggling to find gifs" "why can't i find gifs of this scene or this show" "why are less people taking requests"

you repost to twitter, to pinterest, to instagram, to tiktok and lord knows what else. on twitter, a single gif taken from a gifset that didn't even receive 1k notes (not 1k likes or even 1k rbs, if that even exists these days) can get 3m views and 30k+ likes. without credit, of course - if you're like, you get a mispelled: made by x on tumblr, no link of course.

hell, you repost on this very site and you refuse to listen. your set, stolen from someone else and mixed in with quotes, gets 1k notes meanwhile the original sits at less than 500. you do not credit the person who made it.

we ask you to reblog things instead of liking them and you go on rants about how it's unnecessary and how we should do it for fun. we explain a hundred times that tumblr doesn't work the way other social media platforms work, but you refuse. you wonder why there are less gifmakers.

gifs don't take 10 seconds like on ezgif or imgflip or whatever the hell you're using. it takes hours sometimes to even download footage, but you don't care. it's a moving image that we "stole" (?) from the original work but the labour? you don't care. depending on our process, it can take from half an hour (the downloading and the editing part) to hours upon hours. but who cares.

you credit text posts, fanvids, and you go after those who steal written work (as you should). we cannot even get other gifmakers to care when our stuff is stolen. staff took away our only tool to fight reposters on this site, and we never had any to fight reposting to other sites.

we know what the staff is aiming at with the changes they make and the changes they refuse to make - we explain that why disabling likes would help, they say they will not do it. they cannot slap an @ onto gifs when saved to prevent stealing but boy, look at the shiny new editor that adds an additional least 5 minutes to upload your gifs! again, intention is very clear.

we know you don't steal gifs under a certain quality and we know you ask us for requests for scenes/parallels that have been done because you do not like the quality of those. we see you stealing quality sets.

there is no point to this i just needed to vent. staff is disregarding the very foundation of this site, gifmakers are given less and less respect and you wonder why scenes aren't giffed.

i don't know. add your perspective if you want

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"In the first week of April the weather turned suddenly unseasonably, insistently lovely. The sky was blue, the air warm and windless, and the sun beamed on the muddy ground with all the sweet impatience of June."

– Donna Tartt, The Secret History (1992)

Young Poets

by Nicanor Parra

Write as you will In whatever style you like. Too much blood has run under the bridge To go on believing That only one road is right.

In poetry, everything is permitted.

With only this condition, of course– You have to improve the blank page.

Feb 2021 Fic Recs

I AM JUST REALLY PASSIONATE ABOUT FANFICTION, OKAY.

I didn’t have as much time to read fanfic this month, but I still want to share the stories I fell in love with. There are so so many good fics out there, and I wish I had time for them all! Here is a list of the fanfic that I read this month and truly adore. 

A majority of my reading this month was spent on Fem!Jily fics! Which I LOVED. I whole heartedly rec every single one!! There is a collection on AO3 of all of the fics written if you are interested! This list would be AGES longer if I added all of those gems. Trust me they are SO worth it! 

Below the cut are 20 wonderful fics. Happy reading my friends!!

Keep reading

Canon

One-shots

No Comparison

The Platform

The Incident in the Library

Snaps

But I Do Love You

That Elusive Aha Moment

The Juggernaut Factor

Head Boy

The Twelve Hours James Did Not Ask Out Lily

A Wizard Walks Into A Bar

And Her Hair Was Red

Once Upon a Goat

The Waiting Room

Hello

The Early Morning Toast Brigade

Saturday

Practicality

Her Realization

Under the Bed

To Outsmart a Nitwit

Chances

That Potter Boy

Bliss

Subtle Perspectives

DevilMayCare

Last Dance

Bye, Bye, Goodbye

1978

The Hogwarts Soft Core Erotica Business

The Intoxication of the Shrew

He Wasn’t All Bad

Conversation in C Minor

Kiss Booth

To Live Nobly

Dung Detention

Love is blind

Have you hugged your James Potter today?

On The Ice

Multi-chaptered

Quiet Summer 

The Life and Times

Letters

Commentarius

All Right, Evans?

Haggis from Algernon

Penmanship Smitten

The White Album

Meet the Mother

The Marauders’ Companion

The Curtain Call

Summer Magic

Drabble Me This

One of Them

Love and Other Tragedies

AU

One-shots

To Live Nobly

Firelight Waltz

Textbooks, Time Scarves, and Tea

Alive

Just Fine

Just Stay Here Tonight

And the Wolves All Cry

Heroes

The Flip Side

Multi-chaptered

Never Going Back Again

Tyranny’s Disease

Petal in the Rain

The Chronicles of Captain Craptastic*

The Girl in the Looking Glass*

The Roguish James Potter and a Diabolical Plan*

Say When*

It Always Starts in Cokeworth*

Authors

cgner

CokeBottleK

GhostOfBambi 

HeyLookTheSnitch

jamespotterthefirst

jamesstruttingpotter

jamesthestagwhore

Jewels5 

monroeslittle

october31st1981

Procrastinator-starting2moro

Queen Nightingale 

Wilhelmina Willoughby 

Can you rec the best Jily smut fics?

multi-chaps

all right, evans?, dangerous crowds (cokebottlek)

the age of inertia (sevenperseids)

before the fawn (andelyn kinsley)

one-shots

taking their time (october31st1981)

birthday surprise (scaredofclouds)

copilot (sevenperseids)

this little number (apalapucian)

hot and cold (bc daily)

heartbeat (jamespotterthefirst)

how do you call your lover boy (cokebottlek)

after hours (ghost-of-bambi)

hijacking (bc daily)

stay the night (scared-of-clouds)

coercion & competition (bc daily)

the progression (jess the enthusiast)

the mornings after (corny sloth)

19 ½ first dates (xylodemon)

question time (cgner)

midnight (zayz)

fireside (xaandria)

cigar (queen nightingale)

happy birthday, mr. potter (cokebottlek)

and the world turns slower (scared-of-clouds)

five times sirius walked in on… (gyzym)

ticklish (thisismeafterdark) WHO IS THIS

glissando (violet_quill)

this little number from (october31st1981)

stockings (jamespotterthefirst)

why don’t you make me (cokebottlek)

and the wolves all cry (monroeslittle)

professor!jily

auror training (bc daily)

so close (cokebottlek)

professor potter au (scared-of-clouds)

ust/snogging jily

james potter’s hands (ladynightley)

the incident in the library (greenconverses) (not full smut but damn) 

early morning toast brigade (ghostofbambi)

gamble (fwf)

pretty (realslytherinchick)

hair (fetchalgernon)

hurricane and volcano (tesstesstessa)

watching james potter (scared-of-clouds)

early seventh year, part 1 (transfigurationprodigy, padfootdidit)

2021 Jily Reading List

Some of the all time classics/best Jily fics out there. All are incredibly well-written and have unique, memorable plots. As for the stories in my Queue, these ones that are highly recommended across platforms. Please reply/reblog if you have any recs that aren’t on this list! My queue is getting dangerously low on content…

*Faves denoted with an asterisk [updated 22 Mar 2021]

QUEUE

The Bet by AuntLeona0 @smileyjily Rated: M | 510k [complete]

A hasty decision and a bet they never should have agreed to result in James and Lily spending a lot more time together in October of their 7th year than they ever anticipated. A story of growing up, identity, and falling in love.

Bond and Free (currently reading) by @clare-with-no-i Rated: T | 62k+ [wip]

The year is 1977, and a group of Gryffindors are learning that the final two years of Hogwarts are punctuated by battles – big and small, mental and physical, devastating and triumphant. It is fortunate, then, that they have grown up warriors.

ONGOING READ - WIPS

*Eighteen Again by @scriibble-fics Rated: M | 216k+ [wip - regular Friday updates!]

After Hogwarts, things fell apart for Lily Evans and James Potter. Three years later, when she shows up in his life to work for the Order, James finds himself pushed back towards her in a situation that’s not only dangerous for his life, but also his heart. [First Wizarding War; Second Chances AU]

Potter Exposed (ff.net / ao3) by @mppmaraudergirl Rated: K+ | 64k+ [au, wip]

Lily Evans has been eagerly awaiting a promotion to reporter ever since she began working for the Daily Prophet. Now her first-ever assignment finds her undercover, posing as a seventh year Hogwarts student, set to discover some of the school’s most thought-provoking secrets while juggling academia, making friends, staving off admirers, and getting to know her professors.

What Are You Doing To Me? by @tiffanytoms Rated: M | 249k+ [wip - recently back from hiatus!]

After class jerk James Potter crushes her, a depressed Lily Evans vows never to let him back into her heart — even though she’s letting him under her skirt. But can she stop herself from taking it too far when she realizes he’s actually in love with her? Lily & Bad Boy James turns smutty

COMPLETED

*Before the Fawn by CalistaTenn Rated: M | 510k [wip/abandoned but worth it!]

Before Harry, before Godric’s Hollow, before the Dark Lord was defied three times… Lily Evans and James Potter discovered that neither of them were what the other had expected, and embarked on a relationship that would change the world as they knew it.

*Every Other Midnight by Kathryn’s NonDePlume Rated: M (should be T) | 987k+ [wip]

Professor Potter and Head Girl Lily Evans… The Dark Decline

*Haggis from Algernon by Rude Gus Rated: T | 93k [complete]

The fic about nothing. Complete.

*If You’d Like by @scriibble-fics Rated: M | 40k [complete]

Lily had always driven James mad, but in all the best possible ways. Eventually, he came to realize that he drove her mad right back. A three-part collection of some of Lily and James’ relationship “firsts.”

*The Last Enemy: Howling Nights (ff.net / ao3) by @chdarling-tle Rated: T | 209k [complete]

It’s 1975 and war is simmering beneath the surface of the Wizarding world. At Hogwarts, it’s magic as usual as the fifth years prepare for their O.W.L.s amidst politics, pranks and other poor choices. But as tensions bubble over, sides will be chosen, friendships destroyed, families parted, and paths forever altered. The Last Enemy series follows the Marauders generation 1975-1981.

*Petal in the Rain by pratty-prongs-princesse Rated: T | 296k+ [wip… forever but recent Feb ’21 update]

Entrapped in a snobbish boarding school, Lily Evans mischievously escapes for one night, fatefully encountering London’s most eligible bachelor, Lord James Potter. Set in 1940 during the Battle of Britain. A story of love, war, magic and deception.

*Voyeur by @scriibble-fics Rated: M | 389k [complete]

As his seventh year begins and the First Wizarding World grows outside Hogwarts’ castle walls, James Potter has one goal in mind: to finally win over Lily Evans. The only problem? Accidentally seeing her with someone else, of course—but it’s not like that will stop him. [L/OC to L/J; Marauders seventh year/intro to the First Wizarding War] [Winner of JilyAwards 2020 Fav Smut/NSFW]

Bloody Shangrila by dorcasdeadowes Rated: M | 133k [au, complete]

“The way she babbled on about the place made it seem like some sort of promise land, but James knew full well that is was nothing of the sort. Sowsworth was a wasteland that comprised of seven shops, a pub, and the incredibly bored shadows of lonely people. It was not bloody Shangri-la.” AU.

Commentarius by @bcdaily Rated: M | 740k [wip/abandoned, a classic]

Lily has always considered herself ordinary. But as she enters her 7th year, things start changing and Lily starts going a bit mad. Suddenly, she’s Head Girl, her mates are acting strangely, and there’s a new James Potter she can’t seem to get rid of. PRE-HBP

Just Stay Here Tonight by monroeslittle Rated: M | 38k [au, complete]

AU. Lily Evans isn’t a witch.

Love and Other Tragedies by FancyEyes Rated: M | 239k [complete]

“We don’t deserve her,” the Head Boy answered thoughtfully. “None of us do. Not even me. Not because she’s perfect. She’s not. Sometimes I think she’s even more disastrously flawed than the rest of us combined. And not because she’s beautiful, even though she is. Certainly not for being lovely because she never was.We don’t deserve her because she’s so much more than we’ll ever be”

The Life and Times by Jewels5 Rated: M | 614k [wip/abandoned, a classic]

She was dramatic. He was dynamic. She was precise. He was impulsive. He was James, and she was Lily, and one day they shared a kiss, but before that they shared many arguments, for he was cocky, and she was sweet, and matters of the heart require time.

Turning Tables by scared of clouds Rated: T | 206k [complete]

Lily Evans’ and James Potter’s relationship has always been a complicated story; it’s just about to get a lot more complicated. And so is everything else. They might not know each other well, but they’re about to know each other a lot better. Cover art by anxiouspineapples.

ONE-SHOTS (that I can remember)

The Incident in the Library by greenconverses  Rated: T | 4k

The Juggernaut Factor by dorcasdeadowes Rated: T | 13k

Asleep in the Common Room by the potter family Rated: K+ | 4k

Cards on the Table by snapslikethis Rated: T | 1k

six five of crows killer cinnamon rolls

2010 - 2011 (Short Dance: Schenkst Du Beim Tango Mir Dein Herz/Nights and Days | Free Dance: Hip Hip Chin Chin/Temptation/Mujer Latina)

2011 Arctic Edge Test Skate FD - [Fancam]

2011 4CC SD - [No commentary]

2011 4CC FD - [CBC] [No commentary]

2011 Worlds SD - [CBC] [Russian 720p]

2011 Worlds FD - [British Eurosport 720p] [NBC] [CBC] [Japanese 720p]

2011 Worlds EX (I Wanna Hold Your Hand) - [Russian 720p]

2011 - 2012 (Short Dance: Hip Hip Chin Chin/Temptation/Mujer Latina | Free Dance: Funny Face Medley)

2011 Finlandia Trophy SD - [Fancam]

2011 Finlandia Trophy FD - [Finnish]

2011 Skate Canada SD - [Russian] [No commentary]

2011 Skate Canada FD - [British Eurosport 720p] [Russian 720p]

2011 Skate Canada EX (I Wanna Hold Your Hand) - [Russian 720p]

2011 Trophée Éric Bompard SD - [British Eurosport]

2011 Trophée Éric Bompard FD - [British Eurosport]

2011 Trophée Éric Bompard EX (I Wanna Hold Your Hand) - [Fancam]

2011 Grand Prix Final SD - [CBC] [Russian]

2011 Grand Prix Final FD - [British Eurosport, 2] [CBC]

2011 Grand Prix Final EX (I Wanna Hold Your Hand) - [CBC]

2012 Canadian Nationals SD - [No commentary 720p]

2012 Canadian Nationals FD - [No commentary 720p]

2012 Canadian Nationals EX (I Wanna Hold Your Hand) - [No commentary 720p]

2012 4CC SD - [No commentary]

2012 4CC FD - [NBC] [No commentary]

2012 4CC EX (I Wanna Hold Your Hand) - [No commentary]

2012 Worlds SD - [British Eurosport]

2012 Worlds FD - [British Eurosport] [Russian 720p]

2012 Worlds EX (Ain’t No Mountain High Enough) - [Italian 720p]

2012 World Team Trophy SD - [Japanese 720p]

2012 World Team Trophy FD - [Japanese 720p]

2012 World Team Trophy EX (Ain’t No Mountain High Enough) - [Japanese 720p]

2012 - 2013 (Short Dance: And The Waltz Goes On | Free Dance: Carmen)

2012 Skate Canada SD - [British Eurosport 480p] [No commentary]

2012 Skate Canada FD - [Russian 720p]

2011 Skate Canada EX (Hallelujah) - [Russian 720p]

2012 Rostelecom Cup SD - [Russian 720p]

2012 Rostelecom Cup FD - [Russian 720p]

2012 Rostelecom Cup EX (Hallelujah) - [Russian 720p] [No commentary]

2012 Grand Prix Final SD - [Italian] [Fancam]

2012 Grand Prix Final FD - [British Eurosport] [Russian 720p] [No commentary 720p]

2012 Grand Prix Final EX (Hallelujah) - [No commentary]

2013 Canadian Nationals SD - [TSN] [CTV 720p]

2013 Canadian Nationals FD - [TSN 720p] [CTV]

2013 Canadian Nationals EX (Hallelujah) - [Fancam]

2013 4CC SD - [Russian]

2013 4CC FD - [British Eurosport] [CBC]

2013 4CC EX (Hallelujah) - [British Eurosport]

2013 Worlds SD - [CBC 720p] [British Eurosport]

2013 Worlds FD - [CBC 720p] [British Eurosport 720p]

2013 Worlds EX (Hallelujah) - [CBC 720p] [British Eurosport]

2013-2014 (Short Dance: Dream A Little Dream Of Me/Muskrat Ramble/Cheek To Cheek | Free Dance: Glazunov’s The Seasons)

2013 Québec Summer Championships SD - [No commentary]

2013 Finlandia Trophy SD - [No commentary]

2013 Finlandia Trophy FD - [No commentary]

2013 Skate Canada SD - [CBC] [Russian]

2013 Skate Canada FD - [British Eurosport 720p] [CBC] [No commentary 720p]

2013 Skate Canada EX (Stay) - [Chinese 720p] [TSN]

2013 Trophée Éric Bompard SD - [No commentary 720p] [Russian 720p]

2013 Trophée Éric Bompard FD - [CBC] [British Eurosport] [Russian 720p]

2013 Trophée Éric Bompard EX (Stay) - [Russian 720p]

2013 Grand Prix Final SD - [Russian 720p] [Japanese 720p]

2013 Grand Prix Final FD - [Japanese 720p]

2013 Grand Prix Final EX (Stay) - [Spanish 720p]

2014 Canadian Nationals SD - [TSN]

2014 Canadian Nationals FD - [TSN]

2014 Canadian Nationals EX (Stay) - [CTV]

2014 Winter Olympic Games Team Event SD - [CBC 720p]

2014 Winter Olympic Games Team Event FD - [CBC 720p]

2014 Winter Olympic Games SD - [NBC 720p] [CBC 720p] [BBC 720p] [Radio-Canada 720p]

2014 Winter Olympic Games FD - [NBC 720p] [CBC 720p] [BBC 720p] [Olympics]

2014 Winter Olympic Games EX (Stay) - [CBC 720p] [No commentary 720p]

2016-2017 (Short Dance: Kiss/Five Women/Purple Rain | Free Dance: Pilgrims On A Long Journey/Shadows/You Upset My Life/Latch)

2016 Autumn Classic International SD - [Dailymotion (Group 1)]

2016 Autumn Classic International FD - [No commentary]

2016 Skate Canada SD - [TSN]

2016 Skate Canada FD - [TSN] [British Eurosport] [Russian] [No commentary]

2016 Skate Canada EX (Sorry) - [No commentary]

2016 NHK Trophy SD - [CBC 720p]

2016 NHK Trophy FD - [CBC 720p] [British Eurosport] [No commentary 720p]

2016 NHK Trophy EX (Sorry) - [Russian] [No commentary 720p]

2016 Grand Prix Final SD - [NBC 720p] [CBC 720p] [No commentary 720p]

2016 Grand Prix Final FD - [NBC 720p (audio slightly altered)] [British Eurosport] [No commentary 720p]

2016 Grand Prix Final EX (Sorry) - [No commentary 720p]

2017 Canadian Nationals SD - [TSN]

2017 Canadian Nationals FD - [CTV 720p]

2017 Canadian Nationals EX (Sorry) - [TSN]

2017 4CC SD - [CBC 720p] [NBC 720p] [No commentary 720p]

2017 4CC FD - [British Eurosport] [No commentary 720p]

2017 4CC EX (Sorry) - [No commentary 480p] [Russian]

2017 Worlds SD - [NBC 480p] [British Eurosport 720p] [CBC 480p] [CBC 720p] [No commentary 720p] [Official ISU Stream]

2017 Worlds FD - [NBC 480p] [British Eurosport] [CBC 720p] [No commentary 720p] [Official ISU Stream]

2017 Worlds EX (Sorry) - [Official ISU Stream]

2017 Worlds SD Practice - [Official ISU Stream]

2017 Worlds FD Practice 1 - [CBC]

2017 Worlds FD Practice 2 - [ISU Official Stream]

2017-2018 (Short Dance: Sympathy For The Devil/Hotel California/Oye Como Va | Free Dance: The Show Must Go On/El Tango De Roxanne/Come What May)

2017 Autumn Classic International SD - [Livestream]

2017 Autumn Classic International FD - [Livestream]

2017 Autumn Classic International SD Practice 1 - [Official Stream] [Dailymotion]

2017 Autumn Classic International FD Practice 1 - [Official Stream]

2017 Autumn Classic International FD Practice 2 - [Official Stream, 2]

2017 Skate Canada SD - [British Eurosport 720p, 2] [Olympic Channel 720p, 2, 3]

2017 Skate Canada FD - [TSN] [Olympic Channel 720p, 2] [No commentary 720p]

2017 Skate Canada SD Practice 1 - [No audio]

2017 Skate Canada SD Practice 2 - [Dailymotion]

2017 Skate Canada FD Practice - [Dailymotion]

2017 Skate Canada EX (Long Time Running) - [No commentary]

2017 NHK Trophy SD - [Telesport] [Olympic Channel 720p] [No commentary]

2017 NHK Trophy FD - [Telesport] [Olympic Channel 720p] [No commentary]

2017 NHK Trophy EX (Long Time Running) - [Telesport]

2017 Grand Prix Final SD - [Telesport] [Olympic Channel 720p]

2017 Grand Prix Final FD - [CBC] [Olympic Channel 720p] [No commentary 720p]

2017 Grand Prix Final EX (Long Time Running) - [No commentary 720p]

2018 Canadian Nationals SD - [TSN 720p]

2018 Canadian Nationals FD - [TSN 720p]

2018 Canadian Nationals EX (Long Time Running) - [RDS]

2018 Winter Olympic Games Team Event SD - [CBC 720p] [NBC 1080p] [NBC Extended Feed 720p]

2018 Winter Olympic Games Team Event FD - [CBC 720p] [NBC 720p] [NBC Extended Feed 720p] [Radio-Canada 720p]

2018 Winter Olympic Games SD - [CBC 1080p] [NBC 720p] [NBC Extended Feed 720p] [British Eurosport] [BBC]

2018 Winter Olympic Games FD - [CBC 1080p] [NBC 720p] [NBC Extended Feed 720p] [British Eurosport] [BBC] [Radio-Canada 720p] [No commentary 720p] [Olympics] [Olympics Full Event]

2018 Winter Olympic Games EX (Long Time Running) - [CBC 1080p] [NBC 720p] [Olympic Channel 720p] [Radio-Canada 720p] [Olympics Full Gala]

2018 Winter Olympic Games FD Practice - [Dailymotion]

Olympic Compilation (2010, 2014, 2018) - [Olympics]

Droplets aka VM Watching Skating

2013 Finlandia Trophy Reaction To Yuzuru Hanyu - [Fancam, Edit]

2018 Winter Olympic Games Reaction To Kaetlyn Osmond - [Fancam]

2020 Canadian Nationals Scott Moir Cameo - [TSN]

Last updated 19 July 2020

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