i am literally 100% sure that ultimately it was lily who asked james out like
- james is matured and he’s like “okay you’re gonna ruin it all if you ask her out”
- because they’re friends
- honest to god friends
- who actually talk and laugh and have meaningful conversations and honestly james doesn’t think he could handle it if he messed everything up
- so he just kinda sits there in love with her
- so in love
- and lily’s over here like “i so do not love him”
- “no really marlene we’re friends i don’t love him”
- “okay yeah he smells really nice and i really love that thing he does with his hands when he’s thinking and it’s really really cute when he runs his fingers through his hair and have you seen the way his ass looks in those quidditch robes”
- “but i do not love him”
- and marlene’s like “you’re a fucking idiot”
- and james decides that he has to at least try to move on so he starts dating amelia boot
- and lily can’t figure out why it bothers her so much but she avoids them at literally all costs and she just can’t see them together and she sort of feels like she’s going to throw up and god fucking damn it she loves him
- “don’t say i told you so marlene, you bitch”
- “i soooo told you so”
- but now james is with amelia and it’s too late and lily doesn’t know what to do
- so she just kind of sucks it up and tries to hang out with him except it’s so hard because she really really wants to kiss him
- (his lips look really soft)
- but she can’t and it’s killing her and she kind of thinks amelia hates her?? or, at least, she sends her dirty looks from across the table
- and james can’t figure out why amelia doesn’t like lily because everyone likes lily until one day amelia sits him down and asks him to stop talking to her
- “you’re still in love with her, james, and you’ll only get over it if you stop talking to her”
- james doesn’t think that’s physically possible
- so they break up and sirius gives him a knowing look but james keeps quiet about the reason because the last thing he needs is for lily to find out that he still loves her
- lily is ecstatic
- “i think it’s kind of awful that you’re this happy about your friend breaking up with his girfriend”
- “shut up mary”
- but they’re at the three broomsticks a month later and it’s just the two of them and they’re waiting for the usual bunch and lily decides she’s going to do it
- she has to because she can’t live like this for the rest of her life. she can’t let james potter slip away
- “do you love me?”
- and oh shit it comes out so wrong that was not what she wanted to say not at all she was going to invite him to get butterbeer later and oh god her cheeks are turning the color of her hair and she thinks she’s going to sink into the chair
- james thinks he might be dying
- “do i what?”
- lily’s already fucked it up this much, she might as well keep going
- “do you love me? because i do. love you, i mean.”
- and then she stares at her hands and waits
- and waits
- and waits
- and then she looks up because what is taking the asshole so long to reply?
- he’s just grinning at her. smiling, as if she’s just told him he’s won a million galleons or signed to play with the chudley cannons
- “yeah, yeah i reckon i’ve loved you this whole time”
- “pay up, moony. i told you she’d be the one to confess first”
- “god damn it sirius”
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‘WHY HAS THAT WIP I’M FOLLOWING NOT BEEN UPDATED?’ ROULETTE!
- Author got little to no feedback on previous chapter, thinks nobody cares and/or everyone hates the story
- Author received negative feedback and thinks everyone hates the story
- Author started another story in order to get rid of writer’s block brought on by WIP and is now totally consumed by new story, keeps staring guiltily at WIP reminding his/herself to continue it
- Author’s real life suddenly got TOO REAL.
- Author got seduced by another fandom
- Author doesn’t use sofware that autosaves and lost most of the next chapter, is too lazy to rewrite
- Author has sudden case of believing everything they write is absolute shit and doesn’t want to subject you to sub-par work
- The story has been pretty much leading up to the next chapter and Author is now procrastinating out of fear and self doubt because they’re pretty sure they’re gonna mess it up
- Author thought it was okay to lead into this one plot point, but due to feedback/further reflection, has now realised that they need to write another 3000 words to get there and is not emotionally ready
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ok but i really need my girl rey to make herself a new lightsaber because the one she’s got now kind of has a 100% hand loss rate
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the emoji is what truly brings this post to a pinnacle of excellence
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The correct pronunciation of “colonel” is, without exaggeration, the stupidest thing on this planet
ENGLISH IS NOT MY NATIVE LANGUAGE SO AFTER SEEING THIS POST A MILLION TIMES I FINALLY GOOGLED THE PRONUNCIATION AND NOW I AM SO ANGRY
English IS my native language and when I was twelve I googled the pronunciation of the word ‘colonel’ and I literally screamed with rage. My parents thought I was dying.
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Do u ever not realize how starved for affection u are till someone hugs u a bit tighter than normal and you find that you really don’t want to let go
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Let’s face it folks: Alexander Hamilton would never have made it to America in the world we have today.
He immigrated from the Caribbean as a penniless, fatherless child, with no training and minimum schooling. Under Donald Trump he’d never even get to board the ship. Under President Obama he would never have qualified for admission.
I wish Donald Trump could see the tour de force that “Hamilton” is on Broadway, if only to learn how incredible Hamilton was and how he saved the US from bankruptcy among other achievements.
Maybe Trump would look differently on the immigrants he attacks with such abandon if he saw what one man, who arrived here with nothing but terrible prospects, accomplished.
Hamilton would never have made it to the New World today. Then neither would William Ford, father of Henry Ford who force-migrated in 1847 during the Famine with only his carpenter’s tools. Neither would Thomas Fitzgerald or Patrick Kennedy a barrel-maker, both ancestors of of JFK and both who also force-migrated at the same time.
In more modern times, Trump would certainly have blocked Abdul Fattah Jandali, a Syrian refugee from Homs who was fleeing a war in Lebanon in 1954.
He was forced to give a baby up for adoption because his pregnant girlfriend’s father would not let him marry his daughter. The son turned out to be Steve Jobs.
Google was the co-invention of Russian emigre Sergey Brin. It is now one of the largest companies in the world.
A bankrupt America – no massive development of the automobile, no JFK as president, no iPhone or Mac, no Google were it not for these immigrants.
Does that strike home Mr Trump?
“Hamilton” teaches a great lesson on the power of immigrants (IrishCentral)
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