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Here’s some fourth wing art! #fourthwing
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— Thank you for saving my life.
— It’s what my dad would’ve done.
— Anthony Edwards as Lieutenant JG Nick “Goose” Bradshaw
in Top Gun (1986)
— Miles Teller as Lieutenant Bradley “Rooster” Bradshaw
in Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
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Thinking about Carole and how she didn’t want Bradley to fly, and thinking about Bradley picking up on that as he grew up even if his mom never said anything explicitly about it to him.
Thinking about Bradley trying to reassure her by telling her he’s going to be a pilot and “not a backseater, Momma, don’t worry. I’ll be in control the whole time.”
Thinking about Bradley offhandedly mentioning how well-designed the newer jets are that the navy’s using, “don’t you think, Momma? Lots of improvements and updates, too.” Maybe he mentions the canopy designs specifically. Drops the conversation when she switches topics.
Thinking about Bradley trying as hard as he can to comfort his Momma and having it all go to shit, anyway, when she gets sick and he puts his dreams on hold. Thinking about her finally telling Bradley story after story about Goose because she knows she doesn’t have much time left.
Thinking about Carole telling Mav that she’s terrified of Bradley ending up in the sky like the rest of them, chasing ghosts they’ll never catch.
Thinking about Carole admitting to Maverick that her biggest fear is leaving Mav to bury the entire Bradshaw family himself, one by one, and how she doesn’t want him to bear that weight.
Thinking about Maverick pulling Bradley’s application with trembling hands and feeling like he’s still putting Bradley six feet under, anyway.
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birthdays || 12/365 || also on ao3
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He’s thirteen and Mav buys him his first leather jacket.
There are patches on the sleeves already - old squadron patches that Mav’s collected, sewn into the fabric by his mother. Her smile is just as bright as Maverick’s, her laughter infectious as she squeezes Bradley in a hug.
“Isn’t it sharp, baby? Looks so good on you.”
“I love it,” Bradley gushes, turning to hug Mav for the third time since unwrapping the box. “Thanks, Mav. This is awesome.”
Mav’s eyes are shining, his hand ruffling through Bradley’s curls. “You’re welcome, Bradley. Happy birthday.”
//
He’s sixteen and Mav takes him up in the Mustang for the first time.
The sky feels like home. Bradley realizes he shouldn’t feel hurt anymore by Mav leaving so often — how could Mav be kept from this? How could anyone?
Bradley feels the phantom thrum of the controls underneath his hands. He can see his future, knows instinctively that this is where he’s meant to be.
“I’ll be a pilot,” Bradley says into the headset, confident despite the slight crack in his still-changing voice. “Just like you, Mav. No backseat for me. I’m gonna fly.”
“I know you are, kid,” Mav laughs, guiding them back toward the hangar. “Can’t wait to see it.”
//
He’s seventeen and he realizes his mom isn’t going to make it to his eighteenth.
She’s tired. So goddamn tired. Bradley wishes he could do more, but he isn’t prepared for this. All the time in the world couldn’t prepare him for this.
He’s living in a world that constantly refuses to equip him. It isn’t fair.
“Happy birthday, sweetheart,” Carole whispers, smiling as best as she can manage, her frail fingers tangled with his. “I’m so proud of you.”
“I’m proud of you, too,” Bradley whispers, hugging her close. “I bet — I bet I’ll be able to hear you, y’know? Up in the sky. The way Mav hears Dad.”
With his head resting on her chest, he can’t see her expression, but he feels her fingers tighten around his reflexively.
“You don’t have to be in the sky to hear me, baby,” Carole says, and it’s the strongest her voice has sounded in weeks.
//
He’s nineteen and he’s alone.
Shitty food network reruns, cheap beer, the low thump of music from one of the apartments downstairs. There are messages on his answering machine that he’s ignoring and a card left in the mailbox downstairs.
“Happy birthday, Bradley,” he mumbles to himself, popping the tab on another can of beer. “What’s one more.”
//
He’s twenty-four and swaying in the middle of a dance floor, tequila thrumming through his veins, when the realization hits him.
He’s officially reached an age his father never did.
Bradley thinks he mumbles an apology to the girl he’s been dancing with, but he isn’t sure. He walks on unsteady feet to the bathroom, ducking into one of the stalls and slamming the door shut, resting his sweaty forehead against the metal as he desperately tries to catch his breath.
He doesn’t know what a Bradshaw man is supposed to look like at twenty-four. He’s never seen it. It makes his stomach roll. The tequila burns even more on its way back up.
He’s wiping his mouth with a towel at the sink when he catches sight of his own reflection, sweat shining on his skin and stubble grown in around his cheeks. He brushes his fingers over his top lip, scratching against the hair there, and distantly remembers the way his dad’s mustache would scratch against his cheek.
When he shaves the next morning, he leaves the hair on his top lip alone.
//
He’s thirty-two and there’s another card in his mailbox, but there’s a text from a new number this time, too.
Happy birthday, Bradley. Heard from Ice about Top Gun. Congrats.
Bradley reads the text multiple times throughout the day. Blocks the number. Unblocks it.
At 11:58pm, annoyingly sober and exhausted, he finally replies.
Guess I didn’t need your help getting here after all.
Maverick doesn’t text him again.
//
He’s thirty-six and officially retired from active duty. Maverick’s hangar has become a second home to him again, just like it was when his mom was at her sickest.
“I’m older than her now,” Bradley says quietly, seated on the couch and watching the sun as it sets over the desert. “You realize that? I’m officially older than momma ever was.”
“I know, kid,” Maverick says, reaching over to clink his beer bottle against Bradley’s empty one. “It’s a hell of a thing, huh? Feels — undeserved, almost.”
“Does it go away?” Bradley asks. “It hasn’t with my dad. Guessing it won’t go away with her, either, will it?”
Maverick smiles, meeting his eyes. “Not completely. But your parents - they’d be so proud of where you are now. You’ve given them a hell of a legacy.”
Bradley’s quiet for a bit, long enough for Maverick to grab another bottle for them both. He speaks again when Maverick’s settled back with his book.
“I’ve hated my birthday ever since Mom died,” Bradley says. “Tried to avoid it, usually. Preferred spending it drunk or alone.”
Maverick glances at him. “Well, you aren’t drunk. Certainly aren’t alone.”
“Nah,” Bradley says, shaking his head. “And this is the first time in years I haven’t wanted to be. It’s the best birthday I’ve had in years, Mav.”
Maverick grins. “Wanna make it better?”
“How?”
“My birthday gift.”
Bradley snorts. “You get me another jacket?”
(Because he still has the one Mav got for him at thirteen. Treasured it even when they weren’t speaking.)
“Better,” Maverick replies. “Thought I’d let you fly a loop in the Mustang.”
Immediately, Bradley’s jumping up and heading toward the plane to get her ready to fly. Maverick follows him, laughing the entire way.
The sky feels like home. And just like he thought, he hears his momma’s voice in the roar of the wind.
Don’t you look sharp, baby. Thirty-six looks good on you.
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James and Lily. They lived a short life, but kissed a lot.
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James and Lily and colors
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After head boy and head girl’s duty
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When they were still very young, Remus Lupin's dad married Lily Evans' mum. It changes everything.
Castling | a Jily canon-divergent AU
♜ continue reading on AO3
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sunday snippet 💭
ES 2.0 getting some new kisses 👀🤭
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Summary: The marauders go on a road trip with Lily
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Jily Recs
It feels like when anyone asks for Jily Recs it’s all the same ones that get recommended. Here’s some of my absolute favorites that I rarely see on fic rec lists and I just do not understand why!!!
Must Reads:
And the Wolves All Cry by @monroeslittle
Summary: AU. if a certain person doesn’t hear a prophecy, does it still come true?
My notes: This story will rip your heart out and break it into pieces before putting it back together. But it is worth every moment!
The Art of Self Defense by @fetchalgernon
Summary: Lily got pregnant at sixteen and left Hogwarts to work at an inn. After seventeen years of single parenting, she now has to manage a persistent James, nosy villagers, and a son who’s all too interested in joining the Order.
My notes: Read. It. Now!! I have read this so many times and I enjoy it even more every single time.
The Potions Missile Crisis by @ghost-of-bambi
Summary: As if Slughorn wasn’t bad enough already, now you’ll never be able to see him again without spontaneously combusting from shame.
My notes: So many feels. Lily has a crush.
Glass of Water by lyin
Summary: It’s 1976 and Hogwarts’ N.E.W.T. Divination class can only see the homework in their future. Lily Evans and Sirius Black certainly can’t foresee they’re falling into friendship. What happens in Divination, stays in Divination.
My notes: Okay so not so much a Jily BUT it is THE best Sirius/Lily BROTP EVER!! I have read it multiple times and love it everytime.
Who Rushed Like Lions by @lazyisatalent
Summary: In July of 1979, the First Wizarding War rages on, the Order begins to look for a spy, and Lily Evans Potter reads a collection of World War I poems.
My notes: I love the relationships in this one. Especially Lily’s with Remus and Sirius.
Just Stay Here Tonight by @monroeslittle
Summary: AU. Lily Evans isn’t a witch.
My notes: So many feels
The Early Morning Toast Brigade by @ghost-of-bambi
Summary: In which Lily Evans makes the best of insomnia, with the help of her womanly wiles.
More Fics I Enjoy:
Key Limes by @fetchalgernon
Summary: In which Academy Award winner Lily Evans discovers the periphery of internet fandom and the existence of Prince James’s gold star system.
Some Moments Last Forever by @criesforjudas
Summary: An account of June 16, 1978, containing uncomfortable silences, a final train ride, and four half-grown boys not quite ready to let go.
Not Fade Away by @itsslide
Summary:She fights for a world she hates as much as it hates her. It never stops; not until the world of magic burns to ashes to be reborn, or destroys Lily Evans and all caught in her wake. From the start of sixth year at Hogwarts to beyond the death of Voldemort, the rise of the bright young friends, allies, and enemies of the Order of the Phoenix - and how each and every one of them fell.
Battle Nerves by @rosierues
Summary: The Marauders and Lily, after a mission, grating on each others’ nerves.
Fireside by acacia carter
Summary: Trying to reassure Lily Evans that the world isn’t going to fall apart on his watch, James ends up revealing far more than he’d intended - and the emotions that have been bottled up for years are finally realized.
If We Only Die Once by Apalapucian
Summary: Lily gets flak for dating James and gets sucked in to the belief that he’s better off without her. She tells him she doesn’t love him anymore, and after a while, she manages to make him believe the lie.
Color By Numbers by DawnieS
Summary: Lily Evans was everything that Sirius Black was not: studious, rule-abiding, and so unfailingly good. And Sirius was everything Lily knew she was but didn’t want to be: temperamental, judgmental, and stubborn. But for the sake of one James Potter, the two had to find a way to get along.
Still Young by LiesMiranda
Summary: Lily can’t pinpoint when it changed, or why, but she knows that she doesn’t want to be anywhere but here with this boy, knowing that the whole year is theirs for the taking.
A Proposal of Sorts by welcometonerdworld
Summary: In which Lily is distracted by James, and finally decides to do something about it.
All This Waiting For the Sky To Fall by DawnieS
Summary: They found her body – broken, bleeding, face filled with signs of pain and fear, and the Death Eaters had clearly enjoyed what they were doing – amidst the rubble of a ruined book store. A tragedy in five parts.
Red Velvet Ribbon by CokeBottleK
Summary: It all starts with some teasing banter beneath spindly branches and green leaves, all bundled up in a red velvet ribbon.
Fearless by Apalapucian
Summary: For something so immensely life-changing, it only took Lily Evans a number of heartbeats to realize just how deeply and madly in love with James Potter she was.
Control by thisismeafterdark
Summary: The development of Lily and James’s physical relationship.
A Wizard Walks Into A Bar by @ghost-of-bambi
Summary:Contrary to popular belief, it’s not always the man who does all the chasing.
Purely Business by Zayz
Summary: They didn’t do it out of love. They were not in love, nor did they want to be. They barely knew each other. None of this was romantic, not even close. What they had together was purely business.
Broom Cupboard by Zayz
Summary: Yes, this is another broom-cupboard fic to add to the long list…but this one is, for variety’s sake, divided into short, disjointed chapters to capture that admittedly long evening in the cupboard.
Hush by Beautifully Ugly
Summary: Somehow, it went from being an aching nothing to an overwhelming amount of this, and she realizes that when it comes to him, nothing can ever be a healthy medium, especially not the way she feels.
The Incident In The Library by greenconverses
Summary: Lily Evans has been distracted lately…and it’s all because of James Potter and his stupid, unbuttoned shirt. Hardly any fluff, but plenty of shirtless James for everybody. Seventh year fic.
Key Limes by @fetchalgernon
Summary: In which Academy Award winner Lily Evans discovers the periphery of internet fandom and the existence of Prince James’s gold star system.
Still Young by LiesMiranda
Summary: Lily can’t pinpoint when it changed, or why, but she knows that she doesn’t want to be anywhere but here with this boy, knowing that the whole year is theirs for the taking.
Tumblr Drabbles (please let me know if a link is gone)
Hair
Mudblood
Rise
Short Hair
Stay
The Only Comforts We Have
Here In The Morning
Bedside Talks
First Time
Good Idea
Just Be
Fireside Talk
Fall Afternoon
First Kiss
Dance
Halls
Soulmates
Flirting
Alone
Sirius Knows
#jily#jily fic#jily fic recs#jily fanfiction#jily fanfiction recs#jily fanfic recs#james potter#lily evans
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Jily Recs Pt. 2
So I’ve been reading a lot of Jily lately and surprisingly have found a lot of new tasty treats and I’m eager to share them!!!
Previous Jilly Recs
Sunshine in my Eyes by @monroeslittle
Summary: Mr. and Mrs. Evans are killed when Lily’s only a girl, and she’s supposed to go to a home with her sister. Instead, a relative they didn’t know they had comes to collect them, and introduces Lily to manners, magic, and a life that’s just the slightest bit different from the life she was supposed to live.Or, an AU in which Minerva McGonagall raises Lily.
My Notes: This one should have been on the first list and I don’t know how it got missed but here it is! Really you should read everything by @monroeslittle whether you’re a fan of the ship or not. Everything she writes is brilliant!!
When Love Was King by @ritaskeetered
Summary: “My best friend is a fierce republican,“ is one of the first things she says to him. Who would have thought she of all people would end up with a prince on her arm?
My Notes: Prince James has my heart. I love every moment of this
A Game of Thrones by @ritaskeetered
Summary: Lily Evans had never imagined she would meet Prince James, but when she does at St Andrews’ annual Christmas Pub Crawl, her whole world is turned upside down. For who thought that a girl like her - with a sister that reads “Hello” magazine like it’s the Bible - would end up with a prince like him?
My Notes: More Prince James to love!!
Jape by @gryffindormischief
Summary: What’s better than a cozy evening with muggle tricks and teasing? My Notes: I love pre-relationship flirting
Allied by @gryffindormischief
Summary: Lily’s acting strange…and James is going to get to the bottom of it.
Mirror, am I pretty yet? by @professor_moony
Summary: The next morning, Marlene shows her wand movements that make her hair fall around her shoulders, frizz free and curled. She tells her the incantations that apply lipstick and mascara expertly, in a matter of seconds. Lily thinks of the way her mother sits at her dresser in the morning and painstakingly applies make up with a steady, practiced hand and secretly thinks that the magical way looks rather gaudy.But she’s fascinated by it none the less. It’s not like the charms she learns in class – it’s elegant, a woman’s magic.
My Notes: Not much to say but perfect and hot! I definitely want a part 2 or 3 to this one!
Agastopia by @gryffindormischief
Summary: Definition: Admiration of a particular part of someone’s body.orLily is a connoisseur of fine arses
My Notes: I’m not in love with James, you are! I love fics where Lily is realizing just how fit James is
A Series of (In)Decent Proposals by Sleepinghookah
Summary: Throughout the course of their lives, James will ask Lily to marry him many times. A 13-part series of their many proposals, with 12 no’s and one very jubilant yes.
You’re Smiling In Love (and we’re all so relieved) by prongsno
Summary: James gives Lily a class on kissing, but feelings always get in the way.
My Notes: I could go on and on about how much I love pre-relationship 6th year/7th year stories. When they’re so close to just falling but they’re just figuring each other out …. so yes here’s another one to enjoy.
The Witching Hour by @munarlothhp
Summary: A collection of moments inside Gryffindor Tower between 12-3 am
My Notes: This is sooo incredibly perfect!! Jily and Lily/Sirius Brotp!!
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Jily Recs 3
Her Oddest Customer by @sunaprincess7
Summary: Lily Evans has just opened a new cafe which serves models, musicians…and Royalty, apparently. Jily AU, Royalty Jily.
My Notes: A MUST READ!! Seriously this fic has all the feels. I have read it multiple times already and know I’ll read it many more.
Easy, Bloody Easy by @ghost-of-bambi
Summary: Answer to the prompt: Head Boy James is trying to keep his cool because some Slytherins are causing trouble and he doesn’t want to hex them but Lily sails in to the rescue.
My Notes: A MUST READ! I love, love, love cannon moments like these!!
Quidditch Club by @sunaprincess7
Summary: The first rule of Quidditch Club is ‘no falling for a student’s mum’. Jily AU. Single Mum AU. Smut if you squint.
My Notes: So, so cute! Just adorable
Slip of Tongue by @alrightginger
Summary: Lily wonders if, perhaps, you have to be mad to consider what such a thing as another person’s sweat would taste like against your own lips. Smut.
Time Lapse by @apalapucian
Summary: three years ago, lily discovered that she could fly. two years ago, james stopped flying. the first time they meet, he’s twenty four, and she literally falls from the sky. he thinks it’s love at first sight. it’s not—it rarely ever is—but close.
The Not-So Distant Future by @tosca1390
Summary: This year was different. Beyond James, beyond the watery future that lay before her; there was a change in the air of the school, of the world outside that she couldn’t place.
Firelight by @rosierues
Summary: “It’s late, Sirius. Peter’s already gone to sleep and I’m tired, too. Are you coming?”
Summer Fever by @petalsandfishes
Summary: She’s not ready to spend the rest of her summer waiting on him and he’s not sure if he remembers a time when he wasn’t waiting on her.
Anticipation by @petalsandfishes
Summary: He knew the feeling in the pit of his stomach, the one that made him feel like he was simultaneously flying and falling all at once. He was in love with his best friend.
Love Is Here For a Visit by @southsidestory
Summary: James knows better than to hope for impossible things, but he can’t stop himself from wanting Lily anyway.
Isn’t It Neat by @sunaprincess7
Summary: Lily Evans has been playing Ariel the mermaid at Disney World Orlando for six months. She’s about to meet her new Prince Eric. Jily AU, Disney AU.
A Tapestry of Bruises by @nasimwrites
Summary: It’s September 1st, and a tired Lily Evans finds herself locked in the Prefect’s Bathroom with none other than Sirius Black. Frienship fic.
My Notes: A Lily/Sirius brotp fic.
Colour Me Surprised by @october31st1981
Summary: A moment after a full moon
My Notes: Again I am a sucker for these moments between the 2 at Hogwarts … in his bed.
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@hogwartsonline november event, quotes
"How come she married him?" Harry asked miserably. "She hated him!"
"Nah, she didn't," said Sirius.
"She started going out with him in seventh year," said Lupin.
"Once James had deflated his head a bit," said Sirius.
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I may wonder into other fandoms but I always always always make my way back to Jily. And when I do I always have to reread 3 fics that I absolutely love more than any fic I have read in any fandom. Those 3 are:
The Art of Self-Defense by @fetchalgernon
Her Oddest Customer by @sunaprincess7
The Potions Missile Crises by @ghost-of-bambi
These are 100% my comfort fics
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“I was always welcome at the Potters’.”
-Sirius Black
just done watching the fifth movie today, and felt like I wanted to make something like this again.. I did a redraw of the third movie here, while Sirius was asking for Harry to stay with him (first pict). And I think somehow it can be related to the fifth movie where Sirius told Harry that he was at James’ when he ran away from his house. besides the fact that Sirius was Harry’s godfather, I think he wanted to stay with Harry because he didn’t want Harry to feel any worse than what he’d ever felt before. he just wanted to welcome Harry just like James and the Potters welcome him. to feel a real home, to feel a real family. and that second pict, I made it shows Sirius went home with James.
and oh, thank you for not posting this without permission. please do tell me or credit me when you’re going to post it somewhere.
I saw someone share my artworks without telling me, and it’s a no good:(
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