lily evans who's super scared about meeting james' parents cause all of james' friends talk about how close james is to them and how their opinion matters so much to him.

and fleamont and euphemia who've been spending weeks making the house look extra nice and constantly asking james what lily likes for when lily visits because they know how important she is to their son and they want her to feel comfortable and for her to like them

YES TO ALL OF THIS! 🥺🥰

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Okay i know i myself have made jokes on Mr Darcy hating to spend time with Mr. Collins but. I feel like of the two of them Darcy is probably significantly less annoyed than Lizzie by Collins simply bc 1) he never received The most obnoxious proposal in the world from him 2) the combination of Darcy's superior rank and his not being an Elegant Female puts him in a position to just tell Collins to stop talking and probably be thanked for the privilege. Darcy probably just lets him talk for five minutes and then is all "hm. I'd like to meditate on that in silence for a while. Very intriguing." And gets like an hour of peace

Alternatively Lizzie is just openly blatantly rude to Collins and when he looks at Darcy like are you gonna control your wife?? Darcy just shrugs like. It's her house man I'm not the boss of her.

Personal headcanon is that Darcy just keeps doing what he did the first time Collins approached him, aka suffers in silence for two minutes and then just turns around and leaves without a word, while Collins “feels that he has every reason to be pleased with their conversation”. Once Pemberley and Rosings are back on speaking terms, Lizzy discovers that she can do the same thing without Collins getting butthurt, bc she is after all the niece of Lady Catherine de Bourgh. Although tbh, Collins doesn’t bother Lizzy too much, bc even he finds it slightly embarrassing that he once told the future Mrs Darcy that she was never gonna get a better offer than himself. He probably ends up apologising to Mr Darcy for the presumption. “Your choice of wife is most fortuitous, and I would offer my humblest apologies that I once implied, or rather insinuated, that her marriage prospects were not … that she might not look forward to such elevation as she has now been granted in marrying such an esteemed personage as yourself.” Meanwhile Darcy is just standing there like “aPolOgIZe tO LiZZy, noT to mE”

My own personal headcanons in addition to this are 1) that Collins finds Lizzie and Darcy's marriage DEEPLY suspicious and is bringing peak Weird Little Man energy to his attempts to investigate this mystery and find... Something. He doesn't know what, but something. Maybe Darcy is being blackmailed, or mind controlled. Who's to say. And 2) Darcy finds out about Collins's proposal FROM Collins, leading to a very "you said WHAT to my wife" "well she wasn't your wife at the time" "that is NOT the point sir" kind of exchange. At which point Darcy is no longer able to calmly zone out for the duration of their five minute interactions his chill is gone

Also having just reread the last like 7 chapters of the book, Darcy fully stops talking to Lady Catherine for MONTHS bc of the way she wrote about Elizabeth i have no doubt that hearing Collins blithely recount his Extremely Impertinent Proposal would have Darcy on the verge of violence. Furthermore, given that Mr. Bennet likes to a. visit Pemberley when he's least expected and b. cause problems on purpose, obviously the way it goes down is that Mr. Bennet, imposing on Darcy's hospitality at the same time as Mr. Collins, casually brings up That Time Collins Almost Married Lizzy, encourages Collins as he digs his own grave recounting the proposal, and then sits back to enjoy the show.

#OH MY GOD   #THE FALLOUT SHOW I NEVER KNEW I WANTED   #'Mr Collins is bothering Mr Darcy at the dining table... what is this?! MR BENNET IS COMING IN WITH A STEEL CHAIR!!!!'

@marshmallowmcgonagall​

@son-0f-a-snitch I love you so much, this makes me so happy. I couldn’t agree more.

To add to this - there is no evidence that James bullied Snape for no reason. Canon says that when Snape entered Hogwarts at age 11 he knew more dark magic thank most wizards. We know he was friends with wannabe Death Eaters and invented Levicorpus and Sectumsempra (for enemies - lovely). What are the chances that the Marauders didn’t hex these mini Death Eaters and vice versa? JKR says that Snape and James used hex each other. There’s also no canon evidence that James repeatedly asked Lily out. Only that one time when he was a dick (mudblood incident). He was awful to Snape that time, no question about it. Aside from that, it says she went out with him after “he deflated his head” by 7th year.

Finally, I really hate the implication that Lily had no agency, or didn’t really know what she was doing when she went out with James and told Snape she was no longer friends with him. It may not be meant that way, but it comes across as very very misogynistic?? I agree with you, this feeling that she owes Snape because he loved her is gross!!

James was a pureblood and he risked his life fighting for what was right/ against bigotry and then died trying to save his family. Let’s not forget he risked his life trying to save Snape (The Prank). He had reformed to the extent he was made ahead Boy by 7th Year.

It’s amazing how the fact Snape joined the Death Eaters /Voldemort’s inner circle (a group canonically involved in the torture and murder of muggles/muggleborn wizards/witches) doesn’t seem to feature in pro Snape fandom? Unfortunately for Snily lovers (to each their own obviously) its canon that Jily were soulmates, having the same exact Patronus as the person you love is a sign of obsessive love and I’m sorry but I headcanon Snape as bit of a stalker type (if you look up men who fall into this description they sound very similar to him!!)

You made my day btw 😂😍

Since OP says they’re white I’d like to add something here:

I’ve broken up both romantic and platonic relationships because of racism.

I had an old friend tell me once, that he believes all foreigners should go back to their home countries. We’d had a good night together before that and I always believe in the best in people, so I thought maybe he was taking the piss or that I didn’t catch the sarcasm. I jokingly asked back if that included me and he answered very seriously: “Well, actually it does.”

I have refused to talk to him ever since.

I had other friends who would say racist things in front of me, then turn to me any say: “But don’t worry, I don’t mean you! You’re a good Yugo*!” I’ve had people tell me that I look like a “g-word”. I’ve had people make fun of my eyebrows, my facial and body hair in general. About our languages. About our food.

Guess what? I removed them all from my life.

I’ve had an ex who’s mom once told me, that she’s really happy her son is dating me, because he’d been obsessed with Romanian and Rromani music for a long time and it would really suit him to have something “exotic” in his life.

I broke up with him when I realized he shared that view.

So to all the snily lovers: You’re obviously at liberty to interpret their story however you want and obviously not all marginalized people end up developing the same views. But I can assure you that we do cut people out of our lives over racial slurs.

Yes, even old friends.

Yes, even if it’s only once.

Yes, even if we still love them in some way.

Yes, even if they clearly love us.

You have to understand that racism (or homophobia etc.) is a systemic danger to us. It’s not on the same level as disliking the way someone slurps their soup. If I know that someone agrees with people who want people LIKE ME dead, I cannot excuse that just because they happen to make an exception for me. Because what prevents them from deciding one day, that I’ve lost their affection? And then what?

There were a few who changed. I’ve rekindled friendships, yes, but that took a lot.

You can’t be friends with people who don’t want people like you to exist.

You can’t be friends with people who think people like you are beneath them.

You can’t be friends with people who want people like you to be dead.

And if you don’t understand that, I will assume you had the privilege to never be in that particular situation.

*Yugo is a racist slur used in Switzerland to insult people from Ex-Yugoslavja although sometimes they use it for all Eastern Europeans.

Yes to all of this

@son-0f-a-snitch that’s all completely true and you are 100% right, some things you can’t ignore, you cannot come back from, there is no valid excuse for. If someone you are “friends” with thinks that about you, whatever their excuse, then they don’t deserve your friendship. End of.

Same for misogyny and homophobia, all types of bigotry.

I really admire Lily in canon. She was kind, she tried to see the good in people even when they couldn’t see it themselves, but she wasn’t an idiot (despite what Snily fans seem to think).

@i-heal-miraculously that was also meant for you!!! Thank you for that wonderful addition!!

@son-0f-a-snitch I love you so much, this makes me so happy. I couldn’t agree more.

To add to this - there is no evidence that James bullied Snape for no reason. Canon says that when Snape entered Hogwarts at age 11 he knew more dark magic thank most wizards. We know he was friends with wannabe Death Eaters and invented Levicorpus and Sectumsempra (for enemies - lovely). What are the chances that the Marauders didn’t hex these mini Death Eaters and vice versa? JKR says that Snape and James used hex each other. There’s also no canon evidence that James repeatedly asked Lily out. Only that one time when he was a dick (mudblood incident). He was awful to Snape that time, no question about it. Aside from that, it says she went out with him after “he deflated his head” by 7th year.

Finally, I really hate the implication that Lily had no agency, or didn’t really know what she was doing when she went out with James and told Snape she was no longer friends with him. It may not be meant that way, but it comes across as very very misogynistic?? I agree with you, this feeling that she owes Snape because he loved her is gross!!

James was a pureblood and he risked his life fighting for what was right/ against bigotry and then died trying to save his family. Let’s not forget he risked his life trying to save Snape (The Prank). He had reformed to the extent he was made ahead Boy by 7th Year.

It’s amazing how the fact Snape joined the Death Eaters /Voldemort’s inner circle (a group canonically involved in the torture and murder of muggles/muggleborn wizards/witches) doesn’t seem to feature in pro Snape fandom? Unfortunately for Snily lovers (to each their own obviously) its canon that Jily were soulmates, having the same exact Patronus as the person you love is a sign of obsessive love and I’m sorry but I headcanon Snape as bit of a stalker type (if you look up men who fall into this description they sound very similar to him!!)

You made my day btw 😂😍

Since OP says they’re white I’d like to add something here:

I’ve broken up both romantic and platonic relationships because of racism.

I had an old friend tell me once, that he believes all foreigners should go back to their home countries. We’d had a good night together before that and I always believe in the best in people, so I thought maybe he was taking the piss or that I didn’t catch the sarcasm. I jokingly asked back if that included me and he answered very seriously: “Well, actually it does.”

I have refused to talk to him ever since.

I had other friends who would say racist things in front of me, then turn to me any say: “But don’t worry, I don’t mean you! You’re a good Yugo*!” I’ve had people tell me that I look like a “g-word”. I’ve had people make fun of my eyebrows, my facial and body hair in general. About our languages. About our food.

Guess what? I removed them all from my life.

I’ve had an ex who’s mom once told me, that she’s really happy her son is dating me, because he’d been obsessed with Romanian and Rromani music for a long time and it would really suit him to have something “exotic” in his life.

I broke up with him when I realized he shared that view.

So to all the snily lovers: You’re obviously at liberty to interpret their story however you want and obviously not all marginalized people end up developing the same views. But I can assure you that we do cut people out of our lives over racial slurs.

Yes, even old friends.

Yes, even if it’s only once.

Yes, even if we still love them in some way.

Yes, even if they clearly love us.

You have to understand that racism (or homophobia etc.) is a systemic danger to us. It’s not on the same level as disliking the way someone slurps their soup. If I know that someone agrees with people who want people LIKE ME dead, I cannot excuse that just because they happen to make an exception for me. Because what prevents them from deciding one day, that I’ve lost their affection? And then what?

There were a few who changed. I’ve rekindled friendships, yes, but that took a lot.

You can’t be friends with people who don’t want people like you to exist.

You can’t be friends with people who think people like you are beneath them.

You can’t be friends with people who want people like you to be dead.

And if you don’t understand that, I will assume you had the privilege to never be in that particular situation.

*Yugo is a racist slur used in Switzerland to insult people from Ex-Yugoslavja although sometimes they use it for all Eastern Europeans.

Yes to all of this

@son-0f-a-snitch that’s all completely true and you are 100% right, some things you can’t ignore, you cannot come back from, there is no valid excuse for. If someone you are “friends” with thinks that about you, whatever their excuse, then they don’t deserve your friendship. End of.

Same for misogyny and homophobia, all types of bigotry.

I really admire Lily in canon. She was kind, she tried to see the good in people even when they couldn’t see it themselves, but she wasn’t an idiot (despite what Snily fans seem to think).