#in the early 20s the coterie’s works carried a strong through line of the importance of community and small acts of care and goodness

[elskanellis]

Said this before but will say it again:

The Covid-era non-AU we all need in this world, reminding us that community matters, that magic happens in our chosen families, that it's a joy to make the world better.

I loved all 69k of this great beast.

@goblinmatriarch I am so grateful to know you and to witness you putting this kind of beauty and community into the world. You're a formidable, terrifying, disheveled, gregarious DELIGHT.

My beautiful baby is finally birthed into the world, screaming and covered in viscera!

Title: The Practice of Everyday Life

Words: nearly 70k

Rating: Mature

Relationships: Draco/Harry, Pansy/Hermione, background Pansy/Neville

Tags: semi-epilogue compliant; in that the Golden Trio had all the marriages and kids; but with a 10-year delay; and subsequent divorces; The Golden Trio; Silver Trio; magical lore; Rituals; Pureblood Culture; Potter Children; Granger-Weasley children; Snark; wildly unnecessary snark; children are fucking monsters istg; why am I writing parenting; this is meant to be escapism; what is wrong with me????; Banter; Dad Harry; BAMF Ginny Weasley; chill ron; successful hermione; Ministry Bureaucracy; The Ministry of Magic is Corrupt; Pandemic; Clearly I'm exorcising some shit here; Slow Burn; Drinking; like not a lot of drinking; but it's in there

Summary: After the War, Harry married Ginny, had three beautiful children, and remained best friends with Hermione and Ron, who had two children of their own, and they all were happily married until they weren't. Harry and Hermione are both struggling to navigate post-divorce parenting, Ministry careers, and then this fucking pandemic hits. If that wasn't bad enough, Draco Malfoy reappears out of nowhere with worrying information about magical wards falling and the future of magic itself at risk. Harry and Hermione will have to navigate horrifying bureaucracy, complex magical rituals, confusingly sexy Slytherins, and Having It All

Read it on AO3

[elskanellis]

It's Beltane! I'm re-re-recommending this amazing fic about how community rituals keep magic alive. If I had any cows, I would be driving them into the fields, but I haven't any cows, so I might re-read this epilogue-compliant (!!!) strange political bedfellows to lovers (!) drarry AND pansmione fic that is somehow about covid but also escapist and positive and life-affirming.

Read it on AO3

My beautiful baby is finally birthed into the world, screaming and covered in viscera!

Title: The Practice of Everyday Life

Words: nearly 70k

Rating: Mature

Relationships: Draco/Harry, Pansy/Hermione, background Pansy/Neville

Tags: semi-epilogue compliant; in that the Golden Trio had all the marriages and kids; but with a 10-year delay; and subsequent divorces; The Golden Trio; Silver Trio; magical lore; Rituals; Pureblood Culture; Potter Children; Granger-Weasley children; Snark; wildly unnecessary snark; children are fucking monsters istg; why am I writing parenting; this is meant to be escapism; what is wrong with me????; Banter; Dad Harry; BAMF Ginny Weasley; chill ron; successful hermione; Ministry Bureaucracy; The Ministry of Magic is Corrupt; Pandemic; Clearly I'm exorcising some shit here; Slow Burn; Drinking; like not a lot of drinking; but it's in there

Summary: After the War, Harry married Ginny, had three beautiful children, and remained best friends with Hermione and Ron, who had two children of their own, and they all were happily married until they weren't. Harry and Hermione are both struggling to navigate post-divorce parenting, Ministry careers, and then this fucking pandemic hits. If that wasn't bad enough, Draco Malfoy reappears out of nowhere with worrying information about magical wards falling and the future of magic itself at risk. Harry and Hermione will have to navigate horrifying bureaucracy, complex magical rituals, confusingly sexy Slytherins, and Having It All

Read it on AO3