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One Trip to Make us Whole

Author: MoonlitMarauder

Rating: Explicit

Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Category: M/M

Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling

Relationship: Harry Potter/Teddy Lupin

Characters: Harry Potter, Draco Malfoy, Teddy Lupin

Additional Tags: Past Harry/Ginny, Light Angst, Grieving/Mourning, Fresh Start, Harry is trying is best, Teddy needs a hug, Norway, Auror Draco Malfoy, Referenced Heavy Drinking, Referenced Prostitution, Rentboy Teddy

Summary:

Teddy Lupin is a fucking wreck.

When Draco Malfoy calls Harry to retrieve Teddy from Auror lockup once again, seeing a lot of his past self in the kid, he suggests Harry take the young man on a trip for some fresh air.

Harry for once, listened to Malfoy and now is stuck in Norway with Teddy for a month. Can he get through to the man he hasn't been close to in years or will this trip tear them further apart?

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/29990391

Oh the domestic vibes from this one! just such sweet fluffly love

Art: It’s A Whole Beautiful Mess

Title: It’s A Whole Beautiful Mess Creator: Anonymous Prompt: #167 Career Theme: Draco - Healer (Emergency Department) | Harry - Stay-at-home Parent Rating: General Warnings/Content Notes: Domestic Domestic, Fluff Romance, Family Family, Established Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter, Adopted Children, Family Dynamics, Potter-Malfoy Family, Digital Art Summary: Draco Malfoy is a healer and his life is already full when he move into a new apartment, only to discover his neighbor Harry Potter is in a complete chaos due to having adopt two newborns. After founding out his profession, Harry knocking on his door for every little thing about the twins became the normality, so much that Draco had to admit that in the end he was not upset at all. In fact, he ended up spending more and more time with the little family and eventually fell in love with Harry. Art Medium: Digital Creator’s Notes: This prompt was just too cute to pass on it! When I read it I immediately think I wanted to draw the babies so I tried to make a big, nice illustration that show all the mess and cuteness the way I imagine it.

( It’s A Whole Beautiful Mess )

I love Bellatrix and she’s perfectly in character

Fic: Madness in the Manor

Title: Madness in the Manor Creator: Anonymous Prompt: #33 Career Theme: Draco - Property Owner | Harry - Ghost Hunter Rating: Teen Warnings/Content Notes: Language and suggestion Summary: When Narcissa Malfoy uses a spirit board, she unleashes a negative haunting in the Manor. Fortunately, the London Paranormal Research Team, headed by Harry Potter, is here to save the day. Word Count: 4,525 Creator’s Notes: Many thanks to robinellen for the smashing beta job! ( Madness in the Manor )

Its honestly so painful when the creator of something you love so deeply, rejects your very identity. It hurts. I don't blame anyone for wanting to leave the fandom at all. I keep hearing people say "if you hate j.Karen Rowling just leave the fandom" (okay, they probably don't call her that but i do 🙃) and if people want to, I get it completely. But I don't want to. Harry Potter is something that is a part of me now. It is a part of me as much as having been bullied as a child is, as much as reading to escape the real world is, as much as being queer is. It helped to shape me and I don't want someone else's hate and fear to take away something that I love. That happens enough in the real world and I don't want it in fandom. I reject that.

I've spent hours in thrift shops looking for merch (because I never buy new things if I can help it. This works out even better for me now.) I've devoted so much time to writing fic in this world and appreciating other fan creators and their works. I've got a huge tattoo on my arm showing my love of Harry Potter, a love I shared with the artist who created it. Without this fandom, I would never have met most of my closest friends. This is a big part of my life. It's something that's brought me a lot of joy and a lot of goodness, in spite of its problematic aspects.

If there's one thing I've learned from taking literature classes, its that you can be critical of a work and of its author and still enjoy it. Making that criticism, analyzing the text and the author's life and motives, can be part of the enjoyment. With literary analysis, you're free to take the pieces that have meaning to you and toss out the rest. You're free to connect dots within the story to create your own full picture. And if those dots include criticism of the author, that's OK. And if they don't include the author at all, that's fine, too. That's where I'm at right now.

Another thing that I think about with literature is that it doesn't hold much meaning for me personally unless I can put myself in it, unless I can move in and live there for a while.

Lord of the Rings is basically a story about people walking around the countryside until you feel like you're one of those people, wishing you could just stay with Tom Bombadil and ignore the rest of the world, wishing the ents would maybe be just a little bit hasty. The Stand is any dystopia until you're stuck in a tunnel heading out of NYC, hoping to get to Colorado. Or Vegas, depending on your inclinations. Hell, Ramona Quimby is any random kid until you're sitting in the lunch room with her as she smashes a raw egg on her head.

Harry Potter is just another story about magic and a child hero until you're stepping onto Diagon Alley with Hagrid, until you're brewing a potion in the dungeons and praying that Snape doesn't hate it too much, until you're kicking off on the Quidditch pitch and hoping your House wins. That kind of enjoyment doesn't come from the author at all. Their words have something to do with it, for sure, but it has more to do with our own imagination; it happens inside our heads.

And if there's one thing I learned from Harry Potter, it's that even if something is happening in your head, why on earth should that mean it isn't real?

I guess my point is that I enjoy Harry Potter by analyzing it, by being critical of the text and the author. (And I am critical of her. I hope that she gets some help for the irrational fear that she's propagating, but I don't think she will. She's not there yet, at the very least.) And perhaps more importantly, I enjoy Harry Potter by being a part of it, in a myriad of ways. By being there with Harry throughout the story, by writing about Snape, by looking at the incredible art that people create of the characters I love so much, by discussing it all with other fans. And that kind of enjoyment has nothing to do with she-who-must-not-be-named at all. It belongs to me and to the people I share fandom interactions with. That kind of enjoyment is ours alone.

Yes, she is toxic. And yes, she has hurt me. She's hurt people that I love and people that I don't know who have my love and support, nonetheless. But I don't need her. I reject her. That's not me being a snowflake or whatever you want to call me. That's just me holding on to something that is important to me. Her books, the wizarding world, would be nothing but paper and ink without the fans loving it and making it real, sharing it with our friends and building it in our imaginations. So this is me, this is us, taking our love and our imagination, taking our analyses, taking the pieces that have meaning to us, and tossing out the rest. This is us moving in and living there, free from hate, in the world we've become invested in.

And to the people who say "find another book to read"... I have. I've found a lot of them. But I like this one and I want to keep it. I divorced Anne Rice a long time ago for her treatment of fans, but I still love Lestat and Louis and Armand and Stella and Julian... This isn't new to me. It looks like ima do it again.

The best artwork I have ever seen. I seriously can not hype this up enough. take a look a weep with me! 

Art: Scrimshaw

Title: Scrimshaw Creator: Anonymous Prompt: #267 Career Theme: Draco - Lighthouse Keeper | Harry - Lighthouse Keeper Rating: Mature Warnings/Content Notes: Horror, Dark, Blood, MCD Summary: scrim·shaw verb adorn (whalebone, ivory, shells, or other materials) with carved or colored designs. Art Medium: Digital watercolor and ink Creator’s Notes: Huge thanks to my alpha and beta team: O and B for helping me craft the script into a wonderfully ambiguous and creepy story, and to K, Z, O, and S for your help with the artistic elements. I honestly couldn’t have done it without all of you (just no more animations 😂) Thank you to the wonderful Fan Fair mods for their patience and the extension. When I started working on the project, I didn’t expect it to get as big as it did. ( Scrimshaw )

sorry not sorry but I am always going to give people the benefit of the doubt when it comes to queer inclusion

Like if you say you’re bi but you’ve only dated people of the opposite gender? you’re bi as hell i don’t care.

If you tell me you’re trans but you haven’t transitioned yet or don’t want to undergo certain aspects of transitioning? you are trans! I’m gonna call you by the name and pronouns you tell me to use

what if someone looks feminine, is afab, and uses she/her pronouns but identifies as nonbinary? what if someone looks masculine, is amab, and uses he/him pronouns but identifies as nonbinary? both of those people are nonbinary because they said they are!

if you’re asexual or aromantic but you’re still hetero in the sense that you experience attraction of some sort to the opposite gender and that gender alone? you’re still a part of the community babe! Aros and aces have always been queer.

If you don’t know if you’re queer or not? you’re certainly welcome to be a part of our spaces while you figure it out!

if you don’t wanna use labels? dont! that’s it! never let anyone pressure you into labels if you’re not ready to define that part of yourself.

if you use labels/pronouns that are uncommon and/or perceived as strange? that’s your label! those are your pronouns! who am i to tell you you can’t use those words to describe yourself??

basically fuck all the debates about the nuances of this stuff. if you tell me you’re queer, you’re fucking queer. I have no right to start discourse with people about their own identities and neither does anyone else.

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Each month we read a queer book and discuss in real-time via our discussion channels. At the end of each month, we hop on the voice chat and reflect on the book.

For September, we are currently reading Café con Lychee by Emery Lee.

We are in the process narrowing down our horror list for Spooky Season and, as a book club, will vote for our October read.

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Fic Claim: One Last Time, No Regrets

Author: MoonlitMarauder

Rating: Explicit

Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Category: M/M

Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling

Relationship: Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter

Characters: Draco Malfoy, Harry Potter

Tags: #Trans_Character #FTM_Harry #Oral_Sex #Fluff_and_Smut

Summary: The night before Harry goes in for bottom surgery, Draco shows his boyfriend just how much he loves him.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/30189909

Day 7

Title: How Could I Ever Refuse By: @siriuslythatbitch​ | SiriuslyThatBitch Rating: E Prompt: F28 Summary: Sirius Black was actually looking forward to his second year at Oxford University. He had a flat with his best mates, loved his specialization, and wasn’t completely upset about his Little Brother starting his first year. It was all going so well, until he met one, Remus Lupin Word Count: 20.1k Tags: Alternate Universe - Non-Magical, Alternate Universe - College/University, Fluff, Smut, Oral Sex, Rough Oral Sex, Alternate Universe-Muggle, University, Art History, Marauders Fest 2020 Extract: Next year, I’m hiring bloody movers.” Peter huffed, setting down the overstuffed box with an ominous thud. “Perhaps, you should have packed lighter boxes, mate. It’s not like we didn’t know we’d be on the third floor more than a month ago.” James said, gently placing the sensibly packed box of his own on the counter. Across the room his friend stuck two fingers up in the air and collapsed on the couch. “You two already squabbling then? Good, I was worried we’d have to wait for a dramatic blow up a few days from now.” The third roommate entered the room with a smirk on his face. His shoulder length hair was pulled up into a bun on his head, a duffle bag slung over his shoulder. “Please, Pads. We leave the dramatics to the professional.” LINK

Title: The Bois By: @hellcatdraws​ | hellcatdraws Rating: G Prompt: A5 Summary: Marauders in their 70s get up, James just thought it was a nice Christmas card photo, the other boys knew they were starting a boy band. Medium: Digital Art Tags: 70s, 1970s, Marauders, Marauders Fest 2020, Art, hellcatdraws, Digital Art, Fanart LINK

Title: Loveable Idiot By: @samunderthelights​ | Samunderthelights Rating: T Prompt: F3 Summary: After avoiding it for months, Sirius decides it’s finally time to come out to his friends. Word Count: 3.1k Tags: Marauders Era (Harry Potter), Marauders Friendship (Harry Potter), Gay Sirius Black, Bisexual Remus Lupin, Coming Out, Love Confessions, wolfstar Extract: “You don’t think there’s something going on between them, do you?” Lily asks, her nose scrunched up. “I mean, don’t get me wrong. I’m sure Kat is a great girl, but she’s just so-” “Not his type?” James suggests. “Also, didn’t she used to go out with Ravenclaw girl?” “Do you think he knows?” Sirius’ friends are staring at him and Katherine, but when he looks over his shoulder, they quickly look away, pretending to be checking out the sky – or in Remus’ case his feet. “Do you think he saw us?” James asks. “It’s weird, right? The way he’s been acting lately, spending all his time with her-” “He’s probably in love.” Remus shrugs. “Good for him.” LINK

The night before Valentines Day, Remus Lupin decides to drunkenly send one Sirius Black a valentine professing his love. @goodboylupin Prompt: Love Him