................it is my MHHE posting day today! ANYWAY, I haven't had breakfast and it's 12:35 pm and also I have slept 7 hours in the past 48, BUT EVENTUALLY, WE GOT THIS SUCKER UP:
our place in the family of things (208512 words) by greywash, yourtinseltinkerbell
Chapters: 11/11
Fandom: The Magicians (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Quentin Coldwater/Eliot Waugh, Eliot Waugh and his mother, Margo Hanson and Eliot Waugh, Quentin Coldwater & Margo Hanson & Eliot Waugh, Quentin Coldwater/Margo Hanson/Eliot Waugh (minor; implied)
Characters: Eliot Waugh, Eliot Waugh's mother, Quentin Coldwater, Margo Hanson, The Past - Character
Additional Tags: Additional Warnings Apply, See Story Notes for Warnings, Artist-Author Collaboration, Illustrated Work, Near-Canon AU, Established Relationship, Long-distance relationships, In-person reunions, grad school, Chicago, Snowed In, winter holidays, References to religion(s), Complicated relationships to religion(s), Not precisely about Judaism but yes in places about Jewishness, Family, Queer Family, Found Family, Family History, Familial trauma, Familial Love, Eliot Waugh's full back catalog of all 4978 volumes of Family Issues, (...also........I mean............ wait for it.........................), Daddy Kink, ::SHRUG EMOJI::, Queer partnership, Queer love, Queer Friendship, Domesticity, Humiliation kink, Size Kink, Eliot Waugh's Canonically Huge Dick, Sexual Frustration, All Quentin wants for Christmas is a little light sexual domination, Sexual Domination, oral fixations, Oral Sex, Anal Sex, Rimming, Semi-Public Sex, Gender Play, Pregnancy kink (referenced), Dirty Talk, Love Letters, Vintage amateur erotica, TL;DR:, Curtainfic only nastier, sex and humor, Inappropriate Erections, Work, Art, Collaboration, Partnership, Nurturing, Nourishment, Gifts, Clocks and Clockwork, Stories and lies, grief and mourning, Estrangement and reconciliation, (Re)making things, Magic, minor mendings, The family that raised you, The family that made you, The family you build with your own two hands
Summary:
Not even being a magician can rescue Eliot's Solsti-yule-mas, this year. After graduation, he'd leapt at the chance to apprentice with a world-famous magical architect, even if her office was in the Midwest; but now, with a major deadline looming, he can't take any time off for the holidays; and an approaching blizzard looks like it's about to ground his best friend at LaGuardia, two days before Christmas. The only bright spot? Eliot's boyfriend just beat the storm—and he brought Eliot a very cool present.
Then their holiday plans take a sideways turn when—not even 24 hours into Quentin's visit—Eliot's mother shows up at their front door.
Eliot's perfectly happy to see his mom—seriously, he really is, honestly—but their relationship has always been complicated, and the better part of a decade of radio silence hasn't exactly laid the groundwork for easy cohabitation in a studio apartment during the most stressful time of the year. As the storm hits, suffocating Chicago just when Eliot most needs an escape, it starts to seem like the only thing that can guide him through it may be a 100-year-old clock, made by a long-dead Coldwater, that just might turn out to be a little bit magic.
Yes, you did read that right. It is 208,512 words long. Yes, I did write it in six months. Yes, that was totally crazy, don't do that.
IN ADDITION TO HAVING A MILLION THINGS TO SAY IN-STORY, I have about a million things to say about this story, and a million amazing art posts to reblog, but for now: Image may be NSFW.
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