[Recset (+signal boost)] BISEXUALITY: THE MUSICAL: the first two weeks!

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I just want to remind everyone that the BISEXUALITY: THE MUSICAL collection continues to be open for submissions! Basically the only rule is that the work be about a bi character bein' bi, in a fanwork for The Magicians; there's no time limit for posting, no requirement for who your bi character of focus needs to be, and you are welcome to add old/previously work to the collection, so long as you think it's about bisexuality in some central way. Here's what's come in in the first two weeks:


All Seems So Simple (4771 words) by achray
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Magicians (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Quentin Coldwater/Eliot Waugh, Quentin Coldwater/Original Male Character(s)
Characters: Quentin Coldwater, Eliot Waugh, Alice Quinn, Julia Wicker, The Monster (The Magicians)
Additional Tags: Bisexuality
Summary:

In which Quentin has a series of conversations and encounters over the years, most of which go wrong.

achray has a great eye for how characters construct themselves (uncertainly and frequently with difficulty); Quentin in this navigates his sexuality in a way that's perfectly balanced between gut-level certainty and his intrinsic lack of confidence, and the balance between surreality and want and, like, philosophic vindication during first hookup with a boy is cringingly familiar. I just kept going, "Oh, poor kid," while clawing at my face, like—oh, you total disaster, I'm so glad I'm not 23 anymore. The ways that Quentin does (and doesn't) push back against other people's reflexive erasure of his bisexuality is also painfully realistic—and alongside all of that, this manages to be sweet and hot and terrifying and touching by turns.



merrier the more (2671 words) by oneprotagonistshort
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Magicians (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Fen/Eliot Waugh, Quentin Coldwater/Eliot Waugh, Fen/Quentin Coldwater, Quentin Coldwater/Fen/Eliot Waugh
Characters: Fen (The Magicians), Eliot Waugh, Quentin Coldwater
Additional Tags: Threesome - F/M/M, PWP, Bisexuality
Summary:

“So you guys want to-” Quentin starts.

“Fuck you,” Eliot says, completing the thought.

“Together,” Fen adds.

“Okay,” Quentin says, because the two of them have clearly planned this out and he isn’t about to look a gift horse in the mouth.

This is a relationship which I constantly wish there was more of in fic, since I feel like Fen is often really underutilized and also a really interesting and complicated foil to Quentin; and this incarnation is just super hot and also in many places very, very funny, in exactly the ways you'd expect it would be, with these nerds hooking up with each other. oneprotagonistshort has a really good feel for all the ways that Quentin can be all tangled up inside his head in ways that make it hard for him to get out of his own way—but boyyyyyy, when he does. Also, I just have to say—"petulantly [Quentin] thinks that maybe Eliot will actually pay attention to him now": if this isn't, like, my entire read on Quentin's canon mental state, like, 78% of the time, I don't know what is.



Sea of Stars (1254 words) by adjovi
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Magicians (TV)
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Quentin Coldwater/Eliot Waugh
Characters: Quentin Coldwater, Eliot Waugh, Margo Hanson
Summary:

Post-Monster (PM). Short little fluffy! piece of a reunion scene between Quentin and Eliot.

One of my favorite things in how adjovi writes The Magicians is a really great, super consistent management of the tension between the parts of canon that bite and the parts of canon that are softer and more tender; this comes up over and over again in her work, and I love it. This story is, overall, on the more-consistently-sweeter side of what adjovi's written, but in context it works absolutely perfectly: a very tender little coda to an awful lot of suffering, with just enough sass for the characters to be absolutely believable.



The last one's not a rec, I guess it's a second signal boost, because I wrote it, but:

al rovescio (6701 words) by greywash
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Magicians (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Quentin Coldwater/Eliot Waugh, Multiple Pairings - Relationship
Characters: Quentin Coldwater, Eliot Waugh
Additional Tags: Post-04x05, Episode Tag, Pre-emptive fix-it, Nonlinear Narrative, First Time, (really:), Second Time, (also like:), Four hundred and forty-ninth time, Frottage, Anal Sex, Kissing, Internalized -isms, Bravery, Bisexuality, Love Stories, Lies, Or shall we say, Constructed truths
Series: Part 8 of Author's Favorites
Summary:

"Charlton, meet my friends," says Eliot. "Quentin, from that time I convinced him to fight Penny—"

IDK, I feel like the secondary, more-meta summary of this story is basically: is it a problem if your whole relationship is based on a lie? I mean, maybe!! But—then again: maybe not.



So again: go forth! Submit to the collection! Your work does not have to be new! It also does not have to be about Quentin!! So go for it, man—and uh, maybe send me an email or a DW message when you do submit, since for some reason I don't get notifications from AO3 when people add stuff, and I'm bad at remembering to check the submission page for things to approve. But I've been really enjoying reading what people submit, and I am also deeply self-interested, so—moar, plz, these were delicious. ♥