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I've written a smallish assortment of Magicians bonbons for fan_flashworks over the past several weeks, and I keep forgetting to cross-post them here, whomp whomp. So!! I'm going to try to remember to do so when the challenge ends and the AO3 link goes up, at least—and, in that, light:

Title: "High in the sunlit silence"
Fandom: The Magicians
Relationships: Quentin's mom-centric (Quentin's mom/Ted Coldwater, Quentin's mom/Molly)
Rating: Mature
Length: ~2,200 words

Notes: Warning for disturbing content. I keep my warning policy in my AO3 profile and am always willing to answer private DW messages or emails asking for elaboration or clarification on my warnings for a particular story. For both the "Wings" challenge at fan_flashworks and the "Lost and Found" square on my bingo card, as well as for the "Family" prompt from themagiciansreccenter. This story is technically part of The Marriage Plot, but stands well on its own.

Summary:

In September, Claudia starts Wednesday night Drawing for Beginners at the adult school.

Read it at AO3 →

eksdy

Title: Rest in the After
Artist:

eksdy
Fandom: The Magicians (TV)
Pairing or Character: Quentin/Eliot
Rating: G
Description: I think we can all agree the boys deserve a good rest after all this...
A/N:: So about two weeks ago I found out that The Magicians had officially confirmed Quentin/Elliot as more than just a 'really good friends' thing and I immediately binge watched the whole series and am now pretty well obsessed with the show in general? All of the characters are great and I love them, and I want to draw everyone, but obviously had to draw Q/Elliot first. :)

[Full Image at My DW]

[Or On Tumblr If You Prefer]

(DW link has a super short ficlet though)

necessarian

Title+link: bruise and leave behind
Author:

renaissance
Fandom: The Magicians (TV)
Pairing or Character: Quentin/Eliot, Quentin-centric
Summary: To catch a monster, you need to think like a monster. If you don't have one handy, your shadeless self from an alternate timeline will do.
Warnings: canon-typical discussion of suicide, possession & the underlying consent issues

greywash

Earlier today I meta'ed for like 4k instead of doing literally anything useful with my morning!!

"I stay in the Castle.":

So, in my meta post from—whatever the fuck day that was, this whole week was—something else, guys, but now my project's formally in QA, so, whatever—I said this as a parenthetical:
I have a secondary meta essay here on the quest, and what the quest actually "is meant to" teach them, particularly vis-a-vis "The Beauty of All Life" and what Quentin/we are actually supposed to take away from the Mosaic, but that's an essay for another time.
This is that secondary meta essay!

[...]

I sort of think that a lot of what we see, in terms of arc creation/foreshadowing in The Magicians, is them laying the groundwork for multiple distances of ending. Like, yes, maybe we will have to wrap after this season, but maybe we won't—and so I think they've done a lot of work to construct the show so that they can end it semi-satisfyingly on fairly short notice. Obviously this wouldn't help them if they got cancelled in between wrapping filming for Season A and starting Season B, but I do think they're trying to keep their options as open as they can.

For example, it's very interesting to me how they overlap Big Bads, and how the end of a Big Bad storyline almost never aligns with a season break. [...] Alongside those, like—big plot-driving arcs, all the characters have their own personal arcs—and the relationship arcs that involve them—being developed in parallel, and in communication with the big plot-driving arcs. The plot-driving arcs tend to be very out-of-the-frying-pan-and-into-the-fire, but that's not a big surprise, given how fiction works, but the personal arcs are a little more complicated, because—in a way that isn't always true, on TV—characters on The Magicians actually do learn and change and grow. And I think the character of which this is particularly true is Quentin. And Quentin's arc—the core arc that he's been on since the start of S3—has been shaped, intensely, by the simple fact of him (a nerd English major who is also deeply conversant with the way stories, especially fantasy stories, are supposed to work) going on a quest.

( The rest of this is [fake] cut [to my journal] for S4 spoilers through—I guess I'll say 04x08, for safety; and comes with a strong warning for discussions of death, loss, mental health issues, and suicide and suicidal thoughts. Also, this first big hunk of it is just—really fucking sad. )

So, that was cool! Come talk to me about quest narratives and the profound tragedy of trying to teach Quentin Coldwater not to love!!

[As an aside, I have also extended the deadline for my proposed Marina-centric mini-fest out by a week, to Friday 3/22 at 4 pm Pacific, since literally 0% of the current participants are done. /o\ So!! If you want to hop in, come on! Water's fine! And late. The water is late, and also fine.]

greywash

Man, I keep forgetting to cross-post stuff here when I drop it on AO3, but this is what I wrote last weekend. [As an aside, I watch on the Amazon delay, so I have not yet seen 4x08 and have no idea if this is weird to link to, today? It's a 4x06 tag:]

"an ever-fixèd mark"
Source: The Magicians (TV)
Relationships: Quentin/The Monster, Quentin/Eliot, Quentin and Julia
Rating: Explicit
Length: ~7,800 words

Notes: Strong warnings for disturbing content and consent issues, as well as sex involving a character who may not be meaningfully "an adult". Just to be absolutely clear on this point: I don't think an "underage" warning exactly makes sense for pairings involving the Monster, but this fic does acknowledge that the Monster is in many ways profoundly childlike. I keep my warning policy in my AO3 profile and am always willing to answer private DW messages or emails asking for elaboration or clarification on my warnings for a particular story.

Title, probably inappropriately, from Sonnet 116. At this point, this particular general outline of a post-4x06 episode tag is, like, the antithesis of original, but... I will say, in my defense, that I think my approach is much, much grosser than all the other versions I've read!! *sparkly smile*

Summary:

The Monster has a body. Sometimes its body gets.... ideas.

Coincidentally, sometimes Quentin gets ideas, too.

Read it at AO3 →

starshipfox

Real Hunger Has a Real Taste on A03

Pairing: Quentin/Eliot/Margo, background Quentin/Eliot
Rating: Explicit
Summary:

“He likes it when he’s naked and everyone else has their clothes on,” Eliot tells Margo.

“Everyone else?” she asks. “How many people are we talking?”

Quentin likes being told what to do.

Notes: This is set sometime after Season 1, but not in a particular timeline because it’s essentially about how much Quentin wants to give head, and that is timeless.
Tags on AO3: Oral Sex, Cunnilingus, Light Dom/sub, Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, Canon-typical references to bestiality, Neediness, Dirty Talk, Telling Quentin What To Do Because He Loves It, Bisexuality, Threesome, Idiots in Love, Kissing

Another link to the fic

greywash

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:

( 3 recs )

( And one not-a-rec, since it's by me— )

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. ♥

greywash

In case it's of use/interest to anyone over here, I did a survey of Eliot and the Monster's respective handedness (handedness...es?), over on my blog. Summary: Eliot is left-handed. The Monster is strongly suggested to be right-handed—but it's more complicated than that. [Spoilers via screencap through 04x06, with all the content warnings that go along with the Monster and Eliot canonically, like blood and violence and (implied) animal harm and drug use and consent issues. You know. The usual!!]

lierdumoa

Title: Overtures
Author:

lierdumoa
Relationships: Quentin Coldwater/Eliot Waugh, Quentin Coldwater/The Monster
Rating: Mature (rating may change)
Words: 2667 (work in progress)
Summary: It turns out there's more personality bleed between the monster and Eliot than either of them anticipated. Quentin gets caught in the middle. Secrets come out.
Warning(s): mild to moderate dub-con

Read it on AO3 →

greywash

Is anyone interested in a post-4x06 Marina-themed mini-fest?

( Semi-spoilers for 4x06. Also: naughty language, references to sex. )

We could divvy up the list... say, no minimum, but do a time deadline like 7/10/14 days out, the way the flashworks communities do?

*chinhands* ?

( ETA: The current proposed pairings, and tiered divisions, refined: )

If you want to claim a lady (or if I forgot anyone), and write/art/meta her with Marina, leave a comment and I'll add you to the list!! Tentative "deadline" is 8 pm Pacific, ~~Friday, March 15~~ Friday, March 22—for Round 1, at least; no minimum size or word counts or anything; let's do this flash fiction style. :)

greywash

My partner and I don't think this constitutes a spoiler—surely it's not a spoiler that everyone on this show is a trainwreck—but lmk if you disagree and I'll cut it:

[RESOURCE] the trauma chalkboard (129 words) by greywash
Fandom: The Magicians (TV)
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Eliot Waugh
Additional Tags: Fandom Resource, Meta, (I guess?) - Freeform, how to tag, episode 4x05
Summary: I'm not sure if anyone has put this up already, but if so I couldn't find it, and since it is such a delightful fic resource: here is a patchworked capture of Eliot's terrible-memories chalkboard, with a transcription (note that I'm not correcting his grammar). This isn't intended for art use--it's very visually hacked together and hideous--but I legitimately want a story about every item on this chalkboard, so here's the list.

[Click through to AO3 for full size and transcription]

greywash

Hello, Magicians friends! I am breaking in the "BISEXUALITY: THE MUSICAL" collection I advertised yesterday with the following new story:

Title: "al rovescio"
Source: The Magicians (TV)
Relationships: Quentin Coldwater/Eliot Waugh
Rating: Explicit
Length: ~6,700 words
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

Notes: No warnings on this one. I keep my warning policy in my AO3 profile and am always willing to answer private DW messages or emails asking for elaboration or clarification on my warnings for a particular story. This story is 100% canon compliant up through 4x05 and has spoilers, I guess, but would you even notice? There are some more notes on AO3.

Summary:

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

Read it at AO3 →

(Also, please, come play with me! My story is lonelyyyy ~ ~ ^-^)

greywash

I hope that this is okay to signal boost here, since it is Magicians-specific, and also very Magicians-meta:

I got very angry today, twice (both those posts have oblique spoilers for 4x5, but nothing very concrete), about fandom's occasionally deeply frustrating, to me, handling of Quentin's bisexuality. [Um—also, they are also much more angry than anything I would post directly to a comm, so—warning if you click on those links that you are leaving a community space and going into a personal space where I feel less obligation to moderate my tone than I do in this post linking over there.] Anyway, in hopes of channeling my rage somewhat more fruitfully, I then made a mini-challenge on AO3 for people who identify as bi in one way or another to write about characters in The Magicians being bi, to kind of—have more voices writin' some bi characters bein' bi. \o/

While Quentin was the character who kicked this off for me, since this is both canonically and meta-canonically An Issue™ with him, I think you can make a pretty strong argument for any character on The Magicians being bi, so the collection is open to stories about anyone. It is moderated, but just to prevent spam and abuse, so—if you have or are working on a story or piece of art about bi-whoever, where their bisexuality is important to the work in one way or another, go ahead and add it! I just want more bi voices. :)

Thank you kindly!

allheadybooks

Not to spam your reading list, guys, but I made some gifs of Hyman reacting to the gang which are--frankly--Relatable Content; you can find them at my journal here!

allheadybooks

This is a GREAT episode coda for 4x05:

In Another Form (2260 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, Josh Hoberman, Julia Wicker, William "Penny" Adiyodi, The Monster (The Magicians)
Summary:

Quentin tells Margo that Eliot is still alive in there.

Written for @themagiciansreccenter fear and bravery prompt.

Also, I wanted to let you guys know that my work schedule has become unmanageably insane this month, and Wednesdays are particularly bad, so my participation is gonna be limited to hopping on on the weekends to chat with you guys! If anybody else wants to make episode discussion posts, be my guest! I expect I'll be getting caught up at a slight delay every week.

obstinatecondolement

Title: Sublimation
Author:

obstinatecondolement/

SweetPollyOliver
Fandom: The Magicians (TV)
Pairing or Character: Quentin Coldwater/Eliot Waugh
Summary: Eliot's thoughts when Q makes his proposition

Read at AO3

allheadybooks

I HIGHLY recommend this excellent fic by

giddygeek. I saved it to read on my commute yesterday and was not disappointed; it has everything I could have possibly hoped for out of body swap fic in The Magicians fandom, including a pitch perfect Margo, happily transformed into a six foot hunk of dumb muscle.

Shell Game (20118 words) by Giddygeek
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Magicians (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Quentin Coldwater/Eliot Waugh
Characters: Quentin Coldwater, Eliot Waugh, Margo Hanson
Additional Tags: Pining, Tropes, Bodyswap, Sharing a Bed, Sexswap
Summary: Shell game: a game involving sleight of hand, in which three inverted cups or nutshells are moved about, and contestants must spot which is the one with a pea or other object underneath.

Or, Quentin can’t believe he never thought to ask if there was a magical time in Fillory when people swapped bodies with the last person they slept with.

allheadybooks

This is the official discussion post for Season 4, Episode 3, "The Bad News Bear." Feel free to jump into the comments below and share your reactions, questions, best lines, weirdest moments, quippiest quips, and most tragic facial expressions.

This post is just for discussing the episode itself. A second post will go up tomorrow where we can collect screencaps, icons, gifs, fic prompts, episode codas, and meta about the episode.

allheadybooks

If you were watching the season premiere and you thought "damn I want a fic about THAT," or you'd like to speculate about what might happen next comment-fic-style, OR you saw a good gifset on Tumblr or some fanart on one of the many sites I can never keep track of, OR there's a fic you read once that this episode reminded you of:

please drop it in the comments below!

(Apologies for the delay--I was traveling this week and my schedule got seriously borked!)

allheadybooks

This is the official discussion post for Season 4, Episode 2, "Lost, Found, ...Ed." Feel free to jump into the comments below and share your reactions, questions, best lines, weirdest moments, quippiest quips, and most tragic facial expressions.

I don't have to go in to work today because the Midwest is colder than the surface of Mars (it's -13 right now), so I may actually comment in real time!

This post is just for discussing the episode itself. A second post will go up tomorrow where we can collect screencaps, icons, gifs, fic prompts, episode codas, and meta about the episode.