The Magicians

The Magicians offers for Fandom for Oz and Fandom Trumps Hate

2020-02-28T22:02:36Z

Posted by: obstinatecondolement

The previous post reminded me that I am offering a fanvideo for The Magicians in Fandom for Oz and Fandom Trumps Hate (links lead to my creator pages). I am offering for any fandom in Fandom Trumps Hate and a specific list of fandoms, which includes The Magicians, for Fandom For Oz.

Fandom Trumps Hate ends tonight at 8PM EST and Fandom For Oz ends at midnight GMT on the 29th of February.

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I'm offering The Magicians fanart for Fandom Trumps Hate! :)

2020-02-28T17:52:49Z

Posted by: facethestrange

Bidding at fandomtrumpshate ends tonight, I’m offering a digital drawing of The Magicians (TV), and there aren't any bids on it yet. Any character(s) and relationship(s) are welcome to be requested, no exceptions! ❤

You can bid on it here. Make sure to choose auction #1 (the other two auctions are for other fandoms). Bidding closes on Friday, February 28th at 8pm EST, and here is a neat converter that tells you what time it is in your timezone.

So far I have only drawn The Magicians once and I’m super excited to do it more because it’s my number one fandom right now! ❤ (That’s why it doesn’t share the auction with any other fandoms, so that I definitely get to draw it as long as someone bids. :D) Other examples of my drawings are on my AO3 profile.

There are currently two charity auctions going on at the same time (more or less), and I’m offering to draw The Magicians for both of them! See my offer for Fandom for Australia here on tumblr. Feel free to bid on both if you would like two pieces of fanart just for you! :) (So far it doesn't have any bids either, but it ends a bit later.)

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[Fic] rewriting the stars (Quentin/Eliot/Margo, Quentin/Eliot), explicit

2019-08-24T20:10:05Z

Posted by: witchymint

rewriting the stars (11151 words) by capeofstorm
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Magicians (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Quentin Coldwater/Eliot Waugh, Quentin Coldwater/Margo Hanson/Eliot Waugh
Characters: Quentin Coldwater, Margo Hanson, Eliot Waugh, Julia Wicker
Additional Tags: Just Married, Just Married Exchange, Anal Fingering, Oral Sex, A Game Of 'Fuck Marry Kill' Somehow Becomes Magically Binding, Post-Season/Series 03, Post-Season/Series 03 AU
Summary:

“... if I have to spend another day around a mopey El, I will kill him myself.”

That brings him crashing back from sensory high. “A truth spell?”

Margo waves her hand. “Magical version of fuck, marry, kill, all it will do is make you answer truthfully, then it wears off.”

“Are you sure...”

“Of course I’m sure. You better appreciate this because I went to the fucking library for it.”

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[FIC] A Spell to Bind All Magicians

2019-07-14T23:37:01Z

Posted by: necessarian

A friend and I have begun posting a canon rewrite fic which starts from the very beginning and diverges to tell a new story, in particular dwelling on the worldbuilding and the weirdness of magic. Check it out!

A Spell to Bind All Magicians (2916 words) by renaissance, mutagenesis
Chapters: 1/?
Fandom: The Magicians - Lev Grossman, The Magicians (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Quentin Coldwater/Eliot Waugh, Quentin Coldwater/Other(s)
Characters: Quentin Coldwater, Julia Wicker, Eliot Waugh, Alice Quinn, Janet (The Magicians), William "Penny" Adiyodi, James (The Magicians), Henry Fogg
Additional Tags: Canon Rewrite, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Worldbuilding, Weird Magic, Body Horror, Slow Burn, Trans Character, Contains elements from both canons
Summary: For your consideration is scrawled helpfully on the corner of the first page of The Magicians by Christopher Plover. Quentin almost loses the first page; after that, he takes it with him to Brakebills, and he never puts it down

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[FIC] Satellite (Margo/Fen, Mature)

2019-06-04T02:03:32Z

Posted by: rigormorphis

Satellite (4080 words) by radchaai
Fandom: The Magicians (TV)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Fen/Margo Hanson
Summary:

Margo was the bearer of the Sorrows, the fastest shot in the Trad—second fastest if you asked the Quinn girl, not that anyone should—and above all else, a notorious cutthroat bitch. She didn't lose fights to packs of jumped-up backstation grunts, especially not grunts of this station's calibre.

A space pirate AU written for the We Die Like Fen* flash exchange, where I was assigned to write for myself. Because I didn't match to anyone else and it turns out mods can, in fact, do that.

* (It's a multifandom exchange and the name is coincidental, except insofar as I couldn't resist writing about Fen in an exchange that bore her name. I promise she doesn't die!)

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[Fic]: Although We Are Faithless, Kady/Julia, Explicit, ~5K

2019-05-27T21:17:28Z

Posted by: starshipfox

Fic: Although We Are Faithless

Pairings: Kady/Julia, background Kady/Penny
Summary:
“It turns out...” Kady swallowed, hunching down by the edge of the table. “It turns out you don’t stop caring about people even when they’re selfish bitches who betray you.”

Even though Julia hurt Kady, Kady can't stop caring about her. And after Kady's overdose in S03, Julia will do anything she can to help.

Tags: Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Hurt/Comfort, Past Sexual Assault, Drug Use, Suicidal Thoughts, Depression, Comfort Sex, Crying, Cuddling & Snuggling, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Season/Series 02, Season/Series 03, Reynard, Mentioned Kady/Penny, Implied/Referenced Character Death, Friendship/Love, Best bitches, Finding joy while depressed, Therapy, Cunnilingus, Femslash, Vaginal Fingering

Notes: Written for hurtcomfortex 2019

Huge thanks to capeofstorm for the beta. Please note this fic contains references to Penny's death in S03, to Kady's overdose, and mentions of suicide, rape and depression. It's got a lot more comfort than those warnings suggest, though.

Read it on AO3

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[FIC] "Theory and Application" (~12k), Alice&Quentin, Eliot/Quentin, Teen

2019-05-22T14:48:52Z

Posted by: greywash

"Theory and Application"
Source: The Magicians (TV)
Relationships: Quentin Coldwater & Alice Quinn, Quentin Coldwater/Eliot Waugh
Rating: Teen and Up Audiences
Length: ~12,000 words

Notes: Warning for disturbing content (fuller explanation in my author's notes on AO3, but—for basically the usual post 4x13 reasons); just like last time, spoilers through 4x13 but then I dropkicked the ending of 4x13 down a well. 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.

Summary:

Alice attends some parties. Quentin changes careers.

Read it at AO3 →

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Fic: Thousand Doorways (Quentin/Eliot)

2019-05-12T16:49:59Z

Posted by: starshipfox

Fic: Thousand Doorways

Pairings: Quentin/Eliot, background Margo/Fen, Julia & Quentin
Summary:

Eliot touched his arm, his face full of concern. And the concern was the worst fucking thing in the world. Quentin couldn’t. He couldn’t –

And it had all been so beautiful.

Sometimes memories of trauma knock you over at the worst possible moment. They're assholes like that.

Tags: Depression, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Canon Disabled Character, Flashbacks, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Past Sexual Assault, Therap, yAutism Spectrum, Canon-typical references to bestiality, Cuddling & Snuggling, Long conversations over coffee, Acting with good intentions but getting things wrong, Dogs help by being dogs, Quentin/Therapy

Notes: Thank you to templemarker for a very thoughtful and considered beta, and to capeofstorms for her patience and suggestions. I went on to blithely ignore both of them when it suited me and remaining mistakes are my own.

This fic explores depression and past sexual trauma, including flashbacks to past sexual assault, past coercion and a character struggling to understand consent. As such, it may be upsetting to read.

I am autistic, and read Quentin as autistic too. This fic isn’t about Quentin’s autism, but it felt disingenuous for me not to touch on it in a fic about mental health. Quentin has some internalised ableism and uses some ableist language here.

Read it here on AO3

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[FIC] "Measure by Measure" (~5.2k), The Magicians, Eliot/Quentin, Explicit

2019-05-11T20:25:36Z

Posted by: greywash

There comes a time in every young woman's life where she just says... fuck it, my id is writing this fanfic and I apologize for nothingggggg:

"Measure by Measure"
The Magicians (TV), Eliot/Quentin, Explicit, ~5.2k
by greywash [AO3]

Eliot and Quentin learn to cook.

Warning for disturbing content, but it's actually super super soft (full explanation in my author's notes on AO3); spoilers through 4x13 but then I gave 4x13 the middle finger. 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.

Read it at AO3 →

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Fic: "Craft Your Soul From Fire and Ice" (Eliot & Margo)

2019-05-01T11:28:10Z

Posted by: joking

Craft Your Soul From Fire and Ice by Poetry
Chapters: 1/1
Fandoms: The Magicians, His Dark Materials
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Margo Hanson & Eliot Waugh
Characters: Margo Hanson, Eliot Waugh, Mary Malone, Henry Fogg, Pearl Sunderland, Mayakovsky (The Magicians), Quentin Coldwater
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Daemons, Same-Sex Daemons, Platonic Soulmates, Pre-Canon, canon is dead to me anyway, Substance Abuse, Homophobia, Sexism, Character Study, Happy Ending, Queer Gen
Summary:

Every magician has to build their own soul. Eliot and Margo discover that neither of them can do it alone.

Notes:

Thanks to greywash for helping refine my scream of S4 finale rage.

No knowledge of His Dark Materials is needed to enjoy this fic, though HDM fans will get something extra from the experience.

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fic: cut down to the bone

2019-04-28T17:31:07Z

Posted by: witchymint

Title: cut down to the bone
Author: capeofstorm
Pairing or Character: Alice Quinn character study
Summary: It’s not easy being ten and knowing these things about your family.

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Meta: The Magicians dæmon AU

2019-04-23T20:22:01Z

Posted by: joking

I've been channeling my anguish over the finale into writing a dæmon AU for The Magicians. Now, when I write a dæmon AU I get in way over my head researching what the dæmons should be, so I wrote up a very long meta post on how I decided on dæmons for Quentin, Eliot, and Margo for my upcoming fic.

Dæmonology: The Magicians

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[FIC] split like light refracted - season 4 fix-it

2019-04-19T12:50:33Z

Posted by: necessarian

Title: split like light refracted
Author: renaissance
Pairing or Character: gen, a bit of queliot
Summary: Six new short stories about magic.

(or, the season 4 rewrite i needed, and which i hope you appreciate too. spoilers for all of season 4.)

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FIC: we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood, by templemarker [The Magicians]

2019-04-17T08:53:11Z

Posted by: templemarker

we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood (1100 words) by templemarker

Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Quentin Coldwater/Eliot Waugh, Quentin Coldwater/Alice Quinn, Quentin Coldwater & Margo Hanson, Quentin Coldwater & Julia Wicker, William "Penny" Adiyodi & Quentin Coldwater, Quentin Coldwater/Margo Hanson/Eliot Waugh
Characters: Quentin Coldwater, Therapists - Character, Therapists (Multiple)
Additional Tags: Mental Health Issues, Canon Disabled Character, canon-typical suicidal references, there's that tag again, Depression, Disabled Character, Bisexuality, Bisexual Male Character, Bisexual Character, Canon Bisexual Character, Bisexual Erasure, Therapy, Interventions, (entirely background interventions), Therapists, that good ol-fashions therapy runaround, look I really feel like all these relationships are entirely justified despite occurring off screen, so about that fillorian opium
Series: Part 2 of love + rhetoric + blood

Summary: Quentin had tried, okay, he was trying. He even agreed, although it was kind of under duress -- it was like Eliot and Margo and Julia and Alice and even fucking Penny, who wasn't even from this fucking timeline and still defaulted to hating Quentin's guts -- decided Intervention Tuesday was the way to go.

Additional author's notes.

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FIC: both her terror and her gentleness, by templemarker [The Magicians]

2019-04-17T08:50:37Z

Posted by: templemarker

both her terror and her gentleness by templemarker

Rating: Mature
Length: 1700 words
Content notes: No warnings apply.
Author notes: Takes place during 4x12 "The Secret Sea", during the scene where Alice, Penny, Quentin, and Plover are in the Drowned Garden. I wanted to dig into Alice's perspective on, well, everything in the episode. For fan_flashworks challenge #260 - Cave, and my fan_flashworks bingo card square "step".

Summary: On her better days, Alice can believe that she once understood the world, enough to live in it like a person, a person with a soul. The person she was before she was a Niffin, before she cursed her friends to obscurity and herself to the Library's imperfect incarceration.

both her terror and her gentleness

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Fic: You can thank my uterus later

2019-04-07T15:48:58Z

Posted by: starshipfox

You can thank my uterus later

Pairings: Margo/Eliot/Quentin, Margo/Quentin, Margo/Eliot
Summary:
Quentin was fiddling with his hair and not quite looking at her. Jiggling his hands. He did want something, Margo thought. Something he was embarrassed about.

“Good things happen to boys who ask nicely,” she said.

It’s shark week. Quentin’s into it. (Dedicated to anyone who, like me, heard Margo talk about her period in 4.11 and was instantly horny.)

AO3 Tags: : Menstrual Sex, Menstruation Kink, Cunnilingus, Hair-pulling, Telling Quentin Coldwater what to do because he loves it, Bisexuality, Cuddling & Snuggling, Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, Smut, Gratuitous Smut, Spanking, Threesome, Margo and Eliot love each other a lot

Find it here on AO3

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[FIC] a love so real

2019-04-04T11:56:27Z

Posted by: necessarian

Title: a love so real
Author: renaissance
Fandom: The Magicians (TV)
Pairing or Character: Quentin/Eliot
Summary: All it takes is time, to find the right place. Or, Quentin and Eliot find a future in their past.

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[FIC] "A Beginner's Guide to Palmistry" (~3.2k), Eliot/Quentin, Mature

2019-04-02T01:46:17Z

Posted by: greywash

"A Beginner's Guide to Palmistry" [~3.2k]
by greywash [AO3, FFW]
The Magicians (TV), Eliot/Quentin, Mature

"Do you seriously not remember offering to teach me astrology?" Quentin asks, a laugh tucked inside it, like a razor blade.

None of my warnings for 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 was originally posted to fan_flashworks for both the "Point" challenge and the "Horoscope" square on my FFW bingo card.

Read it at AO3 →

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Fic: Pathetic Fallacy (Quentin/Eliot, Margo/Fen)

2019-03-27T12:27:42Z

Posted by: starshipfox

Pathetic Fallacy

Fandom: The Magicians (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Quentin Coldwater/Eliot Waugh, Margo Hanson/Fen
Additional Tags: Smut, Light Dom/sub, Breathplay, Bisexuality, Telling Quentin What To Do Because He Loves It, Idiots in Love, Very practical women, Femslash, Oral Sex, Vaginal Fingering, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Canon-typical references to bestiality, Anal Sex, Post-Season/Series 04

Summary:

Margo sighed. “It’s probably a Biblical flood then. We’ll have to build an ark. Two of everything. We’ll leave Quentin behind. I’m not sacrificing you or me.”

“We’ll pretend he’s some kind of weird Earth dog,” Eliot said.

Post-Monster. Fillory is flooding; Margo’s having at least one emotion and she hates it; Eliot and Quentin are way too into each other; Fen really needs to take the edge off.

Read it on AO3

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[FIC] Pricked thee out for young men's pleasure (Margo/Eliot)

2019-03-26T14:23:30Z

Posted by: petra

Pricked thee out for young men's pleasure (1975 words) by Petra
Fandom: The Magicians (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Margo Hanson/Eliot Waugh
Characters: Eliot Waugh, Margo Hanson
Additional Tags: Pre-Canon, Pegging, We're Not Straight We Just Love Each Other
Summary:

Two bright young things meet at a party freshman year, get on well, and get it on; or, on his quest to become himself, Eliot finds a role model in Margo.

Read it @ AO3

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[FIC, belatedly crossposted] "High in the sunlit silence" (Quentin's mom)

2019-03-22T13:22:47Z

Posted by: greywash

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 →

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[Art] Rest in the After by Eksdy

2019-03-21T21:37:52Z

Posted by: 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)

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[FIC] bruise and leave behind - beast!quentin meets monster!eliot

2019-03-18T12:20:30Z

Posted by: 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

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[META] "I stay in the Castle."

2019-03-16T19:17:20Z

Posted by: 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.]

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[FIC] "an ever-fixèd mark," Quentin/The Monster, Quentin/Eliot, Explicit (TV canon)

2019-03-14T12:34:25Z

Posted by: 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 →

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