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Fake Dating/One Bed Queliot AU
Check out the WIP Fake Dating/Only One Bed fanfic cliche AU I am making for @kickassfu
Now with a moodboard :)
Part One | Part Two | Part Three
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And this is a smaller thing but. As someone who enjoys watching romances on-screen, I’m also bitter that every single romance in The Magicians went to a place I disliked sometime between 4x10 and 4x13.
Q/Eliot: downplayed and ignored by the narrative.
Q/Alice: the episodes before 4x12 had me genuinely excited about an exes-becoming-friends plotline which is. Very rare on TV still.
Kady/Penny40: the “all I ever wanted to be was Penny’s girlfriend” line made me want to set myself on fire. And I found them a legit compelling tragic romance before, too, so that made it worse that now I have to hate what it’s done to Kady.
Julia/Penny23: having Penny make the choice in Julia’s place instead of him using his innate powers to just. Ask her. Ugh. I was really shipping them before that, too.
Margo/Josh: I genuinely liked Margo and Josh before the whole fish thing, but giving her the perfect set-up to not have to choose between Eliot and Josh, but then inexplicably have her choose Josh anyway has made me dislike the pairing severely. So.
Marina/nameless girlfriend: I’m just bitter Marina disappeared after being confirmed queer, thanks!
And it frustrates me because I genuinely liked everything that was happening romantically before 4x11.
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Auntie Margo. I'll take anything.
To say the least, Margo was not good with kids. She didn’t want them. Was never going to have them. End of story. Motherhood was great for some women and that was their choice, but it was just not in Margo’s life plan. She didn’t want to be a mother. That’s that.
But she made a fucking excellent aunt.
Eliot and Quentin’s daughter practically worshipped the ground she walked on. Little Cassiopeia wanted nothing more than to be like Aunt Bambi. (And yes, her name was Cassiopeia. “You named our first child, Quentin,” Eliot had said, “I get to name this one,”)
Cassi was five now, and hell on wheels in the best possible way. Q & El had raised her with impeccable manners and Margo had raised her with a wild attitude. The first time Cassi said “Pretty please with shit sprinkles on top?” Quentin had given Margo a look that could’ve killed.
Aunt Bambi loved spending time with her little sweet pea. Her fathers didn’t really need a babysitter, as Quentin had a super flexible work schedule, but Margo still came to visit her on Earth at least every other week.
The first time Cassiopeia came to Fillory, she was awestruck. Margo held her little hand and led her around the castle, showing her everything a five year old could want to see until they get to the throne room.
“This is mine and Auntie Fen’s thrones,” Margo says, and the little girl hops onto the throne with an inquisitive look on her face.
“But Auntie Margo” Cassi says, her little legs swinging off of Fen’s throne, “If you’re a girl, how can you be high king? I though only boys could be kings,”
Margo swallowed a wave of emotions and memories of her father, and took her niece’s hand. Margo may not ever want kids of her own but she loved this kid so much it hurt. She loved this kid so much she would pluck her namesake constellation from the heavens just to give it to her as a necklace. She would go to war for this kid, and she would be do better than her father ever dared to be.
“Sweet Pea, you can be anything you put your mind to. You wanna be a king? You can be a king. You wanna be an astronaut or a doctor or a mother or a teacher or a warrior? You can be all of those things. Nothing could ever hold you back, and anything that tries can face the wrath of Aunt Bambi,”
Cassi smiled brightly. “I want to be a giraffe!”
“Then you’re gonna be the best giraffe in the whole world,”
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The Magicians Finale bit that was the final straw for me
ZELDA, YOU WANT ALICE TO TAKE OVER THE LIBRARY???
I think you meant, “my daughter, Harriet, trained to the library since birth, who left it because she understood it was too authoritarian, who has successfully started fake Buzzfeed as a means of magic information distribution, who, by any narrative means is literally the exact person one would want taking over and leading the reform of the library.”
NOT Alice, who tried to turn off all magic everywhere because she got scared, who like never canonically takes responsibility for her shit, and has a history of being really reactionary.
I mean, everything was wrong with the finale. Every storyline. But this is one I haven’t seen anyone else mention and I fucking snapped when Zelda said “Alice.”
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On Bisexuality, Identity, and Quentin Coldwater
You know, I’m not the first to say it, but I really thought that in the Year Of Our Lord Twenty-Nineteen showrunners knew better than to Bury Their Gays. So much so that it gave me comfort that neither Quentin nor Eliot would be killed in the finale. Because they were both so obviously queer, the show had seemingly gone out of the way to confirm that, so they had to be safe, because no one’s that stupid, right?
Surely anyone running a TV show has heard about the uproar on this issue, right? So in the wake of the finale, I had two possible theories to explain how they could have Been That Stupid. Either Quentin was never intended to stay dead, this was all an elaborate fake-out and therefore the writers didn’t THINK of it as burying the character, OR they never thought Quentin himself counted as queer.
The first possibility…could still be the case? I really was enamored of this theory for a while until I saw what seems very much like real grief from the cast. At any rate, if that’s so, who fucking knows. The second idea has been discussed by others, both in this excellent article and all over the fandom.
It’s bothered me for a while now, before all this mess, that people associated with the show use the phrase “sexually fluid” so much. They use it when asked about Quentin’s sexuality. They use it when asked about having Eliot, a seemingly gay character in S1, be forced to marry to a woman. They use it in general when asked about the show. Even Hale Appleman, a queer man himself, uses it, when asked these questions.
Now, I’ve had some discussions about what the term “sexually fluid” means. To some people it’s basically the same as saying “bisexual.” To some it means a person’s sexuality can change over time. And to others it means that sexual behavior doesn’t define one’s sexual identity. I’ve talked about some of this before, in my long-ass meta about Eliot’s sexuality and his rejection of Q in 4x05.
So trying to pin down exactly what any one person means by the phrase is difficult. But I do think it’s significant that the show seems to be really hesitant to put a label on any character’s sexuality. But especially Quentin. The closest we got is from Jason Ralph at SDCC last year when he said both that Quentin isn’t at all anxious about his sexuality and that he thinks Quentin is “in the middle” of a spectrum of sexuality. That is a pretty clear statement from the actor, although that’s just him speaking for himself. Also of note is that he had, at the time, read the script for 4x05.
4x05 - Escape from the Happy Place, was absolutely the episode that seemed to confirm Quentin’s identity as bisexual to the audience. 4x05 seemed to be saying, finally, definitively, that Q wasn’t just a guy who occasionally had sex with guys when he was drunk (1x11), and wasn’t just someone who initiated sex with his best friend in certain circumstances (3x05), but actually wanted to have a lasting, real relationship with a male person that he is in romantic love with.
Except it seems like the writers and showrunners never got out of the mindset of Quentin as a straight guy who was just open-minded and a bit fluid. Their whole philosophy seems to have been: well this is a modern show and therefore labels aren’t important and we don’t define sexuality. And somehow thought that extended to “therefore Quentin isn’t queer and you can’t be mad if we kill him.”
Because there’s something that all this talk about fluidity misses, and that’s that labels are important. Identities are important. The whole point of Pride is that it’s important to proclaim your sexual identity and be recognized as it.
I say that as a bisexual person who has spent most of my life as either a sexually fluid straight person or an invisible bisexual person. Shrodinger’s bisexual, as another Tumblr post about Quentin put it. I’m almost 40 and when I was in college, I was straight up told I wasn’t gay enough to call myself bisexual. Within my group of pretty damn queer friends, I was a flexible straight girl. Sure, I might have sex with people of any gender. I might express attraction to anyone. But mostly I was with guys. I appeared straight and therefore didn’t count as queer.
But then I entered the Mainstream Straight World and went…woah….what the fuck, man? I didn’t fit in there either. In that world, I didn’t feel straight. So I kinda shrugged and my identity depended on who I talked to, what environment I was in. I married a bisexual man who also didn’t really define himself with labels. We looked straight but never really fit in with most other straight couples. It’s only in the last few years I’ve started to really think of myself in my own mind as bisexual, full stop. And in the last year I came out publicly, with very little fanfare.
So I very much feel like I and Quentin Coldwater fit in the same category. We look straight. A lot of the time the label straight seems to function accurately for us. Except when it doesn’t. But here’s the thing. I think most bisexual people will relate to what I’ve talked about above. Not feeling like you fit in either with very gay people or very straight people. Not sure how to label yourself, changing your mind a lot over time. Avoiding talking about it to people depending on context. I’ve seen a lot of my close friends go through this over the last twenty years. (Somehow most of my very close long term friends are also bi.) They didn’t always talk about it much, or label themselves publicly until the last few years. Most of them are married now, whether to different or same gender partners.
But we all still feel that need, to be recognized for what we are. To say, now, “we are bisexual” and not whatever else we’re assumed to be. The older we’ve gotten, the more accepting the queer community has gotten of us, the more we feel a need to label ourselves. Not less. Sexually fluid isn’t enough of a descriptor. It doesn’t reflect the truth. Straight except sometimes isn’t accurate. More people are identifying as bisexual now than ever before, and that’s not something that would be happening if we had all moved beyond labels to a place where they don’t matter.
Being queer is an important part of a person. Being bisexual is an important part of our identity. It means something. It sets us apart from other people. It makes it hurt more when we see someone like us suffer on screen, be killed off because they weren’t interesting anymore, not get to resolve their romantic arc. Our identities, character identities they matter more than ever. Representation matters. And no amount of bullshit handwaving about labels being evil can change that.
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I keep trying to think of what they could do to make me want to watch S5 of The Magicians but I can’t come up with anything. Even if Quentin came back the first episode, I don’t trust them anymore with their queer characters. I don’t trust them with their female characters. I don’t trust them to write a narratively sound season that ends in a way that is satisfying. I don’t trust them to love and care about their characters and coherent storytelling more than they care about satisfying their own egos.
I’m not even burning mad anymore, or super sad. I guess this is just acceptance. It really has almost nothing to do with Quentin either. The Magicians has been a terrific show, outside of the last 2 episodes. If I ever get a chance to see any actors at conventions, I’ll definitely take it. My Margo cosplay is happening.
But I know I won’t be watching season 5 live. Or season 6, if there is one. If the writers are really so determined to write only for themselves, they can go ahead and do that. Because I won’t be queerbaited again, and I’m not going to give any emotional energy to characters the creators don’t really care about.
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Imagine instead of this shit final the writers got ride of Q by sending him off to a vocation with Eliot.
Shit is going down. Everybody is screaming. There is a cut. Q and El are lying on a beach. Nothing happens. Q turns to another side. Nothing happens. Cut. Screaming resumes.
Kady is fistfighting a dragon. She is throwing a punch. Cut. El and Q are laughing while dancing, nearly falling over an empty wine bottle. Cut. The dragon lost a tooth.
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Big showdown with the Dark King. It’s the in the middle of the battle. There is a close up on Margo: “I’m the King, bitch.”
Cut
“You’re cheating!”
“Well, yes. So you are. It’s literally the whole point of the game. Now take off your pants.”
Cut
Fen stabs the dark king with a knife. Margo goes “Damn, Gal.”
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i made this for the discord but its important
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be nothing but magic
by kopfkinote
Quentin writes love letters to people he doesn’t know for a little bit of cash. He’s not sure what amount of cash, if such an amount even exists, is enough to make him write a love letter to Eliot Waugh.
Words: 11966, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English
Fandoms: The Magicians (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Categories: M/M
Characters: Quentin Coldwater, Eliot Waugh, William “Penny” Adiyodi, Margo Hanson
Relationships: Quentin Coldwater/Eliot Waugh
Additional Tags: Love Letters, Alternate Universe - College/University, Alternate Universe - You’ve Got Mail Fusion, Angst with a Happy Ending
read it on the AO3 at http://archiveofourown.org/works/18632743
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I’m so obsessed with The Magicians! It’s become one of my favorite currently airing shows right now!
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netflixs model of continually introducing new shows and then cancelling them because their business model is based on growing new subscriptions rather than maintaining current ones is like a prime example of why media under capitalism sucks
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HERE IN THE MATERIAL WORLD : music by Hale Appleman
I’ve never heard this before and haven’t seen it posted on tumblr. This is a film of photographs by Peter Cunningham with music by Hale Appleman which was posted to Vimeo three years ago. Hale’s voice is soothing and beautiful and I hope he releases new, original music soon. I’d like to support him and his art in any other way I can seeing as I can no longer go anywhere near The Magicians. I wanted to share this with any of you who, like me, hadn’t heard it before.
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Can The Magicians’ Hale Appleman Perform Magic Tricks in Real Life?
5 questions / 60 seconds ( 04 mar 2016 )
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The most frustrating thing about all of this is that, no matter where the disconnect happened, the showrunners are still the bosses and were in charge of approving everything in those scripts this season. The narrative was too tight for the first 10 episodes for any of that to have been a mistake. And even episodes 11 and 12 would have worked had 13 not been such a massive disappointment. The biggest problem really is that the showrunners came into this season with the singular goal of killing Quentin, and that’s really all they cared about in the end.
But that doesn’t explain why they built this entire myth arc up just to toss is down the drain with zero payoff, or why their major themes this season didn’t matter when all was said and done, or why every last one of the character arcs were for nothing. Or why Quentin and Eliot couldn’t even share so much as a passing glance when finally Eliot was saved and Quentin was right there. I don’t get it. I’ll never get it. The desire to kill the queer mentally ill audience avatar was bad enough, but the contrived and disconnected way they went about it in the end is always going to leave me feeling empty inside. It doesn’t make any sense. I wish that we could somehow make it make sense. I don’t think that’s ever going to happen.
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