Forgot i can like multiple pieces of media at once oops

Olivia Taylor Dudley

it is my fault you are dead. you died sacrificing yourself to save us. part of me is gone now. i have given up the chance to be whole in order to keep you safe. i carry your soul in me in hopes of being able to give it back to you one day. the you you are now hates me for this.

I don't feel like you do.

comic commission for @eliotqueliot !!

Some of the best fanart, fanfiction, edits, and world building i have ever SEEN

comes from The Magicians fandom like girlies are on another LEVEL when it comes to this show/book series

it's absolutely insane and I love that for them

sorry that i’m missing kady and julia it was 4 am

1x03 // 3x03

to add on to the previous post, the fact that Alice is so into Quentin is one of the many layers of why him cheating on her is fucked up, one of the other fun layers being what we see in ep 10 of Alice's parents' very libertine sex life - like how much of Alice's stuff (pastel sexy librarian look, lost her virginity with her clothes on, difficulties talking about her and Quentin's sex life) is consciously or unconsciously tied up in rebellion to her parents? Or a result of the damage they left her with? was dating Quentin the nice sweet shy boy (who reminds her of her brother *cough*) supposed to be another rebellion? And then he cheats on her with two people, one of them a man, so the betrayal is also of the idea of who Quentin was supposed to be, who Alice maybe thought he was, on top of everything else.

It has been damn near almost 4 years since Sera Gamble and John MacNamara showed their entire ass and justified the suicidality of their canonically bisexual male lead as “noble” and I am still so emotionally devastated by it that even the thought of The Magicians is enough to bring me to my knees.

And the most infuriating thing is that Quentin on paper should not have been likeable. At. All. He was written to be the same self insert main character that has been churned out for fanboys for literal decades now. But Jason Ralph *made* him likeable. There’s no doubt in my mind that The Magicians was only ever successful because the actors that were cast actually gave a shit about their characters unlike the writers.

Every single one of the main cast and the supporting cast felt like real people who were relatable in their struggle as specifically millennial protagonists. The Magicians is the only show I’ve seen in recent memory that actually acknowledges the difficulties our generation deals with in an even slightly compassionate way.

But what they did to Quentin was unforgivable and I am genuinely glad it was cancelled a season after because you cannot kill off the heart of your show especially after he finally comes to terms with his queerness and expect people to give a shit anymore. For a show that in so many ways was ground breaking for the sci-if/fantasy/magical realism genre, to say nothing of how the show propelled Syfy itself, the ending it gave Quentin shows that the writers somehow missed the entire point of the character they wrote and the story he was trying to tell and I mourn him.

Olivia Taylor Dudley as Alice Quinn

The Magicians | 4.06 - "A Timeline and Place"