Less blurry. Really pretty.

Where to start?

Monster Eliot (Meliot) edit (very heavily inspired by a Moira edit I saw on Tiktok)

🎵 : Blind - Korn

"don't ask me that, Parker. because if you ask me, I'll tell you. so please, don't ask me."

Forgot about my tumblr for a week oops

a nice young man with a pig! im sure he wont make his friend ritually sacrifice it!

okay so now that i’ve officially finished watching leverage i just want to say that maybe i’m obsessed with this show on multiple levels and something about how it hits so many itches in that it’s about found family and it’s about fucking over bad, rich guys (no billionaire bootlicking in this show! and i fucking love it) and it’s also about how sometimes the bad guys are the only good guys you get and it’s also about how we are all stronger together it’s about how at the start of this show, we have all of these characters who are largely used to working alone and being alone and yet the show concludes that ultimately, we are better when we are together and by being together, we might be able to leave something behind that is bigger and brighter for the next people in our generation and no man is an island and no person is meant to beat goliath on their own or whatever

there's this annoying subsection of Internet Leftist that like, pays lip service to socialism but is also deeply entrenched in capitalist hyper-consumerism. like, you know that socialism isn't just "i can continue my same excessive and unsustainable consumption, but this time for free", right? 

like, of couse bread and roses and whatnot; any decent implementation of socialism shouldn't force everyone to live in bleak minimalist utilitarianism, and everyone deserves a bit of luxury in their lives. but certain levels of over-consumption are inherently unsustainable and inherently cannot exist without someone being exploited. "there is no ethical consumption under capitalism", but some kinds of consumption could not exist under socialism; would you be ready to give those up when the time comes?

the fact that the monster is in eliot’s body and still looks at quentin/brian with such longing...

Quick alternative pitch: Take the gun with the god-killing bullet and shoot the fucking monster in the face. The Magicians | S03E13: Will You Play with Me? (2018)

"Does that make us bad?"

"It makes us...us. You can take that has a blessing or as a curse."

The fact that Parker didn't want to leave him made her human. Eliot letting her know that sometimes; they can't save everyone makes him human.

Art for Eliot Rocks the Memory Palace

This art covers a scene that takes place at the end of Part Two from Quentin's point of view, and is briefly recapped at the end of Part Three from Eliot's POV. I included a little reminder-excerpt with the art in Chapter 4 of the fic.

Eliot Rocks the Memory Palace (with Art) (15271 words) by EliotQueliot Chapters: 4/15 Fandom: The Magicians (TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Quentin Coldwater/Eliot Waugh, Margo Hanson & Eliot Waugh, Quentin Coldwater & Julia Wicker Characters: Eliot Waugh, Quentin Coldwater, Julia Wicker, Margo Hanson, William "Penny" Adiyodi, 23rd Timeline William "Penny" Adiyodi, Henry Fogg, Alice Quinn (The Magicians), The Monster (The Magicians), Kady Orloff-Diaz Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Canon-Typical Violence, Canon-Typical Behavior, References to Depression, Depression, Implied/Referenced Suicide, Possession, Episode: s04e05 Escape From the Happy Place, Imprisonment, Physical Kids Cottage (The Magicians), Gods, Memory Magic, Studying, Repressed Memories, Communication, Peaches and Plums (The Magicians), Rewriting Season 4 after 4x5, There is no such thing as Season 5, And canon stops at 4x10 anyway, But this is so AU and gets more so as it goes along, Quentin Coldwater Lives, Queliot is Endgame, Memory Palace, Past Child Abuse, Starbucks, Jennifer (The Magicians) - Freeform Summary: What if Eliot did a lot more from inside the Happy Place than take a greatest hits tour of his deepest regrets and speak to reality-Quentin only the one time? What if Eliot kept putting himself through the wringer to get out to Quentin when he could, especially when Quentin needed him? And by practicing, could stay out for longer stretches of time? What if the memory palace is actually the greatest study hall Eliot has ever known, and the enforced solitude with all his memories gives him the chance to level up into the master magician he was always meant to be? Eliot sees Quentin struggling--with the Monster, with exhaustion and burnout, with depression--and he'll be damned if he doesn't do everything in his power to help. Especially since he feels responsible for it all. 4x9: Eliot to Penny-23: "This is a mind palace situation, and we don't have a lot of time, and I have some extremely major shit to tell you." Penny-23 to Quentin: "I saw Eliot in there. Alive. And poking around like a pro. The Monster, everything he can't remember. It's in there. All of it."

Eliot loved Q so much the monster inside of him had feelings for him. Feelings he couldn't understand but couldn't ignore.

Q loved Eliot so much he was willing to die to prevent harm to Eliot's body. He was willing to do anything, see anything, endure anything to protect his boy.

This season is full of love between two characters separated by a monster. It's tragic but it's so fucking beautiful too. Their love is a love for 100 timelines and beyond.

this world, it's not just the bad things or the ones who wronged us.

genuinely I think margo would have been a better pick for loving fillory so much it makes a cure flower bloom. because at this point, quentin's love is nostalgic. it got him through a lot. and even living a whole life there with eliot isn't enough because he's still reckoning with the fact that eliot didn't want that, didn't want to try again.

but margo? margo loves fillory, but not out of nostalgia or childlike innocence. margo loves fillory like a goddamn adult, someone who sees everything fillory is, all its fucked up contradictions, all its faults, everything stupid and wrong and loves it anyway. loves it enough to want to change it, to make it better.

yknow who else could love fillory enough? fucking fen. fillory is her home. like she loves earth and new york, but it's never gonna be her home, where her people are, where her family is buried. of course fen loves fillory in a deeper, much more intrinsic way than quentin ever could.

also unrelated but margo could have left her goddamn eyeball on the kitchen counter to go save her fuckin life partner but what do I know about writing why even introduce the fact that she can pop her damn fairy eye out