How They Met Themselves (fanart, my first piece for Queliot Bingo)

Okay, you are getting the drawing first! But I will paint this when I have time!! And maybe write a fic too!!!

How They Met Themselves (with Art) (656 words) by EliotQueliot Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Magicians (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Quentin Coldwater/Eliot Waugh Characters: Eliot Waugh, Quentin Coldwater, 23rd Timeline Quentin Coldwater, The Monster (The Magicians) Additional Tags: queliot, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Mosaic Timeline (The Magicians: A Life in the Day), Beast Quentin Coldwater, Monster Eliot Waugh, Jennifer - Freeform, Forests, Fillory (The Magicians), Mosaic (The Magicians), Evil Twins, Doppelganger, Pre-Raphaelite paintings, Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Freeform, The Pre-Raphaelites Summary: After more than a year working on the Mosaic, Eliot and Quentin go walking in the woods. There they encounter their evil twins, Monster!Eliot and Beast!Q! OR: Monster!Eliot and Beast!Q versus Quentin and Eliot from the Mosaic! Boom!

Thank you @queliotbingo! ❤️

tricks up sleeves and all that

rosekiller microfic | 1,180 words | magician Barty, single dad Evan

The first thing Evan thought when his daughter told him she wanted a magician at her birthday party was how did I raise a child who enjoys close-up magic? It wouldn’t have been his first choice, probably wouldn’t have even been his last. He would’ve gone with something classier, more elegant, like a tea party or a day at the museum. Something to live up to the extravagance of previous years. Sure, Eleanor is only seven but that doesn’t mean she can’t enjoy the finer things. 

So, in between meetings and phone calls, Evan researched children’s birthday party magicians, and as you’d expect, not much was living up to his standards. After days of sifting through resumes and background checks, he was eventually able to find a well-designed website with good reviews and speak to a representative who promised to send their best.

This is why Evan is so confused when he opens his front door to find a tall, lanky man in ripped jeans and a worn out t-shirt, his look complete with ruffled hair, an eyebrow piercing, and excessive amounts of tattoos. 

“You must have the wrong house,” Evan says. He thinks he should probably close the door but something about this man is intriguing. He wants to look for just a second longer.

The man leans back to check the address beside the door. “You’re Mr. Rosier, right? I’m here for the birthday party. I’m Barty, the magician.” 

Evan raises a brow. “You don’t look like a magician.”

“Were you expecting a full tuxedo? It’s like 95 degrees out.” A tilted grin spreads over his face, showing off a pointy canine. “Here let me show you.” Before Evan can back away, Barty is reaching behind his ear and producing a shiny quarter, flipping it between his fingers confidently. “Ta da.”

“That’s hardly magic,” Evan says, crossing his arms. He better get a full refund if this is the best they had.

“No, you’re right. That’s just the decoy.” He raises his left hand, and between his thumb and pointer finger he holds Evan’s watch, which had previously been secured to his wrist.

Evan’s mouth drops open slightly. He hadn’t even felt it. “That’s not magic either, that is literally stealing.” He snatches the watch back, putting it on.

“It’s the art of misdirection,” Barty explains. “I do a dumb coin trick, and while you’re paying attention to that, I do something more impressive. It’s like, the basis of all magic.”

Evan doesn’t even know what to say. This man has just pickpocketed him on his own front porch and now he wants Evan to let him into his house? 

At the same time Evan is getting ready to slam the door in Barty’s face, Eleanor appears at his hip, smile wider than a mile across her face.

“Is this the magician, Dad?” she asks, tugging at his shirt while she bounces up and down.

“You must be Eleanor,” Barty says, squatting down so they’re at eye level. He’s performing now, Evan can tell. He lights up and his smugness from before is washed away. “Would you like to pick a card?” 

Eleanor nods enthusiastically.

Barty pulls a deck out of his back pocket and starts shuffling. Evan watches the way his fingers move deftly around the cards. Bending and flipping them expertly before fanning them out in front of her.

“Okay, go ahead. But don’t tell me what your card is, just show it to your dad and put it back anywhere in the deck.”

Eleanor does as instructed and shows Evan the card, ace of hearts, before sliding it back in.

“Thanks Eleanor, that’s great.” He starts shuffling the cards again, adding in flourishes here and there. Evan watches intently, trying to track his every move, see where he might be switching cards out or taking a peek, but he moves too quickly for Evan to stay on top of everything. “Now Ellie, can I call you Ellie?” Eleanor giggles and nods her head. “Your dad here,” he tilts his head up at Evan, “has already seen me do a trick similar to this, but I think I can put a new spin on it, what do you say?” 

Eleanor looks up at Evan, affronted. “Dad! You’ve been playing with the magician without me?”

Evan hears Barty try to stifle a laugh and feels the beginning of a tension headache spreading behind his eyes. “I was just making sure he was up to our standards,” he grits out.

“Don’t worry Ellie, your dad was just doing his due diligence.” Eleanor looks appeased and waves her hand in a motion that tells Barty to continue. He does one last shuffle and then reaches behind Eleanor’s ear. When he pulls back, he has the ace of spades in between his pointer and middle fingers. “So Ellie, was this your card?” 

She looks confused and a little disappointed. Evan holds himself back from kicking Barty directly in the face. “Um… close,” she says. “Mine had hearts on it.”

Barty looks at the card. “Huh. You know, sometimes the cards don’t always do what we want them to so we have to shake some sense into them. He starts waving the card quickly back and forth. When it comes to a stop, Barty holds the ace of hearts where the ace of spades had previously been. He smiles in triumph. Evan still kind of wants to kick him in the face.

Eleanor lets out an excited squeal and rushes forward to tackle Barty into a hug. “Can we keep him, Dad?” she screams directly in Barty’s ear. He doesn’t even flinch.

Evan lets out a resigned sigh. He’s really never been able to deny Eleanor anything, so he steps to the side, opening the door wider, a smile tugging on the corners of his mouth. “Of course Eleanor. Go gather your friends in the living room. Barty will be right in.” He places a hand on her head as she runs by.

Barty stands up and straightens his pants out, sliding the deck back into his pocket. “Good enough?” he asks, shrugging a shoulder.

Evan scrutinizes him for a second, running his eyes over every inch of the man. The line of his cheekbone, the curve of his neck, the way his thumb rubs a circle into the side of his pointer finger. There’s something about him. Evan hasn’t heard Eleanor scream that loud since Pandora got her a bug collection kit for Christmas last year. 

“I want you to know that I keep a detailed inventory of everything in my home, so if you steal something I will find out, and you won't be happy about the consequences.”

Barty smiles, something mischievous glinting in his eye. “We’ll see about that,” he says brushing past Evan to make his way into the living room. Evan closes the door behind him. Right before Barty turns the corner, he throws something over his shoulder. Without thinking, Evan catches it. His wallet. With the ace of hearts sticking mockingly out of the top.

Clone High as Tarot Cards

Today: JFK as The Magician & The Chariot

"A bit of a strech with the magician, "I like your words, magic man", mostly inspired by the Jojo card design... but the chariot is 👌"

So like what's the vibe here?

The one who hides behind masks. (1/3)

MCYT Valentines Event

Rose magician AU

Modern AU

Modern + Hairdye AUs

Happy Valentines Day!!! :D

These are my @mcyt-valentines gifts for @seldans !

🔮 🐍  ASRA WEEK 2023 💜💜💖

HELLO ASRA LOVERS, AND WELCOME TO OUR 3RD YEAR OF ASRA WEEK! GET READY FOR #asraweek2023

🦊 THEMES

Day 1 (June 13): Happy Birthday, Asra & Faust! Or a Free Day, for you to do whatever you want in celebration of our fave magician and his familiar!

Day 2 (June 14): My Secrets / Our Memories

Day 3 (June 15): A Farewell / Home Again

Day 4 (June 16): Grand Adventure / Daily Life

Day 5 (June 17): In Loss / In Love

Day 6 (June 18): Something Old / Something New

Day 7 (June 19:) The Magician / The Lovers

🦊 FAQ

What's Asra Week 2023?

Asra Week is a fan event celebrating the birthday of our fave magician! Basically, it's just an event for fun to create fanworks and celebrate Asra's birthday

For the entire event, we release a new theme each day! We also share any and all fanworks made for the event!

This year, we're doing something a lil different & kicking off Asra Week with a big HAPPY BIRTHDAY to our favorite magician and familiar 💜💜

(Here is the tag for Asra Week 2021 and 2022 for the curious!)

Who can participate?

Do you love Asra? Do you want to join? Congrats, you are 100% eligible for this event!

What content is allowed?

Just about anything really. Fanart, fanfiction, fan edits, mood boards, whatever you  want, as long as it includes Asra in some way! The rule is to have fun and enjoy yourself

Mature content too?

Spicy/adult content and content with dark or otherwise heavy themes are certainly allowed! Don’t forget to put warnings, and the reblogs will be tagged appropriately too

However, if it’s not allowable within Tumblr guidelines, please provide content warnings and include an offsite link to the full content (ie links to Twitter, etc, wherever you're posting)

Sneak peeks & previews are optional!

Can my content include Asra interacting with my apprentice? With other characters?

Yes and yes! You can have Asra interacting with any number of the Arcana cast or your own OCs in your works.

Just don’t forget any content warnings if they’re applicable

Can I still participate if I’m late/do themes on different days?

Of course! The themes and dates are more of a suggestion to help spark inspiration. Don’t feel restricted by them, and definitely no worries on being late.

The blog will still continue to reblog and share Asra Week content even after the event is over

Will there be a specific event hashtag?

Yes! The hashtag is #asraweek2023, which will be tracked and all content will be shared here on ArcanaEventHub

You can also tag either @arcanaeventhub or @mimsicalwonderland in case your post doesn't show up in the tags or has been missed

I’m still confused/ I still have more questions!

Please direct any other questions to our inbox for further clarification. Anon is on, so don’t be shy :)

Hope to see yall for Asra week~ 🐍💖

WIP BIG BANG SIGN-UPS ARE LIVE!

The 2024 round of WIP Big Bang is now open for sign-ups! Any fandom is welcome, as long as the fic is 500 completed so far and will be at least 7,500 words upon its finishing. Signing up is easy: just fill out the form linked below after you read the FAQ and take a look at the schedule.

Lumian: Madam Magician, how much information can I reveal about the Tarot Club?

Madam Magician: Why?

Lumian: The Iron and Blood Cross Order just asked me to infiltrate the Tarot Club, so I was wondering.

Madam Magician: *speechless*

[I - The Magician] ; What made them decide that you were the one?

Warnings: fluff, a bit of angst if you squint

Fandom: Devil May Cry

Character x GN reader

Characters: Dante, Vergil, Nero

His entire life, there was a part of Vergil that wanted to be accepted and loved, so he’s very susceptible to someone giving him that kind of gratification. When he meets a person who is not only willing to keep him company, despite his warm and welcoming outlook, but does not judge him for his past or at least attempts to understand him, that’s where the first spark of affection bursts in his heart. Vergil is not a very socially inept individual, so it will touch him greatly if you go out of your way to interact with him. After spending the majority of his life in the Underworld, he is very anxious about rediscovering the human world again. One day, his s/o took him out shopping for some clothes for him - a ruse to get him out of the house, and they spent the entire afternoon out in town. Vergil has many fond memories from that day, and slowly, with each new moment spent together, each new kindness, he fell for you harder and harder. But it was during a celebration with the dmc gang at a bar, when it hit him. He was discreetly watching you as you chatted away with others, a happy and relaxed expression on your face. As he is watching you, he realizes just how much he enjoys your presence in his life, so much he can’t imagine it without you.

Dante makes friends and lovers as easily as enemies. He developed a fast paced, hedonistic lifestyle that demands nothing else but immediate euphoria. This daredevil will resist settling down as long as possible. His personality, past experiences and dangerous life are all factors that play a part in his attitude towards love. But even a ladies man like him will sometimes catch himself wondering what it would be like to have a constant, reassuring presence in his life. What it would be like instead of quietly dragging himself out of a bed of random strangers, to roll over and cradling his partner to his chest as he snores away. To hear someone else’s voice echoing in the rooms of his house. Someone who he calls tell anything because he trusts them to carry some of this load.

He fought for so long that he sometimes forgets the reason why. Is it money, duty or just a habit? He pliers through the bodies of demons and people alike with a sword for his entire life, seemingly to no end. He’s not a hero, just a man who’s trying to find an end’s meet doing the only thing he knows. But you, oh, you bring the hero out of him. With you, he becomes ten times more courageous, more daring, more protective. His protective streak will only increase by your presence.

His shop got wrecked by demons again, but this time, it was different. You were there, locked in the basement with nothing to protect yourself with but a few store weapons he discarded in here. Just as a bunch of Hell Cainas ripped the steel door open and rushed inside, you didn’t even have time to recall your last wishes before a wave of heat and force and inhuman snarling swept all around you. The perpetrators couldn’t even let out a pained screech before they turned into ash. When you gather your whereabouts you realize Dante holds you to his chest while he holds the devil sword with his other hand. There is a moment of silence accompanied by his heavy breathing and the pounding of your heart. Dante finally settles you on your feet but instead of letting you go, he presses his huge horned head to your stomach. His arms carefully wrap around you and his wings envelop you. You stand there in complete surprise, and just as you start carefully patting his scaled shoulders, you notice Trish, Nero and the others standing there staring at him in complete shock. Dante pays them no heed, in fact, the only thing he takes into consideration is your slowing heartbeat, your warmth and your scent.

Suddenly, the reason why he’s fighting comes back to him. And loving you feels like a great adventure in and of itself.

For Nero, being the least emotionally closed off out of the three, it’s easy to form intimate connections. But one thing standing in the way of his love is his self-esteem. It’s hard for him to accept that he can love and also be loved in return.

Shortly after Dante and Vergil disappeared into the Underworld, running of the DMC agency sort of fell onto his shoulders. No one voiced this but everyone automatically put him in Dante’s position, meaning he had to run the shop, work jobs with Lady and Trish and clear the aftermath of Qliphoth. You saw how he was practically buckling down from all this but in front of everyone, he put on a brave face. When he was confronted with this by his s/o, he tried to shrug it off but eventually he broke down. He told you in choked sobs and short breaths that he didn’t know what to do, how to go on with his life. In the span of a few months, his already messy life broke into a million pieces. He had learnt that the person who brought so much suffering to everyone was his father, the person he admired most lied to him and discarded him and then he had to fight both of them, only to lose them in the end. And now, it’s expected from him to move on when there are mornings he can’t even remember how he got home or what day it is. You got furious, but not at him, at Dante, Morrison and this entire situation. After gently scolding him for keeping all of this inside him for so long, instead of taking him back to DMC office where others were waiting for him, you brought him to the apartment the two of you shared before he started spending practically all of his time at Dante’s place. You called Lady that Nero won't be working for a while in a tone that does not allow any protests. For the next several days, you didn’t let him do any demon hunting work and Nero hasn’t left your side. There were times when he felt like he should return to work. “When you’re ready, take as much time as you need. You always bend over backwards to help everyone. It’s time somebody took care of you,” you tell him and it feels like the weight on him is slowly lifting each day. Those first months after Qliphot were rough, but you stayed with him, supported him and cared for him. He will never forget that.

He knows he found his soulmate when he finds someone who gives him the same amount of adoration as he gives them. For the first time, he feels the way he makes other people feel. 

Magicians Settings Week: March 27 - April 2 2023

Let’s explore the wild & wonderful settings this fandom has given us! Each day will provide a choice of two settings to use as inspiration for fanworks.

DAY 1: Brakebills or a hedge safehouse (Monday, March 27th)

DAY 2: the Underworld or the Whitespire throne room (Tuesday, March 28th)

DAY 3: the Muntjac or Baba Yaga’s penthouse (Wednesday, March 29th)

DAY 4: the Neitherlands or the Library (Thursday, March 30th)

DAY 5: Antarctica or Ibiza (Friday, March 31st)

DAY 6: the cottage at the mosaic or Indiana (Saturday, April 1st)

DAY 7: free choice (Sunday, April 2nd)

How do I participate? There is no sign-up for this event; simply post your work to AO3 and add it to the  ✨Where The Magic Happens collection✨ or post on Tumblr and tag us in it. 

Do I have to write fic to participate? Not at all! All types of fanwork are highly encouraged. Draw a picture, make a playlist, record a podfic, manip some fun images, write some meta – all wonderful. There are no requirements for length/size, ship or lack of ship, genre, or rating, either. Just have fun with it! Although we offer two prompts per day, you can do as many prompts as you would like. If you want to do one prompt per day, cool! If you want to do one prompt the entire week, also cool! If you want to do all the prompts, super cool! It’s completely up to you.

This event is meant to be chill. Let’s explore all the weird and wild places in this universe! The prompts are there to get the plot bunnies hopping, not make you feel like you have to write something detailed about architecture or pay a ton of attention to geography. (Let’s be real - the writers never did!) A fic that simply takes place in the setting is fine! You can focus solely on the alternative prompts, too.

Looking for more inspiration about a particular setting? Check out our resources post!

We can’t wait to see what you make!

A collection of Festival of Thrills images! More coming over the course of this month. The lore surrounding this event is Phenomenal and I'm having a fantastic time!

If we did a Red Dark Magician Week, would anyone be interested

thought about lena de spell too hard. [bursts into flames]

whenever i wish i talked online about my bartseq roleswap i’ve been thinking about for the last 3 years Quietly To Myself i’m roadblocked by my struggle to give kitty an appropriate official name.. this song goes like: female apprentices aren’t usually allowed to adopt flashy/famous names, BUT > she’s her master’s pride (and joy, but mostly pride) so he named her after historical faust’s marguerite (footnote one: johann faust’s own student, later spouse. they didn’t have rules about that sort of thing back when. they still don’t) > BUT. with this naming convention i would have to rabbithole about feminine forms of surnames in renaissance times germany (footnote two: it’s not a complaint. source of distraction tho)

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