ceo of julia marry me

𝕨𝕙𝕖𝕟 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕘𝕖𝕥 𝕓𝕒𝕔𝕜 𝕨𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕘𝕠𝕕𝕤 𝕥𝕠𝕠𝕜 𝕗𝕣𝕠𝕞 𝕪𝕠𝕦, 𝕔𝕠𝕦𝕝𝕕 𝕚 𝕞𝕒𝕪𝕓𝕖 𝕙𝕒𝕧𝕖 𝕖𝕝𝕚𝕠𝕥 𝕓𝕒𝕔𝕜? the only thing keeping me going is thinking about eliot and q vibing in the underworld someday {eva, she/her}

[couldimaybehaveeliotback]

queliot good.

magicians writers bad.

[couldimaybehaveeliotback]

arielle & queliot in the mosaic timeline like

[bluedhound-deactivated20231119]

ughhh quentin i miss you

[bluedhound-deactivated20231119]

MARRY A MAN!!!

edit by mobroraptor on twtr (who has never watched the magicians, but its ok bc this edit is amazing)

[gruntsandpoetry]

Happy anniversary, Q.

[couldimaybehaveeliotback]

it’s on my dash again so y’all know what that means ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[faersflower]

Hale Appleman deserved better than to be played like that.

[marqueliott]

do you ever think about the fact that quentin got the key immediately after eliot's death and not like... directly before his own or something? meaning the quest was done, the mosaic solved and the beauty of all life was found the moment eliot died.

the beauty of all life wasn't just "a life well lived" or "life in all its complexities" or something similar.

the beauty of all life, specifically, was eliot and quentin's relationship. their friendship, their love for each other and their family.

once they were separated by eliot's death, the quest was finished.

it was never about the mosaic, life itself, finding happiness... it was always about quentin and eliot, finding each other, being with each other. choosing each other over and over again, every day, for an entire life.

their love for each other was the beauty of all life.

[xifoe]

I think about Eliot too much these days. too fuckin much

[portraitofemmy]

hi, i miss quentin coldwater guys

[owlonline]

The Magicians - S03E05 “ A Life in the Day ”

[couldimaybehaveeliotback]

PLEASE I WILL NOT HESITATE TO CRY

[endiness]

“It is customary to bow in the presence of your High King.” “I… Wh… How are you here?”

[sapphicambitions]

my relationship to the Magicians is an interesting one because like yes i was obsessed with it. no i didn’t watch past the season four finale. yes i will have a breakdown if you bring up. no i dont want to think about it. yes i often reblog stuff about the show and post about how much i miss it. no i dont recommend that you watch it. yes it changed my life. not necessarily for the better. 

[kadywicker]

quentin coldwater + bi pride

[couldimaybehaveeliotback]

hi if you don’t think eliot waugh would deck a cop for free and for FUN you can leave!!! we all know that man says acab with his whole chest

[shanehollandered]

eliot waugh in the colours of the pride flag 🏳️‍🌈

[swanson]

Peaches and plums, peaches and plums, peaches and plums

[couldimaybehaveeliotback]

oh bitch it is too late for this i am gonna cry confirmed

[awildwickedslip]

literally nothing matters less right now than the ways ‘the magicians’ has sinned against me but what else can i offer!!! i’m very stressed about the pandemic but all i can say is stay home, you’ve heard it. anyway THINKING ABOUT LAST WEEK’S EPISODE…

it’s insane how they use the device of “margo must sit out the action to watch her boyfriend with her fairy eye” (more insulting because it’s a thing she received from another female ruler, as a symbol of her hard-won ability to rule, in a very emotional scene) AGAIN. while kady and alice take time from whatever they were doing to…go plead for the life of said boyfriend, who they hardly know and have no reason to care about. and julia’s plotline has been reduced to I MUST SAVE MY BABY!!! and it’s just so depressing, what the show has done to the women. and it got me thinking about what was great about the show when it was good, and while the takes about how it’s THE QUEEREST SHOW ON TV are nonsense i get why people have been tricked into thinking this is the case…because the show had a refreshing total disinterest in the particular really depressing version of heterosexuality they are now espousing at every turn, and a commitment to the validity and centrality of the kind of relationships that DO have a big place in the lives of its queer millennial viewership.

but now the peak of human relationships that they are trying to sell is the one where it is the preordained destiny of every human to monogamously, heterosexually couple off and reproduce biological offspring. early seasons had romance and romance that was important to both characters and plot BUT frankly friendships that fall outside strictly regimented lines, that are allowed to be passionate and life-defining despite not being romantic, were the core of the show. they were allowed to shape the narrative and given huge amounts of emotional weight. margo & eliot and quentin & julia are the show’s HEARTS. it recognized how important friendships are. only to totally abandon it in a way that says really, really, deeply depressing things about the creative team’s view of adulthood

where yeah it’s fine to have friendships be the driving force, for them to be central and just as important as romance, when you’re young and fucked up, but now that the show is in it’s late stage and the women excuse me CHARACTERS have GROWN UP they can leave that behind and accept their true destinies, which is not kinghood or goddesshood but being sexually, romantically, and reproductively available to whatever lackluster man demands it of them. which is not the friendships that shaped them or nourished them (quentin is dead and julia isn’t allowed to care, eliot was in prison this episode but margo seemed unconcerned), but “romance” with dudes that cheat on them or violate their autonomy in horrifying ways.

[awildwickedslip]

this is, of course, leaving out the deranged homophobia of giving everyone this version of human happiness while simultaneously denying it to the only characters who actually want it, the only characters for whom such an ending would be deeply tied into their overall arcs. they don’t get it. they get death, grief, loss, and dysfunction, and hm…what possible difference could there possibly be between them and their female best friends!!!!

[awildwickedslip]

more on this…i agree the metric of “just giving a character what they want” is a recipe for bad writing. but it’s that, to reiterate, they are the only characters for whom such an ending would be deeply tied into their overall arcs. for eliot his commingled deep yearning and and deep fear of romantic intimacy is established midway through s1. his trauma about family as well as his baffled resentful yearning for it is established s2 where he gets the family that he maybe wants, a tie that somewhere he craves - but he gets it in the perverse nightmare form of enforced heterosexuality! only to be graced with it it in an alternate life and lose it and lose a second chance at it to trauma and resolve to get it back…but ok so let’s say you can’t carry that storyline to completion because of BTS stuff. let’s grant that for a moment.

but then why do you establish the loss not only of quentin as a person but also the possibility glimpsed with that unlived life as the source of eliot’s suffering in s5 (the “beautiful pieces” he confesses to remembering to alice in 5x03) only to…then drop it totally. eliot is intimately involved in the dumb julia’s baby plotline! and yet the fact that he remembers RAISING A CHILD……never comes up again. like what IS eliot’s arc this season? they keep insisting he has one. it’s something like, eliot realizes his own worth. but in the last two seasons you made eliot realizing his own worth deeply tied to 1) his romantic feelings for quentin 2) to his desire for a family. eliot realizing his own worth, with the story you set up, entails accepting that he deserves those two things. you can’t just abstract it like this! you can’t disconnect it from everything that came before and reduce it vague platitudes, a feeling, when before that acceptance was tied to actual, specific outcomes. you can’t do that and have the story work on any level.

and then…QUENTIN. quentin’s desire to be a parent/for domesticity is established in s3. so like, the show establishes that quentin is Not the Hero in the season 1 finale when he gives alice the leo blade in recognition of her superior hero qualities. a very beautiful and good moment. and quentin accepts this in that moment, but it’s hard to overturn a lifetime of programming where he thought maybe…he could be the chosen one! so his quest to bring alice back in s2 is about the fact he loves her, but it’s also about the fact that’s what a hero does. he saves the girl. he’s very miserable, and it does not exactly work out like he planned. in s3, he’s involved in a quest to save all of magic. it makes him miserable, and it does not exactly worked out like he planned. but along the way it also via alternate life shows him a different path!!! that’s what makes his conversation with his father so effective and devastating. there’s this other thing that DOES make him happy. but he feels he can’t have it (the exact reasons why reworked v effectively by 4x05 revelations)

but, whatever, people are complex and it’s not the only thing going on with quentin…except for the fact that season 4 insisted on digging in and making it clear THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT’S GOING ON WITH QUENTIN - his obsession with saving one person, his desire to be a father made explicit in the episode with poppy. and this would have been in line with the themes they’ve set up with the beginning, it would have something profound to say about adulthood, and overcoming a narrative of yourself you’ve outgrown and how hard that is, and figuring out what might make you happy. it would have something profound to say about heroism and who gets to be a hero - quentin isn’t only NOT the hero by default just because he’s the white guy, he’s not a hero because he doesn’t want to be, because he’s abdicating it in some way, because what he REALLY wants is GAY DOMESTICITY. pretty explicitly. that’s interesting! and subversive! and revolutionary! all the things they claimed killing him was. instead they are like hm. what this guy wants is to be in love with his male best friend and be a dad? let’s get him back with his ex-girlfriend and kill him by suicide instead. the point of this stupid long post is: this is an example of how being a bigot makes your art worse. the show has to ACTIVELY, SPITEFULLY WORK against the narrative and themes they’ve set up to achieve this. it’s so willful, so difficult to totally undo your narrative and thematic cohesion this way, that it could only be powered by a truly titanic distaste and loathing for queerness. or, specifically, queer happiness and well-being or even just the absence of active queer suffering. queer dysfunction and misery is just fine! like it’s so obviously, artificially bad that this is what i’m forced to conclude.