why can't it run on love?

a muti-muse feat. characters from SyFy's The Magicians; headcanon-influenced and canon divergent, for now based mainly around S1, S2 & S3; multiship and multiverse; cherished by Di / Spades

[runcnlove]

@runcnlove – an indie, semi-selective, multiship and multiverse multimuse feat. characters from SyFy's The Magicians; headcanon-influenced and canon divergent, mainly set around S1, S2 & S3 for now; cherished by Di / Spades, she/her, a twenty-something disaster (just like my magic babies are 😉)

a study in: found family, finding yourself, fate and destiny, fear of vulnerability, what it means to be a hero, bravery of different flavors, being honest, magic, true love, soulmates...

important links: rules. | muse list. | memes. | opens. | self-promo. | credits.

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[rpsourcedmemes]

Send me a colour and a theme and I’ll use Pinterest with my muse’s name to make a moodboard from what you send

[kingandqueenofgoodtime]

That last post, it seems, opened the door for ideas, because consider:

El and Q remembering pieces of past timelines.

Not in dramatic flashes (though these also can occur), but just... them remembering parties and conversation and gestures and revelations that didn’t actually happen in this timeline.

Them knowing things about each other they can't possibly know unless being told by the other or witnessed or learned through days and weeks and months of watching the other, of living in the same space, of being together as much as they do.

Big things, occasionally. But mostly small things, little details, like Eliot's favorite song or the way Q takes his coffee.

And most times, they are not even consciously aware of the fact that they know this.

Eliot just makes Q coffee a certain way during a late night studying session and Q comments on how it's just right and Eliot considers it a happy coincidence (and of course files it under important things to remember).

Q puts on a random song to cheer El up and not only it works it turns out to be one of his favorite.

Things like that. Small things, like the kind of things Q's discipline is to mend. But, just like the things Q is meant to mend, just like his discipline and Q himself, while may be underrated, those small things mean the world.

[kingandqueenofgoodtime]

This might be the coldest of takes but... what if Q and Eliot actually are aware of past time lines?

Like, not in the sense that they remember them, maybe, but on some subconscious, instinctual level?

Which is part of the reason they are so drawn to each other (and Q to Margo, in the platonic sense... also, part of the reason he so seamlessly fit into the duo turned trio) from day 1.

Because they've been here before, 39 times, and in each timeline they loved each other (maybe, they didn't always come to the stage where they've entered into a relationship, sometimes staying best friends, mostly not really having the time to reach that stage because they never got past the Beast, but they loved each other very much, so much that Q was willing to meddle with time and restart his life if it meant saving Eliot's life in timeline 1)

[yourtinseltinkerbell]

[soulmemes]

↳ 𝐪𝐮𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐲 𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐨 ⋆ ˚ ༘♡

feel free to change pronouns. suggestive tw, death mention tw.

"i want my life back. i want myself back."

"long story short, i survived."

"but if you send for me, you know i'll come, and if you call, you know i'll run to you."

"killing god is a family bonding activity."

"i give a fuck. i give a lot of fucks, actually. i'm a prostitute of feelings."

"yeah, i'm fine. no worries."

"you cannot change the cards you are dealt, just the way you play the hand."

"the legend part is easy. it's the living that's hard."

"i tried to choke my demons, but they liked it."

"it's magic, bitch. i'm not gonna explain shit."

"the horrors persist, but so do i."

"i'm this close to fucking snapping."

"i don't want to be a monster."

"they didn't deserve death. i did . . . i do."

"can i be mean?"

"i'm about to choose violence."

"will you take me as i am?"

"do i seem anxious to you? backed into a corner?"

"he was pretty cute for a monster."

"i was quiet, but i was not blind."

"if i can still breathe, i'm fine."

"what, pray tell, the fuck?"

"it's mortifying to be the one who remembers."

"i don't like people to acknowledge me as a human being."

"death and i have been seriously intimate for some time now."

"you can be a kind person with a good heart and still say no."

"it's okay to be sad after making the right decision."

"twinkle, twinkle little snitch, mind your business nosey bitch."

"it mattered because it hurt."

"sorry about my cool muscles, everyone."

"the first time i met you, i had no idea i'd love you this damn much."

"the risk i took was calculated, but man, am i bad at math . . . "

"i will always find you."

"chaos runs in our blood."

"remember why you started."

"i said what i said."

"there's bravery in being soft."

"i'll fucking slap the mcshit out of you."

"i have secrets."

"if our bodies could touch again, what would they say?"

"i don't really know why i'm still hoping."

"i have cried all of my tears. all i have left is anger."

"i am not who i was."

"for you, i'd steal the stars."

"i wanted to hurt all the people who hurt me."

"and as you can see, i am not dead."

"angels would damn themselves for me."

"please say sike . . . "

"fall in love with me."

"that info is so fucking unnecessary."

"the laws of physics can kiss my ass."

"hey baby, can i get your credit card number?"

"don't tell me what to do."

"your name hurts."

"you can't just touch my soul and leave."

"i wanted them to kiss me."

"we won't ever forget each other, right?"

"a knife? are you flirting with me?"

"that sounds illegal. i'm in."

"i'm too sober for this shit."

[kingandqueenofgoodtime]

Eliot & Margo + touching each other in the aftermath of the probablity spell

[runcnlove]

[ from here ]

@runcnlove ( Margo ) asked:

a kiss to comfort, kissing each cheek after tenderly wiping tears away

@doorinthepage ( Eliot ) replied:

Eliot kissed each of Margo's cheeks, tasting the salt of her tears. He pulled back a little and held her pretty little head in his hands, wiping the rest away with the loving caress of his thumbs.

"Thank you for saving me, Bambi," Eliot whispered, "I'll never leave you again. I promise.

The time they've been apart - the time he'd been overpowered and locked away ( but never defeated ! ) by the Monster - feels like a lifetime for Margo.

So much has happened, she'd lost and gained hope, she'd fought with her body and soul, with her hands and teeth, with her battle axes ( the thought of which leaves a bittersweet taste in her mouth - she'd done what she had to do to save Eliot, and yet she had nearly killed him in the process, and that she will never ever be able to forget ), for him, for her other half in the deepest sense of the word ( he isn't just some love interest that could come and go, no, Eliot has never been that for her - he is so much more than that, that the loss of him would feel like losing a part, a big part of herself that she's not sure she could live without ), and every moment, every day he wasn't there and she wasn't getting any closer to getting him back ( or at the very least that's what it felt like ) brought her almost physical pain.

Even when they were at odds, even when they didn't see eye to eye, even when he shut down and shut her out, he was still close, they were still together, through thick and thin, in Brakebills and Fillory and everywhere in-between, and if they were separated for a time, she knew he was out there and that at the end of the day she's gonna come back to him or he's gonna come for her... point is, Eliot Waugh has always been there, since the moment they met and bonded over childhood traumas and similar defense mechanisms.

And then he wasn't.

But now he's back, he's here, and Margo wouldn't be able to stop the tears from coming even if she wanted to... and she doesn't, not really, she has far more important needs right now, for example, to soak up as much of his presence, his touch, the sound and manner of his speaking, as different from the Monster's as day is from the night, to convince herself over and over again that he's here, he's back, it's over, she's got her heart back.

He's trying to soothe her, gentle and open in a way he hasn't been in a while, even before the possession - things became... complicated between them, even before Fillory, and then they didn't get much better with the crowns thrust upon them, and then they became a little better, but not to this level ( well, maybe, except that day she got Q's letter - that day she rewrote history just to keep her two best friends alive and present in her life ) - and she knows that he's trying to calm her, she does, and she's thankful, but his words and sweet little kisses and Bambi only make more tears well up, because she's missed him, she's missed him so much.

Lips part as if to say something, to accept or rebuff his thank you, to make him promise he would never leave her again, anything, but then head shakes - she doesn't trust herself to speak, not yet - and instead she catches his hands in hers and kisses each palm, hoping the gesture would carry over all the "I love you"s and all "I missed you so much"s and all "Never do that again"s she can't say out loud.

But then he does make that promise, as if reading her mind ( there was a time they were fine-tuned to thoughts swirling in each other's heads, maybe it's finally making a comeback, a part of her thinks, slightly deliriously ), and she finds her voice enough to say, thick with tears and lips pursed in a pout that's desperately and belatedly trying to mask just how much she's falling apart:

❛❛ You better not. ❜❜

A joke about her having her battle axes to kick his ass if he does is on the tip of her tongue but she swallows it down - too soon - one hand absently trailing down his side to rest gently against where she knows he's gonna have scars for the rest of his ( hopefully very long because she's not losing him any time in the next decades and decades to come, all the times she'd nearly lost him and thought she'd lost him are more than enough ) life.

[marichive]

100 INDULGENT TROPES

A collection of one hundred tropes of varying nature. Spiritual successor to my previous An Extremely Self-Indulgent Meme. Some of these pair well together and can easily be sent in various combinations. Some are also highly suggestive in nature. Engage appropriately.

one muse steps protectively in front of the other

one muse tends to the other’s injury

one muse is not acting like themselves and the other has to snap them out of it

one muse kisses the other during an argument

one muse pins the other to a wall

one muse kisses the other on their hand or wrist

one muse kisses the other on their neck or shoulder

one muse helps the other put on a necklace or tie

our muses aren’t supposed to be together but keep meeting anyway (on purpose or by accident)

our muses have a secret relationship

one muse takes a blow meant for the the other

one muse fights away enemies attacking the the other

one muse asks the other for their favor / a token before battle or a tourney

our muses share a night together believing it might be their last

our muses are in an arranged marriage / betrothal

our muses willingly marry for political reasons

our muses get married for love

our muses get married in a spur-of-the-moment decision

one muse has taken the other captive

our muses are in love but one thinks they aren’t good enough for the other

our muses are forced to ally for a common goal

our muses are enemies or former enemies but have started to fall for each other

our muses claim to hate each other but there is palpable tension between the two

our muses are trying to manipulate each other

one muse is trying to manipulate the other

our muses have feelings for each other but have conflicting loyalties

our muses are friends but have started to fall for each other

our muses are childhood friends that have been slowly falling for each other over the years

one muse has been in love with the other for a long time but is afraid their feelings are not reciprocated

one muse is in love with the other but they are in a relationship with or engaged to another person

our muses engage in a courtly romance

one muse is a knight in service to the the other’s family

one muse seeks comfort from a loveless marriage with the other, their lover

one muse traces the other’s scars

one muse kisses the other in a moment of heightened emotion

one muse confides in the other in a vulnerable moment

our muses are in love but circumstances prevent them from being together

our muses are exes who discover lingering feelings after reuniting

one muse confesses love to another after that person is injured

one muse confesses love to another because they believe they may die soon

our muses must share a bed

one muse lifts the other’s chin to look them in the eye

one muse places a hand at the back of the other’s neck to pull them extremely close

our muses have been hooking up, no strings attached

our muses have been hooking up, but one or both has developed deeper feelings

our muses are exes that hook up against their better judgement

one muse presumes the other is dead but is shocked when they show up alive again

one muse betrays their long held loyalties in order to save the other’s life from their own allies

our muses fake a relationship but have no actual interest in each other

our muses fake a relationship but start to genuinely fall for each other

one muse is known for their hard exterior and softens only in the other’s presence

one muse is the other’s weakness, something an enemy is trying to exploit

our muses are stuck somewhere together and must occupy their time

one muse has feelings for the other but has not acted on them due to their association with another character (a sibling / relative / ex / etc. ) or an organization

one muse is scared to act on feelings for the other due to poor experiences with love in the past

one muse is oblivious to the other’s feelings for them

one muse acts oblivious to the other’s feelings for them but really they are aware

one muse has unrequited feelings for the other

our muses are co-workers engaging in a hidden romance

one muse reveals one of their darkest secrets to the other

one muse comforts the other during an emotional breakdown

one muse calms the other from an intense rage

one muse’s family forbids them from seeing the other

our muses are in love but their friends / family do not support their relationship

one muse seeks redemption for past actions and comes to the other to atone

our muses regularly exchange letters

our muses move in together

our muses adopt a pet together

our muses have a child together

our muses adopt a child together

one muse discovers they are pregnant by accident

our muses have been set up by mutual friends

our muses have been set up by a matchmaker

our muses are in love with each other but are in denial

one muse is the other’s bodyguard / protector

one muse is royalty while the other is a commoner / rogue / societal outcast

one muse kisses the other for a bet

one muse relentlessly flirts with the other

our muses kiss for the first time ever

one muse wins a date with the other at an event

our muses dance together for the first time

one muse brushes their fingers through the other’s hair

one muse drunkenly confesses something to the other

our muses drunkenly hook up and wake up next to each other

our muses are roommates

our muses are partners in crime

one muse is a supernatural creature who falls for the other, who is a mortal

our muses are supernatural creatures from opposite clans or species that are historically hostile to each other

one muses is under a spell / in the middle of a monstrous transformation but somehow recognizes the other and refrains from harming them

our muses cuddle for warmth

our muses run away together

one muse wears piece of clothing or jewelry that belongs to the other

our muses bathe together

our muses cook together

our muses cuddle in bed

one muse serenades the other

one muse holds a weapon to the other as a threat

one muse physically lifts the other up

one muse protectively wraps an arm around the other

meet cute !

[odilia-ann-raven]

margo x eliot

[runcnlove]

@highkingborn gets a Brakebills babies starter just because

there's music all around them, yet another party in full blast at the Physical Kids' Cottage;

but the beat Margo is swaying to, manicured hands settled on the other's forearms loosely, is something else entirely, rhythm only the two of them are privy to ( push and pull achingly familiar );

❝ there's something on your mind, ❞ giggles fade away as dark eyes consider the distant look in Eliot's eyes, and the observation is spoken in a tone uncharacteristically soft – for his ears only – as one hand trails up his arm to find its place at the back of his neck, thumb stroking leisurely ( soothing him into relaxation ), body swaying forward, a little bit more into his space ( the magnetic pull between them manifesting in all its glory or just a further attempt to coax him into spilling the beans, no one would hear ), in the same motion, ❝ care to share? ❞

then painted lips pursue, a good-natured grin hiding behind the facade of a perfect pout:

❝ or I might get cross with you, all the time spent on putting this outfit together, and you are yet to voice your compliment opinion. ❞

[glittermilk-rp]

Reblog this if you admire the person who reblogged this before you.

[wordx]

[runcnlove]

Although I must say that I believe Eliot's strong caring paternal instincts have been there long before the aforementioned events.

And as much as he doesn’t seem that way, as much as he doesn't like it, he is probably the most responsible of the group, who takes on responsibilities silly easy – he feels responsible for everyone he takes under his wing, and that includes the group... Fillorians etc.

[magiciansource]

the magicians → 2x05 || 3x05 || 3x12

[zykamiliah]

(tags via @bredalot )

[midnightfreedom]

"I'm a coward when it comes to matters of the heart. That is my fatal flaw."

~ Haruki Murakami

[runcnlove]

Hey!

Guess who once again showed up a month later to post hopefully more than one ( 1 ) post? 😅