Our mission: to offer fanworks events celebrating The Magicians (Lev Grossman, SyFy) on Tumblr and AO3. Fanworks of all types are welcome! WIPs are welcome! No signups needed.
We've got a lot planned for you in the coming months.
Our next challenge: Time Is an Illusion, Dec. 8-16, 2025.
It may be hard to believe, but this December marks the ten-year anniversary of the first episode of The Magicians. To celebrate that, we’re running a week-long event. The themes are anniversary, 1x01-inspired, and/or time-related.
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In 2026, we have four events planned welcoming The Magicians fanworks. For all of them, we welcome all types of fanworks; additions to existing WIPs are welcome, provided they fit the theme for the event; you may create as many things as you want for each event; no sign-ups needed!
Mar. 23-29, 2026, Don't Make Me Sing (Every Single One of Us Has to Sing) (fanworks event centered around music)
June 15-21, 2026, Queliot Week (recurring event; inaugural revival of original event; will have themes to choose from)
Aug. 10-16, 2026, Amnesty Week (recurring event; reopens all prior unique, non-recurring events)
Aug. 31-Oct. 25, 2026, The Tales of the Seven Keys (anything Keys Quest welcome! We'll have one week per key and one catchup week--but also anything related to the Keys Quest will be welcome anytime, just in case you're not retrieving your keys in the same order as on the show!)
Please see our website Magicians Fanworks Extravaganza for updates! (You'll need a computer or laptop to see everything. Calendar on the left; Navigation and Project Links on the right.)
And don't forget to check out works created for our prior events:
💬 0 🔁 2 ❤️ 3 · Amnesty Week 2025 Masterpost · From August 11-17, 2025, Amnesty Week 2025 celebrated The Magicians (Lev Grossman, SyFy) on
💬 0 🔁 7 ❤️ 9 · Welcome Home! Masterpost · From January 27-March 16, 2025, we invited fanworks creators to celebrate The Magicians (Lev Gro
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Our First Year: The Magicians fanworks challenges, Dec. 2024-2025
Magicians Fanworks Extravaganza has been such a delight. The first post went up Oct. 9, 2024, and we held our first challenge from Dec. 1-8, 2024. So it's now been a little over a year's worth of challenges—an incredible thing to share with fellow fans of The Magicians (Lev Grossman, SyFy)! Thank you so much to everyone who participated, is taking the time to enjoy these amazing works by so many creators, and/or has joined us in the Discord to chat with fellow fans.
In case you're looking for some fanworks to enjoy (during long winter nights or any other time), here are all our challenges so far in one place.
Also I'd just like to add an additional thank you to the mods who've helped us and creators who've joined us over the past year-plus.
Finally, keep an eye on our website and/or join our Discord to learn about (or help suggest) future fanworks events for The Magicians! We've got a lot planned for the coming year! (Discord is not required for any challenge.) Details below.
Magicians Fanworks Extravaganza Team
Fully 24 creators have crafted things for us so far—that's extraordinary, especially given how small our fandom is these days! And 6 mods have stepped up to help share these works! Thank you so much to our:
Mods:
@carcrash429, @eliotqueliot, @magicians4time, @museinabsentia, @state-of-being, and @unlifeira
Our first four fanworks events have brought us 182 individual entries (some of them containing multiple chapters or types of work). The following breakdown counts entries as they were presented (separately or together), except in 3 cases where types of work presented together were distinct enough to warrant a separate mention.
Art
86 works of art and art chapters, including collage, drawings, edit/graphic, paintings, pinboard, etc. (Art chapters had multiple works.)
Fanmix
1 separately identified fanmix; additionally, several fic chapters identified and/or linked to mood music.
Fic
84 fic or fic chapters (not counting poetry chapters counted below). Sometimes fic with multiple chapters were presented as one entry, so there are more chapters than this number reflects.
Poetry
4 poems or poetry chapters, most of which included quite a number of poems per chapter.
Video
10 video-related works, including animatics, edits, gifsets, vids, etc.
Individual Events
Time Is an Illusion
Celebrating the 10-year anniversary of the first episode of The Magicians! Themes: anniversary, 1x01-related, and time-related.
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Amnesty Week 2025
Reopening all prior non-recurring fanworks events we've held! Bringing more work to prior themes
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Welcome Home!
Seven weeks with multiple themes! Themes: Welcome Home! (overall event theme); Week 1: Home; Week 2: "It's been a long time" (especially Mosaic fic); Week 3: Seasonal/holiday; Week 4: Magical creature; Week 5: Returning after absence (or returning to being themselves); Weeks 6-7: Welcome back to WIPs! and catch-up.
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Warm Up
Short fanworks (fic to 1.5k; smaller things) on the theme of warmth and warming up, any interpretation.
💬 0 🔁 11 ❤️ 14 · Warm Up Masterlist and Wrap-Up · We're so thrilled you've all joined us on this journey! From December 1 through our exte
Our first post, Oct. 9, 2024:
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Additional Useful Things Website flavor of Magicians Fanworks Extravaganza Please note: you will need a computer/laptop. A phone can only serve up the Tumblr blog side. Through the above link, you can find Project Links to all our past events, as well as a calendar showing upcoming events and links to the guidelines for current challenges once they're available. The Project Links are a handy way to see everything specifically posted for a certain event, in the order in which it occurred. Each challenge has one! On the right, look past Navigation (whose links lead to guidelines and recaps for each event) and scroll down to see Projects. Each challenge has its own box, with the icon for the challenge and a Project Link, which serves up everything we’ve posted with the challenge #tag. Magicians Fanworks Extravaganza Discord Server Chat with fellow creatives and fans about The Magicians fanworks, books, and show; help select themes for future fanworks challenges like our upcoming Queliot Week revival; help us select dates and propose concepts for future challenges; brainstorm or sprint with others. Discord isn't required for participation in any challenge.
2026: More fanworks challenges for The Magicians are just around the corner!
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We're excited to let you know that our first Amnesty Week will occur from August 11-17, 2025, so you can dream up more fanworks for our previous events! (We also have a new event planned for Dec. 8-16, 2025, so please stay tuned for news about that!)
During any of our Amnesty Weeks, we will reopen all our previous event collections and guidelines, and you may contribute works to any of the previous events.
We're hoping you'll be inspired to create more works for either of the two events we've held so far! As many or few things as you wish to create are welcome, as long as they fit the event guidelines. Works for Welcome Home! will follow the guidelines for Weeks 6-7, which were our catch-up weeks, in which all the weekly themes were open, as well as the overall event theme and Welcome Back to WIPs (no theme necessary).
As always, new works and additions to existing WIPs are welcome, as are all types of fanworks! Read more in the guidelines. Note: Warm Up has a length restriction, but Welcome Home does not. Just as before, if you wish to submit individual chapters of the same work as separate entries, that's totally valid, and we encourage it! They could be for the same theme, or different ones!
Also, note that if you send the first chapter of a new work for one of the event themes, your work is now a WIP, and subsequent chapters may be sent during Amnesty Week under Welcome Home's "Welcome Back to WIPs" category, even if they don't match another theme!
Here's a little more about the events you may join during our first Amnesty Week!
Warm Up
Warm Up Event Guidelines
Masterlist for event fanworks posted Dec. 1-8, 2024, with more info about the event
Welcome Home!
Welcome Home! Event Guidelines
Masterpost for event fanworks posted Jan. 27-Mar. 16, 2025, with links to all creators and works, with lists by theme and by week
In order of appearance, here are the new fanworks created from August 11-17, 2025, for Amnesty Week 2025, in which we celebrated The Magicians (Lev Grossman, SyFy) on Tumblr and AO3 by providing new works for our previous challenges. Please read more about the challenge and see the works grouped by theme and creator in the Amnesty Week 2025 Masterpost.
...Baby One More Time, Chapter 8 (Fic, AO3) by @eliotqueliot (AO3: EliotQueliot)
Pretty Little Lights (Art for @tbraves24's fic) (Watercolor edition) (Art, AO3) by @eliotqueliot (AO3: EliotQueliot)
Quentin and Teddy make a pattern together (watercolor edition) (Art, AO3) by @eliotqueliot (AO3: EliotQueliot)
For Amnesty Week, Magicians Fanworks Extravaganza reopens all previous challenges (except Queliot Week, which will be a special recurring event in its own right each June). We welcome fanworks of all types celebrating The Magicians (Lev Grossman/SyFy). Amnesty Week will be a recurring event, at this same time each year.
Our first Amnesty Week opens in just five days! If you wanted to participate in any of our prior challenges, or just party with us, it's a good time! Please join us from August 11-17, 2025, as we reopen all previous events.
As many or few things as you wish to create are welcome, as long as they fit the event guidelines. Warm Up has a length restriction, but Welcome Home does not. Both events have themes, but one choice for Welcome Home! allows new additions to existing WIPs that don't fit any other theme.
Amnesty Week takes place on AO3 and Tumblr. To participate, you don’t need to sign up (but we do recommend filling out a submission form for Amnesty Week to let us know you made something: stay tuned for the link). We have AO3 subcollections for each challenge, and we'll reblog your work here and gather it in our recap posts. We'll also add your work to the masterposts for the original events!
As always, new works and additions to existing WIPs are welcome, as are all types of fanworks (fic, art, edits, vids, cosplay, crafting, podfic, fanmixes, pinboards, moodboards, and more). If you wish to submit individual chapters of the same work as separate entries, that's totally valid! They could be for the same theme, or different ones.
On August 9, we'll release specific details about how to submit your creations. In the meantime, learn about the available themes from the guidelines below!
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Warm Up
Warm Up Event Guidelines
Warm Up masterlist for event fanworks posted Dec. 1-8, 2024, with more info about the event
Warm Up AO3 subcollection (Note: some entries are only on Tumblr)
In a nutshell (please see original guidelines for more info):
Micro fanwork event. Fic to about 1,000 words (drabbles, poems, flash); smaller pieces of art; shorter vids/edits, mini-fanmixes; a cosplay moment. Note: we’re a little flexible, but the upward word limit stops at 1,500 words. However: entries can present this in separate <1.5k chapters as needed.
Themes: Vibes that are warm, cozy, related to winter, being hot (in any sense of that word), warming up or preparing for a big event, just starting out in something like magic, etc.
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Welcome Home!
Welcome Home! Event Guidelines
Welcome Home! masterpost for event fanworks posted Jan. 27-Mar. 16, 2025, with links to all creators and works, with lists by theme and by week
Welcome Home! AO3 subcollection (Note: some entries are only on Tumblr)
In a nutshell (please see original guidelines for more info):
Pick one of the following themes. Theme must make at least a cameo appearance but doesn’t need to be the main thrust; interpretation of the theme is up to the creator.
Available themes:
Overall event theme: Welcome Home
Week 1 theme: Home—What constitutes “home” to the characters? What do they think of “home,” good or bad?
Week 2 theme: “It’s been a long time”—It could be a long time since characters saw each other, or a long time engaged on a task like the mosaic. Special focus on celebrating The Magicians 3x05, “A Life in the Day”
Week 3 theme: Seasonal/holiday: Any! Doesn’t have to be an official celebration/mention of the holiday/season; feel free to provide “vibes” or “ambience” for the readers to enjoy in connection with that holiday/season (haunted house for Halloween; romance for Valentine’s Day, etc.). If the season or holiday is not specifically referenced in the content, please let us know which one it is.
Week 4 theme: Magical creature—A being from the show or books, or from mythology/folklore, or one you make up.
Week 5 theme: Returning after absence (or returning to being themselves).
Week 6-7 theme: Welcome back to WIPs! If you’re adding to an existing WIP that doesn’t match any theme, it belongs here!
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Amnesty Week will open for entries on Tumblr and AO3 at 12:01 AM (Eastern) on Aug. 11 and close at 11:59 PM (Eastern) on Aug. 17.
You absolutely do NOT need to join our Discord server to participate, but here's the invite if you'd like to brainstorm with others, if you’re feeling stuck, or just want to vibe with Magicians fans, etc.: https://discord.gg/NcBDD63uFg
We wanted to let you know as soon as possible that, in addition to our new challenges, we will hold regular amnesty weeks during which anyone may contribute fanworks for any of our prior themes! During each Amnesty Week, we'll reopen those AO3 collections, and you may submit for any previous themes.
We'll make sure to schedule an amnesty week with plenty of time between it and any other challenges.
So if you have ideas for Welcome Home! or Warm Up (or any future challenge of ours), but life gets in the way, please save them and keep working! You'll have more chances, and we look forward to seeing what you create.
Keep those fanworks flowing!
Love, Magicians Fanworks Extravaganza
Fanworks challenges for The Magicians (Lev Grossman, SyFy)
For Amnesty Week, Magicians Fanworks Extravaganza reopens all previous challenges, welcoming fanworks of all types celebrating The Magicians (Lev Grossman/SyFy).
It's almost here! If you wanted to participate in any of our prior events, please join us for our first Amnesty Week from August 11-17, 2025!
As many or few things as you wish to create are welcome, as long as they fit the event guidelines. Warm Up has a length restriction, but Welcome Home does not. Both events have themes, but one choice for Welcome Home! allows new additions to existing WIPs that don't fit any other theme.
Amnesty Week takes place on AO3 and Tumblr. To participate, you don’t need to sign up (but we do recommend filling out a submission form for Amnesty Week to let us know you made something: stay tuned for the link). We have AO3 subcollections for each challenge, and we'll reblog your work here and gather it in our recap posts. We'll also add your work to the masterposts for the original events!
As always, new works and additions to existing WIPs are welcome, as are all types of fanworks (fic, art, edits, vids, cosplay, crafting, podfic, fanmixes, pinboards, moodboards, and more). If you wish to submit individual chapters of the same work as separate entries, that's totally valid! They could be for the same theme, or different ones.
Please stay tuned for Amnesty Week-specific details about how to submit your creations. In the meantime, learn about the available themes from the guidelines below!
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Warm Up
Warm Up Event Guidelines
Warm Up masterlist for event fanworks posted Dec. 1-8, 2024, with more info about the event
Warm Up AO3 subcollection (Note: some entries are only on Tumblr)
In a nutshell (please see original guidelines for more info):
Micro fanwork event. Fic to about 1,000 words (drabbles, poems, flash); smaller pieces of art; shorter vids/edits, mini-fanmixes; a cosplay moment. Note: we’re a little flexible, but the upward word limit stops at 1,500 words. However: entries can present this in separate <1.5k chapters as needed.
Themes: Vibes that are warm, cozy, related to winter, being hot (in any sense of that word), warming up or preparing for a big event, just starting out in something like magic, etc.
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Welcome Home!
Welcome Home! Event Guidelines
Welcome Home! masterpost for event fanworks posted Jan. 27-Mar. 16, 2025, with links to all creators and works, with lists by theme and by week
Welcome Home! AO3 subcollection (Note: some entries are only on Tumblr)
In a nutshell (please see original guidelines for more info):
Pick one of the following themes. Theme must make at least a cameo appearance but doesn’t need to be the main thrust; interpretation of the theme is up to the creator.
Available themes:
Overall event theme: Welcome Home
Week 1 theme: Home—What constitutes “home” to the characters? What do they think of “home,” good or bad?
Week 2 theme: “It’s been a long time”—It could be a long time since characters saw each other, or a long time engaged on a task like the mosaic. Special focus on celebrating The Magicians 3x05, “A Life in the Day”
Week 3 theme: Seasonal/holiday: Any! Doesn’t have to be an official celebration/mention of the holiday/season; feel free to provide “vibes” or “ambience” for the readers to enjoy in connection with that holiday/season (haunted house for Halloween; romance for Valentine’s Day, etc.). If the season or holiday is not specifically referenced in the content, please let us know which one it is.
Week 4 theme: Magical creature—A being from the show or books, or from mythology/folklore, or one you make up.
Week 5 theme: Returning after absence (or returning to being themselves).
Week 6-7 theme: Welcome back to WIPs! If you’re adding to an existing WIP that doesn’t match any theme, it belongs here!
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Amnesty Week will open for entries on Tumblr and AO3 at 12:01 AM (Eastern) on Aug. 11 and close at 11:59 PM (Eastern) on Aug. 17.
You absolutely do NOT need to join our Discord server to participate, but here's the invite if you'd like to brainstorm with others, if you’re feeling stuck, or just want to vibe with Magicians fans, etc.: https://discord.gg/NcBDD63uFg
From August 11-17, 2025, Amnesty Week 2025 celebrated The Magicians (Lev Grossman, SyFy) on Tumblr and AO3 by providing new works for our previous challenges. Amnesty Week will recur annually in the same timeslot.
This first installment brought in 13 entries from 3 creators, hitting 7 different themes from both of our prior events. The 6 fic chapters and 7 artworks added one work to Warm Up, while the others joined the themes for each week of Welcome Home! We've updated the masterlists and theme-grouped posts for the original events with these new entries.
Thank you so very much to our team of mods for this event: @carcrash429, @eliotqueliot, @magicians4time, @museinabsentia, and @unlifeira.
Fanworks Created for Amnesty Week 2025
If the work is on more than one platform, the title links to the creator's preference, with the alternate platform linked afterwards.
Amnesty Week by Theme
Warm Up
The Fires We See, Chapter 3 (Fic, Tumblr) by @magicians4time (AO3: Librarity)
Welcome Home
Home (Week 1)
Quentin and Teddy make a pattern together (watercolor edition) (Art, AO3) by @eliotqueliot (AO3: EliotQueliot)
It's been a long time/the Mosaic (Week 2)
...Baby One More Time, Chapter 8 (Fic, AO3) by @eliotqueliot (AO3: EliotQueliot)
"Okay." Eliot flops back after failing to solve the puzzle (Watercolor edition) (Art, AO3) by @eliotqueliot (AO3: EliotQueliot)
"Goddamn it." Quentin completes a pattern while Eliot watches (Watercolor edition) (Art, AO3) by @eliotqueliot (AO3: EliotQueliot)
Seasonal/holiday (Week 3)
The Whole Package, Chapter 2 (Fic, Tumblr) by @godihatethisfreakingcat (AO3: seashadows)
Magical creature (Week 4)
Pretty Little Lights (Art for @tbraves24's fic) (Watercolor edition) (Art, AO3) by @eliotqueliot (AO3: EliotQueliot)
I'll send you on an epic quest (Watercolor edition) (Art, AO3) by @eliotqueliot (AO3: EliotQueliot)
Eliot's picnic with the Great Cock (watercolor edition) (Art, AO3) by @eliotqueliot (AO3: EliotQueliot)
Glass Walls, Chapter 2 (Fic, Tumblr) by @magicians4time (AO3: Librarity)
Returning (after absence/to being themselves) (Week 5)
Right After the Mosaic (watercolor edition) (Art, AO3) by @eliotqueliot (AO3: EliotQueliot)
Welcome back to WIPs (Weeks 6-7)
The First Duty of All Magicians Is to Save Their Friends, Chapter 6: Relating to a Couch (Part 2) (Fic, Tumblr) by @eliotqueliot (AO3: EliotQueliot)
Amnesty Week by Creator
@godihatethisfreakingcat (AO3: seashadows)
The Whole Package, Chapter 2 (Fic, Tumblr)
@magicians4time (AO3: Librarity)
The Fires We See, Chapter 3 (Fic, Tumblr)
Glass Walls, Chapter 2 (Fic, Tumblr)
@eliotqueliot (AO3: EliotQueliot)
...Baby One More Time, Chapter 8 (Fic, AO3)
Eliot's picnic with the Great Cock (watercolor edition) (Art, AO3)
The First Duty of All Magicians Is to Save Their Friends, Chapter 6: Relating to a Couch (Part 2) (Fic, Tumblr)
"Goddamn it." Quentin completes a pattern while Eliot watches (Watercolor edition) (Art, AO3)
I'll send you on an epic quest (Watercolor edition) (Art, AO3)
"Okay." Eliot flops back after failing to solve the puzzle (Watercolor edition) (Art, AO3)
Pretty Little Lights (Art for @tbraves24's fic) (Watercolor edition) (Art, AO3)
Quentin and Teddy make a pattern together (watercolor edition) (Art, AO3)
Right After the Mosaic (watercolor edition) (Art, AO3)
Secret Lives, Chapter 10: Quentin (Fic, AO3)
Amnesty Week by Arrival Time
Due to link restrictions, please find this in a separate post.
AO3 Subcollections
Our challenges encourage contributions to existing WIPs; plus, multiple parts of the same work may count as separate entries. Thus, our AO3 Welcome Home! subcollection received four newly added works, while both challenges enjoyed additions to included WIPs.
Since we welcome WIPs, we ask creators to indicate the theme in two places: at the start of any chapter that's a challenge entry, and a separate note at the front of the fic letting readers know which pieces take part in the challenge.
(Please note, you'll need to log in to AO3 to see all the included works.)
Warm Up AO3 Subcollection (23 works after Amnesty Week 2025)
Welcome Home! AO3 Subcollection (47 works after Amnesty Week 2025)
"Project Links" to all events
Website flavor of Magicians Fanworks Extravaganza
Please note: you will need a computer/laptop. A phone can only serve up the Tumblr blog side.
On the right under Navigation, links lead to guidelines and masterposts for each event. Further down on the right, you'll see Projects. Each challenge has its own box, with the icon for each challenge and a Project Link, which serves up everything we’ve posted with the challenge #tag.
Discord Server
Magicians Fanworks Extravaganza Discord Server
Chat with fellow creatives and fans about The Magicians fanworks, books, and show; help select themes for future fanworks challenges like our upcoming Queliot Week revival; brainstorm or sprint with others. Discord isn't required for participation in any challenge.
More about Amnesty Week
Here are the original guidelines, including links to the individual challenge themes/info.
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Thank You
Thank you so much to all the creators, fans, and mods who give us so much enjoyment and inspiration and made this event possible! Including the members of the MFE Discord server, who are always ready to offer ideas and support to one another. THANK YOU for being here for this! Always.
