get to know me tag game - Magicians edition
tagged by @crossroadscastiel
name: Virginia/Ginny/Gigi
when you started watching the Magicians: I watched the first four-ish episodes as they aired, but I was feeling pretty burnt by media and it was obvious the show wasn’t going to explore my preferred pairing so when my real life blew up I didn’t bother picking it back up after. I remember seeing bits of a couple episodes of S2 and without context felt like my earlier concerns re: the het of it all (eliot got married to a woman? what?) were justified and put it down again. Then the news about 4x05 broke and the skies parted and angel choirs sang (like I’m not kidding I had a spiritual experience) because the show just - fucking went there! And so I shotgunned every episode that exists and here we are now, friends. Here we fucking are.
favorite season (so far): I mean, S3 if only for A Life in the Day but now that I’ve seen all of S1 + S2 and actually given them a fair shake I gotta say that I really enjoy it all. And S4 is shaping up to be the best season so far.
favorite female character(s): KADY - listen she snuck up on me, but jesus (also Fen, who I started out REALLY disliking as a plot device and grew to love as a character).
favorite male character(s): Eliot Waugh. Hands down. No questions. I love Quentin, that absolute dork. And Josh is super funny and relatable, and Penny is like, the definition of woke feminist + asshole and I love it. But Eliot has had my heart from the moment he appeared, all laid out like an ancient roman statue on the Brakebills sign, and gave Q his “I could absolutely eat you up” once-over. I was gone. That’s it for me, folks.
if you were a magician, what would be your discipline? (i.e. your specialty,options here): The Brakebills website says I’m a physical kid when I take the test, and I’m inclined to agree. Also I just went to look up the specific trees in the physical magic field and fuck if I would not end up in Minor Mending with Quentin fucking Coldwater. Telekinesis is something else I would love to have in my life.
which of the main characters would you best get along with? Honestly, probably Q because we are both major dorks who like the same kinds of things and so would always have an endless repertoire of things we could talk about.
which of the main characters do you relate to most? See above. ^^^ Q. (point of clarification: I want to be Eliot, but I am definitely actually Q.)
favorite unlikable character/villain: Tick! Sorry I just find his brand of annoying obsequiousness really amusing. I’m starting to develop feelings about Zelda, too, and I don’t like it.
favorite pairing(s): Queliot. Fargo + Margosh = Fargosh. Adiyoff(40) but also Wickodi(23). Alice/Happiness and Todd/A Plot please and thank you. (highkey blaming @sadlittlenerdking for that last one, btw)
favorite episode(s): Okay so I feel like this is cheating because you gotta understand at 13 episodes a season I feel like there is no filler, here. EVERY EPISODE got us to where we are and so of course “A Life in the Day” & “Escape from the Happy Place” are my top two, but I just pulled out a list of episodes in every season and, like, they’re all so great??? I can’t pick? I made a list and I was only leaving out maybe 2-3 episodes a season, so...
top 3 fandoms outside magicians: marvel cinematic universe, harry potter, and the graves of every piece of media that has killed or otherwise refuses to acknowledge the queer subtext I thirst for.
dream job: So, from the moment I realized what music was, my sole focus in life was performing. I sang in the shower, and in the car, and while doing homework, and under my breath in classes, and in choir. I did every stage thing I could get myself cast in, I went to university to study Vocal Music (with an emphasis in Opera Performance) and I almost did the thing. But life circumstances and choices made that something I’ve had to put down for a decade now. If I could pick up, today, and just go do anything in the world and still be able to provide reliably for my children? I would be performing again. On any stage, in any production, doing any type of music.
what one thing do you wish people knew about you? one thing? I’m a very people person, but I also am battling a panic disorder and chronic depression, so sometimes it’s hard for me to engage with things. It doesn’t mean that I don’t love you! I’ll be back eventually.
tagging @thepoisonroom, @coney-island-blitz, @wildfierr, @highkingqueliot, @iamjennifer64 and anyone else who wants to do the thing :3