MAGICIANS BIG BANG WEEK 1: RECAP
(you are) my very best thing by @portraitofemmy, @stormscoming (Art: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
Quentin Coldwater is trying to figure out what he wants from life. Everyone around him seems to be stepping off into adulthood with career success and personal accomplishments; his childhood best friend is even getting married. And then there’s the Eliot of it all— Eliot Waugh, Quentin’s friend, confidant, found family member... who he’s been sleeping with for the better part of a year. Eliot’s the only person in Quentin’s life not trying to push him in one direction or the other, but it may turn out that Eliot’s the person he wants to build his future around after all.
the way i need to wake by @aspiringtoeloquence, @mariek-artblog (Art: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
“Some love stories don’t have a happy ending. Some are tragedies. Sometimes a person is gone, and no amount of luck or love – no matter how real, or un-repressed, or potentially life-altering – can change that. Luckily, this isn’t one of those stories.”
Quentin Coldwater is dead. And then, all of a sudden... he isn’t? Chronicling the months before and after Q reappears out of the blue. Because if something magical seems too good to be true, Eliot Waugh has learned that it definitely is.
Once Upon a Place Sometimes by @nellie-elizabeth, @vriah (Art)
The night the Physical Kids’ Cottage burns down, Quentin is alone in his room, sulking. He could have been at the party downstairs. He’d been invited to the party downstairs. But ever since the... incident with Eliot, things have been weird between them. Quentin hadn’t wanted to mope around the edges of the room and pine for simpler days. And so he’s alone, forced to escape through his bedroom window, as the magical flames tear the Cottage down to the studs.
In the aftermath, Quentin, Eliot and the other Physical Kids are left to pick up the pieces, both literally and metaphorically, of what happened that night. And in Quentin’s case, of what happened months earlier, when he’d humiliated himself and lost the closeness of the most important friendship of his adult life.
Luckily, even if things can never go back to the way they were, that doesn’t mean they can’t be fixed. And in the meantime, there’s a shortage of bedrooms on campus in the absence of the Cottage...
shooting the moon by @tomelettesandgreggs, @aniallating (Art: 1, 2, 3)
What happens in Vegas does NOT stay in Vegas. When Margo and Quentin head on a spontaneous trip to Las Vegas without Eliot, they have a little too much fun and things get out of hand. Yeah, they sort of got married, but it's nothing a quick annulment can't fix. Eliot doesn't care at all, obviously. Why would it bother him?
Featuring: champagne and hotel room bubble baths, Margo's endless supply of corny pet names, a visit to Q's dad in Jersey, two over-the-top parties, and a guy named Brad.
