#queliot forever

[magiciansfanworksextravaganza]

Queliot Week

The Queliot Week 2020 blog (@queliotweek2020) appears to have vanished.

One can still find the beautiful entries that are still on Tumblr:

#queliotweek2020

The wonderful, original Queliot Week (2019) is still up as a blog:

and the entries on Tumblr are under:

#queliot week 2019

Just on the off-chance, I'm reaching out to @queliotweek (I also sent an ask to their blog)

I would love to revive Queliot Week! Please let me know if anyone previously involved with it would:

prefer that we choose a separate name

like to be involved in any way

simply wish to share any thoughts about it

This is a long-term request, but if I haven't heard from anyone in six months (by October 15), I'll just go ahead with the planning and call it something like Queliot Week 2026, because I love continuity.

And because, TBH, those first two Queliot Week events were my introduction to The Magicians fandom and my first inspiration to find any Magicians/Queliot challenge events, and eventually, try to host them!

[morphinomenaljew]

It has been damn near almost 4 years since Sera Gamble and John MacNamara showed their entire ass and justified the suicidality of their canonically bisexual male lead as “noble” and I am still so emotionally devastated by it that even the thought of The Magicians is enough to bring me to my knees.

And the most infuriating thing is that Quentin on paper should not have been likeable. At. All. He was written to be the same self insert main character that has been churned out for fanboys for literal decades now. But Jason Ralph *made* him likeable. There’s no doubt in my mind that The Magicians was only ever successful because the actors that were cast actually gave a shit about their characters unlike the writers.

Every single one of the main cast and the supporting cast felt like real people who were relatable in their struggle as specifically millennial protagonists. The Magicians is the only show I’ve seen in recent memory that actually acknowledges the difficulties our generation deals with in an even slightly compassionate way.

But what they did to Quentin was unforgivable and I am genuinely glad it was cancelled a season after because you cannot kill off the heart of your show especially after he finally comes to terms with his queerness and expect people to give a shit anymore. For a show that in so many ways was ground breaking for the sci-if/fantasy/magical realism genre, to say nothing of how the show propelled Syfy itself, the ending it gave Quentin shows that the writers somehow missed the entire point of the character they wrote and the story he was trying to tell and I mourn him.

[eliotqueliot]

Wait. We were in Fillory...

Back from the adventure that never was. Is this a whiff of a memory?

Or maybe a dream? (Eliot looks so soft--looking back, toward the past, but almost back toward Q. Quentin trying to catch a glimpse of this sense of wonder.)

(They look like they almost remember. Eliot wide-eyed and stunned at a dream of happiness. Quentin almost helplessly cutting a side-eye at El. The source of the wonder.)

(I love this sequence. Even before they start to remember...it looks like maybe they do?)

[itsminimes]

In the mood for love. And Christmas.

[themagiciansotp]

The Magicians is officially cancelled. I’m honestly so relieved. The show couldn’t and shouldn’t go on without Quentin.

Thank you to the amazing cast, you are all amazing!

Sera Gamble and John McNamara, you still suck.

Syfy, Sera Gamble & John McNamara Address the End of 'The Magicians'

The executive producers explain why it makes sense to bring the enchanting drama in for a landing now.

[starseeker-tarazed]

No Fuck QuAlice.

[eliotqueliot]

Love on the Tiles

OK you know I'm putting this here just so I can look at it whenever I want :) But this has always been among my favorite images of them. I love the sweet way Eliot's smiling at Quentin. I love how Q gets much more relaxed when he learns they don't need to put a label on what they now are to each other...that they can continue to be more than friends but the friendship remains strong. Ofc I wish they had gotten the courage to say just how much they meant to each other in the early days...instead of simply not worrying about defining things...but I'm so glad they did have this time of bliss together in what I think of as the morning of their lives at the mosaic.

[eliotqueliot]

Please bear with me--Mosaic Haiku updates

Update to this post: Yes, Mosaic Haiku is live again!

Mosaic Haiku is a favorite project of mine. I've reformatted it so that my fanart will appear with the haiku on AO3, while the original imag

Original post, plus, the sketch below is now part of Mosaic Haiku Chapter 1 on AO3:

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

I'm going to be reposting all my Mosaic Haiku on Tumblr. And updating all the AO3 chapters with my art. Turns out I can't get the correct URLs in place with private posts--I have to make them public first. So the links are not going to work right for a while on Tumblr or AO3. And the AO3 chapters are gonna look weird. So PLEASE WAIT to look at them. I'll let you know when things are more settled. Thanks! In the meantime, please enjoy this sketch!!