#queliotweek2026

[unlifeira]

you want to live your life, live it here

for @magiciansfanworksextravaganza's Queliot Week 2026 day 2: Mosaic Era

[magiciansfanworksextravaganza]

Queliot Week 2026: June 15-21

We're so excited to bring back Queliot Week, with the blessing of one of the original mods! (Thank you so much, @believesinponds! ❤️❤️❤️) We'll have seven days celebrating the love of Quentin Coldwater / Eliot Waugh of The Magicians (Lev Grossman, SyFy) with all the fanworks you can create! Queliot Week 2026 will take place from June 15-21. This will be an annual event, during the timeslot brought to us by Queliot Week 2019. Read on to learn about the themes and how this event works!

Here are the themes you've been waiting for!

Day 1: Monday, June 15 ❤️ History AUs ❤️ Queliot "for want of a nail" AU: one thing changes somewhere, but that changes everything ❤️ Alternate Genre/Universe

Day 2: Tuesday, June 16 ❤️ Mosaic era/flavor/AU ❤️ Brakebills era/flavor/AU

Day 3: Wednesday, June 17 ❤️ Book Queliot ❤️ There was only one bed ❤️ Epistolary fic (or any type of messaging in some format makes an appearance somewhere)

Day 4: Thursday, June 18 ❤️ XOXO, aka “Love, Eliot”—Queliot hugs, kisses, and/or ways they say “I love you” ❤️ Cuddling ❤️ Hurt/comfort

Day 5: Friday, June 19 ❤️ Misunderstandings ❤️ Idiots to lovers ❤️ Forced proximity

Day 6: Saturday, June 20 ❤️ Immortal/Mortal ❤️ Omegaverse ❤️ Magical creatures

Day 7: Sunday June 21 ❤️ Queliot Week 2019 prompts* ❤️ Queliot Week 2020 prompts* ❤️ Free Choice

*See below for prior Queliot Week prompts.

Basic Rules

❤️ Your fanwork must be about the ship Quentin Coldwater/Eliot Waugh from The Magicians (Lev Grossman/SyFy).

❤️ Many themes are available; we also offer “Free Choice.” You may select any of that day's themes; use as many as you want, or only one. Please let us know which you've chosen.

❤️ Any type of fanwork you can imagine; any size or length.

❤️ Additions to existing WIPs welcome; you may also start a new WIP.

❤️ As many or as few pieces as you wish to enter are fine.

❤️ The challenge takes place on AO3 and Tumblr (if you are posting your work on another platform, please share a link to that here on Tumblr).

❤️ Relaxed posting: Try to post on the appropriate day, but if you find you need to post on a different day, that’s fine, too. We want this to be fun, and to encourage as many Queliot works as possible! Please let us know which prompt you used.

❤️ Queliot Week is a separate, recurring event. It’s not covered during our recurring Amnesty Weeks. However, each future Queliot Week will include an invitation to use any prompts from a past Queliot Week!

Here are the prompts from prior Queliot Weeks:

Queliot Week 2019 (June 17-23; alternates could be used on any day) Day 1: Fake Dating/Marriage Day 2: Hedge Witches Day 3: Neighbors/Roommates Day 4: Free Day! Day 5: Polyamory Day 6: Alternate Timeline Day 7: Soulmates Alternate 1: Non-magic College Alternate 2: Queliot Reunion Alternate 3: In Fillory

Queliot Week 2020 (Nov. 16-22; two prompts per day) Day 1: "Hugs aren’t the only thing required by law." / Favourite scene Day 2: "We're married." / Colours Day 3: "That wasn't brave." / Royalty Day 4: "It was real, this is real." / Magic Day 5: "Not everything can be mended." / The Monster Day 6: "So we're just giving up?" / Death Day 7: Free Choice Day

Here are some places to enjoy the works from prior Queliot Weeks!

Queliot Week 2019

This AO3 collection has 62 works for Queliot Week 2019 by multiple creators, but there are also some things on Tumblr that aren't on AO3.

Many works for the event can be found under the tags #queliot week 2019 and especially #queliotweek (this 2nd tag has more, but also does bring up some works for Queliot Week 2020).

The original Queliot Week 2019 website is beautiful and well worth checking out, but enter at your own risk: when I load it now (link below), virus protection is giving me a "threat secured" script warning; not sure why, but it seems to be fine with virus protection, as mine is blocking the problem script without any issues, and the works are still linking to AO3 and Tumblr. I love the original Queliot Week 2019 Tumblr website.

Queliot Week 2020

The original Tumblr website is gone, but many of the entries can still be found through the tags #queliotweek2020 and #queliotweek (this 2nd tag also brings up posts for Queliot Week 2019).

I couldn't find a single, unified AO3 collection, but some creators made their own personal Queliot Week 2020 series, while a few others used a custom AO3 tag. To the best of my ability, here's a link to all those things on AO3.

And here you'll find Magicians Fanworks Extravaganza's ongoing news about Queliot Week 2026 and beyond.

Also: Here's a list of all our upcoming 2026 fanworks challenges for The Magicians, in case you'd like to get a head start!

And here are our prior events, starting with the most recent:

Don't Make Me Sing (Every Single One of Us Has to Sing)

Time Is an Illusion

Amnesty Week 2025

Welcome Home!

Warm Up

Finally, while membership in our Discord server is absolutely not required to create works for any event, feel free to join us to discuss The Magicians, our events, and more in the Magicians Fanworks Extravaganza Discord.

Thanks for joining us!

[eliotqueliot]

Eliot worries about Quentin (Painting)

Painted (watercolors) for Queliot Week 2026, a fanworks event hosted by Magicians Fanworks Extravaganza, @magiciansfanworksextravaganza

This drawing fits the theme:

Day 2: ❤️ Brakebills era/flavor/AU

(Brought to you later thanks to relaxed posting!)

I wish I could really capture that imploring look of concern on Eliot's face, like his whole self is tenderly pleading, Please be all right, Q. But I did add some hearts to the sofa, that El is sending Q's way.

This painting is part of Mosaic Haiku, Chapter 14 on AO3, where it can be seen with greater resolution/sharpness:

Mosaic Haiku (with Art) - Chapter 14 - EliotQueliot - The Magicians (TV) [Archive of Our Own]

[magicians4time]

Nectar of the gods

Queliot Week 2026 themes

Day 6: Saturday, June 20❤️ Immortal/Mortal❤️ Magical creatures

Quentin stepped through the door and had to take a moment just to calibrate. Bacchus and his disco club full of writhing bodies had been one thing, an overwhelming thing that made it tempting to run and hide. This was something else entirely. Not that his first instinct was not still to run back the way he came in, just in a different way. Bacchus, in Quentin's estimation, was the ‘jock that never grew out of college’ level god. Whatever happened here was creepy; ‘come into my parlor, said the spider’, but in a feeling good, country club for the ultra elite setting.

There was enough gold around to assume King Midas had been through at some point.

It made him think of walking into the full Alice in Wonderland book in a single space. A Wonderland with upscale class, a lot of draped silk, and mushrooms that looked less like mushrooms and more like… something that was not a mushroom. Fantasy, sexy, high fashion?

Impressive, really, since there were no mushrooms, just the odd impression of long, phalli- no, he wouldn't even think of it. They were just, uh… mushroom resemblances. This was what he got for following directions from the PartyCity, dollar store god. He took a long, deep breath with the hope that any of those old breathing exercises he learned as a teen in therapy would help save him now.

The lamps and the candles, even the cushions on the floor, Wonderland or not, made him think of drugged-up fever dreams mixed with storybooks. Storybooks which, in this case, would be banned from libraries by irate mothers named Karen. He ran the zipper on his jacket up and down to feel the grinding snick-snick of it moving over the inlaid metal teeth.

The fancy tea set on the antique table set the vibe. It might have been responsible for the prevailing Wonderland thoughts, in all honesty. Either way, he absolutely had to stop thinking of mushrooms. The long couch? That really did look like a cluster of mushrooms, though.

The room would be much less intimidating if he had been alone. Unfortunately, he'd realized the moment he walked in that he was being studied by shrewd, cutting eyes. It would be nice if he could avoid that a bit longer, but he came with the express purpose of gaining an audience. If only he was a bit more brave and a lot less stressed.

Two comfortable looking thrones were center stage of the garish scene; one vacant and the other occupied by a very lithe, long, and hedonisticly appealing… King of Hearts? He wouldn't swear to that since most of the costume was a bit ambiguous. Now that he forced his eyes to stay longer on the man, no, god, he could only assume it was some kind of Greco-Roman figure.

Though, if it was Wonderland themed, he was fairly sure it was the King and Queen of hearts that ruled Wonderland. That wouldn't be so terrible. He was very good at the cards part of Wonderland, he knew this. Not that his shaking hands could hold a desk at the moment.

The king in the books, he felt certain, looked less like he dropped out of a scandalous, titillating Vogue photoshoot designed to get single, or married, thirsty individuals to buy the issue for the sole purpose of fantasizing.

It was still jarring to realize there was some ancient god in front of him with one long leg thrown over the arm of the throne, his dark hair an artful display of curls, a picture of bored, indifferent, indolent Greek mythology. Or the modern update of said mythos. This man with his keen, disarming eyes running right through Quentin, looked far more powerful and believable as an ancient power than Bacchus ever could.

"Well, hello there," a smile played at the corners of the god's mouth as he purred the words.

Oh. Oh, why had Quentin's knees gone weak there for a second? What was that? That was not fair! A god's voice was… unfair. So smooth and rough and silky and… fucking gods!

"You're late," the man informed him, still seemingly bored but amused at the same time, his eyes twinkling as he looked the puny mortal up and down.

He actually felt his brain shut off.

Quentin's mouth hung open, his head nodding automatically, because obviously whatever this man said had to be true. "I, uh…"

I'm late, I'm late, for a very important date. No. No, not happening. Nice try, brain. Thank you for the input.

But why was he late, again?

Was that– was that– was the– was his– that shirt was sheer. Hinting at real fabric, gossamer, top button undone. See through – see everything. He could see his nipples, and he really should not have noticed that. Skin tight though they were, at least his pants were not sheer. Merlin or whoever only knew how Quentin would have handled that. They did accentuate the length of his legs, though, and they were very long indeed. Who knew he had a thing for long legs? It was fine. Keep breathing. Stop blushing. Don't be a prude.

He was long and fluid like Quentin always thought the Tolkien elves would be; lithe and long like the trees. Gracefully, he stood up, one hip cocking as he scrutinized the human in the room that was exponentially less pleasing to the eye, no contest. Also, looking at god hips was a bad move, he should not do that. Bad. Eyes were supposed to stay up.

The god cleared his throat, "I asked you a question, aren't you going to answer?"

Oh, shit! "You did?"

The god walked down the steps, his hips doing artful things while Q tried to be sure he didn't stare too hard. The miles and miles of man walked right up to him, looking down his nose at him. There was no question Quentin had forgotten how to breathe.

“You're supposed to tell me you're sorry,” The god purred, leaning over him with all that impressive height.

Mind on overdrive, Quentin squeaked out a hasty, “Sorry!”

Those pretty eyes looked right into his, “‘Sorry’ what?”

“Sir!” He had no idea what else he could say.

Long fingers ghosted along Q's jaw, the god's mouth pulling into a delighted, predatory smirk, “Good boy.”

Quentin shivered with his entire body as the finger dragged along his jaw and then broke contact. He very nearly chased the touch, swaying forward without meaning to and – Oh, okay, what? He felt himself startle into his normal brain. Wow, what? The pulsing want, want, and maybe arousal buzzing through him was as unexpected as the 'Touch me again, Daddy' that almost tumbled out of him.

Because, what?! What literally was that? He never in all his life! It was concerning how badly he would like to climb right up that tall, dark– Hu uh. Nope. No, not, no. Nope. Not going there. His libido could crawl right back into its box, thank you.

This was not how he responded to even very attractive people, thank you very much! He had never had this instant of an attraction before in his life. Was it a god thing? If so, why had he not felt it with Bacchus, the guy that literally put something on his tongue? Was that why those other people liked Bacchus? Had he been immune to whatever…godly hocus-pocus was there but not whatever this one had going?

“I'm Eliot.” The god interrupted the existential crisis with an airy wave of his hand, “Follow me.”

Eliot moved past him toward a yet unexplored halfway, managing to get Q's skin to tingle at the nearness even without touching him. Everything in his nervous system wanted to lurch after the man like a puppet, but he made the attempt to resist. If they went to other locations, who knew how long it would take to get any of his questions or requests out into the open.

“Uh, Bacchus sent me?”

Eliot swiveled partially back to him, looking deeply amused, “I know. Though, I honestly thought he would forget. He's not always prompt with his promises.”

An unpleasant zing of panic ran up his spine, “What?”

What had Bacchus neglected to mention? And also, what had Bacchus neglected to mention!? He did not need this! He did not need yet another one of these gods playing ping pong with he and his friends. He should never trust these stuck up, insane gods even if the last one seemed like a harmless party crazed lush. It had been stupid to come to this place. They kept repeating exactly the same mistakes and he had no idea why!

The abject panic must have been on display across his face, because something in the god's expression melted into something softer. He turned back and settled his fingers along the back of Quentin's neck, a soft shushing sound on his tongue, squeezing ever so gently into the coiled human muscles.

Eyes closing, body relaxing more than it had in days, Quentin found himself believing Eliot when he whispered, “It's alright. You're safe here.”

This was an emotional roller-coaster, if he was honest. He and his emotions couldn't decide what to do with any of it. Not that he expected it to be simple even if Bacchus swore one of the two god's living in this fever dream of a building would be willing to help him. That was exactly why he came alone, just in case. After everything, he knew he should be more wary, but he couldn't even bring himself to pull away.

With effort, Quentin blinked his eyes open, "What exactly... did Bacchus promise?"

Eliot's smile shifted back to that playful grin he was starting believe was most at home on those lips. "He promised to send me a cute boy. By now, he knows what I like. I prefer the high-strung super-nerds."

Quentin found it in himself to muster up a glare, "Thanks ever so."

The laugh it drew out of Eliot was musical and magical. He would swear the god glowed for a moment. No wonder these beings were worshiped in the old days. He could probably spend his entire life making this immortal laugh and find it a life well spent.

♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡

(Background things to know: Quentin, Julia, Alice, Kady, and Penny went to Fillory. Alice still died. Josh, Kady, and Victoria convince them to come back to earth to help them summon a god to bring Alice back. They each have things they want to fix and the Coven convinced them to help bring out OLU. During the attack after the failed summoning, Victoria, badly injured, takes Josh away. Chaos obviously occurred; Q fights when he sees Renard go for Julia, spurring them to fight their way out. Kady gets Penny while they run and they escape. However, they know he (the fox) is hunting them.

He and Julia visit Bacchus (they are a bit traumatized by the near miss and some of the Coven being killed) but Bacchus tells them about a god that is least likely to kill them that might be able to help. Q secretly visits him alone to protect the others. There he meets Eliot.

Eliot and Margo are gods.)

Though I know Margo is not shown here, she's in the building.

@magiciansfanworksextravaganza

[violetsarepurple-fuckyou]

Chapter 2 of my Queliot 'bedsharing and wet dreams at the Mosaic' fic now up :)

For Queliot Week, Day 3: 'There was only one bed' @magiciansfanworksextravaganza

Hold Me, Hold Out (A Little While Longer) (6648 words) by violetsarefuckingpurple Chapters: 2/? Fandom: The Magicians (TV) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Quentin Coldwater/Eliot Waugh Characters: Eliot Waugh, Quentin Coldwater Additional Tags: Mosaic Timeline (The Magicians: A Life in the Day), There Was Only One Bed, Sharing a Bed, Wet Dream, Accidental Voyeurism, Sexual Tension, Mutual Pining, Awkward Boners, Fluff and Smut Summary: As Quentin and Eliot settle into their quest at the Mosaic, they spend their nights sharing a rather small bed. This becomes awkward when Quentin starts having dreams that he simply cannot get under control. Eliot is trying very hard to be respectful and not ruin their friendship with his dick for a second time, but seriously, there is a limit to his self-restraint.

[carcrash429]

for the 2026 edition of @magiciansfanworksextravaganza Queliot Week, I podded two delightfully fun works!

In Another Life, I Would Make You Stay, written by @wolfnprey; for the prompt Mosaic AU (Rated T, 20min)

To Feel The Same, written by @nellie-elizabeth; for the prompt Cuddling (Not Rated, 12min)

[itsminimes]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Magicians (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Quentin Coldwater/Eliot Waugh, Quentin Coldwater/Alice Quinn Characters: Quentin Coldwater, Eliot Waugh, Alice Quinn (The Magicians) Additional Tags: queliotweek2026, mfequeliotweek, magiciansfanworksextravaganza, history au, Jousting tournament, Quentin and Eliot are knights Summary:

Quentin Coldwater rode to Rouen seeking honor, glory and the favor of Lady Alice, only to find his heart challenged by the mysterious black knight he encountered in the most unexpected way.

Note: This story was written for the Queliot Week 2026 and it’s a History AU most of all, but it was also inspired by and touches other very tempting Queliot Week topics such as There Was Only One Bed and Forced Proximity.

@magiciansfanworksextravaganza

[magiciansfanworksextravaganza]

Queliot Week 2026: Help us select themes

We're so excited to bring back Queliot Week, with the blessing of one of the original mods! (Thank you so much, @believesinponds! ❤️❤️❤️) We'll have seven days celebrating the love of Quentin Coldwater / Eliot Waugh of The Magicians (Lev Grossman, SyFy) with all the fanworks you can create! Queliot Week 2026 will take place from June 15-21. This will be an annual event, during the timeslot brought to us by Queliot Week 2019. We'd like your help selecting themes! We'll be accepting proposals through Feb. 7 (Eastern time). Our theme list will be announced on Valentine's Day.

Please do not put your theme in a reply to this post. While membership in our Discord server is absolutely not required to create works for any event, submission of potential themes is taking place via the Magicians Fanworks Extravaganza Discord as a means of showing creator interest. (If you are Discord-averse, but you hope to make something and have a theme in mind, please feel free to hop in just long enough to do that, or DM us to submit your topics.) Our hope is to have multiple themes available per day. We're still working out all the details, but we will also honor previous Queliot Weeks by opening up those themes again. As usual for our events, new additions to existing WIPs are welcome; entries can be the start of a new WIP; any type of fanworks of any size are great; as many or as few pieces as you wish to enter are fine; and the challenge takes place on AO3 and Tumblr (if you are posting your work on another platform, please share a link to that here on Tumblr).

Here are the prompts from prior Queliot Weeks:

Queliot Week 2019 (June 17-23; alternates could be used on any day) Day 1: Fake Dating/Marriage Day 2: Hedge Witches Day 3: Neighbors/Roommates Day 4: Free Day! Day 5: Polyamory Day 6: Alternate Timeline Day 7: Soulmates Alternate 1: Non-magic College Alternate 2: Queliot Reunion Alternate 3: In Fillory

Queliot Week 2020 (Nov. 16-22; two prompts per day) Day 1: "Hugs aren’t the only thing required by law." / Favourite scene Day 2: "We're married." / Colours Day 3: "That wasn't brave." / Royalty Day 4: "It was real, this is real." / Magic Day 5: "Not everything can be mended." / The Monster Day 6: "So we're just giving up?" / Death Day 7: Free Choice Day

Here are some places to enjoy the works from prior Queliot Weeks!

Queliot Week 2019

This AO3 collection has 62 works for Queliot Week 2019 by multiple creators, but there are also some things on Tumblr that aren't on AO3.

Many works for the event can be found under the tags #queliot week 2019 and especially #queliotweek (this 2nd tag has more, but also does bring up some works for Queliot Week 2020).

The original Queliot Week 2019 website is beautiful and well worth checking out, but enter at your own risk: when I load it now (link below), virus protection is giving me a "threat secured" script warning; not sure why, but it seems to be fine with virus protection, as mine is blocking the problem script without any issues, and the works are still linking to AO3 and Tumblr. I love the original Queliot Week 2019 Tumblr website.

Queliot Week 2020

The original Tumblr website is gone, but many of the entries can still be found through the tags #queliotweek2020 and #queliotweek (this 2nd tag also brings up posts for Queliot Week 2019).

I couldn't find a single, unified AO3 collection, but some creators made their own personal Queliot Week 2020 series, while a few others used a custom AO3 tag. To the best of my ability, here's a link to all those things on AO3.

And here you'll find Magicians Fanworks Extravaganza's ongoing news about Queliot Week 2026 and beyond.

Also: Here's a list of all our upcoming 2026 fanworks challenges for The Magicians, in case you'd like to get a head start!

And here are our prior events, starting with the most recent:

Time Is an Illusion

Amnesty Week

Welcome Home!

Warm Up

Thanks for joining us!