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Teddy | 30| Bi | they/she| main: teddyisgroovy | this is just a sideblog for all the spicy fandom content I don't want to post on main, 18+

[the-angry-pixie]

I love thinking about pre-relationship poly-losers. Especially when they obliviously act like theyre in a relationship already and are genuinely confused when “outsiders” give them funny looks.

- like how there seems to be a different Loser wearing Mike’s letterman jacket every week. The handsome “Hanlon” jacket is like the village bicycle - everyone gets a turn.

- how Stanley is always absently fixing different Loser’s clothing and hair cause it will annoy him if he doesn’t (and just maybe he enjoys the little touches) - he literally does the licking-his-thumb-to-help-tuck-a-stray-curl-away thing

- how someone always seems to be holding Beverly’s hand. Is she the one grabbing their hands or is it just a natural magnetism that she has? Either way her hand is always being held and she enjoys playing with her boys fingers.

- how Eddie never misses an opportunity to jump on someone’s back for a free ride when he is feeling lazy (he feels lazy often)

- how they all love on Ben whenever he places in a track meet. At first glance it just looks like 7 teenagers hopping around and cheering in a big group hug, but if you watch carefully you will see that Ben usually gets at least 4 kisses to his cheek from different people - sometimes he even gets 6!

- how Bill always seems to have extra money in case someone forgot their lunch. Sometimes he’ll just buy extra anyway and just casually push it over to a token Loser at lunch time - its always that Loser’s favourite.

- how Richie has gotten into the habit of calling them all the love of his life. Whether he is shouting it in the school hallways (”FUCK OFF SHITSTAIN! THATS THE LOVE OF MY LIFE YOURE BADMOUTHING!”) or just casually greeting one of them (”Mikey, baby, love of my life! I haven’t seen you in ears and ears but I still nose ya!”). But like, its all of them. Its never just one person.

i have to thank @okayuhhyikes because their post inspired this stream of consciousness.

[wizardcowgirls]

God the magicians is like. What if you didn’t have to leave everything from your childhood behind. What if the trappings of childhood gave you the skills you needed in adulthood. What if there was magic and all it did was create new problems. What if a minor mending could save the world. And what if we did it wearing the most 2010 millennial outfits possible?

[disappear-into-the-role]

Personally, I think the secret to the magicians (S1-4) is that the pathetic main character is actually pathetic. He's not secretly powerful or chosen or given a level up through a training montage. He just cares so, so fucking much about everything and everyone that he becomes the main character. And the way that he cares is not ideal. It's painful and selfish. Its so painful and selfish that it feels real in a way that few other shows can truly master because their main character must be 'good' and a stand in for the general audience. (Which is why killing him was not some subversive win for the underdog like the writers toted. Like...killing Ned Stark was subversive. Quentin's existance is already fucking subversive. Him choosing Eliot over Alice would have been fucking subversive. Alice getting a plotline/personality outside of Quentin would have been fucking subversive (that scene in season 4 where she talks to herself is soooo good. Why would more of that depth require Q's death?)) Killing Q just took away a vital aspect of what made the Magicians special and added nothing.

[itisiyourfemur]

This!!!! Quentin’s death has always left me so uncomfortable because it felt like we were cheated out of some healing and character development that could’ve taken everything to the next level. Also Eliot ending up with Charlton felt forced—if they wanted to make it more natural at least give them some romantic or sexual tension when they were all up in Eliot’s brain prison. Like I literally felt revulsion in my body when they kissed, or maybe that was my Queliot heart getting shattered idk

[valtsv]

going up to a character i enjoy and being like "i'd like to award you the highest honour i can bestow" and the honours in question are like. bad at sex. undiagnosable mental anguish. loser's temperament. actual body horror shit. nicotine addiction.

[godihatethisfreakingcat]

YUP.

[burning-the-candles]

[liberalsarecool]

The history of corporate propaganda.

[bbcwhereareyou]

I vividly remember attending a training session with a scan from an 1880-something newspaper that said "unions used to be something we needed, but we're past that now." The corporate propaganda hasn't changed in 130+ years.

[rabbitindisguise]

[cinebourhood]

Julia & Quentin | The Magicians (2015-2020)

[braveque]

‘Cause I’ve done everything I know to try and make you mine And I think I’m gonna love you for a long long time

//

We loved each other for a really, really long time.

[yourtinseltinkerbell]

[ameliajessica]

#thesis statement (via @hmgfanfic)

[yourtinseltinkerbell]

we work! proof of concept! good, full lives! being him is who you are! the beauty of all life! parts of one whole!

[endiness]

[inferno-ontherocks]

What it looks like: I’ve abandoned my fic

What’s actually happening: It consumes my thoughts every single day. The urge to write gets stronger but my putty brain just. won’t. let. it. happen.

[wraithsonwingsposts]

@hexadecimal00 @victorineb

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

♡ I hope 2024 brings every fanfic writer lots of juicy, spicy, angsty, whumpy, crazy, delicious ideas and motivation. may words flow smoothly through your mind and may you find pure joy and satisfaction in your writing. you will do great. I am rooting for you.

[smoshcraft]

I’m alive I just forgot to post

[willgrahamscock]

You can take a break from your fic and write notes for another fic

[willgrahamscock]

But watch out!!

[willgrahamscock]

Oh god you didn’t watch out did you, you started another fic?

[television-overload]

Fic writers!!!

Is your fic with the most hits, in your opinion, your best work?

Yes

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Voting ended onDec 19, 2023

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[crepuscularqueens]

YOU PUT THE FUN INTO  D Y S F U N C T I O N

[image i.d.: nine edited stills from the magicians, each of penny and quentin.

image 1: still from season one episode nine edited to be black and white, penny and quentin are standing next to each other in plover’s mansion, looking at one another. text reads “part time”

image 2: still from season two episode four in color, penny is facing the audience, looking with a sincere expression at quentin, who has his back to the audience. they are on the quest to find the questing creature the white lady, and are wearing the white tops from the hospital.

image 3: still from the same episode in black and white, now with quentin facing the audience. he looks a bit distressed and close to tears, both of them are kneeling in the grass. text reads “soulmate”

image 4: still from season one episode eight in color, penny is laying on the ground outside the school, having just jumped in front of the knife the beast tried to kill quentin with. quentin is kneeling over him, applying pressure to the wound. text reads “full time”

image 5: still from season one episode two in black and white, quentin is face down on the ground, he has a scrape on his cheekbone and penny is on top of him, holding his arm behind his back while saying something into quentin’s ear.

image 6: still from the same episode in color, quentin and penny are both on beds in the medical wing at brakebills after their fight, one of the students behind them. quentin is sitting on the edge of his bed, looking down, and penny is lying back, laughing sarcastically. text reads “problem”

image 7: still from season four episode thirteen in black and white, penny and quentin are hugging each other in the underworld. the audience sees the back of penny’s head, and the top of quentin’s face where it’s pressed into penny’s shoulder. quentin’s expression is sad and he is holding tightly to penny. text reads “so, hold me”

image 8: still from the same episode in color, now the audience sees penny’s face and the back of quentin’s head after they have broken away from the hug. penny’s expression is sad but fond, with a slight smile.

image 9: still from season one episode three in black and white, quentin is standing backed up against a tree while penny crowds against him, his hand on quentin’s chest, both looking intensely at the other. text reads “like a grudge”

plain text caption: you put the fun into dysfunction

end i.d.]

[smoshcraft]