the magicians tv meme → favorite character: eliot waugh (½)
I mean wow 💜
WHEN will fandom give me what i truly need (extremely explicit queliot fic inspired by the best and most completely unhinged celine dion song)
Queliot - Mendings, Major and Minor
#ok but where’s my event planner!au#here margo and eliot are world famous for their extravagant events#and eliot is a meticulous hard ass that everyone is terrified of#and everyone knows he’s married#but no one know who hes married to#so everyone places their bets on whether its some billionaire blue blood or something#because eliot always tells them their parties aren’t ‘his scene’#(and anyone whos too good for a margoxeliot party must be some kind of nobility…)#(margo hears about these theories and laughs so hard she pops a blood vessel)#(this only ramps up the rumors)#so margo works her magic to get him to their next event#and everyone is excited because there are bets#and in walks awkward lit professor quentin#who gets drunk off one cocktail and won’t shut up about high fantasy novels#everyone thinks its a prank except eliot wont leave his side#and has literal STARS in his eyes when he looks at him#somebody makes the mistake of mocking quentin behind their backs#this person is never heard from again#the only person who called it is penny#because of course he did#and he went to college with them#but no one needs to know that [via dontpandertomekid]
the tags on this were too good for me to resist I’m sorry
jason ralph did an instagram live an hour ago and as soon as it ended i painted this as quickly as possible
If anyone even questioned my opinion on the discourse.
I blacked out for like an hour today and ended up with this
Even if you believe – LIKE I BELIEVE – that bisexual people are bisexual people and valuable members of the queer community even when they’re in monogamous heterosexual relationships, you are allowed to take a hard look at how a story deploys bisexual characters and their relationships, and you are allowed to notice and be displeased when the story seems to reinforce homophobic and biphobic bigotry.
Like. Okay. I really like the way Roswell, New Mexico has navigated this with Michael’s character. He is clearly bisexual; his emotional and sexual involvement with Alex and Maria are treated as real and legitimate and honorable, unequivocally Good Things, at least potentially, in Michael’s life. Yes, he does choose (as of this moment – future seasons are future) to pursue a relationship with Maria but not Alex, but what I think is important and effective is that Alex is always shown not as the bullet he dodged or a wrong road he briefly went down in his youth, not as some confusion or derail or detour from his life, and certainly not as the kinky sexual experimentation of Someone With a Complicated Dark Side. Alex is always, always, always shown, by the way the characters discuss him and by his function in the plot, as some combination of Michael’s Ex Who Is Still a Dear Friend and The One Who Got Away (and on his own, separate from his relationship with Michael, as a capital-h Hero who is also a gay man). They had a youthful relationship, full of youthful intensity, and life kind of happened and things just – didn’t work out. But the relationship was real, the closeness remains, and the legacy of that intensity continues to color their interactions. Nothing about Michael and Alex make me feel like being with Maria is something that saved Michael or, uh, set him straight, as it were. She’s just the next big relationship in Michael’s life, and he’s bisexual.
In contrast, I really, really, really do not like the way Crazy Ex-Girlfriend navigated this with Darryl. I do not deny that Darryl is bisexual! The show did not “make him straight” when they wrote him breaking up with his boyfriend and marrying a woman. But it’s – really – pretty fucked up, the arc they give Darryl. Here’s a character who is above all things a warm, big-hearted family man, whose distinguishing traits are his sweetness, his loyalty, and the joy he takes in being a father. He’s in a bad marriage, which ends, and his earliest plot arcs are about maintaining his relationship with his daughter. He has a sexual awakening and a fairly LTR relationship with a younger gay man, which is portrayed as overall quite positive…except that the gay man is entirely unwilling to go in on the one thing that has always defined Darryl – he doesn’t want to marry Darryl or have kids with him, he is not interested in the traditional family stability that Darryl so clearly loves and craves. Okay, well – that happens sometimes. They break up so that Darryl can pursue having more kids on his own, but remain friendly. I don’t love that an otherwise rewarding queer relationship is depicted as something Darryl has to extricate himself from to have the family he wants, but – I’m not writing it, okay. It’s a choice. But at the very end of the series, when it’s wrapping up everyone’s plotlines, the show does two things: it abruptly introduces a woman with a daughter (who receives no real characterization other than Woman With a Daughter) that Darryl quickly marries, creating a lovely large-ish blended family with a mom, and dad, and three kids – and it makes WiJo, the only specifically gay character on the show, appear in the final scene as an isolated, bitter figure, sitting apart from his friends, bitching about the character everyone else is here to celebrate, not just single but deeply alone. He’s so alone that the fact his fucking house recently burned down is delivered as a throwaway line by a “friend” of his who has clearly all but forgotten about it.
And that’s – so fucked up! It’s not fucked up because Darryl is not allowed to be with a woman. It’s fucked up because the show has hammered in this clear distinction between Happy Family Man Darryl, whose every wholesome dream of being a husband and father has come true, and Bitter Lonely Queen Josh, who began the series as a jovial and successful, if a little sharp-elbowed, character, and now sits alone in a bar having lost everything. That’s not just a neutral character choice. It leaves the viewer with the distinct taste in their mouth of queerness being a life detour for Darryl, in between the birth of his two children and his two heterosexual marriages, and it leaves Josh – who again, has been a series regular all along! That we liked and rooted for! – as some kind of fucked-up cautionary tale about queer loneliness. Did the show intend for that to be the takeaway message, that queerness ruined Josh’s life and could have ruined Darryl’s if he hadn’t managed his escape? Almost certainly not! But the fact that it does, just coincidentally!, perfectly replicate that string of homophobic narratives – that queerness is an exploratory phase for bisexual people, that real families are straight families, that gay people end up drinking alone and unloved in a bar – is really fucking bad, no matter what the intentions were, and it can’t be handwaved away by saying “well, sometimes bi people end up in straight relationships!” Yeah, they do! But that’s not a get-out-of-jail-free card for literally writing a story that adheres to the ugliest homophobic and biphobic tropes you can think of. “Sometimes that happens” is never actually a get-out-of-jail-free card for replicating shopworn and harmful stereotypes about marginalized people in your fiction.
I could add a paragraph here about The Magicians, too, but like. I feel like I’m on record already. Long story short: see above. It’s not inherently biphobic that Quentin ends his life (well, the last ten minutes of his life) with a woman and not a man; it is biphobic that the show goes to enormous lengths to code his relationship with Eliot as a “complicated” detour occurring entirely in the space after his straight relationship fell apart and before he was able to restore it, as literally Another Life from Quentin’s real life, and it is homophobic to end a series with your gay series regular living out some kind of retrograde Evangelical scared-straight tragedy of separation from his loved ones and substance abuse, while the bisexual character’s straight love interest is portrayed surrounded by friends, excited by her future, and at peace. (Oops, I added the paragraph.)
It’s bad. It’s not good. Even if it wasn’t intentional, it speaks to something real dark that this is the pattern that creators who think of themselves as queer allies just accidentally trip and fall into without even realizing it. It speaks to how pervasive these narratives – of queer relationships as an interlude or a detour for bi people, of straight relationships as more wholesome and more healing than queer ones – are even among people who would never think of themselves as hating gay people. And it’s okay to call this shit out, because it is not biphobic or hostile to bi people’s RL straight relationships, to see what’s right in front of us.
Long story short: do not fuck this up for me, Roswell. I’m counting on you.
(pdf link) thinkin abt if the magicians had a good storyline for season 5 and also let the characters talk to each other and have interesting relationships :/
this is just expanded thoughts from this post mostly (also i always kind of thought people were joking about writing dialogue int the shower but i guess that truly is just how it is):
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original post: 5 pages of a fan script for the magicians, in which julia is in the part of grieving where she’s not ready to start looking for resurrection spells yet, and eliot is Not Happy about it. sorry, but it’s really long, and it’s got some important formatting, so if you’re using a screen reader and you’re interested, it’ll be better for you to click the link to the pdf then for you to try and parse it without formatting if i provided a description
tacked-on image of the post:
theprincessandthepie {that’s me!}: thinking about a version of season 5 that focused on a resurrection plot that would allow some really good conversions between characters who don’t interact a lot as they grapple with quentin’s death again {meh emoticon}
self-reblog: actually these are important: {series of tags}#we could have had it ALL{with repeating L’s}#the magicians#quentin coldwater#Eliot’s burning determination to get q back at all costs vs Julia’s denial over quentin’s death being a suicide#and also the moral implications of taking on a quest that is risky for the world at large to save one man#and also her reluctance to strip innocent bystanders of their agency in light of possible sacrifices that must be made#again for the life of one man#even if it is her best friend#FIGHT#god it would have been so good
LISTEN- i just think it would take a while for jules to accept it was a suicide, because then she’d have to accept that her best friend was spiraling, and she was too wrapped up in her own problems to notice, until (what is absolutely) one of her worst nightmares comes true. like. i don’t blame julia. QUENTIN certainly wouldn’t blame julia. but JULIA? it would be REALLY FUCKING HARD for her to accept because she would blame herself so much. there would be SO MUCH self-loathing that she would have to confront in order to confront the truth.]
tagging some old magicians mutuals because i crave validation:
@sunshinequentin, @a-gay-coded-villain, @richardsikenpdf, @baroquebachmountain, @bitchesoffillory, @monstermonstre, @televisionforwhales, @kingquentin
also this idea was 100% inspired by the script excerpt @fishfingersandscarves posted a little while ago, which is amazing as are all of the things they make
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Q running his hand through his hair in s02ep06 The Cock Barrens
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