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Just got my recorded message from Hale in my email and I’m… wrecked. Sorry about the weird format, the original file was a little too big for tumblr. Anyway, here is Hale reading Eliot’s letter to Quentin from the book. If you need me I’ll just be over here Going Through It for the remainder of my life………

#the magicians #the magicians books #eliot waugh #quelion #hale appleman #no but this man is such a good actor oh my god

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at first i was like, we already saw this? but then i paused and actually looked and q is resting his head on eliot and hugging him back with both arms

#queliot #the magicians

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#queliot #they #the magicians

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 a monster with his face and eyes and hands

#i love love the concept of the monsters just #falling for eliot's physical impulses #which ofc involve drugs alcohol and touching quentin all the time #aaaaa wonderful gif set the pain is delicious #the magicians #queliot

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"we need less sanitized queer stories" yall keep saying fucking she-ra romanticizes abuse. you couldnt possibly handle less sanitized queer stories

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Scott McCloud’s incomparable “Understanding Comics”.

I swear you can open this book to any page and it’s amazing.

(ps it’s actually a digital image of a printed copy of a drawing of a painting of a pipe)

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xin mo did not become the demonic op sword of all three realms for this!!! for @kawouwu who asked for binggeyuan sillies! thank you for your donation to svsss' gotcha 4 gaza!

#lmao #svsss #bingyuan

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a bingqiu witches x xianxia fusion, as prompted by cass and fulfilled as part of an ongoing fundraising event at svsss gotcha 4 gaza!

#svsss #bingqiu

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#at this point i’m kind of fascinated by how this is one of those things that seems to never sink in for people#people are like ‘shen yuan will forgive binghe anything’ as if they don’t spend a chunk of the novel fighting about jin lan#and whether binghe was responsible#lqg and sqq literally have a conversation where sqq thinks that he’s still trying to determine whether lbh is malicious or not#it does actually matter to him#in part bc it’s tied to whether he can trust luo binghe AT ALL#which is a central conflict in their dynamic post abyss#sorry that’s only tangentially related to what you’re talking about it just drives me nuts

no no it's very much related @wife-beam

girl it's not that shen yuan forgives the atrocities, the atrocities were part of the enjoyment while luo binghe was a fictional character, the atrocities gave the fans a hard on because it was a dark power fantasy. but when luo binghe became a REAL person it turned into a REAL issue that's what half the novel is about

#svsss #svsss meta #shen qingqiu #luo binghe #shen yuan #the closest equivalent i could make of pidw fans is like #fans of el señor de los cielos. la reina del sur. and similar tv shows #like you are gonna root for the characters bc you watch them struggle and want then to triumph and whatever and particularly #it caters to a male audience indulging in a male power fantasy and projecting onto that character #but like if those characters were real people??? lmao no one would want to be ten feet across from them

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Jason Ralph on Niffin!Alice and Quentin (x)

#man when it was good it WAS good #such great concepts #the magicians #queue to save the world

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imo one of the reasons eliot is such a good, relatable character is that he has been so clearly affected by growing up in a homophobic family, in a homophobic society. he brings to mind characters from older gay lit (brideshead revisted, maurice, etc) for a lot of reasons, but one of them is that those characters were also obviously marked by having to live in homophobic societies. i think it’s something that’s become less common in media, the portrayal of queer characters who are clearly Fucked by the experience of growing up and living - maybe because there’s an idea that things Aren’t Like That Anymore, that homophobia is a more fleeting, less all-encompassing thing than it used to be. obviously, if you grew up in a homophobic family/conservative religious community/et cetera, that is not an idea that will resonate with you - it definitely does not resonate with me. so there’s something very appealing and very true about eliot waugh, someone who once described sending his abusive dad off to be eaten by cannibals as “very cathartic.”

#the magicians #eliot waugh #queue to save the world

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kings and queens of fillory + the suits [insp]

#the magicians #queue to save the world

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AND SOMEHOW THAT MAKES SENSE, YOU KNOW?

#queliot #the magicians

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-Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

#queliot #the magicians

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#jinxed 

#the magicians

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"there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people."

-vincent van gogh

#the magicians #queliot