#elliot grossman

[spilled-strawberry-milk]

Yeah hands are fun when it's not a weird pose

[ellzilla]

Messing with Elanor's lycanthropic form. Kinda nakey bc I didn't want her to be a Beast like Ella nor a Furry like Elliot also officially get to share with the class -tumblr- the reason why the Greenwoods didn't end with Elanor, despite what happens to her in Restiched Soul. What happens to her? Gotta wait til that rewrite's finished :3c

[genderchrisisspeaks]

Currently reading(and listening to the audio book) the magicians by lev grossman, and even knowing that Quinton is far less queer in the books bro has talked about Elliot extensively and I’m only 90 pages in.

[old-stoneface]

halfway thru "the magician king" by lev grossman and my review so far is 1. the writing style is what puts me genuinely off of it the most, i just dont like the intensely casual and self referential and pop culturey voice of the narrative 2. elliot and quentin are really the most interesting relationship and nothing is even happening with them. theyre just best friends

[b-andherbooks]

my favorite books of 2023✨⭐

For my last five things post of the year, here are my favorite reads (mostly romance) of 2023! Did any of my choices hit your best of lists this year? Any you still need to read?

I’m absolutely loving seeing all of ~your~ favs of the year, and am ready to bust out my brand spanky new book journal for 2024!

Happy early new year pals!

Favorite new to me authors

Sight Unseen Kasha Thompson

Striking Gold Janine Amesta

Whisky Business Elliot Fletcher

Morbidly Yours Ivy Fairbanks

Favorite Historical Romance

Wolf & the Wildflower Stacy Reid

Knockout Sarah MacLean

Marry Me by Midnight Felicia Grossman

The Duke Gets Even Joanna Shupe

The Duke Gets Desperate Diana Quincy

Hotel of Secrets Diana Biller

Favorite Contemporary

Role Playing Cathy Yardley

The Playing Game Ainsley Booth

Technically Yours Denise Williams

Midnight Duet Jen Comfort

Favorite Contemporary

Chick Magnet Emma Barry

Mickey Chambers Shakes it Up Charish Reid

Can’t Let Her Go Kianna Alexander

Georgie All Along Kate Clayborn

Favorite Backlist Reads

The Highlander Takes a Bride Lynsay Sands

Crash Ruby McNally

My Fair Concubine Jeannie Lin

Sweetest Regret Meredith Duran

Firelight Kristen Callihan

Liberating Lacey Anne Calhoun

Favorite Audiobooks

Britney Spears The Woman in Me

Single Dads Club Therese Beharrie

The Art of the Scandal Regina Black

The Seven Year Slip Ashley Poston

Spare Prince Harry

[batboyblog]

A Call for Empathy for Innocent Israelis

Open Letter: A Call for Empathy for Innocent Israelis

OCTOBER 19, 2023

To the Editor: Every Tisha B’av, the national day of communal mourning, Jews read liturgy recounting the horrors of our slaughtered ancestors throughout history and around the world. Every year, our blood runs cold rereading accounts of those nightmares. This year those nightmares became real. Earlier this month, the slaughter in southern Israel has matched the brutality of that liturgy: 1,400 people murdered at a concert, in their cars, in their homes, and nearly 200 taken as hostages. These are scenes we never thought we would see. We are heartbroken and disgusted by the shocking lack of empathy on much of the self-professed global left for the innocent Israelis who were murdered and kidnapped, and for the Jews in the diaspora who watched helplessly around the world as the most catastrophic slaughter in our history since the Holocaust was perpetrated. For much of the left, however, this was “resistance.” Furthermore, it was “justified,” as if the Jews murdered in their beds and the closets of their own homes somehow deserved to die. Jews and Palestinians have something in common: the dead bodies commentators around the world either pretend to care about or grotesquely dehumanize were once people we loved. The body count only grows. In the wake of Israeli retaliation the number of civilian Gazan deaths approaches 4,000. We can extrapolate from our own pain, and we recognize the despair and horror haunting Palestinians in and outside of Gaza. Grief should be respected. It would be an expression of gross inhumanity to demand that the Palestinians are only entitled to their grief if they publicly blame the deaths of their loved ones on their leadership. Jews deserve the same respect and the same degree of empathy. The victims in Israel were civilians. They were not “partisans,” merely because they lived within Israel’s borders. Much of the conversation since the dark events of October 7 has focused on distinguishing Hamas “militants” from innocent Palestinians, a distinction that is real and significant. But why does the same distinction not apply to Israel and its people? Why are Jews living in the Jewish state seen as justifiable collateral damage? Those who in any way justify the actions of Hamas should consider the macabre tradition in which their rhetoric falls: the mass murder of innocent Jews in cold blood, justifying this mass murder as necessary policy, and celebrating the bloodthirsty evil that is, that has always been, antisemitism. That tradition reached its apex in the Holocaust, an epochal catastrophe that changed the face of Jewish and world history forever but whose legacy is somehow vanishing by the day. The events of October 7 only underscore how much. Celeste Marcus James McAuley David Grossman Cynthia Ozick Simon Sebag-Montefiore Anita Shapira Leon Wieseltier Simon Schama Michael Walzer Natasha Lehrer Lauren Elkin Robert Alter Etan Nechin Arash Azizi Oksana Forostyna Dexter Filkins Alex Levy Natalie Livingstone David Avrom Bell Elliot Ackerman Anne Sebba Noga Arikha Kati Marton Daphne Merkin Matti Friedman Marie Brenner Elisabeth Zerofsky Names added after publication: Anshel Pfeffer Daniel Mendelsohn Enrique Krauze Nicholas Lemann Ruth Rosengarten Judith Shulevitz

[alas-poor-cesario]

There was something off about Eliot's face. His posture was straight but his mouth was twisted to one side, in a permanent half-grimace that revealed a nest of teeth sticking both in and out at improbable angles. He looked like a child who had been slightly misdelivered, with some subpar forceps handling by the attending.

- The Magicians, Lev Grossman (2009), p. 22

Friendly reminder that this is a canonical description of Eliot's appearance and one of the first things that Quentin points out about him. A few pages later when he sees Eliot again the narration is "because of the odd way Eliot's jaw was built the cigarette stuck out at an odd angle" (p.54). While I love Hale Appleman's portrayal of him, I'm still frustrated that this wasn't even mentioned or referenced in the show.

To me it's an important part of Eliot's character that gets erased all the time. It adds another layer to the persona he puts across to people.

[faeismothman]

I can tell when in the series it is depending on how depressed Elliot is and how little care he puts into his hair

[xadam-claimed-his-blessingx]

Unpopular opinion: The Magicians finale

I think people are still salty about quentin dying last season. Don't get me wrong, it was hurtful. I cried for days, and I'm not even exaggerating, but I gave trust to the show and to the writers because I had loved the show for years and i didn't want to erase all of that because of something that people considered controversial or homophobic.

To say the writers are homophobes is purely disgusting. If you want to read the version of the story YOU want to read, there are plenty of fanfictions. But this show has been open to any kind of person, always. There are rape survivors, child abuse survivors, gay, bisexual, pansexual characters. Disabled people, deaf people, black, colored, white people, of any race and culture. Anyone has been given the same opportunities in the world of the magicians. Quentin's death was not "bury your gays". It was the sacrifice of a troubled, brave hero. His love story with Elliot was the most beautiful yet tragic love story.

You're all trying to shit on the show and the finale, trying to see the worst when there's so much fucking good in it. Fen went from a girl who was literally given away by her father to a HERO. The literal mother of a new world.

Margo was called the destroyer, cause as a female king she was forced to be feared and put ten times the work a man would have had to put to be taken seriously, and she become Margo the creator.

I could go on and talk about how all of the characters have had an amazing and deep and complex evolution, from Alice to Elliot to Josh and kady, in a constant and excruciating battle with their demons and sterotypes and any sort of thing, really.

You're ranting about Elliot ending alone without his Bambi. We all know they are gonna find a way to each other, if there'd been another season, we would have seen it. But we fucking know they belong together and they always will.

You're taking one mistake, or at least something YOU consider a mistake, and are ranting and shitting on five years of work to make a fandom feel present and loved. This show was an amazing representation of a generation. A light for underdogs, for adult who still believed in magic, who grew up with shitty parents, who were bullied. You're erasing all of that.

If you hated what the show has done, I can only understand that. But please be respectful of the people who still loved it and always will. It's a dreadful moment for all of us, and I would like my fandom to try and dig deeper instead of just bashing on something that I love, and if you don't wanna even try and understand, at least let us live this moment in peace without having to see hateful treads and posts.

This is a bit like grieving to me. The thing that I literally love the most in the world has come to en end. I'm not exaggerating, the magicians has been my safe place and my bright light for five years. My escape.

Don't take that away from me, from the fandom.

[spilled-strawberry-milk]

Have some Elliot Lore

[ellzilla]

Got other stuff to focus on working on but Maybe wip of ig cards based on funger souls w/ these guys bdays

Bonus rewrite boys bc I am hyped to finish Jack's

[horribleweasel]

Throwback to a simpler time on The Magicians

[old-stoneface]

so i finished the magician king by lev grossman. my review. is that i liked the structure of the story a lot more than the structure of the first book, the pacing was a lot better, but again i just do not understand why the character poppy exists. and i dont think i understand the motivations of some of the characters at the end? i also found myself needing to suspend my disbelief a bit, even in a world with literal magic and gods in it. but again i think julia had the best story and i think elliot is the best character. shrugs. i like weird twinks and i want some more interesting stuff to happen to him. im glad he kissed quentin tho. Whatever

[frankie-the-undead]

Idk what to draw and it's killing me

Draw Isaac/hj

Idk, I'd probably ask you to draw Lee, Elliot, Samuel or Samantha cuz they live in my head rent free tbh

[hereliecicadas]

My contribution to valentines day this year.  Here’s a Margo (& Elliot) valentine set for all my fellow Bambi lovers out there <3