#i saved anne boleyn three fucking times you think i can't save quentin coldwater?

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So... I've had other fandoms on the brain, but I've been reminded today is Quentin Coldwater's birthday! As good a reason as any to reblog my Magicians fic masterlist!

Magicians Fic Masterlist!

Hey, so, seems like a good day, for no reason whatsoever, to update and repost my Magicians fic masterlist! 

All my fics ignore or fix canon from 4.13 at the latest, and onward from there - although since I refused to watch s5, what s5 elements do appear are used differently (and possibly inaccurately).

Check ‘em out below the cut!

These and all my fics in all fandoms are now accessible to registered users only, as per this post.

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In which Quentin goes to New Fillory and has one more unhappy reunion to get through, but then he finally gets some answers. And then loses a fight with a plant, so to speak.

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Quentin and Eliot return to New York, and settle in for one last mission before they can finally retire for good.

This fic is now complete!

Start from Chapter 1

Part 1 of Between the Sand and Stone

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Quentin and Eliot are ready to retire from saving the world and magical crises, but they have one last mess to fix - saving another Quentin from beyond the grave.

But they won't be doing it alone, not when another Eliot has been working with Alice Quinn toward the same end. Not when both their timelines' magic is a mess, and the two Fillorys aren't much better.

One last mess is more complicated than they expected.

Part 4 of Between the Sand and Stone

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With Quentin alive and whole again, there are several conversations to be had.

Now complete!

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After the doorway, Quentin falls, and keeps falling - until he learns to run again, and the running may save him even now.

Or, the story of the Q in the mirror from If I Could Fall Into the Sky.

Part 3 of Between the Sand and Stone

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Quentin and Eliot finally talk about feelings!

Also, Quentin's recovery hits a new stage, Julia drops in, and the question of magical consequences continues to get more complicated.

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Magicians Fic Masterlist

So, we all know what today is, and because "canon is dead, let fan content reign" is now my motto here, it seemed like a good day for a fic masterlist!

All my fics ignore, fix, or are en route to fixing the events of 4.13, and will ignore season 5 because I’m not watching it. All warnings available in tags and chapter notes. 

Find them all below the cut!

Completed Fics

Do I Even Dare (To Speak Out Your Name): In a world with daemons, things with the Monster might possibly be worse. But they have a plan, and once it works, everything will be fine. Right?

fall away to the sound (of my heart to your beat): In a world where you bond to your soulmate at the first skin-to-skin touch, things go a little differently from the moment Quentin and Eliot meet, and things end - so far - happier too.

could not ask for more (than this time with you): Quentin always spends his birthdays quietly. Eliot isn't going to change that, exactly, but he can definitely improve upon it.

And Also With You: After surviving Order 66, there's only one place Quentin can think to go. (Star Wars fusion)

Shine Through My Memory: In which Brian and Nigel meet, fall in love, and have months together before the Monster shows up. Once his memories are back, Quentin faces the events of season 4 with a second layer of proof of concept lingering in his mind. It only makes the grief sharper, but can it also give him an anchor to hold onto? And what happens when the dust settles?

I Just Want You For My Own: Two years on from the Monster mess, Quentin and Eliot have settled into a happy, fairly quiet life. And this year, they both have a great idea for how to cap off the holiday season. The thing is, it's the same idea. (Sequel to Shine Through My Memory.)

Lay Me Down (Pockets Full of Stones):  In which Quentin survives the events of 4.13 by taking such bad care of himself he never actually makes it to the Mirror Realm. Also in which everyone loses him for a day, and Eliot is Not Happy about this.

Cupcakes and Other Gifts: For Eliot's 26th birthday, Quentin gets him cupcakes and Broadway songs. For his 29th, well... the cupcakes are still a thing, but Q also has a plan for a very nice wake-up call. He manages to make both times a surprise, too.

(one kiss) it all comes down to this: Eliot gets hit with a curse right out of Disney's collection, and when Quentin is the one to break the spell, the two of them have a long overdue conversation.

down to the one bright spark: Eliot goes to the realms of the dead to convince Quentin to come home with him.

Ongoing Stories

If I Could Fall Into the Sky: Quentin survives the blast in the Mirror Realm, but at the cost of half his leg. In the aftermath, he's sent off to recover, but the thing is, he's not sure if anyone is really going to want him to come back now. As for Eliot? Well, first he has to find out what actually even happened. But even once they straighten themselves out, the consequences of magic are more complicated than they expected.

like a perfect picture (in a broken frame): At the doorway to crossing over, Quentin Coldwater makes a different choice, and his own magic pulls him back to the living world. But magic is never simple, and he comes back split apart. Those who love him have to fix him, but in the meantime are faced with a frightened child and an adult who can't feel anything but the cold.

Witch Oil and Marsh Fire: In which a Timeline 40 with daemons splits three ways as the events of season 4 come to a close, where the ripple effects of 4.11's timeshare spell create a spinoff from season 1 onward, and where in front of the Seam, Quentin Coldwater's life takes two different turns.But even when that turn leads to death, the story isn't over yet. 

Basically, daemons + timeline shenanigans + multiple fix-it options.

All posted fics in this verse are completed, but the verse as a whole is not.

Oh, And I'm Still A Far Cry From Gone: Quentin survives the Mirror World thanks to Alice's daemon (and his own) but is in a coma from the magic backlash. His friends are left to see if he'll ever wake up, while in the Underworld, he has a choice to make.

Now There's Only Love in the Dark: In our last timeline, everyone got to live. In this one, Eliot and his daemon wake up in a world without the one person they'd most wanted to see - but they aren't about to just accept that and move on. 

(Companion fic to Turn Around, Bright Eyes)

Turn Around, Bright Eyes: Quentin and his daemon walk through an arch, but never catch a train. They run instead, trying to find their way home. Along the way, they stumble across new faces, a job to keep them busy until they leave, and eventually a goddess. But in the end, whether they live again or not comes down to a choice - and how brave they can manage to be.

(Companion fic to Now There's Only Love in the Dark)

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Quentin and Eliot move into Brian and Nigel's apartment, hoping to make it their own. But there are still conversations that need to be had.

There is also a kitten.

This fic is now complete! 

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That feeling when you realize one of your plans will make a wonderful cliffhanger in a few chapters 😊

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Me: *posts new chapter of Into the Sky*

Me: *begins chapter 3*

Also me: *writes over six pages of a new oneshot in which Q is yeeted out of the Mirror Realm split into a kid-shade and a mostly-shadeless-adult*

Also also me: *has opening lines of two more s4 fix-it oneshots (er... I hope they're both oneshots, ambient-ghost!Q might get away from me)*

Also also also me: *has a fluffy sequel to Shine Through My Memory, the daemon multiverse, and other fandom WIPs on the docket*

Well fuck.

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Have a clip from my new Magicians WIP!

The first thing Margo notices when she opens the door is that they’re in identical clothes. The black hoodie and black jeans Quentin had worn the last day of his life (first life?), shrunk to child-size on the little boy who’s coloring on the floor. Or he was coloring on the floor. The little boy - Q, maybe, call the adult Quentin? - looks up and squeaks, eyes wide and terrified before he darts around to hide behind the chair where his adult self sits. 

Quentin, who had been looking out the window, turns to look their way, head tilted as if he finds them mildly interesting. “Oh, hello. I wondered if anyone was going to stop in.”

It’s Quentin… but it’s not Quentin. Margo didn’t know Julia well enough at the time - still doesn’t, really - to appreciate the difference when she’d been shadeless. Her experience of Alice as a Niffin had been brief but Niffin Alice had definitely been nothing like her human self, and the Monster hadn’t even known how to pretend to be a generic human, much less Eliot. Her hallucinated Eliot had been basically a more vivid memory of Eliot, turned a little wacky, and so doesn’t count. Which means that Margo has never really experienced this for herself, this person who is still one of her people but at the same time isn’t.

“You didn’t think anyone would?” That’s Eliot, and at the sound of his voice, little Q peeks out from behind the chair, waving quickly - at Eliot, but not at Margo - before he hides again. Quentin just shrugs, and if his vague interest when they came in had been unsettling, it’s worse now that his focus is on Eliot. Because Quentin has never been mildly anything where Eliot’s concerned. 

And then his expression turns cold, his gaze shifting back to her, then back to the window. “Well, when no one seemed to notice me until after I killed myself, it did seem possible that no one would check in now that I’m back. Though I guess coming back split like this is crisis enough for me to be worth your while again?”

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Quentin wakes up, and life carries on. Maybe not quite as it did, but it always carries on.

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After talking to himself - literally - Quentin makes his choice to live or die, while in the living world, waiting leads to some new understandings.

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In which the boys continue to pine, Julia and Margo have their say - and then Eliot finally has his, which leads to some long-overdue confessions.

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Quentin survives the Mirror World thanks to Alice's daemon (and his own) but is in a coma from the magic backlash. His friends are left to see if he'll ever wake up, while in the Underworld, he has a choice to make.