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

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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!

Series

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)

Between the Sand and Stone

Everett’s sea of magic contained power of all kinds, and when he died, so did he. This included a not-insignificant amount of time magic. And Quentin? Traces of the timeshare spell still lingered on him, and it was, after all, his spell that set off the blast.

(And what is mending anyway, but a kind of physical magic with hints of time magic and healing to it?)

The surges aren’t the only side effect of the blast that accidentally returned magic to the world, and the already-unstable Timeline 40 splits along a fault line, leaving ripple effects in both the realities it creates. The only way to mend things is to work together.

All listed fics are complete; however, the verse itself is not. Path Unwinding is also the first in a new series set in Timeline 41, Please Tell Them Our Names.

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.

I Stopped Into a Church: On the other side of the split, Eliot and Alice actually investigate their options rather than just dumping things in a supposedly magical well, and everything changes.

Holding My Last Breath: 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.

Till We Reach the Circle’s End: 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.

And Now I’ll Be Here (Whatever Way Our Stories End): In which Quentin picks a gift for Eliot that gets back to the roots of his love for musicals, but that isn’t the only surprise he has in store over the coming days…

On the Path Unwinding: “You need to go off the garden path.” - Jane Chatwin

“The bridge between your past self and your present self is delicate. If you break it…” - Alice Quinn 

After forty timeloops, one little shift caused by Quentin’s timeshare spell was enough to create a splinter timeline - Timeline 41. In Timeline 41, “Mike” is around for longer, but Eliot, Margo, and Quentin get closer in the end. So do Alice and Penny. Friendships take unexpected turns, and they left the garden path behind long ago, but all roads lead, in the end, to Fillory.

Standalone Fics (or fics with just one sequel)

[A de facto s1 AU after 1.07]

Posing Riddles and Playing Tricks: Jane never let herself think too hard about the consequences of the time loops, and she still doesn’t, but this particular consequence is the most stubborn of them all. And he never knocks.

Jane and Quentin 1 have a series of conversations as the time loops unfold and as Quentin 1 prepares to try and help out in Timeline 41.

(I'd Marry You) With Paper Rings: In Timeline 40a, Quentin and Eliot are getting married. Weddings are known as a time for family, but it turns out found family isn't the only kind they have.

Things are a little more complicated than expected, but their happy ending is assured after all they've been through to get there. It's just some of the details that need to be sorted out.

i’m a little out of tune: It's easy for Quentin to figure out that he's bi. It's not quite as straightforward to figure out why, most of the time, he doesn't seem to want anyone at all anyway.

And even when he has a word for it, even when he knows there's nothing actually wrong, the trouble of only being able to want under specific circumstances means knowing what to do about a crush on one of your best friends is even more daunting. Especially when it's not going away this time. [WIP]

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.

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.

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.

(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.

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.

in my field of paper flowers: It starts with lilacs, and then the tulips show up.Or, Quentin has chronic Hanahaki Disease, and he doesn’t want anyone to know about it.

the heart of this star-crossed voyager: It’s Quentin’s birthday, after all.

This much is true across all the stories - the question is, what’s happening in each one? Good news - they all have happy endings.

don’t write me off (just yet): Eliot Waugh has a problem. His manager and best friend Margo Hanson has lined up a duet for him to save his flagging music career… but he has to come up with the song, and Eliot can’t write lyrics to save his life. Enter Quentin Coldwater, bookstore part-owner, temp plant boy… and born lyricist.

As Quentin, Eliot, and Margo work to get the song ready, music isn’t all they’re building together. [A Music and Lyrics AU]

go anywhere i want (just not home): Quentin comes back from the dead and promptly leaves town. He believes he’ll never belong again, and the best idea he has is to become a nomad. But the truth is, he really wants to come home. He just doesn’t think he has one.

shipwrecked (in the cracks of light):  Quentin returns to New York, Brakebills, and his old friends after rebirth and a few years away, but coming home is not as simple as returning to a location. It takes time to heal, and time to let himself open up again, but home isn’t as lost as he once believed it to be. He just needs to find it in himself to trust that. [Sequel to go anywhere i want (just not home)]

the second one might be profound: When the rest of the group decides they can't risk letting the Monster go free any longer, Quentin takes drastic measures to prevent Eliot from being banished with it.

After, Eliot is the one left figuring out how to prevent Quentin suffering the same fate.

return to the sunlit lands: … no one is coming for him, if he is going to get out he’ll have to save himself. And if he does get out, he can never go back, because there is no place for him there anymore. He can’t imagine they’d even want him, and he has no interest in pity or obligation.

If he gets out, they’re never going to know.

Quentin escapes the Underworld, and finds himself in Narnia. But, having seen his friends let him go and move on, he believes there’s no point in trying to get back, and settles down where he is. But his past is not done with him yet, as he learns when a window opens between Narnia and New Fillory…

farewell to shadowlands: When the triad monarchs of Narnia invite their New Fillorian counterparts for a diplomatic visit, Eliot's main goal has less to do with diplomacy and more to do with Cair Paravel's court magician - Quentin Coldwater, returned from the dead and in Narnia, of all places.

But when faced with a Quentin who is anything but happy to be reunited, Eliot has to figure out how to fix what's broken, all the more difficult when he doesn't even know why Quentin's so angry with all of them. [Companion fic to return to the sunlit lands]

strange incidents of life: Most days, Quentin Coldwater is broadly satisfied with his life. Maybe not happy, but content. Then one day an actor runs into his bookstore to hide from the paparazzi, and everything changes. [Notting Hill AU]

written by fire on stone: Quentin and his daemon save themselves, and as soon as they're strong enough, they run far, far away from everyone they once called friends. They believe they're unwelcome and are too hurt and angry to want a welcome anyway. So they plan to vanish and start again, alone but for each other, convinced they can rely on no one else.

But it turns out running away is never that simple. [WIP]

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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.

Start from Chapter 1!

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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!

Start from Chapter 1!

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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.

Start from Chapter 1!

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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! 

Start at Chapter 1!

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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.

Start from chapter 1!

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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.

Start with Chapter 1!

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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.

Start from Chapter 1!

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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.