#library of the neitherlands

[state-of-being]

Characters: Zelda Schiff/Eleanor Lipson

Rating: Explicit

Summary:

Professor Eleanor Lipson just wants a library card. Head Librarian Zelda Schiff takes her to the Neitherlands to expedite the process. They turn out to have quite a bit in common, and each ends up with much more than she bargained for.

[nosidekickspod]

[unauthorizedmagicians]

Season 1 Episode 10 - Homecoming

This episode made 15 year old me have a sexual awakening

Crazy intro to follow after last ep where i intro-d as it having traumatized me. Nonetheless

oh yes penny gets stuck in the neitherlands, i hope this doesn’t lead to any unforeseen consequences 

not the immediate star trek i come in peace whatever tf

dutch tilt SHUT UP

santa claus foreshadowing flwhslfkj

meta commentary sex dream

god eliot’s descent into addiction is so tragic

LIBRARY LIBRARY LIBRARY LIBRARY

oh no the julia plot

julia being circe and kady being asmodeus is CRAZY

q meeting alice’s parents is so funny

“right yea this is a little tame” q be serious

treating magic like sex in this episode specifically is so fascinating 

not having kady and julia be together is a CRIME

oh this is before they find out abt the time loops i forgot

alice’s mom makes me so uncomfortable in so so many ways

“you act like you’re the only one who has a right to feel” 

bothers me that she doesn’t actually dry herself and holds the towel in such a strange ass way

alice in her old bedroom is so real

except for the femcel thing

all the books ever written, all the books never written, all the books of all the people who ever lived WHY DO I HAVE THIS MEMORIZED

eliot w his two books teehee

who hates librarians penny???

plot convenient ass pages

this show is so funny “you haven’t even touched your penis”

STEPHANIE SHUT THE FUCK UP

the gaslighting is crazy

margolem YAY

sex magic🙂‍↕️ fucking nerd show

GOD they’re such fucking nerds

side note this is my first ep i’m reacting to since they took it off netflix and im pissed. watching it on cw w ads makes me wanna punch something

i forget sometimes how many plot lines r concurrent in this show

alice and q r awful like even their sex is awful

just realized why this episode is called homecoming

they’re so insufferable sometimes

REVERSE ENTROPY

eliot apologizing to the golem and not to margo breaks my heart

i feel like i have to skip the biting scene bc 15 year old me had an epiphany but 21 year old me thinks ts is unwatchable

and w the music too god this is so bad

and then penny fucking hell 

ok that’s enough of that

[fictional-library-tournament]

Prelims round 1, poll 15

Propaganda

The Belle Room, BoJack Horseman:

Diane tells Mr. Peanutbutter about her childhood dream of having a “Belle room” which was just the library from Beauty and the Beast and she didn’t want to actually have it she just liked being able to dream about it & that it just belonged to her. They’re about to move in to their new house though so Mr. Peanutbutter, clueless husband that he is, builds her an actual Belle room in their new house, which he fills with FIVE HUNDRED FAKE BOOKS. Understandably she gets very upset and divorces him but I like the Belle room as a symbol for how perfect happiness is inherently unattainable, and while you should keep striving for it you’re never supposed to actually get it

Study Room F, Community:

None

Hannibal's library, NBC Hannibal:

None

Abandoned and dilapidated New York Public Library, AI (2001):

Does it count as a library still if it's housing not information but thousands of identical child robots which makes sense for narrative reasons but not so much for literally any other reason someone might want?

The Black Archives, Doctor Who:

Contains so much alien stuff! And you have to have your memory wiped after every shift so I imagine it messes you up a bit

The Library aka Library of the Neitherlands, The Magicians by Lev Grossman:

Ever wanted to read your own biography, including future events? Well, too bad, that's against the rules.

[clarajohnson]

the magicians s1e10

i love how the neitherlands are conveyed through spooky tilted camera angles

penny normally: >:-( penny when eve implies santa claus is real: :-o :-D

the neitherlanders are extremely interesting actually. wish we got more of them.

IF YOU WOULD JUST SHUT UP FOR TWO SECONDS THIS SEX DREAM WOULD PASS THE BECHDEL TEST QUENTIN

alice knows julia is his lifelong crush they've known each other for like three months pleaseeee

it was 1943 it wasn't a dirty thing to say back then

we just can't talk enough about eliot and margo's friendship truly i love them beyond anything

julia's online handle being vicious_circe... be mine miss wicker !!!!

the magicians, trying to convey an air of potential danger and creeping fascism in the library: so the camera is always tilted severely

free trader beowulf is one of the loveliest things in this show for the short time it exists. it's so sad.

thibadeau's planar compression. it's really not a big deal.

ALICE'S PARENTS !!!!!!!!!!! YIPPEE !!!!!!!

they are such assholes but also so fun like they're such an unexpected but sense-making part of alice's full context

zelda's pants are so yass and slay

"richard may be about forgiveness but i'm sure as shit not" as though that's not your best friend in the whole entire world kady

if my mom made me call her by her government name i would also be a little insane

i need us to spend much more time in alice's room. the butterfly artwork. the garden state soundtrack. my god.

she made him give me the version from the seventies because she thinks that kids should know what pubic hair looks like

"i'm really into damaged chicks" was about 90% of my reason for hating q the first time around

PLEASE QUENTIN IS THE WORST BOYFRIEND his limp little "oh my god" while alice is talking about family shit she's probably never in her life told anyone oh my god oh my god

i know a hundred ways to break in

ELIOT HAS TWO BOOKS

"filleted goat penis." "that's very thoughtful of you, dad."

you haven't even touched your penis!

alice's parents/joe throuple. it's a delight.

god i wanted margo to be able to deck him in the fucking face

"our friend is trapped in the neitherlands" "...acquaintance"

stephanie, this one DOES seem like an awful lot of work. which is why it works for eliot and not alice.

don't take this the wrong way mom but shut the fuck up okay <3

margolem is evil i think he should've been killed for that

"sometimes the only thing we do is spoon" "UGH"

shitty boyfriend q episode of all time where's that post about his internalized heterophobia

julia using "kludgy" she is a megadweeb

as i always do i love that the magicians as a show just kind of shrugs and says all gods. yes all gods. they're real.

ELIOT NEVER GETS TO OPEN UP

did margo have sex with the margolem yes/yes

"i like you a lot and i don't know why" is not what you say when you're interested in men i don't think

bite me.......................

[eliotqueliot]

Stealing a Book Titled Quentin Coldwater

I finished the color version of my art. If you liked the initial drawing, you can still see it--I made a second chapter for both versions of the art.

Stealing a Book Titled Quentin Coldwater (1704 words) by EliotQueliot Chapters: 2/2 Fandom: The Magicians (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Quentin Coldwater/Eliot Waugh, Margo Hanson & Eliot Waugh, Quentin Coldwater & Margo Hanson Characters: Eliot Waugh, Quentin Coldwater, Margo Hanson, Julia Wicker, 40th Timeline William "Penny"Adiyodi, 23rd Timeline William "Penny" Adiyodi, Alice Quinn (The Magicians), Kady Orloff-Diaz Additional Tags: queliot, The Library of the Neitherlands (The Magicians), Theft, Books, True Love, Grief/Mourning, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Canonical Character Death, Character Death Fix, Quentin Coldwater Lives Summary: Eliot—hadn't been able to bear it one more day. One afternoon at three p.m. when Bambi asked him if he wanted to speak to her about Quentin—he just broke. Finally.

[magiciansfanworksextravaganza]

Pretty Little Lights - Chapter 2 - tbraves24 - The Magicians (TV) [Archive of Our Own]

Pretty Little Lights (5714 words) by tbraves24 Chapters: 2/2 Fandom: The Magicians (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Alice Quinn (The Magicians), Quentin Coldwater, Zelda Schiff, Kady Orloff-Diaz, Julia Wicker, Fen (The Magicians), The Couple (The Magicians), Santa Claus (The Magicians), Eliot Waugh, Margo Hanson, Josh Hoberman, Henry Fogg, Irene McAllister, Gavin (The Magicians) Additional Tags: Niffin Alice Quinn (The Magicians), Other characters mentioned - Freeform, The Lamprey, Guilt, Shame, Non-Linear Narrative, Canonical Character Death, Quentin's death scene, Mutilation, George cuts off Alice's fingers, The Library of the Neitherlands (The Magicians), Self-Acceptance Summary: Alice's journey to Niffin and back, reflections and lessons learned along the way.

Chapter 2 of Pretty Little Lights is up for Week 5 (return to self) of the Welcome Home! challenge from @magiciansfanworksextravaganza

https://archiveofourown.org/works/63183388/chapters/162380869

[thehollowprince]

I can't be the only one who wants to know the history of the Posion Room? I mean, what the hell happened to that entire world and the inhabitants? As much as I despise the Library, I would kill for the opportunity to browse their stacks.

[highkingfen]

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[minotaur-in-my-labyrinth]

[buckthefutcher]

whoever made the choice on this one, it was definitely a deliberate one and something they liked enough to keep consistent between s1 & s4. this is from 1x10 when penny first discovers the neitherlands library:

i read it more as a ‘interesting guy who just kinda does more stuff than others’ especially with it being included in s1, but still nice to think about the reasons behind it being a very specific, repeated choice

You want to hear something about Eliot Waugh that to my knowledge nobody’s ever brought up before?  In The Bad News Bear (4x03), while Alice is trying to escape from the Library with her friends�� books so that the Library can’t trace them, she finds a note with a list of the books that have been “removed from circulation pending revisions.”  Everyone’s name is listed in the same format, First Initial Last Name – Q. Coldwater, A. Quinn, etc.

The only name listed differently is E. Waugh, which is followed by Vol – presumably a volume number.  Now, we don’t see the actual number of the volume because Alice’s thumb is covering it, but nobody else even has a volume notation, which I guess would have to means that everyone else has one book while specifically only Eliot has a book that comes in multiple volumes.

I mean, that’s interesting, right!?  At this point in Eliot’s life story, he doesn’t seem to have any more previous history than anyone else, so I’m going out on a limb to guess that if they’re all single-volume people, the volume he’s operating out of now is Volume One. So what’s the implication here?  It can’t be related to the Mosaic timeline, or Quentin would have multiple volumes as well.  It can’t be related to the time loops, because everyone was in those.  It almost has to be that to the best of the Library’s knowledge, Eliot is expected to live much longer than any of the rest of them, which is just – fucking wild, right?

I mean, I’m open to alternative readings, but whatever you want to make of it, it’s just a bonkers choice for someone – the props department? The director? The writers? – to make, and today it’s fascinating me.

[tiredmoonslut]

Season 5 Theories

Eliot and Margo are going to the Clock Barrens to have the Watcherwoman either reverse time in Fillory or go back in time, to before Fen and Josh were killed. Alternatively, bc the Barrens are where all timelines intersect, the Watcherwoman will call Fen and Josh forth, into the present.

Because magic is centered around Circumstances, the over-abundance of magical energy is causing all things Circumstances are based on (planets, moons, stars, comets, weather) to fall apart. I suspect we'll get references to the climate crisis here.

Julia's powers aren't quite like they were when she was a Goddess, but also not like when she was a hedge witch. They're more potent, more intrinsic to how she works. Which only succeeds in confusing whatever the fuck she's supposed to do with them. Her journey this season will be similar to the end of S1, in which she wants to do good but isn't sure where she falls on the whole Heroes spectrum. X-Men references perhaps?

Alternative Julia theory: Castings are unpredictable for everybody except her. She's often proven to be at least semi-immune to magical side effects: The memory spell in S1, wielding the Leo Blade in S2, becoming a Goddess, and then being indestructible. S5 will spin this again.

Penny's telepathy will be stronger, causing him to struggle like he did in S1.

Alice, in her grief, will be tearing apart the Library trying to find ways to either reverse Quentin's death or prove that it wasn't supposed to happen. Maybe she'll meet Cassandra, who suspiciously looks like her.

Margo will ally with the new generation of Fillorian fairies, and meet their new Queen (maybe it's Sky!).

More to be added!

[imaliveinhcre]

Zelda Schiff + That Thing She Does With Her Hands.   ↳ The Magicians - S1:E12, Thirty-Nine Graves.        -- requested by; @official-mermaid

[brakebillskids]

the Order of the Library of The Neitherlands

[eliotqueliot]

I love this so much!!!

Getting my submission in for Warm Up at the last minute!

Never thought I'd write a fanfic sonnet but here we are.