#qualice

[entropysoup]

I REVEAL TO YOU

THE MAGICIANS THEMED VALENTINE CARDS PART 1

feel free to use. theyre for everyone.

[fixated-on-something]

Ace of hearts is complete! Currently working on Quentin (Jack of hearts) but his face is giving me trouble… I’m basically having to trace an image 😭

Honourable mentions for things I considered putting on this card are: Bacon (too out of place) Glass horse (couldn’t fit) and Q’s soul bottle (too on the nose)

[laianely]

Occasional “The Magicians” post

Still don’t understand hate to Alice. It seems to me that the main reason is that Quelliot is more popular ship than Qualice. But guys! Why should we choose?

I like Qualice and Quelliot at the same time, and I think they wouldn't mind at all being polyamory triangle. S5 may be weird but thanks for Elliot and Alice supportive dynamics in their common pain.

And this song breaks me every time, when I listen it.

[kuramirocket]

The Magicians 4x13 (spoilers ahead!)

I knew it was going to happen because I accidently spoiled myself, but Quentin!!! 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

The send off that everyone did for him was so beautiful. The song, the personal items that had so much meaning, and Quentin watching all their grief and love for him ahhhhhhh!!!!

Just Alice throwing the cup into the fire ahhhhhhh. They were finally going to be a couple again and 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

I am so glad that before he died, he and Alice were able to repair their relationship. I have always shipped them from the beginning so that was nice to see at least :'D

Obviously, I have been binge watching The Magicians before netflix removes it January 14. So, just one more season to go! I definitley need to read the books someday!

[morningstarbee]

my hotter take is that neither of them were really that into each other. like maybe a physical attraction, but not really anything more than that. like they were barely even friends until The Mayakovsky Circumstances. They had JUST finally become friends during the secrets trial and then Mayakovsky basically shoved them together with the fox shit. and they're horny 20 somethings so sure they hook up a few more times. and then, quentin, dear quentin, is of course the one who is like "so...do i actually have feelings for her since i want to have sex with her?" (no baby, that's not always the case). and alice is like "so are you in love with me?" (personally, I don't think her tone was hoping he'd say yes. more trying to determine if this was hook ups or if he wanted an actual relationship. and when he wasn't sure, she wanted to break it off, because she prefers having things in neat categories. and that being muddy would have been stressful obviously).

And once they finally do end up together, of course, Quentin is all in, because that's who he is, but Alice starts to slowly realize maybe they're not really compatible long term (as we see their various arguments and awkward conversations throughout the later half of season 1) which ultimately culminates in the emotion bottle threesome that ends their relationship.

And I think Quentin's budding feelings for Alice, plus his guilt over how the relationship ended with him cheating on her, PLUS his guilt over her immediately becoming a niffin soon after that, all got mixed up into him believing he had much stronger feelings for her than he really did in reality. Especially because he tried getting back with her right before she died and although she pretty clearly wanted to just try being friends (except for that emotional moment where she kissed him on instinct), in his perspective, it was up in the air if they would get back together. Plus his martyr complex is getting her back...

Then in season 2 when she's back, she kind of hates him for a bit. Then they hook up because she needs to feel human again. And Quentin obviously thinks they're back together then, but they really aren't. And then magic gets turned off. So they hook up more because she has nothing better to do, but eventually she fucks off because that's not really what she wants.

Like I was genuinely surprised when I rewatched the show how little...chemistry they have? Like they're not together for very long, when they are they're fighting. Quentin clearly mixes up his feelings for Alice with his guilt over her death. Quentin has more genuine moments with fucking Penny. *Eliot* has more genuine emotional moments with Alice than Quentin.

In my opinion, the show would have been better without a Qualice romance plotline. Like if they were just friends. Or if they did have to get together, it was acknowledged for being the short lived, problem filled thing it was and they could be normal fuckign friends after without it being weird.

not sure if this qualifies as a hot take or not, but from my perspective in s1 Alice is way more into Quentin than Quentin is into Alice. I don't even mean in like a secret Queliot reading way or anything, just that Alice flirts with Quentin at the party when she's drunk, Alice kisses him and initiates the hook-ups in Brakebills South, Alice asks him in ep 8 if Quentin's in love with her and obviously is kinda hoping the answer is yes! and only breaks off the hook-ups because all he manages to say is, "uh, i don't know." and it's interesting that a lot of s1 au fic seems to have Alice as standoffish with Quentin as the one chasing her or being seen as needy towards her, when that's not really what the beginning of their relationship looks like in the show. And Alice does have her moments of pushing Quentin away, but I wonder if the fallout of the cheating and break-up and then Quentin's desperation to win Alice back and save niffin!Alice in s2 colors our collective idea of their early dynamic.

[keirawantstocry]

did i tell u guys a pretty girl called me bestie. sigh i wanna marry her

[angstics]

“dont get me wrong” is the only good singing moment in the magicians. This is my opinion

[jasper-rolls]

Song: Feel The Summer Artist: Aura Qualic Album: ELATE

[purified-zone]

it really, really does look and feel like this.

I got the chance to road trip out to the path of totality! My phone camera didn’t do it justice, so I painted what I saw instead 🌞🌚

Keep reading

[spiders-hth-is-an-outlier]

The end of s4 is obviously a clusterfuck in a whole host of ways, but one way that makes me feel especially insane and conspiratorial is how weird the big Qualice reunion scene in Secret Sea is. It's not really out of nowhere -- they spend most of the previous episode teeing it up -- but it doesn't really flow naturally from anything else in the episode, it's literally a so, um, while we're both here conversation, bracketed away from the events of the episode. Okay, but that's not the real issue, although it's not helping. Also the static composition of the scene, the lack of music, the somewhat flat tone of the dialogue -- not doing anything to salvage the situation, but also not the fundamental problem.

It's really just that if you strip out the kind of roundabout route Q takes to get there, what he ultimately says is that his high expectations led him to become disillusioned with the way the Alice thing went down, and what he thinks will be different and better now is that he has a more realistic take on life. And you know what, maybe that's true! I don't know, maybe it is! But it's such a batshit thing to say as you're declaring yourself romantically to someone. Who leads with that? What would possess someone to say, let's get back together, this time probably won't go any better but now that I realize that, I can't really be disappointed?

Quentin himself pitches the relationship as the Realistic Adult Option -- in the same episode where Alice later implores him not to become too cynical to stop Believing In Fillory -- at the opposite end of his arc from where we first met Quentin, sitting in a psychiatrist's office, dully and dutifully explaining how he intends to face up to Adult Reality, starting now.

I truly don't understand what they were trying to do in that scene. I've always personally been of the opinion that the acting chemistry between Ralph and Dudley was never strong enough to support the Star-Crossed Lovers narrative the show wanted them to be, but the writing was typically there, on the page they were romantic. It's so disorienting for this incredibly pivotal scene between them to fall down so drastically on the most basic level of, like, what is actually happening in text. It feels like it has to be deliberately chosen -- right? Except nothing that ever happens at any point afterwards indicates that we're meant to feel ambivalence about the relationship. It's been like five years and I'm still genuinely befuddled by the whole thing.

[eliotqueliot]

Queliot foxes!

A very happy birthday to my pal @tbraves24! I hope you have a wonderful day! Your enthusiasm for all things Brakebills South always makes me happy 🧡

Created as well for the Warm Up challenge of @magiciansfanworksextravaganza

I love the concept that despite the chill of wintry Antarctica, fur keeps them nice and warm. Instead of Qualice, I always wished it were Queliot foxes, especially since Quentin and Eliot go to Brakebills South together in Lev's book. I love snow and winter, and Arctic foxes. Both Lev and the show depict so beautifully what it would be like to be a fox in the snow--so warm, getting to play, an existence of pure joy--and I can easily imagine how bonding it would be especially for Queliot, with their worries and self-doubt, to have their powerful connection reinforced by loving each other as foxes as well. Rather than making things weird for them, at least in the context of my fic, it's going to build on the warmth they already have between them, and make sure things stay hot even when life gets challenging.

In the drawing, Eliot and Quentin's faces hover over their fox selves. When I paint this, you'll see that the background is all a snowy scene, with the foxes as the reality. The faces will be somewhat ghostly, just faint suggestions to indicate the inner minds of the foxes.

In the snow, Eliot and Quentin find one another quickly. Being a fox is, in some ways, like a shortcut to their inner selves. No matter what else may affect them, they love one another deeply.

It's damned cold out there. But being a fox is fun. And they have more than fur to keep them warm.

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To see the drawing with better details/resolution, please visit Chapter 6 of my fic Going South on AO3 (best results when viewed on a laptop, computer, or a screen bigger than a phone):

Going South (with Art) - Chapter 6 - EliotQueliot - The Magicians (TV) [Archive of Our Own]

[clarajohnson]

magicians s1e3

you can never forget that this show premiered in 2015 the needle drops are not subtle

the women in this show are too compelling every time two of them interact i'm like yes i could see that. marina/julia makes perfect sense to me.

i think a lot of my questions are going to be answered by things i've forgotten that will come up soon but before that happens i wonder why quentin's undetermined. the cynical part of me says it's because he's too emotionally fucked up. because when i think of quentin coldwater as a character he seems so obviously like a minor mender!

the amount of sugar alice pours in her coffee. the way she demonstrates her phosphoramancy by disappearing her hand. that's my goddamn wife.

did you ever burn ants as a kid? no, that's horrifying. WIFE.

qualice makes sense i'm not going to turn it down but when eliot hands him a drink with a cigarette dangling out of his mouth i can't believe quentin doesn't just. you know. roll over.

poor season one margo and her depraved outfits.

did quentin coldwater (who is very much alive actually) go to the eras tour?

i think julia exemplifies something i love about this show, which is that nobody's penned into one personality type. she's brilliant but she's also cool. alice is introverted and bright but incredibly strong.

the way eliot drags quentin away... boyfriends from day one

i forgot that's why charlie niffined out ohhh that's so interesting for alice. also a very cool concept, it's so in line with the show's ethos (which i'm not interested in unpacking rn i'll just say No) about having too much of a good thing. everybody always has to deny themselves and do the right thing. protocol, austerity.

bookfucking. love wins :-)

whew i remember totally hating q in the fight with julia. i don't love it this time either! even knowing how badly julia's gonna get fucked by this i'm like ah yeah she's right. IS IT IN YOUR SOUL? IS IT LIKE THE SECRET HEART OF WHAT YOU ALWAYS WERE?

penny in that fucking scarf hood combo. nightmare man darling boy

the look quentin gives kady for sitting between him and eliot.......

pleaseeeeee alice getting something worse than her brother's death, having to be the one to effectively kill him, always picking between the people she loves and the intelligence, the pursuit of knowledge intrinsic to her personhood, it's so fucking sad and i love her so much

margo is obviously, overtly flirting with alice i see no other way to interpret their interactions

i think i'm willing to say this episode is where the show gets good

[fixated-on-something]

Ok UPDATED LIST

Gonna attempt to add Zelda somewhere???? The jokers will be Ember and Umber

And all the Aces will represent the characters in their suit- rough draft of the Ace of Hearts

I was going to try to add a Niffin box in there somewhere, but couldn’t find a way- I’ll try to add a Niffin reference somewhere at least (the best I could do for Alice + Q was the foxes)

The square in the back is gonna be the mosaic

Yeah I fs added too many Queliot references… gonna have to shove some bacon and Niffin refs somewhere to balance it out

OK SO I BOUGHT A SECOND HAND DECK OF CARDS

And I want to customize it to be magicians themed

Only problem is figuring out who goes where. This is what I have so far, but I’d really like to hear alternate suggestions and ideas for others I could add? I was thinking I could fit Marina and fogg in somewhere, I could probably also make one of the face cards ember on one side and umber on the other???

I don’t want to add too many antagonists I don’t think, but I’m not averse to it

[nellie-elizabeth]

WIP Game

Tagged by @eliotqueliot

Thanks!!

Rules: In a new post, post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

Okay, here goes... I'm only posting the ones that have active file names and not the bullet points that exist on my "list" docs that are literally just an idea with nothing written yet!

Magicians/Queliot

trespass sweetly urged

Sexcapades (Qualice/Queliot/Malice)

wake up my body

Also I have 7 active Magicians WIPS that are all the continuation "snippets" in my Immortality 'Verse, so I have active docs for each of those. You can find them all here.

Roswell New Mexico/Malex

never really had a doubt

should've somehow realized

nightmare-scape

And then there is the actively-posting WIP tell me that we belong together, which is part of a larger series that has future-wips that don't have their own docs yet. :)

Feel free to ask questions about any of these!

Tagging @portraitofemmy @prettyboysdontlookatexplosions @r-dtoblack, @aydann-runs, and anybody else who wants to play!

[cabeswaterdrowned]

straight relationships where both parties are a little more into the version of the other that exists in their head than who they actually are. qualice-jeffannie-camilabilly

[teamtemplarofficial]

Hello! My name is Qualice, Head Medic at the Unovan Base, and I'll be taking over this while Alex is away for undisclosed reasons.

Fun fact: Did you know that Duskull are adorable, amazing, and the light of my life?