#the magaykins

[faersflower]

It has been 1,461 days.

I'm still mad.

[bilestat]

my friends know me so well

[bisexualsdean]

tagged by @buckleydiaz to post 10 gifs of 10 favorite shows 💗 (no particular order)

1. What We Do in the Shadows

2. Interview with the Vampire

3. Black Sails

4. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

5. Stranger Things

6. Hannibal

7. 9-1-1

8. Merlin

9. Good Omens

10. InuYasha

shoutout to game of thrones which was demoted from favorite show to shitshow.

too lazy to tag individually so im just gonna tag everyone in the magaykins, 911, and byler servers who wants to do it. 😗

[shelledbee]

quentin getting fingered is the best thing to ever happen to me

[faersflower]

y'all it was Sera

[faersflower]

it made more sense for julia and josh to get together and margo and penny to get together

shrug emoji

[bilestat]

once again crying screaming throwing up because I love my friends so much like hello what did I do to deserve them

[maliro-t]

all other discourse aside, my conflicting emotions after last episode had to do with the magician’s land, as they often do, but it really clicked for me this ep how they were using all these elements they’ve brought in (the main exception being plum?? she wasn’t in this ep but i’m still just?? like fine. i’ll admit. they got me invested in show plum after ep. 9. she’s not book plum but i like her. i still don’t know at ALL what she has to do with the plot gjhgdfsd). 

Idk it left me feeling just. very weird-sad the whole ep. I had to pause and take a minute when butler umber started reciting the tiger story and that’s me and my relationship with the book and how much it means to me, but i still don’t know how i feel about ANY of this being brought in without q. I’m not really opposed to it? like i don’t think it’s bad, and it’s mostly in the realm of things that i really like about this show as an adaptation, where book elements are present and meaningful but reshaped around the context of the show. Obviously there are some big points over the seasons where that doesn’t work, which i still have a million thoughts about even though i’ve gone on about it at length, and the showrunners absolutely missed the fucking point on a lot, but in this case i think it’s good just. ugh it’s weird to see. Maybe it’s because the original building-other-worlds story isn’t about stopping the apocalypse, even though there is an apocalypse involved. it’s just about a person growing and learning and creating something beautiful. Those kinds of stories mean a lot more to me than the ‘we have to save the world for the 10th time’ ones. It’s fine, what they’re doing with it, but still makes me feel a little like a shaken up soda can of emotion, and i can’t tell if that’s good or bad.

i enjoyed it on a rewatch because i knew what coming. just still not really sure how to feel.

[faersflower]

You know what? Fuck it, I have words that don't belong hidden in my tags.

Sometimes it's not even just the networks. Sometimes the people working on a mildly successful show with diverse characters and some good representation will just take their show, and purposefully set it up to get cancelled. Or at least so drastically change the plot, the characters motivations, and the theme behind their own show once they have the chance; that they practically cancel their own show. Or purposefully end it in a way no one wanted.

Can we seriously get rid of the myth that a lot of shows are being ‘slept on’ and cancelled because ‘not enough people are watching’ and start tackling the actual truth of the matter which is that networks, including streaming services, have proven they will take any excuse to cancel a show with diverse characters and storylines?

[faersflower]

The amount of people who have no idea who Charlton is proof that the earth is healing from the plague that was SYFY'S The Magicians.

(*He is a fully show-made and show only character. He is the body that The Monster had possessed in season 3. We find out more about him in season 4, and I assume season 5 which I refuse to watch to this day.)

[bilestat]

[getbutts]

Pass the happy! 🌻 When you receive this, list 5 things that make you happy and send this to 10 of the last people in your notifications

OH THIS IS CUTE WTF!!!!!

1. My mom

2. Lukas

3. Spotify premium

4. Magaykins

5. Solidarity between students over their head and losing their minds

[faersflower]

Also when they make that golem so he can have sex with men the one time we see him do that. part way through they magic the wife into it too and force him to while trying to have sex with a man also have to have sex with her. For some reason.

Also when it is undeniable that quentin is in love with eliot it also is Equally undeniable that he no longer has feelings for his ex gf Alice. He literally closes a book on her. And is Uncomfortable having to do a task with her later in the season.

As for Season 5, which I also did not watch besides 3 episodes, but heard the plot of every episode.

So on top of Quentin being dead two other characters are dead too. One of which being Eliots wife. They bring those two characters back from the dead! But Eliot is disallowed the same for Q.

He's practically not even allowed to mourn Q. Theres magic bullshit and Alice is allowed to mourn Q in a very strange way involving child Q making an appearance. And then she goes to send Q's "essence" back to the underworld. Eliot has to force himself onto the trip with Alice to do this even though he didn't get to see child Q [cause HE had to be the one to save his wife and the other character even though he really didnt want to.] So he and Alice mourn Q on a mountain but not without them fighting over their importance in Q's life. Alice: I'm mourning my boyfriend!

And then they basically never bring Q up again as far as I know.

They try to set Eliot up with the villain of the season aka The Dark King but its very.........bad like ab*se bad. I'm not aware of All the specifics but towards the end TDK makes Eliot be a vessel in a seance for his (TDK) lost love.

Also APPARENTLY Eliots not even posessed by said lost love hes being possessed by the same person who possessed his first boyfriend at the top of the show!!!!

AND as if this couldn't be Worse. The person who possessed his first boyfriend, and now Eliot, is TDK's brother. HIS BROTHER.

Oh. Yes. When Eliot is trapped in his own mind he has a companion who was killed by the monster previously. In s5 he just....lives? In eliots head?

And he somehow, magic reasons, gets the body of a dead homophobic ghost? and he and Eliot kiss and debatably end up together at the end of the last episode.

i am once again thinking about the magicians and how badly they fucked that one up

[faersflower]

Sorry I looked into my The Magicians tag for two seconds and got angry all over again.

[faersflower]

I really do hate that SYFY's The Magicians really had to just become a queer tragedy. It's been nearly 3 years now and I still can't believe it happened. The good parts feel like I made them up and the bad parts are a looming storm cloud. I still don't know how to feel and its been 3 fucking years. Three.

[faersflower]

Also the season 5 The Magicians fans deserved is the last half of the Montero music video just including saving Q at the end.