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After they release him from the hospital, he bakes bread.
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15 Sep 2026
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The first first time is a mistake. Quentin has no problem regarding it that way. It shouldn't have happened, for a number of reasons, and for a long time, he can't even think about it without a sick curl of guilt unfurling somewhere deep in his body.
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A look at four first times over the years.
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11 Sep 2026
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Season 3 Canon AU.
Quentin needs to head off to search for the Abyss key, but the Muntjac is misbehaving. Eliot thinks he can help, except, the Muntjac keeps pushing them together. Literally. What on Fillory are you supposed to do when your living ship…. ships you?
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11 Sep 2026
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A story of what happens after not quite dying, in two parts: the downward spiral, and the long uphill climb. Or: Quentin Coldwater gets every last thing he deserves.
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04 Sep 2026
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He had broken up with Alice because — it almost didn’t bear going into. He had broken up with Alice because he never should have gotten back with Alice; because they were different people who wanted different things in a way that had been easier to ignore when they were grad students wrestling with the same coursework; because he came back from the dead and the person on the other side of the faultline in his life seemed suddenly very far away; because Alice was always saying things like “Q, have you thought about seeing a therapist?” and “I’m worried about you, Q,” and “Quentin, I really think you should be talking to a professional,” and Quentin was always saying things like “I need to go to sleep,” and “I’m gonna get another beer,” and “Not to be an asshole, but can you like get off my fucking dick?”
But also, he had broken up with Alice because he had a sex dream about Eliot Waugh.
(Or: Quentin blows up his life, hops into a car with Julia, and flees the state. It's not exactly the fresh start he'd hoped for.)
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- Part 1 of help, i'm alive
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- 6/6
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31 Aug 2026
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"If I were to speculate, I would suspect that it is not only the body which is subject to decay. Whatever transpires beyond the point you crossed, it likely necessitates a kind of spiritual apoptosis—the parts of you equipped for this world wither or die off to prepare you fully for the next. Your friends restored your body—that’s the easy part. The regrowth of pieces which were in the process of accepting their own obliteration—that will take time. Or so I should think.”
“Oh,” Quentin said. “But you think—you think they can grow back?”
(Or: in which Julia has an idea, Quentin attempts to recuperate, and the path back to the self is rarely so linear as we would prefer.)
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29 Aug 2026
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“Life is probabilistic,” Julia says. “Each life is rooted in its surrounding subjectivities. We don’t need to bring all of him back. We couldn’t, because there is no all of him anymore. But we can bring a piece of him — and another — and another — and if we get enough pieces, then our own consciousness will unite them. We can — fill in the gaps, like your mind does when you’re looking at a constellation.”
“Or a mosaic,” Eliot says quietly. Thinking about what he had learned there: that the beauty of all life existed in the spaces between.
Alice looks at him. “Yeah. Like that.”
(Or: A story about bringing Quentin(s) back to life.)
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28 Aug 2026
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“Hi there. I’m Eliot, I’m on the rebound, I’m a telekinetic, and I have a huge dick.”
(Or: Quentin needs space. Eliot is obviously totally super fine with that, not that it's any of your business.)
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27 Aug 2026
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“You’re really setting the mood,” Quentin deadpans. “You know, Eliot never listens when I tell him the one thing missing from our sex life is cold, objective data.”
“You know me.” Julia bats her eyelashes and lowers her voice. “I can’t resist hard numbers.”
(Or: Quentin and Julia make a baby. Eliot and Margo have a nice night. A story about intimacy, more than anything else.)
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- Part 2 of crowded with love
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25 Aug 2026
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like an hourglass glued to the table by theheartischill for sunbrights
Fandoms: The Magicians (TV)
01 Apr 2022
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“We’re not friends.”
Julia nods, silently conceding. Eliot’s a little disappointed; he would have thought she’d argue back, what are you talking about, we’re totally friends, the three conversations we’ve ever had have like so bonded us for life, and he’s kind of spoiling for a fight.
Then she says, “But you were his friend.”
(Or: One year, two magicians, three late nights.)
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24 Aug 2026
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Between slipping grades and an explosive break-up, Quentin's first year at Brakebills was coming to a miserable close—and that was before the Beast attacked. Now everyone's cancelling their summer plans to join in the fight against an existential threat, Fillory is both real and much deadlier than in the books, and it turns out Quentin sucks as much at battle magic as he does at everything else. As the war drags on, dying in battle starts to seem like the best possible outcome, the answer to all his problems: one shining moment of glory, and then he's finally free. It's a foolproof plan—until he wakes up and has to do it all over again.
(Or: An action movie about wanting to die, with time loops.)
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24 Aug 2026
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Eliot heals.
For a moment, Eliot thought that Quentin might lean forward. He hoped for it. But then Quentin only looked at him and smiled, small and sad. He tucked a stray curl behind Eliot's ear and withdrew his hand too quickly.
"Goodnight," he said.
Eliot tried to smile, fighting the ache in his chest. "Night, Q."
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13 Aug 2026
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Quentin's kind of tired of pretending to be surprised every time he hooks up with his ex.
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06 Aug 2026
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Quentin is hurt, and Eliot and Margo are there in the aftermath.
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- Part 1 of The Reformation of Eliot Waugh
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04 Aug 2026
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"I don't get why it's such a big deal," Julia says. "If you ask me, Eliot seems like the kind of guy who'd think it's flattering that you're having sex dreams about him."
And, well. Quentin's not sure that Julia's wrong about that, but he's feeling vulnerable enough without having to contemplate Eliot's inevitable condescension. Not to mention the fact that— "These aren't just sex dreams, Jules. They're like. Visceral. Like, they feel completely real right up until I—" Come. "—wake up. They're detailed. Graphic. It's like I'm— I'm basically sexually assaulting my friend in my sleep."
"Yeah?" Julia pops another cereal flake in her mouth. "And?"
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02 Aug 2026
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Quentin is, of course, still curled in a ball when Eliot glides down beside him. He moves slowly so as not to spook the poor thing, and it takes three gentle coughs from his throat before Quentin finally lifts his head from his hands, blinking at Eliot with a blank expression.
Eliot gives him a small, hopefully genial smile. “Mind if I join you?”
“Oh, Jesus Christ.” Quentin rolls his eyes back and slams his head into the wall.
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Eliot Waugh has been captivated by Quentin Coldwater since the moment their eyes first met. Unfortunately, their eyes first met while Eliot was hooking up with Quentin’s boyfriend.
It’s not exactly Casablanca.
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31 Jul 2026
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All the World in Time by Giddygeek
Fandoms: The Magicians (TV), The Magicians - Lev Grossman
09 Apr 2019
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“Now you’re back, and you’re being such a miserable prick that, frankly, there are days when I think the monster was easier to live with—”
“Same,” Quentin muttered. Then he shrunk back in his seat as Margo whirled on him.
“You won’t get off lightly either, Q,” she hissed. “You’re not any easier to live with than he is right now. Neither one of you is dealing with your trauma—or your ill-fated love affair—and I won’t take it anymore.”
She took a deep breath and drew her shoulders back, lifting her chin. “This is it. By royal decree. Get out of here and deal with your shit before I deal with it for you.”
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Quentin and Eliot go home to meet their family.
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31 Jul 2026
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"Fucking Margo, Margo and her “have fun boys!”. Now he was nervous. It wasn’t even—they were looking for a book. Yes, Eliot had dressed in one of his favorite outfits, but that was irrelevant. There was never a time to not wear an ensemble of choice, life was far too short. You never knew who you were going to find out in the world, particularly New York.
(And if Quentin happened to take him in a little startled, deer-caught-in-brief-but-intense-headlights look that spread warmth all over Eliot’s body... well, bonus.)”
1x03, but Eliot and Quentin have a mini-date after the blow-up with Julia, and Kady doesn't interrupt. (Technically not a Non-Beast!AU but that doesn't come up.)
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31 Jul 2026
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They find a potion that will take the Monster out of Eliot's body. One of the ingredients they need is a pure, happy memory.
Or, the rest of Questers get a window into why Quentin is as desperate to get Eliot back as he is.
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25 Jul 2026
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you see your kiss is like a lost ghost only I would know by buckybunnyteeth
Fandoms: The Magicians (TV)
01 Apr 2019
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There are lots of different ways to say I love you. Four times Eliot and Quentin say I love you, and then one time they actually say it.
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25 Jul 2026