julia wicker

Our full blog, AKA website, AKA the "blog side of our Tumblr," has so much waiting for you! So much more than you can see from the "feed/profile" side of our Tumblr.

You can get to this website anytime by clicking our handle to view our profile, then clicking the URL that is listed right up at the top, just after our handle. This leads directly to our website:

STEP ONE

To get there, click on our handle, on any post we've made:

STEP TWO

OK, now you're on our profile page, which shows our blog feed. At the very top you'll see:

The link I've circled is the URL that takes you to our full blog, aka website, where you'll find so many amazing things. In the top menu, we have permanent links to our AO3 Parent Collection (all our challenge collections are in there), our FAQ, our Discord invite, and more.

On the left of our website, you'll find a pinned calendar with information about when challenges start/upcoming events, along with a list of your mods:

On the right, you'll find "Navigation," which has links to the masterposts and/or guidelines for each challenge. These single posts collect links to all the works created for each event, as well as the guidelines.

Below "Navigation" is the "Projects" section, where you'll find a special box for each of our challenges/events! When you click the "Project Link," our blog will serve up ALL THE POSTS for that challenge, so you can enjoy the event as it occurred! That also includes all the posts related to guidelines and the collection of the works at the end.

There's so much more to see at our full blog/website. I work really hard to keep it updated, and I hope it is helpful and fun!

Please visit our website anytime to see what we're up to, just hang out, find cool Magicians fanworks to enjoy, or dream up some new fanworks for an upcoming challenge!

LEARNING TO BREATHE ao3

Chapter 21: forevermore

Quentin, a student at Columbia, and Eliot, a student at CUNY, meet at a coffee shop in Harlem and find themselves incredibly drawn to each other. Despite their prior traumas, romance isn't able to escape them, and an all encompassing love blossoms. But the ghosts of their pasts, in particular, threaten everything that they have.

WELCOME TO THE INAUGURAL PEACHES AND PLUMS BIG BANG EVENT!

What does that mean?  Well, the short answer is a Magician’s Big Bang.  The longer answer is probably best answered in our Rules and FAQ page.  That’s where you’ll find all the details on what a Big Bang means, at least in this context.  Other fandoms and events may have different interpretations, so please, really, check out the FAQ.

There, now that you’ve done that and have some idea what THIS Big Bang is about, in general terms, we can get into the smaller details.

For our opening we’ve decided to run a Reverse Bang.  There are several reasons for that, most of which fall on the modding side of things, but also because it’s a smaller commitment which makes it great for a starter.  What that actually means is that artists will sign up first.  They will submit between one and two new original works.  Each work will go into a list of works for the event, and then writers will sign up and submit a list of which works they would like to write a 10k+ work inspired by.  Artists and writers will then be paired up based on those selections.  Now, Artists, this doesn’t mean that you can’t submit more art for your writer's work, if you so choose, but it isn’t required.  Just the original work, which can be tweaked with the writer's work if so desired, but again, isn’t required.  You could technically be done once your art is submitted to the selection pool.  It is lovely community, though, to be around for your writer to at the very least toss some ideas at, or pick your brain about your artwork.  And just to chat with other creators in general.

Writers, your job, once you’ve been given a partner, is to create a fic inspired by that piece of art.  For a Reverse Bang we’ve lowered the required word count to a 10k minimum, which is a large part of why we decided to start with a Reverse Bang.  Something a little smaller to let everyone get the feel for the event.

We will set up lines of communication between each set of partners for this event, be that email or discord.  So please be prepared to offer up one if not both of those methods of communication for your partner.

And that’s about it.  As the FAQ says, if you have any other questions please reach out, either here on tumblr or by emailing the mods at peachesandplumsbigbang @ gmail.com .

(Below you will find the schedule for this year’s Peaches and Plums Reverse Bang)

Artist sign-ups open - May 5 2025 (Monday)

Author sign-ups open - June 2 2025 (Monday)

Artist sign-ups close - June 30 2025 (Monday)

Art drafts due - July 2 2025 (Wednesday)

Art drafts available for preview - July 9 2025 (Wednesday)

Author sign-ups close - July 14 2025 (Monday)

Claims open - July 16 2025 (Wednesday)

Check-in 1, 50% of fic complete - September 1 2025 (Monday)

Check-in 2, 80% of fic complete - September 29 2025 (Monday)

Final Due Date - October 13 2025 (Monday)

LEARNING TO BREATHE

Chapter 20: you know damn well for you i’d ruin myself  (a million little times)

Quentin falling in love with El was like opening the covers of a book, but a book that always did what books promised to do but often failed to achieve: it got him out, truly out of where he thought he was, and into something everlastingly better. He always thought things didn’t matter in this world the way they did of magical Fillory - but Eliot not only helped him to ground himself into the world they were born into, by making any world he was in impossible to live in without Eliot alive and by his side.

JULIA WICKER in the magicians | 4.10