you are not alone here.

We're so excited to bring back Queliot Week, with the blessing of one of the original mods! (Thank you so much, @believesinponds! ❤️❤️❤️) We'll have seven days celebrating the love of Quentin Coldwater / Eliot Waugh of The Magicians (Lev Grossman, SyFy) with all the fanworks you can create! Queliot Week 2026 will take place from June 15-21. This will be an annual event, during the timeslot brought to us by Queliot Week 2019. Read on to learn about the themes and how this event works!

Here are the themes you've been waiting for!

Monday, June 15 ❤️ History AUs ❤️ Queliot "for want of a nail" AU: one thing changes somewhere, but that changes everything ❤️ Alternate Genre/Universe

Tuesday, June 16 ❤️ Mosaic era/flavor/AU ❤️ Brakebills era/flavor/AU

Wednesday, June 17 ❤️ Book Queliot ❤️ There was only one bed ❤️ Epistolary fic (or any type of messaging in some format makes an appearance somewhere)

Thursday, June 18 ❤️ XOXO, aka “Love, Eliot”—Queliot hugs, kisses, and/or ways they say “I love you” ❤️ Cuddling ❤️ Hurt/comfort

Friday, June 19 ❤️ Misunderstandings ❤️ Idiots to lovers ❤️ Forced proximity

Saturday, June 20 ❤️ Immortal/Mortal ❤️ Omegaverse ❤️ Magical creatures

Sunday June 21 ❤️ Queliot Week 2019 prompts* ❤️ Queliot Week 2020 prompts* ❤️ Free Choice

*See below for prior Queliot Week prompts.

Basic Rules

❤️ Your fanwork must be about the ship Quentin Coldwater/Eliot Waugh from The Magicians (Lev Grossman/SyFy).

❤️ Many themes are available; we also offer “Free Choice.” You may select any of that day's themes; use as many as you want, or only one. Please let us know which you've chosen.

❤️ Any type of fanwork you can imagine; any size or length.

❤️ Additions to existing WIPs welcome; you may also start a new WIP.

❤️ As many or as few pieces as you wish to enter are fine.

❤️ The challenge takes place on AO3 and Tumblr (if you are posting your work on another platform, please share a link to that here on Tumblr).

❤️ Relaxed posting: Try to post on the appropriate day, but if you find you need to post on a different day, that’s fine, too. We want this to be fun, and to encourage as many Queliot works as possible! Please let us know which prompt you used.

❤️ Queliot Week is a separate, recurring event. It’s not covered during our recurring Amnesty Weeks. However, each future Queliot Week will include an invitation to use any prompts from a past Queliot Week!

Here are the prompts from prior Queliot Weeks:

Queliot Week 2019 (June 17-23; alternates could be used on any day) Day 1: Fake Dating/Marriage Day 2: Hedge Witches Day 3: Neighbors/Roommates Day 4: Free Day! Day 5: Polyamory Day 6: Alternate Timeline Day 7: Soulmates Alternate 1: Non-magic College Alternate 2: Queliot Reunion Alternate 3: In Fillory

Queliot Week 2020 (Nov. 16-22; two prompts per day) Day 1: "Hugs aren’t the only thing required by law." / Favourite scene Day 2: "We're married." / Colours Day 3: "That wasn't brave." / Royalty Day 4: "It was real, this is real." / Magic Day 5: "Not everything can be mended." / The Monster Day 6: "So we're just giving up?" / Death Day 7: Free Choice Day

Here are some places to enjoy the works from prior Queliot Weeks!

Queliot Week 2019

This AO3 collection has 62 works for Queliot Week 2019 by multiple creators, but there are also some things on Tumblr that aren't on AO3.

Many works for the event can be found under the tags #queliot week 2019 and especially #queliotweek (this 2nd tag has more, but also does bring up some works for Queliot Week 2020).

The original Queliot Week 2019 website is beautiful and well worth checking out, but enter at your own risk: when I load it now (link below), virus protection is giving me a "threat secured" script warning; not sure why, but it seems to be fine with virus protection, as mine is blocking the problem script without any issues, and the works are still linking to AO3 and Tumblr. I love the original Queliot Week 2019 Tumblr website.

Queliot Week 2020

The original Tumblr website is gone, but many of the entries can still be found through the tags #queliotweek2020 and #queliotweek (this 2nd tag also brings up posts for Queliot Week 2019).

I couldn't find a single, unified AO3 collection, but some creators made their own personal Queliot Week 2020 series, while a few others used a custom AO3 tag. To the best of my ability, here's a link to all those things on AO3.

And here you'll find Magicians Fanworks Extravaganza's ongoing news about Queliot Week 2026 and beyond.

Also: Here's a list of all our upcoming 2026 fanworks challenges for The Magicians, in case you'd like to get a head start!

And here are our prior events, starting with the most recent:

Time Is an Illusion

Amnesty Week

Welcome Home!

Warm Up

Finally, while membership in our Discord server is absolutely not required to create works for any event, feel free to join us to discuss The Magicians, our events, and more in the Magicians Fanworks Extravaganza Discord.

Created for the @magiciansfanworksextravaganza challenge Welcome Home!, WEEK 3: Feb. 10-16, Seasonal/holiday—focusing on Queliot romance for Valentine’s Day. (Posted in Week 7). Also for Week 7: Welcome back to WIPs!

Illustration for Chapter 6 by @juliawickers

I originally hoped to post this on Valentine’s Day, for the Queliot of it all! This fic may be tear-soaked, but Quentin and Eliot still find a way to get together (with significant help from Penny). 🍑❤️ (So Happy Valentine’s Day, no matter when you read this!) (Once more earning that Explicit rating.)

So many thanks to my collaborator @juliawickers❤️who created this haunting edit for Ch. 6 and provided many important updates to both the pinboard: queliot au: you want it darker? || dark king eliot pin board and the playlist: you want it darker? || a dark king eliot waugh fanmix by victoria & albert (And so much inspiration and support, always ❤️)

Chapter 6: Quentin

Summary:

Quentin and Ted roam the Underworld, seeking a way to communicate with Eliot. Penny helps give Quentin and Eliot a moment of beauty amid the angst of their current existence.

Find Chapter 6 of the fic by @eliotqueliot:

you want it darker? || dark king eliot - Chapter 6 - EliotQueliot, victoriaandalbert - The Magicians (TV) [Archive of Our Own]

And here's Chapter 4 of the graphics + fanmix by @juliawickers (victoriaandalbert) (includes the edit for the fic chapter):

you want it darker? || dark king eliot [graphics + fanmix to eliotqueliot's fic] - Chapter 4 - EliotQueliot, victoriaandalbert - The Magicians (TV) [Archive of Our Own]

This fic is rated Explicit (and so is this chapter), so the overall fic info, including tags, can be found below the cut.

Magicians Fanworks Extravaganza has been such a delight. The first post went up Oct. 9, 2024, and we held our first challenge from Dec. 1-8, 2024. So it's now been a little over a year's worth of challenges—an incredible thing to share with fellow fans of The Magicians (Lev Grossman, SyFy)! Thank you so much to everyone who participated, is taking the time to enjoy these amazing works by so many creators, and/or has joined us in the Discord to chat with fellow fans.

In case you're looking for some fanworks to enjoy (during long winter nights or any other time), here are all our challenges so far in one place.

Also I'd just like to add an additional thank you to the mods who've helped us and creators who've joined us over the past year-plus.

Finally, keep an eye on our website and/or join our Discord to learn about (or help suggest) future fanworks events for The Magicians! We've got a lot planned for the coming year! (Discord is not required for any challenge.) Details below.

Magicians Fanworks Extravaganza Team

Fully 24 creators have crafted things for us so far—that's extraordinary, especially given how small our fandom is these days! And 6 mods have stepped up to help share these works! Thank you so much to our:

Mods:

@carcrash429, @eliotqueliot, @magicians4time, @museinabsentia, @state-of-being, and @unlifeira

Creators:

@bravelostgirl (AO3: NoMoreMora; YouTube: RedMoon3434)

@carcrash429 (AO3: 429_CarCrash)

@eliotqueliot (AO3: EliotQueliot; YouTube: EliotQueliot)

@finduscore

@godihatethisfreakingcat (AO3: seashadows)

@imhazelgreen (AO3: HazelGreenEyes)

@itsminimes (AO3: itsminimes)

@juliawickers (AO3: victoriaandalbert)

@lasouris-r (AO3: LaSourisRousse)

@lovequeliot (AO3: LoveQueliot)

@magicians4time (AO3: Librarity)

@museinabsentia (AO3: muse_in_absentia)

@mysticmuse27 (AO3: MysticMuse27)

@mythologicalvampire

@nicholaslucien (AO3: Nicholas_Lucien)

PhantomNightjar (AO3)

@state-of-being (AO3: OneSeriousLady)

@tbraves24 (AO3: tbraves24)

@telekinetic-cards (AO3: telekinetic-cards)

@tiredunsalted (AO3: unsalted)

@unlifeira (AO3: EiraLloyd)

@violetsarepurple-fuckyou (AO3: violetsarefuckingpurple)

@vooruitmariek (AO3: fearlesstogether)

@wonderlandxeternity

Magicians Fanworks Extravaganza Challenges

Our first four fanworks events have brought us 182 individual entries (some of them containing multiple chapters or types of work). The following breakdown counts entries as they were presented (separately or together), except in 3 cases where types of work presented together were distinct enough to warrant a separate mention.

Art

86 works of art and art chapters, including collage, drawings, edit/graphic, paintings, pinboard, etc. (Art chapters had multiple works.)

Fanmix

1 separately identified fanmix; additionally, several fic chapters identified and/or linked to mood music.

Fic

84 fic or fic chapters (not counting poetry chapters counted below). Sometimes fic with multiple chapters were presented as one entry, so there are more chapters than this number reflects.

Poetry

4 poems or poetry chapters, most of which included quite a number of poems per chapter.

Video

10 video-related works, including animatics, edits, gifsets, vids, etc.

Individual Events

Time Is an Illusion

Celebrating the 10-year anniversary of the first episode of The Magicians! Themes: anniversary, 1x01-related, and time-related.

Amnesty Week

Reopening all prior non-recurring fanworks events we've held! Bringing more work to prior themes

Welcome Home!

Seven weeks with multiple themes! Themes: Welcome Home! (overall event theme); Week 1: Home; Week 2: "It's been a long time" (especially Mosaic fic); Week 3: Seasonal/holiday; Week 4: Magical creature; Week 5: Returning after absence (or returning to being themselves); Weeks 6-7: Welcome back to WIPs! and catch-up.

Warm Up

Short fanworks (fic to 1.5k; smaller things) on the theme of warmth and warming up, any interpretation.

Our first post, Oct. 9, 2024:

Additional Useful Things Website flavor of Magicians Fanworks Extravaganza Please note: you will need a computer/laptop. A phone can only serve up the Tumblr blog side. Through the above link, you can find Project Links to all our past events, as well as a calendar showing upcoming events and links to the guidelines for current challenges once they're available. The Project Links are a handy way to see everything specifically posted for a certain event, in the order in which it occurred. Each challenge has one! On the right, look past Navigation (whose links lead to guidelines and recaps for each event) and scroll down to see Projects. Each challenge has its own box, with the icon for the challenge and a Project Link, which serves up everything we’ve posted with the challenge #tag. Magicians Fanworks Extravaganza Discord Server Chat with fellow creatives and fans about The Magicians fanworks, books, and show; help select themes for future fanworks challenges like our upcoming Queliot Week revival; help us select dates and propose concepts for future challenges; brainstorm or sprint with others. Discord isn't required for participation in any challenge.

2026: More fanworks challenges for The Magicians are just around the corner!

Time Is an Illusion. It may be hard to believe, but December 16, 2025, marks the ten-year anniversary of the first episode of The Magicians. To celebrate that, we’re running a week-long event.

In just two days, we go live! With that in mind, here are the details you'll need.

Posting will take place from Dec 8-16, 2025, Eastern time. This event occurs on Tumblr and AO3. You may post on one or both. If you make something on another platform (such as a vid on YouTube, a pinboard on Pinterest, art or cosplay on Instagram), please share a post with a link to that content on Tumblr and/or AO3.

All forms of fan content (art, collage, cosplay, edit, fic, filk, pinboard, playlist, podfic, vid, etc.) are welcome. It can be a new work or a continuation of an existing WIP. There are no limits or requirements for amount, words, extent, length, size, etc.

You are welcome to start a new WIP for this event. The work doesn't need to be fully complete to participate, though you'll want however much you share to be in its final form for that type of entry. For instance, you might post a chapter or two for a new fic or podfic WIP; a drawing that you'll later paint; or a pinboard/fanmix that you'll add more to later.

The themes for the ten-year celebration are anniversary, 1x01-inspired, and/or time-related. Any or all of these themes are fine. They don't need to be the main focus of the work, but should be visible in some form. Please share with us which one(s) you're using.

Thank you to @lasouris-r for the celebration concept and original write-up, and to Sol, our Discord member, for the image design! And thank you so much to our mod team for this event: @carcrash429, @eliotqueliot, @magicians4time, @museinabsentia, and @unlifeira.

Time Is an Illusion

We will open for entries on Tumblr and AO3 at 12:01 AM (Eastern) on Dec. 8, 2025, and close at 11:59 PM (Eastern) on Dec. 16, 2025. (If you run out of time, please look forward to our next Amnesty Week, a recurring event that reopens all previous non-recurring challenges! The next one will be held from Aug. 10-16, 2026.)

To participate, follow the instructions below so that we can find your work, reblog it, and add it to the recap list that will appear a few days after the event closes.

Strongly sugggested for both AO3 and Tumblr entries

To make sure we have the best chance of seeing and reblogging your work, and to help out your hardworking mods, please submit this form to let us know you made something.

Our team of mods will be looking out for your entries. We do sleep occasionally. But if a day goes by and your post hasn't been reblogged, we may not have seen it. Make sure you fill out this form before getting in touch.

When posting on Tumblr

Please both tag us: @magiciansfanworksextravaganza And also please put the following two # tags among your first five tags: #mfetimeisanillusion #magiciansfanworksextravaganza

For each entry, please mention the event Time Is an Illusion and tell us which theme this is for: anniversary, 1x01-inspired, and/or time-related.

If you are sending separate entries from the same work (additional chapters, art, etc.), please make a separate Tumblr post for each individual entry, with a link to the specific chapter if you published on AO3.

Before you post: Take a look at your mention for us. Is it a live link? Can you click @magiciansfanworksextravaganza and get to our page? If not, try editing your post. If it's an AO3 share, position your cursor at the very end of the post, hit enter to start a new line, and start typing @magiciansfanworksextravaganza. While you are typing, a box with our icon should pop up. Click on that suggestion to link to our page. If you don't see the box, it won't link. Make sure you're typing in Rich Text rather than HTML unless you know the code to mention someone.

When posting on AO3

Please add your work to our Time Is an Illusion AO3 Subcollection.

In the Notes at the start of your work, and at the head of any relevant chapter you are posting for this event, please let your readers know this is part of the challenge Time Is an Illusion and which theme this is for: anniversary, 1x01-inspired, and/or time-related. Additionally, for multi-chaptered works, please indicate at the start of the work which chapters are taking part in the challenge.

Guess what? AO3 has a tag for:

Episode: s01e01 Unauthorized Magic

To post a new work, you can visit our AO3 collection and click "Post to Collection."

To add your existing WIP, click "Edit," then under "Associations," "Post to Collections/Challenges," type "MFETimeIsAnIllusion" and hit enter, then click "Post."

Please note: If you are adding your work via the Edit panel rather than posting to the collection from the actual collection page, when you type in the challenge name, AO3 is not going to offer it as an automatic selection. Nevertheless, as long as you type in MFETimeIsAnIllusion and hit enter, AO3 will add your work to our collection.

Additional Useful Things

Website flavor of Magicians Fanworks Extravaganza

Please note: you will need a computer/laptop. A phone can only serve up the Tumblr blog side.

Through the above link, you can find Project Links to all our past events, as well as a calendar showing upcoming events and links to the guidelines for current challenges once they're available.

The Project Links are a handy way to see everything specifically posted for a certain event, in the order in which it occurred. Each challenge has one! On the right, look past Navigation (whose links lead to guidelines and masterposts for each event) and scroll down to see Projects. Each challenge has its own box, with the icon for the challenge and a Project Link, which serves up everything we’ve posted with the challenge #tag.

Magicians Fanworks Extravaganza Discord Server

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!

Time Is an Illusion. It may be hard to believe, but this December marks the ten-year anniversary of the first episode of The Magicians. To celebrate that, we’re running a week-long event.

While the event is still three weeks away, we want to start sharing some info with more details to follow.

Posting time will be Dec 8-16, 2025.

All forms of fan content (fic, art, vid, playlist, cosplay, etc.) are welcome. It can be a new work or a continuation of a WIP. There is no word limit for fic.

The themes for the 10-year celebration will be anniversary, 1x01-inspired, and/or time-related. Any or all of these themes are fine. They don't need to be the main focus of the work, but should be visible in some form.

Join us in celebration this December!

(Thank you to @lasouris-r for the great write-up and brilliant celebration concept, and to Sol, a member of our Discord, for the wonderful image design!)

Please stay tuned for specific details about how to submit your creations. In the meantime, enjoy our past events and more!

Website flavor of Magicians Fanworks Extravaganza

Please note: you will need a computer/laptop. A phone can only serve up the Tumblr blog side.

Through the above link, you can find Project Links to all our past events, as well as a calendar showing upcoming events, and links to the guidelines to current challenges once they're available.

Magicians Fanworks Extravaganza Discord Server

Just in case you missed any of the works as they all got dropped, here is a master list of the works submitted to this year's Peaches and Plums Reverse Bang. They are still anonymous for now. Who created what will be revealed in a week or so, so watch this space to give the creators some love by name, but go check out the works now!

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For @ficreadingchallenge <3 I've been reading and commenting, and honestly I've read a lot I still need to comment on. Hoping to get everything up by Sept. 22!

For Part 3, I'm using green. Bingos marked in yellow. I'm hoping for a few more. Also: this time I have two in the same category, and I may end up putting up a few more doubles before I'm done.

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Fandom: Persona 5

Relationship: Akechi Goro/Kurusu Akira

[podfic] marigolds: by psiodynes (inspired by marigolds by colbub)

This soundscape is incredible! The narration is well-acted, and the music and sound effects are so immersive. This fic does such an amazing job of making this world and characters real, with so many emotions and deep insights.

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The following are:

Fandom: The Magicians (TV)

With one exception (marked), these are: Relationship: Quentin Coldwater/Eliot Waugh

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Learning to Breathe by victoriaandalbert @juliawickers

I love this entire fic so much, and there's a new stunning and beautiful update in Chapter 21: forevermore! In terms of Square 7, the "mistaken identity" aspect is the spell that had stripped the characters of their memories of previous events--they live authentic lives together but become different people as a result. Eliot's memories, having that secret, has tortured him. I love so much Julia becoming a goddess again!

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You left the following comment on double feature by buttcasino @kenshivshow

I truly love the way Quentin and Eliot both react to this movie and get together. Capturing such emotional moments with tenderness yet from Penny's POV is an amazing balancing act. I also love the perspective from the friends, going from "We didn't know they were ever together" to "We're happy for them."

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Two fic by @magicians4time

You left the following comment on The Fires We See by Librarity

I love this fic so much; Eliot cuddling up with dragon Quentin is so sweet; their actions and voices are perfect. I love the musical choices, adding so much emotion. Though Eliot can't speak of his feelings, I hope Q understands at some level what El is showing him.

Glass Walls by Librarity

Eliot's voice is so good! You capture El's feelings so well and express them the way he would! Such a good job describing Quentin as a merman and Eliot falling for him without yet admitting he has, even to himself.

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Relationship: Quentin Coldwater/Margo Hanson/Eliot Waugh

You left the following comment on [Podfic of] worship in the bedroom (command me) podfic by exmanhater @exmanhater,  worship in the bedroom (command me) fic by Butterfly

The narration is amazing, capturing all the characters voices and emotions so well. They're all so sweet with each other and appreciate each other so much: very safe, loving, comforting. But also blazing hot. And feels so much like the reality of who they are.

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 shooting the moon by

buttcasino (fic, @kenshivshow), marcel (artist, @aniallating)

From Quentin's POV, the "fake" marriage to Margo happens one drunken night in Vegas...but Margo has a lot of fun with this...and it's Queliot HEA, but I don't want to say how we get there because it plays out so well! The art is so amazing, expressing all the emotions, and just so cute.

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You left the following comment on fic such a fooled heart (beatin' so fast) by Nokomis, [Podfic of] such a fooled heart (beatin' so fast) by exmanhater @exmanhater

Created for the @magiciansfanworksextravaganza challenge Welcome Home!, WEEK 3: Feb. 10-16, Seasonal/holiday—focusing on Queliot romance for Valentine’s Day. (Posted in Week 7). Also for Week 7: Welcome back to WIPs!

Illustration for Chapter 6 by @juliawickers

I originally hoped to post this on Valentine’s Day, for the Queliot of it all! This fic may be tear-soaked, but Quentin and Eliot still find a way to get together (with significant help from Penny). 🍑❤️ (So Happy Valentine’s Day, no matter when you read this!) (Once more earning that Explicit rating.)

So many thanks to my collaborator @juliawickers❤️who created this haunting edit for Ch. 6 and provided many important updates to both the pinboard: queliot au: you want it darker? || dark king eliot pin board and the playlist: you want it darker? || a dark king eliot waugh fanmix by victoria & albert (And so much inspiration and support, always ❤️)

Chapter 6: Quentin

Summary:

Quentin and Ted roam the Underworld, seeking a way to communicate with Eliot. Penny helps give Quentin and Eliot a moment of beauty amid the angst of their current existence.

Find Chapter 6 of the fic by @eliotqueliot:

you want it darker? || dark king eliot - Chapter 6 - EliotQueliot, victoriaandalbert - The Magicians (TV) [Archive of Our Own]

And here's Chapter 4 of the graphics + fanmix by @juliawickers (victoriaandalbert) (includes the edit for the fic chapter):

you want it darker? || dark king eliot [graphics + fanmix to eliotqueliot's fic] - Chapter 4 - EliotQueliot, victoriaandalbert - The Magicians (TV) [Archive of Our Own]

This fic is rated Explicit (and so is this chapter), so the overall fic info, including tags, can be found below the cut.

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)

Chapters: 3/7 Fandom: The Magicians (TV), The Magicians - Lev Grossman Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Quentin Coldwater/Eliot Waugh, Margo Hanson/Alice Quinn, William “Penny” Adiyodi/Kady Orloff-Diaz Characters: Quentin Coldwater, Eliot Waugh, Margo Hanson, Alice Quinn (The Magicians), Mayakovsky (The Magicians), William “Penny” Adiyodi, Kady Orloff-Diaz, Josh Hoberman Additional Tags: Brakebills (The Magicians), Antarctica, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Snow, Foxes, Geese, Episode: s01e07 The Mayakovsky Circumstance, Magic, Nonverbal Communication, Lack of Communication, Communication, Past Child Abuse, Childhood Trauma, Shyness, Sharing a Bed, Shapeshifting, queliot, Eventual Smut Summary:

Eliot goes to Brakebills South with Quentin.

The two are a perfect team in Silence.

They communicate less well once they can talk.

We're still just getting started, but the Discord is open:

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you want it darker? || dark king eliot - Chapter 5 - EliotQueliot, victoriaandalbert - The Magicians (TV) [Archive of Our Own]

Summary:

With Josh's help, Eliot gets to work collecting ingredients to bring Q back, including a visit to the Kitchen Witch. An ambush by the Takers leads to an unsavory encounter with the Dark King.

So, it's taken me over four months to make this chapter! It's close to 20k, yay! So glad to finally be able to share it.

Thank you to victoriaandalbert  @juliawickers for all the inspiration and encouragement!💖