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Join us to celebrate the musical aspects of The Magicians (Lev Grossman, SyFy) from Mar. 23-29, 2026!

Don’t Make Me Sing (Every Single One of Us Has to Sing) is a fanworks event centered around music. We do love musicals, music sung or performed within the story, and songfic (and, of course, all the musical moments and episodes of The Magicians). However, your entry can be anything related to music at all, provided it takes place in the world of The Magicians (Lev Grossman, SyFy).

For instance, there are musical instruments visible in the background in a lot of episodes. Quentin loves Taylor Swift. Penny hates earworms. Kady talks about her mom performing to music. Alice and Eliot refer to songs and bands they loved or hated. The show also has a lot of songs playing in the background; these could become part of the story. The Beast whistles. You might even interpret the honking of geese as a type of natural music! As usual, the interpretation of the musical theme is up to you!

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

As usual for our events, new additions to existing WIPs are welcome. Likewise, entries can be the start of a new WIP. As many or as few pieces as you wish to enter are fine. If you're making multiple chapters or pieces for the same work, feel free to submit them as separate entries!

From Mar. 23-29, 2026, Eastern time, please post your works to Tumblr and/or AO3 (this challenge takes place on both) following the guidelines we'll share before the event. 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.

Thank you so much to @unlifeira for the amazing image design; she made all the graphics and gifs you'll see here and on AO3! And thank you so much to our mod team for this event: @carcrash429, @eliotqueliot, @magicians4time, @museinabsentia, and @unlifeira.

Please stay tuned for specific details about how to submit your creations. In the meantime, you may enjoy the following:

Queliot Week 2026: Themes announced!

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

Created for the Magicians Fanworks Extravaganza @magiciansfanworksextravaganza event Don’t Make Me Sing (Every Single One of Us Has to Sing): Mar. 23-29, 2026.

Chapter 2: Quentin

Below is the original post for Magicians Settings Week, with the concept sketched out!

Chapter 2: Quentin

Summary:

While everyone else went to class, Eliot worked on a song he was writing about Quentin, thinking he was alone in the Cottage except for Margo. Quentin heard Eliot's beautiful voice and snuck over to see what it was all about. Of course, once he realized Eliot was singing a song about his feelings for Quentin, Q was delighted--and began to form plans of his own.

This entire artwork and fic are inspired by Not Gonna Say by Lauren Fairweather. Such an amazing song! Captures Eliot's heart so well, sharing his feelings for Q during so many great Queliot moments in the first few episodes!

Not Gonna Say | Lauren Fairweather

Chapter 2: Quentin

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Magicians (TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Quentin Coldwater/Eliot Waugh Characters: Quentin Coldwater, Eliot Waugh, William "Penny" Adiyodi Additional Tags: magiciansfanworksextravaganza, mfedontmakemesing Summary:

Join us to celebrate the musical aspects of The Magicians (Lev Grossman, SyFy) from Mar. 23-29, 2026!

Don’t Make Me Sing (Every Single One of Us Has to Sing) is a fanworks event centered around music. We do love musicals, music sung or performed within the story, and songfic (and, of course, all the musical moments and episodes of The Magicians). However, your entry can be anything related to music at all, provided it takes place in the world of The Magicians (Lev Grossman, SyFy).

For instance, there are musical instruments visible in the background in a lot of episodes. Quentin loves Taylor Swift. Penny hates earworms. Kady talks about her mom performing to music. Alice and Eliot refer to songs and bands they loved or hated. The show also has a lot of songs playing in the background; these could become part of the story. The Beast whistles. You might even interpret the honking of geese as a type of natural music! As usual, the interpretation of the musical theme is up to you!

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

As usual for our events, new additions to existing WIPs are welcome. Likewise, entries can be the start of a new WIP. As many or as few pieces as you wish to enter are fine. If you're making multiple chapters or pieces for the same work, feel free to submit them as separate entries!

From Mar. 23-29, 2026, Eastern time, please post your works to Tumblr and/or AO3 (this challenge takes place on both) following the guidelines we'll share before the event. 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.

Thank you so much to @unlifeira for the amazing image design; she made all the graphics and gifs you'll see here and on AO3! And thank you so much to our mod team for this event: @carcrash429, @eliotqueliot, @magicians4time, @museinabsentia, and @unlifeira.

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

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; brainstorm or sprint with others. Discord isn't required for participation in any challenge.

Recent posts of interest:

Queliot Week 2026: Help us select themes

TIME IS AN ILLUSION 2025 Recap

Join us to celebrate the musical aspects of The Magicians (Lev Grossman, SyFy) from Mar. 23-29, 2026!

Don’t Make Me Sing (Every Single One of Us Has to Sing) is a fanworks event centered around music. We do love musicals, music sung or performed within the story, and songfic (and, of course, all the musical moments and episodes of The Magicians). However, your entry can be anything related to music at all, provided it takes place in the world of The Magicians (Lev Grossman, SyFy).

For instance, there are musical instruments visible in the background in a lot of episodes. Quentin loves Taylor Swift. Penny hates earworms. Kady talks about her mom performing to music. Alice and Eliot refer to songs and bands they loved or hated. The show also has a lot of songs playing in the background; these could become part of the story. The Beast whistles. You might even interpret the honking of geese as a type of natural music! As usual, the interpretation of the musical theme is up to you!

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

As usual for our events, new additions to existing WIPs are welcome. Likewise, entries can be the start of a new WIP. As many or as few pieces as you wish to enter are fine. If you're making multiple chapters or pieces for the same work, feel free to submit them as separate entries!

From Mar. 23-29, 2026, Eastern time, please post your works to Tumblr and/or AO3 (this challenge takes place on both) following the guidelines we'll share before the event. 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.

Thank you so much to @unlifeira for the amazing image design; she made all the graphics and gifs you'll see here and on AO3! And thank you so much to our mod team for this event: @carcrash429, @eliotqueliot, @magicians4time, @museinabsentia, and @unlifeira.

Please stay tuned for specific details about how to submit your creations. In the meantime, you may enjoy the following:

Queliot Week 2026: Themes announced!

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

Our mission: to offer fanworks events celebrating The Magicians (Lev Grossman, SyFy) on Tumblr and AO3. Fanworks of all types are welcome! WIPs are welcome! No signups needed.

We've got a lot planned for you in the coming months.

Our next challenge: Time Is an Illusion, Dec. 8-16, 2025.

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. The themes are anniversary, 1x01-inspired, and/or time-related.

In 2026, we have four events planned welcoming The Magicians fanworks. For all of them, we welcome all types of fanworks; additions to existing WIPs are welcome, provided they fit the theme for the event; you may create as many things as you want for each event; no sign-ups needed!

Mar. 23-29, 2026, Don't Make Me Sing (Every Single One of Us Has to Sing) (fanworks event centered around music)

June 15-21, 2026, Queliot Week (recurring event; inaugural revival of original event; will have themes to choose from)

Aug. 10-16, 2026, Amnesty Week (recurring event; reopens all prior unique, non-recurring events)

Aug. 31-Oct. 25, 2026, The Tales of the Seven Keys (anything Keys Quest welcome! We'll have one week per key and one catchup week--but also anything related to the Keys Quest will be welcome anytime, just in case you're not retrieving your keys in the same order as on the show!)

Please see our website Magicians Fanworks Extravaganza for updates! (You'll need a computer or laptop to see everything. Calendar on the left; Navigation and Project Links on the right.)

And don't forget to check out works created for our prior events:

From March 23-29, 2026, we celebrated the musical aspects of The Magicians (Lev Grossman, SyFy). Don’t Make Me Sing (Every Single One of Us Has to Sing) was a fanworks event centered around music. We love musicals, music sung or performed within the story, and songfic (and, of course, all the musical moments and episodes of The Magicians). However, entries were encouraged to address anything related to music at all, provided it takes place in the world of The Magicians (Lev Grossman, SyFy).

Please visit our Don’t Make Me Sing (Every Single One of Us Has to Sing) 2026 Recap to learn more about the event and the types of works made; experience the fanworks in lists organized by creator and type of work (as well as by arrival time, below); find links to the AO3 and Tumblr collections; and more!

Don’t Make Me Sing 2026 by Arrival Time

In order of appearance, here are the new fanworks revealed from March 23-29, 2026, Eastern time, for Don’t Make Me Sing 2026.

If the work is on more than one platform, the title links to the creator's preference of Tumblr/AO3, with the alternate platform linked afterwards.

til the next time you see me (Fic, Tumblr) by @carcrash429 (AO3: 429_CarCrash)

Mosaic Haiku, Chapter 23: Mosaic Music (Poetry, AO3) by @eliotqueliot (AO3: EliotQueliot)

Don't Make Me Sing (Fic) by Nicholas_Lucien (AO3)

Secret Admirers (with Art), Chapter 2: The Fic: Quentin (Fic, AO3) by @eliotqueliot (AO3: EliotQueliot)

Eliot's Balalaika (Drawing) (Art, AO3) by @eliotqueliot (AO3: EliotQueliot)

The Time Key, Singing... (Drawing) (Art, AO3) by @eliotqueliot (AO3: EliotQueliot)

A Song for Alice Quinn by Hallie Dolin (Filk Song, Instagram) by halliehdolin (Instagram) (Bandcamp: Hallie Dolin)

Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Stay (Fic, Tumblr) by itsminimes (AO3) (Tumblr: @itsminimes)

It Came in Like a Wrecking Ball (Fic) by Nicholas_Lucien (AO3)

Secret Admirers, Chapter 3: Eliot (Earlier) (Fic, AO3) by @eliotqueliot (AO3: EliotQueliot)

Secret Admirers, Chapter 4: Quentin (Fic, AO3) by @eliotqueliot (AO3: EliotQueliot)

Eliot's Balalaika (Painting) (Art, AO3) by @eliotqueliot (AO3: EliotQueliot)

You Had Me at the High Note (Fic, AO3) by @magicians4time (AO3: Librarity)

The Time Key, Singing... (Painting) (Art, AO3) by @eliotqueliot (AO3: EliotQueliot)

More about Don’t Make Me Sing 2026

Here are the original guidelines and the full Don’t Make Me Sing (Every Single One of Us Has to Sing) 2026 Recap.

Join us to celebrate the musical aspects of The Magicians (Lev Grossman, SyFy) from Mar. 23-29, 2026!

Don’t Make Me Sing (Every Single One of Us Has to Sing) is a fanworks event centered around music. We do love musicals, music sung or performed within the story, and songfic (and, of course, all the musical moments and episodes of The Magicians). However, your entry can be anything related to music at all, provided it takes place in the world of The Magicians (Lev Grossman, SyFy).

For instance, there are musical instruments visible in the background in a lot of episodes. Quentin loves Taylor Swift. Penny hates earworms. Kady talks about her mom performing to music. Alice and Eliot refer to songs and bands they loved or hated. The show also has a lot of songs playing in the background; these could become part of the story. The Beast whistles. You might even interpret the honking of geese as a type of natural music. As usual, the interpretation of the musical theme is up to you!

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

As usual for our events, new additions to existing WIPs are welcome. Likewise, entries can be the start of a new WIP. As many or as few pieces as you wish to enter are fine. If you're making multiple chapters or pieces for the same work, feel free to submit them as separate entries!

From Mar. 23-29, 2026, Eastern time, please post your works to Tumblr and/or AO3 (this challenge takes place on both) following the guidelines below. If you make something on another platform (such as a vid on YouTube, a pinboard on Pinterest, art or cosplay on Instagram, music on Bandcamp), please share a post with a link to that content on Tumblr and/or AO3.

Thank you so much to @unlifeira for the amazing image design; she made all the graphics and gifs for this event! And thank you so much to our mod team for this event: @carcrash429, @eliotqueliot, @magicians4time, @museinabsentia, and @unlifeira.

Don’t Make Me Sing (Every Single One of Us Has to Sing)

We're open for entries on Tumblr and AO3 from 12:01 AM Eastern on March 23, 2026, through 11:59 PM Eastern on March 29, 2026. (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: #mfedontmakemesing #magiciansfanworksextravaganza

For each entry, please mention the event Don't Make Me Sing (Every Single One of Us Has to Sing).

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 Don't Make Me Sing (Every Single One of Us Has to Sing) 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 Don't Make Me Sing (Every Single One of Us Has to Sing). Additionally, for multi-chaptered works, please indicate at the start of the work which chapters are taking part in the challenge.

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 "MFEDontMakeMeSing" 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 MFEDontMakeMeSing 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

Chat with fellow creatives and fans about The Magicians fanworks, books, and show; help select themes for future fanworks challenges like our recurring Queliot Week revival; brainstorm or sprint with others. Discord isn't required for participation in any challenge.

Queliot Week 2026: Themes announced!