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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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20 Feb 2025
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this series unraveled my dna and put it back together to make music like an accordion
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Season 4 was a curse. No, really.
(The one where Quentin’s actually trapped in Blackspire the whole time, and all is not as it seems.)
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05 Jan 2025
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Quentin and Eliot were robbed of the time they deserve together.
Fortunately, when you’ve devoted a lifetime to solving a mosaic in pursuit of the Time Key, it turns out that Time, itself, is on your side.- Language:
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02 Jan 2025
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"And since we're never going to see each other again, I'd appreciate it if you'd stop making me feel like shit, for once. Think of it as a going away present."
This stupid and immature outburst doesn't rile Eliot up, the way Quentin was maybe kind of hoping it would. Instead, his incredulous anger falls away instantly, leaving genuine bewilderment and a little bit of hurt in its wake.
"I'm - not trying to make you feel like shit," Eliot says slowly. "Why would you say that?"
Quentin scoffs, turning away from Eliot so he doesn't have to meet his eyes. "I get that you were miserable there, but I wasn't," he admits finally, furious at the burning in his own eyes. "And every time you say something about it, about how awful the whole thing was, it makes me feel - I mean, can't you hear the way it sounds, from my perspective?"
He turns around to see Eliot staring at him with his eyebrows scrunched up. "Complaining about the mosaic was like - our favorite pastime when we were trapped there," he says. "It's revisionist history to pretend we both had a jolly good time with that fucking puzzle."
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01 Jan 2025
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“You still want to climb out of here?”
“Yes,” Quentin says immediately.
“It’s going to be hard,” Penny warns, his gaze weirdly intense and serious.
“God, yeah, I figured it would be,” Quentin mutters, squirming out of Penny’s personal space. “Everything from pretty much every mythology ever says it’s a pain in the ass.”
AKA The One In Which Quentin Coldwater Saves His Goddamn Self
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31 Dec 2024