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This is incredibly well said!

I only just got to season 5 of my rewatch and the existence of that season really proves this point. With Quentin gone everyone is mourning him but they are still going on to do exceptional things.

Quentin is the glue that holds the story together but he is not the protagonist, honestly there is no protagonist.

Penny 40 rattling on about White Male Protagonism made me remember this comment i wrote a bit ago on a post where our fandom was picking who they relate to most:

"crazy how everyone picked Q, its as that pervert white astral projection said paraphrased " god i relate to a strong white male main character " - this show is such a satire of the fantasy genre i love is"

While many other things may cause us to relate to Quentin like him being "a queer autistic coded character who is awkward, nerdy, and has depression" It is still clear that Quentin being set up as the main character is constructed to subvert but maintain fantasy.

Quentin is a side character endowed with the privilege to be the protagonist, and while he still contributes and has his own quests - his friends are contributing slightly more or at least the same. Julia was a literal Goddess, Margo and Eliot ruled Fillory, Alice was the one who turned into a niffin to defeat the beast, and Quentin greatest accomplishment was (in some ways) finding out that Fillory was real and making friends along the way.

I would like to note that even though I said Alice bests Quentin (due to how much she had to fight for her knowledge and her becoming a niffin to defeat the beast), she is the white female non-protagonist to pair with Quentin.

For me his non-protagonist role gave me the room to fall in love with and relate to the rest of the characters (Eliot and Margo and Penny and Julia and then Benedict Pickwick and Harriet Schiff)

Eliot and Margo are iconic and full of nerdy enough pop culture references. Penny's sarcasm and I won't say I care but I do attitude. Julia's role as someone who has had to fight for her power and knowledge. Then Benedict Pickwick and his maps and Harriet Schiffs tumultuous relationship with the Libraries that raised her.

And overall in my opinion every character is "a queer autistic coded character who is awkward, nerdy, and has depression".

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"What's up is.. my brain is a snake eating its tail, and the tail is another snake eating its tail" - Eliot s5 ep6

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the digital age my dudes ... the digital age

go out in nature yall, touch grass and shit

I think being autistic has made me realize how extremely hostile the environments we have designed are. And I don't mean "this environment is uniquely hostile to me because I am autistic" I mean that even normies are just existing in brutal, stagnant spaces, they have just internalized them as normal. We could have it all, we could live in such a beautiful and fascinating world, designed by humans and for humans who actually enjoy life and it's complexity and wonder. but even now it's like, seen as kinda hippy-dippy bullshit to have "excessive" indoor plants in a workspace or something

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who up missing they friends #myfriends

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"The story for them, it's just starting but it won't be the same story because of you. You didn't just save their lives, you changed their lives as much as they changed yours" penny 40's quotes are so profound

i don't take back what i said about quentin being a non-protagonist bc this just proves even more that he is lifting the other characters up

im watching s4 ep13 right now, penny 40 and quentin, the elevator scene, its so soft and so sad

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im watching s4 ep13 right now, penny 40 and quentin, the elevator scene, its so soft and so sad

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i was telling my friends earlier today while talking about ai that i swear ai did the ending of lilo and stitch bc what do you mean nani went to college on the mainland (i got spoilered so you get spoilered too) ... like ohana means family and ai is not family

and to take the words of one of my friends "no legit like why are we supporting natives getting their young ones taken away by the state"

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Wheelchair rugby chairs are highkey metal

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Can't believe they microchipped UNIT employees like lost pets

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the ear nose and throat being all connected is so heinous

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sobbing

Peaches and plums, motherfucker!

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its them

We loved each other for a really, really long time

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and lets not forget about Margo's outfit in this episode. Love that corset

and eliots necklace stack!!!! i'm jealous

Its the DONT GET ME WRONG song!!!!!

honestly its a better cover than the actual song

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this outfit is what makes the magicians gay as hell

i dare you tell to me that this isn't a nonbinary outfit... also it is vaguely like what penny wears, maybe thats why i like penny so much, i like them both, top tier characters - love this show, very gay, very slay Happy Pride Yall <3

Its the DONT GET ME WRONG song!!!!!

honestly its a better cover than the actual song

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Its the DONT GET ME WRONG song!!!!!

honestly its a better cover than the actual song

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My favorite quote from the article

In many ways, The Magicians did for fantasy TV what Buffy the Vampire Slayer once did for supernatural teen drama - it added depth, pain, and identity to a genre that had too often played it safe.

I would just like to blame all that success on the presence of queer characters.

bonus points for this article calling s3 ep5 a life in a day (the mosaic episode) the best episode ever (highest rated on imdb)

*turns this article into a powerpoint why watching The Magicians is important and impactful*

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Screenrant and the Magicians in 2025 !!!!!!!!!!!

*turns this article into a powerpoint why watching The Magicians is important and impactful*