rereading The Magicians and hyperfocusing this time on any scene involving anyone’s parents
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i said just today that i’ve never really identified with any fictional character but quentin coldwater comes very uncomfortably close
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the first time i read The Magicians the fact that every character hates their parents was an unremarkable background fact i completely ignored but this time i think it holds the key to understanding all their motivations
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> “He knew the rules here instinctively, what it meant to have parents who ignored you. The only difference was that his parents did it because they loved each other, Alice’s because they hated each other.”
😬😩🤬🤢
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is magic in this book a metaphor for money 🤔
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i’d specifically recommend them to anyone who feels even a little bit like a “burned out gifted kid”
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Read that at a time when I was going slightly crazy from being buried in school, and it left a mark. Love that book.
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man I remember when I watched the first season
I was bored, eventually I was legitimately intrigued, and then by the finale I was bored in the bad way
Did S2 ever land?
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the show? never watched it
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