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the magicians - welcome to the twitter tire fire

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Syfywire just pulled the article they put up a few hours ago, "Queerness and Death in the Magicians" and deleted the tweet that announced it. That's super not at all questionable and really normal.

Here is a tweet with screenshots of the article: Queerness and Death in the Magicians. It also looks like a PDF is up at the discord: https://twitter.com/coldwaughtersq/status/1121193198523756544

Note: this will definitely help settle the drama, by the way. That'll work.

ETA (7:30 PM CST): so that thread was deleted and so was my RT of it. Here's another one: https://twitter.com/thelaynierizer/status/1121206952028192768

ETA (7:59 PM CST): Full article now available on tumblr: https://three--rings.tumblr.com/post/184422544953/queerness-and-death-in-the-magicians
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From: [personal profile] seperis Date: 2019-04-25 08:34 am (UTC)
And that article doesn't even really get into the mental health aspects, which IMHO may be *worse*.

It's an intersectional dumpster fire. That just might count as progressive.

And that doesn't even take into account the treatment of the other openly gay character, Eliot, who had to kill his first (in show) boyfriend who as it turns out was possessed the entire time they were dating and is a gay man who is also mentally ill and engages in highly self-destructive behavior.

So they managed a twofer: kill one bisexual, mentally ill character in a way that's totally not at all suicide just looks a lot like it because reasons and continue the now four year tradition of the gay, mentally ill man's only relationships being fucking traumatic or super casual sex-only or marriage to a woman.
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From: [personal profile] toujours_nigel Date: 2019-04-25 09:43 am (UTC)
Gods Eliot. I just cannot imagine what Season 5 is gonna look like for him, given uh, historical evidence.

(And I mean, even mid-season I'd have been confident in TPTB's handling of trauma and mental illness? But lol.)
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From: [personal profile] kore Date: 2019-04-27 03:28 pm (UTC)
Yeah, while all of this is traumatic and terrible enough, I am now really worried about how they might portray Eliot in S5.
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From: [personal profile] kore Date: 2019-04-27 03:27 pm (UTC)
It's an intersectional dumpster fire. That just might count as progressive.

LOLsob. That's 2019 all over really.

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