Okay believe it or not, smallish burst of short(er) fiction aside, I actually am almost done with "echo, the echo" 9 (...Friday, maybe? over the weekend?); it'd just be REALLY SUPER GREAT if I could try to write flash fiction and actually succeed in the "flash" part of that again, someday.
.......in the meantime:
"Theory and Application"
by greywash [AO3]
The Magicians (TV), Alice & Quentin, Eliot/Quentin, Explicit, ~12k
Alice attends some parties. Quentin changes careers.
Started for the last fan_flashworks challenge so they get credit for the prompt ("Magic"), but boyyyyyyy was this not how I was initially intending for this to go, so even if I had finished by the deadline, it kind of would've felt like cheating to count it. Warning for disturbing content (fuller explanation in my author's notes on AO3, but—for basically the usual post 4x13 reasons); just like last time, spoilers through 4x13 but then I dropkicked the ending of 4x13 down a well. I keep my warning policy in my AO3 profile and am always willing to answer private DW messages or emails asking for elaboration or clarification on my warnings for a particular story.