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Im gonna write a fic in which safehouse period jmart get sent back to S1 by Helen cos she's a girlboss and likes chaos and it will mainly be crack and fluff cos Ive read too much angst lately. BUT PLOT TWIST collage Jon/Martin are sent to S1 aswell (mechs Jon FOREVERRR and also pre-transition trans Martin) and we've got s1jon crying in the corner about his emo punk past being exposed, collage Jon crying in the corner because he gets a boring archivist job instead of being cool and emo until he dies, collage Martin gender crisis, Martin finding out that jon was jonny d'ville (he was a massive fan and had a crush on him) future jon and Martin trying to hide their marriage because spoilers and trying to fix everything. Tim and Sasha in the background dying of laughter. Perchance I shall throw in enby Jon with S1 denial of everything. Many shenanigans will commence and I promise it will be more well written than this post!! Would u read? :]

I love one thing and that is exploration (I am possessed with knowledge/curiosity demon)

And I'm thinking about writing something like a fanfic on tma about Magnus Institute research department/lab.

Running experiments with cursed artifacts!

But all of that written in form of lab reports, grant admissions, inside documents.

Must be funny

also I think I can throw there Gertrude Robinson because she's the one I think who would fit there

I’ll post rest of my lists on my main blog, fandom stuff belong more on it.

I still haven’t listened to all Magnus Protocol episodes, really should though. I love that podcast!

The Magnus Archives Fic list lying on my computer>

The horror and everything else. Mostly Jon centric probably...

Anatomy of a Mask - A new archival assistant is hired. Her name is Mary Sue. Starts as a comedy and absolutely does not end that way.

Plus One - Jon attends a series of parties for which a plus one is mandatory.

Decree Nisi - Elias and Peter divorce (again), and the judge is tired of their bullshit.

Reflection - Jon is haunted by himself, and refuses to take any of his advice.

Rosemary and Thyme - fantasy AU featuring romance, quests, and fairy politics.

What Belongs to the Sea - Selkie AU, mind the tags on this one.

Bell, Book, and Candle - “By the Ride or Die Pact of 2009, Jonathan Sims can call upon Georgie Barker at any time for aid with no strings attached. Despite their rocky history, their childhood friendship, and Jon’s barely recovered alcoholism, this pact is sacred and must be upheld.”

Things Could Always Be Worse - Jon swaps place with an alternate-universe version of himself, who is heroic, chivalrous, and wears plaid. It’s terrible. Inspired by the parodic “straight TMA” blog.

👁‍🗨 👁‍🗨 👁‍🗨 👁‍🗨 👁‍🗨 👁‍🗨 👁‍🗨 👁‍🗨 👁‍🗨 👁‍🗨 👁‍🗨 👁‍🗨 👁‍🗨 👁‍🗨

Sex Repulsion and Asexuality Save the World (Though That's Not What Jon Claims): canon divergent from MAG 160, in which Jon is so sex repulsed that a changed word in the Hazel Rutter statement saved the world. Crack is treated seriously.

Refusing to Give Up Tomorrow: safehouse hurt/comfort ft. MAG 160 divergence

The Eyespot Chronicles: Trilogy of works. AU where instead of going Somewhere Else, Jon and Martin stay in the OG universe. However, Jon is a moth.

Déjà Vu: Time-travel fix-it where Sasha, Tim, Jon, and Martin all wake up on the day of the day of season 1, episode 1, with memories spanning from that day to the moment they died.

terror management theory: AU where Mr. Spider kills Jon, and now Jon can't permanently die. Despite this, the fic is rather light-hearted (or at least crack)

Other Kingdoms: A season 3 fix-it, in which Martin uses a Leitner to wake Jon up. Do note that there are references to sex happening (Jon's demisexual in this), but it's rated T so nothing is shown.

When No One Looks: Dark Avatar!Jon AU set during the latter half of season 1

Chamomile: In which post season 4, the NotTea becomes a pet.

If The Archivist Had Been Meant to Fly...: Wingfic in which Jon saves Martin from Simon Fairchild

Molt: This is my favorite take on Web!Martin. This is also a darkfic, to the point that the author was made so sad by chapter 1 that they wrote chapter 2 as a fix-it to chapter 1. Also, as a warning that I would've appreciated but isn't in the tags or summary: there's a scene alluding to corrective rape, but this doesn't actually happen.

Drawn Out of the Unknown: Canon divergent s3 fic, official summary is "While investigating a possible location for the Circus's base, Martin and Tim find something unexpected.

The fic series that contributed to me listening to TMA was this Good Omens crossover by Bibliocratic. Really enjoyed it and finally between this fic and seeing TMA all over my tumblr dashboard (plus having a project to work on with my hands) I finally listened, so I'm thankful for that.

The other series I really love is>

The Magnus Institute vs the 21st Century: a series of emails and IMs which is just utterly hilarious. It's the Magnus Institute going through GDPR compliance processes and it's just fabulous.

And then one I'm still sort of following even though I don't read much TMA fic right now is

 dustsceawung by callmearcturus. It's a Moth!Jon fic with Martin as someone who moved to a town in a different fairy court (in a fae AU). Not complete and hasn't updated in a while but I really like the tone.

The world is too much with us is one of the many many many time-travel fix-it fics (I think that's a genre all it's own in the TMA fanfic community at this point). Spoiler to be on the safe side, it follows Jon after he's dropped back in 2014 by the Spiral, and relives what amounts to the next four seasons of TMA, using the experiences he had the first time 'round to try and avoid the apocalypse--and keep everyone alive in the process. Oh, and he's got the added bonus of already being an Avatar of the Eye. Very much angsty with a happy ending. This one's completed, so feel free to binge.

Martin x Jon 

https://archiveofourown.org/works/41149674As everything ends, as the tower crumbles around them, Jon and Martin hold each other in a firm embrace. What they see of the world shatters, and Jon breaks with it. He awakened, alone, confused, and something was terribly wrong with him.

Tim drags Jon to a party in celebration of his promotion with one goal in mind: getting  Jon drunk off his arse.

Martin is moving to a different position within the Institute and celebrates as well.

through the clouds like a moonbeam: Jon gets wings during the apocalypse. Martin likes them; Jon doesn't.

I’ll bear the waiting now: AU where Jon is the new head archivist with two assistants, but there's a disembodied voice that only Jon can hear. Do note that there is something that looks a lot like suicide but there's a happy ending. (Alternate summary that spoils the fic: Martin is a "ghost" and also Jon's "late" boyfriend. )

true kinda love: Season 3 Co-Archivist!Jonmartin

hiding: Season 3 jonmartin kissing to hide from the Circus

The Garden of forking Paths - Jon and Martin search for each other through universes.

“What about him then?” Georgie asks.

“Who?”

“Him,” she says again like it is obvious who she means, holding up the sketchbook revealing a spread that has several loose sketches of Martin. It surprises Jon it took Georgie so long to find Martin in the book considering he had at least one-third of its entirety dedicated to him.

To graduate from art school, Jon needs to paint a nude portrait, but none of his friends are too keen on modeling for him. As a last resort, he asks a handsome barista.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/46426702When Martin needs a fake boyfriend to bring to his family reunion, Jonathan Sims is the last person he would have expected to volunteer.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/51906919Tomorrow, Martin begins his new job as a lighthouse keeper. He knows (hopes) he'll enjoy it. What he doesn't know (yet) is that a very, very curious selkie lives near and is intrigued enough by him to come visit.

https://archive.transformativeworks.org/works/30210444/chapters/81277828 The last fic I read (time travel)

This list has become a behemoth, comprising various lists created by others. I've saved it, but now I need to free up space. This is the process I'm undertaking for every list I've saved.

Hey TMAblr! I just released chapter one of a ~40000 word jmart fic (mostly Martin centered), updates will be posted daily with only small delays, hope chapter one gets yall excited!

Oh yeah, update on my fic: I’ll probably be posting once or twice a day, depending on how busy I am. Hope yall are as excited as I am, I’ve been waiting to post this one for a while! It’s starting a bit slow, but it picks up pretty quick from here on out.

By the times things settled, when Martin had finally managed to crack through his cold shell, feel some of his old self returning to him in bits and pieces, they had found their little routine.

One that had the two of them sleeping in the same bed, making breakfast, going to the mart. Where Jon reached for his wrist while they slept, and Martin luxuriated in the gentle warmth of his fingers.  

But not one where Martin reached back. One that had Martin kissing Jon awake or taking his hand over the breakfast table, because … Martin never had the courage to try. And then it never became a part of the routine.

And Martin desperately wanted it to be.

–

Martin and Jon have an important conversation.

Chapters: 1/1 [Complete]

Pairing(s): Martin Blackwood/Jonathan “Jon” Sims | The Archivist

Words: ~4.2k

Additional Tags: Fluff, Pining, Canon Asexual Character, Sex-Repulsed Jonathan “Jon” Sims | The Archivist, Asexual Awareness Week 2020, Domesticity, Sleeping In, making breakfast, going shopping together, Set in Episodes 159-160 | Scottish Safehouse Period (The Magnus Archives)

Based on @chalroe‘s comic for Ace Awareness week here!

–

“Martin.”  

There was a hand on his shoulder; Martin noted this more as a simple fact than something he could really feel. There was the press of fingers, a squeeze, yes– but he couldn’t feel the warmth. Never the warmth.

“Martin,” the voice said again. No, that was … Jon. Yes … Jon was still here. And he still looked so … sad. Staring at him with desperate eyes. “Look at me. Look at me and tell me what you see.”  

It was tempting to ignore him again. It’s just … it hurt, the things Jon asked him to do sometimes, and this was no different. Trying to look was like trying to ascend the water too quickly, risking collapsed lungs and decompression sickness. 

But the hand on his shoulder squeezed ever tighter, the eyes starting to mist, and … and something in Martin’s chest … pricked. He could feel it. It was numbed, in a place he’d thought had already withered away from disuse, and yet …  

Martin blinked. Jon was still there. Jon was looking at him.  

Seeing him.  

Seeing him.  

“I …” A heavy weight was pressing down on his chest. A warning. It was too fast, too much, but … “I see …”  

Sometimes, Martin found himself missing his more gruesome, shocking nightmares. At least with those, he would snap awake in an instant, drenched in an icy sweat, instead of being held down, trapped in a fog of confusion and fear until he finally managed to break its grip. 

But at last, he managed to blink awake, sunlight pouring through the window and straight into his eye. Ah, damn. He’d meant to close the curtains last night.  

Groaning, Martin scrubbed his eyes, the contents of the dream were fading away. The damp moisture of the fog sat heavy in his throat– reminding him too much of the air in nursery homes and hospital rooms.

It’s not so bad, though. When they first arrived here, Martin used to wake up with tears tracking down his face. He’d hated waking up to a wet spot on his pillow. Or the soft, concerned eyes of his … special someone.

Martin turned over onto his side. Jon’s eyes were still closed, blankets pulled tight around himself and snoring softly. The sound brought a truly silly smile to Martin’s lips.

Yes. Waking up from the dreams used to be much worse. And then, perhaps four days after arriving at the cabin, Jon had declared that taking turns sleeping on the couch was absurd, and that there was more than enough room for the two of them in the master bed.  

The speech had been said with such blunt rigor that Martin wondered if, perhaps, something Jon had rehearsed. As if Martin wouldn’t have immediately agreed to waking up next by Jon’s side every morning. 

And so, Martin didn’t wake up crying anymore. Not as often, anyway.

In his sleep, Jon sniffled, before burying his face deeper into the pillow. A low, groaning noise rumbled in his throat, sounding not unlike a dissatisfied cat, and Martin’s throat was crushed under a wave of affection.

What would it be like if he were to lean over just then? Card his fingers through Jon’s hair? Wake him up with a kiss to the forehead? That would be … good. 

That was when Jon woke up, blinking soft brown eyes heavy with sleep. 

Martin smiled, hoping his expression wasn’t betraying his thundering heart.

[Continue on AO3]

Chapters 4-5 of One More Time, With Passion are out now!

Almost forgot to put this in here. My tumblr app hates me atm so uploading via safari.

Enjoy Admiral content

in my tma thoughts, might start a fanfic with absolutely no plan and see what happens!

all my tma thought powers are going into a fanfic rn

Awake and Unafraid | TMA Fic (Fic Rec)

Martin's new job at the Institute isn't what he was expecting. Along with Tim and Sasha, he's struggling with a disorganized Archive, no direction from their slightly-devious boss, and the growing feeling that they're in danger. Which is not helped by the cryptic warnings from a far too-knowing voice on an ancient tape recorder calling themselves the Archivist.

its. so fucking. cool. AND IT MAKES SENSE, like genuinely. with an actual plot, and i really enjoyed it. There was no part where I felt like 'I have to stop reading' because it's too much? It was perfect. Well not perfect perfect obviously, but I had a really enjoyable experience binging it lmfao. If you don't know what TMA stands for, its The Magnus Archives, its basically like a horror podcast. This is where I admit most of my knowledge comes from other fanfics because I'm still on like season one? And I do this thing where I tune out background noise accidentally, but I wouldn't be able to fully focus on it because I'm a multi-task person, so I've been slowly doing the task of reading the transcripts for every episode out loud instead, which helps but I get a headache cause MAN they're long.

anyway this is Martin/Jon, which I'm still figuring out ships but I'm assuming that's the big whole OTP that nearly everyone ships in the fandom, but if that's not your cup of tea (cause that's understandable, I think Bakudeku is like an OTP but some people find it uncomfortable due to the previously kinda toxic relationship?) here's your warning. Uh. also. as the tags say. "The Usual TMA Warnings Apply". Which. uhh. if you're squeamish at just the mention of stuff maybe. don't. Or maybe if you don't like horror?? I've never actually been affected by horror books unless they're super gross or go extremely in depth about depictions of like, say, gore, so I can't actually say if the fic is scary at all, but I found myself very invested. Also uhh, Martin POV. If you've been looking at my bookmarks recently (why are you?) then you'd find it's kind of like a mix of TMA and HP x Twilight rn. Opposite sides of the spectrum kinda where ones are either romance-typical with Twilight which I've never seen, or character bashing. And then TMA's here like 'there are things more powerful and blah blah blah--' But to be fair..

At the very left is Twilight x HP. And the very right is TMA. Although a few tabs are out of sight because I have too many open. lmfao. Anyway I've been rambling. Um. Um. UH. JUst. give it a shot??? You kinda get the gist of what's going on after you read a few multi-chapter fics because it develops a timeline and they generally tend to be close to the 'start' (which I don't know when. but. worm usually.) and then you can kinda notice based on similarities between fics what's usually canon. imma shut up now (anyway martins a def fav that you might see around if i have more fics to share)

Too Much Time | TMA Fic | Fic Rec

Summary:

Lost and alone at the end of the world, Jon decides to try one last idea. It goes wrong, as his ideas usually do, when both the Web and the Spiral decide to interfere with what he's doing. For once the disaster goes his favor. Mostly.

He wouldn't have chosen to go back in time to when he was eight years old. He certainly wouldn't have chosen to catch Elias freaking Bouchard's attention before he's had a chance to do anything. And he cannot believe that his luck is so monumentally bad that he gets adopted by the man who wants to use him to end the world.

Jon has to figure out how to keep Elias away, while saving his friends and the world. And hopefully growing old enough that he can go anywhere on his own and be taken seriously.

I HAVE ANOTHER TMA FIC FOR YOU. its Time Travel but I've been getting obsessed with any and all fics where they (either Jon or Martin. Or both.) time travel back to their kid self and get adopted by elias and/or peter.

or it could just be a general non-time travel but still get adopted.

I know I have issues with reading way too many time travel fics and that the repetition can get boring. BUT THIS IS DIFFERENT. Okay. Look. im gonna be honest. its hitting close to 200k words and is nowhere near close to the beginning of the actual podcast, like with tim and sasha and martin?? its not just your average time travel!! ITS. theres uniqueness. i dont know how to explain it without spoiling it. It does get to really angsty bits (also tma fics have this weird habit of adding content warnings at the end notes. who even looks at those and then scrolls all the way up or something?? well not me, idk who does, it just kinda seems weird to leave it as an end note when its a cw for a chapter..) that have kind of gotten me mentally checking out or something, but like. fdshuifhs. what do you do when a traumatized adult gets sent back to his child body and his child body kind of. yknow? just your average issue of communicating! and also a lot of issues. a lot of trauma. woo.

in pursuit of knowledge | TMA fic

Martin was a pretty lonely kid. That was a thing that happened naturally when his only remaining parent decided it was a good idea to distance herself from him, for various reasons, none that were particularly valid.

Ever since his dad had left, his mum had taken a turn for the worst. Snapping at him for the littlest of things, even when he didn’t even do anything wrong.

It.. sucked, no matter how better and better he felt he was getting at his people-watching skills, to determine their moods and, well, thoughts, in a fruitless hope that figuring it out would be the key to finding the way to get their love.

Nurses pitied him, those out of the neighborhood, unable to hear the poisoning whispers of a mother blaming her son for all her issues, and who had converted many of her friends to hate him too.

༺𓆩𓁺𓆪༻

...was the bet they currently had on-going for a child.

A child that happened to be both Forsaken-oriented, and Beholding-oriented, because if they were going to be a married couple, then what about a family? Creating an actual child was completely out of the question, so the only other option would be to look for one. What.

-- OR, Martin gets adopted by Elias and Peter.

i read way too many fics where the tma characters get de-aged that i wrote my own.

usually the spacing is large because formatting weird so i tried deleting them and now it feels way too crowded

where there's a will, we make a way | TMA Fic | Time Travel (Fic Rec)

its. so cool. i dont know what happens in what seasons but tags apparently say like around the middle of s5?? like. i think when hes in his coma (jon)

also oh my god the author put in a shit ton of work?? like so theres a thing where Jon's unable to say his own words, and is stuck saying things from other people's statements, (its literally in the first chapter so no actual spoil) AND THE NOTES INCLUDE WHAT EPISODES HAVE THE DIALOGUE HES USING?? like

im going to give you a part from chapter 8, partly because i really wanted to show you it compiled together instead of just strings of sentences at the beginning:

Growing frantic now, Jon shakes his head vehemently: No, no, no, no, no–

“Then what?”

“…chased me – deceit – follow me” – a skip backwards – “read it – tried to read me back–”  

“Jon, slow down,” Georgie says, sensing his onrush of panic – but he can’t.

“I’ve been tricked into–”  

“–unable to look away–”  

“–there was now a tragedy to it that flowed from the words–”  

“–nothing to do but fall into it – it felt right, like it was all I could do–”  

The words come in a halting staccato, his mind speeding through statement after statement without him like a microfiche machine caught on fast-forward.

“–even as I did so, in the back of my mind I hated myself–”  

“–I didn’t stop, though – didn’t know what to do, and my mind was swimming with – the collective horror of all the things that I had seen and felt–”  

“–I struggled and fought, but it was far stronger than I was, and I could barely keep its jagged teeth from finding my throat–”  

One hand finds his throat now. He can only distantly feel fingernails digging into his skin.

“–‘alien’ might be the best word for that presence – because what it made me feel was–”  

“–something in the back of my mind, a frantic, scuttling terror – didn’t do any good, though – no matter what I might feel about it – choice didn’t even come into it–”  

The Archive was born with a purpose, and it fulfilled its role eagerly, skillfully, instinctively. It felt good, it felt right, and even now, the instinct lingers. He misses it. He craves it. He wants it back. He –

“ –the agony of being opened and remade – to have your who torn bloody from your what, and another crudely lashed into its place–”   

There is a rushing noise in his ears, drowning everything out, and he stumbles –

“–I did what I did because it was what I was supposed to do – I’m not sure I really recognize who I became–”   

see what i mean????? its COOL. scroll down to end notes and you see (for chapter 8) "- SO, [deep breath] Jon's dialogue for Chapter 8 comes from the statements in the following episodes, in order: MAG 057; 125; 029; 138; 159; 161; 143; 143 (again); 135; 027; 088; 148; 114; 114/139; 011; 094; 063; 069; 124; 020; 067; 060; 141; 160; 147; 091; 072/009/007/004; 066/020/010; 106/059; 101; 059; 004; 102; 004; 147; 160; 020; 144; 138; 107; 048/007; 128/138; 126; 062/087/007/139/070/049; 123; 065; 092/145; 086/029; 044/012/049; 137/009/014; 091; 123; 148; 154; 154 (again); 098; 154; 129; 155; 167; 159; 057; 113; 124/057/009/143/011/017/005; 152; 152 (again); 097; 028; 023; 065; 155; 117; 117 (again); 155; 006; 113; 117 (x4); 128; 128 (again); 045/002; 016; 036/109/135; 048; 052/136/090; 124; 069; 098; 133; 058; 140; AAAAND FINALLY: 010." SO COOL???? AND OH MY GOD ALL THAT EFFORT.

TMA Writing!!! Pain Edition

My found family loving ass while listening to tma season 4: Hmm, I wonder what would happen if- [accidentally imagines a whole fic about Martin accidentally "adopting" a child that's been chosen by The Lonely and they help each other to not get consumed by their loneliness and Martin has Jon babysit the child sometimes because due to them being an avatar of The Lonely, most people just forget they exist, but Jon doesn't because Archivist and stuff, so while Martin is knee-deep in his Peter Lukas shit, he and Jon still have at least a little bit of interaction through the shared custody kind of situation with the kid that now kinda lives in the archives. Also, throughout the fic there is a slow transition form "Mister Blackwood" to "Martin" to "dad," the thought of which alone was enough to make me genuinely sad.]

Me: oh. So that's what would happen.

would anyone care to read a TMA-sona statement fic if I wrote it?

would anyone care to read a TMA-sona statement fic if I wrote it?

“Statement of Nigel Roberts regarding his experience with an art piece he created of a skyscraper.”

i am going to be sick. look at them. JonSasha,,, save me,,,,,,

“save me” they cannot even save themselves, how would they ever save me??? i am just a guy