October 2025

kairos-polaris:

early morning haterism

I deeply hate the whole “Jon doesn’t deserve martin” thing because what does it even mean! martin is not some saint or angel. he isn’t even a good person. in terms of being a monster he is firmly s3 Jon except worse because he is in denial and refuses to think about it (straight up refuses to know anything about his own domain) while being a massive hypocrite. there is nothing special about martin that makes Jon undeserving of him or his love. and while Helen saying that doesn’t mean it’s true, martin doesn’t actually refute it (and if he does, please tell me, I can’t remember)

this whole idea of martin being too good for Jon just irks me so much because he isn’t even that good! he is petty and rude and kind of an asshole. which is fine! as long as you don’t act like he is morally superior to Jon and Jon should grovel and be grateful 💀

martinblackwoodhaterfan:

martinblackwoodhaterfan:

I’m at MAG 22 in my relisten, and it got me thinking a bit about the fandom’s certainty that Jon absolutely despised Martin’s guts.

I’m pretty sure Jon’s dislike of Martin was only ever prompted by the man’s utter incompetence and didn’t extend much further, considering how he offered Martin a room in the archives without any hesitation whatsoever. Jon’s far more caring than most people give him credit for

I mean. If he really was that much of a cold and unempathetic asshole as people like to paint him, then he wouldn’t have offered Martin anything. He could’ve just said something along the lines of “well I’m sure that was very upsetting” and “I guess I need to thank you for bringing me proof of your encounter, I’ll look into it more and let you know what I find”. He could’ve carefully researched Martin’s statement and then sent him back to his flat, since the Prentiss threat was likely gone. He didn’t have to offer Martin a place to stay. But he did! And it was kind and thoughtful of him!

Yeah, I also keep thinking about how Jon (as far as he knew) was already putting himself at risk, because

He’s terrified. And he gives Martin his safe, protected vault while he himself takes great risks to get to his place while Jane Prentiss was threatening him and, to his knowledge, on the hunt for him. To his knowledge, he might be her next target. It is absolutely not safe for him to be out in the open like that. But he still does it, because he tries to keep Martin safe.

An unsympathetic asshole might have just told Martin that he’d look into it and then locked himself in his vaulted document storage, fearing for his life. Jon did the opposite.

Not only Jon is kind and thoughtful far more than people give him credit for, but he’s also willing to sacrifice his life for Martin - a man he thinks of as incompetent and actively making Jon’s life harder.

Fans who say Jonathan Sims is a cold and unsympathetic asshole lack media comprehension. Jon has always been rather kind and caring in his actions and put himself at risk for other people.

secrettreestuffidk:

there reeeeeeeaaaalllyy is something there about The Web in TMA repeatedly targeting children

Like. the eldritch fear of having no control over your circumstances, no autonomy, choices made for you, being forced down paths you don’t want, being given choices but they don’t actually matter and nothing you choose will tangibly change anything.

it’s almost like there’s an entire demographic colloquially called “dependents” who are particularly susceptible to experiencing that horror!

and also there’s spiders

ilynpilled:

ilynpilled:

a character being a perpetrator does not negate their victimhood and neither does their victimhood negate being a perpetrator. it is not that difficult to accept and reckon w both dimensions

bad things happening leads to more bad things happening. u can create a monster. it is a condemnation of the bad things themselves first and foremost

karu-is-not-here:

THE Archivist

jokamachai:

Tried out a new brush. Ended up with soft Jon eyes

incorporealpng:

one of these days im unleashing my draft about how jon isnt actually weak and pathetic the fandom just likes to horrifically mischaracterize him and also havent unpacked the idea that men showing emotions/struggles ≠ “weak, pathetic twink”

marstriesthings:

I’ll admit I wasn’t necessarily that attached to Jon when I started this. He was funny, I enjoyed his detached sarcasm and sometimes thought it was a bit much - but I don’t blame him because one in every 10 of the stories HE read was probably ever actually true. He was just the archivist telling me a bunch of interesting stories that seemed deeper than it was.

And then he just went “I’m…very, very tired” and my heart just did a thing and my god I think if anything bad happens to him I feel like I might cry too what the hell!?

dathen:

Who did Jon actually suspect in TMA season 2?

An age-old fandom joke is to make fun of season 2 Jon for “accusing Tim and Martin of murder” and “he suspected everyone but Not!Sasha.”  I’m on a roll from my “did season 1 Jon dismiss statements” series, so now I gotta tackle this one!

My main goal is to point out the times he DID suspect Not!Sasha–and was the only human on the team to do so–but for the hell of it I’m going to keep a tally of how many times he mentions investigating/suspecting each person.  I’m also going to note other out-of-place things Jon noticed, some of which were due to Leitner, but definitely played a role in confirming that someone within the archives was being deceptive.

Czytaj dalej

manueladominguezliker:

Jon, as a kid, had a habit of wandering into places he shouldn’t. So I propose as a teen he discovered parkour and that’s how he was able to get into Gertrude’s flat and also in his downtime he dresses like a skater in layered short sleeve over long sleeve shirts and wide legged pants. He alternates between wearing Converse and Vans but he prefers Vans.