Hey sorry I was curious will the fantasy fic be a thing or? I've heard it's like gonna happen but I wasnt too sure so I decided to ask you! Sorry if this is a bother :))
Oh yes it is! I’m actually working on it funnily enough, still I won’t publish it yet until I have more chapters written. It’s no bother at all, actually is nice to know someone wants to read it after all. I just wanted to do a bunch of one shots before going back into another long story.
Just heard the new episode and realized halfway through Annabelles solution that that Jon is fucked either way. Because the institute is the physical place but HE is the archive of fear now in the flesh. That’s why they have to kill Jonah and destroy the place at the same time. They both burn.
It’s literally like the fanaet I saw so long ago askflggl souffle of tragedy indeed
Once upon a time - Chapter 2 - MagicalGhost96 - The Magnus Archives (Podcast) [Archive of Our Own]
Chapter 2 of the royal lonelyeyes au is up!!
I know they are going to see if they do what Annabelle told them. But if it was me and I was told to do something for a manipulative power I would refuse out of pure spite. Let the world burn and kill the fears out of complete spite to the web. See how manipulating my entire life goes for you.
RIP to the archivist but I’m different.
Chapter six of the runaway prince Au starring Lonelyeyes
Finally we reach Elias kingdom.
This entire episode made me so mad at everyone except Jon, because no one would listen to him and even if his plan to end things faster is not ideal, it’s also perhaps the least horrible all things considered on a bigger scale.
They just ignored him and kept going as if it didnt matter what he wanted and I hate it. At this point the grim souffle is just going to be Jon going on his own to do whatever he wants because he finally snapped and I would be happy for him because holy shit guys.
I understand everyone’s points for all the plans, but they are still choosing to do the one thing Jon did not want to do out of all the options because it made him feel worse.
And I feel so bad for him, so so bad.
Martin promised to not doom the world if Jon had to die, but he is backtracking on it and I’m just tired.
So like, THANK YOU for siding with Jon and his whole "I don't want to condemn several realities to the Fears" and his friends going "But then it's US who will have to deal with them!!" and... I may be overthinking this but with everything, it feels like a very abusive dynamic? Idk if you know about the Golden Child/Parent/Escapegoat dynamic, but it's common in disfunctional families to have a favorite for the parent to project on, and a escapegoat to put blame
You know what? We’re at the end of the series and I’ve been trying to be placid about this for a long time. But screw it.
I honestly do not enjoy 75% of Team Archive. At all.
Because every last one of them is a hypocrite and a half.
This puts into words what I’ve been thinking about Team Archive for a long time. Tysm.
If I may I’d like to add as well that I really wish the narrative would have cut Jon a break at some point in almost 200 episodes. I get moral ambiguity, I get what Jonny’s going for with the ‘nobody’s perfect’ angle. Yet Jon is so rarely given a shred of sympathy by literally /any/ other character, including his own damn boyfriend, that it has really kinda ruined the other characters for me. I’d feel less unhappy about it if I thought the narrative itself was portraying this as a bad thing, and there was a little bit of this in the last episode, but it’s so quickly swept under the rug and then they’re right back to shitting on him. Jon has been traumatised, beaten, stabbed, bitten, mauled, disfigured, burned, gaslit, manipulated and tortured. He literally fucking died for the other characters and has made it plainly clear that he wishes to do so again. Melanie and Basira have absolutely no moral high ground here and I really wish the narrative of TMA would acknowledge (and properly, explicitly) that the other characters have made serious mistakes, not just Jon
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I honestly believe that part of the reason behind this is the kneejerk Creator Response of ‘I’m basing a lot of this character off me, but I don’t want to make it seem like they’re some too-perfect extra special self insert. Better make sure they take their lumps from the narrative so they know I’m not using this character to puff myself up.’
Only Jonny Sims went way too overboard with that narrative beatdown and skimped too much on letting the poor dude get some validation after the fact.
As a result, all the supporting characters who are ostensibly ‘the good guys’ never get actually called out for any of their own personal bullshit, especially the hypocritical crap they used to beat Jon over the head. Only Jon gets routinely insulted or chastised or shouted down–and even then, so many of the ‘many, many issues’ (thanks Foggy Also-Martin) he supposedly has seem to be the result of being in a constant state of trauma and abuse caused by literally every single factor of his life.
All of which would be made more palatable if the narrative ever bothered to feed Team Archive some of their own medicine; to make them A) suffer consequences for their dogpiling or B) actually develop out of it beyond a few lackluster pity-lines in the penultimate episode.
The whole thing leaves a bitter taste in my mouth because we only have the last episode to go and it’s almost definitely not going to resolve anything for Jon. He’s not going to get any catharsis, or any real apology from the others, or any proof from the narrative that he isn’t the loathsome thing he’s been constantly conditioned to believe he is.
Which also leaves me just as bitter that I can’t fully embrace the Team Archive cast without putting blinders on, plugging my ears, and going “LOL Look At These Competent Women © Being Competent © © ©, Where Would Jon Be without You??/?”
Much as I love the offshoot AUs where these people are all somehow friendly and chilling together, being each others’ support network…the narrative just is not written like that. Jon’s perpetually fucked over, most of the people he calls his friends give a fraction of a shit about him on a good day, and much as Martin loves him, he’s spent a whole season doing his best not to acknowledge any of the grim mess Jon Knows/is going through, treating the statements Jon’s forced to make like some annoying quirk rather than something Jon physically has little to no control over.
All that said, I just want to pry Jon out of there and drop him somewhere a little more hospitable. Like the Junji Ito universe.
Chapter 8!
We get them being dumb while cooking and Elias having a meltdown at seeing Peter and dumb flirting while Gertrude looks dissapointed on them <3
I need people to tell me their best selkie behaviour for a fic I’m making. So if anyone can drop me some wisdom I will be overjoyed.
More specifically how it would affect them when they are humans. Like left overs from the seal form. Plus any other advice too obviously.
Im so mad that after everything the web still managed to win!!! The fucking lighter still gaslighted Jon or well Georgie knew and took it anyways. And that Jon attempt was for nothing and that neither Basira, Melanie or Georgie seem to care.
I’m fuming.
The statement was perfect and it showed why they needed to destroy the entities and now what ? They got away with it ?????? I just cant. I have to work but my god do I want to yell about it
Also adkfkf Elias getting beaten up and dying ? Sure perfect. I love him but he had it coming and i can respect that.
Still his last: I dont want to die hit me something hard and i cant pinpoint why.
Ben Meredith you did great and I love your voice, it was perfect.
Anyways see you all in ao3 guys.
Aaaaand here it is the selkie lonelyeyes au, i decided to reverse the trope enjoy my dudes.
Guess who decided to drop all of her lonelyeyes afterlife reunion one shots in one place? Eventually i will get more.
Your favorite tma character? Your favorite episode? And your favorite ship? I'm just curious...
Oh gosh, my favourite has to be Peter Lukas and in second place Gerry because i adore my sad goth son. Through season 4 i just found Peter amusing and delightful in his evilnes, hell his first appeareance was hilarious, he saw a nervous wreck of a man and just whooshed him away. I stan one lonely man.
I actually had to think about what episode and realized half way through that i loved most of the statements from season 1. But Do not open, A fathers love and the one about the nurse who met Gerry after being burned by the lightless flame have a special place in my heart.^-^ Joshua Gillespie is a genious, Julia’s statement of her childhood was really a great episode, the way she didnt fully grasp what was going on because of her age until it was too late. Plus just… Gerry, what else to say.
I have a few more, but it would be too long otherwise.
As for ship lonelyeyes is my jam, the disfunctional relationship is something i love to see otherwise i get bored if they are always perfect, being bastards but still be somewhat in love makes me so happy- Plus just Peter being able to say bye go in a cloud of smoke and dissapear for the next few months, come back a few weeks to land and then go away again is like a mood.
Honestly i was one of the people who got tricked into thinking they were cannon by seeing fanart and im glad i did, because boy am i living by writing about them, the first ship that actually resonated with me enough to actually try and write fanfiction so yeah they have a special place in my heart.
And if i could go deeper and go for a small ship that i always found endearing despite what happened in cannon its AgnesXJack i dont know, there is something about missed chances and connections with someone who views you as a person opposed to some mystical figure that makes me feel sad for them. Jack only wanted to know her with no actual wish to use Agnes in any malicious way or for his own gain. Just saw her as a normal sad girl, and he wasnt even mad about what she did to him in the end, plus its literally a coffee shop au in cannon.
Sorry for rambling so much, thanks for asking me, it was lovely to answer!