For Day 1 of @tmaappreciationweek and I went with my Favorite Major Character
When I first got into The Magnus Archives I thought Nikola Orsinov was gonna be my favorite character in TMA because I loved the videos people made on tik tok with her voice lines and Nikola cosplayers are amazing, but I only got through a few episodes before I started really liking Jon and it all went downhill from there.
Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Magnus Archives (Podcast) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Jonathan Sims & Martin Blackwood Characters: Jonathan Sims, Martin Blackwood Additional Tags: set in S1, Friendship, Pre-Romance, Hurt/Comfort, (In a matter of speaking anyway), Fluff, tma appreciation week Summary:
As part of their recent transfer to the Archives, Elias announces that the entire archival crew must have their photo IDs re-taken. Jon is only mildly annoyed by this - what bothers him much more is Martin’s bow tie, sitting askew around his neck. He must fix it. It’s a matter of decorum.
I missed the first day of @tmaappreciationweek but I definitely wanted to finish this up for day two! I posted this sketch quite a while ago, and it’s not as polished as I’d like it to be, but I’m happy with the overall mood of it. Have some season one Jon, working too late and trying way too hard to be taken seriously.
After Prentiss, Jon is scared and hurting and more than a little
paranoid. Although he hasn’t recovered yet, he starts investigating his
employees - only to end up on Tim’s couch when he collapses. It might be
his only chance to fix what is not yet entirely broken, if only he can
shake the suspicion that Tim is a killer…
Well, no, that’s not quite true. ‘I need to know if anyone wants to kill me’
was the thought that made him bolt out of the flat this morning. He
just isn’t sure why he did it like this, after barely two hours of sleep
and running on nothing but paranoia induced adrenaline.
Now that the adrenaline is wearing off, the pain and fatigue that
still remain after Prentiss’ attack are hitting him so hard that he can
barely stand upright. And he’s nowhere close to home - he nearly made it
to Tim’s house by now. Earlier, he thought this was a good choice to
start investigating the people at the Institute. Close enough that he
could walk instead of taking the tube and suffering the writhing crowd,
and familiar enough that he knows where to hide so he can watch the
house without raising suspicion.
Now, Jon has to admit that both parts didn’t really work out. He
clearly was in no shape to walk all the way, and he’s far too aware of
all the people staring at him.
for Day 3 of @tmaappreciationweek I went with AUs and wanted to do a really short comic of how Jon and Martin meet in an AU where they knew each other before they got moved to the Archives cause fuck what Martin said about their relationship in MAG 199. After this, Tim and Sasha invited Martin to go to the pub with them and that’s how Jon and Martin become friends before the Archives uwu.
this was supposed to be an elaborate smiting scene for @tmaappreciationweek prompt: favourite scene but unfortunately! im still sick and couldn’t focus long enough to finish a project this big so. here’s a little jarchivist instead
Next one for Day 3 of @tmaappreciationweek : Season Two, how did Martin know about the Distortion stab wound? Well, I think he caught Jon trying to patch it up himself in the Archives bathroom.
[ID: A two panel image. The first panel is all black with white smoke in the middle. In the smoke there are words which read “I lied.” In the middle. The second panel is a picture of Jon’s eyes they are brown and have a reflecting of a fire in the pupils. He has silver glasses and a tuft of salt and pepper shaker hair in the front of his face. He has silver square glasses. END ID]
“I lied”
It was really hard to pick a favorite scene as I have so many favorites but this is one of my top choices. It was probably the best way to end Judes episode
For @tmaappreciationweek with Day 4, I’m going with Headcannons!
I realized I never really shared my personal gender/sexuality headcannons for the main cast who don’t have cannon ones (along with the ones that are cannon), so here’s all of them with a few extra characters.
Here we go, Day 3 of @tmaappreciationweek : Favorite Ship, Jon x Therapy XD (Okay, there’s a JonMartin hint in there!). You could probably also see it as a headcanon^^
Just so you know, this… this is an adorable look on you.
ARCHIVIST
[Impatient] Yes, yes, yes, yes…
listen this should not be a surprise to anyone
i love jon, i love martin, i love jmart - they’re bitch4bitch romantics and i like them so much
because i started listening when s5 was airing i already knew they were together so that wasn’t a surprise to me - what was a surprise was how invested i got in the relationship, i love them as individual characters and hearing it evolve was a beautiful process, i love how much they care for each other and that care and their friendship can be traced back to s1
then in s5 we got to see them actually be together and yes it wasn’t always sappy romantic stuff and a lot of their conversations were hurtful or difficult but honestly their light-hearted banter when it happened was a much needed contrast to the grim tone of the final season
they would do practically anything for one another while chiding the other one for doing the exact same thing, they are both stubborn and loyal and so so in love
Oh boy happy tma ending day! I got a lot of art ready to post today and I’m going to start with this one. Song lyric thing with the living tombstone this time
The shark was sitting in his desk chair when Jon opened his office door. Actually sitting in it, with a “hello my name is” sticker stuck to it with “Jonathan Swims, Head Sharkivist” written on it in black marker. At first, Jon was annoyed, he had no idea where to put the shark as his office was already too crowded with filing cabinets and boxes of miscellaneous statements. Then a small, petty voice inside him whispered that he should just… go along with whatever scheme that the others had hatched. So Jon turned around and walked out of his office, sat down at one of the unoccupied desks, and pulled out a book from his bag.
There was a collective muttering from his assistants and Jon did his best to hide his smile. Tim was the first to speak up, his expression cheerful but there was a definite glint to his eyes. “What’re you doing out here, boss?”
Jon continued to read for a few seconds- for dramatic effect of course- before glancing up at Tim. “Oh, sorry. Were you talking to me?”
“Yeah,” to Jon’s delight the assistants seemed confused. “Why aren’t you in your office?”
“It would appear,” it was getting harder to keep from smiling. “I’ve been demoted. Someone else was in my office, and he seems to be doing a rather good job, so…” With a shrug, Jon returned to the book. “I guess I’ll wait to see what he wants me to do.”
Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Magnus Archives (Podcast) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Martin Blackwood/Jonathan “Jon” Sims | The Archivist Characters: Martin Blackwood, Jonathan “Jon” Sims | The Archivist, Georgie Barker Additional Tags: MAG 199 Rewrite, tma appreciation week, Not Canon Compliant, We take the dialogue in 199 but make it so I feel better, Yeah that’s the fic really, Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Established Relationship, Alternate Universe-Canon Divergent, unreality, Fix-It, No beta we kayak like Tim, Rating for some heavy themes, Smoking, Canon Asexual Character Summary:
Despite himself, Martin grins a bit at the look on Jon’s face, but he remembers the point he’s trying to make and sobers quickly. “Face it, Jon, it took almost two years of crisis and trauma to even make us compatible. And that sucks. But here we are.” His gaze drops to his hands as he says quietly, “And I don’t want it to be for nothing. I won’t let it.”
There’s a pause, then Jon says, “That’s very sweet of you, Martin.” A short pause, then he amends, “Sort of.”
Martin snorts.
“But I don’t agree,” Jon continues. Martin starts to protest, but Jon waves his hand. “Yes, yes, I know, I heard you—two years of trauma, and Angela. I’m not saying we would’ve just…fallen together had nothing changed.”
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Before the end, Jon and Martin talk
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Happy tma anniversary! This is actually one of the very first fics I started for tma a year ago, and I decided to finish it up for @tmaappreciationweek. I’m sharing it for Day 5: What If?
Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Magnus Archives (Podcast) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Jonathan Sims/Martin Blackwood Characters: Jonathan Sims, Martin Blackwood Additional Tags: set early s4, Yearning, Hurt/Comfort, One Shot, jon is having a bad day, tma appreciation week, Missing Scene, Angst Summary:
Jon had nothing when he woke up from a coma - which is alright, because he’s much too busy to need things. There is one sticking point, however, that grows more irritating the longer he ignores it. That is how Jonathan Sims ends up crying to an early 2010s pop song in a Tesco Express at three in the morning.
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For Day 5 of TMA appreciation week - Season 4! Exploring my poor boy and his attempts to get a little bit of comfort.
[Image Description: A colored digital drawing of Martin Blackwood, a light-skinned fat man with long light hair, and Jonathan Sims, a thin dark-skinned man with short choppy grey hair and various scars. Martin sleeps in a chair. Jon has one arm around Martin’s middle. His opposite hand is removing Martin’s glasses as he looks at Martin fondly. A small table with two mugs sits in the background. End ID]
written for @tmaappreciationweek for the prompt ‘somewhere else’! a continuation of it will be this, always but can be read as a standalone. CW for mentions of Jon’s past traumas (including non-consensual touching, canon-typical worms, canon-typical flesh content, knife violence, spiders, and claustrophobia), wound/injury analogies, and fear of abandonment.
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Jon is tired. It drags at his eyelids, blurs his vision, makes his hands shake ever so slightly where they turn another page in his book. His wedding ring glints very faintly in the light from the lamp. He used to read without the light, squinting at the moonlit pages and holding the book so close to his face that his nose nearly brushed the paper. But Martin is a heavy sleeper—the kind who needs to set twenty alarms five minutes apart in the mornings to get up and who sleeps deep into the afternoon when given the chance—and he’d given Jon a look as he passed him the paracetamol for his eye strain headache and told him to just use the lamp.
“They say lying down with your eyes closed can be restful, even if you don’t sleep,” Martin said a moment after, in that pointed way he does when he wants Jon to learn to take care of himself but doesn’t want to outright say it.
“I know,” Jon said. He did not say that, if he lay down and closed his eyes, he likely wouldn’t have much trouble falling asleep at all.
He just wouldn’t … stay asleep. Best to avoid that inevitability as long as possible, he’s decided.
For those who wish to get something off of their chest it’s suggested that they write to the Listener. All they have to do is write a letter on paper, fold it into something that can fly- a bird, a butterfly, even a paper airplane- and leave it out overnight. The letter is said to fly to the Listener, who will visit the writer’s dreams and offer comfort.
A Somewhere Else AU where Jon becomes a deity that listens to people who just need someone to talk to without being judged.
Aaaand the last one, Day 7 of @tmaappreciationweek : Season Five, specifically Last Words. I had this idea for my art of the finale a while already and I wanted to learn a bit about drawing hands.
Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Magnus Archives (Podcast) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Jonathan “Jon” Sims | The Archivist & Tim Stoker, Martin Blackwood/Jonathan “Jon” Sims | The Archivist Characters: Jonathan “Jon” Sims | The Archivist, Tim Stoker (The Magnus Archives), Martin Blackwood Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, season 3 divergence, No beta we kayak like Tim, References to Mr. Spider and The Circus of the Other, We’re fixing Tim and Jon’s friendship babes, pre-unknowing, tma appreciation week Series: Part 2 of I’ll Be Back Again Summary:
Tim says, in as casual a voice as if he were commenting on the weather, “So, this is it, then.”
Jon, equally as good at talking about difficult things, agrees, “It seems so.”
Tim sighs and adjusts his position a bit. “I’m sorry, you know.”
This shocks Jon, and the noise he makes must indicate that, for Tim looks up with a wry grin.
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In the week leading up to the Unknowing, Tim and Jon talk
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For the last day of @tmaappreciationweek! This one’s for three different prompts: Season Three, What If?, and Friendship
And, separately, it’s been one year since I posted my first TMA fic! I couldn’t let the day pass without doing something
Chapters: 1/? Fandom: The Magnus Archives (Podcast) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Characters: Martin Blackwood, Jonathan “Jon” Sims | The Archivist, Sasha James Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Bloodborne Fusion, Don’t Have to Know Bloodborne (Video Game), it’s pre-canon bloodborne, Location: Somewhere Else (The Magnus Archives), somewhere else but noone is having a good time, Tagging as I go, 19th century medical practices, Sort of…, if you know you know, jmart status tbd, canon-typical violence Summary:
“A corpse, should be left well alone. Oh, I know very well how the secrets beckon so sweetly. Only an honest death will cure you now. Liberate you from your wild curiosity.” ~Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower or Somewhere else Martin is having a time in the wake of the Panopticon’s fall and the death of the Pupil
