[Image description: A digital colored drawing of Martin Blackwood, a fat, light-skinned man with wavy blond hair down his neck wearing glasses, a white button up and tie with black slacks. He leans against a wall with an agitated expression, some books tucked under his arm and the opposite hand tugging at his collar. Around the corner, a smug portrait of Jonah Magnus stares at him. Everything has a green, sickly tone.
Martin, in a thought bubble: “Oh god they all know-just make it through the day and get paid if they don’t fire you (cut off) -can still make-” End ID]
just learned about @tmaappreciationweek today so uhhh real quick fav major character/pre-canon thing, Fake It Til You Make It
i think about martin working in the library pretty often actually
[image id: a torso-up digital drawing of martin blackwood holding a stack of books. martin is a fat white man with wavy reddish-brown hair, freckles, a tooth gap, faint stubble, and glasses. he’s wearing a dark gray cardigan over a green t-shirt with a yellow triforce symbol, a bandaid, and an ace ring. he smiles and looks off to the left while holding a stack of three visible books in purple, indigo, and red with pages in varying shades of yellow. the topmost book’s cover is entitled “introduction to cryptozoology” with the author listed as “i. cold.” the background is a light cream color with a light blue grid pattern over it. writing in the top left corner reads, “day 1: pre-canon/favorite major character.”/end id.]
this is for tma appreciation week but i forgot ab it yesterday so this is the one for day one djksshksjaja so heres some pre canon martin blackwood !!!!! i actually still havent finished tma but i will finish it this week, actually probably later today when i draw the thing for today heh i only have five episodes left now
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.
[Image Description: A three-panel black and white comic of Jonathan Sims, Timothy Stoker, and Martin Blackwood. Top left, Jon sits in a train car on the phone.
Jon: “So nothing’s happened while I’ve been out?”
Top right, A close up of Martin’s head. He’s talking at his phone and has some scratches and sparkles on his face.
Martin: “Not really…”
Bottom, Martin and Tim are standing in an alley littered with bits of clown including the full body of one with a cracked mask in the bottom left corner. Confetti has come out from its head. Tim squats near the ground and looks at Martin over his shoulder, resting an axe on his other shoulder and holding up a loose mask. He wears a kayaking jacket. Martin is standing, still talking on his phone while gesturing with an axe covered in sparkles and something dark.
Tim: “You done yet?”
Martin, still at the phone: “Nothing to worry about!” End ID]
Day 3 of @tmaappreciationweek featuring an au that i drew like once before this where Tim and Martin go clown hunting in season 3, and one of the many versions of tim i can never choose between as my Prime Tim
This is also a piece for the second volume of The Magnus Collection, but for a few reasons I’m sharing the piece here now!
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.
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.
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.
I have SO many headcanons I’d like to draw (especially for season 3) and SO little time, so here’s a quick something for a small headcanon I have. I like the idea that Martin, for numerous reasons (but none really positive), started to dress in full business suits while working for Peter Lukas at the beginning of season 4
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, Martin Blackwood/Gerard Keay, Eric Delano/Michael Shelley Characters: Martin Blackwood, Jonathan “Jon” Sims | The Archivist, Gerard Keay, Eric Delano, Michael Shelley Additional Tags: Somewhere Else, Angst with a Happy Ending, Canon up to MAG 196, Martin goes to therapy, And meets a certain goth there…, Jmart Separation, Pining, Longing, Heartbreak, and then they’re reunited in the end, many kisses, Angst, Healing, Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, many soft and achy feels Summary:
Martin falls through the rift at Hilltop Road and somehow has to learn to live without an anchor in a strange world so eerily like his own, and yet not at all. He finds he remembers how to be a person, after all, but without Jon, he isn’t sure he wants to.
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An unexpected (on my part) addition to @tmaappreciationweek. This wasn’t written with any specific prompt in mind, but it certainly does for my favourite ship!
When Jon came back to his office after months away, with gravedirt still under his fingernails and blood still drying on his throat, he stared at the pile of tapes on his desk for a very long time.
I’ve left some tapes for you in your office, Elias had said as Jon left, still wearing the calm, self-satisfied smile that had been plastered on his face through their entire confrontation, You’ve been away for quite awhile. I suggest you start catching up.
Jon’s first instinct was that Elias could go fuck himself. He had been ‘away’ because Elias had murdered an old man in cold blood and allowed Jon to be blamed for it, so Jon really wasn’t keen to listen to any of his suggestions.
Still, he couldn’t help his curiosity (he never could), so he looked over the tapes. Most of them were neatly labelled in Martin’s handwriting, though one or two were written by Tim, and some were in a hand he didn’t recognize - Melanie’s, if he had to guess.
Case #9900112
Case #9770211
Jon brushed his fingers over the thin plastic labels. How long had it been since he’d seen Martin’s handwriting? It was an odd thing to be nostalgic for, but, well, he had been away for quite awhile. He could forgive himself for getting a bit sentimental.
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
For the prompt “favorite ship” for @tmaappreciationweek , it’s Jon and Martin! I started listening in I think January of 2020, and this show and these two got me through the entire pandemic and finishing my degree, and it has truly supported me. I know that’s mushy, but it’s true. And I will always love and appreciate it.
Day 5 for @tmaappreciationweek and I went with “What If” Daisy didn’t Kill Mike for this one, specifically going back to a comment I made on one of the updates for Not Quite Somewhere Else where I said I think Jon would have killed Mike during his short avatar murder spree in Season 5 considering he killed Jared for something he asked Jared to do I don’t think it’s unlikely Jon would have forgotten about the time Mike threw him thousands of feet into the air.
I think Mike’s domain would have been filled with pylons cause I like Pylons and it fits his vibe to me.
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.”
Lyrics are from the song “Only Happy When it Rains,” by the band Garbage.
Image ID: A digital sketch of Martin Blackwood from The Magnus Archives, shown in profile view against a streaky grey background. Martin is a fat, white man with shaggy red hair and glasses. He is wearing tan trousers and a blue jumper, and holding a green thermos. Martin stands with his head tilted upwards. Superimposed over him are the words “pour your misery down, pour your misery down on me,” written vertically in blue text to resemble rain. End ID.
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?
I’m rearranging my prompts a little bit here, because today is the actual one-year anniversary since the podcast ended (wild!) and I wanted to get this fic out today in dedication to that. Please enjoy!
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It is 3 o’clock in the morning, Somewhere Else, and Martin can hear Jon pacing in the kitchen.
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.
Happy stabby one year anniversary! But now it’s time for a different stabby for Day 5 of @tmaappreciationweek : What if? from Season Four! What if Martin stabbed Jonah’s body in MAG 158 and took his place in the Panopticon? We know from MAG 200 that Jon became part of it after he took Jonah’s place, so I think it would probably not have been too kind on Martin either.
[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 Day 7 of @tmaappreciationweek I went with the Prompt Somewhere Else just to shamelessly show off my Post!Magnus Archives/ Infinity Train comic, and also to announce that I have started posting it on tapas! I will be keeping each part 10 pages or less, so I can continue posting the whole thing on tumblr and Instagram like before, but now navigation should be easier for new readers! The tapas link is right here!
Thank you so much for this event, mystery moderator of @tmaappreciationweek It was a lot of fun to work on stuff for each day of the week and to see everyone else’s works!
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/? 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
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