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.
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.
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
