TMA appreciation week 2023 (1006 words) by M_Chasmfiend Chapters: 1/7 Fandom: The Magnus Archives (Podcast) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Martin Blackwood, Jonathan “Jon” Sims | The Archivist, Tim Stoker (The Magnus Archives) Additional Tags: Roleswap, Archivist Martin Blackwood, The Magnus Archives Season 1 Summary:
Sadly I was not able to complete all of them fully due to my hand acting up, so I instead will be posting the sketches and THEN later down the line posting the final drawings :)
A year after Tim first confessed that he liked Jon, Jon unexpectedly finds himself returning his feelings. As it turns out, the two of them have more in common than they thought.
Jon/Tim, rated T, around 3.5k words. Read it on AO3!
Jon was three drinks into the evening when he realised he had a problem.
Or not a problem, per se. That was too harsh. In fact, if this thing had occurred about a year ago, back when Tim had confessed that he liked Jon, it would have been rather the opposite of a problem. But it hadn’t happened back then, and now - well, it was at least making things complicated.
The thing was, Jon wanted to kiss Tim. It was a new feeling for him, after such a long time of being friends. He always craved the physical affection Tim handed out so freely - the claps on the shoulder, the hugs, the occasional cuddle during movie night. But the urge to climb into his lap and kiss him until the whole pub knew that Tim was here with Jon - that was new.
Happy @tmaappreciationweek day 1! I drew something, but it’s kinda ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, so… fic recs! Jon-centric ones, because he’s my favourite major character to precisely no one’s surprise.
I swear, if Jon hadn’t become an Eye avatar he would have definitely been a contender to become a Flesh avatar. The fascinated tone of his comments after meat statements, how he refuses to become a vegetarian despite it all and how, of all the domains, he found the Flesh garden “beautiful” is pretty telling in my opinion
Also Jared is voices by Alex so they would already have a pretty good rapport
@tmaappreciationweek for the role swap prompt I propose flesh avatar Jonathan Sims
I don’t have the spoons to create anything for this but if anyone’s into what would actually be Jon’s Fear inclinations is welcome to use this bit of info that occasionally dances around in my brain
I work all day today but I still wanted to contribute to TMA appreciation week, so have a low quality sketch of the bestest boi, Martin Kartin Blackwood!
honestly this was just an excuse to write about agnes for me anyway (at least for the first day) but. i am still thinking about agnes gertrude role swap au its really interesting to me in ways i could not fully express in an hour or so of writing
Sorry this was really rushed but hey it’s finished!
Role swapped Martian and Annabelle because I think their both cool and Annabelle probably would have made a really good archival assistant for @tmaappreciationweek
[ID: A coloured digital sketch of a bust of Jon. He is looking slightly to the left of the viewer, with an irritated expression on his face. The background is dark red.
Character design: Jon has brown skin, dark shadows under his eyes, greying brown hair, and stubble. He has circular scars on his neck and face from worms, and three scars on his neck — from Daisy, the Hunters, and Helen, respectively. He’s wearing a green shirt. /End ID]
@tmaappreciationweek day one (which i, very cleverly, missed by not reading the dates closely enough) i chose pre-canon as an excuse to draw jon(ny) d’ville, because in gay like that
[Image ID: several images of jonny d’ville recreated with jon sims from the magnus archives. jon has medium length black hair with a few streaks of gray in it, and brown skin, but is otherwise dressed and made up the same as jonny d’ville (brown vest, white button-up, black lightning marks around the eyes). on the top left is a picture of jonny smoking a cigarette and smiling, one arm propped on his knee and clutching his gun, the redraw right next to it (as it is for all of these) on the top right is a black and white picture of jonny, one arm swung behind his head and a grimace on his face. he has a holster on his hip and is wearing a short-sleeved button up. on the bottom left is a picture of jonny performing, practically shouting into a microphone. in the lower center is another picture of a performance; in this one jonny has one arm outstretched, gesturing at someone to his side, with his microphone to his mouth. the lights color him in purple and red. he is wearing a black button-up, instead of the usual white. End ID]
@tmaappreciationweek day two (on time, this time!) with the prompt animals of tma. because… i love him?
[Image ID: a simple drawing of the admiral from the magnus archives. he is a black cat with large paws and huge gold eyes, and is curled up on his back. he is outlined with the same gold as his eyes and the background consists of the same image of him, repeated. in this image he is loafed. End ID]
Ok so I KNOW it said “character” and not “characters” but I couldn’t help myself! It was too hard to pick which one to draw, so I did both. Gotta love our queens <3
[Image Description: A digital drawing of Jonathan Sims from The Magnus Archives, lying on his back on the floor with his hands clutching his head in an expression of overwhelmed despair. One knee is bent, and the other leg straight. Beside him is a cardboard box full of loose papers, and a green binder also full of papers. Behind him are rows of stacked cardboard boxes. Jon is depicted as a chubby man with medium brown skin and short, greying dark hair. He is wearing dark purple slacks, a white dress shirt, dark grey square-framed glasses, and black shoes.]
Here’s a Jon for @tmaappreciationweek . I’m a bit late for Day 1: Favorite Major Character, but this also works as Day 2: Season One!
“From where I am sitting, I can see thousands of files. Many spread loosely around the place, others crushed into unmarked boxes. […] It is going to take me a long, long time to organize this mess.” (The Magnus Archives episode 1: Anglerfish)
Once again @tmaappreciationweek gets me to finish something I wanted to draw for a while now. In one of the Magnus Protocol streams (I think it was the Kickstarter pre-launch stream?) Jonny or Alex said something about a scrawny, beaten up street cat Admiral (and something about him being a ginger) and my mind immediately went to draw parallels to Jon getting beaten up all the time in S3.
So Day 2: Animals of TMA - The Admiral. Again.
Won’t be able to get something done for every day cause it’s con crunch season! But I can’t just pass over an opportunity to draw The Admiral. I just love cats…
@tmaappreciationweek Day 2: Celebrations! First, shoutout to @artificialdaydreamer for adding Celebrations to today’s prompt list because, second, it’s my birthday!! I’m so excited to share this ficlet, and I hope y'all enjoy a lil celebration in the archives 💜
mikaele salesa aka literally the only statement character that I always recognized lmfao, buyer and seller of cursed antiques yet caring of his crew unlike leitner, his story is so sad, yet he’s certainly one of my top faves 😭
[ID: A digital drawing of The Admiral, who is a cat, on an off-white background. He is a fluffy orange tabby with round green eyes and a pink nose. He is standing with his lower back raised as if asking to be pet there, and his tail held high. His eyes are sparkling and he is smiling, looking up at something off screen. There are green hearts above his head. end ID]
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heard it was animals day for @tmaappreciationweek so i had to draw the boy again. i think im finally starting to get my admiral design down. he has such a specific face and eye shape in my mind and i think im getting it down, as well as his fluff. it’s oddly hard to draw fluff that Looks soft but im getting there!!
[ID: First image is Jordan Kennedy. He’s white with brown hair and two extra arms. He has a beige t-shirt and blue trousers. He has ants crawling up his face. Second image is a digital sketch of a yellow door with a black handle leading to a hallway with beige walls and carpet. The background is black. /End ID]
Ok so you know “good, cheap, or fast; pick two”? Now say “good, fast, or prompt based; pick two”. We’re doing fast and prompt based. Under the cut is a version with Helen in, but it kinda sucks, so.
Anyway hiii @tmaappreciationweek i should really have done these in advance but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ This is for favourite side characters.
Jon missed his mom’s voice. She used to talk on the phone all about market shares, and Thatcherism, and inflation rates, dipping into Bengali (which she had not taught him) and back into English, filling the space.
Then she was gone.
He understood dead. He’d seen a dead fox once outside in the park, and read a book all about dead people (well, most of a book about dead people, until his mom caught him and took it away), and understood dead.
Sometimes he cried. She didn’t come. That was dead.
(Note: sort of spoilers for the whole show? Not really? It’s an AU, okay? Monster!Jon afoot.)
Tim the cat had some complaints.
They were absolutely valid. Dire, even. A matter of concern for anyone who’d listen, and of course, who’d listen was Weird Human One.
Weird Human One was sort of Tim’s favorite, but he would never admit that to anyone. Weird Human One was buzzy. His pets felt like static. His many, many eyes saw in the dark, and he never lost a toy that was shoved under the fridge or behind a door.
“Now, what’s the matter today?” said Weird Human One, following Tim’s raised orange tail (like a flag!) to the spot required: the Place of Brushing, upon the Sacred Bathroom Rug.
Chapter 1 is a Jon/Martin roleswap, chapter 2 is Julia and Trevor being Julia and Trevor, and chapter 3 is a What the Ghost about the Bermuda Triangle.
Finished in honor of @tmaappreciationweek for Favorite Major CharacterFavorite Minor CharacterAlternate Universe! (a bit late for the first couple days)
“It was back before I worked at the Institute. Before Arthur.” Tim rubbed his chest absently. “Before Danny…”
Chapters:
6/16
Fandom:
The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
Rating:
Explicit
Warnings:
Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
NSFW Content, including sex and horror. Claustrophobia and choking in this chapter. Body horror, worms, inhuman anatomy, impersonation, and burning in previous chapters.
I’m so behind on @tmaappreciationweek 😭 I’m still not done with my day one peice- I might end up sketching one each day and then coloring them all at the end 😭😭😭 anyways back on topic, this is my day one sketch. I picked the Trending Moments prompt, and went with the scene where Jon first meets Nikola because it’s the one I see the most on my fyp and most of the videos aren’t actually tma related. This will definitely looke better colored, unfortunately I don’t have my colors on me as of right now so, this is all I’m able to produce 😭.
@tmaappreciationweek day three, with the prompt ‘au’. they’re ghost-hunters and best friends (they hate each other), you honor.
[Image ID: a drawing of melanie king and jon sims from the magnus archives. melanie is a short, east asian woman with black hair dyed bright red at the tips, upon which rests a pair of sunglasses. she is frowning at her small, handheld camera, and resting one hand on the top of jon’s head. she is wearing a leather jacket with spikes on the shoulders and a knife, coffin, and star pin on the lapel. she has two patches: a trans lesbian patch and one that says ‘fuck terfs’ in trans colors. she is wearing a spiked collar and a necklace with the lesbian symbol. her shirt is dark green with ghosts on it, and she is wearing an assortment of rings and bracelets. she has a pleated red skirt over a pair of fishnets and black boots with yellow and purple laces. she has two arrows pointing at her that label her as ‘the Face’, and ‘actual ghost-hunter’. jon is sitting beside her, a notepad in one hand and a pen in the other. he is a thin, south asian man with long graying hair, glasses attached to a chain, and a turquoise button-up shirt. he has two lapel pins in the shape of eyes with a thin band between them. he is wearing a long black and blue striped skirt and calf-length socks with ghosts printed on them. he has green converse shoes on which he has put a trans pride flag. he is wearing an asexual ring and looking at his notepad. he has two arrows pointing at him that label him as ‘(skeptic) empath’ and ‘editor’. the background is of a repeated pattern of ghosts, and on it is written ‘the archives, ghost-hunters extraordinaire’. below them is written their names. End ID]
In honour of @tmaappreciationweek Day 2: Voice Actor Appreciation, because I can’t do fanart or anything fun like that, here’s a collage me gushing over Ben Meredith:
featuring Jonny Sims and Méabh de Brún, whom I also love and place amongst my top ten favourite voice actors
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