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and then that word grew louder and louder by Duck_Life
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
18 Jul 2020
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Martin reflects on how much of himself he had to give up for his master plan.
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15 Jan 2026
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Jon's first night in Chicago, he and Martin talk.
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“It’s just,” he presses his fingertips to his forehead. “It feels odd, it feels bad, it feels difficult and discordant almost, in this…” Horror of my making. Cage of my craftwork. This Catch-22, this slaughterhouse, god I’m sorry, I’m so sorry – “Situation… to have to do the mundanities. Eating, sleeping -”
“Keeping up the Duolingo streak.”
Jon huffs.
“Indeed, keeping up the – shit!”
Martin laughs, properly, and Jon can see him in his mind’s eye – crinkles at his temples and dimple hollowing out his cheek.
“That’s the sound of a man who’s neglected his Spanish past participles.”
I can read every language in the world. I can speak every dialect, and form every sound, and fool every native. But I started that bloody streak the day I started as Head Archivist, some ego-fragility fuelled quest for yet more pseudo-intellectualism and guess what, Martin Blackwood, that is the day I met you. I could Know the days since we met, of course I could, but this physical counter is messy, and human, and you are messy, and human, and I will cling to it with ragged fingernails even if I never get -
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14 Jan 2026
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Ask an Exec: How to Navigate Cultish Colleagues, Soul-Stealing Bosses, and the End of the World at Work by shinyopals
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
02 May 2023
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I've recently been unexpectedly promoted to lead a department in my organisation, wrote the anonymous emailer.
As there was no one working here when I arrived, my manager, who is head of the organisation, had promised me the choice of my own assistants. However, without warning, he simply presented me with an additional assistant. This new assistant’s first act on his first day was to let a dog into the office. It took several hours to catch and clean up after this dog and it has only been downhill from there. I admit I'm not entirely sure what to do with this assistant now I'm stuck with him. I'm hoping you have some advice?
Kind regards,
New ManagerAbigail Bailey runs a successful management advice blog. One frequent contributor is from a workplace with some... issues.
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The stranger smiles, eyes wet, like Martin’s just given him everything he’s ever dreamed of and more. “Just—look around. We did it, Martin, we made it.”
Martin flinches back, out of reach of the man’s bloodstained hands, and stares at him. Something is wrong here. So, so wrong. From the blood anointing them both to the way this man says his name like there are worlds of meaning behind it, everything about this is wrong. “Did what?” he pleads. “I- I’m sorry, do I know you?”
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13 Jan 2023
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if you read only one post-canon fic, make it this one; perfect characterisation, beautiful romance, heartbreaking feelings, and every chapter made me cry 10/10
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She wakes, back in her thirty years old body. She looks at herself in the mirror, naked, eyes sliding over shapes both familiar and foreign. All the traces of the years that she lived, gone. No calluses on her hands from gardening, no wrinkles from the sun, no scars, no dry elbows - she’s as she was, before. She doesn’t know if she likes it.
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06 Sep 2022
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Elias's inability to See through Jon's eyes is something he knew would happen. It has, however, turned out to not be as much of a hindrance as he’d expected.
There is, after all, always Martin Blackwood.
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Elias clenches his hand around his glass and gives into the temptation to take another drink. If he concentrates, he can see the stain from yesterday's lunch on Jon's shirt, wrinkled from wear; or the fact that his old-fashioned, ill-fitting glasses and cardigan make him look like Gertrude herself. Or even the fact that the office is grey and smells faintly of mildew and stale human odour, and is filled with towering masses of mess and paperwork. Only if he concentrates. If he doesn't, all of that mundane unpleasantness fades to nothing and instead his view of the world is passed through Martin's filter. "Oh my god do you think he'd let me braid his hair he's so pretty - stop it Martin he doesn't think of you like that - maybe we could go to dinner maybe I could make dinner - shit I can't cook - wait no he doesn't - nngh hair."
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In the run up to the Unknowing, Elias checks in on the Archives team. They do not realise this.
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29 Jul 2022
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Buried My Love in a Shallow Grave by iamcringebutiamfree
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
09 May 2022
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“Look, this thing with Peter… I need to see it through. And that means I need to be…”
“Lonely,” Jon finished for him.
“Yeah.” Martin raised the damp towel to Jon’s forehead. Gentler this time, he began to wipe away the blood and grime. “But if you think no one will care if you get hurt, then you’re wrong.”
Jon lifted his hand as though to hold Martin’s hand in place, then thought better of it and lowered it into his lap. “Right.”
“And if you go back into that coffin, I’m climbing in after you and pulling you back out.”
Jon glanced up, the ghost of a smile playing on his lips. He looked small, and frail, and so, so tired. Martin could feel his carefully-curated numbness slip away as his heart clenched at the sight.
“When was the last time you ate?” he asked. Old habits die hard.
“I-I don’t know. It didn’t matter so much, in the Buried.”
“Well, you’re not in the Buried anymore. C’mon.”
When Jon gets out of the Buried, he and Martin have a talk.
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29 Jul 2022
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“Do you mind if I sit?”
The man is thin, in an underfed sort of way. He doesn’t look that old, but his hair is streaked with grey, and there are lines of weariness around his eyes. There's something about him that reminds Martha of her late husband.
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While waiting for the nurse to call her into her routine surgical operation, Martha Sims meets a strange, vaguely familiar man.Bookmarked by RedScribbler
18 Jul 2022
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A stomach bug makes its way round the archives.
Martin reacts in typical Martin fashion - with tea, worry, and absolutely nothing else, thank you very much.
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08 Jan 2022
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“It’s a preexisting condition,” Jon explains, sipping more bitter tea. “I sort of got—hm. You know Spiderman?”
Tim raises an eyebrow.
“Heard of him, yeah.”
Jon nods, studying his tea.
“It’s sort of like that,” he says. “A spider killed and ate me when I was a child, and now I can’t stay dead.”
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Resurrection isn't all it's cracked up to be.
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29 Apr 2021
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Georgie brings the Admiral to the Institute to get free cat-sitting and give Jon one last chance to be human.
Admiral POV.
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02 Apr 2021
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GEORGIE: You must be Martin.
MARTIN: Yeah. Has Melanie been talking about me?
GEORGIE: Oh, um ... Jon used to go on about you a lot.
- MAG 149In which Jon reluctantly takes a self-care day, comes to an unwelcome conclusion about Feelings, and makes a decision.
Or, what if Georgie and Martin actually talked prior to season 4?
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27 Mar 2021
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Love in the Modern Workplace, or How to Fill Out Form 54a: A specific romantic liaison ("date") between two (2) coworkers within one (1) department by shinyopals
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
05 Jan 2021
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'I've noticed, that, ah, maybe, you- you don't, ah, hate me,' Jon says at last.
There is a lengthy silence.
'Um,' says Martin at last. 'No I- I don't- I don't hate you? Is that a- a- problem?'After returning from America, Jon shoots his shot. It goes... surprisingly well, given that it's him.
Unfortunately there's also the matter of the Magnus Institute Employee Code Of Conduct Rules Regarding Romantic Relationships Between Employees, and all of the supplementary paperwork that needs to be filled in every time they go on a date.
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06 Jan 2021
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Jon shares his perspective on the apocalypse.
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15 Dec 2020
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Sometimes death comes in pairs. The crew of the Starblaster deals with those moments and beyond.
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Haru is on his way to his first Olympic games. Makoto is a writer who has temporarily taken a job as an intern with a media company to help pay the bills. Since his boss wants all hands on deck, Makoto's been sent to help cover the games. No one seems to know that Haru and Makoto know each other. In fact, the universe seems intent on keeping it a secret.
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- Part 1 of #tokyo2020
- Part 2 of #harumakotokyo
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22 Jul 2016
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Mystery Work
Part of hiensouprivatefics
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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03 Jan 2016
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i've read this over and over, really in-character and incredibly sweet
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From the outside, the rain shelter looks so small—nowhere near as big and lonely as it felt the first day you sat there. You take a deep breath and try to avoid the sinking feeling of weight settling over your whole body. It’s only been a few days. You have food and everything. It’s going to be fine.
(But nobody came.)
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Makoto is whatever his family needs him to be. A son, an older brother-a perfect role model. It's a 24/7 job and he fulfills it happily. If means putting his own wants and needs on hold, what of it? They come first. He can wait. He just hadn't counted on Haru stepping in to say enough was enough. Haru/Makoto. Written for the kink meme.
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07 Sep 2015