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- secondhand smoke (I breathe you in, but honey, I don't know what you're doing to me) - by rodrikthelocalghost
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
28 Feb 2026
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“Morning! What can I get for ya?” The man piped, easy and light, and it tugged at something in the back of his mind, at that pain in the center of his chest. All at once, in a flash of sickeningly sweet recognition, that almost made him feel nauseous.
'Mornin’, ugh. Wanna cuppa? Was gonna throw one on before it got too cold to get out of bed again –
Anything I can get for ya, Jon? It can’t be easy, with your hand -
(If it’s not too late already -)'He swallowed, throat suddenly entirely too dry, and felt a little like he was going to collapse. The pain in his lungs sharpened, going quick and stabbing for just a second, and he choked out a sound that might have been a tight, constricted 'um'.
The man at the counter, with his oddly familiar voice, and copper hair, and bright blue eyes that were staring right at him, not unkindly, was - was just waiting. With a practiced smile and a mild look of questioning on his face. Waiting for this random man in his cafe to order, and get out of line, and probably not have the panic attack of a lifetime in the middle of his floor. Probably not that.
“Ah. Um. Just a coffee. Black.”
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“Hey, Jon?” Martin isn’t moving. He sturdies himself, holding Jon back like an anchor. If Jon wanted to go, all he’d have to do is drop Martin’s hand, but he can’t. They’re holding hands. They’re meant to be holding hands. “Why did you say my mother was dead?”
“I don’t know,” Jon runs his free hand through his messy curls. When had his hair gotten so long? “It just popped into my head like a passing thought, like something I heard somewhere once. We haven’t known each other that long, Martin, I’m sure I just mixed you up with someone else at the Institute.”
“Like a memory?” Martin asks, quietly.
“Sure,” Jon says. “Like a memory.”
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Between phantom earthquakes and visions of a terrifying future, something is very, very wrong at the Institute. And only Jon and Martin can see it.
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- saying you loved me (made things harder, at best) - by rodrikthelocalghost
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
20 Feb 2026
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He downed the rest of his glass in one quick motion, trying not to cough on it, and...half-succeeded. Just about.
Jon just chuckled as he gasped and choked a little on the motion, the laugh soft and slow from a few feet away, and something in him thawed out a little more at the sound, the sight. His throat felt warm. All down through his chest, it spread, with a light burning playing through the caverns of his body as the wine warmed him from the inside out. As the relief dripped in, solid and easy and fucking painful. But sweet, still. Sweet.
The light from the kitchen was playing off the curve of Jon's nose, catching in the breaks between strands of his hair, and it was worth every half-assed sensory-dulling deal and whatever bottle of putrid alcohol he had to force down to see it. To stay, and see it, and be present enough to feel how important it all was to him, again.
(If he could just let it be.)
It was worth it.
He swallowed, and smiled around the lump in his throat. The aftertaste.
"Next time, we'll get straight vodka, don't worry."OR
Jon and Martin get a little too drunk and confess their feelings. Talk. It’s as much of a disaster and a blessing as could be expected.
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Jonathan Sims works as one of The Magnus University's librarians. It's a quiet job, one he loves, aside from having to deal with students who can't return their books on time. That is until one of the janitors brings in an old book, one that is supposed to be locked away, kept away from the public, one that is from a collection he's been dying to keep his hands on
Martin Blackwood is a janitor working for The Magnus University, doing his best to get back, keeping his head down and staying unnoticed by most of the students and staff. His life is a dull rotation of work, sleep, and more work, until he finally gets to talk to the handsome librarian. Until objects around him start to become covered, for some reason, with dirt, and the weight of his responsibilities start to bear down on him
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- Part 1 of The Magnus University
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He sat on the edge of his bed, wings curled loosely behind him. They moved when he breathed - subtle, unconscious shifts, like how a hand might twitch when asleep. He could feel them in a way that was beyond just pain.
They weren’t just attached.
They were his.
That's the worst part.
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Jon gets dunked into avatarhood by Beholding mid-season 1, it also decides to turn him into a moth.
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- a celebration of an ending - by rodrikthelocalghost
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
01 Feb 2026
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He should've known better, was the thing.
And, well...maybe he did.
Maybe, like everything else at this point, he just didn't particularly care..
Martin copes (badly) in the early safehouse days.
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Shadows Over the Valley by eldest_daughter_syndrome
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast), Stardew Valley (Video Game)
24 Feb 2026
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“I haven't been here very long either, actually," Martin admitted. "I inherited the farm from my grandad when he died a few years back, but I only moved here at the beginning of the spring. I had a job, and my mum… well, it was a bit far to move, you know? You should have seen the place when I came up– it was a bit of a wreck, honestly, a real sad sight– but I'd like to think I've got it cleaned up at least a bit now. But there were some outbuildings already on the property when I moved in. You know, a chicken coop, a well, that kind of thing. I thought I might as well try to rent out the old farmhand cabins, see if anyone would be interested in moving in. Not like I'd be using all that space by myself, you know?"
Jon nodded. Did Martin always talk this much? "Well, I do appreciate it. I'll try not to be too much of a bother."AKA, Martin inherited Blackwood Farm and decided to rent out the farmhand cabins. Jon, who has just graduated from University in Zuzu City and gotten a job at the Stardew Valley Museum and Library, moves in. Things go fairly smoothly for a few weeks until Gunther vanishes, along with the entire museum collection.
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- how i long to be in bloom with you - by rodrikthelocalghost
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
03 Dec 2025
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He was sure there had to be more to it - some catch, some sinister web being built under the fabric of their skin to keep them both intact. Some grand plan, already laid and waited on, that they were just another part of. Pawns in another great game they’d never understand.
Or maybe…well? Maybe...it actually was just the end.
Maybe the Web had gotten what she’d wanted, and they were as free as they ever would be. As they ever had been.
As Jon looked up at him, a small, dopey smile layered onto his face on top of the mask of pure exhaustion, relief, he found he didn’t particularly care.
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Jon and Martin wake up Somewhere Else, with matching chest scars. At the safehouse, on the day that the apocalypse *would* have started, with...basically nothing standing in their way to a better future. (Of course, save for the memories of the last apocalypse and a half, the slight ache in both of their chests, and the absolutely unfathomable task of trying to live after getting so used to dying.There's only so long the comfort can last before it crumbles.)
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- winter is calling me, far sooner than it ought to be - by rodrikthelocalghost
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
25 Sep 2025
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Six times Martin Blackwood was cold.
And one time he...wasn't. :)Series
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Martin makes Jon tea for the first time about a week into his transfer. It’s horrible. Gag-reflex inducing. Somehow sporting all the wrong flavors.
For some reason, he does not have the heart to break this to Martin.
Little does Jon know that Martin actually makes wonderful tea. Just not for him.
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“Are you a godly man, Doctor Sims?”
“I don’t think I can answer that question in a way that matters.”
“Rest assured I don’t expect that.”
Quiet.
“I believe…” he starts, then stops to breathe in, deeply. Just to stall, just to think, just to avoid Father Lucas’s attentive gaze, he takes a drag off his cigarette “I believe in people. On the best of people. On their worst, too. But it’s very difficult to be surrounded by dying men in a tent that smells of stale blood and gunpowder and believe there’s someone up there looking out for us.”
And he can see them now. Clutching their rosaries, calling out to their mothers, to their gods, to their long lost lovers. He can see them while the nurses held hands that would inevitably grow still and he could see himself, the only one with the responsibility to change their fate, useless in the centre of it.
--In 1950s Poplar, a group of nuns and nurses carry the health of the neighbourhood on their shoulders.
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Sometimes knowledge (of fanfic tropes) works against you by SecretlyCrying
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
09 Oct 2024
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Sasha steepled her fingers. “They’re totally not actually dating, right?”
“Oh, no way. The day Jonathan ‘represses all feelings’ Sims legitimately tells someone he loves them, I’ll eat raw sushi.”
“It’s really good,” Sasha said, rehashing an old argument.
“I don’t care.”
Jon and Martin are happily dating. Tim and Sasha are positive that they’re lying.
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Three scenarios that could have happened, somewhere else.
1. A tape recorder appears in your pocket.
2. Jon wakes up in a hospital.
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Martin just wants to keep Jon safe. Sometimes the easiest way to do that is to bodily remove him from harm's way.
or, a collection of times Martin picks Jon up.
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Following in his grandmother's footsteps, Jon Sims is a potion-maker who uses his magic to support the people of his hometown, Fairside. One evening, a sudden downpour causes Martin Blackwood, the courier who delivers Jon's supplies back and forth, to knock on his door for assistance.
That first simple, cordial encounter gradually develops into something like friendship, maybe even something more. But making a new friend isn't the only trial Jon finds himself up against - something strange is brewing in Fairside, and if a solution isn't found, the outcome could be disastrous.
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Jonathan Sims the scholar and Martin Blackwood the "knight," along with the rest of their party, must journey across the continent at the behest of their institute.
Martin, who is absolutely not qualified to be there in the first place, finds himself confronting strange feelings for the scholar who seems to want nothing to do with him.
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Jon, who is desperately trying to hide and cure his mysterious condition, has a revelation of his own about his escort.
All the while, the party must survive the onslaught of horrors that they encounter during their trip.
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It's Not Living If It's Not with You by novasuper
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
25 Feb 2026
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“Martin… You’re not, uh…” Jon rubs a self-conscious hand over the back of his neck, naturally unsure about the proper way to broach the subject of one’s possible death. “You didn’t die here, did you?”
Martin swallows. “I… did, actually?” He says, his brows shooting up with an apologetic smile. He sounds as though he thinks he’s done something wrong somehow by dying.
Jon can see dead people. Martin is haunting his new flat.
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In the aftermath of the Lonely, Jon feels like a stack of papers let loose on the wind. Martin helps pull him back together.
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- Part 1 of TMA Collection
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Jonathan Sims, Head Archivist of the Magnus Institute, London, has always tried to keep both feet on the ground. It’s a pity, then, that the universe has other plans, and upon making a rather ill-advised decision to read one troublesome book, Jon finds his life quite literally turned upside down. Now six feet overground and one strong breeze away from deep space exploration, he’ll have to reckon with the forces that rule his life—and, ultimately, decide whether they rule him at all.
But while Jon pontificates from on high, the inestimable Sasha James, Archival Assistant and unintended sleuth, is trying to discover what all this is about. Surrounded by suspicious strangers, mind-mangling manuscripts, and unexplained plumbing problems, she has plenty of places to start. She’ll find out who did this, even if it means uncovering a few cults along the way. Even if she feels a strange, growing kinship with the dark. Even if her friendship with Tim is deteriorating more by the day.
Fighting the forces of darkness has never been so lonely.
In which Jon learns to let go, Sasha tries to hold tight, and hindsight is twenty-twenty—assuming you still have eyes.
Updates approximately weekly.
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- Part 2 of TMA Collection
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neither sad, nor sick, nor merry, nor well by saintbleeding
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
29 Jul 2022
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Have you heard the one where post-divorce Jon and Martin find themselves in a wedding-based romcom?