#desi!jon

[cult-of-the-eye]

Oh my god GUYS jon experimenting with his gender and wanting to wear a sari but not knowing how and then Martin teaching him how to wear one cause when he was little he helped his mum gather the pleats so he just picked it up from there

#IM SO INSANE ABOUT THIS #tma #the magnus archives #jonathan sims #martin k blackwood #jmart #desi!jon #desi!martin #tma headcanons

[samwise1548]

Sad Archivist comic before the Livestream? I think yes

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[ID: A black and white comic based off The Magnus Archives featuring Jonathan Sims, a medium skinned short man with short dark hair, and Martin Blackwood, a tall fat white man with short light hair.

Jon strikes up a conversation with Martin as they brush their teeth in front of a mirror. "You know-" he starts, "My Dadi used to say I have eyes like my father. I sometimes wonder what she'd see in them now." He speaks to his reflection in the mirror as Martin listens half asleep.

Jon lifts a hand close to his face and asks the mirror, "Would she find them pretty like you?" He pushes the skin around his eye down with pressed fingers. His eye glows green as tears start to stream. He continues with doubt, "Or would she be just as REPULSED as I am?"

He lets out a sob and wipes the tears away with an aggressive hand. Martin gently pulls the hand away, pulling Jon away from his thoughts as well. He holds his boyfriend in the bathroom, letting him cry into his arms." End ID/]

#tried my hand at screentones for once. definitely gonna need more practice but good start #tma #the magnus archives #scottish safehouse #tma s4/s5 #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #jon is desi #(still havent decided exactly from whete yet. gotta look more into it) #martin read homestuck before s5 prove me wrong #described by me #comic #my art

[hum-suffer]

Line Without A Hook by Ricky Montgomery is so Jonsa coded

#desiblr #suffer ye suhana nahi #desi tumblr #grrm #game of thrones #jon snow #jonsa #sansa stark #jon x sansa

[dspd]

Thinking about Sri Lankan Jon & Polish Martin thanks @cult-of-the-eye for that hc in lieu of the TikToks talking about how terrible British food is, especially the ones poking fun at the floppy chips and curry take away bags. Especially the questions about whether it's even hot food or only lukewarm and why everything looks so fried greasy yet limp.

Thinking about how much of their post good cow conversation consists of arguing over what food tastes best like...Martin remembers how he started tearing up from the smell alone when Jon brought level 7 vindaloo for lunch. Meanwhile, Jon says he likes the crunch and firm texture of Martin's pickles but they could use some herbs when Martin makes pickles with extra dill just for Jon as a birthday present.

After they part ways with Basira, they devolve into heated bickering after Martin confesses he likes the fish n chips shop a couple blocks from the rear entrance of the Institute and Jon goes on a wild rant about how the curry chips there isn't even curry.

"It's brown gravy, Martin! Brown gravy!!" Jon is speeding up, stomping a little as little clouds of dust declare the last steps he's made. "I looked in the back once when the guy was in the bathroom and they don't even have coriander! It's paprika! They add a tiny bit of paprika to change the color!"

Martin's stuck between defending a perfectly good junk meal and agreeing because it is just brown gravy but it's delicious and he likes looking at the way Jon's ears turn red when he's pissed and ranting.

"Well," Martin hedges, fighting to keep an open, earnest face, "it definitely tastes like most curries I've tried since I've moved to London."

He works hard to keep from bursting into giggles as Jon seems to grow an inch in his indignation, turning to face him in a manner that might be menacing if he hadn't watched the man stare down a lion fifteen hours or days or whatever time ago. Jon's face is thunderous and a couple of his extra eyes have open to glare alongside his original ones.

Then he breathes and settles.

"You have no right to judge." A playful smirk plays on Jon's face as the extra eyes fade away.

Martin raises a brow.

Jon glances at the space between them and takes a small step away.

"You think cabbage water is delicious."

Jon's barks a laughs and starts running, his bulky backpack slowing him down as Martin gasps, only half affronted at the jab over his cabbage rolls, and tries to tear after him, clacking as his camping kettle clatters and clanks again the small cooking pan tied to his own backpack.

#brown jon sims #Sri Lankan jon #desi jon #hindi jon #polish martin #jonathon sims #martin blackwood #jonmartin #s5 flirting #tma #the magnus archives

[elizaisdunn]

college era Jon 🎓📚

#eliza draws #jon sims #tma #twitter liked this one #the magnus archive fanart #jonathan sims #jonathan sims fanart #college jon #we don’t talk about Jon and Georgie attending Oxford University enough #jonny give me more content about their time at university!!!!!! #desi Jon rights btw

[iphijaania]

while i’m here something that’s annoyed me recently in the tma fandom is this ‘[character] can’t be [bad thing] because they’re from an oppressed group!’ mentality

like with basira— ‘stop drawing her in a hijab/portraying her as muslim cos she’s a policewoman and policewomen are bad to women of colour!’ completely ignoring the fact that many, many, many hijabi women are members of the met police, with many more muslim women and muslims being part of the wider uk police force. it isn’t an rare phenomena, and you can see multiple stories about muslim policewomen in the uk.

are they shitty? yeah.

do they still join? YEAH.

and, believe it or not, people from minority communities can be shitty people! like, see the recent bidders for the leader of the tory party in the uk— currently, the two lead candidates are a woman and an indian man. the top four candidates were a black woman, two white women, and an indian man. and the black woman was the one who got the backing of britain first, who are literal fascists and by far the most racist group in the uk. because guess what? she was racist!

kemi badenoch’s a black woman, yeah, but she’s also upper-class, rascist, misogynistic and homophobic. because those views are not mutually exclusive with her race.

i’m a pakistani muslim immigrant in the uk. almost the entire pakistani community where i live are tories. my flatmates at uni consisted of a nigerian immigrant, a singaporean and a malaysian— all with tory parents. idk about the usa but here, class plays a much bigger role in political view in the uk than race does, and there are a lot of rich people of colour looking to keep themselves rich. and yes there’s obviously a link between class and race, but at the same time literally the most ‘diverse’ cabinet of ministers came under boris johnson— multiple important government roles went to women, to people of colour, to women of colour, all of whom were also awful people looking to secure their own position and power.

why am i saying this? because helen being black and being a tory aren’t mutually exclusive. basira being a muslim/ a hijabi and being a police officer aren’t mutually exclusive. jude perry being asian (probably meaning south asian) and being a stock broker aren’t mutually exclusive. hell, elias being a person of colour (as some people choose to portray him as and get bashed for) and a rich classist dickhead aren’t mutually exclusive. because they, objectively, are bad people, and people of colour can be bad people!

i get it, tma has a problem with how it portrays race— almost all the characters are aracial sans the antagonists (and, arguably, basira). and said antagonists of colour never have their experiences explored in context of their race— see annabelle and her medical abuse, and oliver and his experience with homelessness and mental illness. but at the same time bashing fans for how they choose to portray characters is not it, especially because it tends to be white people with a very us-centric/ one-sided view on race and class.

this is very rambly and it comes as a result of several posts that’ve irked me because the race discourse is, in itself, very annoying. i might write more on this, but please stop shaming people for how they portray characters and saying that one portrayal of a character is ‘incorrect’ based on race grounds (‘helen can’t be black! she’s a tory!’).

people of colour can be bad people. get over it. stop policing everything for your own sense of self-righteousness.

sincerely, a brown uk-based tma fan

#goddd this is probably very badly phrased but i’m jetlagged and frustrated #white people seeing morally complex characters and thinking that unless a character is unconditionally good they must be white #literally get over urselves #people of colour can be just as shitty as u lot #stop woobifying us as a result of ur guilt complex #i love desi jon! i love hijabi basira! i love exploring their issues in context of race! #and it rlly isnt difficult or a stretch to do- a lot of their experiences ring true to desi brits and so on #anyway. #lettos says #tma

[thekylemeredith]

My guest tonight is #TheDailyShow correspondent (and Louisville native) Desi Lydic to talk #indecision2024!

Twin Peaks & The Band of Heathens also drop in + I'll play favs from Counting Crows, Natalie Merchant, Beck, The Specials, Ani DiFranco, Sonic Youth, etc

6p ET on @WFPK

#the daily show #the daily show with jon stewart #the daily show with trevor noah #jon stewart #desi lydic #last week tonight #john oliver #msnbc #comedy

[cult-of-the-eye]

if jon was born in the 2000s, his grandmother would have absolutely put ZeeTV on in the background while she cooked and jon would've been introduced to absolute bangers like "tu mera hero" and "tera hone laga hoon"

#SHINING IN THE SETTING SUN #LIKE A PEARL UPON THE OCEAN #COME AND FEEL ME #OHH FEEL MEEE #the girls who get it get it #the girls who don't don't #tma #the magnus archives #jonathan sims #tma headcanons #desi!jon

[hezigler]

Jon Stewart Rips Tucker’s Putin Interview & Desi Lydic Questions “Modera...

#desi lydic #john stewart #daily show #the daily show #the daily show with jon stewart #Youtube

[wyspersss]

happy halloween! for the occasion the scooby squad get to make their valiant return!

[image ID: a still of the original archival team dressed as the scooby doo gang.

Jon (far left) is the shortest of the group and is a desi man with dark short cut brown hair that is greying. He also has a beauty mark above his lip. He is dressed as Velma and has square shaped glasses.

Martin (left middle) is the tallest of the group and is a white man of polish decent with dark brown hair and freckles. He is dressed as Shaggy and is wearing circular glasses. He also has black stud earrings.

Tim (right middle) is a tall Filipino man with a bleached undercut and several beauty marks. He is dressed as Fred and does not wear glasses.

Sasha (far right) is a tall black woman with dark brown hair and several beauty marks. She is dressed as Daphne and has cat eye shaped glasses. She also has large circular pink earrings.

There is dialogue on the picture that reads as follows (left to right)

Jon: This is humiliating

Martin: I think it’s quite sweet!

Tim: Awe, cmon boss! Can’t you /try/ to have a little spirit?

End image ID]

PS: sorry for the sort of short ID I am very sleepy. And sorry this is so rushed it’s very late where I am

A bonus for the admiral scooby enjoyers out there

#the magnus archive fanart #the magnus archives #the magnus pod #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #jon sims #sasha james #tim stoker #tma #tma s1

[hum-suffer]

Saw a singular post about jonsa and now I'm mentally rotting again

#desiblr #suffer ye suhana nahi #desi tumblr #jonsa #jon snow #jon x sansa #sansa stark

[dspd]

I'm so feral for vitiligo!Jonathon Sims.

Not only the self-flaggellation over his evil deeds but also him losing his identity as an Indian.

Especially considering that for most BIPOC groups, there has historically been an evil invader/conqueror who takes and takes and takes until there's nothing left.

Like.

Consider that parallel of Jon losing himself to the Watcher and becoming what essentially amounts to an evil overlord conqueror who rules over you with fear.

#I have too many virigilo Jon thoughts #halp #the magnus archives #tma #jon sims #jonathan sims #vitiligo!Jon #brown jon sims #desi jon sims #hindi jon sims #Indian jon sims #vitiligo

[jdoodlin]

Desi!Jon Doodles

#the magnus archives #tma #magnuspod #jonathan sims #jonmartin #martin blackwood #ceaseless watcher #illustration #my art #fanart

[l-wandering-etranger]

HELLO YOU ARE ALSO DESI DO YOU HAVE ANY DESI JON HEADCANONS?? LOVE U

HI! OMG DIDN'T EXPECT THIS BUT YEAH I HAVE A FEW ALSO I LOVE U TOO

• jmart both get rings and both get a mangalsutra because i love symbolism sm. also its customised. idk exactly into what but its upto interpretation

• i feel like they dont invite lonelyeyes but they show up anyway and do nothing except judge What's Happining like those aunties ykow the ones who show up just for the food and gossip about everyone and their mothers

• in weddings its rlly common for the groom's and bride's friends and family to playfully lift them up higher so its hard for the other to place the garland this except gerry and tim are just lifting jon up one arm each cause martin is already so tall and everyone is laughing while throwing flowers

• both of them cry. So much.

• i feel martin would just vibe while waiting for his henna to dry meanwhile jon is having tim hold statements and sasha the recorder as he reads them with his forearms upright. georgie has that disappointed look on her face while martins just making heart eyes as actual eyes appear around jon

• i dont think they would let anyone officiate the wedding as in a outside person... they managed to convince georgie to get ordained just for this

• bangels. Jon would probably find a few from his grandmother's stuff although he isnt sure if its hers or not cause they look much more stylish than what she would wear he doesn't know it but they were his mother's

• the admiral is there. and he is sitting on jons lap and occasionally martin's through the sitting part of the rituals

#thats it really #thanks for asking me this was fun :D #tma #magnus archives #jonathan sims #jmart #jonmartin #martin blackwood #the magnus archives