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lgbtq people are like "look at my babygirl!!!" and the babygirl is a middle-aged man who has gone through the horrors of life

#the magnus archives

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Oh, I finally found the right word to describe my reaction to Santa exploding in a glorious accidental sacrifice to save Earth while Young Justice watched in horror. The word is "flabbergasted"

#oh well then! #cursed post #undescribed #dc comics #what a thing to see the first time i log in all week #thank u for the explanation i hate it <3

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Oh, I finally found the right word to describe my reaction to Santa exploding in a glorious accidental sacrifice to save Earth while Young Justice watched in horror. The word is "flabbergasted"

#hey what

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broke: batfam finds out about tim’s missing spleen

woke: batfam finds out about how many assassins tim blew up while bruce was dead

#this thread is everything actually #tim drake #batman #batfam #undescribed #hilarious #q

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hhhhhhhh

That feeling tho when you find that fic writer that just absolutely fucking

understands the characters to their core

writes so well they–just so–they just—their writing is—-THEY WRITE GOOD

shatters your bad mood with a new update

writes a fic that you can read over again and still clutch at your heart like HOLY SHIT I FUCKING LOVE–I LOVE THIS FIC

writes a scene that has you all giddy in public and that one random stranger asks you like “ooo you are smiling :) :) is that a boy :) you are talking to :)” and you’re like “no I’m reading a Everybody Lives/Nobody Dies AU, please leave”

understands and portrays the characters better than the people who make MOVIES with those characters

amazing. just amazing. fic writers are awesome

#thank u so much for the tag mari <3 #have been off tumblr for the past few months due to Catastrophic Dearth Of Spoons but this was such a lovely thing to come back to #i am hhhhhhhhh #thank 🥲💜

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it’s psychological horror to YOU. to me it’s a romcom

#the magnus archives #thank u ovid <3

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Some more Time Travel Cat!Jon au!! 

#i am . love #tma #other people's art #good Content #hhh

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WIP: Fairy fic???? 👀👀👀

fairy fic my love, my magnum opus, my masterpiece, my eternal frustration because *something* is wrong with the plot that’s preventing me from getting it finished but??? i don’t know what???

it’s about jon being a two-inch tall house fairy who lives by himself in an abandoned mansion,,, until martin, tim, and sasha move in :))) along with their horrible master jonah magnus :(((

the fairy lore in this world is that fairies are made to quietly and quasi-secretly trade gifts with the humans who live in their house, so when these humans move into jon’s house he gets INSTANTLY attached and declares war on jonah magnus for making Jon’s Humans miserable. (the deal with the humans is that Jonah is like a magic scholar and his ‘apprentices’ are all “blessed” [they were gifted with magic powers at birth by their parents’ house fairies] and he does cruel experiments on them)

it’s got,,, A LOT of whump. just. a lot. also polychives <3

Jon flies away, returns with a sprig of dried leaves clutched between his hands. It’s awkward, nearly unbalancing him, but he places it on the table in front of Martin. He waits a moment, then pushes it towards Martin, looking up at him expectantly.

“For me?” Martin says, and Jon nods emphatically.

“I—What is it?” Martin asks. “Tea?”

Jon shakes his head, waving his hands wildly. He points to the plant, then mimes choking, and dramatically falls over, limp. He opens his eyes, looking at Martin expectantly.

Martin opens his mouth. “Poison?” he manages to squeak out.

Jon smiles, nodding happily.

Martin claps a hand over his mouth. “Oh my god. You have poison.”

Jon shakes his head, and firmly pushes the plant closer to Martin.

“Right. I have poison.”

Jon nods. He points to the plant, then makes his little J hand signal for Jonah.

“I’m not—” Martin lowers his voice. “I can’t just kill Jonah!”

Jon frowns.

“Murder is bad, Jon! And, and—what would we do after? Just hide the body and pretend everything was fine?”

Jon nods, as if this is evident.

#just got a like on this post (shoutout friend <3) which reminded me of its existence #i love this premise so much. so much #''right. *i* have poison'' martin my beloved i love them. a lot #dear suttton if u ever figure out the snarl in this plot. please i will read it So quickly i cannot tell u how much i want to read more #thank u for this snippet house fairy!jon is giving me so much life rn #tma #other people's storytelling

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HOT SINGLES DOOMED BY THE NARRATIVE IN YOUR AREA!!!!!!!!! CLICK NOW!!!

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I personally am one of those people that believes that Martin’s first ever real relationship beyond a small handful of dates is with Jon BUT I think that before dating Jon sometimes he’d be in conversations with like coworkers shooting the shit about past romantic/sexual experiences and since those motherfuckers don’t need to know shit or speculate on his status AND since it’s fun it’s free it’s easy he’d just fuckin lie about it

#HHHHHHHHHHHHHHH #i am FEELING #hh h #important tags from the author: #in my head this finishes with wtgfs and jmart living together and martin getting questioned by random assorted acquaintances like. #isnt it weird? that u two bfs? live with ur ex gfs? and hes like no it's great. rip to you but im different (lying) #tim's definitely alive also he's just offscreen #/author's tags #i am Weeping but could not tell you more about my emotional state which is i think the best thing a piece of writing can do to me #this is. everything actually #tma #other people's storytelling #good. good content man #martin k blackwood #best and most beloved serial liar in the business #<3 #good st uff

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but the thing is, melanie hates jon because he is so very much like her.

they work in adjacent fields, they've got such similar temperaments - they both run straight for whatever supernatural horror they need to understand, they both suck at planning ahead (poisoned coffee, melanie?) and they both lash out as a primary defense mechanism - and jon wasn't qualified for his job, and martin's only "degree" was in paranormal psychology, so clearly the Institute was hiring from a broader pool than "qualified archivists." i can't imagine ghost studies are all that lucrative as a field. if melanie hadn't made it as a youtuber, what would she have done? we don't know a lot about her educational background but - she knows what it's like, to need to know. she walked into the Institute and got a job because Elias saw that he could use her.

If she'd had a legitimate encounter sooner, if she'd started her quest a few years early, if she'd come to the Institute to give her statement and stayed to use their library before Gertrude had died -

Or even if she just couldn't survive on a youtuber's salary, if she'd gone looking for job postings in relevant fields -

It could have been her. She looks at Jon, and she sees exactly who she could have been. It's only luck that it wasn't.

And that's the kicker, isn't it? It's luck, that she's in her shoes instead of Jon's.

And is she supposed to feel lucky? To feel thankful that she's had to suffer through attack after attack, Elias showing her how her father (her dad, who called her his little moth) died screaming, her body torn open by things that don't exist, her sense of self slipping as she ripped into flesh with no recognizable form, her trust violated as she woke up to two of the few remaining people who are supposed to be on her side cutting into her against her will - to feel lucky, because she had to gouge her eyes out just to have her body back in her control -

Is she supposed to be happy that she lived through all that? Is she supposed to be glad, just because she could have been Jon?

Nobody told Melanie she needed to feel sorry for Jon, or give him her sympathy, or any other kind of pity. She just wants to give it, because God, what he'd gone through -

(Thank God it wasn't her -)

- Fuck that, she isn't lucky.

She hates Jon, because she refuses to feel grateful for the horror show her life has been. (Because she's grateful, that it wasn't her; and she's furious, because - yes it was. she paid the price of the apocalypse in blood and scars and trauma, too. She wasn't Jon, and could have been - but fuck it, she was still Melanie. and the hell that she has lived through isn't nothing.)

It's just bad luck, that it was Jon of all people. It's just bad luck, that it was Melanie.

No one here is lucky.

#tma #the magnus archives #tma meta #melanie king #linden's originals #i just have a lot of Feelings ok #tangentially related but one of these days i'm gonna write the post abt basira #bc i love to joke abt jon relying on the local lesbians to make good decisions! it is very fun. but also #incredibly inaccurate. jon made bad decisions (mainly due to a dearth of information and a wealth of fear) #but he didn't make better decisions when he let the wlw take charge! #basira was the one who convinced(/coerced? definitely pressured but details beyond that are lacking) jon into performing surgery #on melanie's leg. left to his own devices idk what jon would have done but it sure as hell wouldn't have been #''roofie my coworker to perform nonconsensual surgery'' #if only bc that is Not something that would occur to him. & idc man it's a messy situation all around #there was no good choice there (there never was) but that? that wasn't the right one. and i think that's the other piece at play here #melanie didn't forgive him for that. i sure wouldn't. and she gets it - she does: there were no good choices - #but how is she supposed to care about the suffering that guy of all people went through? when it feels like it invalidates her own? #how are you supposed to feel about your reflection in a face that stars in all your nightmare memories? #melanie hates jon because he never gave her a reason to like him; and because he violated her (no matter how necessary it was); and #because she could have been him. because it's luck that it wasn't. #except there is no good luck in this world. not in this apocalypse - the one that's been going on for much longer for her - for them - #than since that final ritual. she's been living an apocalypse since she saw that monster in a hospital. and that matters too. #not one of them has been free in a long time. maybe ever #melanie can't pity him because feeling ''pity'' requires a level of distance she doesn't have #pity means ''there but for the grace of God go -'' but what grace? #there but for the grace of god go i? is she meant to thank someone for giving her the lot she got in life? #how is she supposed to feel glad about that? #she cannot pity him. and she cannot commiserate; those bridges have long since been burned. all that's left to feel #is a guilty kind of hatred and resentment. because in another life she might've been him; in another life still they might have been twins #linden in the tags

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Your art of Jon's reaction to hearing Michael's name reminds me of that Spongebob episode where the realtor gets fed up with all the Squidwards

As soon as I read this I had to draw it 🙏💕 ty for the inspiration

anyway Happy Halloween

#tma #i'm love #other people's art #good content #happy halloween <3

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happy halloween to everyone and happy first birthday to all that is fear and all that is terror and all that is the awful dread that crawls and chokes and blinds and falls and twists and leaves and hides and weaves and burns and hunts and rips and bleeds and dies!

#<3 #tma

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today i offer you the s1 crew as scooby doo characters, tomorrow? who knows!

#op i am in love #tma #the magnus archives #HHHHHHHHHH #lookit THEM #other people's art #not pictured: daisy!scoob

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*lotions you* *lotions you* *lotions you* *lotions you* *lotions you* *lotions you*

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Hey, I read your fanfic, “the Lives We’ve Shared.” For some reason, this was the only thing I could picture for the scene with Jon and Georgie

It lost a lot of detail in the photo, so I'm sorry about that. I love this story and this scene especially. I know this wasn't what you were going for, but that's what I pictured for some reason. I hope you have a wonderful day.

ohhhh my gosh this is. absolutely gorgeous. clicking for quality brings a lot of the detail back i think? and it is INCREDIBLE detail i am so honoured hhhhh

thank you for sharing this with me!! if it's alright i'd like to add a link to this (or embed the photo directly, if i can figure out how to do that?) to the chapter in question? i am in love with this image it is So perfect

#ask linden #HHHHHHHH

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WAIT TMA ANNIE ISNT FROM TMA?????? So my perception of my besties blorbcast has been based around something not from the podcast???

truly my worst crime on this website has been convincing multiple people that my silly little oc is a character you can learn more about by listening to tma

#to be fair there is a recurring character named annie that nobody ever talks about #i honestly just assumed u really really liked annie willett #she deserves more love anyway #tma #fandom misc #hilarious