Wildenessat221b's JonMartin Week 2026
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“Okay,” he nods carefully. “I’m going to play… not quite devil’s advocate, but maybe like… mildly argumentative trickster elf’s advocate here for a minute, and I don’t want you to hear it as invalidating your conclusion or anything, I’m not, I’m just raising, in the service of understanding, that… clothes and hair and presentation and stuff… and gender… they aren’t the same thing -”
Jon snorts.
“Paging Dr Johnson,” he mumbles, “With important insights for his dictionary project.”
Martin flicks his ear.
“Yes, alright, prick, but you know it’s true. There’s a difference between liking wearing roomier clothes and you know… gender stuff.”
Jon nods slowly.
Then he drags his top teeth across the curve of his bottom lip, and winces cautiously. The nodding becomes a shake of the head, as Martin had predicted it might.
“No, I… I’m pretty sure it is… gender stuff. Actually.”
He removes his hand from Martin’s and buries his face in his hands to groan.
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At the safehouse, Jon has a Big Think.
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JonMartin Week Day 1: Gender DiversitySeries
- Part 1 of Wildenessat221b's JonMartin Week 2026
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“I should have put in a good word with that theatre lot. Actually no, there will be more appropriate cults for you. The stage makeup would bring you out in a rash.”
“It doesn’t, actually,” Jon mutters distractedly, eyes still trained on the file.
Tim blinks. “I’m sorry Jon, what doesn’t what?”
“Stage makeup. It doesn’t bring me out in a rash,” he replies, flat as a pancake. Then, he flushes and jolts out of his focus on the file. “I mean, uh –”
ABANDON SHIP.
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Jon makes a slip of the tongue in front of Tim.
JonMartin week 2026 Day 2: Bands & The Mechanisms
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- Part 2 of Wildenessat221b's JonMartin Week 2026
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Somewhere Else, Martin and his little floppy notebook take stock of some differences.
JonMartin week 2026 Day 3: Somewhere Else
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- Part 3 of Wildenessat221b's JonMartin Week 2026
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At the safehouse, there is only one bed.
There is also a sofa.
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“The sofa and I were just getting acquainted, the bed’s all yours. No arguments.”
“Jon, your back is –“
“Significantly smaller than yours. It’s fine, I’ve been on a cot in my office for months. The sofa will be like memory foam,” he says breezily, thinking about the memory foam mattress that’s been sitting chopped up in the skip down the road from the institute for the last month. It’s got bits of smashed up dining table and concrete sticking out of it, like some sort of grim hedgehog.
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Ruminations on verb tenses, the colour brown, and electric blankets, on the first night at the safehouse.
JonMartin Week 2026 Day 4: I really loved you, you know.
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- Part 4 of Wildenessat221b's JonMartin Week 2026
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Five times Martin falls in love with Jon, and one time that he doesn't.
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Something rises in his chest.
And then abruptly, it changes direction –
And falls.
Oh no.
No, not that.
Anything but that.
He doesn’t have time for –
No no no…
He can't afford a new bloody poetry notebook.
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JonMartin Week 2026 Day 5: I will fall in love with you over and over again.
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- Part 5 of Wildenessat221b's JonMartin Week 2026