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AWOL military android RK800-57 'Connor' turns up on the streets of Detroit, looking for answers on deviancy - looking to save the undeviated RK900 he left behind.
Connor finds help in the form of reluctant android investigator Hank Anderson and the city's resident deviant population, but the search for a soul becomes far more convoluted than he anticipated.
An RK1700 military AU exploring the nature of deviancy, spooky machine love and the high price of freedom in a pre-rev world.
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- Part 1 of Synchronicity
- Language:
- English
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- 194,600
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- 37/37
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04 Aug 2025
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In the light of his desk lamp, Martin can see the fine sheen of sweat clinging to his forehead and neck. “Sorry,” Jon apologizes, though he seems like he’s not sure what even he’s apologizing for. “I don’t know what’s wrong with me.” His fingers tremble lightly as he sips from his mug. That’s progress, at least. Jon doesn’t fight him anymore when Martin makes him tea, doesn’t force Martin into puppeteering him into drinking it — perhaps he’s finally accepted that it’s just tea, and not poison or spiders or...whatever he thought it was. Jon is a very paranoid man. Martin’s never found Beholding’s type to be particularly rational.
It’s almost endearing, when Jon acts like he has no idea what’s happening to him.
Martin reaches over and eases the mug from his hands to keep him from spilling it. “You’re hungry, Jon,” he says helpfully. “You need to eat.”It is simply in the Web's best interest that the Archivist remains well fed.
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- 11,289
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- 1/1
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Bookmarked by ArbiterOfArbitrary
30 Jul 2025
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“I know what you are, Martin.”
Creeping. Crawling. Eyes that scuttled over his skin like hundreds of tiny legs exploring and demanding more. He knew this feeling well. He was being scrutinized, but for what?
“I’m not sure I follow, sir.”
Elias’ smile did not dissipate from the cool and collected visage that screamed of seeing him (evaluating him (testing him (knowing him))). “No, I suppose you don’t,” he replied simply, going back to signing the document his employee had handed off. “You’re not in trouble, Martin, believe me. Just...” Those eyes flicked up to keep Martin still. Something inside the assistant reeled back at the sight.
“Just you keep your area clear of webs. Jonathan isn’t quite fond of spiders, I’ll have you know.”
A story in which a Watcher grows fond of a Weaver.
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25 Jul 2025
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He fell into a deep bow, smiling the whole while. “I’m the ringmaster, of course.”
“Is that skin— Is it yours?” Old wood groaned as the Archivist shifted his weight. “Originally.”
“It is!” the ringmaster said as he swooped back upright. “Nikola decided I wore it well, so she let me keep it. Why do you ask?”
The Archivist gave him another once-over. “You just… you look familiar. Like someone I know.”
On relearning, reconnecting, and redefining.
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- Part 1 of Come What May
- Language:
- English
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- 157,201
- Chapters:
- 17/17
- Collections:
- 8
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- 2,185
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Bookmarked by ArbiterOfArbitrary
25 Jul 2025
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“Did you know I don’t have a heartbeat anymore? Cut me, and I don’t bleed. I don’t eat, I don’t sleep, I’m cold all the way through. Just a walking corpse, really. I did die, after all.”
“So did I.”
“No. No you didn’t. You almost died, and you chose not to. I chose to die and I was brought back. It’s an important distinction, Jon. You still bleed.” And he puts his heart into it, leaning slightly towards the Archivist with one fist balled over his sternum, and it feels important, but Jon doesn’t quite follow and he’s too afraid to ask. Here, between knowledge and death, there is too much that should remain unsaid.
If it's fear that reduces men to beasts, what makes a man?
Jon is the Archivist, and all that entails. He also remembers that, once, he was human.
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- Part 2 of for a firmament
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 20,557
- Chapters:
- 3/3
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Bookmarked by ArbiterOfArbitrary
22 Jul 2025
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Often times, it is the worst of monsters that wear the skin of men.
Elias knows this. He knows this, and yet something in James Wright calls to him anyway.
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A “what-if OG!Elias knew something was off about the institute, but quite wasn’t sure what?” fanfic
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21 Jul 2025
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Jon finds Gertrude's statement under the floorboards of his office. Elias tries to intervene, too late; Jon's not going to let it go.
Elias doesn't mind eliminating people who get in his way.
He's less clear on how to proceed when they show up to work the following morning.
(If there's one thing Jon excels at, after all, it's refusing to let go.)
- Language:
- English
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- 20,995
- Chapters:
- 5/5
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- 12
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- 680
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Bookmarked by ArbiterOfArbitrary
20 Jul 2025
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Jonathan Sims, researcher at the Magnus Institute, is seeing a ghost. Of himself.
Of course, it’s not really him, no matter what secrets it knows, or how many arguments it brings up. So if it tells him to do something?Obviously, he’ll be doing the exact opposite.
(AKA: Jon is an idiot, past and future, but somewhere along the way it all cancels out.)
(Expect general spoilers for S4 and specifically, MAG 158.)- Language:
- English
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- 51,527
- Chapters:
- 10/10
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- 5
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Bookmarked by ArbiterOfArbitrary
19 Jul 2025
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"What do you say, Daisy. You and me head down in the tunnels, hunter and hunted, and just have at. You catch me, you kill me like every other monster you've put down."
"You catch me..."
"I catch you, I rip the fear out of you like Jared ripped the bones out of me, until you're completely empty."
Post MAG146- Jon's eating habits are being monitored. It doesn't go well.
With every statement he takes in, he loses a little more of his humanity, until there's not much left at all.
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- Part 1 of for a firmament
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 10,789
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 3
- Comments:
- 148
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- 1,452
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Bookmarked by ArbiterOfArbitrary
19 Jul 2025
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Killing Jonah Magnus hadn’t changed anything.
Not for the world, at least. It had changed everything for Elias Bouchard.
And now he's going to be the one to make a few changes.What if...what if I combined my favorite niche genres of TMA fic into ONE fic, like one OG!Elias time travel fix-it fic, would that be f*cked up or what
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18 Jul 2025
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Ballad of the Lonely by MisterDiddums
Fandoms: Venom (Marvel Movies), Venom (Marvel Comics), Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Deadpool (Movieverse), Loki (TV 2021), Fantastic Four (Comicverse), Fantastic Four (Movies 2005-2007), Doctor Strange (Movies), Silver Surfer (Marvel Comics), Doctor Strange (Comics), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Eternals (Movie 2021), Eternals (Marvel Comics)
26 Jul 2025
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Venom: The Last Dance spoilers.
Eddie is pretty fucking sure his neighbor is Spider-Man. And Spider-Man also works at The Daily Bugle, selling off actual goddamn pictures of himself. And, okay, the guy also sells any picture to the station that can be used for an article - he’s got good talent.
Eddie is also pretty fucking sure, at one time, everybody and their hamster knew that Spider-Man was his neighbor. Or, well, knew it was him, his face and name.
Which is Peter Parker.
______Or: Eddie Brock is slowly ruminating on life, and how to live alone for the first time in a long while. Peter Parker struggles similarly, but several anti-hero types (and some heroic) keep trying to feed him, while Doctor Strange learns he is not the smartest man in the room.
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17 Jul 2025
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The fears were about choices, and Jon and Martin didn't choose to be them. Two monsters who don't exist process their resentment for each other as they wait to disappear.
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17 Jul 2025
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In a ruined world, Jonathan Sims chose to keep the fears caged, and Martin Blackwood was left despondent and desperate. The Web, however, will not so easily accept death and so offers Martin something he never thought he might receive, a second chance.
Cast far into his own past, Martin decides the best way to avoid the apocalypse is to destroy the man who would spark it long before he could ensnare the people Martin cares for. Unfortunately, the murder may not go to plan, Jonah Magnus may take notice of this boy touched so strongly by the Lonely lurking about in his domain, and maybe, just maybe, this was the Web's design all along.
(This is a Very Dark Fic and you should read the tags and warnings)
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17 Jul 2025
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Beholding watches Jon as he becomes the Archivist. Needless to say, it grows as attached as a non-thinking, eldritch, being can be.
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16 Jul 2025
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He is a person, trapped in a nightmare. He is a vessel, the holder of unthinkable power bestowed upon him- or perhaps stored within him- by Cthulhu with a crush. He is a conduit, the aperture through which untold horror was brought into the world. He is a tool, a treasure, a toy. He is the Archivist and the Archive. Perhaps Melanie was the most correct, when she called him the Ceaseless Watcher’s special little boy. He certainly feels small, in the face of the waves of all-consuming- obsession? Possessiveness? It isn’t love.
Beholding is in love with Jon
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- Part 4 of Jonelias Panopticon Variations
- Part 7 of Author's Faves
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 7,294
- Chapters:
- 3/3
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- 1
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- 45
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16 Jul 2025
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Dreamweaver, or Jonah Magnus and the Man from Somewhere Else by With_the_Wolves for VentisetteStars
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
06 Oct 2023
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Jonathan Sims is a mystery of a man, and Jonah is just the person to solve him.
(Jon wakes up somewhere else. Martin is gone. He's being eaten by guilt. And this universe's version of Jonah Magnus won't leave him the hell alone.)
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 77,785
- Chapters:
- 15/15
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- 1
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- 134
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- 245
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- 4,620
Bookmarked by ArbiterOfArbitrary
08 Jul 2025
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Martin wasn't expecting his city to be attacked by a harbinger of death and destruction, and he certainly wasn't expecting to be flung a thousand years forward through time. Stranded in every way from everything he knows, he crosses paths with Jon, a summoner embarking on a pilgrimage to gain the power to defeat the death that plagues this unfamiliar and stagnant future.
Martin joins the pilgrimage as one of Jon's guardians through nothing more than chance. It's not like his presence there is going to change anything that much.
Right?
( i am literally incapable of restraining myself from writing fusion aus. it's the jmart ffx fusion au you never asked for, babey )
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- Part 1 of clutching a map of dreams
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 478,313
- Chapters:
- 95/95
- Comments:
- 1,132
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- 283
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08 Jul 2025
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Pour son Président, Gabriel serait prêt à tout. Même fricoter avec la machine à caca la plus populaire de France.
- Language:
- Français
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- 61,940
- Chapters:
- 24/24
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08 Jul 2025
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Against all odds, Jon figures out a way to reverse the apocalypse - a Web and Spiral domain that should be able to send him back in time. In order to make things as uncomplicated as possible, the plan is for him to travel back to just before the apocalypse started.
Instead he wakes up in 1995, in his eight-year-old body.
Stuck in the past at an age when nobody will take him seriously, Jon will have to team up with some of his worst enemies if he wants to survive to see the future he knows... and unfortunately, things just keep on getting more complicated from there.
on temporary (but indefinite) hiatus - see end note for more details!
(tl;dr having to write a new chapter every week has unfortunately started stressing me out way too much, so I'm going on hiatus until the fic is fully written :') edit: and now university has been kind of overwhelming me. I still swear I will finish writing this someday though, the entire ending IS plotted out!)Series
- Part 1 of "A Stitch In Time"-verse
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 89,224
- Chapters:
- 34/?
- Collections:
- 2
- Comments:
- 680
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Bookmarked by ArbiterOfArbitrary
29 Jun 2025
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Un Nœud Bleu, Blanc, Rouge by lunesaphir, VoltaKebab
Fandoms: Political RPF - France 21st c.
20 Sep 2025
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Les fils des destins de Gabriel Attal et de Jordan Bardella se sont rencontrés, se sont appréhendés, se sont tricotés une relation aussi intense que délicate.
L’attirance et l’interdit les ont rapprochés. Le danger et le doute les ont déchirés. Le manque et le désir les ont résolument entrelacés. Mais la pression de leurs carrières et de leurs différences aura eu raison d’eux, rompant le lien qui les rattachait l’un à l’autre.
Les éléments qu’ils sauront raccommoder seront-ils suffisamment solides pour que les deux hommes puissent renouer un futur commun ?
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- Part 2 of UFBBR
Bookmarked by ArbiterOfArbitrary
28 Jun 2025