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   Get a Load of this Monster by VoidSpeak, windriderr

   Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)  

   • Teen And Up Audiences
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • No category
   • Work in Progress

   25 Nov 2025

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Martin Blackwood/Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist
   • Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist
   • Martin Blackwood
   • Sasha James
   • Tim Stoker (The Magnus Archives)
   • Elias Bouchard
   • Unimportant OC appearances
   • Michael | The Distortion (The Magnus Archives)
   • Most characters encountered in Canon (eventually)
   • Moth Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist
   • Monster Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist
   • The Mechanisms Were Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist's College | University Band
   • Time Travel Fix-It
   • I swear we'll fix it eventually
   • but in the meantime everyone gets to suffer a little (a lot)
   • Canon-Typical Worms (The Magnus Archives)
   • Pretty much all canon entity content eventually
   • canon-typical trauma
   • see notes for cw
   • No beta we kayak like Tim
   • gender is kind of the least of one's concerns when one has turned into a giant moth-monster
   • Jon is the wettest cat in the history of wet cats
   • Sasha gets to girlboss (as she deserves)
   • Betareaders as of chapter 35 I think
   • Co-written as of chapter 47
   • authors are evil and cruel
   • authors also cannot confine a single plot point to one (1) chapter to save their lives
   • (sned heple)
   • S5 spoilers
   • Spoilers
   • ending spoilers

   Summary

   As everything ends, as the tower crumbles around them, Jon and Martin hold each other in a firm embrace. What they see of the world shatters, and Jon breaks with it. He awakened, alone, confused, and something was terribly wrong with him.

    

   I created my account specifically because moth jon moth jon moTH JON MOTH JO-

    

   (yes the title is a music reference, sue me; most of the chapter titles are going to be references to songs used for Magnus Archives AMVs, or The Mechanisms lyrics)
   This work is somewhat inspired by this fanfic by Deanpala, in which Jon dies at the end of S5 and is sent back into the world of S1 MAG as a moth-monster archivist entity (it's good and quite a bit more fluffy than mine)

   Series

   • Part 1 of Shattered Fears

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