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this love burns so yellow (becoming orange and in its time, exploding) by meliebee
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
16 Jun 2020
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Ten months after Zuko is crowned at seventeen, he faces his first coup.
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22 Aug 2025
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WANTED: Jonathan Sims AKA Archivist AKA Amnesiac Private Investigator. Known for: destroying the world and starting up a detective business in its smoking ruins. Last Seen: Accepting a sketchy case from his friend Annabelle Cane. In exchange for the cure to his adopted sister Daisy’s curse, all he has to do is hunt for a missing figure from his forgotten past. Easy, right?
WANTED: Sasha James AKA Ex-Archive Assistant. Known for: being quite thoroughly, certainly, completely dead. Last Seen: seriously, has anybody seen her?
Jon never should have accepted the case of this missing Archive Assistant. Luckily for him, he has help from his bizarre and monstrous family - help he might be better off without. Unluckily for him, he’ll have to get through supernatural London to find Sasha James - facing his own demons along the way.
Maybe the dead should stay dead. And maybe the forgotten should stay forgotten.
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- 10/10
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Bookmarked by Pheleon
04 Aug 2025
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27M seeking The Perfect Man: must be passionate, rich, attractive, charismatic, honest, and ready to love.
Jonathan Sims, Avatar of the Web, is the perfect man. He likes Martin, and Martin likes him back. He probably doesn't even have egg sacs. What's the problem?
Well, there's Jon's vain and ditzy personality. There's his overprotective family and meddling sister. And there's the small matter of a two way bet between them: that Jon can't make a man into a monster, and that Martin can't make a monster into a man, in ten days.
There's no way this can go wrong. Maybe there's no way this can go right. And if Jonathan Sims knows, why isn't he telling?
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02 Aug 2025
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Sasha James, newest Head Archivist of the Magnus Institute, knows what she’s doing.
That’s why she’s more than capable of ferreting out the secrets of the sketchy and suspicious Martin Blackwood. That’s why she can totally handle her hot-tempered and paranoid boyfriend Tim Stoker, even as he falls into a deep hole of paranoia and conspiracy.
And that’s why she’s not scared of her boss. Even if he was creepy, overly rich, pretentious, quite possibly ate trauma, and was likely an immortal psychic vampire. There was nothing scary or dangerous about Jonathan Sims.
Right?
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02 Aug 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.)
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- 5/5
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02 Aug 2025
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“Sorry,” Martin says, very calmly. He's calm. He's calm! He's calm as hell. “Jon. Jon Sims. My boyfriend. Your assistant. Is here. Being tortured eternally by an evil giant spider. With—“
“Doors.”
“With doors.”
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Sasha and Martin's terrible apocalypse roadtrip encounters a familiar face.
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01 Aug 2025
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Guilt is an emotion Jon has been intimately familiar with his entire life.
When he wakes up from his coma, he feels it more than ever.
"When has your guilt, or your sadness, or your hand-wringing ever actually stopped you from doing what it wants?"
What if Jon takes what Helen said to heart?
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Bookmarked by Pheleon
31 Jul 2025
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The knife goes in. The tower falls. When Jon opens his eyes, he is sitting in the uncomfortable chair in front of Elias Bouchard's desk, signing his employment contract as the Magnus Institute's newest researcher.
He is alone in his memories of the future; his old friends might as well be worlds away. He demonstrably does not do well alone.
Luckily, in the year 2011, he has options.
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31 Jul 2025
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Martin stands next to him on the train. His hand rests just beneath Jon’s where it grips one of the metal poles, and Martin takes care not to brush against him despite how crowded the car is. Jon considered telling Martin, when they first got on the tube, that it was okay—that his touch would be… well, it wouldn’t be bad. Not like Nikola's. But he’d stayed silent, allowing Martin to cultivate a careful space between them. They’ve been silent for the past twenty minutes as they’ve passed by station after station on their way to Martin’s flat in Brixton.
Jon adds 24 hours onto his mental countdown of the time he has left until he’s allowed to break down and tells himself that he can manage. It’s… important to have goals, he thinks. He splits this one into steps.
Step one: get to Martin’s flat without crying.
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- Part 2 of touch prompts
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18 Jun 2025
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Woke Up In The Name That I Wore Last Night by dramatispersonae
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
29 Aug 2020
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The Distortion becomes Helen. The thing it leaves behind is/is not/could be/never was Michael. (Or, Jon and [identity pending] go on the Worst Road Trip Ever)
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11 Jun 2025
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Ode to Joy: or, michael distortion's guide to naming yourself by fromthepinnacletothepit
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
05 May 2020
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Michael Shelley is sacrificed to the Spiral before he has the chance to come out, even to himself. Now, as an avatar of the Spiral, his identity is even MORE painful and confusing. Alone and filled with pain he doesn't even know how to name, he searches for acceptance in the one person who ever really knew him-Gerry Keay.
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“What do you want to be called then,” Gerry says and wraps his arms around Michael’s back.
This conversation hurts. This question hurts. Everything hurts, so long as no one knows about his gender, so long as he has to go on being someone he’s not, someone he just can’t be anymore. He doesn’t know how much longer he can stand it.
“I dunnooooo,” he says, grinning, but inside he knows his name isn’t Michael. It’s just not. He doesn’t have a name. He never has. And it’s absence is like a hole in his chest.
The creature that might as well be called Michael, it supposes, if you have to call it anything, thinks about this conversation while it sits on the ceiling of its hallway and slowly digs grooves into the plaster with its fingers.
Gerry, it thinks desperately. I have to find Gerry.- Language:
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11 Jun 2025
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Michael Shelley suffered from misophonia. That, almost as much as witnessing Ryan's death, pushed him towards the Spiral. When he became the vessel of the Throat of Delusion, though, he forgot what misophonia even meant.
When Helen Richardson kicks him out of the Spiral and back into the Magnus Institute, Michael has to wrestle with everything that means: being alive, being legally dead, being the empty vessel of a god of madness and fear, and still being terrified of small, insignificant sounds. To add insult to injury, he's still tied to the Archives, and to the Archivist, whom he resents on principle.
Jon isn't another Gertrude, though. He shares some of Michael's fears and uncertainties; he also shares some of Michael's other sensitivities. If Michael has to live a life he didn't want to return to, he could have done worse than having to spend some of it with Jon. But the Archives are still the Archives, and the Entities are still the Entities. Freedom from their influence is always, in Michael's experience, an illusion. Especially for the Archivist... and anyone close to him.
No amount of noise-canceling headphones can protect Michael and Jon against the Fears forever.
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11 Jun 2025
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11 Jun 2025
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The Spiral Discovers The Horrors Of A 9-5 by BonkItsDev
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast), TMA - Fandom, The Magnus Archives
12 Jan 2025
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Michael Shelley was always diligent at showing up for his job. He never took sick days. He never left early or showed up late.
And apparently, even being fed to an incomprehensible entity isn't enough to stop dear Michael from doing his job. Much to the horror of everyone else. The Spiral does not know what a job is. But it has one now.
It also has Gerard Keay. A standoffish and angry man in too much black makeup and patchily dyed hair. Perhaps it's the fact that the man is so heavily tainted by the Fears that keeps The Distortion's interest so vested in Gerry, or maybe it's the fact that Michael's habits are so deeply ingrained into its deformed body and mind that it can't help but seek him out. The Distortion has yet to figure out why. And it's not as if Gerard Keay himself is much assistance. He's too busy trying to wrap his nicotine-addicted brain around the constant FUCKERY he's being subjected to.
[Initial concept inspired by @podcast-hemocytoblast on Tumblr]
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11 Jun 2025
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“He was born. He was pointless. And he should’ve died.”
Michael Shelley knows very little. The main points of his knowledge can be summarised as follows:
One: He is, as far as he knows, still Michael–although this is dubious, and perhaps does not count.
Two: The world that he lives in is not what he thought it was. It never has been, and it never will be again.
Three: He cannot, in any circumstances from now until the end of days, trust Gertrude Robinson.An AU in which the Great Twisting crumbled before Michael could be consumed by The Distortion–and he emerges, alive and angry about it. Alternatively, an AU in which Gertrude begins to work on her theories about the rituals much, much earlier, and Gerry finds himself chasing the mystery that is Michael Shelley.
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Bookmarked by Pheleon
11 Jun 2025
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Jude digs up an acquaintance's grave with the help of a person she met on the train. She still hasn't decided how many people will be leaving this alive.
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11 Jun 2025
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“So,” the creature smiled, a twisted thing of fangs and woven deceit, “before we go any further. Hello Archivist.”
An arm reached up to tilt his hat chivalrously at her. He fixed his octet of arachnid eyes to hers, and Sasha felt her breath catch in her throat.
“I’m Mr. Spider.”Jonathan Sims had always hated spiders. The phantom sensations of silk cloying down his throat, of skittering legs and venomous bites.
He was always meant to be a part of Mother’s plan, except this time the book did not land where it may have. This time, the door did not close shut.
Mr. Spider wants more.
This time, the door creaked back open.Based on apocalypsokane’s comic
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Bookmarked by Pheleon
07 Jun 2025
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“Hello,” says the preposterously good looking version of Tim. “Is Tim here?”
“Oh-- no, I’m sorry. He went out to do some fieldwork. He should be back in… I don’t know, it could be a while, actually. I could call him?” Martin belatedly stands up. It feels weird, having a conversation with someone while seated several feet away from them. He approaches him.
“No, that’s alright,” says the man who is even prettier close up. It’s awful. “I’ll just see him at his flat, then. Thought I could catch him for a brief chat at work while I was in the neighborhood.”
“I could tell him you stopped by?” he suggests. “What’s your name?”
“Danny,” the man says. “I’m his little brother.”
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- Part 2 of life is a rollercoaster
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07 Jun 2025
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It’s a stupid-drafty manor—huge, never properly lit, all its frippery fraying at the edges. It has literal skeletons in the walls. It has too many rooms, a foyer right out of Crimson Peak, an empty cement hole with crumbling cherubs in the back yard that might have once been someone’s idea of a pond, and a library with more cursed books than Gerry could shake a match at.
The part of Gerry that once used Sharpies to blacken his eyebrows loves this place with a truly unholy passion.
If only it didn’t belong to the reason the world was going to end.
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05 Jun 2025
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The voice gets under his skin. Is it pleasing or terrifying? Inside his head or out? Is it even real, or is his still-human brain just cobbling monster-sounds into something he can comprehend?
It’s impossible to get out of his head, whether literal or not.
Doesn’t matter, though, because the answer Michael gives is a terrible one, and ends the same way: Gertrude could protect herself, Jon can’t, and he’s going to die for her sins.
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05 Jun 2025