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Kingsley’s nearly at the corner when he hears a door creak open. The wind carries a whisper to his ears.
“Lucien?”
[In which Kingsley discovers that the last occupant of his body had a younger sister.]
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02 May 2023
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a poison that never stung by a-m (ante__meridiem)
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
05 Aug 2021
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Melanie is grateful to Jon three times.
The first, for coming back at all. Not that she missed him, not that she’s glad he’s not dead. But the last few months in the Institute have felt hollow and it’s a sickening relief to have a target for her anger again.
The second, for asking to remove the bullet, and allowing her to refuse. This is a more complicated gratitude, because she doesn’t want it. But she can’t bring herself to wish he’d kept this meagre measure of control, of choice, from her. So she is grateful, and she hates it.
The third, for being the obvious monster everyone has their eye on, so they never think to ask about the blood under her nail, don’t wonder when she slips out the door of the archives with a knife in hand. Maybe she should feel guiltier for letting Jon take the fall, knowing full well that everyone involved in their little intervention has at least as much blood on their hands. But she still hates him just enough to be able to swallow down the guilt, so she lets Basira threaten him and swears that she won’t let any of her victims make it back to the Institute with their stories.
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05 Aug 2021
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Essek has a moment to consider that gravity-based trust exercises have never worked for him, and then the spell hits. He leans back into it, falls, falls.
(In which Essek is resurrected by the Mighty Nein and framed for innocence.)
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24 Jun 2021
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Jon sighs. “Martin, look, I’m not… I’m not poking fun, or god forbid angry at you. I just… Going into… whatever I’m about to go into, not knowing if I’ll make it back, I just… After so long scorning you, distrusting you, and you still caring? I just worry that I somehow managed to… fool you.”
Martin scoffs. “You haven’t fooled me, Jon. Not even a little bit. That’s exactly the thing.” He exhales. “I guess… I’ve been able to spot your attempts to fool everyone with the ‘disinterested academic’ schtick and it just… didn’t work on me. Through all the tired bullshit I saw… I saw you.”
The night before Jon leaves for The Unknowing, Martin stops by his office for a few last words of encouragement. One more cup of tea. But their interaction unfolds into something far, far different.
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- Part 3 of No Use Crying
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25 Apr 2021
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a fine line (between loving too much and loving too little) by lexa_lives_in_us
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
09 Mar 2019
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They decide to elope.
Decide to, because it doesn’t end up being that much of a secret escape.
The Mighty Nein catch up the them the moment they try to sneak out the door of the tavern.Or
I can’t sleep and this came out of nowhere.
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01 Dec 2020
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Martin was tired of Strangers wearing his friends' faces. Wearing his face. Still, it was nothing a gun couldn't solve.
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Or, the Scottish Safe house gets a few visitors from the past. Jon and Martin get a chance to set things right.
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- 12/?
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15 Aug 2020
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“Have a nice day–” Melanie's eyes drop to the front of her apron, squinting a little until she finds her nametag. “Georgie.”
Melanie King just said her name.[title from anna sun by walk the moon]
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26 Jul 2020
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"...Technology will strip us of what it means to be human, and leave us something alien and cold. We will press a button that in a moment will destroy everything we have ever been...” (MAG 134)
The Magnus Institute in London is at the forefront of cybernetic enhancements. Jonathan Sims, former patient and current medical archivist, is its most valuable employee.
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20 Jul 2020
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“Well you look…”
“Kind of dreadful?”
“A little bit”
“I had an inkling, I might”
Jon’s lips barely move as speaks, and he coughs again.
“Are you…?”, Martin starts again, but Jon merely looks up at him, blinking with heavy lids and he closes his mouth.
“You have to narrow that down a bit, I’m afraid”
Even before Jon has finished his sentence, both of them go still.
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What would have happened if Martin had returned from his walk before the archivist had read out the end of the world?
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16 Jul 2020
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In 2019, Georgie Barker needs a new start. After a tragic event sours her creative output, she finds herself in possession of Magnus Hall, a country home from a relative she never knew. All she wants is a break from ghosts and ghouls; What she gets instead is a local legend, a haunting mystery and an ally in Melanie King, looking for a way to restart her YouTube series after the internal collapse of her show.
In 1949, Martin Blackwood needs a new start. After his last job went sour, he finds himself newly employed by the mysterious owner of Magnus Hall, Jonathan Sims. All he wants is a job that will pay him enough to take care of his mother and not look too closely at his qualifications; what he gets instead is a generational power struggle, the flagging efforts of his new boss to gain the upper hand, and maybe a chance at love along the way.
With supernatural events escalating for Melanie and Georgie, they find themselves needing to ask two simple questions; one, who or what is haunting Magnus Hall?
Two: How do they stop it from killing again?
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08 Jul 2020
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hope your open sign is blinking still by GingerAlchemy
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
03 Jul 2020
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The harmless crush hadn’t taken Martin by surprise. At all. He knows his own weaknesses, and the day he’d first set eyes on Jon, he’d seen every last one of them glaring back at him. But as he steps into the pub on the unremarkable Thursday night on which he will fall in love, he’s thinking about fate.
Jon, on the other hand, is thinking about how soon he can reasonably leave the pub.
The next four years? An exercise in bad timing.
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20 Jun 2020
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Jon Sims is a bestselling author who hasn't written anything decent in years. Martin Blackwood is a baker who feels compelled to give a sulking stranger a free cup of tea and pastry. This is the story of how two people finally figured out how to let the happiness in.
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- 8/8
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05 Jun 2020
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Melanie’s face crumples a bit, which she does her best to quickly smooth away, not quite succeeding. Georgie’s hands burn with the need to touch her, pull her close and hold her, her chest aching with the desire to try and make all this just go away, make it less complicated, make it easy and simple for her, muscle the world into something soft and yielding, something kind. She’s had to fight and claw for so terribly long. Melanie deserves gentle.
“Okay,” Melanie says, then takes a deep breath through her nose, holds, out through her mouth, something that Georgie finds herself unconsciously matching, since they’ve practiced together so often now. “Okay.” It feels so natural when she follows it up with a soft, “Georgie, can I kiss you?”
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georgie and melanie prepare for melanie to quit the institute.Bookmarked by Portwine
04 May 2020
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One of these birds is not my bird by updownandsideways
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
02 May 2020
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Sasha James is the head archivist of the Magnus Institute, and something strange is going on with Jon.
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02 May 2020
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The visions had started small- a flash of Tim, not as Jon knew him, but with pockmarked scars marring his skin. A moment of an unusual feeling of fondness towards Sasha that didn't feel like Jon himself, but someone else's left over affection. It hadn't taken him long to realize his knowledge was... bleeding over, in unexpected ways. He adjusts his actions accordingly.
His archival assistants just want to know what the hell is going on.
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“No! Something… else. Something really strange,” Martin sat down at his desk, leaning his chin into one hand. “He… smiled? At me?”
“Really says something about him that that’s a real cause for alarm,” Tim quipped loudly from the other side of the room.- Language:
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22 Apr 2020
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in this house like a louisiana graveyard by blackwood (transjon)
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
09 Apr 2020
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“Are you glad we never left?” Martin asks.
Jon looks at him. His freckles. His teeth. His nose. The tears escaping his eyes, not because he’s sad but rather because gravity is pulling them out of his tear ducts forcibly. He looks so sweet and Jon feels like a monster for keeping him all to himself, suddenly. The whole world deserves to bask in the warm, sweet glow of his kindness. How he’d forgiven Jon. How he’s here, and warm, and present, and real.
“Yes,” Jon says, and he doesn’t think he’s let any emotion creep into his voice. “I’m glad to be here with you.”
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22 Apr 2020
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“Taako,” Hurley asks, “where’s your magic umbrella?”
Taako looks behind him.
He had tossed the Umbrastaff in the path of a neighboring vehicle, which was beginning to catch up to them. He sees them now, far in the distance, and he sees his Umbrastaff, too, lying dangerously close to its wheels. As if on cue, he watches the tires crush it to pieces.
“Whoops,” he says.
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Lup is trapped.
And then she isn’t.
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In which Taako breaks his umbrella during the Petals to the Metal race, unknowingly freeing Lup, who is almost immediately captured by Kravitz. After becoming a member of the Raven Queen's retinue with Kravitz as her trainer, she has two missions: 1) find her family, and 2) ruin Kravitz's afterlife.
A story about enemies becoming friends and lost families finding their way back to one another.- Language:
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18 Apr 2020
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Honestly, it made sense that anger was the first to return. It had been the last to leave him. The thing he had clung to until the moment Peter had flung him out of reality and onto that beach.
Jon and Martin deal with the aftermath of The Lonely and learn that there are consequences to pissing off an eldritch power.
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11 Apr 2020
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01 Apr 2020
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An Open Door of Opportunity by i_am_made_of_memoriies
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
02 Jun 2020
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“I will give you a choice, Martin,” Helen offered, cocking her head to one side. Her undulating off-brown hair fell with her head just a second too late. “You may return to the past and try your hardest to prevent Jonah from getting his way alone, or you may bring the Archivist. What do you pick?”
Helen offers Martin a chance to go back in time and prevent Jonah's final ritual.
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31 Mar 2020