13 Works by canariesbelowground
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Gerry knew ‘love at first sight’ was bullshit. Love took time, it took work, it took a hell of a lot more than a glance. But the moment he and his daemon laid eyes on his soon-to-be best friend, there was familiarity. The love came later.
Love was the beat of a raven’s wing, the curve of a vulture’s beak, feathers mingled on the floor, the touch of a fated hand. It all comes out after a disastrous Leitner hunting trip.
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Jon thought that the Circus had him for about two and a half weeks before Gerry found him. Two and a half weeks tied to that chair at the mercy of Nikola, unable to escape, unable to stop her from treating him like another doll in her collection. In a way she got what she wanted—Jon had never felt more like a stranger in his own skin.
After two and a half weeks Gerry found him, took him home, peeled him an orange, and reminded him what gentleness is. The peel of an orange beneath fingernails speaks a thousand words. Healing won’t come easy, but it will come, and Gerry will be right there beside him.
[This fic is rated M for depictions of sexual assault. The assault is Nikola moisturizing Jon. NO explicit content/sex is in this fic. Please read my author’s note for more details of the CWs!!]
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solitary lights in an empty city by canariesbelowground
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
12 Nov 2025
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This isn’t a democracy. Jon steals the Watcher’s Crown, driving the knife into the heart of Jonah Magnus until it stops blinking. This isn’t up to a vote. Gerry steals the Web’s Lighter, smokes his last cigarette at the end of the world, and barricades the door. The Fears are going to die. They are going to starve. The Web shrivels and unravels. The Pupil of Eye and its beloved Priest wait it out in the Panopticon. Together.
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A slow, sleepy, Sunday morning with Jon and Gerry and the different shapes intimacy can take. A life in the cold can make an astonishingly warm soul.
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When it came down to it, the only real requirement for working at the Magnus Institute was that you had to be nosy. Apparently, Jon has a secret partner and the Archival Assistants are invested.
Glimpses of Jon and Gerry’s relationship through the eyes of Jon’s mostly well-meaning coworkers.
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Years after his death, after years of hard questions, Gerry meets a person that truly understands him. It only takes one conversation to trust him. He tells Jon where to find his journals, lets him know the parts of him nobody else cared enough to bother knowing.
Jon sees him and, somehow, they find each other in the pages. This is what it means to fall in love with the 'what if,' to love someone already gone. This is an old song. You know how it ends.
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Against the backdrop of a sultry summer, in a world just slightly to the left of the one we all know, two remarkably lonely children meet in an unremarkable park. At only eight years old, Gerry Keay pulls a Leitner from the cobweb covered hands of Jonathan Sims. The spider webs don’t have such a strong hold on them this time around.
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1973. Jonathan Sims is a bright young reporter with a point of view and a dangerous past he’s trying to outrun. A gay bar in San Francisco was the last place he would expect to get the interview of a lifetime.
1973. Gerry Keay has been dead for two years.
Don’t be afraid, just start the tape.
[absolutely no interview with the vampire knowledge needed]
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wager with no luck by canariesbelowground
Fandoms: The Mechanisms (Band), Gunpowder Tim vs. The Moon Kaiser - The Mechanisms (Song)
03 Aug 2025
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And so it came to pass in the reign of Kaiser Luna the First of Panem, the 42nd Annual Hunger Games dawned upon every man, woman, and child. An unlikely alliance that sings the brutal hymn of gunpowder forms in the arena and they’re not going down quietly.
Jonny, Tim, and Bertie are reaped for the Hunger Games, but there can only be one victor. Too bad Jonny and Tim had to fall in love over it.
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i left a part of me back in new york by canariesbelowground
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
26 Mar 2025
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Jon’s soulmate died in 2014, before he ever got to meet them. Years later, he hears the first and last words his soulmate will ever say to him in the same day. It's too late, he has to let him go.
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Mike Crew is Buried, but not killed. Beneath all that dirt, he cannot feel the sky, no matter how much he struggles or wishes to scream.
Simon, Harriet, and Oliver (an honorary Fairchild at this point) are going to dig him up, but first they have to find the grave. It starts with a phone call from the Web's puppeteer, of all things.
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between teeth of stray dogs by canariesbelowground
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
16 Mar 2025
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Crowley thinks for a moment, then says, “How about Bowie? You know, like David Bowie? Do you like that?”
The dog yips and it’s decided.OR: After Aziraphale leaves, Crowley adopts a stray dog. They aren't so different.
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Peter opens the door.
A figure stands on his porch, half hunched over himself, a hand pressed to his chest. Rain, like tears, drips from his black salt-and-pepper streaked hair. A bloodstained hand hovered where the door had once been. A golden ring was on the fourth finger.
The man’s head lifts and gray eyes lock with his. “Peter?”
“Elias?”OR: Jonah Magnus, as all things, eventually dies. As his life flashes before his eyes, he sees Peter Lukas over and over. Somewhere, somewhere else, they are reunited. They're far happier about it than one might imagine.