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    He pictures the funeral sometimes.

    He pictures someone he doesn’t know saying Viktor’s name wrong. He pictures screaming in public. He pictures stealing the ashes and keeping them in a protein powder container because it’s the only vessel big enough. He pictures lying in those ashes like a widow bird. He pictures baking the ashes into bread and feeding them to pigeons in the park.

    He pictures swallowing them himself.

     

    Or: When Viktor chooses a quiet death, Jayce learns how to love him to the edge of the end and carry what’s left through the sad art of letting go.

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    24 Apr 2025

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    There is a rib on Jon’s office table, glistening and pink. You pick it up, the surface tacky and moist against your palm. Amongst the panic swirling in your chest, you can’t help but feel the relief of finally holding him.

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    The way her fingers brush the handle of her gun is impossibly tender— a kind of softness you’ve never seen her show anything else, yourself included. You ignore the pang of jealousy that pierces your ribs.

     

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    jon, martin, daisy & basira, and how to kill your lover in 7 simple steps. for the magnus archives zine

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    23 Dec 2024

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    The thing is, Jonathan Sims is someone you’d call the police on if you saw him hanging around a school, those frazzled clothes and bags under his eyes, the frantic muttering and thousand-year stare.
    Yet there he sits, headteacher of The Magnus Institute for Gifted Young Minds.
    The name’s a bit misleading, it is. They’re in a bad part of town. The parents are either terrible or absent, and the kids—
    “They’re monsters,” his new and handsome coworker grins, when Martin’s signature on his contract is barely dry. “Absolute monsters. Get too close and you’ll lose some fingers. Or maybe your mind.”
    “They’re babies,” is all Martin can feebly manage, in reply, and Tim’s eyes narrow at the fondness in his voice.
    “You’ll learn.”

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    01 Dec 2024

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    not actually a lonely eyes au, in spite of the title.

    basically, what if Jonah Magnus and Peter Lukas had a joint coffeeshop/bookstore (a la barnes&noble) and everybody lived and nothing hurt?

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    29 Nov 2024

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    Martin makes Jon tea for the first time about a week into his transfer. It’s horrible. Gag-reflex inducing. Somehow sporting all the wrong flavors.

    For some reason, he does not have the heart to break this to Martin.

    Little does Jon know that Martin actually makes wonderful tea. Just not for him.

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    28 Nov 2024