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He Says He Is An Experimental Theologian by ErinPtah
Fandoms: Welcome to Night Vale, His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
04 Feb 2021
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Ever since Carlos was little, he and his daemon have been fans of Dr. Lyra Belacqua. Both as the most groundbreaking experimental theologian of the 20th century, and as the heroine of dozens of fantasy-adventure children's stories (based very loosely on her own mysterious childhood).
But Lyra's true legacy is still bigger than Carlos ever imagined...until he took a team of scholars to study Rusakov particles in the most theologically interesting community in Hispania Nova. Now his own day-to-day life is full of things like angels, witches, hooded spectres, portals between worlds, vague yet menacing branches of the Magisterium, and a man who walks around without his daemon and can read an alethiometer as easily as a stop sign.
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- Part 1 of Republic of Heaven Community Radio
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- English
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- 182,093
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- 33/33
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01 Feb 2021
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In Melanie’s defense, she wouldn’t have had to do it if working at the Magnus Institute wasn’t so freaking boring.
In which Daisy falsifies a CV, Basira quits Artifact Storage and unleashes psychological warfare upon her new boss, Melanie narcissistically vlogs her increasingly unproductive workplace, and Jon makes a new friend.
And if you can't get ahead, get even.
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- Part 1 of MLM/WLW Hostility
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 27,852
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- 2/2
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- 1
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20 Sep 2020
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'Sexy eye cult celibate?' Martin began to type and then hurriedly backspaced. Best to be specific.
'Can eye priests have sex,' he revised, and clicked enter.
In which Martin accidentally joins a cult, but quickly realizes he's in need of salvation. Hijinks ensue.
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- Part 1 of the gospel according to us
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- English
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- 51,601
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- 16/16
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22 Aug 2020
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The Magnus Institute is an astronautical vessel tasked with the mission of locating and investigating a string of previously untouched planets for potential human habitation. Led by a newly replaced computer system, The Archivist 2.0, the crew are woken up from centuries of sleep to research a new planetoid-mass. But will Archival Assistant Martin Blackwood and the other crew members find more questions than answers on the planet's surface? And why does the computer's voice make him feel like that?
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- Part 1 of strings between the stars
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- English
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- 70,399
- Chapters:
- 10/10
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- 626
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21 Aug 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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- English
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- 48,328
- Chapters:
- 8/8
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- 532
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- 1,362
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17 Aug 2020
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Martin Blackwood loved people. He was a caretaker by nature, so it only seemed right that he would end up with a job that allowed him to bring comfort to people. He did it in one of the most tangible ways: food. Martin ran a diner on the outskirts of London. It was far enough away from the hustle and bustle of the city to be peaceful, but close enough to get a steady stream of patrons. In only a few short years of running it, he’d gathered a large amount of loyal customers who he knew by name.
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Just a wholesome AU where Martin owns a diner! It's got pining, shenanigans, and a little bit of mystery solving, and much more. This is purely self-indulgent and fluffy.Bookmarked by ithrowmyviolets
17 Aug 2020
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Drawn to that Sort of Library Magic by god_commissioned_me
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
11 Aug 2020
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AU in which Jon is a tired and disabled librarian, Martin is becoming a regular habitant of the poetry section, and each is struggling to cope with change and feelings of purposelessness. Bonding, shy flirting, and emotional growth ensue.
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- Part 1 of Library Magic
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- English
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- 51,369
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- 11/11
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17 Aug 2020
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Martin finds them eventually, tapered white wax, twenty or thirty of them beside a box of ancient (but dry) matches, and a little brass dish with a slot that just about fits the base of the candle. He feels like Scrooge, fitting the whole thing together, tucking a few more into his pocket before striking a match -
Which immediately goes out.
“Oh, fuck you,” Martin says into the murk.
Again -
And again, the fire vanishes. Quick and efficient as a breath. He shivers in the sudden cold.
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Martin Blackwood inherits an old country house, but there are more inhabitants than he first realises. When eventually the paranormal occurrences become too frequent and dangerous for him to ignore, he has to turn to a group of misfit ghost hunters for help.
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- Part 1 of paranormal activity
- Language:
- English
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- 82,471
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- 10/10
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17 Aug 2020
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I'd Be Under the Sea but You Hold Me Above by Write_as_Rain
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
21 Jun 2020
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As a fisherman working under Captain Lukas, Martin has learned to keep his head down and fade into the mist. He does his work, walks further down the path Peter has laid before him, and if members of the crew occasionally disappear, Martin has learned not to ask about them. Has learned to stop caring at all.
At least until the crew pull up something strange and wonderful and impossible, tangled in one of the fishing nets. Something that Peter means ill.
No, Martin doesn't... care. But maybe he can save it. Maybe they can save each other.
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25 Jun 2020
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Following the tragic death of Gertrude Robinson, Jonathan Sims finds himself the new owner of her bookstore, Parnassus. Between the complete mess of the shelves, the strange owner of the building, and the stoner who acts as his sole employee, getting the store into operating condition is a daunting task.
As things begin to go bump in the night, Jon isn't sure if this arrangement is as fortunate for all involved as Jonah, his landlord, says it is.
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06 Jun 2020
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Martin had always been favored by the summer courts, and moving up north to the little village of Lacuna is a difficult adjustment. It's rainy and lonely and everyone seems to have a strange, distant relationship with the local faerie court.
However: there is a strange man in a cloak who walks past Martin's remote little cottage every few days.
However: there is a moth that keeps getting stuck in Martin's house during the rain.
These events are not as disconnected as they first appear.
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- English
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- 8/8
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05 Jun 2020
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Jon needs a date for a wedding. Martin needs better decision making skills. Tim and Sasha are both delighted by these events.
“I object,” Tim said with a cunning smile as he met Martin’s eyes. “Personally, I think agreeing to be the fake boyfriend of your boss who also happens to be your crush is the best decision you could have ever made.”
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- English
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- 7/15
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- 498
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31 May 2020
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Hollows Round His Eager Eyes by aliensinflowercrowns
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
09 Aug 2019
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Statement of Martin Blackwood, regarding his relationship with the entity formerly known as Jonathan Sims. Statement forcibly taken directly from subject by Elias Bouchard, head of the Magnus Institute.
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- English
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- 4,528
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- 1/1
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- 31
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28 May 2020
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wouldn't it be nice by acetheticallyy (judesstfrancis)
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
17 Mar 2020
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Jon spends his two free hours in the middle of the day in a little half-desk, half-cubicle in the far corner of the fourth floor of the main library, right next to a wall of large windows overlooking one of the student garages. The area is so secluded that Jon is pretty sure most people think the fourth floor of the main library ends about two shelves over. Well, at least everyone but the student that’s started to sit in the desk pressed against the back of his.
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- Part 1 of campus crush - college au 'verse
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- English
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- 61,195
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- 2/2
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- 407
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27 May 2020
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He doesn’t say the most selfish words of all. Because, who says Jon isn’t listening? Who says Jon can’t hear him? And saying I love you right now would be the most selfish thing Martin could do.
5 times Martin doesn't say I love you and the 1 time he does
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27 May 2020
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hal·cy·on | /ˈhalsēən/ | adjective
tranquil period of happiness
But Jon is interested. This– this rattling on had been endlessly annoying before, distracting at the best of times and infuriating at the worst, but… God, now it’s just soothing. Jon rests his head on his pillow and listens to Martin talk about things he doesn’t understand– and it’s… nice.
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27 May 2020
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“Sure,” Georgie says, still laughing at him. At least someone is having fun. “Don’t you have assistants for that kind of thing?”
“Yes, but…” He huffs, scratching the back of his neck. “I wasn’t going to ask one of them to download an app called...Lover? Lov-rrr? I don’t know how you say it.” He flaps his hands dismissively. “There are--unions and such. It wouldn’t be appropriate.”
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jon makes a fake account on a dating app to investigate a statement. tim sets martin up with fake account on a dating app to boost his self-confidence. it goes exactly how you might expect.
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- 11/11
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- 1,081
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24 May 2020
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How is Martin supposed to tell Jon that he panicked, stupidly, when the lovely old lady down the village asked him what they were doing in this part of the world? Got the shopping! Oh, by the way, we're married now! Whole village thinks we're on our honeymoon, hope you don't mind!
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- Part 1 of it is what you have.
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23 May 2020
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"What is this," Martin looks up and asks, flatly.
Sasha doesn't look all that phased or upset, but she trips over her words a bit like she is. "It's a — well, a pen-pal... thing! I ripped it off of the wall at the pub." Sasha rips everything off of the wall at the pub.
"And you want me to sign up for it." Martin squints, skeptically, and then adds as an afterthought, "there is no way you got this off of the wall at Harp & Crest."
Tim and Sasha think that Martin ought to do something about this whole loneliness business.
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22 May 2020
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The Reminiscences of Martin Blackwood, Post Mortem by AuralQueer
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
14 Feb 2020
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Martin Blackwood is a reporter for The Observer newspaper. He’s a normal enough man, and he’d like to keep it that way. He doesn’t have much reason to suspect anything too far out of the ordinary when he heads down to University College Hospital on a hunch to visit the man who may or may not be dead.
The man’s name is Jonathan Sims: a failed academic by all accounts, though what he’d been doing before the explosion that threw him into a six month coma is at the mercy of baseless public speculation. Now he’s lying in an empty ward with no heartbeat, dreaming.
It seems like enough to fill a slow news day.
A Victorian AU. Herein lies artistic licence, ghosts, and the slowest burn you ever did see.
- Language:
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- 108,599
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- 27/27
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17 May 2020