skuls
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- The X-Files (140)
- The Magnus Archives (Podcast) (20)
- IT - Stephen King (6)
- IT (Movies - Muschietti) (6)
- Our Flag Means Death (TV) (2)
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The inn does look like a pirate tourist trap; it's unmistakable. Their guests show up asking about Blackbeard or The Gentleman Pirate, paint the names they've been trying to leave behind on the signs. Their old crew shows up to do some pirate networking. It's all the things Ed wanted to leave behind, right there in their living room.
But despite it all, despite all the little annoyances, and their failed attempt to leave piracy behind completely… Ed seems happy. He really does seem happy.
“It's wonderful,” says Stede. He doesn't take his eyes off Ed's face, off the way the firelight shines in his eyes. “Everything we wanted.”
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As time grows since the destruction of the Republic of Pirates, Zheng Yi Sao starts to rebuild her fleet in the hopes of revenge; Jim Jimenez confronts their lingering questions about the nature of revenge; retirement remains a popular topic of conversation; and Ed and Stede struggle to leave their past as pirates behind. But with Ricky Banes and the British determined to bring piracy to an end, the former and current crew of the Revenge find themselves in new danger... danger that may threaten their very existence itself. -
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And then, a knife, slicing through the fog of his head, clean and sharp. The sound of a voice he never thought he'd hear again: “ED!”
Ed's head shoots up, almost automatically. Months-old instincts fighting to come through; the voice makes him want to smile, makes him want to call out in return.
But it's—but he can't, and it's fucking impossible, and he must still be asleep, or—hallucinating; Jim did get him over the head; or… just—something, because this can't be real. It can't be happening.
He's not here.
“Ed! I'm here!”
Fuuuuuck.
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What if Ed had been awake when Stede and the Red Flag caught up with the Revenge?
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A series of prompts and drabbles cross-posted from Tumblr that are too short to be posted on their own.
(1. prompt: tender
2. prompt: trembling hands
3. prompt: drastic
4. a nightmare
5. georgie barker sees dead people
6. au: jon wakes up early from his coma
7. au: the archives staff rescues jon in 101) -
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Jon exhales frustratedly. "It's just that… I have an idea of how we could hide, and i-it's a little unusual, and stupid, a-and so I wanted your… to make sure you are all right with it first."
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kiss prompt 17: Needing to kiss to hide from bad guys
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Jon's last resort is to write a letter. To write down every single thing he's wanted to say to Martin, the things in his head when he woke up, the things in his head when he realized Martin wasn't here. He writes it all, says the things he knows only Martin would know, so Martin will know it's him if he ever reads it. And then he spreads it across the Internet. Posts it every single place he can think of.
Jon's desperate. He'll try anything, any desperate, silly scheme like spreading a love note all over the Internet. Anything to get Martin back.
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kiss prompts 7. “I’ve missed you” kiss & 11. “I almost lost you” kiss
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- Part 2 of Somewhere Else
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"Statement of Martin Blackwood, regarding the Magnus Institute, and everything that happened there. Statement begins."
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Or: a multipart AU based on Netflix's The Haunting of Bly Manor.
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the ones who stayed in derry by howimetyourmulder (skuls), skuls
Fandom: IT (Movies - Muschietti), IT - Stephen King
04 Mar 2020
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Six times where it wasn't Mike who stayed behind in Derry, and one time it was.
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X Files Rewatch Series by skuls
Fandom: The X-Files, The X-Files: Fight the Future (1998), The X-Files: I Want To Believe (2008)
29 Jul 2019
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Series of (mostly) unconnected stories I write as I make my way through the show again. All can be read independently, but the canon complaint stories are slightly connected.
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"I'm sorry, you were found alone."
Jon survived the apocalypse and now will go to the end of this new, unfamiliar world to find Martin again.
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10 Jul 2021
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Sasha remembers being unmade.
Tim remembers being Unknown.
Jon and Martin remember being unwound.
All of them think they're the only one.
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The S1 crew wakes up in the past with memories up till the moment they died.- Language:
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01 Jul 2021
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Workplace Engagement by acetheticallyy (judesstfrancis)
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
10 May 2021
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Martin’s first official day as an archival assistant goes much better than he’d expected. Not that he’d expected it to be bad! He’d been quite looking forward to it actually, it’s just that Martin is generally on edge. As it happens, he needn't have worried. Tim and Sasha are lovely.
Plus there’s Jon. Even if Tim and Sasha hadn’t been perfectly lovely and easy to get along with, Martin would have been able to get through it all just for the sake of getting to spend more time with his husband during the work week.
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16 May 2021
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the lives we've shared (have brought us here) by malevon
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
07 Apr 2021
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Jon gets separated from Martin on the way to Somewhere Else. Martin has been... managing, on his own, for a year now. It's fine. If he's doing his damndest to sleep through the day on the anniversary, that's no one's business but his own.
There's a knock at the door.
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01 May 2021
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Oneshot #54: home improvement: or: Jon and Martin vs. IKEA
Oneshot #55: united front: or: Martin helps Jon with his statement hunger . (Set 159/160)
Oneshot #56: evolution: or: There is an uneasy alliance at first, between Jon and the Archivist
(Short TMA JonMartin one-shots, individual warnings in chapter notes, now with a fully-functioning contents page)
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29 Mar 2021