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1. There's no happy ending in sight for us by DesertWaterfall

   Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Gen, M/M
   • Work in Progress

   31 Oct 2025

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Past Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist/Tim Stoker - Relationship
   • Pre Martin Blackwood/Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist
   • Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist
   • Martin Blackwood
   • Tim Stoker (The Magnus Archives)
   • Alice "Daisy" Tonner
   • Basira Hussain
   • Elias Bouchard | Jonah Magnus
   • Time Loop
   • Time Travel
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Canon-Typical Violence
   • Angst
   • Spoilers up to S5
   • jon and the terrible horrible no good very bad day
   • Everyone dies at least once
   • past Jontim is haunting the narrative but isn't directly discussed
   • Jonmart is also haunting the narrative but there's only so far our boys can progress while there's a time loop
   • Suicidal Thoughts
   • mostly timeloop-typical suicidal thoughts but not always

   Summary

   Stopping the Unknowing was easy, really. Jon had done it again and again and again.

   Staying alive afterwards, however, was proving to be more of a problem.

   _

   Jon finds himself caught in a time loop on the day of the Unknowing.

   Series

   • Part 1 of DesertWaterfall's TMA works

   Language:

   English

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   48,592

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