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1. Wings Twitch, Legs are Going (Don’t Get Sentimental) by DevilBoy_BloodBath for candyskiez

   Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast), Malevolent (Podcast)  

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Gen, Multi
   • Work in Progress

   18 Nov 2025

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Arthur Lester & Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist
   • John & Arthur Lester
   • Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist & Tim Stoker
   • Martin Blackwood & Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist
   • Jane Prentiss and Arthur Lester
   • Arthur Lester
   • John (Malevolent)
   • Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist
   • Tim Stoker (The Magnus Archives)
   • Jane Prentiss
   • Martin Blackwood
   • Sasha James
   • Gerard Keay
   • Elias Bouchard | Jonah Magnus
   • I will add more character tags as they become more relevant
   • Peter Lukas
   • Rosie Zampano
   • Bella Saltzman (mentioned) - Character
   • Faroe Lester (mentioned)
   • Original Characters
   • Michael | The Distortion (The Magnus Archives)
   • Agnes Montague
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Alternate Universe - 1930s
   • Transfeminine Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist
   • (she doesn’t know this yet unfortunately)
   • Aromantic Arthur Lester
   • Corruption Avatar Arthur Lester
   • Canon-Typical The Corruption Content (The Magnus Archives)
   • Tender Horror
   • so many bugs
   • Only Horror if you aren’t on this wavelength tbh
   • Moth Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist
   • (eventually) - Freeform
   • Codependency
   • symbiosis
   • Child Death
   • Implied/Referenced Suicide
   • Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism
   • Corruption Avatar Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist
   • Queer Themes
   • Canon Disabled Character
   • Body Horror
   • Police Brutality
   • Ableism
   • Original Statement (The Magnus Archives)
   • Period Typical Attitudes
   • Bisexual Tim Stoker (The Magnus Archives)

   Summary

   It is 1934, and the Magnus Institute has not YET been infested with worms, though Mr. Blackwood surely has rambled on about them plenty to the Archivist’s horror. Jonathan Sims reads a statement about one Arthur Lester that feels far too much like a man reaching into a different sort of wasp’s nest, (or like one is reaching into HIM) though, and curiosity truly is an awful sort of thing. He’s always been quite a moth to a flame, hasn’t he?

   Or; AU in which Arthur and John are part of the TMA universe but everyone is in 1934 and things get Insectoid.

   (Title is from Let Down by Radiohead. Yes. I know. I know...)

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   23,390

   Chapters:

   7/?

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