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[Image Description: A series of panels featuring parts of "Infestation" from The Magnus Archives. A couple of eyes in different styles float outside the panels. Top left: Sasha James stands in the dark with a tape recorder. This panel overlaps another, where a dark space creates a silhouette of something unseen. Top right:
Martin: A ghost? Really?
Jon: Shut up Martin
In a small middle panel, a cartoon-y Tim is saying "JOE SPOOKY". This panel overlaps two smaller panels, one with a worm and another with Sasha shouting Tim's name.
Bottom panel is Martin speaking while Tim and Jon look at him, faces turned away from the camera.
Martin: I think they have a kind of... Lo-Fi Charm.
Overlapping this panel is a smaller shot of Martin sweating embarrassed. In the bottom left of the whole page is Elias with two floating eyes. "LOL" floats in the corner of it. End ID]
it's the episode of all time babeyyyyy
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ive listened to this episode too many times, so all the interesting thoughts i could have about it have already been thought, all that's left is just 💜💜 MARTIN 💜💜 - he likes spiders, he lies to landlords, he likes his job (usually), he's pragmatic, he mostly eats ready-meals, he wanted to get proof for Jon!, he's the blorbo of all time
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MAG 187 Relisten
Activity on my first listen: taking a bath.
Lol, that elevator music xD
HELEN: "So, where’s the old ball and chain?"
Fucking Helen... Always talking about others in a degrading way... Also typical narcissistic behavior, pushing others down in order to feel like they’re better.
JON: "You hoped that by nudging us past his domain, Martin would still be there when I arrived… so I would have to pass through on my own. Apparently, you were right."
HELEN: "I thought you said you weren’t going to look inside people’s heads?"
JON: "I thought you said you weren’t people."
HELEN: "Touché."
JON: "Well, for what it’s worth, I have tried not to look inside you."
By now Jon has seen enough of the Distortion's behavior as Helen, it has become easy to predict what she's up to.
HELEN: "… He’s still so new to all of this, caught up in ideas of justice and ‘solving’ things. Sure, he can wave away the theoretical idea of people suffering…"
JON: "But if he sees it up close, he might try to get his boyfriend to smite you?"
I feel like Jon likes the sound of that. His boyfriend.
JON: "I’m trying to ‘know’ if there’s another route I can take."
HELEN: "And?"
JON: "Turns out there is, actually. But it is rather full of spiders."
Coincident? I think not!!! The Web wants Jon to pass on the Fears.
HELEN: "The tape recorder feels more, um… awake."
Hmmm, I wonder in what sense... The tape recorders have already been very actively clicking themselves on (or appearing at all) in S4. Is it just because the Web is now in this world instead of lurking at the edges?
HELEN: "Even though I saved you from Michael."
The Distortion saved itself from Michael. Suddenly putting itself clearly on the side of "I am not your friend" is not what the Distortion is about. Besides, if it had killed Jon, the "Wonderland" of an Eyepocalyse, which is oh so loved by the Distortion, would have been delayed.
JON: "I liked Helen."
HELEN: "I am Helen."
JON: "The real one."
It is consistent for his character, but I find it funny that Jon seems to bond with people rather quickly. He knew Helen for 20 minutes. He knew Jordan for 20 minutes.
JON: "True. But as you’ll recall, I was pretty paranoid myself at that point."
HELEN: "So what? You saw yourself in her? A sad reflection? A possible future?"
Hmmm, maybe it's the same with Jordan. He bonded with him over his experience with the Corruption.
HELEN: "Oh, Jon! This existence can be wonderful, if you just let it."
JON: [Sadly] "I know."
:( He could just give up. Resign himself to his role as Archivist... Reminds me of working in retail, for example. Other people get sent to ware house duty because they're too rude be around customers. While I have to do the dirty work with customers because I care too much about not being an asshole. Or like working in a team with the same pool of work load. Others put their feet up, after all the work gets done by the others. But I don't want to be someone like that. I don't think I could be someone like that...
JON: "I see. How long have you been working with Elias?"
HELEN: "I’m not."
JON: [Faux-shocked] "Helen! Is that… a lie?"
HELEN: "No! No, it’s not. I don’t know him. I’ve never even – Look, I’m happy here, all right?"
Changing the subject, hehe... We know, that it was Elias who sent og!Helen to the Institute. Did he also suggest that Helen will probably be confused after her statement so there’s high chances of her finally walking through his door? Was it also Elias who sent Michael to Sasha, so they could find out to use CO2 extinguishers against Prentiss?
HELEN: "You are so difficult to like sometimes. I’ve been nothing but nice to you."
JON: "Maybe that’s why I never trusted you."
Ohhh, yes, I've talking about this in another post already. I'm super wary of people who are immediately over-the-top nice to me. That's very often a facade which hides a very ugly personality. (Also, that was a lie again. Helen threatened him in MAG 157, so not very nice. But very typical for that personality again. Stating untrue things in a beneficial and factual way, suggesting you should believe it.)
(STATEMENT) "Well, not a dead end. It’s a door that says ‘Honeymoon Suite’."
HELEN: [Saucy] "Currently unoccupied…"
(STATEMENT) "I turn to retrace my steps. I must have taken a wrong urn."
HELEN: "Just in case you and Martin were looking for a room."
Pfff, Helen is so pushy and nosy regarding things which are absolutely none of her business.
"How long… How long has Alex been alone now? "
Ha! Another character called Alex!
The sound of laughter during the statement. So mean...
"She’d love nothing more than to help me, although she does hate to see me check out, it’s always so hard on her when guests leave."
Making you feel bad for a totally normal thing...
VICTIM: "I don’t know how long I’ve been here."
JON: "Look. I’m so sorry –"
VICTIM: "You’ve got to help me!"
JON: [Angrily] "Don’t touch me!"
It's a stressful situation, but you're always allowed to set boundaries. No one gets to touch you when you don't want to. Again, it's just a shitty situation all over like so many others in TMA. Also, especially understandable that it’s Jon who doesn’t want to be touched... So many have hurt him..
HELEN: "Oopsie. Not so easy, is it? Keeping up your humanity?"
Oh yeah, and then making you feel bad for setting boundaries...
JON: "You’re dangerous because for all the torture and cruelty, you still somehow got us to think you’re our friend."
Mentioned it in MAG 183 (I think?) already that I'm not sure, what's more dangerous. More straight up hostile Helen. Or fun Helen. The one that makes you laugh about all her little manipulative comments. Schrödinger’s douchebag: Come on, don't be like that, it was just a joke!
JON: "No, you are the question of “What lurks behind a smile?” Is a friendship true, or is it reaching out with hands that cut you?"
Being wary of the people who are over-the-top friendly...
JON: "And when one face finally stopped smiling, you just changed the face."
Helen taking over from Michael.
HELEN: "Fine. So if that’s all true… why? Why would I do any of that? What’s my actual motive?"
JON: "I don’t think you even have one. It’s just what you are."
I have asked myself this question so many times. And I've come to the same conclusion. There is no grand motive behind that. Just doing it over and over again, torturing others, they like that. The feeling of being able to make a person so submissive, so obedient that they will do everything to stay your friend. It makes me sick... I have once asked one of my “Helens” if she knows that those things she did are horrible. She got all smug and said yes and that she likes it and is proud of it. Fucking hell..
JON: "I will end you."
[SILENCE BUT FOR SOME CREAKING]
JON: "What, nothing? No smirk? A laugh? I’ve got you rattled."
HELEN: "I’m not scared of you."
JON: "Helen… Was that… a lie?"
Smug and badass Jon is back, yaaaaaaaaaay!
JON: "Urgh!"
[A STRANGE SOUND RINGS OUT AS THE ARCHIVIST REAPPEARS IN THE WASTELAND]
MARTIN: "Christ, Jon!"
JON: [Groggy] "Oh, Martin! Good."
MARTIN: "Wh– Wh-wh-what… What happened? Th-th-there was the hotel and then…"
Hmmm, I like the headcanon that Martin saw (and heard) something in the sky shifting and and suddenly, like "the sky ate him" but in reverse, it spits out Jon and Martin catches him^^ The soundscaping suggests otherwise though. After "Christ Jon" and during "Oh, Martin! Good." there's rubble to be heard, like climbing over debris. And only after "What happened?" we hear fabric rustling. So sounds to me like Jon fell out of the sky in front of Martin, then gets up and they hug.
JON: "Do you? Want to mourn?"
MARTIN: "… A bit, I guess. I-I mean, she was our friend. Sort of. A bit."
It's okay to be upset losing a "friend" like this. After all, there most definitely were fun times too, if it was just awful, you probably wouldn't have become their friend, after all.
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So I had this idea ever since I first listened to mag100, and thought this to be the perfect time to bother others with it. I don't know if it's something, I've just been playing around with it for a while
The archives clearly don't function without the archivist, and this doesn't sound very effective for collecting people's fears. So I think it would be incredibly funny if the archival assistants, in Jon's absence, had gotten some beholding powers, but barely useable and extremely unreliable. Jon in the beginning got really tired after recording statements, iirc, so the assistants would have that even more.
All of them trying (and failing) for almost the entire day to locate a statement someone from research requested, but it's not in Jon's mess, which is at least semistructured, but in what is still basically Gertrude's mess, so it could be anywhere. Martin decides they need a break, so he goes to make tea, but when he comes back, he blankly sets the tea down, walks over to a seemingly random cabinet, grabs the statement, hands or over to basira, lies down on the floor, and goes to sleep. (They almost go to the hospital, as he won't wake up, but they decide against it since anything having to do with the institute just lands people in the waiting room until they give up)
Melanie having a conversation with someone also working at the institute who she forgot the name of, and while she is trying to remember it The Beholding beams the knowledge of it into her head so hard that she falls down the stairs. (This time they do go to the hospital, in fear for a concussion and very carefully never mentioning the institute to any of the staff.)
Tim manages to compel one (1) statement out of someone, and sleeps through the entire thing. If you listen carefully to the recording you can hear him snoring.
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simon fairchild, seeing a mother and son duo where one of them loves to go up Really High:
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the speed that you moved, the screech of the car, the creature still moving, that slowed in your arms // the fear in its eyes, gone out in an instant, your tear caught the light, the earth from a distance
alt coloring and original sketch below!
#hozier just beamed this straight into my brain and i had to draw it#wrestled with the lighting for a few days but im proud of it#back to suffering on my midtwrms now#dont mind that i forgot his glasses lmao i am tired#the magnus archives#the magnus archives fanart#also no i havent listened to tmagp so no spoilers pls#tma#tma spoilers#jonathan sims#martin blackwood#fanart#*boop* art#jmart#mag 200#jonmartin
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It's loving georgie barker hours
An interest in the supernatural caused by direct contact with the Entities! Where’s the roleswap au with Archivist Georgie and podcaster Jon?
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the thing (1982) x tamagotchi
#tamagotchi#horror#the thing#the thing 1982#the thing movie#r j macready#rj macready#kurt russell#john carpenter#no idea what else to tag this with tbh#fanart#my art#anyways. some of you may be saying 'mags bandai only uses the tamagotchi nano for crossovers'#'and this is clearly the tamagotchi connection v3 or the tamagotchi g2. how could you get this wrong'#to which i say#the tamagotchi nano is very hard to draw#anyways woke up with the vision for these a couple days ago and had to draw these#i might do some more of these for other movies tbh. they were really fun
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[Image Description: A digital colored drawing of The Magnus Archives episode 3, Across the Street. The view is looking inside an apartment window from the outside. Amy Patel sits and looks outside while holding a small ice pack to her head. In the far back Graham Folger is walking into a dark doorway. Bookshelves line the other walls. Outside, a wide hand with incredibly skinny fingers hooks onto the window sill, mimicking the hooks of a window shelf. End ID]
@a-mag-a-day quick drawing for episode 3! a classic
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MAG006: "Since then, she said she’d been seeing [Jane Prentiss] everywhere she went. She felt like she was being followed all the time and couldn’t stay in her own home, as whenever she did it was like this weight was dragging her down."
MAG142: "But I feel like I’m seeing him when I’m awake, as well? [...] Every time I do, every time I get that – panic just rising up my throat, I see him. He’s there. Not when I look properly. But just at the edge. The corner of my eye."
MAG152: Then again, I suppose I'm hardly in the best position to judge. Perhaps to anyone listening to these tapes I sound remarkably similar to Hezekiah. Or to Manuela. Or to Jane.
late a-mag-a-day Squirm thoughts
#a mag a day#a-mag-a-day#tma#tma s4#jonathan#the magnus archives#jane prentiss#jonathan sims#joos yaps
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MAG 123 Relisten
Activity on my first listen: putting up a new fence (moved again to a different part of the property... I've been patching that fence for years and I got so much done during TMA!)
Web Development, ha! (I know, I know, I'm easily amused...)
JON: (salty) "Coma, great! Let’s rearrange his office. Sleeping people don’t need – pens."
[HE STEPS IN SOMETHING WITH A SQUELCH!]
JON: "Euagh! What –"
Up until this point Jon (and first-listeners) doesn't know what happened yet. Seems like there is still some residue from the Flesh attack, hehe. That’s also the reason they *had* to throw Jon's cloths out. Interesting, that the jar of ashes survived. I'd guess Martin still was there for the clean-up? My headcanon is, he was the one who wanted to go through Jon's office, trying to salvage things and managed to sufficiently clean up the jar to keep it. It gave Jon some closure and feeling of safety back then, I'd totally understand, if Martin wanted to preserve that.
MELANIE: "Tim is dead. Daisy is dead, and you – what, you’re just fine?"
JON: "What – no! I’ve been in hospital for six months!"
MELANIE: "Something has been in hospital. Something that’s got your face"
Even though Melanie and Basira weren't too affected by the Not!Them (Basira almost not at all, she never met the real Sasha), that trauma still sits so deep with all of them. They know the Fears are not benevolent, and one of those things got Jon to wake up. (Also yeah, Slaughter bullet)
MELANIE: "I warned Basira; I said not to let you back in here, but she just" (increasingly angry; starts slamming [the wall]) "doesn’t! listen!"
Lydia really nails the rage here. How the voice begins to break.
MELANIE: "Oh! Okay, so it’s what, hi Jon, how are you, get anyone killed lately?"
JON: (dumbstruck) "I – I –"
MELANIE: "Wipe that look off of your face. Like you’re not the reason all of this is happening! (she takes a breath) Like you’re any better than – than him!"
This is hurtful on so many levels. And Jon and Melanie let us know what an impact this had on Jon (Jon being speechless and Melanie making a comment on the look on his face). Jon hasn't been the friendliest of people, but since MAG 22 he’s been on a steady path to change. All of his actions have been either hypervigilance from being traumatized as a kid (which is a defense mechanism. Learn all about everything, you'll hopefully be a step ahead and things can't hurt you - in S2 this really ended in bad actions. Like I understand why he's been paranoid, but the others also don't have to tolerate this from him) or (and this has been all of S3) trying to keep others safe, including Melanie. He just didn’t know how to do it. Mr. Spider taught him if other people get involved, they’ll get hurt. And then Elias, comparing Jon to Elias. As if Elias hasn't hurt Jon enough as well, even if it wasn't that obvious, especially not for the others. Elias' grooming Jon into things he never wanted is just so disgusting to me.
MELANIE: "No! You don’t, do you? He’s still alive. You are still alive. So this place is still –"
See above. (The worst of this: She's kind of right! If Jon dies, they'll go free.)
JON: "Okay."
[HE TAKES A LONG, SHAKY BREATH.]
JON: "I’m sorry."
T_T (Yeah, if it wasn't clear from the first two episodes of S4, this is going to be one huge punch to the gut after the other.)
BASIRA: "Alright. Best I can understand it, Beholding, or the Eye, or… whatever you wanna call it, we’re one of the only powers that hasn’t taken a shot at a ritual. Yet. And everything out there knows it."
JON: "No – I mean, we can’t be the only ones, surely."
Funny thing, this about the Eye haven’t taken a shot at a ritual yet stayed very strongly with me the first time around. So much, that I ignored all the clues that Elias is trying to do exactly this (Gerry in MAG 111 about the Watcher's Crown, Basira later to Elias in prison about him kicking off his little ritual from a jail cell). I bunched the Eye up with the End and the Web (because they also don’t have a ritual as we'll later learn) even though my sister already went "No no, the Eye has the Watcher's Crown" and then I went full Surprised Pikachu Face when things finally happened.
BASIRA: "Yeah, it was bad. We took them all out. Melanie did most of them. She was… she got a knife from somewhere and –"
JON: (overlapping) "Basira I-I don’t know if that’s a good sign?"
BASIRA: "She saved my life, Jon. She saved all of us. I won’t forget that."
Oh, the hypocrisy of this. But we know, that Basira's heavily playing favorites in this season. Jon being back is not a good sign, but when Jon points out Melanie's unending rage and superhuman knife strength, it's okay because sHe SaVeD BaSiRa's LiFe? As if Jon wasn't part of the saving-the-world-from-the-Unknowing-crew, does that not count? (Speaking from a point of their knowledge at this time, of course.)
BASIRA: "Don’t be too hard on him, Jon. Your, uh, situation. It hit him. Hard."
JON: (sighs) "Yes. Well, I’m sure there are better ways to deal with it than getting – cozy with Elias’s successor."
Jealous? :)
BASIRA: (sighs) "Rumor is a couple of researchers up on the third floor decided to ignore some of his new directives, and… whoosh."
I think it'd be really funny to see TMA from the eyes of someone not working in the Archives (or Rosie). Like all those people who have no idea what this place is. And how would they explain this event though. Two researchers suddenly disappearing...
JON: "Oh."
[HE LAUGHS, BUT IT, TOO, IS HUMORLESS.]
JON: "The more things change… So, we’re under siege, Melanie is aggressively unstable, Martin is working very closely with – The Lonely, who is predictably enough isolating him, and, oh, yes, uh, Tim and Daisy are still dead. (laughing) Which is at least easy to keep track of."
There goes his sanity...
"As he told it, she was young, rail-thin underneath an oversized brown hoodie, which she kept pulled up, trying to cover up a network of pale stitches that stretched over one side of her head."
Ha, totally forgot Annabelle was already in this. From what we heard about her from MAG 69, I don't know if this was even very obvious to spot when first listening? At that point, all we would know was that she got her head bashed in and dressed in vintage clothes? Oh and spiders of course...
"She just mumbled something about custom requirements and told Greg to drink his latte, which he did, so he tells me, though he can’t stand milk in his coffee."
So subtle!
Chelicerae is btw what the "mandibles" or "fangs" of arachnids are actually called.
"According to those who followed such things, all you had to do was start a new thread as a Guest, something Greg had been instructed to make sure was possible, and the title of that thread should be the name of someone you want dead."
A digital death note, gotcha! xD Okay, jokes aside, I love this and MAG 65, those internet creepy pastas!
"He rarely goes out anymore, and, judging by the cobwebs, he definitely doesn’t clean his house like he used to."
There's no such thing as random cobwebs in TMA.
JON: "Another gap. And whoever took it didn’t do any follow-up, just… filed it away. I may be the first person to actually read it, so… (same mirthless cough of a laugh) Sorry, Angie. I suppose."
There has already been some speculation about this as part of a mag a day. About the Archivist's dreams, how it works, who end up in there. This "Sorry, Angie", is it meant as an apology for the fact that their statement has been ignored for 2 years? Or is it meant for the possible situation of Angie now ending up in Jon's dreams, since the statement's been given after Gertrude's death and Jon is the first Archivist to read it. This would make Jon's diet even more complicated, having to resort to statements which Gertrude has already consumed in an attempt to not "curse" more people.
JON: "It’s unclear if they were meant to be users or victims, but I cannot help but note that there seem to be the names of several statement givers who found their way to the Institute, including noted arachnophobe Carlos Vittery."
The name of the person who set the plot into motion. This should be a very loud clue about the Web pulling its strings all this time!
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JON: I am not, nor have I ever been, “adorable.”
MARTIN: .....
MARTIN: That’s bullshit and you know it…
#the magnus archives#mag 164#a mag a day#jonathan sims#martin blackwood#jonmartin#daisy tonner#sasha james#melanie king#i love this man so much#jonathan sims my beloved <3
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@a-mag-a-day im biased towards the Lonely as an entity and I don't think this is an intentional Thing as there's so much overlap between entities
but I think it's interesting that MAG 15 involves a character who is looking to feel connected to a person who doesn't feel the same, ie Alena's comment on choosing her sister to be stuck with while Laura secretly hates the idea. and this isn't an unnatural response, especially as Laura sees cave diving as intensely personal, and about being alone, on top of their living situation being more of a necessity than a choice
Alena asks her how lost she is, though
it's a word that pops up in several Lonely statements, including the very first when Naomi's pastor worries of her getting "lost" and in MAG 159 where Jon says "I thought you were lost". the Lonely has a very strong throughline of other people being a point of reference both emotionally and phyiscally, and while it can refer to being abandoned by a higher power the word Forsaken in my mind is strongly associated with abandonment by other people
getting lost in a neighborhood of personality-less houses, getting lost in a crowd, getting lost in a cave
and I wonder what Alena thought as she asked her sister how lost she was, before Laura begged for her to be taken away
#tma#the magnus archives#a-mag-a-day#im not really interested in OH THIS CHARACTER WAS BECOMING/IS AN AVATAR discussions lol#i just think about alena popham and evan lukas i turn them around in my brain like a rotisserie chicken#obviously alena wasnt the most /aware/ when she asked the question#but still#ALSO again while definitely a coincidence its the first statement martin abstains from
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“I guess the Corruption likes you as a moth. I think it’s fitting. Do you know what a moth is to a spider, Jon?”
“You know I don’t.” His back is to Martin, and he can feel another set of hands creep to his waist.
“Prey.” Martin whispers into his ear, taking his hands as he laughs softly.
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HELLO!!! i made a fic for this piece, its an au!!! please check it out, i spent a long time working on it i hope u enjoy it <3 https://archiveofourown.org/works/49448209
#tma#the magnus archives#martin blackwood#martin tma#web!martin#jonathan sims#mag pod#moth jon#moth!jon#jonmartin#jon x martin#martin x jon#jon sims#the magnus archives fanart#im absolutely insane#i love them so much i was nonstop working on this all day yesterday and today LOL#i may post an accompanying minific soon? no promises but :3
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As much as it isn't fun to hear Jon yelling at Martin, the end part of Mag 56 is so hilarious to me.
Listen, there is NO evidence to support Martin's claim about lying on his CV, and frankly it's kind of a weak cover story. You are required to show proof of your qualifications when you get a new job on the strength of them - not to mention ID - and even though on a relisten we know Martin's telling the truth and that Elias has his own reasons for hiring Martin, Jon doesn't know any of that. There's nothing to back up Martin's story and given how paranoid Jon's been since Prentiss, not to mention the fact that his specific concerns about Martin were that he might be hiding his own cunning behind the image of someone bumbling and soft (Jonathan "right for the wrong reasons" Sims strikes again) it is wild to me that he accepts this so quickly.
It's almost as though he's eager for Martin to be innocent, even though everything he's previously said about him would indicate that he'd rather it was Martin than Tim or Sasha, the assistants he respects professionally and likes on a personal level. It's so easy to picture him just blue-screening while poor Martin sits there expecting to be fired/screamed at again.
Martin: Okay, that's the truth, do your worst. Jon? Jon??
Jon, internally: Martin's innocent Martin lied to Elias but not me Martin didn't kill Gertrude Martin's safe Martin's still my friend Martin doesn't want me dead
Martin: Jon?
Jon, internally: MartinMartinMartinMartin
#tma#a mag a day#mag 56#the magnus archives#martin blackwood#jonathan sims#jmart#hotel talks about tma#if martins crush on jon really took hold when jon believed him about prentiss#took him seriously and did his best to keep him safe#then this is where jons crush on martin really started#when he realised that martin really did just care about him and all the tea and lunches and fussing were straightforward kindess#and that martin is a safe space for him too#neither of them have ever felt safe#obviously they would fall in love with the one person that tried so hard to keep them that way
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