competitive boyfriends, going to the fair, seeing which one will win martin the narwhal plushie he so very desires

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I actually already posted this 10 days ago but tumblr filtered it out of the tags and has been no help whatsoever so far SOOOOO... repost! (Also I did a couple of changes.) My fanart for @starfleetrambo ‘s glorious slutty Martin era! I love all your stuff, thank you for conjuring RQ to pick up TMA again XD Gerry is one of my favorite characters, so he immediately came to mind when thinking about this as well as that wonderful chemistry he had with Jon in MAG 111!

fuck it, random sketchbook jongerrymartin (and kitty Jon)

witness my vision: laybrother Martin and paladin Gerry— battle couple

[ID: a digital illustration of Gerry and Martin in fantasy-style clothes standing back to back and smiling at each other. Gerry is turned mostly away from the viewer and is wearing a cuirass and pauldrons engraved with eyes, along with tall black leather boots and a shawl with eye embroidery. From their fingers spark purple and blue energy that lights up a knowing smile. Martin wears loose clothing in pale colors, much of which is wrapped. His outer layer is a hoary gray hooded robe, accented with simple leather accessories. He is standing more demurely, a battle-axe clasped in his hands, and light glinting off a pair of round glasses and a hesitant smile. End ID]

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I am so soft about them please give them their day in the sun.

[ID: A digital drawing of Martin Blackwood, Jonathan Sims and Gerard Keay from The Magnus Archives, over a white background. Only the shadows are colored, leaving the lighted spots blank.

Martin is sitting on the floor in a red sweater, a hand supporting his face as he looks fondly at Jon who is playing with his dyed black hair. Jon, half laying in Gerry's lap, looks at the lock of hair he is playing with. His shirt is ecru and lose, his pants dark, and a single golden eye shaped earring dingles over his neck. One hand on his own knee and the other holding Jon's waist, Gerry is looking towards the source of light, smiling. He is wearing a golden block earring and an oversized cow-print sage shirt. His expression is soft, matching the rest of the scene.

End ID.]

If anyone is wondering. Martin borrowed hair dye from Gerry. Yes, Gerry's shirt is absolutely Martin's shirt. The earring Jon is wearing is Gerry's and the one Gerry is wearing used to be Jon's Grandmother's.

Introducing. My agenda.

Plus the chart I'm using:

So I may have made an au whos main premise is "Eric dumped Mary, eloped with Michael, raised Gerry in a healthy environment and now they hunt Leitners" (more info below)

I even have art

So in this au, instead of staying with Mary after quitting the Institute and getting put into the skin book, Eric broke things off with her and ran away (with Michael's help). Mary decided that they weren't worth stopping and proceeded to put herself into the book.

Eric was raising Gerry by himself, but Michael offered to help, as Eric had some difficulties, both due to his trauma and his disability. They ended up falling in love.

They didn't tell Gerry about the Entities. They wanted him to have a normal childhood. But they still were targeted by the supernatural, especially leitners. They tried to be as discreet about it as they could but Gerry did eventually find out. They sat him one day and explained it all.

And when Gerry was sixteen, he said he wanted to help. So they packed up and left, becoming leitner hunters (but they sure as fuck weren't associated with the Hunt). They rode around Great Britain dealing with cursed books and any other Entity manifestions they encountered.

At some point, Jon and Gerry met. They became friends and eventually lovers. Jon wanted revenge after his encounter with Mr Spider, so he joined in on the family business.

And after pulling his childhood best friend, Martin, out of the Lonely, they became a triad with Gerry, helping their in-laws with the books.

Now they ride around, searching for manifestions and scheming to take down the Institute.

I dont talk abt it enough but. I just keep thinking abt gerrymartin.... Truly my tma otp idk what to tell u, they're perfect n amazing n they've never interacted in canon <3<3<3

No but seriously. I love them. Their dynamic is very much that one tumblr post abt finding a witch n then there's two houses or smth n theres a sweater autumn sweet looking person n then a goth one n u go "oh r u the witch goth person?" N they go "no it's my neighbour actually everyone always gets confused" except its gerrymartin n theyre living together n are in love.

Also oliver is there. Cuz i love him n i think he deserves a threesome with gerrymartin. I want good things only for my canon handsome death boy

i have a lot of AUs that make zero sense when you look at canon, and tbh thats quite the point of them!!

so anyways we all know that martin has been working at the archives since he was 18, right? 10 years of gertrude robinson shenanigans that he probs never saw cuz he was in the library. yknow who else was around? gerard keay

oh thats right baby. its gerrymartin time.

this shit gets long but y'all they mean so much to me srsly

imagine. bby martin, 18, who very much doesnt give a shit abt anything tbh, especially not himself, climbs atop a local library he likes (which is illegal but he doesnt care, hes chilling alright), working other jobs alongside the institute to pay for his mum's care and himself, stressed af, also still very much a teenager just trying his best, very unwell and it shows (but thats good cuz at least nobody questions his age too much)

also imagine. gerry coming up to the library, and very much seeing a?? person??? on top of it??? and goes "wtf" and climbs it, this somehow being the most interesting thing to happen despite all the shit from his mum, young but still a few years older than marto boy (4 years is my personal hc, so he's 22)

gerry sees martin and thinks "goddamn, its mental illness innit", notices martin is petting. a falcon?? what?? like its normal, and just kinda. strucks up conversation cuz martin looks very much like shit. also he's got a big bird in his lap (this is my crack hc that martin is like a disney princess)

martin, bless him, is very depressed and also tired and also doesnt have the energy to even smile so he just blankly looks at gerry and goes "oh what the hell, sure, he's hot why not" and proceeds to get a tiny wittle crush on gerry for the few months they meet in the library

gerry is fond of martin but thats it, doesnt want attachments, not with this lifestyle, not with his mother being a fucking greedy motherfucker, besides it only causes trouble. and he's not fooled, he knows martin is a bby. he hopes he gets better, cuz hes a nice kid

then gerry needs to deal wish some entities shit, he a busy boy as well, and he'll be away a little bit. he's trying to be more independent and find his own cases and shit without his mom, now that he knows her intentions and doesnt want her legacy. he wants his own. and sadly that means leaving martin alone for a little while

martin is very fucking upset but doesnt show it cause. well. he knows its not fair. he's grown to like gerry a lil bit and he's the only friend he's got. and now he's gonna be gone.

gerry wishes him good luck and tells him "take care of yourself yeah? if not for you, then for me." and that alone fills martin with some determination to actually get better. he doesnt know when gerry will be back, so he'll just. get better. he'll try. for gerry.

truly what happens is that he gets two years older and just a lot more accepting of what he's living in, so he jsut naturally gets better just by living basically the same way. he tries to take walks more tho, and starts writing again, cuz why not, gets into witchcraft again cuz he missed it (also a hc of mine, kinda crack, kinda serious), starts making tea for himself and then his coworkers

by 20, almost 21, he's still unwell per say, he's still depressed, but at least he's trying to do things he likes. thats what counts, hes trying. and he likes that. also he got a bit taller. and bigger, one of his jobs is kinda physically taxing so it just happens naturally

so when gerry comes back and sees martin smile at him, which never fucking happened before, also hes taller. and has muscle on his arms. and more freckles, look at that wow "i like men" basically

its kinda like, love at second sight, and gerry doesnt know how he feels abt it, so he procrastinates dealing with those feelings and just befriends martin all over again.

martin, for his part, had moved on from gerry a lil bit, but now the crush is back at full force, gerry looks cool, has new piercings, new tattoos?? his hair is still horribly dyed and he bullies gerry for it and this is when gerry finds out martin is a bit of a bitch, and also mean, and its cute

i'll talk more about what happens in a reblog or smth this is long af but yh <3<3<3<3 them

martin meets a new friend! based on this suggestion by @lizard-lipssss under the cut >:)

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@starfleetrambo ‘s TMA shenanigans give me life! I love your style so much, I had to adopt it for this stupid comic. Based on the idea by starfleetrambo of season 1-Martin having dated a bunch of avatars.

Experimenting with a cartoon style for the 1 millionth time

AFW day 2

I somehow didn't hear about this until today, so my first work for the week is a combination of day 1 and 2 of @arospecfanworksweek

Arrows in a Quiver - Chapter 1 - Aspen_rayne - The Magnus Archives (Podcast) [Archive of Our Own]

Gerry and Martin have talked about their own identities in the past, but Martin still struggles with allowing himself to just feel himself.

CWs: Internalized Arophobia Brief mention of Martin's mom and Peter Lukas Not allowing yourself to be yourself

Switching up the content a bit. Persona 5 AU with Jon as the protag and Gerry as Futaba (but not exactly)

(Persona spoilers)

(also murder and suicide CW and canon-typical Mary Keay and mental abuse)

Fourth heist, so it's Jon, Tim, Sasha, Melanie and Basira (plus Georgie who isn't with PT but knows and helps occasionally. it's complicated). Someone posts on the forum about Gerard Keay and how he got away with allegedly murdering his mother and how this person has seen him around the Academy and is scared he'll murder again so they want PT to make him confess.

So the gang starts looking into it and they eventually deduce that the bookshop is Gerard's Palace – but when they travel there, they are greeted with Mary Keay as the ruler instead. They decide it's because of Gerard's guilt. They also see him – or his cognitive version – lurking around in the shadows. He watches but very rarely helps. It's only as the Thieves go through the Palace that they learn the truth.

The story goes as follows: Mary and Eric were both cognitive science researchers, that's how they met. Eric quits at some point after Gerry is born but gets killed because he learned too much (it's not Mary, not this time). Mary manages to get out unscathed and gets the bookstore as a cover but continues her research on her own. Of course she puts Gerry to it, generally treating him as either a helper or a guinea pig for her experiments and also possibly blaming him for Eric's death in a "if he didn't quit because of you, he'd still be alive" manner to get him to keep doing what she wants him to do? I realized just now this might be a bit more than canon-typical, sorry. Anyways, at some point she kills herself to fully become a sort of cognitive being like a Shadow so she doesn't have a physical body to target. Did she succeed and plant herself in Gerry's head or is it just that she messed up his life so much he still feels her influence even after death? That's... a question. Either way, when Gerry learns about the Phantom Thieves and what they did at the Academy, he starts lurking around for more info and to possibly find them. What for? I think he's not sure himself whether he wants to stop them, warn them or help them. It's just his first lead in months.

Anyways. After Thieves secure the route to the Treasure, Jon finds Gerry and talks to him about it. Gerry, while initially reluctant about the whole thing, agrees in the end that PT will fight cognitive Mary and steal the Treasure. In the end, his cognitive self shows up to that final fight and I think it's very fair if he would be the one to deal the final blow. He has the resolve and determination to start living his own life and help other people out, and that's why after that he joins the Phantom Thieves. His Arcana is The Hermit, his Shadow is Prometheus and his codename is Ghost. :)

(Also, this is a GerryMartin AU. Martin's heist is next, he gets Haru's arc and Peter as his corrupt guardian the Thieves need to take down. After that, Gerry bonds with him through gardening... But that's another story.)

Martin and Gerry seem like they'd bond over being asexuals who dress slutty

the thing about me is that i fuck SO HEAVY with mxwhore gerrymartin .i normally dont bc people are sooo bad at writing martin ☹️ but these. are so. good