shinyopals
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- Marvel Cinematic Universe (28)
- Thor (Movies) (27)
- The Avengers (Marvel Movies) (16)
- The Magnus Archives (Podcast) (12)
- Good Omens (TV) (5)
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Elias's inability to See through Jon's eyes is something he knew would happen. It has, however, turned out to not be as much of a hindrance as he’d expected.
There is, after all, always Martin Blackwood.
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Elias clenches his hand around his glass and gives into the temptation to take another drink. If he concentrates, he can see the stain from yesterday's lunch on Jon's shirt, wrinkled from wear; or the fact that his old-fashioned, ill-fitting glasses and cardigan make him look like Gertrude herself. Or even the fact that the office is grey and smells faintly of mildew and stale human odour, and is filled with towering masses of mess and paperwork. Only if he concentrates. If he doesn't, all of that mundane unpleasantness fades to nothing and instead his view of the world is passed through Martin's filter. "Oh my god do you think he'd let me braid his hair he's so pretty - stop it Martin he doesn't think of you like that - maybe we could go to dinner maybe I could make dinner - shit I can't cook - wait no he doesn't - nngh hair."
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In the run up to the Unknowing, Elias checks in on the Archives team. They do not realise this.
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‘No,’ said Judge Roberta Field, over the top of her pasta salad.
‘Good afternoon, Your Honour,’ said Elias Bouchard. He smiled. It was a benign smile, like they always were. And yet it was the sort of smile that she knew brought horrors she couldn’t begin to anticipate.
Her eyelid twitched. ‘I am retiring in three weeks,’ she hissed.
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Judge Roberta Field is retiring early. No more long days. No more screaming couples. No more family drama. Just a lovely cottage in Scotland. Life is going swimmingly.
Unfortunately for her, her two least favourite regulars decide to stop by for one last hurrah.
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‘There’s not a… sixteenth fear entity emerging, is there?’ asked Martin.
‘What? No. Of course not,’ said Peter, frowning. ‘I need you to go and visit Elias and deliver a message from me.’
‘Um,’ said Martin. This sounded worse, actually.
Martin had thought isolating himself from the rest of the world and reading horrible statements about the end of humanity was the worst his job as Peter's assistant could throw at him. It turned out he was very, very wrong.
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Judge Roberta Field eyed the next case on the docket balefully. She’d known it was coming. As soon as she’d seen it appear in her schedule she’d cursed and debated “breaking a leg”, since it had been too late to have another baby as a way out. She’d convinced herself that was too extreme, however, and lulled herself into a false sense of security that she must be misremembering and it wouldn’t be that bad. So she’d decided to keep working and let it happen. And now it was here.
The Bouchard-Lukas divorce.
Again.
It had been three years since the last one, which had to be a new record.
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Elias and Peter are divorcing again. In trying to decide the division of their marital property, they need some witnesses to assist their respective cases. This is unfortunate for Jon and Martin, who would really rather be elsewhere.
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Love in the Modern Workplace, or How to Fill Out Form 54a: A specific romantic liaison ("date") between two (2) coworkers within one (1) department by shinyopals
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
05 Jan 2021
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'I've noticed, that, ah, maybe, you- you don't, ah, hate me,' Jon says at last.
There is a lengthy silence.
'Um,' says Martin at last. 'No I- I don't- I don't hate you? Is that a- a- problem?'After returning from America, Jon shoots his shot. It goes... surprisingly well, given that it's him.
Unfortunately there's also the matter of the Magnus Institute Employee Code Of Conduct Rules Regarding Romantic Relationships Between Employees, and all of the supplementary paperwork that needs to be filled in every time they go on a date.
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(Un)Contestable Love: a LonelyEyes Divorce Court fic series by shinyopals
Fandom: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
06 Apr 2022
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The Magnus Institute vs the 21st Century: a series of emails and IMs by shinyopals
Fandom: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
25 Oct 2020
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What happens if the Magnus Institute gets a Data Protection Officer? What's it like to work in Tech Support? How are employee reviews conducted when your manager is Peter Lukas? This series does its best to answers these sorts of hard-hitting questions about office life at the Institute.
S3-S4 era, no s5 spoilers, and yes you can pretend everything ends 5 minutes into MAG160.
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No fake marriage au in this whole fandom, so I guess I gotta write it myself. Be the change you want to see in the world and all that. Anyway here’s the time Murderbot fake married ART...kind of.
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23 May 2022
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Murderbot and ART have been in a queerplatonic relationship for a while now. This is news to Murderbot.
(Or: Murderbot and ART have a conversation about their relationship and Murderbot has a lot of emotions about it.)
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22 May 2022
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Jon's phone buzzed on the corner of his desk with an incoming text.
He sighed, setting aside the statement he had been about to record, and flipped the phone toward him, clicking the screen to life. It was a text from Martin.
Help.
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Martin falls ill. Jon looks after him.Bookmarked by shinyopals
21 May 2022
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Somewhere Else, Jon and Martin discover that their new home has a very special sort of guardian, and Jon seeks judgement from an unexpected source.
They do say that cats purring can heal...
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30 Apr 2022
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Martin Blackwood has a feline-destined meetcute with the owner of a foster cat Instagram page, and it's love at purr-st sight. A series of snapshots into their lives together and Martin's gradual transformation into a cat lover (and, much less surprising, a man who falls in love with Jonathan Sims).
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30 Apr 2022