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things you said prompts: "1. things you said at 1 am"
Or: Huddling for warmth after the Lonely.
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Martin and Jon find each other again at the remnants of Hill Top Road.
(**spoilers for mag 196!**)
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When there's a lull, Martin speaks up, because he has to, he knows he does, he won't get a better opportunity. He says, "I've got a story," and when they look at him with interest, he adds, "A… a statement, really. It might be hard to hear, but… I think we all need to hear it again."
He shifts in his seat, sits up straighter, clears his throat and looks out at the lot of them and begins. "Statement of Martin Blackwood," he says, "regarding the Magnus Institute, and everything that happened there." He takes a breath, hears the familiar words in their familiar cadence rattle through his mind: the Archivist is taking a statement. He says, "Statement begins."
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Or: In 1985, after the disappearance of Gertrude Robinson from the reclusive grounds of the Magnus Institute, Jonathan Sims is brought in as a replacement. As he adjusts to the new job, and begins to bond with his new coworkers, the strange happenings on the grounds that the Magnus Institute sits on become harder to ignore.
Years later, Martin Blackwood makes a statement.
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- Part 1 of The Haunting of Bly Manor AU
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Or: Eight times Jonah Magnus was killed, and everything was fixed.
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Jon and Martin go out one day, on a trip to the eldritch horror-trap grocery store, and show back up in the tunnels after a few long hours, longer than any of the trips to the store that Georgie has been on. Martin has a bag of horrible spooky food, and Jon has a bag shut at the top that is wriggling suspiciously in his arms. "Oh, great," says Melanie, when Georgie fills her in. "What monstrous thing has he brought home now?" Georgie would giggle if the situation wasn't at least a little potentially dangerous, Jon could have anything in there, really.
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Or: an exploration of the fate of the Admiral, after the end of the world.
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"Statement of Martin Blackwood, regarding the Magnus Institute, and everything that happened there. Statement begins."
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Or: a multipart AU based on Netflix's The Haunting of Bly Manor.
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the ones who stayed in derry by howimetyourmulder (skuls), skuls
Fandom: IT (Movies - Muschietti), IT - Stephen King
03 Mar 2020
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Six times where it wasn't Mike who stayed behind in Derry, and one time it was.
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X Files Rewatch Series by skuls
Fandom: The X-Files, The X-Files: Fight the Future (1998), The X-Files: I Want To Believe (2008)
29 Jul 2019
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Series of (mostly) unconnected stories I write as I make my way through the show again. All can be read independently, but the canon complaint stories are slightly connected.
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fell in your opinion when i fell in love with you by Athina_Blaine
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
15 Jun 2020
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“This is the Magnus Institute, not a creative writing course at university. If that doesn’t agree with him, he can leave.” There was a thud and the sound of rifling tapes. “He can take his bloody tea with him.”
Martin’s fingers tightened on the saucer. Oh.
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Martin knows better than to talk about it. It's fine. He's fine.
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10 Jan 2021
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Martin finds them eventually, tapered white wax, twenty or thirty of them beside a box of ancient (but dry) matches, and a little brass dish with a slot that just about fits the base of the candle. He feels like Scrooge, fitting the whole thing together, tucking a few more into his pocket before striking a match -
Which immediately goes out.
“Oh, fuck you,” Martin says into the murk.
Again -
And again, the fire vanishes. Quick and efficient as a breath. He shivers in the sudden cold.
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- Part 1 of paranormal activity
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14 Dec 2020
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“Sure,” Georgie says, still laughing at him. At least someone is having fun. “Don’t you have assistants for that kind of thing?”
“Yes, but…” He huffs, scratching the back of his neck. “I wasn’t going to ask one of them to download an app called...Lover? Lov-rrr? I don’t know how you say it.” He flaps his hands dismissively. “There are--unions and such. It wouldn’t be appropriate.”
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jon makes a fake account on a dating app to investigate a statement. tim sets martin up with fake account on a dating app to boost his self-confidence. it goes exactly how you might expect.
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a better fate than wisdom by soundthebells (kosy)
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
24 Jun 2020
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In their defense, it started as a spite thing. As all good ideas do.
Five times Tim and Sasha were in a fake relationship and one time they weren't.
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10 Nov 2020
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Whatever he had predicted might happen, Jon wasn't expecting to survive upon demolishing the Panopticon. He certainly wasn't expecting to be rescued.
Instead, he wakes up in an alternative universe where he's never been the Archivist, and Martin Blackwood doesn't exist.
Martin Blackwood wakes up somewhere else entirely.
Written as part of the RQBB 2020 Challenge, with art by the fantastic Aspen! (@asortofloficharm)
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03 Nov 2020