#I like to think that Martin crocheted Jon his sweater

[springypaws]

Happy International Asexual Day from Jon and Martin!!

(Tysm @jonmartinweek for having ace as the prompt today <3333)

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[dysaniadisorder]

welcome to about a billion tma drawings i did and did not finish or post i think

[ID: 1. A half finished line drawing of Sasha James, she's wearing a hijab and has one hand in her pocket while carrying a tape recorder, and laughing to herself. 2. A half finished line reference drawing of Tim and Sasha. Tim is short and is wearing a skirt and Sasha is tall and has a cane. 3. An unfinished drawing of Jon and Martin in the same position as 'The Kiss' by Gustav Klimt. 4. A colored drawing of Michael Shelley as a human. He has reddish brown hair and is wearing a colorful sweater. 5. A line drawing of Jon and Martin, both of them wearing cute dresses. Martin is sitting on the ground and Jon is standing over him, and they're holding hands. 6. A bust sketch of Georgie, who has freckles, glasses, and an afro, and is casually holding the Admiral in her arms while he screams. 7. Some doodles of Oliver Banks, one showing him before the apocalypse, and the rest after. He has long locs and piercings, and after the apocalypse he's wearing a beach outfit and has black tendrils lining his skin. it show's him watering the roots on the ground, and him spotting Jon and Martin in his domain and calling 'Archivist!' out to Jon. 8. A fully rendered drawing of Georgie and Melanie in season 4. Georgie has vitiligo and her hair in a large ponytail, and is wearing a long sleeved what the ghost shirt, holding the Admiral, a calico cat, in her arms. Melanie is next to her, and she's shorter, has black hair with faded blue dye, freckles, and many piercings including knife earrings. She's wearing a what the ghost tank top over a sweater, and has her seeing cane in one hand. 9. An unfinished drawing of Archivist Sasha. She has a pained, desperate smile with one hand over half her face. She doesn't have glasses, and the other visible part of her face has many eyes. 10. An unfinished drawing of Jon and Martin. Martin is laying on the ground and Jon is sitting down, leaning on him. Jon doesn't have eyes and has a scar in the middle of their chest, and is trying to crochet something. 11. A colored drawing of Jon, laying on the ground sleepily. They have entirely gray hair and are laying opposite a three legged calico cat also sleeping, who they have one hand on. 12. An unfinished drawing of Melanie without eyes, knees deep wading in a creek. 13. A doodle of Basira reading a statement, she starts with; "I know how it sounds, but murder club wasn't supposed to be like this." There's a smaller doodle of her looking confused. Next to that is a doodle of Gerry Delano looking annoyed, and they have a speech bubble with the Jurgen Lietner copypasta pasted over it. end ID]

[clarionglass]

so i’ve spent the last month falling headfirst into the magnus archives, and i’ve rapidly been coming to the conclusion that jonathan sims the archivist needs a hug and a rest, because he sure ain’t gonna get that in the series. hence i have applied my crochet “skills” to the creation of a tiny jon who can indeed get hugs when required! i worked on him while listening to tma, so hopefully some of the Jon Spirit (tm) has transferred into him....... i stand him in my room when i’m practising so it does kinda feel like he’s watching me, so maybe it worked? still, no nightmares, so i think tiny jon appreciates the hugs and the lack of apocalypse in his current situation

(yes i am going to make a crochet martin too, this is an absolute necessity. i’m just slightly less confident on his design so i’m being a bit reticent in starting him out....... if anyone has hard-and-fast This Is How Martin Should Look ideas then send em through)

there’s no exact pattern for “jon from tma” that i’ve been able to find, so this jon has been ganked out of some basics by allison hoffman (craftyiscool) on ravelry, and some common themes in fanart. credit where it’s due, i may have done the actual crocheting but boy he wouldn’t be nearly as good without all the work other people have done that i was able to draw on :)

more details on the making, and on each photo in the sequence, under the read more!

The Making of Tiny Jon

as above, tiny jon was ganked out of a few different amigurumi patterns by allison hoffman, with modifications by me as felt appropriate. the patterns i used are for worsted weight/10ply yarn, which is hard to get here, so the transition to using a few different brands of 8ply required a bit of messing about with. still, i think it was pretty successful! he stands upright without help, which is a first for me when using this kind of pattern. 

i’m honestly not sure where in the tma timeline he comes from. he has the post s1 and s3 scars visible, and in my heart, even though he’s just yarn, he has all of jon’s knowledge up to date, but he;s slightly too put-together looking for current jon. practically, giving him a ponytail wouldn’t have worked with the mass of yarn, and although i would have liked to give him a bit of facial scruff, i can’t crochet or embroider that convincingly. if any experienced crocheters out there have some tips, i’m happy to learn! let’s just call him a s5 mind in an early s3 body and be done with it. it’s my crochet, i can do what i want :)

the saddest day came when it was time to embroider those lil scars on his arms and hand... they kinda show up in some of the photos (see Tiny Jon Selects A Statement), but even if they’re not massively noticeable, i had to include them

there is a small green eye embroidered on the inside of his sweater vest, to sit just over his heart. it’s secret and nobody will ever see it, but it’s there.

pic 1: Tiny Jon

nothing much to say about this one aye. but there he is!

pic 2: Tiny Jon Sits On The Bookshelf

he works in an archive, and we have some fancy leather-bound books. i had to combine the two! plus it’s a nod to that good ol oxford pretension

pic 3: Tiny Jon Harbours Destructive Thoughts Re A Pile Of Potential Leitners

these are all books i own, selected for potential leitner-ness based on either title or content. neverwhere and picnic at hanging rock were selected on content (both the spiral), but you should be able to tell which entity applies to all the others (altho valley of fear is generic). doomsday book, though, despite the title, is not an end leitner, but is in fact a corruption leitner. i read this years ago, and remembered that it’s about a historian from the future (the 2050s, actually) going back in time to research the black death, with predictable tragedy. i forgot, however, that the b plot deals with a new flu-like pandemic in the “current day”...... eerily relevant, and also definitely open to be leitner-ised. tiny jon thinks so too, hence the matches.

pic 4: Tiny Jon Selects A Statement

again, self-explanatory.

pic 5: Tiny Jon Reads A Statement

it took me for-fkn-ever to mock up that tiny statement on magnus institute notepaper. it’s a 4-and-a-half page genuine statement written by yours truly, not just some squiggled-on pages or a shopping list or something, and is a mildly fictionalised version of something that has actually happened to me. if you can somehow strain your eyes and read it (would not recommend, i don’t think it’s actually possible), names and places have most definitely been changed because of my paranoia

i realise there is no tape recorder in shot! for the purposes of “canon” let’s just say that there is one on his desk, just out of shot. in reality, i’ll probably get around to making one out of polymer clay someday, but for the moment i just could not be arsed, and i was too impatient to delay the cute shot :)

pics 6-9: Tiny Jon Makes A Cuppa

in the absence of martin, tiny jon has to make his own tea.