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[paigegonerogue]

I, of mostly sound body and spirit, request that if I’m ever to die, someone post a new work on my AO3 that says “sorry, she died, ongoing stories postponed forever” because don’t I want my fanfic buddies to think I ghosted them. Amen or whatever you say in a will.

[letsgogatsebenguys]

WELCOME BACK JAY B!

👏

[pronounced-like-the-drink]

season 1: I'm Jonathan Sims, Head Archivist of Magnus Institute, London. My professional opinion is that this is all horseshit and everyone that isn't me needs psychiatric help. Statement ends.

season 2: Supplemental: God lives inside the printer and he keeps telling me my assistants are murderers. I am inclined to believe him based on the fact that Martin told to have a nice day. Innately suspicious behavior.

season 3: My only friends are my ex-girlfriend, her cat, and the many scars I've gotten from various monsters and fear cultists.

season 4: You know, just being socially adept would solve a lot of my problems. Unfortunately, I was traumatized so thoroughly by age eight that I learned the best way to make friends is to blink at them slowly until they get the idea. This does not work when your evil patron god uses eyeballs to devour fear.

season 5: Either Jonah Magnus tells us where he took all the good cows, or my boyfriend and I bash his head in with a lead crowbar. It's his choice.

[ultramarinaa]

“Oh my god I ALSO HATE ME!! We should like… go on a date and kiss since we have so much in common”

After my 2 week hiatus I come back and I humbly bring you this

[mosslingg]

"Mr Achilles sir who's this freak working in the Administrative Chambers and talking about how he misses something called a "laptop" " - Zag, probably

anyways Somewhere Else au but Jon and Martin get isekai'd into Hades (the smoke laurel is Martin's doing)

jarchivist only under cut!

hes jarchiving all over the place

[thebreadmantm]

Georgie my beloved ✨

(Plus the admiral)

[mentallyillmindmeld]

This is how s1 Jonathan Sims treats Martin

[stompandhollar]

actually, contrary to popular believe i think they’d get along swimmingly 😌

[sporesigil]

looks like someone forgot an umbrella

[katblazeparttwo]

listening to season five shenanigans

Inspired by (and og pics at) this post !

[im-salad-man]

First date idea

[one-awesome-beetle]

I got my friend into the magnus archives

[williamverse]

I love this scene

Also wanted to draw s1 Jon with messier hair

[themaidenofwords]

Have I mentioned how gut wrenching the slow progression from "Jonathan Sims-- Head Archivist of the Magnus Institute, London" to "Jonathan Sims-- The Archivist" is?

These are Jon's introductions of himself. He had already had people simply calling him "The Archivist" way back in season one, but he never introduced himself that way. He declared his title of Archivist as what he saw it to be-- a job title and nothing more.

And then we reached season three and there was a gap where we had "Jonathan Sims, former Archivist" and the words were still spoken as one would a job title but with a certain sense of grief that was incongruous with the professional veneer.

And finally, the reveal of what the Archives were and what being The Archivist truly meant happened, and Jon stopped pretending-- even to himself-- that it was just a job. No, he was Jonathan Sims-- The Archivist-- and it was spoken with the gravitas and responsibility of a king's title. It was now part of who he was.

And then, season five, and it's no longer "Jonathan Sims--". It is merely "The Archivist". Because Jon believes his humanity to have died along with the world he was tricked into dooming. His person-hood is secondary-- and can perhaps be considered more of a job title now in a similar way to how Jon referred to being The Archivist in season one. In season five, Jon believes his entire being to have been consumed by the Watcher. The Archives and his job as the Archivist can no longer be seen as a job, or even as a part of who he is, because it is ALL he is. There is no part remaining of Jonathan Sims, because he is The Archivist first and foremost. He doesn't believe his own humanity great enough to be mentioned.

He is, of course, wrong. But it wouldn't be a tragedy if he didn't realize that until it was too late.

[stripysockstumb]

More memes cos this man was a legend

[fr3sh-c0rn]

I had an epiphany