[ID: A seven panel comic featuring Jon, Martin, and Melanie from TMA. In the first two panels, Jon stands in Georgie’s living room in the dark, grumbling as he stares at his red-string-conspiracy wall. Across various sizes and types of paper he has written in all-caps: “Martin (from work) / good to look at / kind to me / his laugh / hates me less than anyone else / arms?? / dreadful sense of humour (laughs at my jokes) (makes awful jokes)”. In the next three panels, earlier that day, Melanie stands by Martin’s desk and stares dubiously at something unseen. She asks “did you put salt in Jon’s tea today or something?” Martin, turning to see what she’s looking at, replies “oh, um- no? no, that’s, uh- that’s just his face.” He then proceeds to smile warmly and wave one hand, saying “hi Jon!” with a love heart next to this text. In the next panel we see what they’re looking at: Jon, standing in the doorway to his office, staring stormily back at Martin with no indication he has registered the greeting. The final panel, back in Georgie’s living room, shows a blushing Jon staring down into the middle distance with a mortified expression of realisation on his face. End ID.]
well. you know that post everyone was tagging as jon like a week ago. couldn’t stop thinkin abt it tbh
Meet ugly idea specifically for jmart: Jon is living with Georgie and she has tasked him with trying to cancel one of her TV subscriptions and Jon is like sure how hard could it be, cue 5 hours later where he's trying not to scream at a very apologetic, soft voiced customer service person (Martin) who's adamant that he shouldn't leave this service.
On the eve of The Unknowing, Jon and Martin find comfort in each other's arms.
Rating: E
Fandom: The Magnus Archives
Pairing: Jonathan Sims/Martin Blackwood
Words: 18k (complete)
Tags: first kiss, first time, porn with feelings, angst and porn, trans Martin, ace Jon
Excerpt:
“Martin,” Jon says, frail. Martin blinks, a flick of lashes, glazing his eyes gold in the low light. Jon squeezes his hands. “This- this might be the last—”
“Oh, come on,” Martin huffs, dropping his eyes. “Jon- don’t— Don’t.”
“Don’t what?”
“Don’t-” Martin bites his lip, but not before Jon’s seen it quiver. The patchy hair dusting his neck—would it be prickly against Jon’s skin?—undulates, throat in turmoil beneath.
“Come on,” Martin says again, a plea.
Jon closes his eyes, and the energy in his body buzzes all the brighter. He furrows his brow. Exhales. “So, I waited too long.”
Sudden and sharp, Martin’s hands clench. It startles Jon’s eyes open.
“Of course not,” Martin says, a rush. “God, I just—” he laughs, utterly vacant of joy, “it’s just- it’s shit timing, isn’t it?”
Sometimes I like to think about how it must have felt for Jon when he listened to the tape of Melanie & Basira gossiping and he found out Martin liked him. Because that was in s3, when pretty much everyone was against him. Think about that. Tim was too far into despair and was angry with Jon, Basira & Daisy both viewed him as a threat, Melanie hated him so much she wanted him to die, Georgie was taking distance because she didn't want to get involved and Jon was slowly losing his humanity to the eye. He was terrified of turning into a monster, everyone treated him like he already was one, and then he listened to that tape, and he found out that there was one person out there that still loved him despite all of that. That even now Martin still cared enough to defend him and didn't see him as a monster even when Jon himself had believed it wouldn't matter if he died. I can't even imagine how incredibly loved Jon must've felt knowing that someone could love him after so much pain and horror. That's why I love his change in attitude towards Martin in s4. Because now he's not just fighting because he feels it's his responsibility to stop the fears because he thinks it's his fault, but he now has someone to fight for. There is someone that still sees the humanity in him and that is enough for him to keep trying to prove Martin that even if he's an avatar of the eye, he is still capable of loving and caring.
I have. SO MANY doodles of these guys, these are just the traditional ones lol. Most of my doodles are digital, I'll get around to grabbing and posting them eventually.
Allow me to chatter under the cut (SPOILERS), if you please
That first one I actually did while a guest was on hold with a third party at work (we were waiting for them to call me to fix an issue). We waited on them for literally an hour!
I am on season 3 now, and having a Time. That is for sure. Jon is being. Not that smart. Bless his heart. Of course Jude was gonna burn you if you shook her hand. You already knew that but you did it anyway!
I need to shake him. Like a maraca. Mabe that'll knock some sense back into him. ALSO. Assistants recording statements!! I like! That!
I think it's cool to hear how differently they get into it, like Tim couldn't get into it enough to get through one, which at this point doesn't honestly surprise me, he is not having any of this rn.
When Martin reads them, he gets very into it! Emulating them emotion in the statement kinda like when Jon gets into it, (I think that Martin's readings are the most similar to Jon's so far). And his little "sorry for the change in tone bit", I just. He's so Much. To me.
Melanie gets hit hard by the statement when she reads it. You can hear how shaken up she is by it while she's reading, he voice kinda trembles. I really do feel bad for her, she didn't really know what she was getting herself into, and now she's trapped. The others tried to warn her.
AND. THE FUCKING. AUGH. COLLATERAL. ELIAS YOU FUCKER. POOR BASHIRA. Daisy and Bashira are something. I like them.
And. The way that Tim got sick trying to leave. Grabgrabgrabgrabgrab. Guess Jon would have gotten ill if he hadn't read the statments that were sent to him? That and his other investigations.
AND. GEORGIE AND THE ADMIRAL. I LOVE THEM. I like Georgie a lot, she seems cool to me. And of course I adore a good Kitty. Admiral beloved.
The calliope is spookin me, but also I am excited for Jon to get into more situations lmao. This man is the most unfortunate fellow you could meet.
I have been taking a tiny break and it's late, so my commentary is not that profound, lmao. I am enjoying it a good deal, though. And I have been irritating the shit out of my siblings recommending it to them.
Oh my god I just realised that Jon probably found out that Martin liked him thought the tapes, like Martin and the others reference it a few times and Jon listens to all the tapes
[ID: Digital art of Martin and Jon from TMA. Martin is a short, fat, white man with slightly greying ginger hair and round glasses. He wears grey sweatpants and a pink, oversized jumper with the text “CEO of gay shit” in capital letters on the chest. His sleeves are rolled up, and he holds a smartphone to his ear, looking down sheepishly as he speaks, seated on a light-brown sofa. Jon is a tall, thin, British-Indian man with shoulder length, salt-and-pepper hair tied back, a patchy beard, and several scars across his face, neck, and arms. He wears rectangular glasses, dark, loose trousers, and a grey t-shirt, with “got abducted from a fuckin Greyhound and all I got was this shitty t-shirt” scrawled amateurishly across the front, also in all-caps. He holds a corded phone receiver to his ear, the base of which is resting on the table beside which he is seated. On the table are a few papers with handwriting scribbled illegibly on them. Between Jon and Martin is the coiled cord of a telephone, separating them. Both appear to have the other’s translucent, grey-toned, ghostly arm wrapped around them. Jon appears to be smiling fondly at Martin as he speaks. Above them is written the text “I shouldn’t have talked to you over the phone/It’s your voice, almost made me feel like I was home”. The background is a gradient of pink tones. End ID.]
season four is probably legitimately my favourite of all of them, but honestly tbh to be honest season three is a close second, because YEARNING, but not the kind that makes me need to get on the FLOOR