#tma nemo

[starrypawz]

kissing in a stairwell, giving them an artificial height difference

Fluff Prompts AO3

“You ok?” 

Gerry turns to look up at where Nemo sits a couple of steps above him on the stairs, there’s a faint thrum of music that can be heard and felt through the wall. 

“Will be,” Nemo shrugs as they hug their knees, “I just… need a moment-” 

“Too many people?” Gerry offers up as he finishes rolling a cigarette, “It’s… it’s a bit cramped in there isn’t it?”

“It’s… It’s…” Nemo pauses, “I… I can feel how everyone is so close, connected in ways they can’t even begin to imagine,” They swallow hard and Gerry reaches up to gently brush their hand,  “And in ways I can never experience and it just reminds me of how… disconnected I am from… everyone-” Nemo squeezes his hand  and takes a deep, shaky breath, “But despite everyone being so close I can feel how distant everyone really us and how it’s never enough and people might not even realise how much they’re trying to get closer and I can always always feel that but in there it was… choking” 

And then, Nemo shudders as the air around them seems to suddenly chill even though it’s a cool night and there’s a draft running from the ajar door at the bottom of the sairs. and the thrum through the wall suddenly feels a lot more distant  and Gerry tenses and then.

Nemo snorts and it all snaps back to how it was,“So yeah guess too many people it is right?”

They’re both quiet for a while as they sit on the stairs. Bathed in that faint thrum as Nemo continues to hold his hand. The silence between them is edging dangerously close to becoming uncomfortable before Gerry finally speaks. 

“Want to call it a night?” 

“No…” Nemo sighs but it’s a softer one and then smiles before they let go of his hand, “Not yet, I’ve… I’ve actually been having a nice night,”

“Oh?” “Yeah…” Nemo toys with the fishnets visible through the rip in the knee of their black jeans, “It’s… You know? Things are… nice when I’m with you,”

Gerry clears his throat. “Right…” (And realises that’s probably an underreaction) and then chuckles, “Least tonight’s better than the first time we went to a club, right?” 

Nemo chuckles, “That’s a… low bar… worst thing here is overpaying for a Snakebite and Black,” 

Gerry shudders, “Smirke didn’t think about adding that one to the list… Fifteenth fear: Overpriced drinks at goth nights,”  

They both chuckle. 

“So… smoke break and then back in there?” Nemo offers up. “Yeah,” 

They both stand and Gerry’s about to turn to make his way down the stairs when

Nemo grabs him.

Nemo kisses him.

He has to put his hand on the rail as Nemo kisses him to keep steady  and like every other time it feels amazing. But there’s also just something… something more to this time with the fact Nemo is above him and he gets a rare glimpse of even if it’s artificial the experience of someone being taller than him and and-

Nemo chuckles when they part, their hand still on his slashed up London After Midnight shirt as he stands there slightly dazed. 

“Wow-” He manages after a moment. 

His gaze drops to Nemo’s lips as they flick out their tongue and he grips the rail a little harder as he feels his knee go weak and he blames that on overpriced Snakebite and Black and not the fact Nemo just kissed him or the brief flash of silver of their tongue stud or that Nemo’s black lipstick is slightly smudged. 

[the-worstler]

Tma spoiler

[captainsvscaptains]

Prelims

Poll F

[blousemouse]

Somewhere out there there’s a universe where Oliver Banks, on his quest to go to literally the loneliest place in the world, in the middle of an ocean, finds Peter Lukas and the Tundra instead of the unnamed vessel he did take out there. I for one would have loved to see how that would turn out.

[archivecon]

And now for our final guest at ArchiveCon 2023! Nemo 杉本 Martin (they/them) is an award-winning London-based writer.​

Both their fictional and non-fictional work explores how colonial thought is embedded in 19th-century natural sciences, literature and popular thought, as well as how this is received by 21st-century audiences. ​

As a scriptwriter, their recent projects include Trice Forgotten (Rusty Quill), [The Cobbled Streets of Geneva] (Ellandar), and ASIAN PIRATE MUSICAL (Papergang Theatre). They are also the co-host of Bread & Barricades: A Les Mis Podcast. ​

On their Sunday panel, Nemo will be leading a tour of the real people whose histories were the impetus behind the creation of the characters of Trice Forgotten. Make sure to check it out!

[ArchiveCon is a free, fan-run, totally online convention dedicated to The Magnus Archives and similar audio dramas! It runs from June 16th - 18th, 2023. You must be registered and over 18 years of age to attend and participate. Check our our website for more information, rules, and what to expect!]    

[nem0-nee]

Hjenlo yall!! I may be gone for a bit!!

I’m moving back to my home country + gonna sort my university applications

…The Magnus Archives has me on a chokehold, and I’m going to binge this 200 episode monstrosity for a few weeks straight /j

Will be back with my usual uploads whenever that happens 😭

[gamzetemakara]

I'm so sorry I just got up in like and stuff and missed so much but imma still finish tmatober 2023! So here's 22 and 23

[yourfaveisafearavatar]

The Nightmare King from Little Nemo is an Avatar of the Dark

[thelegendaryfluffypotato13]

Sometimes You Go A Bit Insane With Ideas And Start Writing Gothic Literature aka @nem0-nee's Helix Made Me Want To Commit Violence So Bad I OOC'd Everyone Involved

Sometimes you get an idea and run with it and since my brain is insane, I took this and sprinted. Anyway, Lily Insane Arc Real ig

Sometimes, Lily would occasionally see a yellow door around campus. While intriguing, she didn’t approach it.

Lily did not like this door. It was creepy and weird and yellow. It also gave her the heebie-jeebies, the only thing stopping her from inspecting it. The next day, she didn’t see it, so she assumed it was some magical mishap or some other thing she wasn’t involved in.

But then it kept showing up. It’d be in places it wasn’t before and it would show up randomly, inviting her over with friendly curiosity. She couldn’t stop thinking about the door. It was strange and sometimes, she’d go a bit closer to it, only for something inside her to scream for her to stop and run.

She would later realize it was her survival instinct.

One day, it stopped showing up and, for a time, she was relieved of the object’s torment. But then it felt wrong. It felt wrong for the door not to be there, it was making her anxious. Even without it there, she still felt… watched.

Oh. That’s why. Lily understood now. When the door was there, there was an object to explain all the haunting feelings, all the paranoia in her head, all the chills down her spine, but without it, she no longer knew where to look to explain the feeling of being watched and nervous. That door could be anywhere, which meant it could also watch her from anywhere.

Then, it showed up again, like a god hearing her prayers or a devil following her sins. It was like it knew she needed that door despite the fear that it exuded. It was unnerving because it felt like it never left. It never left her mind and it never left the school. A familiar, inviting presence.

She ignored its sudden appearance.

The door was more persistent at getting her attention though. Suddenly, she started hearing something coming from it. A banging sound, similar to a heartbeat. It seemed the more she ignored it, the more it became the only thing she could hear. The more she got used to the heartbeat, the more… comforting it felt. 

And that scared her.

Lily did not like this door. It was fascinating and dangerous and always watching. When she saw it, she was filled with a mix of dread and curiosity. And you know what they say. Curiosity killed the cat, but madness made it feel alive.

She couldn’t stand the door. She needed it gone before it could continue to torment her with questions and voices and the temptation of insanity. But she also needed answers and satisfaction and the opportunity to torture it like it did her.

Perhaps if she destroyed the damn thing, she’d finally feel at peace. Yeah. That idea eased her mind, the one almost void of sanity.

She couldn’t wait to see the door again, the living nightmare would go away and everything would be back to normal.

Yes, once she tore it apart herself, everything would be fine. It had a heartbeat, it could be killed. Then, she could live without feeling like she was in danger at every second. Such delusions were her hope in the midst of dangerous curiosity.

She prepared an axe and a lighter with great joy and anticipation. She couldn’t wait to use them on the wretched door. She skipped around happily to the beat of its heart and followed the voices that had been coming for her for weeks.

The next time it showed up, it was in Ramshackle.

Her time had come at last!

“Oh my, it seems you finally showed up at my house! Oh how I’ve waited for this moment!”

She grinned at the door as the regular fear and fascination washes over her. She was going to enjoy these last few moments of letting loose and losing her rationality. She knew she lost her mind because the door started talking, something doors don’t normally do.

“Ah, are you finally accepting my invitation? I’d be delighted to finally let you in~!”

“Yes, but first, a little experiment, just for some fun! A little thing to get to know each other!”

She grabbed her axe.

“I wanna see something. I wanna see what you’d look like if I put this inside you.”

She giggled and laughed, madness shown brightly in her eyes.

“I wonder if you’ll scream as loud as your heartbeat thumps in my ears, I want to see if you’ll bleed that horrendous yellow paint or if I’ll have to peel it off carefully myself, I need to know what you look like torn apart and burned and gone.”

Paranoia beats through her chest, hysteria fills her head, insanity flows through her and her hands. On this night of irrationality, the door laughs with a grin that matches the girl’s in amusement.

“Then why don’t we have this bit of fun for a while, hm?”

…

They say neither the door nor the girl have been seen since…

It seems the winner got their Happily Ever After I suppose...

[nemossubmarine]

So I finished the Magnus Archives in a week. It was good great, v visceral.

It was fun to relate it back to my work, mostly the folklore archives I worked at, but there's definitely elements in all of them. Been tossing around thoughts about archives and knowing about knowledge and control as relating to archival work and Jon, but nothing has crystallized.

In the mean time have this thought: No one got crushed by moving archival shelves, boohiss.

(blacklist The Magnus Archives if you need to, there's going to be like gazillion posts in like two months)

[zeus-japonicus]

Most important question: will the Neta ever get a pet cat?

we've got to make sure Nico's cat Rory pulls her weight and becomes a child actor somehow

[starrypawz]

Totally normal thoughts about Gerry borrowing Nemo's oversized emotional support hoodie but because he is a tall skinny kinda person it's also an oversized emotional support hoodie on him

[signifying-something]

Catching up with Trice Forgotten and Noor just said Insha’Allah THE MUSLAMICS ARE WINNING SON

[pygmy--tyrant]

rip oliver banks you would've loved finding nemo

[annabelle--cane]

do we have any information on the approximate dates or year that TMA takes place in? I’m obsessed with timelines and I’m so curious about if those dates are Known or not or can only be guessed about

yes we do! some parts of the timeline are a little vague, but every live and "in situ" statement (with a few exceptions) has a date attached to it. I won't go through every known date, and I'm also not scrupulously checking to make sure I've copied all these numbers down correctly so there's probably an error or two in here, but some significant ones include:

s1

mag 13 - alone: the first live statement and the first hard date for the show, 13 january 2016

mag 22 - colony: martin's statement after being trapped by jane prentiss, 12 march 2016

mag 26 - a distortion: sasha's statement about meeting michael, 2 april 2016 (<- that was my fourteenth birthday :3)

mag 38 / mag 39 / mag 40: jane prentiss's attack on the institute, sasha's death, and all the debrief statements afterwards, 29 july 2016

s2

mag 41 - too deep: jon's statement about exploring the tunnels and his first supplemental tape about gertrude's murder, 2 september 2016

mag 43 - section 31: basira's statement about diego molina + the start of her giving gertrude's old tapes to jon, 19 september 2016

mag 47 - the new door: helen's statement about the hallways, we meet michael in person for the first time, 2 october 2016

mag 61 - hard shoulder: daisy's statement about seeing the coffin for the first time, 1 december 2016

mag 73 - police lights: basira's statement about rescuing callum brodie from maxwell rayner, 11 february 2017

mag 76 - the smell of blood: melanie's statement about her investigations into war ghosts, at the end she and jon have a bit of a fight about how That Is Not Sasha, 13 february 2017

mag 78 / mag 79 / mag 80: jon releases not-sasha from the table, martin and tim get trapped in the corridors, jon meets leiter, elias smashes leitner with a metal pipe, all on 16 february 2017

s3

mag 81 / mag 82: jon makes a statement at georgie's place about a guest for mr spider at the same time as daisy interviews the remaining archives staff to try and ascertain his whereabouts, 18 february 2017

mag 89 - twice as bright: statement of jude perry, ft. jon hand crispification, 24 april 2017

mag 91 / mag 92 (/ maybe mag 93?): statement of mike crew, death of mike crew, jon daisy and basira's encounter in the woods, the big elias conversation at the institute, 28 april 2017. mag 93 might also be recorded on this day, I'm not quite sure, because georgie's statement (mag 94) is 29 april, but I don't know if that's fully the next day or if jon got back really late on the 28th, recorded mag 93, and then georgie gave her statement in the wee hours of the 29th. up to interpretation and how little sleep you envision jon as having.

mag 100 - I guess you had to be there: lynne hammond's is 2 may 2017, robin lennox's is 20 may 2017, brian finlinson's is 26 may 2017, and "john smith's" statement doesn't have a date.

mag 111 - family business: gerry's posthumous statement about smirke's 14, 30 june 2017. again, trevor and julia's statement about how they met in mag 109 is dated 29 june, and I don't know if it's an either-side-of-midnight thing or a full day elapsed between them.

mag 118 - the masquerade: martin and melanie pull a fast one on elias while the rest of the gang sets up explosives in the unknowing, 6 august 2017.

mag 120 - eye contact: elias's statement about jon's coma dreams + elias's arrest, 9 august 2017.

s4

mag 121 / mag 122: oliver banks gives his statement about point nemo and jon wakes up, 15 february 2018

mag 128 - heavy goods: breekon deliver's the coffin and jon slurps a statement right out of his head, 3 march 2018

mag 132 - entombed: jon buries himself alive to rescue daisy, 24-26 march 2018

mag 141 - doomed voyage: on the boat to norway jon slurps a statement about mikaele salesa out of a shiphand's head, 11 june 2018

mag 142 - scrutiny: jess tyrell comes in to complain about jon slurping a statement out of her head and haunting her nightmares, 12 june 2018

mag 146 / mag 147: jon gets intervened on about all the brain slurping, they go to hilltop road and find annabelle's statement, 20 july 2018

mag 157 / mag 158 / mag 159: peter releases not-sasha and brings martin to the panopticon for a showdown with "elias," julia and trevor attack the institute, daisy goes monster mode, and jon follows martin into the lonely and saves him with the power of gay love and also slurping peter lukas's brain so hard he explodes badly, 25 september 2018

mag 160 - the eye opens: jon reads a normal statement and nothing bad happens, 18 october 2018.

s5

fuck if I know

[cult-of-the-eye]

No you guys don't understand. I may have ranted about this fic before but I'm fucking doing it again. Knowledge is Power (But Love Won't Hurt) by SupposedToBeWriting has fixed me. Trauma? Gone. I'm gonna call my therapist and tell them no need for any more sessions because I've found the answer. And that answer is Jonathan "single father to autistic little girl" Sims. Yeah you heard me right. Get ready for a 31 chapter, 156K words slow burn wherein Martin Kartin Blackwood dresses like the straightest gay man at the family barbecue, Finding Nemo is a really emotional plot point and Gerry Keay and Martin bond over Mommy Issues. Get your "Jon Is The Most Stressed Man Ever" fix here. It's got everything that tma is too cowardly to do - healthy communication, trans Jon and Martin and aroace Gerry. Please go read it, I promise it will change your fucking life.