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Found family loveless marriage . Found family child abuse

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when you see a fic that's tagged for body horror you know that shit is going to be SO good

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Jonathan Sims

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Everyone clap for non consensual body modification everybody loves a character whose body has been altered against their will

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If it makes you feel better consider that Jon is also obsessed with Elias in return

Like when everyone else just sees this boring middle manager Jon finds his knowledge unparalleled. The teaser for the entire show is Jon addressing Elias. When Jon is hurt and vulnerable and he knows he can’t trust Elias he still asks him if he’s still human, arguably his deepest fear. They’re sooooo obsessed with each other and all the other avatars just don’t get it

On the one hand, I cannot help but feel a little sad that all the avatars wanted Martin carnally and not Jon, not because I don't like Martin (though for that specific reason people should have Martin more scared more often, because that's what avatars find so sexy about him, he's scared of so many things BUT has the potential to use that fear to work against his enemies), but because I adore Jon SO MUCH and Jon is ALSO scared a lot and I want everybody to desire him carnally because he deserves to be admired and wanted to a degree that is NOT normal, not just chased in a "oh my god i need to make that man whimper in terror (not sexy) soooo bad"

ON THE OTHER HAND. Well. It is a little bit sexy. That Elias sees it. The others might not. But Elias does. Elias sees Jon and he's like. Yes. Him. I want that man whimpering in terror (sexy). I want that man, in fact, to be everything. My tool, my employee, my friend, my soulmate, my lover, my god. I am picking this one man that nobody else is chosing because they're afraid of a few scowls and his delightful prickly personality that's ready to crumble down at the first hint of praise. I want him carnally.

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polycule where one guy has an “i can fix him” mindset and another guy has an “i can make him worse” mindset about the same third guy. net zero moral change

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martin and peter from an au ive been thinkin bout lately…. martin inherits the position of lighthouse keeper from a mysterious figure after his mother’s untimely death, and subsequently experiences Horrors Beyond His Wildest Reckoning… inspired ofc by the best eggers film��️🕯️🌊

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garden orb weaver spider

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Jon doesn't want to die. he thinks he should die, which is a feeling that's followed him since he was eight. he goes through most seasons with the air of someone who fully believes they're about to take their rightful place in the grave, and he's terrified of it. there are some attempts in s4 where he tries to convince himself that he either wants to die or thinks he shouldn't, but I don't think any of it truly sticks. everything he's lived since he was eight has been with time bought by the death of someone else. and he's going to die, it just hasn't happened yet!

then the apocalypse happens, purely because he just hadn't died yet. he should have, but he didn't!

then he meets Annabelle Cane for the last time and learns that he was, in fact, never meant to die. at least not until he does everything the web planned for him.

jon must have been so good for the end

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oh thats. that's fluff. that's fluff of my favorite gore character.

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man i love Georgie

guys can you pleease recommend some college/uni AU fanfiction????? i was traumatized by this podcast😭

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when did i start to lose the parts of me that weren’t just anger?

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"jon turned into the monster that destroyed his childhood" close. jon turned into the book that destroyed his childhood. he functionally became a leitner. jon's not just any devouring monster, he's an archive of stories, he's the frame device of the podcast (Because you do not administer and preserve the records of fear, Jon. You are a record of fear—MAG 160), he eats his victims the way those books did. every leitner has a story to tell, and often its victims end up trapped inside it, becoming a part of the tale—this is exactly what jon does as the archivist, when he reads/takes/compels (eats) a statement he is re-experiencing and storing within him the subject's fear, each new victim is then incorporated into his mental collection of nightmares (You are a chronicle of terror). elias's murder of leitner then has another layer of narrative meaning to it. it's a marking of territory, of course, because jurgen is about to reveal important information to jon which will presumably ruin elias's plans for him.

mag 80 - "librarian" / mag 160 - "the eye opens"

but it's also about the transition from a world with artefacts as a source of isolated horror consuming and transforming individuals, which leitner and his books are symbolic of, to one where one being - the archive (jonah magnus's archive), which has been marked by every fear and therefore holds within it the essence of every fear—devours and reshapes the entire world.

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New York, Photo © David van der Leeuw

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I am a normal person and can be trusted around fictional characters who think they aren't entirely human

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Suggestive work ethics

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Mazes and Labyrinths (1922) by W. H. Matthews