#The Last Rose of Summer

[thekisforkeats]

Chapters: 6/17 Fandom: The Magnus Archives (Podcast) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Martin Blackwood/Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist Characters: Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist, Elias Bouchard, Elias Bouchard | Jonah Magnus, Martin Blackwood, Tim Stoker (The Magnus Archives), Sasha James, Gerard Keay, Gertrude Robinson, Georgie Barker Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Fae, Beauty and the Beast AU, Hurt/Comfort, Monster Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist, Mutual Pining, (at least for a bit), Friends to Lovers, Annoyances to Friends to Lovers, Canon Asexual Character, Trans Martin Blackwood, Asexual Martin Blackwood, Autistic Martin Blackwood, Gender Non-Conforming Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist, He/Him and They/Them Pronouns for Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist, Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist Has ADHD, Nonbinary Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist, Everybody Lives, Alternate Universe - Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies, Angst with a Happy Ending, Fluff and Angst, half of this is just me projecting my love for my roses onto jon, the other half is me projecting all my trans feels onto martin, Good times, Illustrations Summary:

"What is a monster, anyway?" Martin glanced up at Jon, eyebrows slightly raised. "Just something that doesn't look like we expect. We don't call a wolf a monster, but a /werewolf,/ well. That's monstrous, right?"

"What's truly monstrous, though? Not a wolf, that's just an animal. Humans, well… we can do all sorts of awful things to each other, so yeah, some humans can act like monsters, but we’re not /all/ like that. So why do we just assume that the werewolf is a monster? Because it doesn't look like something that we think is 'normal?' Because we assume that any human who gets all that predatory nature in them would /have/ to run around killing and eating people? I mean, fair assumption, maybe, but what if the monster /doesn't/ do that?"

Martin looked at Jon, blue eyes quite direct. "What if they, say, shut themself away in an ancient castle, avoid people entirely, try /so hard/ to protect people from their own perceived monstrosity that they push away the only person they ever interact with, in an attempt to protect him from becoming a monster himself?"

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A Beauty and the Beast AU. Jon is not a werewolf, but he /is/ a monster. Martin loves him anyway.

For the Summer in the Archives event.

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Chapter 6: Martin and Jon both have run-ins with Elias, and enact a plan to discover more of the secrets of the castle. 

I’m back!! This is probably all I’ll be posting to Tumblr, but I wanted to get it out there for folks who enjoyed it. ;)

[anangelstearsbooks]

For a moment, his playing stuttered. For a moment, they were both sure he wasn't going to answer.

The Busker, written just after an English Language Paper 2 in Year 7. It’s about Natasha and Will’s first meeting.

[ever-changing-fandom-bomb]

Can someone who knows how please either upload this to Spotify or tell me how because no offense to the Celtic lady but this is better and I can only survive so long without it.

[camellcat]

do you guys think spike would want to take buffy's name if they ever got married? cause I do.

every single time I've read a fic where they share a last name, they take spike's name and I DO NOT believe it. I don't believe it for a SECOND. unless we're talking william here, no SHOT he wouldn't wanna be a summers!!

like... ough. he'd be connected to both buffy and dawnie 🥺🥺🥺

[actualbampot]

I am the story that will read you real, Every memory that you hold dear,

[artlyloser]

I was trying to find a ship art meme I wanted to do and didn't find one so I just made one lol. Feel free to use if you want <3

ID in alt.

[maggottgrrrl]

Scream Queens of the 90s in Maxim Magazine 1998 Oct

[erros429]

rwby textpost memes pt35!!!! meant to have this done way earlier but i got distracted and then i procrastinated. such is life.

[averagemrfox]

Yea ok but if that really is the Summer Maiden behind them and she’s just a kid and they put these two in charge of training and guiding her

The mother who abandoned her own child and killed the prior Spring Maiden both out of fear and the sibling who was loyal to the wrong person until it was almost too late and was unable to save her baby sister… I’m sure they’re coping fine with that responsibility

[ghost-bxrd]

Prompt:

The first mission the Court send their newly minted Talon on is an assassination attempt on the ward of one Bruce Wayne… Dick Grayson.

Calvin— can’t kill Dick. He can’t.

He didn’t know it would be the boy he grew up in the circus with they want him to murder in cold blood. He didn’t know— didn’t recognize him until the knife was already at his throat.

But he remembers now. And he won’t do it. Never. Never.

He’ll run. Disappear. Dick doesn’t know who he is, it’s better that way, and if he’s lucky the Court will be too busy hunting him to care about the failed assassination.

Unfortunately for Calvin, Dick does remember; Recognizes the Talon.

And he’s not inclined to let his childhood best friend slip through his fingers again after years of believing him dead.

[luvvyouforever]

♡ -> fluff, comfort, sfw fics

˙◠˙ -> angst

☆ -> smut, nsfw fics

୨୧ -> headcanons

stardew valley

♡ ୨୧ harvey - sfw alphabet

☆ ୨୧ harvey - nsfw alphabet

☆ harvey - exclusively yours

˙◠˙ harvey - never

♡ harvey - my girlfriend (wife) is a witch

♡ ☆ ୨୧ sam - bf headcanons

˙◠˙ ୨୧ haley - unrequited love headcanons

marvel universe

♡ gambit/remy lebeau - secret language

☆ ୨୧ cyclops/scott summers - nsfw headcanons

☆ ୨୧ wolverine/logan howlett - logan is a masochist

☆ ♡ wolverine/logan howlett - show me what you got

♡ ☆ ୨୧ daredevil/matt murdock - mutant/superpowered!reader headcanons

a court of thorns and roses

♡ azriel shadowsinger - starcrossed

♡ azriel shadowsinger - matchmaker, matchmaker

♡ rhysand - comfort on the bridge

♡ rhysand - rhys and john keats

♡ ୨୧ marriage and domesticity with acotar characters

♡ ୨୧ acotar boys x reader w/ illyrian wings

♡ tamlin - nobody else

♡ ୨୧ tamlin - sfw alphabet

☆ ୨୧ tamlin - nsfw alphabet

harry potter universe

♡ ୨୧ evil mc x sebastian sallow headcanons

♡ dark!sebastian sallow - go ahead and cry

♡ ୨୧ harry potter boys x keeper!reader

♡ neville longbottom - suddenly, neville

♡ george weasley - the healing process

♡ nymphadora tonks - pillows, sleep, and sirius black yelling

criminal minds

♡ aaron hotchner - undercover

♡ aaron hotchner - drivin' on 9

☆ ୨୧ emily prentiss - strap headcanons

☆ the solution - emily prentiss x pregnant!reader

rivals

☆ ୨୧ declan o'hara - nsfw alphabet

♡ ☆ ୨୧ declan o'hara - i am my father's daughter

☆ ୨୧ rupert campbell black - nsfw alphabet

☆ rupert campbell-black x reader x declan o'hara - challengers

the last of us

♡ werewolf!abby anderson - headcanons + vampire!reader

♡ ୨୧ abby anderson - med student!abby x liberal arts student!reader

♡ joel miller - snowed in

gilmore girls

♡ ☆ ୨୧ luke danes - boyfriend headcanons

stranger things (no longer writing for)

♡ ☆ robin buckley - don't want you like a best friend

☆ robin buckley - look at you

☆ ♡ robin buckley - deeply in love

[artbyfuji]

enjoying valentine's day 🍨

[strqyr]

this is ruby's happy memory, the first one she thinks of. tai looks happy, yang especially looks happy—there's nothing "off" about them, which stands out because it's a drawing. it would have been so very easy to give tai dark circles under his eyes, a beard that hasn't been trimmed in a while, a hair longer and more unkempt than it normally is, as all this takes place after summer's disappearance.

but they didn't. he looks fine, no different from the team photo to the present day.

the only thing that stands out are the sunflowers he so takes care of. they look overgrown, less flowers than there will be, no neat flower bed raised from the ground to separate them from the rest of the lawn, yet not completely untended, for none of them are wilting.

manages well enough that he takes care of himself and his kids, goes to work to provide for his family, but his hobbies are left behind. prioritizing what is important, and managing the rest when he has the time and energy to do so, perhaps; and then, a sign of his healing when he cares for them once more.

assuming that is, that gardening was always tai's thing; it could have been summer's that he eventually picked up. the last rose of summer is about roses, yes, but it speaks of a garden, too, of the last rose whose leaves the speaker scatters over the bed where its brethren already lies, scentless and dead.

but sunflowers symbolize faith and devotion, positivity and hope. summer promised tai she'd be back soon, and the song treasure of the willingness to wait for a lifetime of their loved ones return... and so tai takes care of the sunflowers that may have been summer's once, to keep that hope alive, the faith he had in her when he replied to her promise with "i know."

he could have let them die like the roses, the memory and grief too powerful to even consider otherwise... but to do so would mean accepting, on some deeper level, that summer is gone, that she'll never come back to tend to her garden again.

and he's just too damn devoted to allow that.

[thatblucat]

when true hearts lie withered and fond ones are flown, who would inhabit this bleak world alone?

[reyturnofbensolo]

My top 10 - 80s rock albums!

[jarretedeboire]

Rose's Last Summer, 1985