#ajkal2

[pillowspace]

Do you have any tma fic recs?

I am kissing your hand, thank you so much for asking. Let me go take a look through my AO3 bookmarks and see what I still remember reading

Here's some The Magnus Archives fics I like! Some Jonmartin fics, regular fics, and a little Gerrymichael section because I like that

Okay, so first of all, this is my favourite The Magnus Archives fic of all time. I cannot recommend it enough. It has entirely rewired my brain, I have not been the same since I read this. I cried multiple times:

Resigned, Though Not to Fate by inkfingers_mcgee

Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Martin Blackwood/Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist

“You’re really suggesting this,” Martin says, voice pulled thin.

“Yes.” No hesitation.

“You would- actually do it?”

“I would.”

“With me.”

“Yes, Martin.”

“Why?” Because love is blind, says something cliché and cruel in the pit of his gut. Christ, he never was much of a poet, was he?

Or,

When Jon asks Martin to Quit the Archives with him, Martin says yes. Things don't go as planned. In the Scottish Highlands, they hurt, and they heal.

(Re-written as of 22-12-27; see chapter 9 for more info.)

T | Words: 145,746 | Chapters: 9/9

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And there's also these good ones I've enjoyed:

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a deeply annoying child by ajkal2

No Archive Warnings Apply, Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist & Tim Stoker, blink-and-you-miss-it Martin Blackwood/Jonathan Sims, BUT NO SLASH WHILE ANYONE IS A CHILD

Jon is hiding under the desk.

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There's a child in the Archives, who shouldn't be there.

G | Words: 9,631 | Chapters: 1/1

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rituals by doomcountry

No Archive Warnings Apply, Martin Blackwood/The Archivist, Martin Blackwood/Jonathan Sims

Martin is the first person to knock on the Archivist's door since it arrived, fully, into its little waiting temple. The Archivist saw him coming from down the hall, but decides to feign interest when the knob turns, and Martin—still a little bit smaller, a little more translucent than before—stands uncertainly just outside the room.

T | Words: 8,492 | Chapters: 1/1

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Head in the Lion's Mouth by renwhit

Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Danny Stoker & Tim Stoker, Danny Stoker & Jonathan Sims, Basira Hussain & Alice "Daisy" Tonner, Martin Blackwood & Tim Stoker, Martin Blackwood & Danny Stoker, Jonathan Sims & Tim Stoker, Past Tim Stoker/Sasha James, Danny Stoker & Helen Richardson, Danny Stoker & Alice "Daisy" Tonner, Danny Stoker & Melanie King, Basira Hussain & Tim Stoker, Basira Hussain & Danny Stoker

He fell into a deep bow, smiling the whole while. “I’m the ringmaster, of course.”

“Is that skin— Is it yours?” Old wood groaned as the Archivist shifted his weight. “Originally.”

“It is!” the ringmaster said as he swooped back upright. “Nikola decided I wore it well, so she let me keep it. Why do you ask?”

The Archivist gave him another once-over. “You just… you look familiar. Like someone I know.”

On relearning, reconnecting, and redefining.

M | Words: 157,240 | Chapters: 17/17

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Reflection by LazuliQuetzal

No Archive Warnings Apply, Martin Blackwood/Jonathan Sims, Sasha James/Emma (The Magnus Archives)

Jonathan Sims, researcher at the Magnus Institute, is seeing a ghost. Of himself.

Of course, it’s not really him, no matter what secrets it knows, or how many arguments it brings up. So if it tells him to do something?

Obviously, he’ll be doing the exact opposite.

(AKA: Jon is an idiot, past and future, but somewhere along the way it all cancels out.)

(Expect general spoilers for S4 and specifically, MAG 158.)

T | Words: 51,527 | Chapters: 10/10

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Out There, Somewhere by Artyphex

No Archive Warnings Apply, Martin Blackwood/Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist

"I'm sorry, you were found alone."

Jon survived the apocalypse and now will go to the end of this new, unfamiliar world to find Martin again.

T | Words: 54,080 | Chapters: 8/8

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Clutching Daffodils by Gemi

Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Martin Blackwood/Jonathan Sims

Martin has always liked the idea of love at first sight.

It’s such a romantic idea, the whole thing of it. Seeing someone and instantly feeling that strange, twisting feeling deep inside that every single media likes to obsess over. Of knowing you are in love within the day, petals falling from your mouth and warmth filling your chest as love burrows deep, vines twisting through your lungs.

He always liked the idea of it.

And then Jonathan Sims starts working at the Magnus Institute.

NR | Words: 7,624 | Chapters: 1/1

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Beastly Behaviour by Prim_the_Amazing

Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Martin Blackwood/Jonathan Sims

“You need to learn a lesson,” she says, and there’s blood speckling her lips now. She’s overstraining herself. He needs to stop her, calm her down. “And until you learn it you will suffer, just like you’ve made me suffer.”

“Mum, I think you need to--”

It turns out that when his father had called his mother a witch, he had meant more than Martin realized.

NR | Words: 73,226 | Chapters: 28/28

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dustsceawung by callmearcturus

No Archive Warnings Apply, Martin Blackwood/Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist

Martin had always been favored by the summer courts, and moving up north to the little village of Lacuna is a difficult adjustment. It's rainy and lonely and everyone seems to have a strange, distant relationship with the local faerie court.

However: there is a strange man in a cloak who walks past Martin's remote little cottage every few days.

However: there is a moth that keeps getting stuck in Martin's house during the rain.

These events are not as disconnected as they first appear.

M | Words: 38,269 | Chapters: 8/8

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Gerrymichael fics I like:

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Break Me Like A Pattern by TheLibraryBat

Graphic Depictions Of Violence,,Gerard Keay & Michael Shelley, Gerard Keay/Michael Shelley, Gerard Keay & Gertrude Robinson, Gertrude Robinson & Michael Shelley

The year is 2011. Michael Shelley is living his life in circles, blissfully unaware of the betrayal that awaits him in the summer. Gertrude Robinson has plans to enact and plans to destroy. Emma Harvey is hiding a book in the dark place at the back of a cupboard.

When Gerard Keay walks into the Magnus Institute - two years sooner than he was meant to - everything changes.

This is an (eventual) Archivist Michael AU, exploring how certain events might have played out, had one key player been in the wrong place at the wrong time.

M | Words: 215,291 | Chapters: 40/40

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This entire series is so good, all 4 works in it:

As One Door Closes by dramatispersonae

Words: 64,859 | Works: 4

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Choke Chain by dramatispersonae

Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Gerard Keay/Michael, Gerard Keay/The Distortion

Things Gertrude Robinson possesses: decades of experience killing, containing, and otherwise thwarting supernatural beings, an uncompromising drive to destroy the Rituals and the people who would see them completed, Gerry's loyalty. Things Gertrude Robinson apparently also possesses: a monster on a magic leash.

NR | Words: 14,814 | Chapters: 1/1

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Echo Chamber by orphan_account

Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death, Gerard Keay/Michael, Gerard Keay/Michael Shelley

“Look, if you’re another, uh, avatar of a horrible eldritch demon god come to assassinate me in a spooky manner, could you get it over with quickly? I haven’t eaten all morning and I’m starving.”

The thing that calls itself Michael stares.

“And this sandwich cost most of my weekly salary,” Gerry adds after a belated moment.

T | Words: 21,439 | Chapters: 1/1

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Please Don’t Eat the Flowers by Sloane

Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Gerard Keay/Michael Shelley, Gerard Keay/Michael | The Distortion, Razor/Wendy, Minor or Background Relationship(s)

Instead of retiring to open a book shop, Gerry ends up working at a flower shop run by American lesbians in London. This leads to a brush with the Distortion, who just wants to buy some lilies, the Magnus Institute finding out he’s still alive, and... well, a normal life was never really in the cards for the likes of Gerard Keay, was it?

Oh, and those lesbians who run the flower shop? There’s more to them than meets the eye—bad Beholding pun intended.

(No knowledge of Maniac Mansion required; I take lots of liberties to slot it into TMA’s universe. UNDER MAJOR REVISIONS. Please see last chapter if you’re a new/returning reader for details..)

M | Words: 77,314 | Chapters: 33/?

[haveyoureadthisfanfic]

Summary: Jon is hiding under the desk. ---- There's a child in the Archives, who shouldn't be there.

Author: @ajkal2

[rec-a-fanfic]

Title: same as it ever was

Author: ajkal2

Fandom: The Magnus Archives

Rating: G

Status: Complete

Length/Chapters: 6685 words, 1 chapter

Summary:

in which there is a protest against institute dress code and jon is gender

Link:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/29285499

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https://archiveofourown.org/works/29285499

[vanroesburg]

ID: [A digital image of two people, Martin and Jon, standing in front of a kitchen sink. They are surrounded by dishes and wine glasses. There are cabinets made of brown wood. The walls are light blue. Martin is a tall, fat Polish person with light blond hair and fair skin. He is wearing glasses and a waitstaff uniform made up of a white button-up shirt, a black vest, and a black tie. He is drying dishes and grinning at Jon. Jon is a short, slim South Asian person with warm brown skin and long, curly dark brown hair. He has some slight stubble. He is wearing glasses with a golden chain and a white button up. He is holding a sponge to clean dishes and a piece of cutlery, which he is handing to Martin. He is looking up at Martin with an awed expression, blushing.] End ID.

Here’s my piece for @ajkal2′s fic Just Let The Feeling Grow for the @tmabigbang! Please check it out, it’s absolutely lovely!

[shelbychild]

a 🌹 by any other name would still smell as sweet :D

asdlkfj aj i do love this

“Alphonse,” Ed says, opening his arms so his brother can fall into them. Al lets out a quiet sob. Again, behind them, there are gunshots, and then an explosion.

Al leans back and wipes his face. “Is it over?” he asks. Ed lets his head fall forward in a nod.

send me a rose!

[newstuck-liveblog]

like all the old hs characters have smooched a corpse or been smooched as a corpse 😂 jeez this comic is strange!

never thought today would be the day i say "corpse smoocher rights for everybody," but damn

[words-writ-in-starlight]

(psst, all ur recent blogging abt temeraire has made me reread the first book (I p much know it by heart at this point lol) and... its wonderful. thanks for reminding me about this wonderful series!!)

I’m EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE that I am partway into Tongues of Serpents, having MORE THAN DOUBLED my previous success rate with these books, and plan to finish them in rather short order.  (My library DOES NOT HAVE CRUCIBLE OF GOLD as an audiobook, I may have to crack and buy it as well as the other two I own, I need to know what happens to my favorite idiot.)

(Laurence.  Laurence is the idiot.  He has two brain cells and one screams “HONOR” and the other screams “TEMERAIRE” and sometimes they merge into one bigger brain cell Steven Universe Fusion Style and scream “TREASON” in a voice of legions.)

Hey?  Hey folks?  A short selection of fics that I am going to need in my life and apparently Do Not Exist:

Laurence Takes Up Tharkay’s Suggestion Of Becoming A Dragon-Toting Privateer, The Fic

(Honestly why is this NOT, like, the most popular concept in the fandom.  Like.  Helloooo, friends.  What are we doing.  Is it that you’re afraid of fucking up the naval terms?  I feel you but like.  Allow me to preach overweening confidence and learning to elide necessary ship descriptions.)

The Chinese Entourage Manages To Trick Temeraire Onto A Ship And Laurence Returns Dazedly To The Navy, Temeraire Makes A Break For It At The First Port They Reach And Immediately Travels Straight Back To Britain, Funded By His Own Jewels And Also Labor Exchange

Jane Roland Has An Aviator’s Disregard For Decorum And Is Glad To Gossip With Any Aviator Who Will Listen About Laurence

The followup to the previous: Laurence Discovers That Aviators Gossip Worse Than Sailors, Including The Dragons

Tharkay, After That Conversation Ft “What Are You Doing, Laurence?”

(I need this, okay, Laurence cries in that conversation, it’s important to me that Tharkay sits on Arkady as they fly away and thinks, with a sort of calm panic rolling through him as steadily as a tide, about how far Laurence fell, and how narrowly Tharkay was able to catch him.)

Volly’s First Time Back At Dover After The Battle Of Dover, In Which Temeraire Frets And Laurence And James Get Exceedingly Drunk About Levitas

William Laurence Is Built Like A Goddamn Brick House And Tharkay Is Having A Time About It, Ft Granby For Sympathy

Social Fallout Fic: Laurence Vanished To Dover For A Year And Came Back A War Hero Edition

Social Fallout Fic: Laurence Vanished To China And Istanbul And Prussia For A Couple Years And Came Back A Prince And A War Hero With Nearly Thirty Dragons Edition

Social Fallout Fic: Laurence Committed Treason Edition

(I just want all of these to basically be media fic?  But based around period newspapers and salon gossip and, where appropriate, bar brawls.  You can’t tell me there weren’t some bar brawls about Laurence’s particular brand of treason.  Let!  Emily!  Punch!  Some!  Dudes!  Some ensign at some point made a cruel remark to her about how her old captain was a traitor and his dragon too stupid to stop him, and she broke his jaw.)

Emily Roland Discovers Why The Allendales Are Interested In Her

Emily Roland Makes A Small Career Out Of Beating Racist Baby Aviators To Kingdom Come

Emily Roland’s Father Makes An Unexpected Appearance, Laurence Tries Very Hard Not To Fight Him, Emily Mostly Fails To Notice And Is Caught Telling Demane That She’s Not Sure Why Laurence Thinks It Matters But Don’t Tell Temeraire She Said So Because She Still Has To Captain Excidium

(That’s Laurence’s kid, okay, 100%, as far as Emily and the crew and the good Lord above are concerned she’s Laurence’s daughter, Laurence is just a little late on coming to this realization.  Even Jane is on board.)

Perscitia’s Captain Tries To Get In Touch

Brooklyn 99 AU

My secret angsty fic desire: Temeraire Never Takes Another Captain (Companions And Friends And Comrades, But Never Another Captain), The Fic

[thestuckylibrary]

if you're taking comfort fic recs, the one I always go to is Captain Fantastic and the Pineapple King by buckyfuckybarnes (ao3, works/7874188) It's a hilarious modern au with fake dating and the awkwardness of being a young adult. Another amazing comedy if Scents and Sensibility by silentwalrus, galwednesday, and skellerbvvt (ao3, works/14772824). Its an abo au where Steve and Bucky didn't meet until the Future, and its so so fluffy and perfect.

Thank you for writing in!

Captain Fantastic and the Pineapple King by buckyfuckybarnes (oneshot |30,628 | T)

In which Steve is saved from his ex in a grocery store, Bucky Barnes is Way Too Chill about absolutely everything, and Sam has had enough of all of these goddamn pineapples in his fucking house.Or: The five times Steve received a pineapple (and one Piña Colada) and the one time he didn’t

Scents and Sensibility: The Working Assassin’s Guide to Supersoldier Seduction by galwednesday, silentwalrus, skellerbvvt (complete | 93,217 | E)

Captain America wakes up from the ice in 2013. The Winter Soldier wakes up in 2009, or rather defects from HYDRA, for a value of defect that’s closer to decimate. He ends up working for SHIELD. In April 2014, he’s assigned to Captain America’s mission as a sniper.Steve’s just trying to get some kind of life together. Bucky is too, or at least he was until tall, blond and Captain shows up and starts just - being there, all the time. It’s terrible. It’s the worst. He has to do something about it.

[incorrect-amnesty]

:o d-detective pony? h-homestuck??

yeah

[silentwalrus1]

helah replied to your post “LADS”

so i sent you lots but the one with the best lyrics is a three way tie btwn ani difranco "shy" grandson "stick up" and kongos "repeat after me"

cyclamental replied to your post “LADS”

“Alright”-Kendrick Lamar, “Another Way to Die”-Jack White/Alicia Keys, “Knights of Cydonia”-Muse, “The Hand That Feeds”-Nine Inch Nails, “Take Me To Church”-Hozier, “Renegade”-Styx, “Hell’s Bells”-AC/DC

bigislandrachel replied to your post “LADS”

Hammer to Fall, Queen.

teethleave replied to your post “LADS”

kesha - woman (Ithlynne 2: Don't Touch My Weed Don't Call Me Honey)

rhuebarb replied to your post “LADS”

The Arkells; 'Knocking at the Door' always gets me pumped

skarabrae-stone replied to your post “LADS”

"The Mary Ellen Carter", by Stan Rogers, "Don't Beat Me Down", Gordon Lightfoot, "Bullet Proof" by the Goo Goo Dolls, "Prison Trilogy" by Joan Baez, "Had Enough" by the Who, "It's Not My Time" by 3 Doors Down, "Lions Inside" by Valley of the Wolves. I don't know if any of these are good for titling purposes, but they all scream Bucky to me.

slyfendora replied to your post “LADS”

The Great Dandolos by Planet of Zeus

dsudis replied to your post “LADS”

This Year by The Mountain Goats? :D

afearsomecritter replied to your post “LADS”

light it up-major lazer, lone digger-caravan palace, bonkers-dizzee rascal, i'm a freak-enrique iglesias ft pitbull, 1941-klaypex, burn the house down-ajr

astrobravo replied to your post “LADS”

Tbf some of these are better lyrically than title-wise but hey? Grandson - bury me face down Sia - alive The mountain goats - Amy aka spent gladiator 1 The mountain goats- Dilaudid The mountain goats - choked out The thermals - returning to the fold

tressadefox replied to your post “LADS”

https://youtu.be/sj-D9CsNK-4. Ют ��

blue-reveries replied to your post “LADS”

Well, since it's 20-bi-teen, what about a queen song?

ajkal2 replied to your post “LADS”

I know its basic but fuckin seven nation army

thecactifindahome replied to your post “LADS”

Immigraniada - Gogol Bordello

gattinidiguerra replied to your post “LADS”

Pick Up Your Head - Middle Class Riot Kalasnjikov — Goran Bregović

THIS IS TOO MANY TO LINK BUT REST ASSURED I’M BOUTTA PLOW MY WAY THROUGH ALL OF THESE THANK YOUUUU

[bomberqueen17]

ajkal2 reblogged your post “worldbuilding textures”

[image description: tag art reading #hey look! another fencer! #ive been an epeeist for like 8 years #and some swordfights in fiction... hoo boy. #catch me screaming at pirates of the carribean #just stab them #some of the slashes in films wouldnt even make contact! #wheres the footwork #in books its a lil less Hoo Boy #but sometimes its like ‘they clashed swords!’ #GIVE ME MORE #which line are they on? why dont they disengage and hit? was it just a beat or a proper lock of blades? WTF IS GOING ON]

See, while this is also Extremely Valid(TM), don’t get me wrong [Hi! I fenced epee intermittently, but wound up mostly fencing sabre because otherwise we couldn’t field any sabreurs, and I only did it for like two or three years and really sucked, it is impossible to overstate how terrible I was], I don’t even think it’s super necessary to describe it a whole lot? I don’t need to be shown every gory detail, though in visual media I do like it when you can follow the action somewhat realistically-- like, make the effort!! But it’s like any worldbuilding thing-- I’ve seen this ruminated on before. If you’re going to put two suns in the sky for aesthetics you better goddamn have some idea what having two suns would actually do to the setting. You don’t have to explain it all, but the difference between an okay work and a great work is things like that. what does it mean, practically speaking-- is it ever night, then? The author really ought to spend a while and work it out entirely, so that it can then be slipped back into the description-- and even the plot!-- seamlessly enough that the audience isn’t left wondering. And it’s such a great feeling when you work out that, say, a moon orbiting a gas giant could plausibly have an occasional very cold long night despite otherwise being tropical, and then you can work that in to your plot and have it matter where they really are, beyond just being a pretty backdrop painting for your action.

And so you don’t really have to have studied fencing, or whatever specific technical thing I’m talking about, I don’t think, to write it well, it’s just that it’s so much easier. As with any action sequence, the author really has to block it out and understand what is going on in order to describe it. That’s what so often makes fight sequences so unsatisfying both in visual and written media-- the creator just sort of put in a few cool action shots, but never addressed what actually happened. Sometimes, again, this is okay-- like in the Goblin Emperor, the assassination attempt, the POV character is so terrified and also his view is entirely blocked by the person defending him, so he has no idea what happened, and the scene is told faithfully that way; there’s one clear visual, then there’s reactions and noise and then his bodyguard is lying bleeding in his lap and he’s like “what the-- actual-- fuck” and it’s a great vivid scene. 

But you can’t always do that, and as an author, it’s good to have another approach available. The point is, you have to understand what’s going on in order to describe it. You can’t just say “their swords clashed!”, or, worse, have a visual medium and have the fight consist of random chopped-up aesthetically-pleasing movements that have no possible tactical explanation, and expect to wind up with a powerful scene. A clash of steel! A dramatic parry to nowhere! A close-up of a determined face! More ringing of steel foley effects, the actors are very clearly aiming to hit one another’s swords and there is very clearly no effort whatsoever to hit the person, that’s not the point of this fight Doylistically and there’s no Watsonian attempt whatsoever because who cares, swords look cool. Boring. Nobody really likes that, come on! Tell a better story.

(This goes for sex scenes too, but I’m not necessarily going to get into that-- my point is, you can fade to black or tell it euphemistically or be super explicit or whatever but you have to convey the important information thereby, it’s really crucial. Sex and action scenes alike-- there’s a world of choices there, and they’re not necessarily the choices people wound up hung up on. I recently saw someone on Twitter I think who was like “omg please writers, yes write sex acts you haven’t done but for the love of god research them first” and uh... yes. seconded.)

But here’s the entire level of detail in the fencing sequence that prompted me to write that previous post, and bonus, I’ve just realized it’s written from the POV of a character who does not understand fencing at all and totally sees it on a “their swords clashed!” level and I literally use that line I swear I did not edit this: (semi-spoilers for a near-future chapter of Continuing Education, but I don’t think it ruins anything to find out that Csethiro’s mania for swordplay does not vanish overnight when she becomes Empress)

* Everyone else present seemed to think this was a perfectly lovely way to spend an afternoon. Telimezh hadn’t noticed their arrival, and looked in turn at each of the two participants, who saluted him with their swords, and then saluted one another with their swords, and--

“What are we doing,” Cala said, as the goblin and the Empress leapt at one another, swords clashing.

“A solid parry,” Beshelar said mildly. “Oh! Fantastic disenga-- ah! Oh! She has him!”

“Point to Zhalered,” Telimezh said.

“That was her touch!” Beshelar said loudly, finally sounding indignant.

Telimezh turned and saw him, and did a double-take, but then said, frowning, “She didn’t have right-of-way, she did not complete the parry.”

“It was a disengage!” Beshelar said. “It’s a valid--”

“If one does not stop the attack,” Telimezh said, “then it doesn’t matter if the return blow lands.”

“Ah,” the Empress said, “but his attacking blow did not land, there was only one contact! Avoidance of the attack is just as good as stopping the attack.”

“This is valid,” Zhalered said, “she won the angle, and only her touch landed, so it is just as effective as if she had stopped the attack. We concede the touch; the point is our lady’s.”

“We thought your attack had landed,” Telimezh said.

Both participants shook their head. “It fell short,” Zhalered said.

“Ah,” Telimezh said, grimacing. “This is why we need line judges.”

“Or sharp blades,” the Empress said, grinning toothily.

“At any rate,” Telimezh said, “that brings the score to--”

“Why have we not stopped this?” Cala demanded, finally catching up to Beshelar. “What is going on?” 

*

[galwednesday]

congrats on finishing s&s! i absolutely love the worldbuilding, i want a pillow pit dammit. your steve is so awkward but earnest, hes the best, and bucky is a confused grumpy kitten who just wants love, amazing. i already know im going to read it over and over again. when bucky gets steves recipie card and wants to eat it because he loves it so much? thats me with this fic. its amazing. idk which of the 3 of you wrote which bits or else id do more specific praise but the whole thing is AWESOME.

GLAD YOU ENJOYED, PILLOW PITS FOR ALL! As for who wrote which bits, we all put our grubby little paws over the entire fic--when we were color-coding new text based on who added it, most paragraphs looked like a tri-color spaghetti pile with authors switching mid-sentence. 

[rec-a-fanfic]

Title: a deeply annoying child

Author: ajkal2

Fandom: The Magnus Archives

Rating: G

Status: Complete

Length/Chapters: 9631 words, 1 chapter

Summary:

jon becomes a child due to leitner reasons. the cast finds out about why, exactly, he has arachnophobia

Link:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/26561263

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https://archiveofourown.org/works/26561263

[plajus]

YOOO I LOVE UR FICS BUT HAVENT THOUGHT ABT THEM IN AGES! IT MAKES ME SO HAPPY TO SEE YOURE DOING A DIRECTORS COMMENTARY! Can u talk abt whichever scene in Prodigy was hardest to write?

Omg how long have I had this ask? Ummmmmmmmmmm, probably the sex scenes lol. I like focusing on the emotions in other scenes rather than making it purely a smut fic or something. 

[limbsbo]

@ajkal2 order up!

[thestuckylibrary]

Hey you wonderful beautiful folks, could I pop in and promo my own work? It's titled 'no kinder sign of love', on ao3 ( /works/14198496 ). It's about Bucky realising there are more options than just the straight and narrow, with some help from Steve! Set in the 1930s. Thank you!

Thank you for writing in!

no kinder sign of love* by ajkal2 (oneshot |3,628 | M)*/others, referenced dubcon

Bucky Barnes is a smooth-talking charmer, Brooklyn's sweetheart, the name on everyones lips. He's happy with that, thrilled. He likes dames, loves them. He couldn't do anything else.

Right?

alternate titles:

> The Great Gay Crisis Of 1938.> Internalised Homophobia: The Constant Struggle.> Bucky? Gay? It’s More Likely Than He Thinks.