#jmart is my favorite ship

[disappointingcabbage]

TMA fans gimme fic recs (my only rule is no jonelias and nothing super sexual)

[iiinkos]

never quite understood the “giggling kicking screaming when you see your fav ship” feeling until jmart and i have no idea how long i went without it

[rateatinginsulation]

Caught up with tmagp!

[magpod-confessions]

Maybe it's because I do other things while listening to podcasts (can't just sit and listen and have quiet hands), but I didn't see JMart coming at all. And tbh...I'm not really here for it? I feel like things moved way too fast from Jon being ambivalent to Martin and thinking he's incompetent to "I love you and am conflicted over saving you or the world." Like, props to a m/m relationship front and center as well as an ace mc, but for me they lacked chemistry and there was too little buildup for the payoff to feel earned.

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[lavender-wiitch]

the way my brain saw this and immediately thought “ah yes, of course. transmasc madohomu.” i think i’m getting my queer people doomed by the narrative mixed up

[Image description in alt text.]

some soft safehouse jmart from a while back... they deserve to sleep in a little

[pikachic]

Hi it's me again. TMA/POKÉMON AU??? YES HELLO PARDON ME I NEED TO THROW MYSELF AT THIS OCCULUS AU YOU'VE GOT GOING ON IF YOU DONT MIND

*BUSTS DOWN THE DOOR* I’M SO GLAD YOU ASKED

I’ve had this AU simmering away for a while and but haven’t posted that much about it, so thank you for the excuse to scream about my extremely self indulgent Pokémon x The Magnus Archives AU

*ahem*

Introducing:

POKÉMON OCULUS

(Here’s an illustration I did after getting your ask - Champion Jonathan and his ace Pokémon, Vigitera!)

This AU is set in the Ervenis Region, a relatively small island region off the coast of Galar. It closed its borders two years prior to the main storyline, shortly after its Champion went missing during a series of attacks in its major cities and his predecessor was found murdered. Since then, an acting Champion has been instated and the borders have been reopened, but the Champion still has not been found. Most Ervenisans believe he is dead.

However, the Ervenis Champion isn’t as dead as everyone thinks, and his disappearance is only the first in long chain of events that will shake Ervenis to its very core, orchestrated by a man who aims to rule over a ruined world governed by nothing but his own will and the fear of people and Pokémon alike, and who will stop at nothing to bring that goal into reality.

More lore under the cut!

(Some of the AU-specific names and terms might be placeholders in that I haven’t been able to come up with anything better lmao)

(Also some of the art might be a bit old)

General Lore Stuff

Jon is the Champion who went missing, and Gertrude is his murdered predecessor.

Martin is Ervenis’ Pokémon Professor

Martin being the Professor is literally perfect.

Be. Because.

All of the Pokemon Professors (except for the newest ones) are named after trees.

And Martin’s last name is BLACKWOOD. Which is an ACTUAL TREE.

(My first rough attempt at drawing Jmart in the Pokémon art style)

Also jmart are extremely married

They’re Ervenis’ favorite power couple

(Professor Blackwood for half of the main plot: *sighs.* …I miss my husband. I miss him a lot. I’ll be back.)

Their Pokémon ship name would be Londonfogshipping

Martin has a Galvantula (most likely a regional form), a Sinistea, a Frosslass, and a Togekiss

Jon, in addition to AU-specific Fakemon, has a Gardevoir and a Luxray

Jon also has a shiny Appletun on his team and Martin has a Flapple. Make of that what you will :D

Also yes there are Fakemon in this thing

I have never designed any Fakemon before except for one thirty-minute period of time from when I was ten but I’m not going to let that stop me

(Initial Fakemon sketches! Three guesses as to which characters get Sqwyrm and Manickregus and the first two don’t count)

(Also Ervenisan Yamask has another form, which evolves into Ervenisan Cofagrigus which is inspired by the Do Not Open coffin)

(I have a whole list of Fakemon designs I want to make but 90% of them aren’t fleshed out at all)

Tim and Sasha are Professors in their own right, and also Martin’s assistants/fellow researchers

Tim has a Houndoom because I saw another TMA Pokémon AU that gave him one and I really liked the idea, he also has a Ludicolo because I lost a debate with my friend who is also into both TMA and Pokémon

Sasha has a Dartrix and a Meowstic

Most of the Avatars are gym leaders

(Yippee gym leader designs!)

(Not pictured because I ran out of steam before I could draw them: Michael and Helen, who run a double Electric-type gym; Daisy, who runs a Dragon-type gym; Karolina, who runs a Ground-type gym; and Jared, who runs a Normal-type gym)

Elias is the acting Champion in Jon’s absence and the secret leader of Team Chrysalis

The current Elite Four consists of Peter, Simon, Maxwell, and Annabelle

You might have noticed that Jon and the gym leaders are all wearing (mostly) black pendants/brooches

This is part of the Ervenis’ region’s “gimmick:”

Metafestation (which is. Almost definitely a placeholder name)

Skilled trainers can use special items called Metalenses to tap into the psyches of Pokemon and Trainer to manifest the shape of their desires and the power of their emotions in reality.

You basically give the Pokémon a JoJo Stand

Each Metalens must be specially shaped and cut to suit unique trainers and Pokémon, and since using poorly made Metalenses may have disastrous consequences on its users, only a handful of people have the qualifications and legal authorization to do so

(Gerard Keay is one of these people!)

Metalenses are usually worn as pendants or brooches so they’re close to the user’s heart

For the Metafestation power-up to be strongest, the trainer and Pokémon must have a shared goal/desire and a deep bond

(This bond does not have to be a positive one. It just needs to be strong.)

These Metafestations have their own typing system, though no one’s been able to figure out exactly what it is yet.

It’s the Fears. The Fears are the typing system.

Though most users of this system aren’t aware of it, Metafestation comes from achieving a delicate balance of both desire and fear.

When I first came up with this idea, it was JUST Fear, but I felt like that was a bit dark for frickin POKÉMON so I added the desire aspect

After all, what we fear and and what we desire often go hand in hand

You desire safety because you fear its absence, you desire light because you fear the dark, you desire freedom because you fear being confined, etc.

For example, Professor Blackwood desires companionship, and fears being forgotten. Most of the Metafestations he and his Pokémon create are foggy and cold, but in a way soothing at the same time.

Though a small handful of them are spindly and laced with puppet strings and reflect his desire to wield his cunning for good.

(However, he hasn’t been able to properly use his Metalens in years. The first and only time he tried after his husband vanished, it backfired horribly, consuming both him and his Pokémon in a chilling fog and sending them spiraling into unconsciousness. It took weeks for them to recover, and Professor Blackwood bears a physical scar of the incident in the streaks of stark white in his hair.)

Of course, most people don’t have just one desire/fear. The Metalens just channels the strongest ones, and most users don’t achieve more than three separate tertiary types of power-ups.

One of the biggest exceptions is Jon.

He desires many things: Safety, love, knowledge. He also fears many things: Being manipulated and controlled, abandonment, the unknown.

When he was a child, something happened to him that scarred his psyche in such a way that he could channel all of his desires and fears.

It’s what makes him such a potent conduit for the power-up system, and what makes him a prime target for:

Team Chrysalis

Team Chrysalis is a criminal organization/sort of cult disguised as something innocent: The Magnus Institute, the region’s main research institution that Professor Blackwood works at

The AU’s main plot gets kicked off when Professor Blackwood finds evidence that his husband, the missing Champion, is still alive

If this were a real game, the main story on the side of doing the gym challenge would be helping Professor Blackwood look for clues about Jon’s whereabouts and about The Magnus Institute’s hidden goals

Professor Blackwood also figures out that it’s very likely that Elias had a hand in Jon’s disappearance

(Professor Blackwood for the other half of the main plot: *slams down the Do Not Open coffin in front of Elias* It’s a coffin. There’s a name engraved on it. “WHORE!” IT’S EMPTY!! *grabs Elias by the collar* AND YOU’RE GOING IN IT!!!)

The Elite Four are also part of Team Chrysalis and fully on board with its plan

Though Annabelle might have her own machinations going on

Team Chrysalis plans to reshape the world as they see fit by summoning a Legendary Pokémon that’s a warped physical manifestation of the fears and desires of all living creatures, and simultaneously embodies and feeds on those fears and desires

(It’s basically all the Fears mashed into one eldritch monstrosity)

(I’m mildly worried this sounds too similar to some existing legendaries but at the same time I’m just spitballing and having fun here)

To summon this Legendary, they need a lynchpin capable of channeling all of those fears and desires

This lynchpin is Jon because of course it is.

Team Chrysalis’ whole plan actually only serves to grant Elias immortality and make him king of a ruined world but shhh none of the team members know that

I have zero idea what the Legendary would look like, I just have the fact I want it to have “Pan” in its name

The climax of the story comes when Team Chrysalis starts their ritual and the end of the world. In order to stop them, their Vessel and the Legendary must be defeated.

You are challenged by The Archivist!

The Really Self Indulgent Part

I started working on this at the same time that my friend was watching through XY for the first time

So at some point when coming up with all of the story stuff my brain went “what if I stuck Ash Ketchum into the story?”

So Ash is there now. For some reason lol

He’s 19 now and is just doing his thing and traveling the world

As usual, he takes on the player’s role, challenging gyms and helping Professor Blackwood in his investigation and eventually helping him take on Team Chrysalis

(I made this shitpost in like. Less than an hour lmao)

Ash is so done with these evil team leaders trying to destroy the world

Greninja is also there because tHIS IS MY AU AND I DO WHAT I WANT *MANIACAL LAUGHTER*

And I think that’s it for an overview of Pokémon Oculus!

I have a bunch more stuff for this AU, mostly spitballs and WIP writing snippets, and I do plan on making more art and Fakemon designs eventually (especially now that I’m getting better at emulating the Pokémon art style)

Thank you for reading this far, and feel free to ask me anything about this AU! :D

[annabelle--cane]

I wasn’t with the clown gang (at least I don’t think so based on you’ve described them) but I was hanging with a group of people who got very very mad if you did anything on their taboo list. As in if you ship Jonelias you are a horrible racist abuse apologist and you need to stop posting. There were many taboos and I was constantly terrified of breaking one of them. I could literally feel myself becoming a worse person the more time I spent with them lmao. Most of them would just screenshot relevant posts and tear them apart on discord but a few of them were always picking fights with other bloggers. God….those were the days…..

Anyways my personal favorite discourse was when a bunch of bloggers started posting about how if you didn’t like the way the kiss sounded/the fact that they kissed you were homophobic. My friend was called homophobic for hc’ing jon as kissing averse asexual. My friend was gay.

(clearing out some left over asks from a few days ago, ideally please don't send anymore (unless is it extremely funny))

😭 glad you got out of that situation but yeesh. my clearest memory of the #kisscourse was one semi-popular post where the op said "if you didn't like the jmart kiss for any reason EXCEPT finding the sound icky then I'm sorry but you're homophobic," which stuck out to me because it was so clear that the only reason they included that exception was because it was the reason they didn't like the kiss.

[theseuscloud]

It's kind of hard to pinpoint my favorite ship in TMA, because my thought process is kind of like:

Jmart? Good, but what about Gerry

JonGerryMartin? Great, actually, but we can't leave Tim and Sasha there

Polyarchives? Even better, but we're missing gerry again

Polyarchives + Gerry? Now we're talking, but he can't be here without his boyfriend can he

Polyarchives + Doorkeay? Yes please, but what about [...]

[lavender-wiitch]

i will never get over this. ever. just so you know.

Hey, so. Tma petrigrof.

[tragic-ships-tournament]

Thus ends round 1!

Here are some highlights!

Round 1 saw a number of casualties from half of our favorite ships, with a whopping 32 being knocked out in 24 hours! Even in the short timespan though, there was a lot of voting and propaganda pouring in, with the most votes going to Fiddleford McGucket and Ford Pines VS Dean Winchester and Castiel, a battle of two of tumblr's most famous fandoms over the years, with Destiel prevailing!

The award of most advocating for a ship goes to @hercarisntyours for their excessive propaganda for Optimus Prime and Elita-1, in what proved to be what was perhaps the most intense battle of the first round, with Janice and Melina edging them out by 3 percent!

It appears in our first round, classic tragedy beats new tragedy, with Patrochillles beating out favorite to win Jayvik! What a surprise, everyone!

However, classic does not always beat new, as Romeo and Juliet saw a crushing defeat from Gelphie! We might have a new favorite, people!

The most surprising win of the tournament so far definitely goes to Tenrose VS Jmart, with Jmart being another favorite to win the whole shebang having what was among the most submissions! But the Doctor prevailed and live to see tomorrow and die another day!

But do you know who didn't live to see tomorrow and die another day? That's right, in a devastating upset, Curtwen, the literal BANNER OF THIS BLOG, lost in the first round, with Jedas getting their revenge from the Divorced Tournament. Crazy news, I know. I hope all the Curtwen people that were following this blog don't unfollow and leave, please guys I'm one of you.

Aaaaannddd here are our round 2 brackets!

(once again, apologies for it being hard to read. I tried my best guys.)

And unlike Round 1, Round 2 will be three whole days! It'll be starting tomorrow, 19th January, at 8AM Eastern Time, with matchups hopefully all being posted within the hour. Don't miss it!

[blasphemous-lies-and-deceit]

Tag people you want to know better

Tagged by @moonisthedoor, thanks for the tag :)

last song: The Last of the Real Ones by Fall Out Boy

currently watching: National dog agility championships (its hard to be in a bad mood watching dogs run around an obstacle course)

three ships: GerryMichael, JonGerry, Jmart

favorite color: black and purple

currently consuming: chicken bacon pizza

first ship: I'm too old to remember, probably something Disney

place of birth: cheeseland (if you know you know)

current location: I'm in bed with Z in my lap.

relationship status: lol. lmao even

last movie: Dune 2 with my brother last Sunday

currently working on: Like 5 different wips lol I really need to finish some of them

Tagging: @kittengutss @c0l0re and anyone else who wants to answer

[ambi-kiko]

tma music tma music tma music

please reblog with your own! i need it (:

also im more than willing to elaborate on any of em, just ask! (i have much to yell about)

for bitchard, we have:

kiss me, son of god (they might be giants)

i'm gonna win (rob cantor)

blood & money (the orion experience, orion, linda XO)

ruler of everything (tally hall)

BlackBoxWarrior - OKULTRA (will wood)

community gardens (the scary jokes, louie zong)

the main character (will wood)

your body, my temple (will wood)

laplace's angel (hurt people? hurt people!) (will wood)

saint bernard (lincoln)

welcome to the internet (bo burnham)

all eyes on me (or3o)

my ordinary life (the living tombstone)

cabinet man (lemon demon)

peter x elias (for my frenchies out there <33)

marine marchande (les cowboys fringants)

ok dont judge me too much i had to have smth for them ((: plus its not that unrelated

next! martin

a better son/daughter (rilo kiley)

12 feet deep (the front bottoms)

things to do (alex g)

be nice to me (the front bottoms)

step on me (the cardigans)

heart for brains (roar)

mama (my chemical romance)

summer child (conan gray)

hello my old heart (the oh hellos)

i cant handle change (roar)

against the kitchen floor (will wood)

least favorite only child (leanna firestone)

sharpener (cavetown)

empty bed (cavetown)

life's a beach (bears in trees)

jmart ((:

no children (the mountain goats)

the moon will sing (the crane wives)

euthanasia (will wood)

as the world caves in (matt maltese)

the truth (the front bottoms)

balade à toronto (jean leloup)

doctor (jack stauber)

apocalypse (cigarettes after sex)

talk to you (ricky Montgomery)

cabo (ricky montgomery)

meteor shower (cavetown)

juliet (cavetown)

feel better (penelope scott)

would you be so kind (dodie)

two birds (regina spektor)

line without a hook (ricky Montgomery)

and jon, ofc <3 i rly dont have enough for him ):

body terror song (AJJ)

downhill (Lincoln)

montreal (penelope scott)

ramblings of a lunatic (bears in trees)

its called: freefall (rainbow kitten surprise)

chin music for the unsuspecting hero (foster the people)

love, me normally (will wood)

dinner is not over (jack stauber's micropop)

also melanie! dont have that many but she deserves the mention (:

saturn suv (fredo disco)

brave as a noun (AJJ)

tongues & teeth (the crane wives)

wreaking ball (mother mother)

we fell in love in october (girl in red)

and just random songs with tma vibes (other characters, ships, dread powers, etc)

underground (cody fry)

hand me my shovel, i'm going in! (will wood)

terry's taxidermy (teddy hyde)

cotard's solution (will wood and the tapeworms)

amnesia was her name (lemon demon)

memento mori: the most important thing in life is death (will wood)

skeleton appreciation day in vestal, n.y. (will wood)

icicles (the scary jokes)

puppet boy (devo)

oh ana (mother mother)

i dont smoke (mitski)

choke (I DONT KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME)

thermodynamic lawyer esq, G.F.D (will wood and the tapeworms)

sorry haha i fell asleep (egg)

despair (leo)

stuff is way (they might be giants)

baby teeth (baby bugs)

king park (la dispute)

i/me/myself (will wood)

dr. sunshine is dead (will wood and the tapeworms)

amygdala's rag doll (ghost and pals)

little pistol (mother mother)

burning pile (mother mother)

this is home (cavetown)

body (mother mother)

turn the lights off (tally hall)

like real people do (hozier)

im going insane

[ao3-shenanigans]

Hi! I think your posts are funny and I figured I'd just ask a random question:

Do you have a favorite ship, or a comfort ship you’re particularly fond of? Or a favorite fandom maybe?

I do! It changes periodically but I am a big fan of The Magnus Archives (and Magnus Protocol as it continues to come out)

I’m bit of a basic fan- Jon and Martin are my favorite pairing, jmart fluff just hits different

[magpod-confessions]

JMart was as healthy of a ship as it could’ve been considering the circumstances. Need I remind you all that they’d spent the past several years essentially trapped in a cult and both doing and going through some abhorrent shit, and in the end they were walking through literal hell. Not to mention the fact that they’re both people, people with flaws and issues and good and bad traits, people who have truly ungodly amounts of baggage to work through.

You don’t have to like the ship (hell it’s definitely not my favorite. It’s cute, but I don’t like the way most fics portray it) but the people see it as purely toxic or entirely perfect are just wrong. It’s a relationship between two people, and relationships are never perfect.

I don’t think this is a hot take. Hell, I hope this is an ice cold take, but it’s a take nonetheless.

(Also unrelated take but this fandom needs more Georgie/Melanie. It’s fucking adorable and really interesting and disgustingly underrepresented in the fandom.)

.

[just-an-enby-lemon]

I was thinking if there's a ship of mine that would fit my favorite childhood tradicional song (?) (I have no idea what's the english word for cantiga de roda/ciranda): Se Essa Rua Fosse Minha (If This Street Was Mine) 'cause besides the nostalgia it is just a very beutifull and romantic song. And I got to the conclusion that it fits Jmart. At least for me. So I wanted opinions?

It goes as it follows (translation made by me):

Se essa rua, [if this street]

Se essa rua fosse minha, [if this street were mine]

Eu mandava, [I would order]

Eu mandava ladrilhar [I would order it tiled]

Com pedrinhas, [with peebles]

Com pedrinhas de brilhantes [with peebles from precious stones]

Para o meu, [For my]

Para o meu amor passar [For my love to pass by]

Nessa rua [On this street]

Nessa rua tem um bosque [On this street there's a florest]

Que se chama [That's called]

Que se chama solidão [That's called loneliness]

Nesse bosque, [Inside it]

Nesse bosque vive um anjo [Inside it lives an angel]

Que roubou [who stoled]

Que roubou meu coração [who stoled my heart]

Se eu robei [If I've stolen]

Se eu robei seu coração [If I've stolen your heart]

É porque [It's because]

É porque te quero bem [It's because I wish you well/like you]

Se eu roubei, [If I've stolen]

Se eu robei seu coração [If I've stolen your heart]

É porque [It's because]

Tu roubaste o meu também [You've stolen mine as well]

[muffimtv]

this even though you dont write rn

🥑🥤💌🌻🧃🍄🪐📚🍬🦷❄️🥐🏜️<- (general art creation) 🦋🐚🐝🌸🎨🧩

YOU ARE INSANE

🥑 - you accidentally killed somebody, which mutual(s) do you text for help?

@fuzziecorpse @bathtubswooo and @h3xrts4-me

🥤- recommend an author or fanfic you love

sing, sweet cicada on ao3! my partner and i loved it so much that i bound a copy for him!

💌 - how many unread emails do you have right now? 

22!

🌻 - tag someone you appreciate but don't talk to on a regular basis

@crikey01 your tag games are so silly i love them

🧃- share some personal lore you never posted about before

ooh fun question!! whenever it rains i try to go lay out on the roof of my car, it’s very fun :3

🍄 - share a head canon for one of your favourite ships or pairings

its so hard for me to pick just one pairing BUT currently jmart is on my mind so! i think martin likes having little streaks of color in his hair and jon likes to dye his grey streaks to match

🪐- name three good things going on in your life right now

i got my brother into one of my favorite shows, i’m working on a fursuit, and prom is next week!

📚- what's the last thing you wrote down in your notes app? 

a fic idea i had at literally 2am yesterday

🍬 - post an unpopular opinion about a popular fandom character

genuinely i cannot think of oen LMAO

🦷 - share some personal wisdom or a life hack you swear on

learn to sew!! it’ll have you a lot of money on things like hemming pants/dresses, repairing clothing, and making them too

❄️ - what's your dream theme/plot for a fic, and who would write it best?

i’m always a sucker for coffee shop aus man…..

🥐 - name one internet reference that will always make you laugh

my brother and i always use “empty the compartments of your pantaloons” and one of us will respond “FOR WHAT PURPOSE???” and it always makes me giggle

🏜️- what's your favourite type of comment to receive on your work?

those ones that are like “SCREMAING CRYING SOBBING THROWING UP EATING MY WALLS”

🦋 - share something that has been on your heart and mind lately 

JMART 🔥🔥🔥

🐚 - do you like or dislike surprises?

i like them usually!

🐝 - tag your biggest supporter(s) and say one nice thing about them

@fuzziecorpse hiii i love you <3

@notroadkills u are so funny king

@crikey01 YOUR ART IS SO GOOD LET ME EAT IT

🌸 - do you have any pets? if you do, post some pictures of them

my baby bunny easter (she is actually terribly old)

woe, baby be upon ye

🎨 - link your favourite piece of fanart and explain why you like it

this martin art. specifically the second one 😭😭 that little image was ALL that was on my mind when i was in my ACT today

🧩 - what will make you click away from a fanfiction immediately?

NO PARAGRAPH BREAKS OR PUNCTUATION

PLEASEEEE I DONT WANT TO READ A BLOCK OF TEXT MY EYES ARENT MADE TO HANDLE IT