#jon is wearing martins sweater bc i love them

[astrangeraccoon]

So I've read a lot of time travel jon and I want to talk about the one's where it's Jon's mind being yoink into his past body.

Because I've seen a lot of them where the archive gang is confused by his change of behaviour (he s being Nice! To Martin!)

But you know what I wanna see more of? Them being confused by jon sudden change of wardrobe. Bc I hc S1-S2 jon having that prime and proper, appropriate for work clothes, but then s3 comes around and he s on the run hiding at Georgie and he has to wear her clothes, and it's comfy and he loves it, and then S4-S5 he just keep wearing comfy thing bc everything is hell and he deserve that minimum comfort.

So: time travel jon where when he spawn in the past he decide that he s not going back to his old way off dressing and come back to the institute the next day wearing a skirt and a baggy whats the ghost sweater (that may or may not have been georgie's before they broke up)

Anyway, cue extreme confusion from the archive gang

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[Image ID: A digital drawing of Martin Blackwood reclining in a nice outfit. Martin is a fat Black non-op trans man with square glasses, a goatee, and coily black hair braided back along his scalp and fluffing out at the back behind a bandanna. He is wearing a black bralette underneath a long-sleeved sheer top, patterned with shooting stars, crescent moons, and clouds, and he is also wearing denim short shorts patterned with stars and planets overtop fishnets. For accessories, he has a star earring, and an ace ring. He is smiling smugly towards the viewer. End ID.]

i need everyone to be aware of this hot martin i drew right now immediately

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[ID: A digital drawing of Jon aiding Martin in recovering from top surgery. Jon is a thin Persian person with long curly greying hair, a short beard, and various scars, and Martin is a fat Black man with his hair in a bonnet, square glasses, a small goatee, and lots of body hair. Jon wears a spaghetti strap pink dress over a long-sleeved white shirt, and Martin is just wearing boxers. Martin’s chest is wrapped in bandages that are accompanied with drains, and he is sitting up slightly on a bed, accepting a glass of water from Jon. A blanket is draped over his feet, and behind him are various pillows, including one patterned with stylized cats, and one patterned with highland cow faces. Martin is smiling fondly at Jon and saying “Jon…” as Jon looks back at him with wide eyes, and infodumps about the top surgery recovery process to him. The background of the image is a light pink. The artist’s signature, mossy-rainfrog, is visible at the bottom of the piece. End ID.]

Here’s my gift for the @seasons-in-the-archives secret snowflake gift exchange!! For the lovely @qpenguin98 !!! You said you liked jonmartin hurt/comfort, and also trans stuff, so I thought a good ol top surgery recovery might be fun :D I really hope you like it uwu!!!!

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[ID: A digital drawing of Jon rescuing Martin from The Lonely in MAG 159. Jon is a thin Persian person with long, greying hair, various scars, and stubble, and he is wearing a loose blue sweater over a darker turtleneck. Martin is a fat Black man with short coily hair that is dissolving into fog, glasses, and stubble, and he is wearing a purple button down. The two are touching foreheads and their hands are interlocking fingers in the foreground. Jon is pulling Martin closer by the back of the neck and smiling tearily in relief. Around them swirls bits of fog with various dialogue between the pair of them. In the corner of the image is a picture of a frowning slug from Star Wars, captioned “live slug reaction” in all caps. End ID.]

genuinely cannot believe the first MAG 159 art I’m posting is for this fuckign meme but in my defense college has me on my last legs of sanity so :)

slug-less version under the cut for my partner specifically bc i Know they hate this (affectionate) 🥰🥰

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[tmaandsp]

hiii so uh ive been rlly into tma recently and ive been sending asks to @alister312 ab it sorta (and talking to my friend.. cough cough pp anon) ive read like 3 gregstophe fics and thats all i know ab south park !! is this coherent i dont think this makes sense

anywaayys i drew jon and christophe as smoking buddies :D christophe has a cigarette too its just cropped out bc i didnt like his hand 😭😭 im not super happy ab how this turned out but its good enough and im not working on it anymore (i think i spent like.... 4 hours on it?? thats just a guess tho)

theres a version with dialogue under the cut!! (i forgot to open their mouths... oh well!)

martin show ur bf more good cows challenge 🙄🙄

[cpyclopse]

I thought it would be so fun to make picrews of the og Archives crew (ft. Gerry and pre. G*rtruded Micheal). Picrews themselves are such fun but making characters from them is great.

Basically me messing around and telling you my hcs and how i see them :)

First we got Jon.

Nonbinary and Bi (and ace of course). He has a pretty rigid style at first, turtle necks and blazers (and or button ups and blazers). I found a lot of him being Jewish like as hc and why not add a star of David. He has the worm scars. I love jon with long hair ( at work it stays in a professional bun until hes alone he also keeps pens in it) and i gave him a little piercing, oh and glasses.

Next up we got our man Tim

Hes bi (and sometimes i like him being trans masc) and he dyed the tips of his hair pink with Sasha. He has the worm scars but i also like to think he was some acne scars too. He has a short sleeve button up (Hawaiian shirt) but its pink and strawberries to match his hair. He has a split brow and ear piercings all the way up. He wears sunglasses bc hes cool.

Our Gorl Sasha

Shes trans fem

I really was not feeling the og one i did for her and kinda did what everone else did for her. Shes bi and dyed the tips of her hair pink with Tim. She has gold glasses and earings. Kinda like Jon she has a professional style at work but its nuch more layed back, like she wears button ups and blazers but its not buttoned all the way up and she wears more colorful button ups. (No worm bites for sad reasons)

Next up our resident bad boy in good boy clothing Mahtin

Hes Gay (like tim i do like him being trans masc a lot). This picrew doesn't let you add plus size bodys (they do however have a wide array of noses, hair styles, and you can add like wheel chairs, nose tubes, and hearing aids). He has brownish red short curly hair. He also has a layed back professional style with a button up and a nice sweater on top. He also wears those brown and yellow glasses (the ones that kinda looks like tigers eye im not sure if it has a special name). He has worm bites.

Also Martin with facial hair/ stubble rights

Our first special guest goth king Gerry

Hes trans masc and bi. He has long dyed black hair but his blond roots are showing. He wears heavy jewelry, multiple necklaces, earrings, and he has mouth and nose piercings. He wears what he wants bc he doesn't work at the institute and therefore doesn't have to dress professionally, if he wears fishnets, leather jackets, platforms and crop tops its not in jonha's Elias' jurisdiction to say no.

Next my favorite avatar and boy who deserved better Micheal <3

Hes gay and trans masc, hes very fem tho he fluctuates. He has shoulder length curly blond hair in the 70s/80s style. Hes already lanky (mans a plank) pre g*rtrude-ified. He layers up and wears earth tones like browns and such, his jacket has the elbow bits (patches??).

This was fun i really like this picrew, heres the link

[radiantmists]

ok i love all the increasing-hair-length headcanons for jon but imagine if he had somewhat long hair by the end of s3 and upon waking up from the coma finds that the hospital shaved it bc it was all burned in the explosion, and it didn’t grow back the whole time bc he was dead

in the first couple days basira sometimes catches him tilting his head with an odd look on his face and she thinks it’s some sort of beholding thing but when she finally asks he’s just like ‘my head feels so light without hair’

melanie regularly snaps at him for scratching at it while the stubble is growing out. she keeps scolding him after the bullet comes out, but it starts to gain a trace of fondness.

when daisy comes out of the coffin (a month after jon wakes up), her hair’s gotten ridiculously long and she can’t stand the weight of it or the feeling of it brushing against her skin, and she doesn’t want a pixie or something hard to maintain, so she gets a razor and buzzes it. jon sees it and stutters for a full minute trying to decide whether she’s more likely to kill him if he compliments it or if he doesn’t. then he’s completely derailed when she smiles and says ‘we match’

jon hasn’t been eating well, but daisy’s on a strict schedule to get her strength back and drags him into following it too, so his hair actually starts growing a bit better

on the trip up to ny-alesund, jon’s ears get cold way earlier than he’s used to, and they nearly miss the boat while he’s digging through his bag for his hat

the cap is hand-knit from soft maroon wool. jon had found it in a box with his cold-weather clothes and not remembered where he’d gotten it until he’d run a finger over the neat saxon braid and Known that Martin had tripled the cost limit of the office secret santa to buy the wool, justifying it by the fact that he wouldn’t use all the wool for the hat.

The rest of the wool, jon Knows, sits in Martin’s empty flat in the form of a woman’s sweater, never worn. 

jon keeps wearing the hat around the office afterward. when asked, he mutters something about drafts and basements. daisy finally makes him stop in july when a heat wave hits. 

after hilltop road, he thinks about asking daisy if they can match again. the tickle of hair on the back of his neck feels far too much like cobwebs and crawling legs. 

but: “i miss braiding,” daisy says one day, just before jon reads a statement. 

“my hair’s not long enough,” jon points out, which is not a no.

when he comes out of the statement-fugue, there are dozens of inch-long braids weighing against his skull. 

he leaves them in, and an old lady in the cafe across from the institute smiles at him when she sees them. to his eyes, there is fog curling around her ankles. he calls up the memory of callused fingers sliding through his hair while he reads, and tugs one short braid every time his feet want to get up and approach her.

his hair is the right length to easily hold shape by the time he finds out how to quit the institute. he runs his hand through it so much that when he bursts into martin’s office, it’s sticking up in about ten different directions. when he reacts to the comment on his appearance by talking about his eating habits, martin doesn’t correct him-- it’s not entirely wrong, after all.

jon pulls the cap back out as soon as september arrives, even though his hair mostly covers his ears now. he wears it into the lonely.

he keeps having to brush his bangs out of his eyes on the drive up to the safehouse. martin buys him a 50 pence pack of multicolored hairclips at a convenience store an hour outside of london, half expecting jon to turn up his nose. 

he’s not quite prepared for the fond smile Jon gives him, or for him to open the package and hand the brightest two clips back, tilting his head shyly in invitation

the first time martin sees a highland cow, he gasps so loudly and abruptly that jon pulls over to ask him if he’s alright. instead they get out to meet the cow, a wonderful shaggy thing with fur dripping into its eyes that tries to eat martin’s sleeve when he reaches out to pet it

‘maybe we should lend him a hairclip,’ jon jokes hesitantly. it’s not especially funny but martin gives him a chuckle, quiet but fond, and jon starts to believe that things might just be alright after all.

[iclimbtreestofeelalive]

tma as explained by someone who has only seen the posts reblogged by his beloved mutuals in the tma fandom (under the cut bc it got Long)

alright so season one. they're all in an office but it's a Scary Office. sometimes the tall scruffy one (jon) gets possessed and reads out spooky stories to tell in the dark. these are called statements and they are viscerally horrifying.

this twisted workplace horror podcast takes place in the Magnus Institute. the job of the institute is to collect things connected to fears. some of these things are called leitner books and they are made out of human skin. dermatologists hate leitner. these books are unimaginably cursed and will kill you in an instant. the only man i care about from this podcast, gerry my beloved, got made into a leitner by his mother dearest. there's also a guy with crazy long hands who laughs nice? forgot his name but he sure is Gender. he is in charge of Doors and All Funhouse Mirrors.

things happen in between season one and the current day, including but not limited to: a man becomes trapped in his own twisted fear hell due to his quest for power! a lady (annabelle?) maybe turns into a spider! strong sweater wearing man who everyone loves (martin, boyfriend of scruffy trauma statement man) maybe gets trapped in an endless void of nothingness, borne aloft only by his own grit and love for others? there's also a safehouse that everyone loves because apparently it's the only kind thing to happen to these characters.

jon the statement man is currently finding out that his entire life has been manipulated by other people and that he might be the personification of the End Days. i do not know as much about this because i saw far more posts about martin's strong arms rowing boats, which is so very valid of you.

the community is currently in Violent Denial of the sad ending of the podcast hurtling towards them at Great Speeds. this is because tma is a story about love disguised as a horror podcast produced by rusty quill and will end like a greek tragedy. you all produce frankly astounding art and theories despite the looming threat of tragedy, however, and this places the tma fandom firmly in my "people i respect" box.

(there are others named tim and sasha because this is a british podcast and they Refuse to let you forget it. they all wear sweaters and drink tea and have anxiety. somebody save them)

[celosiaa]

So wintertimes running around the corner and it reminded me of a funny thing for Jon projection hours. (aka all hours) I have EDS, not officially diagnosed so idk what type exactly but it runs in my family and I have all the trademark symptoms (stretchy skin, easily bruising, easy joint dislocation) so this is where this is coming from.

I love the cold. Absolutely adore it, if it's not cold enough for me to be wearing a minimum of slippers, fuzzy warm pants, and a sweater, it's not cold enough. When it's cold I'm at my happiest and highest energy. It's also when my joints are at their worst. For example, we had to turn off the heating bc my sister's morning sickness triggers with heat and she needed to be able to eat. And I'm the happiest I've been in months despite the fact that my shoulders been partly dislocated for the better part of the day because I slept on it, my knee got very sketchy when I picked up the cat yesterday, my elbow has decided to act Funky and perhaps even a but Fucky since I woke up (all very technical medical terms I'm sure ur familiar with ofc) and I can't do the dishes because we forgot to buy rubber gloves and my wrist brace isn't waterproof, and I can't take it off because picking up the dishes might fuck it up bc it's been loose since yesterday. And i'm buzzing with energy.

So imagine Jon with the same thing, running around the house happy as a clam while Emma and Martin try to get him to Please Sit Down but it's Cold and he's enjoying himself too much to listen. He's got his slippers and his sweater and the air smells cold and everything is great

Jon is living his best life in Martin’s wonderful sweaters that he has stolen--while also limping quite heavily from from where he’d slipped on some ice on the stairs and fallen, which had dislocated his knee. He’s got his brace on, but refuses to sit down--and the limping leads into further unsteadiness, which leads to another fall. So now he’s got his wrist brace on. And, after some thought, he puts the second one on too.

The knee one was...pretty bad, but our boy does NOT want to sit down. He’s just constantly baking, up on his feet as much as he can be because he’s SO happy about the cold! When Martin and Emma get home that day they’re like hello????? You are literally limping so bad please sit down

As usual though, I think Jon doesn’t listen to either of them. And unfortunately, pays for it the next day, when he’s hurting enough to need to use crutches.

[that-one-girl-behind-you]

jgm soulmate anon, and I maaaayyy have started writing a version of this myself but I a b s o l u t e l y wanna hear more 👀 how would you bring Gerry into their lives?

Aaaa Anon i’m excite!! Lmk if you post it, I’d love to read it!

Thanks for letting me ramble a bit more haha, here comes the brain vomit.

First off, I want it on the record that if I’m writing the AU, Gerry (and lbh the rest of the crew too) is alive bc they deserve to be happy and well, and I will give it to them if it kills me. All on board? All on board. 

Onwards to the headcanons!

Sasha and Tim are soulmates too, but since Sasha I’m feeling Sasha as Aro in this, they keep it platonic. They love each other and they belong together, whatever way they choose to go about it.

Jon reconciles with Georgie earlier, in fact, he calls her the very same day he meets Martin, panicking.

“Georgie remember how my first soulmate was a murderer well my second one is my bumbling, incompetent employee, Georgie what do I DO?!”

Georgie laughs herself silly, of course.

I want to say Jon is a bit nicer to Martin in this AU but who are we kidding, he probably doubles down on keeping it “professional” and ends up being a douche.

He still drops every statement that mentions Gerry on Martin’s desk, simply saying “He’s in this one too,” before going back to his office.

Martin has a split second to regret having discovered his soulmates before he flees Carlos Vittery’s building, because the bright red of Jane Prentiss’ dress is seared in his mind, probably for the rest of his life.

Jon does his head out of his ass when they’re trapped during the invasion, averting his eyes in shame and regret, before muttering, “I’m- I apologize, Martin... I was- you were not a bad soulmate to have.”

Maritn doesn’t even care that he’s about worm’d, he’s living his romance moment, and he’s gonna live it right. He stretches a hand to lay it on Jon’s shoulder-

And Tim breaks through the wall like the Kool-Aid man.

Sasha does see the table, it does call to her, but when she takes the first step towards it, her vision starts going grey, and she books it before it can enthrall her.

With Sasha being Sasha and having accepted that Martin is solidly an firmly on his side, S2!Jon is considerably less paranoid, which of course, causes less frictions with his team. All four of them are focused on finding out who killed Gertrude, and who might be coming for Jon next.

BUT you asked specifically about Gerry so everyone hold my hand it’s loving Gerry hours.

He has conflicted feelings towards the concept of soulmates. He knows they exist, he knows he has one. He also knows he’s possibly the least suited for a life with one, what with hunting Leitners and getting into life-or-death situations parctically every day. It doesn’t feel fair, for whoever it is he’s bound to.

“Did you have a soulmate?” he asked his mother once, when he was younger. “Yes, your father,” she responded, and Gerry knew even back then that she was lying.

“Did you have a soulmate?” He asks Gertrude once, during their travels. “No,” says Gertrude, her eyes somewhere far away, and Gerry knows she’s lying too.

He does die of cancer in America (he gets better)

Gerry comes back to London as a fully realized avatar of the Eye, looking for Gertrude with the intention of giving her a piece of his mind for leaving him behind like a broken toy.

He practically bursts into the Archives, ignoring the confused stares and calls of the two assistants outside Gertrude’s office, and shoves the door open roughly.

“Gertrude, what the ever-loving fuck is wrong with... you?” Gerry freezes at the door, staring down at the man sitting behind Getrude’s desk. He’s got small, round scars all over his face, his glasses are pushed up over his messy hair, and he’s looking back at him like Gerry’s a ghost (which he guesses he kind of is).

But more importantly, Gerry realizes, he’s wearing a blue sweater vest, Gerry can see the blue, and he doesn’t think he’ll ever be able to think of anything else, doesn’t even care that the grey remains in his vision, he-

He’s promptly corrected when the door to the office opens again, and a soft, confused voice speaks behind him. “Jon? What’s going... oh.”

Gerry turns towards the third man in the room, and his vision practically explodes with color, every remaining gray blown away by vibrant greens and yellows.

“I- can I take a seat?” Gerry asks demurely, feeling like his whole world has been turned on its head.

“...Please do,” the man behind the desk says, his voice strained. “Martin? Could you close the door?

Gerry quickly explains to his two soulmates -his mind keeps hyper focusing on the words. His. Soulmates.- that no, he did not, in fact, kill his mother. Or Gertrude, he clarifies when Jon -His soulmates’ names are Jon and Martin, and they sound so well together, so right- asks with a suspicious glare.

It takes a while for them to fall in sync. Martin is over the moon at having them both there, and Gerry finds it immediately endearing that Martin swears up and down he always knew he wasn’t a murderer. Jon takes a bit longer to come around, still nervous, still paranoid, until Gerry sits him down and tells him, very seriously, that if anyone tries to come after him, they’re going to have to get through Gerry first.

Gerry’s with Jon when they find Letiner at the tunnels, and he wants to, he desperately wants to kill the man, especially since he’s found out why Jon bears the mark of the Web, but Jon is overwhelmed, and Gerry steps outside with him because he can’t be certain he won’t strangle Leitner if he stays alone with him.

Gerry takes the blame for the murder, I think. Elias still tries to frame Jon for it, but Gerry goes and confesses to it because “what’s one more suspected murder in my record?”

This means he’s pretty much out of the picture for the entirety of S3, but it also means Jon doesn’t have to go hide at Georgie’s and his powers grow a bit faster because he can keep at the Institute.

Speaking of Georgie! She and Melanie don’t have soulmates, but fuck you if you think that’s going to stop them from falling in love and making a happy ending for themselves.

Gerry gives Elias a smug smile as Basira escorts him out and past his cell, and he’s immediately unnerved by the fact that Elias responds in kind.

Then he finds out Jon is in a comma and Martin is cavorting with Peter Lukas, and Basira and Daisy have to pretty much hold him back from going right back in and beating Elias to death.

That’s gonna have to be it for now, might make another post about the rest of season 4 if there’s interest when I have a bit more time!

[lemondoddle]

Lane, PLEASE elaborate on which ABBA songs you think are TMA applicable

oh ABSOLUTELY i will!

firstly S.O.S is the ultimate jonmartin song. the motifs about being saved, the lines about wanting the other but they’re out of reach, the wanting to go back to happier days, it is *chefs kiss* perfect for them, ESPECIALLY the line “and the love you gave me nothing else can save me” just screams mag 159 no?

next would be Lay all Your Love on Me, i see this from martin’s perspective bc he’s canonically a Jealous Boy and i always see the “don’t go sharing your devotions” line as jon interacting with different entities and avatars and getting marked

Money, Money, Money is applicable for some pretty obvious reasons vis a vis “fuck captialism”, and the “in my dreams i have a plan, if i got me a wealthy man” makes me picture og!elias and then during the bridge he gets jonah’d and then he’s with peter in the chorus (i visualize animatics to all of these kdjhg) also certain lines apply to a bunch of the characters like “i work all night i work all day” for jon, “to pay the bills i have to pay” for martin and “so i must leave, i’ll have to go” for either basira or sasha

Take a Chance on me is another jm one mostly because of a lovely fic with i believe the same name on ao3, i’ll link it if i can find it, but it just reminds me of martin’s perserverance and not giving up on loving jon, especially the line “my love is strong enough to last when things are rough”

these last few are less easily applicable but i still like them:

-Knowing Me, Knowing You: breakup song, i Beholding Know that one day in s4 jon was found lying on the archives floor wearing one of martin’s found sweaters and blasting this song on his phone and everyone who walked in on that immediately walked out

-When I Kissed the Teacher: a teacher!jon au thing where martin is a student teacher (theyre still both the same age idk if i need to clarify that but it will bug me if i dont) and all the students are painfully aware of martin’s massive crush on poor oblivious jon until the song title happens lol

-finally, the winner takes it all. actually for the most part i see this as a wolf 359 eiffel/hera song because of that finale (ouch) but depending on how s5 ends it could be relevant here too

so thats all of them for now, or at least until i listen to the rest of abba’s discography and find more, but tal thank you so much for asking and letting these thoughts free bc theyve been trapped here for so long

[shkspr]

☀️honestly any of your works i just wanna hear you go off about symbolism

dfksdjklf thanks u KNOW i love going off abt symbolism. i usually put purposeful effort into symbolism wrt names, historical/religious/literary analogs, & clothing. some of that is really obvious, like uh, pretty much every single time i mention crowley’s sunglasses it’s to make a Point abt intimacy or vulnerability, otherwise i tend to forget that he wears them at all lol. & then also i wrote a whole fic abt the symbolism behind the tartan collared jacket. & there’s jon & martin’s glasses & differing states of dress, & then the somewhat more literal but still heavily symbolic intimacy of undergarments & just straight up taking your clothes off.

the wide ocean has a lot of juicy symbolism, starting in ch1 w/ a discussion of crowley dressing differently, but it’s especially strong in ch5 w/ aziraphale giving crowley his sweater & then also giving him a housewarming gift of bread & salt, & then also giving him That Ring that one day someone will use to propose to me. & then of course there’s the ocean itself as a symbol of the fear of the unknown & the freedom of the unbounded & the intimacy of nature & sharing it w/ the one you love. pretty sure there’s also something in there abt the etymology of the word ‘souvenir’ & memory & suchlike. & then more of crowley wearing aziraphale’s clothes at the end, bc i’m extra gay

the historical/literary/religious symbolism is pretty heavy-handed as well tbh. see: socrates, theodora, the story of chanukah, shakespeare & marlowe, the telltale heart & hamlet, the crucifixion, passion/gilbert/regret, etc. gays be drawing connections btwn narratives, & all that. 

name symbolism is probably the strongest in buffy au, i think. see: the usual inherent meaning of crowley choosing to go by a surname, plus his latin name as representative of his false reputation, & az’s different names depending on context & who he’s talking to, & the fact that i named the band of bad guys after men who have wronged me & ppl i know, & the meaning of ‘asaph zechariah’ & the issue of hyphenating names & trans girl newt naming herself after isaac newton. names are v important to me, u know.

also on the subject of name symbolism, ik i haven’t really posted anything other than a tiny tumblr drabble in the wgcu (weirdgirl cinematic universe), but her name is v significant & i agonized over it for months, which u know. her birth mother wanted crowley & aziraphale to pick her name, so they would undoubtedly see her as really truly theirs, & so they would be forced to agree on something. 

aziraphale picked her forename, esther, for strong women & religious associations; & he also calls her stella, the nickname of esther johnson (lifelong friend of jonathan swift), & sometimes ‘my shining star’. crowley picked her middle name, aloès, for the plant, bc of its resilience & versatility & healing properties. so her name is important to me personally & meta-important to crowley & aziraphale personally, & i love it & i love her.

also also re: name symbolism in things i haven’t yet written or posted: jon’s middle name is amos, meaning ‘load’ or ‘burden’; & martin’s middle name is keshet, meaning ‘rainbow’. both are derived from hebrew, of course. thank you for coming to my ted talk.

[that-one-girl-behind-you]

Here again with unwanted nonsense about my AUs, this time some headcanons specifically about the OT3 in the Two Sugars verse (under a read more bc I went crazy)

-Gerry heard a lot about Martin before he meets him, because Jon's always complaining about this man from Elias' husband's company that comes and makes tea and has a crush on him and just generally disrupts work. He finds it very amusing that Jon is incredibly fixated on the good tea.

-He does ask Jon why doesn't he just tell Martin to back off of it's making him uncomfortable, but Jon immediately cuts that off by saying he's not really uncomfortable around Martin because Martin is actually very respectful? And he's not really sure Martin has a crush on him, okay? It could be just his imagination.

-It's not.

-Gerry's the one who ends up asking Good Tea Martin out to lunch with them, much to Jon's embarrassment and Sasha's delight.

-During this first lunch Martin was nervous af because Jon's large intimidating boyfriend is definitely going to tell him to back off right? (Thanks to @iamthehelperdog for this one)

-Jon infodumps on Martin about wild rice or tapioca or some wild shit and Gerry knows he made the right choice, because this is what Jon does when he likes someone. Later during dessert Martin makes a follow-up question to one of Jon's points and that's when Gerry starts falling for him as well.

-Tim is kinda worried about this because as much as he likes Jon and Gerry, he doesn't want Martin to come out hurt. This culminates in Tim giving his very confused friend and his very amused ex a very weird version of the shovel talk.

-Jon goes nuts with research about poly relationships. He has articles, he has charts, he has lists but most of all he has anxiety because what if he fucks it up with one of them? What if he fucks it up with both?

-Martin does get insecure from time to time, like... What could he possibly bring to a dynamic fifteen years in the making?

-The answer is A Lot, because Gerry and Jon rely so much on their familiarity that they sometimes have a hard time communicating or just opening to each other. The first time Martin asks one of them if they felt hurt by something be said and apologizes, they're like "...Wait so you mean we shouldn't just assume or try and guess at whether or not we screwed up with each other?" and Martin takes a five minute long sigh.

-Jon and Gerry's love language is bickering, and they're both delighted to learn Martin is fluent. For all that he's usually very sweet and polite, he can put the two of them in their place in like two seconds flat, and they fall in love with him a bit more every time.

-Martin is very good at helping them be vulnerable without pushing at their boundaries, merely offering a hug and a cup of tea, and he's great at mediating between Jon and Gerry when they have their awkward attempts at communication, until they ease into it.

-Jon and Gerry had never even spoken about the sexual side of their relationship because again, what are healthy communication methods when you know the other person like the back of your hand? It's not until Martin comes in that he sits them down to have a talk about everyone's likes and dislikes. It's still a bit of a hit-and-miss, but it's much better.

-Martin is one of the few people tall enough to kiss Gerry on the forehead when they're both standing, and it never fails to turn the big bad goth into a flustered mess.

-They do adopt a cat. Her name is Majesty and Jon and her have an ongoing race to see who gets onto Martin or Gerry's lap faster whenever one of them sits on the couch.

-Gertrude and Ester really like Martin. Ester constantly tells Martin how happy she is they found him, Gertrude constantly tells Martin how he ought to find a pair of less stupid someones to date.

-The first thing Gerry warned Martin of when he moved in was to keep track of his clothes. Martin thought it was a joke until his favorite sweater went missing and he was turning the flat on its head to find it. Jon walked in from work a few hours later and Martin was like "Ah. So a legitimate warning."

-The fact that Jon steals both of their clothing means he ends up wearing a wide array of stuff, Martin's sweaters and punny T-shirts, Gerry's old band merch or one of his skirts, basically anything that will fit him. Martin finds it charming and doesn't say anything. Gerry complains to be and back but he does absolutely nothing to stop it.

-Movie night is a constant debate for who will sit in the middle, the only concession is that Jon can be it if they're watching something with jumpscares (they don't watch any thrillers or horror movies that deal with murder, for obvious reasons) because he'll flinch right out of the couch otherwise.

-Gerry can cook the best out of the three of them, and Martin of course makes the best tea. Jon is very good at doing the dishes.