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[trans-jon-rights]

Okay it's dumb self indulgent tma au time

What if. Jon goes back in time after MAG 200. But.

He's a cat. And he just looks like That :

(tiny phone doodle)

And he is there for the whole show, trying to do things differently with very little powers and zero ability to talk

[trans-jon-rights]

Still unpublished as of now, but here is an extract from Dull Ache (sequel to Parting Gift, if you ever wanted to suffer in TMA Circus Fic)

"The doctors took [Jon] as an emergency. They did a second surgery to clear his trachea of the remains of his larynx and closed the wound cleanly. It would scar, but it probably wouldn't be too different from a regular surgery scar. Even more discreet than the one he already had on his throat. 

They gave him plenty of bandages and painkillers and provided instructions for Georgie to help him dress the wound every day. He was directed towards resources to get physical therapy for his legs weakened by the lack of exercising and more regular therapy to help him recover from the event. He promised to look at them, but he knew he would not. There were also multiple flyers for courses to learn sign language. 

He wasn't eligible for any reconstruction surgery or any device to help him recover his voice. The remains in his throat would have been insufficient even if the doctors had decided to leave them in, which would have come with a lot more complications regarding breathing. There was nothing that could be done without causing further damages and potentially endangering his life. 

He would never speak again."

Enjoy :)

I have an idea! 💜 (if you don't mind such thing, of course!)

Everyone reblog this ask and write about the fic you're the most proud of. Published one, unpublished one, work in progress, doesn't matter! Just say some nice things about your work. 💜

Heck yeah! Feel free to share a few sentences you’re proud of! Tag a friend or several!

I’ll go first!

This is a line of dialogue from a semi-crack fic my friend and I work on periodically:

“I highly doubt there’s a bomb in your e-mail, Timothy,” Jon says, emerging from his office, looking all for the world like a disgruntled rat in a posh button-up and knitted sweater. A posh rat — a prat, if you will.

[symbiotic-slime]

why does writing have to be so difficult

[annabelle--cane]

the problem with writing tma fanfiction is that I'll sit down thinking "okay, I've got an idea and I just wanna go for it, cut right to the quick, totally self indulgent, 4k words max," but unfortunately the idea usually involves jon, and he's never cut right to the quick in his life. I try to lure him into having a low stakes but emotionally honest conversation in private with his romantic partner but the fucker just won't budge. I am literally playing god trying to squeeze a single verbal expression of genuine human emotion out of this fucking victorian orphan of a ghost librarian and he just pops right out of my hand like a wet bar of soap. I made it nice I set the scene I got him comfortable but jonathan "I feel sad" "the archivist" sims is determined to ruin my whole fucking life.

[magnusforgaza]

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[trans-jon-rights]

Free will is a funny old thing, isn't it ? We are always told we have a choice, no matter the circumstances, but is dying, or suffering a worse fate than death, really a choice ?

He could chose what to cook one evening, he could chose to wear his forest green or mustard yellow jumper, he can chose to go to work with the tube or the bus.

He can chose what statement to work on. He had chosen to prioritise the Vittery case. He had chosen to go dig further, into that basement.

But dying the same way Prentiss had -- because what was attacking him wasn't Prentiss, it was a husk of who she had been -- wasn't really a choice, was it ?

"Okay," he murmured, barely audible even for him, but that was as much acceptance as the Mother needed.

It seized control of his limbs, bringing him down to his knees on the tiled floor of the bathroom. Terrified of the mistake he'd made, Martin could only watch in horror as the arachnid made its way up his face.

He shouldn't have been able to watch as it slowly, carefully lifted his eyelid, and made its way under his ocular globe, thin legs running along his optical nerve and threading a web inside his skull.

It shouldn't have been possible for hundreds, thousands of spiders to pour out from the ceiling, devouring the worms as much as they devoured him.

He should have been able to survive this.

Yet he did.

But how much of Martin was left, after he became part of the Mother ?

"I can save you." The spider told Martin.

The silver worms wiggled their way inside from every single crack and hole they could find. The ceiling, the vents, the cracks on the wall, the faucet...

There were even maggots coming out from the empty cans of peaches.

Though Martin couldn't tell if they were real or just the beginnings of a hallucination.

At this point, it felt like there was nothing else outside his apartment, just a black void full of worms slowly eating through the walls.

"I can save you." The spider repeated, cleaning its fangs. Its eyes were like big black dots of the cosmos, as if they promised a void with no worms, just a mesmerizing, peaceful quiet.

Martin had run out of food and water a long time ago. Even if the worms didn't reach him, he was sure to die before long.

"I can save you." The spider told Martin. "It will just cost you small price."

Did he have a choice?

[isaranatheninth]

We've (me and @wremms ) decided to time travel and create a new writers room for Supernatural. This will ensure Destiel becomes cannon earlier in the show, and that the cast will be more diverse. I also aim to keep the original chemistry in the show. Here is who I am bringing to the writers room:

- Two (2) OG Writers to keep the brotherly chemistry between Sam and Dean

- Taika Waititi

- Rhys Darby

- Simon Jiminez

- N. K. Jemisin

- Johnnie and Alex (TMA)

- Tamsyn Muir

- Tom Hardy

- David Tennant

- Jensen and Misha

- Harland Guthrie

- Gerard Way

- Becky Chambers

- WTNV Writers (i apologize for not knowing their names. I am too lazy to look)

- Rick Riordan

- S. T. Gibson

- Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

- Julia Armfield

- Arkady Martine

- Micheal Sheen

Feel free to (hypothetically in this thought experiment) kidnap a writer for our new and improved Supernatural writing room !!

[ike9306]

max you're literally so amazing but i have no clue what tf you're talking about half the time i need it explained to me like im five (/hj)

Hehehehehehe I'm glad you asked :3

So ! The TCFAD series first. You already know that one, it's the Parting Gift series I'm currently writing. The rest of the fics are coming. I'm just slow to write.

But yeah, kinda works for a character study cus it very much explores Jon's psyche after his kidnapping and his Circus trauma, with the added bonus of bringing Tim into the mix and being a sorta fix it (lie).

And that fits the 100k words well. Fic one was 12.5k words. Fic two is well on its way to be at least 20-30k, and fic 3 will be at least 20k, so... that's already a lot. And there's still the maybe fic 4 that I need to decide if I can make it viable. If I do, it'll likely be a 50k words one so. Def checks out there, lol.

The TMIAATTTMG AU is the JonGerry Friendship one I talked about on Discord a while ago ! The one I made a Jom design for over here.

The narrative is non-linear, exploring both the Assistants in 2015, discovering what the hell is going on, and Jon and Gerry in 2011 as Jon's promotion as Archival Assistant for Gertrude proves to be. Something for sure.

Definitely going to be a very long fic, though I'm not sure about the word count yet. And very much character study in the divergence.

Finally, the Nightfields Wake AU ! Full name of this baby is Somewhere Else : Nightfields Wake.

In this, we follow 15 years old ADHD child Jonathan Sims as he and his adopted siblings prove that their calm little town is, in fact, a cover-up for multiple cults. And their adoptive dad is the leader of one. And, apparently, he wanted to sacrifice three of them to make Jon into his messiah. What a mess.

A very comedic and absurd tone for that one, although there is some good angst at some point. The subtext is important, though. Also a long AU, we cover the whole series in this setting, so strap on for a wild one.

I can share snips of all three AUs if you want btw. Just Ask (preferably on the other account though cuz this one isn't much for TMA stuff).

Anyway, that's all for now :)

You can choose to kick my ass so I write one of them (not all three at once, though cuz I already have the AA crossover and my Project for school lol)

[crossnamara]

This is not at all because of the fic I'm working on...

But if you were to write Wilbur as a tma avatar, which entity would he serve? Are there other hatchetfield characters you see as becoming avatars?

oooo,,,,,,,, first instinct is to say eye or spiral, but i can also see him as stranger or a spacey vast. spitfire desolation (very easy im sorry), stopwatch vast, hannah web (unwilling). sam sweetly and max jagerman hunt. linda and gerald monroe flesh (plastic surgery AND nibbly). paul would absolutely not be an avatar but he has buried vibes and i just felt the need to say that

[arlex1e]

Crossovers are my everything!!! I love super weird combo crossovers so any time i join new fandom my mind is already looking for anything that can be turned into a crossover. Soooo- Before I listened to the TMA podcast I saw people commenting that EVERYTHING can be TMA reference. I was very intrigued. So now i am on 25th episode and yk... Take ANY movie/videogames/tv show with supernatural elements and then youd be able to connect it to the TMA universe and 💥 boom. It will make sense. Any fandom can be crossover-ed w TMA. | Obviously the first tv show that came into my mind was Supernatural duh. and there ARE a couple of fanfics about spn/tma. Then i thought about my favourite horror videogames!! Imagine my disappointment when i searched for Until dawn(or any other supermassive production game)/TMA fanfics AND found nothing! Cmon, do u see THE vision? | Also think about supernatural/until dawn crossover!! This idea lives rent free in my head and I wanted to share it for a long time! my first ever headcanon regarding these two fandoms was- imagine sam and mike being the only survivors and became hunters(spn style ) after the incident. Idk why it's just Sam And Mike and not anyone else but ig thats because after playing the game i kinda saw .. chemistry between them? and started shipping them. When i finished the quarry I realised that Max/Laura give off the same couple -hunters energy... or until dawn/the quarry crossovers! There are also a couple of these but damn I wish there were more. id write if I could

[kairos-polaris]

For the choose violence ask game, maybe 8 and 11?

ask game

8. common fandom opinion everyone is wrong about

Jonah's fashion sense. I understand the appeal of eye paraphernalia in terms of character design and how it's more fun that way but. he would never. he loves being a boring bureaucrat, I just can't imagine him wearing something as fun as eye earrings/rings. the max he gets is green suit lining

(also Elias is not a twink, he is in his late 40s minimum. give that old man his wrinkles and crow's feet pleeeease 😭 regency era Jonah was a twink tho, no argument here)

this one is more of a fic thing but Jonah doesn't tend to overreact. Gertrude and Leitner were exceptions. Getrude was going to destroy the Archives and kill him and Leitner almost ruined his plan for Jon (which he does admit was an overreaction). but he doesn't yell! he isn't emotional or hysterical. sorry if I am not making sense, I just get easily irritated by people not putting any effort into writing him. my beloved bastard is the worst, but please hate him accurately

11. number of fandom related words you've filtered

somewhere around 40 in general and 4 or 5 for tma specifically

[trans-jon-rights]

Every boop I receive, I'll write a new sentence in the secret WIP that will destroy all of you, btw <3

[crit20art]

OC lore drop

An overview of my OCs and the settings they belong to! The settings range from “fully-outlined/partially drafted novels that i genuinely intend to write one day” to “loose string of scenarios to put my guys in.” 

Casey and Vincent

(she/her, he/him)

Premise: Casey lives in the middle of nowhere Texas with an elderly woman (Margie) for whom she’s a live-in caretaker. Vincent shows up on her doorstep with a shovel in hand, asking if he can dig up something of his that’s buried on Margie’s land. Casey tells him no, and don’t come back. A few days later, while visiting a neighbor, Casey is attacked by monsters. They tear the neighbor to shreds and almost get Casey, but Vincent comes out of nowhere and distracts them while she runs for home. When she gets there, she realizes that the monsters can’t seem to cross the property line. Vincent gets badly injured, but Casey drags him to safety. 

They are then stuck indefinitely on this square acre of land, unable to leave lest they get torn to shreds by the many-toothed creatures prowling the invisible barrier. Casey nurses Vincent back to health and in doing so realizes that he is definitely something Other Than Human. She also learns that he’s really weird, but really sweet, but mostly really weird. He starts to dig up the land but still won’t tell her what he’s looking for. 

genre is romance and soft horror, very similar vibes to my tma fic "resigned" if you’ve read that. Vincent and Casey’s dynamic is p much "it's not body horror, not to me, not if it's you."

Max and Braiden

(both he/him)

These two are from a story that was basically my highschool big brain take on "what if superpowers happened in the real world but people who had them got EXPERIMENTED ON??" That’s still the setting but the plot has taken a sharp turn into classic American road trip. Max has the power to generate, manipulate, and breathe various gasses, and Braiden can make copies of himself. 

The basic premise is that, while escaping the facility where he’s been trapped for a number of years, Braiden meets Max for the first time. Max already knows him, however, and is in fact madly in love with him. It turns out that Max was in a relationship with one of Braiden’s copies who was recently killed, and meeting the Original(™) Braiden is the first time he finds out that there’s more than one of him. Cue lots of questions about nature/nurture, what makes a person inherently themself, and Star Trek style philosophical ponderings on the personhood of clones. All of this happens in a ragtop convertible against a backdrop of late summer highway.

(if braiden reminds you of my martin design, no he doesn’t <3 (actually he does because he is a character i put a lot of my own struggles with depression into, and his personality is adjacent to martin’s s5 I’m A Huge Bitch Because I Have Boundaries Now vibe, so martin ended up reminding me of him and i committed IP theft on myself about it))

Fantasy / DnD OCs

I’m bad at fantasy worldbuilding so i just kinda toss all of these guys into scenarios in my head and mix them like salad. I’m trying to put together something with a cowboy/western kind of energy but i haven’t gotten far <3

I have a group of OCs from a scrapped fantasy setting who I’ll add to this when I have more recent sketches for all of them. (If you’re wondering where the lesbians are. They are here. I’m sorry I don’t have more drawings of you on hand, lesbians)

More dnd OCs can be found just in my dnd tag but here are the honorable mentions:

August

(he/him)

Half-elf bard. He has been the icon on my personal blog for years and, in retrospect, playing him was absolutely my first step towards questioning my gender. He has 18 intelligence and 10 wisdom. He once hooked up with an NPC and scored a 24 on his performance check. He even has a meme. Party on, king

Aurelian

(he/him)

(2nd image is before i gave him horns. ft. fiancé Pesh, they/them)

Aurelian is a pirate. He’s an outlaw. He’s a horse girl. He’s been looking for his mysteriously vanished fiancé long enough that he has trouble picturing their face. He exists because I heard Chasing Twisters by Delta Rae and had to make a dnd character about it.

Vasha

(she/her)

Angsty wild magic sorcerer who started as a hostile NPC when i DMed for some friends. Took on a life of her own and ended up in lesbians with the party’s orc fighter. Since that campaign ended I am trying to find her a gf like Mrs. Bennet matchmaking for her five daughters

[vampyreblogger]

having now read @jonnywaistcoat 's thirteen storeys (which is amazing and i would recommend to everyone. i am a fan of horror in general and it's good for fans of tma and also fans of stephen king but also very fresh and intriguing. reading family business next; i am very excited), i have to now assign all of the people tma entities (of course, because who doesn't love a crossover):

SPOILER WARNING FOR THIRTEEN STOREYS

- violet: the lonely (whispering crowds, isolation etc.)

- jésus: the spiral (i mean come on. that painting. also abstract art is just spirally at the best of times)

- carter: the extinction (ai taking over, humans destroying themselves)

- anna: the flesh (starvation ghost is very flesh coded)

- gillian: the web (red string obsessive studying, but could also be the eye)

- alvita: the spiral (sleep deprivation, very mag 74. jonny writes great insomnia stuff)

- caroline: the eye (obsessive search for knowledge)

- laura: the end (end of human life, guilt over death, inevitability of death)

- leon: the corruption (this is so obvious. pollution and also big mouldy splodge)

- jason: the hunt (max is very hunter esque, but the violence of it could also be slaughter)

- janek: the corruption (the building is sick, rot imagery etc. also got buried vibes and flesh vibes)

- damian: the eye ("you stare so long this place drags you in", search for knowledge)

- tobias: the web ("the venomous spider at the centre of his web", orchestrater of the whole thing)

overall the whole book is very corruption coded which makes sense as it deals with the corruption of wealth, and is extremely interesting to see unfold

[thirteenthdyke]

hi becca!! 8 + 14?

hi ari!!

8. if you had to write a sequel to a fic, you’d write one for… ooh i'm not sure! a lot of the fics i wrote are for fandoms i don't care about as much anymore (tma...) but i think i would consider writing a follow-up to my anne/max fic one day. even though it took me two years to write the first one. and i am starting a black sails rewatch soon soooo who knows what could happen 👀

14. where do you get your inspiration? no clue <3 usually i just sit around and think and random snippets will come to me and i have to rush to write them down in my notes app before they disappear forever. and then i have to create something that pieces together all the little snippets. for overall fic ideas though i like to focus in on little in-between moments that Could have happened in canon but weren't included bc the narrative had to continue on. so when there are characters i like, i tend to start thinking about what in-between moments i can find to write about. especially if the characters are lesbians. i have been making it my mission to write about lesbians as much as possible these days

[an-aura-about-you]

my TMA fanfic hobbies include:

-writing weird, niche AUs that appeal to me and at max 7 other people

-making the Admiral an active participant in conversations with Jon

-liberating Elias from the control of Jonah Magnus and letting him live his best blind stoner life