#she was an employee there but also a librarian too bc dream. and she was like if you dont paid you will be barred for life đđđ
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i had a really stressful dream, like every single part was so stressful, but in a less intense moment (decided after waking) i searched up which library had some dream book and went and it was literally like those nerd stores in the the mall where its pop funko in front then board games then books. except mixed into the books for sale were library books and good god my friends. the previous parts of the dream had legit really upsetting elements to stress me, but somehow this part was enough to jolt me awake at 7 on the verge of tears LMAOO
#like i was DONE with it. *falls back asleep*#there was a woman working in the store too who was having an affair with my dream non existent uncle and she was SO MEAN to me đ#she was like ew id never do blahblahblah (im clearly blahblahblah in dream) LMAO. just terrible dream interaction#AND ALSO i could not find the library books and anytime id pick up a paid one sheâd be like âfinally. christ. 25$ please.â đ#she was an employee there but also a librarian too bc dream. and she was like if you dont paid you will be barred for life đđđ
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Jonah Magnus begrudgingly becomes a trans ally after putting himself in the wrong body âas a jokeâ and suffering
Concept: Dramatic Bastard Jonah âHubrisâ Magnus decides to put his eyeballs in a female body for one of these bodyhops because he âthought itâd be funâ (and also perhaps make that snippy young librarian Gertrude stop commenting on the fact that the Institute has never had a female Head and that she feels itâs high time they got their heads out of the Dark Ages and stopped ignoring half the population) and it BACKFIRES HORRIBLYÂ
(long post under the cut)
For one thing, half of his (actual, unstated) reasoning behind the switch was to spice up his third marriage with Peter, but Peter is Too Gay to Function(TM) and just takes one look at the new body and immediately books a year-long voyage to Siberia and leaves the country without so much as touching Jonah.Â
And then Jonah has to deal with having a female body to take care of and absolutely no idea how one works because despite serving the Watcher he is, also, Too Gay to Function(TM) and has not prioritized information on how to handle having a coochie. He didnât think it would be a big deal. He was wrong.
See, up until now Jonah Magnus has always picked young, twink-ish bodies that have at least a superficial resemblance to the young Jonah Magnus, and has assumed that being able to adjust to the slight differences just fine and even enjoying the changes means that heâs immune to dysphoria.Â
Jonah Magnus is convinced that gender dysphoria is bullshit and that heâll like a female body just fine because he wore drag once and had a fun time. Jonah Magnus has not thought this through. Jonah Magnus has not considered that âwearing drag as a man who enjoys being a man but also likes dressesâ is actually different from âactually not being a man or comfortable in a manâs bodyâ.Â
Jonah Magnus figures out the difference very quickly.Â
Jonah Magnus, King of Denial, writes it off as âneeding to adjust to the new bodyâ until he catches himself wishing he had that Leitner that makes you disappear bc he doesnât want to be seen, or to have to see himself, in this body and he just wants it to disappear.Â
The first barista at Jonahâs favorite coffee shop to call him âmaâamâ gets to watch a grown woman visibly flinch at being properly addressed and then rush out of the store. The barista then violently remembers something embarrassing that happened to her in high school, and spends the next week suffering from nightmares about her worst memories.Â
A man makes the mistake of catcalling some academic-looking librarian dame. She gives him a freezing look and suddenly heâs having violent flashbacks to all his worst experiences at once. He falls down on the street and has a nosebleed and eventually has to be picked up by the police and brought to a mental hospital because heâs raving like a lunatic.Â
Jonah âCannot Admit I Made a Mistakeâ Magnus, still trying to convince himself this isnât that bad actually, catches himself making a mental schedule for showering As Little As Socially Acceptable so he doesnât have to see himself naked. Jonah Magnus is usually fastidiously clean, and canât stand the feel of going more than two days without a shower. Jonah Magnus suddenly prefers that to seeing himself naked any more than necessary. Jonah Magnus finally admits that he made a mistake. Jonah Magnus is starting to understand what the words âgender dysphoriaâ and also âmale privilegeâ mean and heâs hating every moment of it.Â
And then he forgets to take the birth control that this body was on and its period comes back with a vengeance and he does something he never does and calls Peter, screaming about how heâs LITERALLY DYING and Peter is like âyou know women have periods right.âÂ
âWHATâÂ
âYeah they bleed every monthâÂ
âThey WHAT?? EVERY MONTH???âÂ
â...Jonah you serve the Eye. How do you not know basic human biologyâÂ
Jonah âToo Proud to Admit that the Information on Coochie is Buried Under Years and Years of Occult Secrets and Sexy Robert Smirke Momentsâ Magnus: âI KNOW!! I JUST--ITâS COMPLETELY IRRATIONAL THAT IT HURTS THIS MUCHâÂ
âYesâÂ
âTHIS CANâT BE NORMALâÂ
âYes it canâÂ
âIâM DYING AND ALSO IâM STAINING ALL MY SHEETS THIS IS HORRIBLEâÂ
âAll of these are things Iâve heard my sisters say.âÂ
âNO IT--wait reallyâÂ
âThey talked way too much. Really werenât suited for Forsaken. I was so glad when they left. Partly because I was a squeamish little boy who really didnât want to hear about their girl puberty issues any moreâÂ
âHang on, Iâm NOT dying?âÂ
âProbably not. Do you have any painkillers? Get in a hot bath and wait it out.âÂ
âHOW LONG???âÂ
âEuuughgjs I dunno maybe like a week? Ask a womanâÂ
âA WEEK?? WHAT?? IâM GOING TO DIE PETER I CANâT ENDURE THIS FOR A WEEKâÂ
âYou.... didnât think about this BEFORE you stole the body?âÂ
âY-YES OF COURSE I DIDâÂ
âJonah Magnus, worldâs greatest occultist and scholar, forgot to do his research?âÂ
âTHATâS NOT IT, I JUST DIDNâT THINK IT WOULD BE THIS BAD,,, PETER YOUâRE LYING TO ME PETER PLEASE TELL ME YOUâRE LYING I CANâT TAKE A WEEK OF THIS PETERâÂ
âI said I donât know. A week sounds right but I could be totally wrong. Ask a woman.âÂ
âI DONâT KNOW ANY WOMEN THAT I CAN ASK AWKWARD QUESTIONS OFâÂ
âGo to the libraryâÂ
âI CANâT IâM IN PAIN AND BLEEDING ALL OVER EVERYTHINGâÂ
âOh, yeah, there should be stuff for that. Youâre in, uh, the former bodyâs apartment right? Sheâs probably got like, what are they called? Feminine pads?âÂ
âWHAT? PETER IâM AN ADULT IâM NOT WEARING A DIAPERâÂ
âOkay, have fun getting the bloodstains out of everything you own.âÂ
âHOW DO WOMEN LIVE LIKE THISâÂ
âI donât know. Rather impressive really.âÂ
âFUCKâÂ
He caves and goes to young Gertrude and is like âlisten if you tell anyone this Iâll destroy your life but Iâm actually an ancient bodyhopping bastard and this is my first time in a female body and Iâm in hell please help meâ and thatâs how this Gertrude finds out who Jonah Magnus is
Elias Bouchard gets snagged for the next transfer because, yeah heâs kind of a weird pick for next Head of the Institute and people might talk but Jonah is Desperate at this point and Elias more or less fits his MO as far as physical traits go at leastÂ
Peter is so relieved to have A Husband when he gets back that he doesnât even complain about Elias picking a blond just because he knows Peter doesnât like it. And for once Elias didnât even do it on purpose, he was just in a hurry to get out of the Hell Dysphoria Body and took the first option he saw.Â
The formerly-plagued-by-nightmares barista at Jonahâs favorite coffee shop stops seeing the increasingly depressed-looking woman whoâd been coming in, but now thereâs a nice young who smiles like the sun when she calls him Sir and itâs such a nice smile that she feels a deep sense of warmth and contentment and only thinks good thoughts for the rest of the day. She falls asleep content in the knowledge that all her friends love and appreciate her and that she makes the best coffee in London and for the next week she has pleasant, restful dreams that she canât remember but that she wakes up from smiling.Â
Elias Bouchard quietly starts offering trans-inclusive health benefits to employees of the Magnus Institute. Martin Blackwood, Broke Trans Guy In Need of a Job, instantaneously appears on the doorstep.Â
#elias bastard bouchard#peter lukas#lonely eyes#gertrude robinson (briefly mentioned)#I love trans martin headcanons they're Good#joke post#long text post#the magnus archives#personal#alternate headcanon where Joanna Magnus was actually trans. but this was funnier#raise your hand if you would work for a shady paranormal archive that gave trans health benefits *slowly raises hand*
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