#tma aus

[shitty-tma-aus]

Everything is the same but there is a buried statement about camping in a cyber truck

no this one's real

[y3llow-hoodie]

Had this fantastic request by @mus0v , and I got WAY too invested

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Vast!Jon AU _ X-2-3-4-5-6-7

I love love LOVE this so much!!! I will post more content for this AU at a later date :D

Also if someone could come up with a better/cooler name for Vast!Jon I would be eternally grateful. I wanted to do something about floating or jumping, but “the jumper” doesn’t sound that intimidating , so “the pilot” will do for now

[inkzectz]

Posting this to main too bc I like it , a looooot of symbolism/foreshadowing.

Ik the symbolism/foreshadowing makes most sense to people who’ve finished TMA so I ask that you keep the meanings to yourself until I get to it.

[crit20art]

[ID: A series of greyscale digital drawings of Jonathan Sims and Martin Blackwood from The Magnus Archives, imagined as a siren and a selkie, respectively. With them is their mixed siren/selkie baby, an original character.

In the first drawing, Jon, a siren with a long fish tail and frills along his whole body, lays on his side smiling as he gives Martin belly scratches. Martin, a very pregnant seal, has his eyes closed in contentment and his flippers resting on his round sides.

In the second drawing, Martin, a human man with wet hair, wearing a thick selkie coat, smiles fondly down at a white seal pup cradled to his chest. The pup looks up at him with big, cute eyes.

In the third drawing, a chubby baby lays on a small seal pelt. The baby holds onto one of the pelt’s flippers, and kicks a foot in the air. The baby has white hair, frills like Jon’s, and spots like Martin’s. End ID.]

been revisiting my jmart seafolk au and thinking. yknow what if they had a really cute lil selkie babie 🥺

bit of lore: selkie children are born wearing their coat, which can be removed by a parent. their human form, unlike a normal newborn, is already extra chubby for buoyancy and insulation! both forms have a layer of white fuzz that they shed after a few weeks. This particular baby, being part siren, will be able to breathe underwater once their gills open after a few days. As for other spooky siren abilities… 👀 who knows!

Click here to see the boys in color and click here to read the fic this au is from <3

[dexterkronos]

Get jumpscared y'all, we're back to Jon! More specifically, the Jon of @candlecoo-sideb-art's Somewhere Else (In Space) AU! I do not know why, but the idea of the Fears in the Mechanism universe is something that slightly unnerves me, but luckily, we have two resident traumatized folks to help out. I kinda went and experimented with his pupils specifically, given that candlecoo's pupil style is to make them white instead of black, which actually helps with bringing attention to the eyes oddly enough. I instead added the white pupil to his Eye power usage (and have it somewhat eclipse his iris like a cat's pupil), as it gives a sort of 'inhuman' feel against the art style I got going. That and I'm a coward who refuses to break tradition sometimes. Overall, I love the AU that they are forming and the shenanigans that could ensue excite me to no end. Maybe I just have a thing for Magnus blorbos meeting Mechanism dummies in their own space, who knows. Anyway, there will be another art from this verse a bit later on in the day, and then I'm jumping back into Redeath/Search Through the Stars to tackle a few of the ocs 👀 (if you've read it, you might know who is on the agenda).

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[crocwearingcryprid]

Arthur Lester : So we both went into a coma huh?

Jon Sims : And you know I woke up different, and I thought when does the Eye make me monstrous?

Arthur Lester : You had to eat a person too?

Jon Sims : What ?

Arthur Lester : What ?

[hotdrinks]

[ID: a greyscale drawing of sphynx Jon looking at a frog. Sphynx Jon is a large catlike creature with a long neck, horns, a mane and wings with markings that are shaped like eyes. He has a long tail with a scorpion stinger on the end. He is sitting down and looking at a small frog, the markings on his wings appear to be looking as well. End ID]

@mxwhore requested their sphynx Jon being silly!! His ass does NOT know about frogs!!!!

[cult-of-the-eye]

no don't cry, jmart heartstopper AU where jon was bullied and sort of an outsider but has a couple solid friends (tim and sasha) and martin is a soft-spoken, shy rugby player who is a teddy bear but terrified that one day they'll all just turn on him and martin is forced to join jon's journalism club for extra curricular points but keeps missing it cause his mum would be mad if he wasn't home immediately and all the meetings are after school so they meet when martin's pen explodes and jon begrudgingly helps him and they FALL!! IN!! LOVE!!!

[gr-book-worm-1818]

the thing with tma is you could shuffle and place pretty much any mc as an archivist and as a not!person au and make it WORK

jarchivist & not!georgie. jarchivist & not!tim. sarchivist & not!martin. tarchivist & not!jon. marchivist & not!sasha. hell, who’s to say melarchivist couldn’t work? or garchivist, or barchivist, or even darchivist? just slightly alter their backstories so that they’ll find themselves in a position where elias both offers them the archivist job and they accept it. just THINK of all the possibilities!!!! no matter who the archivist is, imagining that someone STILL gets not’ed no matter what, is absolutely HAUNTING and i LOVE it.

working ideas for these:

not!georgie au where she visits the institute and ends up in artefact storage, BOOM not’ed ; naturally, jon isn’t even the one who notices. maybe martin or tim?

the classic sarchivist & not!jon au BUT martin is still the ‘anti-christ plus-one’ and gets to watch the smiting of the not!them, sasha james style

sarchivist, not!martin, & archival assistant jon where JON is the only one who thinks something’s kinda off with martin

melarchivist au where she encounters something genuinely Fucked Up at ghost hunt uk pre-jarchivist and literally no one believes her et cerera et cetera so drama happens, ghost hunt uk is abolished, and when melanie heads to the institute elias offers her the position

MARCHIVIST + NOT!JON.

SARCHIVIST + NOT!TIM.

tarchivist au where he’s still the one who sets off the explosion during the unknowing, but HE’S the only one who survives and all of his friends die in the explosion (yk cause in this case he’s an avatar)

tbh, i think every single one of these characters, no matter who’s the archivist and who’s the not!person, they’d still end up starting the eyepocalypse one way or another, even if their way isn’t as impulsive as jon’s. i just feel like they would!!! i mean, we all know every single character had made incredibly stupid decisions in tma, so…

anyway, just things to think about :)

[webbedsitecryptid]

a series of the magnus archives hol au things

jonathan sims when he discovers his archive is actually ¼ bigger on the inside archive is coded green the

beholding

is coded emerald green and in itatic all text relating/mentioning martin of course is teal

the minotaur but it's the beholding

5 ½ hallway but it's the distortion – and the spiral staircase too

magnus of archives, anyone ?

[shitty-tma-aus]

AU where the Archive they work at is Archive of our Own

that has some extremely funny implications

[hermoonself]

wasn't there a tma hunchback of notre dame au where jon was esmeralda pls tell me I did not hallucinate that help

[monarchetype]

Magnus podcast AU idea: Fear is a good thing, actually.

In the words of my favorite Doctor Who, "fear is a superpower." Fear tells you when there are dangerous and bad things happening. Fear motivates you to protect yourself and others. Fear activates your adrenaline and all those hidden human superpowers. A well-adjusted sense of fear is a good thing. Having no fear at all is very bad for your self-preservation.

Imagine a world where the Fears are used for good. Heights are dangerous, and people who don't take them seriously could use a little scare. Boeing higher-ups cutting costs and putting people in danger? The Fairchilds might have something to say about that. Sanitation is serious business; city council screwing over sanitation workers? It would be a shame if the mayor's house got a naaaasty worm infestation. Getting stalked? The Hunters have your back, even if you don't know it. Warmongering politicians treating the lives of their citizens like dirt? Stabby stabby.

Oh, and trying to use your awesome newfound Avatar powers to spread wanton destruction and suffering just erodes your sense of self and generally feels Real Bad. The Fears are still unknowable eldritch entities of course, and their servants reflect that, but "fear as a vehicle for human survival and flourishing" is an inexorable part of them. Don't pervert the eldritch entity and it won't pervert you. (Unless you want too many arms/eyeballs/worms/spirals/etc, that's still on the menu of course.)

And maybe, deep down, even the Fears want to learn to be appreciated, just a little...

[obsessingoverthisandthat]

You know, I'm really surprised at the lack of fanfiction featuring any character from tma stuck in a timeloop-

Like, especially since there are so, so, sooooo many Time-Travel-Fix-It's. It's like none of u guys realize how much Angst potential the timeloop trope has-

Take any of the characters and throw them in a timeloop and watch as they despair over not being able to escape their situation, no matter how many times they try. They want to burn down the archives? Let them and then see how they suffer the consequences. Force them to take drastic actions and make them learn that it won't ever work. They have to be smarter, subtler. They have to plan their steps.

It would work even better if it's somebody with a biased pov. Melanie. Daisy. Tim. I'm especially fond of Tim. Force them to grow fond of the idiots they innitially despised, because they noticed nothing else works and Hey... Actually, I was wrong. They arent that bad, they arent at fault-

Boom, interesting fanfic. Ur welcome to use this idea. Hit me up if u do, I'd love to read it.

[iiinkos]

so i submitted this prompt to @shitty-tma-aus and people were being funny in the tags so i doodled one

this might become an actual au thing lmao— maybe it’ll be called magnus jazz club? sounds a bit boring tho lmk if u think of smth better

[dexterkronos]

Here we go with a bit of an experiment, utilizing the Martin of @candlecoo-sideb-art's Somewhere Else (In Space) AU!

This one was a bit tricky, since I have been deliberately avoiding giving characters glasses due to their eye profiles being the more important part of the equation. Yet, stubborness is annoying, so I tried a version with glasses and... I don't know, felt like I overdid it tbh.

The idea of Martin being the defender of the duo and hyper enhanced by the nature of The Lonely's growth was too good, I love it. Martin should be allowed to go Kill Bill and we are in no position to stop him. Would be kinda funny if he got to dual-wield powers from both The Lonely and The Slaughter... but I think that idea is a bit too logistically odd so I'll just save it for my own AU.

Anyway, now this is posted, it's back to the Redeath/Search Through the Stars to tackle a few of the ocs. If you've read the fic (please do btw), you can take a few guesses who is next :3

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