#tma aus

[shitty-tma-aus]

AU where eye avatars drink like bill cipher

somebody who knows gravity falls explain this to me

[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.

[thatoneghostthateatspeople]

Random ass au I thought of a few weeks ago

Not original at all I'm sure theres plenty of these out there. But. Tma Teacher au notes: I mention characters ive written nothing about in here. the formatting is ASS. I have never read a single Tma teachers au fic but I'm sure they exist. I will almost certainly do NOTHING with this au I just felt like sharing instead of letting it rot away in my notes. ONTO MY RAMBLING

Who: Jonathan sims

Role

 English teacher (Lit and Lan )

How liked

Most people don't mind him, however he can be quite strict and  sort of rude to students who don't pay attention. Some of the students have been known to throw paper and purposefully act up in his class just to annoy him. Although those students quiet down a lot after the first half term thanks to Mr bouchard. He is also a bit of a suck up to said Bouchard.  

Students in his class say that he's actually a really good story teller and gets all the students, even the worst of them to go quiet while he speaks. Even those students who dislike him and the subject are enthralled in his storytelling.

Rumours

He has stayed in the school overnight on several occasions because he forgot to plan the next days curriculum  or he was grading homework. 

True this has happened so often that he put a spare blanket in one of the unused supply closets in the teachers lounge so he can nap on the couch instead of at his desk.

Habits

Always has a newly brewed cup of tea per class period (thanks 2 Martin)

Who: Martin k blackwood 

Role

School librarian

How liked

Most students feel relatively neutral towards him, only those who hang out in the library often really notice him enough to form an opinion. A few of the meaner students seem to kind of bully him due to rumours of him being gay and hence he spends a few too many afternoons picking up books off the floor.

Rumours

He has a crush on the English teacher Mr Sims, and several students have bets in regards to whether or not they will get together. These bets actually led some students to finally hanging out in the library and just asking him questions to seek answers. Martin doesn't quite realise why this is but he doesn't mind the company. 

True Martin has a massive crush on Jon. The other teachers also know about this due to tim having found some of his bad poetry when Martin's bag tipped over that one time 

He gives tea to the regular visitors of the library and even sometimes buys specific brands if he knows the students' tastes.

True  he does, he also does this for the teachers because he's a sweetheart.

Habits

He  listens to some of Jon's classes  especially when he reads out poetry. He does this during classes when nobody is visiting the library because they are learning. He stands beside the door and just listens. He doesn't get caught often but when he is he just makes a hundred excuses. if it's staff they tease him quietly. If it's Elias, he pretends he doesn't realise why and asks if he needs anything from Mr Sims and watches him scramble to make another excuse. If it's Jon himself he just gets questioned and leaves.(Jon's supper Sus of this and think Martin's going for his job)

When Jon's out sick he definitely is the first substitute (even though he's not a teacher Elias lets him as he finds it amusing ) and although not nearly as well as Jon he can also get the students interested.

Elias Bouchard 

Role 

principal

How liked

He is often considered quite scary. He looks very strict  and has a very stern face so most people avoid him or going to him. However those who have spent any time in his office say that although he is sort of scary he is also relatively lenient on many of the rules. However if he called your parents in your pretty much fucked as your getting a passive aggressive verbal beatdown.

Rumours

He has a notebook for each pupil filled with every single fault that the student has ever done, even rumours. They say that he uses them for the trouble makers during parent teacher meetings to tear the child apart.

Truth, he also has some for the teachers.

He once did weed with a few students in a bathroom. Most people don't believe this one but it's still passed around a lot. The teachers seem to have convinced the students it's not true,which wasn't hard due to how serious the guy is as well as the lack of evidence. There were no students who saw it, not anyone else in town.  

True! The reason for the lack of evidence is that it happened in the second year of his job and all of the people involved moved away. He did it more that once in fact and still smokes on the most stressful days ( not useally in school and never during a school week) once during a very stressful day of ciriculam planning Mr Sims had to drag Mr bouchard home while he rambled about some of the shitty parents he had to deal with who had been harrasing him all summer

He also has cameras in the school hallways and he's rumoured to watch them all the time and that is how he gets all the dirt. Alongside gossiping

TRUE the teachers have even caught him doing it and he sometimes watched the teachers.

He's homophobic. According to some students he "looks like a bigot"

False!!!! He has a husband! Also it's an assumption with only one small thing that could possibly be considered an indication. Aka once some students overheard him talking to Mr Blackwood about his insistence to do things for Mr Sims like bring him tea and listen to his teaching (Jon had asked him to soooo ) even the other teachers believe this falsehood. Well aside from Sasha, Gertrude,and Rosie (Rosie having seen Mr Lukas dragging a high Elias home over one summer. Gertrude had asked Rosie about his ring and got that confirmation. as well as noticing the matching ring on peters finger that one time they spoke. And finally sahsa because she snooped through his computer)

Habits: smoking weed, favoriting Jon, messing with the teachers and stealing their food.

Who: Timothy stoker

Role: History teacher

How liked

Almost everyone who takes his class states that he's their favourite, some students have even left confessions of love on his desk (all of which have been promptly rejected and transferred to a different class.) He's considered the fun teacher. He teaches in an almost play-like way, constantly getting students to participate in the activities by making a sort of game out of it. (He absolutely uses kahoot and other stuff like that)  some students are even so fond of him to come out to him! While Tim loves the fact that his students feel so safe with him he does try to discourage them from getting "too close" and he is just a teacher.

Rumours

That he gossips with students about the other teachers and even gives kids warnings about upcoming pop quizzes and surprises from other teachers. 

True he does indeed! He even gossips among the other teachers and  Mr bouchard himself (idc they would be pretty buddy-buddy)

He slept with Mrs James and their dating

Semi true while yes they have slept together they are in fact just friends!

That he's bisexual 

True yeah- he's also probably flirted with some of the students single parents at the start of his career- both genders ofc. the men don't usually realise tho-( he stopped after he got reprimanded one to many times by Elias)

Habits

Gossiping with other students, teasing Martin, dragging sasha out for impromptu drinks on school days(to be usually rejected) Wearing Hawaiian shirts instead of something more professional. He has done this so much that the other teachers have given up trying to get him to act professional and even getting surprised if he didn't look like a flaming bisexual (also this is where the majority of the rumours come from)

Who: Sasha James

Role

Science teacher

How liked

She is well liked however some students are slightly afraid of her as she can be very strict. Her students often say they like her teaching methods the most as she sometimes uses game-like ways to learn, despite the fact that she teaches high schoolers . While students may hate the subject they still engage regardless simply because they want to get on her goodside.

Rumours

she has slept with Mr stoker and is daring him

Semi true

 whole yes they have slept together once it was only a one night stand and they are in fact only friends. Whenever it is brought up and she overhears she tells off whoever is talking about it and clearly states they are just friends ( her efforts have begun to work over the past 6 months) however it is still joked about

She steals food from the vending machine in the teachers room and gives it to students who struggle focusing

Almost true.  There is no vending machine in the teachers room, she just says that so her students don't feel bad over her buying the kids nice things when they feel bad. She also lets all her students eat in class if they aren't doing a practical and if they can clean up their mess.

That she plans her pop quizzes around when the other teachers plan theirs so her students are less stressed. 

True she only denies this due to the fact that it would be admitting to looking through the other teachers laptops.

Habits

 Sometimes she and Tim during their free periods will pop their heads into each other's classes simply to say hi which all the students laugh at. (Especially when they do it to the other teachers like Mr Sims who gets annoyed when interrupted)

When she sees a student of hers in public she tends to go say hi and is relatively casual with them unlike the other teachers who tend to freak out a little. 

Once one of her older students was in a bar and came across Mr James, Mr Stoker, Mr Blackwood and Mr Sims all of which were drunk (Jon to the point he passed out and Martin was packing up to take him home) which left the student shocked. Sasha was actually awkward about it for once and began talking about the biological side effects of drinking alcohol until they finished talking. (She was drunk and panicked)

[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).

[ID in alt text]

[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 in which Jon and Elias make out in the Panopticon

did you know that there was a viral controversy a decade back about people in japan licking each other's eyeballs as foreplay? anyway what I'm trying to say is, I think that would be part of what happens

[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