#tma reverse time travel au

[life-of-a-rat]

there are a million TMA time-travel AUs where the S5 crew goes back to an earlier season, but where are my S1 goes to the future AUs???? please????

edit:

there's more to this AU now!

check the "tma reverse time travel au" tag to see it :D

part 1 / part 2

[adamofingolstadt]

more TMA rev Time Travel AU

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[life-of-a-rat]

GGGRRRRRRRRGHGHGGGGGG CHEWING ON THIS EATING IT I LOVE IT SO MUCH HOLY SHIT anyways i drew a thing :]

i love the whole scene of just Michael going on and on abt how much he dislikes archivists, while jon just has no fuckin clue as to whats happening

(I'll probably wait a few chapters before drawing anything more serious, because I don't know what will be my favorite part yet)

EVERONE GO READ CH 1 OF MY FRIENDS TMA FIC

NOWWWWWWW/lh

@life-of-a-rat

^ person who's silly goofy comic inspired this

[rowanraven08]

@dieanywhereelseart Fan art for the fic What Once Was Mine by Dieanywhereelse on ao3! This fic was so fun, I love the concept of Jon’s vocal cords being replaced with tape, and being able to mimic sounds and other’s voices. Just to add on to this with my own little head cannon, is that if him and Martin are cuddling and Martin has his head against Jon’s chest, he can hear the little whir of a tape recorder, instead of a heartbeat.

Anyway I dunno if this drawing conveyed that sort of concept? But it was fun to draw. Can someone PLEASE tell me how I’m able to read a 50k unfinished fic and make fanart for it in a single day, and it takes me a month to get through a chapter in a normal book, it’s getting frustrating

[ask-base-crew]

ok what if. reverse tma/wbg crossover au. instead of wbg characters interacting with the TMA powers its TMA characters interacting with the WBG tech. The Magnus Institute is studying the tech and is run by Jonah Magnus, who uses iteration to avoid death and aging. the British government has its own time travel unit that Daisy and Basira are part of. when the protagonists finally grow sick of the evils of their former organizations, they form their own organization to combat them and study the tech.

[dieanywhereelseart]

Rating: T

Archive Warning: No archive warnings apply

Fandom: TMA

Chapters: 11/?

Words: 46.9k

Relationships: Jonathan Sims | The Archivist/Martin Blackwood, eventual s1 Jon/Martin/Tim/Sasha

Summary:

Martin was tired of Strangers wearing his friends’ faces. Wearing his face. Still, it was nothing a gun couldn’t solve.

…

The Scottish Safe house gets a few visitors from the past. Jon and Martin get a chance to set things right. Chapter 11: Jon and Sasha bond over google.

(tags under cut)

Tags:

Time Travel, Time Travel Fix-It, REVERSE TIME TRAVEL AU, Set in Episodes 159-160 | Scottish Safehouse Period (The Magnus Archives), no apocalypse in this household, Helen creates problems on purpose, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, mostly comfort, Monster!Jon, but he’s soft and human yk, Elias Bouchard Fuck Off Challenge, gun!Martin, mentions of Daisy and Basira, eventual polyarchives, jon character development speedrun, Canon Asexual Character, Asexual Relationship, Nonbinary Jonathan “Jon” Sims | The Archivist, he/they pronouns for jon, local cryptid Jon

[wildshadowtamer]

Some long TMA fics i really like

Time Is Hard by Serazimei- 30/? chapters, 94k, ongoing. a time travel kidfic about Jon waking up in his 9 year old body in 1997, shenanigans ensue. its really good, took up atleast 3 days worth of my tma brainrot.

What Once Was Mine by Dieanywhereelse/@dieanywhereelseart - 12/? chapters, 51k, ongoing. a reverse time travel fic about the s1 team ending up meeting Safehouse Era Jon and Martin. Pining, spookiness, and Gun!Martin ensue. very fun, i love it.

Break Me Like A Pattern by TheLibraryBat - 23/45 chapters, ongoing, 125k. a slowburn, idiots to lovers gerrymichael (eventually) Archivist!Michael fic with some of the best Gerry characterization i have ever read. i have had such a good time reading it.

Look Who’s Inside Again by MagicalGhost96 - 36 chapters, ongoing, 45k, literally the cutest lonelyeyes fic i’ve ever read, set in the pandemic and made up of connected shorts, Peter and Elias have shenanigans, hijinks, and fluff while in lockdown. seriously, some of these scenes (two in particular) were so cute i literally made a 🥺 face

Love Is All We Have To Hold Onto by traveller19 - 4 installments, 237k, the most emotionally painful but rewarding series i have read ever, its so emotional and then you get so much fluff and its brilliant. its a post-canon jonmartin seriously-sick sickfic with a sweet wtgfs 2nd installment, and a mound of fluff for the other two installments.

Knowledge is Power (but Love won't Hurt) by SupposedToBeWriting/@organchordsandlightning - 31 chapters, 156k, finished. a slowburn angst-with-a-happy-ending single parent Jonmartin AU including Gerry. i adore Phil (jon’s kid) and Gerry’s characterization is so on point, jmart were so sweet and the years-in-the-future sequel chapters were adorable.

[oakleaf--bearer]

tma time travel au where s1 sasha and tim see s5 jonmartin while out and assume that it's their martin and jons cousin bc he's changed so much

they then casually interrogate s1 jon to find out if he knows, where the exchange goes something like 'oh hey jon, we saw your cousin or something the other day', to which jon replies 'i don't have a cousin'

to which sasha and tim immediately assume that martin is dating a jon lookalike and go into Overdrive trying to work out a) if that's okay and b) if they should say anything

martin comes in while they're whispering one time and asks what's going on, and eventually manages to get one of them to spill, leading to him saying 'uhh, guys, that's not me'

the team then assumes that there is both a jon lookalike and a martin lookalike somewhere in london, and start their mission to find them

all while this is happening, s5 jonmartin are running around foiling plots and stopping avatars, and just generally being public menaces and trying to reverse what little they can

the turning point in the teams investigation is actually when georgie reaches out to s1 jon and says 'hey, are you a cryptid? some pictures of you just showed up on a forum, apparently you were fighting ghosts or something?' and attaches a very blurry photo that is obviously jon smiting an avatar, full eldridge glowy eyes and archivist badassery captured while he and martin were hunting down some avatars

jon then goes to the team and goes 'drop everything, we are now looking into doppelgängers and lookalikes, do not question me on this, just trust me', and the teams just there like 'uhhh, funny story'

the investigation changes from 'haha there's two lookalikes of our coworkers dating, we should find them bc it would be a funny meme' to 'oh god no, there's two lookalikes of our coworkers who are possibly killing people with spooky ghost powers, we should find them and stop them'

they go full red string with it and eventually have a board full of names and locations and then one of them just suddenly sits up and goes 'guys holy shit this name is in a statement', leading them to realise that not only are the fake!jon and fake!martin hunting people down, they're hunting down people who are mentioned in statements

eventually one of them gets a theory of who they're going to go after next and where, so they all go on a stakeout and manage to catch jmart, leading to a confrontation and confession, with much confusion and general nonsense :)

[p1nkwitch]

4. and 17?

4. Link your three favorite fics right now.

Experiment 5068 by 263Adder (The umbrella Academy) Post season 1 they travel in time and end up in their younger bodies. I just love how it shows the difference between the original timeline and the small changes they do. Plus i love Vanya with all my heart and Number 5 too. The series is a gift and i hope they manage to finish the last installment.

Cellar Tea by Pshycedelia (Tma, Lonelyeys) Reverse Au, its Elias going to save Peter from the lonely, this is what made me love reverse Au and one day i will make my own.

Run for all the things you’ve done  by @pensivetense (Tma, Lonelyeyes) Liste- Listen !!! I love this fic with everything i have, it gently held my heart while squeezing. Just the soft way it went, Jonah inner monologue the passage of time. The ending!!!! Im going insane. It inspired me for one of my chapters of the beach fic. So pen? You are a mad genious.

I have way more fics that i love, like way too many and my list would go on forever. Maybe one day i do a rec list for them.

17. How obsessively do you sit and stare at your fic after you’ve just posted and wait for feedback?

:) I constantly check my gmail to see if i have comments, every day. Its sort of maddening. Im just a simple woman trying her best and hoping for that sweet, sweet serotonin from getting positive feedback.

So to answer it, very obsessively. Thats until i think that no one will comment cause i suck but thats me being a downer. Then i just mostly drop it and hope for the best.

Anyways thanks for asking me i have a blast answering!! Drop me more if anyone wants.

[ghostbustermelanieking]

tma fics i want to write someday

because i've gotta hold myself accountable somehow, right? under the cut if you're curious!

post 189 fic/flashback fic about georgie's relationship with jon, + a reconciliation in case the show never delivers

post 189 spec fic dealing with my "martin becomes another/a new archivist and does a reverse ritual to turn the world back" theory, before it's disproved

timsasha oneshot where sasha is alive in s3 (one way or another) and she goes with tim on his trip to malaysia/his attempt to leave the institute

time travel oneshot (i know) where martin (and maybe georgie for some reason) travels back to the day gertrude dies, after they fail to turn the world back and jon doesn't survive, and sets the archive on fire

something about basira (as soon as i have an idea)

archivist melanie au

the haunting of bly manor au

i had a kinda trivial idea when i was cold one night anyways it's a 159 huddling for warmth after the lonely idea

finishing a hidden statement?? maybe?? (the problem is i love parts and hate other parts and am always doubting the plot direction and kind of dont wanna finish til i know how the show ends anyways)

would not mind continuing knowing somehow, although that one is kind of on the back burner tbh

[life-of-a-rat]

I dug through the dark recesses of my mind and finally found another comic idea for this AU.

my last post for this AU got, like, an obscene amount of notes, so while it was kind of just supposed to be a one-off comic, here's another one I guess?

btw, if anyone's curious (for some reason) the text in panel 3 says "Ceaseless Watcher, turn your gaze upon Martin's sweater"

[life-of-a-rat]

“they kept fogging up”

I’m losing my mind oml XD

more TMA rev Time Travel AU

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[life-of-a-rat]

Tim: How is Future Jon SHORTER than normal Jon??! Both Jons, locking eyes, well fucking aware that s1 Jon wears elevator insoles to look taller

You ever just draw something that speaks to you on a deeper level? Yeah that’s panel 3 for me.

[life-of-a-rat]

TMA time travel AU part 2

I think the pacing might be off in this, but I'm too tired to figure out what's wrong.

not joking, I literally spent all day working on this non-stop except for a 2-ish hour break to watch Elemental (which was good, you're all wrong.) basically, please like/comment/reblog. also, asks are always open :D

part 1 / part 2

[life-of-a-rat]

@lmao-of-the-east and @crowpunk42 sent in very similar asks, so I've kinda just blended them together?

not SUPER happy with Jon's expression in panel 3, I might re-do it.

[life-of-a-rat]

I wrote this late last night, and I'm not really sure if it even makes sense?

wow I think this is the longest comic I have on Tumblr right now. I usually stick to 2-3 panels.