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“It came from inside me,” Jon says needlessly as he holds out the slim feather for Elias to inspect. It is so small, barely half the length of the fingers Elias uses to pluck it up, to turn it this way and that so it shines white in the stark kitchen lighting.
“The Vast, perhaps,” Elias muses aloud, ignoring the way Jon fidgets for his lost attention. Jon presses a hand to his throat and pushes gently at the line of his windpipe, trying to feel the stretching emptiness, the wide and endless expanse opening inside him. It makes his head ache and his mouth taste like saltwater.
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Something is growing inside Jon.
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22 Jun 2026
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a vessel, shaped by Madame la Problématique (callmearcturus)
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
27 Jun 2020
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Set in S1.
With his new position as Head Archivist, Jon gets a new apartment. Then, of course, he needs new furniture for his new apartment.
Jon finds a ring in a locked drawer of an antique endtable. It fits him perfectly. Maybe too perfectly: it won't come back off.
Then, things get weird.
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18 Apr 2026
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“As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.”
― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis“Statement of … Statement of Jonathan Sims, the Archivist, regarding a few noticeable changes to his appearance after a … a miraculous recovery from a six months coma, most likely aided by the Eye. Statement given straight from subject, in his… on his bathroom floor. August 12th … Or wait, was it 13th …? 2018. At 4 AM."
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29 Mar 2026
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"So the Archivist ate Jon," Melanie starts, eyes fixed on weak lightbulb so they won't fall on the scalpel in her hand. "That's what you said."
"I said I am Jon. And that I ate him." The Archivist turns a page, not even looking up. "Metaphysically, for the most part."
"Sure. Whatever." She exhales out the urge to swing the scalpel in an arc, to follow through like a conductor until it meets skin. It would be so easy. "So if...if the Slaughter eats me. I'll Become. Something. Or. Or it Becomes me."
"Not exactly." The Archivist taps the rocky floor, glancing over at her. She doesn't dare tear her eyes from the lightbulb, not with the scalpel in her hand. "The Slaughter might eat you. But to really Become, you'd have to eat the Slaughter back."
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Jon wakes up four months early. This is not necessarily a good thing.
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29 Mar 2026
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The Magnus Institute of Magical Research attracts a certain number of newly qualified and unattached magicians, and therefore a certain number of fae with an interest in becoming familiars. Martin is perhaps the least qualified magician at the Institute, Jon is the rare fae there to do an actual job. They'd probably make this complicated enough without other people taking an interest in them, but the Head of the Institute has his eye on Jon and his finfolk familiar is hanging around Martin.
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08 Mar 2026