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Emily Wilson has inadvertently created a fascinating new way to categorize basically any visual media ever made

everyone in the notes who has mentioned Tampopo is going to be reincarnated as a beautiful lotus flower

#aaand in the far bottom right corner #we have #the Magnus Archives #where the main character is asexual #and the food is literally Fear Itself

wiisagi-maiingan

The important thing to remember about conspiracies is that 1) scientists in general are not hiding facts, they will in fact tell you literally everything about their research if you ask 2) people are REALLY bad at keeping secrets and the more people are involved, the less likely it is that a secret will actually STAY secret and 3) the moment a big secret comes to light (because it always does), there will immediately be a flood of lies about it that will completely muddy the waters and make it incredibly difficult to know what's real, which makes conspiratorial thinking easier to fall into when any denial of "facts" feels like a cover up and not an attempt to clarify the truth.

Also pretty much all modern conspiracies are deeply and horrifically antisemitic. Dig into any conspiracy theory and you'll usually find "the jews did it" pretty quickly.

prairiedawn

Corollary: Conspiracies of white supremacist Christian nationalists and AI worshipping tech bros are generally publicly spoken of, even bragged about, and no one believes they could probably be real. If you want to find the conspiracies, look for the ones hiding in plain sight.

streetkit

it does suck that the government defunded PBS but it's also so fucking funny that now that they don't take uncle sam's slavery dollars they're running videos like "How america's foundation was built on genocide"

no more being polite about it fuck the USA

occudo

Like father like daughter

Commission for @tea-moth11 with Martin and Ophelia, from their fic Cryptid Watch!

Thank you again for commissioning me! 💖

kofi ☕

tea-moth11

I just know Jon is doing his best not to tear up taking the picture. That man is the biggest sap.

occudo

Like father like daughter

Commission for @tea-moth11 with Martin and Ophelia, from their fic Cryptid Watch!

Thank you again for commissioning me! 💖

kofi ☕

tea-moth11

I just know Jon is doing his best not to tear up taking the picture. That man is the biggest sap.

fiercestpurpose

There’s a quality that certain books/movies/TV shows have that leads me to say, “Yeah, I can see people making fanfiction of that.” It’s something to do, I think, with how tight the story is, how much feels open-ended or like it could be elaborated on.

Something like Breaking Bad, for example, has low squiggability (that’s what I’m calling this quality). It’s tightly written, the characters are consistent, there’s little left to interpolate or extrapolate. Obviously, people DO write fanfic of Breaking Bad, but it still has a low squiggability score. Whereas something like Supernatural has a high squiggability score. Fantasy and science fiction often have high squiggability scores. This suggests squiggability could also be related to worldbuilding and potential for people to borrow a premise or setting.

And sometimes you’ll read or watch something and you’ll say, “Ah, low squiggability,” and then you’ll open tumblr and find out that everyone else seem to think its squiggability was very high indeed.

#Project Hail Mary seems to be low squiggability #and yet

enki2

aropride

please god let chatgpt die out like nfts did. With a fast and graceless fall into irrelevancy

bladespark

Like to charge, reblog to cast.

atwotonedbird

This spell has a very low hit ratio, so we need a lot of us to do it.

romanceyourdemons

we need fewer songs about falling in love and breaking up and MORE songs about famous disasters of the sea

#and also lakes

a-mel0n

reblog if you’ve had an online friendship that’s lasted more than 2 years

#Nine years for one #more than two for another

fairytale-villain

A good thread on whether “queer” is a slur and if it should be used or not.

quarterinthequeerjar

“If I am unashamed of being queer, you do not get to give that word BACK to the fuckwits who made it a slur.”

dani-kin

you do not get to give that word BACK to the fuckwits who made it a slur

brinconvenient

EVERYBODY WHO CAME OUT BEFORE YOU HAS TAKEN THE ROCKS AND BOTTLES AND MADE THEM INTO SHIELDS AND WINDCHIMES

Holy motherfucking shit. Don’t fucking come at me about Queer is a slur. I FUCKING KNOW IT IS. It was hurled at me like a fucking spear all through my youth. I know it’s a god damn slur. And it’s mine. You don’t get to take it away from me because you can’t take also away the scars it gave me while I was standing in front of my younger queer siblings in this community.

jenroses

always, always reblog this one.

kyraneko

If my enemy swings a sword at me and I take that sword away from them, it’s my sword now. And the person telling me I can’t use it because it belongs to my enemy and I have to give it back to them sounds quite a bit like an enemy themselves.

excalibelle

^^ god that analogy

serakosumosu

@deadcatwithaflamethrower

deadcatwithaflamethrower

Yesssssssssss.

dkgwrites

This came around again, but it’s worth sharing and remembering. You have the right to only accept certain words be used to describe you, but so does everyone else.

aqueerkettleofish

I have this bookmarked to through at people who DM me about using the word Queer.

mayastormborn

The rallying cry when I was but a baby Bi was

We’re here

We’re Queer

Get Used To It!

And that has stuck with me ever since.

this-is-not-a-slow-burn

Goddamn this is beautiful. Queer is above all my #1 label and I find untold amounts of strength in it. It’s a word that absolutely defines me, and feels like an armor of gratitude for those who fought battles so that we could stand.

And I say this as someone who first came out in the early 90’s, who marched in many dyke marches, who lost a friend to AIDS, who has been to so many dyke softball games it isn’t funny… I could go on all day.

The Lesbian Avengers were a political action group, and one of their actions was to literally eat fire while chanting

“The fire will not consume us. We take it and make it our own”

it was a message that not only said that we were reclaiming and therefore defusing the things that can harm us but that the fire was also a fuel.

Oh and their slogan? “We Recruit” This was a partly tongue and cheek and partly defiant statement referencing a strong homophobic view at the time that we were sexual deviants that were preying on and recruiting vulnerable people.

Queer is a slur and you are not going to take it away from me.

the-haiku-bot

“The fire will not

consume us. We take it and

make it our own”

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

ruffbotspawsomelife

^^ haiku bot making actually beautiful shit here, love this thread and the people in it

pollsforadults

You get transported into the universe of the last media you consumed. How are you doing?

This is better than my real life

I'm doing well

I'm doing fine

I'm not having a good time

I'm absolutely cooked

There is nothing different about this universe and my own

Voting ended onMay 29

#murderbot #platform decay #i guess it matters who i am and where

akashicrecord

My 5 year plan is to keep buying $8 frozen coffees until I die of preventable illness

prairiedawn

Your frozen coffees are $12 now.

tea-moth11

The duality of Jmart as shown in @prairiedawn amazing fic Somewhere Over the Rainbow.

I can't recommend this enough. It has been such an honor and a delight to yap and peek beyond the curtain.

#jmart #the magnus archives #fanfiction #fanart of fanfiction #EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

mxfricatrix

TMA fic recs: week of 5/17

want to get back into making rec lists bc i read so much fic. i have a huge backlog to figure out sharing, but for now here's a list of excellent stuff i've read in the past week. all TMA, pairing is jonmartin unless specified. lots of post-canon stuff. check ao3 for warnings/tags, and make sure to leave kudos/comments for the authors!

TO START, here's some active wips i've started following. most of my fic reading is dedicated to catching up on years-worth of wonderful fanworks, but i'm trying to also become more engaged with the authors who are very actively writing stuff! so here's some shout-outs since they all deserve love:

Third Time's the Charm by LRadiata / @morganmnemonic NR, 123k, 18/27 chapters [updated 5/4/26] keywords: post-canon, time-travel fix-it, time loops, angst

super creative take on the time loop/time-travel trope where the canon timeline is the SECOND loop that martin's been through, and the fic simultaneously follows the events of both the first and the third loops. SUPER intriguing, i'm loving building theories on what the hell is going on!! really good character work across the board, and martin's POV in both timelines is spot-on. having a blast with this.

The Final Ritual by MirrorandImage NR, 225k, 26/55 [updated 5/23/26] keywords: post-canon, alternate dimensions, time-travel fix-it, angst

jon's memories get sent to another timeline, but AU jon can't properly access any of them beyond flashes. really fleshed out "redoing" of canon with a lot of thought put into how the institute operates and how the little changes all add up. the angst is delicious and the office drama is great too. excited to follow along and see how this develops; i have no idea where it's going in the best way!

Somewhere Over the Rainbow by PrairieDawn / @prairiedawn E, 108k, 25/40 [updated 5/24/26] keywords: post-canon, somewhere else, omegaverse, hurt/comfort, smut

been keeping up with this for a few weeks now and i'm obsessed!!! jmart end up in a particularly dystopian version of the omegaverse (adapted from not_poignant's original series Underline the Rainbow) and it is NOT an easy transition. there's so much good angst and drama, jmart really trying their fucking best and going through it while loving each other so so much. these updates are a highlight of my week!

AND NOW for the completed works! listed in ascending order by word count.

Lie down with me, my dear by greevianguy T, 7k keywords: post-canon, somewhere else, sickfic, disability, fluff

very sweet one-shot that shows a glimpse into a future, settled version of their life somewhere else! i love when the aftermath of the eyepocalypse leaves jon disabled, i love hurt/comfort around disability flare-ups, and i love all the banter and bickering and how soft they are with each other.

Ashes by PitViperOfDoom / @pitviperofdoom T, 10k pairing: jon & gerry keywords: post-canon, time-travel fix-it, angst

poor jon is sent back to 2011 without martin and has to figure out how to proceed. the result is something bittersweet and hopeful, a little taste of a possible fix-it scenario that starts where we all want a good fix-it to start: saving gerry keay.

These words that make a home in my chest by arthureameslove / @arthureameslove T, 16k keywords: mid-canon, safehouse, hurt/comfort, lonely recovery

classic premise with a twist: martin can't speak at all after leaving the lonely. featuring vivid descriptions of his post-lonely state, lots of good martin angst, lovely hurt/comfort with jon being the sweetest, and a resolution that doesn't imply that the only happy ending is martin being "cured".

Trapped Memories by Skull_Bearer / @skull-bearer T, 25k keywords: post-canon, somewhere else, amnesia, hurt/comfort

super fun take on the post-canon amnesia trope! i love the concept that only jmart's memories are trapped in the protocol computer, and their actual beings are left start anew in this universe. the author incorporates a lot of realism and little details about london, and they handle the experience of homelessness compassionately without romanticizing it. the new/old bond between "archie and kay" is so so heartfelt.

strings between the stars by writevale / @writevale M, 70k keywords: AU - science fiction, AI!jon, horror, space travel

everything i could want out of a space travel AU. don't be put off by the word "AI" - this is classic sci-fi AI, with jon as a sapient computer in charge of operating a spaceship. love the way canon elements have been adapted to this setting, and the worldbuilding is really well done. the horror is also AMAZINGLY creepy, the plot is super exciting, and the romance between jon and martin is so so soft. jon as a grouchy computer program is amazingly believable and the way he copes with his newfound baffling feelings is VERY fun.

TMA Kittens and Kink [series] by Phynoma / @phynoma E, 73k, 9 works pairings: jon/martin, queerplatonic jon/oliver, jon/martin/oliver keywords: post-canon, somewhere else, polyamory, kink exploration, nonsexual kink, petplay, some smut

i think this series is technically ongoing but each installment is pretty much a standalone so it doesn't leave you hanging! i love how oliver is characterized here (what a dreamboat, honestly) and his developing dynamic with jmart is great. the smut is HOT and all the kink is super well done. i love the way they use kink to work some stuff out about jon's ongoing "monsterhood." he makes a very good (if not always well-behaved) kitty, and his asexuality is an important and respected part of the story.

Stitching Up The Seams by Kahnah / @kahnah23 M, 89k pairings: jon/martin with various past/future combos keywords: post-canon, time-travel fix-it, hurt/comfort, polyamory

filed under fics i couldn't put down!! what a blast. an original take on the time-travel trope with lots of surprises! i love when time-travel doesn't just retread canon events but offers some new stuff too -- there's some great new fear encounters in here. future!martin gets to be a badass. i love that he doesn't take any shit from s1 jon. the relationship he develops with past!jon is so so sweet and unique.

The Sea Calls Me Home by Cowboyselkie / @selkiewizard T, 94k keywords: AU - historical (1910s), mer!jon, angst, pining

really effective and fresh combo of a mer/human romance with a historical setting. ww1 is such a rich setting for angst and yearning, and that's without the added complications of interspecies love! and as much as it can be a nice break to have a historical AU without period-typical homophobia, this fic makes great and thoughtful use of that element. a beautiful story about how love can persist despite a lot of suffering and nearly insurmountable obstacles.

The Crow's Funeral by yellow_caballero / @yellowocaballero T, 108k pairings: jon & daisy, jon & sasha, jon/martin keywords: canon-divergence - post-160, urban fantasy, amnesia, ensemble, mystery, comedy

yellow_caballero is one of my favorite TMA fic authors, and i've put off reading this one for a while just bc i knew i was going to love it so much. finally read it this week and had even more fun than i thought i would. it strikes a lovely balance between the ridiculous and the heartfelt, and reads as both a zany romp and as an insightful love letter to humanity and human tenacity. jon's normal stupidity and cluelessness is hilariously amplified by his mysterious amnesia. all the characters in this fic are so vibrant and funny, and i loved watching all their interactions, shenanigans, and schemes play out. this fic now lives on my tablet permanently in the "faves" folder!

that's all for now! let me know if you read and enjoy any of these!

#fic recs #the magnus archives #yee