Oooo would love to hear more about the research journal of Jonathan Sims 👀
Yessssss, that's a fun one! It's pretty much entirely inspired by this post I made a while back, which I finally found a plot for.
Essentially, Jon has been hired as the very first Archivist of the Magnus Institute, but since it hasn't opened yet he's pretty much just sitting on his hands until the job starts... until accidental-time-traveler Martin crashes into his life (quite literally). Jon, being Jon, decides to keep a research journal about it, and the entire story is told through the entries he makes in the journal (and the notes Martin adds in the margins) as he and Martin try to figure out how Martin ended up there, and how he can get home.
I'm leaning hard into the fake-period-language on this one, which is very fun but also means it's taking a while to write lol.
The most pertinent fact I have learned about M.B.’s life is that he is employed at the same institution at which I expect to be working upon its opening in October of this year. Jonah Magnus, it seems, has built something that will last; and I find a certain pride in learning that the Archive which I will be presiding over will continue its mission of preserving records of supernatural happenings long after I am gone. M.B. does not work in the Archive; he is a librarian, in one of the more public-facing departments of the Institute. Apparently the collection has grown quite large in the two centuries since it began, and I find myself mildly envious of the opportunities for study it provides, that I will never see.
Regardless. Our discussion lasted well into the evening, and as M.B. has no home to return to in the present day I have offered him a room in my own lodgings that he may use for the duration of his time here. He was effusively grateful of the offer, though I must admit it had a slightly selfish bent as well: I do not understand the method by which he has traveled through time, and I have a burning curiosity to do so. My studies will be much easier conducted with my subject in close proximity.