#Jon sims is a witch!!!!!

[johnnycagesrightnut]

You know, how you want someone to write about Jon and witchcraft...so I kinda did that, but first you need to know that 1. english is not my first language, so if it's shit I'm blaming that (I actually think it's pretty okay, but you know, maybe you don't) and 2. I haven't done a deep dive on witchcraft yet, I only know a little bit here and there, so I kind of wrote more about his relationship with witchcraft.

Anyway, here it is, one witchcraft!Jon snippet:

The thing with wirchcraft, that most people didn't know, was, that it wasn't as magical as fiction made it seem. Most of the practices involving witchcraft were more en route with psychology, only with an extra kick to it.

Jon grew up with witchcraft. The memory of his grandmother, merhodically preparing ingridients a comforting one. How she blended herbs and heated oils that smelled strong and earthy, embalmbing candles and her workstation, humming a tune under her breath, that seemed odly familiar, even when Jon heard it for the first time.

His grandmother didn't worship any god or gods, never had the mind or desire for it, but she kept a glass of water and a plate of cookies on the window sill, for the house spirits.

Jon loved to sit with her when she worked, loved the incense that she lid to ward against negative spirits (the smell fresh and floral with lavender - it took a few years for Jon to discover that he liked the stronger scent of opium much more) loved to watch the candles burn for her spells, loved to hear the crackle of the herbs she coated them in. He loved the simmer pots, the smell of lemons and cinnamon heavy in the air, and loved how his grandmother patiently explained what all the ingridients were used for. It was the only time, where his grandmother didn't mind his many questions, his insistent need to know.

When Jon was eight and Mr.Spider an ever looming threat behind doors and in his nightmares, she gave him a tarot deck for christmas. It was a battered old thing, well used and well loved and when she told him that it had been his fathers, Jon hugged it to his chest, as if afraid that she would take it back again. It became his most priced possession.

When she died (right after Jon left for college, as if she waited for him to finally stand on his own feet, so she could go) he packed all of it away and shoved it into a storage room, angry tears swimming in his eyes, making the world wobbly and hazy, his heart heavy with grief. What good was witchcraft, when the people you love leave you anyway?

(He kept the tarot deck, of course, he couldn't bear to be parted with it)

And so it went for a few years, Jon lived his life, pretended not to miss the scent of herbs and fire, but kept a glass of water on his window sill and layed tarot, sometimes with questions, sometimes for fun. He did read his grandmothers grimoire sometimes, stroking his thumb over her small and neat handwriting, but he didn't lit incense, didn't prepare herbs like he watched her do so often. He didn't do any spells and pretended it didn't hurt, pretended that nothing in him longed for it. He pretended he was fine. Funny, how he, even with this much practice, had never really been good at that.

When Jon walked down the stairs to the Archives for the first time, he stopped, his hand nervously drumming against the tarot deck in his pocket. The Magnus Insitute never had the best vibes, so to speak, but the Archives practically hummed with...something. Something malicious, something that left the taste of ash and rot in his mouth, the air clogged with the scent of old paper.

Jon shook his head, willing himself to ignore it and fully stepped into his new workplace. But he did lit some incense after the others were gone, the heavy smell as comforting and strong as he remembered.

(He pretended that it was fine that the first tarot card he turned was the tower - everytime he asked his tarot deck anything)

Years later, after worms, strangers, betrayal and hurt it was Jon's tarot deck that burned first, the explosion so loud and deep that Jon could feel it in his bones. Jon died with the taste of ash in his mouth.

The taste was still there, when he woke up again and only left him, when he read the rotten monologue of a man that had played with his life like it was his right.

When he blinked at the sky (the new sky in the new world, oh god what had he done-) and it blinked back, Jon collapsed laughing and crying, wishing with everything he had, that witchcraft was as magical as some people thought.

But witchcraft couldn't help him now. Nothing could.

OH MY GOD?????? IM OBSESSED WITH THIS I MEAN OBSESSED THIS IS GORGEOUS THANK YOU SO MUCH IM SCREAKING I LOVE IT

#the magnus institute #tma #the magnus archives #jonathan sims #jon sims #Jon sims is a witch!!!!!

[occudo]

Metal Mittens

For anyone who thought I killed Jon-

I didn't!

(just never found it in myself to finish this one's inking. So I didn't in the end -- I started this in September :'D )

They are going to the Winter Gala after this

#occudo's art #tma fanart #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #the magus archives au #witch!jon #knight!martin #martin's hands are still cold #but jon not going to mention it #also #i have a love hate relationship with martin' s armor

[samwise1548]

Au where Jmart are witches running a small magic shop together <3

[ID: five pencil on paper sequential sketches of Jonathan Sims and Martin Blackwood from the Magnus Archives.

1.) A bell dings and a shop door hits it as it's opened by a person out of frame.

2.) The person walks up to a register, where the store owner, Martin, greets him with a "Welcome!" Theg look around in awe at the store. A display to their right has a "50 percent off" sign above it and a cat perched on top.

3.) The scene zooms in as the cat jumps down from its perch to the register. It lets out a "Meow." Martin is surprised by the cats sudden appearance.

4.) A cloud of smoke Poofs out from where the cat had landed. Martin angrily yells "JON!" in all caps. The customer stands awkwardly by, hands in their back pockets.

5.) Jon appears before Martin in a flourish, arms spread wide as if to embrace the customer, and he says "Welcome!" Martin groans behind him, facepalming himself, saying "omgggg..."

/End ID]

#tma witch shop au #tma #the magnus archives #jonmartin #jmart #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #my doodles #my art #if its not clear enough... jon was the cat #also the customer is tim #im just too lazy to include him in the id and the tags

[sparrowsonata]

witch jon :D

#fanart #art #tma fanart #tma #the magnus archives #the magnus archives fanart #tmafanart #tma jon #jonathan sims #jonathan sims fanart #halloween #halloween jon #witch jon #witch!jon

[therainbowtea]

A Halloween sketch that I didn't have time to finish sadly due to school. But either way, witch boys!!! (will likely write a whole AU around this where Jon is a witch and Martin is a baker that Jon teaches and stuff)

#tma #the magnus archives #magnus pod #jon sims #martin blackwood #jonmartin #jmart #teaholding #witch au #my art #also happy halloween everyone!

[starpathtarot]

People who got into TMA from The Mechanisms and people who got into The Mechanisms from TMA are two different species I think.

I won’t say that one is better than the other. But we are different.

#i was into the mechanisms before TMA #and listening to TMA was different for me because of it I think #not witch related #the magnus archives #tma #the mechs #the mechanisms #Jon Sims

[kidpickarus]

hey remember my witch!jon au

#they were chased by the knights moralis two seconds later #btw this is not a shortmartin talljon martin is just quite literally hanging off his arm #idk how the mechanics of that work but it was too late to change it by the time I realised #tma #the magnus archives #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #witch hat atelier #filipino martin blackwood #jonmartin #witch!jon au #my art

[black-plumbob]

So burnt out on making over downtownies that I'm going to play Bellagrave for a household before going back to the Albions

#Making over 2 sets of downtownies is EXHAUSTING #Somehow I completely missed renaming Jon Smith Tricou #idek what to do with the 2 sets of Tricou families #I resurrected them and made them vampires #But they're not genetically accurate #ig I could mash together the parents in my test hood or something #and extract those sims and use them in sim surgery #But idk if I wanna do 2 rival vampire clans #'Cause I also kind of wanna make some zombies too #The Veronaville ancestors are witches #The Tricous will be vampires once I get to them #So I kind of wanna make the Not-Tricous something other than vampires #that way I have a good variety of supernaturals

[its-your-mind]

“oh clearly jon feels no emotions and is in complete control of himself at all times. this man is a logic machine.”

did we??? listen to the same podcast?????? this man feels first, thinks later. there is a strong emotion? get ready for jonathan jarchivist sims to act on it with little-to-no second thoughts. rational thinking who. we throw ourselves full force at the first thought that comes into our head. like, we are talking about the man who:

busted into the office of a guy he hadn’t talked to more than twice since he woke up from a six month coma, sincerely offering to gouge out his eyes and run away with him, and was Absolutely Gobsmacked when he was refused

was prefectly ready to let a face-stealing monster live… right up until it reminded him that it had killed his friend without him realizing (that “…what did you say” is one of the lines that gives me GOOSEBUMPS every time)

dove headfirst into a pile of evil sentient worms to grab a tape recorder bc he was so determined to not die as aNOTHER GODDAMN MYSTERY

let his survivor’s guilt from when he was eight drive the major decisions he made for the rest of his life

threw himself into a fear dimension of evil loneliness to save the man he loved (who had refused to speak to him for months) at the probable expense of himself who knows

had so much MALICE in his voice when he killed peter lukas like damn girl you do not get that emotional when you’re just killing someone bc they’re evil or whatever. there was Hatred there. go off queen.

literally was willing to sacrifice an entire WORLD so that no one would ever f e e l what he had to feel when jonah voicesnatched him

LITERALLY speedran a love story in like six weeks in scotland. this man was SO READY to be in love it’s ridiculous. so was martin. I love them sm

heard his predecessor was dead

came to the conclusion that he was next

what should we do with this?

oh I know

stalk every one of my coworkers bc clearly one of them is out to get me

committed himself to living in the archives forever bc he didn’t want to put georgie or “god forbid the admiral” in danger (has his priorities STRAIGHT he does)

oh annabelle caine has martin? and an artifact that completely knocks me on my ass and takes away all my powers? off to hilltop road we go come on basira we have spider ass to kick

threw himself into a coffin to save a woman who LITERALLY was ABOUT TO KILL HIM bc he just wanted to HELP and everyone around him was HURTING SO MUCH

was insulted when a statement giver called the institute stupid and immediately discarded all professionalism and clapped back by calling her wildly successful youtube series dumb

also immediately discarded all professionalism when disgusted by a teeth apple “we do NOT want it.” like damn bro this traumatized doctor brought this bone apple teeth proof in for you and you are too grossed out to grin and bear it

was slightly annoyed by the fact that martin was not the Ideal Assistant. Offhandedly mentioned on an official recording that he wanted an evil flesh witch to slowly kill his literal employee by a series of freak accidents that resulted in the loss of one body part at a time. this man has no chill whatsoever.

took so much satisfaction in killing jonah magnus. like jonah told him not to be dramatic and jon PROMPTLY started monologuing while stabbing douchard directly in the chest.

“I don’t want to die”

“Neither did they.” FUCK YES QUEEN GO OFF GET HIS SMARMY VICTORIAN ASS

sounded so SMUG when he told the eye he was gonna go apologize to his boyfriend. like yeah stupid all-powerful fear god I have a BOYfriend and I LOVE him suck on THAT

remember when he decided to doom his whole world bc he wanted to stop anyone else from feeling like he did? yeah that plan went out the window fuckin imMEDIATely as soon as his beloved martin walked into the room. oh, he’s in the world I’m going to be dooming? well fuck didn’t consider that part. welp guess he’s just gonna have to stab me. and then we will hold each other and declare our love and kiss and hope to still be alive and together somehow as the world collapses around us. our love didn’t save us but it was here and that mattered. okay list cancelled I’m gonna go curl up in a ball for a little bit. ty for your time.

#jonathan sims #the archivist #tma #tma spoilers #the magnus archives #jonmartin #listen martin got a list of unhinged actions #now jon gets his own list of no thoughts head empty only vibes #balanced #as all things should be

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[johnnycagesrightnut]

Jonathan Sims practices witchcraft. I said it. I have no proof I just have a feeling. And I love him for that.

#witchcraft #the magnus institute #tma #the magnus archives #jonathan sims #jon sims #green witch maybe #he reads tarot

[occudo]

Lonely Knight Seer Mage Pining Hours

#occudo's art #tma fanart #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #the magus archives au #knight!martin #witch!jon #do I have a million more important things to do rn? #sure #but I also saved these 2 color insp a while back #so like #I had to draw them

[abellarts]

[ID: An oil pastel painting/comic of Gertrude Robinson and a young Jon Sims from tumblr user occudo's "The Magus Archives" AU. An unamused Gertrude carries a curious Jon, who pulls on her hat and smushes their cheeks together. He asks "Will I get a hat like this one day?" Gertrude responds "Maybe…when you stop getting into trouble all the time!" Jon cries out "Nannnn!" ./. END ID]

Dw he get a hat *just* like that one. Eventually :))

Based off of the Magus Archives AU aka the Witch!Jon and Knight!Martin AU by @occudo whose art is so good, you're probably already following. Really fun AU and I love Gertrude being Jon's nan :DD

#tma #Jon Sims #Jonathan Sims #Gertrude Robinson #'deeply annoying child' Jonathan Sims who's just too curious

[hauntedhotel]

Finally got around to a re-listen of TMA and with the benefit of hindsight Jon’s initial hostility towards Martin is so ridiculous! In the very first episode he says he doesn’t even count Martin as an assistant as he's "unlikely to contribute anything but delays" but based on what? They barely know each other at this point so is his entire vendetta against Martin - to the point where Jon idly wishes for him to get chopped up by Angela the jigsaw witch - just because of The Dog Incident?

There's no way Martin is so terrible at his job that Jon could have valid criticism of his work that early on, and Martin came down to the Archives from the library, he’s probably the only person down there with the vaguest idea of what archivists are supposed to be doing! He's been working at the institute for 10 years or so and no one other than their mind-reading, eldritch horror boss ever twigged that he wasn't qualified, so there's no way he wasn't at least capable.

And if Jon does already think he's useless, it's probably because he's acting as though he's still in research and Martin is actually doing something adjacent to archiving.

Martin gets the transfer and he's kind of nervous cause a new boss means someone else to potentially be scrutinising his CV but he figures - it's archiving, it's cataloguing and filing and documenting, it's not so different from what he’s been doing in the library for a decade, he can handle this. It's only when he meets Jonathan "wtf is an archivist?" Sims and hears "okay so Tim is sleeping with the lead police officer on this murder case and Sasha has already hacked the guys home and office computers, I need you to harass this witness to make sure they don't want to refute their statement" that he thinks he might be in over his head.

It really only gives you three possible options:

1. He really is determined to never get over The Dog Incident.

2. He actually recognises that Martin seems to know a fair bit about archiving and is so afraid that at least two, possibly three of his assistants might actually be better qualified for the job than him that he’s lashing out.

3. He took one look at Martin and thought, "I've got a jam-packed schedule of stapling priceless documents, bitching about statement-givers on tape and running away from the spiders in my office, I cannot afford to get distracted by that guy's cute face and big sad eyes" and immediately did everything possible to push him away.

#tma #the magnus archives #martin blackwood #jonathan sims #jmart #jonmartin #magpod #hotel talks about tma #its confusing me as to how long they have known each other tbh #cause the live show would suggest that they meet for the first time #immediately after Jon has recorded the angler fish statement #but in the first episode he's already bitching about martin in his opening comments on that statement #dunno 🤷‍♀️ #anyway secret 4th option it's all 3 #and the assistant who knows his job better than he does #AND embarrassed him on his first day #is also super duper cute

[gerrydelano]

Seventh Installment of the Pharos By Right series

Title: BLOOD OATH Rating: M Chapters: 3 / 7 Words: 8.1k Characters: Gerry Keay, Martin Blackwood, Angela, Jon Sims, Sasha James, Tim Stoker, Danny Stoker, The Distortion, Elias Bouchard (mentioned)

Relationships: Gerry & Martin, Jon & The Distortion, Pharos & Danny

Additional Tags: Archivist!Gerry, Canon Divergence, Mostly Morbid Humor, DID/EDS/POTS Gerry, Low Empathy Autistic/BPD/OCD Martin, OCD/Autistic/Cane User Jon, Monocular Vision Jon, HoH Tim, End!Tim, Stranger!Danny, The Flesh, The End, Non-Canonical Character Undeath, Canon-Typical Flesh, Briefly described suicide

Chapter Summary:

“Whether I help you or not truly depends on what you’re about to ask me for. I have a feeling it isn’t for the usual.” “What exactly is the usual…?” Martin asks. Angela smiles sweetly at him, but again, doesn’t answer. “So? What can I do for you?”

Or: Gerry and Martin pay a visit to Angela. You know, the Flesh Witch. Jon spirals about their imminent doom, as per usual, and tries to make a deal with the Distortion in search of a way out. On his way back from sleepwalking, Tim overhears Pharos and Danny having a private discussion.

#archivist gerry #gerard keay #gerry keay #martin blackwood #jon sims #sasha james #tim stoker #danny stoker #angela tma #the distortion #gerrytim #martanny #tma #the magnus archives #magpod #tma fanfic #r.writes #gtcu #pbr tag #i am a machine

[boombox-fuckboy]

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