(ID: a digital drawing featuring several scenes of jon and martin from the magnus archives, all surrounded by swirling grey-blue fog. the drawing is in a mixture of black and white & color, with streaks of color breaking through the monochrome.
in the center, jon is cupping martin’s face in his hands, smiling up at him while martin looks down at them with love and worry. the other scenes include: a gray paper coffee cup, martin’s grayscale hand holding a bright red teacup, jon wearing martin’s yellow sweater, and highland cows in a grassy green field.
jon is a thin persian person with medium brown skin and long curly graying dark hair. they have a beard and scars dotting their skin. martin is a tall fat black and filipino man with dark freckled skin and short curly reddish brown hair. he has vitiligo dotting his face and hands and his hair is tipped with white.)
and another piece for this year’s @podcastbigbang! this one is for Life in Technicolor by the lovely @spacestationdaedalus where Martin loses his color vision after escaping the Lonely. it’s adorable and such a wonderful exploration of their characters, please check it out!
[ ID: A horizontal digital art piece set inside the safehouse. It is a strongly angled perspective view of various scenes of Jon and Martin in the house, gradually getting closer from left to right. The colors start out grayscale and muted on the left, and slowly gain more vibrancy as they move to the right.
On the left, the two stand hesitantly in the doorway, Jon holding the door open and peeking inside with eyes floating around his head. The Lonely billows in behind Martin, and they both carry canvas bags. They are both dressed in ore layers, presumably just having escaped from London.
A bit further into the house, Martin stands at the stove in a small kitchen, something cooking away in the frying pan. He looks back at Jon, who is seated at a dining table, and brandishes a spatula proudly. Jon smiles up at him, cradling a steaming cup of tea in his hands. With light filtering in through a window, the scene appears very cozy and intimate, especially since they’re both still dressed in their pajamas.
On the right, situated very close to the camera, we see a view from behind of Jon sitting on the couch, tilting his head up to face Martin, who stands in front of the couch from our vantage point. With his eyes closed and his face split in a grin, he looks absolutely smitten as Jon gently touches his chin, watching him with a fond eye. The two are dressed cozily in sweaters. Warm strands of color stream around them.
Character designs: Jon is a thin British-Pakistani man with dark brown skin and long, dark hair streaked with gray. He wears glasses and occasionally ties his hair back. His eyes are a warm brown, made visible by the up-close shot of him on the right. Martin is a fat White man with light skin and short, fluffy ginger hair streaked with white from the Lonely. He has dark brown eyes, and he, too, wears glasses, with freckles dotting his skin. He stands taller than Jon. End ID. ]
(ID: several traditional pencil sketches of jon and martin from the magnus archives. jon is a thin persian person with curly dark hair in varying lengths. martin is a fat black and filipino, non-op trans man with freckled skin and short curly hair. the first sketch shows them sitting in bed together. jon is hunched over and frowning, while martin leans over their back and presses a kiss to the many scars there. jon has short hair in this sketch.
2nd image: martin lying on top of jon’s chest, jon’s arms around him. jon wears an ace and wedding ring on their right hand and their hair is long and flowing.
3rd: jon and martin kissing, martin’s hand resting on jon’s chest. jon’s hair is medium length and pulled into a ponytail.
4th: martin in a bra and underwear, wearing an ace ring and nail polish. he is looking off to the left. numerous scars and stretch marks can be seen on his body.)
[image description: a drawing done in warm tones of martin hugging jon in a comic-esque style. martin’s head is ducked behind jon’s and jon’s face is pressed into martin’s shoulder. martin is a fat, tan-skinned mixed white and filipino man with short dark hair, and jon is a thin, brown-skinned pakistani person with long wavy dark hair streaked with grey. end id]
[ID the image is a digital illustration of Jon and Martin from The Magnus Archives. Jon has brown skin and long grey hair, half tied back. he has half moon glasses and a short beard. he is wearing a muted brown jacket, and a long blue skirt. Martin has light brown skin, short curly greying beard, round glasses and stubble. he is wearing a jean jacket, grey shirt, and dark muted green pants. Jon is looking at the viewer, body turned to martin where he is sitting on a bench, one hand half shielding his face as if telling a secret, the other is reaching for martin’s arm. he is smiling and talking. Martin is also looking at the viewer, eyebrows raised. one hand covering his mouth, and the other is behind Jon. Sitting next to them are plastic bags. End ID]
[ID: Art of Martin Blackwood sitting at a desk with a mug. He is wearing a red scarf, blue jumper, and red pants, and he is surrounded by stylized, wavy fog. His face is almost completely obscured, a streak of fog smudging it out. An eye and neutral mouth can be seen. End ID]
“You know,” Jon took a gulp of his drink, “Daisy once told me she knew over a hundred ways to incapacitate someone. I was never sure if she was trying to threaten me or impress me,” Jon chuckled slightly.
“R-right…”
“Although honestly, I felt more threatened when she insisted on playing The Archers on the radio all day.”
“S-Sorry, what?”
“There were times I was sure she was trying to bore me to death.”
“Wait. Stop. Daisy likes The Archers?!”
“I know!” Jon laughed again, “I was just as surprised as you! She said she had eight months’ worth of episodes to catch up on and she wasn’t going to let anyone stop her.”
His laughter faded into a far softer sound and died off altogether as he took another drink and stared down into his mug.
Martin had one hand tucked under his face, the tips of his fingers poking out from his cheek and Jon was seized with the sudden urge to find his other hand and hold it closely.
From their trek out of the Lonely through the frantic chaos of the institute, Jon had held as tightly as he could onto Martin’s hand, only reluctantly letting go when he remembered he needed both hands to drive.
He didn’t have any excuse to take his hand now, no monsters to run from, no seascapes to break out of.
His chest grew tight and tender with an unpleasant ache.
By the time they got to the safehouse, they had been on the road for nearly ten hours and the sight of the tiny, quaint old cottage in the middle of nowhere was a blessed relief.
“Huh.”
“Not what you were expecting?” Jon asked, unbuckling his seat belt.
Martin shook his head.
“When you said it was Daisy’s, I thought it would be something a bit more The Hills Have Eyes.”
He stepped out of the car and reached up to the sky to stretch his back out. When he turned, Jon was staring at him from the other side of the car, nonplussed.
“It’s a horror film.”
“Ah,” Jon pushed his glasses up his nose, “Right…”
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i wrote scottish honeymoon fic and i know everyone has written scottish honeymoon fic but in my defense i only started listening to tma after s5 started! and i’m operating off of the two cakes principle! and also i wanted to get my version of how jm got together out of my head and onto paper so
aka mum said its my turn to write about the safehouse period!
besides, its the first thursday of the last hiatus, enjoy some relationship fluff before jonny inevitably destroys us with the ending next year
i always gush about the latest ep with the friend who got me into tma after we listen and we got talking about how the possibilities raised in ‘quiet’ are all things that people have hoped for/theorised on/worried about- Martin having to kill Jon; having a big, dramatic confrontation with Elias; jmart dying in some tragic, noble sacrifice etc, etc.
and with all those things laid out so plainly for us I cant help but think they might be red herrings
or rather by acknowledging these possibilties now they can be dismissed later and all that means is something far far worse then any of that is waiting for us at the end of the line
started a tma sideblog for Thoughts bc there was too much of it going onto this one btw
finally i can share my card for @tmatarot, the four of cups!
[ID: A digital painting depicting a sullen Martin Blackwood siting at a desk, on which there are three teacups, one of which has fog rising from it. Peter Lukas leans over Martin’s shoulder, holding a tall metal cup from which billows swirling fog that fills the background. end ID]
[ID: An assortment of drawings featuring characters from The Magnus Archives drawn as characters from Percy Jackson and the Olympians. 1. A younger Martin stands with a bronze sword poised and a nervous expression on his face. Above him are the words “Percy!Martin”. 2. Martin sits in a car seat with a frustrated expression on his face, and he gestures with his hands saying “My best friend is h-half goat!”. Next to him, a younger Sasha pulls on her seatbelt with a smile, saying “Satyr, actually! Now put your seatbelt on.” Above are the words “Grover!Sasha”. 3. A younger Jon says “You drool in your sleep” with an annoyed expression and crossed arms. The words “Annabeth!Jon” are above him, and across from him Martin nervously fidgets with his hands. 4. Tim sits with one ankle resting on the opposite knee and rubbing his neck, smiling with a furrow in his brow as he says “Don’t worry about it, Martin. We’re extended family, right? We take care of each other.” Above are the words “Luke!Tim” (and a small doodle of a nervous face). 5. Tim, smiling, holds up a pair of sneakers with wings to Martin, who looks surprised. Tim says “A gift from my dad. Could come in handy for your trip!” Behind him, Jon faces him with a red face, playing with his hair, and Sasha looks over them smiling. End ID.]
no one can stop me from making tma aus for every piece of media that I liked as a kid. not even me. here’s my pjo au for day 5 of @alternatearchivesweek, this time loosely based off of the prompt Superpowers!
[ID: Jon and Martin from The Magnus Archives drawn as Ariel and Eric from The Little Mermaid. The environment and clothes they are wearing are reminiscent of the “Kiss The Girl” scene from the movie, and they are in a boat, holding hands and looking into each other’s eyes. Jon is a thin, South Asian and dark-skinned man with black and gray wavy hair. Martin is a fat, white and pale man with short orange curly hair and freckles. End ID.]
sha-la-la-la-la-la my oh my~ this jonmartin au has been floating around my mind for a while, so I’m glad I have an excuse to draw it LOL. this is for day one of @alternatearchivesweek for the prompt Undersea!
