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tell me of love, and the many-pathed tomorrow by heardmelodies
Fandoms: Nikolai Series - Leigh Bardugo, The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
09 Aug 2025
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From the moment his cries pierced the air, Nikolai Lantsov was a force of nature.
He would grow to be a prince, a king, and a demon, all in due turn. He would love and lose and love again, his nation, his friends, his body and his mind. He would wear his duty with grace and serve his first love, Ravka, with a smile.
But first he was small, boyish, a child clearly out of place in his surroundings. He knew not what it was to bear the weight of a crown on his brow. He could not understand that no great love waited for him, at least not within his marriage.
He would grow to learn these things, for Nikolai Lantsov was a boy with a future.
(Or: Nikolai Lantsov will not marry for love. That doesn't mean he won't try.)
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28 May 2026
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In the Wake of Fear by TheGhostOwl
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast), The Magnus Protocol (Podcast)
03 Apr 2026
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When the Archivist fell, he refused to let the Fears go. Now, he must learn to contain them and earn the forgiveness of the world he almost ended.
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04 Apr 2026
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Almost by DukeOfDucks
Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo, Nikolai Series - Leigh Bardugo
30 Dec 2022
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Nikolai Lantsov did not die that time in the Observatory.
Not all of him, anyway.Series
- Part 2 of The Heart of the Making
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06 Dec 2025
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Improbable by IStillPlayWithLegos
Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (TV), Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo, Nikolai Series - Leigh Bardugo
01 May 2022
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Nikolai couldn’t shroud a room in darkness like the Darkling. He couldn’t create that black abyss out of nothing. What he could do, however, was control the shadows. Not the darkness. Not in the pitch black. But give him the slightest bit of light, and he could pull them right from where they lay.
He would stand in the sun for hours, stealing his own shadow and letting the tendrils of black smoke twist and dance around his fingers. Nikolai reveled in the way the other Grisha looked at him fearfully as he walked along the grounds in the midday sun, without a shadow.
In his isolation from his peers, they became his only friend.
There were days when he startled awake from the pain of his own claws digging into his skin. When he woke up with the feeling of falling stuck in his mind. Days where no matter how hard he stared at his books, he couldn’t decipher the words. On those days, his shadows were his only source of comfort. He’d close off the room to all light except a single candle and pull every shadow to form a warm cocoon of darkness around himself. It was there he felt safest.
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24 Nov 2025
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let the bitterest god drink ambrosia by theOestofOCs
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
18 May 2022
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Jon wasn’t anything special. He was an ordinary researcher at Bright Eye Watchmen, Inc.; not terribly skilled at his job, and certainly not very likeable, but ordinary. He could be a bit too dedicated to unearthing the truth, at least if you listened to what Tim had to say about it, but Jon tried not to make a habit of doing that.
When Jon catches the attention of Elias Bouchard, head of the local research institute, he finds himself wishing he’d listened to Tim just a little more.
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Bark-brown, leathery wings pulled away from the creature’s torso, briefly revealing six limbs clinging tightly to the tree trunk above. The eyes that stared down at the man were backlit by a deep, bloody red, except for the pupils. Those were white. Blank, wide, white orbs that watched him.
“What are you?” he whispered.
Jon didn’t know.
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12 Oct 2025
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What if the Marks of the Fears upon Jonathan Sims manifested as more than just physical or mental scars?
A short little thing while I struggle to keep other longer works going. I hope the mental imagery on this is as vivid through text as it is in my mind.
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11 Oct 2025
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damn their eyes, if I must die, at least I can do it on my feet by aidyn6713
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
31 May 2023
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inspired by this interaction between Daisy and Basira in MAG 112
"I know where I am, Daisy, and I know that I'm a prisoner"
"And you want to escape."
"Yeah. But not on my own."
Basira quits her job in style (with the use of bleach) (in the eyes) (it's cute)
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28 Aug 2025
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The forest belongs to her, the deadliest of the gods, the Hunter herself. But someone has to answer the prayers of the things she chases.
These are his woods, too.
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17 Aug 2025
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Sasha fixed Tim and Martin with a glare that was deathly serious. “But why should that stop us? It is— or was, I suppose, given... everything— our literal job to investigate supernatural events. If the police won’t figure out what happened to the Institute, we’ll do it. Doesn’t everyone deserve that? Doesn’t Jon deserve that? ”
In the face of an unyielding apocalypse, the being that was once Jonathan Sims has a final, desperate idea. The archival assistants pick up the pieces.
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16 Jul 2025
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"What do you say, Daisy. You and me head down in the tunnels, hunter and hunted, and just have at. You catch me, you kill me like every other monster you've put down."
"You catch me..."
"I catch you, I rip the fear out of you like Jared ripped the bones out of me, until you're completely empty."
Post MAG146- Jon's eating habits are being monitored. It doesn't go well.
With every statement he takes in, he loses a little more of his humanity, until there's not much left at all.
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- Part 1 of for a firmament
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19 Jun 2025
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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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15 Jun 2025
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she seemed to hear my silent voice by generally_gray
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
05 Aug 2024
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Jonathan Sims, assistant director of the Tudor exhibit in the Upshur museum, London, who has not had a supernatural encounter once in his life, leaves for work one day to discover that a second stream of consciousness has appeared in his head. He is understandably upset and confused about this. He’s not the only one.
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05 May 2025
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if you come reaping, i'll come running by beholdingthehunt for PeakStupid
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
29 Apr 2025
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“G-Gonna stare?” he wheezes out, and Basira lets the smallest huff of breath escape her lips. Proud of his own joke, Jon tries to laugh, and she can see that it gets caught on the way up, blood spilling out past his mouth and coating the bottom of his chin. She thinks it says a lot about what she’s become that she doesn’t even flinch.
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Basira finds Jon after MAG200, alone and injured. This conversation is long overdue.
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29 Apr 2025
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When Jon wakes up after reading Jonah Magnus' statement, he is alone. Martin is gone.
He is going to get him back.
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22 Apr 2025
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After the dust has settled, Martin brings Jon to the Lonely and leaves him there.
He visits, when he can.
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28 Mar 2025
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5 times Daisy helped Jon stay human, and 1 time Jon helped her.
**Written pre-MAG 176**
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26 Jan 2025
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It's a classic love story: boy meets a boy literally from his dreams. Boy stares ceaselessly with its hundred eyes. Boy exists only as the vague mockery of the human form. Boy is omniscient and might, in fact, have literally been in your dreams, doing unspeakable things to your mind. Boy may be the Archivist of the Magnus Institute, a mindless abomination - but nobody’s perfect!
When Martin becomes the newest Archival assistant with his friends Tim and Sasha, forced to work together to outrun the famous curse on the position that kills any assistant in three months or less, his romance novel becomes a reality. But who is his dream boy? Who is the Archivist? And, if Martin can’t find out, can he survive?
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25 Jan 2025
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absolutely insane. has to be read to be believed.
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We live but a fraction of our lives by Lola_Rose_Robins
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
12 Jan 2025
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Post finale, Jon and Martin end up in a strange dark world. Their bodies are twisted and warped beyond recognition, yet somehow, they live.
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18 Jan 2025
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London, 1849.
As the Entities ascend in power, plots are set in motion, new friends are made, and an apprentice archive utterly fails to keep those new friends at arms length.
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Perhaps if they were under his auspices, Jon would be able to keep his assistants away from the worst of it. He could certainly try.
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- Part 3 of Auspex
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03 Jan 2025
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hunger makes us human by anarchival (situationalhorizon)
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
18 Oct 2024
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Feed your god. Fearlessly, and without hesitation. Or it will feed on you.
It's a zero-sum game. The Hunt wants to win. But so does Daisy.
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27 Dec 2024