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Nothing matters, but knowing nothing matters It's just life, so keep dancing through

[dancing through life, wicked]

i love your michael lives au! could i perhaps ask how you imagine michael and sasha’s dynamic?

Yeah these two actually become HUGE besties, probably one of Michael’s only other friends at the institute. Once Sasha joins the Archives team, he does his best to look after her, both because he believes she should have been the next archivist, and that she’s one of the few people around he’s comfortable with. He tries not to hide TOO MUCH from her, and knowingly leaves hints and clues that he knows she’ll pick up in because she’s that sharp.

so is the implication here that michael stays at the institute/in the archives even after gertrude's death? gotta say I am very charmed imagining the bitterest man alive passing up a chance to finally get out because god damn it. these new idiots are just like he was aren't they.

Yes! He’s still stuck at the institute and he just gets better (worse) overtime! I feel like after a few pranks and some shenanigans more directed at Elias, he ends up with a re-negotiated contract.

He’s still tied to the Institute but he’s no longer tied to Gertrude. His role is changed to “Assistant to the Archives.” At the time, Michael is all for it, he doesn’t want to be ordered around by Gertrude. But when Gertrude passes and he realizes he’s still STUCK there, he regrets that his past self was manipulated like that.

By that point, he’s a lot more Spiral-inclined, and he becomes a friendly but difficult coworker for the new archive time. It’s hard to get a straight answer from him both from his nature changing and the fact that he knows Elias is watching him. But he does his best!

I saw it mentioned that in your Michael survives AU he gains some spiral powers, could you explain kinda how those work? :D

Yes! In the beginning, it’s all things he’s doing unconsciously. They’re really small at first, but become more frequent if Michael is particularly frustrated that day. Extra/Missing steps on a stairwell, the doorknob being on the wrong side, the paper size in the printer is wrong, the pen someone is writing with is a different color, etc. Not enough for anyone to REALLY notice but it does start to build up.

Even when he is intentionally being vindictive and trying to be chaotic, like the highlighter reports, he starts to accomplish things that aren’t physically possible. He doesn’t really realize what’s happening unless someone actively points it out to him or he’s making an conscious effort to try and control himself.

Once he’s more aware, he works with Gertrude and Gerry to develop techniques that keep him grounded, and he tries to use his abilities as little as possible unless the situation is dire.

As for his abilities LATER ON… those are more complicated and I’ll take time to elaborate in another ask cause I have some silly ideas.

You know you're a writer when you’ve had entire conversations in your head with your characters but can’t remember what you had for breakfast.

Trying to revitalise my never-really-active writing account by looking through my old material and wow.

Starting to think being a writer is just a cycle of writing something, thinking it's incredible, then coming back and wondering who thought it would be a good idea to let you have access to the English language.

Writing original fiction is a lot like writing fan fiction, except instead of reading someone else's work and thinking "that character would not fuckin do that" you're reading and judging your own work, and thinking "this character would not fuckin do that", because they're your characters, who have gone off and started misbehaving.

(whiteknuckling the edges of my mechanical keyboard) I will not fill these plotholes with vampires I will not fill these plotholes with vampires I will not fill these plotholes with vampires I will not

“What if I write it and it’s bad-”

WHAT IF YOU WRITE IT AND ITS GOOD? WHAT IF YOU WRITE IT AND ITS EXACTLY WHAT YOU WANTED? WHAT THEN????

Every summer I forget how much I fucking love spiders I’ve drunk one every day this week

reblog if you think sign language should be taught as a language in schools.

having ocs is such a weird experience. what do you mean that me and 3 of my friends are the only ones that care about the little guy in my head? what do you mean that other people can listen to die young by Kesha without crying thinking about my little guy? I'll see a post and go "wow I should show this to [oc]" and remember shes a literal figment of my imagination.

Just had my first bad Tumblr experience, I feel like I've passed an initiation

I love that a huge chunk of the Magnus Archives fandom saw a ship between a goth guy and a door that never interacted in canon and went "What the hell, sure."

(reblogging for future reference)

Writing Description Notes:

Updated 9th September 2024 More writing tips, review tips & writing description notes

Facial Expressions

Masking Emotions

Smiles/Smirks/Grins

Eye Contact/Eye Movements

Blushing

Voice/Tone

Body Language/Idle Movement

Thoughts/Thinking/Focusing/Distracted

Silence

Memories

Happy/Content/Comforted

Love/Romance

Sadness/Crying/Hurt

Confidence/Determination/Hopeful

Surprised/Shocked

Guilt/Regret

Disgusted/Jealous

Uncertain/Doubtful/Worried

Anger/Rage

Laughter

Confused

Speechless/Tongue Tied

Fear/Terrified

Mental Pain

Physical Pain

Tired/Drowsy/Exhausted

Eating

Drinking

Warm/Hot

it's the same person each time. the visits are dates. congrats on your new time traveling partner.

You once made a promise to yourself: if you ever met a time traveler, it wouldn't be a big deal. You’d tell them the date, the most important political conflict, a recent technology, and send them on their way. You now encounter a time traveler nearly every week.

i hate it when i cant even write a poem about something because its too obvious. like in the airbnb i was at i guess it used to be a kids room cause you could see the imprint of one little glow in the dark star that had been missed and painted over in landlord white. like that's a poem already what's the point

the gorlz! I love women

who am I even sad for?…

“ships should at least make sense.” no. ships can make sense, sure. but they’re just fictional characters we play with for fun. they’re fantasies, not a fucking thesis paper. so no, they don’t always have to make sense. they just have to make you happy (or horny).

let people enjoy (fictional) things however they want to enjoy.

Listen I love Jon “let’s gouge our eyes out and run away together” Sims as much as the next guy. But we don’t talk enough about the second half of that conversation. Martin ready to crash out just a little. Martin calling Jon on his bullshit. Basically just everything Martin does in that scene actually.

^^^THIS. self aware as fuck and definitely not kind of bitter Martin.

Imagine you’ve been in love with someone for 4 years. You do not expect this to go anywhere because you have shit self esteem and also he kind of hates you. You decide the best use of your life is protecting everyone you know from evil and taking the brunt of that evil yourself. Then one day the person you love who you cannot be around anymore says out of the blue “hey let’s run away together” and you have probably wanted that for years. You have probably dreamed about that moment. And you absolutely can not do that. For him. To protect him. But also because of him. And it’s not really about you is it?

I would go fucking crazy. All things considered, he had an impressively calm reaction to this situation.

⚠️ eyestrain ; spoilers for episode 79 of The Magnus Archives.

“You. Need. A door.”

ok since you asked me, what would *your* fear entity alignment be?

so i've thought this through and i think i would be an eye avatar (I cope by frantically researching anything i don't understand and despise not knowing things) but I would d be marked by the spiral (crippling fear that all of my friends secretly hate me and they're all just lying to me to spare my feelings, a very helen portrayal of the spiral)

what does one do after finishing the magnus archives? I feel like I've ascended to a higher plain of existence. maybe ill go outside and touch grass for the first time in weeks. I feel like I'm going to be found sitting in a corner chewing on my headphones like a rabid dog.

just finished mag 195: I know I can't be the only person to have asked this but are all blind people exempt from the apocalypse? or was Melanie a special case because she blinded herself to purposefully sever her connection to the eye

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