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Through halls of ireon and darkling door by Ranoutofbraincells
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
30 Mar 2026
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“I search through the stars,” he sang in answer, hands stopped in place by the iron digging into his skin. He stared at the door before him. The faint outline from light seeping through seemed to glow, dancing before his very eyes. His eyes he set firmly on the door, lest he caught sight of fallen friends around him and dared to lose the hope that he gripped firm within his ribs. “For you—”
The door burst open with a crash and light flooded in like dawn rising over the sea. “ — my love!”
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Written for jonmartin week 2026 day 2: Fae & Faeries // Bands and the Mechanisms
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Their hand reaches out, fumbling with the doorknob for a few moments before finally yanking it open. The door opens.
Rys steps in.
A yell. “Wait, no—”
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A wild Helen appears! The Eye Opens...at least, it tries to.
Fortunately for everyone involved, Elias did not account for random teenagers.
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- Part 5 of The Eccentricities of Jonathan Sims
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How to tell your students about eldritch eyeballs, amongst other things; A Guide By Jonathan Sims by Ranoutofbraincells
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
16 Aug 2025
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“You've dealt with manifestations of all the Fears before, then?”
Jon takes a moment to count his… unfortunate encounters. “Er, yes. Some more than others.”
“Are you just exceptionally unlucky, then?” They continue. “Because how unluckily lucky can one realistically be to encounter all the supernatural facets of Fear and survive all of them? It can't be a coincidence.”
Jon squints at them, confused. “I certainly didn't do it on purpose.”
“Well, yes, of course you didn't, but—”
“Someone else meant for it to happen,” Mx Laurens finishes for them. “And you say my question was horrifying.”
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Alternate title: Revelations of All Things
In which revelations are had.
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- Part 4 of The Eccentricities of Jonathan Sims
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“Hey, wonder what'd happen if we got Jon to listen to this,” Tim jokes. “Reckon he'd lose his mind?”
There's a faint murmur that Jon’s pretty sure comes from Sasha, but he can't make it out through the door, muffled as it is. The snort that Tim lets out is loud enough for Jon to hear, though, so he could infer.
At Tim’s joking suggestion, Martin delves into a stuttering sequence of mismatched phrases that could mostly just be summed up as “no”. Jon can't help but feel mildly insulted, considering that this was his band, but he supposes that if his assistants expected him to be in a steampunk space pirate band, there was likely no professional respect between them.
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In which Jon Jonnys all over the place.
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Hang on, there's an 'i' in your hair by Ranoutofbraincells
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
10 Jun 2025
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Cecilia takes one last glance at the figures of her English teacher and his boyfriend walking away, maybe to see if she could try one last time to get them to admit something, but something catches her eye.
She freezes.
There was an eye in her teacher's hair. She can't have seen it wrong, there's no way it was a trick of the light, because it was glowing bright, neon green and looking right at her.
And it blinked.
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wheee, part threeSeries
- Part 3 of The Eccentricities of Jonathan Sims
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The Eccentricities of Jonathan Sims by Ranoutofbraincells
Fandom The Magnus Archives, The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
28 Oct 2025
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A teacher! jon au in which three of his students look at their really weird teacher and go "hey, is anyone gonna investigate that or do we have to do it ourselves?"
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This is the story of the Lindworm. It is a terrifying being with impenetrable scales and great cunning. A maiden must marry the dragon. A warrior will try and rescue her.
It is also a story about Vetinari, Sybil, and Vimes. What will they find, each of them, beneath the layers of their stories?
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14 Aug 2026
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Pink, Blue, Babies, Dwarves, and Nobbs by KingBugPrincess
Fandoms: Discworld - Terry Pratchett
28 Dec 2020
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Sergeant Colon doesn't like when Nobby starts with that tone of voice. Things always get a little... philosophical. A little....... complicated. Still, he wouldn't be an officer if he didn't tackle these things head-on, no matter how lost he gets!
"Weeeell, you see, of course... now, sometimes you have folks what see the world and start making plans about how they want it to work, and--" "That's an agenda, sarge."
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13 Aug 2026
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In Which Everyone Agrees That Death Should Stop Deciding To Do Things Just, Y’Know, In General, Maybe by shella688
Fandoms: The Mechanisms (Band), Discworld - Terry Pratchett
22 Dec 2020
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Death suggests that Susan should meet Jonny d'Ville, perhaps as evidence that he does, somewhere deep down, understand the concept of schadenfreude
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13 Aug 2026
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On a rainy day during the Watch's off-hours, Nobby, Colon, Carrot and Angua decide to play the Disc's version of Monopoly.
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13 Aug 2026
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Please let these be normal musicians? by CallmeDJ
Fandoms: The Mechanisms (Band), Discworld - Terry Pratchett
16 Nov 2022
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[Vimes could hear it now, as he passed along through the reception, nodding to Cheri behind the desk as he went. She smiled at him tiredly.
“Just before you go home sir, would you mind talking to the prisoners?”
Vimes frowned, “Why? Did something happen?”
Cheri looked a little worried, “Not quite, sir. It’s more about what didn’t happen. According to Reg, sir, one of the fighters managed to kill one of them. For about ten minutes, at least. Then they got right back up again.”
“How do we know they weren’t just stunned?”
“By a knife to the neck, sir?”]
Vimes was planning to head home, but the Narrative (and a group of roving pirate musicians) have other plans.
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13 Aug 2026