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I got a sweet Jon/Martin comfort vignette set in the Canadian shack Scottish safehouse, and there's only one bed:

My warmth a candle, burn away the mist (924 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Martin Blackwood/Jonathan Sims
Characters: Jonathan Sims, Martin Blackwood
Additional Tags: Sharing a Bed, Hurt/Comfort, Martin has Issues he needs to deal with too
Summary:

They haven’t talked yet.
Oh, sure, they’ve talked. They’ve discussed things with Basira, figured out money and trains and everything with the safe-house. They’ve chatted idly while cleaning and cooking. But they haven’t talked.

 

3:48am is the perfect time for conversation.

After coming across squeeing in rydra_wong's journal about The Magnus Archives, I spent most of my time the last couple of days catching up with that podcast. The individual episodes are only about twenty minutes each, but well, as of now, at the end of season four of a planned five, there are 160 of it, so that adds up.

Fortunately I can do things like eating or cooking while listening to podcasts, and the 31st has recently been made a holiday again (not for Halloween, but as Reformation Day), so it was only moderately life disrupting, but the podcast is kind of ridiculously compelling.

If you haven't heard of the podcast, there's a framing conceit of an archive collecting testimonies of various horrible and creepy things that happen to people, but the short stories you hear interconnect at certain points so that you discover more of the underlying mythology and background history, and the archive staff also become protagonists in the events that you see unfold in the framework bits.

Horror normally is not my genre of choice at all, because I *like* happy endings, and those aren't really a genre feature of horror, especially not in the cosmic horror kind. Also I get really attached to main characters, and that is ill advised too.

And yet, here I am ( spoilery for the season four finale )

And now I have to wait until *April* for season five.