I exist on the best terms I can

Lately I’ve been getting back into drawing. My art tag is #anna does art.

I also write! You can find me on Ao3 at morning_softness.

(Vent tags are #work stress and #just complaining, in case you want to block those.)

Here’s a list of my fics for The Magnus Archives, with summaries:

Pre-Canon:

Someone Has to Be There

Summary

When Jon moves into a new flat, ignoring the previous tenant’s warnings about the other person who lives there, he’s prepared for his new flatmate to be a bit unusual. He’s even ready for the loud music they like to play at night. What he doesn’t expect is that they’ll avoid him completely.

or

Five times Jon didn’t meet his elusive housemate, and one time he did

Words: 7,350

Chapters: 1/1

No Hope of Falling in Love

Summary

It’s Valentine’s Day. Tim is being swamped with love confessions, cards, flowers, and chocolate, while Jon—at the desk next to him—receives nothing. Neither of them is happy about this state of affairs.

Words: 2,516

Chapters: 1/1

Can’t We Just Wait Together? (or 5 times Tim and Jon did not go on a first date, and 1 time they did)

Summary

Tim wants something more than friendship with Jon, but he’s not sure how to make Jon see that. He keeps trying to ask him out, but Jon never seems to get the memo that these are meant to be dates, not platonic outings.

Jon might have feelings for Tim, but he doesn’t want to lose the relationship they already have.

Will either of them ever find the courage to just say flat out how they feel and what they want?

Words: 36,874

Chapters: 6/6

Netflix and Chill

Summary:

Tim casually settles his arm on the back of the couch. Then he just as casually reaches down to lay it across Jon’s shoulders.

Jon freezes, his body going completely stiff. “I’m not going to have sex with you!” He blurts out.

Tim and Jon watch Netflix and chill. They do not have sex.

Words: 2,923

Chapters: 1/1

Season 1:

Archive Shenanigans

Summary:

All the assistants are the hot assistant, or Tim says Hot Martin Rights and Hot Sasha Rights and even Hot Jon Rights.

Words: 1,137

Chapters: 1/1

What I Arrived To

Summary:Today is the day Martin’s moving from the Magnus Institute’s Library, where he’s worked since he first got a full-time job nine years ago, to its Archives. He can’t decide if he’s excited or terrified.

or

Jon and Martin make some very bad first impressions. The Archive is in chaos. There is a dog. It is not ideal. Tim and Sasha do their best to help.

Words: 8,272

Chapters: 4/4

All That We Think We Know

Summary

Tim has a crush on the earnest and attractive new Archival Assistant, but so far Martin hasn’t picked up on any of the hints he’s been dropping. Martin has a crush on his new co-assistant but is sure there’s no way the hot and charming Tim Stoker could ever return his feelings. A hiking trip gone awry brings them both closer in ways neither expected.

Words: 18,771

Chapters: 6/6

Every Day is Just One Day

Summary

After Tim jokingly mentions Martin’s birthday, Jon does his best to help Martin celebrate. While it doesn’t turn out the way he expected, this might be just what it takes to bring the team closer together.

Words: 4,504

Chapters: 1/1

Season 2:

Listen to the Voice that Told Me

Summary

After Prentiss's attack on the Institute and the discovery of his predecessor's corpse in the tunnels beneath it, Jon knows two things:

1. accepting the Head Archivist position put a target on his back

and

2. he can't trust anyone, especially his assistants.

As if he weren't already vulnerable enough, Jon discovers he's been cursed by a Web artefact to obey any order he's given. Can Jon find a way to break the curse before anyone else finds out?

Words: 54,751

Chapters: 11/11

Season 3:

Like A Circle to Return

Summary

Jon’s never forgotten the statement implying Gerry was a Mastodon fan. Before Jon burns Gerry’s page, he has one last request. Or perhaps, a gift. Jon and Gerry listen to the 2017 Mastodon album.

Words: 1,090

Chapters: 1/1

Can’t Have You, Even As An Enemy

Summary

Tim wonders if Jon feels it too, that there’s no coming back from this. That tomorrow, whether they fail or succeed, it will be the end for both of them. He’s watched enough films to know that this should be the moment for a heart-to-heart between them. Sharing secrets. An admission of long hidden romantic feelings. Desperate sex. Something. Anything more than recycled blame and apologies. He should say something, maybe, but the words are all choked up inside him.

The night before the Unknowing, Tim and Jon share a hotel room and regret the past. They talk, but it doesn’t change anything.

Words: 5,478

Chapters: 1/1

Season 3/4 Interlude:

Incendiary Tactics

Summary

Tim hadn’t thought about what would happen after the Unknowing because he hadn’t expected there to be an after—maybe not for any of them, but certainly not for him. Still, even if he had tried to imagine a future, it wouldn’t have looked like this.There’s no logic to Tim’s survival, his mild and rapidly healing injuries. By all rights he should have died. He’d expected to die. The fact that he didn’t, well, there’s no way that it’s a good thing.

Tim never expected to survive the Unknowing. But somehow, when the dust settles, he finds himself still alive, still bound to the Institute, and rapidly becoming an Eye-flavored avatar of the Desolation. Can he adjust to his new powers before he drives away everyone he still has left?

Words: 11,334

Chapters: 8/8

Season 4:

A Conversation Off-Tape

Summary

After his argument with Georgie, the last thing Martin expects is a text from Melanie inviting him out to drinks with the two of them. Against his better judgement, he accepts.

Words: 4,030

Chapters 1/1

Scottish Safehouse Period:

Here Might You Bless Me

Summary

He should reassure Jon, tell him he didn’t mean it like that, that he still loves him. Say ‘I really love you, you know,’ in the present tense. Except Martin is tired of lying, to other people and to himself. Martin’s so very, very tired, tired down to a place far beneath his bones. All his emotions are like wet-on-wet watercolor: pale and spread out and diluted, blending into each other in a way that’s impossible to sort out, and none of them feel like what he used to call love.

Martin doesn’t want to be alone again. He doesn’t want Jon to leave him alone again. But Jon loves Martin so much it’s exhausting, and Martin doesn’t have anything left to give, to keep him by his side.

Martin’s changed after Jon pulls him out of The Lonely, and he’s sure that Jon won’t want to stick around once he figures that out. After all, it turns out Jon has a lot of love to give, and who would want to waste their love on someone who can’t return it? Jon convinces him he’s not going anywhere.

Words: 4,088

Chapters: 1/1

You Are You, None Other

Summary

Martin wakes up every morning without a physical form and has to shape his body all over again. Sometimes he wonders if it’s worth it. Jon gives him some reasons to try.

Words: 3,551

Chapters: 2/2

Post-Canon (No Apocalypse AU):

Love, Or Whatever You Call It

Summary

"So, you and Jon, huh?" Melanie says. "Never thought I'd be the one to say it, but good for you.""Sorry, me and Jon what?""Dating," Melanie says slowly, like she can't believe he's being this dense. "You and Jon dating. Congratulations.""Oh, uh, so the thing is, I'm not sure if we are, actually," Martin says, rubbing the back of his head."You're not sure?" Melanie asks incredulously. "You're living together, sharing clothes--well, Georgie says he's wearing some of your jumpers, at least--sleeping in the same bed, and you're not sure if you're dating?""We just," Martin stammers, "we haven't really talked about it, all right?"

After Jonah's ritual fails, severing Jon's connection to the Beholding, Jon and Martin try to put the pieces of their lives back together. Adjusting to normal life again after everything is hard, and exploring their new relationship is even harder, especially as Martin realizes he might be aro-spec.

Words: 20,599

Chapters: 8/8

Are You Calling Me ‘Darling’?

Summary

“Who’s this?” Another lecturer asks, approaching the table with his coffee and pastry, and the woman calls back, “Jon’s boyfriend, stopping by to pick him up.”

“Oh, well, I’m not really—” Martin starts, but then he looks over at Jon, who is smiling widely, face alight with happiness, and stops like he’d walked into a brick wall.

“Yes,” Jon says simply, squeezing Martin’s hand, then raising it to press a kiss to Martin’s knuckles.

Jon likes it when people call Martin his boyfriend. Martin…doesn’t.

Words: 2,439

Chapters: 1/1

(Now I Can Say) Those Three Little Words

Summary

Jon is struggling to build new relationships with his friends and coworkers and navigate his new queer-platonic relationship with Martin, especially when it comes to understanding what forms of affection might be acceptable. He tries to hold back his feelings, fearing that he will drive Martin away by being 'too much.' But when Jon accidentally lets his feelings slip, he discovers they're more welcome than he'd assumed.

Words: 12,012

Chapters: 4/4

Multiseason:

Such a ‘Nice’ Surprise

Summary

Tim insists they take an archives team photograph to commemorate Jon’s surprise birthday party. Jon secretly treasures it, until he loses it. He finds it again, after.