Leaves Too High To Touch (roots Too Strong To Fall) | TMA Time Travel Fic | Fic Rec

leaves too high to touch (roots too strong to fall) | TMA Time Travel Fic | Fic Rec

“So...you’re from the future. In the past. Why?” “You want the short answer or the long one?” “Short,” Martin says after a moment’s deliberation. “Until I decide if I trust you.” The other nods, as if he expected that answer—which, well, if he really is Martin from the future, he probably did. “To stop the world from ending.” They have one last chance to fix this - one last chance to prevent the Eyepocalypse, to save the world - to save their world. It all hinges on which is the greater force: greed...or love.

im just at chapter 15. you know why i know this is a good one? because oh my god im over here sobbing and realizing 'OH' and it makes sense and also holy fucking shit

talking - fic exchange

i joined my first fic exchange a few months ago

im kind of excited? im in a discord server for it, someones explained it as exchanges always kinda getting you out of your comfort zone even if just a little. and it makes sense? it was a bit of a challenge writing so many, and writing more slice of life-ish, but it was fun too even if it was a bit stressful. :D

its a pjo exchange, i might make a post when it gets revealed

Too Much Time | TMA Fic | Fic Rec

Summary:

Lost and alone at the end of the world, Jon decides to try one last idea. It goes wrong, as his ideas usually do, when both the Web and the Spiral decide to interfere with what he's doing. For once the disaster goes his favor. Mostly.

He wouldn't have chosen to go back in time to when he was eight years old. He certainly wouldn't have chosen to catch Elias freaking Bouchard's attention before he's had a chance to do anything. And he cannot believe that his luck is so monumentally bad that he gets adopted by the man who wants to use him to end the world.

Jon has to figure out how to keep Elias away, while saving his friends and the world. And hopefully growing old enough that he can go anywhere on his own and be taken seriously.

I HAVE ANOTHER TMA FIC FOR YOU. its Time Travel but I've been getting obsessed with any and all fics where they (either Jon or Martin. Or both.) time travel back to their kid self and get adopted by elias and/or peter.

or it could just be a general non-time travel but still get adopted.

I know I have issues with reading way too many time travel fics and that the repetition can get boring. BUT THIS IS DIFFERENT. Okay. Look. im gonna be honest. its hitting close to 200k words and is nowhere near close to the beginning of the actual podcast, like with tim and sasha and martin?? its not just your average time travel!! ITS. theres uniqueness. i dont know how to explain it without spoiling it. It does get to really angsty bits (also tma fics have this weird habit of adding content warnings at the end notes. who even looks at those and then scrolls all the way up or something?? well not me, idk who does, it just kinda seems weird to leave it as an end note when its a cw for a chapter..) that have kind of gotten me mentally checking out or something, but like. fdshuifhs. what do you do when a traumatized adult gets sent back to his child body and his child body kind of. yknow? just your average issue of communicating! and also a lot of issues. a lot of trauma. woo.

The Percy Jackson Autumn Equinox 2023 Gift Exchange is officially over! The fics can be found here, and I highly encourage you all to read, kudos, and comment.

The fic exchange would not have been possible without the writers, and I'd like to give them all a huge shout-out:

anna_was_here, BtsBestMoments, @celestialepiphany, @cephalad, dehydrated_thot, duender, hazardoustorm, @holythemis, @immortalsimulacrum, ironsides, kaufmann, Luz_clause, momochai, @mrthology, PlutoMilo, PossiblyKale, @punkflame, purplepinkskiess, @rationalelderberry, rubiesnightingale, rubyredketchup, @sappho-of-space, @skywalking-through-life, southslates, TheReadingWriter, tobytikka, trash_for_peter_parker, UTMVNightLight, Word_addict. @caffeinated-croissant

I hope you all had a great time and enjoyed your gifts!

See the Line where the Sky meets the Sea | TMA Fic | Fic Rec

When Jon is a child he looks into the infinite abyss of space. The Vast looks back into him.

I AM IN LOVE. i have a new fixation. kind of, the lonely will always have my heart but ahh the vast. the descriptions are so fucking pretty. PLEASE give it a chance im begging you its basically. technically an 'avatar swap'. kind of? the summary is self-explanatory but if you don't get it. jon becomes an avatar of the vast.

ahhh ive always liked stars.

Awake and Unafraid | TMA Fic (Fic Rec)

Martin's new job at the Institute isn't what he was expecting. Along with Tim and Sasha, he's struggling with a disorganized Archive, no direction from their slightly-devious boss, and the growing feeling that they're in danger. Which is not helped by the cryptic warnings from a far too-knowing voice on an ancient tape recorder calling themselves the Archivist.

its. so fucking. cool. AND IT MAKES SENSE, like genuinely. with an actual plot, and i really enjoyed it. There was no part where I felt like 'I have to stop reading' because it's too much? It was perfect. Well not perfect perfect obviously, but I had a really enjoyable experience binging it lmfao. If you don't know what TMA stands for, its The Magnus Archives, its basically like a horror podcast. This is where I admit most of my knowledge comes from other fanfics because I'm still on like season one? And I do this thing where I tune out background noise accidentally, but I wouldn't be able to fully focus on it because I'm a multi-task person, so I've been slowly doing the task of reading the transcripts for every episode out loud instead, which helps but I get a headache cause MAN they're long.

anyway this is Martin/Jon, which I'm still figuring out ships but I'm assuming that's the big whole OTP that nearly everyone ships in the fandom, but if that's not your cup of tea (cause that's understandable, I think Bakudeku is like an OTP but some people find it uncomfortable due to the previously kinda toxic relationship?) here's your warning. Uh. also. as the tags say. "The Usual TMA Warnings Apply". Which. uhh. if you're squeamish at just the mention of stuff maybe. don't. Or maybe if you don't like horror?? I've never actually been affected by horror books unless they're super gross or go extremely in depth about depictions of like, say, gore, so I can't actually say if the fic is scary at all, but I found myself very invested. Also uhh, Martin POV. If you've been looking at my bookmarks recently (why are you?) then you'd find it's kind of like a mix of TMA and HP x Twilight rn. Opposite sides of the spectrum kinda where ones are either romance-typical with Twilight which I've never seen, or character bashing. And then TMA's here like 'there are things more powerful and blah blah blah--' But to be fair..

At the very left is Twilight x HP. And the very right is TMA. Although a few tabs are out of sight because I have too many open. lmfao. Anyway I've been rambling. Um. Um. UH. JUst. give it a shot??? You kinda get the gist of what's going on after you read a few multi-chapter fics because it develops a timeline and they generally tend to be close to the 'start' (which I don't know when. but. worm usually.) and then you can kinda notice based on similarities between fics what's usually canon. imma shut up now (anyway martins a def fav that you might see around if i have more fics to share)