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    It's been almost four years since Michael Shelley succeeded Gertrude Robinson as the Head Archivist of the Magnus Institute. Almost four years of relative peace and quiet, interspersed with the odd bout of supernatural bullshit. Michael is engaged, document storage is tidier than it has ever been, and things are looking... good.

    But the Web has been biding its time, and now it's ready to make its next move. It may have lost the battle to place Jon in the Archivist's chair, but there are still ways to get its plans back on track, and it has plenty of pieces left on the board.

    (This is a sequel to Break Me Like A Pattern. I recommend reading that first, or you will be very confused.)

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    16 Jul 2024

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    The year is 2011. Michael Shelley is living his life in circles, blissfully unaware of the betrayal that awaits him in the summer. Gertrude Robinson has plans to enact and plans to destroy. Emma Harvey is hiding a book in the dark place at the back of a cupboard.

    When Gerard Keay walks into the Magnus Institute - two years sooner than he was meant to - everything changes.

    This is an (eventual) Archivist Michael AU, exploring how certain events might have played out, had one key player been in the wrong place at the wrong time.

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    12 Jul 2024

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    Whatever he had predicted might happen, Jon wasn't expecting to survive upon demolishing the Panopticon. He certainly wasn't expecting to be rescued.

    Instead, he wakes up in an alternative universe where he's never been the Archivist, and Martin Blackwood doesn't exist.

    Martin Blackwood wakes up somewhere else entirely.

    Written as part of the RQBB 2020 Challenge, with art by the fantastic Aspen! (@asortofloficharm)

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    15 Jun 2024

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    “You’re really suggesting this,” Martin says, voice pulled thin.
    “Yes.” No hesitation.
    “You would- actually do it?”
    “I would.”
    “With me.”
    Yes, Martin.”
    “Why?” Because love is blind, says something cliché and cruel in the pit of his gut. Christ, he never was much of a poet, was he?

    Or,

    When Jon asks Martin to Quit the Archives with him, Martin says yes. Things don't go as planned. In the Scottish Highlands, they hurt, and they heal.

     

    (Re-written as of 22-12-27; see chapter 9 for more info.)

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    12 Jun 2024

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    “They say lying down with your eyes closed can be restful, even if you don’t sleep,” Martin said, in that pointed way he does when he wants Jon to learn to take care of himself but doesn’t want to outright say it.

    “I know,” Jon said. He did not say that, if he lay down and closed his eyes, he likely wouldn’t have much trouble falling asleep at all.

    He just wouldn’t … stay asleep. Best to avoid that inevitability as long as possible, he’s decided.

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    Somewhere else, Jon is free of statement giver nightmares but plagued by new and horrible nightmares that are all his own, focused around his own traumas. The first time he wakes up, seven years after arriving somewhere else, and realizes he didn't dream the night before is, understandably, an emotional experience.

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    05 Jun 2024