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  1. Public Bookmark 15

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    “What rotten luck.” He teased. “Us, sticking together forever.”

    A series of conversations between The Archivist and Martin Blackwood, in darkness, recorded in situ, following the events of MAG 200 as they navigate the challenges left behind.

    Statement begins.

    Title taken from AMC's Interview With The Vampire.

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    27 Dec 2025

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    Zolf is the owner of Hope & Smith café and bakery. Wilde is a journalist. And they’re… friends? Yeah. Friends. And one night, Wilde stumbles into the café just before closing time in desperate need of just that—a friend—and sets off a chain of events that will change both his and Zolf’s lives, as well as the lives of those around them, forever.

    Featuring disabilities both visible and invisible, the many different forms of magic and love, and the mortifying (but necessary) ordeal of being known.

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    18 Jul 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 24

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    The trip to the safehouse took over seven hours – four and a half hours spent on a train from London to Edinburgh, twenty minutes spent in Waverly waiting for the next train, forty-five minutes spent traveling from Edinburgh to Stirling, nearly an hour huddling under a cold and drippy bus stop in Stirling, then a final forty-five minute bus ride to the small and unassuming town where Basira thought they might be safe – and Jon did not sleep for a single minute of it.

    He couldn’t, even if he’d wanted to. His nerves were utterly frayed. It felt as though his body had been stuck in fight-or-flight mode from the moment he’d found Martin’s tape, and nothing – not the gentle rocking of the train, not the soothing silence of the late-night air, not the fact that Martin was curled into the seat beside him, hand still loosely wrapped around Jon’s even while he slept – could convince his body that the danger had passed.

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    25 Jun 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 80

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    Boromir wakes to the sound of the water, and above the strange silvery echo, birdsong. Was he sleeping?

     

    Or: Boromir dies at Amon Hen. Then, one year later, he comes back.

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    27 Sep 2024

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    “...Sure,” Martin replied glumly. He wondered if this is how all those french people felt, back in the days of guillotines. “Huh— How do you think I should introduce myself to this Archivist, anyway? They are going to be my boss, technically speaking, so I suppose I can at least try to make a good first impression…?”

    The look Tim and Sasha shared was… Certainly something.

    “I don’t think introductions will really be required,” she said, delicately.

    “Right. Ok. Sure. Do you know what their name is? I ought to at least know that, right?” Martin pressed on, voice tinted by desperation. “Mr. Bouchard wouldn’t say—”

    Again with the look. Martin was going to scream.

    “Don’t you worry about that, bud,” Tim said with a very forced, nervous little grin. “The Archivist is just The Archivist. Just get in there and… Godspeed?”

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    Moved by desperation, Martin accepts a job he's perfectly aware is bad news, but maybe... It won't be as such for long.

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    09 Jun 2024