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Pieces of You by kali_asleep
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast), The Magnus Protocol (Podcast)
17 Mar 2024
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It's a given that nothing about Sam's job is "normal." But suddenly, case files keep cropping up regarding entities going by "John" and "Martin." And what's more, Chester and Norris having been going haywire, showing up in the same files, talking over one another, and reading off things that aren't there. Alice has told Sam not to get involved, but as the unusual cases keep cropping up, the OIAR team can't help but wonder: what does FR3-d1 want with two strangers who just seem to be trying to live a regular life?
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- Part 1 of For the Trees
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20 Feb 2026
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Ask an Exec: How to Navigate Cultish Colleagues, Soul-Stealing Bosses, and the End of the World at Work by shinyopals
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
02 May 2023
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I've recently been unexpectedly promoted to lead a department in my organisation, wrote the anonymous emailer.
As there was no one working here when I arrived, my manager, who is head of the organisation, had promised me the choice of my own assistants. However, without warning, he simply presented me with an additional assistant. This new assistant’s first act on his first day was to let a dog into the office. It took several hours to catch and clean up after this dog and it has only been downhill from there. I admit I'm not entirely sure what to do with this assistant now I'm stuck with him. I'm hoping you have some advice?
Kind regards,
New ManagerAbigail Bailey runs a successful management advice blog. One frequent contributor is from a workplace with some... issues.
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19 Feb 2026
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Eyes on the Future: How Jonathan Sims Approached His New Manager With An Open Mind, Took On Board Valuable Feedback About His Performance, and Wholeheartedly Embraced His Professional Development Goals by shinyopals
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
25 Oct 2020
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As you are no doubt aware, one of the most vital aspects of people management is ensuring one makes the time for one's line reports via an annual review, wrote Peter Lukas, to Jonathan Sims. It's important we understand your performance over the last year and your goals and objectives for the coming one. I wouldn't want you to feel unsupported by Institute management.
How many bottles of whisky have you got left in your desk drawers? messaged Jon, to Daisy.
Jon has his annual review. He feels exactly as supported by Institute management as Peter Lukas hopes he will.
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22 Jan 2026
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"Have You Tried Turning It Off And On Again?" - A series of conversations between the Head of the Magnus Institute and his Assistant on a number of highly advanced and complex technical matters by shinyopals
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
21 Sep 2020
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"Martin, what's a 'Zoom'?"
"On- on a... camera?"
"No, on a computer."
"Wh-? Oh. Oh. It's this, um, video calling thing."Martin has a lot of jobs to do, as Peter's assistant. Some of them are more difficult than others.
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22 Jan 2026
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"Have You Tried Turning It Off And On Again?" - How the Magnus Institute learned to embrace the IT ticketing system, upgraded their antivirus, and still found the time to teach one old man how to copy and paste by shinyopals
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
28 Jun 2020
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I hope you find your new role as Head of the Institute as rewarding as captaining the Tundra, wrote Elias Bouchard, to Peter Lukas. There are so many people working there: all with their own interesting lives, and all desiring your attention and support. I'm sure you will relish the challenge it will bring and enjoy every moment spent with the fine men and women of the Institute. In time I'm confident they'll become like a family to you.
The Magnus Institute has a new boss.
The Magnus Institute also has a new tech support technician.
These two facts are unrelated, except they both happen at the same time.Meanwhile Jon's woken up from being dead for six months and for once he's trying his best. He just wishes Martin would stop avoiding him and answer his messages...
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22 Jan 2026
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Beholding the GDPR: How the Magnus Institute Updated Its Privacy Policy for the Twenty-First Century And Only Caused One Nervous Breakdown In The Process by shinyopals
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
18 May 2020
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I'm sure given your position you already know about the advent of the General Data Protection Regulation next year, wrote Peter Lukas, to Elias Bouchard. However, the Lukas family wishes to be crystal clear that our continued investment is contingent upon the Institute taking its responsibilities with regards to privacy and confidentiality seriously.
The Magnus Institute hires a Data Protection Officer. He sets about diligently booking in meetings, writing policy documents, and training all the staff in the importance of confidentiality. Now if only he could get hold of the Head Archivist, who seems to have vanished again...
(Jon is only trying to save the world, but apparently some people think he should still be doing his day job.)
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22 Jan 2026
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Jon had searched, at first. He’d scoured every remote corner of the internet, feeling for all the world like Martin falling through that basement window, only ever to resurface empty handed. Then he’d moved on to libraries, public records, museums, and archives. He’d searched.
But this is not his London, it's been five years, and the part of him that had felt cinched to the Eye like a fish hook through flesh is scarred over like the wound in his chest. The Knowing is gone. Some days Jon still feels like a junkie, hands clammy as he fumbles to light his cigarette at dawn, just as desperate for the fizzing static of Knowledge as if he’d been caught with a needle in his arm.
There’s nothing here of that world they’d left behind, except Jon, and his scars, and he thinks one day as he butters toast with sweaty palms that he should probably start carving himself as much of a space here as he dares. He’s never had to try before, to leave a mark, because he’d always rather felt marked, and its absence leaves a hollow feeling under his ribcage.
“Where you go, I go” turns out to be more complicated in execution than in theory, and good things come to those who wait.
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21 Jan 2026
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Regarding the ECDC's Updated Contamination and Quarantine Policy, the OIAR's Forray Into WFH, and Their Subsequently Firm Decision To Never Do So Again by AnotherAverageAuthor
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast), The Magnus Protocol (Podcast)
18 Aug 2024
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With that being said, you may have noticed an unfamiliar name in the address book: Emmeline Clay will be working with us directly from the ECDC. If you have any questions regarding the finer details of the quarantine process, send those to her ([email protected]). You can expect a formal correspondence from her in the coming hours.
If you experience any strange symptoms (coughing, excess tiredness, a debilitating sense of dread, aches and pains, runny nose, ear infection, blood infection, swelling of the joints in the feet, etc.), please contact Ms Clay IMMEDITATELY.
Hopefully, after a few days, we will be back up and running. Until then, I expect you to all make your very best efforts to keep at your work with the same vigour as always.
Kindest regards,
Lena Kelley~~~
the OIAR is forced to go remote. sam makes a desperate call to his internet service provider, celia goes to oxford (again), alice learns the true meaning of malicious compliance and-
who the hell is 'jon'?
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21 Jan 2026
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and indeed, there will be time by LaoraRyn
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast), The Magnus Protocol (Podcast)
29 Feb 2024
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“Oh, don’t start with this alternate universe stuff again. It’s time travel—”
“—I’m sorry I’m ’pedantically splitting hairs about the very nature of our existence in this universe,’ Martin, but if I—”
Sam blinks, hard, as something trips that sense of deja vu again. The way he said that, even more stuffy and academic than before, sounds incredibly familiar.
“Wait a second,” Alice says abruptly, her voice pitching up. The strangers pause their bickering, turning to frown at her as a huge grin spreads across her face. “Are you Chester?”
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Martin cuts the tether; two strangers appear out of nowhere in the OIAR break room.
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21 Jan 2026
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Well, I've been afraid of changin'
'Cause I've built my life around you
But time makes you bolder
Even children get older
And I'm getting older too
Oh, I'm getting older too.
- Landslide, Fleetwood MacOr:
Seasons 4 and 5, but make it Mike and Will's coming of age story.
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08 Jan 2026
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Will takes a moment, hands clenched into fists at his sides, to rest his head against the grain of the wood and close his eyes. Here, with the solid weight of the door to ground him, he evaluates the facts: the war is over, Vecna dead and gone for good this time. Max is awake, reunited with Lucas and El at last, who both rushed to return to their places at her bedside the moment they knew. The rest of his family is upstairs, the rest of his friends alongside them, alive and mostly well and rejoicing in the fact that a years-long nightmare has finally reached its conclusion. It’s a night for togetherness, for celebrating hard-earned victories, for finally looking ahead instead of back over their shoulders.
It’s also a night where Will almost killed Mike.
In the midst of their final stand against Vecna, a possessed Will nearly strangles Mike to death. In the basement bathroom of the Wheeler's house after their victory, Mike and Will confront the aftermath.
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05 Jan 2026
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“I want you to tell him why you're so upset," Vecna says, and Will swears he sees the curl of a smile in the webbed scars of his face. “I want to watch you lose him.”
(Or, Will is forced by Vecna to confess his feelings to Mike, with a slow burn aftermath. Alternate Season 5.)
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23 Dec 2025
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"It's not just anything." Mike turned to look at him, and they were suddenly very close, close enough that Will could see the darker flecks in Mike's eyes, could count his freckles if he wanted to. "You're incredible. You know that, right?"
Will couldn't breathe. Couldn't think. Could only stare at Mike's face inches from his own and try to remember why leaning forward would be a terrible idea.
Mike's eyes dropped to Will's mouth for just a second. Maybe it wasn't so terrible of an idea. It would be so easy... to reach out and touch.
Then Mike was pulling back, clearing his throat, looking flustered. "Anyway. Um. Should we-"
What happened in those 18 months in the Wheeler house between S4 and S5 that made Will so hopeful... or, as the kids call it, MWTFDYD Gate.
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23 Dec 2025
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dear will (your love is all i want) by hxllcatspangled
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
22 Dec 2025
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I think about finding you on the swings in the first grade. I think about the first time Jonathan showed us the DnD board game, and how excited you were to see all the magic stuff. How I kept giving you different characters to draw just to watch the way your eyes lit up. Was I in love with you then?
I remember stealing a tape of The Thing from Nancy and watching it when we were ten. I remember being so scared, but you were fascinated. I stuck it out just to watch you gasp when MacReady blows up the station. I remember grabbing your hand when it happened, and you held on. Was I in love with you then?
I remember the last words you said to me before you went missing. It was a seven. I remember when you came back, when I finally saw you again, and I thought my heart was going to stop. I swear to God, Will, it was like I could breathe again for the first time in days.
Mike and Will get through Vecna, get through a million almost-confessions and even more death scares. Then, three months later, Will finds a box of unsent letters from freshman year under Mike's bed.
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22 Dec 2025
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my advice is always ruin the friendship by andiwriteordie
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
30 Nov 2025
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“Have you noticed the signals?” Robin asks softly.
Will freezes. He’s quiet for one… two… three moments, before slowly, he lifts his head and meets Robin’s gaze. His eyes are still wide—full of an understandable uncertainty but also a hope that’s so infectious that Robin can’t help but smile.
“I… I think so,” he confesses. “I… I don’t know if they actually mean anything, but… but everything you said to look for… all those signals…”
His voice trails off, and Robin offers a wry smile, finishing the thought for him, “They’re definitely there.”
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The one in which Robin witnesses a snowball become an avalanche.
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14 Dec 2025
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The Metamorphosis of Gordon Freeman by AndromedaJester
Fandoms: Half-Life VR But the AI is Self-Aware (Web Series)
27 Jan 2026
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Gordon Freeman was abandoned by his Player after the events of Half-Life 1, left to figure himself out in Post Game. Four years after the fact, he and the Science Team have discovered that not wearing your helmet into a chamber filled with otherworldly radiation is going to have some strange effects on the human body. Luckily for them, there’s somebody that can help Gordon accommodate to his new alien powers…unluckily for him, that somebody happens to be a certain former security guard that can’t seem to stay dead.
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06 Dec 2025
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Jon was dead by PatheticPaprika
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast), The Magnus Protocol (Podcast)
25 Jul 2024
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The almost-musings of an almost-man trapped within realities. Jon does not exist yet he feels each and every one of his limitless existences. And god does it hurt in all its non-existent pain.
But sometimes there is Martin.
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Jon was dead.
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Jon was dead.
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Jon was almost alive.
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02 Aug 2024
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Starry Night by orphan_account
Fandoms: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Space Odyssey Series - Arthur C. Clarke
17 Jan 2024
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HAL is amazed by David's art. David is amazed by his.
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16 Jul 2024
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Contact by Loopy44
Fandoms: Space Odyssey Series - Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984)
19 Jun 2023
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He, with all the harnessed background energy of the universe propelling his mind like liquid plasma through a void of matter that vibrated at a balmy negative two hundred seventy degrees Celsius.
Hal, by contrast, with all his sharp angles and kilometers of near-microscopic fiber optic wiring, primitive body a simple conduit for a mind that spoke through ones and zeroes, sharp enough to keep up with Dave's. His golden clockwork circuits and crystalline memory banks were the perfect middle ground for Dave to settle, between the nanoseconds of conversation that passed between them.
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12 Jul 2024
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The Body Without Organs by natsinator for Highsmith
Fandoms: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
04 Apr 2022
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He hooked his finger around the offending wire’s connection point and tugged, just a little, not enough to pull it loose. He wasn’t sure what made him hesitate, and even less sure what made him ask his next question. “You can’t feel this, can you?”
“When you have replaced the cable, I will be able to run an end-to-end continuity check,” Hal said. “That requires power in the panel.”
That was not what Dave had asked.
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10 Jul 2024