JonSkepticEye
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A downwards spiral (if you'll pardon the pun) and the only way out of it.
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Gerry Keay's last straw, and the choices that he makes afterwards.
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Gerry is on the brink of falling to the Desolation. There’s a pretty blond man watching him from across the street, and he can’t bring himself to walk away. If there is one thing that he shouldn’t do, it’s this.
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- Part 3 of doorkeay!!!
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"There was a rotten, mushy thing living inside the body that had once belonged to Michael Shelley, fermenting in its own disgust like the unwanted core of an apple. It did not fit within that painfully ordinary skin, nor did it want to."
The Distortion reflects on the horror of being given a human body. It also occasionally kisses its body's former occupant's boyfriend. Things are complicated, like that.
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- Part 2 of doorkeay!!!
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“He was born. He was pointless. And he should’ve died.”
Michael Shelley knows very little. The main points of his knowledge can be summarised as follows:
One: He is, as far as he knows, still Michael–although this is dubious, and perhaps does not count.
Two: The world that he lives in is not what he thought it was. It never has been, and it never will be again.
Three: He cannot, in any circumstances from now until the end of days, trust Gertrude Robinson.An AU in which the Great Twisting crumbled before Michael could be consumed by The Distortion–and he emerges, alive and angry about it. Alternatively, an AU in which Gertrude begins to work on her theories about the rituals much, much earlier, and Gerry finds himself chasing the mystery that is Michael Shelley.
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- Part 1 of doorkeay!!!
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“I might somehow make it out of this, however terrible it ends up, with some of myself left.”
“I’d hope it’s all of you.”
“It won’t be.” Jon whispered. “But the, um…the parts worth saving are already here, with you. I don’t think the Eye can touch them. I don’t think I’d ever let it.”
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There is hope, in that little house. Jon loves with everything that is left of him; Martin hopes that they might both be whole again.
And do you know what? It might be possible, after all.
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- Part 2 of An Ending (safehouse fics)
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SPOILERS FOR MAG 160
'He is the Archivist, but he tells himself that he is still called Jon. “I am still myself,” he insists, “and that will not change.” Perhaps he is right. Only he can know. He is still Jon, after all, in some senses. He has his body. He talks with his tongue. He remembers being Jon, and so perhaps he still is.
Let’s call him Jon, for a minute.
Jon wants so, so desperately to be afraid.'
Martin tries to comfort Jon in the new world that he has created. Loving him is difficult, but that's never stopped him before.
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- Part 6 of Midnights
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everything doorkeay <3
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The office romance we all needed; a collection of JUST my s1 fics. Low angst, minimal spoilers!
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A diverging au from Midnights in which Jon and Martin stay in the safehouse! Non-compliant with MAG160 (sort of)
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What happens in the archives after midnight?
As it turns out, an awful lot.
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People come up for all sort of names for it, in Jon’s experience. Disorders and delusions and shock, and miracles and visions and signs. Artistic inclinations, tasteful peculiarity; Other, less kind ones.
It’s hard for people to know what to call it, when a child claims to see monsters eat people that have never existed.
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Jonathan Sims remembers things that have never happened, and Mary Keay never had a son.
Bookmarked by JonSkepticEye
03 Apr 2026
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Beautiful fic, gorgeous characterisation, devastating (in just the right way)
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The Fucked Up Smoothie by Eythne (MoodyB1tch) for JonSkepticEye
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
06 Aug 2025
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What do you do when, trying to impress your hot goth not-quite-coworker, you accidentally create a bioweapon? And what happens when said hot goth not-quite-coworker loves said bioweapon, but you forget the recipe?
Something that would make a Spiral avatar worry about your mental health, if you're Michael Shelley.
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08 Aug 2025
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Michael finds itself flung back in time to before Michael Shelley was sacrificed to the Great Twisting. Great! It can fix what happened, right? The spiral-incarnate can make a good simple plan that works, right?
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In all the years - again, time is such a silly concept - Michael has been the distortion, even pulling memories from before it was Michael and Michael was it, it had never been able to go *backward* in time. It could go forward, it could send people into states of warped time. It could change time as it happened. But it couldn’t reverse it. It could never reverse it.
So then how is it 10 years before when it died?
“No!” It spits out, nearly terrified. Gerry’s eyes go back to the brick wall. “I-“ Michael thinks about its words. “I don’t know why she chose him. He didn’t deserve it. Doesn’t. I… I needed to remind myself that he doesn’t deserve it.”
Michael takes a steadying breath.
“And I need to do something to stop it.”
Gerry is ripe with questions, Michael is sure of it. Gerry always was too curious for his own good.
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In which Gerry Keay has a Bad Time (among other things) by CowPrintLilies, TheStanleyParableEnjoyer
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
31 May 2025
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As it currently stands, Mary's been gone for roughly two days now and Gerry is using every possible minute and litre of petrol to get as far away from Pinhole Books as humanly possible. The potholes are not helping his mental health or his car's suspension.
or: Gerry has a terrible day and is kidnapped to Italy by a doorway in response. As one normally does on a Thursday.
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- Part 4 of Doorkeay Moments
Bookmarked by JonSkepticEye
09 Jul 2025
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Michael is a menace. The saga of the shirt in Genoa. Chef’s kiss. Perfect.
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"There are worse things than going mad." He says.
"That's not all I can do, Mr. Keay. Would you like me to show you?"
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When Gerry is on his deathbed, he sees a yellow door. He survives, but the doors keep appearing, afterwards.
Bookmarked by JonSkepticEye
18 Jun 2025
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I love this one go read it rn guys
I’m so serious
It’s so good
One of my top fics ever I have returned to it multiple times