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"It should be said that if there’s one thing you shouldn’t do inside of Aperture Science, it’s poke your nose where it doesn’t belong."
Aperture holds many secrets, some even unknown to its own robotic Queen. When GLaDOS stumbles across one of these secrets, it changes her life forever.
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The first gift arrives two years, forty seven days, three hours, and twelve minutes after her departure.
Not that she is noting such a detail intentionally. The runtime tracking this particular data point takes very little voltage (less than it takes to, let’s say, power a potato battery) and continues to be ignored in the mass of information at her disposal.
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More Glory and More Grief by reine_des_corbeaux for vachtar
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
08 Sep 2021
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Martin and Jon go to Scotland to investigate a ghost ship. But what should be a routine work trip is interrupted by the arrival of Petra Lukas, and by feelings that neither Martin nor Jon can really hide.
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There are Tales that Martin Told by Teniralc2 for Dandelion_bb
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast), The Mechanisms (Band)
09 Mar 2026
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Jon's never been terribly comfortable with loose threads, and ever since he learned Martin's fanfiction history included self-insert stories featuring him (well, an exagerrated, incredibly violent, theatrical, steampunk pirate version of him), he's been rather... distracted. Since they are in town already, Jon decides a little detour to the library is in order.
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To Martin's horror and Jon's euphoric joy, it has come to light that, in his younger years, Martin used to write self-insert fanfiction about one of the characters from the obscure band The Mechanisms. This character happend to be Jon's stage persona, First Mate Jonny d'Ville. Martin would like to pretend this revelation never happened. Jon cannot rest until he has found these fanfictions...
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This fic has pulled me back in a couple of times after I thought it ended. The original planned story takes place from chapters 1-6. Then 7 is an epilogue based on a comment from a reader. 8-11 are a later addition, and could be read as a second piece.
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Martin finds them eventually, tapered white wax, twenty or thirty of them beside a box of ancient (but dry) matches, and a little brass dish with a slot that just about fits the base of the candle. He feels like Scrooge, fitting the whole thing together, tucking a few more into his pocket before striking a match -
Which immediately goes out.
“Oh, fuck you,” Martin says into the murk.
Again -
And again, the fire vanishes. Quick and efficient as a breath. He shivers in the sudden cold.
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Martin Blackwood inherits an old country house, but there are more inhabitants than he first realises. When eventually the paranormal occurrences become too frequent and dangerous for him to ignore, he has to turn to a group of misfit ghost hunters for help.
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- Part 1 of paranormal activity