Dustsceawung
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| Fanfiction | |
|---|---|
| Title: | dustsceawung |
| Author(s): | callmearcturus |
| Date(s): | 2020/05/16 - 2021/01/21 |
| Length: | 38269 words (8 chapters) |
| Genre(s): | slash |
| Fandom(s): | The Magnus Archives |
| Relationship(s): | |
| External Links: | dustsceawung (AO3) |
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dustsceawung is a Jonathan Sims/Martin Blackwood fanfic written by callmearcturus. It's widely assumed to be the origin of the moth!jon trope.
Summary
Martin had always been favored by the summer courts, and moving up north to the little village of Lacuna is a difficult adjustment. It's rainy and lonely and everyone seems to have a strange, distant relationship with the local faerie court.
However: there is a strange man in a cloak who walks past Martin's remote little cottage every few days.
However: there is a moth that keeps getting stuck in Martin's house during the rain.
These events are not as disconnected as they first appear.
Reactions and Reviews
I saw the tags of this fic and got immediately so hyped about it because I love fae and fantasy and the like, and this just blew me away!!! You do such an incredible job of creating atmosphere and making this world feel both so deeply magic and showing the normality of that magic within it. It just feels so cozy and also mysterious, and I am LOVING it. I had such a strong picture of Lacuna the whole time. And I loved seeing all the ways it's different from what Martin's used to, that's just so neat! Also I love Martin just working so hard to protect (what he assumes to be) this big ol' moth and talking to it and everything, that's just so cute. I can't wait to see where this goes!!!
Oh I love when a fic makes me google things, I searched for all the scientific names dropped when Martin is attempting to identify Jon's species and they're all such lovely fuzzy creatures, though it's also making my biologist heart shriek a little bit (You want a guidebook specific to Britain Martin! Some of those are North American moths! If it's global guidebook it's probably not comprehensive! Lepidoptera are one of those popular taxa and are probably studied to death in the UK so its highly unlikely to discover a new one in that region, this moth is CLEARLY FAE MARTIN oh no you're naMING THE FAE MOTH AFTER YOURSELF, SCIENTISTS DON'T USUALLY DO THAT MARTIN AND THAT'S NOT EVEN COUNTING FAE RULES). Petition for mothyguy to be a real species name though.
Related Fanworks
- Wing Dust Dye by snuckybarnes
- dustsceawung Spotify playlist by Nicloft
- a soft fuzzy man (an ambient man) fanart by biigbiby
- Moth Jon fanart by slapdash-humdinger
- Martin is cruel. Martin cares not for Jon. by aeli-tan-art
References
- ^ "WritingCactus' comment thread on chapter 1". 2023-03-05. Archived from the original on 2023-03-05.
- ^ "animaginaryquill's comment thread on chapter 2". 2023-03-05. Archived from the original on 2023-03-05.{