the fact that jonathan means “gift of god/gift from god” (x)
and sims means “the listener” or “he who hears” (x) (x)
but i can’t write any cool analysis about how Jon’s name fits into the thematic elements of the narrative bc Jonny just straight up plagiarized his birth certificate will never stop making me angry
Dog refuses to get out of bed then proceeds to fall asleep looking after baby
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The fear avatars, but it's these cats.
The 15 entities but as cats. Yeah.
your parents headcanon you as cishet
how does being punched in the face feel like
this is so funny
Heh.... Yeah....
Someone: oh there’s this show I’m watching... oh, nevermind, it’s silly you probably don’t wanna hear about it
Me, knowing fully well how much it sucks to have your passions invalidated and how cool it is to rant about something you love:
This is so good!
Can I just say I am in LOVE with the Teacher Jon AU. Just,, imagine the absolutely ABSURD things his students could find out about him. Imagine the shenanigans.
Love thinking about the bizarre answers he could give to their questions
“Mr. Sims how did you burn your hand?” “Let’s just say I shook hands with someone who had a very firm grip.”
“How did you get all those weird holey scars?“ “…worms.”
“What was it like working at that Magnus place?” *small smile* “Hell. Anyway back to the lesson-”
“Did you know you were a suspect in a murder?” “I was aware, yes.” “And..did you kill someone?” “I mean, I didn’t kill her.”
And I know people have talked about this before but think how hilarious it would be for both his friends & the avatars to have a blast bugging him at school.
Martin shows up all the time of course, all the students love him. He’s on the pta even though he doesn’t have a kid there. Everyone is a little confused though since he seems so nice and normal when Jon is so…not
Daisy will come by to pick him up sometimes, the kids are mostly scared of her but think she’s really cool. Everyone is confused as to how this tall strong butch lady is bffs with their tiny stick-thin English teacher but it’s amusing all the same.
Melanie and Georgie found out early on that bugging Jon at work annoys him so they come all the time and think it’s HILARIOUS. All the students who are What the Ghost fans freak out. They love telling students New Mysterious Facts about Jon that makes them even more curious about him
Helen will pop in out of nowhere and Jon just facepalms like “what are YOU doing here” “oh, you know, just checking up on you!!” she makes a lot of jokes and probably scares some of the students and has a great time
Oliver randomly shows up one day, sticks his head in like ‘oh hey Jon what’s up’ says some vaguely ominous things, and leaves. Jon is very confused. He came because Helen payed him fifty bucks to do so
Are there any other like. Living avatars?? I can’t think of any, that is sad
And lastly can we just appreciate the random weird things Jon would do that would confuse his students. Like.
They come in to class one day to find him ferociously batting away ceiling cobwebs with his broom, muttering ‘damned spiders..not TODAY web….you hear me annabelle?? Not on my WATCH’ they are all a little disturbed and Jon is even more mortified that they saw.
If he still has his Beholding powers after the apocalypse then he can A) automatically know when someone is cheating and B) know things about his students that he definitely shouldn’t know. Sometimes it works in their favor, sometimes it doesn’t
Sometimes he just makes offhand comments that are totally bizarre? Like one of his students will say “dont take this the wrong way but you’re really weird, Mr. Sims” and he’ll be like “Oh you think I’M weird, you should meet some of the other people I know.” and one of the kids will ask “…like who?” and he’ll just count off on his fingers “ohh met an undead goth once, couple of vampire hunters, Jared Hopworth was quite a character. Still mad I gave him two of my ribs. Anyway, our lesson for today is about-” and he’ll just say it all with a completely straight face!! And all his students are very very confused
When they’re analyzing a character from literature or idk something like that, Jon will sometimes be like “oh that reminds me of this guy I knew” and proceed to say something so wacky that everyone thinks he must be making it up (but who really knows at this point.) He’ll say “ah yes, people will believe the craziest things. I knew a woman once who thought her purpose in life was to kill the sun” and no one will say anything because what are you supposed to say to that??
He gives the weirdest advice too. After the bell rings when everyone is leaving class he’ll be like “and remember, don’t trust deliverymen” or “never go through a door that wasn’t there before!” or “don’t ever ever listen to a singing wasps nest.” all his students are just like “okay Mr. Sims whatever you say”
Someone asks “oh who’s the guy in the picture on your desk?” And Jon will say “oh that was my friend Tim, sadly he died trying to blow up a bunch of clowns” and the kid will just be like. “okay Mr. Sims” because who KNOWS at this point
This was super super long but. Teacher Jon AU guys
so now in every universe now there is a jon & there’s a martin and in every universe they either find each other or they don’t and either way they know, even if they don’t, that they did find each other, once, and it was horrible and beautiful and so, so, unfair, and despite that, despite the horrible, beautiful, unfair briefness of that, their existence there, and in every universe, has value, even if it disappears forever, even when it does disappear forever, even when it did disappear forever, even when all that remains of them is the vague longing for what once existed, somewhere else, sometime else, someone else,
and some part of them both knows this, even when they’re different, even when jon never knew georgie, even when martins dad never left, even when they never met, even when they met each other sooner, fell out of love in uni, married as soon as it was legal, whatever happened, every time… in each universe. somehow. in some way. some parts of each other. knives and blood and tears. the tight grip of jons hand around martins wrist as he died. something about birthmarks where you died in a past life. what about birth marks where, in a past life, you killed someone you loved?