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Support on Patreon! Hello y'all. My name is Arcturus, but you may call me Arc or Archie. I write the stories that make the folks fall like dominos. I write a bit. My fic can be found here. This blog routinely features adult content and the content I create is exclusively intended for an adult audience. Antis and fancops are the poison in the fandom well and are not welcome here. Current icon by papayaparty!
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Masterpost Of Arc Fic

/taps all this into a calculator. So I have over 1,311,254 1,365,918 words of fic. I've written a lot of things, and I sometimes get asked what folks should try reading. I'm going to try to do a fast pitch on all of my major stories.

Now, it's at this point a running gag with my readers that a good chunk of them read my stuff without knowing the canon, to the point I make a conscious effort to structure many of my fics in a way that's friendly to reading them like original novels. But that's not the case for all of them. So I will mark the ones that are most friendly to people who don't know the canon:

  • ✔️ Totally accessible to people who don't know the canon!
  • ⚠️ Could be accessible to people who don't know the canon, but you'll need to be good at inferring from context clues or be willing to google one or two things!
  • 🛑 Canon Lock-Out. This fic is either set in the canon material or relies on a lot of knowledge of the canon!

Now for my own recommendation scale.

  • 🌟 I AM EXTREMELY PROUD OF THIS STORY AND YOU SHOULD READ IT. I put a lot of work in and I think it holds up very well!
  • ⭐ I think this is a pretty damn good fic, though maybe not one of my Best of The Best. Read these second unless the summary calls to you.
  • 🐙 This is a Weird Story! Some of my stories are unabashedly very strange and this is one of them!

Okay lets get started. I'm ordering this by word count and separating by fandoms.

#my fic#homestuck#the magnus archives#and a few others#this is a HUGE post
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Fan Commentary Double Feature: MI3 and MI: Ghost Protocol

We did it. @interropunct and I have recorded 2 of the 6 threatened commentaries, in which we watch the Mission Impossible movies and talk over them in a way that will provide you all with a simulacrum of how insufferable we are to be in a voice chat with.

We have started with Fan Commentary: Haterade Edition and paired it with Fan Commentary: Stan Mode Edition by doing MI3 and Ghost Protocol as a double feature.

Fan Commentary: MI3
First of the 'Arc and Punct watch Mission Impossible,' double feature with Ghost Protocol. In which Arc's nemesis is JJ Abrams.
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You'll want to hit play on your legal copy of MI3 at 2:58 into the commentary. This commentary includes:

  • Effusive love of Ethan Hunt, Autistic SuperSpy
  • Arc definitely not being in a kismesissitude with JJ Abrams
  • Punct trying to determine when the Maggie Q and Jonathan Rhys Myers' characters actually get named in dialogue in the movie
  • Thorough discussion of the underutilized kink potential of this movie
  • "Humpty dumpty sat on the wall" "(SCREAMS OF DISMAY AND AGONY)"
  • The gloriousness of Ethan Hunt doing physics equations on a window with chalk
  • The five stages of grief in audio form

The vibes are MST3k and jokes galore and fawning over Ethan Hunt, our babygirl.

Fan Commentary MI: Ghost Protocol
The second commentary of the 'Arc and Punct watch Mission Impossible,' a double-feature with MI3. In which we stan Chris McQuarrie.
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However, if you don't need no holleration, hateration in this dancery, proceed directly to the Ghost Protocol commentary and hit play on your legal copy of Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol at 2:47. This commentary includes:

  • Punct accidentally admitting they find Tom Cruise hot on a live mic
  • "That's my theory, I think prison turned Ethan from a cat into a dog."
  • SO MANY BEHIND THE SCENES FACTS ABOUT THE MAKING OF THIS MASTERPIECE
  • "You know when you think about it, Cascade was the turning point in Homestuck in the same way the Burj Khalifa sequence was--"
  • Fawning over how small and cute Jeremy Renner is
  • Discussion of MILF Mode Ethan Hunt
  • McQuarrie's Actually Very Reasonable Explanation Of Why Hendricks Was Disguised As Wistrom At The Burj, And Goddammit He's Right

"You know what this means?" "You have to watch Teen Wolf now." "No. Fuck you. We have to watch more Tom Cruise movies and compare." "That's true, we do." "No, wait, we just have to go ask @malewifebillcage for a comparative history of Tom Cruise's chest hair."

The vibes are jubilant. We love this fucking movie.

NEXT UP: The double feature of MI2 (the worst movie on a technical level) and MI: Fallout (the best movie on a technical level)

Also I am currently putting copies of this commentary on youtube, check the reblogs later for that.

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As promised, youtube versions if that's easier for you. They are blank videos except for marking when to hit play.

#mission impossible#arc and punct commentaries#Youtube
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threeoaksy asked:

Hey! I read your Ethan post, and since I forgot to mention that in the tags, really great take about Ethan and Claire!

Personally my interpretation of it in mi1 is that it was Jim who was having an affair with Ethan, and that Claire knew. His jealousy makes more sense to me if he's projecting. He already is having a relationship with one much younger agent with Claire, so why not two? Plus, we know he's the one who recruited him, and there's Kittridge's weird tone when he tells Ethan that he knows how much Jim mattered to him. And it complicates Ethan's relationship with Claire, because he sees her as the victim she is, but she's also a perpetrator.

Anyway, that would leave Ethan with a huge fear of doing the same to anyone, and a lot of self blame

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i am always here to talk about Ethan Hunt, my god

that's an interesting take and honestly works really well. there is so much Vibes about Jim and Ethan. I have watched the sequence at the grand central terminal where they have tea and talk about Prague so many fucking times because that entire sequence feels like a knife slowly pressing down. the constant use of close-ups is amazing tbh.

there is something eminently and constantly uncomfortable about Phelps and Ethan's relationship thru the entire thing. any time they talk, it's sinister and unsettling, and the feeling that Ethan is slamming his foot down on a missing stair is pervasive.

(hilariously the first time i watched MI1, i saw Jon Voight and was like "oh he's the villain, natch." and then "OH SHIT I'M SORRY HE DIED, whoops" and then "OMG I WAS RIGHT" which was v fun.)

the dynamic I picked up on was more of a weird threesome vibe though but kind of for the exact same reasons you point out. Ethan is a massive Ethical Slut in MI1 and seems to like threesomes, and to me it feels like he got drawn in as a third to Claire and Phelps' relationship. because yes to Kittridge's weird question and yes to the weird sexual dynamic of Phelps and Claire, esp in the ending.

so when Phelps fakes his death and Claire is playing the mourning widow, the way she... draws Ethan in, making him party to her sorrow, the way she leans on him, the vibe of "we are the two left behind" is just a masterful manipulation that feels rooted in prior experience together. I am OBSESSED with the scene when Ethan just returned from seeing Phelps and she kisses his hand, it's like watching a bear trap snap down on Ethan and makes me wanna scream at him to run the fuck away to the hills, get OUT OF THERE.

Punct called MI1 a psychosexual knot and that's honestly the ONLY way I can categorize it now. it's great.

#threeoaksy#ethan hunt#mi1#mission impossible
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daniil losing every poll he's in is more telling of him being doomed by the narrative than anything else. guy literally cannot win a fucking thing.

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SAD! PATHETIC LITTLE MAN CANNOT STOP FAILING DOWNWARDS

#Patho
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Fan Commentary Double Feature: MI3 and MI: Ghost Protocol

We did it. @interropunct and I have recorded 2 of the 6 threatened commentaries, in which we watch the Mission Impossible movies and talk over them in a way that will provide you all with a simulacrum of how insufferable we are to be in a voice chat with.

We have started with Fan Commentary: Haterade Edition and paired it with Fan Commentary: Stan Mode Edition by doing MI3 and Ghost Protocol as a double feature.

Fan Commentary: MI3
First of the 'Arc and Punct watch Mission Impossible,' double feature with Ghost Protocol. In which Arc's nemesis is JJ Abrams.
SoundCloud

You'll want to hit play on your legal copy of MI3 at 2:58 into the commentary. This commentary includes:

  • Effusive love of Ethan Hunt, Autistic SuperSpy
  • Arc definitely not being in a kismesissitude with JJ Abrams
  • Punct trying to determine when the Maggie Q and Jonathan Rhys Myers' characters actually get named in dialogue in the movie
  • Thorough discussion of the underutilized kink potential of this movie
  • "Humpty dumpty sat on the wall" "(SCREAMS OF DISMAY AND AGONY)"
  • The gloriousness of Ethan Hunt doing physics equations on a window with chalk
  • The five stages of grief in audio form

The vibes are MST3k and jokes galore and fawning over Ethan Hunt, our babygirl.

Fan Commentary MI: Ghost Protocol
The second commentary of the 'Arc and Punct watch Mission Impossible,' a double-feature with MI3. In which we stan Chris McQuarrie.
SoundCloud

However, if you don't need no holleration, hateration in this dancery, proceed directly to the Ghost Protocol commentary and hit play on your legal copy of Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol at 2:47. This commentary includes:

  • Punct accidentally admitting they find Tom Cruise hot on a live mic
  • "That's my theory, I think prison turned Ethan from a cat into a dog."
  • SO MANY BEHIND THE SCENES FACTS ABOUT THE MAKING OF THIS MASTERPIECE
  • "You know when you think about it, Cascade was the turning point in Homestuck in the same way the Burj Khalifa sequence was--"
  • Fawning over how small and cute Jeremy Renner is
  • Discussion of MILF Mode Ethan Hunt
  • McQuarrie's Actually Very Reasonable Explanation Of Why Hendricks Was Disguised As Wistrom At The Burj, And Goddammit He's Right

"You know what this means?" "You have to watch Teen Wolf now." "No. Fuck you. We have to watch more Tom Cruise movies and compare." "That's true, we do." "No, wait, we just have to go ask @malewifebillcage for a comparative history of Tom Cruise's chest hair."

The vibes are jubilant. We love this fucking movie.

NEXT UP: The double feature of MI2 (the worst movie on a technical level) and MI: Fallout (the best movie on a technical level)

Also I am currently putting copies of this commentary on youtube, check the reblogs later for that.

#mission impossible#mission impossible fun facts#ethan hunt#my fic#(well not really but for organizational purposes)#we worked really hard on this okay pls clap etc
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Anonymous asked:

I pitched in on p aypal. Thanks for writing good stuff all over the years!

thank you for pitching in, i will continue to write as much good stuff as i can

and now hopefully with a good night sleep and not squinting so much at the screen???????

#Anonymous#urghlkfdg spending money gives me nausea