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Guys it’s on the train

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I might have mentioned it before, but I truly am so happy to be a part of listening to the magnus protocol as it comes out.

I didn't listen to TMA until it was over, and I did have the late-term (?) FOMO of just wishing I could have experienced and gone through it when everyone else was on the edge of their seats, but I am so happy to be able to do that with Protocol! TMA holds such a dear place in my heart, and while I do have melancholy over Protocol not being TMA (I don't expect it to, I just love TMA) I feel so included this time around!!

Don't get me wrong--there are advantages to going crazy about something and just being able to absorb it non-stop, but being forced to wait also has its joys.

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Hello Alex! Hope you’re well!

I have made multiple Magnus inspired playlists on spotify, and all of them have songs from “Inside” by Bo Burnham, more specifically, “Look Who’s Inside Again” and “Shit”.

Have you watched this special from him on Netflix? If not, I’d definitely recommend!

I have and it's very good. I found it profoundly worrying at first though until I got confirmation that he was actually fine and it was heavily fictionalised.

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hello jon

:)

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yeah so….probably the only magnus statement to make me feel legitimately sick to my stomach so there’s that.

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It is not recommended to listen to this weeks episode while eating.

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something about canaries…

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I Lied to you. We aren’t having sex, put your clothes back on. It’s time for me to explain to you the entire plot the Magnus archives and tell you which fear entity you would serve.

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1-10 of my episode designs for The Magnus Protocol

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Tma is funny because the main character is literally a dude who will die if he doesn't tell me a bedtime story

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Okay yeah yeah celia knows they are in the computer BUT IF THEY GO VISIT THIS UNIVERSES VERSION OF JONMARTIN? WHAT IF THEY ARE LIKE GERTRUDE AND GERRY??? WHAT IF THEY ARE HAPPY???

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Have I mentioned how gut wrenching the slow progression from "Jonathan Sims-- Head Archivist of the Magnus Institute, London" to "Jonathan Sims-- The Archivist" is?

These are Jon's introductions of himself. He had already had people simply calling him "The Archivist" way back in season one, but he never introduced himself that way. He declared his title of Archivist as what he saw it to be-- a job title and nothing more.

And then we reached season three and there was a gap where we had "Jonathan Sims, former Archivist" and the words were still spoken as one would a job title but with a certain sense of grief that was incongruous with the professional veneer.

And finally, the reveal of what the Archives were and what being The Archivist truly meant happened, and Jon stopped pretending-- even to himself-- that it was just a job. No, he was Jonathan Sims-- The Archivist-- and it was spoken with the gravitas and responsibility of a king's title. It was now part of who he was.

And then, season five, and it's no longer "Jonathan Sims--". It is merely "The Archivist". Because Jon believes his humanity to have died along with the world he was tricked into dooming. His person-hood is secondary-- and can perhaps be considered more of a job title now in a similar way to how Jon referred to being The Archivist in season one. In season five, Jon believes his entire being to have been consumed by the Watcher. The Archives and his job as the Archivist can no longer be seen as a job, or even as a part of who he is, because it is ALL he is. There is no part remaining of Jonathan Sims, because he is The Archivist first and foremost. He doesn't believe his own humanity great enough to be mentioned.

He is, of course, wrong. But it wouldn't be a tragedy if he didn't realize that until it was too late.

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Broke: Jon has green eyes

Woke: Jon has brown eyes

Bespoke: Jon had brown eyes but they turned green after he woke up from the coma and truly became The Archivist

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I am but a wind up toy, and the good folk at Rusty Quill won't stop turning the key, heedless of how it damages my insides.

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gonna throw up

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EXTRA GENDER TODAY BECAUSE I JUST LISTENED TO THE FREAKING EPISODE FOR TODAY.

TODAY'S GENDER IS JONATHAN SIMS AND MARTIN BLACKWOOD.