#jon's first statement

[just-an-enby-lemon]

I think a lot about how badly the "I lied on my CV" scene would go with Archivist Sasha. A LOT. Now this is based on some things:

a) The paranoia

• A lot of Archivist Sasha AUs act as if she would be imune to the paranoia arc and here is why I disagree:

1. By being the Archivist and feeding the eye you are automatically dealing with an extended feeling of being watched all the time. Not to mention the Eye is literally a paranoia entity (between it's other areas).

2. While Sasha doesn't appear to have Jon's trust issues she has a need to know at least equal to him and a tendency of theorizing. She was of course right when assuming Gertrude kept the archieves messy on purpose but that also shows that between being very smart she is very doubtifull of any behavior outside the person's normal.

3. In that same conversation ahe mentions how everyone has a mask and says to Tim, likely her best friend, that he is as honest to her as he is to Jon it is just different masks. She is fine with this. She is okay with the masks. But that is before things go wrong.

4. She KNEW Gertrude. That means solving her murder is more personal.

b) Sasha knows her shit way to well

• This one is the real fascinsting thing: Sasha is a master in figuring out people's secrets and keeping them for herself. She knew from the start Jon lied about his age and that Martin lied on his CV. To the point that for her this knowledge about Martin is a fun fact and irrelevant, a thing she keeps from because she knows he would be anxious if he knew she knows. The thing is that translating to the "I lied in my CV confession" we have:

• Paranoid Sasha found Martin's letter to his mother (likely writen as a diary with no intencion to actually send it) and thinks that Martin lied about Trevor being dead.

• She knows Martin lied on his CV and it's meaningless to her to the point she might suspect he knows she knows.

• She knows Martin has a complicated relationship with his mother and that means she would assume it to be very unlikely he would ever write this personal of a letter to her.

Conclusion:

Sasha would probably think Martin is using the fsct he lied on his CV as a diversion and truly has an awfull secret. She would also likely tell to his face she knows it isn't it because Martin's mum would never read or care about his feelings or letters and Martin should know this enough to not even bother to write "so this is likely a codename".

[sop-soap]

TMA begins with a lure, but TMAGP begins with a warning.

[gunstellations]

MAG 39

[wojtekaneko]

Some silly tma doodles I drew after finishing season 1! I'm really loving this story and all the characters T^T

[hotdrinks]

Just got to Daisy's first appearance and I forgot how violent their first interaction is. Jon's fledgling beholding powers emerging, and Daisy so clearly disturbed that she told him her story. Daisy keeps saying she's done answering questions, Jon disregards that completely and keeps asking, and she keeps answering!! Even though she's so disturbed! Even though she doesn't want to!! And it's the first time in season 2, maybe even in the whole show thus far, that Jon sounds sooo completely happy. Like. He's delighted, he's well fed, he's ENRICHED, he's having fun!! And he doesn't know he's even doing it, consciously. But also. He must, deep down. He doesn't even know about The Eye and yet he's already flexing his wet little newborn Archivist wings. AAAAH Haha Jonathan a darkness is unfurling within you from which you can never escape 🤪

[sweetmapple]

Spoilers for Magnus Archives [142] Scrutiny

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The institute never allowed statements about dreams

Bashing my head against the wall of red threads and newspaper clippings

You’ve got to be kidding me, I thought that shit was just an off hand joke

Since Jon had compelled that traffic cop in America I always mulled over how funny it’d be if someone had come in to give a statement about a weird guy prying open secrets, but good god

This was so much more horrifying than I had ever expected

I-

I am speechless with chills running down my spine

Istg the writer is The Buried themselves cause this rabbit hole goes straight to the earths core. I mean come on, I feel like I’ve been slapped

I’ve made the hard decision to temporarily shelve Elias so I can put a new dubious creature in the spotlight of my mind

Gonna listen to that statement again

[enjoyvoidblack]

Calling the horror of being an Eye avatar the horror of knowledge is...a severe understatement, I think. It's not just information. The horror is knowing, as in understanding, being able to feel how visceral and consuming the fear and pain and disbelief of a person experiencing something far beyond their understanding or capacity is - and then only being able to watch. Knowing, and having your hands tied completely when it comes to doing anything but knowing. You are standing in the dreams of people you met and talked to and saw relieved when they told you their story. You are feeling their anguish in your bones and you can no more look away than you could stop drinking down water if you were dying from dehydration and somebody handed you a hose. They are looking out and they can see you and they are blaming you, should be blaming you, but your feet are glued to the ground and your hands are tied, and you can't deny the quiet sick fascination that bubbles up inside you, like you're watching the aftermath of a car crash as you drive by. You can't help but look. You can't close your eyes. You cannot stop, and you can't help. All you can do is know.

I'm not at all surprised the Eye was the fear to gain enough strength to pull off a ritual first, in the present day setting of TMA. I think we'd all be serving it a snack on a silver platter every few minutes spent scrolling.

[first-time-tmagp]

Episode 108

MARTIN CONTENT

YAYYYY

Also: PETER LUCAS!?!? Omggg!!!

I honestly have NO idea what to think of him haha. He's almost fun when he appears!

But poor martin pahahaa.

"I-i've got a-a knife!" "Do you? That would seem wildly out of character from what I've been told"

Omg I loved this episode

Martin giving feedback to Peter about Elias?? HILARIOUS

But I really hope basira and martin can help melanie!!!!

[magnuspanoptes]

Maggie Kilgour, From Communion to Cannibalism // MAG 161 - "Dwelling" // MAG 92 - "Nothing Beside Remains" // MAG 80 - "The Librarian" // MAG 116 - "The Show Must Go On" // MAG 159 - "The Last" // MAG 200 - "Last Words"

[bardic-irritation]

I know less about Gerard Keay the longer this episode goes on. he's a teenager? he's been dead for four years? he's a mob boss? he lives in DC?

[gooboogy]

More of my OC the Witness!

He has a name now :)

Continuation here

[clown-eating-pig]

Podcast episodes feel so short when you don’t have another one to instantly consume :(

[historicallyaccuratecheese]

The tma season 1 finale is rattling my brain…Gertrude….the tunnels….Sasha…..Jon….all of the connections….uuugghhhh

[enjoyvoidblack]

Something that I don't think I've ever personally seen talked about:

Jon mentions in season 3 that he'd quit smoking for 5 years, prior to the cigarette he went for after hearing the Fears explained by Leitner. It's not hard to assume that the stress makes him start again, and that it continues, since it gets mentioned a couple times more after that. That breaks my heart a bit on its own already.

But the other thing is that the Web tends to play with addiction.

And in Season 1 it gave him a fucking lighter.

[podcast-hemocytoblast]

tma au where everything is the same except the Eye doesn’t let people say swear words in their Statements. As in, it censors them. You get your trauma ripped out of you and, to add insult to injury, The Eldritch Horror of Not Minding Your Own Damn Business forces you to describe these viscerally awful things that you’ve experienced using the word “unalive.”

[sunreys]

something something, each person in the statements fixing themselves, changing themselves, into something new, something better, and having glee in that change, narrated by the echoes of people who were once changed against their will, whose descent into inhumanity was unwilling and fought against the whole way, told to those who will either push too far until a change is forced upon them, or who will embrace it.