#posting archived stuff

[minyicho]

starting a collection of my favourite AO3 author’s notes

honourable mentions

[moonchild311]

"people who stay up at night are either insomniac or In love" people who stay up at night read gay fanfiction on AO3 what are you on about?

[reidspng]

"Look at the sky, Martin... It's looking back."

[sinkfood]

jonathan sims (plural)

[ultramarinaa]

Read a cute and funny fanfic about Halloween office party which gave me this idea lol

John didn’t even try, his first idea was to put a sticker “NotJohn” but then figured out it might be in poor taste

[sofioopsies]

[starrodent]

this drawing is almost a year old but i still kinda like it so i think it deserves to be set free

[stompmeharder]

they’re kissing they are absolutely macking

[murae-nidae]

twin… where have you been

[mushimallo]

The contrast here was appalling

[cirrus-grey]

I'm loving all the IT people going "No, no, Colin's behavior is perfectly normal."

It's like the opposite of all the archivists yelling at Jon

[gammija]

So... why tape recorders?

After hearing about the [ERROR]chivist from Sam, Georgie obviously immediately starts thinking the same thing that anyone familiar with the events of tma is: In what way is this related to Jon? Sam literally quotes the 'all eyes' line, this Archivist feeds off of people's Fear, makes people tell them stories about their trauma, and tape recorders keep following them around! All Jon powers, or at the very least Archivist powers!

...Except, as we learn in s5, while the tape recorders follow Jon and Martin around, despite them being such an Archivist motif from the audiences POV, the tapes are not of Jon, they're not of the Archivist.

In MAG196 and MAG197, it's revealed that the tapes have all along been part of the plan of the Web, to use them, Jon and the Eyepocalypse to spin a web and spread to other dimensions:

So if the tapes aren't and never were an Archivist power, why do they show up for the [ERROR]chivist?

Is it the Web spinning a new plan? It can't be ruled out, but the [ERROR]chivist seems a poor candidate for a new rituals lynchpin. Not to mention that the Fears don't seem to exist in those same categories in tmagp in the first place, or that doing the same thing twice seems kinda basic from a meta perspective.

Really, there is something the [ERROR]chivist is reminiscent of, more than anything else. Not Jon, or Getrude, nor any one character or person from either universe.

With their tape recorders, their gender ambiguity and cloaked form, their most identifiable feature being their eyes, All Eyes, being able to compel statements without even saying a word, making victims relive their trauma not just in spirit, but in body, what the [ERROR]chivist is, most of all, is the idea of the Archivist.

The [ERROR]chivist is the Archivist, insofar as he would exist to the minds of the people in the ruins of tma's post-apocalypse. A vague, watching creature, always tailed by tape recorders, making you spill your guts figuratively and literally before moving on, and those eyes, those eyes, the only feature you remember. It's a role without an actor.

[pinetrikov]

some old doodles of i think these were from a prompt challenge i cant really remember but ya

[sanshiori]

For every one testament I draw I draw two casual testaments

[asteraws]

my clown college grad project from december last year 🎪

[infectedrpd]

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