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"I need to put Jonathan Sims in Situations" - top things said both by fic writers and Elias Bouchard

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writing this fic is literally giving me chest pains. im so sorry jon. jon my baby im so sorry the comfort is coming soon just hold on..... I FEEL SO BAD....jon im so sorry thats my baby my blorbo i feel sick

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JON ARCHIVES SIMS IS AUTISTIC !!!! [MY TELEKINESIS THROWS EVERYTHING ACROSS THE ROOM]

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One of those fics where the prison mechs are trying to keep Lyfrassir and it's a little unclear if they're immortal or mortal and Jonny is pissy about it for some reason except it goes like

Jonny: You can't just get attached to some random weird mortal and demand to keep them around! That's now how it works!

Marius: Then what the fuck is that! (Is gesturing to Tim who isn't paying attention and is feeding the octokittens)

Jonny: That's different!

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More Jongerry!! This time, with an accompanying fic by my lovely friend @closeddoor-knockknockk. You can find it here!

Jon is a little too attractive here. I fear he's not pathetic enough.

Lines Ver

Pose Reference — HERE

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in a tma au/crossover, Jonny would obviously serve the Slaughter but he also is heavily Hunt and Web coded it kinda makes me insane.

The Hunt because the violence, but also his relentless search for new stories, new tales and people. also, new experiences. he's lived so long and heard so many stories and experienced nearly everything so he's constantly 'hunting' for a new feeling, a new sensation, or a new story. it's what kills him, in the end. he's seen everything but his own permanent death. Jonny is always on the hunt, ranging from literal prey to a concept or feeling.

The Web because of his love of stories. Jonny's a storyteller and performer at his core. he's also a fucking liar. he's less of the manipulation aspect of the Web and more of the 'narrative' aspect. Jonny lives for the narrative. he lives for a good story, true or not. how true is his own backstory? we have no idea. he's always the narrative voice of the albums, whether he's simply himself or speaking through the voice of a narrator character (like how he plays the void & lyf in TBI, the only album he isnt just himself). he canonically makes his decisions based on which outcome he thinks would be the most interesting. thinking of that line in Out that says all the mechanisms feel inexplicably drawn to each other, how permanently leaving isn't something they even consider. Jonny documents the stories he comes across (his microphone is his tape recorder). their story ends when he sings the final verse. also there could be something here about his relationship with Carmilla and the Web manifesting as your will not being your own but i cant quite grasp it yet.

anyway slaughter/hunt/web jonny mwahaha

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oh i love doing stuff like this :)

Hozier's music is for sure very Buried-coded, but i think there's a splash of Corruption in there as well. Queen is a combination of the Vast and the End. and everyone ever has said this but the Mechanisms are a manifestation of the Slaughter with each crewmate having their own secondary entity.

assign your favorite singer/songwriters an entity. I’ll go first: I’m very surprised I haven’t seen any jokes about hozier being an avatar of the buried

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You understand mechanical hands Are the ruler of everything Ruler of everything I am the ruler of everything In the end

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the state the hidden inventory movie finds me in

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The name engraved upon its chest was read by the townsfolk as “MERLIN”.

None could know that time and rust had worn away what it originally read,

Which was “BRIAN”

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just did 40 lines of mechanisms coke the void is screaming mad

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my dumb jon sims headcanons because he’s my favorite blorbo and i have to make everything about him👍

•he had a severe hyperfixation on the history of the soviet union as a teenager and it lasted well into his uni days. collects soviet union era postcards and pins from antique stores. reads lenin biographies for fun. in s5 he comes across an extinction domain and thinks “this is JUST like chernobyl reactor 4”

•severe motion sickness warrior (this is me projecting)

•left handed

•prefers documentaries over movies, but movies over tv shows. he gets bored of tv shows too fast. favorite genre of documentary is historical but enjoys a good science doc.

•musical enjoyer, specifically Cabaret and Phantom of the Opera.

•he doesn't play video games besides maybe desktop solitaire and mahjong but if anyone is playing a video game in his vicinity he becomes the WORST backseat player EVER. you explain the game and suddenly he's critiquing your every move. "i would've have done that." just let him play atp

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had a macaron and thought of jon archivist. walked past a building and thought of jon archivist. saw a couple fighting and thought of jon archivist. there are cathedrals everywhere for those with eyes to see.

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and another gerry drawing

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"I asked chatgpt-" well I asked gunpowder tim and he said we'll suck the ragged eyeballs from the sockets of your skull and your existence is a mad disease, there needs to be a cull and upon your rancid soldier-flesh our bayonets will dull and your blood will run like wine

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"All because of that most insidious of emotions: hope."

Im trying to do artfight stuff but I always go back to tma and hatchetfield fanart.... hyperfixations man 😓

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the true horror of the Watcher

i’ve gone on about this is one of my other posts already (and im gonna repeat myself a bit) and i’ve seen some other people talk about it, but i really want to get all my thoughts out about this. 

throughout the show, we see the Eye manifesting as betrayal of consent. honestly, what’s so terrifying about being watched, observed, or even judged if you consent to it? if you know you’re being watched and are okay with it, if you share a secret willingly and gladly. even horrible and devastating knowledge is best processed when you’re prepared. a huge part of the Eye’s horror is that it’s completely against your will. you don't want to be watched or you don’t even know. your worst secret somehow got out and now everyone knows. the discovery you just made completely blindsided you. it takes away your autonomy, your privacy, and your security. more so, it’s a perfect breeding ground for paranoia. what if it happens again, what if your secrets are never safe again, who will betray me next? this particular manifestation is a perfect tool for the Watcher. 

one of the most obvious examples is Jon and Elias having the ability of Compulsion. they can literally force anybody to tell them anything they want, and once they ask the question you physically cannot make yourself stop speaking!! Daisy describes it as “your secrets pulled out like teeth, just because he asked.” (MAG 91) not only are your darkest secrets being revealed but they are taking it from you. 

Jon is made into the ‘Archives’ by Elias without truly understanding what he was being groomed for. and this is absolutely NOT to say that Jon was completely unwilling or that in a thousand little ways, he didn’t choose to be an avatar. i mean that Jon was being groomed into the perfect lynchpin for Elias’s ritual since Day 1 and he had no idea. Elias sends him on little quests, throws avatars his way, and puts him in situations for the sole purpose of getting him Marked by the Entities. Jon has no say in these encounters nor does he know what they really mean. Jon might’ve chosen to be an avatar but he had no say in participating in the Watcher’s Crown. i'm not even going to get into Jon’s overall relationship with his body but we all know it’s abysmal.

and i have to talk about the “Hello Jon” because this is a complete and horrific breach of Jon’s autonomy in so so many ways. for one, he cannot even stop reading the ritual once he begins and he so desperately tries. the fact Elias tricks him into summoning the Entities by writing the incantation as a statement is what really gets me. Jon feeds off statements. i know this is probably going to sound silly or melodramatic, but Elias pretty much slips something in his food. imagine you’re eating a sandwich and there’s a fucking explosive in it. in so many different ways, Jon’s autonomy is completely stripped for the entirety of this episode. he cannot stop speaking, he cannot move, he was deceived, and the means of this betrayal was in something he believed and trusted would be safe. 

Jon routinely reads people’s minds, and while it (usually) isn’t intentional, he still breaches their consent. the others, for example Basira, makes a point to tell that he is not welcome snooping around in their heads. we have the entire MAG 142 incident. Jon finds someone Marked and he takes her statement, he pulls it from her lips, and part of the horror is that she could not stop herself from speaking. she has no say in the matter, her secrets are spilled out before this stranger who will not stop watching her just because he asked. the statement giver says, “I want to tell him to, to go away; I, I wanted to kick him and run. But I sit down. And I start to tell him everything.” (MAG 142)

also Jon cuts a bullet out of Melanie without asking while she’s asleep. Jon makes Jordan Kennedy into an avatar without asking; he remakes him, almost how Elias remade Jon. Gertrude, as well! She binds Gerry to the Catalogue of the Trapped Dead! I have to think she knows he’d hate that, but she does it anyway. Gerry has no autonomy here. 

some might be thinking: isn’t all fear pretty nonconsensual? yeah. i understand this argument, but i'm specifically talking about the way the Eye purposefully utilizes a breach of consent to create even more horror and fear. also, some of the subtle horror of the Entities is that sometimes it doesn’t betray you. in s4, Martin chooses to isolate himself. while this choice is one he made under Peter’s persuasion, his trauma and abysmal self-worth, and his misguided attempt to protect the others, the emotions that feed the Lonely are from a willing and conscious choice. Martin willingly chooses to give himself to that fear and isolation. that’s what makes it so horrifying. his autonomy was never disrespected and, if anything, Peter could not force him at all for his plan to work. 

what really sells me on this concept is from the Watcher’s Crown Incantation. it says, “You who wait and wait and drink in all that is not yours by right.” (MAG 160) the Eye is not entitled to all its knowledge. it is not entitled to see you. it does not deserve your secrets or fear or history. it takes it. the Eye drinks in information hungrily and greedily, it pulls it from your mind like teeth with no real comprehension except for a cold and malicious desire to know all that there is. it does not ask or plan or wait or persuade, it simply takes what it wants.