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was going to make a joke about how jon in theory is a leftist and objectively believes in "power to the people" and all that but fundamentally he simply finds people at large to be dumb and annoying and every time someone disagrees with his opinion in a way that ticks him off he briefly becomes 100% supportive of complete authoritarianism, ideally with himself as the dictator of the known universe, and then I remembered that wouldn't actually be a joke because he did canonically do exactly that.

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I need someone to kiss me gently before putting a knife through my heart, only then I will know what true love is

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the magnus protocol episode 13 “future”

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the episode starting with developing the chronology of Sam's bad luck and then launching into a statement immensely focused on luck doesn't look good for Sam at all

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the glitch when Alice says she's happy for Sam just rip my heart out why don't you

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Interesting detail: both Bonzo cases have been Category 1, Rank B. The only other CAT1RB case has been Needles.

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jon should have been able to sock him at least once before s5

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*Gently grabs your shoulder* Can you believe this? Can you believe this is real?

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my personal favorite like brand of jon lines is basically where he’s just [picture of edwardian offense] I’m hip

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I’m really making this lined notebook just Magnus Archives Exclusive huh

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"i'm your man" by mitski reminds me of this scene (you believe me like a god)

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(guy whos scared of everything and feels guilty about everything) sorry i got scared and felt guilty

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ok. years have passed and we've had some distance, so i'm finally gonna take the leap of faith that tma fandom is finally ready to hear me on this. let's talk about tannins.

161 was the first tma episode i heard on early release, and i felt the bit where martin declines wine and cites tannins was pretty obvious in its implications. cool, got it, say no more.

imagine my surprise when i was one of maybe three people i saw read between the lines there, in a fandom famous for red stringing--a fandom that immediately caught the much less obvious thread of ignition sources in the same episode. i'll spell it out: alcohol is an issue for martin.

maybe it just felt obvious because addiction is a pet issue for me--as it is for jonny, who has said everything he writes is filtered through a lens of addiction. i don't know if that's due to his own experience or a loved one's, and i won't speculate; i also don't know if martin personally struggled with drinking or just avoids it for fear he would, but alcohol would fit what we know of his family. his dad walking out and his mum spiralling into bitter wallowing and verbal abuse? i'd bet one or both of them drank, yeah.

on a basic level martin tries to decline alcohol, and that alone should have raised eyebrows given what we know of martin and, again, a fandom that dissects everything. we already knew martin "K" blackwood lied about his personal life and his family in particular, especially pre-canon, which is when this flashback took place. i was shocked that everyone took his flimsy excuse at face value with no further questions.

and the excuse is flimsy. martin turns down wine by--nervously--exclaiming tannins are "a proven headache trigger!" which sounds like trivia from a magazine cover and not the words of someone who actually has headaches--and it hasn't come up before or since. jon, confused, points out that tea, a drink martin consumes to a degree that is memetic both in- and out-of-universe, also contains tannins, and martin squawks a panicked, "what?!"

if tannins are enough of a concern for martin that he knew they're in wine and so avoids it, why didn't he know they're in his drink of choice? why does he still drink tea at the time of canon, and why doesn't he struggle with constant headaches from consuming 'a proven headache trigger' day in and day out? why, indeed, would someone avoid wine and not tea?

when sasha insists martin drink he caves and agrees to 'just a drop'. i imagine him pouring it in a plant, which admittedly he could have done if tannins really were the issue. i will say that i, for one, would be less likely to falsely agree to something that makes me physically ill than to a private issue that i'd rather not be pressed on any further. this scene also establishes martin's birthday was an ice cream party instead of the more traditional visit to a pub.

also, this scene was in the first episode of the final season, as one of three flashbacks that could have been to any pre-canon event in the archives. prime narrative real estate. not really time one would waste on establishing the important character context that martin has... headaches. which never comes up before or after, even regarding the week he spent in spiral town. but you know what is pretty crucial character background...?

it felt like a no-brainer, and yet all i saw was h/c fluff about jon attending to martin's headaches. and i hate feeling bitter about disability representation. i want folks with chronic headaches to feel seen and have fluffy escapist fantasies. i don't want to be mad about people portraying a character with a disability. but, guys? you got the wrong disability. jonny sent a clear message, and it went over fandom's head.

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every time i remember martins poetry i go into a fit of hysterics. HES SO BAD AT IT BUT HE LOVES DOING IT SO MUCH....ITS HOW HE EXPRESSES HIMSELF.....TO ME THAT IS THE PUREST FORM OF ART

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I’m incredibly normal about this guy

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the transition from s3 to s4 jon kills me bc i feel like in s3 jon has so much more to motivate him to keep going beyond “because i have to,” but in s4 all that’s just gone. in s3 he’s fighting to keep his humanity, to protect the important people in his life aka georgie and his assistants, and yeah to save the world but there’s also still hope that once the unknowing is taken care of, everything will be okay. but in s4 he’s lost all of that. there’s no regaining the humanity he’s lost largely against his will, tim is dead, daisy is gone, martin won’t talk to him, melanie and basira hate him; and now he’s realized his place in all this - he’s just a tool. there IS no happy ending for him after the next artifact, the next goose chase, the next ritual. he is the Archivist and the only one who can make a lasting impact on keeping the fears at bay so. he keeps going because he has to. this is just his life now…there will always be something going on that he needs to interfere with.

there’s also something in my brain about how he keeps throwing himself in life-threatening scenarios without hesitation, how it’s not quite because he knows he will survive so he’s not afraid of dying, and it’s also not just because he’s suicidal and thinks that on the off chance he DOES die that it wouldn’t be so bad, that it’s both of those at the same time and it makes me so very sad

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y'all this post is untagged ai. a lot of people aren't realizing it, but if you take a second to look at it, it becomes very clear

tumblr keeps showing it to me and OP has refused to tag it, so when you go in the reblogs it's a bunch of people who don't seem to realize that it's ai either. i recognized a lot of usernames in the reblogs, from people who i definitely know are against ai stuff. so if you've reblogged this thinking a human made it because OP refuses to edit the original post for transparency— now you know.