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jon archive doodle… trying to resolve my design for it

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is this ship popular because it’s legitimately compelling or is it popular because it’s the easiest to decontextualize and write college roommate AUs about?

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chill out season 2 jon... it's all in your head...

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Thinking about young Jonah and all his hopes and dreams makes me so sad. He made it work out for him in the end, but discovering that the foundations of your morality and outlook on life are wrong must be so horrifying...

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I think jonelias works for me because this is the vibe I get—

Jon: I’m asexual

Elias: That’s cool we don’t need to have sex I just want to take over the world

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My Archive, my beautiful chronicle of fear...

Lineart (bc I really like just the lineart) and some yapping under the cut:

Thank you @trosebud and @thetoadking1 for introducing me to this ship. I didn't know manipulative hurt/ comfort was crack to me.

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Jon should have been allowed to punch him at the panopticon [158] 🙂‍↕️

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laurels chapter 5. it exists. and just in time for pride month

hi to the people on my beautiful taglist. as ever tell me if you want to be on/off it @klm-zoflorr, @promisecarvedinstone, @thswrtchdthng, @beheldandcompelled, @jonahfagnus, @girlboy-frankensteins-monster

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i thought martin's reasoning for being the one to kill elias sounded weird and didn't really make sense, so i went back and read the transcript of mag 193 and i can confirm it's dumb because

1)

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ARCHIVIST

I could kill his body, sever the link, break The Eye’s power, and Jonah Magnus would die.

MARTIN

Okay, that sounds good but…?

ARCHIVIST

But, that wouldn’t actually harm The Eye itself. And with him gone it would… it would choose a suitable replacement.

"With him gone" / "If we kill Jonah Magnus" : there is no indication that it's jon killing jonah that will make him take his place, in fact it seems pretty clear that it's more about jonah being dead and leaving a void that needs to be filled

2)

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ARCHIVIST

His body is vulnerable. At least to me.

"At least to me" : the probabilities are high that jon is literally the only one who can kill jonah? i honestly don't think martin could do it and as they need to be perfectly coordinated they really can't afford to take that risk

And finally

4)

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MARTIN

You’re not listening. I mean, if he kills Jonah, then knowing our luck he’s just going to end up taking his place in the Panopticon, isn’t he?

GEORGIE

[Sighs] Good point.

MARTIN

He can come up with me, but when it actually comes to Jonah…

BASIRA

You’ll have to be the one to do it.

MARTIN

Yeah.

ARCHIVIST

Martin… I don’t –

BASIRA

Have you got this? We can trade if you don’t think you can do it.

jon immediately raises an objection, but i guess we will never know what it was because everyone just ~looves~ ignoring his imput on decisions that directly affect him :))))

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doodle #1 of today

I don't think it needs a caption it speaks for itself!

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one thing that drives me crazy about fanon perception of Jonah is that people ignore how passive he truly is. he is the Watcher through and through! he observes and watches before he acts. his control issues stem from his own fear of mortality and being a victim. he wants to be in control to ensure his own safety not for the love of the game! which is why he isn't a Web avatar! he also doesn't have a short temper nor is he violent! Gertrude and Leitner are exceptions because they explicitly threatened his safety. but they are exceptions! not the rule!

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he just looks so torture-able . like it would be a disservice NOT to torture him.. . he WANTS to be tortured

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tumblr please stop making me put non tma things on this blog ..

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tma fans will truly say "this character should experience painful, gendered dysphoria as a punishment" and think themselves moral

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Something tells me Jon is intimately familiar with the psychological repercussions of intense physical pain, Martin.

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huh. now that I think about it, I do think I conceptualise jonah/elias as aroallo, without even really intending to. his attraction to Jon may take on features and conventions to romance in places but it is not a straightforward romantic attraction at all.

there's pride in his creation, a magnetic draw born of their shared affiliation with the Watcher, an appreciation for someone who understands him more than anyone else. a fondness for him as a whole. the desire to not just guide and nurture but almost consume and posess Jon. sexual attraction, yes. but. none of that is... inherently romantic.

and as for jonah as a much younger man... well, no man he sleeps with will expect a committed relationship of him. they know better than that. He cares without necessarily loving, and maybe that can just be written off as not wanting to sneak around in an imitation of courting when nobody will acknowledge them for what they are. jonah, quietly, knows that that is not the case, but does not correct anyone.

("love" sits wrong on his tongue. he adores, he cherishes. he does not love.)

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redraw of a mizisua official art. 10000 more hours in the torture chamber jon. STAT.