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Little sketch of Peter Lukas from The magnus archives

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Hello Magnus tumblr. Should I completely ignore the canon timeline to make fluff headcanons for my comfort characters?

Who am I kidding, of course I’m going to do that!

Anyway so Gerry and Agnes were kids at the same time and they were like. Each other’s favourite cousins at family gatherings. They hung out at Hilltop Road and set Raymond‘s curtains on fire while Mary tried to sell him Leitners.

Close-ups:

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Me? Actually COLOURING?? What is the world coming to. Bad things are happening, Archivist.

I have SO many redheads in my TMA designs it’s insane. Martin, Daisy, Agnes, Jonah, probably more. I haven’t even started Protocol yet and Alice is already ginger in my head. I regret nothing, gingers advance!

Golly gee Mr Magnus why is there a spooky third eye on your portrait 🤨

My take on Jonah Magnus, the bastard himself!

As of season four, the letters to him are my favourite statement genre. “I’m afraid our friendship and intimacy must cease immediately” Jonathan?? Something you’d like to share with the rest of the class??

And I honestly kinda get the people that defend him. Sure, he’s a horrible person, but like. He did kinda slay, ngl.

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God, in all of my tma nonsense, I don’t think I‘ve ever had my thoughts on Gertrude put down so perfectly. Are you Elias. Are you reading my mind. Don’t stop, you’re better at putting it into words than I am.

Rip Gertrude, you could (and would) have fed me to the closest horrible monster and I‘d probably still try to defend you

just here to say that gertrude robinson is the single funniest character. she is THE character. she dies before the show even starts. shes an old lady that adopted an edgy teen and traveled the world. She is the avatar of one of the fourteen elditch horrors that feed on primordial fears, she had basically infite knowledge of everything and her plan to stop one of the rituals of a cult of another one of said list of eldrich horrors was to blow it up with a bunch of c4. we only find out about this because she stored all of the explosives in a random storage unit and the aforementioned edgy teen with mommy issues (who by the way, is dead, but when he died she sneaked into the morgue to put him inside a book) speaks through the book to the woman's succesor who, by the way, has no idea what the fuck is going on because neither she nor anyone else has bothered to explain shit to him, and tells him that she kept something important in the unit. we only find out about this after 100 episodes of the show. She feeds her subordinates to an all consuming monster/god, but its ok i guess. Later on (earlier on? at the same time? in a different timeline? after?) the literal end of the world and the end of the end of the world shes back and still has to deal with this stupid teenager who at least doesnt spend half his life focused on dyeing his hair and the other half about finding murder books (not as books about murder but as in, books who actively murder). She is a well experienced arsonist despite having no affiliation with the actual official arsonists club that is yet another cult to yet another one of the previously mentioned eldritch horrors. She is, however, metaphysically tied to the Chosen One, the Messiah of said cult, or some shit. She is absolutely terrible at her actual office job (on purpose). She dismembered a guy (who was her assistant) and probably commited several undocumented crimes against humanity. Once again, she has all seeing abilities and barely noticed her favorite assistant was torturing a coworker. She dares her murderous boss to kill her and gets surprised when he does so. When asked what to do about a literal Monster Pig, her advice is to encase it in cement. She was such a bitch. Her plan B was always to set things on fire. Her plan A was often to set things on fire. One of these instances was approved by her boss (the one who killed her). It is canon that the reason she started all this shit in her life was because the fire cult killer her cat. She sacrified another one of her assistants who became an avatar of the literal concept of Insanity but it was just a other thursday for her. She knows on a first name basis pretty much every person and monster affiliated with the eldritch horrors that she tries to keep at bay on the daily. She stopped a ritual for The Lonely by making the place a tourist destination. She has an ebay account. Instead of performing a ritual for the God that she was affiliated with, she wanted to destroy it and planned to 1. blind herself, and 2. set fire (yet again) to her workplace. It didnt work, because and her boss, who was also the one who was going to perform the ritual, finds her right before and kills her after she says he has no balls to do so. Also she is voiced by the mother of the main character's voice actor (who he named with his own, full, legal name) and the series' writer, which are the same person. Shes the worst, shes the best, i love her, we will never get anyone like her again, we need more characters like her.

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Golly gee Mr Magnus why is there a spooky third eye on your portrait 🤨

My take on Jonah Magnus, the bastard himself!

As of season four, the letters to him are my favourite statement genre. “I’m afraid our friendship and intimacy must cease immediately” Jonathan?? Something you’d like to share with the rest of the class??

And I honestly kinda get the people that defend him. Sure, he’s a horrible person, but like. He did kinda slay, ngl.

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Honestly still not over A Guest For Mister Spider.

So we have Jon. Funky little guy. He’s paranoid and in denial and suspecting his coworkers of murder, but like. In a quirky way. Go little dude go. So the end of season two rolls around, and I’m kinda bummed out about the whole “framed for murder” thing, so I jump right into season three, expecting the plot (and Jon) to go on its merry way. So I, the picture of naïveté, turn on MAG81.

And then Jon goes “The woman who raised me was never able to truly love me because I was a constant reminder that her son was dead, and also never cared to monitor my reading, or what I was doing at all, which led to me being severely traumatised. Also I was bullied by an eighteen-year-old at age eight, and either my grandmother didn’t care, or I never bothered to tell because I knew I couldn’t rely on her. And then that same teenager was eaten by a huge fucking spider, unwillingly saving me from the same fate, and I’ve blamed myself for it ever since. Also I definitely have severe undiagnosed ADHD. Anyway I’m wanted by the police, byeee>3”.

And I’m just. Supposed to listen on. With the knowledge that my Projection Pillow Number One has felt like he shouldn’t be alive since he was eight. What the fuck Jonny. Genuinely. What the fuck.

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Okay, I‘ve thought a lot about this, because y‘know, lore inconsistency, and have come to this conclusion: the moon war had to have taken place during King Cole‘s reign.

We know that the Toy Soldier was picked up after a major battle, then found by the mechs, that it fought in the moon war, and that Gunpowder Tim was there in the epilogue of Ouatis.

We also know that the Resistance lasted about thirty years, because that’s how long Cinders was looking for Rose (Toy Soldier had to have been picked up during the Resistance because it served with the Rose Reds). The moon war lasted “three or four years”.

It’s not outside the realm of possibility that the moon war happened during these thirty years, after they’d found the Toy Soldier, and then, after Tim blew up the moon and was mechanised, “Sleeping Beauty” happened and the revolution ended.

Another thing supporting this is that they only found out about Toy Soldier’s obeying orders thing during GPT vs the moon kaiser. If it had been there for a longer time, it would make more sense for them to discover that earlier.

So either that or they time traveled idk lmao

Ok but is my brain dying or is there some inconsistancy with OUATIS and GPTvTMK lol cus I think they said TS was picked up during the rose red war... but was present during moon kaiser war.

But Tim was there in OUATIS???

Tim wtf re you doing.

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I know some of these characters can be killed but you get my point lol 😂

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more people would exercise if this culture didn't make it absolute hell

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Dr. Victor Frankenstein IN COLOR

I overlayed the pencil art I did originally, and colored it digitally. I still love the pencil sketch so much❤️

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THIS IS SO GOOD OMG

my franken-zine (frankenstein zine) !!! also, i used song lyrics for the text so feel free to listen to the song while reading ;)

song used is problems by mother mother !

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frankenpony

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i have this whole mythology in my head that count orlok from nosferatu and count dracula from dracula are two completely distinct characters and have a fucked up gay thing going on. orlok is the older vampire and maybe the one who turned dracula, so its also a toxic parent-child dynamic on top of the toxic lovers/never married but definitely divorced dynamic. and now im also thinking: what if they were women. and also jonathan and renfield and van helsing were too. and dracula still has her polycule of vampire wives, and also mina and lucy are there too obviously.

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You ever get so freaking sleep deprived the concept of consequences eludes your grasp