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Okay so i agree that Arthur kissing his John's hand is very romantic but every time that i see fanart of this exact (not-cannon) scenario, I cannot help but think that this is propably the first time in forever Arthur showed some compassions towards his own body

And the fact that he is able to do that only when it doesn't belong fully to him makes the kiss a bit bittersweet

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people want doing the right thing to be like pulling the correct lever at the correct time but actually usually doing the right thing is more like holding a moderate weight at arm's length continuously for seventeen years

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Oh, Artie

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Boohoo im so alone an a monstaaa

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the further i get into season 4 of tma (know i am not finished with it yet) the more baffling the fandom portrayal of melanie as a feral punk angy knife lesbian who hates john for no reason is to me. her arc is literally about getting mental help. What are you people on

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Uhh umm does anyone else think that - maybe - Jon might have a hard time adjusting to life Somewhere Else? 😥

Text pulled / adjusted from ep 199

Hopefully tumblr doesn't scrungle the quality but y'all know how it is. Id below the cut

A three-page digital comic of Jon Sims from the Magnus Archives, done in muddy green and yellow tones.

Page 1:

Panel 1: Jon is sitting on public transport, looking down out the window with a distracted expression. He is a slim, medium-skinned, dark-haired man with slight pockmark scarring on his face and hands. His hair is cut short and has prominent grey streaks. he is wearing a brown calf-length coat, dark turtleneck, and dark pants. He has a dark shoulder bag on the seat next to him.

Panel 2: Jon looks up out the window with an expression like he's trying not to cry.

Panel 3: Jon looks away from the window and down, with an exhausted expression. The text box reads "It's a matter of guilt."

Panel 4: From Jon's pov, looking down at his own hands. His left holds his right and massages the burn scar with a thumb.

Panel 5: A low view of strangers sitting on a bench in the metro car. Only their feet and lower torsos are shown. Under the bench is darkness. One individual has purple shoelaces. The text boxes read: "It's like it was before." "Fear lurking at the edges."

Panel 6: A view from below of a young asian woman holding onto a handrail, with a cup of coffee in her other hand. She has long, pointed nails painted dark green. The text box reads: "It's not like bad stuff wasn't happening already."

Panel 7: Two young people are asleep in their seat. The man is black with bleached short dreads, and he is resting his cheek on his girlfriend's hair. The woman is white with light hair, dyed brighter green at the tips. She has facial piercings. She is leaning fully back on her boyfriend. His arm is around her, holding her in place. The text boxes read: "We can't take responsibility" "For the hypothetical actions" "Of hypothetical people."

Page 2:

Panel 1: A white man sits on a metro seat holding a bottle of dark soda. He is wearing a beanie and large headphones, and a pale jacket with a big furry collar. His wedding ring is purple. The text boxes read: "We all lived with monsters in the shadows" "And just got on with it."

Panel 2: Jon, viewed from the side. He has leaned his head back against the seat and is staring at the ceiling, with his hands in his lap. In this position, a scar is visible across his throat. The text box reads: "Until we didn't."

Panel 3: A young white girl is twisting around in her seat to look back at the viewer, at Jon. The text boxes read: "There has to be a chance" "It won't happen at all," "Right?"

Panel 4: The viewer is now in the pov of the girl, and Jon is staring directly back at her. His expression is distant and unhappy. The text box reads: "There's got to be a chance."

Panel 5: Jon is standing up to get off the train. He has slung his bag over his shoulder. He is still staring at the girl. The text box reads: "That they'll figure out something we didn't."

Panel 6: A view from above with Jon exiting the train. A few people are waiting for him to get off, their faces are not really visible. One man has gotten off before him and walks away. Jon looks up towards the viewer. Extending from a pillar next to the viewer's pov is a security camera, pointed at Jon, with a purple power cord. On the side of the metro traincar is a logo reading "Citi Web Transport" and an icon of an arrow-shaped web design. The border of the logo and the nodes at the web's connections are purple. The text box reads: "You've got to hope."

Page 3:

Panel 1: Jon's feet as he ascends a set of stairs. The text boxes read: "You can't let anyone else feel that." "That helpless, enormous guilt."

Panel 2: Jon leans against a wall outside the subway entrance. His eyes are closed and his hands are drawn up to his mouth to light a cigarette. The entrance to the subway is partially visible, with a tall streetlamp at the corner of the stairwell. The streetlamp has a narrow pole and wide, flat lantern. The lantern's windows are split into 8 segments, and the one nearest to Jon is purple, taking on the vague shape of an eye looking down at him. The text box reads: "You've got to hope."

Panels 3-6 are arranged as four quarters of a square, and have nearly identical images.

Panel 3: A closeup of the bottom of Jon's face and his hands. He has a cigarette in his mouth and is trying and failing to light a green lighter. The cigarette has a purple stylized eye design as the logo. The lighter goes -click- with purple sparks. The text box reads: "You can't"

Panel 4: The background is slightly paler. Jon's face is more in view. His eye is nearly closed and he looks distressed. The lighter goes -click- -click- with more purple sparks. The text box reads: "Let anyone else"

Panel 5: The background is slightly paler. The lighter goes -click- -click- -click- -click- -click- with more purple sparks. The text boxes read: "Feel that helpless-" "Enormous-"

Panel 6: The background is very dark. The lighter has a flame with a small -fssh-. The core of the flame is purple, as is the ember of the cigarette. The text box reads: "You've got to hope."

Panel 7: Four nearly identical images of Jon's hand holding the cigarette. The descend through the panel from top left to bottom right. His skin tone is adjusted to contrast to the background color, which is a swirl of grey-green that is pale in the center and dark at the corners. The cigarette is burning away and ash is building into a longer and longer tail. The ember is purple. The final hand holds a cigarette that is nearly all ash hanging off the end. The text boxes read: "It's a matter of guilt." "You didn't fix it." "You just passed it on."

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repost for just the art

maybe this will be an art print someday who knows

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its 1 william years too late for tma meta but it really is crazy how in all the things i ever saw get said about melanie king i dont think i ever saw anyone mention what to me felt like very obvious implications that she was at some point in her past a victim of some sort of abuse

like what happened to you?!?!?

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observation: among a certain subset of tumblr users, the term “blorbo” has become unchic, but the concept it describes is still important; and so it has been replaced with “The Character”

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I really don’t know what happen to my artstyle but I’m here for it ✨

Gerry is truly an inspiration at the moment ✨ hope you like it too🖤

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i’m gonna- *remembers suicide jokes are bad for my mental health*

… buy an axe in central london

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omg what if georgie barker was pan?? no it'd be so funny because she's a pansexual who doesn't feel ANY fear and she was living with jon, an ace person who experienced EVERY fear, and they were living in the same flat for awhile haha it almost sounds like it would make a good sitcom and it could be called All or hello Jon apologies for the deception but I just wanted to make sure you were reading

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Right! Right.

As suggested by @thewormscientist (thanks!)

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got caught lacking while watching K-Pop Demon Hunters and now i’m shipping a heterosexual ship DURING PRIDE MONTH 😭😭😭😭

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"depiction is not automatically glorification" can and should coexist with "some depiction is glorification and you need to be able to tell the difference"