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Holy fuck yessss.

Cuz that's the moment, isn't it, for a lot of Avatars? You let your death happen, or you cry out to your patron.

And I've thought so much about how Gerry refused to commit himself to the Eye even though the Eye might have saved him.

But never thought about how the Mary-As-Patron allegory extends to that same moment

I have a half formed but very persistant thought about how Gerry Keay's relationship to Mary Keay is fundamentally the relationship of a reluctant avatar to their patron.

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mold pisses me off so much

oh you have to eat your produce the moment it leaves the store or the fuckin Hungering Dust will get it. and. poison your food

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Gerard Keay art that I have done 😁👍

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if you and your friends all had to fight each other who would win

Oh, I like this one!

Jon, bless him, would lose. He isn’t the strongest of people, but he definitely makes up for it in other categories. If we’re focussing on any fight other than a battle of wits, he’d he losing.

Sasha would put up a good fight! She wouldn’t hold back any punches, and would definitely kick you in the tummy or knee you in the groin. She’s the kind of person who’d fight dirty, biting and hair pulling. I admire it!

Tim would win. Hands down. He’s very athletically fit, despite the only exercise he does being lifting heavy boxes in the archives. He used to do football, but he stopped that when he was 17. But yeah, he’d win. Big muscles, strong, fast punches. We’d all be out like lights.

I think I’d be too nervous to punch anybody, but let’s just pretend I did. I have a lot of weight to throw around, and based on my school experiences I have a bit of practice in it. Bigger hands mean bigger punches, so that’s a bonus! I think I’d put up a good fight if I could bring myself to fight anybody.

Thanks for the Ask!

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You know the Grimm version of Snow White makes more sense than most versions if only because in that version Snow White was like 7 years old.

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God gives his hardest battles to his strongest soldiers and I'm dodging the draft

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My favorite Jonathon Sims headcanon is that he asks for black coffee or very little sugar in his tea then adds heaps of sugar to it when nobody is looking. It aligns so much with his character in the early seasons (trying way too hard to appear professional) and is honestly just fucking hilarious to imagine. Also, Martin 100% noticed this at some point and always makes his tea very sweet.

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The funniest thing that happened in tma was those two episodes when half the entities ganged up against catholicism.

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big boy Martin truther

big boy S1 Martin always slouching and folding in on himself, trying to make himself unobtrusive, curling around tea cups almost swallowed in his big hands, all soft voice and averted eyes

big boy S2-S3 Martin learning to straighten up, his spine protesting, extending his arms further, to reach his friends that grow ever distant, needing to speak louder to be heard over all the turmoil

big boy S4 Martin with carefully curated proper posture, wide frame obstructing Peter Lukas' view of the Institute's staff, there's so much weight on those shoulders now, his back never stops aching. he's so far away now, face all the way up high, unreachable, and quiet

big boy S5 Martin standing tall by his boyfriend's side, steady support, big arms ready to catch and to hold and to shield and to never let go

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There should totally be a movement called “Sleep in Public” where people defend their right to sleep on public property. Sleep in your cars. Sleep on benches. Sleep at the park. Just make it a mundane and regular part of life to see someone napping in the library. It would make it much harder to single out the homeless for harassment if everyone else is doing the same thing and much harder to argue that it’s a “threat to public safety” when it’s so clearly harmless.

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Contrary to popular belief the biggest beginner's roadblock to art isn't even technical skill it's frustration tolerance, especially in the age of social media. It hurts and the frustration is endless but you must build the frustration tolerance equivalent to a roach's capacity to survive a nuclear explosion. That's how you build on the technical skill. Throw that "won't even start because I'm afraid it won't be perfect" shit out the window. Just do it. Just start. Good luck.

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I really miss my perception of season 1 Elias you know... He's the head of the Institute with a fancy accent and an attitude, but he really seems... clueless? Rather, not entirely into everything that's going on? Not entirely aware? Funny, I know. Elias' behavior in season 1 always helped remind me that the Institute was not just the Archives. How small the Archives were relative to it, actually. How the head had more things to do and care about.

Not gonna lie, at first I assumed that convincing Elias that there's actually murderous paranormal stuff going on would be a major plot point in the series. How it would contrast with Jon, the great sceptic himself. Jon realizing how frustrating it feels to deal with someone who would rather make up a bullshit "rational explanation" than accept the obvious. And act smug about it.

I really like the concept of the Head of the Magnus Institute who has no idea what they're actually doing and is too proud to admit it. No, no, I love you dearly Jonah, but damn.

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Yes, there is context for this.

No, I will not elaborate.

(I can't draw for shit but got a vision instead of sleeping and had to see it through).

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something i love about tma is john's pattern of tossing and turning over his guilt to the point of constant self-sacrifice at every turn, but for all he tears himself up over the things outside his control, he's chronically allergic to fixing or changing the things in his control, and no matter how he dresses it up, he still has his s1 jerkass tendencies. in fact his position of even more tangible power in s5 makes them even more obvious

his tendency to look down on people he deems "crazy" in s1 has not actually left at all in s5. because dude what the hell was THIS

(and i also love how good tma is at getting us into his head, because we're so used to Knowing All The Lore(tm) that i can imagine we're meant to feel the same way john does here, at least as a knee-jerk reaction, instead of, "oh god is this woman okay?")

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im going to 'babies ever after' basira you cant stop me she 'adopts' callum by which i mean she lets him eat and sleep at her house and smacks him upside the head when he tries to get spooky

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"nothing is real atoms never touch each other youve never touched anything in your life" ok. well when i pet my dog he is soft and when he licks my hand it is wet and that is far more real to me than whatevers going on at an atomic level