#[i havent listened to tma is it good]

[whosectype]

TMA OC!! This is Dandelion, an avatar of the Flesh!! They were a plant geneticist researching the digestive properties of Venus fly traps, who then got a bit too into it (fed their coworkers to their freak of nature human teeth hybrid flytraps that can consume much more complex proteins than horsefly guts)

[pickled-flowers]

Rereading the Mysqueery Gang and like. Who let me post this. Worst writing I've ever done like heck I'm so sorry to all my readers i should have been better 😭 these kids deserve a better story

[always-a-joyful-note]

Sometimes I sit back and remember just how GOOD Link Click is as a story. Excellent plot? Check. Compelling themes? Yep. Characters well built that you can root for? Obviously. Deaths that do actually mean something? Yeah. Multiple kinds of relationships that colour the narrative? Yes, and it hurts us all. Banger soundtrack? Both the lyrics-based music AND the BG music. Incredible animation? We have that too. Balance of light and dark moments? Again, yes, and it hurts us all. Balance of show and tell? YES, EPISODE 9 S2. Supporting characters and antagonists who obviously exist as their own people even if the stories revolve around our three protags? Mhmm. Symbolism spun to deal max damage? We're still recovering from that

It's just Link Click is SUCH a well-written piece of media and I'm not ready for what happens in s3 but at the same time can't wait

[simcardiac-arrested]

i just remembered you still don't have any yt and therefore cannot ipad baby it up listening to music while drawing .... so you haven't been drawing. guys we have to get youtube to work for cream again so the askblog can live again

BROTHER IT’S BEEN A MONTH HOW COULD YOU HAVE POSSIBLY FORGOTTEN

[electricautomaton]

HEART?

STUPID IDIOT MOTHERFUCKING HEART GOD DAMN FOOL SADDENED AND MEEK DUST EATING RAT AKAREOCYTE SHITHEAD IDIOT EMO SIDE OF THE WHORE BIGGEST CLOWN IN THE CIRCUS LAUGHED OUT OF TOWN COWBOY MOTHERFUCKING HEART

STOP PINNING ME WHEN I TALK ABOUT HEART I HATE HIM SO MUCH WHY DOES HE HAVE SO MANY FUCKED UP FEELINGS WHY DID HE DECIDE TO FUCK AROUND AND FIND OUT JUST SET THEM LOOSE IS HE DEAD IS HE A BASTARD MAN HAS SUCH A VISCERAL AFFECT ON ME NOT EVEN IN THE ROOM NEVER SEEN THIS MANS FACE AND I KNOW HE HAS THE WORLDS SHITTIEST FASHION SENSE GET AWAY FROM ME

if i wanted to get into heaven and god said Heart's waiting inside i would piss on gods feet for the sole purpose of getting sent back down

if i have to deal with Heart speaking one word in person on voice in album not only will i close the tab i will delete my Spotify acc out of spite and have to relisten again for the experience of being able to skip all the times when he is mentioned or alive

i dont even know why i hate him so much. he feels emotions but i am just mad because i am angy

he better have some fucked up backstory to explain this if hes just whiny pissbaby whos a fan of being pathetic and wanted to be pitied ill go ham

BETTER have had a heart attack make him kill a man cuz if he didnt Im going to make him

paypal.com/IFuckingHateHeartfromuhhhh-guy

songs not even about him. vaguely mentioned what is supposed to maybe be his little hole and I lost it

where the fuck is Heart if hes still alive im going to so deeply wish he wasnt

crusty little toddler

ill punch Heart and his sad frail creechur twig bones will simply flake apart under my epic huge meat fist and he will disintegrate until all thats left is one final lyric sheet he kept on him at all times simply titled Now You Fucked Up in ancient yiddish

im not breathing im hyperventilating at this point

i hope theres a date given for when Heart died or will die so i can make it a reminder on my phone

everyday once a year i will see it and do anything but pay respects to the man who had so many hackneyed and trite if true thoughts

-you, the Mind, probably (this is a magnus archives copypasta which I rewrote)

This is honestly so true. I agree with this statement.

[s-ccaam-era-crepe]

whats a random hc for tma ?

ooo random tma hc hmmmmm.., i will give you several :))

tim uses neopronouns (all of them. he loves fuckey gender <3)

jon's safe food is simple pastas/plainish ramen (i wrote a fic about this dont ask to see it <3)

qpr timsasha lives together and they have pets :)

[one-of-many-mothmen]

PLEASE i just finished TMA and Good omens 2 i am scared of episone 34

[heckolve]

does the penumbra podcast get interesting or should i give up if i’m not into it by the 7th episode 💀

[altbery]

I know, i know. the podcast tags are filled to the brim with recommendation requests (rec-reqs!) and im about to add mine to the pile. but bear with me bc its a bit different-- I want FINSIHED podcasts please !!! i dont mind if its long or short and sweet, I want completed stories with completed character arcs and closed endings pretty pretty please

I am consuming podcasts at a worrying rate and I've resorted to relistening to my old favorites bc my current favorites are still ongoing. and i want to binge!! i hate having the story live in my brain for months/years while waiting for the ending.

more info under the cut

for context, my fav podcasts:

wolf 359 (!!!), wtnv, tma, red valley (just caught up), woe.begone, mabel, time:bombs, alice isnt dead

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ive also listened to (but havent finished):

eos 10, within the wires, malevolent, the black tapes, wooden overcoats, the bright sessions, old gods of appalachia, kaleidotrope, the penumbra pod, the orbitting human circus, the strange case of starship iris

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some pods im aware of but havent seen/looked up yet:

ars paradoxica, zero hours, i am in eskew, limetown, archive 81, camp here and there, hello from the hallowoods, stellar firma, find us alive, the white vault, the sheridan tapes, the silt verses, the amelia project

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PS. as a rule, please dont recommend me any actual play or rpg like adventure zone, rqgaming, etc... and dont rec anything ONLY because it has queer rep. dont get me wrong i love the rep! but i want a good story first and foremost!

[magpod-confessions]

Honestly i wanna hear opinions on season 4, cus im gonna confess i could NOT finish it (didnt move on to season 5 either lol). Got to like ep 135 & i just couldnt tell any of the episodes apart it felt like such a drag; just a slog of misery with some offhand Important 5 Minutes once in a blue moon. I hate repetition & i got the sparknotes from fandom/wiki stuff so yeahhh i just stopped listening; i still love TMA & it’s story & characters, it’s just the execution that got to me RIP

Everything felt kinda forced to me ig? Like there was some shoe-horned “humans are more monstrous than the actual monster” that snuffed S1 Jon’s fun cockiness/jackassery just to make him ? The best one in the archive ??? & all of his wrongdoings are either off-screen or justified by him being tricked into becoming a literal monster against his will (who would STARVE w/o his ‘evil-doings’, which didnt even kill ppl). Also felt like everyone got needlessly dumbed down except for Martin (the Love Interest ofc, who got 180’d from his pre-established incompetency to be some mastermind in a playing field he should have REALLY been inept in) just so they’d be blind to Jon’s situation & be mean to him LMAO

They started trying to make Jon accountable for “choosing this” & i couldnt handle it, held no fucking water to me—the guy being explicitly puppetted & manipulated as the entire plot? That guy is expected to take responsibility here? Felt like some after-thought theme they threw on top of it all. Anyways uhh feel free comment either on what i said and/or your personal thoughts on the season, or nothing if ya got nothing lol

🗣️

Ehh disagree. S4 isnt my fav but I dont think its bad. S1 Jon to s4 jon feels like natural character progression to me. He starts as acting all high and mighty to try hide the fact he has no idea what hes doing and is terrified, and then experiences a lot of ppl dying that he feels is due to him and is his responsibility. At that point his thought pattern is 'I keep messing up and making mistakes and getting myself and everyone around me hurt, so other ppl surely know better'. Hes got a lot of black and white thinking around him, which has been consistent throughout his entire characterization

I dont think any characters were dumbed down either

Melanie was always angry, she only go worse bc she had smth making her think everything she did was justified and when that stopped she became avoidant and stopped lashing out. She was still angry, just managing it better

Basira has always been Daisys no1, the person to justify all of Daisys actions. She knows what daisy did and why its bad but she holds onto the idea that daisy is right in doing so. She blames jon for what he does bc logically she knows its wrong, hurting ppl who havent done anything is wrong, but still excuses daisy bc she needs to. Bc that was a fact of her life and it cannot be wrong. In the unknowning she focuses on facts to keep her grounded and to her 'Daisy is a good person' 'Hurting ppl is wrong' and 'If you hurt ppl you are a bad person' are all facts she needs in her life to stay grounded. How she justifies Daisys actions is by saying that the ppl who daisy hurt were worse and it ultimately helps more ppl to have them gone. Not only can she not do that with Jon, as she believes those he hurts are entirely innocent, she also doesnt care to. Shes not close with Jon and she doesnt have 'Jon is a good person' as a fact in her mind, so she doesnt need to work to excuse his actions. Its all or nothing with her, if you hurt and continue hurting ppl, no matter your reason, you need to stop and the only way you will stop is if you are gone. She also has a lot of black and white thinking, gotta love the autism podcast

Martin being a mastermind in s4 also makes sense bc him being stupid is an act. If ppl think your stupid theyll underestimate you and ultimately leave you alone. They wont scrutinize you, they wont attack every part of you, they will brush it off as just a typical normal thing. It will get you ignored and you cannot be hurt if nobody knows who you are or how to hurt you. Its a lonely miserable existence but its one martins used to. Martin rarely drops the mask of 'Sweet but stupid' bc he needs that to survive and tbh he probably learnt that from needing to survive his mom LOL. Martin just knows and picks the best method of getting ppl to like him, which for him is doing exactly what they want and keeping their expectations low so they wont hurt him as much when they mess up. Honestly in s5 I see him as hes finally got to a place where he doesnt care if everyone hates him, bc he has someone who does and thats all he needs. Hes survived the worst of it and he doesnt care anymore

Part of the reason everyone blames Jon is bc he is there and he is the one who is currently causing the most problems. Also they dont actually see the extent that Jon is manipulated. Elias talks and interacts with Jon differently to how he interacts with others. All of them met Jon when he was already at the institute, they meet him when it does actually look like he made his choice, entirely of his own free will. It doesnt help that daisy is there, someone who completed their transformation like Jon did and turned back on it, and she looks like shes managing well enough. She is surviving without feeding so why cant Jon do the same? Also basira does trust elias on some level. She trusts he knows more than she does and can be an asset if used correctly, which definitely doesnt help things. Also the idea of Elias is locked up, he cant affect Jon anymore so why is Jon still acting this way. Elias has very effectively vilified and isolated jon and jon doesnt fight back against it bc he believes it as well. Other ppl are normally right so why wouldnt everyone be right abt him?

Oh my god that was an essay and I absolutely missed sooo much stuff but idk take that - rosette

i literally have nothing to add . rosette sincerely you are insane and i love that . i honestly don't have a lot of s4 opinions that i could really put down , but i also disagree anon . s4 may not have been the best , but it certainly wasn't Bad or not enjoyable to listen to . coming from someone who has listened to the podcast twice now [ and who is planning on a third relisten ] , i really do enjoy s4 as a whole . martin's buildup and his manipulation of peter lukas is honestly one of my favourite parts , because it has been said that martin was originally going to be apart of the mother of puppets ! this shows that part of martin we didn't get to see but has been there . i got distracted and don't remember what else i was gonna type um . whoops - deceit

[brownish-bear]

middle of sunday rush im just trying to make sandwiches and i have an epiphany

and i havent been as in touch with the fandom for tmagp so i be rehashing here but:

basiras a school deputy thing--important thing here is this is simply a different career that still is very much a position of power over a population of people, and typically i feel people who do wrong bc wouldnt she be dealing with like suspensions and the like. thats a new thought i just like wow the parallels are actually insane BUT ANYWAYS NOT THE POINT

so really my thought is the universe is just barely shifted

consider: jon only tape recorded cases that didnt work on his laptop. this was explained in the first episode of tma. it wasnt EVERY case, it was certain cases. same way only CERTAIN cases are text to speech in tmagp

consider: in tmagp universe, jon, martin, JURGEN LEITNER ILL COME BACK TO HIM NO I WONT JURGEN LEITNER HELLO I FEEL LIKE WE'RE BREEZING PAST THE FACT THAT WE'RE HEARING JURGEN LEITER READING US HISTORICAL CASES ITS NOT JUST FOR THE VIBES BABES IN THIS UNIVERSE JURGEN LEITNER WORKED FOR THE MAGNUSE INSTITUTE, yeah thats what im getting at in this universe jartin and leitner worked on creating a text to speech or something of the like or SOMETHING they worked in the institute for sure im sure of it sam just needs to get better detective skills

(AMMENDUM: I NEED BETTER DETECTIVE SKILLS IT ISNT JURGEN LEITNER IM JUST BAD AT VOICES. JONAH MAGNUS?)

okay ive got my word vomit out

jon martin jonah. worked at the institute. perhaps worked on text to speech technology for institute. because this universe. is just barely shifted.

mess of an explaination but its all ive got and no i wont try any harder to make it coherent

pls pls add or argue against or anything im foaming at the mouthing thinking about this

its so hard listening to good podcasts as they come out bc wdym i have to WAIT before i can know all the things wdym i cant guess everything immediately

[kitty-thinks-stuff]

"oh ur a tma fan?? whats ur thoughts on the magnus protocol???"

I DONT KNOW. I HAVENT LISTENED TO IT. I WAS SO EXCITED I LITERALLY HAD THE RELEASE DATE MARKED ON MY CALENDER AND THEN THE HYPERFIXATION DIED.

anyways. u should go listen to tma i think. the ending made me cry it was very good (and very queer. so queer. like ace rep and bi rep and gay rep and so much rep god theres so much rep)

[denzartriste]

Season 3 season 3 season three buddies block the liveblogging and or tma liveblogging tag because i will be TALKING

82- martin. Martin buddy. Martin please stop talking to the cop. Martin please. Martin do not act so pleased when the cop says "People say you are friends with the murderer" buddy PLEASE SHE IS SO BLATENTLY INSINUATING YOU ARE COVERING THIS UP IN SOME WAY!!!!

(Also for the record i have drawn micheal, but i havent posted it yet because i need to write an id for it. the second i do that i will post it so fast its such a good drawing. Also x2 im now playing mario odessy or however you spell it, so my streak of playing nice calm video games while listening to The Horrors continues)

[wszczebrzyszynie]

Any more thoughts on tma so far?

well it is 4 am and i literally just finished the finale, so my exact thoughts havent formed yet, but i think i hated it a little? at least the 5th season. the idea itself behind season 5 is something i really dislike (even though the execution was great and enjoyable, i just... wasnt really that invested in the world and the apocalypse itself and mostly listened to get it over with + for Jon and Martin both as characters and a relationship. they werent really my number one favourites, especially at first, but i grew fond of them a little after all those seasons. as for the world and the domains... it hit a very specific worldbuilding petpeeve of mine that i wont go into detail about + it was so extremely over the top all the unease was just. completly gone. which maybe makes sense from a standpoint of this specific plot, but doesnt make a good horror for me, personally) and it just... kept getting worse and worse the more i watched. I really dont like stories that turn out to be very... alternative universes and realities meta in the end, its a twist that im able to accept in small doses, but when it all turned out that in-canon the podcast was just the web getting through to our world... its a concept that completly ruined all the remaining tension. really hated it. not the web though i think Anabelle was one of the most enjoyable characters this season, even if she really only appeared... 4 episodes before the end? its whatever. her va was amazing

the final episode itself is a whole can of worms that i could best describe as... it made sense in itself and what has become of Jon, i think, but eeeh is that really what happens ... again the execution was cool and all but the idea itself for me tastes a bit rotten... so it was all a bit doomed from the start. went into a direction i didnt like back in season 3 and season 5 became this very unpleasant harvest i suppose. then again characters in this series tend to die for literally nothing even though it feels like theyre doing something grand for both them and the listener so i just kind of. expected it. im not really the one to get upset with characters dying or push for happy endings when they dont fit, so im not really feeling much right now, other than general dissatistaction... but i guess people warned me i wasnt going to like it. expected that a little. i dont know i put 6000 hours in the past... three weeks? into this story and all i got from it was a bit of insane thoughts about the vast. i have so many feelings about the vast (which are love its my favourite kind of horror).

seasons 1 and 2 + 4 in a way were pretty cool. first one was my favourite obviously. 3rd one was a literal hell to get through and even the 5th one wasnt that bad. it was enjoyable even if i didnt like where the plot went. this is a lot of words about a story i dont think i care about much anymore . good night !

[bluiex]

I have spotted a pattern, I like ships or I guess anything involved someone is something beyond our understanding, incomprensible to our mortal minds and the other dude is just a guy.

The only difference is that jon Sims theatre kid takes after my crumbly asexual heart.

Procrastinating is my life, and I have been procrastinating to even start TMA two or three years ago I think? I have started it this year and been stuck on episode 24 because of school. But anyways here’s an excerpt of the draft that I haven’t updated in two months:

Grian tries to not remember a lot about Last Life, only the winners should remember. Yet Jimmy does as the omen, as the Canary. Grian does as a Watcher.

But there is something that still sticks.

Scar isn’t an idiot, he runs successful businesses. He’s a con man, with his salesman voice that’s both so grounding but bubbly

He’s good but he lies.

Friendship points being a cutesy name to tell apart enemies. He scams you until you have no armor.

Scar’s honey coated words about the desert, about monopolies, how he held those poppies and lilacs and asked the stupidest question but Grian still smiled so hard.

Grian now answers yes to this question, when there’s no desert.

Scar can make you believe that he’ll always be there, that your hands will still shake but he’ll be there to hold them.

It had been so long since his claws were last held.

Grian likes to think he walked away back in Last Life but there’s this burning feeling in his lungs.

this feeling that instead of walking away, he crashed and burned onto Scar’s knowing arms.

Then Martyn was looking at Grian strangely and they both understood.

That Grian isn’t meant to be walking among them.

Grian doesn’t want his long-time friend to see him differently.

He’s still Grian, just, the added bonus of that this body is [pristine, bare, austere, bleak, spartan-] naked when it comes to organs. Organs don’t make up a person, look at Cleo!

But it’s not that: Martyn listens, he doesn’t see.

- Conductor Anon (currently sick, woe is me)

It's a really good ship dynamic >:3c and fits so well with scarian oh Conductor anon your writing is always so good <3 but yeah i havent listene to TMA since it's finale.. maybe one day I'll get around to relistening to it lol

[fluttershiesworld]

hi sunny i have been listening to dndads recently which is so shocking bc typically i cannot listen to dnd podcasts. this one is pretty good though. also i’ve heard mabel is rlly good i havent started yet bc im only capable of one podcast at a time but it is next on my list

im also only capable of one podcast at a time (technically i did malevolent and tma at the same time but i had already listened to tma 3 times at that point so not really). but sooo many people have recced dndads maybe i will finally listen to it… mabel is also in my to-listen list it’s just something that requires like. more mental listening energy then i’ve had at the moment if that makes sense! but it looks so good and i do plan on listening eventually