#MAYBE this is abt the magnus archives

[frayedcircus]

Whatcha thinking about rn?

i like horror, but you know what i like more than horror? what happens after the horror. what happens to the ones who survive.

an experience like that leaves you pretty messed up, especially if the events were in some way supernatural. like what are you gonna do when a demon kills all your friends? the cops show up and find you covered in blood, surrounded by bodies and you’re gonna tell them it was a demon? a monster? a ghost? there is no way they’ll believe you. and if they don’t think it was you, you’ll probably get institutionalized for telling people what really happened.

but if you choose to lie, keep the magical business a secret, you’re left with this horrible truth rotting a hole into your mind. you can reason away the events, try to forget it, but something like that will never really fully leave you. maybe you manage to block out at least the ghost parts, but those memories, that fear, will always be lingering in your subconscious. you will always, in the back of your mind, know.

and you’re suck with this. alone. everyone else who would fully believe you is dead. anyone you tell might apprehensively listen to your story, but they can’t fully believe you. how could they? they weren’t there. they didn’t see it all. but you did. only you did. you’re alone in this truth, no one to tell, no one to talk to who would really listen.

it’s a special kind of loneliness, the isolation that comes with such a burning secret.

(tma the lonely tma the lonely???? i could talk a lot most abt how this ties in specifically with the lonely from the magnus archives)

the horrors you experienced cast a shadow over your whole life, your whole future. what’s the point of anything if there are demons and monsters and horrible evil things beyond mortal human powers? college certainly seems insignificant in the face of an eternally hungry evil.

it’s interesting to see how traces of these themes show up in media that isn’t horror as well. children’s media where the teen main character discovers another world? so often in those stories, keeping this discovery a secret from their family and the rest of the world is a major point of distress. We see them bonding with people in this new world, but when they inevitably have to return to their own dimension, of course it’s so much harder for them to connect with their peers or participate in normal activities. befriending jessica seems a lot less significant now that you’ll never be able to share with her this place that is so important to you. history class or ballet lessons dont seem so useful when you’re learning to cast spells with your new fairy friends.

in more recent media(i’m thinking of two specific cartoons that i won’t name bc spoilers), the main characters share a lot more with their family and friends, and they’re mainly very supportive and loving which i find really nice. it helps the main character feel grounded in their own world and less isolated.

anyway back to horror movies, so many of them cut off right after the “final girl” is saved, which i think is a real shame. i knowww i know the main plot is over and the after stuff isn’t really necessary but MAN is it interesting. show me the survivor going back to school and not being able to find words for what happened when someone asks. show me them debating how much to tell their family and friends. show me them trying to return to normal and ignore how everything feels hollow. show me them struggling and healing and falling apart. pls and ty.

(also like two hours ago i saw a guy with the LONGEST pair of wireless earbuds i’ve ever seen and i’m still reeling from how strange they looked)

[saintbleeding]

[ID: two drawings of a roughly-toddler aged Jon Sims and his mother. Both look like heavily weathered polaroids. Both Jon and his mother have medium-brown skin, dark, curly hair, and brown eyes. In the first picture, Jon is in overalls and a jumper, sitting on his mother’s lap and staring offscreen, chewing on the tip of his index finger, as she gazes lovingly down at him. She wears glasses and a blue blouse under a brown waistcoat. The photo is captioned “Jonathan & Ameerah, Oct ‘89”. In the second photo, Jon is wearing a red onesie and his mother’s glasses, grinning cheekily up at her as she laughs, one of her hands clutching both of his. The caption says “thief! Scoundrel!! Fiend!!!” End ID.]

it’s been two years one month two weeks and three days and jon jarchivist is still my sweet precious angel what else is new

[anelaxoxo]

Okay, genuinely ? Tumblr is the like best app/website literally ever. The way I'm constantly discovering new media and free resources on here is crazy. I mean just the other day i discovered the magnus archives podcast and I've been obsessed ever since. I deadass finished like a whole season in less than a week.

Not to mention the pdfs, articles, poetry, language learning resources, book recommendations AND TEXTBOOK LINKS ??!! ALL FOR FREE !!!

Yeah just wanted to say Tumblr is the superior app idc.

[shadeslayer]

moth jon.......... but make him chickasaw.

[read more abt my ndn art]

bonus detail with the green hair outline i didnt use in the final but i love dearly. + look at his little clawsies

[call-of-the-ocean]

@cuttoothed came up with a very wonderful au a while back in which basira gets pulled into somewhere else along with martin and jon, and meets alice tonner, who was never daisy.

i've been thinking about this a lot so here's a little comic of them meeting after a terrible first date in which basira decided halfway through she couldn't do this and left

[big-urchin-energy]

Chapter 4 - At least there would be plenty implied

Michael has the flu, Elias takes care of him. Word count: 5511

“I tried to call you earlier but there was no answer,” he told them, then tried to catch their eye. “Thought maybe you’d been kidnapped or something.” The corner of Michael's mouth twitched, barely perceptibly. “Had a nap,” they said, and then pouted (pathetically, adorably). “I think I missed my train, E.” “I know, darling, I’ll drive you though, it’s okay. We’ll have some food and a sleep and then you’ll feel better and I’ll take you home, that sound good?” Michael hummed, and swayed into him. “You’re a drama queen,” Elias said (fondly). “Let me up, I’ll make you dinner.” “Nooo." “Yes.” “You hate me,” Michael pouted again and, god, those eyes are lethal. “You’re right, that’s exactly it, darling, so you have to let me up so I can poison your dinner, yeah?”

[crit20art]

[ID: a digital drawing of Martin Blackwood from the Magnus Archives, nursing his infant daughter, Aamal, an original character. They lay in bed on top of the sheets, shaded in soft blues and purples, lit by slivers of moonlight. Martin is depicted as a fat, non-op, transgender Vietnamese-Polish man. He has tan freckled skin and short, dark hair. He lays on his side with one arm folded under his head, and gazes with a tired but fond smile at Aamal, who he cradles to his chest with his other hand. Aamal is a newborn baby with reddish-brown skin and sparse hair on her head, wearing only a diaper and socks. Her eyes are closed as she nurses, and one of her fists tugs Martin’s night shirt open, revealing a still-healing C-section scar and large stretch marks on his lower abdomen. End ID]

Daddy Martin hours 🥺 not pictured: Jon off to the side getting teary bc he loves them both so much

(Baby Aamal is from Do It All Anew!)

[yupekosi]

any other Community fans who are into The Magnus Archives:

is Abed more Eye coded (awareness of/breaking the fourth wall, cameras as eyes, documenting things, the study group tv show he made in S1, Knowing the study group so well he can predict how they act and what they say, consuming information via movies)

or Spiral coded (tenuous grasp on reality, hallucinations, operates on his own logic, the entirety of the stop motion episode, the connection to timelines, being able to code switch so completely, the Dreamatorium being to him what the Hallways are to Micheal)?

[candyballistic]

This quiz is a bit more abstract, but it's really fun. 

[ghouliesgallery]

Usher Foundation Headcanon

So I was thinking about how the show goes out of its way to make a point that the US has a serious problem with The Hunt..... so it would be kinda cool if the Usher Foundation’s setup was affected by that aspect. Like yes, they also have an archive/research/artifact divisions obviously, but it could be cool if they take on a more direct approach to researching the paranormal/13 fears!! Actively hunting seeking out new information, witnesses, or subjects to study and catalog would be pretty cool too. 

It’s also pretty fun to categorize american cryptids/folktales into what fear they are a part of lol

[a-passing-storm]

I! Have free time and a hyperfixation so I think I will assign Lemon Demon songs to the Fears.

[broodingheroine]

tmagp thoughts (this will be pure nonsense I just need to write it down)

alice is so tim coded

obviously there's a connection anyone can make to the multiple statements abt urban exploration/spelunking in tma and the redcanary forum thread.... it invites the horrors (connection to danny?)

gwen is a ✨️bouchard✨️ (implication that while its a parallel universe the same ppl still exist? supports possibility of spelunking forum thread connecting to danny somehow (not actually super sold on that but seen a lot of ppl mention it so))

colin is definitely going to succumb to the horrors :/ (either first to die OR..... this universes version of an avatar?)

CHESTER AND NORRIS!!!

I'm of the firm opinion that they're jmart BUT! but but but! I do believe they're echoes of who they were, this just so happens to be Somewhere Else.

also! yes I understand that we most likely will Not get any tma characters in any meaningful way in tmagp, however I also believe that alex and jonny couldve very easily.... not...... voiced the text to speeches....... like yeah I dont think we're getting jmart as we knew them but..... come on

also also. the text to speeches got less robot sounding the longer they were reading and it really reminded me of how ppl reading statements would slowly get invested as they were reading and emote as if it were happening to them.

sam is on the archivist (or tmagp equivalent) pipeline already yikes

the turpentine line was raw as fuck. so was the canary one obviously. don't want to beat a dead horse by talking abt that bc so many others have already said it. but! the institute is deadly stay away!!

the sound engineering is god tier I love all the bleeps and bloops

colin knows smth is Watching. inadvertently feeding the eye by being paranoid? does the eye even exist the same way it did in tma?

theres definitely smth to be said abt whether or not robert smirke did his thing the way he did in tma and if anyone in the know uses the same classification or if the oiar is the only group categorizing. the fears always kind of blurred together at certain points so maybe without the human interpretation of it being 14 distinct entities it's more of an..... amalgam?

magnus institute is in a different place which is interesting. if it was built for the same reasons (outside of just research) is there another panopticon esque structure underneath? (brings us back to if smirke was doing his thing)

very curious to see if theres gonna be a leitner books equivalent.

I deeply deeply deeply desire a michaela salesa cameo at some point. he's one of my fav side characters.

sam and gwen using classic horror characters to help him try and memorize the classification categories was very cute

another thing I'm sure everyone has talked abt already but the whole world wide WEB thing and possible jmart in the computers and omg they're in the web and the oiar is part of the web and blah blah blah u get the image.

lena is intriguing to me. my guess is she's going to be a gertrude esque character who knows at least the basics of what's really happening and is trying to put a stop to it.

I havent seen anyone talk abt like...... what IS the magnus protocol. like tma was the archives in the magnus institute. the magnus archives. self explanatory from like ep 1. what the hell is the magnus protocol. is it smth fr3-d1 will run? or the text to speeches? is it tmagp's version of a ritual? using protocol to reference the updated tech from tma? is it smth the actual organization has to run in the event of Something Happening? WHAT THE PROTOCOL WHATS IT FORRRRR

I know nothing abt the ARG shit, just to note that

okay I think that's it for now..... feel free to discuss in the notes lol

[panik-boi]

Ok I just got hit with ENLIGHTENMENT.

So I was doing what I was doing when I’m bored, thinking of the Magnus archive. So my mind went from how underrated The Dark is then to what the difference of between The Stranger and The Dark. This quickly turned into other underrated entities.

So obviously I realized how ABSOLUTELY UNDERRATED the extinction is. I mean they don’t even have an avatar. So I was like, ‘I should make an oc extinction avatar”.

So I made criteria’s of what the extinction is and how it would reflect in a human. So The Extinction is the fear of change. Which means a human would have portray some part of change. My mind immediately thought of Michael, who also seemed to be ever-changing, VERY inconsistent UNTIL I thought a bit longer.

Michael is not inconsistent, he is actually VERY consistent. While he is inconsistent in the sense of our perception he’s not actually inconsistent. He’s been consistently odd. No matter what you can expect him to be weird, fueled by rage at everything and madness. He is consistent wearing the lie of inconsistency to act like he’s much more complicated than he is.

So the extinction avatar can’t always be weird and shouldn’t be normal which brought me to a new issue, each character has a personality. Which is a HUGE issue for a character like this. We have to balance being weird as hell as well as not being weird as hell but he can’t be just those 2 cause that’s consistent. It would have to be new each time. Which is bad cause we don’t know what type of personality he would have. Is he chill, philosophical, gets high off barbecue sauce???? We won’t know. So now my mind shifts gear, I can’t make an oc so maybe I can find a template character of sorts? A character with big extinction vibes who I could change enough to act like a extinction avatar.

That’s when it hits me. THE BEST CHARACTER. And someone that I absolutely hate. I hate that This CHARACTER FITS SO WELL INTO THE ROLE. Drumroll please

Junko Enoshima

That’s right Junko Enoshima is the best extinction avatar. Think abt it. She’s always inconsistent but also consistent, she has a personality that people can understand. She turns from smart professor to crazy high schooler. Also the cherry on the top is that she ACTUALLY CAUSES GREAT CHANGE. LIKE APOCALYPTIC LEVEL CHANGE. SHE TOOK OVER THE WORLD.

[horrorgirlspoll]

ROUND 1

melanie & georgie propaganda (possible spoilers?):

ghost hunting ytuber x ghost podcaster is honestly the most horror duo to exist. Melanie joined a knowledge cult/ paranormal research institute after she got shot by ghost and promptly tried to murder her boss in every way possible, before gouging her eyes out with a awl to run away with her gf. Georgie cannot feel fear and is exes with melanies other boss. Im so normal abt them you dont understand.

heather & alessa propaganda:

Favorite characters from my favorite SH game! Literally got Cheryl tattooed on me. And - spoilers for a 20 year old game if that matters - they're part of each other so I always picture Cheryl keeping the spirit of Alessa with her and they protect each other 🥺 and maybe have slumber parties and watch old horror movies on VHS 🥺

please

[lesbianmontrosepretty]

Silly little ethersea doodles: weeks 6&7!

(slowly catching up to date with the actual listening... soon......)

most of this batch is actually title compliant!

✔️silly

✔️little

✔️doodles

realized i did the last ones in the wrong order and also forgot the episode numbers so ah. sorry abt that🤡

Ep. 5: Dr Shaq! the most important iconic vital character in the whole show. you agree.

Ep. 6: Amber's place! no boys allowed<3

Ep. 7: The Hand of Guidance being. her delightful self. No attempts were made to make her look like helen distortion from the magnus archives (<- lie)

zoox should have shot her with the crossbow i think

Ep. 8: Devo rolling a 22 on that dex save unfortunately did not make him suddenly able to swim, so.

and there's a bit of a rant on this one! i realized more and more i was trying to make these look "good" or "pretty" or like, "measure up" to the incredible amazing fanart that is produced on this site (a bunch of it by ppl i'm proud to be able to call my friends!!! you guys are really good at art!!!!). and then had a breakdown because. OBVIOUSLY it doesn't. I am taking baby steps and trying to measure up to olympic runners. and the second i realized that i decided to amp up the silliness and lay off the pressure. Yeah they're doodles, they're sketches. It's not good art, it's just silly and i'm doing it for fun, and maybe someone else can find it fun too!

can't learn something for fun if it makes me miserable, so i won't let it<3

EDIT: Fucked up the alt text the first time around! should be good now.

[big-urchin-energy]

love seeing tma headcanons by americans it's like a cute little window into what life is like over there