#Magnus friday

[beans-in-your-socks]

YOU MEAN TO TELL ME YOU’RE GOING TO SAY “Jonathan Sims and Martin Blackwood” AND THEN JUST. END. THE EPISODE!?

[hermitcup]

It's Friday again so here's my tma oc :]

[tw: stalking]

"It's a nice day, so you decided to take a walk in the park near your house since it's been awhile. The first five minutes were quite relaxing, it's been some time since you had the chance to just enjoy the feeling of the sun warm on your skin. Suddenly you notice something in the corner of your eyes. You turn to take a better look; it's a person, with some drawing equipment out, just... watching you? They smile, turning their drawing pad and despite the distance you recognise immediately a drawing of yourself. You're not sure why that made you feel so unsettled, but next time you go for a walk you decide to go to a park a bit further away. You still feel watched"

And here's Iris! They are a bit of an underground artist, known only in certain circles and in hushed tones. If you've met her it's hard to forget; their presence, while rarely pleasant, is quite... Persistent. She likes to choose her "muses" from crowds, parks or cafes - often, you won't find out you've been chosen until you find in your mail a portrait of yourself and a note with some weirdly personal information you're pretty sure you've never told anyone. After that, the muse will start finding those drawings everywhere; in their bag, their house, even at the workplace. The drawings become progressively more unsettling, showing you while you sleep or eat or even shower. They will start feeling like nowhere is safe anymore, any and every second they breathe is being observed and recreated on paper. It's also quite difficult escaping Iris' attention; it's faster and safer to just... Wait it out, until they pass to a new muse.

Anyway! When they aren't terrorising someone you can probably find them at the Hermit Caffé, bothering Meme

Their interactions are quite confusing, it's difficult to say if they are fighting or flirting very aggressively, and getting a straight answer out of either is a lost cause on any topic, and especially this one. Meme is notorious for changing their answer every time you ask them something, and Iris has the propensity to go off on vaguely off-topic and convoluted rants while talking to her.

[thatmoththoth]

Happy [EXTENDED SOUNDS OF BRUTAL PIPE MURDER] day and “FUCK YOU, AND FUCK YOUR TRAIN” Friday to all those who celebrate.

Have a morsel

[fridayyy-13th]

i swear sometimes i think people forget that Jon's s1 skeptic act was just that—an act. it was an act!!! he believes the statements!! he's believed them since episode one! do we so soon forget that he denied the statements were real because he knew the Eye something wanted him to be scared, and he knew that was bad, so he decided to act like the statements just didn't scare him? remember, he was working with extremely limited information ("when i record the tape statements, i feel watched, like something knows i'm afraid, and i don't want it to know that"), and came up with a genuinely solid solution with what he had! not his fault that the thing watching him was a literal unknowable eldritch entity that feeds on fear, and he was just some underqualified archivist.

[gispurple]

Guys I have unfortunate news we can no longer fuck the train the archivist is on there

[izel-scribbles]

danse macabre

(click for hd // closeup + sketches under the cut)

Slaughter Avatar!Butcher for @snake-spire’s tma au! This was so much fun to color (though i arguably stayed up too late to finish it 😅)

Here’s me figuring out the violins

And a sketch of Stranger!Noel

and obligatory dollins bc i’m predictable

go read his post explaining everything!!! it’s so cool!!!

[edgycarr0t]

Forever drawing the admiral as varying shapes,, i'm bad at drawing cats.... 🫶

[staircasecleric]

Ceaseless Watcher, fuck this train!!

[thepunkmuppet]

the reason why transfem elias is my favourite theory for gwendolyn is because think about the implications.

so let’s say this alternate universe reveals that elias is actually transgender, and would present/identify as female if they had the opportunity to figure themself out and transition (elias was reportedly very young when jonah possessed them)

then the idea that in the tma universe they not only didn’t live long enough to do that, but THEIR BODY WAS TAKEN OVER BY SOMEONE ELSE WHO THEN PRESENTED IN A MASCULINE WAY AND LIVED AS A MAN USING THEIR FACE AND BODY FOR OVER TWENTY YEARS?!? FUCKING TERRIFYING

as a trans person myself, even though the real elias was dead the dysphoria that idea gives me is absolutely unreal, and really creeps into serious body/existential horror territory which i think would be really interesting and very in-character for a writer like jonny to explore.

[beans-in-your-socks]

”guys it’s magpod Thursday!” “Guys it’s Thursday, new protocol episode has dropped!” I wanna take part in these Thursday shenanigans but alas, for me it will be FRIDAY when I get new protocol episodes

[autoneurotic]

It’s Ok To Try And Kill Your Boss A Few Times.

[thebeholdingsfavorite-mrbitchard]

I don't know what head cannon I prefer:

1: Elias lives in Jonahs house and all the heads have lived there because "it comes with the promotion" but nothing has been changed in like 200 years. All the decor is the same because Jonah is sentimental like that.

Or

2: Elias lives in a house he bought with Peter's money when they were married, the only reason Elias got it in the divorces afterwards was because Peter didn't want to own any building that had a house warming party thrown at it.

Or

3: Elias lives in the institute. He sleeps in his office. He likes feeling as close to the Eye as possible.

[fridayyy-13th]

relistening to MAG 092 - Nothing Beside Remains and going a little bit insane over the fact that this is a Lonely statement about Barnabas Bennett’s lifelong solitude, with no background sound but a ticking clock, just like MAG 170 is a Lonely statement about Martin’s lifelong solitude, with no background sound but a ticking clock

but the difference between them lies in that when Barnabas and Martin each call out for help, to Jonah and Jon respectively, Jonah purposefully leaves Barnabas to die, while Jon finds Martin again (and has been searching for him since he realized their separation), reassuring him that he will stay by his side.

and at the end of 092 Elias tells Jon that his assistants are nothing more than things to discard……but Jon refuses to see them that way, even going so far as to promise Martin “where you go, i go”…………Jon is fully an avatar, he is wholly the Archivist, but he is still so painfully, utterly human despite it all.

idk. something about victims of the Lonely and the Eye avatars they placed their trust in, for better or for worse.

[murderandcoffee]

the fact that tmagp thursday is followed directly by fuck you and fuck your train friday... weird and gay media enjoyers, we just keep winning

[vibinginthedreamlands]

Making a list of Jo(h)ns:

John Doe - Malevolent Podcast

Jon Sims - The Magnus Archives/Protocol Podcast

John Watson - Sherlock & Co. Podcast

John - The Cellar Letters

John Peters, You Know, The Farmer? - Welcome to Night Vale Podcast

John Doe (Yes again) - Unordinary Webtoon/Comic

John McNamara - Starkid Hatchetfield Trilogy

John Doe (Yes, *Again* Again) - Patient 33 Podcast

John Smith - Doctor Who

John Locke - Lost

[saturn-garden]

love that this episode was essentially "guys we really need to have a team meeting about the date for the Mysterious And Most Certainly Horrifying Project/Maybe Ritual also the labourers are probably about to unionize" and Gwen fighting for her life for like the 12th time in one week