#Sampson Kempthorne

[itchyeye]

the jon/jonah parallels

[disacurveball]

Lonelyeyes Scott Pilgrim AU where in order to marry him, Peter has to defeat Elias’s seven evil(?) exes, who are the regency men he had homosexual correspondence with. The final boss is his ancestor, Mordechai Lukas.

[absoluteocellibehavior]

Just had the most vivid imagery of the Regency Era boys singing “First Burn” from Hamilton about Jonah Magnus.

[ceaseless-bitcher]

Hamilton-style musical of rendition of Robert Smirke’s crew and the fallout between himself, Jonah Magnus, and the rest of them.

Ambitious Scottish upstart Jonah Magnus, plunging into the scene of higher society and academia

Interpersonal drama in the esoteric research and philosophy sphere

A power ballad aria from Smirke as he describes his grand, utopian plans for balance

Jonah seeing the wonders of this new world and getting increasingly involved in it, probably getting in some heated theoretical debates with Rayner et al. about it because, being Beholding- and Dark-aligned, their fundamental views would be diametrically opposed

A slowly-shifting musical motif for Jonah as his intentions develop over the course of the play

Barnabas pleading with Jonah through his letter; they’re in separate parts of the stage with different lightings and they can’t see each other. Jonah is reading, rather than listening to, his words

SPOTLIGHTS REMINISCENT OF EYES

Harrowing solo as Jonah sinks deeper into fearing the possibility of rituals

More below the cut because I’m going nuts about this.

I would feel like there’s too much ground to cover (c. 1809 [estimated year Jonah gets introduced to the Fears if he established the Institute in 1818 and talked Smirke into working on Millbank 1815-1821] all the way to 1867 [year of Smirke’s death and the final decommissioning of Millbank: the year in which I place Jonah’s first attempt at the Watcher’s Crown]) if it weren’t for the several decades covered in Hamilton. It provides a pretty good guide for such a varied timeline.

More insane scenes:

Contrast of Albrecht Von Closen’s 1816 letter informing Jonah of his findings at his nephew’s estate vs Dr. Johnathan Fanshawe’s 1831 letter revealing how Jonah knowingly caused Von Closen’s death by stealing his books and got him filled with eyes

Smirke watching the group he formed fall to the Fears in turn, clinging to his alliance with Jonah and therefore being blind to his own turn towards Beholding

Jonah’s financial wheedling with Mordechai Lukas and other donors for his fledgling Institute

Jonah being so gleeful about his brand new Magnus Institute in Edinburgh, after several years of compiling statements informally

HE GETS TO DELIGHT IN ALL THE SCHEDULING AND LOGISTICS!!!

Just. all the letters we have record of. I haven’t even gotten to Dr. Algernon Moss or the conflict between George Gilbert Scott and Sampson Kempthorne

PETTY architecture drama

[alightcaseofohno]

Tna regency boys!

[themagnustournament]

Redemption Round 2 - Match 18

The Meat Pit comes with 262 total votes, 92 of which were from Round Two! Foundations left Round One with only 57 votes.

MAG 130 - Meat | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Lucia Wright, regarding a hole filled with meat.

MAG 050 - Foundations | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Sampson Kempthorne, regarding the workhouse architecture of George Gilbert Scott.

[dramaticdads]

Regency Harem discord server

Are you too invested in Jonah Magnus and his pen pals?

Join the Regency Harem server! A small community to share art, fic recs and the like. Here you can overanalyze letters, and even just talk about tma in general.

7 day invite link for now. Might update it when it runs out.

[ineffable-gallimaufry]

sampson kempthorne was kinda fruity tbh

[go-to-the-mirror]

Look upon my works all ye mighty and despair.

(The following is satire, I’m going to make a bloody artist’s statement about this.)

[ID: The Thomas Jefferson Miku Binder meme edited to be of Jonah Magnus. He’s white, with brown hair, grey eyes, a shirt that says “I met God. She’s” and then a drawing of an eye, he’s wearing a green and black bracelet, blue trousers, an eye earring, and a blue binder with a Hatsune Miku design. His info says his name is Jonah Magnus; he speaks English and French; he’s male and uses he/him pronouns; he is trans, aro, and gay; and he is over 200 years old. The additional info says: born and raised in Manchester; Jewish; dating Albrecht von Closen, Barnabus Bennet, Sampson Kempthorne, and Robert Smirke; broke up with Jonathan Fanshawe; has a crush on Jonathan Sims; used to be addicted to “drug smoothies” (cannabis, coca, mescal, morphine, heroin); flamboyant & camp. /End ID]

If you take anything at all away from this post, I want to to be that you should absolutely Not headcanon Jonah Magnus as Jewish, like ever, please for the love of god do not.

The folks on the seasons on the archives discord (esp. @jewishjon @spirallingintotheabyss and @pocketsizedquasar ) encouraged, aided, and hated with a burning passion this. Also inspired. Blame them and me. We did this as a community. They came up with drug smoothie.

Anyway, see Sahar (poketsizedquasar)’s post about Jonah Magnus and why hc-ing him as a minority is fucked up. Also, just, um, take a good long think about why headcanoning him as Jewish is the fucking worst, and you should not! Holy crap.

Finally, if Jonny Sims sees this, I am so, so sorry, but I will never tag anything so you can’t see it, because I live on the edge.

This a work of satire, inspired by a conversation, inspired by a fic that sucked. It is parodying the headcanons around Jonah Magnus — a canonical abusive, white supremacist, capitalist — by comparing him to Thomas Jefferson, who was a real life person, and was a thousand times more fucked up by virtue of being from real life, and causing harm to real people. It’s a joke, but a joke with meaning behind it, urging people to read into the themes of a show before making headcanons that are actually super bigoted.

[magnus-rar]

opening and closing lines of letters to Jonah Magnus

mag23: Schwartzwald – March 31st, 1816

My dearest Jonah, ... Yours in trust, Albrecht

mag50: Foundations – June 12th, 1841

Dear Jonah, ... Sincerely yours, Sampson Kempthorne.

mag92: Nothing Beside Remains – April 9th, 1824

My dear Jonah, ... Your loyal servant, Barnabas.

mag127: Remains to be Seen – November 21st, 1831

Jonah. ... Your obedient servant, Doctor Jonathan Fanshawe.

mag138: The Architecture of Fear – February 13th, 1867

My dear Jonah,

no ending to this one because he died writing it

[youdontknowhowtodiequietly]

soooo sampson kempthorne saw the hat man? mm hmm mm hmm

[itchyeye]

jonah magnus, 1818 - 18?? | dear jonah, it is my fondest wish that this message should find you in good health, as i have heard more than one mutual acquaintance remark on your current state of overwork. while i earnestly hope it is merely idle gossip, my knowledge of your character leads me to entreat that you allow yourself some respite, or at the very least take some further secretarial staff into your employ. certain uncharitable quarters would have it that your life consists of little but rattling around an edinburgh townhouse, surrounded by piles of ghostly accounts and lunatic documentation.

[a-mag-a-day]

This is a weird one when it comes to looking up related RL details: Robert E. Geiger and Harry G. Eisenhard are the only Actual Historical Persons in TMA for whom I have been unable to find either a birth or death year. For everyone else I've managed to find at least an approximation and usually definite years, even people like John Heyrick Macaulay or, say, Sampson Kempthorne's wife Marianne, for whom all I've really got is that they existed. Not only that, but for all the many, many sites that reference Geiger's two articles about the Black Sunday dust storm, it's always just that, references, and the same couple of quotes. There doesn't seem to be a single actual copy of either article to be found! Mysterious...

Fascinating! It’s always interesting to find out what real historical people were featured in TMA.

[corens-relisten]

MAG 50 Foundations

Statement of Sampson Kempthorne, regarding the workhouse architecture of George Gilbert Scott. Original statement given June 12th, 1841.

ooh an old one! nice (: ooohh its a letter to jonah! so he had a sort of business it seems? theyre implying that jonah had this whole big collection of supernatural statements through letters... interesting (:

OMG ROBERT SMIRKE MENTIONED hihi OH? AND WE GET SM INFO ABOUT HIMM

spoilers...

hmm george is really interesting. gives me slightly Spiral vibes? i think thats just bc hes a little weird tho. but his floor plans are very Buried.

oki yup for sure the Buried (:

spoilers over

hearing someone in the hall but no one came in omg that feeling is fucking terrifying and difficult to describe nd (: idk much what to say other than aaaaa (can you tell this isnt fit for public viewing? its just my opinions on a site for some reason lmao)

i love how jon can write these statements in old formal writing as well as rude annoyed junkie language and how well he uses those nuances. its fascinating (:

i dont remember robert smirke being mentioned this much actually, but hes already had a few name drops by now

hihi its basira <33 i love how tim was just immediately on board with jon and her dating lmao hes the best bisexual disaster wingman

oki thats all for this statement! have a nice day

[alightcaseofohno]

15 and 17

15. That one thing you see in fanart all the time.

... For some reason, Daisy always looks like she's in her early twenties compared to the rest of the cast. It's pretty weird.

17. There should be more of this in fics/fanart

I want more Jonah Magnus centric fics set in the regency era that aren't just the polycule. Give me him being a workaholic and becoming a fear avatar. I love him being a whore but DIVERSITY GUYS. Also more Sampson Kempthorne appreciation.