#TMA do not open

[sorry-but-no-sorry]

Statement of Joshua Gillespie, regarding his time in possession of an apparently empty wooden casket.

(I hate doing backgrounds but I needed a little exercise)

[astorz0]

Episode 2: Do Not Open

And just like that I had, apparently, started storing a coffin in my home.

Second drawing of the episodes is the coffin with scratched letters (made of straight lines because that’s how scratches works). Also, I originally imagined the coffin as a brightish red the first time I listened to it, but it’s actually made of pale yellow wood.

[lunacias]

statement of jonathon sims, regarding a childhood encounter with a book formerly possessed by jurgen leitner

[daily-tma]

Hi :D! Your art is so pretty oddnjeksndndjdjd you’re wildly talented!! I was wondering if you could draw Annabelle Cane? I’m a little bit (very) obsessed with her lol (probably exactly what she wants) (really sorry if I broke a rule of etiquette for making art requests, I’ve never done this before!) (anyways, have a lovely day!)

Daily TMA 170 - Anabelle!!

[possiblyawesometmblr]

me, slapping the roof of the Stupid Rich People Underwater Death Tube: you could get so many tma statements outta this bad boy

[pastellich]

DO NOT OPEN

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Drawing process:

[snekberry]

hii i'm thinking about opening art commissions so i'd like to gauge interest ^_^

here's some of my art for reference ?!? you can also check my art tag for more (#snekberry draws)

[artsying-ifer]

The tragedy of Cordelia Chase: A comic puppet show in all acts

[anotheraccountonthisapp]

Can't paticularly draw but tried doing the Coffin from ep 2 - Do Not Open

[genreweird]

all the tlt & tlt-adjacent earrings i’ve made so far!! :D

(plus, a bonus tma pair: )

[find-me-in-hell]

if jonny opens anymore 'doors' in the fabric of reality in tmagp (or any of his other works) im gonna start to wonder if hes creating a multiverse here

[myfckingnameisnuwanda]

There is one ONE braincell in this WHOLE UNIVERSE and it belongs to Joshua Gillespie

Masterpost

<- 001: Angler Fish - 003: Across The Street ->

[your-local-friendly-door]

we just found a fucking 75+ year old pipe under our house covered in 5 inches of cement while we were trying to clear a blockage. tell me that the previous owners of this house didn't have something to do with the buried. i mean, we have probably found the coffin 2.0

Update: there are worms in the pipe. there are WORMS in the FUCKING pipe

wtf was old lady judy doing 20 yrs ago, huh?

wtf were you doing, judy?

and im not gonna take "i fucked worm woman" as an answer

[jubmato]

a half-assed cquackity for your troubles

ive been totally unable to find any active normalguy dsmp discord servers recently. so ive decided to do it myself. ive gotten about 90% of it set up over the past couple days. just need to finish up a couple cosmetic things. would anypony be interested in that, orrrrrrrr..??

[thatpodcastkid]

Magnus Archives Relisten 2, MAG 2, Spoiler Free

Spoiler free version of my Magnus Archives Relisten about Mag 2, "Do Not Open!"

Joshua Gillespie is the smartest man I know. He is the final girl. He would never go in the basement. He is what all horror protagonists wish they could be.

But genuinely, such a simple and practical solution to an eldritch horror of a problem is so incredible and really proves that Jonny can write items and creatures that are in scary in their own right, not necessarily due to the violence they enact on characters. That's a big part of horror and is what makes so many great monsters scary, but it's interesting to be frightened by something when you don't actually what it does.

Another instance of drug use in this statement. Again, I can't necessarily tell if this is just a device so that Jon can dismiss the statements or if the entities are specifically preying on people in fragile/weak states of mind.

Love that we got a cannon home town for Jon, but it's so funny that he find it "nice to hear that my hometown is not completely devoid of odd occurrences and eerie stories. Ice cream, beaches, and boredom are all very well.." Because actually what the hell. What kind of assessment is that. Another instance of him just abandoning the academic objectivity and being so personal with the listener and so feral as an archivist.

Very strange to me that no one lived in Gillespie's building for his entire residency. I theorize that the man who gave him the coffin (also named "John," like our archivist and the disappeared person from the last statement) had something to do with this. He specifically did not deliver the coffin until after Gillespie spent the money, which he used to buy the flat. It's possible that John somehow manipulated Gillespie into buying this specific flat so he could more adequately manipulate him and try to trick him into opening the coffin.

In spite of this, John is impressed with Joshua. He smiles when he sees the key in the freezer, he finds it funny when Joshua tells him "where he could stick it." Whatever John is, he's not just trying to catch people with this coffin, but is looking for someone to test him. He wants people to disobey the directions, but he also wants to see what people will do to follow them.

[wildgeese98]

If Jon's gonna do one thing he's gonna go down into dangerous underground tunnels directly after agreeing not to.