#anyways magnus next

[himbionn]

Hot Topic Disaster (and potential creator) Lup 🔥

Thanks to everyone for participating in my poll and I hope you enjoy my take on her! ❤️

And Taako absolutely helps her with changing her hair every other week.

[usernameyettocome]

pov you’re martin and also kidnapped

[cult-of-the-eye]

What does a person have to do around here to get a jmart lemon boy fic?

[milo-the-professional-yapper]

SOMEONE get Jon out of there- my man stopped the apocalypse only to be subjected to reading aloud Reddit threads and blog posts as a digital entity.

Truly a fate worse than death.

[jouxlskaard]

I am being tormented with visions

[somuchbetterthanthat]

There are several posts I want to do about the office dynamics in Protocol, but I think as a summary, beyond "fascinating", i'd say that I'm amazed that three episodes in, we've already got such a nuanced idea of how they all navigate with one another.

The first impression we get from Episode 1, for example, is that Alice and Colin get along, possibly that Colin actually genuinely likes Alice ("Ha. Tell Alice it's funny."), and in contrast to how Alice and Gwen snip at each other, you want to immediately make them a "pair" (not at all in a romantic sense, just in a "oh they're the Friends" here).

But episode 3 shows that it is more nuanced that that -- yes, maybe Alice and Colin like each other on the surface, but Alice is ready to go behind Colin's back for the work, which shows us they're colleagues who are friendly, and not friends per say. Doesn't mean Alice wants the friendly relationship to disappear, since she asked Sam to go on about it rather than do it herself, because she doesn't want to antagonize Colin, or loose that connection between them, but it's obviously a very different relationship that Sam and Alice, who are friends who happen to be colleagues now, where Sam can casually tell Alice /nope, not going along with that/ and Alice readily goes /fine/ and doesn't push the matter.

I think Teddy amplifies the idea of the difference between a friendly colleague you like and a friend pretty well in ep 1. Teddy says even though he leaves they can all still hang out together, and Alice is hesistant when she agrees, the conversation trailing off. And like. Yeah. That often what happens, isn't it? You are at a job and you really like your colleagues, you guys do friendly stuff together, but when one of them leave the job, or you leave the job, you might catch up a couple of times with them at the beginning, but then, well, they've got a new colleague, you've got a new job, life changes, and suddenly the link is... Broken. Not because you didn't like each other! But because work was keeping you glue together. (Kinda the same thing that happens with a lot of school friendships).

I was initially taken aback by Alice asking Sam about 'her favour', but now I'm like. Yes. This is how it works in office spaces sometimes, isn't it? There are people that you like, but there is also work, and the line constantly blurr on what you think is best and the genuine connections you might want with the people you work with. Also, admitedly, Colin DOES Behave wildly enough that it's not like Alice could really talked to him about central IT. Or, rather, presumably she tried several times and it's clearly not happening so you need something to shake the status quo.

BUT ALL OF THIS TO SAY, I'm fascinated by Alice "Oh we're all a big family here" Dyer, by Alice "Just Do the Job and Do Not Care About the Cases" Dyer, about Alice "Yes yes I was born here and i'll die here" Dyer, about Alice "Oh It's Not So Bad Here" Dyer. She makes a big show of being unbothered by everything that happens, breezing through and just doing the 'bare minimum' to get paid at the end of the night, but I'm getting the feeling she's actually extremely attached to this job, the same way Gwen is, and even the people here too.

[its-your-mind]

ALRIGHT IVE BEEN HOLDING ALL OF MY INSANE AND DETAILED THEORIES INSIDE FOR FOUR MONTHS AND THEY HAVE GROWN AND FESTERED INTO SOMETHING ENTIRELY THEIR OWN AND I’M MAKING THEM ALL YOUR PROBLEM NOW HERE WE GOOOOO

okay so anyway my current main theory is that Jon Martin and Jonah got schlorped into this other reality along with the fears but the way it happened led to EITHER their weird entrapment in mostly digital media (a lá the Leitners), which ALSO led to Jon and Martin and Jonah also getting stuck in whatever this equivalent of collecting fear-based stories shit is. So obvs they’re those three voices Norris (Martin), Chester (Jon), Augustus (Jonah) (Jon and Jonah are ENTIRELY guesses at present - if it is Jonah he’s the one with the v pretentious-sounding name for SURE tho) I have forgotten what those names are. Apologies.

Anyway I think it’s a weird fusion of whatever the Web was attempting with that website that collected stories, AND the role of the archive AND the creation of the panopticon by a man who was VERY. DEDICATED. TO. SORTING. AND. CATEGORIZING. So they’re collecting data, archiving stories for the Eye (Jon is still the Pupil and the Archivist, after all), but Jon and Martin prolly wanna help. Categorize. Give these people a fighting fucking chance. If I think about them too hard rn I’ll have an emotional breakdown so that’s a post for another time.

But anyway. The forced categorizing (dolls, watching / dolls, skin / all the subcategories under “Reanimation”). The voices reading them out. All of the computers and cameras and mics recording all these convos between the employees. The organization whose job is just reading and filing supernatural data and stories accurately which is important for some reason that no one can really understand or explain. Hahaha. Sounds familiar.

Anyway I’m obsessed with all of these new characters. I’m so excited to spend all of the time with them!! And be terrified of the horrors that are gonna come after them!!!!

[the-eclectic-wonderer]

Can’t believe The Magnus Protocol sprung a reverse The Portrait Of Dorian Gray on me on Ep. 2. This is going to be a ride isn’t it

[morninkim]

getting over my fear of drawing robots by doing my own designs for the '86 Transformers movie cast

here's Hot Rod and Arcee to start!

[magnus-rhymes-with-swagness]

yeah i can’t stop thinking about the parallels between hearth and alex’s backstories… they were both born into a life that, under slightly different circumstances, would have offered them a lot of privilege. their families had a ton of money and a good social status, and hearth and alex were, in many ways, set up for success.

but there was a catalyst for each of them, something that ended up setting them up for failure instead - the way hearth’s father reacted to him being deaf and alex’s father reacted to her being trans. both of them, despite being born into a life that would have offered them plenty, ended up ostracized and shunned from their families. constantly ridiculed and criticized and blamed for something they couldn’t control and didn’t ask for, but in a better world should have been able to celebrate. hearth should have been able to celebrate his deafness and alex should have been able to celebrate her transness, but they were both robbed of that. they were robbed of their childhoods, growing up in toxic environments and spending their formative years being abused, all for some of the only people in their lives who understood them or cared about them to die.

and yet, each of them were able to cut ties and make their own way in the world. they both managed to build a better life from the ground up, bringing together a solid group of friends to spend the rest of their life (or afterlife) with. they were both taught to hate themselves, spent every day of their childhoods being mistreated by their fathers and told they were worthless, and yet in the end they both manage to undo all that and learn how to love themselves. they learn how to celebrate the very same parts of themselves that their fathers tried to stamp out, choosing instead to surround themselves by people who care about them.

additionally, they both embody the paradox of wanting to distance themselves from their parentage and yet simultaneously reclaim it. alex wants nothing to do with any of her parents, yet deliberately reclaims loki’s urnes snake symbol. hearth has no desire to be associated with his father or former life, but reclaims the rune of inheritance.

but in reclaiming their past, neither of them return to it. alex doesn't try to go back to her house after being kicked out. hearth accepts the othala rune in the end, but after his father is killed, never returns to alfheim again. they take what's theirs, leave, and never look back. so, both of their journeys ultimately involve leaving their former lives behind - giving up privilege, wealth, social status, and the acceptance of others in order to be themselves. becoming the people they want to be, rather than the people society and their fathers wanted them to be.

[mathildejr]

first part of Hourly comic day finally scanned!! Featuring 3 pen swaps (paintbrush and ink, then nib, then pencil) and my (coffeelacking and grumpy) hot takes on the Magnus Protocol - including merging two episode names together apparently

[ickmick]

hey guys whaddya know i drew the silly some more (as mentioned at the end of this long thread as i relisten to the series)

post worms/start of s2 design lets go 🎉

decided its in a small half ponytail now bc i can (buns are hard to draw yall...) but there's a fee more sketches under the cut so :3

shameless link to my jonmartin drawing

i also posted these drawings to twitter yesterday

me? putting an obvious eye detail because i cant help it? nnnooo.... (yes)

also excuse my photo taking skills im still working out the settings on my camera and what cropping is best so erm...

itll probably forever be my curse that i can crunch out traditional drawings but then not be able to photograph them, meanwhile i cant manage to finish up digital stuff that doesnt need photos to be taken 😭 /hj

anyways! he looks so very tired and its extremely fun to draw LOL hes a deranged little wet cat fr <3

i uhhh actually dont have much to say this time around so thats... thats all hshsjsjs bye

[karuvapatta]

I had to google Regency Era for Jonelias Week, and I just finished re-reading @paptato ‘s “A Little Game of Cat and Mouse” sooooo…. Have this incredibly lazy sketch of Mr Magnus enjoying a stroll :D

[ozzieinspacetime]

Forgot to post abt the last few tmagps but. I'm sensing a polyarchives 2.0 and I am THRILLED about it,, Gwen/Trevor/Alice/Samama/Celia I believe in you <3 you can succeed where Sasha/Tim/John/Martin failed. You can be the miserable polyamorous rep I need!!! Trust me guys I can see it.

[cult-of-the-eye]

What I Did Today:

Went to therapy

(I asked my therapist to have a ten minute break at the end of sessions to wind down and talk about something else and obviously I talk about tma and this session she was like what do you want to talk about and I grinned and she was like oh yeah of course, what else would we be talking about really and I think that's an achievement)

Nearly took the wrong bus home and I'm being SO brave about it

Took said bus holding a packet of yeast

Bought a McDonald's sprite

Watched a man pay for 5 different orders with 5 different envelopes full of cash each labelled with names and also watched the poor cashier take all of this in his stride, smiling the whole time

(I think each of his kids had different orders and they each paid for their own? Either that or he's freelance delivererooing)

Had a FAT NAP

Made cinammon rolls

Dressed up as Jonathan Sims and said a statement to my mirror cause I can't let the costume go to waste

Went insane over mag 82

Pretty good day I'm gonna give it a solid 6.9/10

[gayformlessblob]

"...But now all she can do is sit there and smile, waiting for the intercom."

ok so i just barely missed rosie statement day but i have it done so here she is! my favorite spooky receptionist

this is very barebones cause i'm eepy but i need to start making more rosie content i adore her

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