#archive announcement

[celxstialclanarchive]

Gonna make it plain: I have no muse for these characters anymore. I really enjoyed the time I spent and the friends made. If we're mutuals and you already have my discord, just pop a message saying hi every now and again, I'll probably respond fairly quickly. I'll keep this page archived though.

[ihatebrainstorm]

[It's Just a Theory!]

Just a simple theoretical discussion ^v^

Wanted to see what he would sound like with MatPat's voice then got. just a tinyyy bit carried away..........

[minutestildawn]

Hello, jon

[saragrosie]

I have been sketching. So much tma. Here's some expansions on my Jon and Martin designs I've been doing.

Another note I forgor to mention is I love how after hearing Simon go "it's enough to make your hair turn white" about Martin's office in s4 many of us collectively agreed his hair turned white because of his association with the Lonely. The shared consciousness is real and we use it to play hot potato with the communal brain cell dedicated to the sillies.

Closeup of apocalypse boyfriends (also to the person who said they love my s5 Jon's fancy white girl updo: I think about that every day)

[transformativeworks]

AO3 Reaches 6 Million Registered Users!

The OTW and its projects have been unavailable at different times since July 10. We provide an update and also celebrate a new milestone! Read more at https://otw.news/71383b

[mcyt-archives]

QSMP VODs Spreadsheet May 2024 Update!

We've updated the QSMP spreadsheet with the May 2024 VODs! -> [LINK]

That should be the final month for the QSMP spreadsheet! Some entries still need updating, but we're still slowly working our way to adding those links.

The rough numbers for 428 days for 43 official QSMP members and 46 Purgatory 2 guests totaled around 3,437 spreadsheet entries though closer to around 4,000 VODs tracked! Thank you to everyone who helped contribute to this massive archive project! Also much appreciation to Quackity, all the QSMP members, and all the QSMP admins for bringing such a wonderful project to fruition!

[hell0jon]

“I’m sure he’s watching from his office, grinning from ear to ear”

[dzknik]

some frames of jon getting marked by the fears for a pmv i'm working on :)

[crimeronan]

psst. once again it's time to back up ur tumblr blogs. three months ago it took well over a Week for my zip file to arrive in my email, and i can't imagine that wait time has changed, so. start sooner rather than later, friends.

[april-first]

Guide to the Bravern Flower Shop Verse

Posting this for archiving purposes and for future/new fans who won't experience any of this live (or maybe ever, if Twitter breaks) just encounter it as older, out of context fanart on Pixiv or social media.

So. If you’ve ever looked up Japanese Bravern fanart (or fanfic) on either Pixiv or Twitter you must have stumbled upon a certain flowershop AU. It’s official (made and named by the staff, got referred to as such in the 2nd talkshow apparently) and it’s called 花屋バース. Details with links under the cut!

The contributors

Kamokamen, original/main character designer (Twitter @ sangsilnoh)

Oobari Masami, director (Twitter @ G1_BARI)

Ura Ryuuta, chief animation director (Twitter @ matatabeat)

The origins

"happy new episode release" bonus arts by the main character designer

and their two Yotsuba&! joke tweets:

Isami works at a flower shop called Brave Flower

Smith is the single father of the "mysterious girl" Lulu who is in kindergarten

This spiraled into a whole AU that has Actual Lore because the staff kept adding to it.

My main sources were 2 different tweet compilations made by Japanese fans and the very broken Twitter search. I got into the fandom when Episode 9 aired (before that I was just watching the show weekly and nothing else) so backsourcing all of this was not easy, and unfortunately I can’t guarantee this post has every relevant tweet. For example I found nothing about Smith’s job. It might exist, it might not, who knows. But the staff was very clear that they just wanted everyone to have fun coming up with ideas when they were tweeting about Bravern-the-character.

Isami & Bravern

- Isami and Bravern drive a motorcycle with a sidecar (ART!) called Brave Thunder

- according to the director Bravern wears a helmet

- Bravern exists in that miniature form which was designed by the director, completely unexplained (first appearance of "easy-to-draw Bravern-kun" | official plushie version which he brought to the 3rd talkshow | non-flowershop AU maid uniform update! also designed by him | "bunny day" update)

(T/N: this is not actual canon, but in the Animedia (May issue) interview’s Q&A section the director said Isami has the impression of someone who has a much older brother who passed away when he was young. JP fandom said nope this is the happy AU so he’s alive)

Smith & Lulu

- Smith and Lulu drive a "granny bike" called Spar Kaiser

- Lulu's seat is a child bike seat dubbed "co-pilot seat"

(T/N: answering a fan’s question, the character designer who designed Smith’s weird shirts once tweeted he’s probably using a translator app to scan the text on them.)

Other characters

- as far as I know there’s no "official" flowershop AU version of Superbia

- some time ago the director made a miniature design for him as well, but people usually draw Superbia in a humanoid form in this AU which was designed by the character designer

(T/N: not flowershop AU related, but Superbia speaks in Hiroshima dialect.)

- Miyu has a moped (a modified old Honda Super Cub) and she rides around town with Hibiki to get McDonald’s

(T/N: also not flowershop AU related, but Hibiki considers Isami a younger brother, according to the 3rd talkshow reports.)

- Satake was Isami's homeroom teacher and he was the one who taught him how to properly ride a motorcycle

- it was due to Satake’s influence that Isami chose an American-style Japanese bike which he bought secondhand for cheap for the fun of repairing and customizing it

(T/N: the tweet linked above is from March, but at the 3rd staff talkshow we learned that Satake’s bike in canon is a Honda CBR250RR. At the 2nd talkshow the staff said he gives off the impression of being a good cook, and the director shared he must be single because of the bike & red jacket combo.)

ADD ALT TEXT if you share this on other sites as screenshots. I genuinely can't be assed to care about credit, but I care a lot about accessibility.

I’m collecting the interviews and talkshow fan reports, and I'm also reading Lulu’s spinoff novel so eventually I’ll post summaries of those. (Unfortunately I don’t have time to do more than summaries.) In the meantime you guys could MTL this collab café report/article if you're interested! (I checked googletranslate and it’s readable)

[thedisabilitybookarchive]

📢 And we are live! 📢

[Plain Text: (loudspeaker emoji) And we are live! (loudspeaker emoji)]

As we steamroll into 2024, I'd like to kick off the year by announcing that The Disability Book Archive is now officially live and open for public browsing!

It hasn't all gone as smoothly as I wanted it to, and I haven't been able to put every book I wanted to on (yet, I'm working on it!) but I'm happy with how it's turned out and I hope you all like it it to!

I would like to thank everyone for your continued support over this project, it means a great deal to me. I hope we will only continue to grow as the year goes on!

Happy browsing, and happy new year!!

[ID: A red circle with the text “The Disability Archive” curved along the bottom, in black. In the centre, an open book with green cover, with a yellow bookmark in the middle. The bookmark has a blue flower on it. White flowers surround the book. The entire logo has a thin black border of dots. /end]

[ID: A poster. The logo for The Disability Book Archive is at the top. It is a large red circle with a green book in the centre. The book has a yellow book mark in the middle. The book mark has a blue flower. Around the book, white leaves. Text at the bottom of the logo reads "The Disability Archive". The logo is bordered by a thin layer of red dots.

A column of grey text below this reads:

"A collection of disabled literature"

"Searchable"

"Tag System"

"LGBTQ+"

"Fiction & Non-Fiction"

And "Submit Your Own" in a slightly transparent red box.

At the bottom of the cover, next to the tumblr icon, white text reads "@thedisabilitybookarchive" and "www.thedisabilityarchive.com".

The background of the poster is the straight diagonal version of the disability pride flag. /end]

[spnsabrielbang]

POSTING STARTS THIS SUNDAY!

STAY TUNED FOR SOME TASTY SABRIEL CONTENT!

if you're part of the bang: make sure you submit your masterpost form on time! You can find it on the Discord events or send a DM and one of us admins / mods can get the links to you.

[tmaappreciationweek]

TMA Appreciaton Week II is a prompt week to celebrate the Magnus Archives, the people behind it, and the fandom memories that have been created. This event will run August 6th to August 12th and feature fanworks for your favorite characters, scenes, ships, and more. Each day five different prompts will be provided for inspiration but don’t feel like you have to stick to them. If you have an idea you want to use, feel free to use it.

To participate, you can post on tumblr using the tag #tmaappreciationweek or pinging us @tmaappreciationweek.

Edit:

It has been pointed out I messed up the dates/days of the week, please go by the date itself for the prompt instead of the weekday. This event will run from Sunday, August 6th to Saturday, August 12th.

Prompts

Sunday Monday, August 6th

Favorite Main Character

Pre-Canon

Rewrite a scene

TMA Trending Moments

Roleswap

Monday Tuesday, August 7th

Favorite Minor Character

Season One

Animals of TMA

Voice Actor Appreciation

Celebrations

Tuesday Wednesday, August 8th

Favorite Scene

Season Two

Alternate Universe

Bonus Materials

Hurt/Comfort

Wednesday Thursday, August 9th

Favorite Ship

Season Three

Headcanons

Editor Appreciation

Crossovers

Thursday Friday, August 10th

Favorite Episode

Season Four

What if?

Memes/Inside Jokes

Original Characters

Friday Saturday, August 11th

Favorite Entity

Scottish Safehouse

Friendships

Creator Appreciation

Time Travel Fix-its

Saturday Sunday, August 12th

Favorite Avatar

Season Five

Somewhere Else

Magnus Memories

Free Space

[astriiformes]

Satisfying/entertaining day to be a Minnesotan

[malewifenjoyer]

officially licensed ouran merchandise that has all come out this month alone...