#archive- 4

[bebx]

me reading smut and calculating in my head the positions the characters are in

[radladrobin]

CRISIS AVERTED! :D

[heppileppi]

not only would they win a gift card but also a mug

[exoduslair]

So I may have finally listened to that one podcast and I’m feeling completely normal about it.

Please don’t ask where I’ve been for the last

*checks notes*

Yikes, a year almost? I’ve been busy with life lol

[mag184]

emails from peter

[otterbiscuits]

my friend had a vision.

[wolfythewitch]

Simon Fairchild doodles

[skyrigel]

What's the point if ur ship isn't fucking against the canon with ao3 as lube

[mangozic]

archivist be upon ye

[noecantsleep]

WE ARE SO BACK

[golswia]

„I miss you.”

I have finished this silly podcast and I am BROKEN.

(my first scribble during s4 🥹)

[giraffecatfish]

Mary Keay

[themaidenofwords]

Have I mentioned how gut wrenching the slow progression from "Jonathan Sims-- Head Archivist of the Magnus Institute, London" to "Jonathan Sims-- The Archivist" is?

These are Jon's introductions of himself. He had already had people simply calling him "The Archivist" way back in season one, but he never introduced himself that way. He declared his title of Archivist as what he saw it to be-- a job title and nothing more.

And then we reached season three and there was a gap where we had "Jonathan Sims, former Archivist" and the words were still spoken as one would a job title but with a certain sense of grief that was incongruous with the professional veneer.

And finally, the reveal of what the Archives were and what being The Archivist truly meant happened, and Jon stopped pretending-- even to himself-- that it was just a job. No, he was Jonathan Sims-- The Archivist-- and it was spoken with the gravitas and responsibility of a king's title. It was now part of who he was.

And then, season five, and it's no longer "Jonathan Sims--". It is merely "The Archivist". Because Jon believes his humanity to have died along with the world he was tricked into dooming. His person-hood is secondary-- and can perhaps be considered more of a job title now in a similar way to how Jon referred to being The Archivist in season one. In season five, Jon believes his entire being to have been consumed by the Watcher. The Archives and his job as the Archivist can no longer be seen as a job, or even as a part of who he is, because it is ALL he is. There is no part remaining of Jonathan Sims, because he is The Archivist first and foremost. He doesn't believe his own humanity great enough to be mentioned.

He is, of course, wrong. But it wouldn't be a tragedy if he didn't realize that until it was too late.

[passiunclepaltry]

if you don’t love him at his “exhausted unshaven creepy little wreck” mag 4 you don’t deserve him at his mag 111

[florescita]

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[wolfythewitch]

Season 1 and 4 sketches :D