#bonus gerry and michael

[cuprumbao]

some rough sketches. i want to draw the shit out of tma so badly but i have no fckn time ;-;

[murderandcoffee]

michael gerry matching shirts that say "gothfucker" and "doorfucker"

that's it that's the post

[potato-lord-but-not]

WELCOME TO THE ULTIMATE BLORBO TOURNAMENT POTATOLORD EDITION !!!!

Today (and for several other days) we gather to vote for the most Potatolord guy ever, our collective favorite specialist little guy of mine.

Left Side

Jason Kolchek vs Dirk Gently

Emma (my gf) vs Arthur Dent

Crowley vs Dirk Gently

Zaphod Beeblebrox vs Otto Chriek

Daniel Jacobi vs Needles

Rincewind vs Ford Prefect

Jon Sims vs Michael Distortion

Moist Von Lipwig vs Ren

Right Side

Gordon Way vs Will Wood

Gerry Keay vs Cecil Palmer

Doug Eiffel vs Mike Crew

Adora Belle Dearheart vs Oliver Banks

Maladict vs William De Worde

All of Bears in Trees vs Jhariah

Alice Dyer vs Elijah Volkov

Brad Smith vs Jack Marston

ROUND 2

Dirk Gently vs Emma (my girlfriend)

Crowley vs Zaphod Beeblebrox

Needles vs Ford Prefect

Jon Sims vs Moist Von Lipwig

Will Wood vs Cecil Palmer

Mike Crew vs Adora Belle Dearheart

Maladict vs All of Bears in Trees

Alice Dyer vs Jack Marston

ROUND 3

Emma my wife vs Crowley

Ford Prefect vs Jon Sims

Cecil Palmer vs Adora Belle Dearheart

Maladict vs Alice Dyer

ROUND 4

Emma my wife vs Ford Prefect

Cecil Palmer vs Alice Dyer

FINAL ROUND

Emma my wife vs Cecil Palmer

EMMA HAS BEEN CROWNED THE POTATOLORD BLORBO OF ALL TIME ‼️‼️

Bonus one from instagram to compare. truly bonkers

[cielle-b]

You are so extremely real for making Michael a 40 something.

For some reason, him being in his 40s makes so much sense to me. Something about that number just feels right for him

timeline wise it makes sense. vibe wise it makes sense. it's just the perfect age for him. can't imagine him as anything else.

here's more of him :3

bonus part of the one where Gerry finds out that Michael is 48:

[kaijukebox]

hello hello tma follower here… i go absolutely feral insane for your Michael so would love to see some hug content with him!! idc with who but bonus points for the legendary fit he had in the martin hug post. anyway I love your art I’ll stop talking now

Beaaaaah!! Thank you such for saying so and thank you for the request. I hope this suffices! I’ve wanted an excuse to draw Gerry again so there he is!

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Today’s Reference

[the-mystical-aquatic-gay]

gerrymicheal labyrinth au

i’m right and i should say it, but also how has no one done this before me?

obviously gerry would be sarah, and michael would be jareth (they’re both blonde trickster characters who live in and have some level of control over an ever changing maze. please tell me someone else sees my Vision™️)

outside of just that i feel like you could take it a couple different ways:

just a straight up au, no fears or anything just micheal the goblin king and gerry the fantasy loving goth. literally just the plot of labyrinth but dropping these two into sarah and jareth’s places.

more of a fusion, the fears do exist but the labyrinth is either a part of the spiral or just flat out Is the spiral in this universe. bonus points for having gerry learn about the labyrinth and it’s monstrous king from either meeting/reading a statement from sarah herself about a certain red leather bound spiral leitner

is purely self indulgent crack, they watch the movie together and gerry mentions how hot he thinks david bowie is. micheal hears that and spiral logic says “hm, kidnapping and threats in a nearly impossible maze huh? i can do that!”

[cowprintsillies]

The various iterations of my notes app Michael doodles

And bonus Gerry and Helen

[mosssyyy]

My personal TMA gender/sexuality headcannons:

Jon: Canonically bi/ace, and I’ve heard people say he’s either trans femme, non-binary, or demiboy (I personally like to think Jon is non-binary)

Martin: Canonically gay, but also definitely ace and trans masc

Elias: Gay and homophobic simultaneously. Need I say more?

Sasha: She is 100% aromantic and either bi or pan and also trans because I said so

Tim: Canonically bisexual, and sooo polyamorous, probably also demiromantic

Georgie: Pansexual obviously, and a trans woman

Melanie: Lesbian. Also got some gender stuff going on, possibly demigirl

Basira: The ultimate lesbian

Daisy: Also lesbian, don’t even try to argue

Gerry: Gay, trans masc, and ace (this one is just a self insert, I’ll be honest)

Micheal Shelly: Gay and demiboy, probably greyromantic because why not

Bonus- Michael Distortion: ?????? definitely not straight (uses neopronouns, canonically it/it’s)

[emhasthoughts]

Gertrude and the cat-avatars

Summary: Gertrude let one cat in. Said cat has a habit of bringing in other cats.

A/N: During @dcartcorner's stream the topic of avatars as cats came up and I decided to write a little something for it. I have another part with the Distortions that might be posted later. Also worth noting: I do not own a cat, never have, I'm horrible with cat breeds, so I've tried to describe Simon/Peter/Elias through this art and Mike's look is taken from this

Lastly: Not beta read by someone else, just me and my lil google document.

Pt 1, You're here! / Pt 2, Michael and Helen Distortion, Agnes / Pt 3, Annabelle, Jude, Oliver / Pt 4, John, Jane, Maxwell, Manuela / Pt 5, Jon, Martin, Sasha, Tim / Pt 6, Melanie, Daisy, Basira, Georgie / Pt 7, Jared, Gerry, Nikola / Bonus, a visit to the vet / Halloween bonus!

Simon was the first cat she actually adopted. It had been one of her coworkers who had wanted to get rid of him due to their financial situation and asked Gertrude about it. Claiming that he was old and an inside cat, easy to take care of. She had agreed. Thinking it would be easy and that, in the worst case, Simon would not live for long after getting him. She could not have been more wrong.

Sometimes he could have passed as a kitten. Rather small for what he was meant to be, thin despite the amount of food he ate, his gray fur was not fluffy enough to hide how thin he could look. Despite it all, the veterinarian had claimed him healthy. He was also not that much of an indoor cat. Sometimes, whenever he felt like it, he would wander out of the house, sometimes gone for days. Gertrude did not mind it that much. He was a rather loud and talkative cat after all.

Simon also had a habit of getting more cats to her doorstep. 

One day she opened the door to see small Simon standing proudly in the middle of two new cats. One looked nearly ridiculous next to him. Light beige and at least three times bigger and fluffier, with yellow eyes that sort of made it look like he did not want to be there. To the other side was a mainly brown cat, who seemed to be in a perfect middle of size and fluff. A bit of white around the eyes, nose, stomach and paws. He looked at her with judgemental green eyes and for a moment she worried if a cat could actually see into someone’s soul. Since they kept coming back she had named the two Peter, the fluffy cat and the other Elias.

Peter came and went. Similarly to Simon, he could be gone for days, maybe even weeks. Whenever he was home he was with Elias and/or Simon, being quiet and calm. Elias was probably the most judgemental cat she had ever come across. He was not really loud or overly talkative, but he could spend hours in a corner just looking at her without blinking. It was a bit creepy and sometimes it felt like he was secretly planning to kill her in her sleep.

Four months ago Simon was gone for a week, only to come back in with a very disgruntled cat. Looking rather similar to Peter, though smaller, thinner bit of brown around the eyes, paws, tip of ears and tail, including a branching scar most visible on the back. Despite the cat not being a small kitten, Simon still managed to drag them there. The cat had seemingly accepted its fate, making Gertrude question how far from home they were.

She had taken the cat to a veterinarian the day after. It was a male, named Mike, who had once belonged to a couple that passed two years before in a house fire. The scar was older, though it had gotten infected over the two years. She had gotten more of a rundown of everything that was wrong with Mike and she planned to simply let him up for adoption, except Simon did not seem to leave Mike’s side. So, Gertrude accepted Mike in. If only until he was healthy again, by then Simon would hopefully be over it. 

Since then Gertrude had tried to throw Mike back on the streets while Simon was away. Except the pair kept coming back. Which caused her current situation. Sitting on her sofa, trying to watch TV, except she found herself staring at Mike, who had made himself comfortable on the shelf next to a vase, glaring back at her. His paw slowly raising towards the vase, never breaking eye contact. Gertrude narrowed her eyes. Until -

There was no crash. The vase was no longer on the shelf but it was also not shattered on the ground. Her eyes did not leave the falling - flying? - vase. It did not really stop the small cat from glaring at her. 

Gertrude had no real clue how long it was like that. The vase floating on the spot, her looking at the vase and Mike glaring at her. Like a picture, frozen in time. At least until -

CRASH

Well fuck.

[mylemonginger]

Im not a Doorkeay shipper necessarily but i appreciate the potential for the angst and resentment in the pairing.

Gertrude deliberately used Michael as a sacrifice, which gave this angry, vengeful edge to the Distortion. Gertrude then had Gerry as an (off the payroll) assistant some time after, and that must burn up Michael.

What made this stubborn, defiant other guy better and more worthy than him? Gertrude barely gave Michael the time of day despite his willingness to help. And yet at the same time, perhaps Michael feels some amount of pity for another victim of Gertrude. Maybe Michael is even intent on 'saving' Gerry from the archivist just to spite her.

Maybe the infatuation Michael has for Gerry is a lie, maybe it isn't. It's just happy enough to take something away from Gertrude, and the company of Gerry Keay is a pleasant bonus.

[tomwambsgans]

i come bearing assigned christmas albums for succession characters

logan - the bells of dublin (chieftains) / a snowflake fell (glasvegas) kendall - does xmas fiasco style (my morning jacket) / beach boys / red (the killers) roman - the sufjan stevens christmas collection / i am become christmas (lemon demon) shiv - michael buble / trans-siberian orchestra connor - jethro tull / jimmy buffett / quality street (nick lowe) tom - rocky mountain christmas (john denver) / neil diamond / carpenters greg - los campesinos / boy least likely to / weezer gerri - vince guaraldi trio / sinatra

bonus:

kenstewy - it's a nick and gabe christmas party tomgreg - one christmas at a time (jonathan coulton & john roderick) krank - barenaked for the holidays (bnl)

[pillowspace]

There's something about Michael and Gerry from The Magnus Archives in fanon and the average Moon and Y/N that gives off similar vibes. I think I'm drawn to a specific dynamic

Character A = can kill you easily but is trying not to, sharp hands, menacing giggles, creepy playful behaviour that needs to quit, inhuman

Character B = TIRED, TIRED, TIRED. Minimal self preservation, but by the heavens, they are going to ensure they survive down this road anyway. Human

Extra shared bonus: it is all built on fan-works

[neon-merrick]

magnus archive headcannons

(social media edition)

tim is an unapologetic tumblr user that will scroll through on his work computer for everyone to see and will live shit post the archive horrors.

tim also uses reddit.

sasha uses twitter mostly but will look through tumblr with tim and scroll through it herself if tim leaves the window up. she also may or may not have made herself a side blog on tim's account and wether he's aware of it or not is another story.

martin is a pintrest boy. he's simply there for the pretty pictures and cute animals.

jon has linkedin and maybe facebook if we're reaching.

distorted michael will start shit everywhere but loves tiktok/music.ly.

nikola has a fond soft spot for creepypasta forums and tiktok

nikola and michael run a joint tiktok account

peter has fuck all for obvious reasons. maybe he scours through the unsent project (i think that's what it's called) if he's really bored. like... really bored.

simon has facebook and will spend hours scrolling through facebook marketplace.

jared would have a gardening youtube channel

annabelle has dating apps. sometimes she does a little catfishing, sometimes she plays matchmaker. depends on her mood.

gerry is a myspace and blogspot guy but he does at some point migrate to tumblr with some persuasion from pre distortion michael.

pre distortion michael is a secret tumblr and pintrest user but at some point does dip his toes into myspace and blogspot because of gerry.

leitner has goodreads. for obvious reasons. also uses it to track his books sometimes.

gertrude has facebook and twitter but only to keep track of others on there. besides that she doesn't touch them.

bonus round

michael has adhd and gerry is autistic.

michael got gerry into chewelry because the man practically naws through a pack or two of pens every month or so.

[beepbeepdespair]

this has probably been done a million times but. tma musical ideas courtesy of @emiwith2braincells and i

the lonelyeyes tango. peter cant dance, like at all, but hes trying his best. elias is annoyingly good at it (as always) and gets way too into it

either michael or helen gets to chase jon to california gurls. its horribly distorted though. bonus points if jon is screaming the entire time

annabelle and elias are the narrators and get to break the fourth wall to question the songs they've been given or shit that doesn't make sense, which confuses the fuck out of everyone around them. especially peter. he just watches his husband start talking in a random direction and refuses to acknowledge it. also elias and annabelle fight over who gets to narrate the best/most fun parts

whenever gerry comes on stage (which is often because i say so), mcr starts playing and he has to tell it to stop and wonders where it keeps coming from. hes involved with the eye enough to hear it but not enough to fully break the fourth wall. when he appears as a book dead! plays extremely loudly and he and jon have to yell their dialogue over it

in the later section of the musical whenever jonmartin does anything cute and the whole audience goes "awwwww" jon just turns to face us and says "could you not? we're trying to have a moment here" "jon who are you talking to" "don't worry"

someone gets trapped in the hallways and has a breakdown to fancy by twice

jane has a bag or something full of worms that she chucks into the audience sometimes so if youre unlucky youll get a faceful of worm

theres a big group number that almost all of the cast join in with... but its the jurgen leitner rant put to music. gerry gets to lead it

agnes shows up a few times and keeps opening her mouth to sing but is interrupted by various other people/things. in the end she never gets to say a word

elias has at least one ott costume change. theres definitely high heels or platform shoes at some point. when jon sees them he visibly dies inside

at one point nikola's skin is just a piece of ham stapled to her face. no explanation is given for this

leitner gets a huge buildup to his song, prepares to sing and then is immediately bpmed

somehow trexel breaks in at some point and either michael or helen has to get rid of him (i hc him as a spiral avatar). theyre like "this isnt your show fuck off" and just punt him offstage like a football

feel free to add onto this if you like lmao

[cielle-b]

HI I LOVE UR MICHAEL SO MUCH AND WAIT IF HES A SHEEP DOES THAT MEAN GE WAS BORN IN 1967????

Yes! I headcanon that (or for this AU thing): Michael was born on 1967. was hired into the institute around 1987 (age 20) was thrown into the spiral around 2010 (age 43) while Gerry was born on 1986 Eric dies on 1988 (Gerry was 2 y/o) Mag 35 (2002) happens when Gerry was 16. Mary binds herself to the book when Gerry was 22. The current year for them is 2015, so Gerry is currently 29 while Michael is 48. (For this AU thing they meet months before Michael was thrown into the distortion. so, Michael would be around 43 while Gerry was 24.)

Bonus:

[best-magnus-archives-character]

Bonus poll 5 (Shipping poll 2)

whats ur favorite non canon jon ship?

(included polychives cause they won the polyam poll, but i couldnt fit all jon polyships sorry)

If you choose other please let me know in the tags or replies!!!!!