#but i cant help but think of the magnus archive again

[silhouettecrow]

365 Days of Writing Prompts: Day 114

Adjective: Foggy

Noun: Cliff

Definitions for those who need/want them:

Foggy: full of or accompanied by fog; unable to think clearly, or confused; indistinctly expressed or perceived, or obscure

Cliff: a steep rock face, especially at the edge of the sea

[dragons-and-yellow-roses]

Absolutely rude that sleep would definitely fix me, but my sickness is keeping me from sleeping!! Fuck this!!

[whim-prone-pirate]

TOH FOR THE FUTURE LIVE POSTING!! EDITING AS I WATCH

KING AND LUZ GOODBYE RIGHT OUT OF THE GATE ???☹️

RAEDA THEME SONG WHAG THE FUCK !!!!!

THE OWL HOUSE JS BACK ON DISNEH CHANNEL😏

HUNTER THE LOVE !!

YAYAYAY YHEYRE IN THR BOILING ISLES AGAIN!!!!

huntlow .....

THROUGH THE FACE🤞

YHEY GET TO HAVE THEIR POWERS AGAIN EVERYONE STFU !!

weirdmaggedon ass planet😭😭

CALEB😦

no actually i don't think you deserve a new body

THE OWL HOUSE !!!! LITERALLY !!!!!!!

WELCOME TO THE OWL HOUSE OH MY HOF😭😭

camilla noceda i love you so so so much

i ran off to live in a cave in the most dramatic way possible☺️🫶

they have to chain up their homework😦

GUS ANGST !! NO !!!

willow....... my love..,,,......

god she's got to stop OH GOD THE PLANT TRAILS☹️☹️

LUZ IM SO SORRY AEUGH EUGAH AUGHEHGF [cry]

hehe ghost

it's going to hatch this episode it HAS to

oh my god what if it hatched when she lets herself live in the boiling isles

EIGHTIES PORTRAIT .... FORHEAD KISS..,.,, IM NOT STRONG RNOIGH

EDAKING THEYRE BACK !!!!

CAMILLA DONT CRY OH MY GKD😭

camilla the silly .. i need edits of her immediately

"CLOSED

forever :)"

oh my god the collectors making dolls out of them

HARPEDA NO☹️☹️

oh my god they just wanna be a hero oh my god oh my god THEY WANT TO BE LIKE LUZ OH MY GOD OH MY GDODD

collector! buddy! u gotta stop doing that😄

collector you make me wild tbh

fist bump🙁❤️

CAMILLA LOVES KING OH MY GOD☹️

"do you think everyone who gets turned into a puppet gets locked in the archives" ARCHIVES ?? MA?? MAGNUS ARCHIV???????

disney channel commercials i hate you HELP

back to the magic the owl house is back on disney xd🫶

"the golden guard— i mean, hunter" yay🙁🫶

THOSE EYE SHITS ARE SO COOL

matt holy mule i love you i'm so glad to see you again💔💔

gus don't make that face at your bf😭

new hexside is so COOL I WANNA GO

IS BUMP DEAD OH MY GOD⁉️⁉️

WILLOWVINEY AHHHEEGHEHFH !!!!

BLIGHT SIBLINGS OH MY GOD

EDRIC⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️

there were ROCKS at the bottom😜

HIS LAST NAME IS THOLOMULR I CANT ICC CD ANT😭😭😭

oh boy !😄

the collectors kingdom looks like a tiara

i do in fact eat gravity yeah

MAMADALIA ?????

is her hair lighter or something she looks wild

WHOOF😦

THERE ARE MORE COLLECTORS ???

i love how short the commercials are this is fantastic

boscha looks GORGEOUS

amity canonically tried organizing a student council .. if that's not a fucking lmp reference idk what is that's actually insane

EDRIC NOOOOO

i'm shocked they're allowed to say the word suicide on disney tbh

yeah fuck you miki

color pallets going wild

RAEDA ARE STANDING ENCT TO EACH OTHER [most normal shipper reaction]

EDAS HAIR ??? "I JUST LIKE VIDITING RAINE?????? GOD AHEHEHD LILITHS HAIR TOO AHEHEIEIRHR !!!1!1!5!72););

LULU HOOTSIPHER REUNITE !!!

i just noticed eda's arm she's so .. design.

LOVING ginger curly haired lilith rn i cant stop thinking about them

"keep it in keep it in" elsa era [i am begging her to stop]

GUSTHOLOMULE INTERACTIONS FR

willow what are you going to do to her😄

is it absolutrly morbid if i say i need a willow breakdown in this ep

BELOS!RAINE WHAT☹️☹️☹️☹️

i forgot that's how they get memories tbh

WAAAAA FLAPJACK

god hunter i love you

WILLOW NO☹️☹️

Camilla Go After Her Go Go Go

her little tail i can't dobthis

willow kill her please

OOOOO SHE'S KILLING HER

hey willow hey what are you looking at. hey willow. hey w

GOD I FUCKING KNEW IT FUCK YOU KIKI

i do not want an ad for pretzels rn.

belos is OOZING OUT IF THEM jesus

little red kitten so true

AMI ??? FUCKING AMI ????? JESUS CHRIST

boscha you have such a crush on amity it's embarassing

oh my gif thehre playing grudgby

boscha you're in LOVE [cry]

willow😦😦😦😦😦😦😦

oh god oh god willow oh my god

AEUGH EUEGH UFHEAGG☹️☹️

i know they're not going to use they/them for the collector in canon but i definitrly want them to

pyramid scheme camilla😭😭

astral oath ?? AWW ITS A REFERENCE STOP IT

YAYAYAYAYAY WHAT USBUT

she wants to be understood.

luz noceda you're so me

OH FUCK TOU GUYS WHAT IS IT

WE CUT THUS IFF FIR WILLIW ANGST STOP IT WVERYOBE STOP

HUNTER I LIVE YOU SI FUCKING MUCH

WILLOW MY ABSOLUTR DEAREST YOU WILL ALWAYS BE FAMOUS

MAGIC HUBTER MAGIC HUNTER MAGIC HUBTER

IS HE A SPEEDSTER AHHHHDHE

girlie is your palisman an orb

why r u hitting hrself

[huntlow interaction] I MISSED A LOT😠😠 /j

maybe huntlow is cute. maybe.

PLEAASDEADE PLEASE WHAT IS IT WHAT IS IT LUZ

luz's gliphs look like gallifreyan

BEMA US UP BEAM US UP

WHAT IS IT

A BAT !!!!!!!!!!! IT WAS A BAT FIR A SEC

STRINGBEAN THE SNAKE SHIFTER☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️

PINKIE HOLD CINEMATIC UNIVERSE WHAT THE FUCK

guys i'm tearing up like actually

how did dana make me care about huntlow deeply in the span of an hour

ok. ok.

ok.

bye.

[olreid]

hii hope you’re doing good!! i wanted to get into podcasts and i tried with the magnus archives bc i kept seeing it here on tumblr etc but i cant with scary things now and i’ll get back to it slowly but yeah your blog is so cool and such an ispiration and i keep finding about fascinating stuff thanks to you, and i dont know how to find good podcasts so i wanted to ask if you know of any that are about particular or interesting topics? thanks again for your wonderful blog!!

<3 hi ! i have talked about podcasts i like here, here, and here, among other places. i think that pretty much covers everything i listen to excepting all my emotional support actual play/ttrpg podcasts. happy to expand on that if it's helpful, otherwise i would say check out the above posts and start from there

[glorious-catastrophe]

hi. i'm currently reading the ill-made knight and feeling insane, so naturally i looked it up on tumblr to find the other sickos and saw your tags on some random "have you read this book" poll about queer lancelot and i just have to ask. is there, like, more of it? i honestly know pretty much nothing about arthurian legend in general, i just found out about this specific series and started reading it, but now i'm kinda hooked. on lancelot especially. what a guy. are there other interpretations of lancelot as being queer?? it's just so interesting to me if he's not just the guy who's fucking king Arthur's wife but is also in love with him too.

hi anon!

first off: i’m so excited that you’re getting into arthurian legends!! it’s a really cool field with some really cool stories :) i wish i could go back and re-learn everything over again

ill-made knight is the most well known arthurian retelling with overtly queer themes, so you’re off to a good start. if you’re looking for similar vibes, i would recommend the sword stone table edited by swapna krishna and jenn northington—it’s an anothology, so it’s got a bunch of queer retellings of arthurian legends (but it might be a little difficult to track all of the characters if you’re unfamiliar with the source material) i know there’s queer lancelot in the story flat white, which is in that anthology

coming out later this year, you have tristan and lancelot: a tale of two knights! i obv haven’t read it yet but it seems like a good introduction to the knights of the round table at large and morgan la fey!

if you’re looking for something other than books, try the album high noon over camelot by the mechanisms (i usually listen on spotify!) if you’re into the magnus archives, the guy who voices jon is in the band—hnoc is a mix of a radio drama and musical retelling of arthurian legends set in space. and they’re cowboys. honestly what more could you want

if you’re interested in learning more about the source material, i would recommend le morte d’arthur as a starting point! it’s like THE arthurian book for people who aren’t insane about the middle ages and cant translate old english and old french. some serious academics are weird abt le morte for various reasons but it is a REALLY good starter text (and lancelot is a bit of a tragic figure and it makes me weep)

if you’re more interested in source material/lancelot stories, start with knight of the cart! there are some good translations (and bad ones) out there—i would recommend a poetry translation over a prose (so it’s written in poem format) because i’m a translation purist but it’s really down to taste

if you’re looking for more source material with more of a queer leaning/playing with gender i would recommend marie de france’s lanval—it’s short and sweet and has some really interesting moments, but, unforch, no lancelot

i do have to put a disclaimer here and say that 1) i have unfortunately been involved more on the academic side of queer lancelot (and queer and trans medieval studies) to know what’s really popping off in the arthurian legends fandom these days and 2) i am one of those people who is insane about medieval literature and have done a research about medieval lit as a whole and so some of the recommendations here are not… fun in a traditional sense. but nevertheless!

OH ALSO if you’re interested in a story about a trans medieval knight, i would recommend yde et olive—it’s a french chanson de geste (if i remember correctly) and from the same literary tradition as most lancelot stories

if you have any questions about arthurian legends in general, feel free to shoot me another ask! i love talking about it and i would love to be a help! and if i think of any more recommendations to send your way, i will reblog this post and add them! happy reading!

[splonkblonk]

i don't know how, but the tma obsession has pulled me in deeper. my life now revolves around this silly little podcast. Jonathan Sims is a rat and he is scurrying his little way around my mind

[timothystohker]

ive somewhat made my peace with either jon or martin dying because i think it will make sense. but ive seen one or two people talk about melanie or georgie dying and. i just cant even comprehend it. like to me it’s just so wrong that i can barely think about it

[k-k-keroppi]

How I got diagnosed

When I was in the various waiting periods for my diagnosis procedure, I tried to hard to find an account of what was actually going to happen, what stages there were, anything to make the situation clearer, and I couldn’t find anything. I am since diagnosed, and so am writing down everything that happened to help other people who are frustrated by the lack of information. This is for england, and this link is also very helpful for more professional information, it’s an interactive flowchart for the NICE guidelines. Anyway, on with it. 

First, I want to say don’t be discouraged about the time periods. It took me two years to be diagnosed, but I had a series of circumstances that led to it being that long, covid being one. So, I first had my appointment with my GP on the 5th march 2019, when I was 15. I went with my mum, and the doctor asked some questions about how I was generally, I don’t completely remember. I blocked a lot of it out, because it was really stressful, and my doctor wasn’t really making sense, but that was just a him thing. He agreed that I needed a referal at the end of the session, which was really lucky, and so that was where it started. On the 21st of august 2019, I recieved a letter from the NHS telling us that we had to do an evidence based program through my school. #

Since my referal was through my school, my pastoral team were technically involved. What actually happened was that in (possibly) december/january, my mother had a meeting with one member of the pastoral team, and that was it. My mother was instructed to complete an online parenting course to make sure she understood how to properly look after me, and the referal process couldn’t properly start until she had done that. It was emailed to her, and she completed it on the 22nd of february 2020. In march 2020, england obviously went into lockdown and both my school and the referal offices weren’t active, so the process halted again. We got a letter all referal services had been paused, and we could email them again once three-four months had passed. 

In August 2020, we emailed them again, and the referal started again. I’m sorry I can’t remember exactly what happened then, but this was the worst period of waiting. Me and my mother think that, because of the backlog they presumable had, they forgot about me. On the eighteenth of february 2021, six months after my referal resumed, I recieved a letter with a series of surveys in it. There was an extensive one for my parents to fill in, and there was one for me to fill in. It asked questions like how I felt I interacted with people, had I ever done xyz before, and I ticked a box out of strongly agree to strongly disagree. My parents survey asked similar questions, but also included questions about my habits as a baby or a young child, whether I had ever slf hrmed, how they percieved my behaviours, and things like that. I wasn’t in the room when they filled it out. 

We sent it back to them filled out the next day, and on the 14th of april 2021 i got an appointment for an observational assessment. The observation was on the 5th of may 2021, and included me and my mother. I was taken into the walk in center and my and my mum sat in a room with a one way mirror, where the nurse who led us in was sitting. There was a table with some activities on it, and I was told to sit on a specific side of the table. First we had to play snap. There was only one snap in the pack, which my mum won. The nurse would knock on the glass when she wanted us to move on, and we would have to stop what we were doing even if we weren’t done and move on to the next one. 

The next activity was a plastic jenga tower. When each person took a jenga piece the person had to ask a question from a set list of questions they had on cards, and both people had to answer. Some of the questions were things like ‘have you ever saved money for something you wanted’ ‘what makes you angry’ ‘what makes you sad’ ‘what do you enjoy doing with friends’ and other things like that. 

The next activity was conversation again, but only my mum had instructions. She was told to engage me in conversation about anything, and it specified that she could ask me about something I liked. I talked about the magnus archives, and the woman knocked on the glass before I could finish talking and I had to stop, which I did. I don’t know what would happen if you chose not to. 

The final activity was similar to the jenga game, where we both had conversation cards. There was a metal pole hanging from a a frame, a bot like a bigger desk toy, and we had to balance other metal poles on t without it tipping, so we had to work together. My mum had more conversation cards to ask me, similar to the jenga ones. At the end, she had to engage me in two way conversation, rather than asking me about my special interest, and then the nurse came in and led us out. The nurse was really lovely, very smiley even though I kept saying how condescending I found everything during the observation.

On the tenth of may 2021, my mum and dad had a virtual meeting to talk to a different nurses about me. The meeting was meant to last two hours, and ended up lasting four and a half. They were asked about the family’s history of autism, my traits as a child, my traits now, going very in depth about my behaviours. I obviously wasn’t there, so I cant say with clarity what happened then. 

It was mentioned that there would be a virtual feedback meeting to talk about the results of the assessment, but that never happened. What did happen was a phone call on the 24th of may 2021, confirming that I had been diagnosed. A report explaining my traits, and the results of the assessment was said to have been posted to me, but I haven’t received it yet, The report will allow me to send to information to my teachers and receive help from my school.

So there you go, i don’t know how helpful that was but I remember the lack of information and I wanted to add mine to the fix, so heres a full post about the two years it took me. :)

[bathroom-spiders]

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My Top Posts in 2021

#5

Babby hedgehog!!! They walked by while i was napping in the garden :o Sound on for baby noises

8 notes • Posted 2021-09-22 09:38:11 GMT

#4

Felt emotionally ready for a new podcast today. (New for me.) Babes Mabel is such a ride. I am entranced. My brain bit down on this and will not let go.

Listening to it feels so nostalgic, like it's written both for me as a little girl with her head in a book and stirring flower petals in rainwater for witch reasons, and me as a tired adult who works and has lost all sense of time passing.

I love how you can see the shape of a tragedy long before you learn its facts. The secrets and the mystery are characters all on their own.

It's so unapologetically open and vulnerable in its acting and format, it feels like im being included in a dangerous secret. I'm in love with this podcast and terrified of how it's gonna end. Ill probably finish in a few days no spoilers pls <3

11 notes • Posted 2021-06-18 19:12:57 GMT

#3

Critical role finale spoilers below!!

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Can I just say how much I loved that battle with Ickithon. Starting with the surprise encounter when everyone was getting ready for a couple days of downtime and the swift terrifying buildup of a grand wizard battle.

How they won using an item they found dozens of sessions earlier and that Caleb had been tinkering with for this very purpose. Beau and Veths dope teamwork! Caleb going down and then not and then having his old master fall from the sky with a snap of his fingers. Astrid helping, described with so much feeling. The thorough humiliation that this self-important horrible wretch of a man was subjected to.

Caleb knowing that it isn't over, that keeping him alive (catching one of the biggest bads in the campaign alive!!) will mean a slow difficult victory, but at least the man who hurt him so cant do it to anyone else ever again.

I can't even begin to express the emotions I got to feel at all the directions that battle took. I think about his secret dickhands and i smile

14 notes • Posted 2021-06-04 17:27:20 GMT

#2

Coming from my magnus archives fixation and falling headlong into what we do in the shadows feels so right.

Theyre so so different, but they both have that good indulgent maximalism going on, and that unpolished feel that make a series so much more relatable. (Minimalist bright shows are exhausting because with so little aesthetic stimulation it all has to hang on the writing and delivery, and hell that makes most shows absolutely unenjoyable. Im looking at you netflix lucifer.)

Wwdits is goofy where tma is serious. Horny to all hell. The vampires are hot. Its still horror themed but with the tragedy turned way down. It's exactly what my brain needs right now? Like dinner was 8 hours ago and I'm still awake so i gorge myself on pickles and it's glorious. Guillermo emits lo-fi charm. I want Nadja to murder me in a horny way. I want to learn how to do hair horns.

18 notes • Posted 2021-10-03 20:57:45 GMT

#1

What if aliens exist, but they are like, really tiny. Ant sized. What if they visit us all the time but dont count us as sentient beings but this weird subcategory of like, flesh landscapes.

What if they study us the way we would study weather patterns. Are we slow to them? Do we seem to move with the same speed as a plant turns towards the sun? Undeniable but observed only in time lapse?

177 notes • Posted 2021-08-30 10:35:40 GMT

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Season 4 notes

Ep 121: mmmm tape recorder turning on without them knowing goes brrr. AAAhjhdsjfhjdf "do you mind if i call you jon" its like "can i call you elias?" is this the dream guy with the tendrils? who wants to bet the boat is captained by peter lukas? big man if it killed yall how are you still here. oh boy the tape is doin that thing. who do we think it is? did he wake up? hmm. ep 122: lol jon. 6 months!?!? bruh quit movin big man. he just Knows things sometimes you know how it is. nah b/c i can relate to feeling like other ppl/ things arent real, thats the biggest mood BUT i think it is kinda pretentious to entertain the idea that youre the only Real person. If you dont see a body dont believe it. i'll hold out hope for a bit. theres not a new archivist is there? surely i wouldve heard about that. oh god peter what changes did you make. ep 123: web development. hope its about spiders. she blames him. bruh why. if they hadnt done anything the world would've ended piss off melanie. why are ppl acting like he chose to be in a coma for 6 months. we know this they just appear. no longer "head archivist of the magnus institute, london" now he's just "the archivist" covered in spiders? cuz ik the spider has to do with controlling what youre doing and all this stuff but i cant think of how this connects to that. ep 124: ugh vertigo. is michael crew an old man? oooh. fairchild. how did he know it was martin? hmm. GRR I LOST MY NOTES AGAIN. FROM EPISODE 125 - part of 131. ep 131: bruh he's so hard to understand big man ur voice is so low. Jared Hotworth. the boneturner. "the ones i helped find their proper bodies" name a better top surgeon? our favorite trans ally? ep 132: woo field trip into the coffin! static lol. he says "chill out im just poppin in for a quick recall mission" is the rib thing actually gonna work? bruh it feels so odd and contrived but he's an odd man with some odd powers so idk. rip that archivist ayyy statement time. voices? recordings? are those tape recorders? was it the tape recorders? did they pull him back? i hope so b/c if the rib thing actually worked im gonna be so disappointed. ep 133: predicting the lonely? tundra. like the lukases. hmm. sanikova! like sanikov land. so its the hunt? i suppose? yeah. so daisy's clearly rejecting the hunt, which makes sense cuz she doesnt seem to like the entities that much. wait so are we just not gonna talk abt all the tapes playing on the ground?? no? ep 134: not an archival assistant anymore? Adelard Decker (or however you spell it) i recognize that name. 15th power. i was right there are 15. the extinction? im trying to remember what ive heard. oooh spooky. no i gotta be real i dont understand this fear but i'll believe you that its a thing. ew lukas is so squealy. lukas can turn invisible? oh boy. oooh martin put the tape recorders there. lol lukas is worried he's gonna be an avatar of the eye. ep 135: yoo its the third Daedalus statement! maxwell rayner (reiner? reigner?) i dont know who that is but ik its somebody. is he the cult leader guy? church of the divine host? 4 people?? what? did they kidnap somebody and keep them up there?? oh dear jon are you dying? did he try to See or Know or whatever? why does everyone call basira detective lol. ep 136: he was the one from the spider movie that ate ppl right? the special effects artist? is it annabelle cane? "its a joke jon" lol. hmm they wanted to record the therapy session with melanie? i wonder who that is. i almost wanna guess annabelle cane but im not sure. ep 137: this is the one! he went to the other place and read the war statement but it wasnt the one she took. not the music again. sounds like the slaughter. who the heck is eric lol. "the watcher's crown" like the crown of eyes we saw in the piccrew ep 138: oh boy Robert Smirk time. is that elias? as unhelpful as usual. if new powers can be "born" can others die out? did jonah magnus wear the watchers crown? maybe they were born from our fear or maybe our fears were born from them. ceaseless watcher does ceaselessly watch so. idk what you want

big man. yeah jonah for sure did something. ep 139: agnes!! lol that one dude threw off all their plans thats so funny. BUT this does tell us something. the tree in the backyard of the hilltop house? not made by her. it going down didnt kill agnes. im guessing gertrude tied agnes to the house using the tree? u good jon? cuz every time you try to Know smth intentionally it seems like it causes you great pain. how come he can do it accidentally with no problem but the second he wants to know smth of plot relevance he gets a headache or whatever ep 140: lol pagan exultation. classic. "oh thats my rib" lmaoo. ppl are always so mad at jon and his Eye powers except when it benefits them. they're like "oh you shouldnt do that its not right" and then all of a sudden they want to know something and its all "oh cmon jon its the only way" ep 142: oh god jon what did you do. its interesting she's giving her statement in the way that they do when jon Asks. did he see her in the Coffin? and so he's following her? ok cmon jon you're supposed to let them come to you. lmao ikr martin. "start to hear the blood" "suure." lmao ep 143: lol that awkward moment when gertrude is already dead. big J if you die im gonna kill you. bruh. ayo helen? i guess it worked? ep 144: lol this reminds me of that one edgar allan poe story where he kills the old dude with the weird eye. spooky music stuff. lol thats my favorite symptom of a heart attack its hilarious. so its smth abt the location probably? bro i feel like you should write down the numbers idk. 162830165049 564846474827. seems like the distortion? like the kinda thing that causes you to go crazy because of the numbers. oh boy is it the extinction again. bro what?? im?? his dad just died and he's like eh. martin dont be mean. he's being all lonely again. big man ur pushing ppl away. oh god its fucking squealy boy. ep 145: that almost sounds like breekon/hope... Arthur? agnes. aah was he from the lightless flame cult. a tree. lol he's just ranting rn. hehehe fuck landlords amirite. yay someone tells jon outright to go to therapy. now do it big man. ep 146: oh great! the distortion! i'm making a spiral themed building in mc right now! jon maybe accept you did a bad? nah this goes back to what i said before. they're fine with him compelling ppl when its convenient for them but otherwise its "no jon you cant, youre a monster jon" the tapes didnt turn on. i spose that means its not important? i agree with daisy, this seems unecessarily dangerous. ep 147: is that a tape? the first tape? well that went better than i expected tbh. BAHAKJASHDJKF she did the "can i call you jon" like nikola says "elias, can i call you elias?" damn annabelle is such a girlboss. oh! the one thing from the picrew. its been a while since ive connected smth to that. lol all the other avatars always talk abt their patron so lovingly and the jon just. absolutely hates the eye. ep 148: lol thats the most elias thing. "i just like the way it sounds" ep 149: did he disappear? bruhh. ur lonely powers are popping off i guess. oops i accidentally deleted my notes for 150 - 152 ep 153: thats the cult right? yeah. it doesnt sound like the church of the divine host? idk. if it is the church of the divine host then they worship the dark right? so is the eleventh the dark star or wtvr? it almost sounds like the corruption b/c of the oil or grease or whatever. oh dear what happened. oh its the hunters. theyre so annyoing. not an "it" he has a name. he's a person. is this a page from the skin book? ep 154: oh shit this is gerry's dad! oh shit he quit! oh dear god. jon don't you do it. haha martin. yeahhhh... is he gonna tell the others? cuz you know theyre gonna get mad if he doesnt. oh also picrew connection! the bandages over the eyes? yeah thats this im guessing. ep 155: oh good he told them. oh my god what did you do. lol i have no mouth and i must scream. nah you get none of my sympathy you're straight up murdering ppl. its like the desolation, destroying lives to sustain your own. ok but taking their statements doesnt

kill them. oh... bye melanie. ep 156: lmao imagine if the tape recorder spoke back. oh boy decker! i swear we got a statement from him already. oh god mirrors scary. They're gonna eat the body arent they. Yup... sounds like the flesh or the slaughter, but I'm not sure. Could be the extinction for sure. Smth at the center! Like Helen mentioned. God Peter you dick. Ep 157: peter's just so :/ another decker statement i see. a statement about the corruption? hmm. maybe its not abt the corruption. the extinction. lol pandemics. topical. John Amherst. helen? lol i can hear admiral purring in the background. oh cmon helen dont be like that. im trying real hard to like you but you make it so difficult. ep 158: did they fucking free the stranger? im gonna lose it. you absolute dumbass. im sorry who is that? jonah magnus? my guy. peter. you absolute dickhead. that's elias. (im p sure i had this spoiled for me that elias is jonah) oh dear this is her death. god peter you prick. i hope this is a pop off martin moment and not a "martin you idiot" moment. i hope the hunters kill the stranger entity. or she kills them. furry daisy pop off! yeah fuck you peter martin can make his own decisions. you know that clip from Twisted where jafar says "ok what the fuck was that" martin D: ok like i know its gonna work but still D: D: ep 159: peter you bitchboy. because if im alone i cant hurt anyone else. imnotgonnacryimnotgonnacryimnotgonnacry do it do it do it do it. pop off jon. ok its a pretty good idea for a ritual i gotta be honest. she didnt even have to blow it up lol. oh dear that was certainly a noise. "he gets you" did he not have jon already? he's back! our boy is back! awwww thats so cute. ep 160: oh right this is the thing in the safe house. i love him. "obviously im going to tell you if i see any good cows" martin my beloved <3 :)) oh boy who is this. fuckin. people. jonah you dick. gahh. you can tell he's trying to resist so hard lol. ohh. hehe keep an *eye* on him. altho if the extinction is a real thing he needs to be marked by that right? lol he sounds so intense im sorry- i want martin to just burst in and be like "look at this cow i saw!" its so dramatic and for why.

[amicicidalgambler]

nerd ramble about magnus archives and homestuck and Archetype Boxes

i think homestucks focus on categorizing things into archetypal categories had more of an effect on how much i got attached to it than i thought it did?

like, its a thing thats really central to how homestuck ticks. it goes a few steps further than, say, hogwarts houses or what happened to YA novels after the hunger games, and makes these broad yet very specific categories that combine personality traits and super powers and story themes with colors, shapes, iconography, character design bits, and so on

all of these archetypes are integral to the characters. you cant have dave strider without those bits that come from being an strider and a beta human and a knight of time, or sollux captor without being a beta troll and a captor and a yellowblood and a mage of doom. except...you can, actually. theres a core to the character that exists without these, and the whole point of bloodswaps and kidswaps and hemoflips and all of that nonsense is trying to pry that core out and push other archetypes onto it and see what happens

and i find that very fun. theres not really a deep reason why, it just makes my brain happy to play around with those bits

and the magnus archives is the first piece of media ive come across that really pushes those buttons in the same way. like, its hard for me to go into exactly why i like it over other similar systems, partially bc im not done catching up and partially bc i havent thought about it much until now, but i still do like it, and i especially like it because its entirely different than the homestuck ones, and not just on a superficial level

the archetypes in the magnus archives have...a presence and being of their own, outside of the characters or objects theyre attached to (maybe literally, but again, only halfway though). the avatars and such are very obviously that thing given a form, but even without the avatars theres just something tangible about them.

homestuck almost plays with this? it really wants lunar sway and classpects to exist outside of the characters, and they do mostly, but theyre just slightly too black box to be alive in that way. like, take the rage aspect for example. it has a color and a symbol and you probably have a general gist of what the rage aspect is supposed to mean because of the makaras, but pre extended zodiac personality quiz itd be hard to give a concise definition of what exactly it is without using the makaras as a base. even if you had that definition, that was still almost certainly the basis it was built on.

compare that to the corruption in the magnus archives. you dont need jane prentiss’ actions as a character to explain what the corruption is. her whole deal certainly helps, sure, but its not necessary

for that matter, consider how jane prentiss’ statement has her explicitly define how whatever is behind her brand of nonsense with insects and infinite honeycombs is different than whats behind the spider related stories and whats behind the fractal related stories. and it does this in like episode 32 or whatever, WAY before we have any idea about what the fuck any of this actually is. it tries to prevent that confusion before it can really stick

compare that to homestuck, where it can still be kind of hard to say where the aspects do or dont overlap just because it wasnt ever discussed in canon much beyond a couple spots

[crow-shoes]

PANOPTICON LIVEBLOG

ok im gonna do this because i KNOW i’m going to have some EMOTIONS by the end of it. 

sees the summary: oh god oh fuck

sees the cast list: OH GOD OH FUCK 

BERT!! (i’m latching onto things to prevent my fear from getting the better of me) 

i hate this i hate this i hate this i hate this

OH GOD THEY’RE ALREADY IN THE TUNNELS

you cannot just bring Tim up like that Peter you shitty pile of fog and whistles

‘that’s leitner too!’ peter is a bastard but that was very funny 

I HATE THIS I HATE THIS I HATE THIS

what the shit is that 

iS THAT THE CHANGELING

OH GOD  NO NONOSNSOSNONNOOO NO CHANGELING NO NO NO FUCK N O 

HE LET IT OUT??? WHY DID HE IT WANTS TO KILL JON OH SHIT FUCK 

it’s going tO HUNT DOWN JON 

PETER LUKAS DIE CHALLENGE 

you could still go help them.... i’m going to stab him. 

‘gone HOW? vanished HOW?’ ‘PRISON???” WHAT? oh. no. nononononono NO 

THEY’RE GOING TO SAVE HIM. THANK GOD. OKAY. 

so you CAN see everything from the Panopticon NIcE 

ohhh i don’t like this. i don’t like this at all. 

i suppose i am...MARTIN 

the CURRENT OCCUPANT???? 

JONAH MAGNUS 

JONAH MAGNUS 

JONAH MAGNUS 

‘where are his eyes??’ 

oh FUCK IT’S ELIAS O HGSOEHF 

shit. 

no don’t play the TAPE what are you DOING 

oh no. we’re going to listen to Gertrude die aren’t we- 

YEP 

‘used to be able to torch a building in half the time’ i. i love gertrude. i love her please let her come back and burn down the institude i don’t care if she’s dead 

SHE KNEW. 

jonah. fucking. magnus. 

he’s been bodyhopping from the panopticon 

‘gertrude’s grand retirement’ can we have a bonus episode where we just get the archive staff throwing her a retirement party please

‘EITHER SHOOT ME OR-” 

she thought it would hurt more dear god 

what’s wrong with daisy 

OH NO. NO NO NO .N OO

okay Elias isn’t meant to be there that’s- 

‘WHAT HOW ARE YOU EVEN HERE,’ MARTIN SAYING WHAT WE’RE ALL FEELING 

the extinction’s never been his top priority? christ. i hate him. 

is martin serionsly considering- 

HE WAS LYING. FUCKING 

‘do you really care about any of them?’ I HATE YOU MORE THAN PETER. IT’S OFFICIAL. IF MARTIN DOESN’T KILL YOU I WILL- 

oh don’t pull this ‘we’re the same’ shit i hate it when they do that

"no.” MARTIN. FUCK YEAH MARTIN I LOVE YOU PLEASE DITCH THESE SHRIVELED OLD BASTARDS AND FIND YOUR FRIENDS

JON GETS TO SAY FUCK AGAIN 

i forgot how muCH I HATE THE CHANGELING IT MAKES MY SPINE FEEL WRONG 

FUCKING JESUS WHY ARE THE HUNTERS HERE THEY HAVE THE WORST TIMING

daisy and basira ultimate battle couple don’t die PLEASE

‘didn’t think it would end like this- well, actually i did,” DAISY. 

DAISY NO. DO NOT DO THAT. NO FULL HUNTER 

NO. 

shit. 

she did it. 

MAG 158: Everyone Gets To Swear Including Me. 

i’m having so many feelings about Martin this is going to have to be a Whole Post by itself. 

okay. 

i love him. he’s my favourite i love him and i really really hope he doesn’t die. 

He’s been pulling the longest con!!! I love him!!!!!!!! 

‘we didn’t even like each other... and then Jon came back and suddenly I had a reason,” oh my GOD I’M GOING TO CRY 

‘you had me for a while... but then you tried to make me a hero. look at me, I’m not exactly a chosen one, but by then I was in too deep, so I played along. And here we are.” 

fucking. i love Martin. 

PETER THROWING A GODDAMN TEMPER TANTRUM IM-  LIKE A CHEAP WHISTLE. HE PLAYED YOU LIKE A CHEAP WHISTLE. HE PLAYED YOU LIKE A CHEAP- 

LONELY STATIC I DON’T LIKE THAT 

he’s lauGHING I REALLY DON’T LIKE THAT UGGHSHSHSHSJKAJSHZjHSJHS MY STOMACH FEELS WEIRD I DON’T LIKE THIS AT ALL. WHERE THE FUCK IS MARTIN 

WHERE THE FUCK IS MARTIN 

WHERE IS MARTIN LUKAS I’M GONNA KILL YOU 

I”M GOING TO MANIFEST IN THIS WORLD AND KILL HIM 

time is very- 

CAST HIM INTO THE LONELY???? I AM GOING TO 

how do i bring him BACK??? fuck. shit. i’m going to have to write a hadestown AU now

if ANYONE CAN DO IT JON CAN HE MADE IT OUT OF THE BURIED RIGHT- 

but that was MARTIN HELPING HIM 

OH MY GOD PARALLELS HE’S GOING TO SAVE- Oh my god

that’S IT??? IT’ CANT BE OVER

this SHOW IS TURNING INTO A FUCKEN HADESTOWN AU MARTIN'S LOVE SAVED JON FROM THE BURIED AND NOW JON'S LOVE IS GOING TO HAVE TO SAVE MARTIN FROM THE LONELY OR THEY'LL BE LOST IN THERE FOREVER OH GOD

and now i’m gonig to die of suspense before the next episode. 

shit. 

[the-blackwell-pages-fans]

Hi i am a part of the fandom (and have been for a while) and want to know if there are any good fics you can find of the aftermath and like afterwardinesss of series. (hopefully with Ray cause he literally only talks in like one scene . AND BALDWIN cause YASSSS) I cant find any good fics for this fandom without pairings ( mostly Fenwin soo much fenwin in this fandom i prefer it to be platonic) . Can you help????

Hey there! Honestly, I haven’t checked on new content for a looooong time (like, months, boardering on over half a year) so I’m only familiar with the older fanfics, which there weren’t many of anyway. Since Ive sort of distanced myself from this fandom and Tumblr, I’ve read a lot more fanfiction from other fandoms that are much bigger which has really raised my standard. Since this is such a small fandom, there isn’t many works anyway, but the ones that exist are usually very outdated (and usually from when people just started writing) and sometimes hard to read unfortunately (I don’t mean that in a rude way, plus I haven’t had time to read much newer fanfic which I’m sure is a million times better). What I CAN tell you is to go look on archive of our own and Wattpad (don’t have a link since I only have the app and I’m on my phone, just look up Blackwell pages). Fanfiction.net, however does not have anything on it. Tumblr also has some fanfic that’s posted, which I’m pretty sure is in the tag or I’m pretty sure I’ve reblogged it here somewhere. There’s 2 one AO3 that are Fen/Matt, if you’d prefer that, and there’s a couple on Wattpad that I think are either crossovers with the Magnus Chase books (I think that’s what they’re called) or just random shenanigans with the Blackwell kids.

Many works are Fenwin, I think simply because it’s the most popular ship in the fandom, and again there’s the issue of a small selection from a small group of people. This is getting veryyy long but I’ll end it off by saying that my favorite fic I’ve read to so far (which keep in mind, it’s many cause I’ve been busy) is probably Thorsen Engagement by IzzyLeon21, which tangents off the main story to look more into Matt’s estranged uncle. Also, if you’re thinking of writing fanfic, please do it!!! Not only is it a wonderful creative outlet, but it also helps us poor starving souls over here!

- Matt

[flockofdoves]

wait ok maybe a bad time to start this at 1:30am (<- started this post last night lmao) but i’ve been thinking so much (for a long time but this week i think maybe prompted by jonny saying stuff in the s5 q&a part 3 about fanon character designs getting more homogenous as the fandom gets bigger its really been on my mind again) about my thoughts on the magnus archives character design stuff

(this turned into such a fucking long post my god sorry lol. just writing this for my own purposes really but i feel ridiculous i spent like a good portion of the past day writing this out dkjfhgfd)

like i already said on that other post character design stuff is full of so much under the surface both really silly and almost nonsensical (like ‘oh this character just feels like they have a lot of triangles incorporated into their design’ or the slightly more connected to reality arbitrary ideas people have about what type of character might wear glasses) and stuff thats incredibly loaded and very much connected to real life systems of oppression. so its like. idk. i like drawing people and fashion and harmonizing shapes and the idea of coming up with people who dont exist through abstracted drawings that somehow click and that can feel cohesive even with different angles/expressions/poses/etc is really fun to me conceptually but Character Design(tm) as a thing even outside of established tropes and schools of it that really lean into elements that can uphold gross shit as shorthand just inevitably theres so much to consider in the implications of making a person (visually) and ascribing traits to them (or i guess in this case largely the opposite)

so thats not something id call fun its just important and inevitably a big factor if i’m going to put any of this to words and can only hope i do so non-clumsily when i wanna talk about this on the whole just bc i find the process of how fanon designs get homogenized interesting (and the purpose of it understandable and maybe a bit inevitable in certain contexts) but also regardless of any actual potential problematic implications in any of that just bc i like the creative process of coming up with character designs i like trying to see when it comes to practicing that through applying it to characters in non-visual media i care about how i can break my guides for what they could look like down to their bare essentials between canon description, things i vibe with personally, etc so that if i have all that written down for myself it can be a good starting place for just experimenting with designs (i dont have any desire to settle on any one design for these characters but its just good general practice for this stuff) and maybe pushing a bit against some things that seem to be generally defaulted to mix things up or w/e. so yeah i’ve just wanted to write all this out for myself for a while, so after that long fucking intro fdkgh here goes!

jon!!!

ok so canonically hes born about 1987 and is like roughly 28-31 throughout the series but looks older to the point where he straight up lies and says hes a decade older at one point, he has graying hair, has been described as looking like he hasnt slept in weeks

(this bullet point contains spoilers up to early s4) depending on what part of canon youre describing him in he canonically has scars from worms probably all over his body (post ep 39), a burn scar on his hand (probably right and probably roughly shaped like a handprint) (post ep 89), actually i’m checking on the wiki now and it specifically says melanie stabbed him in the shoulder? but rereading the transcript and another couple parts that i thought potentially could mention it i dont believe it ever actually specifies (maybe the person who wrote that is conflating how both melanie and daisy’s first injuries from the slaughter are on their shoulders? so even if not canon good guess i guess that his scar from thats on his shoulder) (post ep 125) plus also probably on his throat from daisy (post ep 91), somewhere from michael stabbing him (post ep 47), and who knows maybe even something from mike crew (probably not it was just the height part of things not a lightning strike but i saw fanart of him getting a lichtenberg figure scar once from that which was interesting) (post ep 91)

has been described as ‘scrawny’ and ‘little’ which may just be more of a insult but because of that i support manlet jon lol. also because of that tend to think of him as skinny and not very muscular but i’m def not opposed to him being fat i think its really fun when i do see interpretations of him as such esp in juxtaposition with martin its nice having stuff sometimes where its two fat characters in a relationship. but if i’m leaning on every little word to narrow down character design i’d say hes most likely thin and probably short too.

getting into stuff with no real canon basis, i am a fan of him having long hair like a lot of fanon has him with. its a very tangential justification because i know its more the specific events surrounding this this was describing but when he was described as a “grubby jesus” that helped lol

but! my jon hair opinion that seems to differ from fanon is that i think maybe itd make sense with him being described as looking older and stuff to give him a bit of a receding hairline

not sure about glasses either way i think it just comes down to the specific design whether it looks good or not. there is something conceptually funny to me about giving an avatar of the eye glasses and debating whether that “makes sense” or not lol. one time i saw someones design where he stopped needing to wear glasses later on and i thought that was kinda fun

i don’t really care for like. idk. glowing green eyed jon or multiple eyes or w/e. like i get it. idk probably somethings happening when hes doing like the ceaseless watcher thing or like that one scene where he forced a statement out of that person who described him as “all eyes” like the phrase but maybe not just that as a phrase. so that plus the cover art of the show being green and making people probably theme stuff on that color i guess i cant blame people for doing that but idk just like. it feels kinda just Blah and not that novel to see a lot of the time and a bit too tropey or w/e for my personal taste unless people mix it up a bit. so i tend to prefer him just looking like some guy even later on usually. also with just like brown eyes or w/e

okay so this next part is for both jon and martin because i cant fit this into either of their sections because i feel like i cant adequately talk about this without doing it in juxtaposition to one another

this post summarizes basically anything i’m reiterating here far better but basically by nature of this being a podcast written by a white person for whom most of the first characters voiced (who included most of the most frequently appearing characters outside of those described by others because they were reoccurring avatars or w/e long before voice appearances) were from a small pool of people at a majority white company and their family members, even if that wasnt “intentional” of course that pattern happens so much and more productions should be conscious of that from the get go and reach outside their immediate circles to cast more actors of color from the start of their productions if they have the resources to properly compensate them. so basically from there theres no real totally satisfying solution for portraying “aracial” characters acted and written by white people’s race, because the situation just isn’t ideal in the first place

so like, with that in mind, i know its a bit of a mixed bag with jon in fanon being pretty consistently either ambiguously a person of color or specifically south asian, because i know people of color who were excited from fanon going in for him to be a person of color only to realize hes written and voiced by a white guy and has no canon race (which might just somewhat default to him being written as white since theres no active thought to how him being a person of color, let alone any specific race or ethnicity, might affect anything), but then on the other hand, characters with no race given being defaulted to being portrayed as white is absolutely another common issue in fandoms of things like books and podcasts. so personally because of that i would feel weird portraying him as white in my own designs in contrast with how consistently hes depicted as a person of color, but i would be interested in potentially depicting him as other races beyond the default fanon of him being south asian too (although theres def stuff to consider there that doesnt prevent any interpretation but just is there regardless like his dynamic with daisy in like s4)

and then this post expresses things better than i could ever rehash, but because of the stuff outlined in there in my own attempts at character designs i try to avoid making martin white because of the juxtaposition between that and making jon a person of color in their dynamic. not as pertinent and not something i’ve taken in from any fan of color saying it so i’m definitely not dictating this just talking out my thought process, but by extension of this i’ve also tried to consider how colorism in juxtaposition between them might make it sit better to have martin have darker skin than jon. this does get a bit weird though when balancing how martin has a couple really goofy lines implying ignorance about police abusing their power (i guess charitable interpretations could be that hes plenty aware but nonetheless vocalizing shock in the moment of it actually happening in front of him), so even if as one of the few characters i’ve posted designs of before i drew him as black, when i remembered those lines i guess its just an issue of an “aracial” character being defaulted to being written as if hes white, so even if he certainly could still be black (or any race besides white who might not have the luxury of ignorance about police brutality) it just makes clear that by him being written the way he was nothings ideal because theres not necessarily much depth that can be taken from canon to make certain depictions of him as satisfying or well fleshed out as they could be. oh also so inconsequential to the rest of this and i dont care about this at all beyond just latching onto any scrap to base things off of but the fact that martin maybe knows at least some polish i feel like thats not a language most people just know from school (esp as someone who didnt go to college) or w/e so maybe his mom is polish so probably hes part white at least to wildly extrapolate from there? idrc tho its just one more thing to note on the subject depictions of jon and martins races

martin!

canonically the same age as jon (so approximately born 1987 and roughly 28-31 throughout the series)

theres at least like 4 things in canon that can be used to say hes canonically fat, and some of those lines also more just generally describe him as “big” or w/e so while i dont care about sticking to this as much its easy to argue hes tall too (esp that one point where he says a worm “jumped literally 6 feet through the air at my face” which i guess could be approximate or the worm like. arcing lol and also iirc jonny says he doesnt remember writing that line but regardless its another thing to latch onto to narrow down design stuff)

melanie!

canonically has a scar on her shoulder (as of late 2016), probably on her leg too (if not by early 2017 then by early 2018/ep 125), and is described as skinny

(spoilers for late s4) (also eye trauma mention) post ep 155 she’s blind but trying to research what exactly she might look like like would the results of the damage she does with the awl after going to the hospital would her eyes need to be eviscerated vs enucleated? idk. thinking about lydia saying in a s3 extra in retrospect talking about this where shes like ‘it wouldn’t work like that with [an awl]!’ bc . lol yeah idk. or like would she have scarring on her eyelids or anything, would she have glass eyes, would she feel a need to wear sunglasses to protect her eyes or as a visual cue that shes blind (bc idt shed be the type to just wear it to hide her eyes) or not, etc. i’m not sure! one thing i do know for sure though thats a pet peeve in art is that people make her cane have a red stripe on it when it the UK especially a red striped white cane is for deafblind people, so her cane is most likely just plain white (also theres different styles of white canes but from researching i think shed probably make use of a long cane imo)

my biggest non-canon appearance thought about her is just. melanie king butch 💗

i do think its fun when characters get drawn with unnaturally colored dyed hair for no real reason and do think people should have fun with that more but simultaneously the contrarian in me gets annoyed with how common blue grown out roots straight hair bob melanie is. like the fun of the novelty of being ‘fuck it dying this characters hair’ gets sucked out of it from it being so consistent in fanon. also while she def could be a long haired butch or w/e regardless i just wish fanon of her was way more masc for my own self indulgent reasons

basira

i think the only canonical appearance description is the implication that shes not thin by jared when describing her, melanie, and martin, distinguishing melanie as “the skinny one”

hussain specifically as a surname spelled that way while i’m def no expert, from people i know personally and looking online too seems to be most common specifically with pakistani, indian, and bangladeshi muslims so it makes the most sense to have her be depicted as south asian. considering her VA, her being part black could make sense too but also i feel like its kinda a Thing in a lot of media where they’ll barely have black characters but when they do they’ll make them cops so like idk that’d def require more thought to it.

definitely not on authority on this of course this is just me talking through my own thoughts but i feel like maybe the common fanon of her being a hijabi feels a bit just like . theres not much thought behind it for a lot of people doing it? like it feels like ‘she has a muslim name’ -> ‘she’s muslim’ -> ‘she wears a hijab’ and not much else. like theres just like a whole lot that would need to be unpacked with any main character being religious in this series and actually specifically iirc theres a part in season 5 or something where her and jon reflect on the implications of all this on human religion? and both seem a bit agnostic in their approach. and of course theres people who wear hijabs who arent particularly religious (just like obviously vice versa) but for adults in places that arent majority muslim i feel like a main motivator for that would be connection with ones wider community? but basically all of the main characters in this story like necessarily with the themes and how all this was able to happen to them they feel pretty atomized from any real community (she specifically is paralleled with martin in how she latches onto daisy) none of this is at all to say she couldn’t be practicing islam and/or a hijabi but just that if thats how people want to depict her i think it deserves more thought than just drawing her as such (like for one example of how people have done cool things with making characters muslim i appreciate this artists comics about muslim jon (1, 2, 3)) but yeah! idk just something i’ve been thinking about but very much is not something i can act like an authority on of course. because being a hijabi is something stigmatized i do nonetheless feel slightly weird if i were to go against that fanon but idk

part of me is like ‘we dont need more butch cops’ but then the other part of me just defaults to wanting to make every woman gnc lol. for w/e reason i tend to picture her dressing pretty practically in like khaki cargo pants and hiking boots and flannels and such

daisy

canonically theres here starburst shaped scar on the back of her shoulder

(spoilers for mid s4) i dont care to find it now but i feel like once she was described as scrawny or skinny or whatever (not sure how much focusing on muscle vs thinness if so) but if so that was after she came out of the coffin so i dont think that really implies she always looked like that and i think maybe even by contrast could be implying she was muscular before

def think it makes sense to make her white. generally i do see her similar to fanon depictions of her although i do kinda wish in juxtaposition people would make more women look butch besides her. i think when i first pictured her before seeing fanart or anything it was pretty similar in build and hair color and demeanor such as most of fanon but i pictured her with like . you know like the tight bun women in the military wear lol. so its more ambiguous if her flavor of powertripping “tough” white woman is gay or not. but idrc regardless i dont plan on making much art of her

tim

uhhh i think the only canonical description of him beyond his worm scars (post ep 39) is that basira called him hot in comparison to jon and martin lol

ever since i started listening i keep defaulting to picturing him vaguely like tim from marble hornets lol. so like idk i think its fun when he has defined eyebrows and sideburns and stuff. but not even that i’m really Set on i think theres a lot of fun potential designs for him

sasha

canonically has long hair, is tall, and has glasses

(spoilers for either end of s1 or end of s2 depending on if you’ve figured out something. if you know you know lol) like obviously theres weird stuff in juxtaposition if you make not!sasha a different race than her. i think probably regardless theyre the same race considering melanie didnt note that when describing what sasha looked like. idrc about figuring out what not!sasha looks like ig if i ever make art of her i’ll just figure it out

i think this was the first art i ever saw of her like right around the week or so i started listening to the show that was posted and a mutual reblogged it so i think from basically the start thats how i pictured her essentially. but the main parts of ‘long dark hair, glasses’ i internalized from that are so close to just canon so maybe not saying much

georgie

uhhhh i dont think theres any canon description of her? and i dont have very many opinions on what she does look like honestly except that i think she looks very bisexual lol. i like the idea of her presenting pretty gnc but still maybe having some fun with feminine aesthetics too, but honestly making her present totally masc is really cool too

oh also wrt body type stuff. part of me is a bit tired of how sometimes it feels like fat characters only get to be in romantic relationships if its with skinny characters and rarely are there character designs of two fat people together and melanie is canonically skinny (which doesnt really matter i Could ignore it but i like latching onto descriptions just to narrow things down) and jons maybe implied to be which makes jon/martin like that too. but on the other hand idec i care more about just having fat wlw characters so if melanie in all i project on her cant be that then georgie will be

oliver!

only canonical description of him i believe is “tall, black and careworn, deep lines of worry etched into an otherwise handsome face”

uhh beyond that idk.. not really set on this at all but i feel like maybe he dresses like. business goth lol. like idk. well put together casual clothes like nice quality short sleeve button ups and chinos or nice cuffed jeans but maybe darker colors and a bit of a vaguely edgy but not tacky flair (like fucking idk. raven pattern button up or something lol)

i saw some art of him once where he had long locs and also just idk he was like doing that ominous floaty thing which included his hair and that had a nice rhythm in the art together with the black tendrils in the background so i could appreciate him having long locs/braids/twists or something. but def not set on that and ofc theres like a lot of years to depict him between he could have various hair styles

this is hard to really judge but ive seen posts where people are like ‘haha i draw oliver just like i drew kravitz in the adventure zone’ which is like vaguely annoying to me idk lol. but of course i cant Really know if thats what people are doing from depiction alone bc theres no set appearance for kravitz himself but sometimes i get the Vibes thats whats someones doing and its just like. whatever idk. branch out and design another character!!

there are literally soooooo many more characters i really thought i could make a short-ish thing for each character beyond a few necessary addendums but god even on inconsequential shit this post is already SO fucking long lol so i’m giving up for now i’ve done most of the main people plus my favorite side character so its fine i can get back to this later if i really want to