#how to use the archive

[ao3-shenanigans]

WE MADE IT FOLKS!!!

[blueskittlesart]

i hope everyone in nintendo’s management department dies and goes to hell no matter what and i’m not kidding

[anbaisai]

I was today years old when I learned that Kalim's headband thingy does not, in fact, tie into a bow

(thank you @fell-fell for informing me)

[salamispots]

heard it was year of the dragon : 0 also been trying to learn clip studio more

[endlesslytired]

[thatgaywizardoverthere]

Arthur “Disaster Bi” Pendragon learning about true loves kiss as a cure like:

Gwaine: For fuck’s sake, he’s not enchanted every time he smiles at someone else, Arthur! He was literally just laughing at my joke!

Arthur, aggressively frenching Merlin on the council room floor: YOU CAN NEVER BE TOO CAREFUL OKAY-

[fleursdesmorts]

every year people get angry when ao3 requests donations but honestly in a world where almost all spaces online are slowly being eaten by corporations which censor the content on those sites, having a fan-run fan-sponsored place where people can create gay art without fear is great

[snekberry]

Honey I'm Home - TMA PMV

[ID: Animated clips from the linked Magnus Archives animation.

Jon prays with a strained expression while root-like tendrils reach for him. A flatlining heart monitor starts to beat as a crown lowers over his head.

Elias reaches out a hand with a smirk while inside a jail cell.

Multiple frames are shown over a spiderweb background: They show season one Jon signing his contract with a grinning Elias.

Multiple frames are shown over a collage of various cut out statements in the background. They show season four Jon noticing Jess Terrell and speaking to her, eyes turning green as he smiles unnervingly. End ID]

Thank you @/princess-of-purple-prose for the description!!

[jewish-jonathansims]

Season one Jon is so funny

"Not because of Mr. Hodge’s experience, although I’m sure it was very upsetting. If it was true, of course"

"Still, that’s not really what concerns me either, though obviously it’s a tragic loss of life, etcetera, etcetera"

These lines crack me up every time what do you mean etcetera etcetera someone died my guy

[14dayswithyou]

Hiii I just wanted to say that I love the game and the story has captivated me. I'm looking forward to seeing what happens next. Ever since I played the game I have felt the need to cosplay Ren, feel honoured Ren xD.

Consider him honoured! (and me ADKJASKF I'd honestly cry if someone cosplayed that yandere bastard (endearing) :')'But if you do ever end up making a cosplay, PLEASE tag me!! I would love to see it!)

[marmarjam]

hello tma community please accept my offering of jon and the admiral

[ID: The Magnus Archives fanart showing several doodles of Jon Sims and The Admiral, an orange and white cat, on a grey background. Jon is wearing oversized "What the Ghost" hoodies in all of them.

Jon looks straight ahead of him with The Admiral perched on his head.

Jon is sitting on the floor next to a curled up Admiral and says, "Georgie?" Off-page, Georgie replies, "what?" Jon informs her, "we ran out of cereal".

Jon standing next to The Admiral with sparkles around him.

Jon holding a statement and saying "good morning!" while The Admiral sits on his head.

Jon and The Admiral sitting next to each other in silence.

Jon picking up The Admiral and smiling, saying, "good morning!" The Admiral meows back. There are pink hearts around them.

End ID] thank you @/refrainboy for the desc! :>

[buqbite]

part 1 (on VA and being better than humans)

part 2 (on welt and being just a human)

[lunacias]

statement of jonathon sims, regarding a childhood encounter with a book formerly possessed by jurgen leitner

[ganem-ouchie]

Im in the timeline mood don't mind me. The Archivist through the seasons sketches!! plus uh,, the finale.

(click for good quality i beg of thee)

[creepyeyesandfrogs]

(click for better quality)

year three of me drawing jon and the admiral cuddling in tones of purple for jon sims and cats day

its for my mental health

[I.D.: digital illustration of jon sims and the admiral sleeping on georgie's couch, made in warm shades of blue and purple. jon is a skinny Black person with curly greying hair and circular scars on their face and neck. he has a bandage on his neck and bags under his eyes, and the clothes he's wearing are clearly too large. the admiral is a fluffy grey cat who is very happy to snuggle with jon as they take a nap. next to the couch there is a small table, and on it, an empty cup and a tape recorder. in the bottom right, the artist's signature: coelho. end I.D./]

[s0akie]

I won't ever forgive Johnny Sims for the decisions that he made for episodes 161 and 162. It was genius and absolutely gut wrenching.

Back in the first few seasons, when we first started listening to the podcast, we were not that invested in the characters yet- Tim, Sasha and Martin only started appearing on tape midway through season one. They all had little tid bits here and there, and both Martin and Sasha had what- A single episode or two dedicated to them?

So, losing Sasha back then was not as devastating as it could have been. We did not know her as a person. We did not get the time to be attached to the characters yet. Her death's purpose, for us, was to cement the actual horror of the podcast, the fact that a person believed to be part of the main cast had simply died, in a situation she could not have prevented- Her death set the stakes, as well as introduced the Not!Them properly to us.

By the time we lost Tim, we only remembered him as a bitter and angry man. We had spent the majority of the show with a Tim that had fallen into a deep, deep depression, and that version of Tim is the version we knew. Once again, his cheery attitude was only there during season 1 and the few times we'd hear him in season 2, and even then the bitterness had started to settle.

Now, as we listened to the first two episodes of season 5, bracing for the worst, bracing for the apocalypse and the screams of terror and yells and arguments, we instead get hit with Jon's Birthday tape from before the show even started. We listen as we get to hear Sasha and Tim again at the same time Jon does, we then get insights on how they were as people, how happy they used to be, their goals, their ambitions, their relationship and friendship and how it could have grown, and we mourn them.

Now that we are fully invested into the show, we are forced to go through the grief we had managed to avoid the first time around. We are forced to mourn Sasha, to wish she had stuck around, to wish we had more time to simply know her.

We are forced to mourn Tim, his pre-depression self, we wish it could have gone differently, that he had appeared on tape just a little more.

It's just that, a gut-punch, a "Hah, you thought you were safe four seasons ago? Back when you first lost Sasha? Well fuck you, cry now. Realize. Bitch."

God I love this show