#its also a horror podcast

[youmustfixyourheartt]

fucked up what happened to mike crew.

[jxnxai]

MY OTP!! (guy x eldritch horror who stole his eyes)

[shootingstars-or-airplanes]

Time to let Alexander J Newall lull me to sleep with the soothing sounds of a guilt ridden murderer slowly and agonizingly turning into a tree. 😌

[cult-of-the-eye]

I love!!! horror podcasts!!!! but oh the paranoia

[gammija]

ok since the Magnus Protocol is confirmed AU from tma, and jonny and alex have purposely not said that their voices are not reappearing in TMAGP, consider:

evil AU jon and martin. mostly because I just know jonny and alex would have such a good time acting that out. And also because i want to see a completely unhinged jon and a web!martin used to their full potential damnit

[ghost-bard]

I've had this theory for a while now, and me n my friend (@nightshadetq ) have talked about it a bit as The Magnus Protocol continues, but I really don't think Alice's indifference to the paranormal/statements/cases ect ect is proof that she like. Has no idea what's going on, or will be in for a rude awakening.

[Note: this post is not free from spoilers up to episode 18]

I think she knows a decent amount of what's actually going on, and is trying to protect Sam (or her uninformed coworkers in general) from getting in too deep.

Other than Lena, who I assume has been the boss since Alice arrived, Alice has worked at the OIAR the longest, "nearly a decade" and has consistently told Sam not to look into anything, to not be curious, and to just do his job, and those moments are when she is the most serious, an odd departure from her typical attitude, very likely a coping or defense mechanism (or survival tactic) on her part.

We also have how she and Colin interact, and her conversation with Teddy in the most recent episode (18 as of writing). While yes, her and Colin's unlikely duo could be in part simply a fun dynamic, grumpy/sunshine, whatever, but we also don't really know what has happened within the last near decade of Alice working at the OIAR. The only person Colin likes is Alice, perhaps because she's the only one he trusts, or maybe they went through something together, that's mostly speculation on my part I'll admit.

What's more interesting is Alice and Teddy's conversation, the weight of Alice calling Teddy a liar, her saying to herself for Teddy to "watch himself" because she's worried. I would point out we have no idea how long Teddy worked at the OIAR, though in episode one there's a mention of "another four years" which implies he's worked there about that amount of time, and so Alice had still worked there the longest.

Honestly it would be weird if Alice hadn't seen weird shit pre-canon given how long she's been there, and that despite the jobs turnover rate hasn't quit despite everything, almost like she's obligated, to the job perhaps not, but maybe to the other people working, given we know that people can and have quit. Of course it could also just be the getting a new job is difficult and she has a younger brother to help out occasionally, but truthfully I find it a bit difficult to believe that being the only reason she wouldn't have quit by now.

Also interesting that the only thing Alice said in response to Gwen talking about Mr. Bonzo, where Sam laughs and thinks she's joking, is after she leaves saying "Curiosity will get you killed, best try and ignore it" wherein Alice clowning on Gwen is what I, at the least, would expect in response. Yes, she questions Gwen interacting with monsters, but she doesn't push her to talk about it, and in fact, gave her an out on what the Externals are.

Considering both Gwen and Sam didn't know about them until 1. Gwen asking Lena to let her "in" and getting work about/for the Externals, and 2. Sam just now being informed. Meanwhile Alice has a fake explanation on what they are, providing Sam with said explanation, therefore shielding him from the truth of the matter, and letting Gwen not have to talk about it, only for Gwen to then say what they actually are. So either Alice already knew what an External was, and lives by the "if you don't know about the real goings on nothing will happen to you" deal and tries to act the part herself, or someone who no longer works at the OIAR AND worked with Externals told her that that was what they were, which I'll admit is also a possibility.

There is also her seeing the drowning victim and her reaction to them. Her primary issue as I remember it was the dead body, given how she implies she hadn't seen a dead body since her parents passed. However, her having a negative reaction to a dead body doesn't mean she hasn't seen other freak shit. There is also the option that she lied about not having seen a dead body since her parents, and she (rightfully) still has an averse reaction to them, though I don't necessarily believe this myself, I am presenting it as an option.

Maybe I'm talking out my ass, but I really don't think Alice has completely avoided everything up until now, especially given how weirdly cagey she is about anyone (mainly Sam, but they have a history so maybe she feels responsible for him in some way) getting curious about what they do, or wanting to look into the cases they receive. If she didn't know anything at all, I don't know why she'd care about someone getting curious about their cases, or at least care as much as she seems to.

[feline-evil]

Hiding my shirt that says 'i am not normal about narratives that imply an inanimate inhabited structure is a living breathing organism' as i walk into a board room and pitch my idea that we should make more horror revolving around living architecture

[ghostly-bastard-artchive]

Ceaseless Watchers special little guy gets my half assed WIP for "Dangerous" today

[monarchetype]

oh noooooo the magnus archives just did that thing I hate <- when a fiction podcast that is told primarily in past tense by a single character suddenly switches to present tense for a two-part season finale in order to capture real-time events going on with multiple characters, only for the second part of the finale to suddenly switch back to past tense after the events are over, thus immediately losing all tension

okay okay that's kind of the only way the sequence of events in episodes 39/40 could've been told in a comprehensible manner but. just don't make a habit of it, okay? okay. dw I'm still going full steam ahead on this. just... filing my complaint.

(p.s. please no spoilers I only just started episode 41. even if it's to tell me if they do this again or not: I don't want to know. don't tell me. I'll find out when I find out.)

[willyhoos]

cdi zelda when link pays attention to something that isn't her for 5 seconds (he's not allowed to do that)

(still beneath cut)

[marsixm]

im trying to wrap my head around why i dont get enthusiastic about reddit style fiction (not a dig but a descriptor) like scp and shit like that, bc its not that i can’t enjoy them but i think its like… when stuff is framed as if it were real, but its fiction, its like, well KNOWING its fiction eliminates a huge element of the intrigue, but also, crucially, i like character-driven stories, or at least stories WITH characters. but i also like it when things are interesting for said characters to experience, like, i want the ghosts and monsters and conspiracies but i want the characters to be character-ing, yknow? not that i dont enjoy slice of life and… what would u call the first thing, non-character specific horror? idk? but i prefer when its both. its like i love kirk and spock but also i do enjoy watching them Experience Situations when i watch star trek. i enjoy the idea of spooky national forest monsters that arent real but experiencing it alongside a character would be better, and i want more trans and gay characters whose lives are clearly trans and gay but i want a plotline to unfold too

[inkmaze]

kinda endearing listening to a podcast and being able to tell its got the same like 5 voice actors maximum

[gammija]

@a-mag-a-day for todays episode I'll share something that's been bothering me since I first heard this one 😔...

im having trouble visualizing Jon cutting off his finger. not because of the horror or anything, I just can't work out the practicalities;

Like, he says it grows back almost as soon as he takes the knife out - presumably, he's using something with a taller blade than the width of his finger. right. I mean he's not using a paring knife to saw through skin and tendons, that'd be insane. So then, if it grows back when you take the knife away, that seems like an easy problem to solve: just use the knife itself to push your chopped off finger away, so it can't heal! clearly this has a simple solution

But that doesn't happen. So I'm left with 3 options:

Even when he pushes the finger bits away, they get zoomed back up to the wound like magnets and reattach

the chopped of part DOES stay off but a new one grows back immediately. Seems unlikely, Jon would definitely talk about trying to just use the extra loose finger as an anchor in that case

it just didn't occur to him, for some reason

Jon needed to be unable to cut off pieces of himself because for the narrative to work, he had to go to Jared, so he'd have a neat way to get his Flesh mark, and im putting way too much thought into the gory logistics

[spookyspoiledho]

Okay so I was listening to the q&a after season 1 of Monstrous Agonies they mentioned what might be my favorite thing about audio dramas: there's no one (or hardly anyone) in-between the creator and the content

Each of the shows I've listened to has been the creators vision as they made it. Each one has had such amazing representation and crazy, interesting plots and unique stories.

I love just vibing and hearing a suspenseful tale and not having to worry that it's going to fall into hurtful stereotypes or tropes.

[lazy-toad]

I’m at episode 87 of woe.begone and I knew it was horror but I didn’t think it would make me cry! Michael is so sad :(( I don’t want mike to just leave :( but I want mike to have time with Edgar :( whyyy lol

God yeah 😭 on one hand I'm like nooooo Mike stay with Michael, what about satellite base?! But on the other hand he needs to spend the time he has left with Edgar actually with Edgar and in his own timeline! It's just an awful situation, because it's not even like Mike's going home for a particularly happy reason. 69 and 87 are probably the two episodes that get me the most teary eyed something about goodbyes between friends just gets me I suppose

[vectorworm]

My current fixation is not fandom-able so :/