#mag 144 decrypted

[themagnustournament]

Redemption Round 3 - Match 16

It's the end of today's matches, here with two episodes that I think are absolute bangers! Decrypted, despite being knocked out in Round One, made it through RR2 with 115 votes! It's up against the iconic Boneturner's Tale, wich comes with 164 votes from last round!

MAG 144 - Decrypted | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Gary Boylan, regarding a strange track on his iPod.

MAG 017 - The Boneturner’s Tale | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Sebastian Adekoya, regarding a new acquisition at Chiswick Library.

[6-and-7]

TMA Tarot Page of Swords - MAG 144: Decrypted

[fractal-voidling]

MAG144 - #0090310 │ Decrypted

Martin, no 🥺

[ruler-of-turtle-kind]

Okay, that's enough Magnus Archives for today.

[podcast-official]

tma episodes that personally fucked me up on a deep and irreparable level: (* indicates one that impacted me deeply that i'll probably do an individual post about later)

mag 15- lost john's cave

mag 24- strange music

mag 74- fatigue

mag 84- possessive

mag 122- zombie*

mag 126- sculptor's tool

mag 134- time of revelation*

mag 144- decrypted*

mag 149- concrete jungle

mag 150- cul-de-sac

mag 156- reflection*

mag 157- rotten core

mag 162- the sick village

mag 171- the gardener

mag 172- strung out

mag 177- wonderland*

mag 178- the processing line

mag 182- wellbeing*

mag 185- locked in

[a-mag-meme-a-day]

meme for @a-mag-a-day Day 148

MAG 144 - Decrypted

[malachiwardyt]

Howdy, podcast side of Tumblr.

I forgot to share this here, but on the 30th (yes, I cut the deadline that close) I uploaded an explanation of the Extinction from hit horror anthology podcast The Magnus Archives as part of my ongoing series analysing the Entities one at a time. For this, the penultimate episode, I wound up going way further into detail than I expected, resulting in the video analysing the least significant Entity being the longest in the series. Whoops.

As always, here's a breakdown of the art, for the curious. Although he isn't an avatar of the Extinction (in fact, he seems to be actively fighting against it in most of his appearances), it felt wrong not to do Adelard Dekker for this piece. I really wanted to play around with colour and contrast in this one, and I think it turned out pretty nice.

I dressed Dekker himself in a grey suit with silver accents, because I wanted him to feel very ordinary. Dekker is one of the most human characters in TMA, never seeming to fall to any Entity despite interacting with them very frequently. More than that, he's about as close as TMA gets to a true hero, being at least a comparatively strong force for good. Silver, then, I chose both because it compliments his suit very nicely and because it has mythological and traditional precedent, especially in European folklore, as a deterrent for evil or the supernatural. One of Dekker's most interesting traits is his persistent faith, which I knew I had to include somehow, so I gave him a silver necklace with a cross on the end. It's simple, but it works. The only pop of colour in his otherwise monochrome dress is the tie around his neck, which I've coloured green to show his connection to the Extinction. I know I needed at least a bit of colour, and a neon, toxic green is the colour I associate with the Extinction, so I used a darkened, desaturated form of it for his necktie. I always pictured Dekker as a slender, angular man, which I've conveyed in his face and body. I wanted to give him hair that stood up a lot into short points, and while I considered making them a bit rounder, in the end, the pointed tips just stuck. Finally, there's the glowing green in his eyes, which is, of course, another allusion to the Extinction. Not to imply that he's being guided or influenced by it, simply that he sees it. He was the first to catalogue it, and, admittedly, they do stand out quite nicely against the shadows over him.

In the background, I knew I wanted a skyline with a mushroom cloud behind it, but, as I was working, I decided to make the buildings different references to Extinction episodes. Before I get to that, though, I have to talk about the colour scheme, which is mostly pale green. This was both, again, because the Extinction's colour, in my mind, is green, and because it contrasted nicely against the reds and oranges of the blast. Starting at the leftmost building, it references MAG 144: Decrypted, with numbers running down the side and an antenna on top to send out its encoded message. The next one over is a reference to MAG 175: Epoch, being a massive, Empire State-esque building with abandoned boxes and detritus scattered on its landings, alongside a few more... "living" manifestations. There are only five statements which are the MOST likely Extinction appearances, so, for symmetry, I had to pick an extra statement to throw in. This wound up being MAG 65: Binary, since it's a fan favourite and plenty of people theorise that it actually was related to the Extinction. To get the idea across, I put a few distorted faces on large screens, though I do regret not lightening the entire building up a bit. Across the empty space, we find a reference to MAG 156: Reflection, designed to mimic a large carnival sign and featuring tall windows with thin creatures in them. The windows could have been a bit smaller, but I worried that they would seem too similar to the next building. Speak of which, that brings us to the MAG 134: Time of Revelation reference, being an apartment building in a French architectural style (I don't recall which one at the moment, but I know it was a specific one) filled with figures in the windows, some of whom are half melted into walls or floors. Finally, the last building is a reference to MAG 149: Concrete Jungle, with a rounded roof to mimic the circular shabonos of the Yanomami people and a large, concrete serpent for... obvious reasons.

I think that about covers it. If you've read this far, I hope you enjoyed, and get yourselves ready for the final episode of Entities Explained dropping later this month. With that, all I have left to say is good night, Tumblr people!

[kat-and-their-cats]

Favourite Episode Masterlist

[funkyfenderbender]

things that are making me go absolutely rabid during my tma relisten (im currently on season 4 so this is mostly focused on that but references the series as a whole):

- MAG 65 - Binary is one that i keep thinking about. i know it was intended to be the spiral but the way it hints at the extinction is really hitting me this time around. i think its the comparison to it and mag 144 - decrypted. the image of technology as a piece of humanity’s fall (but not the main player!!) has me Thinking many Thoughts.

- honestly the extinction as a whole. the idea of the fears not being set, structured identities but ones that can change and blend and separate as humanity progresses. humanity is not static and neither are the things we fear

- the tunnels, the prison, and how the whole panopticon thing was set up. the tunnels are a blind spot, something that gained more meaning as the series went on but it shows that the the watchers crown was always destined to fail oh my god

- the rituals keep failing but people keep trying, convinced each time that This will be the time it works and it just. doesnt. even the Change was gonna eventually fail

- the web. everything about it. in mag 147 one of the first things annabelle says in the letter is “can i call you john” which is obv a very common phrase but also the parallel to nikolas whole “can i call you elias” thing…something something identity…something something the web…something something its all connected…

- addiction as a form of control. john saying he doesn’t smoke when he first gets the lighter, but leaving leitner to smoke a cigarette (allowing elias to brutal pipe murder him). john bringing the lighter everywhere to the point where multiple people bring it up but despite overanalyzing everything in his life he never thinks about it. IT BEING PRESENT FOR MORE THAN ONE EVENT WHERE JOHN IS MARKED BY DIFFERENT ENTITIES ??? the web truly controlled everything. annabelle cane i fear you like a god.

[themagnustournament]

Redemption Round 2 - Match 32

Civilian Casualties has been a consistent hitter, with half-rounded-up (131) of its total 261 votes coming from Round Two. Decrypted received only 88 votes in Round One.

MAG 125 - Civilian Casualties | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Sergeant Terrance Simpson, regarding an outbreak of violence in the crofting community of Lanncraig, Ross-shire.

MAG 144 - Decrypted | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Gary Boylan, regarding a strange track on his iPod.

[itchyeye]

mag 123 web development; statement of angie santos, regarding a website developed by one gregory cox. original statement given 1st august 2015.

mag 144 decrypted; statement of gary boylan, given october 3rd 2009. audio recording by martin blackwood.

[mothocean]

Oh mag 144 decrypted we're really in it now

[oaxleaf]

mag 144 - decrypted

funnily enough, one of the things that bring me the most hope about the continued existence of humanity, is the fact that if you take any point in time from anywhere in history, they have an impending doomsday from one cause or another. and sometimes it comes, sometimes it doesn't, but we're still here, aren't we? humanity as a whole is stupidly resilient. nuclear apocalypse is no longer considered a great threat, at least not in the way it was during the latter half of the 20th century. i'm too young to remeber that - i was gifted with constant blasting of doomsday prophecies of a collapsing ecosystem and resulting severe climate anxiety instead :'D

all that is to say, out of the many, many, many the-end-is-near scenarios humanity has faced, nuclear threat is not one that resonates with or truly scares me

beyond that, there is also something to how this guy was already isolated out in the middle of nowhere, with only a deterioating relationship for a connection, that already resonates with the extinction. perhaps not as violence or large scale as it typically is, but he has still gone through a major life change and loss, a worsening of conditions, and is sort of just waiting in the end, it seems, since he's just kind of stuck there in a way. and even then, when he seems to have nothing to lose, he loses moore

[ive-lost-track-of-all-my-stuff]

Deviantart 144 Decrypted

Deviantart 4 Page Turner for HD

[weakcorii]

WIP Gary Boylan from MAG144 because it's my favourite statement now

UPD: my good mates I have finished this drawing come take a look

[ID: A sketch of Gary Boylan from The Magnus Archives podcast. He is portrayed as a Caucasian man holding a sign above his head. The sign says "The end is near. It told me" and has a drawing of a power pylon next to the caption. Gary has a little stubble on his face, and straight hair reaching the middle of his neck. He is wearing a band T-shirt with The Clash's London Calling album cover. End ID]

[jr-but-magnus-archives]

Shoutout to the time I ran an entire streaming radio station of Zampanio related bullshit that included all the numbers, read by my AI, from MAG 144: Decrypted  (this is only one of the files that would play randomly over the course of like, multiple days).  

Even had the folk music that Decrypted mentioning happening over and over again.

http://farragofiction.com/FarragoFraydio/2022myStream/interludes/audio/ButlerBotBullshit/The_skye_boat_song.mp3 https://the-magnus-archives.fandom.com/wiki/MAG_144:_Decrypted