#mag174

[karakuliiii]

HELLO PEOPLE HEY I FINALLY FINISHED THIS THING!!! It is my biggest project yet and i'm quite proud of it I spent so many hours on this help this is what gay archivists do to your brain

[fractal-voidling]

MAG174 - ########-14 │ The Great Beast

Martin is being awfully flippant about dating The Horrors, lol

also Simon is still fun

a nice, straightforward apocalypse, lol

[silhouettecrow]

365 Days of Poems: Day 8 (January 8th)

Vast Beast

A tall, lumbering beast

larger than you can even imagine

you can try

but you will find yourself

incapable of painting

the image in your mind

Emerges from the distant fog

further than you've ever known

and further still

than you thought possible

of the world

and of your sight on the horizon

To begin wandering closer

what was once a large speck

grows larger

and its features become clearer

as it advances

from leagues away

And closer

growing larger evermore

the beast’s body swallows the sky

fells trees in its wake

and shatters life underfoot

you can hear only screams now

And closer

you can feel the earth shake

under each thundering step

and the sun disappears

blotted out by this massive thing

beyond machination or being or god

Until a crushing and oblivion consume you

the beast

never once

so much

as noticed

your existence

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Here's the link to the corresponding writing prompt post

[nightmarilyn]

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MAG174 - HELENNNNNNN

[gammija]

Gotta love our funky murder grandpa

[princess-of-purple-prose]

[ID: A screenshot of a Bing news page. It shows multiple news stories about Al Blaschke. The most prominent headline reads: "103-year-old man breaks Guinness skydiving record". / End ID]

[ID: An image of Tiffany Pollard looking extremely shocked. The caption reads, in all caps: "Simon?" / End ID]

[cloudwithoutsilverlining]

thank u helen for your input

[mwagneto]

j*nah: i doomed the world because i wanted to live forever and be the king of the apocalypse

oliver: yeah so everyone will eventually die

simon: jon you're the closest thing anyone's ever come to being important in this world

j*nah:

[im-the-queen-of-stardust]

I will loose my mind if Daisy shows up this episode.

[thevoidcannotbefilled]

I genuinely love the hypocrisy shown within the avatars. Especially with Simon Fairchild.

Simon's entire philosophy is about our own insignificance in the universe and our lack of importance. Yet, the moment he is in any potential danger, Simon bails on the conversation.

For him, seeing others and the world as insignificant only applies if it gives a path to his own indulgence and satisfaction. The Vast is about taking and gluttony as much as it's about feeling small in the face of the universe.

So, in that way, seeing others as insignificant is just a way to not see the fault of your own actions. A hedonist lifestyle in its most extreme, and in that way, death is the most fearful prospect. Knowing the world is so infinite, you view yourself as better.

Just like all avatars, Simon's view of "insignificance" is just an excuse to hurt other people.

[skyberia]

you really want that old man dead huh 

[spiralboi]

Never thought of Simon Fairchild as an outright funny character... until MAG174 in which his entrance is him falling from the sky and faceplanting into the dirt, genuinely thinking he's just having a fun hang-out with The Boys, while the statement is about a giant creature which blocks out the sky aka a giant f-you to Jonah/Elias

[kayleerowena]

have not stopped thinking about this little dialogue snippet all day

[ibuybooksandnowimbroke]

Well I guess we now know what Helen has been up to...

[rel-ish]

fully expecting everyone that made art of past s5 moments to go back and poorly edit in a distant helen sitting in a lawn chair with popcorn and binoculars and watching everything go to shit

[im-a-medicinecat-martin]

me last week: the boys are miscommunicating mx. Helen Distortion please come help them

*finger on the monkey paw curls*