#mag50

[ceaseless-bitcher]

Hamilton-style musical of rendition of Robert Smirke’s crew and the fallout between himself, Jonah Magnus, and the rest of them.

Ambitious Scottish upstart Jonah Magnus, plunging into the scene of higher society and academia

Interpersonal drama in the esoteric research and philosophy sphere

A power ballad aria from Smirke as he describes his grand, utopian plans for balance

Jonah seeing the wonders of this new world and getting increasingly involved in it, probably getting in some heated theoretical debates with Rayner et al. about it because, being Beholding- and Dark-aligned, their fundamental views would be diametrically opposed

A slowly-shifting musical motif for Jonah as his intentions develop over the course of the play

Barnabas pleading with Jonah through his letter; they’re in separate parts of the stage with different lightings and they can’t see each other. Jonah is reading, rather than listening to, his words

SPOTLIGHTS REMINISCENT OF EYES

Harrowing solo as Jonah sinks deeper into fearing the possibility of rituals

More below the cut because I’m going nuts about this.

I would feel like there’s too much ground to cover (c. 1809 [estimated year Jonah gets introduced to the Fears if he established the Institute in 1818 and talked Smirke into working on Millbank 1815-1821] all the way to 1867 [year of Smirke’s death and the final decommissioning of Millbank: the year in which I place Jonah’s first attempt at the Watcher’s Crown]) if it weren’t for the several decades covered in Hamilton. It provides a pretty good guide for such a varied timeline.

More insane scenes:

Contrast of Albrecht Von Closen’s 1816 letter informing Jonah of his findings at his nephew’s estate vs Dr. Johnathan Fanshawe’s 1831 letter revealing how Jonah knowingly caused Von Closen’s death by stealing his books and got him filled with eyes

Smirke watching the group he formed fall to the Fears in turn, clinging to his alliance with Jonah and therefore being blind to his own turn towards Beholding

Jonah’s financial wheedling with Mordechai Lukas and other donors for his fledgling Institute

Jonah being so gleeful about his brand new Magnus Institute in Edinburgh, after several years of compiling statements informally

HE GETS TO DELIGHT IN ALL THE SCHEDULING AND LOGISTICS!!!

Just. all the letters we have record of. I haven’t even gotten to Dr. Algernon Moss or the conflict between George Gilbert Scott and Sampson Kempthorne

PETTY architecture drama

[spacewreck51]

LMAO NOT TIM THINKING JON AND BASIERA ARE A THING 💀💀💀

[several-ravens]

not tim immediately assuming that basira and jonathan were a thing

[magnus-rar]

opening and closing lines of letters to Jonah Magnus

mag23: Schwartzwald – March 31st, 1816

My dearest Jonah, ... Yours in trust, Albrecht

mag50: Foundations – June 12th, 1841

Dear Jonah, ... Sincerely yours, Sampson Kempthorne.

mag92: Nothing Beside Remains – April 9th, 1824

My dear Jonah, ... Your loyal servant, Barnabas.

mag127: Remains to be Seen – November 21st, 1831

Jonah. ... Your obedient servant, Doctor Jonathan Fanshawe.

mag138: The Architecture of Fear – February 13th, 1867

My dear Jonah,

no ending to this one because he died writing it

[angelsandarsenic]

MASTERLIST OF FICS PT 2

The Magnus Archives/The Magnus Protocol

--MAG24: Dreamscape

Summary: Statement of Zoe Elizabeth, regarding her roommate sleeping. Statement given November 3rd, 2011. Recording by Jonathan Sims, Head Archivist of The Magnus Institute

Status: Completed Words: 2,982

--MAG31: Total Collapse

Summary: Statement of Toby Carmen, regarding an unusual firefighting incident. Statement given August 12th, 2009. Recording by Jonathan Sims, Head Archivist of the Magnus Institute

Status: Draft

--MAG59: Alice, Alice

Summary: Statement of Alice--or possibly Leanne Torrance--regarding her...sanity. Statement given March 29th, 2000. Recording by Jonathan Sims, Head Archivist of the Magnus Institute

Status: Draft

--MAG50: Time of Death

Summary: Statement of Ciaran Elsen, regarding his death. Statement given May 21st, 2005. Recording by Gertrude Robinson, Head Archivist of the Magnus Institute

Status: Completed Words: 2,899

--Blurbs and Bits Regarding James and Elias

Summary: James Hawking works as the head of Artefact Storage in The Magnus Institute, London. He doesn't really know what goes on downstairs, and frankly, he doesn't think he wants to. Not after...the worms. He doesn't need to know. His department is his own little world; even if Sasha isn't Sasha anymore, even if Tim mysteriously dies, even if Jon is...Jon, and suddenly starts needing way more help than the Archives have ever requested in the past, even if everything is...changing. Oh, and sometimes he fucks his boss.

Status: In progress Pairing: Elias/oc Words: 1,407

Super Mario Bros Universe

--Evil Turtle Rehabilitation Center

Summary: The aftermath of the Mario Movie. Mario is down bad, Peach has an actual pet turtle and Bowser and Luigi are...figuring things out

Status: In Progress Words: 757

Assassination Classroom

Shoot for the Stars

Summary: Reyna Cameron transferred to Kunugigaoka Academy in Japan part way through her third year of school at her parents' insistence that she "get her life together" in a disciplined, rigorous environment. For the headstrong, brilliant under-achiever, it didn't exactly go as her parents had planned. Then surprisingly, by getting sent down to E-Class at the start of the next year, Reyna might actually find everything she needs. ——— Shameless OC insert fanfic because Assassination Classroom will always be near and dear to my heart. Minor Karma and Asano shipping, but really we're just having fun with it.

Status: In Progress Words: 28,248 Pairings: Karma/OC and Asano/OC

Demon Slayer

Queen

Summary: “You could be ready for Final Selection quickly. If you can make it within the year, I’ll be waiting for you.”

It was probably supposed to be chivalrous, or kind. You narrowed your eyes. “What was your name again? Tengen?” You sheathed the sword at your hip. “I don’t need you to wait for me. I’ll catch up.”

———

On a mission for the Demon Slayer Corps not a year after his Final Selection, Uzui Tengen meets the most flashy infuriating girl, who, he hates to admit it, saved his ass against a demon. A girl who wasn’t even a demon slayer!

Status: In Progress Pairing: Rivals to lovers, young!Tengen x female reader

[a-mag-a-day]

For mag50, maybe the governor was a buried avatar Jekyll and Hyde situation? So when George goes away and the statement giver can hear him shouting and stuff, what's happening is he's arguing with the governor about making things smaller and more fitting for the buried?

The first time I listened to this episode it was just really interesting spooky history, but knowing all the context it's pretty confusing

Hmmm perhaps!

[themagnusnotes]

Mag. 50 #8141206

Foundations

i'm 1/4 of the way finished thats insane.

— 'Dear Jonah' again..

— smirke again

— henry roberts ?

— worms

— it's the weird claustrophobic corridor entity thing again isnt it ?

— oo i've been too all those places thats fun

— i love tim sm pls

— TIM

its kinda strange hearing the names of real places you've been to and real people you've heard of.

unrelated but i really like the way the case's are filed. the last three digits of the year, month and day. its organised and makes my dumb brain happy

Statement ends.

- xaphan.

[faranae]

Fara Pre-Episode: “Hah this episode is called Foundations, if this doesn’t touch on that architect Smirke I’m gonna-”

MAG50: “... as he trained under Sir Robert Smirke-” 

Fara: [UNMUTES DISCORD IMMEDIATELY TO EMIT A PTERODACTYL SCREECH]

@thelostmoongazer: [CONCERNED GRUMBLE OF AGREEMENT]

[naaddiie]

"Good work, boss."

IM-

[ratfriends]

did I mention tim is best boy

[the-genesis-caveat]

slkdjfslkdjf i forgot how funny the end of mag50 was HELPP

[welcometogrouchland]

Relistened to mag50, an episode that used to confuse and bore me, and I'm glad to say that I now understand the episode! Though this unfortunately means my hatred of the narrator has returned with fervor <3

[sneckoil]

I absolutely LOVE your jonah gif with the lovers eyes its beautifully done. But I have to ask bc I'm a dummy, who is kempthorne?? I dont remember him at all

understandable lol his statement was the least impactful to me. i have some ideas for him though. he wrote the letter to jonah in MAG 50: Foundations

heres a compilation of the jonah letter eps:

MAG23 - Albrecht von Closen

MAG50 - Sampson Kempthorne (+ Robert Smirke)

MAG92 - Barnabas Bennett (+ Mordechai Lukas)

MAG127 - Jonathan Fanshawe (+ Albrecht von Closen)

MAG 138 - Robert Smirke

I listen to all of them frequently

Also, completely unprompted, but while we’re here ... here’s a ranking frm most to least impactful to me personally (for fun ahhah):

MAG92 - the shortest but the saddest. It’s......so simple.......but so effective... the commentary elias gives abt it afterwards is potent espescially after discovering certain things much later. my bias for barnabas bennett is huge

MAG138 - this episode genuinely terrified me. i think.. it’s the scariest out of all of them? i love how it flows though. rly well-written... smirke’s desparation is so palpable that i could feel the abrupt end of the letter coming

MAG23 - the first jonah letter. when i reached this ep in my first listen of tma i was floored by the period change. albrecht’s verboseness caught me in a trance and it instantly became my fav so far. i picture this ep vividly in my head all the time

MAG127- i know i was more worried abt mainplot details at this stage but this ep was so good in hindsight the more i think about it. the concept was really good and gave me shivers. the animosity. the betrayal. fanshawe and albrecht... yes... it’s also the letter that finally made me resolutely assured all these letters were gay

MAG50 - kempthorne is quite detached frm extraneous emotions in relation to jonah especially since his statement comes after mister Albrecht “im sorry for writing this letter so soon after the last you must think my dreadful for not even letting you respond” von Closen. I do not have claustrophobia so it didn’t spook me but his relations to smirke were interesting. he also fled the country so like. perhaps was the only one untampered by jonah what a lucky bastard

In conclusion: bitches be absolute clowns focusing on these completely irrelevant side characters (im bitches)

[infinity-and-luck]

Hold on I've realised that Jonah was possibly Scottish... like he lived in Edinburgh and that's where his original institute was before moving down to London. Never seen anyone mention this before?? Or have I just missed out

Yeah! No one really mentions it and in the podcast itself it’s never really brought up save for MAG50, I believe, and maybe one other place. It’s a small detail and I love it a lot, but I also rarely see people mention it. There are a few fics here and there that’ll sprinkle it in and maybe a few meta posts, so it’s likely you probably haven’t seen much.

I would love to see more of it though; it’s such an interesting little fact that can add so much to Jonah.

[acadieum]

TIM AT THE END OF MAG50........ absolute dumbass i love him

[femmedionysus]

honestly the one moment from tim stoker that could actually be called himbo behavior was in mag50 when he assumed basira & jon were hooking up, and that has equal odds of being either:

-what else could “helping her with some of the investigation...o-off the record” mean honestly jon was being very suspicious there

-oh good time to tease jon about a thing!!!