#mag98

[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

[mag200]

MAG98: Lights Out

watercolor, ink, and charcoal // kofi

[sleepybugeyes]

I read through all of Elias/Jonah's dialogue (as you do) plus some relistening and mentions of him, so here's a big list of some fun things and behaviors I noted!

I thought he made a lot of eye puns/jokes, but he only does it once in mag161, however he does enjoy making jokes. "Creativity never was their forte." from mag80, "You want my account? My sworn testimony? My statement?" from 82, "If you die, I’m afraid you probably won’t be able to claim your expenses." in 116 and "I only have two eyes, after all." in 120. no one ever laughs at his jokes only he finds them amusing

His last words telling Jon a sarcastic or mocking "good luck" are mirrored earlier as he also tells Basira good luck the last time he sees her, and Martin, as he's getting arrested

He loves gloating. "I forget how new you all are to this." from mag92, "Coffee is not as good for disguising tastes as you might think." in 98, "She’s hoping that even if I see it coming she’ll still be able to overpower me. She’s wrong, of course," in 102, "A masterpiece, isn’t it?" abt his panopticon in 158 and of course his whole monologue in 160

He does his budgeting on tuesdays and his scheduling on wednesdays

He also likes getting lost in work

in mag40 he makes up proper incompetency (said he didnt know how the fire system works, while he later admits he was actively waiting) just that once, but more so he acts like he doesnt get the full picture (doesnt know whats in the tunnels, whats strange about the institute) or acts too late and apologises (not stepping into jon's stalking behaviour). Which makes me think he is quite fine letting people think less of him but unless he has something to hide hes not actively looking to give the impression

in mag92 elias slides the papers for basira across his desk, but you don't hear him take them out before, meaning he prepared and got ready for this before he called the police

in general he's a very preparing man, Lukas steps in when Elias is arrested so has has control over who'd run it. in mag118 he says he prepared something to hurt martin (my speculation is that he likely has some trauma that could hurt you prepared for any person that could cross him, just in case he needs it). When he gets arrested he has something prepared so he doesnt get killed and ofc s1-4 is preparing Jon for his grand ritual

Elias admits the idea for his ritual kinda fell into place after Getrude didnt do anything about the people's church in march 2015. He shot Getrude and appointed Jon shortly after so "when you came to me already marked by the Web, I knew it had to be you." is pure dramatics as Jon was hired 4 years prior

also he got his ritual in 2018 so he managed to acomplish his life's goal in only 3 years, love his grindset 🔥

We never get a number for how many people Elias has killed in his ritual, the real life millbank has held over 1000 people at once, but id imagine his one panopticon held less than a whole complex

its really interesting to me in mag92 that hes SO sure they all know he's talking to them of his own free will. is he just that dead set on being in control or making sure they take no credit for his confession

there is a clock in Elias' office (but it's only heard in mag98)

He has killed people but Elias is very much not a blood thirsty person. Getrude and Peter are both surprised when he results to that. He's very much just ruthless and does not care, if to get his way he has to kill someone. It doesnt seem like he's ever happy to do so, maybe this is a quirk of being eye aligned and getting rid of any type of knowledge is painful (he does for example never want Tim to die at the Unknowing), or he just finds covering those murders up a hassle

for the Unknowing Elias books them all hotel rooms, how thoughtful

something cute to me that Jon was too good at the Eye that Elias couldnt meet him face to face post coma

In mag158 he implies that even Institute employees not in the archives are tied to it, at least enough that they could suffer or die if it burned down

between finding other people just as tools to watch and discard and saying empathy holds you back he was definitely a very very lonely man

He is a very breathy person. He sounds breathy when he talks. He takes deep breaths to ready himself and before he uses his powers. And he often breathes through his nose before speaking or during pauses

He has said Jon's name 62 times, only twice calling him "Jonathan" and called him archivist 25 times (24 in the mag120 statement, 1 in mag138 and 1 in mag161)(he also kinda calls him The Archive in 160)

other fun amount of words: know (65 times), see (42), martin (35), detective (20), eyes (20) and eye (9), afraid (9) and "bullshit" (1)

its still insane to me they added all of those sound effects of Elias' cuffs in prison, thats something fun to appreciate. It also means its canon he gestures quite a bit!

[ithappensoffstage]

MAG98: Franklin's voyage--

Me: ‼️‼️‼️

[a-mag-a-day]

Catching up during study breaks:

MAG95: BASIRA APPEARING OUT IF THE SHADOWS!!!! I love her. Basira is my favourite bookworm, she's just like "well if I'm gonna be trapped here I might as well use the library"

Someone please give Martin a hug. MAG96: you know, if we ignore the time(s) Daisy tried to kill Jon, they're a really good team

MAG98: I'm gonna have to go on a whole rant in a separate post about this one because I was going to reference "der Sandmann" by Hoffman (such a creepy book with a lot of TMA vibes so like I said, separate post I'll definitely write a log ass post about the TMA paralleles

NOW to today's episode: MAG99: already 🥺

OOHHHH IS THE GUY WHO WAS CRYING IN HER CAR A FEW EPISODES AGO MICHAEL?? THE PIECES ARE FALLING INTO PLACE ONCE AGAIN!!!

we're getting a lot of buried statements lately. You could say we're getting. Buried in them.

JONATHAN, LISTEN TO GEORGIE, YOU NEED TO TALK TO PEOPLE!!! She's the voice of reason here...

oh no, there he goes, getting kidnapped AGAIN.....

Guy crying in her car?

Edit: Oh you mean in the car when they went to the pit in the United States? Hmmm, I thought it was Jan kilbride

[dani-r]

Statement of Doctor Algernon Moss regarding The Sandman.

I never uploaded here this old warm-up based on the truly horrifying MAG 98 “Lights out”

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[Image ID:] A digital black and white drawing of the Sandman as a dark-cloaked figure with no hair, pointy ears and empty eyes towards the viewer. Is holding in both hands a bag with eyeballs. At its right three children with owl beaks and all-black, round eyes, are gathering some human eyeballs. In the simple white background, a half-moon in black. [End ID]

[watercolor-rainclouds]

omg she tried to poison him

[incandescent-creativity]

Lowkey convinced Elias knows about us, the listener, the audience.

[farouche-aigrid]

Elias is so creepy and so smooth. Like the whole bit at the end of Mag98, he sounded like a faintly amused father.

“Aww cute, my puppet tried to poison me, but they really need to learn to do it better. Coffee isn’t good and painkillers aren’t effective.”

I almost like him.

[kristsune]

Okay, so. I meant to make this post actual months ago, but I absolutely forgot. Please enjoy a collection of Martin talking to the recorders, which had started much earlier than I had initially remembered in MAG98. 

[midseasoneyeball]

thinking about mag98 seeming to show blinding yourself as a protection against the dark as well as the eye

[bananonbinary]

MELANIE

Sure, no problem. Al-Although I was just going to have a talk with Elias, so, uh, maybe I can convince him to cut you some slack.

MARTIN

I wouldn’t hold my breath.

MELANIE

Right. Fair. Listen, you really look like you could use a drink. Um, me and Basira were just about to pop out. So… do you want to join us?

MARTIN

It’s like one in the afternoon.

MELANIE

Are you afraid of getting fired?

MARTIN

…

Huh. I’ll get my coat.

(MAG98 Lights Out)

even early in Becoming a slaughter avatar melanie was genuinely such a caring person. i mean sure she can be rude and clashes pretty badly with jon, but i think she’s actually the first person to actively try and reach out to her coworkers here, and definitely the only one like “hey martin you look like you’re killing yourself in silence, can i maybe take some of that load off.”

i think if melanie had been there from the beginning (and didnt get Slaughter Avatar’d), there would have been a much higher chance of them actually becoming the found family we all want them to be

[shkspr]

Words: 2960 Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Martin Blackwood/Jonathan Sims Characters: Martin Blackwood, Jonathan Sims Additional Tags: Mutual Pining, Kissing, Arguing, post MAG92, Emotionally Repressed, canon-typical cannibalism references, canon-typical magic spying, Ambiguous/Open Ending, Angst

in which jon and martin have a difficult but much-needed conversation, something they're remarkably bad at doing. filling in the blanks to explain how later awkward interactions came about.

(martin: yeah, we talked. not long, he - i think he thinks that the distance keeps us safe, you know? like, if he just makes sure that we’re not involved, we’re somehow fine. // MAG98) (jon: i talked to martin a few weeks ago... georgie: did you? or did he talk to you, while you tried to find a way to escape? // MAG99) (jon: i'm sorry, martin. i know we haven't talked much, since... sasha and everything. // MAG102)

[ao3feed-themagnusarchives]

if you have the stomach

by witching

in which jon and martin have a difficult but much-needed conversation, something they're remarkably bad at doing. filling in the blanks to explain how later awkward interactions came about. (martin: yeah, we talked. not long, he - i think he thinks that the distance keeps us safe, you know? like, if he just makes sure that we’re not involved, we’re somehow fine. // MAG98) (jon: i talked to martin a few weeks ago... georgie: did you? or did he talk to you, while you tried to find a way to escape? // MAG99) (jon: i'm sorry, martin. i know we haven't talked much, since... sasha and everything. // MAG102)

Words: 2960, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Martin Blackwood, Jonathan Sims

Relationships: Martin Blackwood/Jonathan Sims

Additional Tags: Mutual Pining, Kissing, Arguing, post MAG92, Emotionally Repressed, canon-typical cannibalism references, canon-typical magic spying, Ambiguous/Open Ending, Angst

source http://archiveofourown.org/works/22120645

[meadowmines]

MAG97-98

YES HI HELLO NOPE I DON’T LIKE THAT AT ALL

MAG97: Interesting statement, but I’m with Jon on this one as to WTF it has to do with anything? ...he’s yelling about the fuse box. Oh great. It’s probably nothing and everything is fine and HAHA NOPE OH JESUS WHAT THE FUCK. Well... we finally got to meet Nikola Orsinov! And...bits of other people maybe? A voice box for sure? NO SIR I DON’T LIKE IT

MAG98: Yeah, I am genuinely starting to fear for Tim’s safety. Good talk, though? Ahaha. ...oh god I was hoping we’d heard the last of Maxwell Raynor’s bullshit. The statement begs the question, though: in this universe, is “legit cursed me” really a thing you can sue for? That’d be hilarious, actually. 

Aw, Melanie and Basira taking Martin out day drinking. That’s actually really nice.

And then Melanie...

...

Melanie? Can we talk for a second? For just one second? Melanie? Hon?

WHAT THE HELL, SHIT, AND/OR FUCK MADE YOU THINK THAT WAS A GOOD IDEA?

I mean. Not that I blame her for trying but... COME ON.

[numbalavn]

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