#magp 8

[starsandwriting]

Me listening to magp 8: What a fascinating spin on a Lonely statement that asks what if it was the Place that was lonely, so hungry that it desires to quite literally ea- WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCKKKKKK WHAT WHAT WHAT THE FUCKKK WHATTTTTT FUCKING WHAT WHAT COME AGAIN HUH WHAT FUCKING WH

[ID: Cartoony art of people who look comically shocked, terrified, and overwhelmed, with their eyes bugging out and their mouth open, sweating in shock and trembling. End ID]

[Plain text: Multiple variations of "What the fuck" and "come again" written in caps lock. End PT]

[Thank you to @princess-of-purple-prose and @ryutarotakedown for the id's :] I hope it's ok to merge the two!]

[pillowspace]

We're so back

Edit: I made this post before finishing the episode, so I find it interesting to note that these episodes also share the parallel of... a certain someone

[24601st]

"if the dice roll poorly right now then that means the next rolls will be good i swear i swear"

[lycanlovingvampyre]

Happy Gerry! I love how much fan service we got until now in Protocol. But today's episode has been my favorite in this regards so far! So, here's how I picture Gerry in The Magnus Protocl! I don't think he'd totally abandon his metalhead persona. Some things are just hardwired to a personality no matter their past experiences. But I think Gerry sounds less edgy in this one. So I made him a bit more... round^^ No dyed hair, no Eye tattos, no black finger nails. Still piercings. Also he has an undercut now. For now a gray muscle shirt, black army trousers and the most important thing! Cute socks! Also a grandma recliner chair to have a bit of Gee Gee's influence in this!

[randomfae]

inside me there are two wolves: one doesn't want to go meta, the other doesn't want to fall for any yummy yummy bait. there's also a third wolf who thinks the actual bait was the meta we did along the way.

the wolf who wins is a fourth one who's carrying 3km of red thread.

[shinyhappygoth]

Okay, so here's my working theory for The Magnus Protocol as it relates to The Magnus Archives, as of MAGP 8:

Nothing physical came through the Crack, only mental/spiritual/informational/eldritch. Specifically, this included the Fears, our boys and their third wheel (probably because, while his body was dead, his eyeballs were still viable so he wasn't dead dead yet), and everything on the tapes.

This resulted in the Protocol versions of people who were on the tapes acquiring some amount of memories/knowledge of what happened to their Archives selves.

I suspect this to be the whole deal for Celia and Georgie, although I don't have much to go on yet. It seems more likely that Gertrude (and possibly Gerry) might have had Stuff going on prior to this, but, again, unclear as yet.

Gerry definitely seems to have had a better life here and to be genuinely much happier, but I have to wonder whether he knows more than he's saying... and whether he was in Camden when the memories struck.

We'll see how this holds up!

[7knives]

the 'statement' from magp 8 was very extinction-y

Also… GERRY AND GRANNY GERTRUDE ??????????

And celia is trying to look into TIME TRAVEL, OTHER DIMENSIONS and TELEPORTATION ???????? And she’s doing a podcast with GEORGIE ?????

[haehaehaehae]

bro is yearning for the analog

more tma

mixing my imagery mixing my metaphors idgaf here tha speedpaint😽💚

magp friends how we feeling with the hiatus🥲

[trans-jon-rights]

Let's adress the case numbers in TMAGP !

Spoiler warning up to episode 14

Here are all the cases by categories and ranks :

CAT 1 :

MAGP 1 (Case 1) : 'Some of him' // RBC

MAGP 6 : Needles // RB

MAGP 10 : Bonzo // RB

MAGP 12 : Bonzo // RB

MAGP 14 : Snakes // RB

CAT 2 :

MAGP 1 (Case 2)* : Red Canary // RAB

MAGP 3 : Guy who becomes a tree // C

MAGP 5 : Voyeur // RB

MAGP 7 : Charity shop // RC

MAGP 8 : Brutalist Architecture // RBC

MAGP 11* : 'The deep will care for his bones' // RC

CAT 3 :

MAGP 1 (Case 2)* : Red Canary // RAB

MAGP 2 : Tattoo // RB

MAGP 4 : Murder Violin // C

MAGP 9 : Murder Dices // RB

MAGP 11* : 'The deep will care for his bones' // RC

MAGP 13 : Murder Crypto // RB

*The Red Canary Case and the 'Deep' Case are labelled as CAT23, so I put them in both CAT 2 and CAT3

Okay ? Okay.

So now I think we can say each category have a thing :

CAT1 is for 'living' manifestations (that used to be human/animal or not)

CAT2 is for specific places (MAGP 3 is a garden and MAGP 5 is the cinema)

CAT3 is for artefacts/non-living manifestations.

About MAGP 1 (Case 2) and MAGP 11, I think they are in both categories because it got to do with both. For Red Canary it was both the Institute and the box he took from there, and for the other it was both the tattoo and the ocean/cliff (unsure if its one or the other).

You could argue that MAGP 5 got more to djo with the movie than the cinema, and I would agree ! However, I think the movie is also part of the cinema, in some way. The whole place was creepy, and if it was only the movie, it could have been done with simply a DVD or something. The fact that it was in a cinema was intentional.

For the ranks, I think it's pretty much self explanatory : RA to RC to categorise the levels of danger.

What is concerning about it however is that :

A) The Institute is ranked AB, which is the highest on this list for now.

B) All 'living' manifestations are ranked B or below, which means that our heroes would be pretty fucked should they encounter a rank A.

C) Some cases (namely, MAGP 3 and 4) are simply labelled 'C' without it being an actual rank. I could pass it off as a typo, but were talking about Jonathan Sims here, folks.

Another theory I have is that the O.I.A.R only handle B-ranked Externals, and eliminate those whose rank is higher. We'll need to verify that once the next External turns up, but until then I'm running with that.

Here, that was my rambling. Have a good one <3

[starsandwriting]

Also, LOVE Episode 8 for bringing back one of my favorite Lonely Statement Things: the "It was a crowd with no people in it." trope. There's bodies and faces and voices but no people. You are surrounded and still so terrifyingly alone

[its-your-mind]

The Magnus Protocol tag: does not trend on tumblr for several consecutive magnus thursdays

MAGP 08:

The Magnus Protocol tag:

[ID: Image one: A screenshot from The Magnus Protocol episode 8 transcript. It reads:

GERRY

Pleasure to meet you both. I’m Gerry!

Image two: The tumblr trending page. “the magnus protocol” is trending at number one. End ID]

[invisiblewhatnot]

Magp 8 literally has me combing through the transcript. There’s too many details. Gerry??? Other dimensions?? GEE GEE??? Also I’m convinced that “Camden Epiphany” will become plot relevant. Mr. Newall you’ve done it again

[omegawott]

MAGP 8 thoughts: i could genuinely feel the color drain from my face when i heard "gigi" speak what the actual shit is happening

[personguythe]

decided to look up the names and dates in the citations in MAGP 8. each corresponds to relevant works on brutalism and liminality. doubt there's any theory cracking secrets to be found in them, but here's the links if you're curious anyway

https://www.scirp.org/reference/referencespapers?referenceid=2611352

https://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~jread2/Auge%20Non%20places.pdf

https://sites.evergreen.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/88/2015/05/Gaston-Bachelard-the-Poetics-of-Space.pdf

https://www.academia.edu/355785/The_Memory_of_Place_a_Phenomenology_of_the_Uncanny_2012_

[pikachic]

Finished MAGP episode 8 about an hour ago and am still recovering

[lia-the-normal-human]

Database Additions for MAGP 05: Personal Screening

Released 8 Feb 2024 Episode written by Alexander J Newall & Jamie Petronis Edited by Jonathan Sims & Alexander J Newall

Episode summary from The Magnus Database

SPOILERS BELOW CUT

CASE

CAT2RB2377-10012023-05022024 Disappearance (undetermined) -/- invitation [internet blog] Read by Chester

Parties mentioned: Cinema Employee Cinephobia12220 Tom

Locations mentioned: Voyeur cinema

Misc objects mentioned: Tom's Terrors blog Voyeur film

Other Parties Introduced

Amelia Former IT Manager (unnamed)

Other Locations Introduced

None

Other Misc Objects Introduced

None

Connections/Item Relationships Found (New)

None

Voiced Characters

Lena Kelley Samama Khalid Alice Dyer Gwendolyn Bouchard Chester

Database

The Magnus Database has been updated for this episode.