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[osp-originals]

Acting Drunk

TW: alcohol, emeto

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Magnus and Lucas walked onto set just on time. Well, they were technically late. Penelope already had the camera set up, Raj had the sound set up, and Regan and Jessica were in their costumes. Armando had the lights set up and was running around making sure everyone was doing their jobs.

“Hey, you’re here!” Penelope greeted them.

Then she noticed something strange. Magnus was staggering a little and had that stupid smile on his face that he always had when he was drunk.

“Wait, Magnus, have you actually been drinking for this, or are you just already in character?” she asked lightheartedly.

“Maybe a little bit of both,” he answered.

His words were just barely noticeably slurred.

“He’s had four beers already,” Lucas exposed him.

“Is that a lot?” Regan asked.

“It’s too much to drink before a shoot,” Armando said.

“Not for me,” Magnus countered. “I’m a very productive drunk.”

“I guess we’ll see about that,” Armando snarked.

“I don’t know about that, but I at least know he isn’t an asshole when he’s drunk,” Lucas remarked.

“But isn’t he supposed to be for this?” Jessica asked.

“That’s true,” said Lucas.

“I mean, I can be an asshole if you want me to be,” Magnus said jokingly, “but I figured you wouldn’t want me to be that kind of method actor.”

“You were right,” Jessica assured him.

“Oh, and check this out.” Lucas pulled two beer bottles out from behind his back. “We bought these for him to drink during the scene.”

“Oh my god.” Armando rolled his eyes. “He’s going to get way too drunk.”

“Hey, it was his idea to use real beer,” Lucas defended himself.

“I think he just tricked you into buying him a bunch of drinks,” Penelope joked.

“Maybe.” Lucas laughed. “But I’m the director, so let’s just say it was my ‘creative decision.’ Anyway, let’s get started.”

He was right about being able to act while drunk. In fact, he was so good at acting like an angry alcoholic dad that everyone on set was scared by it, especially Regan and Jessica. He apologized profusely after every take of yelling at them. At least it made for good reaction shots.

They moved to Armando’s living room (or more accurately, his parents’ living room), to shoot the next scene, in which Magnus’s character gets interrupted by his kids while drinking and watching a football game and then he chases them around.

Lucas wanted to have it all be one long take. Every time they messed something up, they had to do the whole scene again. Magnus kept basically chugging the beer at the beginning of the scene even though he didn’t need to, so he went through a whole bottle in three takes.

“Jesus, Magnus, you could slow down a bit,” Lucas said after the third take.

“No cause I’m trying to catch them,” Magnus objected.

“No, I meant with the beer,” Lucas clarified.

“Ah, it’s fine,” Magnus slurred. “Le’s jus’ do another take.”

In the next take he opened the second bottle. Luckily it was a good take and they could move on to the next scene.

“Alright, let’s move to the kitchen,” Lucas directed.

“Wait, first—“ Magnus stopped and covered a loud burp with his fist. “I think I’m gonna be sick.”

“Go outside if you’re really going to do that.” Armando pointed him toward the front door.

“A’right, c’mere and get it on camera,” Magnus said, motioning for Penelope and Raj to come with him as he stumbled toward the door.

“What?” Penelope asked.

“C’mere!” He opened the door. “Lucas can use it in the film.”

“…Okay. Go ahead,” Lucas told them.

“I can’t. I can’t watch someone be sick or I’ll be sick,” Raj explained.

“Luke, you take the mic then,” Magnus slurred.

Penelope picked up the tripod and followed him outside. Lucas took the sound equipment from Raj and followed them both.

“Rest of you, stay in there or you’ll ruin the shot,” Magnus told Armando, Jessica and Regan as he closed the door behind Lucas.

He stumbled over to a bush in the front yard and braced his hands on his knees. Penelope and Lucas started recording, still confused as to why they were going along with this.

Magnus let out a deep, wet belch. Usually something like that would make him laugh when he was drunk, but now he was clearly back in character. Suddenly, a torrent of vomit came gushing from his mouth. It was clearly just beer. He seemed utterly unfazed.

Jessica peered through the small window next to the front door. Magnus caught a glimpse of her out of the corner of his eye.

“Hey, get the fuck outta here!” he yelled, shooing her away with one hand before puking up what was probably a whole bottle of beer at once.

Jessica scurried away from the window.

“Okay, cut,” Lucas said, shocked at Magnus’s performance. “Magnus, are you good?”

“Of course,” Magnus responded with an amused smile. He quietly heaved up a few spoonfuls of alcohol. “D’you get the shot?”

“Yeah,” Lucas said.

“You really need to drink some water or have something to eat,” Penelope told him.

“I will. Hold on.” Magnus burped up a little more liquid. “M’kay, I think I’m done.” He stood up and started to stagger his way back inside.

Penelope guided him with her hand on his back and the other hand carrying the tripod.

“You’re going to have a hell of a hangover,” Lucas said, following them in with the sound equipment.

“Nahhh, i’s fine.”

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I keep writing these ones that are perfect setups for sequels lol. Maybe I’ll write about Magnus’s hangover eventually, if anyone wants to see that.

[like-butterflies-and-glitter]

the NotThem is one of my favourite tma creatures, and i really like listening to mag77 because they connect them to changelings and also the added bonus of fucked up mother-daughter relationships. i would personally love to listen to rose cooper's recordings on english and welsh folklore

[hearts4pearlescentmoon]

Ares, his sons and sister are the slaughter and Athena is the hunt

[nerdetiquette]

When you’re going through one of your favorite YouTube series and find a tma spon

[ao3feed-jonmartin]

Jorogumo

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/oeVxlEn by FernIsGay Jon goes to investigate a report of a cryptid at the local waterfall. Instead they meet and fall for a tall handsome man who totally isn’t a spider. Inspired by this OSP vid https://youtu.be/clJ0FoMr4DM?si=2DqIYC3C_pvnAjax Words: 1145, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Categories: M/M Characters: Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist, Martin Blackwood, Tim Stoker (The Magnus Archives), Sasha James Relationships: Martin Blackwood/Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist Additional Tags: Cryptid tracker au, the magnus institute looks into reports of cryptids ig idk man, Jon/Tim/Sasha isnt there enough for me to tag it I don’t think but theyre poly in my heart, Web Avatar Martin Blackwood, kind of, Alternate Universe read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/oeVxlEn

[maskedserpent]

Behold, a list

So, I figure since I’m kinda new to Tumblr I might tell you guys some things I like and other things I don’t like in some nicely written paragraphs with proper grammar and everything… yeah, also no. Don’t misunderstand, you guys can get to know what I like, but you’re not getting it written nicely. No, it’s a list. Let is begin!

I like:

Lists

logic

chaos (logic and chaos can be friends)

snakes

more snakes

i really like snakes

please tell me about your two year old ball python named Oreo

drawing stuff (typically monsters that make normal people concerned for my mental health, but I’m sure you guys will appreciate them)

dragons

did I mention snakes yet?

Overly Sarcastic Productions

OSP Trope Talks

writing

dnd

dnd friends

dnd friends I can play with

more dnd friends I can play with

Lego Monkie Kid (please talk to me about it)

Avatar: The Last Airbender (we all know it’s great)

The Dragon Prince (the three shows have a few things in common, I can tell you some of them if you ask)

snakes

writing

world building

video games

water

reptiles in general

food

desert

desert being specifically after whatever meal it’s being eaten with if it’s being eaten with a meal

mustard

audiobooks

mythology

Welcome to Nightvale

The Magnus Archives

Alice Isn’t Dead

Metroid

and finally snakes

I don’t like:

Spiders

other bugs

being in spaces that are too open

the passage of time

The existential crisis that happens at least once every two months

more spiders

i really hate spiders

i have almost broken my phone and my wall multiple times because of spiders

Horseradish sauce

[trainwreckisawreck]

when two hyperfixations overlap and osp red talks about the magnus archives

[angelofdumpsterfires]

when I say I let out an unholy shriek when one of my fav things got sponsored by another of my fav things-

[theearnestonion]

Yo TMA fandom, in honor of tomorrow’s episode, I have to ask: Y’all ever watched Overly Sarcastic Production’s Frankenstein video? Cause like...

Original Version:

(Poorly) Edited Version:

I’m just sayin��.

Also, aside from character design, both are big-brain-but-bad-decision-making workaholics who neglect their personal health in pursuit of knowledge and whose insatiable curiosity causes them a whole lot of problems and contributes to the release of a horrible, science-defying monster in the world. So there’s that. (OSP’s vid is linked under the cut, cause to reiterate, art’s not mine)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW0aqDUmTQA

Also disclaimer I am absolutely not dissing Jon, I know he’s often selfless and owns up to his actions, unlike Frankenstein. I know our man Victor probably illicits a visceral revulsion more akin to that of Elias as opposed to Jon. I agree, the dude’s a total jerk where as Jon is... sometimes also a bit of a jerk, but mostly just in an endearing way after some character development. What I’m getting at is that I am fully aware that Jon Sims deserves hugs and Victor Frankenstein deserves to jump in a lake, I’m just pointing out some similarities. 

[oh-hush-its-perfect]

I give RR a lot of flack for bad writing but honestly, the way he uses mythological allusions is a little genius sometimes. Everybody talks about how Silena and Clarisse's story mimics that of Patroclus and Achilles, but there's a bunch of other really cool examples in the books. One of my favorites is Magnus burning his hand and while roasting a dragon heart and sucking on it to cool it down, inadvertently eating some of the heart and gaining the benefits that come from eating a dragon heart. This is probably a reference to the Irish— sidebar: Irish myths and Norse myths have a lot of similarities, so this particular story might count as "Germanic"— legend of Fionn Mac Cumhaill, who burned his hand while roasting the Salmon of Knowledge and gained all of the world's knowledge when he licked his hand. I just........ it makes my brain sparkle

[taffy-glitch]

Me: *watching the new Trope Talk video*

Red: This video is sponsored by Rusty Quill’s The Magnus Archives-

Me:

[ohthestoryteller]

THE NEW OSP EP IS SPONSORED BY TMA IM SO HAPPY

[caw4brandon]

Caw’s Mythology

For those who are new, Wednesday is labeled as Odin’s Wednesday here. Which is in honor of the Norse god, Odin. The word itself; Wednesday is derived from “Wodan's day" and Wodan means Odin.

While unrelated to Norse Mythology or even Odin himself. I feel like I should talk about where all of this “mythology talk” come from. What started my interest in them, share some of my second-hand findings and open up about my attempts on making my own mythology.

- Riordan and Gaiman -

My first introduction to mythology came like how most of us did back in 2010. Through Uncle Rick Riordan’s <Percy Jackson and The Lightning Thief> Though I only read the books or...listened to the audiobooks a little later in life. The works of Uncle Rick has always fascinated me. His method for how he wove the various mythologies into the world of America is really interesting and it got me interested into creating my own world.

This is also followed by his other works, <The Kane Chronicles> and <Magnus Chase> which showcases various cast characters, magic systems and monsters that played significant roles on the mythology it is based from. The Kane’s is based on Egyptian mythology and follows Carter and Sadie Kane, siblings of an archeologist who is also a magician for The House of Life. Meanwhile, Magnus Chase is Annabeth Chase’s homeless cousin. After the tragic loss of his mother, Magnus makes a shocking discovery that his father is a Norse god and became an Einherjar for Odin.

Equally as interesting was Neil Gaiman’s <American Gods> A story about a world where the old ways of pagan belief is long forgotten and the new gods have taken over. The series follows Shadow Moon, learning about the various gods from various backgrounds including his new bosses identity who goes by the name; Mr Wednesday.

I’ve covered in detail a long time ago in my old post, [World-building: The Gods of Mythology] discussing the various ways how authors used mythology to update the myth itself with a more modern spin. In this post however, all you need to know through this long explanation is that this was where my interest started. Or rather, my interest for the actual origin of the gods started.

After reading the books and watching the show, I’ve grown to be fascinated in the other pantheons from other cultures and thanks to YouTube. I was able to find some channels that provides a “quick study” on a particular god/ mythology/ creature and so on.

- Red, Blue and Ireland -

By sheer chance, I came across a channel; [Overly Sarcastic Productions] where the hosts, Red and Blue talk about different subjects. Red talks about mythology and legends with fun illustrations while Blue does some history with maps and silly one liners. OSP is really good with what they do while constantly updating their content with the new material like, deep diving into the earliest origins of certain gods like Loki, Dionysus and attempts to stray away from their intended subjects or extend their subjects with bits of said subject but in a different angle. Red talks about tropes, fables and folktales while Blue covers parts of history and significant figures.

While I was tuning in. I also begun to do my own share of research. Looking into other types of myths and searching for mythologies that is yet to be tapped by writers and that was where I found Ireland. More specifically, about the Tuatha de Danann, the Fomorians and the various monsters and creatures found in their tales. I also check my sources with channels that talked about mythology aside from OSP while understanding some of the real life history for the state they are in today. Channels like, [Tale Foundry] and [Mythology & Fiction Explained] are good channels to start the conversation.

If you must know, Ireland is a place that is often times under attack by various invaders of different countries which houses quite a number of mythologies from other parts of the world. The Christians have a tendency to stomp out all pagan belief the moment they set foot to a “NEW” land so, a lot of the stuff I’ve read about Irish Mythology has a default asterisk in the corner saying: “Take it with a massive bag of salt”

I may have lost it, but I remember how I would spend restless nights searching for answers about a pantheon of sorts about the Irish Gods, creatures and monsters and compile them into a document. I remember, The Dagda who is often considered as the Head of the pantheon, The Morrigan, a war goddesses with three different identities, The Badb (The Crow), Macha, and/or Ernmas/ Anand, Lug the half-god, half-Fomorian, Nuada; the champion and high king, there is of course, Lir. The god of the sea. The three brothers of craft; Goibniu The blacksmith, Credne the silversmith and Luchta the carpenter and finally, mad druid named Dian Cecht.

I remember reading up about the Fomorians, the Nuckelavee, the Selkie, the Changelings, the Aisling and the fearsome Dullahan. I was engrossed in it. Studying every inch I could and trying to find some story to be my starting point. 

Notice that I didn’t mention Leprechaun? 

While it was the most popular of them all in modern times, the Leprechaun is only one of the many interesting fairy folk that lived among the Irish after the gods were forced to be exiled to the otherworld. There was so much material that I started to unconsciously shape my own <Percy Jackson> through Sadie mac Lir. Who at that time, was named; Cindi mac Lir.

Scrapped stories aside. The name stuck onto me, like an earworm name that just refuses to leave. What I’m getting at here is that I had to commit “own world genocide” a million times. I’ve conjured up various ideas in my head and onto paper but it was never brought to public because I had doubts and worry about misrepresenting a certain culture or inspiration it was based on.

Hell, I’m not even from Ireland! I’m from Malaysia/ Malaysian for goodness sake! (yes, this is a confession. I’m a Malaysian.)

- Moving Forward and Caw’s Future -

When I first thought about writing for Sadie (or Cindi at the time) I had this whole idea about fusing the mac Lir namesake with the hero, Fionn mac Cumhaill and his crane-skinned bag of weapons. I pictured Cindi to be blonde and had a general idea of what she’d look like which probably was why I had to scrap off straight away.

I wanted to make something original but at the back of my head, I knew that this is nothing but a cheep rip-off. I knew that it wasn’t ready, I wasn’t ready because I have yet to find my system and a story that I wanted to tell and while I did have a design for it. I kept it off the public eye.

Even as of now, I have yet to find my story but as of late. I have been practicing again. I’ve been keeping track and taking notes as well as reviewing them. Improving it while applying pressure more to myself because I felt that I should make it right, that I need to make it right. That it needs to make sense and that it should be original.

Despite this, I’m often in awe of how some people just...do it. They ignore the imperfections, the lack of originality and fixed them along the way instead. With all this big talk about how I wanted to make my own world, Sadie has been through one hell of a development and she is still far from being original but as my creation, In some way. She has developed a soul.

She’s getting restless, lonely and tired of being by herself within the pages and to be honest, I felt the same. Another character that I had down solid is this Lovecraft inspired chap; Hector James Dagger but he too, never saw the light. There are many others, cringe ones that stare back at me among the scraps. Wondering what will become of them or they’ll be used again? Perhaps my mythology shouldn’t be perfect and it wouldn’t be perfect. As the saying goes.

“Mythology is stories, and stories change with every telling...In mythology, the characters are gods. So the gods end up evolving alongside their society.” 

- Red (Overly Sarcastic Productions)

And maybe, that could be the answer. As people, we change our minds all the time and often times, its reflected in the characters we made, the monsters build, the scenarios we put them in and even the magic systems don’t have to be perfect or completely new. They can be based on somewhere and they can be flawed because real life is flawed. Scholars have often pointed out, that myth is more than just stories. They are stories that has a mix of history in them. Hidden between the lines and in the environments we see today.  

While most kids books about mythology love to have them arranged as a neat chronology of events. The truth is, mythology is more like a scattered collection of stories connected by a thin web. They are not the same species of insects but they are all trapped under the same web.

There is so much to think about and I am excited as I am fearful of getting called out for “you stole this idea from so-n-so” but so is everyone else who made their first characters or their first world and, that’s ok. Myths reflect history and history is about life itself. Life takes time to develop and so long as there are those who still breathe, the pages will continue.

Thanks for reading

- Caw4B -

[chrysochroma]

People/characters that probably shouldn’t be Dnd characters:

Dora

MatPat

Ryan Reynold/Deadpool

Red and Blue (OSP)

Elmo (but with no filter)

All of the Teletubbies

Mickey Mouse

Random US Presidents

Mr. D (Percy Jackson)

Groot

Alexander Hamilton

Jack (Magnus Chase)

[roseunspindle]

Power House Characters

Watched OSP’s Powerhouse trope talk so here’s some powerhouses

Golem - Monster Rancher

Kazuma Kuwabara - Yu Yu Hakusho

Magnus Burnsides - The Adventure Zone

Ryoma Teraseka - Assassniation Classroom

Chin Po - Mulan

Lucas - Stranger Things

Major Armstrong - Fullmetal Alchemist 

Toph - Avatar the Last Airbender

 Trowa Barton - Gundam Wing

Taiju - Dr. Stone

Rachel - Animorphs

Finnie - Black Butler

Ezra Scarlet - Fairy Tail

[macaroniandcheese]

Osp: *releases a trope talk about fear*

Me: haha just like tma

Osp: this episode is sponsered by rusty quill's the magnus archives

Me: 😳😳😳