#the magnus archives episode one

[m0on-shro0m]

Anglerfish: “Can I get a cigarette?”

S10 Grian: “Can I get a mending book?”

Anglerfish:

S10 Grian: “That’s what I thought.”

[mangozic]

the wettest of cats

[ptr-sqloint]

Desecrated Host

[venfaaniik]

l only recently got into this damn podcast

[gazebodj]

i’ve been getting into yogurt lately

[vitkutti]

MAG 1 - Angler Fish

[nikiferous]

some wtgfs scribbles and doodles

[cirrus-grey]

TMA 122:

Statement of uh, uh, Lorell St. John regarding, uh... zombies. Original statement given 1st February, 2015. Recording by Jonathan Sims. The Archivist.

TMA 53:

My biggest concern right now is whatever creature Mr. Heller encountered down there. It was 56 years ago, but if it’s still alive, I should be careful. What was it? A guardian of some sort? Or perhaps… perhaps… it too was once an Archivist.

TMAGP 26:

It was holding a tape recorder to Mr. Jarrod’s mouth, like it was trying to catch his dying words.

“Who are you?” I asked it.

“An Archivist,” it replied.

I know many people have already pointed out that [ERROR] could be the same kind of being that was under Alexandria, but this phrasing in particular is making me certain of it. A living, breathing, active Archivist like Jon is "the" - the one and only, the main focus of the Eye. The ones that linger after their Archives are forgotten - not alive, not dead, but somewhere in between - are just "an". One of many, still holding the title - still powerful - but far less human.

There are a ton of other parallels between the two that are making me so curious what our Alexandria guy got up to between - potentially - being released by Mr. Heller and finding its way to the Panopticon: basement Archive, the main building/library is burned down on top of it, it remains locked down there until some unsuspecting explorer unintentionally gives it the key... I wonder if there was an [ERROR] drifting around in the TMA world too, hunting people with a quill and parchment rather than a tape...

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(Celia's phrasing is also very telling as to what she's been expecting to find.

TMAGP 26:

"No, I mean, something isn't right.… The External, the Archivist, it’s not acting how I would have expected..."

No, it's certainly not acting how the Archivist would. An Archivist, on the other hand...)

[simcardiac-arrested]

like tree, like apple

[aziuuu]

The Eye Opens

[annamationsart]

pursuing art might have been a mistake

[shinythingsarecool]

They gave me this spoon at a restaurant and

I now refuse to believe Hezekiah wakely would use any other kind of spoon

[cosmarrrs]

Micheal so awesome

closeups because I rlly like the rendering 💥💥💥

[sharklovingcriminals]

I've just finished episode six of the magnus archives for the first time and i feel absolutely betrayed. I was so used to the formula, that the main character lived and was fine that i didn't even think about someone dying after they gave their statement. I feel the same way i did when i first saw Halloween and realised Michael was immortal and jamie lee curtis was never going to be safe, suddenly I'm worried about the protagonist of all the other stories so far. I thought (for an embarrassingly large part of this episode) that the woman was going to have been possessed by a snake and I've decided that parasitic worms are one of the worst monsters ever to be on this podcast because they actually exist. horrifying. excellent. love this show. people keep telling me it's going to get wild but doesn't seen to have happened yet idk we'll see

[vicioustoker]

the choice to have the episode of the guy marrying a bug be immediately followed by the episode with the abnormally large man eating pig is one of the most unserious things tma has done

[twohundredeightyone]

Statement Givers in the early 2000s: describing the most heinous grotesque unbelievably brutal thing to ever happen to them or anyone within the UK

Johnathan Sims in the early 2000s: