#the magnus archives transcript

[lowkeyapotato]

'you can't hear pictures'

the pictures in question:

[radladrobin]

KNOCK KNOCK

[jeena-says-hi]

WAIT DID THEY REFERENCE THIS MEME??

[starsandwriting]

Haha. Hahaha.

[ID: Alternating excerpts from the transcripts of The Magnus Protocol episode 11 and The Magnus Archives episode 112 and 67.

1.

Gwen: I thought he was going to kill me!

Lena: But he didn’t, which means you’ve passed the first part of your probation. Congratulations. Did you scream?

2.

(Elias): congratulations. You’re doing a lot better than I expected.

Archivist: Feels like all I’ve managed to do is… not die.

Elias: And believe me, that is a remarkably rare skill.

3.

Gwen: I don’t understand.

Lena: Yes, you do.

Beat.

Gwen: But… why?

Lena: “Why” comes later. For now, it’s best you try to process the “what.” I’ll let you know when I have another liaison assignment for you.

4.

Archivist: So you obviously know how to stop it. You could just tell me!

Elias: I could. But I believe that if I did so, you would fail. The Stranger is antithetical to us.

[The Archivist sighs heavily]

5.

Gwen (defeated): I… Ok.

Gwen opens the door.

Lena: Oh, and Gwen?

Gwen: Yes?

Lena: Get some sleep. You look dreadful.

6.

Archivist: Of course, of course. Understood.

Elias: And for God’s sake, get some sleep.

End ID]

Thank you @princess-of-purple-prose for the ID!

[vvanillavveins]

Neurodivergent podcast-fan culture is being able to wax poetic for hours about the most miniscule of details in any given episode of The Magnus Archives, whilst also having to rely on transcripts to tell me what the sounds i'm hearing in The Magnus Protocol are actually supposed to be and then retrospectively working out what the fuck just happened on my 2nd or 3rd listen

[caspergs]

[lesbian-hannibal]

reblog to immediately assault elias

[thefleshyougoveggie]

i looove the way jon says this line

[heppileppi]

been relistening to tma

my favorite part of this episode was after he forced that stranger to give her statement John patted his stomach and said “Mm, mm, mm! Deeeelish!”

[sunpoweredautism]

Damn extremely unofficial tma transcript really had it out for Jon this episode

Like? Stop bullying the man he's already got the presence of a wet rag

[tiagems]

Finally got around to looking at the TMA transcripts and I swear to every power there is, I'm gonna kiss whoever is transcribing, some of the absolute GOLD in here

[radawaycunt]

HOW am i supposed to hate Simon Fairchild when he’s this fucking funny 😭😭😭

“Yes! 😃”

[hemi-demi]

Hey! So I mentioned a while ago that I have a custom workskin to make my Magnus Archives fics with transcripts look more like the transcripts at The Magnus Archives Transcripts Archive, and never got around to showing how. So now I am!

With this workskin, you'll turn transcript fics that look like this:

Into this!

Link to my fic "Just a Rumour" to see the live example, no content warnings in these first two chapters, but rating may eventually change.

Here's how you can apply this to your own fic. Steps are listed below the cut:

1. Make a workskin.

For this step, I'll refer you to the ao3 guide on how to create workskins. Make a new one, or add the following code between the dashes below to your existing skins.

---

#workskin .transcript {

font-family: "Libre Baskerville", Baskerville, "Book Antiqua", Georgia, Times, serif;

color: #586e75;

background: #fdf6e3;

padding: 1em;

width: fit-content;

margin: 0 auto 35px;

font-size: 120%;

}

---

Once you've made your workskin, follow the steps in the included link to add that workskin to the fic you want to apply this style to.

2. Tell the fic where to apply the style

The document above also explains this, but just so you can see the actual steps here:

In your fic, under the html editor view, add

<div class "transcript">

To the front of the text that will be in this format (it may not be the entire fic! You can have it in the middle of regular prose if you like).

At the end of the section that will be in the format, close it off with

</div>

Now just save your draft and confirm that it's working! If it looks off, double check your html, make sure it took and didn't delete itself or isn't misspelled.

And btw, readers who may not like this format can turn it off themselves with the Hide Creator's Style button, so this is optional for readers! It also works well with screen readers as-is.

Enjoy!

[jamierthanyou]

s1 jon: these statements are ridiculous and absolutely false. the people who come in here are wasting everyone's time. i refuse to admit to believing in any of this supernatural nonsense for even a moment and im sure there's a perfectly rational explanation as to why some of these statements won't record digitally. those books are definitely fucked right the fuck up though. spooky-style

[opheliaweeps]

martin k blackwood u will forever be famous

(from mag 197: connected)

[squiggly-noodles]

I FINALLY FINISHED THE MAGNUS ARCHIVE PODCAST 😭

SOBBING I ACTUALLY REACHED THIS SCENE AND THIS WAS THE SPOILER THAT MOTIVATED ME TO FINISH IT 😭 THIS IS GUT AND HEART WRENCHING

FROM THE MOMENT WHERE MARTIN REALIZED WHAT JOHN DID, THE BETRAYAL HE FELT THEN THE DESPERATION OF JOHN WANTING TO SAVE MARTIN AND THEIR DECISION TO DIE TOGETHER AS WAS THEIR DEAL PRIOR TO THIS WHOLE SHITSHOW AND THEM SAYING I LOVE YOU DESPITE WHATEVER OUTCOME AS LONG AS THEYRE TOGETHER STILL

AGDHJDKSLAJSHD

MY HEART😭😭I am going to have a go relistening to this mainly cos I zoned out majority of s1 and read the transcript majority fo s2 and so I never really did appreciate the audio part of this podcast. Then I found the spoiler video from Tumblr and it made me wanna listen which I do everytime I got available minutes between the calls. That's how I did it for s3 - s5 hahaha

Who knew a horror story could be tinged with tragedy romance too? Another sub genre to my fave genre, I suppose.

My obsession with this is probably not gonna die down anytime soon 😅 this is shitty rambling at this point😆 Love johnny and Alex and the whole Rusty quill team who made this tragedy horror