#virginia arden

[jonismitchell]

i am always here. by the way

[pupsmailbox]

MOTH︰BUTTERFLY ID PACK

NAMES ⌇　acantha.　adela.　adley.　aetheria.　aiden.　ainsley.　alis.　allison.　amos.　angle.　ankova.　antler.　apollo.　apple.　arches.　arden.　argent.　ari.　aruna.　ashworth.　aspen.　asteria.　astralyn.　atlas.　barberry.　bay.　bee.　belina.　bellamy.　belle.　blair.　blake.　blossom.　bright.　brighton.　bryn.　butter.　butterfleigh.　butterfly.　cadi.　cai.　calesia.　cali.　canary.　carson.　cayana.　chai.　cherry.　chouko.　cinnabar.　cistus.　clancy.　clifden.　cloud.　clover.　cosmia.　crimson.　daisy.　dakota.　december.　dewick.　dorian.　dot.　dusk.　dust.　eclipse.　eilira.　eilliot.　ellison.　elnora.　emerald.　ermina.　ermine.　esmerelda.　esther.　evelyn.　evern.　falena.　fern.　finley.　fisher.　flora.　fly.　flynn.　forest.　fox.　foxglove.　galatea.　galium.　garnet.　ghost.　ginny.　greta.　grey.　haden.　haven.　hawk.　haworth.　hayden.　heath.　herald.　hesperia.　holli.　hollis.　isabella.　ismeria.　isola.　jael.　jayden.　jersey.　july.　june.　juniper.　juno.　kahli.　kai.　karran.　karson.　kentish.　kimko.　kit.　kori.　lace.　lackey.　langmaid.　lepida.　light.　luca.　lucy.　luna.　lunar.　malam.　maple.　march.　mariposa.　marlow.　marrow.　mars.　may.　micah.　mirza.　mocha.　molie.　monroe.　moth.　mothra.　mothy.　nettle.　november.　oak.　ocaria.　oleander.　opal.　palmyra.　paru.　parvaneh.　peach.　pearl.　pepper.　pine.　pinion.　plume.　poppy.　psyche.　quinn.　reed.　reid.　rekoa.　remi.　riband.　ricki.　robin.　rose.　rosy.　rowan.　ruby.　rufous.　sable.　saffron.　saga.　saige.　scarlet.　scotch.　sibylla.　silver.　skyler.　sula.　swift.　tara.　tate.　tatum.　tawny.　tera.　thora.　tiger.　una.　vanessa.　violet.　virginia.　weaver.　winter.　wren.　yara.　zephyr.　zephyra.　zion.　zoumi.

PRONOUNS ⌇　admir/admiral.　ant/antenna.　anten/antenna.　antler/antler.　apple/apple.　blood/blood.　blue/blue.　bu/butterfly.　bug/bug.　butter/butterfly.　carpet/carpet.　chalk/chalk.　cherry/cherrie.　chrysalis/chrysali.　clear/clearwing.　cloud/cloud.　cocoo/cocoon.　cocoon/cocoon.　dagger/dagger.　dark/dark.　dew/dew.　dot/dot.　dusk/dusk.　dust/dust.　erm/ermine.　eye/eye.　flame/flame.　flap/flap.　flow/flower.　flu/fluttflutter.　fluff/fluff.　fluff/luff.　flutter/flutter.　fly/fly.　forest/forest.　fri/fritillary.　frit/fritillery.　goat/goat.　gold/gold.　hair/hairstreak.　hawk/hawk.　hawk/hawkmoth.　heart/heart.　hide/hide.　hook/hook.　in/insect.　insect/insect.　lace/lace.　lamp/lamp.　leaf/leaf.　lepidoptera/lepidoptera.　light/light.　lu/luna.　luna/luna.　lunar/lunar.　maple/maple.　mo/monarch.　mo/moth.　mocha/mocha.　moon/moon.　mor/morpho.　moth/moth.　nec/nectar.　night/night.　night/night.　nocturnal/nocturnal.　noct/nocturnal.　oak/oak.　plume/plume.　reed/reed.　riph/ripheu.　rose/rose.　sallow/sallow.　shark/shark.　sil/silk.　silk/silk.　small/small.　snout/snout.　squeak/squeak.　squeak/squeaker.　stripe/stripe.　sul/sulphur.　swa/swallow.　swa/tail.　swall/swallowtail.　swift/swift.　tiny/tiny.　tuss/tussock.　wax/waxe.　wing/wing.　☁️ . ⭐️ . 🌕 . 💡 . 🦋 .

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Here is the third of the posts I'm making that detail my thoughts on every episode of The Magnus Archives. This post details my thoughts on episodes 31-40, the last episodes of Season 1. I've absolutely loved this final quarter, and documenting it has been a really fun (and kind of traumatizing but I'll get to that) experience.

Please keep in mind a few things before you read this.

1: This post is LONG. Like I mean LOOOOOONNNGG. If you read this all in one sitting, I will be both humbled and concerned for your wellbeing, so just...keep that in mind.

2: Obviously there will be spoilers for all of the first season, so if you haven't listened to that, steer clear. If you have listened ahead of Season 1, which I'm assuming most people reading this have, please don't spoil any future episodes for me :).

3: I recommend reading my posts on previous episodes before this one, as I will make reference to them a few times. There is a link to my masterpost of them above the cut. With that, enjoy! :)

- Episode 31, First Hunt 🦌

Statement of Lawrence Mortimer, regarding his hunting trip to Blue Ridge, Virginia.

Jonathan Sims is the only guy ever. The man walks into his office, probably sleep deprived and without any caffeine in his bloodstream, does the best impression of a jolly old English man he can muster for twenty minutes straight, sings his little heart out at one point, and then proceeds to call the story about someone being hunted bullshit while he stares at the ceiling in dread of the evil sex worms hunting him. Btw, I will admit that last bit was a little annoying. Usually I’m fine with Jon calling statements dumb, as I think it adds to the loser old man twink vibe I get from him, but when he straight up sees a similarity between one paranormal occurrence and another, and one or said occurrences is haunting him in real time, his denial just came off as kind of frustrating, especially considering how he usually does pick up on connections between statements. Ok enough about Jon (I just love/affectionately hate him so much I’m sorry), more about the actual story. Well firstly, the portrayal of America was genuinely kind of perfect. I’m glad that more people around the world are able to learn about the horrors of The Appalachian Trail. (These specific horrors don’t get the sparkles, they’re just that fucked up.) I did also really like the whole role reversal with animals hunting humans, it oddly reminds me of some of the themes in Episode 30, but the flavor and execution is very different. I do also wonder if the presence of a lycanthrope somehow connects to the vampires in Episode 10, since I usually group those two monsters specifically. And much like the vampires, I actually really liked how the lycanthrope was portrayed here, it had a lot more intelligence than the average werewolf, where the human and animal forms are usually entirely different minds. Also, it not being able to die was…genuinely really fucking scary with the way it was described. And while I do have a distaste for hunting, I did genuinely feel pretty bad for Lawrence and Arden, neither of them deserved what happened to them. Finally, there’s the ending of the episode, which was…yikes. It’s genuinely quite shaking to see Jon this terrified, like he’s really started to realize how bad things are getting. I always love seeing him outside of when he’s reading statements, and I just UGH I WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT YOOOOUUU. Honestly that’s probably my only kind of big frustration with the podcast. I mean, I still love the statements obviously, and they’re clearly working hard in the world-building and foreshadowing department, so it’s hardly affecting my enjoyment, but episodes like Colony and A Distortion are some of my favorites in the show so far, and it just makes me want to see more of what’s going on at the institute, and what the people who work there are like. Hopefully more episodes like those ones will show up soon, as I’d like the season to end on a special note. Well, aside from that, this was a very solid episode, and given the title of the next episode…well, I think my wishes will be granted soon. (JANE PRENTISS STATEMENT SAVE ME!!!)

I just realized that I’m basically writing my own statements here whoa.

- Episode 32, Hive 🐝

Statement of Jane Prentiss, regarding a wasps’ nest in her attic.

….The Jane Prentiss statement saved me, but NOT IN THE WAY I WANTED IT TO. (LIKE, IT WAS PHENOMENAL, MIGHT JUST BE MY NEW FAVORITE, BUT FUUUUUCCCKK.) Firstly, I think part of what made this statement so amazing was how it was framed. This is definitely the most cryptic story so far, valuing symbolism over a concise structure, but I actually felt like that worked perfectly here. Since Jane is practically deteriorating while writing this, it feels like she’s contemplating things we couldn’t even imagine. While also being aware of the true horrors she has now become witness and host to. And mentioning the symbolism, MY GOD IS IT GOOD. The Flesh Hive (and no, I’m not calling it the sex worms anymore, that ship has sailed) in particular is such an interesting concept, I mean, it’s more of a concept incarnate than any other horror so far. The way it reflects the metaphorical hive, the insect ecosystem that exists all around us, which in turn reflects a sort of toxic codependency and need to be loved, which is also reflected through Jane, and it all ends up as a combination between the concept of love and disgusting insects, it’s just, UGH I LOVE IT SO MUCH. On top of that, this is absolutely my favorite of Jonny Sims’ performances so far. He captured Jane, along with her shift into becoming a part of The Flesh Hive extremely well, but also mixes it with the genuine terror that Jon is feeling. Speaking of which, while it was certainly cathartic to see Jon admit that what’s happening is very real and very paranormal, it was also very terrifying in its own right. Either something very weird is happening in the archives (I mean, obviously SOMETHING is weird but Jon could be…well, he certainly isn’t normal, but, like, he doesn’t have to be PARAnormal, you know?), or, Jon has had some VERY weird experiences in his past, which I think is more likely. What they are, I don’t know, but I think they’re something similar to this, considering how he said that something in the statement had gotten to him. (Stay safe my poor little meow meow babygirl-) As for the story outside of just themes, I don’t have much to say honestly, it was still fantastic, just very simple due to the abstract nature of the episode. All I’ll say is that it was obviously terrifying, and I feel really bad for Jane. I don’t care if she was canonically “toxic” or whatever, she still deserved better than what happened to her, and the level of emotional distress she was in was absolutely chilling. (On the bright side though she kind of slays as an evil worm lady but I digress.) Anyways, the last thing I have to talk about is theories, because MY GOD, this gave me quite a bit to work with. (This is becoming a massive wall of text so I’m going to make a cut.)

Firstly, I think it’s time to go back to my theory about cults and higher powers. There’s been at least one instance of a cult via The People’s Church of The Divine Host, but due to characters like Gerard Keay, the other guy in the hospital, Sarah Baldwin, potentially The Lukas Family, potentially Jurgen Leitner, likely The Circus of The Other, and more, I feel like there are multiple cults and multiple higher powers, potentially at odds with each other given what happens in Episode 12. And I think this applies to this episode, as Jane was a practicing witch, and The Flesh Hive seems to be some kind of higher power as well. I think other higher powers might be The Anglerfish, the growing darkness, something associated with eyes, maybe “Micheal”, and some other potential candidates. Overall it does feel like the podcast is leaning towards the eldritch kind of horror (which is my absolute jam btw), so I hope I’m right in my assumptions. As for what these higher powers may want, I feel like maybe they’re…punishing humanity for their hubris? Like, I know that assumption might sound like it’s coming from someone who can only view these sorts of things from a religious perspective, but hear me out, because you have episodes like Do Not Open, Alone, Lost Johns’ Cave, Confession and Desecrated Host, Freefall, Skintight, First Hunt, and even this one with how Jane is practicing witchcraft, where characters who are comfortable in situations that many would find scary, and are then scared while in that situation. The only possible exception is in Arachnophobia, where Carlos is already scared of what he’s haunted by, but you could argue that he was being punished for a potential curiosity with spiders he had when he was younger. So yeah, those are some small thoughts I had about how some of this all ties together, but I had a couple of other small observations as well. Firstly, the presence of spiders in Jane’s attic. She implies that they exist separately from The Flesh Hive, so I do wonder if they tie into what happened in Episode 16 at all, especially considering that the worms were in fact mentioned there. Secondly, there’s her mention of “fools chasing fractals”. If that doesn’t tie into Episode 8 with Ivo’s father, I don’t know what does. Thirdly, her landlord was smoking a cigarette, which just reminds me of everything involving The Anglerfish (although I checked to see if he was mentioned in Ep. 1 like Sarah and no, he wasn’t.) And fourthly, one that was mentioned in the YouTube comments, Antonio from Ep. 11 was said to be working at a Crystal shop, had a somewhat similar experience where his mind was directly connected to ✨the horrors✨over a long period of time, and was also under a fake name. They said that maybe this would explain why that one guy looked at her sadly, maybe he was “Antonio” and knew what was going on, and while I’m not 100% sold on the idea, I thought it was interesting.

So…yeah. That was…an experience. Suffice to say, I am terrified. I’m terrified of Jane, for Jane, for Jon, for The Institute, and for my sanity as I delve deeper into the never ending rabbit hole that is The Magnus Archives. (I have 168 episodes left, Christ.) This episode is phenomenal, and there’s probably a lot I didn’t even talk about but…I think I’m going to lie down now, maybe get an exterminator contact ready just in case…auuughhhh.

- Episode 33, Boatswain’s Call ⛴️

Statement of Carlita Sloane, regarding her work on a container ship traveling from Porto do Itaqui to Southampton.

Oh thank god some time to breathe after last episode. I mean…not really, but you know what I mean. I’ll start off with what is the obvious highlight of the episode: TIM!!! I said earlier that I feel like he has bastard energy, and I was…kind of right about that? He’s nicer than I expected though. As for whether I love or hate him…yeah I’m leaning towards loving him, he’s fun :). Also, I absolutely love how they retconned errors in previous episodes at the beginning, that’s super funny and a really clever workaround to discrepancies. But how about the statement? Well, I will start with my one slight critique, that being that this is one of the least scary episodes for me so far. Which like, I feel like Rusty Quill knows that, since Jon outright says there’s nothing really paranormal here, but it’s ultimately whatever. Still though, the atmosphere here was really well done, the whole vibe of a creepy boat was captured very well through the writing, no outright big scares in the episode, but it did a very good job keeping me on edge. One of the moments that did genuinely make me pretty damn scared was when Carlita was digging through the shipping containers, and was then called out to the lifeboat by the rest of the crew. As someone with a very deep fear of being caught doing something people don’t want me to do, (even though my cowardly ass would never even bother), that certainly made me feel really uneasy, even though she was fine in the end. There’s not a whole lot to say here honestly, other than a few observations and theories. Firstly, I’m really glad we got some more insight into The Lukas Family! Episode 13 is still a favorite for me, so it’s nice to see connections to it showing up. This episode didn’t really reveal that much, other than that they help fund the institute, which like, is good way to keep them from investigating the weird shit the family seems to get up to honestly. And given the presence of the fog, as well as the overarching theme of isolation present with them, if I didn’t think they were responsible for what happened in Episode 13 already, I absolutely think so now. I also do really think that Evan was a family traitor of some kind, since he was very social, which opposes what the family seems to stand for. Lastly, I’ll mention my thoughts on Sean Kelly. I definitely believe that the crew of The Tundra killed him, but I also wonder if he was responsible for what was making the crew so antisocial, as that would explain why they started acting social after his death. It also makes me wonder whether or not I’m supposed to believe that the captain was involved or not….hm. Overall a good episode, I liked it, but there’s not much more to say on it.

Ok there is actually one other thing I did actually notice in retrospect. It’s very interesting to me that despite this being arguably the LEAST paranormal statement so far, despite the connections to The Lukas Family, Jon still seems very certain that something is weird here, more than he usually is. It really feels like everything with Jane has given him a new perspective…I’m scared…

- Episode 34, Anatomy Class 🍎

Statement of Dr. Lionel Elliot, regarding a series of events that took place during his class, ‘Introduction to Human Anatomy and Physiology’ at King’s College, London. Statement taken direct from subject.

So, fun fact, before I really got into TMA, this was one of the episodes I had heard mentioned here and there, and I knew nothing about it, other than the fact that people really seemed to like it. And now that I’ve finally listened to it myself, I can absolutely see why. Firstly, I’ll start off a bit by talking about Dr. Elliot, as I thought he was a pretty interesting character. I just kind of liked his general vibe, and his voice actor did a fantastic job at selling how distraught he was by the experience, although it does make me hope he’ll be ok after everything that happened to him. I also loved his conversation with Jon at the beginning (he’s awesome for respecting the tape recorder btw), and while it is a bit of a shame to see Jon go back to not really believing a case that much, I still felt like it was decently justifiable here, as the evidence admittedly isn’t the best. (Also his reaction to the apple was fantastic lmao.) But as for the actual statement, I agree with the common sentiment that it was…kind of cute? Like, don’t get me wrong, it is still a damn scary scenario. The weird shit the students get up to, the fact they are very clearly not human, their general vibe, and the implication that they killed a professor who failed to teach them are all horrifying, but…I don’t know, there’s some very real charm to this one as well. Like, even though their motives for wanting to seem more human are probably more sinister than this, I do like to imagine that they’re just wanting to relate to humans, so they decided to…enroll in college I guess. Like, if Dr. Elliot vibed with them more, this could have spun off into a very fun, slightly morbid college comedy. I do also love how genuinely polite they were as well, like, all of this considered, I absolutely get why people love this episode, it’s just genuinely very creative and a lot of fun. As for theories, honestly I don’t have that many, although someone in the YouTube comments (which by the way, I REALLY need to thank everyone there for being very resistant to spoiling, it means a whole lot for new listeners like myself), stated that there were some odd similarities between certain things that happened in this episode, and some of the stuff found in the bags in Episode 5. It makes me wonder if all of the bin bags contained discarded research materials being used by the students (which actually makes the art student jokes people were making in the comments even funnier in retrospect), and if the “him” Alan Parfitt came across was one of the students. Oh, and all of the bone imagery kind of reminds me of Episode 17 as well, and the teeth stuff kind of reminds me of Episode 10 (maybe the anatomy students are vampires…hm.) Outside of that, this was just a really fun and great episode, and I hope that Dr. Elliot comes back in the future just to see where this potential plot line could go.

- Episode 35, Old Passages 🔨

Statement of Harold Silvana, regarding discoveries made during the renovation of the Reform Club, Pall Mall.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH I’M SCARED!!!!!!! Man, this final quarter has been REALLY solid so far, like, the fact that Hive, Anatomy Class, and now this are so close together is genuinely stunning. Once again, there is QUITE a bit to unpack here, so I’ll take it one step at a time. I’ll start by talking about the elements of the episode that are…less brainrot inducing, as that’s easiest to discuss. Firstly, I remember that Sasha mentioned a “Harold Silvana” case back in Episode 24, so it’s really cool to see that brought back here! But moving on from that neat little tidbit, I’ll start talking about the actual statement. Yeah this one was just really creepy. The story itself was a bit shorter than other statements, but it still did a good job at creating dread. The hallways underneath the club were genuinely very unnerving, and it was also sad to see Alfred die, I thought that Harold’s comment about there being little to no one to remember him was pretty depressing. I also do wonder if the reason the members of The Reform Club didn’t want the architects to get involved with it any further was because they were aware of the hallways, and maybe making use of the strange forces down there. I mean, it just feels kind of fitting to have a high society like faction be involved in some shady business, you know? Also, I noticed that Jon’s vocal delivery of Harold was quite in line with his usual voice, which just makes me feel like they would get along if they met, idk. But honestly, while I think that the basic plot of this episode is still good, it PALES in comparison to the amount of connections it provides. Firstly, Jurgen Leitner. This fucking guy. You know what, I think the guy who made the rant about him was right, why DOES he have so many fucked up books? I…genuinely don’t know what to think of this guy. On one hand, his irritable nature that’s displayed here, and his desire to have all of this dangerous literature do raise some red flags, but it’s also possible that he only wishes to keep these books safe from those who would use them from bad purposes, as there’s no real record of him doing anything bad with them. Still though…he unnerves me, but it was cool to finally have him actually appear in a statement. Secondly, GERARD KEAY LET’S FUCKING GOOOOOOO. I don’t even KNOW where this guy stands morally, but I just get happy whenever this weird little emo man shows up and I don’t know why. Anyways, I…think that this helps piece the timeline surrounding him together…a bit. What I can say for certain is that the Leitner he got here is the same one Mary Keay uses in Episode 4 (which might also be The Boneturner’s Tale, but I doubt it since that one revolves around bending already existing bones, while this one is about creating new ones), so it must have come into her hands some time after this episode. But outside of that, all of the things this episode did that surrounded him was just make me more intrigued, honestly. After Episode 12, I started to think that he was against some evil forces, like his mother and the other guy in the hospital, but that he probably still served his own forces (given the creepy eye symbolism, which I do believe is evil given the church in Episode 20 and the crypt in Episode 23), so he comes off as kind of an anti-villain to me. And this episode didn’t really change that, although I do question his motives for grabbing the Leitner. He’s seemingly been established to have a negative relationship with his mother as an adult, but given that he was younger here, I wonder if they were on better terms in the past, and he actually gave the Leitner to her out of his own will before a potential fall out. Eh, food for thought, I just think he’s really neat. (Making a cut because this is very long now.)

Thirdly, we have Robert Smirke. Firstly, I checked and he was indeed a real person! I’m very glad to see the podcast slightly demonize a British Museum architect, that feels deserved honestly. Ok, I say demonize because this guy built a bunch of terrifying hallways, but granted he could be good idk. Assigning characters strict moral alignments at this point is pretty hard tbh. Anyways, I don’t have that much to say about Smirke himself, other than that I think he was definitely involved with at least one of the major cults we’ve seen, and that he might have ties to some of the recurring creepy churches we’ve seen so far. …I might have to check if the real person actually worked on Hither Green Chapel or not, just in case. What does concern me is the hallways. Obviously, thirteen is a bad sign (I know it’s technically fourteen but like you get the idea, it’s framed as thirteen in the script when the architects enter the central room), but someone in the comments pointed out odd similarities between the hallways and previous episodes. Ones that stood out to me was one that was described as entirely dark, another with cobwebs in it, and the first corridor, which was described in an EERILY similar manner to Lost Johns’ Cave. I don’t know, it very well might just be me going insane, but I feel like the passages here are meant to reprisent certain…feelings throughout the series. Maybe not more sentient entities like, for example, The Anglerfish, but like, I could see a corridor similar to the weird foggy graveyard from Episode 13, or the dreams from Episode 11. Basically I think the passages are meant to connect to the more environmental horrors we’ve seen so far. It’s just…AGH THIS PODCAST IS DRIVING ME INSANE AND I’M BARELY COHERENT ANYMORE. Ok, I’ll wrap things up with some brief comments on the ending. Oh dear god the ending. Firstly, is it wrong that Jon’s surprise at the worms in his office made me jump more than anything else in the show so far? Like, considering how terrifying these statements are…that just feels like a disservice from me to the writers and directors, Idk. But secondly (ignoring the worms because I’ve gone on long enough about them)…Breekon and Hope…hi….oh no. They…they were very creepy…I’m guessing they’re twins because they’re very Shining-core to me….and considering that they are the same men who showed up in Episode 2 (or at least prominent to the delivery company those men were a part of)….I do not like the idea of them giving a package to Jon. Needless to say I do not want Jon to open that package. I think that is a bad idea. And I do not like how they encouraged Martin to turn off the recording. I…I think I’m going to go to bed now…

Speaking of bed, I’m sorry if this one wasn’t very coherent lmao. I’m just really tired right now and…yeah this podcast is pulling me into a very deep rabbit hole that I do not think I was prepared for as I thought I would be. Well, anyways, hopefully my incoherency at the very least makes it clear how insane I am about this episode. (Oh also I checked and no, Robert Smirke did not work on Hither Green Chapel, but I still find his work on churches interesting…)

- Episode 36, Taken Ill ✋

Statement of Nicole Baxter, regarding visits culminating in the fire that consumed Ivy Meadows Care Home in Woodley, Greater Manchester.

Unlike last episode, which is just making my brain spiral until it turns to goo, this one was definitely a bit more digestible. That being said…AAAAGUHFGHHGGHHHHHJJJJKKKKKKKKKNGDFGHHJJBFFHHJJNN!!!! I am in LOVE with how everything is coming together, it’s just, UGH it’s so satisfying! The amount of recurring elements, the fact that so many theories and bits of foreshadowing are being validated, it’s just…YES! I LOVE THIS PODCAST SO FUCKING MUCH AND I’M BOTH EXCITED AND TERRIFIED FOR THE END OF THE SEASON! JANE IS COMING HOME BITCHES!!!! Ok…sorry I just needed to get that out of my system, now I’ll talk about this depressing ass statement. Because yes, this one was really messed up! Seeing such a lovely sweet place where the people were able to find community even in their somewhat dire circumstances get absolutely torn apart by an even more terrifying version of death from rot and illness, which already majorly affects the elderly in real life….yeah it was upsetting! I mean, it was good, fantastic storytelling as always but DAMN. Also as someone who does have quite a notable fear of just…generally gross shit, this one did hit home quite a bit. The part where it’s implied Nicole cut off her own hand due to the constant pestilence coming back to haunt her (which did actually remind me of the history of the house on Hill Top Road, as well as the ghost spider…hm…), was genuinely kind of hard to stomach. Honestly the only thing about this episode that WASN’T terrifying was the humor of Nicole’s uncle keeping his estranged partner’s name in his business out of spite. That was actually very funny. So yeah, overall a very terrifying statement, but what about…✨the connections✨ (yeah they get the sparkles as well, who are you to judge). So starting with the obvious, the similarities to The Flesh Hive and Jane Prentiss. I do indeed think that the mysterious force here is either the same thing or something VERY adjacent to The Flesh Hive (but also the yellow shit in Episode 18), and that this episode 100% confirms that Jane isn’t being controlled or anything, but is dead, and the hive is just controlling her body now (which like, was already pretty obvious, but this just confirms it to me.) However, one thing that concerns me about these similarities more than anything else is John Amherst. From my point of view, it was implied that Mr. Amherst was consciously responsible for the spread of the illness, which is in stark contrast to Jane, who only started spreading her worms due to her infection and loss of sanity. This makes me thing that maybe John was somehow involved in getting the hive to absorb Jane, but really who knows? I do admittedly think it would be more interesting if Jane was chosen by the hive itself, but still, I think it would be interesting if her apotheosis was a part of some greater plot. Another thing that ties to Jane that I’m kind of curious about is Nicole’s opening words about fear, which Jon compares to Jane’s statement. It just got me thinking about some other theories which then made me think…what if the eldritch horrors that seem to be behind everything, the things that all of the cults worship, are meant to represent different fears. What if that’s what the different passages in Episode 35 represent (so like, claustrophobia for the first passage, and then stuff like the dark, falling and spiders for other ones.) This theory still needs a LOT of time to flesh itself out, but I’ll put a list of what I think some of the eldritch forces are after I write about the rest of the episode. I might be crazy, but given how “fear” is reoccurring throughout as a theme, more so than a lot of other horror, I have to wonder about this.

Ok, another thing that rattled my brain was…TREVOR THE FUCKING TRAMP? I THOUGHT YOU WERE DEAD? At first I thought he and his companion might be The Fairchilds from Episode 21, but the reveal of his actual identity was a complete shock. Not that I’m complaining though, he’s one of my favorite statement givers so far. Either way, I’m very curious about his presence here, as well as the identity of his companion, and what role they might serve in the plot. Considering that it’s implied they burnt down the care home, and that Trevor hunts vampires for a living, I feel like these guys are probably trying to combat the horrors, but much like Gerard, I wonder if it’s for entirely moral purposes. And finally we have the ending. Oh boy the ending. I know I’m always saying “this is terrifying” or “the archives are in deep shit now” or something along those lines like…whenever ANYTHING relevant happens at the institute, but like, can you blame me? This is mortifying, I do not want my favorite workplace comedy cast to end up in grave danger, and yet I have to cope with the fact that they probably already are. So, the lighter isn’t the most concerning thing ever, I mean, the spider web pattern is interesting, and given the prominence of cigarettes (as well as Gerard’s lighter in Episode 12), I know I should be suspicious about it. But honestly? I’m more concerned about the table. Because…of course I am. I don’t know what this table does, I just know that it is creepy, that anything Breekon and Hope deliver is bad news, that the implication they gave it to Graham Folger is also terrifying, and that I do not like it’s presence in the artifact storage. Why I am I even saying this, of course I’m scared, you should already know that I am not prepared for whatever comes up in these last four episodes, and beyond. End recording or whatever the fuck.

Ok, so as promised here’s what I think some of ✨the horrors✨ are, and what episodes I think they might appear in

- The Anglerfish (1, 28)

- The Sky, I Guess (4, 21)

- The Flesh Hive (6, 22, 26, 32, 36, maybe 18)

- The War Incarnate? (7)

- Heat aligned entity, called Asag? (8, 12, 18, 20)

- The darkness (9, 15, 25)

- Eyes (4, 12, 20, 23)

- Something aligned with isolation (13, 33)

- Bone Thing (4, 14, 17, 35) (This could be the same thing as the sky due to their connection with Leitners)

- Spiders (16, 22, 32, 35, 36 via the lighter)

- MEAT (18, 30)

- Whatever The Circus of The Other serves (24)

- “Micheal” (26, maybe 8?)

- And then probably something I’m missing due to the 14 corridors

I excluded some things like shapeshifters and vampires, since they seem to be species, Breekon and Hope, The Keay and Lukas Familes, Jurgen Leitner, etc., because they all seem to be servants of ✨the horrors✨ rather than horrors themselves (although I do think “Micheal” is an exception based on vibes alone), stuff like the table and the coffin, which are more like creepy artifacts than anything else, and then other stuff like whatever was trying to get inside Paul McKenzie’s room, which I just don’t know enough about. But…yeah! The ideas are very scattered right now, but I feel like I’m slowly piercing together what the horrific forces of this world might be (on the assumption that’s what we’re dealing with here, which I see no reason not to honestly)

UPDATE: Ok so after some thought I’m not too sure about the idea of ✨the horrors✨ literally representing different types of fear. I think that could still be the case with the passages, but the things I presume to be eldritch beings (like whatever is behind all the bones), while obviously not devoid of themes, are just a bit too specific for this to work. I still think the things I listed are likely to be big bad eldritch horrors, I just think I was a little bit off with what I think they represent, and I need to rethink my steps. Also, this is all on the assumption that there is more than one big evil here. I think it’s likely due to a lot of Gerard’s dialogue in Episode 12, but yeah…this theory only works if another theory is also true. Either way, I do think that the podcast will really delve into fear as a concept, and the psychology behind it, as time goes on, based on themes alone. Ok I’ve talked long enough, on to episode 37.

- Episode 37, Burnt Offering 🍼

Statement of Jason North, regarding the discovery of an alleged ritual site found near Loch Glass in Scotland.

If there was any episode that proves a shorter one isn’t necessarily a worse one, it was absolutely this. Because while the statement is short, and comparatively simple compared to a lot of others, DAMN. I really liked this one. However, I’ll start simple with the stuff that happened outside the statement. Firstly, man…poor Jon. It’s been really interesting but also…really sad seeing his mental state deteriorate over the course of the season, and I hope that he’ll at least be able to get some rest at some point in the near future, although it does feel like a storm is going to come soon. I also found Martin’s scene here interesting as well, as you can tell that he’s still feeling nervous after what happened in Episode 22, and that things haven’t exactly gotten better. The other thing of note is the table, which…yeah, it’s still worrying. I don’t know WHAT this thing does, although I do think it’s interesting that it shows up in an episode that seems to involve the heat related entity from Episode 12 and the Hill Top Road statements. This is because I strongly suspect that the box Ivo found beneath the tree belonged was actually the missing piece of the table, so I feel as if maybe it connects to the heat entity. This might also mean that Graham’s stress could’ve been due to the heat, as well as the monster that stole his identity, although I do have to question where exactly this would fit in with Episode 12. Still though, this does all intrigue me. I also find it curious that the box Ivo found contained an apple with spiders inside (which also kind of brings back thoughts about Episode 34), and that the other thing Breekon and Hope brought to Jon was a lighter with a spiderweb design on it. I’m connecting the dots! (I’m not connecting shit, am I.) But as for the statement…yikes. This is up there with Jane’s statement as being one of the most visceral, one where you really understand the mental state of the author. Like, you can FEEL Jason’s pain here, and having him get genuinely angry with the institute at the beginning was kind of chilling. Obviously it’s not the first time that’s happened, but usually the people who got angry with the institute were ones giving statements live, while here, you hear that anger coming from Jon’s mouth and it’s…off. Also, can I just say that this guy got screwed over so badly? He literally just dropped a bottle of old milk on the ground, and then as punishment he had his entire life literally set ablaze, and had to kill himself to protect his 4-year old son. That’s genuinely like…so fucked up and it’s not even something I can joke about! Really the only thing I can joke about is the mention of Pine Martins being tiny and adorable, which to me is meant to say that Martin Blackwood is tiny and adorable (if that wasn’t already obvious to me.) God I love Martin so much….What was I talking about? Oh yeah,✨the horrors✨. So I guess the only thing left to talk about now is connections.

Well, as I stated earlier, I think the eldritch entity associated with heat that has likely appeared multiple times before appears here as well, obviously. And if Ep. 12 didn’t already give me suspicions, this one absolutely solidified that there is a cult serving this entity. It doesn’t say much about the history of the house on Hill Top Road or what was going on with the man in the hospital, but it’s interesting nonetheless. But of course, the most interesting thing here is the bottles with pictures of Gertrude Robinson in them. …Oh dear. Firstly, I learned that this scene was actually inspired by the experiences of a real person on an old Rusty Quill forum, which is really cool! But aside from that, I’m wondering…is this meant to tell us how Gertrude died? I initially thought her presence here was meant to tell me that she might have been more evil than I initially thought, but now I’m kind of wondering if she was against the cult that serves the heat, and they killed, or at the very least attempted to kill her via a ritual in the woods. And if that’s the case, why not do the same with Gerard, who also seemed to be against this cult? Unless the brain tumor was somehow caused by the cult? I. HAVE. SO. MANY. QUESTIONS!!!! There are three episodes of this season left….aaaaaaaaaAAAAAAA-

Unrelated side note: A thought that popped into my head earlier was that maybe Breekon and Hope were the people who stole the calliope organ in Episode 24. I mean, it seems in character based on what we know of them, and it did end up in artifact storage like the table…Also, I found Martin’s description of them really weird? Like, what do you MEAN they were normal, mother fuckers spoke like the twins from The Shining! AND WHO THE HELL IS ROSIE??!! Ok goodnight :).

- Episode 38, Lost and Found 🏺

Statement of André Ramao, regarding a series of misplaced objects lost over the course of three months.

Ok yes, the vase was absolutely a gaslighting homophobe, there, I SAID IT, ARE YOU HAPPY NOW?! (Ok but in all seriousness I think the fact everyone agrees this is the vase’s motivation is absolutely hilarious, if it ends up being canon I will laugh my ass off.) Anyways, enough humor, because things are SERIOUS now. I’ll give my overall thoughts on the statement first. Honestly, when you remove the absurd nature of what’s going on, this one was genuinely very visceral and heartbreaking. I’ve seen people say that this one is a commentary on the fear of losing things, and while I absolutely agree, the main takeaway I got was the commentary on materialism, and how if you place too much value on material possessions you will lose the things you truly cherish. I think you can really tell that through the way André treats his husband through the story. Like, he talks about getting into a fight with him, and being angry when he started trying to contact doctors, and while I’m sure there was obviously love there, I don’t think André realized how much his husband mattered to him until it was too late. It’s not the most subversive or complex metaphor of all time, but I still think it really works and that it’s pretty damn powerful. It hurts even more with how he does eventually get all of those material possessions back, but still loses his husband. And while I COULD complain about the show’s first somewhat prominent gay couple being buried, I know that’s it’s not because of their sexuality, but because it’s the fucking Magnus Archives, where no happiness is allowed. I also find it concerning that André knows the vase is still stealing things (…writing that down really puts into perspective how nutty this podcast can be), it makes me wonder if it might be in the artifact storage somewhere…oh no. Mentioning artifact storage, what about Mikaele Salesa? So, I checked to see if he appeared in any previous episodes, and he did, back in Episode 14! Unfortunately, that doesn’t really give us much information on him outside of his appearance, but it does prove to me that he’s at least somewhat important. I will say that he really did remind me a lot of Breekon and Hope, which does make me wonder if there’s a connection between them. The only thing that I found to be a very notable difference is that Mikaele has some level of fear towards ✨the horrors✨, while Breekon and Hope seem do be in direct service of them. That doesn’t necessarily make Mikaele a good person, I mean, I definitely think that he knew about the vase, but just pretended not to to save his own skin, but he might not be like…an evil mastermind that wants to spread ✨the horrors✨ wherever he goes, which I get the vibe of from a lot of other characters. But outside of that, there were a good few odd similarities to other episodes. I found it interesting that the war-related items in Mikaele’s warehouse were from The American Revolution and World War 1 respectively, as those are the wars that the only war-related episodes so far have taken place in (those being 7 and 29.) I also definitely think that Mikaele had Leitners in his possession, and I felt like the description of the vase’s pattern was very similar to that of the table, which should be more relevant than ever. Some other things that the vase reminded me of was the impersonator from Episode 3, what with the way that it successfully gaslights everyone aside from the statement giver and…debatably the archival staff, although I don’t think they count since as far as I’m concerned none of them were directly involved with the events of these statements. I initially thought that the creepy hand was supposed to be David, but someone in the YouTube comments said that it could be the same hand from Episode 15, which is….concerning, given how scary that one was. I do wonder if that means this statement connects back to The People’s Church of The Divine Host though, since I felt like that was involved with Episode 15. But with all of that out of the way, there’s the end of the episode. I am hyperventilating so bad.

So yeah….Jane came home I guess. I’m…very interested to see whatever happens in the next episode. All I know is that I’m absolutely in what you’d consider the season finale now. I do have a couple of thoughts here, outside of just being terrified. Because obviously, the way that Jon just smashed that spider is very similar to the events of Episode 16, which brings multiple concerns. Firstly, I initially thought that Jon’s decision to kill it was a bit stupid given his knowledge of that statement, but then I remembered that it was almost as if an external force was compelling Carlos Vittery to kill that spider, so I assume the same thing happened to Jon. And if so….please don’t wrap my boy’s corpse up in webs :(. Secondly, since the killing of the spider causes the worms to conveniently burst in, I wonder if that was why the mysterious force was compelling Carlos to kill the spider. I mean, the worms WERE in his apartment, so maybe killing the ghost spider (which I assume is the same one we see here) is somehow capable of summoning the worms, meaning that….Carlos Vittery could be a part of The Flesh Hive?! Or at least there was an attempt to make that happen like with Harriet Lee? …Sometimes the connections really make my brain melt. And finally, I’m now wondering if the reason as to why the spider even showed up was due to the lighter Jon received from Breekon and Hope, since it had a spiderweb design on it. I mean, they obviously have a knack for giving people things that lures ✨the horrors✨ to them, so I would not be that surprised if this theory ends up being correct. (Also, if Jon was to set the worms on fire with the very same lighter that might have summoned them to him…that would be a massive power move that would make me very happy.) But more than anything, this just gets me thinking even more about that damn table. WHY IS IT HERE? IS IT GOING TO SUMMON THE HEAT TO GET RID OF THE WORMS? DOES THAT MAKE BREEKON AND HOPE A NEUTRAL PARTY IN THE GRAND SCHEME OF THINGS? AM I EVER GOING TO GET ANSWERS?! …..I’m not prepared for this season finale.

do you think this is what the vase looked like

- Episode 39, Infestation 🧯

Original recording of Jane Prentiss’ attack upon The Magnus Institute, London.

WHAT?! WHAT THE FUCK?! WHO IN THEIR RIGHT FUCKING MINDS DECIDED THAT YOU CAN JUST END THE EPISODE LIKE THAT?! LIKE, IN RETROSPECT IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN OBVIOUS THAT THE SEASON FINALE WOULD BE A TWO-PARTER BUT GOOOOOOOODD!!!! So fun fact, I was so scared going in to this episode that I took two days off listening to mentally prepare myself, and even after that…THIS ONE SCARED ME MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE!!! Did I like it? Absolutely! It’s at the very least in my top 4 episodes, in fact, I think it might only be barely beaten by Episode 32, and it’s very close competition. As someone who’s really liked all of the stuff that happens in the institute, and with the institute staff, this episode was a dream come true, and with the way things are being set up, I’m really excited by the prospect of there being more episodes like this in the future seasons. But…jfc. This is….a LOT. Now, due to the fact that this episode is structured very differently than anything else before it, and because I have so much to say, I’m just going to dedicate different paragraphs to a specific recording each, so I can make my thoughts clear and concise. Starting with…

The second recording. Look, the first one is basically a bunch of chaotic screaming and worms, I don’t know what else you would expect me to say. So the first thing I want to address is that we finally get to see members of the archival staff interacting as a group. I already did feel like their comments on one another give a good look at their dynamic, but it was nice to see it in person, despite the horrific and perilous situation they’re in :). But what are some other things. Well, even though this is shown in later recordings in the episode, I’ll just put it here that I really like how Martin is characterized here. The scene with him in Episode 37, as well as most of his scenes here really do show a new level of confidence and just flesh him out really nicely. There’s some morbid humor in him carrying around a corkscrew to get rid of the worms, and…yeah! I just really like him, he’s definitely one of my favorite characters so far. The main beef of this recording however is the stuff we get from Jon. Not only is the overarching theme of the episode, that being the desire to be remembered, conveyed really well through his dialogue here, but it felt like this scene came with some…nice closure, I guess. We’ve seen Jon become less and less skeptical as time goes on, especially in this final fourth of the season, but it felt really gratifying for him to just straight up admit that what’s happening is real. But there were also quite a couple of intriguing things that he said. Firstly is his comments about Gertrude. He makes the suggestion that she could potentially be alive, and while I doubt that due to her presence in Antonio’s dreams, and the fact that her supposed date of death was when The People’s Church of The Divine Host did a creepy ritual, it does just make me more curious about what truly happened to her. All things considered, I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that ghosts exist in this universe so…I don’t know, maybe we’ll see her come back in a way, but I don’t think she’s…entirely alive. The other curious thing was the reveal about the statements. We already knew that something prevented them from being uploaded to computers, but now we know that this only applies to statements that are real. This not only means that Jon has…basically no excuse at this point to be a skeptic, but that I am getting VERY curious about the tapes and the statements on a fundamental level. I’ll touch on it a bit more later, but it does feel like there’s more to the framing device of the podcast itself here than meets the eye, and it is EXCITING me. Anyways, on to the next recording. (I’m still just contemplating that THIS episode came after the homophobic vase one. Holy shit.)

Tim….please never die. I mean, I know it’s funny that I say that since he was VERY close to death here (and could still die in the next one but like…I doubt it because of the fact we already probably have one major death…I’ll touch on that later…), and also because I’ve only known him for two episodes but like…he’s so cool man I can’t help it. “Statement of Joe Spooky regarding sinister happenings” is by far the funniest line in the podcast so far, perfect for the season finale, and…I WAS SO WORRIED FOR HIM UAAAAAGGGHHH!!! Like, the death flags were hoisted HIGH, so I’m glad he survived this episode….even if it probably came at the expense of another character, unfortunately. Ok, I’ll get to that when I get to that. Really not much more to say here other than “Tim is funny and I’m scared”, although hey! It’s Jane! I mean it’s really cool to finally hear her voice but she had one line so I don’t know what else to add. Regardless, time for the kind of wholesome but also ominous as shit recording!

Look, while they are obviously still in peril, while there are certainly some very concerning implications here, while they are still arguing…this one was kind of nice. Obviously Jon and Martin are very different people, and are still quite a ways off from sorting out all of their differences, but…this was very nice. Considering how much Jon belittles Martin in early S1, having him talk to him like this, in a situation where they are both equals, it’s genuinely very gratifying, and probably the most earnest Jon has ever been, as well as the most confident Martin has ever been. Obviously I love it when Jon is a mean asshole and when Martin is just a little guy, but this felt like really good character development for both of them. But outside of that, the most interesting thing here is a look into Jon’s psyche, and why he acts a skeptical as he does. Firstly, the fact that he actually joined the institute due to a genuine belief in the paranormal does make me wonder…what the hell happened to him. I mean, the institute doesn’t seem like the most fun place to work at in the world, nor the most mainstream, so like…I’m getting a lot more curious about Jon’s past now, and the same goes for Martin’s, maybe even more since we learn even less about his reasons for joining the institute than with Jon, and more about his reasons for staying there after Jane forced him into hiding. But obviously, the most ominous thing to me here was how Jon said he felt like he was being…watched. This could mean…genuinely so many things, but to me, I felt like the meaning was a PERSONAL ATTACK. Like, it doesn’t HAVE to be, but given that the podcast already has some decent potential for meta elements, are…are they trying to say that I’M the one tormenting Jon?! Because, like…yeah, I have wanted to see him start admitting that the statements are real! And I have been watching him! (or I guess listening, but…shut up…) In fact, it’s especially damning for someone like me, because I don’t listen to TMA in the background or anything, I sit my ass down, stare at the screen and start taking notes. I…I don’t know where this whole thing will go but for now I’m offended. (But like, if this metaphor ends up being true that I must say…that is some BRILLIANT writing.) There was also Jane’s weird actions here, with how she was seemingly destroying statements and papers. This isn’t exactly surprising, after all, she did suggest that the reason The Flesh Hive wants Jon dead is because as an archivist, his job is to understand things, which the hive seemingly doesn’t want unless it opens its arms to someone directly (very finally fitting if I might add), but still…it’s curious to me. Considering how this whole recording gets you to think about what’s up with the statements, I feel like maybe The Flesh Hive knows a bit more than others do… Finally, we have the ghost conversation, which is really funny and a great character moment for Jon and especially Martin, but like…what if though…what if…

ELIAS BOUCHARD IS A SKETCHY ASS MAN. This guy has only shown up ONCE before this episode, and when he finally returns he is…unnervingly chill about the whole situation. Like, he is just…NOT concerned about the attack, he seems a tad bit too comfortable with the prospect of Jon and Martin dying via C02, and he’s just…he’s just really fucking sketchy. I can’t remember if I’ve stated it before, but from what we’ve seen and heard of him, I’ve always gotten the vibes that Elias knows a lot more than he lets on. Like, in the way that he’s been working at the institute long enough to know that there’s something really weird about it, (which btw, thinking about how weird the institute is does really get me thinking about it’s founding a lot more…my brain is melting…) and he wants to stay away from the weird shit as far as possible. Some suspicious things with him are his reluctance to antagonize The Lukas Family which is…understandable, I guess, if they help keep the institute around, but then there’s the fact that he clearly knows more about Gertrude than everyone else, but is being REALLY quiet about it, exemplified via what Jon says about him in Episode 11. And then there’s the fact that later on, Sasha mentions how he has a tendency to change the subject and…yeah…I don’t know how to feel about him. Honestly all I have to say about this recording corresponds with Elias, so I’ll just move on to the next one.

Ok, so since these recordings are pretty short, and Sasha’s last one is….woah…I’m just going to cover the last two that have Jon and Tim in them briefly here. As expected, Tim continues to be comedy gold. Him bursting through the wall and being super chill (and not in the creepy Elias way) was honestly just want I needed. I did NOT need him pulling…something off though, but…whatever. Also the reveal of Martin recording poetry was fantastic, I need that to be a spin-off ASAP. Magnus Protocol? Never heard of it. The men of the archives are the only men to ever exist and they all deserve their own show. Anyways, after Tim completes his re-enactment of The Shining, they head into the tunnels (which I did not know were a thing), and I get scared yet again. I…am very concerned for Martin, I do not like how he ran off, and I do not like the noises that play at the end of the episode. That is all I have to say here. This is an absolutely terrifying way to end the episode, but it is frustrating in the best way, and if I wasn’t shaking as I write this I would have immediately jumped to the next episode. But…there is one other scene, one that honestly, would’ve worked just as well, if not BETTER, as an ending to the episode. That is, of course, the one scene that has terrified me more than anything else in the podcast so far. The scene that stars:

That. Mother. Fucking. Table. I thought it was at least…somewhat safe. I thought that it would tie into…Hill Top Road, or something, that it would just be something for Jon to glean some information from later on! But I was a fool. I should’ve known that the Anatomy Class shenanigans were (probably) foreshadowing. I should’ve known that the GOD DAMN IMPERSONATOR WAS COMING BACK. JON! WHY DIDN’T YOU DESTROY IT YOU VICTORIAN BUFFOON?! I’m…I’m fucking shook man. I might have been fearful for Tim but…for a split second there, I thought everyone would make it out alive. I mean, we’ve seen Sasha in like, what, three episodes before this, and she only starred in one? She had to live so that we’d see more of her! But no…I got completely blindsided. Sasha James, this really cool character who I wanted to see succeed after her encounter with Bonyhands McGee, is most likely dead. It might sound like I’m genuinely upset with the decision, and while I’m absolutely sad and terrified, I do think they can go really interesting places with this. I mean, I’m going on the assumption that what happened to her is what happened to Graham Folger in Episode 3, meaning that we know have something impersonating her, meaning that she could be explored even after her presumed death. On top of that, like…what if the effect of no one recognizing a difference between the OG Graham and the “Not Graham” applies to Sasha! Because if so, this could be a genius example of having characters figure out something long after the audience being done really well! But overall…I’m mortified. As cool as these prospects are, there’s still a glimmer of hope in me that Sasha survives, that the archival team can deal with that fucking table as soon as possible. Which, by the way, I’m genuinely mad at myself for not catching on to that at first. I initially thought that the table had nothing to do with the main plot of Episode 3, outside of maybe increasing Graham’s paranoia, and that it was meant to foreshadow future events that tied into…idk, the house on Hill Top Road, given the box inside the tree. But nope! Apparently wherever the table goes, the impersonator follows! And if she is dead…man, I don’t know whether or not it’s a good thing that the thing she was afraid of dying from was not the one that killed her in the end… Outside of that, I mean, yeah, artifact storage was creepy as all hell, Sasha’s monologue made me go through five different emotions in the span of like…two minutes, and that one part, holy shit that one part. Hearing that weird noise, Sasha’s scream, and then a new voice repeating her last words it’s…uggghjhehehehjejejejjewjjekekwkekkdkwkekek. Wow, I hate this! I mean, I love it, but wow, I hate this! I mean, I love it, but wow, I hate this! I mean, I love it, but wow, I hate this! I mean, I love it, but wow, I hate this! I mean, I-

So..yeah. Good episode…I guess. I’m really scared. For everyone, Sasha especially. For everything, my sanity especially. I do not like the name of that season finale, it’s looking at me funny. I….I…I think I’m just going to go saw my foot off or something, maybe that’ll take my mind off of things. See you for the season finale! :,)

- Episode 40, Human Remains 🩹

Statements of Elias Bouchard, Tim Stoker, Sasha James, Martin Blackwood and Jonathan Sims, regarding the infestation of the Magnus Institute by the entity formerly known as Jane Prentiss. Statements taken direct from subjects.

*Sigh*. I have listened to 40 episodes of this god-forsaken, trauma inducing podcast. I have stayed up at night wildly speculating about the connections between episodes, trying to solve the greater mystery. And for what? Well, I regret to inform you that, in the end, it was all for…A FANTASTIC SEASON FINALE. HOLY SHIT I’M SO EXCITED TO LISTEN TO SEASON 2 YOU HAVE NO IDEA. I mean, I’m obviously terrified, what with the amount of setup here, the cold realization that ✨the horrors✨ are somehow just going to affect the main cast more and more in the future, and…so much more, but WOW. This finale absolutely delivered and if I wasn’t already on board to see how the rest of the podcast plays out, I absolutely NEED to know now. So, like with last time, I’m going to divide my thoughts via the multiple parts this episode is divided into, so I’ll be going over each person’s statement. And let me tell you…there is some stuff to discuss. Starting off with my favorite(?) enigmatic CEO, Elias Bouchard!

So yeah, Elias is still sketchy as fuck. Oddly enough, despite this being the most time spent with him so far, which don’t get me wrong, I’m really happy about, but…yeah, I still don’t trust him all that much. I guess I’ll start off by talking about some of the general information revealed here. So firstly, no one’s really doing all that well! I mean, it’s expected, but still, I feel really bad for everyone here. You can tell in the opening how scarred Jon is by what happened (both mentally and physically)…which makes Elias’ relative chillness all the more strange. Also, while it is once again pretty obvious, I would just like to pay some respects to the absolute queen that was Jane Prentiss. Rest in relative peace Jane, I hope you’re getting people to join the hive in…well not heaven, she’s probably gone to superhell, but…yeah. Still kind of sad she only got one line from her own mouth. But back to Elias, there are two things he said that really came off as…like, especially odd. Firstly is how he said he got tired of what Jon was saying about the statements. This is weird because like…that’s his job? That Elias hires him to do? It really does add to the vibe that he knows of ✨the horrors✨, but is actively trying to avoid them as much as possible. It feels like they’re setting up an interesting parallel between him and Jon, who looks like he’s going to really start connecting the dots in Season 2. It also just kind of made me think about the implications of something…watching Jon, and it wanting him to admit the statements are real, since Elias seems to specifically be annoyed by Jon’s recent lack of doubt, at least in my eyes. But the other thing that really unnerved me here was what he had to say about Gertrude. His reluctance to talk about her death is one thing, but the fact that he says he found the blood-covered office on March 15, when in Episode 25 Jon says she was declared dead on May 15, is…just really strange. It could be a discrepancy on the writer’s part but…I don’t know, it feels like one of them has to be wrong here. And either way, since they retconned past discrepancies in the opening of Episode 33, they could absolutely work with that here. So yeah, not much more to add other than that I don’t trust Elias.

Poor Tim :(. The guy has been so funny and chipper in all of his past appearances, but here you could feel how beat down he was. After getting worms in his skin and having to spend more time in quarantine simply for being funny, this guy just can’t catch a break! I mean, I’m happy he’s alive, because I was genuinely very scared for his life in the last episode but…man, his last words in this episode really did sting. Anyways, the main takeaway from this statement is the info on the tunnels. This is…really creepy and I’m sure we’ll get a deeper look into it in Season 2, as this whole episode feels full of setup for what’s to come very soon, but for now they are just a very strange place. The way their ancient architecture is described, the worms’ behavior down there, and the…door they were trying to form? What else is even in there? Hell, is this why The Flesh Hive really wanted to attack the institute? To discover some secret in the tunnels? I don’t know, but I care a LOT.

No no no no no no no no no no no no no NO! THE WORST HAS COME TO PASS! The chances of her survival was slim, but I had the smallest sliver of hope that she would survive, but NO! Sasha’s gone UUUUUUUUAAAAAAAGGGHHH!!!! What makes it so much worse is that WE KNOW, we’ve heard Sasha’s original voice, we’ve gotten a sense of her general vibe, the new her has creepy music in the background whenever she speaks, HER NAME IS LITERALLY “NOT!SASHA” IN THE FUCKING CREDITS. But Jon, Tim, Martin, they don’t! They don’t know, and I’ll be stuck having to watch them hang out with a monster that killed their friend for who knows how long! It’s excellent storytelling but GOOOOOD I’M SO SAD. And Not!Sasha herself, I mean…holy shit. She’s absolutely uncanny and terrifying, the fact that her tone and vibe are so noticeably different from the real Sasha, how she always responds with a “yes” to Jon, how she points out extremely obvious things, how she just…seems unfamiliar with things she should know about, just everything, it’s just so fucking scary! She’s just so..matter of fact, she’s like a robot in comparison to the real person. Honestly, her manner of speech is very in line with how I imagined the anatomy students sounding. But there are a lot of other weird things about this scene. Firstly, I think it’s curious that when “Micheal” is mentioned, Not!Sasha refers to him (and yes, I noticed she uses he/him, unlike OG Sasha who used it/its) as the one with “all the bones in his hands” which…almost perfectly lines up with what Ivo’s father said. I had my doubts about that theory, but now I feel pretty convinced by it. That just leaves me thinking about what connection he might have to the fractals. Now that I think about it, fractals kind of line up with the descriptions of strange patterns that have shown up, like the one on the table. And…well, given what happened, I can’t help but wonder if “Micheal” and Not!Sasha have a deeper connection to each other, especially since this is the first time he’s been brought up since Episode 26. (Maybe he’s impersonating the real Micheal…oh no that’s a whole new can of worms, pun not intended). Another thing is how Not!Sasha says Elias gave her a strange look. …THE MOTHERFUCKER KNOWS!!! WHAT IS HIS PROBLEM?! WHY?! Lastly, there’s some of the discrepancies that Not!Sasha has failed to avoid. Firstly, she should’ve been scarred by the worms like Jon and Tim but just…isn’t. Secondly, even though Jon doesn’t remember the original Sasha (which is…even more depressing when I put it into words…), he’s astute enough to realize that something is off with her. And finally, there’s the matter of the missing tapes. I checked, and they are indeed all of the tapes that Sasha appeared on. I think it’s likely Not!Sasha took them to learn about the role she has to play, but since there’s certainly something weird about the tapes, and this theme of truth being recorded on them…I have to wonder if she maybe stole them because the original Sasha’s voice is still on them, and you can straight up hear Sasha dying and being replaced on the one from Episode 39. With the logic presented in Episode 3, Sasha’s voice on the tapes should be replaced by that of Not!Sasha, but when you consider the framing device of the audience being people listening to these tapes, and the general weird things at play…I’m concerned. I think…I think Jon needs to get those tapes back as soon as possible. In short, I am very scared of the new archival assistant, and her mysterious connections.

MARTIN MY BELOVED!!! How is it legal for someone to be this sweet, he was genuinely so worried for Jon and I just want to give him a hug he’s so nice :(. But ultimately, as much as I feel for him, Martin is not the main focus here. The strange objects in the tunnels are not the main focus. The main focus here is the human remains. The remains of Gertrude Robinson. Wow. I…honestly thought it was going to take longer for her fate to come to light. I mean, there is still a lot that is obviously unknown, but to have her down here, confirmed to be dead, confirmed to be MURDERED…it’s making my brain go in so many directions. I guess I’ll start with the room she was found in. It’s…very concerning how similar it is to the archives. I don’t even know what it’s supposed to mean? Does it signify that the institute was built upon an older institute somehow? Are we not even going to bother checking out the tapes she left down there? I NEED TO KNOW. And, then, I mean, god the way she died. I was so convinced by all of the clues that she died some sort of gruesome eldritch fate, but hearing that she was simply shot…why is that so much more haunting. I mean, I have to assume there were still some weird circumstances surrounding her death as a whole, given clues in Episode 11 and Episode 25, but…it’s very concerning. And then there’s Jon’s words about this. Does that…DOES THAT MEAN THAT SEASON 2 IS A FUCKING MURDER MYSTERY?! BECAUSE I WOULD ABSOLUTELY LOVE THAT! Look, assuming that the murderer is indeed someone in the institute (which I say because Gertrude does seem to have made a good few enemies in her lifetime), then my fingers are already pointed at Elias due to how sketchy he is, but honestly…I’m afraid this is just another mystery that I don’t have to energy to fully crack right now. And Jon’s words at the end…please tell me he doesn’t resort to doing very stupid things that endanger his own life for the sake of the truth. Oh who am I kidding he probably will. But…wow, I’m just…I’m just so excited for Season 2.

So yeah…that’s Season 1 of The Magnus Archives. The fact that I already feel changed by this series, both for better and for worse, within the first season…it just gets me so excited and mortified all at once. There’s still so much story potential, so many mysteries to be solved, and I can’t wait to hear it all for myself. Honestly, the fact that there’s so many plot lines, and the only one to be kind of resolved The Flesh Hive and Jane Prentiss arc…that’s insane. So, I’m just going to leave a list of things I want answers on down here.

- The Anglerfish

- Breekon and Hope

- The Table and The Impersenator

- The Keay Family

- Micheal Crew

- Jurgen Leitner and his fucked up books

- The house on Hill Top Road

- The Heat Entity and its cult

- The People’s Church of The Divine Host

- Trevor Herbert and his companion

- Antonio Blake

- The Eyes

- The Lukas Family

- Mikaele Salesa

- The Meat

- The Spiders and The Lighter

- The Fairchilds

- Jonah Magnus and the founding of The Institute

- The Circus of The Other

- “Micheal” and The Fractals

- The true nature of The Flesh Hive

- Robert Smirke and his passages

- John Amherst and the infection

- The backstories of the main cast

- The death of Gertrude Robinson

- And finally, what the hell is going to happen next?

So, there’s a wrap on Season 1? Do I expect all of these questions to be answered in the next season? Absolutely not. Do I want all of them to be answered eventually? Yeah probably. If you’ve made it this far, thank you so, SO much. Like, you genuinely deserve an award for reading all of my insane rambling. I’ll be back with my thoughts on the first 10 episodes of Season 2 in due time, but for now, thank you and bye :).

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Allison Janokwski at DNC:

5:30 PM

Call to Order Alex Hornbrook Executive Director of the 2024 Democratic National Convention Committee Gavel In The Honorable Cory Booker United States Senator, New Jersey Invocation Sri Rakesh Bhatt Sri Siva Vishnu Temple Bishop Leah D. Daughtry The House of the Lord Churches Pledge of Allegiance Students from Moreland Arts & Health Sciences Magnet School from St. Paul, MN National Anthem Jess Davis Presentation of Honorary Resolutions The Honorable Jaime Harrison Chairman of the Democratic National Committee Joined by Vice Chairs The Honorable Keisha Lance Bottoms, Ken Martin, Henry R. Muñoz III, Treasurer Virginia McGregor, and Finance Chair Chris Korge. Remarks Mini Timmaraju President and CEO of Reproductive Freedom for All Remarks Alexis McGill Johnson President and CEO of Planned Parenthood Action Fund Remarks Cecile Richards Reproductive Rights Champion Remarks Kelley Robinson President of the Human Rights Campaign Remarks Jessica Mackler President of EMILYs List Remarks María Teresa Kumar Founding President and CEO of Voto Latino Remarks The Honorable Tom Suozzi Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, New York

6:00 PM

Welcome Remarks The Honorable Cory Booker United States Senator, New Jersey Joint Remarks The Honorable Aftab Pureval Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio The Honorable Cavalier Johnson Mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin Joint Remarks Rashawn Spivey and Deanna Branch Lead pipe removal advocates Remarks The Honorable Lisa Blunt Rochester Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Delaware Remarks The Honorable Grace Meng Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, New York Remarks: “Project 2025—Chapter Three: Freedoms” The Honorable Jared Polis Governor of Colorado Remarks The Honorable Debbie Wasserman Schultz Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Florida Remarks The Honorable Suzan DelBene Chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Remarks The Honorable Keith Ellison Attorney General of Minnesota Remarks The Honorable Dana Nessel Attorney General of Michigan Joint Remarks Jon Polin and Rachel Goldberg Parents of Hersh Goldberg-Polin Performance Maren Morris American singer-songwriter

7:00 PM

Remarks The Honorable Veronica Escobar Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Texas Remarks The Honorable Chris Murphy United States Senator, Connecticut Remarks The Honorable Javier Salazar Sheriff of Bexar County, Texas Remarks The Honorable Pete Aguilar Chair of the House Democratic Caucus Influencer Remarks Carlos Eduardo Espina Content creator Remarks Olivia Troye Former Trump administration national security official Remarks The Honorable Geoff Duncan Former Lieutenant Governor of Georgia Remarks The Honorable Bennie G. Thompson Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Mississippi Remarks Sergeant Aquilino Gonell Retired United States Capitol Police Officer Remarks The Honorable Andy Kim Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, New Jersey Influencer Remarks Olivia Julianna Content creator Performance Stevie Wonder American singer-songwriter and musician Remarks Kenan Thompson and Guests on Project 2025 American comedian and actor

8:00 PM

Host Introduction Mindy Kaling Remarks The Honorable Hakeem Jeffries U.S. House of Representatives Democratic Leader Remarks The Honorable Bill Clinton 42nd President of the United States Remarks The Honorable Nancy Pelosi Speaker Emerita of the U.S. House of Representatives Remarks The Honorable Josh Shapiro Governor of Pennsylvania Remarks Alexander Hudlin Jasper Emhoff Arden Emhoff Remarks The Honorable Catherine Cortez Masto United States Senator, Nevada

9:00 PM

Performance Amanda Gorman National Youth Poet Laureate Remarks The Honorable Wes Moore Governor of Maryland Remarks The Honorable Pete Buttigieg Performance John Legend American singer-songwriter Sheila E. American singer and drummer Remarks The Honorable Amy Klobuchar United States Senator, Minnesota Remarks Benjamin C. Ingman Former student of Governor Walz Remarks The Honorable Tim Walz Governor of Minnesota Benediction William Emmanuel Hall Lead Pastor of St. James Church in Chicago

Apologies for the delay of night 3’s release of the DNC Speaker schedule.

The main speaker of tonight is Minnesota Governor and Kamala Harris VP pick Tim Walz.

Other notable Speakers: Bill Clinton, Oprah Winfrey, Amy Klobuchar, Cory Booker, Geoff Duncan, Andy Kim, Nancy Pelosi, Hakeem Jeffries, Josh Shapiro, and Pete Buttigieg.

Grace Meng and Debbie Wasserman Schultz were initially set to speak on Monday, but got moved to tonight.

Performers: Maren Morris, John Legend, Amanda Gorman (poem), Stevie Wonder

[burntthecity]

hi all, updated plotting search post coming at you. i'm attempting to get my oc muse back after a slight drought with some of my most wanted fcs, opposites and pairings atm. although you can assume i’m searching for romantic plots unless stated otherwise, i also love platonic and would be happy to do friendship plots. everything is under the cut!

fyi, i will do f/m, f/f and f/nb plots! :)

wanted fcs/people I’d like to use: shelley hennig, joseph gordon-levitt, cody christian, rachel sennott, emeraude toubia, elle fanning, bill hader, zendaya, dylan arnold, eve hewson, sophie cookson, hailee steinfeld, josephine langford, victoria pedretti, virginia gardner, elizabeth lail, brenton thwaites, paul mescal, sarah pidgeon, robbie amell, jennifer morrison, vanessa morgan, bruna marquezine, hande erçel, grace van patten, charlie heaton, gideon adlon, greta onieogou, diana silvers, sophia carson, daisy edgar-jones, devon bostick, arden cho, molly gordon, phoebe dynevor.

general opps i’d love: nicholas galitzine, peter gadiot, lola tung, lakeith stanfield, diego luna, josh hutcherson, caitlin stacey, ben feldman, ayo edibri, lizeth selene, ryan gosling, rachel sennott, gael garcia bernal, michiel huismen, molly gordon, ruby cruz, vanessa kirby, victoria pedretti, felix mallard, penn badgley, grace van dien, madison bailey, taron egerton, aaron taylor-johnson, lakeith stanfield, shelley hennig, nick robinson, ross butler, gael garcia bernal, dominique provost chalkley, david harbour.

specific pairings (bold is who i want to write as)

nicholas galtitzine x any female (will give you your most wanted fem opposite)

luke hemmings x chase sui wonders

dylan o’brien x shelley hennig

maia reficco x kit connor

taylor swift x harry styles

jessica chastain x any male

cailee spaeny x any male

cody christian x any female (might require some backstory/an interest check, my cody oc is a hot mess lmao)

joseph gordon levitt x any female (35+)

phoebe tonkin x claire holt (platonic)

madison iseman x any f/m/nb (platonic and/or romantic, m if romantic)

priscilla quintana x any female/femme nb (platonic and/or romantic)

riley keough x any f/m/nb (platonic and/or romantic)

natalia dyer x any f/m/nb (platonic and/or romantic)

other important things:

if we’ve gotten to the point of plotting on discord before and you went ghost on me, i’ll be hesitant to plot with you again. sorry, but i hate feeling like i’m wasting my time. i am in no way innocent with this either, but i generally do not let it go to that stage and ghost. communication is key.

will also be hesitant to write against you if you only write f in f/m plots or require doubling. no one wants to be used for their males. i'd be happy to give you my guys when i have the muse for them, but i also have many queer lady charas that deserve special treatment too.

i’m a pretty low maintenance partner, meaning as much as i love plotting and sending headcanons and will happily do that with you, i don’t expect to hear from you constantly throughout the day and expect the same of you with me. as long as you let me know you’re still interested, great! but please do not pester me for replies or track me if i'm online. it makes me extremely uncomfortable. respect my boundaries and i'll do the same for you.

i am a smut fan but find my muse burns out really fast if the plot is solely smut and no real storyline to go with it. if sexy stuff happens, let's explore it! i just don't want it to be the whole plot.

despite all that seeming slightly harsh ^^, i promise i'm very friendly and approachable.

if you got through all this, bless you. please send me a message if you're interested or like this and i will come to you!!

[ziskeyt]

breaking up pot posting: my new bracelets arrived from Fahlo!

The turtle is Marigold Puddlefoot and she is an adult female loggerhead and looks to be around Virginia right now. The elephant is Arden, she is in the Samburu National Reserve and the Buffalo Springs National Reserve. They delay the tracking on the elephants by four months to keep their locations from being known by poachers.

I'm pleased with the bracelets, the beads are a nice colour and the little animal ones are very cute. But mostly, it's great to be able to see the movements of the animal! It's a very smart idea for getting people to feel more personally involved with wildlife conservancy. I'll probably get some more of other animals.

[lamaracuchaquecuenta]

Prendió en él un fuego de ésos que sólo arden una vez en la vida.

Virginia Woolf. La señora Dalloway.

[my-random-ocs]

Vampire Diaries OC Masterlist

*Note: Matt Davis is being recast as Ryan Reynolds for Alaric Saltzman

Name: Aiden Parker-Lockwood

Story: Growing Pains

Fandom: Legacies

Faceclaim: Katie Douglas

Love Interest: Hope Mikaelson

Summary:

Name: Annika Mikaelson

Story: Stardust

Fandom: Legacies

Faceclaim: Kiernan Shipka

Summary: Annika wasn’t supposed to exist. The daughter of Klaus Mikaelson should have been weird enough. But to have been conceived by him and his girlfriend when the girlfriend was still a human, only able to survive being brought into the world with magic due to said girlfriend being turned into a vampire soon after said conceiving, that got a lot weirder. Her family didn’t care, though. Klaus loved his daughter more than anything, and Cami loved and cared for Annika for as long as she could. Like Annika’s big sister, Hope, the Mikaelsons loved their niece, and the two sisters were inseparable. Family had each others’ backs, family took care of each other- family was always and forever. That didn’t change when they were sent to the Salvatore School. It was the Mikaelson girls against the world. But when an old friend shows back up, sticking together turns out to be much harder than Annika thought.

Name: Asher Blake

Story: Beautiful Ghosts

Fandom: Vampire Diaries

Faceclaim: Dylan O’Brien

Love Interest: Jaden Saltzman

Summary: Mystic Falls was many things: idyllic, peaceful- boring. Descended from a Founding Family, Asher was expected to graduate high school, go to a good college, maintain his family’s legacy, come back to Mystic Falls and die there. Asher wanted more, though. Since he was young, he knew that there had to be more to the world than the few miles of town he knew. And when junior year comes around, and his pseudo-sister Elena starts being stalked by two vampires, Asher realizes that he was right- the world beyond Mystic Falls was a lot bigger than he thought. And when an old family secret comes out, well, it turns out there was a lot more to Asher himself than he thought, too.

Name: Arianne Cassidy

Story: Untitled

Fandom: Vampire Diaries

Faceclaim: Holland Roden

Love Interest: Elena Gilbert

Summary:

Name: Cecily Saltzman-Blake

Story: Broken Mirror

Fandom: Legacies

Faceclaim: Nina Dobrev

Love Interest: Hope Mikaelson

Summary:

Name: Evelyn ‘Eve’

Story: Untitled

Fandom: Vampire Diaries

Faceclaim: Virginia Gardner

Summary:

Name: Hela Mikaelson

Story: Always and Forever

Fandom: Vampire Diaries and the Originals

Faceclaim: Caitlin Stasey

Love Interest: Jeremy Gilbert

Summary:

Name: Jaden Saltzman

Story: Beautiful Ghosts

Fandom: Vampire Diaries

Faceclaim: Zoey Deutch

Love Interest: Asher Blake

Summary: When Jaden’s mother went missing, her father Alaric sat her down and told her all about vampires, the thing that killed Isobel. He trained Jaden, teaching her how to defend herself. Then they went to Mystic Falls, Virginia, where Jaden would meet vampires, witches, werewolves... and her sister?

Name: Kaida Hamada

Story: Untitled

Fandom: Vampire Diaries

Faceclaim: Arden Cho

Summary:

Name: Layne Kenner

Story: Family You Choose

Fandom: Legacies

Faceclaim: Victoria Moroles

Love Interest: Lizzie or Rafael

Summary:

Name: Lucy Parker-Lockwood

Story: Growing Pains

Fandom: Legacies

Faceclaim: Natalie Alyn Lind

Love Interest: Landon Kirby

Summary:

Name: Zoelle 'Zoey' Mikaelson

Story: Untitled

Fandom: Legacies

Faceclaim: Abigail Cowen

Summary:

[esta-elavaris]

top 5 books of all time?

do you ever mark/dog ear books you own?

most disliked popular books?

what are things you look for in a book?

Top 5 (in no particular order)

The Winternight Trilogy by Katherine Arden (for real if you only ever take one recommendation from me, let it be this one)

Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

LOTR - J.R.R. Tolkien

The Heroin Diaries - Nikki Sixx (this one helped me through a lot as a teen - albeit not heroin addiction - so it's here because of that, not because it's a literary masterpiece, but it's still very good)

The War of Art - Steven Pressfield (another one that isn't a literary masterpiece, but I buy it for every creative I know because it's That Good for helping overcome procrastination/creative dread)

Honourable mention for The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson, bc her ability to convey atmosphere and leave you feeling fucked up by the end is unreal.

Marking/dog-earing

I was super against it as a teen but I've gotten over that weird thing of "all of my books must be pristine and appear untouched!!!" unless it's a really pretty, special edition. I still can't bring myself to dog-ear pages or write on them, though - but I do use post-its etc to mark certain things. But these days I mostly read on Kindle bc I just do not have room for more books, so I use the highlight function on that a lot.

Disliked books

I abandoned the You series by Caroline Kepnes halfway through book two this year. The first book was good, although uncomfortable reading, the second book was just...not good at all. It sort of hit the bad combination of resurrecting some things I'd rather forget, as well as just being nowhere near as good as the first. I'm also a Twilight hater through and through even if I can appreciate the meme potential now.

The one I really, really can't deal with is modernist literature in general. I had to take a class for it in uni, and a few books crept in here and there in other modules too, and I just have no time for it. I can appreciate what it did for literature in general as a movement while just despising the individual books. Reading it makes me feel so bored I get nauseous. Just not for me. It did produce a very spirited rant mid-class about my own personal beef with Virginia Woolf when one of my teachers asked me why I didn't like the content, though, which is a fond memory. Hatred for modernism cured my social anxiety for ten minutes what a time to be alive.

Things I look for in a book -

I've been trying to cast a wider net with what I read lately, taking on different reading challenges just to round it all out. I lean towards historical non-fiction, fantasy, and biographies, but I'll honestly read anything (well, except modernism apparently) as long as it's done well. Like if the author is passionate about what they're writing, and that love and passion shines through. It's not so easy to pin down in a specific book (although Katherine Arden does it amazingly in the Winternight trilogy, combining her love for Russian folklore and history with an unparalleled writing ability in general), but it's very obvious when it's not there, and you can tell the author doesn't respect their story as a thing in and of itself, and is just using the story as a lifeless tool to be a patronising shit about x, y, and z.

I've noticed in writing circles that the people who do this are the ones who get very upset when other writers talk about their story/characters having a mind of their own etc.

But overarchingly, I love stories of resilience. Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, a biography of Louis Zamperini, was phenomenal that way, but I'll probably never read it again because it was just so grim and such a difficult read. I just realised that's actually an overarching theme of all five books I recommended at the start of this dissertation. Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins is also my fuckin bible in that regard, because resilience is his whole existence.

Thank you!! 💜

[wolfreader]

august 2024 wrap-up - adult fiction

this month i read ten (10) adult fiction novels.

the warm hands of ghosts by katherine arden 📚 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

i absolutely adored this book! i'm very seriously considering getting my own copy once it comes out in paperback.

i didn't have super high expectations, especially considering i'm not normally a magical realism enjoyer, but this book legitimately brought me to tears (which is very rare for me). i've seen other reviews that say that this book is more about the journey than the destination, as the ending leaves a lot open and unanswered, and i definitely agree, but wow is it an amazing journey.

foundryside by robert jackson bennett 📖 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

this is a fantasy series i've heard about for a while, but i avoided because i heard that the magic system is very science-oriented, which i don't typically like. however, now that i've finally given it a try, if the next two books blow me away as much as this first one this might become a favorite series.

the main character was really lovable and endearing from really early on and the talking key that she ends up in possession of (not a spoiler, he shows up not even five chapters in) is so much fun and quickly became a favorite character. i also wasn't aware that this had a sapphic love interest, so that was a pleasant surprise!

sense and sensibility by jane austen 📖 🌟🌟🌟

much like persuasion, which i read at the end of july, this is not my favorite austen novel that i've read thus far. i cared about the relationship between the sisters, but i wasn't invested much in any of the romantic relationships presented. i wasn't interested at all in either of the men marianne becomes entangled with and i only slightly cared about elinor and edward's thing.

i still enjoyed it, just not as much as some of jane austen's other books. going to keep working my way through her work so see if my favorites are dethroned at any point.

sleeping giants by sylvain neuvel 📚 🌟🌟🌟

one of my reading resolutions for the second half of 2024 has been to try some books outside of my comfort zone, and i never read sci-fi, so i picked this up at the library.

this is told as though it's a series of interview transcripts, journal entries, news reports, et cetera which isn't a writing style i adore, but it also made it very quick to read. that being said, i don't think i'm going to continue with the series. i'm not going to give up on finding sci-fi that i enjoy, there are some other books i've been recommended that sound really promising, but i'm just not invested enough to continue with this series in particular. i only really connected to one character and i don't like the direction that character is going in.

to the lighthouse by virginia woolf 📖 🌟🌟🌟

i don't know how to feel about this one? i liked it well enough.

i know that this is one of those books that's supposed to be plotless, but i feel that this was perhaps a little too plotless for my tastes. i did really enjoy the second and third parts, especially the depiction of the contrast in the ramsay's life before and after the first world war.

i plan on coming back to this in a year or so, when i've read more from woolf and am more familiar with her writing style, so maybe i'll feel differently then.

we dream of gods by devin madson 📚 🌟🌟🌟

this is a series that i've been at for a while. i initially bought the first three books, but after months went by without me even thinking of buying the fourth and final one i had to accept that i simply wasn't interested enough to justify spending money on it. my own library system didn't have it, so i put in an inter-library loan request and recieved it!

i was a little underwhelmed. there was only one character of the four main ones that i was really invested in, and she at least got a satisfying, happy ending, but i just didn't feel any strong emotions about any of the other point of view characters and that applied to their endings as well.

i can't believe i'm rooting for a straight couple to end up together, but two characters who intially had romantic and sexual tension ended up in seprate, queer relationships by the end of the series, and both of these relationships came out of left field and had no chemistry. if this series were more popular, i'd say that perhaps reader interest made the author switch directions with these characters, but i don't think it's popular enough for that to have been a factor.

after sappho by selby wynn schwartz 📖 🌟🌟🌟🌟

i adored this book! it's been on my radar for a while, but my work got a couple of copies in and i obviously have an employee discount so i saw it as a sign to finally read it. the format and style of this book is for sure an acquired taste but i, personally, enjoyed it a lot.

i loved the use of "we" throughout the book, framing the author as part of a background collective of queer women that was there throughout the historical events taking place; this was potentially as a deliberate attempt to evoke the image of a greek chorus? either way i really liked it, it really helped to create a sense of kinship with both the "main characters" of the novel as well as with this hypothetical group of sapphic women paying witness to the growing and changing landscape of queer and particularly sapphic culture.

i also really liked the framing of sappho less a person and more an idea, or a spirit that can inhabit anyone. seeing as we know very little about the historical sappho and we knew even less during the time period this book takes place, i found the presentation of sappho as an idea very compelling. i was fascinated with the repeated imagery of "becoming" sappho, of being transformed into sappho for a brief period through art, performance, activism, relationships, et cetera.

mrs. dalloway by virignia woolf 📖 🌟🌟🌟

an apt follow-up to after sappho, as virignia woolf was a major character in that novel. i enjoyed this one more than to the lighthouse, which makes me excited for orlando (which im planning to read soon), as friends who are familiar with woolf's writing have told me they think that's the one i will like the best. also, after sappho put a lot of focus on the woolf's writing of orlando in particular, which excited me.

but for mrs. dalloway, i'm a little mixed. the parts i liked i really liked but the parts i didn't like i really didn't like. there were parts that almost made me cry, and parts that i was incredibly bored with.

the once and future king by t.h. white 📖 🌟🌟

i was really enjoying this book for the half, but in my opinion it took a sharp dip in quality in the second. the first two books included in this edition (the sword in the stone and the queen of air and darkness), which focus on king arthur's childhood and therefore on elements of arthurian legend that aren't as well-trodden in literature, i really enjoyed, but once the focus shifts to lancelot and guinevere and the more classic arthuriana stuff i thought it really dragged. i just felt that not only have i seen this story before, i've seen it done a lot better than this.

as i write this i've already gotten rid of my copy at a book swap and traded it in for something i'll hopefully enjoy a lot more.

the desert spear by peter v. brett 📖 🌟🌟🌟

i have really complicated feelings on this one. consider this a right-in-the-middle 2.5 stars that i've rounded up for simplicities sake.

on the one hand, i think peter v. brett is a talented writer. his writing style is very quick and engaging and readable without feeling dumbed-down or juvenile. when he actually takes the time to give characters a fully realized story instead of just relying on stereotypes, those characters are really compelling and i find myself wanting to continue the series to find out what happens to them. the demons and the mysteries surrounding them are interesting.

however, this book is insanely racist and misogynistic. and not in an (unfortunately very common) "average grimdark fantasy written by a white man" way, in a very noticeable way. while the primary antagonists in this series are the literal demons, the secondary antagonists, the krasians, are very thinly veiled amalgamations of various swana cultures. and the way these fantasy allegories for muslims are written is, as mentioned, insanely racist and islamaphobic! the best non-white man in the series thus far is still depicted as a money-hungry coward willing to sell out his close friends for wealth. most of them are depicted as bloodthirtsy rapists, including one of only two non-white male point of view characters.

most women in the series and every single woman who is a point of view character can be sorted into either "rape surivivor" or "hypersexual manipulator" (or sometimes both!). there's a new female point of view character introduecd in this book that was only briefly mentioned in the last one, and almost immediately she is sexually assaulted. if i had a nickel for every time a female character in a demon cycle book was violently sexually assaulted only to then immediately seek out sex with the next vaguely nice man they interact with, i'd have two nickels. the most prominent non-white female character and the only non-white female point of view character is sorted into "hypersexual manipulator", as are most of the non-white women in general. even when these women are given sympathy as rape survivors, it's in a very racially charged way, to put it mildly. also this man simply does not know how the female body works. the hymen does not work like that, peter, and a woman who has dedicated years of her life to healing and is particularly knowledgable about fertility and women's reproduction would know this.

i've heard from others who have noticed this very obvious issue with the book but who have also read the rest of this series that the desert spear is the absolute worst it gets, that it gets better throughout the series, so i might continue (as i said, when brett actually puts effort into his characters they're very compelling) but i'm very conflicted.

[jonismitchell]

anyone got classic novel romance recs…

[sporadiceagleheart]

Today's joy with Rachel Joy Scott Friday edits is Rest In Peace to those famous stars & angels Verne Troyer, Richard Griffiths, Alan Rickman, Richard Harris, Michael Gambon, John Hurt, Robbie Coltrane, Helen McCrory, Roberts Blossom, Billie Burke, Frank Sutton, Jim Nabors, Judy Garland, Margaret Hamilton, Clara Blandick, Shirley Temple and baby Leroy, Paul Grant, Leslie Phillips, Robert Hardy, Timothy Bateson, Terence Bayler, Robert Knox, Sam Beazley, Paul Ritter, Dave Legeno, Peter Cartwright, Derek Deadman, Hazel Douglas, Alfred Burke, Jimmy Gardner, Elizabeth Spriggs, Bob Newhart, Tom Poston, Dean Martin, Mary Frann, Betty White, Rik Mayall, Brian Nickels, Jerry Reed, Matthew Perry, Raymond Burr, Mary Ann Jackson, Dorothy DeBorba, Mary Kornman, Mildred Kornman, Peaches Jackson, Peggy Cartwright, Darla Jean Hood, Jean Darling, Peggy Montgomery, Bob Barker, Lucille Ricksen, Michael Kenneth Williams, Pat E. Johnson, Richard Burton, Cyril Cusack, Roger Lloyd Pack, Peter Frye, John Boswell, James Walker, Shirley Rosemary Stelfox, Shirley Jean Rickert, Janet Key, June Marlowe, Virginia Weidler, Jane Withers, Peter Michael Falk, Bruce Kirby, Mike Lally, John Finnegan, Robert Culp, Vito Scotti, Val Avery, Fred Draper, Alan Fudge, Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson, Richard Belzer, Richard Bull, Jerome Guardino, Bill Zuckert, Steven Gilborn, Ed McCready, Paul Carr, James Avery, Parley Edward Baer, Sherman Hemsley, Ellen Albertini Dow, Carl Reiner, Alan Wolf Arkin, Michael Jeter, Debbie Lee Carrington, James Caan, Ed Asner, Ana Ofelia Murguía, Paul Newman, Madge Sinclair, Robert Guillaume, Mary Ethel Gregory, Michael Landon, Katherine MacGregor, Kevin Hagen, Dabbs Greer, John Heard, Leonard Stone, John Candy, Victor Edwin French, Robin Williams, Peter Fonda, Geoffrey Palmer, Olivia Newton-John, Eve Arden, Rose Joan Blondell, Alice Ghostley, Darrell Zwerling, Dody Goodman, Lance Reddick, Andy Griffith, Don Knotts, Anissa Jones, Bridgette Andersen, Dominique Dunne, Samantha Reed Smith, Heather and Judith Barsi, Fred Rogers, Olivia Twenty Dahl, Roald Dahl, Sofie Magdalene Dahl, Walter Elias Disney, Ruth Flora Disney, Denise Marie Nickerson, Louis XVII, Lois Janes, Marie Thérèse de France, Christopher Plummer, Eazy-E, Peter Cartwright, John William "Johnny" Carson,

[uniquetyphoonmiracle]

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Cantando la canción BRUJAS ARDEN=WITCHES BURN..me recuerda a BURNING WITCHES de las que tanto hable desde que vi a COBRA SPELL O SONIA ANUBIS [ex BURNING WITCHES] presentar cd 666 en sala ROCKVILLE que inaguro grupo DINERO

[boldlycleveryouth]

美国新年大瓜--霍金居然也去萝 莉岛？！ying魔富豪性奴派对涉案VIP名单曝光，上千页文件流出

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新年刚过，美国就迎来一个超级大瓜，美国各大网络平台都被“超级老鸨案”爆出来的涉案人员名单刷屏了。     所谓超级老鸨，就是指为欧美各界精英提供未成年人性服务的犹太富豪杰弗里·爱泼斯坦。

在美国法院刚刚公布了卷入ying魔富豪爱泼斯坦X交易案人员名单，几乎全是有头有脸的大人物，     目前，首批名单括美国前总统川普、前总统克林顿夫妇以及英国王子安德鲁...     更令人不可思议的是，魔术师大卫·科波菲尔，迈克尔·杰克逊，连霍金也在列！曼哈顿联邦地区法院执行官爱德华·弗里德兰1月3日向《纽约邮报》确认：“文件解封应该会在今天开始！”

文件透露的惊人内幕

这份被解密的文件，来自于弗吉尼亚·朱弗雷 (Virginia Giuffre) 在 2015 年提起的一项现已和解的诽谤诉讼，她指控英国社交名流吉斯莱恩·麦克斯韦尔 (Ghislaine Maxwell) 纵容爱泼斯坦对她进行虐待。     弗吉尼亚声称，在她 17 岁那年夏天，她被诱惑辞去川普海湖庄园俱乐部水疗服务员的工作，成为爱泼斯坦的“按摩师”——一份涉及进行性行为的工作。

文件中提到了安德鲁王子、前总统比尔·克林顿和斯蒂芬·霍金等重要人物。     这份冗长的名人名单描绘了爱泼斯坦令人不安的双重生活：这位金融巨头利用他的财富和人脉，残害了数十名年轻女性。

以下是新披露的文件中 出现的所有一线名人： 安德鲁王子 受害女生弗吉尼亚·朱弗尔提到了 2001 年 3 月发生

的一件令人不安的事 件，当时她声称自己被贩卖给了安德鲁王子，并形容那是一段“邪恶”和“非常可怕的时光”。 她声称，在一次夜总会之行后，爱泼斯坦的前女友暗示她好好伺候安德鲁王子，“满足他的任何要求。”

除了弗吉尼亚指控她在未成年时被迫与安德鲁王子发生性关系外，这些文件还包括其他受害者的指控。     一名叫 Jane Doe 的受害者女性供称，她曾三次与这位安德鲁王子发生性关系，并且爱泼斯坦告诉她“无论王子要求什么，都尽力满足。”     另一位指控者约翰娜·斯约伯格（Johanna Sjoberg）在自己的证��中表示，2001 年安德鲁王子在爱泼斯坦曼哈顿公寓的沙发上坐着时摸了她的胸部，并把手放在她的乳房上拍照。

比尔·克林顿

克林顿在法庭文件中被称为“无名氏 36”，在密封记

录中被提及 50 次。 尽管未成年性侵案受害者弗吉尼亚·朱弗瑞（Virginia

Giuffre）没有指控克林顿，但她声称曾看到克林顿与两名年轻女子在爱泼斯坦的萝 莉岛上。

尽管克林顿矢口否认，但私人飞机飞行记录显示，他在担任总统后曾使用爱泼斯坦的飞机进行国际旅行，去过巴黎、曼谷和文莱等地。     受害者约翰娜·斯约伯格（Johanna Sjoberg）作证说，爱泼斯坦曾告诉她，克林顿“喜欢年轻的女孩”。     资料显示，克林顿在担任美国总统期间跟白宫实习生莱温斯基有染，当年她 22 岁。

川普 克林顿并不是唯一一位出现在名单中的美国前总统，川

普也被点名了四次，也与爱泼斯坦交往密切。 在受害者约翰娜·斯约伯格（Johanna Sjoberg）的证词

中，她称爱泼斯坦曾经“打电话给”川普，并在他的私人飞机到达新泽西州大西洋城后参观了川普一家赌场。“爱泼斯坦说，‘太好了，我们会打电话给川普，我们会去——我不记得赌场的名字，但是——我们会去赌场’。”证词写道。 约翰娜后来补充说，她从未按摩过川普。

霍金 霍金这个名字，在这种场合出现，实在令人大大的意外。

全球知名物理学家霍金教授在2006年曾经到访过爱泼斯坦的岛屿，跟其它科学家会面。随后就传出他参加未成年X交易派对的传闻。     随后也流出多张霍金在萝 莉岛上参加饭局和坐在爱泼斯坦专门为他改装的潜艇上参观的照片。

2015年，在弗吉尼亚在美国提出民事索赔后不久，爱泼斯坦写给前女友的一封电子邮件显示，     爱泼斯坦曾要求她向弗吉尼亚的任何朋友、熟人、家人 "发出悬赏"，只要他们站出来反驳弗吉尼亚关于霍金教授参与未成年Party的说法。

为什么要用悬赏的方式来证明清白呢？具体原因就不得而知了.......     迈克尔·杰克逊     流行音乐传奇人物迈克尔·杰克逊被指曾在爱泼斯坦位于棕榈滩的家中现身，指控者约翰娜·斯约伯格（Johanna Sjoberg）称自己在那时遇见了杰克逊，但否认曾为杰克逊按摩过。

根据一位爱泼斯坦的指控者透露，她在成为爱泼斯坦随行人员期间曾偶遇迈克尔·杰克逊。 杰克逊于 2009 年去世，享年 50 岁。     大卫·科波菲尔     约翰娜·斯约伯格（Johanna Sjoberg）还描述了魔术师大卫·科波菲尔在爱泼斯坦的一处房产举办的晚餐会上表演魔术。

她补充说：“他问我是否知道女孩们可以因为找其他女孩而得到报酬，”但科波菲尔并未具体说明他的意思。     爱泼斯坦的离奇死亡     爱泼斯坦：美国投资家、科研慈善事业赞助者，同时也是一名在册性罪犯。     爱泼斯坦的职业生涯始于投资银行贝尔斯登公司，之后他成立了自己的公司——杰·爱泼斯坦公司（J. Epstein & Co.）。     2008年，爱泼斯坦因教唆未成年少女卖ying而被判罚18个月的“羁押与工作假释”。2015年，“爱泼斯坦案”被媒体曝光。     报道称，美国亿万富豪爱泼斯坦将他在位于加勒比海的私人岛屿打造成了“成人乐园”，供权贵阶级享乐。

据悉，向权贵阶级提供服务的人疑似包括未成年，所以外界也将爱泼斯坦打造的“成人乐园”称之为“萝 莉岛”。     2019年7月6日，爱泼斯坦再次因与佛罗里达州和纽约州的未成年人性-交易案而被捕。 2019年8月10日，爱泼斯坦在曼哈顿一处受到管束的监狱中死亡，官方说法是自杀，但疑点众多。验尸发现，爱泼斯坦颈部多处骨折，其中一处为舌骨骨折。     美国法医协会协会主 席乔纳森·阿登（Jonathan L. Arden）表示，舌骨断裂通常与谋杀性勒死有关，但也不排除自杀的可能。     另外，依据纽约监狱的规章制度，爱泼斯坦所在的牢房需要每半小时检查一次，然而就在他自杀的那晚，这一程序因为“人手不足”并未被执行。

爱泼斯坦死亡的牢房 哈佛大学国际关系教授斯蒂芬·沃尔特认为爱泼斯坦是

“适时的死亡”，同时也让很多事永远成为谜团.......

网友们对于这次公布的名单众说纷纭，很多网友觉得

不可思议： “除非他（霍金）能用他的眼球奇迹般地控制自己的身

体，不然他什么都做不了。”

“霍金的电脑决定了：不可能”

“霍金站都站不起来！”

“请问他（霍金）怎么做到的？”

“187人中剩下的名字在哪里？这不是一个笑话了。”

“然而，至今为止，唯一在为罪行服刑的，居然是一个女人！”

“并非所有人都想法败坏，他们中可能有些大人物只是单纯受邀参加了一顿晚餐或者聚会。”

每日邮报透露，美国法官下令公开的记录将多达250份，目前已公布的只有40份，共1391页，剩下的名单将会陆续公布。

[maggiebert]

美国新年大瓜--霍金居然也去萝 莉岛？！ying魔富豪性奴派对涉案VIP名单曝光，上千页文件流出

#爱泼斯坦 #萝莉岛

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新年刚过，美国就迎来一个超级大瓜，美国各大网络平台都被“超级老鸨案”爆出来的涉案人员名单刷屏了。     所谓超级老鸨，就是指为欧美各界精英提供未成年人性服务的犹太富豪杰弗里·爱泼斯坦。

在美国法院刚刚公布了卷入ying魔富豪爱泼斯坦X交易案人员名单，几乎全是有头有脸的大人物，     目前，首批名单括美国前总统川普、前总统克林顿夫妇以及英国王子安德鲁...     更令人不可思议的是，魔术师大卫·科波菲尔，迈克尔·杰克逊，连霍金也在列！曼哈顿联邦地区法院执行官爱德华·弗里德兰1月3日向《纽约邮报》确认：“文件解封应该会在今天开始！”

文件透露的惊人内幕

这份被解密的文件，来自于弗吉尼亚·朱弗雷 (Virginia Giuffre) 在 2015 年提起的一项现已和解的诽谤诉讼，她指控英国社交名流吉斯莱恩·麦克斯韦尔 (Ghislaine Maxwell) 纵容爱泼斯坦对她进行虐待。     弗吉尼亚声称，在她 17 岁那年夏天，她被诱惑辞去川普海湖庄园俱乐部水疗服务员的工作，成为爱泼斯坦的“按摩师”——一份涉及进行性行为的工作。

文件中提到了安德鲁王子、前总统比尔·克林顿和斯蒂芬·霍金等重要人物。     这份冗长的名人名单描绘了爱泼斯坦令人不安的双重生活：这位金融巨头利用他的财富和人脉，残害了数十名年轻女性。

以下是新披露的文件中 出现的所有一线名人： 安德鲁王子 受害女生弗吉尼亚·朱弗尔提到了 2001 年 3 月发生

的一件令人不安的事 件，当时她声称自己被贩卖给了安德鲁王子，并形容那是一段“邪恶”和“非常可怕的时光”。 她声称，在一次夜总会之行后，爱泼斯坦的前女友暗示她好好伺候安德鲁王子，“满足他的任何要求。”

除了弗吉尼亚指控她在未成年时被迫与安德鲁王子发生性关系外，这些文件还包括其他受害者的指控。     一名叫 Jane Doe 的受害者女性供称，她曾三次与这位安德鲁王子发生性关系，并且爱泼斯坦告诉她“无论王子要求什么，都尽力满足。”     另一位指控者约翰娜·斯约伯格（Johanna Sjoberg）在自己的证词中表示，2001 年安德鲁王子在爱泼斯坦曼哈顿公寓的沙发上坐着时摸了她的胸部，并把手放在她的乳房上拍照。

比尔·克林顿

克林顿在法庭文件中被称为“无名氏 36”，在密封记

录中被提及 50 次。 尽管未成年性侵案受害者弗吉尼亚·朱弗瑞（Virginia

Giuffre）没有指控克林顿，但她声称曾看到克林顿与两名年轻女子在爱泼斯坦的萝 莉岛上。

尽管克林顿矢口否认，但私人飞机飞行记录显示，他在担任总统后曾使用爱泼斯坦的飞机进行国际旅行，去过巴黎、曼谷和文莱等地。     受害者约翰娜·斯约伯格（Johanna Sjoberg）作证说，爱泼斯坦曾告诉她，克林顿“喜欢年轻的女孩”。     资料显示，克林顿在担任美国总统期间跟白宫实习生莱温斯基有染，当年她 22 岁。

川普 克林顿并不是唯一一位出现在名单中的美国前总统，川

普也被点名了四次，也与爱泼斯坦交往密切。 在受害者约翰娜·斯约伯格（Johanna Sjoberg）的证词

中，她称爱泼斯坦曾经“打电话给”川普，并在他的私人飞机到达新泽西州大西洋城后参观了川普一家赌场。“爱泼斯坦说，‘太好了，我们会打电话给川普，我们会去——我不记得赌场的名字，但是——我们会去赌场’。”证词写道。 约翰娜后来补充说，她从未按摩过川普。

霍金 霍金这个名字，在这种场合出现，实在令人大大的意外。

全球知名物理学家霍金教授在2006年曾经到访过爱泼斯坦的岛屿，跟其它科学家会面。随后就传出他参加未成年X交易派对的传闻。     随后也流出多张霍金在萝 莉岛上参加饭局和坐在爱泼斯坦专门为他改装的潜艇上参观的照片。

2015年，在弗吉尼亚在美国提出民事索赔后不久，爱泼斯坦写给前女友的一封电子邮件显示，     爱泼斯坦曾要求她向弗吉尼亚的任何朋友、熟人、家人 "发出悬赏"，只要他们站出来反驳弗吉尼亚关于霍金教授参与未成年Party的说法。

为什么要用悬赏的方式来证明清白呢？具体原因就不得而知了.......     迈克尔·杰克逊     流行音乐传奇人物迈克尔·杰克逊被指曾在爱泼斯坦位于棕榈滩的家中现身，指控者约翰娜·斯约伯格（Johanna Sjoberg）称自己在那时遇见了杰克逊，但否认曾为杰克逊按摩过。

根据一位爱泼斯坦的指控者透露，她在成为爱泼斯坦随行人员期间曾偶遇迈克尔·杰克逊。 杰克逊于 2009 年去世，享年 50 岁。     大卫·科波菲尔     约翰娜·斯约伯格（Johanna Sjoberg）还描述了魔术师大卫·科波菲尔在爱泼斯坦的一处房产举办的晚餐会上表演魔术。

她补充说：“他问我是否知道女孩们可以因为找其他女孩而得到报酬，”但科波菲尔并未具体说明他的意思。     爱泼斯坦的离奇死亡     爱泼斯坦：美国投资家、科研慈善事业赞助者，同时也是一名在册性罪犯。     爱泼斯坦的职业生涯始于投资银行贝尔斯登公司，之后他成立了自己的公司——杰·爱泼斯坦公司（J. Epstein & Co.）。     2008年，爱泼斯坦因教唆未成年少女卖ying而被判罚18个月的“羁押与工作假释”。2015年，“爱泼斯坦案”被媒体曝光。     报道称，美国亿万富豪爱泼斯坦将他在位于加勒比海的私人岛屿打造成了“成人乐园”，供权贵阶级享乐。

据悉，向权贵阶级提供服务的人疑似包括未成年，所以外界也将爱泼斯坦打造的“成人乐园”称之为“萝 莉岛”。     2019年7月6日，爱泼斯坦再次因与佛罗里达州和纽约州的未成年人性-交易案而被捕。 2019年8月10日，爱泼斯坦在曼哈顿一处受到管束的监狱中死亡，官方说法是自杀，但疑点众多。验尸发现，爱泼斯坦颈部多处骨折，其中一处为舌骨骨折。     美国法医协会协会主 席乔纳森·阿登（Jonathan L. Arden）表示，舌骨断裂通常与谋杀性勒死有关，但也不排除自杀的可能。     另外，依据纽约监狱的规章制度，爱泼斯坦所在的牢房需要每半小时检查一次，然而就在他自杀的那晚，这一程序因为“人手不足”并未被执行。

爱泼斯坦死亡的牢房 哈佛大学国际关系教授斯蒂芬·沃尔特认为爱泼斯坦是

“适时的死亡”，同时也让很多事永远成为谜团.......

网友们对于这次公布的名单众说纷纭，很多网友觉得

不可思议： “除非他（霍金）能用他的眼球奇迹般地控制自己的身

体，不然他什么都做不了。”

“霍金的电脑决定了：不可能”

“霍金站都站不起来！”

“请问他（霍金）怎么做到的？”

“187人中剩下的名字在哪里？这不是一个笑话了。”

“然而，至今为止，唯一在为罪行服刑的，居然是一个女人！”

“并非所有人都想法败坏，他们中可能有些大人物只是单纯受邀参加了一顿晚餐或者聚会。”

每日邮报透露，美国法官下令公开的记录将多达250份，目前已公布的只有40份，共1391页，剩下的名单将会陆续公布。

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美国新年大瓜--霍金居然也去萝 莉岛？！ying魔富豪性奴派对涉案VIP名单曝光，上千页文件流出 #爱泼斯坦 #萝莉岛

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新年刚过，美国就迎来一个超级大瓜，美国各大网络平台都被“超级老鸨案”爆出来的涉案人员名单刷屏了。     所谓超级老鸨，就是指为欧美各界精英提供未成年人性服务的犹太富豪杰弗里·爱泼斯坦。

在美国法院刚刚公布了卷入ying魔富豪爱泼斯坦X交易案人员名单，几乎全是有头有脸的大人物，     目前，首批名单括美国前总统川普、前总统克林顿夫妇以及英国王子安德鲁...     更令人不可思议的是，魔术师大卫·科波菲尔，迈克尔·杰克逊，连霍金也在列！曼哈顿联邦地区法院执行官爱德华·弗里德兰1月3日向《纽约邮报》确认：“文件解封应该会在今天开始！”

文件透露的惊人内幕

这份被解密的文件，来自于弗吉尼亚·朱弗雷 (Virginia Giuffre) 在 2015 年提起的一项现已和解的诽谤诉讼，她指控英国社交名流吉斯莱恩·麦克斯韦尔 (Ghislaine Maxwell) 纵容爱泼斯坦对她进行虐待。     弗吉尼亚声称，在她 17 岁那年夏天，她被诱惑辞去川普海湖庄园俱乐部水疗服务员的工作，成为爱泼斯坦的“按摩师”——一份涉及进行性行为的工作。

文件中提到了安德鲁王子、前总统比尔·克林顿和斯蒂芬·霍金等重要人物。     这份冗长的名人名单描绘了爱泼斯坦令人不安的双重生活：这位金融巨头利用他的财富和人脉，残害了数十名年轻女性。

以下是新披露的文件中 出现的所有一线名人： 安德鲁王子 受害女生弗吉尼亚·朱弗尔提到了 2001 年 3 月发生

的一件令人不安的事 件，当时她声称自己被贩卖给了安德鲁王子，并形容那是一段“邪恶”和“非常可怕的时光”。 她声称，在一次夜总会之行后，爱泼斯坦的前女友暗示她好好伺候安德鲁王子，“满足他的任何要求。”

除了弗吉尼亚指控她在未成年时被迫与安德鲁王子发生性关系外，这些文件还包括其他受害者的指控。     一名叫 Jane Doe 的受害者女性供称，她曾三次与这位安德鲁王子发生性关系，并且爱泼斯坦告诉她“无论王子要求什么，都尽力满足。”     另一位指控者约翰娜·斯约伯格（Johanna Sjoberg）在自己的证词中表示，2001 年安德鲁王子在爱泼斯坦曼哈顿公寓的沙发上坐着时摸了她的胸部，并把手放在她的乳房上拍照。

比尔·克林顿

克林顿在法庭文件中被称为“无名氏 36”，在密封记

录中被提及 50 次。 尽管未成年性侵案受害者弗吉尼亚·朱弗瑞（Virginia

Giuffre）没有指控克林顿，但她声称曾看到克林顿与两名年轻女子在爱泼斯坦的萝 莉岛上。

尽管克林顿矢口否认，但私人飞机飞行记录显示，他在担任总统后曾使用爱泼斯坦的飞机进行国际旅行，去过巴黎、曼谷和文莱等地。     受害者约翰娜·斯约伯格（Johanna Sjoberg）作证说，爱泼斯坦曾告诉她，克林顿“喜欢年轻的女孩”。     资料显示，克林顿在担任美国总统期间跟白宫实习生莱温斯基有染，当年她 22 岁。

川普 克林顿并不是唯一一位出现在名单中的美国前总统，川

普也被点名了四次，也与爱泼斯坦交往密切。 在受害者约翰娜·斯约伯格（Johanna Sjoberg）的证词

中，她称爱泼斯坦曾经“打电话给”川普，并在他的私人飞机到达新泽西州大西洋城后参观了川普一家赌场。“爱泼斯坦说，‘太好了，我们会打电话给川普，我们会去——我不记得赌场的名字，但是——我们会去赌场’。”证词写道。 约翰娜后来补充说，她从未按摩过川普。

霍金 霍金这个名字，在这种场合出现，实在令人大大的意外。

全球知名物理学家霍金教授在2006年曾经到访过爱泼斯坦的岛屿，跟其它科学家会面。随后就传出他参加未成年X交易派对的传闻。     随后也流出多张霍金在萝 莉岛上参加饭局和坐在爱泼斯坦专门为他改装的潜艇上参观的照片。

2015年，在弗吉尼亚在美国提出民事索赔后不久，爱泼斯坦写给前女友的一封电子邮件显示，     爱泼斯坦曾要求她向弗吉尼亚的任何朋友、熟人、家人 "发出悬赏"，只要他们站出来反驳弗吉尼亚关于霍金教授参与未成年Party的说法。

为什么要用悬赏的方式来证明清白呢？具体原因就不得而知了.......     迈克尔·杰克逊     流行音乐传奇人物迈克尔·杰克逊被指曾在爱泼斯坦位于棕榈滩的家中现身，指控者约翰娜·斯约伯格（Johanna Sjoberg）称自己在那时遇见了杰克逊，但否认曾为杰克逊按摩过。

根据一位爱泼斯坦的指控者透露，她在成为爱泼斯坦随行人员期间曾偶遇迈克尔·杰克逊。 杰克逊于 2009 年去世，享年 50 岁。     大卫·科波菲尔     约翰娜·斯约伯格（Johanna Sjoberg）还描述了魔术师大卫·科波菲尔在爱泼斯坦的一处房产举办的晚餐会上表演魔术。

她补充说：“他问我是否知道女孩们可以因为找其他女孩而得到报酬，”但科波菲尔并未具体说明他的意思。     爱泼斯坦的离奇死亡     爱泼斯坦：美国投资家、科研慈善事业赞助者，同时也是一名在册性罪犯。     爱泼斯坦的职业生涯始于投资银行贝尔斯登公司，之后他成立了自己的公司——杰·爱泼斯坦公司（J. Epstein & Co.）。     2008年，爱泼斯坦因教唆未成年少女卖ying而被判罚18个月的“羁押与工作假释”。2015年，“爱泼斯坦案”被媒体曝光。     报道称，美国亿万富豪爱泼斯坦将他在位于加勒比海的私人岛屿打造成了“成人乐园”，供权贵阶级享乐。

据悉，向权贵阶级提供服务的人疑似包括未成年，所以外界也将爱泼斯坦打造的“成人乐园”称之为“萝 莉岛”。     2019年7月6日，爱泼斯坦再次因与佛罗里达州和纽约州的未成年人性-交易案而被捕。 2019年8月10日，爱泼斯坦在曼哈顿一处受到管束的监狱中死亡，官方说法是自杀，但疑点众多。验尸发现，爱泼斯坦颈部多处骨折，其中一处为舌骨骨折。     美国法医协会协会主 席乔纳森·阿登（Jonathan L. Arden）表示，舌骨断裂通常与谋杀性勒死有关，但也不排除自杀的可能。     另外，依据纽约监狱的规章制度，爱泼斯坦所在的牢房需要每半小时检查一次，然而就在他自杀的那晚，这一程序因为“人手不足”并未被执行。

爱泼斯坦死亡的牢房 哈佛大学国际关系教授斯蒂芬·沃尔特认为爱泼斯坦是

“适时的死亡”，同时也让很多事永远成为谜团.......

网友们对于这次公布的名单众说纷纭，很多网友觉得

不可思议： “除非他（霍金）能用他的眼球奇迹般地控制自己的身

体，不然他什么都做不了。”

“霍金的电脑决定了：不可能”

“霍金站都站不起来！”

“请问他（霍金）怎么做到的？”

“187人中剩下的名字在哪里？这不是一个笑话了。”

“然而，至今为止，唯一在为罪行服刑的，居然是一个女人！”

“并非所有人都想法败坏，他们中可能有些大人物只是单纯受邀参加了一顿晚餐或者聚会。”

每日邮报透露，美国法官下令公开的记录将多达250份，目前已公布的只有40份，共1391页，剩下的名单将会陆续公布。