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The glass/mirror thing is that boy who basically makes a friend with his reflection and then the reflection tricks him into making a blood sacrifice to let him out/swap places. Then the mirrors eat literally everyone in that town.

That's the more important parts to know at least. Happy listening hope this helps, cause it's about to get a whole lot more complex.

thank you SO MUCH i was really struggling to wrap my head around it

so i'm on s3 e6 now, and i think i've gotten the hang of it??

- 3 months ago was a Big Scary Event

- evacuation protocols were enacted and all the patrons + staff + The Curator Themselves did in fact enter the shelters.

- 3 months of supplies are gone, so everyone was sheltering as normal up until pretty recently.

- the silent man (implied to be the dude w a voice like chocolate and coffee and honey, aka the Devil Himself??) picked up Audio and carried them around for a bit

- NOTE: Audio was really fuckin confused about how the silent man got in, given the Lockdown and all

- Audio leads the silent man on a merry little tour, telling him all about a bunch of exhibits including The Mirror

- said mirror contained a malicious presence (Evil Mirror) who tricked a kid into performing a Mirror Ritual of some kind

- the outcome of Mirror Ritual was that the entire population of Mirror Town vanished, presumably swapping places w Evil Mirror entity (???)

- poor kid wrote it down, noted that he could put his hand through a mirror, the mirrors looked "hazy", and eventually entered??? the mirrors???

- we know that the kid wasn't initially eaten by mirrors bc the journal was found at the scene in the Real World

- anyways back to the plot

- so now the Devil Himself, at some point in the RECENT past, heard this from Audio and performed the Mirror Ritual. we know this bc of the faded drawings on the mirror. he then shattered the mirror (so it couldn't be?? undone directly???? or smthn????)

- the Devil Himself left Audio in the auxiliary security booth and dipped

- the Mirror Ritual ate the population of the Museum. Mother was able to put her hand through the broken mirror shard, and the mirrors in the shelters look "hazy". so Audio and Mother are still within the range of the ritual. (does this mean they could theoretically enter a mirror and get eaten too??)

- Head of Restoration has been trying to reach the Museum in the "Real World" via radio. Audio seems to be under the impression that if they (audio and mother) can respond to Head of Restoration somehow, an established line of communication will help Audio and Momther rescue the population of the Museum, which once again, includes the entire staff + patrons + Curator Themselves, all who have been eaten by the mirrors.

- the Devil Himself is currently unaccounted for. i'm not sure why he did the Mirror Ritual. was it to free an entity from Mirror World?? to free *himself*?? to rob the museum of something?? or is he just fucking with the museum staff bcs he's mad at them for misrepresenting him in the story ab the guitar?

- Audio has plugged into the Museum mainframe and is still figuring that out, while Mother has acquired a Bracelet of Invulnerability

- i think mother should build a brass and clockwork body for Audio so they can have their own independent ambulatory extension of themselves. i think that'd be neat.

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my humble opinion is that if he was self conscious abt his acting skills he maybe shouldn't have had the entire second season revolve around him screaming in pain while wet meat noises shred in the background

also the mpreg subplot

okay im working thru left of the dial now and i know ppl love it so much it's the best arc of the show etc etc i don't care. static man and nick are funny but what about dan??? nick treated him like a CRIMINAL in the s2 finale which is hilarious for a guy who just KLLED HIS DAD!! LIKE??? dan went thru SO MUCH and for WHY. to be written off???? for nick to give him an emo spiel about how he "can't go back" to a normal life bc he likes the POWER and KNOWLEDGE too much?? and he said that to DAN POWELL with a straight face?? who literally suffered so much physically and emotionally as a result as a direct result of his own search for info????? Huh???? i want to see my funky little AUDIO CASSETTE CYBORG where IS HE

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okay i just finished season 2 of the mistholme museum etc etc and i'm so fuckign excited and confused and i immediately looked up the weird ass mirror exhibit to see if anyone had written, like, an Explanation so that my little pea brain could get a quick succinct refresher but i couldn't find anything. the fuck is going on

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The (delightfulky accurate) phrase "funky little analog cyborg" has been bouncing around my brain since you said it so thanks for that

lmao you're welcome

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netflix show kinda deflated like a balloon filled w oil. absolute waste of a concept. the black mold was the scariest wackiest thing in there. mad props must be conceded for casting dan and mark as such fine- looking individuals. my only complaint in that regard is that dan seems a little TOO competent if you know what i mean. i couldn't see him going through season 2. needs approximately 70% more wet cat.

finished season 3. it was alright but dan powell fans were robbed at gunpoint and summarily executed. the side plot w christine and lou was adorable. go, gay liminal space pirates! go! the ending was pretty underwhelming tbh. seasons one and two definitely peppered my corn much more. i'm already daydreaming abt re listening to s2 with the knowledge i have now (especially now that there's a clearer image of rat in my head bc good god. i thought he was like a scrungly little cheshire cat from hell for so long.) but anyways i'm on the last ep of left of the dial.

i can see the vibe, i'm halfheartedly cheering for the vibe, but coming in w the expectations of This Will Blow Your Tits Clean Off was a mistake. it's just . nicholas and static man on a gay little road trip through limbo. yippee i guess. i can see why people would go hog wild for this content but i don't think i'm the intended audience. They Didn't Even Share The One Bed. the throwaway lines ab kissing a dying god carved from marble did in fact zap my noggin but that's about the peak of the experience for me so far. can't wait to get to this "hold him like a person" shit everyone online seems to go feral for.

anyways if anyone has any cyborg dan content i haven't already seen Please Show Me

just finished season two of archive 81, still reeling from the fascinating narrative, daniel powell funky little analog cyborg, incredible vibe overall, only to look online to find that after the third season there's just been radio silence from the creators for over a year and the ao3 tag for my blorbo has thirty (30) total fics

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also i'm down on my hands and knees thanking all the a81 cyborg dan fanartists btw

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okay im working thru left of the dial now and i know ppl love it so much it's the best arc of the show etc etc i don't care. static man and nick are funny but what about dan??? nick treated him like a CRIMINAL in the s2 finale which is hilarious for a guy who just KLLED HIS DAD!! LIKE??? dan went thru SO MUCH and for WHY. to be written off???? for nick to give him an emo spiel about how he "can't go back" to a normal life bc he likes the POWER and KNOWLEDGE too much?? and he said that to DAN POWELL with a straight face?? who literally suffered so much physically and emotionally as a result as a direct result of his own search for info????? Huh???? i want to see my funky little AUDIO CASSETTE CYBORG where IS HE

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took a break from season three to watch the netflix adaptation. what's that? oh it's - it's -

IT'S MARK WITH A LEAD PIPE!!

just finished season two of archive 81, still reeling from the fascinating narrative, daniel powell funky little analog cyborg, incredible vibe overall, only to look online to find that after the third season there's just been radio silence from the creators for over a year and the ao3 tag for my blorbo has thirty (30) total fics

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okay i just met static man and he's my new favorite after dan. i love him so much. why is he so obsessed with popeyes. also what gave him the right to mimic dan omfg

just finished season two of archive 81, still reeling from the fascinating narrative, daniel powell funky little analog cyborg, incredible vibe overall, only to look online to find that after the third season there's just been radio silence from the creators for over a year and the ao3 tag for my blorbo has thirty (30) total fics

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a boombox! like the 90s :)

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just finished season two of archive 81, still reeling from the fascinating narrative, daniel powell funky little analog cyborg, incredible vibe overall, only to look online to find that after the third season there's just been radio silence from the creators for over a year and the ao3 tag for my blorbo has thirty (30) total fics

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he’s pathetic. he’s emotionally repressed. he’s lost every fight he’s ever been in. he’s a whore. he’s hopelessly in love. he’s a war criminal. he’s socially inept. he’s hated by god. he’s even transgender

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tma fans are so funny because you see all this fanart of like, some guy covered in eyes or made out of worms or with blades for hands or some shit and then all the fans are like “good old matt the bone remover. he’s so fucked up and evil i love him ❤️”

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i made a quiz to tell you which of smirke’s 14 entities you’re aligned with… will reblog with the link

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the guy in MAG: 102: okay so my coworker is fucking possessed & being a gross little man, and im not 100% abt this but he may or may not be fucking a bug-

gertrude and gerard, taking this shit in:

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Making a short list of “people in TMA who figured out practical solutions, or were just off the walls and somehow survived,” (the name is a work in progress) and it includes:

- that dude who got trapped in a hedge maze for six hours with his dog, remembered he had dinner with his mom at six, and then just walked out

- that lady who nearly got crushed by a train but she just laid down and just waited for it to be over with. She still took the train places after that

- that dude who put the key to that creepy coffin in an ice block and just went about his business

- the dude who decided cement was the answer to a cannibalistic pig

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Conflicts the canonically queer characters on TMA are not forced to deal with during the show to progress their arcs:

Homo/bi/aphobic violence

Internalized homo/bi/aphobia

Better, more interesting conflicts TMA's queer characters face:

Getting laughed off of YouTube

Being excessively kidnappable

Everyone keeps saying you're too much of a people pleaser and that confuses your people-pleasing instincts?

Being pretty sure your ex has joined a cult

Really wanting revenge against the Regency-era clown that ate your brother