hey quiiiick question. how can you replace an assistant after she 'died' in 2003 and then work alongside a man who definitely got offed by his wife in the 80's? (crucially, before he becomes a ghost.) (and how long were they working together? what age is 'too young for such a job?' I'd argue you can be a grandpa and still be too young for a job that ends with you getting eaten by a coffin or a hallway.)
That 2003 detail is 100% wrong, since it's said by Jonathan Sims who isn't really yet THE Archivist as of MAG 29 (next post: The moment Jonathan Sims becomes Heisenberg) but I still have so many questions. Emma was testing Fiona for decades. How many decades? How old are these people? What is life? Who is lying about bitches dying of liver transplants 20+ years after they got got? Why can't I find any shitfucking dates in a podcast that starts its episodes with "original statements given..."
The world exists in such a baffling state of simultaneous sex-aversion and sex-hegemony. Every social platform on the internet is trying to banish sex workers to the shadow realm but I can't post a tweet without at least two bots replying P U S S Y I N B I O. People are self-censoring sex to seggs and $3× but every other ad you see is still filled with half-naked women. Rightwingers want queer people arrested for so much as existing in the same postal code as a child and are also drumming up a moral panic about how teenage boys aren't getting laid enough. I feel like I'm losing my mind.
not judging anybody, but i find it genuinely interesting that so many fans categorize the fear avatars as either "good" or "bad" based on wether they feel bad about what they do or not, or if they've deemed their backstory tragic enough. because that's literally something talked about in the show explicitly; wether jon is a better person than other avatars because he beats himself up about what he does. he still hurts people. he still feeds on fear. but he feels bad about it, so is he a more morally correct person than someone like helen, who shamelessly enjoys the fear she eats? is suffering righteous if it doesn't help anyone?
there's also the topic of daisy, melanie, and decisions. daisy chose not to feed, but eventually the hunt still claimed her. melanie chose to quit, but that didn't stop or even interfere with jonah's plan. they made the morally correct decisions, but in the end, it didn't matter. but it mattered to them that they did what they could. i don't think either of them thought they could affect the outcome; they made the decisions they made out of nothing except their own moral integrity.
none of this is a criticism or an opinion, just me rambling on about the magnus archives and how it handles the topic of morality and nature and people making morally correct decisions that don't affect the world at all.
OG! Elias had really neat handwriting against his will. His parents expected nothing less than perfection from him in all aspects of life & that includes penmanship. Jonah has swirly, loopy, Declaration of Independence ass handwriting and no one else can read it.
Learning I can't read. You know how the word "wouldn't" is in italics? Yknow so you see it? It stands out? Apparently not bcs it is now would. I'm dumb
coming across any random Michael quote and thinking "huh, i should frame this and put it on my wall or something"
i'm scared to draw peter lukas as a human again because the first and only time i did that, that same night when i went to lay my head down to sleep i was suddenly struck with a sharp and agonizing pang of loneliness that made me instantly burst into tears and text my bestie. like hello.
didn't happen when i drew him furry style tho so if i ever draw him again it has to be as a polar bear. even if everyone else is human he has to be a polar bear.
so I saw @masao-micchi video using the same base and decided that I absolutely had to draw it
I did not do any of them justice but I tried ok 😭
(yes I’m aware how shitty simon’s hair is, its hard to draw with motion blur on)
also I found this comment chain which is absolute gold
and I decided to make a roadtrip au based on it
my ideas so far are as follows:
-at some point they all stop at a hotel for the night and they get three rooms, two people each (leitner and salesa, simon and rayner, peter and elias). putting peter and elias in the same room with only one bed was not a good idea, and simon reminds them the next day that hotel walls are not very thick.
-someone lets simon play music. chaos ensues
-at some point peter, elias, simon, and rayner all collectively decide to try and ditch leotner and salesa somewhere. it does not go well.
Being aroace is so cool, but so, so hard sometimes. Watching all the persons you hold dear finding *their* person. Grieving the idea of an allo relationship. Realizing that, maybe, somehow, you're the second choice fo everyone. Because friends are great, but **lovers** are the goal in our society.
Most of the time, i am sooo happy to be aroace. And then, when im alone in bed, at 3 am, i find myself crying by fear of being alone.
And I think it's normal. It's grieving a certain way of thinking. And it's hard, especially when you were raised this way, and that everyone keeps doubting your identity.
So yeah. Shout-out to all the aroace people, wanting a deeper connection, without wanting romantic love.