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TIMELINE NOTES AS OF MAG 167

(as discussed with @soveryanon . thanks also to @sazandorable for their tma timeline that I love so much) 

Okay okay so. I’ve seen a couple posts going around in this post-167 haze about how ‘the Michael timeline is fucked up.’

This is not entirely true.

In fact, Michael’s timeline is probably doing just fine. It’s the Agnes Montague timeline we need to be worried about here, but here, let’s take a closer look:

March 31, 1816

Albrecht von Closen mentions in a letter to Jonah Magnus that he and his wife Clara are unable to have children, specifically noting that this is why they are so close to their nephew

April 1831

Jonathan Fanshawe, upon arriving at Albrecht von Closen’s estate, sees ‘a gnarled and ancient elm’ being burned to ‘death’ by a man with a torch, surrounded by a small crowd

The man specifically mentions that his “master wanted the tree dead”

Fanshawe also notes that Albrecht’s two sons are away at school

1891

Walter Fielding buys Hill Top House

1923

Alfred Fielding, Walter Fielding’s son, inherits Hill Top House

Around 1949

Gertrude Robinson is born

1957

Raymond Fielding, Alfred Fielding’s son, inherits Hill Top House

1960s

Hill Top House is used as a halfway home by R. Fielding

The spiderweb table contains both parts and is in use for Webby business

Ronald Sinclair, age 15, moves in

He immediately dislikes Raymond Fielding, who he describes as not much older than 30

Three years later, Agnes Montague moves in at age 10 or 11, and saves Ronald Sinclair’s life from Raymond Fielding and the Web

she is described with brown hair

At some point between the above and the below

Agnes Montague and Raymond Fielding have a fight that leaves a scar on reality

It ties her inexplicably to Hill Top House

1974

Hill Top House burns down; the locals all suspect Agnes Montague

Raymond Fielding’s skeleton, minus a right hand, is found in the remains

Ronald Sinclair has his first restful night since his near-death

Shortly after, Gertrude Robinson, aged around 25, finds locks of Agnes’ hair in the wreckage and constructs a binding ritual between the two of them with the help of the Web

Around this time

Agnes ‘reaches adulthood’ and stops aging

November 29, 2005

Ronald Sinclair, now over 60, gives his statement

He mentions there are no records of a halfway house at Hill Top Road

He mentions he’s started dreaming again now that developers are moving on Hill Top House

Mid-November 2006

Ivo Lensik is first contracted to work on Hill Top House

He meets Raymond Fielding, or at least someone claiming to be him. This man is notably young (20s), but his clothing is outdated. After he is let in, there is a burning, and Fielding has disappeared

Lensik then goes to hospital and meets nurse Anna Kasuma, who is in her fifties

She tells him about the history of Hill Top House

November 23, 2006

Ivo Lensik visits Hill Top House and cuts down the spider tree. He sees Father Burroughs there to exorcise the house, apparently at Anna Kasuma’s request

Agnes Montague and Jack Barnabas go on their last date

Agnes Montague, age 26, is found hanged in her apartment with what is likely Raymond Fielding’s right hand

Arthur Nolan reveals this was an intentional death suggested by Agnes herself and carried out by the Cult of the Lightless Flame

November 30, 2006

Eugene Vanderstock gives his statement

He brings news of Agnes Montague’s death, on Arthur Nolan’s behest

March 13th, 2007

Ivo Lensik gives his statement

March 18th, 2007

Jack Barnabas gives his statement

He describes Agnes as tall, with auburn hair

‘A couple of years before’ the incident with Hill Top House in 2009

Father Burroughs visits 89 Bullingdon, where Bethany O’Connors is staying, and finds a wall enscribed with the word ‘MENTIS.’ When he asks her about it, she seems confused

Followup to the statement indicated that no students were living at 89 Bullingdon, though Bethany claimed she was living there with six other students

The next day, Burroughs visits the John Radcliffe hospital (where Annie Willett works and where Bethany is hospitalized) for an exorcism for Bethany

He was called there on her behalf by Annie, who seems to be the same person as the Annie Kasuma Ivo Lensik met

Bethany dies in the process

Sometime in 2009

Father Burroughs goes to exorcise Hill Top House on Annie Willett/Kasuma’s request, is nearly burned alive but the Desolation is stopped by a voice that takes over his body and says he is already marked.

He meets Ivo Lensik upon his arrival at the house

The next day, Father Burroughs is terrified by a false version of Father Singh, flees to the Oratory where he has visions of a supernatural Mass. He is arrested at 89 Bullingdon Road for the murder and cannibalism of Christopher Bilham and James Mann

Details in the followup suggest there may have been a second person there that night

Details in Burrough’s vision mirror aspects of many of the entities, including most prominently, the Spiral, the Web, and the Eye.

February 2, 2009

Arthur Nolan comes to gives his statement about Agnes’ death since the Gertrude-Agnes binding circle has been broken

Mid-February 2009

Jason North accidentally disrupts Gertrude and Agnes’ binding circle

April 22, 2009

Anya Villette gives her statement

April 23, 2009

Anya Villette cleans Hill Top House

She notices the spider tree outside

She goes into the basement and gets sucked into a crack in the floor from which 8 legs extend, and wakes up in one of the chairs inside HTH

She says this took place two weeks before she gave her statement

She says her friends are off, don’t seem to know her. She can’t find her favorite coffeeshop. And she’s never heard of the Institute

The followup indicates that as far as records go, Anya Villette does not exist.

August 6, 2009

Jason North gives his statement

August 10, 2009

Jason North douses himself in petrol and sets himself on fire

Around October 4, 2009

Gabriel, The-Worker-of-Clay, sends a letter to Deborah Madaki, telling her he is working in a place called Sannikov Land and inviting her to join him

October 11, 2009

Deborah Madaki gives her statement

No earlier than October 4, 2009, no later than 2011

Gertrude takes Michael Shelley to Sannikov Land and sends him into the Distortion to stop the Great Twisting

Sarah Carpenter is liquified from the inside out by someone who is almost certainly Diego Molina, due to Emma Harvey’s machinations

If indeed this is the same circumstance as the event described by Basira in MAG 43 “Section 31,” then we can pin the date for all of these to have occurred in August 2011

Sometime after the above

Gertrude Robinson and Agnes Montague meet for the one and only time in their lives

Gertrude arranges for Emma Harvey to be burned to death, via Elias and Agnes

May 30, 2011

Father Burroughs gives his statement

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It’s possible I missed some small thing or two, but here’s the stuff I find relevant. It’s not Michael’s timeline that’s strange, it’s Agnes’s, and Hill Top House’s, and the possible varying universes that collide there, at that rift in reality.

:)

#timeline.

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in this light, i swear i’m blind, in this light, i swear you’re mine.

#gertrudeagnes.

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okay i see your 'jon was alt in uni' and i raise you: jon is STILL alt, he just wears different stuff to conform more to typical academia, but one time martin bumps into him in a tescos at the weekend and nearly goes into cardiac arrest

#art. #jon sims.

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Thanks to @rendherring’s Bake Off AU, have some Gerry, Jane and Melanie.

#gerry keay. #jane prentss. #melanie king. #art.

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Same energy

#jonny sims.

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the vast is just really aesthetically pleasing and calming tbh

#the vast.

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So...about Martin being transferred from the library

I know we don't really know anything about how the other departments at the Institute work, but assuming that the Institue's Library functions like,,, a library, that would probably make it the closest department to the Archives in terms of function. (At least, closest to what the Archives' function would be if it was a real archive.)

Which would make Martin the //most knowledgeable// person on the Archives staff in the field of library science. Of the four of them, Martin "likely to contribute nothing but delays" Blackwood has the best idea of what they're supposed to be doing!

#archives crew. #text post.

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father edwin burroughs was going THRU it

#text post.

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Tma is a horror podcast?? I do not see it 👀

#art. #jonmartin. #good cows !!!!!

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the fact that the coffin moans when it rains because it’s the sound of people in the buried crying out in defeat as they cascade deeper down into the earth with the flooding of water will haunt me forever

#the buried.

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Pre-nonsense Jon living south of the river

instagram - portal_of_happiness

#jon sims. #art.

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Nap time

#art. #jon sims. #i love him 🥺 #let him sleep

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I read somewhere that one definition of "tragedy" is that the protagonist is in the exact wrong story to their nature. (The common example is that Hamlet and Othello would have been perfectly suited for each other's stories, but as is they're in a place where their greatest strength is their greatest weakness.) Given that, what type of story would Jon be most "suited" for, that it wouldn't be a tragedy?

Listen.... this man belongs in an indie rom com. Prickly but wanting to protect and care for others. Overworked and overstressed. His life as a rom com protag involves him learning to open up, find value in life outside of work, and probably fall in love.

(So.... so many TMA fics)

#text post.

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my heart stopped, guys

#MAG 176.

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Thinking about the implications of the gloriously canon “Georgie knew Jon was in love with Martin before Jon did” again and it just hit me the real sense of timeline that gives us and that… All those theories we had, literal years ago now, that Elias dropped the “pathetic stab at my feelings for Jon” angle in favour of going with his trauma relating to his mother when trying to upset Martin in 118 because he literally had no ammo, couldn’t find anything negative to say about him from Jon because Jon cared about him more than he let on, are not only true but almost overwhelmed by canon. We theorised about a stream and got a goddamn ocean. No shit Elias couldn’t tell Martin that Jon didn’t care about him as a friend, Jon was literally already in love with the guy, whether he knew it or not. 

#jonmartin.

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Maybe?

#the corruption.

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Sometimes I think about how every time Gertrude Robinson is mentioned she’s destroying something and every time Agnes Montague is mentioned she’s carefully observing something and The Parallels Make Me Melt

#agnes montague. #gertrude robinson. #gertrudeagnes.