[ID: A Magnus Archives comic of Oliver visiting Jon in the hospital. Oliver is a thin, tired-looking Black man with long locs and an undercut wearing an oversized purple cardigan. Jon is a comatose brown man with long, fully gray hair in a hospital bed.
Oliver waves at Jon with a smile and says a little awkwardly, "Um... Hello, Jon. Do you… mind if I call you Jon? I, I mean, you don’t actually know me." He takes off his messenger bag and shrugs wryly, "It’s just, well. 'Archivist.'" The word "Archivist" is written in alternating case and surrounded by eyes.
He smiles nervously while sitting down and says, "It’s so formal, isn’t it? And I do kind of know you…?" He looks down sorrowfully. "Haven’t had much choice, really." He smiles sadly at Jon and says, "Dreams are like that, you know. No matter how lucid you think they are..."
A close-up of Oliver shows his troubled expression, staticky eyes, and the faint black veins across his face as he says, "There’s always that part that just drags you along." We see Jon in bed, and Oliver says pensively, "Guess I don’t need to tell you that. At least, not right now." End ID]
Take this ceasefire with a heaping tablespoon of salt. Israel has a history of breaking ceasefires in the past. Here is an article from The Guardian on one of the many cases. This happened in 2008.
And here is an article from the Institute for Middle East Understanding, compiling every single time a ceasefire is broken by Israel.
A ceasefire is not the end goal. Liberation is.
That is all for now, may your watermelons taste fresh and sweet.
Whenever I do a TMA s1 relisten I love love love finding things that ended up changing over the next few seasons as the show became more fully fleshed out. Tim being serious and Sasha being the joker? Iconic. Whatever the fuck entity was leaving bags of doll heads and prayers on some random doorstep? Who even are you. How could you do that. What’s your number.
Finally finished my next work for the Magnus Archive characters inspired by Alphonse Mucha. Here is Oliver Banks. I made this sketch years ago and never finished so I’m glad I was able to flesh it out and finish. This one I made more painterly than my Agnus and I like the difference and so I think for my next art I would like to do another art exploration.