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[ID: Magnus Archives fanart of MAG 160 in a brown and green color palette. Jon, who has many extra glowing green eyes on his face, has a wild, hysterical expression as he stands before an open window whose curtains are blowing in with pieces of shattered glass flying around. Jon laughs through tears as he spreads his arms one in Martins direction, whose back is to the viewer, while green lighting flashes through the eye-filled sky. End ID]
(Also i don't know how to do this but credit for the ID to @princess-of-purple-prose)
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(tiktok voice) not me bringing all that is fear and all that is terror and all that is the awful dread that crawls and chokes and blinds and falls and twists and leaves and hides and weaves and burns and hunts and rips and bleeds and dies!
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Hamilton-style musical of rendition of Robert Smirke’s crew and the fallout between himself, Jonah Magnus, and the rest of them.
Ambitious Scottish upstart Jonah Magnus, plunging into the scene of higher society and academia
Interpersonal drama in the esoteric research and philosophy sphere
A power ballad aria from Smirke as he describes his grand, utopian plans for balance
Jonah seeing the wonders of this new world and getting increasingly involved in it, probably getting in some heated theoretical debates with Rayner et al. about it because, being Beholding- and Dark-aligned, their fundamental views would be diametrically opposed
A slowly-shifting musical motif for Jonah as his intentions develop over the course of the play
Barnabas pleading with Jonah through his letter; they’re in separate parts of the stage with different lightings and they can’t see each other. Jonah is reading, rather than listening to, his words
SPOTLIGHTS REMINISCENT OF EYES
Harrowing solo as Jonah sinks deeper into fearing the possibility of rituals
More below the cut because I’m going nuts about this.
I would feel like there’s too much ground to cover (c. 1809 [estimated year Jonah gets introduced to the Fears if he established the Institute in 1818 and talked Smirke into working on Millbank 1815-1821] all the way to 1867 [year of Smirke’s death and the final decommissioning of Millbank: the year in which I place Jonah’s first attempt at the Watcher’s Crown]) if it weren’t for the several decades covered in Hamilton. It provides a pretty good guide for such a varied timeline.
More insane scenes:
Contrast of Albrecht Von Closen’s 1816 letter informing Jonah of his findings at his nephew’s estate vs Dr. Johnathan Fanshawe’s 1831 letter revealing how Jonah knowingly caused Von Closen’s death by stealing his books and got him filled with eyes
Smirke watching the group he formed fall to the Fears in turn, clinging to his alliance with Jonah and therefore being blind to his own turn towards Beholding
Jonah’s financial wheedling with Mordechai Lukas and other donors for his fledgling Institute
Jonah being so gleeful about his brand new Magnus Institute in Edinburgh, after several years of compiling statements informally
HE GETS TO DELIGHT IN ALL THE SCHEDULING AND LOGISTICS!!!
Just. all the letters we have record of. I haven’t even gotten to Dr. Algernon Moss or the conflict between George Gilbert Scott and Sampson Kempthorne
PETTY architecture drama
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I'm curious
For reference here's both of them
Red Signal:
And Mag160 (It's not the whole entire thing. Technically it starts at about 25:00)
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Although I do have to point out for all the theorists out there that have had their hair set on fire by the latest Protocol episode:
The TMA transcripts, as seen here, DO frequently refer to The Archivist as "John" with an H (even though his full name is Jonathan.) (it was, I believe, theorized that the author had regerts about naming the main character after himself and was trying in vain to introduce some distance.)
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Hello gays, I'm back on my bullshit
Haven't done a lineless painting in a while and for good reason, this shit takes so long and I am incredibly impatient- it's safe to say I prolly won't do another one in the near future ✌️
Anyways, have a Jarchivist for the soul
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