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Ok as always I have done my weekly big search for things we’ve seen before…

So Sam fell down a hole right. They kept stating, over and over again, that it was a hole. A hole… a hole filled with… “Smells of a cesspit”. An unknown person crawled out at the end. Played by Beth Eyre. And we don’t find out what happens until April.

#magpod #tmagp spoilers #HOLY SHIT WAIT #that's crazy

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The funny thing about the X-Men famous battle cry is that it's a fairly recent addition. Although Xavier said something similar way back in X-Men #1 ("And now, return to me, my X-men"), he didn't use that exact phrase until Grant Morrison's New X-Men in 2001. Even after that it was only used sporadically. It wasn't until around 2013 that it entered regular use. This is why it was never used in the original animated series or any of the movies.

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Hot Damn Darling, this breakfast is Delicious! theyre gonna have to jerk me off like a prize winning stallion so i can calm down enough for to go to work and do Business!

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yall do realize just because something has been a target of misogynistic criticism, that doesn't make stanning it completely uncritically in response some kind of revolutionary feminist praxis. right.

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go lesbians go

(Ava Jayonut & Leilani Blackberry)

#KAY!!! #kay i love your art #terrorball #art #omg kay imy #hiiii

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gonna stop comparing tmagp characters to tma characters and start comparing tmagp characters to. other tmagp characters. gwen is lena's narrative foil because gwen believes she deserves good things, and lena no longer believes in deserving. gwen would do anything to prove that she's strong and competent and won't obey, lena stays in her cage and attacks on command because she knows what'll happen if she doesn't. lena's already in too deep to claw her way out, and gwen is willingly digging further down.

#guys im such a gwena shipper

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can i say something? when people are obsessed with a random ass thing it makes them so attractive to me. like please tell me about the history and different types of tornado sirens. of course i want to see your collection of scrap metal. i love you.

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The fact that Everything Everywhere All at Once has the main character see that if she hadn’t gone to America with the man that would be her husband she would’ve lived a glamorous life of fame and fortune and her husband would’ve gone off and gotten very rich on his own rather than living together in an apartment over a laundromat struggling with finances every day and where so many movies would’ve framed that choice to go off together as a mistake, shown their alternative lives as some sort of “see? It wasn’t worth it” and had them “escape” to that “better” universe in the end, it instead all culminates in the line “Just so you know, in another life, I would’ve been really glad to just do laundry and taxes with you” changed my wholeass life

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shout out to the 🧍 emoji. it conveys so much. no other way to truly explain the emotion you get when you feel like🧍

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i am NOT gaslighting you. i am lying to you. gaslighting implies a level of effort that i am simply not putting in. deceiving you does not require much

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5 things your character can't do while speaking

Choke. Just think about it, seriously. Think about what choking is and imagine speaking while it’s happening. That would fuckin’ hurt, man.

Hiss. Look, it’s just not possible, okay? No matter how “evil” you want your character to seem.

Snarl. Animals snarls. The Beast from Beauty and the Beast snarls. The Hulk snarls. You know who doesn’t snarl? PEOPLE WHEN THEY’RE SPEAKING.

Shriek. Come on, 99% of the time, “shriek” is not the word you want.Let’s face it: if you put an exclamation point at the end of the sentence, your reader gets the picture. Don’t bring to mind banshees and screaming toddlers.

Sneer. I’m not even going to bother explaining this one. “SNEER” ISN’T EVEN A SOUND.

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not that either is a good thing but there is a small cosmic sort of irony to appreciate in the way that the russian invasion of ukraine and the most recent nakba happened so close together and how they through comparison made it undeniably clear how much the definition of war crime and genocide and atrocity &etc depends on the geopolitical interests of the imperial core

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im not coloring this take it

#thats my wife

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Do you guys think there was an eye hidden in Camden Epiphany? Is that why Gerry gave it to them? To keep tabs?

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Completely agree, I just wanted to add a few things. A lot of the time people only make the characters POC or fat or disabled or whatever because they want the representation. That's great! I love seeing myself and others represented in media. However, this fandom is very white in my opinion. Because of that we have a lot of white people patting themselves on the back for drawing Jon "brown" and stuff like that. Not Indian, or Pakistani, or even just South Asian or Desi (I'm using these examples because these are my personal headcanons for Jon), just brown. They care more about saying they added diversity than the actual cultures being represented. Then they go and stereotype those characters by saying things like "Jon doesn't shower" and more. A lot of them can't even draw people of color at all, they just use very white features and then make the skin a bit darker. These are the main people getting mad about headcanons that change someone's appearance in any way. It's not that big a deal, if someone headcanons Jon as black, east asian, latin, arab, white, or any other race/ethnicity who gives a shit. Just keep your headcanon and let people have theirs.

There are some instances where you probably shouldn't headcanon a certain character something. Maybe it's a bit weird to make Not!Sasha change Sasha's race (both in canon and ethically). Maybe it's uncomfortable that the only prominent Muslim headcanon in the show is a violent cop. Maybe it's weird if you only draw the POC characters looking unkempt or dirty. But other than that, just be nice and stay in your lane! You can keep your headcanon and they can keep theirs and then we're all happy.

This isn't a callout, more just a reminder to be respectful of both other people in the fandom AND the cultures or groups you are trying to represent. Anyway, bald Gerry is amazing and I'm surprised I haven't seen it more considering how well it would make sense canonically. That's my takeaway from this conversation.

Hey guys, we need to talk. Because a certain little something in TMAGP 8 is causing what is genuinely the most toxic part of the Magpod fandom at large to once again rear its ugly head. So let's talk about podcast character appearance head canons, shall we?

I'm tagging this with the Magnus Archives, TMA and Magpod tags because I am absolutely calling all of you out, but if you don't want spoilers for The Magnus Protocol episode 8 then stop reading right now.

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. Okay, so, Gerry exists in the TMAGP universe. He's happy (or at least acts cheerful). And some people have headcanoned this to mean that he is no longer goth, or at the very least isn't dying his hair black with bad box color. And other people have decided to get seriously agro over this. I have literally seen with my very own eyeballs someone call "un-gothing" Gerry a "hate crime" and calling the person they were talking to "gothphobic."

Let me make this absolutely clear for all of you: podcasts are a purely audio medium and unless a physical trait of theirs is explicitely stated, everyone's headcanon for how a character appears is valid. Goth TMAGP Gerry is valid. But also

Rainbow Goth TMAGP Gerry is valid. Pastel Goth TMAGP Gerry is valid.

Not Goth At All TMAGP Gerry is valid.

Bald Gerry who has actually gotten his brain cancer diagnosed in time and is getting treated for it is valid. Somebody's headcanon of a character that has no canonical description to them, or whose headcanon matches the few crumbs of canonical description we have but otherwise doesn't look the way you imagine them to, is not going to take away from your own headcanon of what a character looks like. If someone imagining or drawing a character looking a different way from how you imagine them looking somehow takes away from your enjoyment of the fandom or otherwise makes you feel like you need to barge in and tell them that they're Wrong and need to conform to your headcanon or else, that is a reflection on you, not them.

And this problem way predates TMAGP, let alone TMAGP 8. The only description we have of John is that he is in his early 30's and has prematurely greying hair.

If someone thinks he looks like the pastiest motherfucker to ever dwell in a basement, an extra-in-the-Adam's Family or Tim Burtan protagonist of a man, let them.

What's that? You want to tell them that John is BROWN and if they don't headcanon him looking that way they're WRONG and RACIST? Back away from the keyboard and go outside.

(Ironically, as someone who started getting grey hairs in my hair in my 20's myself, I'm pretty sure everyone's headcanon of John, with tiny little whisps of grey in his hair, is wrong, because if he was so grey that people were surprised to learn he was "a child of the 90's," he was probably full on salt-and-pepper when he was in his 20's.)

The only description we have for Martin is that he (man who canonically has the self esteem of a used doormat) describes himself as "not the smallest guy", Not-Sasha called him "roomy", Melanie is skinner than him, and Jonny said he imagined him as a "bigger guy" who would beat Alex in a physical fight. If someone decides to take this information and conclude that it means he's tall, broad and has muscle, rather than that he's overweight, fucking let them. If your first instinct to this is to run to your keyboard and call them "fatphobic" or otherwise bash them for it, I once again urge you to back away from your keyboard and go outside.

Someone headcanons Basira not wearing a headscarf? We have exactly 0 canonical physical description of her and the people who headcanon her as having one are basing that purely off of her name alone. Fucking let them. Someone headcanons Melanie and/ or Georgie as a skin color you don't agree with or a hairstyle you don't like? Fucking let them. As long as someone's headcanon of a character's description doesn't contradict the few canonical descriptions we have of a character, why do you care? Them having a different headcanon from you doesn't take away your right to imagine the characters looking however you like, anymore than it should take away their right to do the same. Someone headcanoning John as white (or Black, or Asian, or Mixed, or whatever) isn't going to make all of the fanart of John as brown with long hair suddenly disappear, nor the fanfiction describing him as such (although I do often wonder if the opposite is not true; is the fact that John looks the same in so much of the fanart I see on here really because of fandom "consensus", or is it because people are absolutely awful to anyone who draws him Different?). Someone headcanoning Martin as not fat isn't going to make the mountains of fanart of him as a fluffy little marshmallow vanish into the void (although I do remember hearing about someone getting bullied off the internet for daring to draw Martin as not fat). And someone headcanoning Gerry in TMAGP as not being goth isn't going to take away your preciouse goth TMAGP Gerry headcanon. That should be part of the fun of it, shouldn't it? Seeing what different images people have conjured in their heads of these characters we only get to experience with our ears, and celebrating the differences as well as the similarities? Why are we bullying people into conforming to one appearance of a character when no actual canonical appearance of them exists?

#tma #the magnus archives #tmagp #the magnus protocol #magpod #headcanon #jonathan sims #basira hussain #gerry keay #sasha james #not-sasha #martin blackwood #vi's thoughts

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Call to Stop the Collin Becher Death Manifestation

Guys, Please. Im begging and screaming. Stop telling me that Collin dies, I NEED HIM TO LIVE

He’s just a little guy I swear 😭

I bet he crawls into vents ass first like cmon, you can’t let the ass crawler die, can you?

Guys, I bet he doesn’t even own a blanket. You can’t let him die without the joy of dying in a blanket when he’s 80 years old and can’t move because of the arthritis that resulted from this job

THERES ALREADY A COLLIN BECHER DEATH COUNTDOWN ACCOUNT.

CALL FOR CELIA’S DEATH, SHES NOT EVEN SUPPOSED TO BE HERE 😭

HES THE HOTTEST GUY EVER GUYS. PLEASE

#LET HIM LIVE #tmagp #magpod