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Amaroq and Huey from No Evil getting to talk things out and reconcile a bit for a kofi ;v; I always forget how Big Amaroq is

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jon and his silly little statements

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Happy One Year Anniversary of MAG200! 👁

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I’ve never seen the magnus archives but being in the wwdits fandom gets me dangerously close to opening that door

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"The Magnus Archives is a cosmic horror/tragedy," "The Magnus Archives is an office comedy" No. The Magnus Archives is, in actuality, a very elaborate anti-smoking PSA.

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Here it is!! My Tma season 5 Curses animatic that i’ve had in my head for 4 months!!!!!! (Major spoiler warnings for episodes 161 to 189). I’m rlly proud of how this turned out and also that I managed to finish it before the last ep airs so it’s like my one big love letter to season 5. In any case! Please enjoy!!!

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Ceaseless Watcher, etc etc etc

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they’re perpetually hanging out

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gertrude rolling in her grave rn at jon insulting her archiving system

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no no no actually I’ve solved the hypothetical tma tv adaptation. you see, the podcast statements are all on tape because that’s what’s best suited for an audio medium, but just watching a guy speak into a recorder would be boring as hell on film. even if each statement would transition into a fully filmed version of the events, there would still be a bit of lead in time every episode of a guy just sitting still and reading at desk. no, the best thing to keep the statements interesting for television would be for jon to be recording and curating them in a visual medium himself. this is how competing paranormal youtubers jon and melanie can still win, in this essay I will

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yeah i really have to respect wolf 359 for priming its audience’s tolerance of insane situations so well. like the toothpaste siege was literally episode two but seeing minkowski, who’s the by the book member of the team, smash that mf neurotoxin gas button at literally the drop of a hat sure did prepare us cause suddenly the star is baja blast and whamma jamma and then its the finale and the main villain is like “i can catch bullets” and we’re all like of course he can catch bullets this makes complete sense 

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ok so how’re y’all gonna headcanon Annabelle Cane, avatar of the web, without spider web braids?

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Being emotionally attached to Jon as a character is weird. On one hand, his character only works if he's flawed. How you as a listener assess the morality of his choices is a key part of the story, and trying to smooth over everything questionable would ruin a lot of what makes him so good as a protagonist.

But then there's moments where you look at how some characters in the story (and a certain percentage of the fandom) talk about him and part of you is like "actually Jon Archivist Sims has never done anything wrong in his life, I say he should have eaten more brains.'

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wolf 359 was like. we’re going to set up the most complex character relationships youve ever seen and theyre going to have incredible arcs where they change for the better as people and we’re also going to have a soundtrack that fucks like hell and a plot about the meaning of humanity and a cool ai character and we’re also going to use the same goddamn typing and door opening sound affects for the entirety of this show’s run

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schlop schlop schlop (sounds of me shovelling water into my thorsty mouth at 3am) 

based off the uhhhhhhhhhhhh Fallen Angel by Alexandre Cabanel

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I’ll try to keep this post as concise as possible, but I need to talk about the ways in which Hera’s character arc can be read as a trans narrative, specifically:

1) That Hera’s identity as a woman has significance to her, how it matters that the only two people who ever refer to her that way are Eiffel and Minkowski, and how the line where Minkowski calls Hera a woman is directly in defense of Hera’s personhood and autonomy. 

2) On a surface level, I see the argument that the ‘feminine’ aspects of her identity were assigned to her, but I don’t think that’s actually true. Her name and her pronouns are important to her; they show who respects her, who treats her like a person. And there’s a way that her name in particular is treated like a bribe; Hera is a chosen name, and, yes, she chose the first name that was offered to her, but she chose it and she chose to keep it. Cutter implies she is allowed these expressions of identity as long as she behaves in the best interests of Goddard Futuristics, but that’s a method of control that relies on their importance to her, with the threat that they can be taken away.

3) Which, of course, leads to how Pryce never refers to Hera by her name or by gendered pronouns. The ways in which Pryce dehumanizes Hera are directly gendered as a result of what aspects of personhood she can express for herself, and as a consequence, she can be denied recognition of. There’s even something to be said that her voice isn’t - from the Goddard perspective - seen as authentically hers, and how significant it is that the other characters (and the audience) know it as Hera’s voice first.

And I think it can’t be ignored that, unlike a lot of other AI characters, Hera has always been undeniably human. Her struggle is not in understanding or attaining humanity, but in how others fail to recognize that she’s just as human as they are. And with that in mind, I want to quote something Sarah Shachat said five-ish years ago (and which, I think, is interesting to consider in retrospect now that we can look at Hera’s character arc as a whole):

What I can tell you is that the fact Hera that clearly has a human gender in her speech and conscious perspective, yet lacks human physicality, is something she definitely does think about. She isn’t removed from it, or taking the view of some sort of Hyper Advanced Future Machine for whom human binary constructions are funny, if a bit quaint. She’s been placed on a spectrum the same way she was placed aboard the Hephaestus. Her journey so far has very much been about dealing with that, about trying to assert her unique sense of self given the limitations placed on her and to communicate with these other idiots who don’t share her experience. It’s fair to assume she’ll continue to struggle with that in episodes to come.