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I love when dogs and cats just let you pat the shit out of them and they enjoy it so much. Like yeah dude real quick I just need to play you like a bongo and they’re like god yes I’ve been waiting for someone to play me like a bongo

#envy #pets are great

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Obsessed with the implication that John has one of Arthur’s hands. Every time he does a mundane task (putting on his tie, eating food) I can’t help but think about the fact that generally, that is not a one armed task.

#get ready for the non mundane tasks that are even less a one-armed possible lol #malevolent podcast #bodyshare

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How long has it been since Arthur got a decent night’s sleep? Was it the coma?

#SLEEEEEEP #malevolent podcast #malevolent fanart #jarthur

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Tma fandom i have a question for you

#it was recc'd to me for Yuletide one year #but by the next year when I had finished listening it wasn't eligible anymore lol #the magnus archives #polls

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#DINOSAUR #IS THAT NICHE?? #are extinct things niche??? #her name was lizzie #polls #stuffed animals

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Vamp!Hoffman, workplace courtship, suspenders, gloves, and donuts, oh my!

My half of an art trade with @dixxiemaegraphics ^^ This was fun haha

#Rude #saw #saw fanart #hoffstrahm

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when a character is written inconsistently because nobody thought about it that hard and you're like it's time for me to get in there.. and think about it that hard

#i am thinking So Hard #fandom

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If Malevolent is terrifying for you, imagine how elephants feel…

#SNORT #malevolent podcast

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If you are watching a TV show, it can be live action or animated.

But not when you're reading a book. Much to think about.

#sometimes it's live people and sometimes it's animated people #depending on the book/story #reading

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Yeah I saw the lovecraftian horrors and didn’t succumb to madness. What- no I’m not a cultist, James. For Christ’s sake. What you’re forgetting my friend is that HP Lovecraft wasn’t a flexible man. His brain simply wasn’t stretchy enough to take it all in. I however, have short term memory issues. Flexibility is the name of the game when you can’t remember if you ate lunch or not. What’s the size of the universe? Big. You knew that already, James. Come on now. You don’t need to witness the terrifying ocean at the base of the entirety of reality itself to know that. Pass the brandy.

#way to go bertie #cosmic horror

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i love torturing myself with fictional characters just to make sure i can still access depth of feeling. i love being normal.

#fandom

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Minor redesign

#tma fanart #jonathan sims #the magnus archives

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a hot take, but horror? the most tender & romantic genre. 

#it's about the intimacy and the stakes #horror

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i come from the 8tracks generation where you weren't allowed to just dump three and a half twee indie folk/tswift records into a fanmix and call it done. on 8tracks you had 8+ handpicked songs in rigid chronological order and an accompanying mission statement and thesis defence detailing exactly why each one applied to your derek x stiles coffee shop au AND cover/track-list art hodgepodged from stolen pinterest/tumblr aesthetic photography, and all of this was done under constant threat of death because it was the DMCA wild west and the site was in a constant state of gradual collapse.

#god I miss it #i mean it's still there but it's not the same #8tracks #music

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before the poll, a quick definition of terms:

"mutual" - you found this post from a mutual (on their blog or your dash) "following" - you found this post from someone you're following, but who isn't following you "random" - you found this by scrolling through someone's blog, who you don't follow. this includes people following you "For You" - you found this on the For You page "recommended" - you found this in a "Check out these blogs" popup, or a "recommended" post when looking at a different post "other" - you found this post some other way. comment how? "reblog ✅" - you're going to reblog, queue, or schedule this post "reblog ❌" - you're NOT going to reblog, queue, or schedule this post

with that out of the way:

#polls

[croik]

LOGIC [Easy: Success] - One is a doctor, and one is a scientist. Do NOT get it mixed up.

#omg unhinged boyfriends #re-animator

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I recently started listening to Ghost Wax, and I'm enjoying it! It reminds me a lot of early TMA. The horror is unique and creepy, I'm enjoying the world building, and that it feels kinda like the Institute, if only the people that worked there actually did or accomplished anything lol (I really thought at the beginning of TMA that the rest of the institute would come into play at some point as the people who investigated the stuff, since there was an artifact storage and such, but that never came about). Like if The Archivist was Dr. Malcolm Ryder from A Voice from Darkness instead of Jon Sims.

But it also has the same "problem" TMA has, in that most of the statements come across as a writer telling a story and not a real person trying to relate their lived experience. They're all very articulate, include just enough relevant personal history, metaphors that are poetic but not something you just spout on the spot if you're telling someone about the worst moment of your life etc. There might be an in universe explanation for it like TMA eventually added but it's a tad immersion breaking.

I also wish the acting was just a tadddddd stronger. Voncid the protag has grown on me, and most of the statement givers understand their assignment perfectly, but some of the side characters are unconvincing. But I have a lot to go so I hope they settle in.

If you liked TMA I def recommend giving it a shot.

#podcasts #podcast recs #ghost wax #i wrote Jon Sims and shuddered #thats so wrong somehow #then left it in to inflict it on you #sorrry #have a good friday