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idk so like, in TMA, Smirke had this whole thing about striking balance in the fears, and using them in a "pure" way in the form of his architecture. He separated the fear into categories to make it easier to distinguish and therefore make an attempt to control and wield it.

Here, there's apparently some sort of "benevolent" forces, whether that means there is some sort of good aspect to the fears, or simply that there is enough good in the world to counter the bad in some respect. and the OIAR's purpose is to.. redirect the bad into a way that's limited and controlled? Like, giving the bad an outlet that doesn't result in complete havoc. Like if they hadn't given a letter to Mr. Bonzo, he would have the potential to do much worse.

Compared to Smirke, they also have the very broad spectrum of categories in the form of the binder, where there aren't many specific categories. This is a very different approach compared to Smirke's 14, but they both seem to have the same end goal of control, Smirke's ideals just being more optimistic and well-intentioned.

Could possibly be in response to the apparent new direction of the fears in that they're meshing and working together more. Could also just be as doomed of a system as Smirke's turned out to be.

Finally am interested to find out how Starkwall fits into all of this. They used to work for/were contracted by the OIAR, but separated. Perhaps they got too out of control and couldn't be properly "managed" anymore?

#tmagp #the magnus protocol #tmagp speculation #tmagp 13

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tmagp13 :] notes n reactions spoiler cut

welp, Sam may have "no game" but apparently he's super good at picking restaurant dates.

I'm sorry, "baby in a horror podcast" was NOT on my bingo card. huh???? I'm... assuming the baby won't be in any serious trouble?? but it has to do with Celia so?? Is the baby...real? I mean if he's just over a year old that's right around .jmj error but yeah @-@ idk how to appropriately make speculations on a baby given the genre.

Sam's whole origin story is "gifted kid facing severe rejection anxiety" and honestly mood. Aspiring law major though no wonder he's so set on filling out all the weird forms.

Dang and here I was thinking that Alice was going to be the outlier in the trend of "spooky workplace employees whose families are all dead". rip. girl probably feels super responsible for her brother and that's what's got them into the whole financial issue stuff :/ _____

Gwen is so so green in all of this, very much thinking about it in black and white. idk if she's actively choosing to go along with the "bad" because she wants to advance or because she's seeing the gray side or because she just wants to find out more. time will tell ig. _____

this guy sounds like a jerk (though not a rich one apparently) but I mean. he's in a hospital and this is a horror podcast so there's probably a decent reason. talk about morally gray huh. We've got Sam "ex gifted kid who flunked out of his career" and then this guy who never even got started and fell into crypto and bad finances instead

this Darrien guy went from very angry to kinda thoughtful and reminiscent pretty fast. also he did not have to give this much exposition in the complaint. at least in tmagp2 there was more of a reason for it with the therapist asking but with this idk. maybe it's like the eye's residual influences means that every recount of a spooky event requires proper storytelling? seems a little too easy tho. maybe this guy just like. needs someone to talk to and actually listen cause boy does this dude seem seriously deprived of that.

oo normal phone now linked to the fears after opting into the spooky software. sounds familiar! weird how so many of these statements involve outside people, but are also so self contained to the case person.

oh so the more this guy gets himself into a rut the more money he gets. no wonder he's at the hospital. does he lose money when he's doing well? does the setting automatically force or encourage some kind of mindset that will cause these sorts of things? seems kinda like the opposite of the dice guy.

did the app originally have some sort of "betting against an actual person's life circumstances" thing? how did he not find this weird? just the money talking I guess?

anyways. seems like a pretty clean cut web case, what with the "insectoid sounds", gambling, and whatnot. For the sake of all the mental health stuff, sucky turns in that guy's life, and the whole thing about the fears not being singular per case, buried too.

Fun case. reminds me a lot of the dice guy, but the damage is done inwards rather than outwardly. _____

alice the teasing is not making you look very good and not upset about this whole sam and celia thing

"we spent most of the time discussing if [the cases] are real" and the mystery virus wasn't curious about the specifics of that conversation?

#the magnus protocol #tmagp 13 #tmagp speculation #tmagp spoilers #tmagp

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absolute knockout gwen is never going to recover from this

#lena why do you do this to her #girlie is suffering #gwen bouchard #lena kelley #tmagp #the magnus protocol

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Today’s incident was from march 9 2024.

The ep 10 incident had march 9 2024 as the current date.

Which means bonzo bonzo’d over there and bonzo’d all over the place the same day? Which seems rather fast.

How does he even move? Surely he can’t drive. Does Nigel drive him? Probably not since then Nigel would be given the address, right?

I can’t imagine he’d be patient enough for public transport

#mr bonzo #tmagp

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this episode killed me. celia is a MOTHER? sam used to VAUGEPOST? gwen is literally JONATHAN SIMS? lena is basically ELIAS BOUCHARD? SOME OF THEM ARE BENEVOLENT?????????

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sorry i cant hang out i forgot how to mimic human like behaviour

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they’re so bbg core

#i love this #the magnus archives #tma #martin blackwood #jonathan sims

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I want them to start a band

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spellcasting isn't like academia it's like writing. spellcasting is about saying "you know what would be really fucked up?" and then making it happen anyway. because you can.

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Imagine you're me, about to listen to the new Magnus Protocol episode. You see the title is "Getting Off" and you chuckle to yourself. Then you immediately feel bad because no, you just have a dirty mind. Johnny and Alex are trying to craft a serious, complex, and horrifying story that hopes to surpass its amazing predecessor and you're laughing. Grow up me. Getting off is probably referring to a train or a bus -- maybe even a boat! Yeah that makes sense, because the last statement we had was ocean-themed. Cool, now that we got that cleared up, let's press play--

And the episode is about a fucking killer mascot going to a strip club. God I hate it here.

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Imagine you're me, about to listen to the new Magnus Protocol episode. You see the title is "Getting Off" and you chuckle to yourself. Then you immediately feel bad because no, you just have a dirty mind. Johnny and Alex are trying to craft a serious, complex, and horrifying story that hopes to surpass its amazing predecessor and you're laughing. Grow up me. Getting off is probably referring to a train or a bus -- maybe even a boat! Yeah that makes sense, because the last statement we had was ocean-themed. Cool, now that we got that cleared up, let's press play--

And the episode is about a fucking killer mascot going to a strip club. God I hate it here.

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tumblr users will see the word shrimp and black out and hit reblog without reading the rest of the post

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Mr. Bonzo going to a strip club and literally tearing apart a bachelor's party of lads is objectively hilarious. Like the description was horrific and gave me chills to listen to. But as soon as the episode was over and I sat back to just think about the episode I started laughing because what the fuck? What do you mean?? He came to a strip club?? And just?? Started fucking ripping apart and eating people?? That's hilarious?? 🤣 I love this fucking podcast, making me shiver in fear one second and laugh my ass off the next.

#the magnus protocol #mr bonzo

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lets be honest here the scariest part of todays statement is not mr bonzo himself its this

you can be partially eaten alive on your workplace by a serial killer childrens mascot but even then you wont get any compensation. woooo capitalism the real horror

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martin "i am going to constantly make everyone tea from my personal supply" blackwood VS samama"i keep my favourite tea hidden so my coworkers never find it" khalid.

#the magnus protocol #tmagp #martin blackwood #samama khalid #sam khalid #the magnus archives #tma #ep 12 getting off