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The Brainrot has set in for Mag Protocol

Frothing at the mouth to see where this all goes

#tmagp

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JonElias zine - interest check

Hey hey!

The JonElias fans keep on truckin' beautifully and Hosta and myself would love to make another zine celebrating these two and their relationship. If you'd be interested in participating or buying the zine, please spread the word and fill out our interest form!

~* je zine interest check *~

Hope to 👁 you all soon!

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Doodle because I think this interaction was funny (well. Not for Martin)

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Genuinely gonna strangle myself they make me nauseous. I Have no idea what's happening here? uh. I just needed them to kiss. Zoom in for details like me struggling for hours to get the angle of Tim's face right.

@lizard-queen-izzy finally got to it btw hiiiiiiiii

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was going to make a joke about how jon in theory is a leftist and objectively believes in "power to the people" and all that but fundamentally he simply finds people at large to be dumb and annoying and every time someone disagrees with his opinion in a way that ticks him off he briefly becomes 100% supportive of complete authoritarianism, ideally with himself as the dictator of the known universe, and then I remembered that wouldn't actually be a joke because he did canonically do exactly that.

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The Magnus Pixels

Aka I draw my favorite Avatars as lil pixels dudes as school work

Would you like to see any others ?

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Jonny boy

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not even a month into working there and sams already at his limit

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Hey, remember fanshrines? I've made my own JonElias one ~ here! ~

It's super simple and hilariously a few of the comments on the Testimonials page are like. Longer than my own thoughts, but I love it 😂 Anyways, this was super fun to do and now I am hoping that a bunch of you make your own! It's a nice way to get your thoughts in order, maybe convert some people, rec cool things, etc!

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How would a melody describe itself, when asked?

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slaughter!melanie

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a new family member arrives at the Blackwood Sims household! full sketchpage now up on patreon

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ok. years have passed and we've had some distance, so i'm finally gonna take the leap of faith that tma fandom is finally ready to hear me on this. let's talk about tannins.

161 was the first tma episode i heard on early release, and i felt the bit where martin declines wine and cites tannins was pretty obvious in its implications. cool, got it, say no more.

imagine my surprise when i was one of maybe three people i saw read between the lines there, in a fandom famous for red stringing--a fandom that immediately caught the much less obvious thread of ignition sources in the same episode. i'll spell it out: alcohol is an issue for martin.

maybe it just felt obvious because addiction is a pet issue for me--as it is for jonny, who has said everything he writes is filtered through a lens of addiction. i don't know if that's due to his own experience or a loved one's, and i won't speculate; i also don't know if martin personally struggled with drinking or just avoids it for fear he would, but alcohol would fit what we know of his family. his dad walking out and his mum spiralling into bitter wallowing and verbal abuse? i'd bet one or both of them drank, yeah.

on a basic level martin tries to decline alcohol, and that alone should have raised eyebrows given what we know of martin and, again, a fandom that dissects everything. we already knew martin "K" blackwood lied about his personal life and his family in particular, especially pre-canon, which is when this flashback took place. i was shocked that everyone took his flimsy excuse at face value with no further questions.

and the excuse is flimsy. martin turns down wine by--nervously--exclaiming tannins are "a proven headache trigger!" which sounds like trivia from a magazine cover and not the words of someone who actually has headaches--and it hasn't come up before or since. jon, confused, points out that tea, a drink martin consumes to a degree that is memetic both in- and out-of-universe, also contains tannins, and martin squawks a panicked, "what?!"

if tannins are enough of a concern for martin that he knew they're in wine and so avoids it, why didn't he know they're in his drink of choice? why does he still drink tea at the time of canon, and why doesn't he struggle with constant headaches from consuming 'a proven headache trigger' day in and day out? why, indeed, would someone avoid wine and not tea?

when sasha insists martin drink he caves and agrees to 'just a drop'. i imagine him pouring it in a plant, which admittedly he could have done if tannins really were the issue. i will say that i, for one, would be less likely to falsely agree to something that makes me physically ill than to a private issue that i'd rather not be pressed on any further. this scene also establishes martin's birthday was an ice cream party instead of the more traditional visit to a pub.

also, this scene was in the first episode of the final season, as one of three flashbacks that could have been to any pre-canon event in the archives. prime narrative real estate. not really time one would waste on establishing the important character context that martin has... headaches. which never comes up before or after, even regarding the week he spent in spiral town. but you know what is pretty crucial character background...?

it felt like a no-brainer, and yet all i saw was h/c fluff about jon attending to martin's headaches. and i hate feeling bitter about disability representation. i want folks with chronic headaches to feel seen and have fluffy escapist fantasies. i don't want to be mad about people portraying a character with a disability. but, guys? you got the wrong disability. jonny sent a clear message, and it went over fandom's head.

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More platonic jondaisy propaganda 💥💥💥

#mmm they are so... everything

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Cool eye halo, bro

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Yes, Martin, you are my reason. redraw of this from last year

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Old drawing of when shit first went down