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marspumpkin · 23 days
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I’ve remade the quiz, there’s now 61 characters in it because I’m insane
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marspumpkin · 29 days
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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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marspumpkin · 1 month
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marspumpkin · 1 month
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Still haven’t moved on from this btw
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marspumpkin · 2 months
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marspumpkin · 2 months
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I feel like sam was the hardest character to get a read on at first, so it's been delightful to gradually find out what this guy is like. lena was NOT kidding when she said being friendly and hard working was going to trip him up in this job. gwen and colin rebuff him when he tries to strike up pleasant conversation and his trying to be courteous with them anyway puts him into conflict with his already established friend, his boss actively discourages him from looking out for his coworkers' mental health, being interested in his work is not only counterproductive to the job but also liable to maybe get him Actually Murdered with no warning, and being conscientious enough to just fill out a form correctly is probably going to wind up accidentally signing his soul away to a cult of evil alchemists or something. his fatal flaw is being too much of a decent bloke.
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marspumpkin · 2 months
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no but isn't it so Fucked Up if Jon is really in there? spending 200 episodes of a series losing the fight against having his humanity stripped away and being reduced to nothing but a vessel to hold other people's horror and a voice to make those horrors known, and then being reincarnated as a text-to-speech program whose entire existence is based around subjecting the OIAR to statements. killing yourself to escape your fate and waking up to find you've become nothing but that fate. he has no mouth and he must scream. horror tragedy emphasis on the tragedy.
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marspumpkin · 2 months
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re: that last post, ive said it before and ill say it again: no one deserves to die (deserving is fake and death is bad) but some people need to be stopped and choose to make death the only way to stop them
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marspumpkin · 2 months
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I'm really glad to see that everyone seems to be having a good time with The Magnus Protocol, and my heart is very full with all the wonderful comments people are making, but I do need to flag something up.
For some of these episodes, a lot of folks are giving me credit for stuff I did not actually write. The cases for episodes 3 and 4 were both by guest writers, Graeme Patrick and Cole Weavers respectively, and they really deserve some love thrown their way.
That's not to minimise my own part: me and Alex certainly do editing work on them, and add in a few bits here and there to make sure everything cohesively fits in with the overall story and tone of the show, but if you enjoyed these episodes, then Graeme and Cole are the ones to thank for it.
And for that matter, Alex wrote episode 2 and deserves more of the accolades for how good that one was than I think he got (my edits just made it a bit... squishier).
Protocol is much more of a team effort than Archives was and so while, in a broad sense, you can still lay most of the blame for bad things happening to characters you love squarely at my feet, it's genuinely important to pay attention to the "written by" section of the credits this time around, 'cause often it's not gonna be my name there, and someone else deserves the thanks for giving you a horrible treat.
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marspumpkin · 2 months
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Hind Khoudary has just posted a link to a GFM to help her friends, Abood and Leyan Al-Hossini, as well as their son, evacuate Gaza
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marspumpkin · 2 months
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how are they gonna adequately prepare whatever child they cast for nico di angelo. it has got to be impossible for someone that young to give informed consent about playing the saddest wettest loser in all of human history. like hey kid i know youre sprightly and all of ten, but we need you to be in all five stages of grief at all times. remember, your mother was killed in fascist italy, youre eighty years old, and now youre in love with the guy who killed your sister. say this next line like you know what it's like to be an ear of corn.
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marspumpkin · 2 months
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I low-key love the fact that sci-fi has so conditioned us to expect to be hanging out with a bunch of cool space aliens, that legitimate, actual scientists keep proposing the most bizarre, three-blunts-into-the-rotation "theories" to explain the fact we're not.
Some of my favourites include:
Zoo Theory: What if there are loads of aliens out there, but they're not talking to us because of the Prime Directive from Star Trek? (Or because they're doing experiments on us???)
Dark Forest Theory: What if there are loads of aliens out there, but they all hate us and each other so they're all just waiting with a shotgun pointed at the door, ready to open fire on anything that moves?
Planetarium Theory: What if there's at least one alien with mastery over light and matter that's just making it seem to us that the universe is empty to us as, like, a joke?
Berserker Theory: What if there were loads of aliens, but one of them made infinite killer robots that murdered everyone and are coming for us next?!!
Like, the universe is at least 13,700,000,000 years old and 46,000,000,000 light years big. We have had the ability to transmit and receive signals for, what, 100 years, and our signals have so far travelled 200 light years?
The fact is biological life almost certainly has, does, or will develop elsewhere in the universe, and it's not impossible that a tiny amount of it has, does, or will develop in a way that we would understand as "intelligent". But, like, we're realistically never going to know because of the scale of the things involved.
So I'm proposing my own hypothesis. I call it the "Fool in a Field" hypothesis. It goes like this:
Humanity is a guy standing in the middle of a field at midnight. It's pitch black, he can't move, and he's been standing there for ages. He's just had the thought to swing his arms. He swings one of his arms, once, and does not hit another person. "Oh no!" He says. "Robots have killed them all!"
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marspumpkin · 2 months
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This knocked me on my ass
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marspumpkin · 2 months
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this is the only person on ao3 who understands my work everyone else go home
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marspumpkin · 2 months
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the fact that one of my favorite tma artists is going insane over MY post... i feel privileged
hc that, in the split second before jon and martin die buried under the wreck of the panopticon, they get a glimpse into the other universes the tapes are going into. they see themselves, over and over and over. themselves, living together and married and fighting over what canned soup to buy and cheering at their kid's dance recital and exhausted on a road trip and cooking for each other and growing old together and meeting as kids and screaming at each other in an argument and moving into a house and looking at old photo albums and dancing to corny music and comforting each other after bad days and getting shitfaced with their coworkers and adopting a child and
and there are universes where they've been together since school there are universes where they've never met there are universes where they're estranged exes and where they've been married for 60 years. there are universes where jon rotted in the buried and where martin faded away in the lonely and where they never moved past the tense s1 disdain and where they lived out the rest of their days in the safehouse undisturbed and where they were all killed before they even got the chance to know each other
but they know for each of those billions of universes that ended in blood and tears and death there are a billion more where their biggest concern is what kind of soup to buy for dinner. and that, before you die, is the ultimate kind of euphoria
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marspumpkin · 2 months
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martin blackwood makes me insane because he's literally just love. like he's the definition of pouring from an empty cup and loves people so much and for so long when they are too fucked up and traumatised to even comprehend it and he loves his mother when she isn't capable of loving him and he loves jon all the way from his bitter humanity to his monstrosity. and then in the end, after everything, whatever tiny vestige of martin still exists - norris - is still remembering just love. love through grief, love through monstrosity, love where love shouldn't be. and jon is trapped because of some grand web of fate and martin is trapped because of... love, in its purest form :( that's all
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marspumpkin · 2 months
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i love how the magnus protocol has not stopped trending since thursday
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