#almost forgot jonathan sims

[sporkberries]

Saw a very normal man at the telephone booth. I will approach him( i sure hope he doesn’t make me relive my horrific childhood trauma)

#spork art #tma #the magnus archives #jonathan sims #the archivist my buddy my good pal #eyestrain #almost forgot that one

[rustyelias]

Alright gamers and non gamers I had a dream that I asked Jon his pronouns (graham from mag 003 was also there) so here headcanons for y’all:

How the archival gang would react to being asked their pronouns:

-Jon Archivist Sims: “oh my pro- urm ah well” [extended sounds of gender confused Jon]

-Martin Kpronoun Blackwood: “oh my pronouns! he/they what about you :D”

Tim Stoker: “huh pronouns? he/him I guess I don’t really mind tho”

Sasha James Beloved: “oh well i use she/her but I don’t mind they/them! And yourself?”

not!sasha: “all of them :)” then looks into your soul

Melanie King: “my pronouns? huh she/they… come on mate I have blue hair”

Basira Hussain: “ my pronouns? she/her is there anything else you needed? ” straight away goes back to reading

Daisy: just looks you dead in the eye and goes: 🤷

Elias Bouchard: giggles evilly “oh wouldn’t you like to know” looks you up and down “don’t worry I already know yours” once again evilly giggles and walks away

Peter Lukas : “he/him more importantly stop talking to me >:(” you are now in the lonely wahoo!!

#tma headcanons #archival gang when pronouns #the magnus archives #elias bouchard #jonathan sims #Martin Blackwood #sasha james #not!sasha #tim stoker #Melanie king #alice daisy tonner #basira hussain #yikes almost forgot to tag Peter #peter lukas

[witchinatree]

i'm having so much fun with the new tmagp characters (and i will miss them dearly until april 11th) (side note: patreon members get access on my sisters birthday which is pretty cool) and i don't want to compare them to the tma characters because they are unique and different in MANY ways, i just also notice some parallels

gwen is very similar to jon, she has had a somewhat skeptic attitude but has now clearly been exposed to the horrors (bonzo..) and she's also climbing the corporate ladder if you will. she runs the place, she's grumpy, and i think she's closer to becoming an avatar than any of the others (even sam) (see my other post about it if youd like) (idk how to link it on mobile sorry)

alice and tim are kinda obvious, both comedic with younger brothers and are very susceptible to romantic feelings (sasha/sam). there was a lot more going on with tim and we haven't seen much of that side of alice, so i'm really excited to learn about her backstory and/or traumas. less excited about what that might to do her but yk.. yk..

sam/sasha is the most interesting one to me. sam is curious like sasha was. sasha wanted to know which made her archivist potential in everyone's eyes. sam also wants to know, he'd make a great archivist. except he's not cautious, he's like sasha if she had never worked in the artifact storage. i think sasha's strength was what she had already experienced and what she knew, but she didn't know enough and ultimately that got her killed. sam is going to keep learning until he does know enough, but he doesn't have that prior knowledge to stop him from going too far. very interesting characters from both of them

celia and martin i guess? celia's different since she's not exactly from tmagp

lena and elias because creepy murder boss

and finally colin and gertrude which is kind of insane of me to say but hear me out. gertrude cut out the eyes of book covers and magazines and everything in her home. she was incredibly paranoid she just was also a boss ass bitch about it. i think younger gertrude must've been a lot like colin, but she figured it out quicker and realized what she needed to do to survive. she asked the right questions and took the right precautions. she had the archive full of knowledge. colin doesn't have the archive, he's messing with the wrong thing and he's taking every precaution and hurting himself and those around him (sam's phone specifically comes to mind). i think gertrude was like colin but she had the right resources to get through it

idk all of these are very interesting and it makes me worry a bit, but ofc every character is unique and has aspects to them that change their stories. they're probably still gonna die though, we know jonny sims loves killing characters ☹️

#i am rambling so hard its 12:30 AM #ughh i gotta wake up so early tmr but i couldnt stop thinking 😭😭 #i would make a shit archivist i would jonathan sims the whole thing and probably go insane with all the knowledge #the magnus protocol #tmagp #magnus protocol #tmagp spoilers #tma #the magnus pod #the magnus archives #gwen bouchard #jon sims #alice dyer #tim stoker #sam khalid #sasha james #lena kelley #elias bouchard #colin becher #gertrude robinson #am i insane or does this make sense please be honest #the gertrude/colin parallel is my favorite #followed closely by sam/sasha and gwen/jon #tma spoilers #almost forgot

[casual-socks]

(male character going through the horrors) oh you Poor Thing. heres a she pronoun

#tma #the owl house #jonathan sims #hunter toh #jon sims #persona 5 #goro akechi #my little group of he/shes #bongou stray dogs #dazai osamu #almost forgot that one

[burninginthegymplplinko]

MAG 78 - Distant Cousin

doodle 78/200; days left 22/110

alRiGHt a-EhM aLrIgHt CooL ahHaha totally not drawing michael beloved just to forget about the rest of this episode no no no haha ( °̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥◡͐°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥)

anyway. i'm sad. i forgot that drawing something for every episode of this podcast would also mean having to go through the emotions all over again. sh o u ld ' v e t h ou gh t ab ou t t h at b ef o r eh an d p er hap s :'' )))

#tma #the magnus archives #jonathan sims #michael distortion #tma 78 #mag 78 #tma s2 #tma michael #this ep is a lot :tm: #but wow marting getting agry #i almost forgot about that #hell yea tho we all need a lil martin blackwood gettin angy in our lives

[eeriedragone]

Jonathan Sims -The Archivist

The planets have aligned: I JUST finished listening to the podcast (it took me less than 2 weeks, and I was holding myself back), TMA 2 has been announced, AND it's Ace Awareness Week!

(btw my design is clearly inspired by fanon Jon's design: he wouldn't have looked half as cool if during the span of years i hadn't seen so much fanart of him)

#i place this design around the beginning of s2 #that's where i was at when i drew this #the magnus archives #the magnus institute #the magnus pod #the magnus archive fanart #tma fanart #fanart #tma john #tma jon #jonathan sims #jon sims #the archivist #character design #asexual awareness week #ace week #asexual #ooops almost forgot #my art

[youstarfish]

A rare jmart draw from me (man martin changes every time i draw him, he's got the range)

#tma #the magnus archives #jmart #jonmartin #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #jon sims #jon tma #martin tma #tma fanart #magpod #fanart #myart #wowza almost forgot #tim stoker #timothy stoker

[roki-roki-roll]

Jon and Martin fear swap

#jonmartin #jmart #marchivist #lol #Jon is very lonely #I drew this like a month ago and gave up #expect nothing from me #martin blackwood #jonathan sims #almost forgot to tag them

[gammija]

nearly every digital jon & martin ive drawn so far. insane what a tenacious brainworm will do to you

#i think my jons always been jon but martin nee- fuck i forgot a martin #srry statement remains teaser martin drawing but im not editing you in #anyway as i was saying; martins design needed to stew for some time #tma #tma s5 #the magnus archives #jonmartin #Jonathan Sims #martin blackwood #magnuspod #id in alt #almost in chronological order but not quite #due to having a few files in subfolders #gammijart #if you don't check alt: thats 88 Jons. And i only included 1 from any comics or series of drawings #same for Martin but he had a few less. and to make it a nice rectangle i cut out some. but hes got 80 right there #anyways just counting jons and only finished and posted digital stuff and not counting comics as extra - #that's almost 2.5 jons per month every month for the past 3 years 😳

[the-magpie-archives]

MAG 5 - 'Thrown Away' - Expected failure.

In the conclusion of this episode Jon talks about Martin conducting the follow-up interview, and immediately afterwards explains how he expected it to fail. This brings up an interesting possibility.

Sometimes when we assign assumptions to people, we subconsciously adjust our behaviour towards them to make it right. It's like the concept of the self-fulfilling prophesy but placed upon another. In Jon's case, this seems to take place in the form of giving Martin tasks that will probably be useless, or likely to fail. It's easy to keep believing things about a person if they're not in a position to prove you wrong.

This would be just as harmful, if not worse for Martin himself. He already has a low self esteem, and even if you figure out that you're being guided down a path to failure its hard not to blame yourself. Martin's obviously very good at talking to people, and seeing himself unable to obtain useful information (even if nobody else would've been able to get it) would be confusing and frustrating; this, inadvertently causing him to feel the same way that Jon feels in his job.

They say that you shouldn't jump into the water to help someone who's drowning, as their instinct will be to push you down to pull themself up... Perhaps this also applies in emotional contexts.

#I'm a firm believer that like‚ almost all of Jon's mean/manipulative behaviors came from struggle and fear #God its just like.... There could have been love there from the start but its impossible to feel or express unless the conditions are right #(and please never do under the wrong conditions cos that causes so many toxic relationships) #Anyways I'll shut up I'm not an expert in this stuff!! #tma #the magnus archives #the magnus institute #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #jonmartin #tma season 1 #Mag 5 #tma analysis #Magpies-analysis #Also I forgot to say I know I already posted one about this but what's the harm in there being two! I have so many thoughts in my head

[fearcicada]

Jonathan Sims and Aromanticism as being disconnected from and unrelatable to other children, As never being romantically interested in someone during your school years because you don’t have time for that nonsense, you’re focused on your studies, you don’t like spending time around others. As no one being romantically interested in you until college – at that point, do you even know what romance is? What it feels like? As dating someone because they like you – You might as well date Georgie, she’s interested in you, and you like her well enough as a friend. Is this what love is? As not being interested in sex either. What is there to define the difference between romantic and platonic feelings that doesn’t involve physicality? As going into asexual spaces and always seeing the “we may not like sex but we still love people and want relationships like anyone else!!!” takes. As already being closed off, rude, an acquired taste for most. When it’s already hard for most people to want to be your friend - romantic relationships seem even more unrealistic. Already having a lack of personal relationships in your life - not exactly helped by not being interested in most people’s idea of “romantic relationships.” As being less aware of things like flirting and romance than most (because of said lack of personal relationships your entire life). As being completely unaware of someone else liking you for months/years even when it seemed like, really really obvious to everyone else. As having less and less people around you who don't hate your guts or are dead and having the one person who doesn't hate you, wanting to date you? Like romantically? As feeling inhuman. As questioning your humanity. As trying to define your humanity through romance. As being green themed and covered in eyes and becoming the lynchpin of the apocalypse<333

#words #LOL when writing about how i ciew certain tma characters and their aromanticism i sometimes get so caught up in being like #umm is it problematic to write about an aro character who like #fits into various 'misconceptions' and 'stereotypes' about being aro?...even though im literally aro #and a lot of 'misconceptions/stereotypes/whatever r things people tend to actually think esp while figuring out they're aro LOL. like #this is just what various aspects kf jon remind me of...like what i think he'd think at different points regarding hir aromanticism. #in my head. he never really ''figured it out'' and ever labeled himself as aro throughout the events of tma or before. #he went into the apocalypse to murder elias and then get murdered by martin being like #im weird. im a weirdo. i dont fit in. im just like that. and then died #LOOL some of this is stuff thar i thoufht that kept me from just realizing i was aro too at the time lol #but i mean #jon is also just like that. TO ME!!! #sorry don't know why i feel the need to defend my decisions regarding my own damn thoughts on jon and aromanticism LOL #teehee this sounds so serious but like it really isn't this is just how jon turns out to me in my head. #but in reality this post is like teehee to me in my head. jon is aro because he is green and covered in eyes and a monster #muah muah #oh shit almost forgot #Jonathan sims #the Magnus archives #tma #aro #aromantic #lol #im sorry but jon questioning his humanity bc of his descent into becoming the archivist -> romance and love always being used in our #society as defining features of 'humanity' -> jon trying to define his humanity through various things thst don't ACTUALLY define humans #and are mostly arbitrary..

[sparky-is-spiders]

Hey the TMA Somewhere Else is Dredge au still lives in my brain actually. I think Jon spends a lot of time trying to study how the eldritch stuff interacts with the environment. Minorish spoilers for Dredge below. If you haven’t played it yet, please do. Pretty sure it’s still on sale on Steam right now. It’s such a good, lonely, somber little horror fishing game.

Okay I’ll try to avoid too many spoilers because I think this game is best experienced blind and I’m pretty sure I only have a couple followers who’ve played it. But anyway, some Jon nature studies (btw this is an au with any/all Jon):

- Jon actually stays in Stellar Basin w/ the researcher for a while. Helps her take samples and stuff. His interest was perked when he heard that the mutations supposedly came from the creature, so he starts looking for evidence and taking water and soil samples (how did the eldritch influence spread? Through creatures? Through water? Or was the whole area influenced when whatever lived in the basin came through?)

- She starts testing out a theory that the monsters in the area might actually be aberrations who’ve reached some evolutionary peak. This means trying to get samples from the monsters. Which means Jon getting very, VERY close to them. Only complicated by the fact that they make scientific equipment go absolutely haywire (not to mention she’s going off knowledge from the Eye and a crash course from the researcher), so the results prove… inconclusive.

- Once the photographer gives them a camera, they take lots of pictures. Mostly abberations and monsters, but occasionally the local wildlife too. Their favorites are the pictures they snapped of a sperm whale dragging a giant tentacle down to the depths.

- They save up until they can purchase a small apartment out in Greater Marrow. Much like their old flat, it’s barely used and barely organized, and it doesn’t feel even a little bit like home. Their notes are spread all over the place, pinned to walls and filling up shelves and piled all over their rickety desk. The photo of the sprem whale attacking the giant tentacle is pinned in the center of the corkboard (it was a very good, VERY lucky shot, and they think they were honestly more surprised than whatever the hell the tentacle was part of).

- He tried capturing one of the piranhas out in Devil’s Spine, but even dead, they call to their mother, and he has to toss them overboard or have his boat crushed between massive jaws.

- She consulted the researcher (and the Eye) about ways to keep a fish farm, but for the aberrations instead. It took a lot of trial and error, but she managed to keep one of what she classed as “incubator” aberrations (perhaps a cyclopean flounder?) until the “eye” hatched (for non-Dredge players: cyclopean flounders appear to have one giant eye, but it’s actually an egg (the pupil is a yolk)). Unfortunately, what exactly emerged from the egg is unknown. They Eye alerted Jon that it had hatched, but when she checked the area it was being kept in, she only found gorey remains, a hole in the mesh keeping the fish contained, and slime clinging nearby. It was a shame, she had gotten somewhat attached to the unfortunate flounder.

- He’d spend days, sometimes even weeks at a time using his spyglass to watch schools of fish with abberations, observing their behavior and how they interact with the regular fish. He tried going on a dive to observe them once, and I can’t decide if I want that to end with him getting attacked instantly, or with him awakening hours later on the deck, drenched in water, covered in seaweed, with no memory of what he saw and a notebook full of scribbles and gibberish. Either way, he 100% tries again multiple times later.

- Attempts to Know about the ocean or See below the surface of the water are met with… resistance. Part of it is the Eye’s limited presence, it’s only just gotten here and it’s still slowly gathering strength and they can’t draw much power from it (Useful in that it means they don’t need to take as many statements anymore, need to sustain themselves with human food too, but it also makes them weaker). Part of it is the sea itself. It doesn’t want to be seen or known or understood, and attempts to do so have been met with failure and sometimes attacks. (Jon still remembers their first attempt, where they tried to know if all that unnatural fog was somehow connected to the Lonely, reaching out with all their strength, only for a shark with shining white eye to rise to the surface of the water and tear a massive chunk out of the hull).

Ok that’s all I have for now. Go play Dredge. Goodbye.

#if you thought that I had forgotten. that I would let it be. #then you are Mistaken #anyway I think jon should be nonbinary and fish up eldritch monstrosities #also I keep imagining the Eye being (funnily enough) Jon’s only anchor in this world #he’s lost and frightened and alone and confused #and the only thing he has left of his old world. the only thing that might protect him. is the one that has caused so much harm to both #anyway now for sorting tags #jon sims #jonathan sims #tma #the magnus archives #dredge #dredge game #tma au #almost forgot! #tw body horror #body horror tw #(for the cyclopean flounder desc. figured better safe than sorry) #I feel bad about killing it actually #but we don’t actually knows what (if anything) hatches from those? #and while I do have some speculations I figured it was best to leave it an unpleasant mystery #given the description the coral grouper’s abberation? I don’t think the abberant fish lead happy healthy lives #I feel so bad for the poor dudes honestly #if you’re not gonna play the game I’d recommend looking up the fish art because it’s very pretty and also disturbing #be warned for lots and lots of body horror death and some gore tho. l #(coral grouper abberant is consumed grouper btw. and the desc makes me sad) #anyway goodbye for real now

[decepti-thots]

oh i almost forgot. for halloween i wanted to recommend a game i have been playing this week called Slay the Princess, a visual novel i have now dumped ten hours into and LOVED and continue to love. if you like the kinds of things we talk about here on this blog there is a very good chance you will also like it, i think. and it's currently slightly on sale. so.

it's a game about killing a very normal princess as part of your very important and unsuspicious quest to save the world, and No Time Loops Whatsoever are involved, and also steam lists it as a dating sim (correctly). it's got everything up to and including. checks notes. really suspicious amounts of femdom. and jonathan sims, arguing with jonathan sims, arguing with jonathan sims, arguing with jonathan sims, arguing with-

anyway it's a REALLY REALLY GOOD existential horror black comedy romance VN thing. it has a really shocking amount of branching stuff in there given it's a two person deal, amazing atmosphere, and i think people should play it. so i can talk about it. with someone. please. look did i mention the femdom

(note: being a horror work, it does come with some content warnings, which the creators have kindly detailed in full here.)

#pleeeease play it i want people to know what i mean if i reference it

[teamfortresstwo]

adventures of the day:

was listening to full speed again while doing ptcr research. almost wrote Polites instead of Pending

coworker and I decided to see if we could find The Tunnels. went down the wrong stairs and almost got locked in the stairwell

Learned Nothing from the previous situation. continued the search for The Tunnels (success! ,,eventually–)

Might Have Actually Learned Something bc we were very careful about opening doors after that. figured out that The Tunnels were not locked!

…………………got lost. I was there of course we did lmfao

almost set off a total of two fire alarms, luckily we survived without causing any incidents

Forgot Everything We Learned About Doors, got locked out of The Tunnels

luckily there was an exit and we ended up in the archives, which was, coincidentally, our original goal, bc it’s close to the bus stop. from there we escaped out into the wilderness of downtown, and made our way back to the office. all in all, a successful trip!

1. Ayyy my boi <3 why were you researching a church though?

2. Jonathan Sims core (he too would get lsot and is often trapped)

3. Oh my god it’s the forest all over again-

5. No more (I forgot the word here) subterranean adventures, Phantom.

6. Have. Have you caused an accident during an alarm before.?

8. THE ARCHIVES?? LIKE FROM HIT PODCAST THE *MAGNUS* ARCHIVES?!?!?$?!!?!?!?!?!?!???!?

[ao3feed-jonmartin]

But We Have To Try

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/HcMiReK by SpaceDustMantis The first thing Martin knows after the world ends for the second time, is that he's no longer in that hellscape he called home for who knows how long. The second thing Martin knows after the world ends for the second time, with a finality that knocks the breath out of his lungs, is that he is indubitably, undeniably, utterly alone. At that thought he scoffs. Not like that's anything new. --- After driving a knife into the heart of the love of his life, Martin Blackwood finds himself in the Archives, years before the world ended. Or, mum said it's my turn with the time travel fix it fic. It's been done a thousand times before, but if it ain't broke why fix it? Words: 2999, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: Gen Characters: Martin Blackwood, Tim Stoker (The Magnus Archives), Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist, he's mentioned, Original Characters, so far we have one and he's only mentioned on the side Relationships: Martin Blackwood/Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist, Martin Blackwood & Tim Stoker Additional Tags: Time Travel Fix-It, Hurt Martin Blackwood, Grief/Mourning, Vomiting, Blood and Violence, only in his memories tho, tim stoker is a good friend, set in early s1 and also post mag200, Post-Canon, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Tags May Change, Oh almost forgot, Temporary Character Death, KIND OF I GUESS, spoiler warning jon isn't actually dead read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/HcMiReK

#IFTTT #ao3feed #fanfic #tma #jonmartin #jmart #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #jonmartin fanfic

[burninginthegymplplinko]

MAG 200 - Last Words

doodle 200/200; days left - 18/110 0/128

🎉🎉🎉🎉

oH??? My God??? im....dONE?? i havent even posted this and i already feel the emptiness oh goddd. i cant even process this bc im e x h a u s t e d after speedrunning these last doodles (yeahhh sorry for the decreased quality of these last 4? 5? idk xD) but WOw. WOW

plus this episode hits like a trainwreck straight into the feelings no matter how many times u listened to it so i'm like...a wreck atm T___T

also, to the person who suggested that i do blorbo!jon for mag 200: u are SO right but i already had this doodle done when i read that tag :'(( i might draw that as a bonus content or on main blog besause.....perfection...thank you for the idea <3

anyway, im gonna make a proper byebye/thankyew post tommorow when i get a bit of sleep. love u all, love this podcast uuh yeah thats all i think, goodnight <33

#tma #the magnus archives #tma 200 #mag 200 #jinamrtin #how do u rite. #jonmartin #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #tma s5 #i have to get up in 3 hrs oOPS :'🔴D #OMG #TMA DPOILE #tma spoilers #oof almost forgot to add that xD