#another twist

[clairebearsparkles]

You know, to go with my comic!

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#tma #the magnus archives #the magnus institute #the magnus pod #the magnus archive fanart #tma art #tma fanart #mag fanart #magnuspod #another twist #mag 101 #michael shelley #the distortion #gertrude robinson #michael distortion #distortion michael #tma season 3 #tma s3 #tma s3 spoilers #tma season 3 spoilers #poster art #clairebear art

[looks-at-you]

Heartbreaking: local twink listens to old woman, has who torn from what

#the cy rambles #tma #the magnus archives #Michael distortion #the distortion #Mag 101 #michael shelley #the spiral #another twist #micheal distortion #michael the distortion #I'm not sorry #gertrude robinson #tma micheal distortion #tma michael #tma micheal shelly #tma gertrude #tma shitpost #tma spoilers #Kinda?? Maybe

[danascullysjournal]

WIP of Jonathan trying to deal with The Horrors. It isn’t going well. I just hope I can get the other entities correct, they seem ok in my head but..

#the magnus archives #jonathan sims #jonny sims #mag 101 #another twist #tma podcast #tma

[shadow-the-crow]

The Distortion didn’t like Michael as a who.

I mean, it says itself that it doesn’t want to be Michael. But the who and what thing actually brings us farther than that. It shows us his whole arc.

We all know the quote "i am not a who, archivist, i am a what." When i first heard it, i thought: Makes sense, it’s an inhuman creature, not a person, it just can’t have enough identity to be a who. Like it says itself.

But in Michael’s statement, it talks about having your who torn from your what, and replaced with another who. So it actually did have a who before becoming Michael. And it even admits that Michael also was a who, a who that became part of its being.

I think… it could just never accept being Michael. As it said, Michael Shelley was a constant reminder of its failure – the embodiment of it. The Distortion was forced to become the embodiment of its failure. To think with its mind. Of course it could never accept that. Imagine how horrible that must be – despising your own mind. (I think some people can relate to that, actually. I’m sorry if you can. I can.)

So it tried to disassociate itself completely from being Michael. To pretend it was only a what. I mean, we see that it’s comfortable with it/its pronouns as Michael, but not as Helen. As Michael, it embraced its inhumanity – not because it wasn’t comfortable with being a person in general, but with being that specific person it was forced to become. A person whose mind wasn’t made for the Spiral. Its failure incarnate.

But just before the Distortion in its Michael form dies, he ends his statement with "that is who i am". WHO. (thanks @totheidiot for pointing that out to me ^^) Michael finally got to talk about everything he had to endure. For the first time, he said the cruel truths out loud: How much it always hated being Michael Shelley. He told Jon everything, which also forced him to face the truth himself. And i think facing it finally allowed him to accept it. Accepting how shitty something is is the first step towards learning to live with it and maybe even learning not to hate it.

He could finally accept his mind. His who. Every part of himself.

And not even two minutes later, he died.

(Of course, the Distortion itself didn’t die. But its current state of existence died. It finally accepted its who, only to get it painfully torn from its what again.)

Because he got too lost in his who. Talking to Jon allowed him to be more human. But the cruel world he lived in doesn't reward humanity. It exploits the weakness that comes with it.

#yes i'm using it/its for michael while it resented its who and he/him for his last moments #because i think that's what he would have preferred lol #also i'm not linking my previous posts because i'm pretentious - it's just that all these thoughts are connected #sorry to my followers who don't like michael lmao #tma #michael distortion #the magnus archives #tma podcast #tma spoilers #tma thoughts #mag 101 #another twist #tma rambles #tma the distortion

[themagnustournament]

Round Two Part Eight - Match 61

Oh, hello, Elias -- Can I call you Elias? It’s a Spiral showdown today with the introduction of Another Twist! Another Twist is up against Upon the Stair, which is coming in with 253 votes!

MAG 101 - Another Twist | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Michael, regarding himself.

MAG 085 - Upon the Stair | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of an unknown figure, regarding an encounter they may or may not have had in their home.

#the magnus archives #the magnus tournament #tma #mag 101 #mag 101 another twist #another twist #michael distortion #michael shelley #michael #the distortion #nikola orsinov #the spiral #spiral #helen distortion #helen richardson #mag 085 #mag 85 #mag 085 upon the stair #mag 85 upon the stair #upon the stair #round two #round two part eight

[roguecanoe]

Mag 101: Another twist

#inktober #the magnus archives #tma #mag 101 #another twist #michael shelley #the spiral #tw scopophobia #hope you enjoyed #ye!

[robyn-runestone]

Felt cute, might skin this guy alive later 😗✌️

#the magnus archives #nikola orsinov #jonathan sims #another twist #art #pencil art #fanart

[christopher-hyde]

#the distortion #the spiral #the magnus archive fanart #tma michael #another twist #tma

[xelidonia]

wait wait wait

You mean all this time, I've been misinterpreting MAG 101 in a way that makes the Archivist seem much cooler than he actually is???

When I first heard the scene where Michael dies, I thought Jon was pulling the Hansel and Gretel tactic: pretending that the death door was locked, and playing dumb to trick Michael into opening the door himself. Since the door was primed to disintegrate whoever opened it, this destroyed him and allowed Helen to take over as the Distortion. I thought this was a galaxy brain Archivist play.

But apparently not? Both the transcripts and the wiki say that the door actually was locked the whole time? Was Helen just waiting in the wings the whole time, holding the door closed but waiting to get the most fear possible out of the Archivist before swooping in and replacing Michael? Was Jon just ready to walk to his death??? Huh.

#tma s3 spoilers #mag 101 #another twist #I genuinely remembered this as a rare example of Smart Jon #of course it's the Distortion scene that makes me doubt everything

[thefandomlifechoseme]

even as I'm pressing play to relisten to Another Twist im like, why am i doing this to myself

#tma #tma spoilers #tma micheal distortion #tma micheal shelly #tma helen #Another twist #Episode 101 another twist

[clairebearsparkles]

This was inspired by the Alice is Missing cover art, I love the silhouette with the background, so I thought I’d try something similar with Michael!

#tma #the magnus archives #the magnus institute #the magnus pod #the magnus archive fanart #tma art #tma fanart #magpod #magnuspod #mag fanart #michael distortion #michael shelley #distortion michael #the distortion #mag 101 #another twist #tma season 3 #tma season 3 spoilers #tma s3 #tma s3 spoilers #clairebear art

[looks-at-you]

sorry for mass mag 101 reblogging it will happen again

#Probably now!! #Or whenever you see this #I'm probably in the tag right now!! #Rambling in tags...... #the cy rambles #tma #the magnus archives #i should have a tag for this #Wait thats a tag wth #mag 101 #Another twist #Mag 101 Another twist #the distortion #the spiral #michael distortion #micheal the distortion

[ellar232]

The spiral door doodle

#tma fanart #the magnus archive fanart #the new door #another twist #Helen #Michael #ellar’s art

[shadow-the-crow]

I think i finally understand how the Distortion works. I mean, i don’t think it’s possible to ever fully understand it, and i don’t know the whole picture yet because i don’t know what Helen will be like, but i feel like i’ve just been granted a glimpse at the lovecraftian (as in ineffable) thing that is this being.

It’s not a person and a creature fighting inside one mind. There’s no Michael clawing himself to the surface to express his emotions and get his revenge.

Michael Shelley is dead. The Distortion became Michael. It sounds so simple, yet a least in my opinion it’s hard to fully understand.

I think what provides the best metaphor is a small thing the Distortion says after becoming Helen: "without a proper mind." The Distortion does not have its own mind. It’s only a what, but in order to really exist in this reality, it needs a who. It needs a body, but also a mind.

So if i understand this right, it’s like this: Michael Shelley is dead. His conciousness is not there anymore. And the Distortion got forced into that mind, an empty mind of a dead person. This doesn’t make it human, it’s still able to understand the impossible, it’s still the thing that was created to scare and kill. But in the mind it’s living in… the previous owner’s furniture is still there. It gets the dead person’s memories. It becomes Michael, in the sense that it has to be someone. Its existence got tied to being Michael, although Michael Shelley is dead.

When Michael got "emotional", that wasn’t Michael Shelley coming through. It was the Distortion grappling with the side effects of being someone - of living in a mind with all the memories and the human emotions that a human mind can’t fully turn off, even when the thing inhabiting it isn’t human at all.

The Distortion was Michael in the sense that it was thinking with Michael Shelley’s mind. When it became Helen, its consciousness, its being stayed the same, but it needed to adapt to this new mind. It could see clearer now, realizing that the windows of the previous house had been dirty, realizing that the wirings of the previous mind had driven it to do something that it actually didn’t want to do. The throat of the Spiral itself getting caught in the spiralling of its own, borrowed mind.

#here comes the first michael essay #this is only the start #i've still got so many more thoughts #i hope this makes sense #idk why but i think i get how the distortion feels #being forced to be someone who isn't you at all #like - it doesn't make sense but i get it?? #okay i haven't watched doctor who but maybe it's kinda like being the doctor? #you kinda change personality and become someone else but your true being stays the same? #(as if anyone of us knew what it's like being the doctor any more than we know what it's like being the distortion lol) #tma #michael distortion #tma the distortion #helen distortion #the magnus archives #tma podcast #tma spoilers #tma thoughts #mag 101 #another twist #michael shelley #i just realized i've probably spelled michael wrong in the tags before oops (i know how it's spelled but “micheal” keeps popping up so...) #you know what i'm gonna put the wrong version too for reach #micheal distortion

[themagnustournament]

Can I have your top three favorite tma episodes? I’m relistening, and I keep finding new ones to love!!

Hmmm if I had to choose, my top three would probably be 165 Revolutions, 101 Another Twist, and 34 Anatomy Class. Look, I love the Stranger, I love Nikola, and I have a soft spot for body horror (The Gardener and Bodybuilder are both definitely in my top 10, much to the surprise of anyone who knows me irl).

#taz talks #answered #ask #anon #anonymous #revolutions #another twist #anatomy class #a quote from revolutions is my homescreen lmao

[lyrker]

I've been waiting for you to get here! The twists just hit one after another for this mid-season climax. Michael was once an archival assistant. Jon gets kidnapped. Jon's Archivist powers LITERALLY GIVE HIM THE POWER TO TURN STATEMENTS INTO SHORT STORIES TO BE READ!!!(This one blew my fkin MIND when I listened to it) The story of how Michael became Michael (also, the implication that Jon, weak and bumbling as he is, is far more The Archivist than Gertrude ever was) and Michael becoming Helen. I had to pause after listening to these episodes for the first time due to how many bombshells got dropped.

Yeah, Gertrude was a very ends justify the means kind of person. What's one life in the face of the entire world? But that doesn't negate the hurt and betrayal that happens because of that.

TL;DR

Gertrude Pros: A ruthless badass who all others are afraid of

Gertrude Cons: A ruthless badass who all others are afraid of

TMA: Great podcast

WELL I MISSED SOMERHJNG THEN I DIDNT KBOW JONS STATEMENTS BECOME PHYSICAL i guess that’s why he always felt he was being watched when he read them. They are manifestations of The Eye after all...

REAL michael seemed like such a nice guy ): He cared about gertrude like she was a frail old lady i’m sure he was such a gentleman and now he’s DEAD. TMA Archival assistants are like WTNV Radio interns 💀

Jons more archivist than gertrude. he is. The Archivist ultimate archivist. oh but he seems like such a wimp man /: Gertrude is probably pissed about this

Gertrude..oh she’s like that one fuckin saying thats liek “a villain will sacrifice the world to save you, but the hero will sacrifice you to save the world” and i GET IT but still...ough Gertrude...I love morally grey characters man it makes your feelings so conflicting

This episode IS called Another Twist. One twist? oh! here’s another! and another, and anotherrr..and it keeps going until your mind is twister trying to wrap around all these thoughts and it’s a mess! i obviously missed some things.

#yizukikhons #ough 💀 #this episode killed me im deceased #the buried still confused me #my mind got twisted #another twist #spiral even