#blorbo from my podcast

[olly-olly-octopus]

im so Emotional about john doe because he just. constantly leaps at the chance to describe beautiful things. if arthur asks for a distraction he immediately starts to describe the sky in so much detail and i love it so much because he’s so in awe of everything he sees and it’s so sweet how he wants to share it with arthur 

and how when arthur was in a coma he developed a really strong emotional attachment to lilly because she talked to him all the time to the point where he named himself the name that she gave him and doesn’t hesitate to name a creature they saved lilly because he associated his experience with her with kindness 

and the way that he asks to hear about arthur’s dreams every morning when they’re stuck in the dreamlands prison because he doesn’t just want to share beautiful and interesting things he also craves them because HUMANITY and FRIENDSHIP and i miss him so so much he’s the cutest

#malevolent podcast #john malevolent #arthur lester #john doe is the sweetest he's my everything #blorbo #blorbo from my podcast

[septys-savings]

no thoughts, only Cecil Kanagawa

#him<3 #blorbo from my podcast #tpp

[hyenashark]

i’ve only listened to like half of the first episode of resurgence and none of prime defenders but i would die for harlem shade

#blorbo from my podcast #jrwi #just roll with it #harlem shade

[curiositykilledtheradiostar]

*adds Daniel Jacobi to my little jar of blorbos and shakes it like a maraca*

#wolf 359 #daniel jacobi #I love the whole cast (save like. kepler and cutter fuck those guys) with all my heart but he's just such a funky little man hes special #blorbo from my shows #blorbo from my podcast #curio chatter

[ziggizapz]

HOLY SHIT IS THAT WARREN GODBY FROM HIT PODCAST RED VALLEY???!???!

#warren godby #my art #red valley #new blorbo from my podcast

[crabussy]

jonathan sims (random guy who looked exactly like him in every way imaginable) was on my scuba boat. naturally I was completely normal about this <- lying

#jonathan sims #tma #tma fanart #IT WAS SO SCARY?????? #I wasn't weird to him about it or anything just kept stealing glances like WTF. WTF WHAT THE FUCK OK.HUH??? HUH? #he was super duper nice!!!! #he was swimming around the boat between dives and saw me and my sibling watching him and beckoned for us to jump in (: #then we saw a huge titan triggerfish right underneath us and. promptly got out really fucking fast LMAO #when I tell you the resemblance was UNCANNY I am SO SERIOUS #it was. very very disorientating to keep looking over to see blorbo from my horror podcast flesh and blood #he looked E X A C T L Y like the jon I imagine when I listen to tma #the magnus archives #jon sims #jarchivist #jon sims fanart #let me know if I need to tag as unreality!!

[shadow-the-crow]

congrats to tma for taking my brain over so much that i see it literally everywhere. everything is a magnus archives reference.

and, like, i knew this would happen. you guys warned me - that stuff like doors and books would become a reference. i was prepared for that.

but... i can now no longer read the word "who" without thinking about tma. the fucking word "who". it's just a word!!

#stop reminding me that my blorbo got its who torn from its what okay :'( #tma #the magnus archives #tma podcast #tma the distortion #michael distortion #i really have to go to sleep and i'm too tired for capital letters lol

[plan-3-tmars]

"You're Just Sitting On The Train" - Double MV Analysis

There's a conversation between the two main character's in a podcast I love called Red Valley which reminds me of the imagery in Double.

"You know when you're on a train, and it's held up, and you're just stuck in the middle of a field while they get the leaves off the line or whatever, and you're going to be hopelessly late, there might be awful consequences to get stressed about but... there's literally nothing you can do about it. It's not your fault. Hopefully you've got a book or something. You're just sitting on the train."

The conversation in context with the scene is about being able to put your problems and stresses, like being late for work, on someone else's shoulders. Let them take responsibility for what's going on so you can feel some relief. It got me thinking about Mikoto and Orekoto (who I'm just going to call John thanks to Neoplasm) and I want to talk about what I think the meaning of it is!!

Trains have many, many different meanings - like almost a ridiculous amount of different interpretations can be made - but I think the meanings that are the most important while talking about Mikoto are trains representing the passage of time, destiny and loneliness.

Loneliness:

While on a train, or waiting for one, you are surrounded by people. However as shown here, most keep their head down and don't speak unless spoken too. It gives a sense of loneliness, you are surrounded by people yet completely alone.

I think this could apply to Mikoto's situation and was possibly a stress factor for him. It is implied from his T1 interrogation questions that Mikoto was popular enough, knowing a lot of people either now or back in high school, but he doesn't seem to open up to any of them. He's alone in the big city with nobody to talk to. He lies to his mother that everything's okay in their phone call and bottles up his stress. Because of this he is dependant on John to function : "But if you persist, I guess it's my job to keep things on an even keel."

The Passage of Time:

This shot showcases how long the train actually is, it flies through each carriage insanely fast, blurring slightly from the speed alone.

It's been extremely clear since T1 that Mikoto suffers heavily from dissociative amnesia, something that is a very common symptom of DID, and I think the fact this shot blurs could be representing that.

Trains representing time and how humans view the passage of time is probably one of the most popular ways they appear, we tend to think of time as one thing that moves forward constantly in a straight line, similar to an uninterrupted train on a train track, but for Mikoto (and John) time is blurry, hazy. It may seem like things move too fast to keep track of (pun not intended) or individuals with DID can sometimes describe it as feeling like you're missing hours, fronting in a place or room you know you weren't in before and being unaware of the events that led up to you getting to this point.

This feeling of missing hours is relevant to this specific scene as after the camera moves through the train the first person we see is Mikoto - not John, who was in the doorway.

Destiny:

Trains are always headed to a specific location so they can also be associated with life's journey, or in other words, fate and destiny.

Both Mikoto and John are shown as the passengers on their train, not the conductor. They are not in control over life's events, just sitting on the train and this is extremely stressing - especially for Mikoto. John says things like : "another day with that hardly barely there of a smile // You're going to break // You're overdoing it, you're already broken". Mikoto seems to find it hard to deal with life's events, aka the train ride, and perhaps feels like the end destination is unattainable at times of stress.

This point is stressed further imo by the fact that we can't see outside. The windows of the train are either white or black for the majority of the MV, sometimes light or 1 image makes itself known but never a full image of what's actually outside.

Bonus: The Train's Maps!

The map's of the train are shown glitched out, also possibly hinting to the feeling of the train's final destination being unattainable, or could also be referencing hazy memories, but I think this specific detail is about John.

We see the maps glitching out when John sings the lyric : "I don't even know the reason why I'm here." [Future Mars I now know this was Mikoto singing but um.. my overall point still stands.] I think the maps glitching could represent the feeling of the loss of purpose.

John was 'born' in order to protect Mikoto, to help carry the burden of whatever is stressing him so much, yet instead of helping Mikoto he ended up being scared of him ("hey, now I saved you right? So why in the hell are you crying?") and it was John's actions that landed them in Milgram - an environment that Mikoto finds extremely stressing, to the point of there being a chance he goes dormant in T3.

Trains are created to arrive at a certain destination, so a train with no idea where it's going (glitchy maps) has lost its purpose.

Despite being an alter 'born' to protect, John has accidently caused Mikoto more harm when he tries, so he questions his role in the system.

Edit: Journey into the Subconscious

After staring at the MV a couple more times I think there's one more train theme I forgot to mention that fits here too, which is that trains can sometimes represent a journey into the mind.

I think there's a chance that the train could represent the system as a whole, or more specifically headspace. The only people on the train are John and Mikoto and the fact we never see what's outside gives a sort of surreal, dream like atmosphere, almost as if this was happening in an environment with no psychical appearance.

The lyrics sung in Double seem to be more directed at Mikoto than the actual audience, and from the last line "I'm so sorry" we can deduce that this song is something of an apology and explanation of John's actions that he wants Mikoto to hear.

#im not rlly 100% certain on any of these points but i wanted to throw them out here to see what others think #also just wanted to write atleast 1 thing on Double because god damn it was SO COOL #also i am in no way an expert on DID - any info here is based on my own research so if there are any inaccuracies pls lmk!! #also yes thats another podcast referance in my milgram analysis. i like sprinkling them in when i find the excuse to talk about them #also sorry for calling orekoto john but im sticking with it cuz that reminds me of john doe from the malevolent podcast #and he is my blorbo #milgram #mikoto kayano #red valley pod

[ifwebefriends]

🧫🔬Carlos Appreciation Post⚗️🧪

#me in the trenches for Carlos #I literally scream CARLOS!!!! whenever he’s mentioned (if I’m alone) #Carlos is the man ever #Carlos is the scientist ever #blorbo from my podcasts #spoilers #welcome to night vale spoilers #welcome to night vale #welcome to nightvale #wtnv #old oak doors #carlos the scientist #cecil gershwin palmer #cecilos #memes #meme #Carlos #300 notes

[madbalalaika]

#oop forgot to post here #don't mind me just drawing one of my podcast blorbos #i just thought that new picture from connor's ig was nice :“) #I'm reeeeally into b/w lately #not sure what that's about #trash taste #cdawgva #art #fanart #digital art #black and white

[pixelizedprince]

actual footage of me waiting for folks to listen to my podcast recs

#campaign skyjacks #skyjacks #red valley podcast #redval #red valley pod #neoscum #please the blorbos from my podcasts they deserve your love and affection

[moonlightsapphic]

I finished listening to the Magnus Archives last night, and just wanted to thank these two users in r/TheMagnusArchives for providing posts that finally soothed my broken heart a little bit in the morning. I hope they can do the same for you, too, if you’re also easily utterly devastated by endings that even have a smidge of dark uncertainty.

bonus:

#the magnus archives #tma #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #jonmartin #jmart #tma spoilers #tma s5 spoilers #I kid you not I had five different bouts of crying #and couldn’t sleep from the grief and loss and worry I felt #empath problems #adhd hyperfocus #i only want happy endings for my blorbos #i love them so much #genuinely did not know what this podcast would do to my heart when I began listening #achillean #mlm #gay #bi #biromantic #asexual #ace #men loving men #the archivist #jon sims #john sims #horror podcast #queer #lgbtq+ #tma brainrot

[mayrine]

I find it so funny that people in the magnus archive community tell new liseners that don’t understand why people hate Elias so much to “just wait for it and you will hate him too”

my experience went form “o he seems nice and reasonable, maybe a bit boring” to “OH NO HE’S A HOT SEXY KILLER” 

#i do indeed have a type #this also happend with maleni #went from oh she seems kinda fun to SHES A HOT EPIC DANGEROUS LESBIAN #Elias Bouchard #that stupid little rat man #tma #the magnus archives #podcast #tma elias #hot male #/lh #my blorbo #tma eye #the eye #sleep deprived ramblings #character talk

[lokiscauldron]

WE GOT ANOTHER INK5OUL

HELL YEA BABEYYYYYYY

LOVE THAT GRAVE ROBBING ARTIST

WOOHOO

#loki screams into the void #Tmagp #the magnus protocol #ink5oul #I'm so happy rnnnn #I love them sm #Yet another blorbo from my shows #Podcasts? Idk lol

[xyzikxyz]

what a polite young woman sure hope nothing bad happens to her while shes in space! nothings gonna happen,,,,, right? @blackboxpodcast​ (viveca is the one who painted her nails btw)

#black box podcast #phillipa daubenay bbpod #i love her so much its not even funny #blorbo from my me

[heyhowdyhellohi]

Sorry. Sorry. Sorry.

Emily Axford, as Fia Boginya just said “consider it a mercy that I do not hate you” to her father who was about to sacrifice her to the Reaper and a single improvised line in an actual play dnd podcast being such a beautiful encapsulation of how difficult it is to turn your back on family even when they hurt you, how love is a mercy especially when it is undeserved. Absolutely carve my heart out with a knife, Emily Axford.

She is effortless and precisely cutting in everything she does and I lay myself at her feet in worship.

#naddpod #emily axford #Blorbo #blorbo from my actual play dnd podcast #ryan murphy #watch out murph I’m gonna steal your wife #improv #campaign 2 #eldermourne #ep 7