#mag 181

[cosmichearter]

When she causes problems on purpose <3

[Image ID: A black-and-white (except for purple and blue) 3 panel strip of Annabelle Cane, a black woman with white hair, in a conversation with Martin Blackwood, a white man with light grey hair and white streaks. Annabelle is wearing a white dress and her tongue and chat bubbles are purple, Martin is wearing a blue jacket over a white sweater and his tongue and chat bubbles are blue. In the first panel, Martin says “I can handle myself!” and Annabelle responds “But can you handle me?” The second panel has 3 dots on it, indicating a silence. Martin now looks angry and annoyed. In the third panel, Martin says “I don’t like you.” And Annabelle replies “I know.” while swishing her hair over her shoulder. She looks smug. /. End ID]

#annabelle cane #martin blackwood #tma #the magnus archives #the magnus archives fanart #she's my beloved #mag 181 #heart shaped #oftheheart

[saintbleeding]

[ID: A digital painting of Jon and Martin from TMA. They are at Upton House, sitting side by side on the sill of an open window. Their backs are towards the viewer, and their arms are linked. The sky is a pale purple with a few stars as though it is early evening, and in the distance there is a roiling red and black mess of shapes and colours. In the window frame above Jon’s head is a spider, suspended from a single thread of silk beside its web. End ID.]

if the eye chucked a tantrum because its special boy played hide and seek too well would that be fucked up or what

#tma #magpod #the magnus archives #jonmartin #mag 181 #described #my #saint draws #was scared to post art again bc ive done so much art lately. fuck it we ball

[go-to-the-mirror]

I bet on losing dogs I know they're losing and I'll pay for my place By the ring Where I'll be looking in their eyes when they're down I'll be there on their side I'm losing by their side

MARTIN Yeah, but if, if you're that connected, that dependent, what happens if we actually, y'know, do manage to— ARCHIVIST We'll cross that bridge when we come to it. For now, I just need us to be moving on.

The price of a long due reckoning Laid in blood when the battle has done Old King Cole has paid the toll Of the crimes levied upon his soul The rebel blades have achieved their goal Laid in blood when the battle has done

Pip: We're doomed Flip: We're not. Pip: Are you sure?

There's been so little time to share We've always had our loads to bear I won't forget I won't leave you this time This time

MARTIN I refuse to accept that this— ARCHIVIST (Firm) Tough! The world doesn't care what you accept. It just... is! It just is.

It's getting late, Little Moon. Finish the song. It's not that late. You are my moon, Little Moon, and it's late enough. So climb down out of the tree. Is it safe? Safe enough. Are you dead as well?

MARTIN Yeah, yeah. Come on. We've got a job to do.

(“i bet on losing dogs” - mitski // “mag 181 - ignorance” // “laid in blood” - the mechanisms // “war of the foxes” - richard siken // “ragnarok v: end of the line” - the mechanisms // “mag 194 - parting” // “the worm king’s lullaby” - richard siken // “mag 181 - ignorance”)

#web weaving #web weave #doomed by the narrative #mitski #i bet on losing dogs #the magnus archives #tma #mag 181 #the mechanisms #the mechs #once upon a time in space #ouatis #war of the foxes #richard siken #tbi #the bifrost incident #the worm king's lullaby #mag 194 #landscaping your spider habitat

[a-mag-a-day]

Salesa appreciation ask. Man came in and stole the whole fucking show. He faked his death. He helped the horrors eat the rich. He prepared for a dramatic piano entrance the moment Annabelle told him there were guests. He understood the dream-logic of the fears and stayed winning. He's the funniest bitch in this apocalypse. He said "no ❤" to a statement then gave it anyways. He even broke the fourth wall with his Head Archivist of The Magnus Institute, London joke

Salesa appreciation post!!!! What a guy!

#a mag a day #tma #the magnus archives #episode asks #mag 181 #gilgamushroom #mod elian

[a-mag-meme-a-day]

Meme for @a-mag-a-day Day 188

MAG 181 - Ignorance

#a mag meme a day #the magnus archives #mag 181

[burninginthegymplplinko]

MAG 181 - Ignorance

doodle 181/200; days left - 16/110 2/128

hehe this moment tho :))

anyway! soft ep! soft ep!! soFt Ep!!! (well.... softer than the other ones T_T)

but at least they got to wear soft jumpers and painted their nails and yes that is so very canon i swear and aaaaah (ノД`)・゜・。

i'm still learning how to work in krita so it's not the best but omg?? i can finally sketch again without the lines getting choppy?? like no hate towards medibang hes doing great <3 (and i'm still going to draw in him) but this is such a revelation for me and i can't get enough (;▽;)👍

lineart under the cut bc i kinda like how it looks :))

#tma #the magnus archives #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #jonmartin #jmart #T 0T <3 TGEM #tma 181 #mag 181 #tma s5

[i-will-change-this-someday]

So I was just thinking about The Magnus Archive, cause it has consumed my every waking thought, and you know in MAG 181 when Salesa is teasing Jon and he says:

“Your powers won’t work here, Jonathan Sims, Head Archivist of the Magnus Institute, London.”

Yeah well, it made me wonder how he would even know Jon said this, but then I realized he’s been roommates with Annabelle Cane for at least a couple month (I assume anyway.)

Anyway what I’m saying is, even though it’s a very funny meta joke it’s also a hint that the tapes were Web the whole time.

#the magnus archives #Jonathan Sims #Mikaele Salesa #Annabelle Cane #Correct me if I’m wrong #but we didn’t know where the tapes came from at this point #right? #MAG 181

[themagnustournament]

Round One Part One - Match 5

I, too, would like to eat a computer in a vaguely menacing manner. But can munching on a keyboard top the Upton House Interlude?

MAG 065 - Binary | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Tessa Winters, regarding a strange computer program she downloaded from the deep web three months ago. Statement recorded direct from subject.

MAG 181 - Ignorance | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Moments of preparation and recuperation. Audio recorded by the Archivist, in situ.

#the magnus archives #the magnus tournament #tma #mag 065 #mag 65 #mag 065 binary #mag 65 binary #binary #tessa winters #the spiral #spiral #the extinction #extinction #mag 181 #mag 181 ignorance #ignorance #the web #web #the eye #eye #round one #round one part one

[im-the-queen-of-stardust]

Jon's It’s, er… going away. That peace, the safety, the memory of ignorance… is haunting me. This one island where he is just Jon, not the Archivist and it's taken away. Bad enough that he felt weak and was fading away without the Eye but now he's not even allowed to remember what it's like to not feel the horrors all the time and enjoying it. The way he says What was it like? at the end breaks me.

#not allowed one thing #jonny really didnt have to do that #notice im always caught up with a mag a day now #jonathan sims #mag 181 #tma #the magnus archives

[6-and-7]

Creeptober 21 - Something Broken 10 of Discs/MAG 181 - Ignorance

#creeptober 2023 #the magnus archives #mag 181 #ignorance #Mikaele Salesa #annabelle cane #the web #tma #tma tarot #tarot #10 of pentacles #art #fan art

[lycanlovingvampyre]

MAG 181 Relisten

Activity on my first listen: cutting the French tamarisk in my garden.

SALESA: "Hmmm. Interesting…" Interesting indeed. You can clearly hear something that sounds like the tape recorder being picked up and then Salesa’s voice is a bit closer. The official transcript has this in it: [Close mic bumps as the recorder is handled] MIKAELE: (Very close) "Interesting…"

JON: [Uncomfortable] "I…er… We slept. I-I don’t know – H-How long’s it been?" SALESA: "About seventy-one hours, by my clock. How’re you feeling?" Okay, 71 hours are almost 3 days! That sounds super unhealthy, you still sweat a bit during sleep, your body needs water for chemical processes during sleep as well...

SALESA: "Annabelle tells me you work for The Eye." JON: "Well… I-I w-wouldn’t exactly say I-I ‘work for’ it." MARTIN: "Well… I-I-I mean, you say that, but when you stop to think about it, it was literally our employer, Jon, so…" JON: "I-I suppose." Lol, he's right there! Also that "eehhhh" sound Martin makes xD

SALESA: "Hmmmm. Interesting. Did you carry it in? Things shouldn’t be able to manifest in here like that." I mean, Annabelle is literally alive and well in this bubble, so the Web doesn't seem to have problems here.

SALESA: "Very well. In that case, we shall leave it to be. It’s hardly valuable, and it’s probably best not to upset whatever it might be involved with. Besides, I have no secrets to hide." Ehhhh, I found a very good reason to "If you got nothing to hide you have nothing to fear" on Reddit. It's "I need privacy, not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgement and intentions are."

Haha, Martin stammering when Salesa says he reminds him of Leitner XD

SALESA: "It’s an odd situation, but not a complicated one. Shortly after I decided to stay here, she arrived. Wandered in from the chaos out there, and told me she was going to stay with me. I didn’t get this far by pitting myself against The Web, so I welcomed her in." JON: "And…?" SALESA: "And sometimes she cooks." Lol XD Also, I think Salesa is right in this case. He's no match against the Web. So better just go with the flow.

SALESA: "You are, of course, welcome to stay as long as you like." I love Salesa so much!

JON: [Compellingly] "Tell me what happened." SALESA: "No." JON: "I – uh… W-What?" [DEEP CHUCKLES FROM SALESA] SALESA: "The look on your face! Look, he’s so confused!" [MARTIN LAUGHS A BIT TOO] JON: "Martin!" MARTIN: "Sorry. Sorry. Y-You did look kind of funny. It was l-l-l-like you were flunking an exam or something." Aw man, Jon sounds so betrayed, lol! It is super funny, though xD And just an episode ago Jon was delighted about not Knowing anything about this place. So why stop at Knowing?

SALESA: "Yes! Exactly that! Your powers won’t work here, Jonathan Sims, Head Archivist of the Magnus Institute, London." Distributed by Rusty Quill and li- Ahhh... So why does Salesa know Jon's catchphrase? That means at some point he must have heard tapes of him... And knowing he's with the one who set all those tapes up, it's likely it was here at Upton House.

SALESA: "So what’s it like out there? I assume the Archivist must be rather a powerful position, since you seem to be travelling through it pretty freely." JON: "It’s… uh… um…" MARTIN: "Jon?" JON: "Sorry I just, er… Hmm." The Archives inaccessable at the moment xD

SALESA: "I have spent the last decade preparing for this to happen." And we actually have seen this in MAG 45. The antique syringe. Salesa bought it. And after it was gone from the lab, things started happening there. So that syringe was probably to the Corruption what's the camera with the broken lens to the Eye. And I say Eye, because I think the camera only completely blocks out the Eye. And since the whole apocalypse is ruled by the Eye, it creates this safety bubble. Annabelle, who according to her in MAG 197 is only kept alive by the Web, is fine here. And Salesa mentions a "insect thing, a creature of the Crawling Rot" made it here (I'm guessing this means the bubble) later in this episode. Plus, after all, cameras are an Eye thing.

SALESA: "You are right, to a point. I would welcome a return to the real world. Ha! To be the only man to weather the greatest disaster in history of reality utterly unharmed." Already a hint that this is not just a blip nobody will remember. These people are aware of what's happening to them. And without actually turning back time, everyone will still remember what happened to them...

MARTIN: "F-F-For what it’s worth, I’d also quite like to know how this all happened." SALESA: "Fine, I’ll tell you how it happened. But you must sit quietly while I tell you." No one escapes Martin's charm^^

SALESA: "When I say I was one of his assistants, you know exactly the kind of education that would be. Terrifying, fascinating, misguided. The man was a genius and an idiot." Leitner seemed to be pretty reckless when it came to his assistants. Salesa seemed to be super protective of his crew. I wonder if this has a correlation. Salesa seeing how Leitner treats his people and thinking "I'm going to be better!" (It's usually the reaction I have to being mistreated. I don't want to continue this madness.)

SALESA: "To tell you the truth, I got a real kick out of playing my role. To think of myself as a purveyor of curses, walking softly through the most dangerous edges of reality so that the rich and arrogant could buy their own doom." Have I mentioned that I love Salesa? XD

On my first listen when Salesa mentioned the camera, I remembered that one being mentioned before. I just couldn't remember what statement it was xD

SALESA: "One that through some quirk had the ability to hide you from the Powers." Yeah, ah, again, this sounds a bit strange. One could argue it hides you from all Fears and they still can occasionally stumbled upon this by accident... Then why would Annabelle be able to still access the Web, but Jon not the Eye?

SALESA: "It hid me from The Eye, which, in the new order of reality, also protects where I am from the hellscape all around us." Yeah that makes more sense.

I know, there are posts out there about how Jon and Martin should steal the camera and confront Elias with it. And I could imagine this working with the dream logic. The Pupil of the Eye distributes all the Fear. When this collapses, the whole system could cease to work. But the problem about the fix-its is the Web. It would have immediately intervened.

SALESA: "Let us relax, and talk and drink. And not worry about who might be… listening." I love how this sounds like a 4th wall break! And, in a way, it's meant to be like that. We listening to the tapes after they arrived here, I mean.

MARTIN: "Yeah, but if, if you’re that connected, that dependent, what happens if we actually, y’know, do manage to –" JON: "We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it. For now, I just need us to be moving on." That hum from Martin after Jon's reply. He is not happy at all about this...

ANNABELLE: "Don’t worry, Martin. We’ll meet again. Hopefully when you’re feeling a little bit more… open-minded." Mhm, it will be exactly like this. There were just a bit more things happening necessary to get Martin to that point.

JON: "I guess so. It’s, er… It’s gone. Like a dream. What was it like?" MARTIN: "… Nice. It was… It was really nice." Can't have shit in the apocalypse!! For both, Jon is robbed of the happy memories and for Martin they turn bittersweet, knowing Jon doesn’t remember anything of it.

@a-mag-a-day

#a-mag-a-day #mag 181 #tma #tma spoilers

[spacedemodulator]

MAG 181, Ignorance

In my memory of my first listen, I thought this was two or three episodes, but it's only one. Maybe I conflated the end of 180 into an episode of its own.

I feel like Jon's fading away within Upton House, and his loss of memory upon leaving, are more evidence for the idea that The Eye is wearing him like a suit, and his personality just happens to be part of the outfit.

I love how Salesa's plan to beat the apocalypse* relies on story/dream logic. "The guy who sells you the thing that wrecks your life always gets away clean, eh?"

I love Jon and Martin's desperate need to sleep when they first arrived, and I think more time could have been spent on this. The Fears keep you awake and alive and afraid, you don't need food or sleep - but a psychological debt is clearly building up over time.

In my own life some of the most anxious and afraid moments have involved sleep deprivation, to the point now that I'm genuinely afraid of it and how it will make me feel. I would be terrified of leaving the sanctuary where I can actually sleep. But maybe exploring that in detail would have broken Sims' desire to avoid directly exploiting personal trauma.

* I originally typed "apocopolypse."

@a-mag-a-day

#mag 181 #a mag a day #Upton House #mikaele salesa #the magnus archives

[amee-racle-ofmyown]

rare and elusive happy/excited Archivist🥺

#I kinda para-phrased the dialogue for this #my art #tma #the magnus archives #mag 181 #the archivist #jonathan sims #martin blackwood

[404fearnotfound]

@Annabelle Cane during MAG 181

#tma #annabelle cane #mag 181 #spiders #jon sims #jonathan sims #this might have been funnier in my head #BUT SHE WAS ALREADY POURING HIM A BRIMMING GLASS OF SPIDERS #Youtube

[a-mag-a-day]

i’ve mainly just been lurking for the mag a day thing, but i have so many thoughts about this episode, and i need to share them. 

the other day in my psych class, we were learning about the different types of amnesia. in short: there’s two main types, retrograde amnesia and anterograde amnesia. retrograde is the typical “can’t remember anything from before the accident” amnesia, but anterograde amnesia is what really grabbed my attention. 

anterograde amnesia is caused by damage to the hippocampus, and makes it so someone cannot form new memories after the accident. someone may have small snippets of short term memory, but the brain cannot transfer those memories into long term storage, meaning after an event is over, they aren’t able to recall it. 

anyways, now that that infodump is over, i present to you a heart-wrenching idea: jon gets eye-inflicted anterograde amnesia at upton house. 

they wake up and jon asks where they are.  martin doesn’t think anything of it, after all they’d just slept for an entire day. but then it keeps happening. they’ll be cuddling in bed, and jon will ask over and over again where they are, why they’re here. why aren’t they in the fearscapes? what happened to the apocalypse? they see salesa, and jon goes to introduce himself and martin to him, before martin stops him with a confused glance. “don’t you remember? we met him just a few days ago.” the amount of time that jon remembers things from keeps decreasing, until jon is completely unable to function, and martin realizes they need to leave. now. before jon starts forgetting things that happened before upton house. 

and as they leave, jon is left with no memory of the past week. 

anyways hope you enjoyed the idea that kept me up for hours the other night, wishing i was a good enough writer to do it justice </3

#a mag a day #tma #the magnus archives #episode asks #mag 181 #imjustexistingtbh #mod elian

[mamahersh]

Gotta say, I was viscerally uncomfortable for Wellbeing. I mean, I know that I'm afraid of certain kinds of medical procedures but wowzers I was not expecting to have to debate if I would pause my game or not to skip the episode. Good thing I didn't as otherwise I would have missed out on Breekon's demise, and it certainly wasn't as bad as I was worried it would be from the opening few minutes. It was also good to see Martin being confronted with more nuance: Avatars are/were people too and just like people have differing thoughts and feelings about the apocalypse and their places in it.

Also, Upton House! The leadup in 180 through the necropolis I admittedly didn't listen very closely to, as the cute eye-spy moment was at the beginning and even Jon was trying to rush through the episode as fast as possible.

I will say, I wasn't expecting Martin to still be the most uncomfortable with Annabelle between him and Jon. Obviously, if it was a literal giant spider I imagine Jon would have been quite willing to turn around, but as it stands, he seems to have made some kind of peace with his lot in life when it comes to the Web. Most likely due to all the pondering on questions of humanity and free will all of last season. We'll have to see how this general demeanor between the two of them and the Web holds up as we are soon to enter the end game.

#tma #the magnus archives liveblog #the magnus archives #mag 180 #mag 181 #mag 182 #tma s5 spoilers #jon sims #martin