#mag 196

[a-mag-meme-a-day]

Meme for @a-mag-a-day Day 204

MAG 196 - This Old House

#a mag meme a day #the magnus archives #mag 196

[libraryfag]

self proclaimed 'spider fans' when they're given the opportunity to be filled with spiders

#my posts #mag 196 #tma

[sybielart]

WEB COMPLETE . . . 🕸️📞

(you might need to click on the pic for better quality)

ANNABELLE

"… We’re close now. Just a few more streets."

#the magnus archives #tma #tma fanart #annabelle cane #the web avatar #tma the web #the web #annabelle cane fanart #mag 196 #tma season 5 #hilltop road

[burninginthegymplplinko]

MAG 196 - This Old House

doodle 196/200; days left - 18/110 0/128

!! i didn't even notice the bit about the book breaks when first listening to this podcast! :O that's so funny. yas martin u go king <33

#tma #the magnus archives #martin blackwood #annabelle cane #tma 196 #mag 196 #tma s5 #.

[aspookycrow]

Why Hill Top Road is most certainly not the only portal:

A theory I didn’t type out because I had thought to eventually write a fanfic about it, but here you go because it’s the last possible day for me to post a called shot with my tma theory without tmp lore being involved.

Section 1 - The Tree

When we’re first introduced to Hill Top road in MAG 08, the statement giver provides us with his gut-check instinct about the tree on the premises, which cast odd shadows and “creeped him the hell out”, culminating with him feeling the need to destroy it.

This tree, as we all understand by the end of MAG 196 - This Old House, is a symptom of the crack in reality seeping out from underground, but let me draw your attention to MAG 127 - Remains to be Seen, where Jonah hires Doctor Jonathan Fanshawe to visit Albrecht von Closen in the Schwartzwald, otherwise known as the Black Forest in Germany. When his carriage arrives, what does he see but some absolutely heinous tree that absolutely must be killed:

and then, later on:

A single tree so inexplicably foul, it inspires the urge to kill it dead. Section 2 - Underground In MAG 59 - Recluse, the orphan Ronald Sinclair wanders into the basement of Hill Top Road, and recounts his observations of the room:

Compare this with Anya Villette’s description in 114 of the unlisted HTR basement, involving unfinished masonry and damp earth

As a curious parallel, in Albrecht Von Closen’s experience descending down the strange, isolated mausoleum in the Schwartzwald, the tree-punctured, decaying stone stairway yields to a room with books touching walls so weather exposed, the statement giver is unable to tell if the books are truly touching walls at all, or are in fact bordered in with bare soil.

And what item did Albrecht find conspicuously on the floor of Johann von Württemberg’s mausoleum, the subtler mystery detail hidden by the much thematically larger mystery of the books? Section 3 -The coin anomaly Inside this strangely placed, isolated mausoleum in the Scwartzwald, Albrecht von Closen found a coin, dated the year the count Ulrich II of Württemberg passed away.

Interestingly, in both our universe and the in-fiction one, Eberhard I succeeded Ulrich II, and not any bastard named Johann. Our dear Archivist comments on this in the same breath as dismissing it as coincidence, which historically means it definitely isn’t. 

Preposterously familiar for anyone who’s spent any amount of time thinking about the obvious HTR-based disappearance/reappearance/time skipping of Anya Villette (MAG 114) and Anne Kasuma nee Willette (MAG 08). Kind of curious how this absolutely cursed book collection shows up in proximity of a cursed tree that people are urged to kill, in a weird mausoleum nobody has any record of, alongside a coin of a man who may not have existed and definitely wasn’t a lord or any sort of royalty and yet there’s currency commemorating him? This is not the end of the Scwartzwald anomalies, though. You see, this coin…went missing. Section 4 - Profound violence, and an eyeless man It’s unclear the circumstances of how Albrecht lost this coin, though given that he wrote his statement in 1816, I suspect it fell out from a pocket during Albrecht’s very next encounter which causes him to flee the Black Forest entirely. The encounter where the guy who keeps creeping around the outside of the mausoleum, issuing vaguely intimidating warnings, decides to accost Albrecht and reveals himself to have empty eye sockets, and the ability to “see” regardless. 

The identity of the Eyeless man remains unknown definitively, as he runs off as if he was startled by some sort of predator, but in some Absolute Hunt Bullshit that seems to follow pretty much immediately, there was a murder that same year that investigators briefly thought was committed by Albrecht’s host and nephew, Wilhelm.

An eyeless man, a cursed tree, the profound violence of a hunt, the man who doesn’t belong with a history that couldn’t be true. And that’s not to mention the incredibly cursed vibes of both locations. To wit, in MAG 196 regarding the nature of these cracks in the universe:

Compare this to Albrecht’s description of the Schwartzwald:

AND ALL THIS IS TO SAY, in my heart I know it’s true that there are more portals, because as a patreon subscriber I got to submit a question for the Q&A And do you know what they did? Do you know what happened to my question? They reworded it beyond recognition, to a thing that was NOT what I was on about at all. I asked about the potential for other Cracks in reality to exist currently, like the hints for Schwartzwald or The Eschatology Door in Paris, and do you know what they rewrote the question to be about (but still put my name on so I KNOW it was supposed to be mine) (also please dont go find it, it’s embarrassing how they butchered my ask and also it has my human name on it and I don’t know yall like that tbh, so just take my word for it)? The question they answered was if different places and countries had their own regionally specific fear domains, like Paris for example. Which like, obviously?? I forget how exactly they rephrased it, I was on a walk listening and my ears went hot and my eyes went wide and I KNEW I HAD SOMETHING WITH A MELTY HOT CORE OF TRUTH TO IT. Pure adrenaline, sign me up for the Fucked Up Red String Tower where People Judge Marble Domain I guess, but I feel it in my GUTS now. And you know, maybe the question was rewritten by a staff member before they ever saw it, any number of things could have happened along the pipeline. It seems bizarre to me that they’d even leave it in after choosing to rework it that hard, though. But I’ll tell you what, the question posed was about cracks in reality, not fear domains. And I feel CLOSE to something. In Annabelle’s own words, 

Indeed, few have ever thought much of it at all. Perhaps there are many such places across the Earth. Perhaps it is unique. Certainly, no-one has known either way.

(PS don’t get me started on MAG 134 - Time of Revelation, DON’T GET ME STARTED ON IT)

Transcripts lovingly taken from https://snarp.github.io/magnus_archives_transcripts/ All the screenshots have alt texts with the contents in plain text. Mainly, the goal I set here was to get it out there before TMP, so I can feel very very clever if they ever address it. Also, this is my first effortpost using this editor and BOY YA'LL WEREN'T KIDDING.

#tma theory #tma spoilers #the magnus archives #mag 114 #mag 127 #mag 23 #mag 08 #tma #mag 196

[ashes-in-a-jar]

Heh

#unreality #tma #the magnus archives #mag 196 #tma 196 #this is edited together btw #because the end of regular transcripts dont have the license thing written dow #n #ah well

[i3irb]

Some details in my last post :)

Burnt right hand, scar on his neck and the worm holes 🕳

Hilltop house and the cliffs from mag 197, the scene takes place in the middle of mag 195 (where he in the lake rowing) and 196 which is where he confronts Annabelle

THE EYE

#the magnus archive fanart #jon sims #tma #the magnus archives #mag 196

[a-mag-a-day]

I always think about the fact that, if annabelle hadn’t destroyed the camera, they couldve brought it to the panopticon and killed jonah no problem. Annabelle you evilish genius fascinating character

Hmmm that's an interesting point

Would killing Jonah with the camera help in any way banish the Fears in a different way than what the web wanted? Thoughts?

#a mag a day #tma #the magnus archives #episode asks #mod ashes #tma spoilers #mag 196 #perilouspelicans

[spacedemodulator]

MAG 196, This Old House

Like Jon in his rowboat, like Basira on her island, Martin, too, is entirely done with this shit.

ANNABELLE: Look I'm no good at monologue-ing. Won't you please monologue for me?

MARTIN: What's in it for me?

ANNABELLE: I'll stuff you with 100% fewer spiders.

MARTIN: Gimme.

@a-mag-a-day

#the magnus archives #tma #a mag a day #mag 196 #malingering #martin blackwood #annabelle cane

[themagnustournament]

Redemption Round 3 - Match 1

This Old House may have been pretty popular in the regular bracket, but can its 150 RR2 votes stand up to the 191 of First Aid?

MAG 196 - This Old House | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

A statement on Reality recorded by Martin K Blackwood, recorded at Hilltop Road.

MAG 012 - First Aid | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Lesere Saraki, regarding a recent night-shift at St. Thomas Hospital, London.

#the magnus tournament #the magnus archives #tma #mag 196 #mag 196 this old house #this old house #annabelle cane #the house on hill top road #house on hill top road #the web #web #mag 012 #mag 12 #mag 012 first aid #mag 12 first aid #first aid #lesere saraki #the desolation #desolation #gerry delano #gerry keay #gerard keay #gerard delano #the eye #eye #redemption round three

[dinnerthyme]

✋️🙂

#i was like twirling hair kicking feet haha no waaay she's talking about meeee #this is probably a bad idea but. gonna stay up and finish tma before the new year starts #i have an inkling of what's gonna go down in mag 200 after this episode... plus a feeling that it will BREAK me #tma spoilers #annabelle cane #martin blackwood #mag 196 #fennel listens to the tma #tma s5 #tma podcast #tma

[oaxleaf]

mag 196 - this old house

i love annabelle in concept, but jesus christ would i get murderous if i had to actually interact with her. i think the main obstacle in me ever getting in contact with the web would be how absolutely unable i am to deal with any sort of mysterious bullshit. although, i am kinda curious how much of that is the web's influence. we don't ever get a true and proper backstory for her, do we? as a character, the mystery she shrouds herself in is super fascinating, because like with the web itself we are left unsure of how much she really knows, how much power she actually has, why she does the things she does

here's the thing: the web doesn't actually control shit. it's just very good at taking advantage of coincidences and small details and then making small pushes to get the wanted outcome. but it's still a push, rather than actually controlling it. and even how concious the web is as a power or an entity is in question. i think some pretty similar things could be said of annabelle - she's obviously smart and perceptive and able to predict outcomes with great accuracy, but not precisely. he plans can shift and, to some degree, fail

that's what kinda happens to her fill-martin-with-spiders idea. the circumstances change, and now the outcome isn't the same, and she shifts to accomodate that. i think it's also really interesting that the thing that foils this plan is jon and martin's relationship. whilst tma definitely does not push a love-saves-all type of narrative, i really like how clear it's made that it is a very powerful and very genuine power source. i feel like a lot of horror or scifi (as well as almost any badly written tragedy) has this tendency to dismiss and diminish love, as if love and passion and desire are not the core driving forces in any human being. it just has a very interesting place in tma's narrative

i'll admit that i don't 100% understand that crack in reality stuff, but i understadn it enough to get its larger implications and i do very much enjoy it. i like how it seems simontaneously independent and connected with the fears, and to be honest, the way it's spoken about as having been an inherent part of the universe, as eternal as the fears themselves seem to be, does have me half-convinced that the entities does not originate from this dimension. still, i find the mere idea of something far more inherent and eternal and unknown than what could be comprehended deeply fascinating

#tma #a mag a day #mag 196 #annabelle cane #the web

[mr-snail]

Mr. Spider is relatable because I too want more

#jon sims #martin blackwood #the magnus archives #tma jon #tma podcast #jonathan sims #magpod #michael distortion #tma memes #gertrude robinson #elias bouchard #mag 195 #mag 196 #mag 197

[ineffablewhovianholmes]

The closer I get to the end of TMA the slower I listen. I listened to s1 2 and 3 so fast, I mean I finished all of S3 in one weekend, S4 took me a bit longer and I've been on S5 for probably a month and a half because I don't want it to end. Also I'm on mag 196 and I'm more than a little terrified for mag 200

#the magnus archives #s5 #mag 196 #save me from mag 200

[chaoticpinetree]

So what I'm hearing is that Martin and Annabelle could be besties in a different world, and also ajhgfdhgdd he took book breaks on his way there are you kidding me, and also that my feelings, as a listener, of being a mysterious creature that enjoys the characters' pain and feels disappointed when they turn off the tape, are now intensified as Annabelle asks 'you have no idea who's listening, do you?'

#tma #the magnus archives #tma reactions #mag 196

[darkacademiaarchivist]

i've been catching up on the daily tma episodes and i've reached 196!!! Annabelle Cane really is THE mastermind character, huh? (and let's be honest, Martin is too)

ANNABELLE: It’s such a shame. There was a time when I was certain you had what it takes to join us. MARTIN: What? Because I like spiders? Well, used to. ANNABELLE: Because you always managed to get what you wanted through smiles and shrugs and stammerings that weren’t nearly as awkward as they seemed.

it's giving

No one wanted to play with me as a little kid So I've been scheming like a criminal ever since To make them love me and make it seem effortless This is the first time I've felt the need to confess And I swear I'm only cryptic and Machiavellian 'Cause I care

Mastermind by Taylor Swift - It needed to be said...

such a good Martin episode!!

also i find the story of Hilltop Road always fascinating because there's SO MUCH to it (and so much left to be explored and expanded on in tmp hopefully?)

Did his terror call to him with the drumbeat voice of carnage? Did it sing to him with the squirming melody of decay? Could any have told you the difference? It is strange. That a name, a face, a taste of fear should linger through the centuries, and yet I cannot be sure which of them it was that ate so well. Some fears are eternal, but within them lie a hundred titles, whispered in the secret places of every era of every corner of our world. Who can say if any of them are true?

the one thing that unites us all. fear.

i feel like i have more thoughts but i can't articulate any of them right now but the finale is approaching so fast... how has it (including the trailers) been over 200 days already? time passes so fast help)

@a-mag-a-day

#alexa play mastermind by taylor swift #tma #a mag a day #mag 196 #the magnus archives #martin blackwood