#mag 197

[opheliaweeps]

martin k blackwood u will forever be famous

(from mag 197: connected)

#martin blackwood #martin was such a girlboss and then he got tied up asdfghjkla #i love this man he’s my little meow meow #the transcripts are fucking hilarious #strip away the horrors and tma is really just a comedy #the magnus archives #jyot writes #tma #the magnus archives season 5 #tma season 5 #mag 197 #tma spoilers #jonmartin

[a-mag-meme-a-day]

Meme for @a-mag-a-day Day 205

MAG 197 - Connected

#a mag meme a day #the magnus archives #mag 197

[a-mag-a-day]

#a mag a day #tma #the magnus archives #tma polls #mag 197

[frosted-co0kies]

ANNABELLLLLLLLL!!

#tma #the magnus archive fanart #the magnus archives #magnus archives #the magnus pod #annabelle cane #tma avatars #mag 197 #mag 197 spoilers #tma spoilers

[confoundedpangolin]

don't you even fucking reference the concept of free will around me I was an existential cause and effect mess before I knew what tma was and I was thinking about nature and nurture before Annabelle Cane even entered the stage and now just post mag197 it is worse than ever don't you try to fucking ask me about what builds a decision I'm screaming crying foaming at the mouth clutching my wand from the ren faire trying to cope before the finale even comes and I am still listening and I am ready to have a mental breakdown I am not I an not ready never was never will be it's all an illusion holy fuck send help

#tma #the magnus archives #tma the web #annabelle cane #mag 197 #original post

[fullsaw]

how did you picture Annabelles "impression" in mag 197 cus i always pictured her as a giant centaur spider thing

#tma #the magnus archives #mag 197 #annabelle cane #martin blackwood #jon sims #basira hussain #fullsaw art

[im-the-queen-of-stardust]

What really gets me about today's @a-mag-a-day episode is that if what Anabelle claims is true (and it's the Web, I never trust them to tell the truth), Jon has been manipulated all his life.

MAG 160 already was a gut punch, because every step Jon took, every attempt to do something good like saving Daisy and Martin, was just another checked mark on Jonah's to do list. So bad enough that during his entire time at the institute his life used to further the terrible plan of some Victorian prick, but at least Jonah explicitly said that it was just Jon's own rotten luck. Could've been anyone.

But now the Web says they chose the most likely candidate and shaped his whole life to fit what they needed for their plan. Jon's whole fucking life not a single choice mattered*, because the literal embodiment of humanity's fear of being manipulated railroaded his life to end at this exact point. It's like a shitty RPG where you get the illusion of choice but the ending stays the same, no matter what you do. It's exactly like Annabelle said in 147:

Free will is simply ignorance. It’s just the name we give to the fact that no one can ever really see everything that controls them.

And it pisses me off, because later in that statement she claims this:

So I thought perhaps I should leave a little something to reassure you that, yes, your actions and choices have all been your own.

Have they been controlled? No more than gravity controls you when you walk, or hunger controls you when you choose your meal. There are certainly new forces, new instincts and desires, that shape your actions; perhaps you’re unprepared for them.

But if you choose to believe in a free will, then yes: All you have done has been of your own free will. They have all been your choices.

Because free will is bullshit if you take away the other options. It's bullshit if you manipulate the gravity around someone to push them a certain direction.

And I'm a bit sad that we never really got the chance to see the repercussions of this revelation. Because what does that knowledge do to a person? That ultimately invisible strings have been pupeteering you all your life to make just the right choices?

Jon said he has never felt more powerless than when Daisy took him to the woods to kill him. Well, what's more powerless than to look back at your life and realise the power to decide over your own fate has never been truly there?

Idk, something about Jon being manipulated by both Jonah and the Mother of Puppets. But Jonah was just a man, using Jon for a few years, and the Web is an eldritch force looming over his whole life.

*of course not every single choice. It mattered that he chose to trust his friends. It mattered that he chose to love Martin. But in the end none of that changed the ultimate outcome.

#this got longer than intended #i could just write whole essays about jon #i hope im not wrong about the whole we see no real repercussions of this because i didn't explicitly check #i just dont remember it happening in the last episodes #jonathan sims #tma #the magnus archives #tma spoilers #i guess #the magnus archives spoilers #mag 197

[burninginthegymplplinko]

MAG 197 - Connected

doodle 197/200; days left - 18/110 0/128

ahhhahdh idk why this doodle turned out the way it did...oh well..anyway xD

ngl i was kinda sad that they made annabelle's voice sound different..i get that it's that way so we know shes transformed into some...monster..thing but :((( her voice is so prettyyyy and only in a few episodes ú__ù,,

#tma #the magnus archives #jonathan sims #basira hussain #if u squint hdjfj #tma the web #tma 197 #mag 197 #tma s5

[themagnustournament]

Redemption Round 2 - Match 63

You could say that Connected was a bit of a... Time of Revelation... Connected earned 78 votes in Round Two, for a total of 204 votes! It's against Time of Revelation, which left Round One with 150 votes, but stuck in through Redemption Round One with 131 votes! Can it keep its momentum?

MAG 197 - Connected | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

A discussion on the edge of reality, recorded in Situ.

MAG 134 - Time of Revelation | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Adelard Dekker, taken from a letter to Gertrude Robinson.

#the magnus tournament #the magnus archives #tma #mag 197 #mag 197 connected #connected #annabelle cane #the house on hill top road #house on hill top road #the web #web #mag 134 #mag 134 time of revelation #time of revelation #adelard dekker #gertrude robinson #the extinction #extinction #redemption round two

[spacedemodulator]

MAG 197, Connected

[EXTENDED SOUNDS OF VISCERAL ARACHNOID TRANSFORMATION]

[MUFFLED DISCOMFITED REALISATION]

[MUFFLED WORRY]

[FABRIC RUSTLES]

I mean, that's all you need, right? Everything will be just fine!

@a-mag-a-day

#no worries #nothing can possibly go wrong now #the magnus archives #tma #a mag a day #mag 197

[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

[a-mag-a-day]

And on this day, 2 years ago, a collective scream of "THAT GODDAMN LIGHTER!!!" was heard around the world.

And we became very suspicious of any other lighters in media...

For a good reason too!!

#a mag a day #tma #the magnus archives #episode asks #mod ashes #mag 197 #itssomethingcosmic

[they-thespian666]

Undertale September day 22: muffet

Spider bad bitches hanging out having tea

Bonus the people they kidnapped:

#art #my art #undertale #undertale september #undertaleseptember #ut #utdr #undertale muffet #muffet #undertale fanart #tma #the magnus archives #tma fanart #tma art #tma martin #martin blackwood #annabelle cane #tma spoilers #tma s5 #mag 197 #yes im making this entry a crossover fight me

[oaxleaf]

mag 197 - connected

this is the episode where it all comes together. surprisingly, i don't have a lot to say about it - which i swear is a really good thing. the threads and patterns are all there, have been laid out to is in plain sight. it's just that now the full picture is shown to us. the thing with the alternate realities and this final alternative could so easily have been a deus ex machina, but when you look at it you realize that every bit of it not only makes sense, but has already been shown and explained before. how much new info do we actually get in this episode? most of it is just showing how it all goes together, which is something i actually really appreciate about tma. i'm not the type to make theories or to try and solve a mystery, and i like how tma allows you try and follow along with an actual chance of being able to work it out, but still with the promise that it will all be explained in full sooner or later

i suppose the major piece of new info here is regarding the nature of the consciousness of the entities. which i feel kinda... meh... about. look, i much prefer the idea that the web is no more aware than any other fear. it might be able to work with more complex ideas and rationalize time and reality in a more layered way, but i still don't believe it to be an actual consciousness with a will beyond the inherent programming of needing fear to sustain itself. it might be able to concieve of the fact that this fear will eventually run out, but i still far prefer interpretating it to have more likeness to a force such as gravity rather than something like a god or otherwise almighty being. i also think it puts annabelle in a more interesting position - despite being fully in tune with the web, she is still an avatar, and thus a servant to the entity rather than a direct part of it

doesn't mean she's oblivious, of course. you can tell that she's already aware of the inevitable outcome of this. the threads are so tightly wound now that there is no other way it can work out. she and the web have hand woven destiny, and they have already won. the only question is how those interests align with ours

#tma #a mag a day #mag 197

[maluspumilaa]

so i relistened to tma

#mm loved drawing that tape #malus art #tma #the magnus archives #tma spoilers #tma s5 spoilers #tma fanart #the magnus archives fan art #annabelle cane #tma annabelle #static #eye contact #mag 197

[alphaori]

mag 197. oughh the twists are twisting

#tma #the magnus archives #mag 197 #I'm finishing tma tonight pray for me