#mag175

[trans-xingqiu]

Sims, at a broken umbrella: look at this fucking loser lmao

#im actually still listening to this one but i was like BE NICE TO THE UMBRELLA #The Magnus Archives #MAG175

[suffer-my-beloved-mutuals]

We get more daisy and basically!

Remaining nutrual until I hear their situation

#tma #the magnus archives #mag 175 #mag175

[tma-latino]

MAG175 – Caso ########-15 – “Época” Un inventario de lo que viene después.

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[MAG174] | x | [MAG176]

#MAG175 #tma #the magnus archives #the magnus archives pod #magnus pod #Rusty Quill #tma translation #tma spanish translation #traducción en español

[silhouettecrow]

365 Days of Writing Prompts: Day 116

Adjective: Polluted

Noun: Crane

Definitions for those who need/want them:

Polluted: contaminated with harmful or poisonous substances; defiled or corrupted

Crane: a large, tall machine used for moving heavy objects by suspending them from a projecting arm or beam; a moving platform supporting a television or movie camera; a tall, long-legged, long-necked bird, typically with white or gray plumage and often with tail plumes and patches of bare red skin on the head, and cranes are noted for their elaborate courtship dances

#so guess who accidentally fell asleep before they could post the daily writing prompt once again #seriously tho today was probably my busiest day of work to date #i was doing stuff pretty much nonstop #to the point i barely had time for my breakfast and lunch today #anyway about the writing prompt #not to compare it to the magnus archives again #but my first thought about this prompt was that it felt like the extinction #(obviously cos of the word 'polluted' being involved) #and im fully reminded of mag175 epoch #so i will probably end up writing something at least somewhat inspired by that episode #thanks for reading #writing #writer #creative writing #writing prompt #writeblr #trying to be a writeblr at least

[saintbleeding]

[ID: three excerpts from TMA transcripts. The first is from MAG079:

TIM: Alright, fine. Fine. What do you want? What’s your light at the end of these spooky damn tunnels? And don’t say ‘everyone happy forever’, because that’s not happening. ... Well? MARTIN: I don’t know. I don’t know! I want to find out what’s going on. I want to save Jon. I want everyone to be fine, and, you know what? If we were all happy that wouldn’t actually be the end of the world.

The second is from MAG102:

ARCHIVIST: I’m, I’m sorry, Martin. We haven’t... I know we haven’t talked much since... Sasha and everything. MARTIN: Well, I mean, it’s not too late, y’know. Unless the world ends. [Martin laughs nervously] ARCHIVIST: Yeah. [Click]

The third is from MAG175:

MARTIN: So you don’t think it would have been the end of the world? [There’s a bit of a laugh to the end of his sentence.]

End ID.]

thinking abt this.................. rotating it..........................

#also tim's genre awareness. we love him. #tma #martinblogging #my #described #saint meta #i mean.... sorta. not rly #there is something here. themes. narratives. u know

[bracketsoffear]

Anti John Hunger and pro John Gaius propaganda:

The Hunger in TAZ is, as the name suggests, all-consuming and total. If Extinction is The World Without Us - the element of horrific transformation/degradation being as important as the annihilation aspect - the Hunger leaves neither a World nor an Us in its wake. What's more, the despair and big-picture nihilism that drives it is, to my mind, more of a mixture of Lonely and Vast than anything else.

Meanwhile, John Gaius was terrified of what his world was becoming. That fear drove a lot of his worst decisions, at least before his big finale killing and resurrecting the Earth; after that, the worst has already happened, and his anger and stubbornness push him to pass his fear along to those his empire threatens. It's very easy to characterize John as a plainly evil Bad Guy, but I think that does a disservice to a) the complexities of his character and b) the Locked Tomb series itself, and its exploration all the different ways individual people can both fight against and be complicit in imperialist/fascist systems.

The thing about John Gaius is that, for all his genuinely malicious actions, he also just fucks up, a lot. When he starts getting his necromantic abilities, he's really scared of what he's becoming, until he reaches his breaking point and embraces his status as a Creepy Death Wizard. When he gets his nuke, he swears up and down he doesn't intend to use it and that it's only meant to be a deterrence, just like so many IRL world leaders espousing brinksmanship and Mutually Assured Destruction. Pre-Empire John desperately wants to Do The Right Thing, but he doesn't always understand what that actually is, and the real trouble comes when he doubles down on his bad decisions instead of turning back. In the real world, one way to view climate change/nuclear threats/any other Extinction anxiety is as the culmination of a lot of fuck-ups by ordinary people compounded by a few key people refusing to change.

And as for John after he ends the world and resurrects it into something that's a whole new kind of fucked-up? Not only does the imperialist force of the Nine Houses spread his warped, twisted world ever outwards, but John himself is constantly pursued by the Resurrection Beasts, horrific eldritch beings manifested from the planets he killed. I've personally always interpreted the Extinction as partly a fear of consequences; an ordinary person couldn't be blamed for, say, a nuclear war, but the polluted wasteland of the Extinction domain in MAG175 speaks to people worrying that a climate catastrophe would be, at least a tiny bit, their fault. The consequences of John's actions are rather bigger than those of most people's, but he'll never truly escape them, and his actions trying to do so make people more miserable and frightened across the whole universe.

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#asks #character propaganda #extinction poll

[romanken]

Okay I finished relistening to season 4 and will now be attempting to finish season 5 for the third time. In my previous attempts I tapped out somewhere around mag175 but we're gonna do this time. Never back down never what? never give up. NEVER BACK DOWN NEVER WHAT? NEVER GIVE UP

#guys i dont know if i can last 30 episodes without elias if I'm being honest. i really dont

[kowbojki]

Martin is a bitch and I like him so much

#tma #the magnus archives #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #my art #tma spoilers #mag175

[cloudwithoutsilverlining]

martin WILL sit on the horrible rotting couch of extinction and there’s nothing anyone can do to stop him 

#tma #the magnus archives #mag175 #tma spoilers #magpod #magnuspod #tma fanart #my art #martin blackwood #jonathan sims #s5 is just martins journey trying out apocalypse furniture #after the lonely ep where he just repeatedly criticized the bad lonely chairs

[dicebrawler]

Martin: so what's up with god then

Jon: why are you asking?

Martin: (who knows Dekker's life work was finding the Extinction, and died in pursuit of it happy and safe in the belief that God would welcome him into heaven, and curious to know whether Dekker's sacrifice was worth it, whether he was able to get the reward he was seeking in a safe afterlife away from the hell on earth that is this world) oh no reason

#the magnus archives #tma #mag175 #tma spoilers #martin blackwood

[iamnmbr3]

Season 1 Martin: Do you want some tea Jon?

Season 5 Martin: So Jon, is God real?

#Martin Blackwood #TMA #the magnus archives #mag175 #random musings #tma spoilers #mag 175 spoilers #jonmartin #my post

[rel-ish]

straight friend groups be like: *blonde girl* *chad* *the funny one* *kyle*

gay friend groups be like: *stubborn lamp* *mouldering seagull* *history book* *laughable umbrella* *The Thing That Lives* *a forgotten bone*

#BFKSJDKSK #tma #the magnus archives #mag175 #mag 175 #tma spoilers #kind of #tma s5 #gabes back on his bullshit #500 #1k #1.5k #2k #gabes top posts

[tma-latino]

MAG176 – Caso ########-16 – “Lazos sanguíneos”

Un examen sobre las tácticas de una manada.

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[MAG175] | x | [MAG177]

#MAG176 #tma #the magnus archives #the magnus archives pod #magnus pod #Rusty Quill #tma translation #tma spanish translation #traducción en español

[silhouettecrow]

365 Days of Writing Prompts: Day 143

Adjective: Slow

Noun: Epoch

Definitions for those who need/want them:

Slow: moving or operating, or designed to do so, only at a low speed, or not quick or fast; taking a long time to perform a specified action; lasting or taking a long time; not allowing or intended for fast travel; (of a playing field) likely to make the ball bounce or run slowly or to prevent competitors from traveling fast; (of a clock or watch) showing a time earlier than the correct time; not prompt to understand, think, or learn; uneventful and rather dull; (of business) with little activity, or slack; created or done using sustainable or traditional methods, as opposed to those of mass industry, and intended to be appreciated unhurriedly or used extensively; (of a form of art or entertainment) inviting deep contemplation or quiet reflection, and having a subtle, minimalist style; (photography) (of a film) needing long exposure; (of a lens) having a small aperture; (of a fire or oven) burning or giving off heat gently

Epoch: a period of time in history or a person's life, typically one marked by notable events or particular characteristics; the beginning of a distinctive period in the history of someone or something; (geology) a division of time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself subdivided into ages, corresponding to a series in chronostratigraphy; (astronomy) an arbitrarily fixed date relative to which planetary or stellar measurements are expressed

#today has been a day #yet again #work had some rough moments but im doing the best i can to work past/through them #especially since my birthday is coming up and i want to be in as good of a mood as i can be for it #anyway i like this prompt a lot #specifically because of the various definitions for 'slow' and the numerous ways they can be applied to 'epoch' #and of course i cant mention the word 'epoch' without also mentioning how it makes me think of mag175 'epoch' #so i may take some inspiration from that in my writing of this prompt #the magnus archives #tma #the extinction #thanks for reading #writing #writer #creative writing #writing prompt #writeblr #trying to be a writeblr at least

[cobaltbeam]

The end of the world looks surprisingly peaceful

#tma #the magnus archives #magnuspod #magpod #tma fanart #jonmartin #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #mag175 #the extinction #my drawings #my art

[moetshander]

jon took a seat change my mind

#mag175 #tma spoilers #jonmartin #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #tma s5 spoilers #artlings #they got comfortable then asked very deep and existential questions #valid of them