#mags get better

[mageiad]

posting art i've never posted before every day until my wrist gets better: day 19

this is based on a series of insane tweets i made ages ago

#night in the woods #nitw #mae borowski #gregg lee #mae nitw #gregg nitw #mae night in the woods #gregg night in the woods #i'm right tho #mags get better

[keepthebeanscool]

get distortioned idiot

#no little arctic boy don’t go into the distortion door!! #i’ve been trying to get better at using colors is it working #michael shelley #michael distortion #mag 101 #the magnus archives #tma #tma fanart #jaspers art

[magpiethepunkfairy]

I have a community now by the way

I have a healthy friend group , we laugh and talk, really talk, we hangout often

I go to a class monthly, I actually talk to and connect to people there

I go to therapy monthly to and my therapist is always so happy hearing about all the great progress I'm making

I'm learning that I'm wanted and loved and worth something because I'm weird not in spite of it

I'm letting go of so much shame and guilt I held for so long it almost became me

I'm talking to my parents more, real meaningful sometimes hard conversations, and it's never the end of the world

I'm eating better, and I don't mean dieting or traditionally "healthier" I mean I'm trying new foods, eating food that makes me happy, letting it make me happy, I'm eating more veggies cause they Taste good and I like them and not cause I have to

I'm taking care of myself and using my supports and taking medicine when I hurt instead of forcing myself to push through so much pain

I'm coming out and it's going so well and I feel like I can breathe finally

I'm not crying every single day anymore

And ya I know it won't always be this good

I know I'll always struggle with my health, physical and mental

I know there will be bad days and hard things to do

But I also know I'll make it through them, that I have people to lean on and I'll be ok

I wish me from like, a year ago could see me

We're making it, in a lot of ways we already have

You'd be so Proud of us

#hopecore #hopeposting #hopepunk #nonbinary #actually autistic #queer #trans #actually adhd #it/its #they/them #mental health #it gets better #community #actually neurodivergent #fibromyalgia #chronic pain #mag barks

[clown-eating-pig]

Martin Blackwood lives in my mind so I had to get him out

#the magnus archives #tma #martin blackwood #tma podcast #tma spoilers #tma fanart #art eating pig #mag 159 #love love love this line #so I needed to draw him….idk getting devoured #by fog #or is HE doing the devouring??? #the world may never know #ignore the text it just needed to be there and I’m lazy <\3 #also expand the image if you want to see it in better quality 😭 #love tumblr for not cropping things #but the pixelation is so sad </3

[trees-to-meet-you]

God. What if Pandora didn’t want to open the box. What if she was manipulated, her hands tied to and guided by strings she couldn’t shake off. What if when she released the horrors out into the world, Hope chose to stay with her, in the box. What if Pandora couldn’t rid herself of that guilt. What if Hope couldn’t convince her that not all was lost, and that she wasn’t responsible for the strings around her hands. That she wasn’t a monster.

What if Pandora and Hope found a way to trap everything in the box again. What if Pandora couldn’t do it. What if she didn’t want anyone else to feel the guilt she did. What if she thought that trapping the horrors in the box would just doom everyone into the same cycle. What if she felt she had to break it by bearing the suffering of everyone else. What if Hope tried to convince her that it could be better. What if she wouldn’t save herself. What if Hope had to kill Pandora for a chance to save everyone, including her. What if they both were sealed in the box. What if no one ever knew what happened to them. What if their last words to the world and to each other were “I love you.”

What if the world ending was never Pandora’s fault, but in her guilt and grief she blamed herself for it, and the Hope that voluntarily stayed by her side had to take her life to save it.

What if?

#ive been sorta rotating this around my brain the past week or so. #yeah. #anyways. #i will NEVER be over this #i just. once saw someone refer to martin as the ‘humanity that they’re saving and will save them’ or something along those lines #and well. hope and humanity are kinda the same thing arent they? #hell i think in some versions of the myth hope is actually referred to as humanity #and this just started rattling around my head #but i can’t quite get the words right #im going to post it anyway. because better to have written down something than nothing at all. #but i can’t quite get the words right. #it has however also made me realize that jumanji is also pandoras box #which is kinda funny #the magnus archives #mag 200 #pandoras box #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #i guess now that ive processed it for a week or so. its time to listen to the post-season content and start the magnus protocol. #actually it may have been two weeks. i don’t remember when exactly i finished it. #anyway. #its late i need sleep. #tma #the magnus archives spoilers #tma spoilers #tma s5 spoilers #tma finale spoilers #how to tag this so that anyone listening for the first time does not see………

[statementends]

Thinking of it the fact my Best Friend's Wedding which ends with what would now be an extremely Aro coded woman and a gay man dancing and laughing together, it's no wonder it was my favourite romantic comedy as a kid.

Like, watching it now it's like ah Juliette, you are Aro but you don't know it. Your happy ending would never have been a romantic relationship with Michael.

Like to explain how surprising this ending is (just go to the reblogs I put videos that highlight it), even now it ends with her saying good bye to the person she thought she romantically loved. This is a romcom. The entire time you have felt empathy for her but you never want her to succeed. At least for me I never wanted her to get the man, but here at the end she doesn't. It's very bittersweet for a romcom... So they don't end it there. They bring back the friend who has been supporting her the entire movie and is in on all the schemes she's been up to and trying to get her to just tell the truth and move on.

He does what in any other romantic movie would be the sweeping romantic gesture where she realizes the man she wasn't looking at was the one that loved her all along.

But he's gay and he is in a relationship. The movie makes clear from the start he isn't the rebound or the dark horse romance. Instead the gesture is explicitly not romantic. It's an inside joke between them and he's there as her friend because he's seen how wrecked she is by the whole ordeal and wants to make her feel better. Platonically. That's how this romcom ends.

It's not perfect (the movie's from 1993 and a queer Platonic plot I doubt was the true intention), but when you're not inclined to romantic love sometimes it feels like you can't win against romance. Media makes romance the highest goal, the most important thing. The protagonist finds romantic love and lives happily ever after. But this movie even though it's very much about romance it's also about platonic friendships.

In the end she saves the wedding because although he rejects her Michael is still her friend.

Despite wanting to hate her she actually finds the romantic rival likeable and charming and if not for this man between them they would probably get along as friends. She tracks her down to set things straight.

Her editor and friend talks her through things, supports her, urges her to do the right thing, and roasts her when she's being an idiot, and is the person standing with her at the end giving us an uplifting and satisfying ending. Where for the protagonist romantic love doesn't conquer all, but platonic love certainly makes life better.

#my best friend's wedding #arospec #queer #watching this again as an adult is a wild ride #and even if you dont read it with queer coded glasses it's also good for people who aren't queer #i didnt even get into how the rivals chemistry was better with the protagonist than the romantic lead lol #surprising ahead of it's time in some ways #oops wrong blog too long to rewrite #not mag

[opal-owl-flight]

So what if Magolor was VERY ass at magic relative to his kind's mages huh

#he gets much better thanks to Hyness's guidance tho! #yeah I have an old comic of these two fighting in SA where Mags won...barely. and with brute force #kirby #magolor #kirby fanart #opal owl’s nest #hyness

[meownotgood]

I haven't been feeling well lately I have depression and sometimes things get unbearable, I wish aki was here helping me with the basic stuffs I don't have the strength to do like washing dishes, washing up, or anything

Not giving me advices or speeches, just being there 😔

I feel this anon... the truth is aki is just such a source of comfort and motivation for me, when I get that way I'll feel better if I imagine him showing me support and love.

aki is the kind of person who would just sit with you if you needed company. he'd hold you in bed while you cry or sleep, or just be in the same room as you to make sure you aren't alone. he's kind and patient, encouraging you even when it comes to simply getting dressed or brushing your teeth. he'll stay home from work to be with you, brush your hair for you or shower with you, make whatever you'd like for dinner. he loves you so much, he always will, and he understands how you're feeling, really and truly. he's proud of you no matter what.

#it's weird to say so don't make fun #but I really feel like my mental health improved a lot since... the aki #I've been a lot happier and gotten better at getting myself out of those types of ruts #aki..... aaaaaaki.... #he's so soft and comforting... #I think he struggles from depression himself so he understands how you feel on a personal level #he knows he can't fix everything but he just wants you to understand he's here #ask mags

[a-mag-meme-a-day]

meme for @a-mag-a-day Day 57

MAG 55 - Pest Control

im sorry for the lackluster meme lads, but the Gunpowder Tim brainrot was too strong

#a mag meme a day #the magnus archives #tagging this #gunpowder tim #just because he is my reason that yall dont get a better meme #mag 55

[rolangf]

—OCS AND VILLAIN SONGS

hey what’s up you guys welcome back to my channel— i did this post on my old blog ages ago which is unfortunately lost to time now and i wanted to do it again. so this has gotta be like, the third time some of y’all are seeing this but. fuck it we ball.

born from a post made by @unholymilf a loooong time ago that as more or less a question of if ur oc was a boss fight, what song would be playing and it struck me so here is ALL of my brain worms, including some new ones from the last post!

ANDIE— le soleil est près de moi; air.

POV: you’re bleeding out as andie is standing over you, burning white hot, hotter than the sun setting behind her. she is passionate and… reckless, and will swear this was self-defense. even if she struck first. even if she didn’t blink. even as she watches the life leave your body.

BIANCA— tricycle express; gaspard augé, mr. oizo.

POV: bianca is white knuckling her steering wheel, swiping her car against the side of your own for miles down the freeway. she is gonna run you off the road. she absolutely will; it’s unavoidable, and she’s gonna laugh while she’s doing it. this is the song she’s listening to.

CELESTE— vision; m83.

POV: “you will die soon. sooner than you were supposed to, now.” celeste deadpans as she hovers her hand over your forehead and waves. she makes a show of it, though her clairvoyance doesn’t require as much. you wish you had listened to her and thought better of asking in the first place. “it will be violent, and painful. give ares my best. leave my temple.” but you didn’t, and now it’s too late. your fate is sealed.

ELVIRA— old river; orville peck.

POV: you’re stiff, hairs on the back of your neck standing up. you’re being watched. this is a different kind of observation than the one you’re used to— the seeds constantly run surveillance on you, but this doesn’t feel as passive. you’re being hunted. and when you dare to turn on your heels to see elvira standing behind you with a crossbow bolt nocked with your name on it, you almost wish jacob was here to kill you instead. somehow, you know it would be more merciful.

OSLO— pennsylvania furnace; lingua ignota.

POV: oslo isn’t the deputy anymore. they’re the judge. eden’s gate is up a member who is worth a million and the resistance mourns a million more.

FAUSTINA— beyond the horizon; olivier deriviere.

POV: faustina is the last line of defense between you and the mother church. she’s a penitent, too, you must understand. the consecrated red ribbons she’s wrapped in are suffocating her the longer she takes to excommunicate you and she will try every prayer at her disposal to stop it—to stop you.

JEN— krack; soulwax.

POV: jen is chasing you through the fib building after she snitches on your whole operation to the iaa. you are an enemy of the state, but more importantly— you’re an enemy to agent jennifer daniels. she wants you dead, and you will be soon enough. especially if it’s up to her. and as of right now, she has you cornered in an interrogation room with nowhere to go and a gun to your head.

LOTTIE— arsonist’s lullabye; hozier.

POV: hawkins is ablaze, and lottie is at the scene of the crime staring into the flames.

LINDY— señor (tales of yankee power); jerry garcia.

POV: there’s barely anyone left to call a gang, and dutch knows as much. but he won’t admit it— that would require him admitting guilt for the losses, too. and he should be so lucky he’s still breathing; lindy wants to empty an entire revolver clip into his thick skull but knows she wouldn’t live long enough to feel the satisfaction. so she does the next best thing, and turns her back. there isn’t anything left for her, anyway. she would risk a lifetime of looking over her shoulder over having to look at him.

MAGS— change (in the house of flies); deftones.

POV: you’re being experimented on in an umbrella sanctioned lab and in walks mags— who you thought was on your side. after all, well fed devils behave better than famished saints. but not this one, she’s much worse.

MILDRED— god unbounded; uboa.

POV: you have just returned from the dead because some weirdo with a god complex and a proficiency in reanimating corpses decided that she needed the practice. and now that’s your problem, because you definitely have come back Wrong. but you’re back! surprise!

NICOLE— heart in a cage; the strokes.

POV: you’re witness to an absolute bloodbath as nicole goes crazy on the field. she’s completely lost herself, she isn’t in control anymore. she was always dangerous but now she’s lethal. she’s already gotten some of her own killed, and somebody needs to take her out before it gets worse. she’s a wild animal. and to her, you’re fresh meat.

SIBYL— summit song; nicole dollanganger.

POV: she drowns you in her scrying pool and you are never heard from again. it’s your own fault, really— anna henrietta told you to leave her be and you didn’t listen.

ROSALIND— goodbye; soap&skin, apparat.

POV: she begs mike for the coordinates of where it happened and he doesn’t budge. he never will. he doesn’t trust her not to take a shovel to the earth and dig him up. so in her state of delirium, she walks through the desert and screams and cries and repents. and becomes her own biggest villain.

ODETTE— graveyard; midnight syndicate.

POV: odette quite literally haunts her family estate, left to fall into disrepair. she’s a grief stricken wraith born of despair who brutally attacks anyone who dares step into her tomb. she’s a master illusionist even in death, so if you choose to fight her instead of just leaving, just make sure you first remove the mirrors from the wall.

okay whew that was a TASK but i’m gonna make this a tag game cs i wanna see Y’ALL make ur ocs evil and give them a soundtrack so hehe @florbelles @unholymilf @shellibisshe @ghostfvcker @benwishaw @loriane-elmuerto @leviiackrman @jackiesarch @rosayoro @statichvm @teamhawkeye @bloodofvalyria @red-nightskies @confidentandgood @simply-jason @scalpelsister @devilbrakers @lxmbert and you!

#fr tho like. i loved this post the first time i made it and i think abt it every day #so i had to remake it #back and better than ever tho too #god bless #oc: andie la croix #oc: bianca vionetti #oc: celeste #oc: elvira hawke #oc: oslo avery #oc: jen daniels #oc: faustina #oc: lindy carlisle #oc: lottie byers #oc: nicole moore #oc: mags hightower #oc: sibyl delauvéy #oc: rosalind tyler #oc: mildred malice #also sorry rosalinds is kinda fucked up i just had that vision in my head for so long it’s unreal #um. if you even get this far in the tags sjbdajnska #hi #also elviras little blurb is meant to be that you (reader) are the deputy #if that didn’t come across that way #don’t worry abt what faustina’s pov is #it’s blasphemous related sorry that games lore has me in a headlock #yes the faustina song is from another game already what of it #i am cheating w rosalinds song btw #if u even care #oc: odette haliçi

[mageiad]

posting art i've never posted before (basically) every day until my wrist gets better: day 23

yes i know this has been done before shut up

#futurama #leela futurama #turanga leela #fry futurama #philip j fry #bender futurama #bender #i never posted this because i hate it actually but i’m getting over it!!!!!!! #and also i’m right #mags get better

[sieglinde-freud]

what they dont tell u about tharjabelle is that it also creates the most insane statlines for their kids. 62 magic?!?! (with limit breaker i know)

#ann plays awakening #do not. mind their inventories. #im grinding all the kids rn its an ugly process #noire would obvs have the same stat cap as brady if she were in sage but #idk! i kinda want them to do different things. i still dk where her endgame class is gonna be tho #shes in valk cuz i liked the giant res stat (58?! oh marigenes…) but i might go dark flier long term #sorc is also an option but ive got laurent doing that and doing it better bc he has vantage access #normally i like keeping her in sniper but i just cant ignore the magic she gains from maribelle #anyways these arent the highest i could get magic in this game ik #i think it’s probably like pair miriel/tharja marry one of their kids with +mag then get morgan #but whatever. this is probably the highest magic i’ll see on this particular file anyways #ik awakening is more skill focused than fates in terms of meta but still. big number make me happy

[superdummymags]

tired heph in a dress

#mags draws #oc: hephae #got inspired to draw more buff heph #been practicing drawing muscles and i think i'm getting better at it #legs are still absolutely nightmarish though :P

[gammija]

@a-mag-a-day for todays episode I'll share something that's been bothering me since I first heard this one 😔...

im having trouble visualizing Jon cutting off his finger. not because of the horror or anything, I just can't work out the practicalities;

Like, he says it grows back almost as soon as he takes the knife out - presumably, he's using something with a taller blade than the width of his finger. right. I mean he's not using a paring knife to saw through skin and tendons, that'd be insane. So then, if it grows back when you take the knife away, that seems like an easy problem to solve: just use the knife itself to push your chopped off finger away, so it can't heal! clearly this has a simple solution

But that doesn't happen. So I'm left with 3 options:

Even when he pushes the finger bits away, they get zoomed back up to the wound like magnets and reattach

the chopped of part DOES stay off but a new one grows back immediately. Seems unlikely, Jon would definitely talk about trying to just use the extra loose finger as an anchor in that case

it just didn't occur to him, for some reason

Jon needed to be unable to cut off pieces of himself because for the narrative to work, he had to go to Jared, so he'd have a neat way to get his Flesh mark, and im putting way too much thought into the gory logistics

#tw body horror #tw gore #tw self harm #in a sense but better safe than sorry #a mag a day #jonathan #tma #tma s4 #joos yaps #also we don't talk enough about how Jon just agreed to give away his RIB. for a STATEMENT #knowing he's already taken 2?3? live statements here... i dont think its the only reason but #he probably figured taking Jareds and losing a bit of himself in the process was a good way to get a statement without harming innocents 😢 #i couldve made a post about that but clearly this is the much more important matter in this episode #but hey if I can't be gruesome for a horror podcast episode literally called 'Flesh' #all about a guy who's entire schtick is disassembling people and putting their bodies back together in new and awful ways #than gdi when can i be 😤

[isocrime]

Isozyme, your hrpf is so tight and snippy, you pace it all so well. Yoy have the plot so well tied to each scene. My question for you is, how do you do it,? Is it a matter of planning the end to end story before starting to writing? Thank you for your ficts!

Thank you!! This is a good question and very gratifying because one of the things I aim for with my fics is to always be compulsively readable no matter where in the story you’re at.

I don’t actually know the story from end-to-end at a high level of detail when I start out. Usually I know about how long the story will take to tell, the setup, and then the next couple things after that. As I write I sort of build the track ahead of me, so I’ll often have a detailed outline for the next scene, a couple bullet points for a handful of scenes after that, and then a sort of general vibe for anything farther away. (With a few exceptions, like I knew Matthew was going to get a supportive phone call from Sid in LMLAY for ages and ages before I finally got to write it.)

Basically my pacing philosophy is that every scene should have a job to do, and ideally also have some side hustles, and I sort of build it up layer by layer as I come up with each upcoming scene.

Let’s spitball a scene as an example. Hypothetically let’s give me a mcmattdrai wip where they’re all training with Scary Gary and in the scene in question Matthew is trying to figure out if Leon is sleeping with Connor. Maybe they’re waiting for the elevator together after a workout, that’s a good setting for two people who sort of know each other to have a stilted conversation. Matthew can joke that his legs are too tired to take the stairs and Leon can complain that he doesn’t know where the stairs are yet (this establishes their different levels of comfort in the setting in addition to giving some character notes). Leon probably also looks hot and sweaty, Matthew can notice that several times during the scene to amp up the sexual tension while he asks Leon awkward questions. A nice thing about elevators is that they have a timer, so I get to control when the elevator arrives and cuts off their conversation; probably right around when Leon reveals that he’s not sleeping with Connor (one mystery tied up, that’s the big job done by the scene) but now Matthew wants to know why Leon’s not sleeping with Connor (another mystery opened). They could keep talking about that inside the elevator but I don’t like that because I think that mystery should stretch out into the next couple of scenes, so to fix that (and add comedy) just as the elevator door is starting to close Connor can obliviously run up and join them. Now Matthew can’t ask Leon any more questions about Connor but he can observe the two of them together and start making some theories. However now that I have Connor in the scene, I should give him something to do from his plotline as well. Maybe I can make him talk about his struggles with a fundraiser for sick kids he’s trying to organize. Naturally Matthew volunteers Leon to help, which leads to Leon volunteering Matthew to also help as revenge, and that leads me neatly into the next scene (3 idiots struggling at event planning together in between their workouts).

I don’t know anything else about this fake story or where it’s going, but the scene is still dense and feels connected to a plot because all the elements are doing some kind of work on behalf of the story. And that’s pretty much how I do it when I’m actually writing something with a lot of plot — come up with what the main goal of a scene is, and then while achieving that goal try to have the stuff happening in the background work to move along side plots and set up the next thing.

Pacing is like a tricky little puzzle and it’s hard but I think it’s worth it when the work pays off; very glad you’re enjoying my hockey fics!

#isozyme answers #i learned how to write trying to sell original scifi/fantasy short stories to online magazines and the pacing there has to be super tight #so that definitely informs my fic #the pro mags pay by the word and their budgets are small #they want a full story with worldbuilding and characters and deep themes in 5k or less #so you're really packing for a 2 week trip in one carry on bag and a purse #every pair of socks better be justifying the space it takes up #no paragraphs just wandering around vaguely adding to the atmosphere #do a job or get cut for wordcount! #i'm such a hardass control freak about writing don't take this as advice on the only way to do things #you could also be normal and not freak out about adverbs

[quinn-pop]

this was meant to go somewhere interesting but i flipped the page and forgot about it. honestly this might be funnier

#kirbyposting #bandana waddle dee #bandee #magolor #kirby series #my art or something #mags is just being petty and mean to bandee in particular #I think he was supposed to say something like ‘before they get sick of dealing with you’ or something in that vein but idk #now that im in another sketchbook it’s just not getting finished lol #this was meant to be during rtdl btw #i have ideas. For rtdl stuff #not for today though #when my sleep is a little better im gonna have so much work to do lol