#maugris

[ashpkat]

the golden tower if it was peak literature:

#i’m going insane #like actually #maugris #magisterium #the magisterium #the golden tower #the golden schlong

[theenemyod]

Magisterium headcannon/idk what to even call this.

Constantine made up Maugris. It was a sort of coping mechanism, pretending to be this crazy Makar from hundreds of years ago instead of himself. And then it was a way to feel less guilty about everything, pretending to be Maugris during battles and then when it’s over saying it was all Maugris not him. But it eventually became like an entire second personality, with memories and everything that Con somehow convinced himself were real. At one point he stopped controlling when he became Maugris and it just happened at random. He was Maugris in the Cold Massacre and when he stole baby Calls body, which is why Call has Maugris’s memories and thinks he’s Maugris. If Call tried hard enough he’d get Constantine’s memories and figure out Maugris isn’t real to in any place except Constantine’s head, but he doesn’t want to remember being Constantine either.

#callum hunt #constantine madden #the magisterium #magisterium #Maugris #This absolute mess I just made #I thought of this at like three in the morning

[littlegoobus]

ALSO I need to rant about Maugris. I went through so much shit in the series. I suffered through Aaron’s death and the way they wrote Callmara and Alex being evil (I fucking hate my silly little emo boy /affectionate /derogatory) and then we get THIS ?? Literally. Literally the ONLY EXCUSE for maugris existing would have been for Constantine to actually be alive. It wouldn’t work with canon, and it wouldn’t have made it a good plot twist, but it’s literally the only reason that i could accept it being there. Because I’m sorry but Alex did NOT deserve to be the big bad (rip master Joseph)

#magisterium #magisteriumseries #magisterium spoilers #constantine madden #Maugris #i’m in so much pain

[onlycleverinmyhead]

shoutout to that one evil wizard lady who wasn’t Call, she really paved the way for non Call wizards in a Call dominated field

#magisterium #the Magisterium #the magisterium series #Magisterium series #callum hunt #the golden tower had many flaws but god bless that one scene where the go through the book of evil makars and only one of them isn't maugris #also if we're here god bless Jasper De Winter

[catuinqz]

I'm going to reread the magisterium (((yet again))) and singlehandedly raise this fandom with my very hands just you wait

#the magisterium #i have such a love hate relationship with the books #aaron callum n tamara are peak trio +jasper i love them so much #but then fucksss maugris n tbe entire final book happened and i HATE it with my entire body #rewriting the books in my mind

[sub-urbanwitch]

Happy National Hate the Golden Tower Day!

#magisterium #the golden tower #I saw the other post and was inspired #This book gave me my OTP #Still hate it #I hate maugris #fucking maugris #un-foreshadowed bastard #that’s why I’m rewriting it

[bookwyrminspiration]

[ID: The meme of the two people making out while another drinks from one persons cup behind their back. The two people making out are labelled as “Call and Tamara” and the person drinking from the cup is labelled “Aaron, living in Call’s head” /End ID.]

that was it that was the book.

unsure how I feel about the whole Alex plot thing but Aaron being stuck in Call’s head and constantly commenting on things and arguing and just being there the entire book? beautiful. Give me more

#the magisterium #the golden tower #tamara rajavi #callum hunt #aaron stewart #listen call confessing his feelings to Tamara while Aaron’s just like bro I’m /right here/ #incredible #aaron poking around in his head because he’s got nothing better to do #and then judging call’s evil overlord point system #that whole thing with maugris and Alex being a child #eh. unimpressed. kinda off #but Aaron in call’s head?? oh best part of the whole series #has id

[bestiarium]

The Horse of Malegijs [Dutch/Flemish folktales]

Malegijs, often called Maugris in English, is a character from medieval sagas, who supposedly lived in the 8th century. He was a wizard or sorcerer and played a somewhat important role in Dutch and Belgian folktales because he freed the mythical horse Bayard.

Interestingly, there is also a folktale about another horse which appears at first glance to be entirely unconnected, yet is referred to as either ‘the horse Malegijs’ or ‘the horse of Malegijs’. I suspect the name ‘Malegijs’ was eventually used to refer to wizards or supernatural things in general.

Anyway, the story goes like this: in 1521, three young girls from Ieper (pronounced ‘Ee-pur’) returned from a trip to the local fair. Their names were Maxima Vanden Driessche, Magdalena Ghijselin and Lucia Larmeson. They were neighbours. On the way home, the three girls found a small horse of exceptional beauty. It had smooth white skin with almost no fur, its torso was decorated with flowers, its tail had a beautiful golden colour and on its sides were decorations that resembled green parrots. It was wearing a saddle made from pink damask. An unassuming servant came running and claimed to be the owner of the animal. He asked whether the girls had ever seen anything like it, which they had not, and claimed that the horse was from Japan. According to the servant, the horse would never let itself be ridden by a man but would exclusively carry women. A charming and smooth talker, he eventually managed to convince the three curious girls to ride the horse. Magdalena, the bravest of the three, sat in front. But they soon discovered that they had been tricked, for the horse did not walk at a slow pace like the servant had promised, but ran away at a dizzying speed.

After nightfall, the horse suddenly stopped in front of a large and mysterious castle. Through its windows shone a weirdly bright light and joyous music could be heard from within. The horse – still carrying its frightened riders – entered through the gate, accompanied by the servant who had somehow arrived at the castle. The gates closed behind them. Within the castle, they were greeted by a lord with expensive and exotic clothes, and his entourage of noble ladies. The lord wore a Turkish hat (with a little mirror on it and gemstones at the side) and was dressed in clothes made from damask. He politely invited the three bewildered girls to eat dinner with him.

Afterwards, the girls wanted to return to their homes, for they had travelled a very long distance and it would take a long time to walk back. But the castle lord demanded that they join him in a game of ‘pand’. I do not know what kind of game this was, and I can not find information about it, but we can assume it was some form of gambling game as the girls lost almost all of their belongings to the mysterious man. Clad in their underwear and having lost their jewelry, they were thoroughly humiliated and wished to leave. The man said “now, let us toast to the horse Malegijs, which has brought these three ladies to our castle in such a wondrous manner”. Immediately after speaking these words, the eyes of the castle’s ladies suddenly flashed with a supernatural light. They were each given a glass with an unknown beverage, but only managed to drink a few drops before they suddenly awoke from what appeared to be a dream.

But when they got up and looked around, the three girls found themselves in a hole in the ground, atop the Kemmelberg (a hill in West-Vlaanderen, which is a decent distance from Ieper). Curiously, they were still half naked. And so they wandered around until they found a poor farmer’s house. It was still night but they woke the man and told him their story and asked for clothes and transport. The man believed them, claiming that the Kemmelberg was haunted by a group of witches. Sometimes he could hear their music and see flashing lights. But his wife disagreed: she claimed that these strange girls from Ieper, who showed up in their underwear at night and told such strange tales, were clearly witches themselves and should be burned alive. Her husband tried to grab the girls but they managed to flee.

The girls came upon an inn and told the owner that they were robbed by bandits (they didn’t want to tell the truth, lest the innkeeper accuse them of witchcraft like the farmer had done). The man took pity on them and offered to clothe them and bring them home. As luck would have it, the man was a close friend of Magdalena’s father. He ordered a servant to prepare his carriage and so they left.

But the innkeeper lost his way, which he assumed to be because of witchcraft, as he had travelled that road many times before and knew the roads like the back of his hand. A black shade appeared and floated over the horses, and they ran through fields, rivers and forests without breaking a sweat. But the sun came up and the shadow disappeared, for it had no power during the day.

It was a long way home, but eventually the three girls arrived at their destination.

The moral of this story is clear: girls shouldn’t travel with strange men. But I don’t think this was a very widespread tale since all sources are nearly identical, down to the grammar of the sentences. Thus, I suspect they were all derived from Wodana 1843 (a 1967 magazine about Flemish folklore and mythology) which is cited by my second source here. It was written by professor Karel Peeters, who is also the author of my first source. I am uncertain how old this tale is, but I doubt it’s a medieval story. If I had to guess, I’d say the story was first told in the 19th or 20th century. 

Sources: Peeters, K. C., 1979, Vlaams Sagenboek, Davidsfonds, Leuven. https://www.dekroniekenvandewesthoek.be/malegijs-paardje/ https://www.volksverhalen.be/Ieper_PaardjevanMalegijs https://middelkerke.bibliotheek.be/en/catalog/karel-c-peeters/wodana-1843/book/wise-westvlaanderen_3093016?branch=Middelkerke%2FWestende (image: statuette made by Adhémar Vandroemme)

#Belgian mythology #Flemish mythology #Dutch mythology #myths #mythical creatures #folklore #folktales

[wheres-all-the-tea-gone]

Just finished the magisterium series and… are you seriously telling me there’s no sequel series? Not even one planned?? Like it ended on essentially a cliffhanger! Not to mention I think there’s more to explore with the whole Maugris plot line!

#ahhhrgghg #magisterium #callum hunt #what am I supposed to do with this??

[youarentreadingthis]

maugris doesn’t exist in my magisterium au because i have good opinions. end of story

#FUCK that guy and FUCK his storyline!!! gimme a good fucking story!!! im writing this by myself i swear to god #the magisterium series #the magisterium #magisterium

[lubble-underscore]

genuine thoughts on the golden tower ending

Ask a simple question and you shall receive an essay.

Overall, the magisterium series was an interesting concept with great potential, but a lot of the execution was lacking. There were minor errors that displayed a lack of attention to detail, such as inconsistencies in character descriptions (havoc’s eye color) and even plot details (Call drove to Maine in the copper gauntlet, but in tgt Aaron says he was the one who drove??) There was also a general waste of perfectly good concepts, such as passing through the gates (we just… didn’t get scenes for most of them), untrained mages, Calron (which makes so much more sense chemistry-wise and plot-wise), Alex Strike as a character…

Still, I don’t think the series was completely bad. I personally really enjoyed the first three books, and the fourth would’ve been great too if it weren’t for the forced calmara. The golden tower, however, deserves a complete rewrite.

To me, the plot seemed very rushed and the characters lost the majority of their endearment. The air-elemental-Alastair thing was very sudden, not to mention contradictory to Alastair’s past proficiency in metal magic. While Aaron ending up in his murderer’s body has great potential for philosophical angst, the book ended directly after it happened. Jasper completely abandoned his character development and was effectively shunted out of the main group when no one bothered to tell him about Aaron’s situation. Then there’s the Maugris thing, which I’m not touching with a ten-foot pole.

tldr: The magisterium was a great idea, but its potential was ruined in favor of meeting a deadline. And heteronormativity.

#the magisterium #the golden tower #callum hunt #aaron stewart #just read the first four books #there is no golden tower in ba sing se

[ashpkat]

maugris is so hilarious. you can name any person in history and go “yeah that was actually maugris” because there isn’t any canon evidence saying that it ISNT. half of the people we know he was didn’t have actual names, just aliases

#it is SO FUNNY #henry VIII? yeah that was actually maugris and henry was secretly a makar #magisterium #the magisterium #maugris #callum hunt

[demonologist-in-denim]

Maugry

adj; afraid that you’ve been mentally deranged all your life and everybody around you knows, but none of them mention it to you directly because they feel it’s not their place. From maunder, to mumble indistinctly + maugre, in spite of, notwithstanding. From The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows.

There’s no doubt that the experience of being a part of a fandom on Tumblr is a maugry one.

#fandom life #this blue hellsite #vocab #a is for assbutt #indirectly spn #the dictionary of obscure sorrows

[littlegoobus]

I had a whole long post about how deranged the comments and forum posts on the magisterium fandom wiki were but then tumblr deleted it so have this lower-quality post - there were Call and Celia shippers. Aaron and Tamara shippers. I thought those ships were just TBK fuckery what the fuck - numerous, numerous posts about how “the golden tower is soooo good ur just haters!!!” and “omg the maugris twist is so crazy lol xd” - the most wack-ass theories u’ll ever see. -I couldn’t find the original post so ur just gonna have to trust me but someone said they shipped calron because, I quote, “they have much chemistry” - someone shouting about how because there’s a horse on jaspers shirt in the silver mask it’s obviously drew not Jasper 💀💀💀 - I couldn’t find this one either but an actual person posting that “I love callmara in canon because they just suddenly fall in love and that’s how it works in real life” 😭 - “I hope they don’t bring Aaron back to life!!!1!1!” - “this and Harry Potter are my favorite books!!! Harry Potter is better though!!!!” - “yOu caN’T ShiP cALrOn They’RE bOtH bOYs!!!” Basically just the absolute weirdest posts in general with a few sane ones thrown in. If you ever enjoy having ur brain rot slowly while nine year olds from 2017 eat all ur braincells one by one I recommend the magisterium fandom wiki 😃👍

#magisterium #I’ve lost my braincells. They are all gone. #I’ve been meaning to make this post for a while but I never had the motivation #uhh cw homophobia I think! just stinky fandom kids being stupid

[onlycleverinmyhead]

The Maugris reveal was bad for many narrative reasons but you have to admit it’s kinda funny that like 90% of evil wizards in the past 800 years were all secretly just Call

#and it was a genuinely good plot twist as in it legit shocked me #but upon closer examination it fucked up the story even further #which says something #magisterium #the magisterium series #Magisterium series

[ao3feed-undertale1]

Murder and Mental Illness

read it on AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/52861708 by Chaotic_Chara A silly little self indulgent chatfic that I have created on the fly ALERT ALERT ALERT!!!!! 1. Lauren is from a Friend's book that they just finished writing. I wanted to put them in here bc I love them sm 2. This is the first fanfic Ive ever posted. just keep that in mind please 3. If you are a Magisterium fan reading this, please note that this is a version of call from an AU I've been working on for abt a year now. all you really need to know is A. No Maugris (I think that's how you spell his name????) B. Constantine failed to shove his soul into call and is now a silly little ghost guy that follows call around ^-^ 4. There will most likely be mentions of topics such as Sexual Assault, Self harm, Suicide, Eating Disorders and other sensitive topics. Tread with Caution. Words: 1668, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English Fandoms: Original Work, Keeper of the Lost Cities Series - Shannon Messenger, Magisterium Series - Holly Black & Cassandra Clare, The Owl House (Cartoon), Undertale (Video Game), OMORI (Video Game), The Mandela Catalogue (Web Series), Five Nights at Freddy's, Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard - Rick Riordan, Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Categories: F/F, F/M, M/M, Multi Characters: Keefe Sencen, Callum Hunt, Magnus Chase, Sunny (OMORI), Chara (Undertale), Ginny Weasley, Cesar Torres, Original Male Character(s), Hunter | The Golden Guard (The Owl House), Michael Afton Relationships: Callum Hunt/Aaron Stewart, Magnus Chase/Alex Fierro, Basil/Sunny (OMORI), Chara/Frisk (Undertale), Luna Lovegood/Ginny Weasley Additional Tags: Chatting & Messaging, chatfic, Crack Crossover, i can't tag, Other Additional Tags to Be Added read it on AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/52861708

#ao3feed #ao3undertalefeed #fanfic #undertale #undertale-fanfic