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ashironie · 1 month
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I don’t have a good feeling about Celia
I tried to post this earlier but it got deleted so fuck
But from so many standpoints she just irks me
-She has the same character archetype as Alice. Many have pointed out their similarities and while this by itself isn’t much (as is everything on this list) with everything else it makes me weirded out
-She just came out of the blue. We had no warning in the episodes before no build up. We were introduced to the concept she was coming and then she came with little fanfare.
-Her introduction to the rest of the cast is a lot different than Sam’s. A lot understated. Maybe Jonny and Alex just didn’t want to do the same thing again but it felt really rushed and weird.
-I cannot see how she can possibly contribute to the plot in any meaningful way if she is just another victim coworker. She was introduced too late to have her death feel like anything but fridging (when you make a character just to kill them for momentary character drama), once again she shares a character archetype with Alice so the only thing that they could give Celia could be given to Alice perfectly fine, and she once again feels forced
-Celia was also too comfortable too quick for me. She just instantly trusted none of her coworkers would report her for talking shit about their boss. She seemed too genuine about everything even though she was in a completely new environment. And she was just so laid back with everything, like sure she might not know the full scale of things but she seems like she’s been their for as long as anyone can remember (something that might be due to the fact I associate this trait with Alice who has been there a long time)
-idk if I’m reaching or going crazy with this one but Alice seemed off. She moreso just said “I’m Alice” and and Aliced all over the place. But as soon as Celia left she said ‘yeah’ sorta suspiciously? Maybe I’m crazy. Then she’s back to herself replying to Gwen, who we can assume is only less interested in what Celia has to say due to the situation she’s found herself in during ep 4 was it? with Lena. The only time we really get to know her thoughts about Celia when she isn’t in front of her is when she’s bugging Sam about his crush on her, and also literally all conversation she has with Celia she also has with Sam and shifts the conversation (aside from just meeting Celia) to Sam (imo). The only time we get her opinions on Celia away from other characters is the little ‘yeah’.
-We don’t see Colin’s reaction to Celia either, which would mark the third episode in a row where Colin is only mentioned (to my knowledge). Though we don’t have any mention that he’s been hostile to her. The only characters that truly talk to her and that we can see their reactions to her are Alice and Sam. One who I’m convinced is suspicious of her and the other who’s ’in love’ with her (I was completely caught off guard by this due to not even thinking about any of that in the very beginnings of a horror podcast, I’m autistic and demiromantic, and because I was half listening the first time I listened. I sense it more but it still feels like a stretch to me before Alice mentions it though makes a lot of sense due to Sam’s reaction to her mentioning it)
-I feel like I’d be amiss to not mention the fact this is the episode we truly have an Avatar in it. Needles is the first avatar we tma enjoyers know as an avatar (in Norris’s statement in ep1 we have the maybe scammer but it’s unclear weather that’s an Avatar, someone being possessed, or something else entirely). Thematically, this would be a great way to establish a connection with Avatar and Celia. She was introduced exactly when Avatars were. Also the episode name could also be a reference to the fact we are having our “introductions” to Avatars thought this episode, but that’s unrelated.
-People has also pointed out Celia is in Tma, same name and same voice actress (so no Michael situation or helen and Mel’s therapist situation [I think I remember them having the same voice actress and that being a problem] here). Although I don’t know what the could mean but that’s actually the reason I decided to rewrite this mini-notsomini-rant.
I could be wrong about all of this and am prepared to be wrong but still, needed to get this out there.
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beauty-and-passion · 8 days
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TMA - Chapters 1-10: The beginning and everything I didn’t expect to see
Hello, everyone.
As promised, here is the first post with my impressions regarding chapters 1-10.
Let’s not waste too much time here: there is a lot to say and I’ll leave my final impression for the end of this post. For now, let's start.
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MAG 1: Angler Fish
Well, that’s not what I expected.
So this series doesn't have a continuative plot, but it’s rather a “monster-of-the-week” situation. However, I don’t think it will be just like that: I’m quite sure a plot will come in the future. But since it’s not coming for now, I think the option I chose (i.e. commenting this series 10 chapters at a time) is perfect. This way, I can easily keep track of my favorite statements!
I also appreciate the small introduction. So we have a place: the Magnus Institute. I suppose this is the “library” I vaguely remembered. And we also have a person: Jonathan Sims, our maybe-protagonist. And we have Martin too! And Sasha and Tim! I have no idea who they are, but I’m looking forward to knowing them.
All I got for now, is that Jonathan (who I will surely call Jon from now on, because his name is too long) is kind of a skeptic. Clichè, but I accept it: this is a horror/supernatural series, so he will probably change his mind when he will face the real shit.
And speaking of the genre, glad to know that this story is horror/supernatural. I’m not a huge fan of horror, but I like to be surprised/scared/creeped out in creative ways.
And this first statement… fails to do that. Sorry to say that, but the story is kinda meh. The supernatural element is just here and it’s not very scary. Fine, the mysterious figure is probably just the bait of a supernatural shit we don’t see, but it’s weak. And the association with the anglerfish isn’t enough to creep me, nor creative enough to surprise me.
I hope the next statement will be better.
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MAG 2: Do Not Open
Yep, that’s much more interesting.
I like that the wooden coffin doesn’t do anything you might expect from a coffin in a supernatural story. The scratching was still kind of clichè, but I didn’t expect the singing in the rain. Or the “dream possession” or whatever it was that weird power that tried to trick Mr. Gillespie into opening the coffin.
It was also kinda funny to follow his misadventures in dealing with it. And understandable too: my man doesn’t want to open the weird coffin, so he will do everything to not open the weird coffin.
Honestly, same: I am a wimp and if someone delivered some weird shit in my place, I wouldn’t be so stupid to go face-first into it. Curiosity might be strong, but my will to live is stronger.
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MAG 3 - Across The Street
That’s another interesting statement.
First, you think it will be about Graham and his journals, then there’s the weird hypnotic table with the missing piece, then Not-Graham. There are a lot of things here and they’re all creepy and interesting and I want to know more about them. Could there be a follow-up to this story? Or, at least, to its mysteries? It would be very cool to read another story and find the missing piece of that table. Or one of Graham’s journals. Or to see Not-Graham again. It would be fun. I hope there are follow-ups.
About the supernatural stuff: I couldn’t really understand what the arm-y thing-y was, so it wasn’t exactly scary, but more… bizarre? And a bit meh. It was just a black arm-y thing-y after all.
What really crept me out was Not-Graham casually saying: “Hey Amy, we live so close to each other, what a weird coincidence! Maybe I’ll pay you a visit.”. THAT was creepy as fuck and I loved it.
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MAG 4 - Page Turner
I vaguely remember the name Leitner, so I have high hopes we will see more of his books in the future. After all, this statement looks more like an introduction to him and his books, rather than a self-contained story about Random Weird Thing no. 247.
Maybe we won’t see Ex Altiora anymore, but other books… why not? Also, Jonathan knows about Leitner and asked to search more of his books, so maybe we will see more of them.
By itself, the story is good at introducing the weirdness of these books through the equally weird figure of the Keays. I feel there’s still a lot to find out about Mary Keay’s murder, her existence, her place and her connection with Sanskrit. I want to know more about her.
And I want to know more about Gerard Keay too. Will we see him again in the future? I hope so: I feel like he has still a lot to say.
I also noticed a guy named Michael. Will we see more of him too? Is he the same Michael I’ve heard about? Or is there another Michael? Can’t wait to find out.
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MAG 5 - Thrown Away
I don’t think this statement is creepy, but rather, a great example of weird.
There is nothing truly scary here, only weird. And I love this kind of weird. Every new trash bag is a surprise and the surprises are not gore-y, bloody, or clichè with the sole purpose of shocking you. The stuff inside is harmless, just… immensely weird: a long paper strip covered with the Our Father prayer, a huge bag full of teeth that are all of the same tooth… that’s not dangerous stuff, just weird. Unexpected. And, therefore, very cool.
The metal heart was a great choice too: just like all other findings is not disgusting nor gore-y, but it serves its purpose perfectly. You look at it and you know Alan is dead. I love it when creativity is used so well.
I also noticed there is another Michael here. Is he the same Michael mentioned in the previous story? Or another Michael? How many Michaels are in this series? XD
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MAG 6 - Squirm
Another meh statement: a mysterious girl is feeling very sick, then she basically explodes into worms. Kind of a backlash, going from the delicious, subtle weird of the previous story to the disgusting stuff of this one.
However, I can understand Mr. Hodge: if my room was packed with worms, I would’ve burned the whole house down too.
Also, it looks like Jon knows this woman in red. Will we see Jane Prentiss again? Or more of her victims? No, of course I don’t want your answers: the series will tell me ;)
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MAG 7 - The Piper
A simple war tale, starring a supernatural element, the Piper. I don’t find it particularly scary, but rather a melancholic figure. Sure, it’s a bit eerie and mysterious, but not particularly interesting - not for me, at least.
The story isn’t particularly captivating either. It’s just here and it screams “filler”. Or maybe not? After all, Jon remembers the name Joseph Rayner, so we will see another story featuring this guy?
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MAG 8 - Burned Out
There’s a lot of stuff here - maybe even too much. First, Mr. Lensik’s father and fractals and math and the mysterious guy with “all the bones in his hands”. Then Mr. Raymond Fielding and Agnes, the disappeared kid, the missing hand, the tree, the green apple with spiders… woah, woah, slow down! What are all these things? Should I remember all of them? Are they all important? I feel like I already forgot something while writing them down!
Honestly, this huge number of peculiar elements is very distracting, because it gets all of the reader’s attention and takes it away from the story itself. A story that, if we reduce it to basics, what’s truly about? A man meets a ghost and pulls down a tree. Not exactly the most exciting thing ever.
Now, I’m not saying that a story with multiple digressions is bad. It just needs an extremely good writer and A LOT of time and space to properly develop everything, because it would be too easy to “forget” the story and get lost into all the digressions.
So, considering these statements are all short, I would rather avoid too many elements and keep them as simple as possible, focusing more on the story itself and adding just one or two recurring elements.
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MAG 9 - A Father’s Love
Another meh story. Some elements are interesting, like the necklace with the hand and closed eye related to the Church of the Divine Host and the mysterious something that blows out every lightbulb. But yeah, from the moment it was mentioned that the father had a shed, I knew he was doing some supernatural circle/prayer/whatever.
A simple story, but nothing truly amazing about it.
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MAG 10 - Vampire Killer
Seriously, every time there is a meh statement, a great one follows up. And if it’s not great, it’s extremely interesting. Or, like in this case, it’s surprising.
I mean, a statement titled “Vampire Killer”? I expected the same old tale about seductive vampires burning out in the sunlight.
But nope, this story offered a new vision of vampires. Even better, it did it by putting these details into the story, in a great example of show don’t tell.
I really like that the vampires' characteristics are so… bestial. Shark-like teeth, a leech’s tongue and no ability to talk: it’s new, it’s cool, it’s interesting and I would love to see fanarts of them (once I’ll finish the whole series).
I also appreciate that they burn like crisps, because without blood (i.e. a liquid), they dry out: so, not only it justifies why they drink blood and not eat solid food, but also why they burn so easily. It’s cool, it’s logical, it’s creative: I love it.
Oh-oh, am I also noticing a small hint of doubt in Jon’s words? Is he starting to think these statements are not just silly stories made by insane people/mythomaniacs? Didn’t expect him to start so soon, but I suppose a lot of things will happen in the near future and he needs the right state of mind to face them.
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In conclusion
My first overall impression is positive: this series looks promising and I want to read more statements. Sure, my impression is based on 10 chapters out of 200 (so basically nothing) and on all the assumptions I made while reading. I don’t know if there will be a continuative plot, I don’t know if the characters of these stories will return and I don’t know if something huge will come in the future. I am just assuming these things, based on my experience as an “art-forms-enjoyer”.
I just hope I am right and that, while being right about these things, the series itself will keep surprising me with creative ideas. I would be very sad if my assumptions were correct, but the quality of the statements gets worse and worse. Please, keep being creative! More surprising stories and less “meh” stuff!
That’s all for now. I’ll come back very soon with the next post about chapters 11-20.
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sluttyjonahmagnus · 28 days
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First off I love not goth Gerry. Gerry was a completely depressed and desperate man in tma. I’m pretty sure he was only goth because he didn’t care and just grabbed whatever wouldn’t show stains of blood or not being able to shower often. He didn’t even dye his hair right.
Tmagp Gerry seems off tho. Gertrude answers for him. The way he talks seems too.. kiddish ? I wonder if he got his surgery and Gertrude is his caretaker. His aggressive knows too much caretaker.
I mean from the little I’ve seen we know he’s lying about how much he’s involved with the institute. Or maybe he really doesn’t remember. Trauma and possible brain surgery might do something to a man. Not to mention we just don’t know what Mary or Eric were like in this universe.
But. This fuels my “Eric named Gerard after Gertrude” head canon. Since the names mean the same/ are male-female versions of each other.
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metannoyuhhh · 2 months
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I just saw a TikTok about the fears and motivations of TMAGP and I don’t think I can sleep until I get this out.
So the main big bad(s) of The Magnus Archives was the fears and their entities and artifacts. All the main characters and statement givers, if not the rest of the world, were effected by them. Motivated by them even.
Even if someone wasn’t experiencing one of the fears firsthand, a connection to someone who has or even just a read through of a particular statement could motivate one to do so much.
Jon had The Web first. He experienced Mr. Spider at such a young age and his fear of spiders carries on for as long as he does. Then it was The Eye, the position he presumably worked so hard for turned out to be far more sinister. He was trapped and he was paranoid and he was surrounded solely by other paranoid victims. And yet, this fear did nothing but push Jon to do more research, to find what was going on, and to fix it. He was scared and he was tearing himself and his relationships apart but he saved the world, at least once.
Martin was Lonely for a long time, making him a perfect candidate to be taken under Peters Lukas’ wing. He was isolated from the beginning, watching his family and friends drop one by one like flies. Close to the end he felt he had no choice but to give in. He probably knew it was wrong to give himself up to The Lonely but if that meant saving what was left that he cared for, he’d do it every time.
Tim was such a doting big brother who lost his other half in such a devastating and horrific way. His brother was picked off by The Stranger when his curiosity got the better of him and his best friend was murdered and replaced and he didn’t even notice for months. His fear turned to aggression and his aggression turned to vigor to research and fight to do his damn best to stop The Unknowing, and he did.
In The Magnus Archives, fear and trauma is what motivates people. It’s the rush of adrenaline that gets people moving and fighting. And while sometimes it’s also to get something they want (a better world, to save someone, revenge) there is always trauma that comes first. You cannot have the motivation and obsession shown in TMA without having experienced the fears in one way or another.
I think The Magnus Protocol is going to flip this on it’s head. Instead of fear fueling motivation, it’s going to be motivation that leads to the fear and trauma.
Gwen is a perfect example of this. She’s so dedicated to her job and so obsessed with filing things accurately so that she can work her way up to the managers role. And I think her precision and dedication to the statements and the knowledge they hold will put her straight into The Eye’s influence, or maybe even The Web.
Sam is a similar case, his curiosity about the files is going to lead him to something unsavory that he won’t be able to get out of.
In The Magnus Protocol everyone wants something. Gwen wants power, Sam wants knowledge, Colin wants to get ahold of this strange computer system, and I think Chester and Norris most all want each other.
I think Jon and Martins love for each other, their wanting to be together and still sacrificing that in hopes of bringing the world back fundamentally changed the way this world operates. They wanted to be together so they came back in the form of our little text to speech bots, they will always be together now, even if that means being trapped in a desktop from the 90’s.
The Magnus protocol is going to be about wants, and I think that is going to be apparent very soon as Colin works on the app more and as Sam dives deeper into the files and as Gwen works her way up the corporate ladder.
It may even be that these characters become entities because of their wants. Like the woman in episode two who wanted to perfect her art and herself at the cost of her physical appearance and relationships. It really wouldn’t even shock me if my the end of this all of our main characters will have succumbed to a fear in some way, except for maybe Alyce.
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mossy-bonez · 4 months
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I want to talk about this au. So let’s begin with the TMA characters that will be around.
Jonathan “Jon” Sims: look it’s the silly eye man our poor little meow meow. Anywho this wet cat of a man just became the pupil of the eye so his powers and connection to the eye are much greater now, I mean so long as he feeds himself properly and he’ll definitely do that, won’t he? No no he won’t, at least not at the beginning, what were you expecting Jon Sims to properly take care of himself? When has he ever done that without being forced too? Any way he still looks mostly human, I mean he has more eyes then most but he tends to keep those closed or hidden, and his eyes are such a bright green that they almost look like they are glowing(they actually are), and if you look at his skin too closely you might notice black lines that almost look like a web of shattered china, but that’s fine. Also small green eye symbol float around him, most can’t see them all the time but they may catch glimpses of them out of the corner of their eyes. Tape recorders still follow him about they feel different now though, less like they’re from someone else and more like they’re from him.he is very much the ceaseless watchers special little boy, and it fucking shows, so much favoritism.
Martin Kartin Blackwood: he is an avatar of the lonely, like he is fully an avatar now. It’s fine everything is fine, he’s just choosing not to think about it for now, that will make it go away. Any way he’s pretty much how he was at the end of season 5 bit less stressed given that he’s not currently going through the apocalypse, but he’s definitely not forcing himself to act small anymore, he is actively choosing to take up space and stop putting up pretenses. He’s here an a new universe with his boyfriend and come he’ll or high water he is going to make the most of it.
Helen: she is alive because I miss her, also I think distortion door shenaniganery would be fun. Any way he just didn’t kill Helen this time that’s all, and given how little of the distortion is human, or really ever was, she got whisked away to somewhere else as well
Monster Pig: he is my baby and he is here if I say he is, I would kill for him so he is alive and well and freed from his concrete tomb. Anyway depending on if I make this au pre or post weirdmageddon his situation is a bit different, either he replaces waddles and is babyfied, or Mable finds him in the woods and befriends him and now he is waddles’ brother. Either way new pig friend for Mable, and my boy is thriving and being lavished with love(and maybe he occasionally just eats whatever problem they are dealing with, because he is a good pig 🐖)
Simon Fairchild: I know that in canon he is left behind but you can’t tell me that this 600 year old sky grandpa was human enough to be left behind, also as a vast aligned person I can’t leave my evil grandpa behind. He is here and he is having a blast just vibing and slowly adopting any vast avatars that show up to rebuild his family.
If y’all have any other characters I can add and good reasons for them to be able to show up, I will maybe add them
Next up will be some stuff about the gravity falls side of things and a definitive decision on weather or not this is set pre or post weirdmageddon
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distortionswife · 4 months
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One of my weird ass dreams that are TMA related
Tws for clowns, spiders, bugs, mentions of skin ripping, spider eggs, wax people, markings, clocks, ticking, going insane, mention of holes in the floor
I accidentally wrote it as a statement so enjoy. There's visual aids.
— Title: A gameshow with yours truly —
First of all, it basically started with me in some kind of room, I’m unsure what kind of room it actually was, it had like a window that stuck out like \__/ and in the middle stood a big grandfather clock, one with those swinging pendulum esc things. It was like 4:02 a.m.
I don’t know why I was there at all, but for some reason I was compelled to knock on that damned clock. And no, not on the cabinet bit. Nahhh that’d be too bland or something, I had to knock on the glass of the actual clock, 10 times to be precise.
And when I did this, a smaller third white handle appeared. It started at the 6 and made it’s way to 12 oh so slowly, I felt less and less at ease the closer it got to that 12.
Time itself had stopped in the meantime and I could NOT escape, the door was simply painted on the wall, even though I could literally remember walking through it. I held the doorknob, but it wasn’t there.
I couldn’t look outside either, and I tried, trying to see if anyone was even there or if it was just me. But it was just the moonlight, an infinite meadow spreading. The white handle was at 7 by now and I honestly finally had my survival instinct kick in, still trying to find something to maybe break the windows, but the closer that damned handle got, the more the room seemed to be a decoy.
Once it hit 8, I could hear laughing, various people, all quietly and as if they were laughing at me. And so it started feeling like there were people watching me, mocking me.
It soon hit the 9 and I couldn’t see the clouds move anymore, they were stuck like some fancy painting.
So then I just waited for it, there was quite literally not any way out as it was either fake, or I was imagining it. Which is the same, but y’know. At least the door seemed real enough.
When it hit 10, the floorboards creaked and seemed more withered, while they were in quite the pristine condition when I stepped in. Now they had holes and splinters, all sorts of things skittering underneath.
I turned my face to the luxurious chair in the corner as it hit 11, as behind it there was a bookcase from which many books fell.
The chair was made of a skin looking leather, I didn’t really want to feel or think about it, but it probably was skin.
And then it hit 12, and all the sounds stopped at once, I remember just staring at it, the door to the cabinet slowly creaked open and I was grabbed with 8 pairs of hands and pulled in, blacking out for a moment and waking up in a very spacious area.
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I was standing up high, on some kind of platform, I could see a window in the background and a jungle gym esc thing in front of me, the flooring looked like those puzzle piece mats they have for toddlers. It was strangely dark, there was a polka dot and stripe pattern on the wall. I tried to see who was behind the glass, to see who was watching, but I could barely see her.
Yeah, her, you can guess who I mean. A certain ringleader.
How did I know this was her? Because her voice blared from the few speakers placed around the area. She was excited about it and that honestly terrified  me.
Either way, I just listened and all I could think was oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck and not in the good way.
BECAUSE IF SHE IS EXCITED, ITS GONNA BE BAD.
I still remember what was said:
“ Ah! Look who’s finally awake! ” she quite literally giggled,
— and I would love that excitement if it weren’t ME that was in there. —
“We’re going to see how our lovely girl is going to do in this little show~”
The light’s flickered on and I finally saw the weird fucked up playground with half alive people. Why half alive? Because their skin was still attached, but only half. So they were in complete agony, and they were apparently promised to remain alive if they killed me. So you can guess what I had to do, if not, here was the lovely explanation of the way too excited Nikola:
“They have to get through our weird little- or well, it’s actually quite large.” She laughed again.  “Quite intimidating if I may say so, they might not even make it out!”
Everyone gave her a moment to laugh, she’s having fun, and we love her for it but it still makes me anxious.
So she continued after quite a psychotic laughing fit, “And they have to get through it alive~ Which isn’t guaranteed, but we’ll see how far they can get! Everyone is allowed to attack, because those who remain alive, will definitely survive after the show.”
Obviously not, but y’know, little gameshow survival test esc thing to see something??? Test something, probably.
Either way, a timer was ticking down slowly, she was encouraging me that violence was very much encouraged and would even make it more fun.
This convinced me it wasn’t only her that was watching, more on that later.
So she continues on how I would probably die, but it’d be a real something if I even made it through THIS room alive, let alone the entire thing, but maybe I was smarter than she thought. She then joked I was also the one easily distracted and lured by pretty lights so she doubted it.
She told me to make her proud and I was shoved off the high platform, landing on the softened floor of foam pads. There were like 7 fucking half skinned people, aggravated and very ready to kill me.
So I ran, finding something as I ran, it was on top of the humongous climbing jungle cube thing. ( See the aforementioned art )
But there was a metal pipe there and I just immediately grabbed it. From that view I could see the way ahead, it was around a corner and there was a ladder going to a higher platform. The half skinned ones were crawling their way up the jungle gym and I immediately figured I had to defend myself.
So I Elias Bouchard-ed this shit and committed brutal pipe murder.
It worked, and over the speakers I could hear Nikola absolutely Cheering
“ ALL OF THEM TOO ” she laughed excitedly, voice still booming through the speakers.
And I could hear Helen laughing, which is fun, totally. I don't know why she was here either, but we'll find out later.
Either way, I had a moment to look down at what I was wearing, and I was literally wearing a ringleader outfit, but just a cheap one, Halloween costume. It was apparently a gift, meant to ‘encourage’.
Then I just bolted it to the fucking ladder and I escaped section one.
The next was far worse, and I had a feeling Helen worked on it with her because it was very twisted, literally.
Everything was as if I was way too fucking drunk, everything moved and spun around. There were wax works that were apparently working like those angels from doctor Who, not moving when I looked at them while also needing to run to the end.
The path was full of holes to step into or trip over and I could NOT look away from them. We won’t talk about how there were ‘fun’ button pressing tiles that made blades and actual fucking scythes swing from the sides or the ceilings, or brought sharp poison tipped spikey squares up.
They would paralyze me.
Somehow I avoided ALL of that while finding a lighter, it had the web pattern engraved on it and I was fearing that another was here.
But I figured, ‘Hey, doesn’t fire melt waxworks?’ So I looked away until they all horrifyingly stood behind me and quickly turned around, clutching a piece of the broken flooring I still had, it was wood and burned well.
I threw it at them and they did all burn, with the HORRIBLE effect that I then found out that there were still alive people within, just coated in wax. Because there were horrifying screams as soon as they burned, still having their skin and all. I kind of watched for a moment, mostly in horror.
Hearing the same psychotic laughing fit come from the speakers as she went “SURPRIIIIIIIISE”
Absolute psycho, I still adore her.
So I go into the next room, once I finally got there, was a lot more… eerie. It was just quiet and I couldn’t really see anything beside from what little light the lighter gave me. But there were eyes looking back at me, trying to take the lighter away or snuff out the light.
So I just ran, and it turned out to be an endless hallway until I stopped and turned around after an hour, seeing a door.
I just went through it, no thought, and came to a room that makes me genuinely sick because it was filled with spider eggs.
But big ones.  
And I broke them, on accident, which wasn’t the worst thing, except for the millions of spiders trying to crawl onto me.
What was worse, is that I was soon chased down the room by a huge fucking spider creature. And yes it’s the one you’re thinking of.
So I ran as hard as I could, breaking more and more eggs and just trying not to look down. And I finally got out, and I just heard a very soft.
“ A break sounds good, they’ve been running so long.. “
But I didn’t trust the sinister laugh that came after, and I shouldn’t have, because the break I got...
It knocked me out and I woke up in a hospital bed, the bloody metal pipe on a cabinet, and my arms tied with leather bounds. A doctor came in and figured it was about time I arrived, seeing as I was clearly seeking this type of attention.
Do you remember Dr David?
I do.
I hate him.
THAT was him.
And in the moments he was away I eventually got out, seriously cutting up my wrists, but getting out and because I didn’t want to run around in such an outfit I got redressed in the one I was given, waiting with the pipe for Dear old David to return. I knocked him upon his head, but he didn’t get knocked out, simply saying
“ we’ve got a runner. "
And so here we are again, running… again.
Did I take Helen’s door? Without a second thought, and that was, as she claimed it to be, “My actual break”
And it was, she gave me tea and laughed at me for a bit, mostly saying which actions were stupid, and that she’d give the full explanation at the end.
If I’d make it.
But she had a feeling I could have. More so because of the instinct to kill if it meant I’d live. She found herself funny for giving me the pipe. Yes, she made a joke about the pipe not being just for old men.
And then she shoved me out through another door, and I was in… London..? But I wasn’t me.
I was invisible, in a way, everyone I knew from there was simply talking about me behind my back, things like it was better I was gone, hoping I’d stay gone for once, just a nuisance, how stupid I was, all that. But way way worse.
And it kept going when I walked away, the voices following and I was honestly too tired to run, so I walked. Hands covering my ears as I tried to hit the others, simply phasing through them.
I’d find my way to the circus, as I know it, which got the response “ aww, they found their way back home… Just like a dog.” from a certain clown
( for context in one of my first dreams I stupidly walked into the circus and she's kind of been following me in the dreams that I have had )
I ignored it and kept walking, finding my way to be walking down. And I just turned around, nope, I wasn’t going there. Nope.
And that apparently did it, because there was ONE last confrontation, which was that goddamned anglerfish and the room that came after.
The anglerfish was easy, I just had to turn away and not get sucked in, then I landed in one final room. It felt infinite and had millions of clocks ticking at different moments. Breaking the clocks after 20 minutes worked.
And then the sight around me faded and I was simply left in a waiting room, or the room you wait in before you get an interview for an internship.
And I was called in.
And it was finally fucking over.
And there they all stood, all three of them, big smiles all around and just looking so proud.
And I didn’t know if that was an insult or compliment, but I just sighed and collapsed, being caught by our main girl, Nikola, in a hug.  A bit too tight but it was whatever.
Don't expect her to hug without hurting someone, if she even dares to do it in the first place.
I had apparently been away for 4 fucking months, that’s how long the entire ‘test’ had taken.
And it was designed for me, especially for me, and I passed it. There were all sorts of praises and then I got the critiques, compliments and many questions.
All three agreed that it was fun to watch, especially the murder parts, nobody expected it apparently, but it was a pleasant surprise according to all three.
Nikola's favorite part was the waxworks being melted.
Helen liked how I didn’t hesitate to go through the door she made, not realizing how much was her doing, the same with the other rooms, it gave her quite the ego boost.
They explained what was their idea and how fun it was to see me go through.
( I found it less fun, but I just imagine that it was because they had a lot of fun, probably were able to feed A LOT. )
And eventually it was just Anabelle who gave me something to drink because I deadass was about to pass out, and she talked the most. I was told to go home and celebrate... my last birthday? Since the rest would be spent here with them and maybe the others from the institute, but not if they had a say in it.
Well, both Helen and Anabelle said it’d be good to let me still go there.
So Anabelle brought me back to the clock with a grin and said “ You didn’t think I had absolutely nothing to do with your arrival? By now I figured you could’ve guessed~ ”
And I just nodded and she helped me through safely and I was home again, being told that I could only go back once, but if I wasn’t there after my birthday, they’d come get me anyway.
So we skip to my birthday, it was fun and apparently nobody questioned why I was gone, I got gifts that felt blurry but were good apparently.
And then I suddenly had a breakdown in a college level and filled classroom, talking about the clocks and I knocked 10 times on all 10 in the room, taking everyone to that place.
To Annabelle’s, where Helen and Nikola were too, and I didn’t realize what I did until they were all there. All 57 unaware, now terrified people.
And I just said, “Well, they can’t go back so I guess it can be considered a gift? I don’t have plans with them so just- go wild.”
And then I collapsed.
And I woke up with more marks, see the below sheet for reference. I also found out the entire thing was broadcast, like in BINARY.
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— That's all folks ! —
Please tell me if you want me to post more dreams because I've got them all written down from the start, I'll just begin at where it all began, literally.
I can also make an au from this because I do have ideas for TMA aus but let me know!
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OKAY I found my notebook so I didn’t have to put it in a napkin but. BUT
CHAINSAW MAN AU FRESNO BABYYYY I got it down finally after mulling it over my head for 50000 years and inspired from @sugar-grigri’s incredible write up on how a love devil would look like/function which was genius and absolutely helped with doing the connections that were missing and also taking elements from @krokaxe’s genesis Fresno design that still lives in my head rent free it’s so good
it's due a lot of retooling to make it feel Complete and not just like sketchy wip but it's perfect for now and maybe ill see to pulling it together
they’re the love. Fiend? Host? Hybrid? Something like that. They have a lot going on and I’m genuinely just going to throw up like 50000 lines about their design that is (more or less) wip since I still have to design the butterfly wing design since I didn’t have any proper ideas atm and see if I cram anymore heart motifs in there BUT. It’s here and I am sooo excited to ramble about it. Under the cut for everyone’s sake :3 also chainsaw man spoilers. smile
SO. i definitely did want to make fresno the love devil because they are ofc afraid of love and attachment and i love beating them with the irony stick so love devil/love fiend it was, msotly because they have extremely complicated feelings towards love and attachment because they both crave it and are scared of it, and with me reading on i figured going with a fiend/host situation would be fun. in the storyline in my head the love devil, a primal fear either pulls a pochita and escapes hell or lets itself be cut down to reincarnate into the world, maybe seeking this idea of like. experiencing how Humans Do and it's the idea of like, dying to be humanized but also struggling with it
which is very funny because fresno is the worst person they could have encountered for that, in my head its maybe like a contract maybe like a fiend takeover, but it's a little more arai/violence than asa/yoru, something something union/fusion/togetherness but i'm getting ahead of myself. fresno is deeply afraid and skittish of love and affection and also bugs. because ever since tma i want to torture them a little with the corruption just 4 laffs. so maybe the contract goes awry or it merges them
so a lot of the design is pulling from genesis which is kind of a personal bad end for fresno since it's a lot like. marriage. union. but kind of like a bitter idolization of like this like "wife"/virgin image that they come to hate, so the crown/chain halo. the chain halo is kind of pulling a motif from other pieces that i just kinda imagined since they are in the legion but uhhh love & control. iykyk. i figured that it was a good base to start with though i was split with going with the idea of maybe more classical devil since demons/devils are one of their Themes but then i thought nah lets beat them with the irony stick more. so they're angelic looking BUT with a broken halo completed with a chain. union. marriage. fusion. a middle ground between them
the butterfly motif really tied it all together though that FUCKS. mostly because fujimoto's fiend designs are simplistic but in a way that's kinda hard to nail down and i think tying the design to expressions is so cool and it added like entire layers of complexity to it all because like, butterflies in your stomach, but also butterflies also drink blood, love is blind and i didn't illustrate it but they're supposed to have the eye camo some butterflies have (its also why the butterfly wings are backwards) and also, heart motifs and their own personal gripes because fresno HATES being seen as weak and butterflies are very fragile.
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maybe behind the wings they also have tears as a genesis element as well. hmm much to think about. i also wondered if they'd look too silly but i mean, yoru.
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so maybe they can look a little silly. or maybe make the eyes ringed like the horsemen because. well. gay shit. they don't have eyes for anyone else.
the veil connecting their crown is also like vaguely "insect wing" looking but also heart looking. also i liked the idea of either some live butterflies or butterfly decorations on them so they didn't look so plain. their hair is also like, Iconic so i wanted to push that so the curls are vaguely heart looking, it's a little overshadowed by the butterfly sketch lines but there's at least a few i tried to put in.
in my head they do have the powers of like, blindness, frenzy, control (lol), but another i imagine would be the idea to give and take love, like imagine. for example. if you were a person that hadn't experienced love in a meaningful way and then you just like Feel it. all of it. love and warmth and togetherness in the blindest, purest, most unconditional way beamed directly into your head and then. it's gone. forever. unless...
the idea of fixation and people being fixated on them is also one of their Themes and like, in the vaf suspended in gaffa/mama animatic that exists only in my head the idea of like control devil (not the canon ones. in this one it's a whole other guy) being attracted to love first for power (since love and control DO go together in some scenarios) but also falling victim to their power as well is funny and i like that, and idea of losing yourself to another, where does one begin and the other end is like. well. incredibly up my alley. also just like getting the taste of something you've never experienced yourself but also twisted in its own way (in my head, there's the lyric in suspended in gaffa of "not till i'm ready for you" which is the singer addressing this like, higher power of something they want to have/see (in the song it's implied to be a glimpse of god) and they would have to work for their reward, but taking that and changing it into the speaker being the higher power addressing the singer feels like the type of shakeup that would be going thru a control's lens maybe. also using the idea of a transforming devil maybe a secondary power of transformation (haha, butterflies also represent that/reincarnation) as a loved one OR. the Potential of them as a loved one. fresno has the terrible luck of attracting people who love/value them for what they Can be or what they Could have been, and having the butterfly maybe swap designs or transform or be blank could be something like that. wanting someone to see behind the curtain, not shy away from who they Really Are Right Now. consider that another stick
there's also the aspect of union/fusion/togetherness tha i just. love. so i had to do it. something about tying together two beings, till death do us part, maybe the creation of a whole new thing since i'm insane and would like to tie the vaflings into it because of course i would
i think there would be a whole struggle of being afraid of what you represent/embody and acceptance and a lot of other things.
this turned out to be like a massive rambling thing SORRYYYYY i like talking about this a lot if you've read this far thank you and you havent thank you regardless. i'm soooo glad and excited to have a proper design to put in the grinder now
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bluegreeblin · 27 days
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Initial thoughts about tmagp episode 1 (&2 and first 1/2 of 3). Forgive me if this is a bit blurry, it’s actually been several hours since the listen. This uh, is becoming something of an essay so buckle up buckle bunnies.
Firstly general sensory things
- thought the intro music sounded a bit like creepified laughter. Wasn’t a big fan initially as it felt almost too on the nose? Like it’s trying too hard to be creepy? I like the subtle violin of TMA so very much I think it’s got a different energy to it. That said, already by episode 2 & 3 I’ve adjusted. Not sure I disagree with my initial opinion but I don’t actually hate it. Overall a big fan of the music in soundscape during the episodes actually
- I need to have personal words with whoever puts so much white noise audio distortion over some of these recordings. Negative 1000 points I should never have to go look up a transcript because I can’t hear the show?? Audio processing, sure, but physically not being able to hear it at full volume? I understand that it’s supposed to be recorded like we’re sorta spying on them but still, I should be able to hear? I’ll try again with headphones but that was a big disappointment. Fortunately it was only a few scenes and overall the audio is pretty crisp and crunchy which I like :)
Okay on to people:
I have blocked the tmagp spoilers tag because I didn’t want overt spoilers (god knows you guys don’t know how to use the tags properly though 😒). So that said I know some things but not all
- y’all said “oh Colin is gonna die first! Blah blah Colin’s doomed etc etc” and I really went “… nah I don’t think it’ll be him? He seems competent and disinterested?” And then the very last snippet of episode one was uhm. That™️ and I went “oh shit he’s so going to die”
- y’all gave Gwen such a hard time I thought she was the baddie again?? She’s… she’s literally so me actually. She’s a little pedantic about things but she’s actually so nice to Sam. 10/10 my favorite character thus far. Also I love Anusia’s voice it’s very nice.
-tangential but absolutely devastating burn from Alice when Gwen said Fredi was a bad name for the program and she said Gwendolyn was a bad name. When I tell you my jaw dropped and I sat there with stunned laughter for like a solid minute. These two are insane, I hope they kiss (/j).
- Lena gives me way more evil fucked up boss vibes but even then idk that she actually is or if it’s just my corporate trauma/ influence from TMA
- Alice is such a personality. If she hadn’t had the majority of screen time in these episodes I’d say she seems on the road to Death By Horrors™️. I love how she seriously point blank tells Sam that she’s not joking about how you have got to compartmentalize the job. I wonder about her relationship with Colin, I hope to see more of that in the next few episodes. Also is she actually keeping in contact with Teddy? Honestly she hasn’t been the most gripping character herself to me but she does prompt a lot of narrative questions about the way things work for the OAIR and the people employed there.
- Sam is the main character, right? Idk maybe it’s because I only hear from him after the chatter reports but I feel like we know so little about him and why he’s here.
Story stuff:
- two statements in the first episode!! The first one immediately raised some questions for me. For one, scraping emails to other people has got to be breaching some massive privacy laws, Sam is right. I feel like that’s already been discussed along with the invasive nature through which we are listening in. What I feel like hasn’t been discussed much with TMagP is survivorship bias - what about the stories that don’t get recorded/written down. Just an interesting curiosity I hope to see develop.
- Canaries Should Stay Above Ground. For one, chilling delivery of that line 10/10 Mr Sims. Also a huge fan of the way this is formatted like a chat room in a forum, it’s been done very creatively and the pacing was spot on.
- of course, can’t wait to see more about Magnus Institute!!! We know it’s not the place it was, but the archives on the first basement level (implying lower layers - like the tunnels?) are interesting, as are the sigils/symbols I hope we see more about those. Also the “oh my god are those eyes?” Is there still eye association there? Also the fact that it took 4 days for the change to occur…maybe started earlier than that, considering Canary got a little aggressive/thought they were receiving threatening DMs. Were they? What were those? Also the threat of doxxing seems very eye adjacent too so maybe that’s correlated to the eyes. And Sam is looking into it even though Alice is telling him not to, so hopefully pulling that thread doesn’t go uh horribly for him…. Oh wait
- honestly found the RedCanary statement way more disturbing than the lady with the painting. That said, I really enjoyed the writing on this one, that was such a smooth transition from talking about painting on canvas into the self-mutilation while still using the same language and tone. Also appreciated the little detail of the therapist’s reaction, you can hear her kinda gasp a few times I think.
- I was thinking about it last night going to bed (yes I started this post yesterday now it’s becoming a beast). What about the acid? I believe the client that she didn’t use acid. But acid in paint supplies? What acid is strong enough in normal supplies to do that? TW for suicide mention: // I would think if it was an attempt, she’d just drink the paint thinner or something, not pour it on herself? Plus I can’t imagine knife wounds would look much like acid burns. So why is the roommate’s story acid? Maybe I’m overthinking, I just really wondered about that part and if maybe I’m missing another layer of meaning or something.
- tangential, what was Alex doing in my intro? Do they alternate now? Weird. Not bad, just weird.
- can’t wait to hear an Augustus chatter report! We’ve gotten Chester and Norris which are ofc Sims and Newell (presumably Jon and Martin but unconfirmed as of yet. Keep your spoilers in the spoiler tags, bitches)
- they’re definitely laying the foundations and both adding worldbuilding (without too much exposition, which is nice) and opening up even more questions.
I think I’m most excited to know more about the things RedCanary saw and the Magnus Institute as well as what’s going on with Colin and his shitty computer system.
I feel like if we gave Colin a PC with Microsoft Access if he could get ahold of the index catalog and whatever mouldy old database the records are going into he’d be fine. But alas, that is probably a too practical solution for Spooky Ooky Horror Podcast
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morning-softness · 3 months
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20 questions for fic writers
Thanks to @crit20lesbian for the tag!
1. How many works do you have on Ao3?
Eighteen
2. What’s your total Ao3 word count?
166,316 words
3. What fandoms do you write for?
The Magnus Archives
4. What are your top five fics by kudos
Netflix and Chill- (TMA, JonTim, 3k, Precanon) Tim and Jon watch Netflix and chill. They do not have sex.
Love, Or Whatever You Call It - (TMA, JonMartin, 20.5k, No Age of the Beholding AU) After Jonah's ritual fails, severing Jon's connection to the Beholding, Jon and Martin try to put the pieces of their lives back together. Adjusting to normal life again after everything is hard, and exploring their new relationship is even harder, especially as Martin realizes he might be aro-spec.
Archive Shenanigans - (TMA, Gen fic, 1k, Season 1) All the assistants are the hot assistant, or Tim says Hot Martin Rights and Hot Sasha Rights and even Hot Jon Rights.
Are You Calling Me ‘Darling’? - (TMA, JonMartin, 2.5k, No Age of the Beholding AU) Jon likes it when people call Martin his boyfriend. Martin…doesn’t.
Here Might You Bless Me - (TMA, JonMartin, 4k, Safehouse Era fic) Martin’s changed after Jon pulls him out of The Lonely, and he’s sure that Jon won’t want to stick around once he figures that out. After all, it turns out Jon has a lot of love to give, and who would want to waste their love on someone who can’t return it? Jon convinces him he’s not going anywhere.
Note: Most of these fics are in my top 6 for hits as well as kudos, but I was really surprised to see Archive Shenanigans make the list. It was the first TMA fic I published, 1k of pure unpolished fluff and comedy, but for whatever reason it has a much higher kudos to hits ratio compared to my more-read fic.
5. Do you respond to comments?
I do my best to respond to them, because I want people to know that I read and treasure all of their comments. Sometimes it takes a while though, because I want to give a thoughtful response.
6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?
Can’t Have You, Even As An Enemy. It’s a fic where Jon and Tim share a hotel room on the eve of the Unknowing, and talk about (or mostly talk around) their issues. The angst is that it’s written with the intention of being canon compliant, which means that Tim will still die in the explosion, and the best that can be hoped for is that this conversation will give Jon a bit more closure.
7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?
I write mainly hurt/comfort, so most of my fic has a happy—or at least hopeful—ending. The happiest might be Can’t We Just Wait Together? (Or Five Times Jon and Tim Didn’t Have a First Date, and One Time They Did), since it’s a 5+1 fic where the final chapter is entirely fluff of Jon and Tim going on a date together.
8. Do you get hate on fics?
No. I have comment moderation on just in case, though.
9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?
No. Not yet, anyway. Funnily enough, my fic with the highest number of kudos is about Jon and Tim not having sex.
10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written?
No. The closest might be Listen to the Voice that Told Me where I borrowed the obedience curse mechanics from the book Ella Enchanted, but it’s not really a crossover of the world or characters.
11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?
Not as far as I know.
12. Have you ever had a fic translated?
No. I do have a few that were podficced, though.
13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?
No. I tried, but we only got one chapter in before life got in the way. Maybe someday…
14. What’s your all time favorite ship?
Jon and Martin, followed by Jon and Tim.
15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?
I have a Melanie-pov AU where she joins the Archives in Season 2 after she realizes something is wrong with Sasha. I wanted to write it as a choose-your-path style story, because I think it’s easy in hindsight to say decisions characters made were wrong, but a lot harder to decide what the right decision would have been, so I wanted to explore a lot of different ways the characters could have messed up with Melanie added to the mix (and maybe a few ways things could have worked out better). I don’t want to say it will never happen, but it’s a big and complicated project so it definitely won’t happen anytime soon.
16. What are your writing strengths?
I’ve had several comments from readers attesting that I’m good at conveying emotion—particularly negative emotions—in a way that feels real and relatable. I’ve also been told that I do a good job portraying character dynamics.
17. What are your writing weaknesses?
My biggest problem is that since my writing is really emotions-based, once I’ve hit the emotional high points, it’s no longer interesting to me. Which means with longer fic it’s a struggle for me to actually continue through the falling action to the denouement instead of just stopping right after the climax. (I’ve had two getting-together fics now where I initially wanted to end right after the love-confession scene and had to be convinced by my Beta reader that readers would probably want to see at least a scene or two of the characters actually being together now.)
18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?
I usually don’t. I definitely think it can add another layer to characterization, so I’d like to where it makes sense for the characters, but I think it needs to be done carefully so that 1. The dialogue sounds natural for native speakers of the language and 2. People who don’t speak the language can grasp the overall meaning of the exchange through context.
19. First fandom you wrote for?
The Magnus Archives
20. Favorite fic you’ve written?
Since I’d like to think my writing skill is consistently improving, my favorite fic is always whichever I’ve most recently completed. That said, I have a soft spot for Here Might You Bless Me, which made the Top 5 Kudos list above. It’s a JonMartin safehouse fic I wrote back in December 2020, where Jon reassures Martin that he is loved even if he can’t return the feeling in the same way. (And Jon uses one of my favorite Edna St. Vincent Millay poems to do so, because I wrote this before I got to Episode 165 and found out that Jon apparently disliked poetry in general, and not just Keats.)
Tagging @three-magpies-in-a-trenchcoat, @rookfeatherrambles, @chrisis-averted, @wordsintimeandspace, @suttttton, if you’d like!
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thepunkmuppet · 1 year
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so, I’m loving everyone’s theories about tmagp, and I’ve read the description/teaser thing like a billion times but what still bugs me is,
I THOUGHT THE FEARS DIDN’T EXIST IN OTHER UNIVERSES.
like obviously I’m not in any way involved in the plot/lore/writing so technically I don’t know, BUT I feel like season 5 made it pretty damn clear that the fears exist in the tma universe, and not beyond that. like they were released INTO the other universes, right??
and I suppose that could easily be disputed by saying that all that lore and information is given to us by the characters (mostly jon and annabelle) who also don’t actually know, but still.
so I’m just thinking, this must be an alternate universe where the fears do exist, because otherwise jonah magnus would never have created the magnus institute, period. and the magnus institute, despite it “burning down in 1999” did definitely exist in this alternate universe, and is basically the main focus of the show.u
when I was thinking about the fears being released into other universes, i was thinking everything in that otherwise normal world would suddenly change as the fears arrived, but now I’m thinking maybe not. they’re not actually beings, not in the sense that we understand something as being alive, so it would make sense if they were kind of “beyond time” as well. so basically they arrive in these other universes not at the moment jon and martin let them out (which was in I think 2019? 2020? idk) but at the moment that universe begins, so it’s just exactly the same as our original tma universe with their whole “origin story” that we hear in mag 200. and like,,, those universes already existed so idk if that would change timelines or reset each universe or if they were like that the whole time and it’s some kind of paradox I DONT KNOW. there’s no real logic for this concept in tma yet beyond what we know from annabelle cane and anya villette, so that’s really it.
and no there wasn’t a point or a conclusion of this, just my garbled multiverse thoughts that I had to write down
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lycanlovingvampyre · 1 year
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MAG 110 Relisten
Activity on my first listen: putting up a new fence
This is one of my favorite episodes!
Okay okay, everybody is like Tarantino here, Tarantul- aaaah Tarantino there. But what about Neil Lagorio!! I have been puzzled about this for so long... Because when I think of "the name in practical creature FX", I think of Stan Winston. But the stop motion doesn't add up. Here I would think of Phil Tippet or Ray Harryhausen. Not sure if Harryhausen isn't a bit too old, already starting his career in the 40s and 50s, while Stan Winston and Phil Tippet started their careers in the 70s - like Lagorio. Stan Winston also has the parallel of suffering from an illness and eventually succumbing to it. I mean it's totally possible that it's a mix of FX artists. But I would really love to know if there was an inspiration.
"But we are the true artists. A director may quite literally call the shots, but it is the cinematographer that makes them. We choose the angles, the lighting, pretty much everything that you see on the screen. The camera is a brush, and we are the hand, the arm, the eye. The director’s basically just the mouth, making pointless noise while the hand does the actual work. Almost every famous director that you know who has a distinctive visual style has simply managed to lock down a talented DoP." Yes, yes, this is about visual here, but can we please take a moment and think about the hilarity that is Alex, the director of TMA, reading a statement that roasts directors?? OMG wait, didn't the statement-giver in MAG 108 also roast the director? And it's also read by Martin/Alex!
"If you’re wondering how easy it is to recreate shots that only exist in the hazy memory of an eccentric, or to frame scenes when you only get the typo-riddled script the morning before, I can tell you: not easy. Not easy at all." Maybe it's all a bit much?
"Dexter clearly wasn’t sleeping. He had insisted on using old equipment, and avoided digital almost entirely, to the point where several of the crew were using pieces of kit they’d never even seen before." Hm, I mean, none of the statements record digitally, not just Web ones. But it's the Web that needs them on tape...
"I stood there, unable to step inside, not because of fear, but because this space inside was threaded all over with film strips. Up and down, one side to the other, wrapping around and through each other. I gingerly reached out and touched one. And as I did, Dexter seemed to emerge from the darkness. At first I thought he was taller than usual, but then I realized that he was suspended ever so slightly by the strips of film, his feet a good couple of inches off the floor." A fine material to spin a web with ::::)
MARTIN: "I mean, I think it sounds like a Jurgen Leitner book. About spiders. Hm. Good John didn’t have to read this one, anyway. I know he’s not a fan. Although, this one wasn’t too bad, actually! I – yeah. Anyway." The last episode featuring Martin, MAG 108 was a Lonely statement and he also said it wasn't too bad. And now it's a Web statement and he doesn't find it too bad. Walking along a thin line of Lonely and Web there.
Hm, that transition into the tunnels was a bit quick for my liking..
Something distantly related. I was looking up something in the episode discussion posts on Reddit a while ago, initially looking for something in MAG 111. Somehow I also took a look at this episode. There were people discussing the possibility of Elias being Jonah! Like, HOW? How did they predict that at this point? I mean, Martin and Basira are talking about Elias' memory insertion ability and people in the Reddit post also talked about this and about him potentially being able to insert memories of an entire life - bodyhopping like this. There were also discussions of Elias possibly targeting Martin next, but yeah... There was also something about the statement - the Web being close to the Eye? It was a Web statement, but cameras are usually Eye.
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So I sorta refuse to listen to The Magnus Archives Season 5 because I just do not vibe with JMart and I actively dislike Martin (extensive reason for that, uh, here.) Although I suppose I have to get to season 5 because of my recent writing project.
But anyone who enjoys/ enjoyed TMA, I have some podcast recommendations for you if you didn’t find them already:
The Amelia Project
Where the Stars Fell
The Storage Papers
ETA 17/01/24:
Mistholme Museum of Mystery, Morbidity and Mortality
Cellar Letters
Malevolent
You need to be okay with swearing (loads of swearing) for WTSF and you need to be okay with Death being extensively thematised and somewhat ridiculed for TAP
Religious imagery is getting kinda weird in both WTSF and TSP but I’m so far intrigued rather than put off.
And a side-note: Season 5 of TAP is coming up (12th May) and will apparently feature not just Ben Meredith but also Jonny Sims as a guest voice actor
It might seem counter-intuitive but I wold suggest you check out the TAP Anniversary Special to get a feeling for the main character. Then you go back and start at Season 1, the story only really picks up at season 2 but trust me, it’s intriguing and will hook you!
What I love about TAP aside from its premise and story is that it’s a European podcast. It feels inherently European rather than English or French or contained to any one nationality. And this comes through quite early on and very strongly. I love that! The characters are fun, whimsical and quirky. The premise has its charme and it has a “case of the week” feeling to it even while the overarching story picks up weight. There’s really a lot I like about it.
Like, I only got into TSP and WTSF because I was antsy for Amelia Project to update again. (Sorry, no offence.) Which doesn’t change the fact that I wholeheartedly recommend WTSF and TSP. (And maybe you can get into other podcasts from the Rusty Quill Network or Fable & Folly Network; I just couldn’t yet because they didn’t really catch my interest as much.)
For WTSF, huh… I don’t know which episode I would point you towards there, best start from the beginning. Although WTSF Episode 7 is a good hook, probably. It’s a bit ‘Good Omens’-esque and very fun, even though I occasionally need the transcripts pulled up to catch everything.
And TSP was supposed to be an anthology, I think, but it very very quickly devolved into a solid storyline so best to just start with the first episode and binge a few. The story will start puzzling together and making sense.
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TMA - Chapters 11-20: Familiar names, familiar names everywhere
I didn’t make you wait too long, didn’t I? ;)
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MAG 11 - Dreamer
Oh, that’s some heavy foreshadowing.
Instead of a full story, this statement could’ve just been: “Yes, there is a continuative plot and yes, there is some very creepy shit that is coming soon. And we will find out what happened to Gertrude Robinson too”. Thanks, I got the message and it was very convincing too XD
Also, Jon got a few additional points on my list, because if anyone comes in ranting about my death, I would want to hear them too. Thank you, Jon, for being relatable.
(A-ah! Graham! Is he the same Graham from MAG 3? I’m pretty sure about it)
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MAG 12 - First Aid
And right after Graham, Gerard Keay comes back too! That’s so cool, two stories in a row with a recurring character! So I was right, the characters can and will come back.
According to this statement, our man Gerard has already been around for a while, following supernatural shit. This time, it was a burning man, sumeric demons and more burning things. I suppose Gerard doesn't want to live a simple life.
(Also, this supernatural shit reminds me of MAG 9 and that other supernatural shit that blew all lightbulbs. Are they connected? And if you're asking, yes, I will keep naming these things “supernatural shit”, until I will find out if they have a name or not.)
Are you kidding me, my man Gerard died of brain tumor?! Nah, I don’t believe it in the slightest. No, not even with the corpse, so don’t even try: my man is alive, I feel it. He's alive and he's still following some supernatural shit somewhere.
I also noticed this is the second story featuring mysterious eyes. What are all those eyes? Have they a meaning? Will they come back too?
One last thing: Jon loves to diss Martin. First all the “urgh, Martin is useless” comments, now “Martin talks nonsense”. What will he do next, punch him? Come on, man, be a little nicer. I know you will improve because you’re the protagonist or whatever, but for now you really act as if you have a broom stuck up your ass XD
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MAG 13 - Alone
Another statement in which it’s evident the Magnus Institute isn’t very appreciated. I feel we will learn more about this in the future, so I’ll register this information in my mind and wait.
Speaking of the episode, we have two people talking, so I suppose we will have more people talking while being registered too. That only proves to me that this series isn’t just about statements, but that there is a plot that will come sooner or later.
About the story… I don’t know, I think there is something I should remember and I don’t. Maybe the name Evan Lukas? Maybe the umpteenth Michael (Getty, this time)? However, the mysterious fog and the chapel and the cemetery… all along Evan’s weird family… I really don’t know what to think about this story. It looks as if it’s telling me something, but I am not getting it. Maybe it’s nothing and I’m just overthinking it.
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MAG 14 - Piecemeal
Oh, that was interesting! I’m quite sad the supernatural shit took a while to appear, but it was worth it. Whoever Angela is, I don’t want to meet her, nor her hungry supernatural animal or whatever it was the thing that took Mr. Rentoul piece by piece. It was creepy, but also very captivating: a bit like witnessing an incident, you know? That feeling of “it’s horrible, but I can’t stop watching”.
Goddamit Jon, I just scolded you for being too mean with Martin, and now you call him “Useless ass”? I bet you're very funny at parties.
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MAG 15 - Lost Johns’ Cave
Jon might be a bit of an ass, but I agree with him on this one: this is a weird statement indeed.
Wait, not “weird”. “Unexpected” might be the right word.
The statement is just like many others before: it’s a coherent story with a premise, a protagonist, a supernatural element, weird stuff happening and a conclusion. You read it and you immediately realize that the supernatural shit appeared when Alena asked Ms. Popham how lost she was “in a low, grating voice”. I immediately thought that thing talking wasn't Alena anymore, but someone/something that took her place and Ms. Popham luckily escaped from it.
But then the statement ends and Jon tells us a completely different story: the two women hadn't a permit to visit the cave, Ms. Popham was surrounded by candles, then the weird record with the “take her, not me” sentence… that’s not what we just read, that’s another story entirely.
I was so focused on the statement, thinking it was just like all previous ones, I didn’t expect this little twist. And I enjoyed it a lot! I love when an author tricks me or takes me by surprise like that. Great job :D
(When Jon said Martin didn’t want to help with the investigation because he’s claustrophobic, I almost expected Jon to insult him, his parents and all of his ancestors. Luckily, he did not XD)
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MAG 16 - Arachnophobia
Moral of the story: if you kill a momma spider, she will come back for revenge.
But seriously, that was a funny statement. My main concern was for Major Tom: I was praying and hoping he would get out alive and luckily he did. He looked at the ghostly spirit of Spider Mom and thought nope, not gonna mess with her. Better go away for a while and let the human deal with her. I literally smiled when Mr. Vittery said the cat left by giving him a look of pity: sorry bro, he just wanted to live.
But seriously, I really enjoyed the idea of a female spider being so resentful because the human killed her babies with his clumsiness, to come back from the death with the sole purpose of haunting him. Mothers really are the scariest creatures ever - even scarier than the supernatural shit.
(Speaking of the small worms: are they the same from Jane Prentiss' story? Are they related to her?)
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MAG 17 - The Boneturner’s Tale
Woah, this story was packed with people!
Ruth Weaver: I was sure I’d heard this name before. I knew it. So I stopped and checked the previous statements, but couldn’t find her. But still, that was such a familiar name… where is she? Where have I heard it before?
So, I searched on Google and the first result made it clear why I remembered this name so well:
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The Ruth Weaver I remember was from goddamn Mandela Catalogue. Maybe it’s just a huge coincidence Mandela and TMA share the same name for a female character, but it’s a funny one. Who took inspiration from whom?
Michael Crew: since I remember the name Michael, the series decided to feed me 200 different Michaels and good luck finding the right one. Will I ever find the right one? Is there even a “right” one or are they just random characters who keep popping up everywhere?
Miss Herne: oh, I remember her! Naomi from MAG 13! And it looks like the Lukas family are patrons of the Magnus Institute. Welp, that doesn’t reassure me the slightest: the Lukas family is creepy, they clearly hide something (read: supernatural shit) and the Magnus Institute isn’t held in high consideration by “normal” people. What does this place hide? I remember MAG 11 and creepy eyes and tentacles/whatever converging into the Institute, so I think it's quite clear there is something inside and I can't wait to see what it is.
Jared Hopworth: that’s another familiar name. But he’s not from the Mandela Catalogue, so I suppose he’s from some TMA fanart of yesteryear I saw and that’s probably why it sounds familiar.
So he became some sort of… flesh-y blob? And was it because of the book? Well… he kinda became the Boneturner mentioned in the title, didn’t he?
Wait… wait… is this what Leutner’s books do? They turn you into the topic/main character? So if someone ever read Ex Altiora, they would’ve lost themselves in space or whatever, while The Boneturner’s Tale turns you into the protagonist? And this is why, every time the guy from MAG 4 looked at Ex Altiora, he had some sort of vertigo?
If I am right, this is fucking cool as hell - and terrifying, sure. But also cool as hell. I am in love with this guy, now. Jurgen Leitner, you are a menace to mankind, but also: this stuff is sick, teach me how to do the same. No, I don't want to kill people in creative ways, I just want to know how you can do it.
Come on, I don't think I'm asking too much. I mean, my previous wish has been fulfilled: I wanted more Leitner books, I got more Leitner books. I just want to know more about him.
One last thing: Martin is sick. Is it because of some supernatural shit in the Institute? Is the supernatural shit attacking him? Is the supernatural shit attacking everyone? I hope nothing bad happens to him: he’s already bullied by his boss, he doesn’t need a supernatural shit bothering him too.
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MAG 18 - The Man Upstairs
Uh, that’s not really a scary statement, but I agree it’s a bit disgusting. Mostly because of the idea of layers of meat stacked on every surface while the old ones are putrid and rotten. Eww but also kudos for making such a vivid image that will haunt my dreams.
Okay, maybe I’m being paranoid now, but Toby Carlisle is another familiar name. This series is made of familiar names only: every name rings a bell, every name makes me question my life, my choices and my life’s choices.
Speaking of the statement, what the heck does even mean that the pile of meat opened “all its eyes”? Is this pile of meat actually Jared Hopworth from the previous statement? Are all these things somehow related to the man “with all the bones in his hand” mentioned in MAG 8?
I want to know more.
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MAG 19 - Confession
Holy shit, I would’ve never expected this.
I just mentioned MAG 8 and here we have Father Edwin Burroughs from MAG 8. Is the series listening to me and my thoughts? I am scared.
It’s kinda funny I recognized him not by his name, but by Annie’s name. I simply thought: hey, what if she’s the same nurse? And yes, she was. And that’s how I recognized him too. Am I an idiot for not noticing it? Maybe, but I'll blame all these goddamn familiar names that are messing with me :P
Aside from that, this story is very interesting, because we see what happened with this priest before MAG 8, we see his perspective during MAG 8 and we have a spoiler of what happened after MAG 8. Sure, it was just a spoiler because the author of this series is a bad person who wants to tease me all the time, but you know what? I love it. I want to find out the next part of Father Burroughs’ statement. I want to know more about him. I want to know more about this incident.
Also, I love how all the stories are slowly connecting into a huge web. Cool, but I fear I will lose track of something, so if I lost any connection between these chapters and the previous ones, please let me know.
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MAG 20 - Desecrated Host
As soon as I heard “Continuation of the statement of Father Edwin Burroughs…”, I literally exclaimed: “YES!”. TMA's author truly is the biggest teaser of all time <3
Oh boy, this statement was like a drug trip. We had a preview with Not-Father-Singh/the demon/whatever that listed Father Burroughs’ sins and that was disturbing already... but then we have the mass and oh gosh, that was a wild trip.
The parishioners, the sound of the bell, the Host that is not a Host because it’s goddamn human flesh... my favorite moment is when Father Burroughs or the parishioners try to talk, but instead of hearing a voice, all he can hear is the sound of a bell. It's such an uncanny, unsettling, creepy image, it scared me more than any disgusting shit. Amazing <3
I also really like how Jon turned, for a moment, into a little detective and realizes that hey, according to the hints, there should’ve been another person with Father Burroughs. And I bet everything that it was the same supernatural shit that looked like Father Singh first and the altar server later.
And finally, how can we close this statement (and this post too), if not with another familiar name? As soon as I heard “Breekon and Hope Deliveries”, I knew it was the same delivery company from MAG 2.
I am enjoying all of this so. Goddamn. Much.
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In conclusion
So far we got:
supernatural shit
people dealing/being involved with the supernatural shit
200 books wreaking havoc all over the world
a delivery company that delivers supernatural shit
Well, the world of this series is surely growing bigger and larger! After 20 stories, it’s clear that there is a bigger scheme, that these stories are connected somehow and that the Magnus Institute plays a role in all of this - other than just “being the place where all the statements about the supernatural are”.
If I was curious after 10 chapters, I’m even more curious now. I want to see where this story brings me. I want to read more and find out more connections. I want to be surprised and to be tested, I want a good brain scratch and I want to be captivated by this story.
I can’t wait to see if it is truly as well-written, well-planned as it seems or if it's just me being blinded by hope.
>> Next post
(How about a coffee? ☕)
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glamiers · 9 months
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Tma spoilers!!
Okay so this is going to be an analysis of Jon and Marin’s feelings! Was doing whatever and the pieces suddenly clicked
Okay so basically we all know that Jon didn’t like Martin in the beginning because of the whole dog scenario, that basically just made jon not have high hopes for anything Martin had to say or do going forward. That’s why looking at it is what tipped jon off, say if that didn’t happen they might have become closer sooner.
I’d like to say that Martin probably grew feelings around the beginning of them working together, maybe because Martin is attracted to people who hate him I have no clue. But we’ll get to when he fell in love in a second
Jon started to hate Martin less around mag 22, colony, he started to realize that Martin is an actual person with his own feelings, and that situation with Jane prentiss (idk how to spell her name) had really scarred him, hence letting him stay at the archives, but also doing such just to make sure nothing else happens to him and that he stays on track with his work. But on the other hand that’s when Martin fell in love with jon, when jon tells Martin he can stay at the archives we can literally hear martin get chocked up and flusterd at the gesture, and his feelings only grow at that point. And to add on to that mag fluff Epiphany has the conformation that Martins feelings for John were real at that point, but since Tim hadn’t noticed before and only bringing it up now his feelings would have been stronger and more obvious. And then the final strand is at 118 where we have a conformation from Martin himself that he has feelings for Jon, while telling off Elias
I feel like Jon’s feelings stared to become a thing, but he didn’t know about, in mag 56 Jon confronts Martin about lying to him and Martin explains that he lied on his cv. Then Martin mentions that after he told me Jon was smiling. That’s when I believe Jon’s feelings for Martin started to form, he was happy he had at least someone he could trust, and that’s what he needed at that moment
Now this moves us on to my favorite part, when Jon had gotten feelings.
So before we get to that part I’d like to remind you guys of the conversation between Melanie and barisa in mag 106 with the tape recorder still on, because they were talking about martins feelings for Jon and Jon’s sexuality. And hers where it gets good, mag 117, jon states that he’s listend to the tapes and i quote “I know what they talk about behind my back,”, then he mentions the and I quote “office gossip” that’s it, he’s totally listend to the tapes and knows what they said about martins feelings, that’s when he started to question his feelings of his own. But he couldn’t think about them much since he had to wax museum and blow the place up, but it sent him into a coma.
Then the last thing I’d like to mention is probably the moment when Jon’s feelings developed fully, the moment he asked Martin to run away with him, mag 154, not much to say about this one, Jon literally asked Martin to run away with him, and that’s about it! There’s also when Martin was in the lonely, mag 159, but then their daiting mag 160, so they most likely started daiting between then.
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rainbowchewynuggets · 8 months
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Update - re: Focus and Rags
So remember how I said I’d be working on my first original comic next, Rags, now that I’m done with TMA: Encore?
I haven’t actually worked on it in months. I’ve instead been hopping between other writing projects and working on a much less conceptually complicated video project.
And that makes me feel terrible. But the thing is, I’m not sure I should feel that way.
On this edition of I’m Having to Rethink the Way I Learned to Make Art and Am Posting About It to Organize My Thoughts and Maybe Help Someone Else, I’m gonna be considering the entire purpose of why I make art. Wheeee here we go.
POINT ONE: The Thing vs. the Making of the Thing
So I was raised to make art as an object, not an action. Any project needs to have a beginning, middle, and end, or else it’s a failure. I accepted that because people encouraged it. Having a finished piece that people would appreciate made me feel good. And I liked having a finished piece of art. The drive to see something sparkling and complete in my hands has pulled me through many a difficult spot in a project.
However, it was always framed to me as a business thing, extended as a self-worth thing. If you want to be an Artist, you have to produce art. You have to sell it effectively. It’s about proving that you deserve the role of making art in the first place. The second I started being “good” at art, people were telling me to cut out the “bad” pieces for my portfolio. And that’s awful. I can’t stand the fact that that’s something someone taught me before I turned ten.
And that’s what Rags is. Was. Is. I had a really low point a couple months ago where I never felt like I’d measure up in life if I didn’t start selling my art. Rags is a fully original idea with a finite scope that could be made into a book and sold, which might bring me closer to the role of Artist. The story and design of it are all tributes to things that I love emotionally and writing it brought me joy, but it was being made out of a fear of failure and inadequacy. That’s... also awful. Honestly. I don’t want to make art for that reason. I may never get to make art full-time or even part-time, but nobody can take away my role as Artist. That’s just not how it works.
Furthermore, I don’t think finishing things even why I make art. I make art because the act of making it does something for me. It’s interesting. It’s educational and a little bit spiritual. It’s a physical stim and meditation activity. Writing feels like a simultaneous act of building and solving a puzzle. Drawing, painting, and sculpting feels like a wild experiment with turning feelings into lines and shapes. Making art about bigger art may be a never-ending copyright firefight, but it helps me process why I like that art.
And therapy. Art’s a great opportunity for therapy. It is the only form of therapy that has ever helped me. Pouring my woes and flaws into the shoes of my characters and then having to research and conceptualize solutions for them to build their arcs is a kind of self-loving praxis that is slowly peeling back layers and layers of trauma and ignorance in me. I want to do it and share it with people forever.
In embracing this, I remembered that my childhood wasn’t all business anxiety. There was also this really cool person making the coolest videos I’d ever seen and giving it out for free on purpose. Her name’s Nina Paley. Go watch Sita Sings the Blues.
POINT TWO: Going in Circles
So having the object of art hasn’t turned out to be as valuable to me as doing the process of art. Which is why I can’t seem to finish anything. Which is because I rapidly switch between projects. “Rapidly” sometimes means spending months on something or an afternoon, it always depends.
This never happened to me as a kid, but it’s been a nonstop occurrence in my adult life. Maybe it’s just that I don’t have eight classes worth of homework to keep my ambitions down anymore, I don’t know. But I always felt bad about it. It’s the kind of thing the kids with ADHD in the seats next to me got yelled at for. And I should get yelled at, because it means I’m never going to get anything done.
Well, no. Because that’s not the point. And fuck them for yelling at people.
Also, I do get a lot done. I looked back at my personal website a few weeks ago and felt floored looking at all the little things I’ve made over the years. No big impressive monetizable comics, but a lot of cool ink drawings, some weird paintings, a big group project, and one music video that I literally still can’t believe I made. (Here’s a link to all that, if you wanna look at it, too.)
I through my docs and found so much fun writing that I’d given up on because I “failed” to finish it. So I went back to them, and now they’re a little bigger and even more beautiful than before.
I did all that amidst the circle-going. Because I’m not broken. That’s just how my brain works. Leaning into it works so, so, so much better than fighting it. I realized this while watching an anituber I like, Hazel, talking to her illustrator wife on a Q-n-A about how they get projects done (genuinely can’t remember which one, but here’s her channel). It turns out that they both cycle through projects like I do and have both made enormous and wonderful bodies of work (and careers) that way. I can’t tell you how good it felt to find that out.
POINT THREE: What now? / TL;DR
I’m gonna not latch onto big projects... declaratively anymore. I’m just gonna post updates to things I’m working on currently. If the thing I’m fixated on is a thing that’s already on the index, I might put a little flag to it so that people popping by can see what I’ve added to most recently.
But in short, I’m treating the blog as more of a living archive. I might even put up stuff from my website, too. If I make a poster, it’s a poster and not an announcement. I've always wanted to make trailers for big projects, but it would be better off interpreted as a stand-alone thing made for the sole joy of the art of a trailer. Dev art is dev art. Etcetera.
If I get something big all the way done someday, that’ll be icing, not the cake.
Right now, I’m working on an animatic entitled Chuncho, about Yma Sumac and birds and Peruvian festivals. Here’s some stuff from it:
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I’m trying to get it done by mid-September (Yma’s birthday). But if I don’t, that’s okay.
As always thanks for reading,
Rainbow / Carlie
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Listening to TMA for the first time (Part V)
Part I II III IV
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#47 The New Door: ok so at the beginning I though it might just be a statement that John could sympathize with, not That. I’ll be honest I had forgotten Sasha’s statement and about that strange man, but of course weird jagged creature. But then this gets very interesting, so Michael can follow you around just cause and trap you in his domain(??). He let Helen go for a while, I’m guessing so that John could have the info and feel weird, but eventually claimed her. And then this guy-thing just shows up at the office. (also how can no one hear John scream at this guy and be attacked?). Anyways he left us quite a lot to think about. This is very big (already understood). There is a war coming (omninous). He specifically doesn’t want the Institute to disappear because it would be unbalanced, but how?? Is it John? Is it something they have or can do? Also are Not-Sasha and Michael similar? I think I have even more questions now, yay.
#48 Lost in The Crowd: weird but vague. Indeed the description of the mystery guy reminds me of Gerard. It is interesting that John did catch the warning for Sasha but I don’t think he will really catch on quickly about Not-Sasha. In any case if there is distrust growing it’s just gonna be bad for everyone at the Institute
#49 The Butcher's Window: we’ll good to know you can rely on Jared for weird bone and meat imagery, I had kinda written him off as irrelevant but apparently not. And I didn’t think we would be that interested in Elias but now I’m wondering what’s next for him. He does seem like someone difficult to track down.
#50 Foundations: on one hand more of weird buildings, small spaces and weird creatures. On the other hands more names to look out for and I barely remember some anyway. Also could John sound more horrified of being thought to be sleeping with the cop?
#51 High Pressure: love the ocean, but of course I can’t forget that even under normal circumstances you can’t trust it. More holes and weird spaces. And yes the name Simon Fairchild did ring a bell but couldn’t remember the details, again I’m sure it’ll pop up again. And I don’t know what Not-Sasha's deal with the wax museum but I don’t like it.
#52 Exceptional Risk: finally we’re back with this guy from A Fathers Love, I can still recall the episode quite well, I liked it. And the name is of the guy that had called him if I recall correctly so that’s kinda interesting, now we know what he looks like. And love the little fumble between John and the cop (I’ll learn her name eventually). I also don’t trust that remark about the boyfriend but nothing to do about it know.
#53 Crusader: I mean the very fact that every statement is from The Magnus Institute LONDON I thought it was obvious there’s more out there. But I guess he means other institutions that document the unusual. Still pretty interesting and as I recall Gertrude’s body was very decomposed at the very least. Poor Martin he just worries about John since he knows there's more to that injury, still maybe he is hiding something.
#54 Still Life: Creepy not a fan of glassy eyes but interesting. I loved how the tax man is just like sure that’s weird but let me tell you about tax evasion. In any case apparently those two guys are just in charge of dropping off mysterious packages or something I guess. And I cannot trust Not-Sasha so who know if the basement is actually empty.
#55 Pest Control: I do like that the whole paranormal things really is a whole ecosystem of its own. You have the ghost hunters and Unit 31 and EC-what’s its name and of course the Institute. And even though many blow them off they still know and many will still go to make a statement. Other than that I’m not shocked that we haven’t seen the last of the infestation.
#56 Children of the Night: ok didn’t even remember this one, is the woman the same from the ghost hunters episode? Cause the other option that I like is Jane Prentiss but her condition was a bit more obvious at first glance.
#57 Personal Space: the cooperation of different companies with names that are relevant to the plot does intrigue me. And his dreams sound like those weird spaces that pop up around the Lukas family, the graveyard and sea. So Not-Sasha might be cooperating with someone or just making up something, I doubt John is that discreet in his investigations.
#58 Trail Rations: love me some corrupted religious imagery. I have the same question as John, how did that letter make its way to the Archive? Did someone think of Joan Magnus back them?
#59 Recluse: interesting episode, I also don’t want to know more about the spiders but it seems I don’t have a choice. And now we have another encounters from different stories. So we know the table should have a box that maybe has an apple? At the very least it does have something missing. The other apple I remember is the one from Anatomy class that had teeth in it but maybe this one is different.
#60 Observer Effect: interesting, I don’t think a mirror has ever been mentioned before. And it could be the creature related to the serial killer guy maybe. Also poor John, to be fair it’s nice that he can calm down a bit. On the other hand Not-Sasha is not trustworthy.
#61 Hard Shoulder: More pieces falling together, I thought the van might be something else but no apparently we see yet again this weird postal service and the two big guys. And the coffin!!! Didn’t really expect that since you usually hear moaning from it so the stairs are a bit weird, a lot weird. I shouldn’t be surprised that they suspected John, I’m sure he looks sketchy. And nice to know the vampires actually exist.
#62 First Edition: wow, not sure what to make of much of it but still pretty cool. It kinda looks like the same had been done to her in her death. And that indeed her connection to the Magnus Institute is much more important and close than I thought. And what is in the sheet of skin that was given to Gertrude? Is that how she died? Unlikely but not impossible. What’s in the laptop? Is the key to the coffin or something else?
#63 The End of the Tunnel: I’ll be honest, I was kinda falling asleep so can’t really pick out interesting details. But hey at least we have Ghost Girl! What did she encounter? Why does she need access to the Archive? Also does no one knock or care about John’s privacy when at work? Sure he’s the main archivist but still, people just show up to this room.
#64 Burial Rites: not much of note in this one, other than we once again play emphasis on the eyes and death I guess.
#65 Binary: I hated that one, good shit. Indeed I sometimes am afraid of what is beyond our comprehension. What if we regret it? Even now a days with social media you sometimes wonder if we haven’t doomed ourselves somehow. As much as I love the internet it’s such a new and terrifying thing, we haven’t really learned to use yet we keep reaching out for more and more. Anyway there’s the answer as to why they can’t just quit even if they’re in danger. I’m guessing for some reason the institute is gonna keep them until they’ve fulfilled their purpose, whichever that may be.
#66 Held in Customs: claustrophobic indeed. Ok apparently this Salesa (that guy) and Lukas feel just ok playing with people and seeing what will happen I guess. Anyway I’ll have to remember that name then. And the purchases that Gertrude made are interesting. She knows that where she goes she need a lot of light that won’t fail and things to kill either insects or people(?? Maybe vampires or just other creatures??). And yeah maybe the disorganization is a way of protecting something or maybe a code, a little trail that you follow in a certain way?? Who knows
#67 Burning Desire: I’d say I’m glad that Agnes at least got a bit of a "normal" experience like dating someone, but I’m still not sure if I should be more weary of her given we have tons of questions surrounding her. And still what is up with that left hand, it’s still being mentioned so I’m guessing that’s still an important detail.
Not a ton of new revelations but I’m making faster progress than I thought possible. I’m usually quite slow or put off finishing shows or other podcasts if I get too overwhelmed. Hopefully I’ll finish this before the thrill of discovery wears off.
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