#notthem

[artlefty]

noo dont get taken by the notthem your so sexy aha

#told you it was all i could think about #do you ever think jon sits and ruminates his autistic ass on her last few moments as sasha james #cause i DO #tma #tmaposting #the magnus archives #notthem #sasha james #i was listening to oh ana on loop idk

[witchinatree]

i know the whole "do you think jon ever used his powers to Know what his parents looked like" thing is far more devastating than this but what if he tried using his powers to remember original sasha? jon and sasha always seemed closer than the rest, he picked her (and tim) to work with him and tolerated a lot more nonsense from her than anyone else (using his password to access his computer [161], debating his pronunciation of calliope [25], etc)

and ofc jon and martin became significantly closer as the podcast went on, but in the beginning he was cruel to martin when he gave a statement but accepting of sasha? idk i think their friendship was a lot deeper than we realized (ESPECIALLY since his first murder in season 5 was because NotThem provoked him about sasha) and i think jon wouldve used his powers to Know the original sasha, not sure if it wouldve worked though

so so sorry to distract from the post but can yall read the tags for me because i suffered immensely for this post

#they make me ill #sasha was so cool i miss her every day #i think we need more sasha content #idk i wish we got more of them specifically #THIS POST. HAS CRASHED. 4. TIMES. #i am trying to write about the magnus archives and its like “hee hee tumbeast ate your post” give it the fuck back? #it saved to my drafts after the 4th tag but this is pissing me off #every time i try to tag it as “tma” it crashes so im not doing that #just pretend i did ok #16 more times total of 20 every time i try to write tags it crashes #it wont let me write the archivists name im genuinely so serious #please help me please help me #im gonna sit here for a second and let it save as draft #6 more times #ur joking #total of 26 crashes over this one post #hate to distract from my incredibly brilliant insight but this is unusable #i think its okay again actually? #gonna try tagging with real tags wish me luck #jonathan sims #jon sims #sasha james #tma #the magnus archives #the archivist #notthem #notsasha #tma theory #tma spoilers #holy shit it worked

[onegothwillgraham]

Happy pride; the eldritch horror that had been psychologically torturing you is queer💪🏳️‍⚧️

#tma #the magnus archive fanart #the magnus archives #jude perry #agnes montague #martin blackwood #jane prentiss #notthem #not sasha #martin art

[like-butterflies-and-glitter]

the NotThem is one of my favourite tma creatures, and i really like listening to mag77 because they connect them to changelings and also the added bonus of fucked up mother-daughter relationships. i would personally love to listen to rose cooper's recordings on english and welsh folklore

#i also download a nice version of the mabinogion to learn more about the mythology #sounds like it will be fun #was led to welsh mythology by randomly watching the osp video on pwyll and gwtring rhiannon by fleetwood mac stuck in my head #which means i also download triad the book that apparently inspired the song #tma #the magnus archives #notthem

[unfriendly-aesop]

hiii guess who's back on it's bullshit and giving you a sasha-archivist au to go with the tim-archivist au.

next week? martin-archivist. <3

#tma #tma fanart #the magnus archives #sasha james #tim stoker #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #martin k blackwood #notthem

[ekktoplasm]

OLIVER WAS FUCKING ON GRAHAM??????

#oliver banks #the end #tma #graham #not Graham #NotThem #antonio blake #the magnus archives

[char-lie-spirals]

Alright, I need to scream about mag 003 for a bit or else I'll literally explode so!! Two things I can't get out of my head about the episode!! I'm putting them under the cut for everyone else's sake-

So FIRST OF ALL!! There was a struggle I think. In Graham's flat. After Amy watched the NotThem climb in, she remarks she could see some "vague movements inside", which... sure, could just be the NotThem looking around for its victim but?? After the lights came on, Graham's passport was on the floor?? It wasn't mentioned before (and Why would it be there in the 1st place??) and given Graham's state at that point, I wouldn't be surprised if he was keeping it on him/near him all the time.

So there was a struggle!! He tried to run or fight or whatever, he tried to do something!! Whatever it was, it lasted long enough for him to drop that passport and this fact will never stop haunting me. There was a pointless struggle that must've been long enough for him to realize how fucked he was before dying. Head in hands. When will the horrors end.

And then the next thing?? The way Amy remembers Graham is heartbreaking on its own. It's all just so?? She watched him. She watched him and that's how she got most of her information. She knew his habits, details such as his Favorite Pizza (!!!!), all without him knowing she knew!! And then the things he did willingly share?? "Dull". She called his conversation about his interests/life/etc DULL!! Those were the things about himself he actually considered worth sharing!! But no, she'd rather remember him "freaking out over an ice cream truck once".

Her image of Graham was so horribly wrapped,, That wasn't the same person he saw himself as, that was just the "weird, off-putting guy living across the street who ate a notebook once"!! Amy even admitted that she didn't want to speak to him after she started watching him because she "didn't think she could carry a conversation after everything she saw"!! And it's just??

That's all that's left of him. That wrapped image he probably wouldn't recognize himself in if he was given the chance. All he's remembered by are the weird things he did when he thought he was alone, a horrible mockery of someone who was so much more than that!! And the things Amy didn't see? No one will ever know. What he did when he left his flat "often enough", how he was when she took a "break" in watching him near the end, what went through his head on the night he was taken? How was he around other people?? What were his other relationships like??? What was he like before all this started????? We'll never know because Amy never knew!! So much of him is just straight-up gone, as though it was never real in the first place--

Then again, that's kind of the thing with all of NotThem's victims, isn't it? A guy remembered only by the cousin who hadn't seen him in ages. A mother remembered by the daughter who she had a very rocky relationship with. Hell, even Sasha being remembered by someone she only met once instead of any of her friends! All those people had lives before they were taken, and all of them are now forever forgotten because those meant to remember never knew in the first place.

,,,,yeah. So uh. As you can see I have feelings about mag 003.

If there are any mistakes here that's because I'm writing this after taking my sleep meds and setting it free without fact-checking anything. Ask me to elaborate on anything and I will forever keep you in my heart

#mag 003 #mag 3 #across the street #graham folger #amy patel #notthem #WHY did my brain latch onto this RANDOM GUY!! And WHERE IS THE EXIT!! #text.char #<- talking tag from now on because I think I'm funny

[sluttyjonahmagnus]

You know what would be fun? If all the victims of the NotThem were in this universe. Just living their lives, or maybe they’re aware they don’t belong there but they can’t do shit about it because a reality bending skin stealer took their lives.

I really just wanna see graham and that one mom having a bad time. But Sasha of course.

#tmagp vague #tmagp #rambling #notthem #not them

[somanyfuckedupiftruebooks]

Mag 78

Oh no 😭 the Archivist is sad because his friend is dead 😭 i miss the days when i could mock him for being oblivious, this is just a bummer.

This aligns with the NotThem's pattern of leaving a witness that wasn't close with the victim (assuming that it even has any control over who is left unaffected by its reality-altering powers).

Haha Carl rules.

Yeah, okay. This part got me fucked up.

I'm still unsure if the NotThem knows who the witness is or not. That long pause and slow smile could be intentional creepiness to freak the statement-giver out or it could be the moment of realisation because it's just discovered who it gets to torture.

I've got to shout out Jon here for not doing what everyone else seems to instinctively do and draw a bunch of attention to himself by running around asking everyone suspicious questions about the NotThem's victim.

Okay, so is the timing here coincidental? Was Not!Carl already on the way over here to torture his cousin, or did he decide to come over because the photos of the original Carl were discovered and he somehow sensed it? I think I lean towards the latter.

Oh, I see we have a new contender for Most Passive Statement-giver! Letting a monster into his house and spending the afternoon sitting in silence with it because he was just too fucking British to slam the door in its face.

Oh cool, it sounds like the NotThem has something similar to the Chameleon Circuit from Doctor Who going on. It encourages people to not look too closely at it.

But looking closely enough does enable you to see the true shape of the monster underneath the illusion, like Jon did when he ran into Not!Sasha in the tunnels.

#a mag a day #mag 78 #reeah reacts to tma #the stranger #not!them #NotThem #tim stoker #martin blackwood #not!sasha #adelard dekker #breekon and hope #michael fuckhands #web table

[your-fave-is-in-the-omegaverse]

The NotThem from The Magnus Archives is a beta 🩶

#the magnus archives #tma #notthem #not-them #omegaverse #your fave is

[3y3-see-you]

I forget what episode it is, but when NotSasha claims to have a boyfriend and shows Jon photos he says look like stock images, is the implication that NotThem is literally just photoshopping itself into stock photos to keep up appearances while it’s in the Archives?

I know the NotThem can manipulate preexisting images (sans Polaroids) and such but I don’t recall Sasha having a partner that was mentioned before, and I find the idea of an eldritch horror entity being skilled at photoshop very entertaining so lmk if I’m forgetting something!

#tma #the magnus archives #Sasha James #notsasha #not!sasha #not!them #NotThem #Jon sims #Jonathan sims #the stranger #tma ramblings

[hawkfurze]

I wish we got more insights into Jon’s thoughts about what Tim did during the Unknowing, but I thought I’d share a bit of my own headcannons. What can you think when someone who was once your friend murders you on his quest for revenge?

#sum doodles #not quite somewhere else au #the magnus archives #tma #the magnus archives spoilers #johnathan sims #martin blackwood #elias bouchard #tim stoker #notsasha #notthem #nikola orsinov #fan art

[the-magnus-archives-institute]

Hello! We've decided to go ahead and make a TMA kin/fictive sideblog since the tag is mostly dead. We also participate in Popculture Paganism, specifically geared towards our source. Here's a list of everyone you'll see and their tags on the blog!

Jonathan Sims - Statement recorder, avatar of the Eye and the Web.

He/him

"See the sun the shadows cast, from all the times I floated past, see the ocean spinning out, with all the hope and all the doubt"

#the archivist

Michael Shelley/ The Distortion - :) I am perfectly safe and harmless these doors are perfectly normal :)

He/they/it/none

"See how I circle, imaginary mind, imaginary lines, let the maze of my design carry you on. See how I fly away (away, away, away, away)"

#the distortion

Gerry Keay- I'm the distortion's special little guy he picks up like a ferret :] Desolation avatar, "The fire that consumes"

He/him

"The crow offers me a smoke. He says, "It'll take you for a joyride.""

#gerry

Melanie King - founder of the Blind Bitches Club

She/hxr/they

"I have nothing to say to you."

#melanie

NotThem - a NotThem that sometimes takes the shape of others. Currently Pamela

All pronouns

"I am the mockery of a memory"

#notthem

Martin - headmate whose fictionkin of a vast avatar Martin.

He/they/sky

"For our bones in the ocean forever will be"

#martin

Pamela - also referred to as Hive, Corruption avatar Chonny Jash fictive.

He/him

"This life did not choose us. It chose to consume us"

#the hive

Flurry - Vast/Lonely avatar Ghostbur fictive with a connection to the archives

He/her

"Cold and winter air and mountain rain combining"

#the frost

Helen Distortion/Richardson - :)

She/her

"Little miss, this isn't the deal we had!' Oh, did I mess it up? Well, then, that's just too bad!"

#helen

Nikola Orsinov - The ringmaster of the Circus!

It/he/they

"She knows you heard her staging music murder!"

#nikola

Sasha - Archivist Sasha who was killed

She/they

NotSasha - The Sasha that replaced her

She/they

Stratus - TMA Heart fictive, avatar of the Lonely

He/it

Nimbus - TMA Mind fictive, avatar of the Dark

He/it

Noctilucent - TMA Soul fictive, avatar of the Buried

He/xem

Joel - Smallishbeans Life series fictive who kins Tim

He/him

Annus - Unus Annus fictive, associated with the End

He/hxm

#tma fictive #tmafictive #the magnus archives fictive #magnus archives fictive #tma pagan #tma kin #the magnus archives kin #chonny jash fictive #the archivist #melanie #martin #gerry #the distortion #notthem #the hive #the frost

[thebranchingfigtree]

just listened to mag 78 and are the different fear entities connected? gertrude said that the NotThem were the stranger and i presumed michael was the spiral, so why is he involved with the table and the NotThem?? was he just rocking up for the lols and a bit of gossip for his mates in the annual the stranger meeting? ??

#tma #mag 78 #the magnus archives #tma first listen #tma s2 #tma spoilers #NotThem #notsasha #michael tma #the stranger #the spiral

[transmasc-wizard]

TMAtober Day 18 - The Stranger

[ID: a drawing of the NotThem from TMA, not currently being a person. It has long, dark limbs with several joints going in the wrong direction. It is standing in an unnatural pose, staring at the viewer with round, white eyes. It has no facial features; only scribbled-out darkness. It is on grass, in front of a brick wall. end ID.]

tmatober taglist: @abouttogetshellshocked @cnnamonrolls @wherearetheplants @idkjustgowithitok @multi-lefaiye @abysslll @doublelifer, ask to be +/-.

(this one comes with bonus content, so expect another ping in a few minutes :3)

#the stranger #the notthem #notthem #tma #the magnus archives #inktober adventures #my art #nicola.art #nicola.txt #tma on main #ask to tag

[dspd]

Hogwarts Houses (RadDan°TM) I think some TMA characters might've been in very randomly selected

Jon Sims - Slytherin - specifically because he would have been a Ravenclaw except he had that defining moment with Mr. Spider which made him want knowledge to prevent being so powerless, as many traumatized

Graham Folger - Ravenclaw - bro took a criminology course for funsies do I need to say more?

Julio Hernandez - Hufflepuff - guy seems like a solid, down to earth, dependable person

Father Burroughs - Gryffindor - he's got good intentions but his righteousness blinded him to his straying from his chosen path

NotThem - Hufflepuff - while closer to a magical beast than human, NotThem is patient and persistent in how they stalk their victims, whose magical properties works very hard, and has the hidden teeth of a badger which very few ever see. The Hat only sorts according to the head it was placed on and would let NotThem matriculate.

Dominic Swain - Ravenclaw - theater nerd that knows a little bit about a lot of things, certainly enough to spy the diamond in the rough of a Leitner book

Martin Blackwood - Hufflepuff - no one knew why since he didn't talk much and always had his nose in a book and kept to himself in a Ravenclawish way but, even though he's a muggle born, he had a roaring side business during the summer selling easy-to-disguise-as-Muggle potions to pay for his mother's live-in carer while he's away at school.

Stoker brothers - Gryffindor - idk they give off Sirius mixed with Weasleys vibes

Tova McHugh - Slytherin - the whole taking but balancing with good deeds is giving upper class/super rich it's okay because look at my philanthropy eat the rich vibes. Definitely a pure blood or pure blood adjacent that quietly believes in that shit but, similar to Narcissa, does have a wall she hits when she says enough

#tma #the magnus archives #hp crossover #hogwarts houses #jon sims #graham folger #julio hernandez #NotThem #Dominic Swain #Martin Blackwood #tim stoker #daniel stoker #stoker brothers #tova mchugh