#oh we're going back to jonah magnus posting?

[doofus-and-dragons]

Incase anyone reads these digital journal things I post:

TMA 159 & 160 SPOILERS

If you don't read these, ignore the green text lmao

159:

Here we go fellas, into the lonely

SHUT UP PETER THIS IS NONE OF YOUR BUSNIESS

Damn this man is in your element I'm going to cry

Jon continue being an ass to him its the only thing keeping me from crying

Be confident

He is real he wants to save you Martin please

No don't fall into it please

"I really loved you, you know?" My heart is shattering.

MARTIN MAY NOT BE STANDING, BUT HE'S ON HIS HANDS AND KNEES. HE'S NOT FALLEN YET

Jon don't fall too!

...oh nice play jon! Very proud of you!

Compell him!!! Do it! Spit it out, you old bastard!

I don't blame them for leaving damn

Wait, so who had Evan??? Wasn't he a Lukas? Was it one of his sisters? I know it's not that important cause he's dead, but I need to know.

Ok probably one of those distant relatives

Peter, you were literally bred to be an avatar

Yeah, until you fed them to the Lonely

Gertrude scares me too

Was he trying to build a fear factory or something?? Damn.

WAIT THATS WHERE THAT ONE GUY-George?-MOVE TO

OOOOOH he built it.

...Martin was a bet????

That's depressing. I've been there tho (the bet not the bet-er)

The Bet: Martin. The prize: John

YES GO ELDRICH MODE ON HIM JON

Haha he exploded

No Martin he does need you!

If nothing else I do

HE'S BACK!!! MY BOY!!!

160:

Well that title isn't ominous or anything

...

Well, more than usual

Unpacked? Where are they now?

OH OH IS THIS THE SAFE HOUSE ARC

YAY

Awww he's got snackies

Awww the good cows comment

My heart

This is so fluffy

Wait who is this what the fuck

What's going on

There's static what's going on

WHAT

Jonah what are you planning

Fuck you fuck you fuck you

I'm so very afraid

I hope someone kills Jonah Magnus for good. Please dears do get rid of him.

Pretty please with a cherry on top?

So you were helping Jon to make sure you got your ritual done first?

No, my guess is Gertrude liked humanity better than power.

Hey, I would go on a vicious rampage against the forces of fear if one killed my cat too

The fears are like a wheel then. To reference Jon: whereas each fear is a color, the fears need to be together in a color wheel.

What's the thing about the Archivist???

Oh shit Jon's a walking archive. Damn

He's literally an encyclopedia. He's a walking fear encyclopedia

Leave him out of this he's been through enough.

JON WAS MARKED BY THE WEB?!

Wait! Mr.Spider! Of course! An encounter with a fear never leaves you alone!

The web, the eye, the stranger, the spiral. We're up to four.

WAIT DAISY WAS HIS LINK TO THE HUNT

MIKE TO THE VAST

JUDE TO THE DESOLATION

I'm still shook about the slaughter thing

Not that it happened, more that I missed it some how

Tim was pretty much the End. That's 7 I think.

Oh god

Is martin the lonely??

John literally walked into the flesh and the buried so

9

Right. That damn sun

10

Oh ok the lonely mark was Peter

Leave Martin alone, Magnus. Leave Jon alone, too! You've been enough of an ass!

You're not going to make things any better! You're going to make things so bad for his mental health! Stop!

What is he repeating?!

Magnus!?!

This is bad!!!!!

No stay where you are!!!

Don't do any of that!!!

Jon?!?!

Oh fuck...

Jon it wasn't your fault you litterally couldn't stop.

Laughing so you don't cry, been there.

DAMN WHAT A FINALE

#the magnus archives #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #tma #tma s4 #jonah magnus #elias bouchard

[marmolita]

Magnus protocol 1&2 thoughts! Here be spoilers and also spoilers for TMA! Also fyi I'm gonna be tagging with "the magnus protocol" for tmagp stuff and continuing to use the fandom name plus "spoilers" for anything spoilery.

Stuff I like:

Diving right in with the majorly fucked up "statements," 100% here for it!!! I liked the second one better than the first because I felt like I actually understood what was going on in it better, and it was sufficiently fucked and creepy.

I like the idea that this is basically like the archive, but it's in a different form where they have to read/listen to/watch the statements and then categorize and file them

I ♥️ Sam, he's wonderful so far 😍

Gwen is fascinating and I appreciate a girl who's a stickler for filing things properly (I'm an Amy Santiago type of person myself). I'm interested to see how things go with her and definitely interested to see what goes on with her and Lena

Lena 👀👀 who is she? how did she get here? how much is she in the know? Presumably she's aware that she's running basically a Beholding archive but also presumably this universe does not have a living Jonah Magnus so her backstory is probably very different.

Jon and Martin zapped into the computer like Freakazoid is a great callback to the computer ep from tma and that they're not really alive in the same way they were before (assuming ofc it's them). I'm definitely interested to see who else is in there with them 👀

I like the way the statements start off in computerized voices and then gradually fade to normal voice and then back again 👍

Stuff I don't like:

Probably unpopular opinion: I absolutely cannot stand Alice. I want to like her and I'm hoping that the storyline will change my mind, but she's just kind of a jerk? Like the whole "go ask Colin about the app" thing was just a dick move, and the aggressive irreverence comes off as rude and irritating to me. Presumably she has a tragic backstory and this is some kind of put-on act to cover up her emotional turmoil but would it hurt to be a little nicer to people? Gwen is rude too but she's owning it, not pretending that she's nice. As a listener I feel like I'm expected to find Gwen disagreeable but I'm expected to find Alice charming, and I really, really don't.

The audio in the break room is terrible. I assume part of this is that we're supposed to be listening from the perspective of an electronic device, maybe a copy machine that's around the corner or something, and I get that, but I cannot fucking hear what they're saying. I'm usually either listening in the car or in an environment with lots of other sounds and it's just inaudible for me.

This is true for some other sections as well, though the break room is the worst. I have enough trouble just understanding accents sometimes since I'm not British (I watch all BBC tv shows with the captions turned on 😅) so when audibility is low this becomes even harder.

Some of the transitions were unclear. I loved the artist statement, but it was not clear to me who was listening to it, how it was getting played, or what was going on. I'm not familiar enough with the voices yet to identify people and for a minute I thought Lena was taking a statement in person.

I assume I'll figure this out in time, but I can't tell Lena and Gwen apart.

MY SOFTWARE PROFESSIONAL NITPICKS oh my god I know this is an eldritch abomination of a computer system but some of the technobabble is just conflicting! If it's ancient, then it can't be breaking when it auto updates, because 1) your OS and SW did not auto update back then, and 2) if it's been around and auto updating for years it would be newer and not ancient anymore! There was some other technobabble I can't recall at the moment that bothered me too, which I'll probably remember five minutes after making this post. These are all nitpicks that are only annoying to me because software is my day job though so I will accept them.

#the magnus protocol #the magnus protocol spoilers #the magnus archives spoilers #tma spoilers