#the Web

[peternureyevplsdontbetraythecrew]

Martin wears this locket under his shirt, he took it from his mom's jewelry drawer when he was younger, there's nothing inside and he's not sure why he's so attached to it

#i won't go through all the layers of subtext i know you get it #the magnus archives #tma #martin blackwood #the web

[silly-tma-headcanons]

love expanding on prev hcs anyways

beholding is the middle child they all bully for being the weakest (then they'd just fucking yell at it for letting its Archivist run loose and kill their avatars)

slaughter and hunt act like twins despite being the third youngest and oldest respectively

flesh, buried, and corruption would all garden together

spiral and stranger are those siblings

the extinction is the youngest sibling that likes to annoy everyone

the eye and the web get along pretty well actually

the lonely and the corruption are mortal enemies and can't stand to be within a 40 meter radius of one another

the lonely insults everyone and no one can tell if its being serious about hating them or if its still just going through its angst phase

the dark and the buried get along well too

i tried to post this like five times today but every time i fell asleep 😕

"those siblings" is something you'll only truly understand if you have siblings, and spiral and stranger are them

#ask!!! woop woop!!! #the magnus archives #tma #the magpod #the magnus pod #the magnus archives headcanons #tma headcanons #the spiral #the stranger #the dark #the buried #the beholding #the extinction #the lonely #the corruption #the web #the slaughter #the hunt

[pisscentral]

haven’t posted any art in a bit sooo

FEAR WHEEL

(btw yes the dice is purposefully all snake eyes, just clarifying)

#tma #the magnus archives #magpod #digital art #the entities #the eye #the flesh #the dark #the hunt #the corruption #the lonely #the vast #the stranger #the slaughter #the desolation #the spiral #the end #the web #the buried #the extinction #the fears #the TERROR OOOOOOOOO #my art

[unravy]

UPDATE: TYSM for the HUGE amount of love on this and since a few requested I do have prints of these! You can find them here: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/unravy/  ❤

"Obviously, I’m going to tell you if I see any good cows."

vs

“I open the door!”

these two are a two pieces sequence drawings, but made a year apart lmao

#tma #my art #tma fanart #the magnus archives #clouds #the eye #magnuspod #jon sims #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #jonmart #the eye opens #the web #digital art #drawing #art #jonmartin #the archivist #the beholding #let me know if you see any good cows #the entities #field #ceaseless watcher #scopophobia #creature #jmart

[kald-dal-art]

All the entities of the Magnus archives in one place because i learnt that the Tumblr photo limit was higher than I thought.

Anyways this has been a fun series to draw for and have enjoyed seeing you guys feedback for it

#the magnus archives #tma #tma art #tma fanart #tma entities #tma podcast #magnus archives #the magnus pod #the spiral #the stranger #the flesh #the slaughter #the desolation #the dark #the corruption #the eye #the hunt #the lonely #the vast #the web #the buried #the end #artists on tumblr #digital art #illustration #also added the last 4 entities that wasn't in the previous posts #fan art #rusty quill #long post

[this-cult-of-dionysus]

The Eye Cries With Them

Are you sure about this?

No.

But I love you.

I love you too.

…that’s the deal.

#I was sniffling drawing this one ngl ;-; #me when I’m allergic to drawing backgrounds— #jonmartin #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #tma #the magnus archives #tma 200 #mag 200 spoilers #The Eye #The Web #tma fanart #jonmartin fanart #my art

[murderandcoffee]

thinking about avatars in pre-modern times…

a royal food tester (eats food to see if it poisoned or safe) who, after years of fearing that every meal will be their last, becomes an avatar of the end

a “witch” whose entire life was shattered and who was burned at the stake, who returns in a gout of flame as an avatar of the desolation

roving bands of trackers who slowly grew more bestial and separated from their villages, chasing ever bigger prey as avatars of the hunt

children branded as changelings who become avatars of the stranger

shunned bastard children who beguile their ways into the good graces of their rich parent’s family and gracefully claw their way to the top as avatars of the web

just… avatars in eras long passed. shaped by the world around them

#IT’S SO COOL TO THINK ABOUT #tma #the magnus archives #magpod #the end #the desolation #the hunt #the stranger #the web #bs.txt

[thelilnan]

i got a comment from one of my patreon supporters about a Magnus Archives/Saw crossover, which got me thinking which characters would be aligned with which Fears?

so here's Amanda as Slaughter, Adam as the Web, and Lawrence as the Beholding

(more to come!)

#saw #saw movie #the magnus archives #saw au #lawrence gordon #adam stanheight #adam faulkner stanheight #amanda young #jigsaw #the magnus archives au #tma pod #the slaughter #the web #the beholding #ceaseless watcher #nan art #scopophobia / #ask to tag

[uptheantares]

Banners for each of the 14 Entities in The Magnus Archives

#TMA #the magnus archives #banners #pixel art #the Eye #the Web #the Lonely #the End #the Dark #the Desolation #the Flesh #the Slaughter #the Hunt #the Corruption #the Buried #the Vast #the Spiral #the Stranger #smirke's fourteen #gore #body horror #trypophobia

[vickozone]

Jonathan’s Scars (prior and during S1) -click on images better resolution- [guess who is starting a new series of art?]

In this series, I’m going to draw all of Jon’s scars (from the avatars) in chronological order.

Oh! First art of 2024, let’s go!

#mag 39 #mag 81 #tma #the magnus archives #the magnus institute #jonathan sims #the magnus archive fanart #tma jon #tma fanart #tma spoilers #tma jonathan sims #jon sims #the web #the corruption #a guest for mr spider #jane prentiss #trypophobia #annabelle cane #magpod #magnus pod #magnus archives

[cult-of-the-eye]

Why You Should Date Each of the Entities:

The Dark:

You can't see the things that are so plainly wrong in the dark, everything is softer, more blurred at the edges. your secrets will always be safe.

The Corruption:

You will never be alone again, loved unconditionally, blindly, wildly by something that lives within you. Something that has marked you. Something that will never leave.

The Lonely:

Isn't it so peaceful? So calm? Being given your own space, living, loving in silence together. How can you be hurt if there's no one to hurt you?

The Eye:

What would you give to fully be Seen? To be understood? In your deliriously human entirety. A complex puzzle of experience and nature, dissected and pieced back together.

The Vast:

You want to be drawn in, magnetised by something larger than life, bigger than you could ever imagine. You want it to overwhelm you, the indifference in which it reacts to your all-encompassing desire. The best part of love is the falling.

The Flesh:

Meat is meat is meat. Why romanticise what is so plainly human? You are a person, made of flesh and bones, you would like to be with another person, made of flesh and bones. Simple as.

The Web:

Love me, love me not. You pull off each of the spider's legs to understand your romantic fate. It's infinitely complex, ineffable to you and your human machinations. You just want to follow the red string, hopefully finding someone on the other end.

The Slaughter:

It's me and you. You and me. Why should anyone else get in the way? I'll dig through your ribcage and curl up aside your beating heart, holding it as it ceases to beat.

The Spiral:

You don't want to understand. You just want to your hand to be taken, pulled along to dizzying adventures. Chug the slushee and relish the feeling of the brain freeze.

The End:

Everything ends. At least this way, you have more control. The relief that washes over you is no longer tinged with guilt.

The Buried:

You're surrounded on all sides by your lover, encompassed and safe. The pressure condenses your fizzing veins into hard candy and for the first time, you feel solid.

The Desolation:

Burn it down and only we are left. We are the most important people to each other and it shall stay that way, until the both of us perish. It will end as it started, with a rush of flame.

The Hunt:

You're constantly chasing the pounding, breathless feeling in your chest, craving the twist of the neck to check if I'm still watching, still five paces behind. It's presence is comforting, mingled with torturous.

The Stranger:

Fuck man I don't know how to make this one sound romantic.

#tma #the magnus archives #smirkes 14 #smirkes fourteen #tma headcanons #the stranger #the hunt #the desolation #the eye #the lonely #the slaughter #the web #the buried #the end #the spiral #the vast #the flesh #the corruption #the dark

[yumaisbored]

the fact that Jonathan Sims was screwed from the beginning. calculated to be the most likely to bring about the apocalypse from childhood. he never stood a chance at happiness, his life was always supposed to end this way.

#tma spoilers #spoilers #jon sims #the web #jonathan sims #tma #the magnus archives

[mishacakes]

i don’t believe i ever posted my magnus archive avatarsona art here! oops!!

anyways, eye/web dual class 👁🕸️

#misha arts #the magnus archives #tma sona #the eye #the web

[unravy]

Cleaned this old piece after re-listening to tma :)

#my art #tma #tma fanart #the magnus archives #creature #the eye #ceaseless watcher #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #the eye opens #jon sims #the entities #digital art #drawing #art #horror #magnuspod #the web #elias bouchard #jonah magnus #hello jon apologies for the deception #the archivist

[theboombutton]

The interesting thing about tmagp episode 9 is that, from one perspective, it's about a pair of dice that kill you if you roll a crit fail. And in TMA that would be very End-coded. Games of chance were End-coded, and death is obviously The End. Open and shut case.

Except it's not, here. The statement giver had never seen anyone roll a 2 before he ran into Gary in that coffee shop, even after thousands of rolls. That's not an End artifact. Those dice are going out of their way not to kill anyone, save those who try to part with them.

The compulsion to roll feels like the Web, but is it? Certainly games of chance can become addicting, but I don't think that's the whole story. The Web is about the fear of the loss of control, yes, but it's also about something else controlling you instead. Here that something else is an embodiment of "random" chance - although again, it's not properly-random, not even pseudorandom. I have thoughts on that but they're best addressed further on.

Weirdly, of all the manifestations of Fear from TMA, this statement seems most akin to Jude Perry's - rolling the dice with other people's lives and fortunes, for the thrill of sometimes devastating them.

Which brings me back to the possibility of AU Fears.

In the Protocolverse, why shouldn't there be a Fear associated with chance and luck and fate and misfortune that happens for no good reason? A fear of lacking control and losing everything, without anyone else necessarily having that control.

This is where the way the dice are rigged becomes possibly meaningful. Their outcomes aren't random - they're what humans expect random to look like. They operate according to the gambler's fallacy, where the longer a chain of bad luck you have the more you're due for a good roll, and vice versa. Snake eyes aren't just a normal outcome of the 1-in-36 chance of rolling 2d6 - they're reserved for when someone is cursed with truly rotten luck. Notably that isn't true of boxcars: those just happen sometimes, without prerequisite.

Logically, a Fear of Misfortune wouldn't operate on the actual rules of probability, would it? It would be shaped by the superstitions of those that feared it.

(Also, I hope this statement puts the "they're not fears they're desires!" theory to bed. This guy didn't want the dice, and didn't especially want to roll them, but seemed compelled to anyway.)

#tmagp spoilers #tmagp #the magnus protocol #tmagp 9 #tmagp 09 #tmagp s1e09 #tmagp speculation #tmagp theory #tmagp thoughts #the web #the end #the fears #the desolation #the misfortune

[mortal-kingss]

would u step into his web? i would. look at that smile

#cw spiders #spiders #web!martin #martin blackwood #tma #the magnus archives #martin tma #the web