#tma 161

[occudo]

Happy birthday to you.

Happy birthday to you.

Happy birthday, dear Jo-on.

Happy birthday to you. 🎵

#and for me I guess #birthday post #occudo's art #tma fanart #jonathan sims #tma 161 #i actually feel good today #just wasn't when I made this

[orchidbreezefc]

ok. years have passed and we've had some distance, so i'm finally gonna take the leap of faith that tma fandom is finally ready to hear me on this. let's talk about tannins.

161 was the first tma episode i heard on early release, and i felt the bit where martin declines wine and cites tannins was pretty obvious in its implications. cool, got it, say no more.

imagine my surprise when i was one of maybe three people i saw read between the lines there, in a fandom famous for red stringing--a fandom that immediately caught the much less obvious thread of ignition sources in the same episode. i'll spell it out: alcohol is an issue for martin.

maybe it just felt obvious because addiction is a pet issue for me--as it is for jonny, who has said everything he writes is filtered through a lens of addiction. i don't know if that's due to his own experience or a loved one's, and i won't speculate; i also don't know if martin personally struggled with drinking or just avoids it for fear he would, but alcohol would fit what we know of his family. his dad walking out and his mum spiralling into bitter wallowing and verbal abuse? i'd bet one or both of them drank, yeah.

on a basic level martin tries to decline alcohol, and that alone should have raised eyebrows given what we know of martin and, again, a fandom that dissects everything. we already knew martin "K" blackwood lied about his personal life and his family in particular, especially pre-canon, which is when this flashback took place. i was shocked that everyone took his flimsy excuse at face value with no further questions.

and the excuse is flimsy. martin turns down wine by--nervously--exclaiming tannins are "a proven headache trigger!" which sounds like trivia from a magazine cover and not the words of someone who actually has headaches--and it hasn't come up before or since. jon, confused, points out that tea, a drink martin consumes to a degree that is memetic both in- and out-of-universe, also contains tannins, and martin squawks a panicked, "what?!"

if tannins are enough of a concern for martin that he knew they're in wine and so avoids it, why didn't he know they're in his drink of choice? why does he still drink tea at the time of canon, and why doesn't he struggle with constant headaches from consuming 'a proven headache trigger' day in and day out? why, indeed, would someone avoid wine and not tea?

when sasha insists martin drink he caves and agrees to 'just a drop'. i imagine him pouring it in a plant, which admittedly he could have done if tannins really were the issue. i will say that i, for one, would be less likely to falsely agree to something that makes me physically ill than to a private issue that i'd rather not be pressed on any further. this scene also establishes martin's birthday was an ice cream party instead of the more traditional visit to a pub.

also, this scene was in the first episode of the final season, as one of three flashbacks that could have been to any pre-canon event in the archives. prime narrative real estate. not really time one would waste on establishing the important character context that martin has... headaches. which never comes up before or after, even regarding the week he spent in spiral town. but you know what is pretty crucial character background...?

it felt like a no-brainer, and yet all i saw was h/c fluff about jon attending to martin's headaches. and i hate feeling bitter about disability representation. i want folks with chronic headaches to feel seen and have fluffy escapist fantasies. i don't want to be mad about people portraying a character with a disability. but, guys? you got the wrong disability. jonny sent a clear message, and it went over fandom's head.

#martin blackwood #tma #the magnus archives #tma meta #the magnus archives meta #tma 161 #mag161 #sage speaks #sage original post #meta #im sure others caught it that i didnt see but listen. i was DEEP in the fandom. people getting it made up maybe 1% of the response i saw #and i had people fighting me for saying it #alcohol cw #alcoholism cw #addiction cw #greatest hits #wonderful news: tma fandom WAS ready to hear me say this!

[ashes-in-a-jar]

Thinking how there is a whole new generation of tma listeners who haven't made the connection between the way Jonah Magnus acted in Jon's birthday party in episode 161 and A Guest For Mr. Spider

#evidence in the reblogs #the magnus archives #tma #tma 81 #mag 81 #tma 161 #mag 161 #jonah magnus #mr spider

[mediocre-noodle]

forever and ever thinking about mag161

#something about being so assured in your dehumanization and monstrosity you cant see the parts of yourself worth loving #and hurting the only person left who loves you and who you can love #but you two are all that’s is left for eachother #martin trying so hard to help jon and make him feel loved but its falling on deaf ears #and the toll that has on him #i need a minute #jonmartin #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #im not very good with words but i need to release some of the brainworms #sorry gang #tma #tma spoilers #mag161 #tma 161 #tma quotes

[burninginthegymplplinko]

MAG 161 - Dwelling

doodle 161/200; days left - 13/110 5/128

i dont- i dont even wanna talk about this episode. here, have an elias with a cake or whatever and... have an elias with the cake. i cant draw the archive lads atm ;__; im not crying u r crying ༼;´༎ຶ ۝ ༎ຶ༽

tbf, i dont even like this doodle, but i dont intend on even thinking abt this ep any longer, bye T__T

#tma #the magnus archives #elias bouchard #special guest: cake #tma 161 #mag 161 #tma (wait for it) tma *tududududuududud*- #TMA S5 #🎉🎉🎉 #((((((get me back to s1 pls T0T))))))

[kat-and-their-cats]

Favourite Episode Masterlist

#tma #tma poll #the magnus archives #podcasts #tma season 5 #tma season five #tma 161 #tma 162 #tma 163 #tma 164 #tma 165 #tma 166 #tma 167 #tma 168 #tma 169 #tma 170

[soupedepates]

I heard Tim.

Beginning of season 5. It is chilling.

#tim stoker #tma tim #tma #tma spoilers #the magnus archives #tma 161

[mysterious-man-lurking-stalking]

mag 161 spoilers

elias calling jon the archivist when singing happy birthday is hilarious but also terrible

#tma #tma 161 #the magnus archives #jonathan sims #elias bouchard

[vastpotato]

Elias is a whore for cake.

I don’t make the rules.

#have you listened to him in ep 161 #he was AFTER that cake man #the magnus archives #tma #the magnus institute #magnuspod #jonah magnus #elias bouchard

[keepthebeanscool]

having A Moment

#did you know they make me sad. #jmart #jonmartin #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #tma #tma fanart #the magnus archives #mag 161 #jaspers art

[charon-cries]

sometimes i listen to mag 161 just to feel something

#tim stoker #timothy stoker #sasha james #tma #the magnus archives #mag 161 #echolocating

[missholloween]

Imagine a guy goes to your birthday, infodumps about emulsifiers for all day and then forgets about it. What can you do, marry him in the spot?

#this is about mag 161 (I'm in pain relisting) #tma #the Magnus archives #magpod #jonmartin #Martin Blackwood #Jonathan Sims #hyl rambles

[vesrin]

*bangs pots and pans with a spoon*

SAFEHOUSE JONMARTIN SAFEHOUSE JONMARTIN SA-

#ves arts #the magnus archives #jonmartin #tma #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #tma spoilers #tma s5 spoilers #tma fanart #LISTEN I LOVE THEM #i was freaking out when jon said i love you in ep160 and every other cute moment these two have together has me dying from all the Feeels #sparkzstar is my witness i've listen to this one line alone at least 50 times #*ep 161 my mistake #anyway fluff be upon ya

[ashes-in-a-jar]

What if Jon listened to the birthday tape over and over again because that was the day it was supposed to be his birthday again only it wasn't because it's the apocalypse and time doesn't work like that anymore so all he has is the tape of his past birthday to celebrate mourn with

#the magnus archives #tma #sadness is a word that comes to mind #tma 161

[mediocre-noodle]

tma 161 has left me a ruined man

#tma liveblog #tma 161

[lycanlovingvampyre]

Jon stuck in the circle of listening to the tapes again and again and again and again... I hate coloring btw :´) So have just the line art under the cut:

@a-mag-a-day​

#tma #the magnus archives #MagnusPod #tma fanart #magpod #mag 161 #jonmartin #teaholding #jmart #tma s5 #the magnus archives fanart #This is also one of the fanarts I had catching virtual dust for ages now #And I thought to myself I could finish it for a mag a day to mag 161 #my art