#tma 167

[burninginthegymplplinko]

MAG 167 - Curiosity

doodle 167/200; days left - 14/110 4/128

*points at gertrude* i've had enough of this dude >:((

#tma #the magnus archives #gertrude robinson #& her assistants ;__; #tma 167 #mag 167 #tma s5

[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

[rebeccasteventaylor]

‘Yes, Martin, you are my reason’

Oh, that’s love right there - you are my reason not to die and not to be overcome and not to give in and not to lose

#tma #the magnus archives #jonmartin #tma 167

[ashes-in-a-jar]

Of all the inconsequential lore for Jonny to remember to incorporate in his continuity and purposely bring up again many episodes later, it had to be the bit where daisy loves listening to the Archers

#tma #the magnus archives #tma 167 #such a small detail lol #even the fact that jon doesnt drink coffee is forgotten but THIS? too important to forget lmaooo #tma 106

[tildexart]

quick jonmartin warmup

#this looks a little awful #but it doesn’t matter #it’s them <3 #procreate #sketch #tildexart #the magnus archives #tma #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #tma jmart #jonmartin #jonathan sims x martin blackwood #mag 167

[citrusdownn]

@tmaappreciationweek day 3: favorite scene (MAG 167)

i was going to do something similar to yesterdays prompt with the s2 finale but wasnt feeling up to it so heres a sketch of one of my favorite scenes that i quote daily

#tmaappreciationweek #tma #tma fanart #the magnus archives #the magnus archives fanart #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #jonmartin #mag 167 #this line delivery was hilarious and i think about it often #citrus art

[mossyvoidknight]

" Yes Martin, you are my reason." Hell yeah he is you soggy spooky cat of a man

#martin blackwood #jonathan sims #the magnus archives #episode 167 #Tma

[plomegranate]

been listening to the magnus archives and sketched some character design headcanons

#this was also a way to get back into sketching and using pinterest refs :0 #the magnus archives #elias bouchard #jonathan sims #melanie king #martin blackwood #tim stoker #fanart #im on episode like 167 or something im so #tma #plomegranart

[saintbleeding]

[ID: Eight digital drawings of Jonathan Sims from TMA, a thin, British-Indian man with dark, curly hair and a moustache that are shown to rapidly grow out and turn almost entirely grey over the events of the story. He also accrues various scars on his face, neck, and arms, and in the images based in seasons four and five he is shown to have an eerie glow in his eyes, similar to the red eye effect in photos. The drawings depict: Jon with his head raised as Daisy presses a knife to his neck, drawing blood; looking down with a peaceful expression, reading something; smiling sheepishly to the side as he says “To be quite honest, Martin, I’m really rather relieved”; smiling eerily, his face mostly obscured in shadow, as he says “It’s alright, Floyd. You just... need a break”; raising one eyebrow with a horrified expression as he says “We do not want it”; staring silently into the middle distance, shirtless and covered in grime; lifting one hand in a placating gesture as he says “I am not losing you as well!”; and smiling, the sclera of his eyes visibly damaged and red, as he says “Yes, Martin, you are my reason”. The background is dark red and there are frenetic scribbles behind each depiction, which grow brighter and more disordered according to his level of distress. End ID.]

well you see i decided that my s1 jon design needed a receding hairline and a moustache and it just kinda spiralled out of control idk what to tell u. he’s just like that

#the magnus archives #tma #jon sims #jarchivist #jonblogging #ooooo can i remember the episodes tho #uh #mag 91 #mag 56 #mag 141 #mag 132 #mag 34 #mag 118 #mag 167 #then the reading one doesnt really have a specific episode attached lmao #how obvi is it that i used amar chadha-patel as my ref for these........... probably very <3 #my #saint draws #eye trauma #eye horror #blood #blades #scars #scopophobia

[hitroow]

Eyesplaining

#tma #the magnus archives #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #just watched ep 167 and i found this so funny lol #oh also #tma spoilers

[jesterguy]

He's so me fr

#tma #jonmart #yayayayayyy season 5 #mag 167

[oaxleaf]

mag 167 - curiosity

i want to know so much about gertrude. i know a lot of people don't particularly like her, and to be honest, i'm not sure i do either, but she is so interesting. because, really, jon was only archivist for ~3 years, whilst gertrude held the position for 50 or so. and i think this episode makes it pretty clear that at least part of her coldness and near cruel effectiveness is inherent to her character. she seems to have some genuinely quite friendly moments with other people, and i don't think she ever really wished harm on anyone. it's just that any friendliness was only born out of the other person being somehow useful, and a single step into inconvenience - or even being more useful gone - could lead into her hurting them instead. i do think she genuinely liked and had some semblance of fondness for a lot of people. most of her assistants. gerry. leitner. it's just that the fondness was 100% conditional

emma and sarah both became some of my favourite minor characters after listening to this episode the first time. emma sticks out so much to me, and i have a hard time placing exactly why. it might be because she feels so independent from everything. she makes no attempt to distance herself from the entities, beyond not getting hurt, but also doesn't in any way embrace them. she is fueled completely by genuine, morbid curiosity. i think she works as a good foil to gertrude, really highlighting how gertrude's cruelty, while casual, is not personally motivated. gertrude could cause any amount of harm if it was lesser than what she prevented - it just happens to be that the harm she thinks she's preventing is the apocalypse - whilst emma does it all to scratch her own itch

as for jon, he struggles so much with hurting people. that guilt eats him up inside. he does it, but it tears him apart. and it marks him so differently from so many others, and it marks him human. and the fact that that humanity is what allows him to carry on and 'fix' things, even if it hurts him so much, is so incredibly fascinating. and also really, really sad

#tma #a mag a day #mag 167 #gertrude robinson #emma harvey

[lesbian-of-nine]

OHMYGODOJGMYGODOHMHGOD

#I CANT CRY I MY EYELINER LOOKS TOO GOOD #tma #the magnus archives #jonmartin #jmart #Jonathan sims #Martin k Blackwood #Martin Blackwood #mag 167 #julian listens to tma

[themagnustournament]

Redemption Round 3 - Match 23

Hard Shoulder comes with 122 votes from last round, and is up against Curiosity with 138 votes so far!

MAG 061 - Hard Shoulder | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Detective Alice “Daisy” Tonner, regarding the traffic stop of a delivery van on the M6 near Preston on the afternoon of 24th July 2002.

MAG 167 - Curiosity | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

An examination of Gertrude Robinson and her assistants. Audio recording by the Archivist.

#the magnus tournament #the magnus archives #tma #mag 061 #mag 61 #mag 061 hard shoulder #mag 61 hard shoulder #hard shoulder #alice daisy tonner #daisy tonner #the coffin #the buried #buried #the hunt #hunt #mag 167 #mag 167 curiosity #curiosity #gertrude robinson #the eye #eye #redemption round three

[sluttyjonahmagnus]

man angus's death was so fucking brutal

"When she first joined the Archives, she took the place of a man named Angus Stacey, whose face was torn from his skull by a creature of masks and smiles."

like what the fuck

#tma #angus stacey #mag 167 #i don't care about tmp i need to know about HIM

[lycanlovingvampyre]

MAG 167 Relisten

Activity on my first listen: cutting the Kolkwitzia amabilis in my garden.

JON: "Help us with what?" MARTIN: "Excuse me?" [IT BECOMES CLEAR THAT THE ARCHIVIST’S STATIC IS PRESENT.] JON: "Annabelle, help us with… what, our, our, our journey, killing Elias, vanishing the Entities – what?" MARTIN: "Please don’t do that." JON: "Do what? (realizes) Oh. Oh, right, I, I see, yes. Well, I – Sorry" That's the tricky thing about the Beholding. Jon doesn't even know he's doing it, he doesn't know where that information came from. And I totally can relate to that, have you ever had this? You know something, but you absolutely don't know who told you or where was it you read that, or when that happened. Maybe accidentally you tell someone something, about which they are like "Hey! How'd you know that??". Or like "What? No, I didn't know that!!!" because you thought they would already know that... I had that a few times and it’s always awkward ^^’ Jon has to be so careful about everything he knows now.

MARTIN: "It doesn’t – feel great, having someone look inside your head." JON: "You can – feel it?" [MARTIN EXHALES, A SMALL PUFF OF A THING.] MARTIN:"No, but that’s hardly the point, Jon –" Yeah that. Just because you're in a relationship you're not entitled to share each and every thought with them. Having privacy is such an important thing in every kind of relationship. But they come to the same conclusion, that's good.

MARTIN: "It’s just – it’s weird knowing that you can know literally everything I think and feel. E-Especially since you’re not exactly the most open of people – emotionally, I mean." Sure, Mr. replying "cool" to being told you’re the reason to keep going for your significant other. And it's not even true. Jon shared a lot about how he feels about all of this. He did in the cabin and just an episode ago he told Martin he's ashamed about his privileged situation. It's just, sometimes it's hard to be open when you're not in the mindset for it. And that seems to be the case here.

JON: "I can, I, I just – it – You’re absolutely right. I will refrain from Knowing anything about you." MARTIN: "Thank you." JON: "Unless you’re in danger." MARTIN: (with a laugh) "Physical danger; If I’m in danger of being mad at you or something you’ve got to figure it out the old-fashioned way." Since they're going to need that in the near future it's good that they discussed it already.

JON: "Martin, I’m not looking for a – loophole." MARTIN: "Well, good, ‘cause this isn’t one." [BRIEF PAUSE.] JON: (teasing) "Methinks the Spider dost protest too much." [MARTIN STOPS WALKING.] MARTIN: "Jon –" JON: (jeez) "Joking! Just joking." [THEY START WALKING AGAIN.] Theatre kid Jon is back xD And Martin doesn't get it or is just not in the mood right now. I'd say it's more likely to be the latter, but Martin has a history of not getting Jon's jokes.

MARTIN: "Just – I don’t know, it – it worries me, I guess? You know, when you do the whole – (imitation of the Archivist’s ‘Statement Voice’) – curse this flesh prison – (normal) – thing, it – I get you’re different; none of us are what we were, but, well? It worries me." Hm, that seems to be one of the things Martin is most scared of. Losing Jon to the Eye. It's the same in MAG 194 then. But he’s surely conflicted about it because Martin is very excited about Jon’s smiting power.

Martin does ask a lot of questions and I don't think he's aware, that each one could of course trigger one of Jon's statements. Like in MAG 164, when Martin asked about the others. The answers about Daisy or Basira were dangerously close. Just wondering about this cause Martin says he doesn't want to hear the statements. But he's still curious about things. It was bound to happen...

"Because when she was pushed to the very limits of her terror, Fiona Law would faint. And while there are those things in the dark that would kill you as you slept, most get no real delight from it, unless you are awake enough to know what is happening." This also fits very well to the whole strategy of not feeling fear will save you, no matter how you do it. Very similar to Karolina Gorka from MAG 71, who just went to sleep xD No conscience, no fear.

"And even stranger, when Angus Stacey died and she had the chance to walk away, she decided to remain." After my first listen I totally didn't remember if the Archivist dying would release the assistants is actually canon, or if I just thought about it being a possibility or read it in a fanfic xD I thought it was canon, but I just couldn't find which episode this was.

All of the assistants being super Eye-aligned is no big surprise...

"When Emma came to tell Gertrude what had happened, she found the first of the cobwebs in her hair, the ones she would wash from it every morning for the rest of her life." That is such a good idea and I don't know if this was meant to be the reason or if it's just a happy coincident, but I like that headcanon of Jon's greying hair also being cobwebs as hair, a side effect of being marked by the Spider.

Ah yes, the timeline getting a bit chaotic here^^ Michael being the replacement for Fiona, who officially died of a liver transplant in 2003 according to MAG 29 (which could be a cover-up), but also Michael was supposed to have known Eric. But Eric quit shortly after Gerry was born and that was in the 80s...

"She even convinced Sarah to stay inside an old man’s house, desperate to see her eaten by a hungry door, but was again disappointed" Ah yes, the old MacKenzie from MAG 27.  

"Sarah may have noticed the thin lines in his flesh from whence spilled a dull orange glow." Ha, sounds like Bolvar from WoW xD

And more timeline chaos, this time with Agnes. Agnes was said to have died in 2006. But Gertrude only became aware of Emma's crimes after she went to Sannikov Land, which was sometime 2009 till 2011... I mean, there already have been discrepancies in the timeline here in MAG 19/20, as that was in 2008, but recounted the same event that should have happened in 2006 according to MAG 8.

"It was a trivial matter to convince the man who now watched from the skull of Elias Bouchard to allow it, so long as the deed did not take place within the Archives itself." Elias, I need to kill the last of my assistants - Yes yes, go ahead, but I don't want a mess in my institute. (There is a post about Elias having a form for the authorisation of killing institute staff and I love it xD)

JON: "And she’d have resigned herself to – ruling her domain." MARTIN: "What domain?" JON: "We all have domain here, Martin. The place that feeds us." MARTIN: "Oh. (brief pause) Where’s yours?" JON: (laugh) "I mean we’re – traveling towards it." MARTIN: "Oh. Right, obviously. Duh. Uh, what about me?" JON: (cautiously) "Would you… like me to –" MARTIN: (overlapping, sharp) "No, no. Don’t tell me. I don’t want to know." I don't quite understand why Martin will be so upset when Helen told him, he also has a domain with victims in it. He knew, he had one, and he declined to hear any more details about it. Probably playing a bit S1!Jon then, super in denial.

MARTIN: (coy) "So. If you say Gertrude wouldn’t have been able to go on without a reason –" JON: (overlapping, audible fond eyeroll) "Yes, Martin, you are my reason." MARTIN: "Just wanted to make you say it!" [A BEAT WHEREIN THE ARCHIVIST INHALES.] MARTIN: "Cool." Now who's not emotionally open? XD Jon is clearly the one who is more outgoing in showing affection in this relationship!

MARTIN: "You said Fiona was… released when he died." JON: "Yes." MARTIN: "If you had died, would the others have been able to quit?" JON: "Yes. (pause) I didn’t know." MARTIN: "If you had, would you have told them? Would that have, have changed what happened?" JON: (sigh) "I don’t know, Martin. I-I don’t know." First, yeah, that is a really, reaaally mean fact to the whole Archivist/archival staff situation. One that probably makes Jon think even more that he should have just died, that everyone would have been better off with him dead. Second, what is Martin asking? Telling the others, to what? Give them a reason to murder Jon? And Martin asking if that had changed what happened, he must be aware that the only way, this could have changed things, is the one with Jon dead. Or is Martin just paraphrasing the question whether Jon was suicidal or not?

@a-mag-a-day

#a-mag-a-day #mag 167 #tma #tma spoilers