#tma 181

[lurkingindoorways]

“I began to think hard about the world, about my place within it, and about fear. About the figure of the merchant, the trader who deals in strange and dangerous goods, how it can be found in so many myths and fables, dealing in second-hand nightmares. And how rarely the merchant themself is ever punished in those stories”

- Mikaele Salesa, mag 181: Moving On

“The stranger reached over and retrieved from behind the log on which he sat an unusually shaped sack. Within it, I could spy an assortment of trinkets, ranging from battered knives and chipped porcelain to fine jewelry, small ivory figures and even a set of gambler’s dice.

‘Luck assumes a myriad of forms,’ he proclaimed, his practiced manner warm and inviting, ‘and today it takes the form of a simple traveler offering you his wares.’”

- statement giver, tmagp 4: Taking Notes

“I was just this figure stepping into their lives long enough to gift them fortune or, more often, misery before moving on.”

“I’ve seen how they treat people who give them away…Well… maybe just once more. For old time’s sake.” [Transcription ends due to interruption. Statement giver declared dead by paramedics at-scene.]

- statement giver, tmagp 9: Rolling With It

Hmmm the parallels of the role of the merchant. It’s seeming pretty important in tmagp and I don’t know why. I need everyone’s thoughts on this

#the magnus archives #tma #the magnus protocol #tmagp #tmagp spoilers #mikaele salesa #tma 181 #tmagp 4 #tmagp 9

[necromancers-incorporated]

I fucking love Annabelle Cane. Go you funky spider bitch.

#tma #tma 181 #annabelle cane

[burninginthegymplplinko]

MAG 181 - Ignorance

doodle 181/200; days left - 16/110 2/128

hehe this moment tho :))

anyway! soft ep! soft ep!! soFt Ep!!! (well.... softer than the other ones T_T)

but at least they got to wear soft jumpers and painted their nails and yes that is so very canon i swear and aaaaah (ノД`)・゜・。

i'm still learning how to work in krita so it's not the best but omg?? i can finally sketch again without the lines getting choppy?? like no hate towards medibang hes doing great <3 (and i'm still going to draw in him) but this is such a revelation for me and i can't get enough (;▽;)👍

lineart under the cut bc i kinda like how it looks :))

#tma #the magnus archives #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #jonmartin #jmart #T 0T <3 TGEM #tma 181 #mag 181 #tma s5

[kat-and-their-cats]

Favourite Episode Masterlist

#tma #the magnus archives #tma poll #podcasts #tma season five #tma season 5 #tma 181 #tma 182 #tma 183 #tma 184 #tma 185 #tma 186 #tma 187 #tma 188 #tma 189 #tma 190

[waitingfordaysis]

I understand now why people are insane about Annabeth Caine

#tma #the magnus archives #the web #tma 181

[chaoticpinetree]

So I find it really interesting that Jon literally got unwell when separated from the Eye for a bit to the point where he was weak and disorientated and very clearly out of it by the end. Really shows how deep his connection goes, so no wonder it's worrying for Martin

#tma #tma reactions #the magnus archives #tma 181

[cosmichearter]

When she causes problems on purpose <3

[Image ID: A black-and-white (except for purple and blue) 3 panel strip of Annabelle Cane, a black woman with white hair, in a conversation with Martin Blackwood, a white man with light grey hair and white streaks. Annabelle is wearing a white dress and her tongue and chat bubbles are purple, Martin is wearing a blue jacket over a white sweater and his tongue and chat bubbles are blue. In the first panel, Martin says “I can handle myself!” and Annabelle responds “But can you handle me?” The second panel has 3 dots on it, indicating a silence. Martin now looks angry and annoyed. In the third panel, Martin says “I don’t like you.” And Annabelle replies “I know.” while swishing her hair over her shoulder. She looks smug. /. End ID]

#annabelle cane #martin blackwood #tma #the magnus archives #the magnus archives fanart #she's my beloved #mag 181 #heart shaped #oftheheart

[evichuart]

ngl the main reason of leaving s5 jon with long hair, as much as i love the designs i've seen of him with short hair, is so martin can style it

the second reason is i love drawing fluffy hair <3

#tma #tma fanart #the magnus archives #the magnus archive fanart #jmart #jonmartin #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #evichuart #i imagine this is at salesa's #in mag 181 #comfy clothes and a lot of snuggles #taking a break for once

[saintbleeding]

[ID: A digital painting of Jon and Martin from TMA. They are at Upton House, sitting side by side on the sill of an open window. Their backs are towards the viewer, and their arms are linked. The sky is a pale purple with a few stars as though it is early evening, and in the distance there is a roiling red and black mess of shapes and colours. In the window frame above Jon’s head is a spider, suspended from a single thread of silk beside its web. End ID.]

if the eye chucked a tantrum because its special boy played hide and seek too well would that be fucked up or what

#tma #magpod #the magnus archives #jonmartin #mag 181 #described #my #saint draws #was scared to post art again bc ive done so much art lately. fuck it we ball

[go-to-the-mirror]

I bet on losing dogs I know they're losing and I'll pay for my place By the ring Where I'll be looking in their eyes when they're down I'll be there on their side I'm losing by their side

MARTIN Yeah, but if, if you're that connected, that dependent, what happens if we actually, y'know, do manage to— ARCHIVIST We'll cross that bridge when we come to it. For now, I just need us to be moving on.

The price of a long due reckoning Laid in blood when the battle has done Old King Cole has paid the toll Of the crimes levied upon his soul The rebel blades have achieved their goal Laid in blood when the battle has done

Pip: We're doomed Flip: We're not. Pip: Are you sure?

There's been so little time to share We've always had our loads to bear I won't forget I won't leave you this time This time

MARTIN I refuse to accept that this— ARCHIVIST (Firm) Tough! The world doesn't care what you accept. It just... is! It just is.

It's getting late, Little Moon. Finish the song. It's not that late. You are my moon, Little Moon, and it's late enough. So climb down out of the tree. Is it safe? Safe enough. Are you dead as well?

MARTIN Yeah, yeah. Come on. We've got a job to do.

(“i bet on losing dogs” - mitski // “mag 181 - ignorance” // “laid in blood” - the mechanisms // “war of the foxes” - richard siken // “ragnarok v: end of the line” - the mechanisms // “mag 194 - parting” // “the worm king’s lullaby” - richard siken // “mag 181 - ignorance”)

#web weaving #web weave #doomed by the narrative #mitski #i bet on losing dogs #the magnus archives #tma #mag 181 #the mechanisms #the mechs #once upon a time in space #ouatis #war of the foxes #richard siken #tbi #the bifrost incident #the worm king's lullaby #mag 194 #landscaping your spider habitat

[a-mag-a-day]

Salesa appreciation ask. Man came in and stole the whole fucking show. He faked his death. He helped the horrors eat the rich. He prepared for a dramatic piano entrance the moment Annabelle told him there were guests. He understood the dream-logic of the fears and stayed winning. He's the funniest bitch in this apocalypse. He said "no ❤" to a statement then gave it anyways. He even broke the fourth wall with his Head Archivist of The Magnus Institute, London joke

Salesa appreciation post!!!! What a guy!

#a mag a day #tma #the magnus archives #episode asks #mag 181 #gilgamushroom #mod elian

[themagnustournament]

Round One Part One - Match 5

I, too, would like to eat a computer in a vaguely menacing manner. But can munching on a keyboard top the Upton House Interlude?

MAG 065 - Binary | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Tessa Winters, regarding a strange computer program she downloaded from the deep web three months ago. Statement recorded direct from subject.

MAG 181 - Ignorance | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Moments of preparation and recuperation. Audio recorded by the Archivist, in situ.

#the magnus archives #the magnus tournament #tma #mag 065 #mag 65 #mag 065 binary #mag 65 binary #binary #tessa winters #the spiral #spiral #the extinction #extinction #mag 181 #mag 181 ignorance #ignorance #the web #web #the eye #eye #round one #round one part one

[all-hail-moon-dogs]

i was a fool to believe i'd escaped mag hell. i kicked and screamed for all of two seconds before pressing play on protocol ep. 1. i literally am never going to escape. maybe the real fear avatar was the podcast creators who trapped us along the way.

#you literally don't get it #you can't understand!!! i'm just a baby!!! #i listened to all 181 eps of tma in less than 2 weeks in april of 2020 and i have never truly recovered #and NOW #FUCK #the magnus protocol #the magnus archives #tma #alexander j newall #jonny sims

[im-the-queen-of-stardust]

Jon's It’s, er… going away. That peace, the safety, the memory of ignorance… is haunting me. This one island where he is just Jon, not the Archivist and it's taken away. Bad enough that he felt weak and was fading away without the Eye but now he's not even allowed to remember what it's like to not feel the horrors all the time and enjoying it. The way he says What was it like? at the end breaks me.

#not allowed one thing #jonny really didnt have to do that #notice im always caught up with a mag a day now #jonathan sims #mag 181 #tma #the magnus archives

[6-and-7]

Creeptober 21 - Something Broken 10 of Discs/MAG 181 - Ignorance

#creeptober 2023 #the magnus archives #mag 181 #ignorance #Mikaele Salesa #annabelle cane #the web #tma #tma tarot #tarot #10 of pentacles #art #fan art

[lycanlovingvampyre]

MAG 181 Relisten

Activity on my first listen: cutting the French tamarisk in my garden.

SALESA: "Hmmm. Interesting…" Interesting indeed. You can clearly hear something that sounds like the tape recorder being picked up and then Salesa’s voice is a bit closer. The official transcript has this in it: [Close mic bumps as the recorder is handled] MIKAELE: (Very close) "Interesting…"

JON: [Uncomfortable] "I…er… We slept. I-I don’t know – H-How long’s it been?" SALESA: "About seventy-one hours, by my clock. How’re you feeling?" Okay, 71 hours are almost 3 days! That sounds super unhealthy, you still sweat a bit during sleep, your body needs water for chemical processes during sleep as well...

SALESA: "Annabelle tells me you work for The Eye." JON: "Well… I-I w-wouldn’t exactly say I-I ‘work for’ it." MARTIN: "Well… I-I-I mean, you say that, but when you stop to think about it, it was literally our employer, Jon, so…" JON: "I-I suppose." Lol, he's right there! Also that "eehhhh" sound Martin makes xD

SALESA: "Hmmmm. Interesting. Did you carry it in? Things shouldn’t be able to manifest in here like that." I mean, Annabelle is literally alive and well in this bubble, so the Web doesn't seem to have problems here.

SALESA: "Very well. In that case, we shall leave it to be. It’s hardly valuable, and it’s probably best not to upset whatever it might be involved with. Besides, I have no secrets to hide." Ehhhh, I found a very good reason to "If you got nothing to hide you have nothing to fear" on Reddit. It's "I need privacy, not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgement and intentions are."

Haha, Martin stammering when Salesa says he reminds him of Leitner XD

SALESA: "It’s an odd situation, but not a complicated one. Shortly after I decided to stay here, she arrived. Wandered in from the chaos out there, and told me she was going to stay with me. I didn’t get this far by pitting myself against The Web, so I welcomed her in." JON: "And…?" SALESA: "And sometimes she cooks." Lol XD Also, I think Salesa is right in this case. He's no match against the Web. So better just go with the flow.

SALESA: "You are, of course, welcome to stay as long as you like." I love Salesa so much!

JON: [Compellingly] "Tell me what happened." SALESA: "No." JON: "I – uh… W-What?" [DEEP CHUCKLES FROM SALESA] SALESA: "The look on your face! Look, he’s so confused!" [MARTIN LAUGHS A BIT TOO] JON: "Martin!" MARTIN: "Sorry. Sorry. Y-You did look kind of funny. It was l-l-l-like you were flunking an exam or something." Aw man, Jon sounds so betrayed, lol! It is super funny, though xD And just an episode ago Jon was delighted about not Knowing anything about this place. So why stop at Knowing?

SALESA: "Yes! Exactly that! Your powers won’t work here, Jonathan Sims, Head Archivist of the Magnus Institute, London." Distributed by Rusty Quill and li- Ahhh... So why does Salesa know Jon's catchphrase? That means at some point he must have heard tapes of him... And knowing he's with the one who set all those tapes up, it's likely it was here at Upton House.

SALESA: "So what’s it like out there? I assume the Archivist must be rather a powerful position, since you seem to be travelling through it pretty freely." JON: "It’s… uh… um…" MARTIN: "Jon?" JON: "Sorry I just, er… Hmm." The Archives inaccessable at the moment xD

SALESA: "I have spent the last decade preparing for this to happen." And we actually have seen this in MAG 45. The antique syringe. Salesa bought it. And after it was gone from the lab, things started happening there. So that syringe was probably to the Corruption what's the camera with the broken lens to the Eye. And I say Eye, because I think the camera only completely blocks out the Eye. And since the whole apocalypse is ruled by the Eye, it creates this safety bubble. Annabelle, who according to her in MAG 197 is only kept alive by the Web, is fine here. And Salesa mentions a "insect thing, a creature of the Crawling Rot" made it here (I'm guessing this means the bubble) later in this episode. Plus, after all, cameras are an Eye thing.

SALESA: "You are right, to a point. I would welcome a return to the real world. Ha! To be the only man to weather the greatest disaster in history of reality utterly unharmed." Already a hint that this is not just a blip nobody will remember. These people are aware of what's happening to them. And without actually turning back time, everyone will still remember what happened to them...

MARTIN: "F-F-For what it’s worth, I’d also quite like to know how this all happened." SALESA: "Fine, I’ll tell you how it happened. But you must sit quietly while I tell you." No one escapes Martin's charm^^

SALESA: "When I say I was one of his assistants, you know exactly the kind of education that would be. Terrifying, fascinating, misguided. The man was a genius and an idiot." Leitner seemed to be pretty reckless when it came to his assistants. Salesa seemed to be super protective of his crew. I wonder if this has a correlation. Salesa seeing how Leitner treats his people and thinking "I'm going to be better!" (It's usually the reaction I have to being mistreated. I don't want to continue this madness.)

SALESA: "To tell you the truth, I got a real kick out of playing my role. To think of myself as a purveyor of curses, walking softly through the most dangerous edges of reality so that the rich and arrogant could buy their own doom." Have I mentioned that I love Salesa? XD

On my first listen when Salesa mentioned the camera, I remembered that one being mentioned before. I just couldn't remember what statement it was xD

SALESA: "One that through some quirk had the ability to hide you from the Powers." Yeah, ah, again, this sounds a bit strange. One could argue it hides you from all Fears and they still can occasionally stumbled upon this by accident... Then why would Annabelle be able to still access the Web, but Jon not the Eye?

SALESA: "It hid me from The Eye, which, in the new order of reality, also protects where I am from the hellscape all around us." Yeah that makes more sense.

I know, there are posts out there about how Jon and Martin should steal the camera and confront Elias with it. And I could imagine this working with the dream logic. The Pupil of the Eye distributes all the Fear. When this collapses, the whole system could cease to work. But the problem about the fix-its is the Web. It would have immediately intervened.

SALESA: "Let us relax, and talk and drink. And not worry about who might be… listening." I love how this sounds like a 4th wall break! And, in a way, it's meant to be like that. We listening to the tapes after they arrived here, I mean.

MARTIN: "Yeah, but if, if you’re that connected, that dependent, what happens if we actually, y’know, do manage to –" JON: "We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it. For now, I just need us to be moving on." That hum from Martin after Jon's reply. He is not happy at all about this...

ANNABELLE: "Don’t worry, Martin. We’ll meet again. Hopefully when you’re feeling a little bit more… open-minded." Mhm, it will be exactly like this. There were just a bit more things happening necessary to get Martin to that point.

JON: "I guess so. It’s, er… It’s gone. Like a dream. What was it like?" MARTIN: "… Nice. It was… It was really nice." Can't have shit in the apocalypse!! For both, Jon is robbed of the happy memories and for Martin they turn bittersweet, knowing Jon doesn’t remember anything of it.

@a-mag-a-day

#a-mag-a-day #mag 181 #tma #tma spoilers