#tma act 3

[thirdchildart]

"I work here!"

"...no you don't?"

#3 shots left! #all long acting shots so they'll take the rest of the night #and then tomorrow after work I'll tone it in #and final goes up tuesday as planned! #the magnus archives #tma #jonmartin #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #dog in the archives

[owlpipscribbles]

i’m drawing jon in a couple of my outfits and <3

#carpal tunnel is acting up 🥸 but jonnnnnn #<3!!!!!!!! #art #fan art #fanart #sketch #wip #jonathan sims #the magnus archives #tma

[hiimcanadia]

For the record ofmd s2 is going to air and we’re all going to be reminded that this is a romcom and it’s not going to be nearly as tragic and complex and heartbreaking as we’ve been theorizing and I’m STILL going to love all the tragic and complex post-s1 fanfics and I’m going to keep rereading my favourite ones long after the series is over

#i LOVE going back and rereading old fics/metas/theories from important periods in a fandom #i do this all the time w/ tma I especially love reading old stuff that was written during act 3 of s5 bc everything was so FUN!!! #even for this fandom I found a fic one time that I’m pretty sure was written before blackbonnet went canon but it was so cute! #and so fascinating to read!! #anyway ily fandom writers of all genres sweet dreams 💕💕💕 #2pm in the morning #ofmd #our flag means death

[re-dracula]

I keep recommending Tales of the Echowood for you TMA fans because I think yall would really like the show. It’s more Fantasy than Horror, but it’s got a really strong narrator and beautiful worldbuilding that hooked me from the get-go. It’s an “anthology” show, but episodes are linked in a very cool way, so listen from the beginning! Episodes 3 and 8 are my favorite, but they’re all incredible.

#tales of the echowood #tma #the magnus archives #episode 3 is about someone invading the Echowood and the land itself fights back #episode 8 is a bard's ballad. There's an amazing song that takes up half of the episode and it gave me so many feelings #also fyi I voice act in the second half of the show so I am a bit biased here but also the writing/narrating/sound design/music is not me at #and I am in love with it

[spacedemodulator]

MAG 189 1/2, Act III Finale Trailer

@a-mag-a-day

#the magnus archives #tma #a mag a day #act 3 finale trailer

[the-voldsoy]

when i started the magnus archives i didnt believe people when they said it changes lives, i thought it was just exaggeration or whatever

but then last week i found myself sorting the characters in Macbeth into different entities ?? and it was actually really helpful for how i saw the characters and how they work and what motivates them etc ?? and whats more ive found ive sorted my dnd character and that kind of thing into the 14 fears ?? and its really useful to know how that character would interact with things ????

#i decided the witches would be the web definitely #macbeth starts as the slaughter but changes to the spiral as the play goes on #i think lady macbeth would be the hunt ? or the web ? #we're only on act 1 scene 3 so we havent really interacted w her yet #tma #the magnus archives #macbeth #shakespeare #14 fears #the entities #fear entities

[thefuturewithoutus]

ohhhhh my god i started listening to the silt verses with my sister and it's soooo good. got so invested and immersed in that first episode alone that the ending made my skin crawl and blood turn cold. Lol

#the heart #it's usually really hard for me to be seriously scared of horror without visuals because i dont think i'm particularly imaginative but god! #the voice acting the editing the production all really pulled me in so much #i've never had such a visceral reaction to horror like that before that was crazy #and my sister also liked it <3 #the tma and rdr2 living in my brain are going to be rubbing elbows with this #ALSO ALSO: i keep misreading silt and slit so if i ever say slit verses...sorry

[deepspaceclawstation]

I really like InCo but the episode numbering on Spotify is my nemesis

#First I thought there was just one season with episodes numbered from 1 to 20- or 30-something #Then I neared s1ep30 and found out there was a second season #And now I think there's 3 or 4? #Spotify on android is already atrocious about scrolling through podcast episodes #I gave on my tma re-listen just because it took me so much time to just scroll through to the middle episodes #and the app kept resetting my position :( #But yeah InCo is good even though the sound mixing is rough sometimes #Storywise I have no issues so far and I'm impressed how much worldbuilding and character fleshing out has been achieved through >10 min eps #InCo #Podcasts #incopod #Also hi this is praise ok? There's only one person behind the scenes and all the voice acting (by that very same person) is phenomenal

[lyrker]

god jon just goes sniff sniff i smell TRAUMA and starts eating peoples stories SIR CALM DOWN ‼️‼️ Martin hearing the beginning of the statement already knowing it’s Jon and he’s just exasperated.

n e way i listened to Manuela’s statement too !!!! Um yeah ^___^ how did the ritual stop ^___^ who did it ^___^ like there’s a half chance Rayner is still out there inhabiting that kid cus idk what they did to the kid or what HAPPENED to him but. even if he’s still out there Jon destroyed the sun. somehow. He simply Perceived it and it fucking exploded like damn alright. was that really to much perceiving. It killed other people who looked at it but oo look at me i’m the Watcher. fucking nerd.

but they’ve been slain! for now ! they won’t be coming back for a while new followers have to be gained and they have to start all over what an L. Maybe there weren’t enough worshippers? they were being destroyed quite quickly but man, still.

plus, there’s creatures in The Dark, ones that scuttle and scurry and Scream I guess. i guess The Dark really is a matter of whether you’re afraid of the darkness itself, or what lies within it, and The Dark compensates for both. yeesh. don’t wanna see what they have behind those curtains, though, i don’t think you can, anyway.

#jon act normal please jon #also helen <3 #i love her so much you have no idea #she’s nice (: #tma #the magnus archives #live blogging

[gnarlystarships]

i’m like. bored of all my music for some reason. so that’s why i’ve been tearing up The Magnus Archives bc i’ve been listening to it instead of music. But at this rate i’m probably gonna run out of episodes before long 💀 Maybe I will try relistening to Welcome to Nightvale after, since I honestly don’t think I properly appreciated it the first time (I was gonna say I never finished it either but it looks like it’s actually still updating which i didn’t even know lol)

#the first time i was listening purely because it thrilled me that the protagonist was gay #and i did not particularly understand or like. the rest of it LOL #i think i am ready to actually pay attention to the lore and shit now or whatever #anyways i finished season 2 of TMA today and already tearing into season 3 #also it is much easier for me to listen to podcasts then watching shows or movies bc i don’t have to sit still and watch them lol #i can do yardwork or play games or whatever at the same time much easier #sometimes i have to look up transcripts to re-read when the hearing disorder decides to act up tho #ograt

[starsandwriting]

Oho. Oho. Oho oho oho. About 8 days until the tma 30th 👁👁

#hmmmmm #ya know #so i finally sat down to write those damn essays. #(the college applications ones. for future me) #and its....actually quite manageable? #like each college has about 3 or 4 prompts #and most of them are around 200 ish #so like. its....not as bad as a i thought itd be?? #huh. #all in all i Might actually be able to roughly finish college apps by oct 30 #hm. hm. hm. #neat honestly :D #so then i could spend nov and dec on ecs and making sure everything is in proper order #and studying for act ofc #nice #touchwood #well we'll see how it goes #main point was #tma update in 8 days 👁👁 #also i got an award today :D #myar #2022

[thirdchildart]

Acting is reacting! Here's what that means when I storyboard:

1. New information comes in,

2. Brain understands the information,

3. THEN the emotions hit.

Because your brain takes time to process what a thing is! it's the emotional equivalent of a double take--you see a thing, but don't understand the significance it has until your brain processed what it was seeing. messages have to get passed from your brain's input and output stations, and those get reflected in a changing facial expression!

Absorb, Understand, then React. And the pacing of each step, and how BIG the emotional change is will be the secret sauce to unique character performance!

Here's some examples from my TMA 159 storyboards!

#Storyboarding #art advice

[friccafracc]

been cooking up a tma fear avatar sona. thing. avatar of the Stranger that acts like SCP-096 and im slowly going insane about him. i love this freak<3

#art #friccart #sketch #tma sona #tma oc

[malaloba]

TMA fandom, here's why you should play Slay the Princess

If you haven't heard, Slay the Princess is a new horror visual novel created by small indie developer Black Tabby Games. Jonny Sims does (a lot of) voice acting for it and its a fantastic game. So here's some reasons why I think TMA fans will enjoy this game.

Jonny absolutely kills it We knew he was a good actor but damn he's a good actor and he's clearly having fun in this one. Also, there's a lot of options where you can annoy him! If you too want to parasocially fight Jonny Sims in a Denny's parking lot at 3 am, this might scratch that itch

The Princess It's hard to talk about the Princess without spoilers since her nature is one of the big questions of the game. But I will say, I think she has a lot of traits that TMA fandom likes in women ;) (also Nichole Goodnight absolutely kills it as the Princess)

Tonal similarity I know two of the things that people loved about TMA are its humor and the fact that the love matters. Slay the Princess is a love story and if horror and humor are two sides of the same coin, Black Tabby Games is gluing the coin on its edge.

I'm being nonspecific here because I highly recommend going in without knowing anythings (except cws if needed). If you've already played it, BTG is asking for people to nominate it for Outstanding Story Rich Game in the Steam Awards and Steam reviews are always helpful for small devs! (Also, I highly recommend their other game, Scarlet Hollow)

#slay the princess #the magnus archives #tma #this isnt all the reasons this game is fantastic #just ones i think are relevant to tma fandoms interests #i just like this game a normal amount ok

[underlined-in-spirit]

did anyone else pick up on how many of the cases weren't from the victim's point of view? it's happened 3 times so far (4 if you count daria? she's complicated) out of seven cases. tma in comparison has 130 out of 154 statements (i am only counting s1-4 because s5 messes with format) (if the numbers are a bit funky please note that i hand counted them so i apologise for that). of course, we only have six episodes of protocol, but there is clearly a difference and i can still make a post out of it.

maybe it's because we aren't only getting stories from the survivors now, as other people have mentioned

but also, those accounts from the perpetrator remind me somewhat of statements from avatars. needles' poetic, ominous manner of speech sounded similar to statements like jane prentiss, manuela dominguez, etc. (side note: needles was very corruption in my opinion. calling the stabbing/other violent actions an act of affection was definitely reminiscent of jane and the hive, just saying). others have pointed the parallels between jonah magnus and the violin guy, but i'll do it again: guy obtains much power via acts of violence, and despite knowing it hurts people this guy continues to see the skill and power with a cost as a blessing, keeps the origin of the power secret and passes it onto another person, who they tell the origin of the power to and bestow the power upon this other person, who did not ask for this. samuel webber's contentment with his new form while retaining an underlying sense of fear is comparable to avatars who love and fear their entity in equal measure.

as well as this, these cases seem more directly aligned with tma entities. magp 4 is extremely slaughter, and resembles mag 42 (grifter's bone). magp 3 is corruption, and mag 6 is also corruption in my opinion (i think people agree with me on that?).

i'm sorry i haven't planned this out i just noticed something and spent an hour typing on my phone about it. tell me your thoughts in the tags, i'd love to see someone make an actual theory about this!

#the magnus protocol #tmagp #tmagp speculation #tmagp spoilers #tmagp 3 #tmagp 4 #tmagp 6

[alice-apparently]

I think Agent / Subject / Catalyst are the three categories [CAT 1-3] in the case numbers.

Bear with me.

So aside from the dates, the case numbers are split in 3 parts, right:

CAT 1-3 (rarely combination of 2 numbers) -> category

*R (-> rank) A/B/C (sometimes combination of 2 letters from ABC)

DPHW (4 digit number)

* the case numbers for episodes #3 and #4 don't have the R for some reason

This is very much taking into account/based on the stuff from the ARG klaus.xls document btw, which has these exact 3 columns & features some of the episodes' cases where these match up exactly with the case numbers. [if you're interested, it's #2 line 80; #3 line 64; #5 line 75; #7 line 77]

Both category and rank are divided into 3 options, with some exceptions of cases having 2 applied at the same time. So now episode 9 gave us another nice group of three. And I thought, hm, maybe those ideas, Agent, Subject, and Catalyst, could match up with one these as a classification of the cases. And I think it does.

Based on the cases we had so far, I think category 1 is Agent, category 2 Subject, and category 3 Catalyst.

In my tmagp paranoia document with all my notes, I made a table sorting the cases according to the categories for a better overview and to be able to maybe spot similarities:

Let me explain what I think the classifications mean.

1 - Agent.

That's the most self-explanatory one I think. I'm not the first to make the comparison between avatar and agent, and not the first to point out that Needles acts like a TMA avatar.

Agent then is an active purveyor of fear/terror. someone deliberatly acting in such a way to spread it, to scare people. It is the person themself directly and possibly willingly causing the 'unsettling experiences' and spreading fear. Needles is the prime example.

It doesn't work quite so well with #1A, but I'd say the "he" that she interacts with acts as an agent, with him luring her to the cemetary and the unsettling way he is described there, but more importantly, with the laughter that follows, that he seems to enjoy what's happening, her fear. Her fear that's caused by him.

2. Subject.

Subject I would describe with "being subjected to something" or that "something just happens". A subject to fear. Maybe as a victim of sorts, but that's not quite it. Anyway, I think the cases in category 2 group together easily:

What's interesting is that all of the cases feature in some way a person entering a space and being affected by it/by something in a certain space. Or at least it is centred on a certain space. they are subject(ed) to the space.

In #1B it's the TMI ruins, in #3 the garden, in #5 the cinema, in #7 the charity store, and in #8 the service station. The person in #8 himself blames it explicitly on the place, the architecture, on the space he entered.

3. Catalyst.

Catalyst, I would argue, means a moveable object that works to spread fear. That is, a person with a certain object--or artifact, if you will--working together: it's a person with the object as a catalyst, it's the object through a person spreading fear.

To put it more concisely, it's cases of a person carrying an artifact and through them, allowing the artifact to affect other people.

We have the violin and the dice in episodes #4 and #9. In both cases the people who pick them up spread harm/misfortune by using them. In both cases the person first harms themself before learning they can/how they can instead spread it to others.

In episode #1B, which was in both category 2 and 3, RedCanary takes that wooden box/old wooden thing home with them. And it's that box, taking that box, that's linked to what's happening to them. Or what they do afterwards. Because we don't actually know what happens to RedCanary or what RedCanary goes on to do afterwards. We've kinda assumed that they just die, but maybe not? Anyway, my point is, old wooden box thing = artefact/catalyst.

Episode #2 is the biggest hole in this theory I think. Without knowing I probably would've put it as category 1, agent, with Ink5oul as the agent. But instead it's rather that the tattoo acts as a catalyst, through the artist. So far it rather has seemed to affect the artist herself rather than other people through her, except for the confrontation with her roommate. But, as @amelie-isnt-french pointed out, we don't know what she moved on to do afterwards. Maybe it would go on to affect other people. Maybe she just hasn't learned how to do so yet.

Or maybe affecting other people is not even a criteria at all. Maybe it's enough that the artifact comes into contact with a person and affecting them.

I'm aware that this theory isn't without flaws; both cases in episode #1, and esp. #2 don't fit into this as well as the others. But I think it still works.

That being said, I can go even more crazy.

You know that other ARG document, the chdb.xlsx, with the list of the gifted children tested at the Magnus Institute, the one that features Sam and Gerry, the one that's possibly the one Sam mentions in episode #8 through which he found Gerry.

Now my question on looking at this document, or you know, one of my questions, was what does the chdb stand for. I figured db might probably be database. the c could be children, because that's who were tested and listed. but the h? I had the stray thought at some point that it might be host. which I found very unsettling, but also didn't really work as a whole, like "Children Host Data Base"? nah.

But what if the C is not for Children. What if it's for Catalyst. Because Catalyst Host Data Base suddenly makes a lot of sense. We know that the TMAGP Magnus Institute is interested in "supernaturally active items" as the episode 9 statement giver tells us. They have been collecting artefacts/catalysts. Cf. also that old wooden box RedCanary found in its ruins. So they might have in the children been looking for potential hosts for them.

#the magnus protocol #tmagp theory #tmagp 9 #tmagp #tmagp spoilers #i don't know nearly all the arg info #so maybe there's more stuff that disproves this theory #or at least would go against it #if so please tell me