The S1 Archives main staff was composed entirely of people who (at least partially) liked men. I choose to believe the OIAR will continue the trend of being equal but opposite to the Archives by having the entire S1 main staff like women.
It's actually so bad I started listening to tma and my brain immediately started redrafting all my career plans...the "How to Become An Archivist" tab is open...another tab is online shopping for cardigans...
thinking about my s1 wingmen au & how martin would be MORTIFIED at first of tim & sasha trying to set him up with jon, but after a couple weeks of them wingmanning it up for him, he realizes that jon is utterly OBLIVIOUS. he is so wrapped up in his denial re: the supernatural & his desperate attempts to seem competent that all of tim & sasha’s efforts fly over his head. and once martin realizes this, he gets a little bold. he tries to see how overtly he can hit on jon before jon realizes what’s going on. tim, sasha, & martin all get in a competition to see who can finally get it through jon’s thick skull that martin is interested in him without saying it directly (though would he believe them? probably not). jon notices nothing. he’s too busy not-really-disproving statements.
In the Institute we have a STRICT no-drugs policy. However,
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Elias Bouchard here. Illegal substances, whether ingested on or off Institute property, will not be tolerated. Can the following employees please report IMMEDIATELY to my office.
- Tim Stoker
- Murphy Reynolds
- Simon Smith
- Jenna Yang
- Darren Humphries
- Ade Okonma
- and the entirety of the Artefact Storage senior leadership team
For around six months now I've been living next to an actual real life archive, and it's unnervingly similar to TMA! Here's a few notable things from these past months:
-i watched a balding man in a very posh suit carry a massive antique briefcase out of the building and put it into his car at 4am
-at 12:30am i made direct eye contact with someone working at a computer on a floor I'd never seen anyone go before. (there's a section of car park and pavement between my building and the archive so this was pretty impressive! )
-The smoking area is always full at weirdly specific hours of day and night (presumably breaks), and completely empty the rest of the time. Clearly archiving really does encourage a smoking habit!
-one of the floors has really bright LED lights which were left on day and night for a week, then off for four days, and now are on with every single blind closed.
-for the first few months I only ever saw three people go in or out of the building- a generic looking security guard who yells at people that park in front of the entrance; and a dishevelled looking man, pursued by another man from the smoking area.
-from my window I can see directly into a room that's filled with mannequins! I couldn't tell what they were at first due to the sheer amount, but they range from cpr dummies to full body mannequins.
-despite being able to see many desks I've only consistently seen two people working at them.
-the fire alarm once went off for hours and nobody evacuated.
-recently at 3am I watched a security guard from the building come out to feed bagels to the fox in the car park (not really that relevant but I thought it was quite nice)
-two of the windows have humanlike figures in them at all times, but they're impossible to focus on so I have no idea what they are.
i have this vision, you see, of The Weed Incident at the Magnus Institute.
tim, bless his heart, had decided to get into baking after meeting sasha, and they bonded over their love of… cosmic brownies. so, tim brought some in one day, so they could spend a day at work with their mystery mouskatool doing most of the heavy lifting. that was the plan.
martin, bless his soul, had it in him to believe that — upon seeing the brownies — they had been baked for the archive staff, and that they were to be shared.
yes. he passed them around. but he didn’t get one — he kept saying that he had had one already, just in case someone guilted themselves out of a sweet treat — no. he had to be the one to watch hell freeze over.
everyone in the archives, even jon, was enjoying tim’s goodies. tim was enjoying tim’s goodies. with sasha.
it was a day to be marked in the workplace yearbooks.
Imagine working in literally any other branch of the Magnus Institute. Some HR person working 9-5 and hearing that all of a sudden that guy he used to work with in research is on the run for murdering some old guy? Two archival assistants died? Oh, the paperwork to come.
But that’s not even the end of it, now his boss has been replaced with some creepy pirate guy who has made another archival assistant his personal assistant, the new archival assistant who used to run that ‘what the ghost’ podcast blinded herself, and there’s also a cop trapped in the archives?
The incident report forms start to pile up, and HR guy’s only question is “what the hell is going on in the archives?” Except now the old archivist, the one he used to work with, is back. There wasn’t a trial, he wasn’t arrested, so he’s just still a murderer?
A few weeks later, one of his colleagues from finance tell him about some strange charges to the company and wants to know if he heard anything. Apparently, the archivist took a trip to the states and came back looking like he endured actual torture.
Now he knows that he doesn’t have the most conventional job, and after working at a paranormal research institute, he’s no skeptic. But he didn’t expect it to affect him at all.
But now the world is different, and the life he knew is gone, and all he feels is fear and he somehow knows that it comes back to the archives.
While I'm taking a break from Worm art, I figured I'd upload some of my old The Magnus Archives Art! I did a whole series about the Institute Staff, as well as some monsters coming up :)) I hope you enjoy!