#tma musings

[avesmonster]

forget zodiac signs what tma entity would you most WANT to be an avatar of and which would you ACTUALLY be an avatar of

#tma musings #the magnus archives #yeah i'll tag that tell me your entities everyone

[physical-manifestation-of-spite]

Me in 2019: Hey

The Magnus Archives: You are ace

Malevolent: You are ace

The Magnus Protocol: You are ace

Me: I am ace

#what did they put in these podcasts #spiteful musings #the podcaster to ace person pipeline needs to be studied #tma #the magnus archives #magpod #malevolent #malevolent podcast #tmagp #the magnus protocol #ace #aroace #aromatic #asexuality #aromantic #acespec

[tinystepsforward]

it's notable that while terfs have certainly discovered me at this point, they're generally not attacking me personally bc i'm not a trans woman

#so fucking telling. #i would however like people who are on that 'sorry all staff are transmisogynists and there's no tma people on staff' vibe @ me to stop lol #bc like i am relatively safe to post through it specifically bc i am not in the us and i am not a trans woman! #why do you think you're hearing from me and not a trans woman! #also why do you think a software company with a sizeable group of trans people wouldn't have trans women! #tony muses #tumblr meta

[gammija]

there was something so intimate about how tma (esp s1+2) were just one guy, speaking directly to you, telling you a story and sharing his thoughts and opinions on it. tmagp's format has its own appeal but i do find myself missing that very personal aspect

#tma #tmagp #just musing #joos yaps

[apollos-boyfriend]

Given you where involved in the mcyt greater relationship chart and now the creepy Asta house... You enjoy this don't you?

to call me slurs would’ve been a kinder fate

#muse talk #anon #AFKAKFJSKFK #LOOK #who am i without my charts….. my Patterns…… #i never did finish my tma archiving i don’t think. rip 🙏

[starrodent]

please, i need more of your jon.. he's so perfect

oh you lucky anon, i happen to have an absurd amount of jon drawings at my disposal

he’s coming for u

also thank you so much anon. i’m glad that you’re enjoying my blog’s brainworm infestation. it’s nice to know my art makes people happy

#tma #the magnus archives #tma fanart #jonathan sims #artrodent #artists on tumblr #*points at pathetic bedraggled cat monster man* my muse. my beloved #cw scopophobia #as he's staring directly into your soul #anon #echoes in the void

[nlelira-vintgesunf]

Did anyone ask for doodles of Jon struggling with the consequences of having a reproductive system? no? well I did so

(yes I'm putting him through my experiences again I'm not sorry)

wasn't gonna post it but i like the top one a lot actually

#sketches #art #tma #the magnus archives #jon sims #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #jmart #jonmartin #is this cw territory? #cw mentruation #cw trans male menstruation #or something? #that bottom left one has a bloody version but wasnt sure if it was cool to post #I found it funny #idk if rlly necesary but maybe to be safe cuz im kinda embarrased by what the muse gives me: #do not archive #my protocol for cramps is tecito de manzanilla <3 and one of those pillows with seeds in them that you heat up #apparently i like to look at jon and be like hah he just like me fr #my art

[lo-fi-charming]

like... daisy ending up in the coffin is significant. it's not just to be ironic. it being her "first encounter" with the entities after becoming an officer is significant. the fact her former partner - someone whose apathy and brutality as an officer she understood and sympathized with - is taken into the coffin isn't just scary because it could have been her, but because they end up in there for the same reasons. it's about the crushing, inescapable weight of what she's done, knows is unfair and awful, but does anyway.

daisy doesn't realize what she's been doing for most of her life is wrong just because she gets trapped in the buried; it isn't, like, detoxed out of her, affording her Sudden Clarity. and it isn't that she's forced to change, either. that she's made to suffer long enough that ~moral goodness~ manifests, as if that's how you become a better person, you just have to get what you deserve enough... the buried didn't MAKE daisy "good" or "regret" what she'd done - it's just that everything finally caught up to her. daisy was already afraid of herself and the things she'd done. she's been afraid at least since the first time she saw the coffin.

the buried is a fear that can represent the feeling of being trapped under so much Something that there is no way you can ever see yourself escaping it. the things daisy has done throughout her life are not done without consequence. in the past, she was always able to outrun it for this or that reason: luck, cleverness, a system that protected her, a partner that enabled her, etc. but it meant daisy had to keep running. keep feeding it and keep killing. keep digging the hole. nothing forced her to do it; you can argue quite a lot of things encouraged her behavior, but daisy admits it herself: she liked it. she was good at it. it's always been a part of her and that's what's scary.

and even when daisy gets rescued and is out of the coffin, is she? the weight is still there. she's still being crushed by it and there's still nothing she can do to escape it. the only difference between then and now is that daisy refuses to try running from it.

#endlesschatter #daisy tonner #sorryyy sorry i had to get some more words out #real talk i myself for a while did not really consider the obvious significance of daisy in the coffin for a long time #if only bc my realization that she's my fave tma char was kind of a slow burn #so i didn't think about it v deeply for a while... #but i feel like it is. something that's not often discussed #as... with most things... concerning daisy. imo imo #i get it but unfortunately she is my favorite so im terminally underfed and constantly musing #...there's something to be said about the similarities of the hunt and the buried. somewhere in here #it plays nicely into daisy being a hunt avatar who falls to the buried

[lihim-oa]

I love you Elias Bouchard cosplayers, but please guys, work on your pipe murder form.

#the magnus archives #tma podcast #tma #elias bouchard #musings

[ick-the-clown]

okay on the topic of yapping about interests i was thinking about michael "the distortion" shelly (michael distortion specifically) and how he's often portrayed in fan art. i'm always a fan of and in love with how everyone pictures him, but lately i've had the personal thought of him being like...ai but in real life. just like how most ai recreations of people are weird and uncanny (the pupils aren't quite right, the hands are jumbled, etc.), you can't look at him the same way twice. he's constantly shifting and adjusting in little ways that from a distance or a quick glance he seems normal, but you look closer and something has shifted...this is probably not an original idea and there can be definite overlap with the stranger but idk I'm just yelling into the void.

(btw this is specifically for michael, but could apply to helen...I just feel like she would have a different distortion in comparison to michael since they're different distortions...if that makes sense...)

#icks musings #tma #the magnus archives #michael shelley #the distortion #michael the distortion #tma posting

[lairde-lampblack]

welcome to an au i like to call oops all avatars, where all the s1 archives staff all come from branching timelines back in time to try fixing the mistakes, but each timeline is a little different in a few ways. details under the cut

jon (eye): follows canon mainly up to the eyepocalypse, whereupon he's sent back in time to s1

martin (lonely): is largely the same up until the lonely aside from tim getting got by the not!them and sasha dying in the unknowing, and jon himself not being too far along in avatarhood where it's easily missed by martin, where jon getting lost in the lonely is the catalyst to martin becoming and in his rage he exits the lonely to murder elias and plukas in a blind rage, ending his timeline w the dead man's switch taking martin down in the process

tim (spiral): in this timeline, it's martin gotten by the not!them. sasha gets killed by jane prentiss during an investigation after being the one trapped in her flat, leading to both jon and tim spiralling and seeking revenge. tim takes to the corridors to find answers, and his door is what saves him at the end of the unknowing where jon dies. tim becomes as a spiral avatar and takes to tormenting the archive replacement staff and elias until he and helen end up warring and leading to the collapse of both avatars and ending the timeline

sasha (web): biggest divergence. jon is claimed bt the not!them in this timeline, leading to sasha investigating the house on hilltop road. martin was kidnapped by the not!jon, and tim was killed in the prentiss attack, leaving sasha all by herself to try fixing things. sasha meets annabelle cane and was learning to be a web avatar, where elias basically serves sasha on a silver platter to the circus because hes sick of spiders in his archives, ending the timeline w her death in the unknowing, where she falls through the crack in hilltop road and sends out panicked web strands and inadvertently brings all the othere back

it doesn't take long for the three archival assistants to realize they all know more than they should and that they're all from different timelines, but all three assume jon knows nothing because he died in all three of the timelines, and that he's just an ordinary human. thry do not know that he knows the actual most of all of them

#mango made #mango draws #mango muses #tma #the magnus archives #tma au #oops all avatars au #eye avatar jon sims #lonely avatar martin blackwood #spiral avatar tim stoker #web avatar sasha james #please ask me questions about this au

[avesmonster]

i need to talk about tma with people i wanna talk about tma so bad

#i Need to talsk about the entities i literally just use to entities to describe everything that happens in my life all the time #i look at anything around me ever and im like woah thays totally a manifestation of the extinction or the corruption or whatever #my autism brain just decided that tma is how i interpret the world now #i javent slept in a million years sorry if im not making any sense i jist want to talk about tma bro #tma musings

[physical-manifestation-of-spite]

No because I have such a visceral reaction to fanfictions that have the characters do something that they would never do. “He would not fucking say that,” actually causes a genuine physical ailment in my body. The world is caving in on me. I feel sick

#spiteful musings #i'm reading tma fanfiction and tim keeps... just forgiving jon bc jon looks a little pathetic #'he would not fucking do that' is a constant saying in my mind #tma #mp100 #the magnus archives #mob psycho 100 #yeah i don't know what else to tag this as #ao3 #archive of our own #fanfic #fanfiction #fanfiction.net

[homestucky]

Jonathan Sims' worksona is never like "I dont believe in the supernatural", is it? I feel like maybe in the first episode or so he literally says how rare it is to hear about "genuine" cases of the supernatural. as in, stating on the record that there have in fact been genuine cases of the supernatural.

I thought the way he acted initially seemed less "this is nonsense because the supernatural isnt real" and more "monsters being real is no excuse for a lack of academic scruples"

#just musing and thinking thoughts idk #maybe he wavers a bit #tma #Jonathan Sims #magpod

[meziniart]

My first Jon sketch was actually this one i did to prevent from going insane™ and i just really like how his face turned out.

Couldn't capture the same essence on my illustration tho, and i wanna mess around with his face a bit more later on

#it's been literal 5 months since i last had true motivation to draw #that is without being silly sketches that i would discard in the first 5 minutes #thank u jon for being my new muse somehow #because without u i'd probably spend another 5 months not drawing a single thing #i'm going insane again do y'all want anything #art #fanart #tma #the magnus archives fanart #artists on tumblr #sketch #the magnus archives #jonathan sims #tma fanart

[raynecreates]

WIP preview - The Most Moisturized Archivist

(Gonna finish this and I’m tempted to make it into a DTIYS, what do y’all think?)

#the magnus archives #tma podcast #jonathan sims #nikola orsinov #jarchivist #If I don’t draw him at least once a month my muses start beating the shit out of me