#tova mchugh

[hypnogogyc]

End avatars* playing card games

#in order from right to left #oliver banks #nathaniel thorpe #tova mchugh #georgie barker #justin gough #tma #my art #the magnus archives #tma art #tma fanart #the magnus archives art #the end #realistically i think georgie would not like them too much #but i think they get along ish #tho tovas mindset is a little conflicting to olivers psychology #digital art

[kat-and-their-cats]

Day 5 of my favourite Avatar polls, each poll will run for 1 week and will release daily in alphabetical order of entities.

Please repost for larger sample size.

#the magnus archives #tma #the end #end avatars #oliver banks #Justin gough #tova mchugh #nathaniel thorp #tma poll

[your-mom-friend]

Ranking Avatars on a Completely Arbitrary Scale Part 2: Apocalypse Boogaloo

Arson Montague: 11/10. What an icon. She is the moment. I want a full series surrounding her life. She had a Coffee Shop AU with Jack Barnabas and immediately stopped being evil and died. Poor girl. I can't help but find the circumstances of her existence so funny though. Her mom killed her dad while she's been pregnant. The cult didn't even want this to happen since she wasn't "conceived in the flame". According to the wiki they relented since "no one knew how that would even work". They threw away the childcare book because it didn't fit the aesthetic. She still turned out pretty okay. We love to see it.

Annabelle Cain: 8/10. We don't even know anything concrete about her childhood because she might not have told the truth. Go queen give us nothing! Yeah she terrified people at the arachnophobia study but she also used her powers to help Jarchivist and Co. so like? good for her? Confirmed Eldritch Horror.

Nikola Orsinov: 3/10 *in the tune* fuck this shit i'm out! fuck this shit i'm out! No but fr she gave me legit creeps and the forced skincare routine while hilarious to think about just makes me itch all over. Not a fan. Sorry bestie. Do have to give her points for being a whole Demon Mannequin and still being freaked out by The Coffin, as well as for being sassy with Elias. Points deducted for killing Danny

Nathaniel Thorp: 9/10 this man was requested and I had to look him up because i lowkey forgot but when I saw the start I remembered INSTANTLY I love him. He cheated death!! in a game!! what a madlad. Cut off his finger to prove a point lmao. Sad that he was a coward in the beginning but ah aren't we all? He died and then undied and then got better but couldn't eat or drink. What a character. @4bsent-damascus I hope you know you have excellent taste.

Melanie Queen: 8/10. Queen of owning her opinion. Not gonna call her a girlboss or whatever (she is but not for the eye thing) but if there's one thing she's unparalleled at it's owning her opinions. I feel for her! I really do. If I had a ghost bullet in my leg that decayed my morals enough to let me get all the pent-up anger out I would also not want it out. She was horrible to Jon for most of her run, but I also get it? Also, like fucking hell dude she had to mutilate her eyes to get her life back!!

Daisy Tonner: 8/10. She's a good person!! I love her. Points off for being a cop though. But she owned up to the harm she caused! And after disconnecting from The Hunt she worked VERY hard to make sure she wouldn't hurt people again and still allowed it to overtake her so she could protect her friends! Excellent character and she has incredible depth and complexity

Hezekiah WAKEly: 10.5/10 just wanted to lay in the dirt and get some sleep. What a mood. He didn't even really do anything! Yeah he was a little enthusiastic about the grave digging but I feel like that's understandable. If my only good sleep came after I dug graves I too would want to dig more graves. half a point off for murdering his friend though :/ I would've docked a whole point but his friend was a snitch and told the church which is pretty lame. Also it's so funny that the guy that wanted to sleep so bad had the last name Wakely

Maxwell Reimer: 5/10. His last incarnation kidnapped a kid which is a very bad thing to do, so don't. He is kind of a mid character to me honestly. Points for being a body hopper like my man JMag but eh. No real feeling about him sorry lads.

Tova McHugh: 5/10. Diversity Win! The person stealing your life force is a Demigirl! [This is from checking the wiki, where it's noted that Tova is referred to with both she and they pronouns.] This is more from personal dislike of the whole "I can do more so my life is worth more" philosophy they've got going on. Kind fucked up bestie. Was going to be a 4 but I kind of appreciate how much she's working for the philanthropy? In the sense of "I've taken their lives so I need to make it worth it so it wasn't in vain" which is has complicated feelings but I think it's good.

Micheal Crew: 6/10. Overall good character actually. He had some bad luck with the lightning strike and only went after the Lietners to get rid of the thing that was tormenting him. Devoted himself to The Vast and only then was a little insane. Don't think he even actually killed anyone? Just scares the shit out of them. Cool guy.

Julia Montauk: 7/10. Really cool to me actually. Feral, which we love to see. She's got such a fun dynamic with Trevor. She wasn't even like, a bad person at first. Just trying to live her life and then some pool of nightmare ink made heer feral and she's been living that monster hunting life ever since. Points off for keeping Gerry imprisoned and trying to kill Jon. Though I do wonder how she and Trevor managed to get into the UK at all considering they couldn't before

Trevor Herbert: 8.5/10. What a madlad. Showed up in season 1 like "what's up I'm Herb I'm homeless and I may have killed a man". Just wholesale unhinged. He also battled lung cancer. and addiction. and he won!! Incredible. Love his dynamic with Julia and I would've given him a 7 but I forgot about the addiction and lung cancer thing till I looked it up and I think that deserves an extra point that shit is hard.

This is part 2 of this post

Tag list: @pipis-pods @alas-shes-mad @4bsent-damascus @crabussy @u-suck-im-sick

Lmk who else you want to see and I'll add them in the next part (there's so many avatars it's insane there's like 80)

#rem rambles #tma #the magnus archives #tma s1 spoilers #tma s2 spoilers #tma s3 spoilers #tma s4 spoilers #tma s1 #tma s2 #tma s3 #tma s4 #nathaniel thorp #trevor herbert #julia montauk #nikola orsinov #agnes montague #annabelle cane #mike crew #tova mchugh #melanie king #daisy tonner #maxwell rayner #hezekiah wakely

[c0ckedgun]

i hate my art

fucking burn it

#danny's artbook #fanart #tma the end #tova mchugh #oliver banks #the magnus archive #// #horror podcast

[themagnustournament]

Round One Part Eight - Match 69 (nice)

This poll was written at 4:20. We got some bangers all around here on this match

MAG 085 - Upon the Stair | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of an unknown figure, regarding an encounter they may or may not have had in their home.

MAG 155 - Cost of Living | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Tova McHugh regarding their string of near-death experiences.

#the magnus archives #the magnus tournament #tma #mag 085 #mag 85 #mag 085 upon the stair #mag 85 upon the stair #upon the stair #the spiral #spiral #the lonely #lonely #mag 155 #mag 155 cost of living #cost of living #tova mchugh #the end #end #round one #round one part eight

[go-to-the-mirror]

god i hate when the moral nuance podcast has moral nuance, smh

Anyway! Happy magiversary, first of all, I'm drawing some stuff for it :3, and secondly welcome to my ramble for episode 155. There were some words that were good, and some that was rambles. Enjoy.

@a-mag-a-day

BASIRA Hmm. London’s what, 600 square miles? ARCHIVIST 607. BASIRA (Sighs) Whatever.

I like to think that he just knew that without the Ceaseless Watcher. Know it all prick <3.

ARCHIVIST So I guess we’ll want to look out for a pair of homeless serial killers now. I’ll add it to the list.

I love him your honour <3. Like at a certain point you're going to start not taking All Of The Attempted Murders so seriously, and Jon Jarchivist Sims has hit that point about seven times already. He is going through it.

BASIRA I’m trying to convince her to go after them. To, uh… Hunt them. ARCHIVIST Why? BASIRA Because I’m not going to lose her. ARCHIVIST She goes hunting again, you might anyway. BASIRA And if she doesn’t, she might die. ARCHIVIST Something you’re fine with in certain other cases, and something she’s made peace with.

THANK YOU, JON. Bloody hypocrite. Murder's fine, but nightmares? Oh, that's not allowed. And yeah, Jon fucked up, and he hurt a lot of people, but Christ, so did Daisy, and they had the same bloody agency in it. Daisy killed people - people who didn't deserve to die, she's culpable in that, and Basira's not admitting it because it makes her culpable for enabling Daisy. Which she is, she knew Daisy killed people, only saved Jon because he was her friend, said that she should have let Daisy kill people.

ARCHIVIST (Sigh) Statement of Tova McHugh regarding their string of near-death experiences. Original statement given December 3rd, 2002. Audio recording by Jonathan Sims, the Archivist.

(deadpan) Diversity win. The person who killed a bunch of people to extend their life canonically uses they/them pronouns.

And that’s not money from some trust fund. I mean sure my parents loaned me the money to start, but I built my business up from the ground, and we now provide jobs for almost 700 people.

(stares directly into the camera)

I'm not even going to comment on that. "not money from some trust fund" "my parents loaned me the money to start"

Ok, Tova, ok.

Sorry, I’m just… aware of how this story makes me look and I don’t want you to think I’m some selfish monster grinding people up just to extend my own ghoulish life. I’m trying to do good.

I can see the parallels and I do not like it.

If we shove my feelings towards Jon to the side for one moment, I can see the similarities between him and Tova, and how he would see himself in Tova. No matter how I try to spin it, Jon has been hurting people. He's been forcing innocent people - and even if they weren't innocent, it's still fucked - to relieve the worst moments of their life, not only once, but every night, with a new and spooky observer. That's horrifying, that's horrible.

Sure, it's not killing people, and he recognised that what he was doing was wrong, so it's not really on the same level as Tova, I feel, but still, I can understand why he'd see himself in Tova, and I can understand what I think we're meant to see in this.

It's one thing to hear a statement from a victim - an important part in realising that Jon has fucked up, but it's quite another to hear one from someone like him, justifying their awful actions under the guise of doing good. Maybe they (sing.) are doing good, maybe he is, but that does not erase all the people they've (pl.) hurt to get there.

I had to live, I couldn’t die, not then. We were on the verge of closing a deal that would provide fresh water to impoverished communities in a dozen developing countries. Without me, it would fall through.

Mate, killing is not the bloody answer. Sure, they might be doing good in the world, but they don't deserve to live more than anyone, they're killing people - actual living people. That's wrong. Sure, you're allowed to kill to protect your own life, but... it's wrong. They're not doing anything to hurt them, it's wrong. I just think it's wrong.

An old woman, frail and shivering, staring out of the ducks over the water, empty bread bag by her side. If only I could have explained it to her, I’m sure she would have understood. She might even have agreed. But I couldn’t talk to her, and I needed to live.

She needed to live. She deserved to live, everyone deserves to live, and it's wrong to make that choice for someone who you don't even know. It's understandable, what Tova did, but it's their responsibility to not value their life above everyone else's so much that they actually kill someone. That's wrong.

"I needed to live." The old woman was just a person and by saying your ("useful") life is better than someone else's ("useless") life is... bad. It's really bad. Like, uh, yeah content warning for

I thought I’d solved it. If anything else like that happened, I knew what I needed to do.

So, she was going to do it again. Good lord.

This time I sought out a homeless man. Young and strong, though his life was clearly over as he tried to destroy himself through drinking. I followed him into an alley, and his liver gave out, just at the moment the EpiPen was pushed into my leg.

Ah, that homeless initiative, huh. But, of course, their (sing.) life is worth more. /s

God, they (sing.) suck as a person, like what the hell. That's awful, that's horrible.

I do find myself hating them, quite a bit. Good lord.

I made a decision. One I am deeply ashamed of, but I honestly thought it was for the best. I couldn’t keep living like that in the shadow of death, of what I had to do to keep going. One sacrifice, I thought. Just one, from someone with their entire life ahead of them. I took a newborn.

I don't even know what to say. How the fuck are they able to lie to themself so much as to think that killing - what is it now - four people - is good? Is going to "help the world as a whole," god damn them. God damn them.

Like, how do you even do that? Egotistical piece of shit. Believing their life is of so much more value than the people they kill to keep on living.

It was a baby born to poverty, one whose life I thought would bring it pain, and I believed it would be the last I would ever need to do.

Oh, right, classism.

Also like, their language. "One whose life I thought would bring it pain," that's eugenics. That is literally eugenics.

Eventually I realized it had nothing to do with age or health. It was about connection. About joy. The more friends, family, loved ones the person has, the further out the terror of sudden death spreads from me. The longer it keeps me alive.

Fear soup, the fear of death is mixed in with a lot of other things. The Dark, the fear of that oblivion, absence of light, or warmth, of life. The Desolation, in this case, the fear of losing someone to the cruel hands of death or whatever. This is also a desolation statement. Nice hill to die on.

I’m 40 now, and I have taken the life of beloved mothers, respected professionals, pillars of the community. But I have done so much good with my life, I’ve reached further helped more people than they ever could have.

FUCK THEM. I don't even know what to say to that.

I’m not saying how I live is right, or good, but it is the position I have been put in, and a decision I have to make. I never wanted to weigh up the value of a life, to set it on the scales against my own, but that’s a choice that I am forced into. And it is one I will continue to make.

They suck as a person and I want to throw them with a rock.

What is the value of a life? Is it something that can be quantified, put down as numbers, good deeds, bad? And when your life your existence is at the cost of doing harm, what then? I’ve - (laughs) I’ve saved the world, the whole world. Does that give me the right to take what I need to survive?

Great question! I don't know. I don't have an answer? Maybe? No? It's not a definitive yes, I mean... No. No. That's not an option. He's gonna have to die, that's... the only good option, that's not a good option, that's the only option that isn't hurting people that could have been relatively uninvolved.

I don't think anyone should make that decision for you, but you have a responsibility as a person to not kill people for your own gain, that's important.

The needs of the many is greater than the needs of the few only can really work when you're not saving yourself under the guise of helping more people.

If I'm going to be consistent, I'm going to say that no. Jon should stick to old statements, and let himself die when he dies, because he doesn't deserve the trauma of other people. But... I like him a lot, okay.

This relisten is really making me pull away from being a Jon apologist, hate it for that. /hj

I find myself hating her, her callous self-deception. But am I so different? Daisy’s chosen to resist in her own way, knowing full well it might take her life in the end, Melanie too. I respect them for it, but I - I don’t know if I can follow their path. I suppose I have a way out now. One that wouldn’t even kill me, at least, I hope not. And yet here I am still. Am I a coward? I just… what if they need me? What if.

I DONT KNOW STOP PUTTING THESE COMPLEX SITUTIONS WIHT COMPLEX ANSWERS ON ME IM JUST A SILLY LITTLE GUY WHO'S STILL TRYING TO UNLEARN BLACK AND WHITE MORALITY

What would I do? Hell if I know! Probably the same as what Jon did, I'd hurt people, hate myself, hurt people, hate myself in a cycle, and I'm not sure at this moment if I'd do it, if I'd blind myself and possibly die, or not and live as something I hate? I mean, like, it's not even an impossible situation. Maybe he is a coward, maybe I'd be too. But... I don't know. I don't know, I don't know, I just don't know.

This is a situation where for most of the time the way out was dying. This is a situation where there is a way out that'll leave Jon vulnerable, both cause I don't think being newly blind is great for general survivability when things are literally out to get you and because he won't be an avatar anymore, he won't have those abilities that while he hates make him less helpless. Of fucking course he told Gerry he liked that he could compel people, it's some of the only control he's had in this whole situation. This is a situation where the two ways out are death, and maybe death, definitely helpless against the many many things that want him dead.

That's a difficult decision.

MELANIE Thanks for telling me, by the way. It didn’t look like it was easy for you.

WHAT IF I WANTED A JON AND MELANIE FRIENDSHIP? WHAT IF?

MELANIE You won’t need to. I’ve - I’ve made a few arrangements, and… (shaky breath) it’s going to be okay. Honestly. I think it is. I - I can’t be a part of this anymore and if this is the price, then I think I’m okay to pay it.

I'm so happy for her <3

MELANIE (Inhale) It’s - it’s the rest of you I’m worried about. ARCHIVIST We’ll be fine. Always have been. MELANIE (Scoffs lightly) Not always.

THEY COULD HAVE BEEN FRIEND, IN ANOTHER LIFE, IN ANOTHER WORLD, BUT IT'S NOT THAT LIFE AND IT'S NOT THAT WORLD, READ "MAYBE THIS IS IT" BY MMMMPH PLEASE

alexa play sense, sensibility by ajj

what if i wanted them to be ok, what if i wanted it to be okay, what then?

jonny why

ARCHIVIST We’ll miss you. MELANIE (Wryly) Wish I could say the same. ARCHIVIST (Quietly) Yeah.

:(

MELANIE (Deep breath) No. I’ve got this. But if you, um… If you could… In five minutes, I would appreciate it if you could call me an ambulance.

LIKE ITS SO COOL LIKE OK LIKE SHE'S ACTUALLY DOING IT, SHE'S GETTING OUT. she's getting out.

I'm happy for her. I just wish she could get out forever, you know? Live all happy like with her girlfriend, not live through the apocolypse.

Well done Melanie, well done.

Well, um, yeah. That's it really. Shambles.

#the magnus archives #tma #tma meta #a mag a day #mag 155 #tova mchugh #jonathan sims #melanie king #black and white morality is easy ok. but tma has really helped me on the moral nuance side yk? #landscaping your mind chapter one

[rainedroptalks]

Diversity win! The person killing beloved people to elongate their own life uses she/they pronouns!

#ramblings #tma #the magnus archives #Tova mchugh #mag 155

[sophysaurus]

Found my least favourite.

#mag 155 #i am enraged #fuck tova mchugh #youre writing a damn statement #at least here be honest with yourself and admit that you are afraid #that you are a coward #she reminds me of that girl in your highschool classes that thinks she is being nice #when she talks to less popular kids #only this bitch is 40. grow up!!!! #aaaaargh. i could write an essay about this. im steaming #i just wanted to listen to something while I have soup. #so angry!!! #tma #tova mcHugh

[dspd]

Hogwarts Houses (RadDan°TM) I think some TMA characters might've been in very randomly selected

Jon Sims - Slytherin - specifically because he would have been a Ravenclaw except he had that defining moment with Mr. Spider which made him want knowledge to prevent being so powerless, as many traumatized

Graham Folger - Ravenclaw - bro took a criminology course for funsies do I need to say more?

Julio Hernandez - Hufflepuff - guy seems like a solid, down to earth, dependable person

Father Burroughs - Gryffindor - he's got good intentions but his righteousness blinded him to his straying from his chosen path

NotThem - Hufflepuff - while closer to a magical beast than human, NotThem is patient and persistent in how they stalk their victims, whose magical properties works very hard, and has the hidden teeth of a badger which very few ever see. The Hat only sorts according to the head it was placed on and would let NotThem matriculate.

Dominic Swain - Ravenclaw - theater nerd that knows a little bit about a lot of things, certainly enough to spy the diamond in the rough of a Leitner book

Martin Blackwood - Hufflepuff - no one knew why since he didn't talk much and always had his nose in a book and kept to himself in a Ravenclawish way but, even though he's a muggle born, he had a roaring side business during the summer selling easy-to-disguise-as-Muggle potions to pay for his mother's live-in carer while he's away at school.

Stoker brothers - Gryffindor - idk they give off Sirius mixed with Weasleys vibes

Tova McHugh - Slytherin - the whole taking but balancing with good deeds is giving upper class/super rich it's okay because look at my philanthropy eat the rich vibes. Definitely a pure blood or pure blood adjacent that quietly believes in that shit but, similar to Narcissa, does have a wall she hits when she says enough

#tma #the magnus archives #hp crossover #hogwarts houses #jon sims #graham folger #julio hernandez #NotThem #Dominic Swain #Martin Blackwood #tim stoker #daniel stoker #stoker brothers #tova mchugh

[carfuckerlynch]

tova mchugh makes me want to kill bite murder kill kill explode kill murder.

#genuinely she’s so well written. the way she talks at the beginning about how her epileptic seizure wasn’t fair bc she was like. #Living Cleanly. yeah #odhran.txt #tma #tova mchugh

[ashes-in-a-jar]

Happy 1st of october

To Magnus archives women especially

#ilu basira ilu georgie ilu melanie (but dont get near me k?) ilu daisy (but dont get near me eother <3<3) ilu gertrude ilu sasha #ilu Annabelle ilu helen ilu nikola ilu agnes ilu jude ilu karolina ilu naomi ilu tessa ilu Laverne ilu sarah #ilu jane ilu julia ILU MAUELA THE MOSTEST ilu rosie ilu mary (not really uhh) ilu Celia ilu emma ilu fiona #ilu jess ilu anya ilu Allison ilu hannah ilu alex ilu sonja ilu chloe ilu lydia ilu sylvia ilu Andrea #ilu Jennifer ilu Donna ilu rosa ilu moira ilu lieanne ilu anna ilu laura ilu lesere ilu harriet ilu amy ilu clara #and i dont like tova McHugh sorry #tma #the magnus archives #to be clear i dont want melanie near me not because i dont love her. ita because she scares me 😆

[everchase-and-tea]

If the theories about Jon and Martin being in the computers are true, does this mean the other avatars (that weren’t killed by the end of the apocalypse) are also in various pieces of tech or other medias in the TMAGP universe?

Annabel Cane, a computer powerful and ancient, wires like webbing coming from all sides, entangled in a web of metal and electricity.

Tova McHugh, so used to taking the vitality of others for themselves, immortalised as a sprawling server that keeps a bank’s website up, trading not in life but money now.

Alfred Grifter, now a loud, high-tech stereo at a notorious club, still driving people to murder through song

Nathaniel Thorpe, having cheated death once, deathless now as a flamboyant gambling machine tucked in the corner of a forgotten casino

‘Angela’, still around the jigsaws she was so associated with in life, now as a cutting machine for the puzzles.

#tmagp #the magnus protocol

[annabelle--cane]

I don't know who I first saw posit this but I do like the theory that tova mchugh killed evan lukas. she aims to take life from the people whose sudden deaths would cause the most pain, and he was a very loved social butterfly who died suddenly from a never detected extremely rare heart problem, leaving a devastated widow. the intended read is probably more that it was to do with his family and the lonely, but the idea's compelling.

#tma #marina marvels at life

[c0ckedgun]

i hate my art

fucking burn it

#danny's artbook #fanart #tma the end #tova mchugh #oliver banks #the magnus archive #// #horror podcast

[bracketsoffear]

The Boy (Old Gods of Appalachia) "When a child, usually a boy, dies from cruelty or apathy or unnecessary hardship in the old hills sometimes the perpetrator is visited by the boy. He at first looks like the boy who died but it soon becomes clear that they are nothing that ever was human. He is followed by the children whose tormentors he destroys and sometimes you can hear them as they travel."

Suzie Costello (Torchwood) "Suzie is terrified of death and the concept that there’s nothing after. Then she discovers the Resurrection Gauntlet, an alien glove that can bring people back temporarily. She starts to experiment with it, and starts killing people so she can use them as test subjects. When the team catches on to her, she kills herself. But she made it so that the team would revive her with the very gauntlet she was so desperate to use and control. Knowing now that there is nothing but darkness (and something moving in it), she began to drain the woman who revived her. It’s heavily implied that she would keep killing if she needed to in order to keep herself alive, much like Tova McHugh (MAG155)."

#end poll #the end #the magnus archives #poll #redemption bracket #old gods of appalachia #ogoa #torchwood #doctor who

[themagnustournament]

Redemption Round 2 - Match 4

We had a lot of support for Cost of Living in Round One, but sadly not enough. It’s up against Human Remains, which despite its high seed rank only earned 159 votes last round, sending it to the Redemption Rounds. Cost of Living earned only 89 votes in Round One -- can it pull through?

MAG 155 - Cost of Living | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Tova McHugh regarding their string of near-death experiences.

MAG 040 - Human Remains | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Elias Bouchard, Tim Stoker, Sasha James, Martin Blackwood and Jonathan Sims regarding the infestation of the Magnus Institute by the entity formerly known as Jane Prentiss.

#the magnus archives #the magnus tournament #tma #mag 155 #mag 155 cost of living #cost of living #tova mchugh #the end #end #mag 040 #mag 40 #mag 040 human remains #mag 40 human remains #human remains #the eye #eye #elias bouchard #tim stoker #sasha james #martin blackwood #jonathan sims #jane prentiss #corruption #the corruption #redemption round two