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everyone draw martin blackwood fatter now

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i absolutely have to stop and make a proper tagging thing for this blog. started out just collecting things i really enjoyed but now it’s more of a small personal archive (lol) and the fact that i can’t find anything in here is going to lead to my imminent demise.

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too much information

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(notices you because you touched the threads of my web)

oh hi!!! ^^^^w^^^^

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weapon choosing screens for Elias and the esteemed Archivist

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avatar of the world wide web

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for every instance of skinny martin i encounter my lifespan decreases by five years i do think

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Guy who only thinks about jonelias: getting real jonelias vibes from this

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“nobody is making you do this” i am driven by unnatural forces you will never even begin to comprehend

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if anyone needs me i’ll be bleeding out in a fun & erotic manner

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who wants to play organs and bones with me

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elias being aroused by the compulsion is so, like, the implications. the archivist's compulsion is meant to be a violation of the highest degree, it's an act of domination over another being and results in complete loss of autonomy for the victim, because statement feeding (and avatarhood as a whole) is also consumption ("he looked at me like he had just eaten a perfectly cooked steak", 142 // "i've always thought a man's eating habits were his own private business", elias in 148), jon was eating them so his god wouldn't eat him, just as his first encounter with the powers was a story about being devoured by a monster. so. why would elias like this, why is he excited by it. because he's two hundred years old and has spent most of those years hiding his true self as jonah magnus while serving the fear of being known/found out—that alone makes him an excellent source of fear for the eye to passively feed on. but he also describes jon's compulsion as "tingly, but sort of freeing" in 92, as if the prospect of having his entire self finally, forcibly revealed under the eye of their god after all this time will be a moment of ecstatic release, because he takes so much gloating pleasure in revealing his secrets to jon in 160, because he wants to be Known, the only thing he objects to is the revelation coming at a wrong time because that would ruin his plans. and, of course, the whole loop of jon extracting a statement <--> elias being compelled, which in turn is feeding the beholding, works as a great metaphor for sex. the gratification the beholding rewards them with for the act can only be experienced by the two of them, because nobody else will gladly feed jon their fear and only his archivist can compel jonah. like. all im saying is there was no need to make [PLEASURED EXHALATION] a thing and then never bring it up again. because whats all this then.

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#this made me realise the name burning desire might also be referencing Jon’s burning desire to knowledge as a secondary meaning (@hauntedteacups on this post)

it goes deeper. that statement is about getting involved with someone you should've known better not to (but it's not meant as a cautionary tale, jack talks about agnes as if she was an inevitability), and it's obviously meant to be a straight parallel with jon's own, current obsession with finding out what's going on at the institute, i.e. with the beholding. but the secret he is obsessed with figuring out is, well, it's elias! elias killed gertrude. the tunnels are hiding elias's history as jonah magnus. the entire institute exists to serve elias's goals. elias has an apocalypse planned out with jon as its lynchpin. of course, jon doesn't realise any of this yet, but burning desire is about his need to know—about elias.

MAG 67 - "Burning Desire" & Jon in MAG 47 - "Lost in the Crowd"

MAG 67 & Jon in MAG 69 - "Thought for the Day"

MAG 67 & Jon in MAG 193 - "A Stern Look"

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the first law of tragedies: the end is already written and inevitable. the second law of tragedies: your actions are all your own and you can choose to get off this ride whenever you want. the third law of tragedies: we both know that you are never going to do that.

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MAG 3 - "Across the Street " & Jon in MAG 48 - "Lost in the Crowd"

MAG 3 - "Across the Street" & Jon in MAG 73 - "Police Lights"

MAG 5 - "Thrown Away" & Jon in MAG 67 - "Burning Desire"

MAG 5 - "Thrown Away" & Jon in MAG 41 - "Too Deep"

MAG 6 - "Squirm" & Jon in MAG 92 - "Nothing Beside Remains"

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hi tumblr girlies i bring a jon sketch for you all. mwah