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“what memories?”

“staring at a computer with three Monster Energy cans in front of it, waiting for files that i didn’t even know would work, just so arseholes like her couldn’t steal our documents.”

EPISODE EIGHT!! OF WROTMI!!! IS OUT!!!

i helped edit this one! and did the intro and outro bits!!

and i couldn’t help but draw elijah having the time of his life trying to make his computer work. my guy is a sufferer what can i say (i love him sm)

closeups:

progress shots (yes i drew this in april dw abt it):

episode link (IT’S MY ART! LOOKIT!!):

n e ways go listen to wrotmi if you haven’t!! @endlessfearsfancast :D

be seeing you 👁️

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who is really in control?

(hint: it definitely isn’t the archivist!)

i have spent entirely too long trying to convince myself i don’t hate this, so i’m putting it here before i can delete it. enjoy it, you freaks

n e ways here’s the dumb stuff:

this pose came to me in a fever dream. or while listening to carousel by linkin park, i can’t remember

something about jonelias just scratches my brain. idk why, but it’s probably because i enjoy complicated love/hate dynamics and not because elias/jonah is the hottest character ever, definitely not, who would even say that? i don’t ship them, not really, but it’s a very interesting idea

and that’s not even the point of this piece! it’s more just me messing with control as a concept in a typical tma fashion as best i can while also still hating my art, iykwim

also they’re both pretty. i’m gay. happy pride still ig 👁️🕸️

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MAG 111 - Family Business

happy pride month! here, have some of my favorite fruity men to celebrate :D 🏳️‍🌈

no text:

closeups:

the image of the ninth doctor i used for a pose reference because i love him:

n e ways this one was fun! i very much enjoyed capturing the greasiness of s3 jon and hitting gerry with the transgender beam 🏳️‍⚧️

i am gay. that is all. have a good day

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NOW PRESENTING…

AN INTRO POST!

greetings, earthlings! my name is Ailbhe, and i am the Average Spaceman!

it’s pronounced like “AL-vuh” but please call me Al :)

here’s the basics:

he/him | 22 | FL | ENTP | bi/ace | ♾️

and here’s the rest of it!

i’m an artist!

things i draw:

- the Magnus Archives (my current hyperfixation)

- cartoons (Rick and Morty, Solar Opposites, etc)

- anime (Fullmetal Alchemist, K Project, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, etc)

- music stuff (My Chemical Romance, Rush, etc)

- various other speculative fiction media (Doctor Who, Ready Player One, Star Wars, etc)

- OCs (which i do not post unless they’re associated with other people that have also posted about those ocs)

i don’t only do these full-body ones i promise, but these are my favorites so they’re on here

find my art at asm.psdc!

i’m a cosplayer!

things i cosplay:

i’m not gonna lie gang i haven’t cosplayed properly in a solid six months so this is a lil iffy but

- male characters

- nonhuman characters

- others i relate to maybe (keyword there is maybe)

yes i make the same face in every photo what of it

whenever i post cosplay i’ll put it on ask.png but it’s unlikely i will very often, so just check out my tiktok instead (i don’t post there anymore either. whatever idk)

i’m a writer!

it’s my main hobby and the thing i’m most proud of!

here’s my ao3 :D

however, there’s not much to be said here; i mostly write original stuff now and i don’t post that anywhere so. yeah

maybe i’ll publish it all for real someday… 👀

i’m a voice actor!

go check out What Remains of the Magnus Institute! it’s currently the only thing i’m in but hey it’s something right? something AWESOME!!

the character i voice is called Elijah Perry and he is perfect and i love him. find my drawing of him here!

i’m also a writer for this project, and the dialogue for this episode was written in part by yours truly!

last but not least:

if you wanna learn more about the various things i like, zoom in on the action figure piece! i added all of my favorite pieces of media in various forms :D

i have a reblogging/yapping blog called @averagespacetextfile, if you’re interested in seeing stuff i like/hearing me talk! i promise it’s interesting i think idk

i have a yapping tag as well, it’s asm.txt! find all of my textposts and others i’ve typed a lot on in there!

anyways, thanks for listening!

over and out 🛸

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MAG200 SPOILERS AHEAD‼️

it was always going to end this way

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chillin at the Hastings Institute 👁️

hi hello i apologize for the disappearance, i’ve been busy working on this AWESOME THING called What Remains of the Magnus Institute, a spinoff podcast of The Magnus Archives!! please please go check it out at @endlessfearsfancast !!

anyways this is our universe’s Archivist/ultimate goober, Sage Newbert, and the head of Artifact Storage/temporary Archival Assistant/unwilling IT guy who i voice, Elijah Perry!

here, have some extras while i’m at it:

closeups! (because i put waaay too much detail into this)

progress shots! (because this took me AGES)

aaaand THE NEWEST EPISODE! WHICH I AM IN!!

fun fact: i also wrote some of the dialogue for this episode!! it was so much fun and it was incredible to hear the others act out my writing!

okay can i just reiterate how incredibly honored i am to be a part of this project? because i am and it makes me so happy to work with this wonderful team and produce awesome stuff like this!!

n e ways, thanks for reading my yap session :D

be seeing you 👁️

p.s. another fun fact, i made Eli’s hoodie irl. i own it and i wear it all the time. mine says london though because *jonny sims voice* the magnus institute, london. >:)

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jon sims headcanons +appearance timeline!

SPOILERS FOR ALL SEASONS OF TMA after the cut‼️

to start here is the timeline image (if you’ve seen it before no you haven’t)

now for the meat n potatoes!

(1-3 are all hair-timeline related)

1. i headcanon jon as having decently short hair at first just to be professional or whatever even though he prefers it longer (alternative mf), then season two hits and he just kinda forgets about it cause he’s too busy being paranoid and stalking his coworkers. he remembers again after the [brutal pipe murder], but just kinda decides short hair is not worth the upkeep and buys a pack of hair ties that he then keeps on his person throughout the rest of the show, and ends up with this beautiful mess that floats when he uses his powers. maybe he has martin help him with it in various ways just to have an excuse for a domestic moment during the eyepocalypse, who knows (i do because i say so and i like drawing men with long hair)

2. he has an almost-curly wave pattern that tends to frizz easily but is not that hard to handle when he actually takes care of it. totally not projecting definitely not why would i do that? georgie was the one to show him the magic of curl products and from then on you could never catch him without at least four different ones in his bathroom, even after he cuts his hair for work. he wishes he liked masculine woodsy type scents for his hair products, but he does not. he prefers the fruity bath and body works type stuff. at first he never lets people get close enough to him to learn this, and even if he did start warming up to people enough to let them get close, they wouldn’t have anyway in s2 because he’s a paranoid lil bitch boy. martin begins to associate those scents with jon later on but doesn’t realize why until they get to the safehouse and he sees all of jon’s hair products and immediately understands.

3. jon greys a lot over the course of the series. he goes through a lot of stress so obviously this would make sense, but since he was marked by the web so early on i think that would have happened whether or not he’d been chosen as the archivist (yknow cause white hairs are kinda similar to webs? idk it makes sense to my brain parasites). also it makes him look older than he is, which he appreciates at first because it helps with his stuffy academic persona

4. he has kinda the same feeling about shaving throughout the show as he does with haircuts, as in at first he tries to stay clean-shaven for professionalism, but eventually he gets to a point where he only shaves when his facial hair starts being inconvenient and/or bothering him sensory-wise because he’s autistic (we’ll get to that later)

5. as soon as he learns that his job entails monster encounters and almost dying regularly, he basically says fuck you to the dress code and starts wearing skirts and jewelry and all that fun stuff because he likes it, and if he gets fired then it might be worth it to get out of there. he’s wearing a skirt in the s2 image because i say so. sweater vest + long pleated skirt combo jon yes please (i will be drawing this soon, trust)

6. as alternative as he is, he never got any more piercings than the four on his lobes because at the end of the day he was still an academic and wanted to pursue research, and knew that that kind of thing pushed the boundaries of that image a little too far. he regrets this later but doesn’t think too much of it since his priorities are placed… elsewhere

7. at some point during s2, elias/jonah notices his lack of care about the dress code and decides to gift him the eye earrings that i gave him in that image. obviously he has ulterior motives but jon doesn’t know that and thinks they’re cool so he wears them regularly. he’s also given a glasses chain with eye charms on it, but he forgets to wear it most of the time since he can barely see without his glasses anyways so he has no need for it

8. obviously he can’t go back to his house in s3, so he has to borrow a lot of what the ghost? merch from georgie. he is still a skeptic about the ghost hunting genre despite everything he knows now, but he still wears it because he doesn’t have any other option and wants to support his friend. he’s a very sweet guy at heart but just doesn’t want to admit it most of the time because it’d conflict with his stuffy academic image

9. it’s fairly common to see people draw him as not needing his glasses anymore after his avatar transformation, as well as his eye color changing, and i fuckin love it gimme more of that please. i also saw someone say that all the eyes are green because jonah has green eyes but after jon becomes the pupil all the eyes turn brown, but idk how to feel about that one since the whole show is just green atp and it would be weird to change that

10. in s5, he has eyes all over his body and they usually don’t close unless they’re about to get poked or touched. when he uses his power, the sclera turn black and the irises glow. he also has the funny glowing eye halo but it’s not tangible so it’s not too big of a deal for him. also, fun fact: i never draw eyes with pupils. it’s just not a part of my style. i only threw them in here because he can literally see everything, especially in his glitched-out finale form. it’s meant to seem like he’s looking at you because he is. the archive can s̠҉͍͊ͅẹ̿͋̒̕ẹ̿͋̒̕ y҉̃̀̋̑o̯̱̊͊͢ư̡͕̭̇ he is w̦̺̐̐͟ā̤̓̍͘t̲̂̓ͩ̑c͕͗ͤ̕̕ḣ̖̻͛̓ỉ͔͖̜͌ṇ̤͛̒̍ĝ̽̓̀͑

11. literally everyone thinks this man is beautiful. he is so pretty and even people who aren’t attracted to men can see that. however, most are dissuaded by the stuffy academic persona at first and the “you look like hell” vibes later, as well as his generally standoffish personality. this does not apply to martin, who sees all of those traits as 100% his type, or elias/jonah, who has a religious sort of reverence toward jon as his perfect archivist (this was touched upon by alex during the magnus fanfic-reading video and i’ve loved the idea ever since). jon does not like this but he’s also unaware of it for most of the show so it’s not too big a deal for him

12. i only just learned who dev patel is from people fancasting him as jon, but i looked him up and yes i approve of the fancast. i also drew these before i looked him up so i think i accidentally drew dev patel a few times (also as a white person i can’t say much about his race and how it would play into his character but whenever i see art of him that doesn’t portray him as a poc i just go “why is he white” so i’m just gonna go along with the majority of the fandom’s interpretation of him being south asian)

13. he is very small. not too short, per se, but small, like a tall skinny person was scaled down in photoshop. he’s about 5’7, and at first he wears shoe lifts to hide this, but eventually just decides to wear platforms and heels like he did in college, and sometimes just forgoes them entirely because he’s stopped caring. martin likes to pick him up and carry him around the safehouse (and in places where he’s cut off from the eye) and he enjoys it.

now for some non-appearance related ones that have been chewing on my brain along with the parasites

14. WE’RE FINALLY GETTING TO IT‼️ he’s 100% autistic (i’m autistic and i hit him with the tism ray). him responding to “have you seen a dog?” with “in general, or…?” is so autism-coded it’s not even funny. he doesn’t have too many sensory issues but he hates tight pants and ties and things like that. he also hates the feeling of air on his skin most of the time so he always wears long sleeves if he can help it. for the first few days after he realizes he doesn’t need his glasses, he keeps wearing them anyway because he���s so used to them. he doesn’t melt down but he does shut down sometimes, though he does lose the ability to go nonverbal after his transformation and that fucks with him a lot. martin is a big help with this in s5 because he’ll just be quiet, not provoking the eye to give or collect information at all.

15. he was definitely in the mechanisms in college. i don’t know too much about their lore yet since i’ve only listened to the first two albums (ulysses dies at dawn is a fucking masterpiece), but picturing a young version of this jon as jonny d’ville is absolutely wonderful

16. he definitely liked martin in the early seasons but he didn’t fully realize it until later. i think his bullying was a result of him having the feelings and not quite knowing what those feelings were because he’s autistic. my biggest point of evidence for jon not truly disliking martin is that when they were trapped while hiding from jane prentiss, jon straight up thinks that he’s hallucinating martin being there because his presence is comforting.

17. he is CANONICALLY ASEXUAL AND FUCKING PROUD. him being ace makes me so happy as an ace person myself, especially since he’s in an mlm relationship with someone who’s (assumedly) not ace but is not expecting anything out of him, just like myself. i feel incredibly seen by the whole magnus team just for that but this is a headcanon post so i won’t get into all that. he is very much a romantic and was incredibly touch-starved post-georgie and pre-martin, so he’s happy to be physically close and intimate as long as it doesn’t go any further than that. he loves big hugs and kisses and cuddles from his boyfriend and that’s fucking wonderful!! okay moving on from the projection

18. for his whole life, his favorite color was blue, specifically that of the sky or similar lighter shades like periwinkle and cyan and those such as. they’re peaceful, and he looks good wearing them. but after his coma, he realizes just how much he likes green, and starts wearing it a lot more… he doesn’t realize that it’s not his own brain producing that thought.

19. he does not look like the type to like rock and metal, but he does. he loves how complicated in structure metal can be, especially when it utilizes more melodic aspects as well. if he could have heard take me back to eden by sleep token (well, most of it—there are some flops on there), he would have loved it. he also loves classical pieces for that same reason, but the heavy stuff is super appealing to him on its own. he sometimes listens to prog and math rock as well, just to follow along with the time signatures and long runtimes projecting again maybe but it kinda makes sense so i’m putting it out there

20. he was never as much of a media nerd as he was an academics nerd, but he loves long speculative book series like a song of ice and fire, red rising, and the stormlight archive. intricate worldbuilding gets him every time, and he’ll throw himself into it completely, as is canon. he tried playing dungeons and dragons once, but the amount of pre-existing rules bothered him since he couldn’t do everything he wanted to with his character. star wars also bothers him because there’s so many inconsistencies in the lore. but, it did inspire him to write his own space opera lore for his band.

jesus christ that’s more writing than i’ve done for any of my novels in months yippee i’m dying over here

anyways that’s all i’ve got for now, i hope to incorporate this stuff into my art from here on out but hey maybe i’ll hyperfixate on something else soon and never draw mr. jarchivist again! has happened before could happen again folks

to finish off here’s my proper art of him again cause i feel like adding it!

c ya later 👁️

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the archivist 👁️

in the style of an anime screenshot because i say so.

SPOILERS FOR S5 OF TMA AHEAD‼️

heyo!! new hyperfixation time lesgo i’m killin it over here

i finished the magnus archives in about three weeks. it was an incredible experience lemme tell ya jonny sims and alex newall are gods among men

i love this depressed wet cat eyeball godbeing so much it hurts me. his voice has become my entire inner monologue. i think about him the instant i wake up and the second before i fall asleep.

him and his foggy soft sweater tea boyfriend restarted the fanfic addiction that i’ve been fully recovered from for two years. two years.

this is bullshit anyways have some art of him

here are some various progress shots of this guy, who took me surprisingly long to figure out how to draw.

he has no canon design, gang. none of these characters do. this scares me.

i tried to include all the scars he canonically has, but i apologize for my lack of knowing how to draw the scar from a worm fucking burrowing into your skin and i am not googling that thanks very much that’s fuckin terrifying

and here are some closeups because why not

i intend to draw his progression through the seasons at some point, but let’s just say in my head he went from a typical academic to… this thing pretty gradually

if i were to serve a fear entity it’d probably be the vast, cause i love big empty spaces and big cities and buildings and the views from those buildings and idk if i see something big my first instinct is to pog face. also space is vast and i LOVE space. my legal last name is spacekid trust me bro

the worst one for me is the corruption, 100%. i fucking HATE insects so much and its whole thing is yknow THAT and it fucking sucks i hated the noises they added when jane prentiss attacked holy hell i’m gonna stop thinking about it now

also what in the hell is the mechanisms and why do they keep showing up in fics as a band jon was in? are they real? because if i am able to hear jonny sims singing then goddamn i need that shit RIGHT NOW

n e ways that’s about it gang… see ya later 👁️

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gio art dump!!

because i feel like i should be feeding y’all regularly and i have no new stuff to post

plus some fugio because i am a phf truther

also top right is a “challenge” i did on tiktok where i drew him in my current outfit. yes that is what i was wearing that day i still own those pants they’re cool as shit

this one is a tag i made when i worked at barnes & noble!

this is an entire 8.5x11” sketchbook page filled with doodles of him because he infected my mind! :)

he’s also kinda infecting my mind again so you might get some more art soon. maybe idk sortakinda eh hard to tell

also i started posting my fugio college au fic that i’ve been working on for literally two years so go check that out on my ao3 ig

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HELLO GANG PLEASE GO CHECK THIS AWESOME PROJECT OUT!!!

i am so honored to have even been considered for a part in WROTMI let alone ACTUALLY CAST!! thank you to the amazing creator Noah, and everyone else currently making this possible (and also making it the coolest thing ever)!

episodes 1 and 2 are out on youtube so you should definitely go listen to them RIGHT NOW GO DO IT THEY’RE SO GOOD EVEN IF YOU DON’T LISTEN TO THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES DO IT ANYWAYS

refer to their page for more details :D

Hello Tumblr!

So, I'm looking for a couple of voice actors in regards to my fancast. I don't exactly... have all the voices thought out, but I at least have a few personality types sorted!

Supplemental, being British is not a requirement, as long as you can do an accent you're fine! I mean, heck, a few people on here are American. Okay, lets go:

David Hallaway: Old, like, around his 40s I'd say with a gruff voice and cockney accent. He always has the "tired dad" sort of sound to him. Looking for a voice in the more... masculine register

Marissa Lindell: I picture like, really fake, high, airy kinda voice. But I'd like some range considering the plans I have for her (rubs hands evilly)

Hazel Wright: "it's cheery, and when she gets upset it gets more caked on sweetness in a vain attempt to cover the fact she feels negative emotions. It's sweet, but you can tell it's at least a little forced mosta the time" -Odds

Alex D: "he has a kinda effeminate (but generally androgynous), almost nasally tone, and while softspoken generally he holds a good bit of confidence in his cadence and sound" - Mel

Alora Rothman: Deep, feminine voice (AFAB or Transwoman, doesn't matter to me), kind of monotone in a similar light to Elijah, yet looses it upon feeling heavy emotion or under extreme stress.

Cleome Rhodes: Kinda has that Salad Fingers type of vocal tone, would like a transwoman voice her. No offense to anybody who is AFAB but Id like her voice to be truer to the character

"Friend": I will take any voice for this character, my only requirements are slow speech patterns and sounding in pain. Like you're a ghost speaking through a vessel, if that makes sense?

"The Monster That Lies In The Dark": Deep, monstruous, gravelly. Either AFAB or AMAB, I don't care. If you can go deep and monstrous, you got a good chance!

Collis Holmes: Would prefer someone AMAB for this role, but I am not picky. Half the avatars are ambiguous gender wise. He sounds like he's on the verge of crying or throwing up at every given moment, shaky and hates it.

Montana Reed: Gruff and country, basically Cole Cassidy if he were a cool murder cowboy Vane Sandoval: Geniuenly, I forgot he existed. So if you can make him sound like a crazy bastard you have good chances of getting the part. I only remembered him after I was looking on my doc and DID NOT SEE HIM. He didn't even have a name Vane im SO sorry

Osiris Dernier: AMAB, deep, kinda getting the vibes of Asterian but if he was more of a diva. Kinda need range cus oh my GOD he is DRAMATIC, would also like if the person auditioning can sing, since this man is if theatre kid was terminal. Limos Nineltowski: Another AMAB one, folks. I like men. I MEAN WHAT WHO SAID THAT???? Anyways, being serious, this man just sounds tired. Not like "its 1 pm and i just woke up" tired more like "Do I really wanna be here right now? Like, alive?" tired

"Mimi": Anybody can voice this creature, they're just quiet, whispery, and have a cute little "kekekeke" laugh

Farida Rashid: Slow, airy, kinda like someone constantly disassociating. Afab, accent can be either Welsh, Arabic or both, it really doesn't matter.

[ Thank you Mel for providing these images/gen ]

Hey? Wanna Audition?

endlessfearsfancast5664@gmail.com

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K PROJECT POSTING TIME!!

hey so do we post cosplay on here? how does this work

also face reveal ig but it’s not like i was hiding it

ttfn -al “makes the same face in every photo” spacekid

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NEW ART!! FINALLY!!!

this man has been on my mind since he first graced my screen in early 2023 so here he is i love him so much

also here’s my favorite clip of him as a gif because why not

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hello everyone please enjoy this photo of me (he’s literally me guys like actually also his husband is my husband)

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y’all remember that one barbie meme? no? that’s okay neither do i

i promise i’ll have new art soon but for now i’m just moving stuff over from other socials :)

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what, y’all never seen a guy enjoy ready player one before?

old as shit art again but have it anyways cause i like it still

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so i’m listening to the magnus archives and i just got to season 5. incredible show btw the s4 finale was one of the best pieces of media i’ve consumed in a long time.

spoilers for s5!!

i’ve been involved with fandoms for quite a while, and notably, most of them have that one “queerbait” ship that most people know would work incredibly well if they were in a relationship but they never end up being canon. y’all know the ones.

tell me why i thought jon and martin were gonna be one of those ships. i’d seen so much fanart of them and thankfully there were no spoilers, but because of that i just kind of assumed that they were one of those ships that would just kind of be in a weird “best friendship” that never actually went anywhere. but then they started saying “i love you”?? and then there was a moment like “oh who’s this, your boyfriend?” “yes, actually.” ???

i’m really happy about this guys i’m actually so fucking glad they just went for it instead of doing the dumb thing so many other pieces of media do when they’re scared of pissing off homophobes who might give them money

thank you for listening to me yap about gay people

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more old art while i draw some new art to put here

this time it’s a redraw of even older art!!! ed elric my beloved 🥰

this one is from 2019 when i first watched fullmetal

my entire brain was gone the moment i saw this scrungly lil man running around on my screen and now it’s been five and a half years and i share a name with his brother

anyways that’s it for today :D