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quick sketch of the girls

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Podcast fanartists baffle and amaze me. I've been seeing TMA fanart for *years* on the peripherals of my feeds, and I always assumed that there was official art or clear descriptions or something because there was always variety in the designs, but there were things that were almost always the same, just like fanart of any visual media.

Here is a list of all the main character descriptions I am aware of that exist in the 200 episodes of The Magnus Archives (not counting scar descriptions):

Johnathan Sims

"Scrawny"

Premature grey hairs

Martin Blackwood

"Not the smallest guy in the world"

"Uncanny" resemblance to his father. Whatever he looks like.

Sasha James

"Tall"

"Long hair"

"Glasses"

Timothy Stoker

"The hot one"

Basira Hussain

...

Alice "Daisy" Tonner

...

Melanie King

...

Georgina Barker

...

The amount of details that everyone has just agreed on being true for all of these guys is legitimately wild

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lil quick je as i get back into the swing of things :)

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The thing that appeals to me about Elias as a villain is that, if you're not on the way of his ambitions, you're fine. Sure, maybe he'll get a bit of a kick out of reminding you of that one time you embarassed yourself in front of a crowd, or something, or call you out on a white lie that nobody had ever noticed amidst a meeting just to catch you off guard, but otherwise? You're good! He'll be a bland, boring boss, seemingly not very keen to get involved in a mess even if he really should, and that's it.

The thing that appeals even MORE about Elias is that, IF you are linked in any way to his own ambitions, he might grow fond of you. Or, rather, the fact he might have to use you or hurt you, OR that you might hurt him does not change the potential for affection he might hold for you. He's a SENTIMENTAL man who, at the end of the day, is still incredibly selfish. He can both recognized he lived side by side with Gertrude for fifty years, and kill her in cold blood a moment later. He can end the world having used Peter, Martin and of course, Jon in a way that was incredibly personal and horrible AND actively wish/reassure that they might/will love it in this new world he's forcing upon them.

The definite thing that sells me on Jonelias, of course, is that for a villain that's so used to being passive, AND is known to be sentimental, there's no way in hell he doesn't love Jon by the end of the podcast. He's in too deep, investing years into ensuring and witnessing Jon's path to forced godhood. Besides which, by the end of it all, Jon could surpass all those he had loved before, by the mere fact he'll be Elias's perfect mirror and equal!!!

they share a DOMAIN. That's fucking love in the apocalypse, I'm pretty certain. Elias had carefully took the thread the web was offering him and was the one who wrapped them around his own wrist and then Jon's throat hand.

Anyway, I love him, and I love him being utterly enamoured with Jon, and I love him only losing Jon in canon because he waited too long, because he was being careful and patient and too passive again along the way waiting for their big happy ending together.

(and i love literally every and any story where Jon still loves him anyway, martin or not, apocalypse or not, etc.)

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speaking of other momentous things which are for some reason canon but are never brought up again. what's going on with watcher's call. the only time it's mentioned is in 158 when elias guides jon to the panopticon in the centre of the tunnels, which were previously unnavigable to him. and i don't think the ability is called anything in the podcast but the wiki has it listed as such. so, mr magnus can call his archive to him any time? jon archivist whose whole deal is knowing before he does anything to the point of somewhat paralysing his decision making in later seasons once he's dependant on the beholding. because to act he has to know. that jon is going to just follow his call, blindly and without hesitation? like some kind of siren song? "because this is the place i know i should be", 193. sure. whatever. me when im writing two characters in a normal relationship.

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"of course" and then THE NEXT EPISODE JON GOES

Jon, you're lucky Elias is completely and utterly in love with you.... I imagine him watching Jon going in the tunnels and getting lost..... Complaining to the tape...... And then Elias sends the notSasha to save him because he's his princess.......

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I'm a simple man. I think about Nikola saying "your elias" and I start eating paper.

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will the hunger ever end

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genome THIS (pleag. it would make me happy):

STUPID IDIOT MOTHERFUCKING JURGEN LEITNER GOD DAMN FOOL BOOK COLLECTING DUST EATING RAT OLD BASTARD SHITHEAD IDIOT AVATAR OF THE WHORE BIGGEST CLOWN IN THE CIRCUS LAUGHED OUT OF TOWN COWBOY MOTHERFUCKING JURGEN LEITNER

STOP PINNING ME WHEN I TALK ABOUT JURGEN LEITENER I HATE HIM SO MUCH WHY DOES HE HAVE SO MANY FUCKED UP BOOKS WHY DID HE DECIDE TO FUCK AROUND AND FIND OUT JUST SET THEM LOOSE IS HE DEAD IS HE A BASTARD MAN HAS SUCH A VISCERAL AFFECT ON ME NOT EVEN IN THE ROOM NEVER SEEN THIS MANS FACE AND I KNOW HE HAS THE WORLDS SHITTIEST BEARD GET AWAY FROM ME

if i wanted to get into heaven and god said jurgen leitners waiting inside i would piss on gods feet for the sole purpose of getting sent back down

if i have to deal with jurgen leitner speaking one word in person on voice in podcast not only will i close the tab i will delete my bookmark out of spite and have to rewatch the entire series again for the experience of being able to skip all the times when he is mentioned or alive

i dont even know why i hate him so much. he collects books but i am just mad because i am angy

he better have some fucked up backstory to explain this if hes just some rich shithead whos a fan of creepypasta and wanted the irl version ill go ham

BETTER have had a book make him kill a man cuz if he didnt Im going to make him

paypal.com/IFuckingHateJurgenLeitner

episodes not even about him. vaguely mentioned what is supposed to maybe be his library and I lost it

where the fuck is jurgen leitner if hes still alive im going to so deeply wish he wasnt

crusty old man

ill punch leitner and his sad frail old man twig bones will simply flake apart under my epic huge meat fist and he will disintegrate until all thats left is one final book he kept on him at all times simply titled Now You Fucked Up in ancient yiddish

im not breathing im hyperventilating at this point

i hope theres a date given for when jurgen died or will die so i can make it a reminder on my phone

everyday once a year i will see it and do anything but pay respects to the man who had so many fucked up if true books

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You face to face

With the man who sold the world

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to liquify the remains

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me when a character who was completely powerless gains power and proceeds to lose themselves in the intoxication of it before coming to and being horrified by their own capacity for bloodlust

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and then i have this of normal pre-death gerry :3 these were just some doodles i did to figure out how i wanted to draw his face

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are we sure the only way out is through? like. are we sure we can't just. go around

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I have become so like him that I might be his ghost. My eyes are his eyes, my features his features. The man who whistled to his dogs and turned his back upon the four roads and the gibbet could be myself. Well, it was what I always wanted. To be like him. Daphne du Maurier, My Cousin Rachel