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The whole world’s afraid, Martin.

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Look into my eyeholes, tell me what you see~

Thinking about Helen Realestate while listening to Lemon Demon

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TMAtober Day 1: Favorite Character

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This is so stupid but I love Jon (and The Admiral)

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i would like to ,,,thank this episode,, for giving us Jon being cute 💚

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It’s him ........ the special little boy !!!

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So I joined a TMA OCs discord a while ago and my main guy is this Lonely fellow and the good folks over over there have really had the patience of saints to put up with my endless noodling about him

the lady in the back is Nora who belongs to the wonderful @numinousnic

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joining the "let's try to predict how badly we'll be hurt by TMA" club

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he is pocket sized canonically and so I’m gonna abuse the FUCK outta that information

mike crew everybody

(if my design is somehow offensive in ANY WAY, please do tell me, I am not joking, last thing i want is to offend anyone with my art, thank you anyways!)

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Now that the trailer is public: I have to say I am so, so relieved that the “yeah I have a cult and sometimes they’re useful” wasn’t a one-off joke or something that’s going to be treated as fun and games. TMA is one of the very very rare shows that treats cults realistically and seriously in how they appeal to people’s deep-seated psychological needs, and TMA 153 Love Bombing was such a good portrayal it practically doubled my love of the show. The fan reaction to TMA 189 make me very anxious that the word “cult” was being thrown around for something that ended up portrayed as positive, but I kept a lid on posts about it because I wanted to keep faith based on the show’s track record.

And now that I have a better idea of the shape of things: THIS SETS UP SO MANY JUICY POSSIBILITIES! Georgie’s had some hints of character elements woven through the series but never directly addressed, just like Basira (and to a lesser extent Helen) had. I feel her cult is going to be part of bringing these things to a head—less a condemnation, but as a way to include her in the inescapable themes of the show: that we all face impossible choices with no fully perfect answer at any one point.

I imagine that it didn’t take long for whispers of “prophet” or “chosen one” to start up as Georgie kept saving more and more people. Even her having an explanation for some of what’s going on must have been awe-inspiring. “I just know things” would have been the easiest way to explain how she knows, especially to a group who’s already been saved by her abilities.

I could see her trying to stop the cultish talk early on, but then noticing that it’s easier to keep people safe when they have reason to listen to her. We saw how difficult it was for her when *Jon* wouldn’t follow her advice, and how she used all the leverage she could to get him to follow it, for his own good. Imagine that times this entire group of people. Georgie is a compassionate person who wants to help people, but struggles with the actual process and obstacles that sometimes brings. Wouldn’t it be an easy little compromise, then, to just leave them to their “prophet” talk? Give them something to believe in, something she could use to keep them safe? Something useful when the whole world is drowning in a nightmare, to protect people that she feels fully responsible for?

It would be complex and sympathetic but just as messy as any situation any other character faced, and would be the missing piece of the puzzle for the themes of the show applying to ALL characters. And frankly I can see my appreciation for the character doubling if this gets pulled off well.

(Note: I assume above that this arc is for Georgie because of how well it plays into her character elements so far. It’s possible it will also include Melanie, but given she already had a pretty thorough character arc and her “call it what it is: a cult” approach in 189, I’d expect it to be a lesser extent.)

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So did anyone catch whether they tape recorder catching the trailer conversation was supernatural?

If it is, that would mean that even while Georgie is giving Jon the “no tape recorders” order, they’re already popping up without his knowledge in the tunnels.

Does not bode well for Jon keeping his truce with Georgie, but also...we may hear the Admiral.

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Something I wonder about the entitles is how much of it is shaped by perception. I was thinking about how being afraid of wind, despite being kind of instinctually associated with the sky and stuff probably isn’t Vast because Vast is about… vastness and wind isn’t that. So it’d probably be Desolation because it’s a fear of what the wind will destroy. 

So then I thought about earthquakes and how they could probably be either Buried or Desolation depending on how the scenario goes and what you, personally fear most from the outcome. 

So now I’m wondering, if in the fear soup, any of the entitles we presume statements are can technically be called those. I think statements themselves can focus on one entity or another, but the event itself I think is very subjective to what the statement giver is thinking and what their priorates and values are. Say you’ve got three statement givers who were buried alive. You could compare the statements later and have three different entities from what is basically an identical encounter. One person is terrified of the association with death that being buried has, that they’re dead but conscious, or everyone else thinks they’re dead, or something like that. One is terrified of the earth pressing in around them, they know they’re not dead but they’re afraid they might soon be. The other one is terrified of the worms writhing around them, the bugs moving through the dirt towards them, to slowly consume them when they can’t even open their mouth to scream their agony as they’re made a meal of. 

The dream logic is just so cool because it makes the entities entirely based on personal perception, and because we hear from people directly we’re never gonna get an analytical ‘true’ statement because they’re always filtered through perception. Maybe S5 is the closest to this we’ll get because we have a third person narrator in a lot of them, but even then, Archivist sees into their feelings and tells us so we get that emotional connection. It’s good for storytelling but telling us the victim’s thoughts and reactions muddies the perception. It’s basically a Rorschach test, the entites will do Something and if they have their way, you’ll react to it in a way that makes you the most afraid (Unless you’re one of the few who manages to think around it, thanks Karolina and Joshua)  

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ladies is it girlpower to repeatedly try to kill your boss in a ghost bullet fueled rage

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Why are ppl so obsessed with the idea of martin not being kind? Hes kind! Hes just cunning and pragmatic too, that doesn't make him amoral and only in it for his own gain or all full of sharp edges and ruthlessness. His kindness is important! For starters, without it, Jon would be lost. People are chronically unkind and unforgiving to Jon, that's why all the second chances and reaching out and gentleness mattered to him so much. I like that hes kind, god knows theres plenty of characters in the magnus archives who are not

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Somebody’s already mentioned this place before but this TMA Facebook page is my new favourite place.

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the “elias is jonah” theory is hilarious in a peter/elias context bc it implies that 1. peter decided to date a dude who used to hang out with his great-to-the-umpteenth grandpa, and 2. elias is a cougar

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I’m using my panopticon model to make dead memes

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it's a lovely day to celebrate the fact that mx jonathan sims is canonically asexual

this was gonna be a pride drawing oops but anyway happy ace week:3