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Let Martin commit murder, we said

it'll be fun, we said

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"Do you remember? You store them, I suppose. Keep, keep stuff locked up in those little wheels. Thats memory isn't it? Computers used to be like you. big whirring things with loads of - uh, tape. They called that memory.

But its not - not, not really; its just numbers and...

Maybe you're blank as well, same as me." - Martin from mag 170

he compares the tapes to a computer I'm

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AGAIN! I am caught in the bouncy castle of emotions that are rapidly flinging me back and forth between "Don't lean on Smirks 14 to categorize whatever is going on here" and the episode in question being about a HORROR MOVIE called fucking VOYEUR which is about someone having their personal traumas being SEEN and RECORDED and then being PLAYED BACK TO THEM but THIS time there's a SPOOKY FIGURE WATCHING THEM

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COLIN REFUSES TO EVEN GO NEAR A CAMERA

COLIN REFUSES TO EVEN GO NEAR A CAMERA

COLIN REFUSES TO EVEN GO NEAR A CAMERA

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"I began to take a pallet knife to the left eye. Just a small tweak. It was a subtle change, barely noticeable but I knew I was making progress,

because I could feel when the knife scraped bone."

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I love seeing everyone posting various bits of fan art of the new TMAGP crew and watching Sam get the Jonathan Sims treatment of character design, i.e. every character's looks are up to interpretation except this one character, everyone knows what they look like.

I've seen at least 30 different Alices on this site and maybe about four (4) Sams.

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Me, pre episode 4: I have to be careful not to compare the entities from TMA to the ones from TMAGP, it's very possible that this universe has different rules and classifications for their version of the fears, and to presume both universes follow the same steadfast rules would be close-minded of me and could seriously diminish my enjoyment of this new story.

Augustus in episode 4: Wow, a musical instrument that demands a blood sacrifice to be played :))) It was given to me by a mysterious stranger after I told them my life story :)) I keep leaving bloody fingerprints on it when I try to play :))) And the one time I tried to avoid paying the toll my audience brutally murdered each other :))) How odd :))) What a unique story :)))) This is truly an unprecedented situation that has never occurred before ever :)))))

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Elias: You know what, fuck you. *uncomedys your workplace*

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Ok, so, I recently listened to the season 3 Q&A and we are all very familiar with the whole Jonny "Half the Characters are Named Michael and the Character I Play is Named After Myself" Sims method of character naming perfection, but during the interview they mention that there is no character named Alex, a point that Alexander J Newel himself is very proud of and a standard he is very keen to uphold, and from what I can remember that seems to be true throughout the series.

But.

I was just doing some random researching on some names I liked and I ended up looking up the name Sasha. Apparently it's a unisex Russian name meaning "Defender" and is the shortened version of the Greek name meaning "Defender of Man": Alexander or Alexandra.

Sasha is short for Alexandra.

Sasha has been the real Alex all along.

and I have no idea if either Jonny or Alex are aware of this.

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me, listening to tma on my way to work: lol, the first episode of season four is called zombie, that's funny because Jon just woke up from being dead :)

Jonny Sims, before the episode even starts: hey, quick update on The Magnus Protocol :)

me: HELLO????

Jonny: Its coming out in January :D

me: HELLLLOOO????!?!?!?

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Jane Prentiss, outside Martin's door: Corruption singer, call that Britany Spores

Martin: Wha-?

*Toxic but sung by a thousand things without mouths can be heard from the hallway*

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I love how the meat grinder from Mag 115: Taking Stock is basically just the physical embodiment of the intrusive thought "Man, I could just shove my hand in this thing and grind myself onto sausage, would that be fucked up or what, lmao"

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Ok, wait. Im currently on my third relisten of TMA and I'm at Mag 107 Third Degree. Jon is poking around America following Gertrude's trail and he just found out about Gerry's death and subsequent skin book entry.

And that has always bothered me to a degree.

I just couldn't figure out why Gertrude would do that. It seemed unnecessarily cruel and oddly pointless. At first I thought it was because she needed him for something or just didn't want to lose him, but when Jon interviews him he doesn't seem to have much in the way of information, and Gertrude doesn't strike me as the overly sentimental type; and if she needed him, why would she leave America without his page? She was able to talk herself out of being arrested, and she had plenty of determination and resources as well as a good six months before her own death if she wanted to get the book back, but it just... didn't happen. I just didn't understand why she would go to all that trouble to put him in the skin book and then just... leave him there.

And then... I had a thought.

Did... did Gertrude put Gerry in the skin book to prevent him from coming back as an avatar? Because Gerry died of a serious brain tumor and Trever Herbert had lung cancer when he gave his statement and died in the institute and then just got up and went about his business. And dying is sort of a right of passage into becoming a fully fledged avatar, right? Was Gerry becoming an avatar??? His entire life he was constantly surrounded by fear, (first as a child with Mary and her Leitners, then as an adult with Gertrude at the institute) so there is no way he wasn't affected by all that. The guy had a reputation! He was constantly interacting with people who were marked or in some kind of trouble! even if he wasn't in it to scare people, he was still around them while they were experiencing that terror. There is no way he didn't attract the attention of ONE fear entity that entire time.

And if he was becoming an avatar, what entity was he aligned with? I know The Eye seems like the obvious choice, what with his tattoos and working at the institute, but I'm not sold on the idea. Gertrude and Mary (and presumably Gerry as well) were very careful to walk the tightrope between entities, never giving themselves over to just one, and if Gerry was eye aligned I would think that Gertrude would not approve. To me the tattoos seem almost like a preventative measure of some kind? Connecting himself to Beholding to prevent another fear from sinking its claws into him. Personally, I feel it is more likely he was part of The Hunt (tracking down Leitners for Mary and rituals for Gertrude) or The Desolation (destroying things that are precious to other avatars like the Leitners or rituals). Hunt seems more likely in the long run, especially since we find Gerry's page with two avatars of the hunt. Just saying.

Idk. Maybe this has already been discussed at length somewhere in the community, but if it was I certainly missed it, and it has been bothering me for years.

tl;dr - Gertrude put Gerry in the skin book to prevent him being reborn as an avatar

I need to go lie down