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helen richardson

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unearthed my summer of 2023 sketchbook and found these guys!

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The Man Upstairs

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after a long debate with my friends, we have come to two conclusions.

1. martin has never smoked weed

2. martin was a big stoner as a teen

which is more accurate in your opinion?

(btw i say he was a stoner)

I suspect he tried it once, convinced himself he was having a "bad trip" then accidentally triggered a real anxiety attack then threw the joint out of the window in a panic at which point the people sharing it with him gave him 'a look' but he wasn't listening because he saw a small dog outside had gone up to the joint, sniffed it and then ate it rendering him inconsoleable for at least an hour bekieving he had accidentally killed a saudage dog.

Or not. What do I know?

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from my not!sasha animatic :]

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What do you do when the devil offers you a drink? What do you do say when it′s cold outside and hard to think? Clearly you're in the gutter, you could surely use a vice It′s what I've been tellin' you man I know you′ve been acting way too nice

i've known this man for one scene and i can already smell the passive aggressive vagueposted suicide threats he would post were he several decades younger in the year tma takes place

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Alfred Grifter of Grifter's Bone

I posted a bunch of my Magnus Archives fanart over on itch.io in a single downloadable file:

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Martin Blackwood – season 2 caring

Yes, I would love to have some tea with you, Martin.

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[image description: Martin has a stocky body, round facial features and short blond hair. He holds two steaming mugs in his hand. A teal coloured one has the string and paper of a teabag hanging from it. The other one has the words "Be mad. It helps" printed on it. Martin wears a light blue dress shirt under a loose grey hoody jacket, wears grey-violet glasses and smiles a bit apologetically while looking to the right with grey eyes.]

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various highlights from an ms paint tma doodle canvas

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We don’t talk enough about how Martin was likely mostly running the institute by himself (cuz Peter probably wasn’t all that helpful, Martin for sure never wants to see a spreadsheet again) while in a depressive episode AND manipulating Peter to make him think he’s on his side. Like holy fuck bro. It pisses me off when people act like he’s dumb because did we listen to the same show??

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i’m so, SO excited to share this 17-page comic done by @ehlihr​! this is a scene from one of the earlier chapters of Sight Comes to Mind (written by me and @whitmanic​) where due to a series of unfortunate time-travel-related events, jon and martin end up dealing with the jane prentiss fiasco alone together. some of the dialogue makes less sense out of context, but hopefully it holds up well enough to be legible!  working with elisar on this was incredibly fun and rewarding. getting to see the process of it from start to finish was such an awesome experience, and i couldn’t be happier with how it turned out. this writing project is my baby so having art like THIS of it makes my heart swell! it’s over 900k words (total) right now and looking back on this scene from an earlier chapter just brings me so much joy. 

last 7 pages and some concept art for our jon and martin under the cut for length:

Keep reading

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i see you, jon.

celia lowenthal colour study

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oop

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The thing about jonmartin is that Martin wants to be a romantic, he loves poetry and probably watches romance but for him it is a fantasy, a silly game he plays. Martin is at his core very cynical. Things don't work out for him so he doesn't really belive in romance, it is a pretty dream but that's it. He is pratical and realist. Dating Jon he has to remind himself it is real and he actually struggles with romantic gestures, it is something he has to remind himself to do, to remind himself he can do even and honestly who even has the energy and what if Jon doesn't even like it?

Jon on the other hand wants to be cynical. His first coping mechanism was pretend the things he was afraid of weren't real and goddam if he isn't afraid of love. It didn't really work to him so far so it's easy to pretend he doesn't care. But he is a romantic at heart. He saw love and he read about it and he has enough evidence that it is undeniable. And to be honest Jon was always to much a bunch of mushy feelings hidden in a grumpy (and bitter and afraid) trench coat. Dating Martin he has to hold himself so he isn't too much. He plays the grumpy unromantic guy at first. But he just can't stop giving flowers and planing dates (this is the guy that saw a theme park on a fear domain and considered how he wanted to take Martin to a romantic ferris whell date [until he discovered Martin was afraid of them]) and making all the silly things one does when in love.

TR: Martin is deep down very cynical about love but wants to/pretends to be a romantic and Jon is deep down very romantic but wants to/pretends to be cynical about love.

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the magnus archives is kind of a blur to me because I started listening to it when I had a lab job one summer and my professor-boss loaned me out to another professor on research I knew nothing about and the lab was in a basement with no windows and there were no other people working there

i had to sort dead macroinvertebrates out from detritus in pond water samples one square inch at a time under a dissecting scope for 8 hours a day completely alone and I knew I would surely go insane without entertainment so I asked for a podcast recommendation and ppl said magnus archives

so I started listening to it alone in the basement with the dead bugs for 8 hours a day with no breaks until several weeks had gone by like that and I was finally getting ready for a vacation, to Cornwall to visit friends, and I’d become so unhinged that I briefly thought to myself “when I land in London maybe we can visit the magnus archives” as if it were a real paranormal investigative society.

immediately after having that thought, I decided the vacation would be strictly magnus archives free.

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funniest person ever im telling you

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when they got "character who made an undeniably terrible decision but man i dont know what i would have done either" at the function