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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

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we all have that ONE friend who HATES being hit over the head with a metal pipe😂 and cries PLEASE DONT HIT ME WITH A METAL PIPE MY SKULL IS FRACTURED during METAL PIPE NITE😭😭😭😭💀💀💀💀💀😂🤣

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We didn’t get it right but, love, we did our best

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would your tma fave survive a saw movie

jon: spends 80% of his time psyching himself up. attempts to outsmart the trap, ends up triggering it in some very obvious way. DIES.

martin: freaks out for a bit but manages to collect himself. still does not have the constitution to cut off his hand or whatever. DIES.

tim: takes too long swearing at length at the camera. gets halfway through the trap until he realizes he doesn't have enough time. spends his last moments swearing more at the camera. DIES.

sasha: makes it surprisingly close to the end, but pauses to point out how stupid jigsaw's whole philosophy is and gets caught up in calling him an idiot. DIES.

melanie: gets down to business and gets her shit done. complains loudly the whole time about being picked for this when there are politicians to murder. saves the rest of her swearing for afterwards. LIVES.

daisy: kills whoever she's in a trap with to try and win. finds out that the real message was about the importance of trust and honesty in teamwork. DIES.

basira: manages to grit her teeth through her trap and distracts herself from how much it sucks by ranting about how fucking stupid the insistence that jigsaw has never killed anyone is. comes to genuine realizations about her own hypocrisy in this. still wants his head on a pike. LIVES.

georgie: would not be put in a saw trap in part because john jigsaw kramer likes her podcast. has mixed feelings about this. LIVES.

elias: tries to out-monologue jigsaw. does not succeed. DIES.

gertrude: as if she would ever fucking get caught by him. I HAVE TO LAUGH.

annabelle: manipulates jigsaw into cutting off his own arm. LIVES. IS NOW IN CHARGE.

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unfinished brutal pipe murder thing btw

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So normal about Jon being like I don’t remember what you looked like but the man who let you die is going to suffer for what he did to you. If only Sasha coulda seen that.

So normal about Jon being like you died hating me and wanting me dead but I’m still gonna make sure this man knows I’m ending him in your name. Sure wish Tim coulda seen that.

So normal about the fact that everyone believed Jon was losing his humanity but no one got to see the ways his love and compassion for the people he lost or who hurt him drove him to that final moment.

So normal about the fact that even after everything Jonah’s done to Jon, the only person he never thinks to get justice for is himself.

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yes, i barely post here, but look. tma but scooby doo mystery incorporated. thank you for your time.

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MAG40: human remains

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I cannot simply “explain” an origin story for my avatarsona. I HAVE to give you a handful of ominous images with vague text.

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working on a tma thing, here’s a fine assortment of various jonathans in the meantime

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Not to beat a dead horse, but the naming conventions in the Magnus Archives are truly delightful. Jonny really said, “Here’s a cast of fascinating characters! Their names are:

My actual full legal name

The first names of my friends + the last names of famous horror writers

Michael (x4)

They all die horrible deaths :)”

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