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garden orb weaver spider

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Jon doesn't want to die. he thinks he should die, which is a feeling that's followed him since he was eight. he goes through most seasons with the air of someone who fully believes they're about to take their rightful place in the grave, and he's terrified of it. there are some attempts in s4 where he tries to convince himself that he either wants to die or thinks he shouldn't, but I don't think any of it truly sticks. everything he's lived since he was eight has been with time bought by the death of someone else. and he's going to die, it just hasn't happened yet!

then the apocalypse happens, purely because he just hadn't died yet. he should have, but he didn't!

then he meets Annabelle Cane for the last time and learns that he was, in fact, never meant to die. at least not until he does everything the web planned for him.

jon must have been so good for the end

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oh thats. that's fluff. that's fluff of my favorite gore character.

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man i love Georgie

guys can you pleease recommend some college/uni AU fanfiction????? i was traumatized by this podcast😭

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when did i start to lose the parts of me that weren’t just anger?

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"jon turned into the monster that destroyed his childhood" close. jon turned into the book that destroyed his childhood. he functionally became a leitner. jon's not just any devouring monster, he's an archive of stories, he's the frame device of the podcast (Because you do not administer and preserve the records of fear, Jon. You are a record of fear—MAG 160), he eats his victims the way those books did. every leitner has a story to tell, and often its victims end up trapped inside it, becoming a part of the tale—this is exactly what jon does as the archivist, when he reads/takes/compels (eats) a statement he is re-experiencing and storing within him the subject's fear, each new victim is then incorporated into his mental collection of nightmares (You are a chronicle of terror). elias's murder of leitner then has another layer of narrative meaning to it. it's a marking of territory, of course, because jurgen is about to reveal important information to jon which will presumably ruin elias's plans for him.

mag 80 - "librarian" / mag 160 - "the eye opens"

but it's also about the transition from a world with artefacts as a source of isolated horror consuming and transforming individuals, which leitner and his books are symbolic of, to one where one being - the archive (jonah magnus's archive), which has been marked by every fear and therefore holds within it the essence of every fear—devours and reshapes the entire world.

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New York, Photo © David van der Leeuw

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I am a normal person and can be trusted around fictional characters who think they aren't entirely human

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Suggestive work ethics

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Mazes and Labyrinths (1922) by W. H. Matthews

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I love, love, LOVE it when I can tell a fic author has integrated their specialized knowledge in a fic. I was reading a fic that at some point included the character going to visit an art therapist, and it's so clear that the author is an art therapist themself, and the details included are just immaculate and I love it. I've previously read about a character doing fencing for no other reason than the author clearly wanting to write a sport they understood. A character being given a hyperfixation on bugs just so the author can infodump themselves.

I eat it up every time, it brings such a smile to my face

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Guy who only thinks about jonelias: getting real jonelias vibes from this

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#this made me realise the name burning desire might also be referencing Jon’s burning desire to knowledge as a secondary meaning (@hauntedteacups on this post)

it goes deeper. that statement is about getting involved with someone you should've known better not to (but it's not meant as a cautionary tale, jack talks about agnes as if she was an inevitability), and it's obviously meant to be a straight parallel with jon's own, current obsession with finding out what's going on at the institute, i.e. with the beholding. but the secret he is obsessed with figuring out is, well, it's elias! elias killed gertrude. the tunnels are hiding elias's history as jonah magnus. the entire institute exists to serve elias's goals. elias has an apocalypse planned out with jon as its lynchpin. of course, jon doesn't realise any of this yet, but burning desire is about his need to know—about elias.

MAG 67 - "Burning Desire" & Jon in MAG 47 - "Lost in the Crowd"

MAG 67 & Jon in MAG 69 - "Thought for the Day"

MAG 67 & Jon in MAG 193 - "A Stern Look"

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the first law of tragedies: the end is already written and inevitable. the second law of tragedies: your actions are all your own and you can choose to get off this ride whenever you want. the third law of tragedies: we both know that you are never going to do that.

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MAG 3 - "Across the Street " & Jon in MAG 48 - "Lost in the Crowd"

MAG 3 - "Across the Street" & Jon in MAG 73 - "Police Lights"

MAG 5 - "Thrown Away" & Jon in MAG 67 - "Burning Desire"

MAG 5 - "Thrown Away" & Jon in MAG 41 - "Too Deep"

MAG 6 - "Squirm" & Jon in MAG 92 - "Nothing Beside Remains"

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Polycule but it’s just two people in a romantic relationship with each other and their third who’s pretty obviously aroace but also somehow so deeply intertwined in their lives that it’d just be wrong to not count them as involved. Is this anything.