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At a gay bar in melbourne

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Pyrrhus is not thrilled

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The dynamic duo themselves!!

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tma//tmagp

archivists

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sketches of some of my tmagp designs!!

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the thing I love most about tmagp is that all the characters are in wildly different genres. celia is in a haunting portrayal of the lasting impact grief and guilt have on a person. sam is in a slasher. gwen is in a cutthroat workplace drama. alice is having a buddy cop adventure.

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the magnus archives is a work place comedy

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Bog creature jon

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a jon……..

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The many stages of Jonathan Sims

We can all agree that Trevor and Julia gave him Blade Merch in the states yeah?

I almost never draw modern day characters and it was actually so fun to come up with contemporary fashion 🧍🏽

You can get this as a print here: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/silvertookart/evolution-of-the-archivist/

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4x01 Lazarus Rising in the style of Franciszka Themerson's illustrations for the first edition of Kaczka Dziwaczka by Brzechwa (1939)

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not to be overdramatic but tmagp44 might be my new favourite episode. im losing my mind actually

first of all, the fact that heinrich was in association w the stasi???????? and the “at least i normally spared the children” line????????????????? insane.

heinrich intentionally mistranslating what alice is saying until he openly starts trying to scare the shit out of klara is also wild. he really does feel like something that would reactivate all those childhood fears. no matter how irrational you know they are he is living evidence that they ARE real and they CAN hurt you and thats terrifying no matter how silly goofy he is the rest of the time

the statement is incredibly spiral-coded in my opinion (no, im not trying to apply archives-universe categorization to things in protocol, just saying that im a huge fan of the spiral related vibes. that being. psychological warfare/torture and manipulation. also the meshing of human parts and computer parts in a grotesque way)

statement was also very reminiscent of the one episode from TMA (in s4 or s5 i think?) where theres a website that this guy goes into every day to replace code with another line of code and then people die or something. the details are fuzzy but yall remember that right? intriguingly similar imo since that one was a Web statement which is always good to note....

AND THEN, OF COURSE, THE OBVIOUS. NEW FEARS SYSTEM. i am still so suspicious of it rn since it likely does make sense and work, but there are still questions left unanswered that could alter how this system actually works in substantial ways.

Biggest question is "where did this system come from (both this power of dread that needs to be balanced, as well as the OIAR)?" like, in TMA we know the fears were formed in some sort of parasitic relationship to the development of fears in every living thing (mainly humans) that they could feed off of. so, is this dread native to this world/organically spawning, or was it intentionally created? if it was created/came from somewhere else, who/where? And then, where did the OIAR come from? Where did Fr3-d1 come from? how did anyone come to be doing this job and when?

Another question is if Lena is actually correct whatsoever. We can only assume that she is (at least partially/mostly), but she admits herself that no one ever told her any of this stuff and just "worked there long enough to learn what the system needs." Just because she worked there the longest and puzzled all this out herself doesn't necessarily mean she's correct or, at the very least (and what i think to be the case) understands it in its entirety. She is looking at all this from a very "top down" approach---her job was to monitor these things and balance them accordingly. It's like trying to stop the spread of dandelions by attempting to cut off each flower before it can turn to seeds. Sure, it works, but it's a very surface level understanding of and solution to the problem. Lena probably does still know more than she's said, but I don't think she actually does have all the answers.

Not so much a question than an observation, but ahaaaa yes we have confirmation on the idea of balance being foundational to the system! like, we mostly already knew it was true, but it's nice to have it reinforced. This also obviously ties back to the ties between the archives and the protocol universes and everything that's going on with that, which im very excited to learn more about

i now need to go back and relisten to a bunch of the show with this context and see if i can find anything else that makes more sense now/stuff that still needs answers

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we talked about my roman toy and i said "it squeaks" and he said "as do i i suppose"

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Get a job? The thing that killed Jonathan Sims?

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This was tmagp 44 to me send post

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poking the bear

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i mean that could have gone worse