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basically I don't think jongeorgie had a "you are coming down with me, hand in unlovable hand" kind of breakup, I think georgie was like "okay well I'm swimming to shore but I hope you enjoy your time at sea :)" and jon was like "log day number seven, out on the open ocean... I Have Been Left To Drown." and georgie saw him being sucked into a whirlpool from the beach and thought "what the hell is he doing"

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There’s been really good meta about how Anglerfish is a reflection of Jon’s story, of how he got lured in and how the entities prey on people just trying to be decent and help those that ask for it

But the very next episode, the famed-to-meme-levels Do Not Open, is also a reflection of Jon’s s1 strategy

Joshua Gillespie copes by just ignoring the singing coffin in his room as hard as he can and refusing to look closer. Jon in s1 copes by ignoring the looming terrors around him and refusing to look closer. Joshua gets hailed as a genius because his approach worked for him. Jon gets dragged for the very same strategy, both in-universe and out:

“It just felt safer.”

“Well, it wasn’t.”

“No…it wasn’t.”

The first two episodes are echoes of Jon’s current situation at that time, except unlike the statement-givers he wasn’t lucky enough to escape them, and the same strategy that saved them backfired for him. The statement-giver in Anglerfish didn’t end up trapped and used as a puppet by a monster; Jon did. “Ignore it until it leaves you alone” worked for Joshua Gillespie, but not Jon.

He didn’t have Breekon and Hope showing up at the end to take away everything dangerous and leave him alone; they showed up to deliver the Web lighter, the hook that would drag him to his fate no matter what he did.

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121 of 391 homicides in NYC last year did not apprehend the perpetrator - of the 121, ninety-three didn't even identify enough info about the perpetrator to post a wanted notice for them. that's almost 25% of all murders where the cops found out fuckall and gave up.

and yet we're currently witnessing a now-international manhunt for 1 guy and a combined $60,000 reward from the police and FBI while I guess all the poors who get killed don't matter lmao

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S2 Jon: 'I found a letter Martin wrote to his mother... He said he wanted to "take me out." This confirms that he is planning to kill me'

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The Extinction.

Art for a Collab hosted by @mintybagels!

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Thank you for teaching us about the insides :) from mag 34 - anatomy class

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they should invent a new and exiting type of therapy called “potato therapy” where they gently bury your entire body in thge ground

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you want me to open a door? like in the magnus archives?

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you want me to open my eyes? the thing that killed multiple people in the magnus archives?

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I Lied to you. We aren’t having sex, put your clothes back on. It’s time for me to explain to you the entire plot the Magnus archives and tell you which fear entity you would serve.

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Being jurgen leitner the day that gerry almost killed him was probably really surreal. Imagine you’re minding your business, collecting fucked up books, and out of nowhere this goth guy covered in eye tattoos shows up and beats you half to death, then stops, goes, “no you’re too pathetic to be jurgen leitner” and leaves without further elaboration. And you dont correct him, you like being alive after all, and after that you just… continue with your life. And then several years later you tell this to some random guy in the tunnels you’ve been hiding in, and he not only knows who the goth was, but seems somewhat fond of the goth. And then you get brutal pipe murdered by the random guy’s boss. Oops

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you know that post about how addiction isnt the only way to read Jon's journey in s4, there's also a reading where it's about what you're willing and ethically allowed to do to live (and several readings can coexist)-

it reminded of an older reading i havent seen around in a bit; that cynical lens, about what you do when you realize you're part of a system that benefits you only on the back of other people's suffering. Not the only or the best reading, but i did want to share it for people who might not have seen it before

So there's a way of gaining power that's maybe always been with humanity, but perfected by rich british men in the 1700s and 1800s. they made it into a science. the system has been used for centuries, by old rich families, organized religion, the police. And you, a young british man, have been set up to benefit from it nearly from birth, without knowing, without your consent.

And that doesn't mean it's kind to you; it will gladly feed on you if you don't play by its rules... but. play by its rules, and it will give you power.

This system only functions by the suffering of others. by the time you really truly understand what it's doing, it's unfathomable that you could break free from it. your well-being depends on it, the lives of the people you care about are shaped around it. so you perpetuate it. to live with it, you tell yourself; that it's really not so bad as it seems; that the hurt you cause is not in your control; that it's justified because you will use this power for the better; that you're not a bad person because while you harm these people just as much as the real monsters, you feel bad about it, and that has to mean something... right?

Eventually these powers cause the end of the world. the realization sets in that there is never a way to do good with this system, no matter who uses it or who is in charge: it must be destroyed entirely. but by this point in the story it's so interwoven with the world that destroying it causes terrible collateral damage - or you look away; once again; pass the consequences on, to people you will never meet.

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My whole sketchbook and these two tiny doodles of Gerry are still my favourite part smh

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in the tma tag

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And at last, the Archivist looks up.

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Melanie King s3 alternative ending