#(im relistening to tma)

[lychgiaee]

ROBERT SMIRKE WAS A REAL PERSON??

[paintedcrows]

Some Fords! (and Martin K Blackwood is also there)

[abessive-art]

*Archives your Magnus*

[spooksier]

jon: i hate my evil psychic powers 😭😭😭 i dont want my evil psychic powers 😩😔 theyre so evil 😫😫😫 i hate themmm

jon whenever he gets to use his evil psychic powers:

[one-of-many-mothmen]

Guys. How do u think the assistants reacted to Jon reading the first statement?? Like you got this stick-up-his-ass boss who is the most trying to be professional person you know and one day you find out he can VOICE ACT?? LIKE. REALLY WELL?? What did they even do?? Like do they talk abt Jons inner theatre kid possessing him for like 30 mins or do they not give a fuck?

[ashes-in-a-jar]

I haven't thought much about Jonathan Sims for long enough that I kinda feel like I've started thinking about him a little more divorced of the emotional attachment I might have had once. Because I just saw a post lamenting his slow descent into inhumanity and losing his identity, becoming the archivist rather than Jonathan Sims, losing his friends, his house, everything he loves.

But is that true? That put upon head archivist persona he had in the beginning, was that really him? The way I see it, real life has already leached him of any identity he might have had, he didn't really have friends, Tim and Sasha clearly weren't, as we saw in their season 5 recording. He chose to make them his subordinates over beib friends, pushed away Georgie, he became so desperate for approval that he agreed to take a job he clearly has no idea how to do, let his stress over it isolate him from everyone around him, had a desperate need to assert himself in the beginning of every recording as 'head archivist of the Magnus institute london'. Forget about even having a home, he often slept in his office for heaven's sake.

The way I see it, this story is about him finding himself, finding the perfect place for himself in this already doomed world that was already strangling him and everyone around him. He became the Archivist, no longer needing to connect himself to some godforsaken capitalistic institute to identify himself. found his role, he enjoyed its power, even admitted to it. He found love. He found purpose in trying to save the world. In the end he was surrounded with the friends he made along the way (as friendly as they could be under the circumstances). He was finally allowed to make real choices, have true responsibility over himself and not be some tired corporate worker, part of a tired pointless system. Sure his choices weren't that great, and getting there was through outside manipulation and his own ignorance and he had to suffer immensely and pay an awful price of what we like to call his "humanity" but he Became and found what we all look for - his calling.

"It's still me" he says in the last episode. Because he is. He lost nothing and gained everything. Even dying in his lover's arms.

Forget about being human. In the end Jon achieves apotheosis and truly becomes Jonathan Sims

[kaleidoskuls]

the magnus archives is a comedy

[zhuzhee]

vast boys!!

[hotdrinks]

Just got to Daisy's first appearance and I forgot how violent their first interaction is. Jon's fledgling beholding powers emerging, and Daisy so clearly disturbed that she told him her story. Daisy keeps saying she's done answering questions, Jon disregards that completely and keeps asking, and she keeps answering!! Even though she's so disturbed! Even though she doesn't want to!! And it's the first time in season 2, maybe even in the whole show thus far, that Jon sounds sooo completely happy. Like. He's delighted, he's well fed, he's ENRICHED, he's having fun!! And he doesn't know he's even doing it, consciously. But also. He must, deep down. He doesn't even know about The Eye and yet he's already flexing his wet little newborn Archivist wings. AAAAH Haha Jonathan a darkness is unfurling within you from which you can never escape 🤪

[redplanetlobster]

You know, for someone who has struggled writing essays even in grade school, I could truly write a dissertation on how Jmart didn't actually come out of left field, was truly always there, and how the arc actually makes a lot of sense for the characters and the medium of the story with how much I've been ranting to myself about it.

[weepingbarbarianfury]

rip michael distortion you would've loved minecraft potion effects

[mwagneto]

the fact that they're both lying... the inevitability of it all . im gonna be sick

[hauntedteacups]

I can’t stop thinking about Jane texting Jon from Martin’s phone that he has a ‘parasite’. Like that’s so fucking funny and I don’t think we appreciate that enough.

It’s also this little hint that there’s still a person in there, you know? She’s not a mindless bug monster like the listener might initially think - she’s still enough of a person to crack jokes.

[evil-but-refined]

Amy Patel was so judgmental, 'why was he eating his notebook for 3 hours??' WHY WERE YOU WATCHING FOR 3 HOURS????

[spooksier]

martin, jon, and the panopticon

[corruptedcontainer]

Jon's paranoia arc my beloved.

His powers are all about seeing, obviously, and in season 1 he refuses to see. He closes his eyes from the truth and pretends it isn't real. In contrast, season 2 has him Looking. He's looking and looking (he's looking at Tim's house even) but he still cant see.