#*hurts in tim/martin*

[sydneighsays]

Take some doodles!

Anyways

[yenshui]

finally succumbed to listening to tma

[ohits3amfuck]

I got hit in the trauma with a line earlier so here's somewhat of a prompt

A character getting asked "do you ever stop talking?" While taking about something there interested in and just completely shutting down and going quite. And someone noticing and giving them the comfort they need

[nickel-nicnac]

SO, a bit late, but here is gay archives

And then some close ups

This took way to long imma go lay down now

Happy (late) pride

[gideonisms]

one thing about the tma & tmp writers is I know they understand having a job where the social vibes are incredibly strange. I appreciate their commitment to depicting work environments that are so unnecessarily stressful where everyone is trying to backstab everyone and form alliances but meanwhile it's just filing items on a computer. The petty drama feels very true to life

[vanyafresita]

im normal im okay im fine im not crying about fictional characters its fine im alright no worries guys

[bnny-stars]

I don’t see many people mentioning that Tim and Martin seemed genuinely close, not in a made up way or just work place friends. I could be entirely wrong, but Tim was the first one Martin told about faking his CV, whenever everything was happening where Jon was all distant — They were like silent emotional support for each other too

[notonlyshortbutshorttemperedtoo]

Starting s5 of TMA be like:

Me: Ok, let's be prepared for some gore and chaos

Ep 161: Careful! Shh... SUPRISE!

Me: oh

Me: *starts sobbing *

[radical-dadical-rafael]

thinks so much abt Tim Stoker and the lonely

[psychic-winged-turtle]

Update on my Magnus Archives journey. I’m now on episode 113 and let me tell you, it’s getting crazy. Tbh I still don’t know what Elias’s intentions are. Like, I know what he did to Melanie was pretty messed up, but also I don’t know if he did it because he had to?

Jon, at least, seems to rely on doing his job to keep himself healthy. I don’t know if this applies to the others. There’s also the fact that if Elias dies… spoilers. Regardless, my thing now is wondering if he’s trying to protect them in some weird convoluted way.

Current characters from favorite to least:

Jon

Basira

Elias

Martin

Melanie

Tim

Daisy

[veryeyecoded]

Teen And Up Audiences

Major Character Death

F/M, M/M, Multi

Complete Work

19 May 2023

Tags

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Summary

After Sasha, Tim and Martin get into the car crash and don't make it. Jon remembers what when they got married.

Prompt: when I imagined her coming down the aisle, I didn't imagine her in a casket

[writengarbage]

The rodeo continues (Chapter 4)

Fucked around and wrote a little emotional hurt/comfort with jmart, Martin’s POV. Would love if you check it out! I just need to rotate them in my brain for a while ok

[nerdyramennoodle]

Finished TMA, I know I rarely post but here's a WIP </3

Also here's my ratings and some thoughts I had...

💥SPOILERS💥

S1 8/10

Some of the best statements, slow start and wish we had more time with Sasha and Tim bc of how much we get later on, amazing finale episodes and the second half really picks up by the end I was captivated.

S2 9/10

Amazing starting to learn more lore, loved paranoid Jon and all the Martin stuff we get, the tunnel stuff was actually terrifying and this season really had a great motif with the supplementals idk wether to call this season one of the scariest or funniest. Also Daisy Basira and Melanie slowly becoming more relevant is amazing I love them so much! Also the pay off with Not!Sasha attacking Jon and the Elias reveal is amazing!

S3 10/10

Probably my favorite because of how many gems you get, Episode 100 being hilarious, Michael's backstory, learning Martin and Tim's reasons for getting the job, Tim's connection to the Stranger who has been built up as one of my favorite villians and being personified through Nikola AAHAHH I love this season sm. MY GIRL MELANIE getting so much more time, OMG and the trips Jon goes on to discover more about his connection to the Eye and all the different avatars! Ugh I could gush about this season for hours. The perfect mix of spooky and lore and funny with a tragic ending.

S4 9/10

Still amazing but is docked a point because of how much less Martin and Melanie time you get, also I've never been a fan of the coma trope and was getting skeptical at the beginning but it pays off alot, I love how much Daisy and Basira get here and how much Jon really changes, loosing Tim and essentially loosing Martin is really interesting for his charcter growth and this is the season you can really feel it and SEE it and it also sets up his hero complex he gets for next season, loosing Sasha and Tim really has an important effect on his character. Also they make it so believable how Jon starts to realize he has feelings for Martin and how much he misses him and all the moments you get of him mourning the friendship they had gotten in s3. It's a lot to explore and as much as I was skeptical at first the pay off with Jon changing sm and THE FINALE!! is really worth it. This season also has my personal favorite Finale of all the seasons.

S5 9.5/10

I won't write too much about s5 because I'm still digesting it bc it's alot, but I loved it! The way Jon and Martin's interactions are so realistic and fun to hear, and the impending doom, that you realize half way though, that one or both of them may die is crushing but great. This season also has more scary statments that didnt affect me as much in s4 more like s2 and 3 again. Also love all the stuff the girlies get, and along with s3 hurting my soul so much this season managed to bring me to tears twice, with Daisy, Jon and Martin RIP </3

Overall I love this series so much and I loved listening to it I might listen to protocol now but I need a small break ugh...

📼👁🦷🦴🫀🕸🐈‍⬛☁️

[thebadchoicemachine]

Thinking about Tim Stoker.

The first time I listened, I hated Tim by season 2. I didn't like how he treated Martin or Jon and was upset he didn't seem to change after Martin chewed him out for his hypocrisy.

The second time, knowing about that and with lots of love spoon-fed to me by the fandom, I tried to hear him with new ears. He became my favorite character and I thought he was entirely in the right.

I do not remember having much opinion of him at all the third time I listened. Too focused on other characters.

Now, on my fourth listen, I think my true opinion has finally finished boiling. Tim IS my favorite s1 character. He was in the right for the first bit of s2, but he ended up kind of a jerk—a victum to his own nihilism.

The thing is, Jon was RIGHT. Someone was trying to hurt him (a lot of things, actually), someone in the institute did kill Gertrude, and he was being betrayed. He was desperately trying to protect everyone and just figure out what was going on.

When the truth of all that came to light, though, Tim remained angry at him. “I don't forgive you” has always irked me just a little, because what did Jon do that needed forgiveness? Tim is 100% justified but Jon is also in the right. Hurray morally grey characters :D

[riveracheron]

just by giving us office shenanigans, the magnus protocol is simulating the terrifying creeping dread of early magnus to me.

theyre making alice so silly and sam so sweet “cinnamon roll” and gwen so adorably bratty because they Know we know its gonna hurt.

they’re playing on our knowledge of this franchise to curate such a secondhand sense of “Oh Fuck” just waiting for it all go to shit. it’s terror they dont have to explicitly allude to because they Know we know. so good.

i just know they made sam make cat noises in his sleep to up his “awww sweet fandom baby. sweet cinnamon roll” factor Just because we know they’re going to destroy him

they saw the way we write precanon and gave it to us on a knowingly poisoned silver platter. sam is fanon martin, alice is fanon tim, gwen is fanon jon, celia is fanon sasha. but all their cute office shenanigans are soured now by Oh God Oh Fuck. its *genius*. even though we dont know the characters too well they are familiar. they are familiar and we love them already because they are familiar. their pain is familiar too and we know its coming.

. and colin is there to be our Reminder that this isnt a cute sitcom anime. colin is living in the horror genre . he is our Reminder so we don’t get too comfortable.

archives was so good at slow burn upping the stakes. protocol is Not Doing that for obvious reasons but the fear it illicits is the same creeping dread feeling.

[declamationark]

Jonathan Sims was a man who tried desperately to rationalize his fear away, because if you don't believe in them, then they don't exist, and he knew deep down that Mr. Spider was real and lived in fear of that fact, only telling this to a tape recorder

Jonathan Sims didn't want to believe in the supernatural and yet told Naomi that she holds the stone from the graveyard, the one evidence that it was real

And he told another statement giver that he may not believe them but he promises that it will be investigated thoroughly

He was at the throes of his paranoia that his assistants were out to kill him and still said "I don't want my assistants to die"

He destroyed the Not-Them table so that it wouldn't hurt anyone else, and sure he made a mistake and freed it instead, but he wanted to avenge Sasha and prevent any more harm

He was a man who made several choices that ended up becoming disastrous despite his intentions and yet he still tried. He still tried. He punches Jonah with each for the people he cherished and some he only knew from the tape recorders but still loved enough to avenge them like that. And at the very end, he hated the idea of shoving the Fears into countless other worlds and inflicting the same pain of bringing them into chaos that he received to someone else. He hated knowing that someone, in those worlds, will take his role as The Archivist and all the terror and pain it came with, and so made his own choice, one that would save everyone as best as they could be saved when the world became the way it is now

It didn't work, like many of his choices, but he still tried

He still tried

And as the audience, the viewers, listeners, we who listened and Knew very well his story and all the ways it unfolded, cannot See him anymore but very much hoped that he found his peace with Martin in Somewhere Else

imagine going somewhere that you know you might not come back from. imagine leaving behind half-formed friendships and the facimile of your old ones, hand in hand with ppl who want you dead, because its the right thing to do. imagine you don't come back, just like you anticipated, except thats not entirely true. you dont survive, but some force stops you from leaving in peace; it leaves your body lifeless because it has no use for you besides the terror your mind can inflict on others, but it just won't let you die. imagine one day, you're free from the mental prison you've been trapped in. you wake up, but you're still not alive. you're cold and empty and no one looks at you the same because they can't stand to look at you. it hurts because you can't do anything but hurt people anymore. imagine you had no choice in this, except you did, didn't you? its all your fault because you were too curious, too naive, too prideful, too stupid. its all your fault, just like you always thought, and now everyone agrees with you. imagine they wish you hadn't woken up, and you can't help but agree with them. and yet, you do everything in your power to save them all, while you still have people left to save. because you're still you, even if your friends see an animated corpse in your place. you hold onto your humanity with white knuckles and gritted teeth because its all you have left of yourself. and you still lose by the end because you were set up to fail since the beginning. because you are jonathan sims, and the world has no sympathy for you