#001 the anglerfish

[mooshroomister]

tma fans be like

the real dangers of smoking

[megy-k]

I did a background practice but it turned into a TMA piece.

-"They didn’t come closer, didn’t make any movement at all except for that damn swaying. For some reason the thought of an anglerfish popped into my head, the single point of light dangled into the darkness, hiding the thing that lures you in.

“Can I have a cigarette?”"

I do love me a good first episode and I must say that out of many shows that I watched MAG 001 is one of my favs.

But maybe I'm just biased

[lostenzz]

Statement begins

[markerbirthday]

idk stupid angler fish meme

[magnusarchivesrelisten]

MAG 001 Drawing

I tried to draw the angler fish

[wuffgang-ameowdeus-moozart]

for pride month the anglerfish will be asking for a fag instead of a cigarette 🌈 # love wins

[thedeaddraws]

“Can I have a cigarette?”

I was inspired by a similar piece my friend did, so of course I had to do a quick sketch-lustration for the first episode

[sorry-but-no-sorry]

Statement of Nathan Watts, regarding an encounter on Old Fishmarket Close, Edinburgh

[atinyladybug-art]

@eepy-turtl and @teethsies-chompies got me back into The Magnus Archives again so here is me after listening to the first episode.

Episode and transcript links below cut:

Transcript Link

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[localgrem1in]

Magtober Day 13 - Monsters/Creatures [Tw//cigarette]

Perfect spooky prompt for Friday the 13th!! Mag1 - Angler Fish holds a special place in my heart. Just something about it being such a wonderful opening episode that gives you a taste of the fear that's to come, all while actually becoming sorta relavant later in the plot? Mmm, love it <3

My goal for Magtober is to do a sketch every day according to the prompt. I've been suffering from that headspace where every peice needs to be a finished piece, so I'm tryin to break that.

Prompt list by @emerald-emerlad for tmatober 2023!

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[wildgeese98]

It's been years since I tried to seriously draw anything but something about the magnus archives makes me want to create. I'd like to do sketches for a bunch of my favorite episodes. I figured best to start at the beginning.

[themagnustournament]

Round Two Part Two - Match 9

Angler Fish actually was going to be Seed #1, but it had about 700 points more than any other episode! This led to a season boost in my ranking system, to account for natural fall off as seasons continue. Today we have a Stranger face off (ha) with Angler Fish against Still Life, which had 176 votes in Round One!

MAG 001 - Angler Fish | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Nathan Watts regarding an encounter on Old Fishmarket Close, Edinburgh.

MAG 054 - Still Life | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Alexander Scaplehorn regarding his evaluation of The Trophy Room taxidermists in Barnet.

[faeorwizardorsmthn]

This is where it all began

The very place it did it to em

[magnusarchivestimeline]

Sarah Baldwin Disappears (MAG – 001 – Anglerfish) (Approx. Date)

MAG – 001 – Anglerfish:

Statement of Nathan Watts, regarding an encounter on Old Fishmarket Close, Edinburgh. Original statement given April 22nd 2012. Audio recording by Jonathan Sims, Head Archivist of the Magnus Institute, London.

Regarding: Figure in the shadows asking for a cigarette (Marlboro Red). Multiple missing persons.

People:

Sarah Baldwin (missing Aug. 2006) -- definitely a smoker

Sasha

Places:

Old Fishmarket Close, Edinburgh

Misc.:

Marlboro Red

"Can I have a cigarette?"

Key Language:

I was initially inclined to re-file this statement in the ‘Discredited’ section of the Archive, a new category I’ve created that will, I suspect, be housing the majority of these files.

However, Sasha did some digging into the police reports of the time and it turns out that between 2005 and 2010, when Mr Watts’ encounter supposedly took place, there were six disappearances in and around the Old Fishmarket Close: Jessica McEwen in November 2005, Sarah Baldwin in August 2006, Daniel Rawlings in December of the same year, then Ashley Dobson and Megan Shaw in May and June of 2008. Then finally, as Mr Watts mentioned, John Fellowes in March 2010. All six disappearances remain unsolved.

Baldwin and Shaw were definitely smokers, but there’s no evidence either way about the others, if they’re even connected. Sasha did find one other thing, specifically in the case of Ashley Dobson. It was a copy of the last photograph taken by her phone and sent to her sister Siobhan. The caption was “check out this drunk creeper lol”, but the picture is of a darkened, apparently empty, alleyway, with stairs leading up into it.

It appears to be the same alleyway which Mr. Watts described in his statement, the one that, according to the maps of the area, leads to Tron Square, but there doesn’t seem to be anyone in the photograph at all. Sasha took the liberty of running it through some editing programs, though, and increasing the contrast appears to reveals the outline of a long, thin hand, roughly at what would be waist level on a male of average height. I find it oddly hard to shake off the impression that it’s beckoning.