#Barnabas Bennett

[dcartcorner]

"Jonah Magnus did leave him in that place, John. He got the letter, oh yes, and was on good terms with Mordechai Lukas. He could have interceded, perhaps even saved him, but he did not. And it was not out of malice, or because he lacked affection for Barnabas Bennett: he retrieved those bones sadly enough when the time came. Bones that you can still find in my office, if you know where to look." (TMA Ep. 92)

[Commission for @chrisis-averted! Thank you for the support!]

[checkadii]

barnabas’s dirge

[fridayyy-13th]

relistening to MAG 092 - Nothing Beside Remains and going a little bit insane over the fact that this is a Lonely statement about Barnabas Bennett’s lifelong solitude, with no background sound but a ticking clock, just like MAG 170 is a Lonely statement about Martin’s lifelong solitude, with no background sound but a ticking clock

but the difference between them lies in that when Barnabas and Martin each call out for help, to Jonah and Jon respectively, Jonah purposefully leaves Barnabas to die, while Jon finds Martin again (and has been searching for him since he realized their separation), reassuring him that he will stay by his side.

and at the end of 092 Elias tells Jon that his assistants are nothing more than things to discard……but Jon refuses to see them that way, even going so far as to promise Martin “where you go, i go”…………Jon is fully an avatar, he is wholly the Archivist, but he is still so painfully, utterly human despite it all.

idk. something about victims of the Lonely and the Eye avatars they placed their trust in, for better or for worse.

[pritchypitchperfect]

Barnabas Bennett and Jonah Magnus core

[disacurveball]

Ideal TMA Listening Order

[alter4illustrator]

“The Magnus Archives is a worplace comedy" they said...

FEATURING ELIAS BOUCHARD!!

The timelapse above~ I sketched with pencil and coloured over it digitally. and some experimenting was done as well hehe, Ibis Paint is nicee.

The sketch above.

this was the first idea, which i discarded and did a separate artwork on that.

screenshots from the timelapse.

[thermodynamic-comedian]

i think the lonely feeds on exclusion, not absence. i think it feeds not on the fact that no one can help you, but rather that no one cares to even try. if you know someone out there is trying to help you, you won't feel lonely, no matter how far away or unable to actually help that person is.

that's one thing that the statement of barnabas bennett can teach us about how the lonely functions, and how jonah magnus feeds it. he could have helped, but he watched. the indifferent watcher. an amoral gaze that only seeks to know. what's lonelier than being seen, but not helped?

i think the spiral feeds on doubt, not insanity. i think it feeds on your fear of betrayal, your fear of unreality, of being lied to. you belong to the spiral once you don't know what to trust anymore, once everything feels fake.

that's one thing that the statement of michael can teach us about the spiral's existence, and how gertrude robinson feeds it. the facade she puts up around almost everyone hides a ruthless woman, who doesn't care what or who she has to sacrifice to achieve her goals. this is the facade that had michael shelley fooled, and eventually, literally fed to the spiral. that moment of betrayal, of the mask slipping off, of realizing that it was all fake. do you think that that's when he realized that nothing was real?

eye avatars really, really have this tendency to feed other fears.

with that in mind, which one do you think jonathan "on good terms with oliver banks" "goes around ending avatars' existences" "dies at the end" sims has been feeding?

[thetriboulet]

I thank the merciful lord every day that the magnus archives did not exist during the 2014 tumblr era, because if it had Elias Bitch Bouchard would 100% have become one of those selfcest tumblr sexymen and I don't think the fandom would survive that level of carnal degeneracy.

[klm-zoflorr]

Jonah Magnus: 👁️👁️👁️

Mordechai Lukas: *sighs dreamily* my babygirl

Jonathan Fanshawe: Your babygirl has killed people

Barnabas Benett: Would you prefer he call him our babygirl?

[dcartcorner]

Commission for @chrisis-averted! Based on a couple of frames from PIERRE DE MAERE - Mercredi (between 0:36 and 0:42).

[checkadii]

orph you occasionally say something that just sparks A Drawing Energy in the cave and I’m like. Damn. Now I have to drop EVERYTHING im holding to scribble out a horrible edition of this

[a-dumbass-jester]

If Augustus is Jonah, and becomes conscious, I Hope we see him break down in tmagp

Like he gave everything to the eye and it threw him away like he was nothing. He had killed a lot of people and even ones he had loved. He had to kill his humanity and even who he was for it. He spent centuries sacrificing and serving it so it can have the world in its image, So it can have power. And it threw him away without a second thought. For someone who was trying to kill it.

If the theory that the fears are different now, imagine how scared he’ll be when he wakes up, doesn’t know this and thinks the eye cut him off completely. He dedicated his life to it. Now that it’s gone, what would he even do.

I like to think that Jonah was actually a person at some point. before the eye. That he genuinely loved Barnabas and all of them. That he had motivations outside of the eye. Before he threw them away for the beholding. I like to think now that he has his original voice back, and not one of the stolen ones from Elias Bouchard or James Wright, will send him on a spiral. Reminds him of who he was. And what he could’ve had if he never got involved.

[a-mossy-amethyst]

List of tma ships I'm obsessed with in a non-romantic way:

Tim & Sasha

Hezekiah Wakely & Nathaniel Beale

Jonah & Gertrude

Gertrude & Peter Lukas

Jonah & Barnabas Bennett

Breekon & Hope

[sluttyjonahmagnus]

I still can't get over the fact that Jonah kept his bones. That Jonah cared for this man, not enough to save his life, but enough to keep him. To possess his remains and deny his family mourning rights. Or even the knowledge that he died, for all they know the man just went missing. Was his brother ever told?

All this as well as going to the man that essentially killed Barnabas to ask for those bones, possibly even demanded them. Has that ever been done before? Why did Mordecai agree? Is Jonah somehow lonelier with the bones in his possession?

And then he just kept them. Moved them from Edinburgh to London and kept them in his office for nearly 200 years. 'If you know where to look' are they viewable? Are they hidden somewhere, lovingly preserved? Are parts of the bones fractured or rubbed smooth from anger or sorrow?

I need to knoooow.