#Gerry Roberts

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On this day… 6th of November

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Round 2

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Re-Animator (1985)

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*deep breath in*

the fears 👏 have always 👏 been (in one way or another) 👏 parallel 👏 to 👏 desire 👏

let me explain.

so many of the statements given by actual avatars center around some sort of need that was met by their entity. Lots of them even had a positive relationship with the fear that drove them.

Jane Prentiss is an excellent example - the Corruption has always been about a form of toxic and possessive love, but she personally has a deep desire to be “fully consumed by what loves her,” and finds a perverse joy and relief at allowing herself to be a home

Jude Perry is another - she fucking loved watching people’s lives be utterly destroyed. The Desolation only offered her a power of destruction on a grander scale, and then gave her a more intense rush of joy as she did its work. When she tells Jon that he needs to feed the Eye before it feeds on him, it’s almost as an afterthought; she was happily feeding the Desolation long before it burned her into a new existence.

Simon Fairchild. Every time that old loose bag of bones wanders into the picture, he is having a fucking EXCELLENT time playing with the Vast. He loves showing people their own insignificance, and he loves luring them into situations where he can throw them into the void as he smiles and waves.

Peter Lukas (hell, the whole Lukas family (except Evan. RIP Evan.)) hated. people. all he wanted was for them all to go away, to leave him alone. The Lonely only fulfilled that desire.

Daisy, Trevor, and Julia, all devoted to hunting those things they deemed monstrous.

Melanie, holding tight to that bullet in her leg because on some level, she wanted it. It felt good, it felt right, it felt like it fit right alongside the anger and spite that drove her to success.

Annabelle Cane first encountered the Web when she was a child, running away from home in order to tug on her parents’ heartstrings in just the right way to have them wrapped around her little finger. Later on she volunteered to be the subject of an ESP study. Hell, she’s the one who dangled the “Is it really You that wants this?” question over Jon’s head in S4.

And that brings us to Jon, beloved Jarchivist, the Voice that Opened the Door. Ever since he was a child targeted by the Web, he was looking for answers. He joined the Magnus Institute’s Research Department looking for them, he stalked his coworkers in search for them, he broke into Gertrude’s flat and laptop out of desperation for them. And when he realized that all he had to do was Ask to get truthful answers to his questions? It was only natural for him to jump at that opportunity.

Elias told S3 Jon that he did want this, that he chose it, that at every crossroads he kept pushing onwards, and the inner turmoil that caused was one of the focal points for Jon’s character through the rest of the podcast.

There’s a certain line of thinking in many circles about the power of the Devil: he’s not able to create anything new. All he’s able to do is twist and warp that which was already present, making it something ugly and profane while still maintaining the facade of something desirable.

Jon didn’t choose the Eye. But he did wander into its realm of power, exhibiting exactly the qualities it was most capable of hijacking and warping to its own ends. Jon didn’t choose the Apocalypse. But Jonah picked at him little by little, pointing him towards each Fear individually. Jon didn’t want to release the Fears. But the Web tugged on his strings just so and laid a pretty trail for him to follow until he reached its desired conclusion.

Jon didn’t choose ultimate power, or omniscience, or even his own role as Head Archivist. But he said “yes” to the right (wrong?) orders and kept on pushing for the right (wrong?) answers. He wanted to succeed at the work he had been assigned. He wanted to protect his friends. He wanted to rescue them when they were lost. He wanted to prevent the apocalypse, to save the world. He wanted to know why he was still alive, when so many had died right in front of him.

The Great Wheel of Evil Color that is the Entities might not fit as neatly into categories in this universe - maybe there was no Robert Smirke trying to impose strict categories on emotional experiences, or maybe the ways they manifest in the world has turned on its head (goodness knows many of them have been showcased and blended in some very fun and new and horrifying ways so far) - but their fundamental foundations seem to be the same. Hell, in episode one we learned that there had been enough individual incidents to create a distinction between “dolls, watching” and “dolls, human skin.”

Smirke’s Fourteen isn’t going to be relevant as common parlance, RQ said that already, but I don’t think that means the Fears themselves (and their Dream Logic-based rules) are different - I think it means that the levels of understanding, language used, and personal connections among people “in the know” are going to be entirely unfamiliar

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ELDRITCH BROMANCE FOR THE AGES

(Sorry Mac)

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Y’know the Jurgen Leitner rant is kinda Gerry Keays slogan?

What if Tim had a rant but for Robert Smirke

Robert Smirke rant

I would love to see someone make a Robert Smirk Rant

[thehauntedrocket]

Kull The Conqueror

Art by Paul Martin Smith

Colors by Gerry Turnbull

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Also don't let *gestures to everything* distract you from the return of the evil architecture.

And if we're discussing evil architecture, that might lead to some references to Robert Smirke again, who designed, amongst other things, the prison and panopticon the original universe Magnus Institute was built on top of. He was also the guy who categorized the list of fourteen fears, that Jon didn't officially know how to officially name until a certain Gerry explained it to him. And since this universe's Gerry was just introduced, and has another link to the Magnus Institute, it's worth keeping in mind

[garadinervi]

Arabic Typography. History and Practice, Edited and designed by Titus Nemeth, niggli Verlag, Salenstein, 2022 [Draw Down, New Haven, CT, and Boston, MA]

Introduction: Gerry Leonidas Preface: Robert Bringhurst Essays: Emanuela Conidi, Borna Izadpanah, Titus Nemeth, and Onur Yazıcıgil

Plus:

Titus Nemeth, 'Arabic Typography: History and Practice' is out now, «TypoArabic» – Towards historically informed practice in contemporary Arabic typography, University of Reading, October 20, 2022

Titus Nemeth, Taking stock and looking ahead, «TypoArabic» – Towards historically informed practice in contemporary Arabic typography, University of Reading, Reading, June 14, 2021

[bobbie-robron]

On this day… 8th of November

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Round 1

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Kull The Conqueror by Paul Martin Smith, colors by Gerry Turnbull

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Conan the Barbarian (1982)

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Hey! Did you know that myself and some other TMA tumblr artists and fans are hosting a TMA community and daily live-listen discord server to get you ready for The Magnus Protocol? We’re starting with episode one tomorrow! Check out this link for more info! (Or see my pinned post!)

Here’s some doodles myself and some other server members have made on the server whiteboards!

More images below the cut!

I can only add 10 images but there were so many great ones I’d love to include!

Artists featured: @/brishnada on instagram, @hadrassians , @candlecoo-sideb-art , @/starvrat on instagram, @marsalta , @/one._.sloth on instagram, and myself :)

And here’s the sneaky little discord invite if you’d like to join us!

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Your Season Two Newsreader TV Week Scans!

Throughout the entirety of The Newsreader’s S2, I collected the TV Week for each of the six episodes and weeks. There’s something seriously special about collecting physical media for this show, I feel as though it honours the period the show is set in and how things were in that 1980s era. I have been sharing these on my Twitter and in the Discord for the show too, but I thought I’d pop them all on Tumblr too for easy accessibility. These are all scans of my actual magazines which I have taken the time to physically scan, edit and put together. As a result, please respect the watermarking on it and do not try to pass these off as your own. This also includes cropping certain sections out, like side panels or smaller interviews. Please respect the time, effort and actual money that went into me bringing these to you. Thank you!

Week One - Decision 87 (9th-15th September 2023)

Week Two - People Like You And Me (16th-22nd September 2023)

Week Three - Greed And Fear (23rd-29th September 2023)

Week Four - The Hungry Truth (30th September-6th October 2023)

Week Five - A Model Daughter + Bonus Michelle Interview (7th-13th October 2023)

Week Six - Fireworks (14th-20th October 2023)

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