#Jon Amherst

[autisticsupervillain]

Irredeemable: Complete Monster War

The show where we compare the evilest villains between two franchises and vote to determine which franchise has the eviler villains.

Today's Franchises...

The Magnus Archives vs Resident Evil!

Contestants:

Jonah Magnus vs Albert Wesker

Maxwell Rayner vs Derek Clifford Simmons

Nikola Orsinov vs Alexia Ashford

Eugene Vanderstock vs Osmund Saddler

Jon Amherst vs Vincent Goldman

Not-Them vs Brian Irons

Mary Keay vs Lucas Baker

Semi-Final Round: Maxwell Rayner vs Derek Clifford Simmons

[restlesschilled]

Jon Amherst always remind me of the man in the tan jacket… but like if he was made of bugs

[touch-tone-crowley]

The corruption! I'm so sorry it's taken me so long to get another out for you guys life has been hectic but I love the corruption and couldn't put this off any longer:] hope you like

[ms-paints-sometimes]

when i see a post about a john i have to guess if it's about john egbert (homestuck), john doe (malevolent), john doe (tma), john sims (magnus archives), john sims (writer) or john amherst (tma)

please give your characters a different name, gogdamn it.

[alightcaseofohno]

Updated; Old Man of each Fear Entity

The Eye : Jonah Magnus

The Lonely: Peter Lukas

The Vast: Simon Fairchild

The Dark: Maxwell Rayner

The Buried: Hezekiah Wakely

The Corruption: John Amherst

The Desolation: Arthur Nolan

The Hunt: Trevor Herbert

The Stranger: Gregor Orsinov

The Spiral: Sergey Ushanka

The Web: Dexter Banks

The Flesh: Jon Han

The Slaughter: Alfred Griftor

The End: Nathaniel Thorpe

[littleinksheepsocs]

i love your art and the way your draw and design the clothes for your characters is simply wonderful.

i would be incredibly curious to see your take on either Jane Prentiss or John Amherst magical girl dresses. Leaning towards Jane because we saw less of her than Amherst.

The absolute nightmare that would be Jared Hopworth's outfit omg.

Awwww thank you so much! I've been meaning to draw more of them for SO LONG, but I've been real busy with commissions and my job now.

While I'm still awake here is what I think their outfits would look like Jane: Tattered red gothic lolita dress. Sort of like the one below. Arms and legs exposed of course to show off her worms

Jared: First thing that comes to mind is the Fleshmaiden costime from Alice: Madness Returns. Would have bones covering parts of it to act as armor

John Amherst: Sexy Plague Doctor. I will not elaborate

[funtime-bow]

Here’s a sketch-dump!

[simonfairchildirl]

ykw fuck it. shitpost.

how tma characters would react to being called the f-slur

asks them to speak up and say it louder

jon / simon / agnes / jordan / annabelle

laughs

sasha / helen / trevor / mike

ignores it

basira / jane / michael / oliver / peter

says it back

elias / daisy / rayner / jared / manuela

says it back but much louder, the way god intended

tim / gerry / jude / amherst

goes on a spiel about how awful it is to say that

martin / natalie / eric / nikola

shouts "KILL YOURSELF"

melanie / mary / julia / callum

[cottonvanjogh]

TMA Characters and whether or not they would wear the Wiimote wrist strap

Jon Sims- of course he wears the wrist strap, it's there, why wouldn't one use it

Martin Blackwood- obviously he uses the wrist strap

Tim Stoker- does not wear the wrist strap, he and Danny never wore them as kids

Sasha James- does not wear the wrist strap because she doesn't think she would ever throw it

Elias Bouchard- wears the wrist strap to spite Peter

Peter Lukas- does not wear the wrist strap to spite Elias

Basira Hussain- wears a wrist strap

Daisy Tonner- does not wear the wrist strap

Melanie King- used to wear the wrist strap and then stopped and then resumed

Georgie Barker- did not wear the wrist strap until she dated Jon, now she still does

Gertrude- did not wear the wrist strap

Gerry Keay- wore a wrist strap for certain games but not usually

Mary Keay- wears the wrist strap for non-safety related reasons

Michael Shelley- wears it arbitrarily to make you wonder if he usually does or doesn't

Helen Richardson- is wearing one but it keeps getting longer

Mike Crew- does not wear the wrist strap

Simon Fairchild- wears the wrist strap so he can take it off specifically to throw the wiimote

Jared Hopworth- did not wear the wrist strap and now he cannot

Jane Prentiss- wears the wrist strap

John Amherst- is missing the wrist strap

Jude Perry- does not wear the wrist strap

Agnes Montague- loves wearing the wrist strap

Raymond Fielding- will make you wear the wrist strap

Julia Montauk- wears the wrist strap for certain games

Trevor Herbert- wears the wrist strap for the same certain games

Mikael Salesa- has a personalized wrist strap

Annabelle Cane- is wearing eight wrist straps

Calum Brody- does not wear the wrist strap

Oliver Banks- did not wear the wrist strap and now he does

Rosie- wears the wrist strap

Joseph Rayner- does not wear the wrist strap

Breekon & Hope- wear the same wrist strap

Nikola Orsinov- is wearing your wrist strap

[lady-byleth]

I know people have mixed feelings about Jon mentioning Smallpox Blanket Amherst next to his own avatar of the Corruption (including Jonny) but I have to admit I quite like it

To me it says that people don't need some mysterious, horrible eldritch power to be monsters, some people just are monsters cuz they choose to be and that's very poignant to me personally

Everyone has the capability to become a monster, with or without the Fears so, in the end, are the Avatars truly that different from us?

[microclown]

Also, I don’t agree with Martin in his belief that a person shouldn’t exist if their existence is dependent on the suffering of others (I mean, in the real world, who’s comfortable existence is not at least somewhat dependent on the suffering/exploitation of others?) But I do respect him for extending that philosophy to himself once he realized it included him. Especially since he’s shown time and again how strongly he holds that conviction.

It’s interesting that at this point, aside from Callum (a kid) and possibly Helen (I’m not at the episode with her domain yet so I imagine I’ll find out soon) Jon is his one exception.

He’s known for a while that Jon’s continued existence may be dependent on the suffering of others, even before the apocalypse. In 154, he questioned if Jon would be able to survive blinding himself/severing himself from the eye, and in MAG 181, he raises this concern again.

And based on Jon’s description of what happened to John Amherst, it doesn’t seem like this is a “suffer through withdrawal and eventually you’ll recover” situation.

(I mean he was incased in concrete, something a regular human wouldn’t have been able to survive, so I guess we don’t know what would’ve happened if he’d been breathing oxygen, eating three meals a day and voluntarily abstaining from fear… but it wouldn’t exactly be safe or easy for them to experiment and find out)

Despite this, Martin isn’t sure if he’d be able to kill Jon. I’m sure he’s trying to convince himself that theres a chance both the world and Jon could go back to how they were before the fears, but I think in his heart he knows Jon is unlikely to survive without the eye.

The idea that Martin would ask Jon to kill him if the apocalypse can’t be reversed is also very interesting because Martin knows it wouldn’t help. It wouldn’t ease anyone’s suffering but his own. His victims would still be trapped. If anything, he’d cause more suffering by leaving Jon alone. And it doesn’t sound like he would ask for Jon to kill himself afterwards. Death as an escape is a privilege most in this world do not have access to - Salesa refers to it as “the greatest blessing” his camera gave him. At that point, Martin choosing to die wouldn’t be about making things better, or even about enacting some sort of justice, it would be solely about escaping his own guilt.

And yes, I have seen some spoilers for the end, so I know a lot of this will likely come up in a big way in the finale. I know almost no details though, and I’m still very interested to see how and why we get there….

[life-of-a-rat]

magnus archives characters as weird shirts i found on Pinterest

oliver banks

2. john amherst

3. martin

4. jon's grandma (idk her name)

5.robin (that guy from MAG 100 who just walks out of a spiral maze)

6. jared hopworth

7. dr. dan

8. sasha

9. jane prentiss

10. elias (but actually jonah)

11. jude perry

do not fear, part 2 is near. (as in probably tomorrow)

[silly-tma-headcanons]

I have complicated opinions on the colors of Jon and Jonah's Extra Eyes(TM). I love having Jon's Eyes(TM) be green but since that color choice comes from the logo of the podcast, which is called The Magnus Archives, named after, y'know, Jonah Magnus and his Archives, part of me thinks that Jonah should be the one with green Eyes(TM). but I don't think both Jon and Jonah should have the same color extra Eyes(TM), and I really can't imagine Jon rocking anything other than green. I've read/seen fanworks where Jonah has red Eyes(TM) and while that makes for a good contrast I think "evil = red eyes" is a little overdone. Jonah's eyes are canonically gray so maybe he should have silver Eyes(TM)? that's kind of Athena-esque and pretty fitting, and if it's a black pupil on silver iris on black sclera that's a good contrast.

I dunno, Tl;DR get creative with the colors y'all are so talented and keep up the good work

I love the idea of jon having red eyes. i personally dont see the beholding as red or green but i do imagine jon having red eyes and jonah having either silver or green eyes. i love the reversal of the usual "green eyes = good character" and "red eyes = evil character" !!!!! i think jon having red eyes is completely against his will and he hates it, but jonah's eyes are an aesthetic choice. he swaps between green and silver and it's always depending on what goes better with his outfit of the day.

also you said get creative with colours and i have very strong opinions about asigning colours for the entities so here we go. i also think that these sort of ideas

beholding -> magenta. jonah hates it and gertrude decided on it because he hates it

buried -> brown. i think its one of the only ones i agree with most of the fandom on. karolina is a dark academia girly so its a good shade <3

corruption -> that visceral dark colour between yellow and green. cant describe it any better than that. john amherst likes it bc hes freaky like that, jordan cant stand it

dark -> black :3 callum always says it's neon highlighter coloured, but he is ignored

desolation -> pastel pink, as decided by a young agnes montague

end -> navy blue. originally, oliver liked a dark purple, but georgie has since decided he was wrong

extinction -> green

flesh -> yellow. jared fucking hates it and he has no clue why it's caught on

hunt -> purple!!! like a lavender, pastel purple. i think the decision was a group effort between daisy, melanie and tim

lonely -> grey. peter lukas is the most uncreative fucker and jonah thinks hes basic as shit

slaughter -> purple. melanie says so.

spiral -> orange !!! a mix between yellow and magenta, both chosen by michael and helen :)

stranger -> gold. nikola says red, but danny liked gold and that's how tim chooses to remember him sometimes

vast -> opal!!! like white with loads of reflective rainbow colours mixed in :3!!!!! simon thinks its cool as shit and, reluctantly, mike agrees

web -> green!!! i know we love green beholding here, but the webs on the podcast logo is green!!!!! the webs are green!!!!!!!! rip annabelle cane you wldve HATED purple web!!!!!!!!!!!!

[zabala0z]

Eughhhiffugi my legs hurt. Walked around college with my mom today because she got accepted so woooo!! Anyways, welcome back to me saying “huh???” To TMA S2. I’m your host, you know me, I’ve been posting for the past month 🫶🫶

MAG 67: Burning Desire

Oh my god Agnes. This further proves my theory that she’s probably not evil???? Like I think she does sone bad stuff like kissing the guy and permanently scarring his face for life but like…she kinda cried?? Also that woman told her something about being “released” so I think it’s like some kind of curse? But Agnes shook her head so I don’t know. Maybe it was about being like spiritually bound to that tree or something

MAG 68: The Tale of a Field Hospital

Unironically, this is my favorite minor character in The Magnus Archives. Joseph Russo is such a fanboy and I love it. He was all “and I know Illuminati exists but you don’t have to tell me 😏” like god I’m howling. So sad he’s dead.

The whole…death and disease has been pretty prominent in this season as well. Mostly spiders as we’ll see but there’s like a shit ton of illness themes. Also Amherst appearance. Whether it’s the same or a different person, Amherst seems to have disease and gross shit follow him around. Like the ants in an earlier episode and that old persons home in Taken Ill. Gross. Ew. Gross.

ALSO “she seemed far too tall” yeah no shit. I’m literally screaming at my phone please I’m begging you Jon to figure it out

For MAG 69: Great more spiders. My only connection to anything is just the fact there are spiders and that’s been appearing a lot. Also poor Martin, trying to keep everything together 💀

Not much to say in “Book of the dead” but I liked it a lot. Another book. Surprisingly not Jurgen Leitners. Did not think that was possible.

For MAG 71, I don’t have many connections, again, but it was weird that Karolina was so…calm, giving her testimony?? Like usually when people give their statements in the moment, they sound pretty panicked, especially during the more scarier parts but she was flat throughout the whole thing. I’m guessing she’s keeping something hidden from the story and something happened to her. Maybe she got “replaced” y’know like with Sasha. Or maybe she’s entirely made of dirt. I mean she was pretty dry

Sorry.

Anyways, someone is living down in the tunnels. I would say it’s Gertrude because maybe she faked her death to hide from people but they did find her body. Well Martin did and then the police. But who knows.

Okay that’s everything. Not many revelations but I noticed I’m getting close to the end of season 2! Very exciting. I hope Michael pops up again. Just so I can hear it’s creepy ass voice

[blankensnappeas]

Not sure if anyone's done this yet but I'm taking a list of every Jo(h)n mentioned in The Magnus Archives. Started relistening to the series and initially it was a sort of joke I had for myself over how many characters popped up with the name...

The first time it happened, I took note because like? It's somewhere in the first 5 episodes i believe where we get our first John outside of Jon Archivist. I thought it was funny how early they were repeating names but didn't think about it further because "John is a common name"

Then there was another John, the Two Johns who get a cave named after them, a John Doe, two episodes after Doe we get John Amherst's first appearance, then we get our first season 2 John mentioned with episode 45

Is this a bit??? A joke on how common the name is?? That's, if I got it right, 8 Jo(h)ns by episode 45

I'm losing it, truly

[wildgeese98]

Some of my favorite tma episodes that don't get talked about much.

mag 36 Taken Ill: One of the most horrifying Corruption statements ever. First appearance of John Amherst and an early appearance of the Hunt dream team, Trevor and Julia. Also sets up Melanie's father's fate two whole seasons later.

mag 44 Tightrope: first Gertrude statement. Statement giver became a doctor so he could try to understand the Stranger creatures he saw in the "freak show" tent. There's something so horrifying about spending your life trying to understand something you saw as a child, to the point where it influences your career and it just leads you to realize that what you saw can't be explained.

mag 45 Blood Bag: Mosquitos suck all of the blood out of a guy because he sold his lucky syringe, enough said there I think.

mag 52 Exceptional Risk: Something I think Jonny is very good at is writing from the perspective of shitty cops. The statement giver spends the whole time both bragging about and excusing his abuse of the prisoners under his care. He readily admits to using excessive force but has a million reasons why it's necessary. Also it's clear that the system fully allows and encourages it, until they come under any kind of scrutiny of course. He's just such and believable character, awful in such a mundane, true to life way. It's one of those episodes where the the supernatural element is not the most horrifying part by a long shot.

mag 53 Crusader: Love the voice actor for the statement giver, his performance makes an already harrowing story that much more upsetting. The description of the man burning alive inside the tank really got to me. Also introduces the concept of the ancient Archivists which is really fun and I wish had been explored more. Love a shuffling, empty husk that's not allowed to die.

mag 60 The Observer Effect: I am genuinely so afraid of seeing something lurking behind me in my reflection. This one really creeped me out. Really considering what it would be like have something watching you all the time makes my skin crawl. I'm not that surprised she tried to blow up the Institute.

mag 99 Dust To Dust: There's just something about the vibe of this one. The Dust Bowl is such a perfect setting for a Buried statement. All that dirt causing so much destitution and suffering while in turn having been caused by people overworking the land trying to "build their fortunes". Lungs full of dirt is also just such and awful way to die. Also Gertrude mispronouncing Boise always sends me.

mag 113 Breathing Room: Gotta love a Dekker statement. More than on of the End statements manage to hit precisely onto one of my very specific ongoing anxieties. Every couple months I become convinced that there is a carbon monoxide leak in my apartment. I'm also obsessed with the detail that the blood of people of die of carbon monoxide poisoning is cherry red. Plus love that Dekker's solution was straight up just a good old fashioned lobotomy.

mag 123 Web Development: I love when Jonny dips into his old school internet horror roots. Chelicerae really sounds like a creepypasta that an older kid tells you about on the playground. I am also obsessed with a guy who is so much of a pushover that he refuses to stop working for an evil website that turns people into spider monsters because he doesn't want to rock the boat.

mag 148 Extended Surveillance: In retrospect this feels like a Protocol case to me. A guy fusing with the computers and cctv system, yeah I've heard that one before.

mag 183 Monument: It's interesting that this one doesn't get a lot of play because it is essentially the thesis statement on why Smirks 14 was a deeply flawed system and why any attempt at categorizing the Fears will inevitably fail. It's also got some great Helen moments and a very good Jon/Martin conversation at the end.

mag 159 Adrift: Simply for Jon and Basira's conversation.