#Jonas spahr

[danikatze]

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✨ This scene ✨

[wardensantoineandevka]

I only realized with them all put together in this post that this is essentially the arc of the scene

[demynom]

Phineas keeps collecting fold creatures that haunt Jonas

[asamis-jodhpurs]

God the thing about Phineas and Jonas's dynamic in season one that makes it so insane-making (and unfold so badly) is that what Jonas thinks he has is a mild-mannered assistant with social anxiety who just needs a little more confidence and chill to really shine, when what he in fact has is a traumatized attack dog on a short leash who is ready to snap the second he feels even the slightest amount of slack. With social anxiety.

[jestersloverre]

Midst season three going strong

[druidposting]

Jonas Spahr and the cat that he doesn't have but definitely should. Cant take credit for the idea, that comes from this post from @captainofthetidesbreath

IMPORTANT INFO UNDER THE CUT

He'd definitely have a long haired tabby. Something something the phenomenon where owners end up with pets that look like them

He dresses it in the stupidest, most over-the-top bullshit bows and ribbons (the cat hates this)

That look of despair in the cat's eyes is indeed very real JONAS YOURE HOLDING IT WRONG it has never been so disgraced as it is right now

[trixeclipse]

"And it's a good one"

[ariadne-mouse]

Jonas Spahr, at a garden party in the Highest Light, judging.

For @captainofthetidesbreath who requested "Jonas Spahr in aviator unglasses as part of a casual outfit or something? I feel like he was born to give people unimpressed looks over the top of his unglasses when he's not on the clock." -> you are absolutely correct. And for his casual outfit, I chose a kurta based on this one (ref under the cut):

He would also rock the white pants, I think, so envision this as the rest of his outfit. Maybe for his abacus he wore a simple bracelet of super high denomination beads to keep his appearance feeling casual.

[soath]

midst as reductress headlines

[illirium5]

[alicedyers]

Trustfall | MIDST 3x16

[danikatze]

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(the "get to know Phineas" part is like, a corner in a full spread about Spahr and it's only form Spahr's pov)

Based on the image below the cut:

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Looking for the source I only found it on aliexpress, amazon and twitter (reposted, not an actual source) so idk if you have more luck, let me know!

[wardensantoineandevka]

really terrible what happened to Spahr's knee forreal, but who am I if I don't affectionately make jokes at Spahr's expense when given opportunity

[demynom]

That post @captainofthetidesbreath made about the mothers surrounding Jonas to psychoanalyze him. Yeah.

[moiras-damage-orb]

I feel that Phineas and Spahr are one of those relationships where you REALLY need to examine it with shipping goggles off. There's so much there that, if distilled solely to a romantic aspect, I think gets lost in translation. There are so many layers to their relationship - the pseudo-parental dimension, the mentor/mentee situation, Phineas' idolatry of Spahr as a moral paragon, Spahr's guilt towards his failings of Phineas, generational trauma, all of THAT and then the devotion and romantic dimension on top of that? To condense it to just the romantic component feels reductive in a way that does it a disservice. Regardless of the lens you choose to view it, these two are - and have been - the most important person in the other's life. And after an extremely high-stress, near-death situation that has them both reevaluating their entire worldview? i don't necessarily find it unrealistic that in this absolute mess of emotions, that attachment gets manifested into a kiss, but I hardly see that as the be-all and end-all. There's so much more. It's complicated and ridiculously messy but that's what I love about it.

[acaptainbyanyothername]

One of my favorite themes Midst is exploring is what it means for a person to become an idol, a symbol. How they and the narrative deal with that is FASCINATING.

Obviously we have Lark. Clara Mire was shoved into her symbol at a very young age— she became the poster child for Caneum, the boogeyman under Trustee’s beds, the universal villain. She has spent her entire life running from that symbol, adopting an alias and jumping from place to place. But her tragedy is that in running from her symbol, she has had to partially become it. Lark is TERRIFYING, and leverages that all the time, against Fuze, Phineas, even Tzila. Lark became dangerous to run from her symbol of Dangerous.

Then we have our buddy Tripotentiary Moc Weepe. Upon his transformation, he becomes the symbol of the Trust. He literally and figuratively makes the Trust translucent to show off its diseased, rotting insides. He is the true Trust, inside and out. No wonder everyone hates him.

Jonas Spahr is forced to be this golden idol— don’t show weakness, put on a media-ready smile, not a hair out of place and it’s showtime. He groomed to be this way like one of Costigan’s plants, and she’s snipped away all of his natural humanities. He is golden and perfect at the cost of his personhood, and it’s killing him.

Contrast that against Phineas Thatch. Phineas tries to become that golden idol, Spahr tries to cull his imperfections, but it doesn’t stick. Phineas is too messy, too human, he can’t become the untouchable symbol. So he’s rejected and abandoned by his idolatristic society.

I think even Hieronymous Loxlee could count as a symbol— if Weepe is the Trust, Harry’s the Breach. Secretive, in disguise, hidden in plain sight. It’s a heavy burden to carry though, causing him to have to make decisions as a symbol rather than as a person. He needs to maintain the Breach above his own personal relationships—drop the moon on Midst if it saves the Breach, even if it dooms his loved ones and his own daughter. He can’t afford to be a person, he has to be the symbol.

But then Midst episode 15: Breach comes and says they’re just people. Lark is just an old woman. Jonas Spahr is just a man. It’s a clash of these various symbols and ideologies and inflated idols but they’re all flesh and blood that can die in an explosion. Anyways