#MAG 106

[bardic-irritation]

losing my mind what do you mean martin is canonically Down Bad for jon? and jon is canonically ace? these were casually confirmed in the span of like 30 seconds? i thought those were just the typical in-denial fanbase headcanons, they're REAL?!?

[barkingcrows]

“Your father was your last real anchor, wasn’t he?”

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[hbc2706]

This feels so much like something s1 Jon would’ve said

[ashes-in-a-jar]

Revolutionary take, Basira is aroace and the reason why she said "Yeah, that does explain some stuff" in episode 106 is because she finally understood why she felt an unexpected affinity with Jon

[echo-of-the-eye]

Tma relisten nr. ???: mag 106 - 107

• damn I kinda forgot the office gossip (ace Jon/jmart) scene and Elias torturing Melanie was in the same episode. Talk about emotional whiplash. The Elias Melanie scene is so damn painful to listen to, no matter how many times I hear it.

• also I feel like I’ve always been too caught up in the “Jon doesn’t” part and that I kinda forgot the end of that scene?

Like. This implies she was gonna ask Martin if he knew about Jon being ace/dating Georgie right? Double checking the gossip she just heard?

• god I love s3 Basira so much. She’s just always reading

• I NEED to know what happened in s3 of what the ghost. Introduced? Introduced what Basira?! I read a post somewhere about how because Georgie can’t feel fear she can’t really hit the horror sweet spot and so maybe the “weird turn” in s3 was going from the earlier seasons being actually too scary to being more silly because Georgie overcompensated when dialing back the horror. So the episodes that we’ve heard are probably from later seasons. That’s my headcanon anyway.

• hearing Jon get progressively more sick in mag 107 is… is it weird to say I enjoy it? Like it’s really sad. And I enjoy it.

• another Jon kidnapping:))) he’s so resigned at this point.

• the cop is a stranger right? If I recall correctly? Cause if so it made me realize how terrified Jon must have been. He sounds so nervous. I mean obviously he’s surrounded by monsters who wouldn’t be nervous. But it’s been like a month since he was kidnapped by the circus. He knows the cop is following him specifically. He’s probably scared it’ll bring him back or something. That has to make it ten times worse.

• did. Did they? Make Jon chop its head off?? Probably not but I find it funny that they made him grab the axe (especially cuz of Jon’s history with axes)

[bitter-goodbyes]

1. Cool statement :3

2. Basira and Melanie gossiping about Martin having a huge crush on Jon????? Let’s gooo!!!!!!

3. ACE JON?????!??!?!!!!!!!

4. ELIAS WHAT THE HECK????? WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM??????

[hydrodidac]

Elias Bouchard kill yourself Melanie doesnt deserve this

[tumb1rprincess]

Damn, just listened to Mag 106. Got nervous for a second when I realized this was another perspective of the space story from episode 57, that episode wrecked me. But this one wasn’t too bad.

Oh Melanie and Basira gossiping like regular coworkers would, thank God for a bit of normalcy. Their comments about Jon and Martin made me laugh.

Too bad the good stuff doesn’t last long. I was afraid of what would happen if Elias decided to get nasty with anyone causing trouble and we finally have an answer. He will take something horrible and implant it in your brain and make you see it for as long as he wants. Melanie’s sobs were heartbreaking. Now I can’t help but wonder: If Elias does this with anyone else, what will he make them see?

[my-magnus-rabbithole]

Why is Elias such a hater?

[curious-gnostic]

Elias has become my favorite character through this relisten. Waiting for him to psychologically torture people more… The curse of knowledge being wielded as a weapon is so sexy

[flowersfrombefore]

An EXTREMELY bold choice to in about 5 minutes of episode: confirm Jon is Asexual, confirm he dated Georgie, confirm that everyone thinks Martin is in love with Jon, drop some absolutely insane lore about Melanie, and have Elias perform probably the most evil thing he has done so far in the show. Like….holy fuck guys calm down…I need a sec…

[deadlykitten-404]

mag 106 - ELIAS WHAT. sir please stop threatening people you're the one who's singlehandedly keeping this as a horror podcast hello

well other than that melanie and basira's conversation was so cute, and ive finally gotten to the first hints of jmart lolll (also not basira calling martin pathetic 😭)

also ive finally met helen! gonna miss michael but i cant wait to see what she does she seems fun

[spiralling-spires]

I just noticed that at the beginning of mag 106, Melanie does a clap. I haven't confirmed if she does that in other episodes yet or not, but assuming she does, I love that little nod to her being a youtuber. I remember Tom Scott making a video about the little clap he does at the beginning of his videos, and anyways now I'm imagining the clap is a reflex from her time working with audiovisual medium rather than just audio. I also love the metalevel of a tma character doing a clap to sync audio, while the actor playing said character is surrounded by sound guys who (based on the bloopers) spend a lot of time clicking and clapping to get the audio balance right.

[sleepy-symphony]

I KNEW IT. I FUCKING KNEW MARTIN WAS GAY AS FUCK FOR JON!!!!

i love melanie and basira gossiping about how martin obviously has a crush on Jon. Like, they haven't even been with the institute that long, and even they can see it

i was not expecting martin being gay for jonathan sims to actually be canon though lmaooo

ooh, also jon being asexual?! LETS GOOOOOOO

[that-agender-from-pluto]

Melanie and Basira gossiping about Martin's crush on Jon is the best thing ever

[silly-lil-blog]

What the fuck happened to Melanie's dad?????? What the fuck Elias??????? Oh my god????