#MAG178

[gristlebloom-orchid]

Rating Flesh statement givers

Keiran Woodward 15/20 he's chill, like him Lee Rentoul 16/20 Sick fuck, I like the energy (minus one because he was mean to Angela and Angela is neat) Sebastian Adekoya 20/20 MY BELOVED SEBASTIAN PLEASE BE IN TMP I WANT YOU TO BE THERE SO BADLY Christof Rudenko 1/20 I would give you a zero by how much of an asshole you are but your name rolls off the tongue nicely. Be happy you have 1. David Laylow 18/20 You're great, love your view on life, I like you very much, hope you recover well from your encounter dude Gregory Pryor 14/20 Yes, but why you gotta describe poor Hector like that Mrs.Carlisle 19.5/20 I need to know your name PLEASE YOU'RE SO BADASS (minus 0.5 is for lack of a first name Jonny give us the name of Mrs.Carlisle I need to know) Craig "Greg Goodball" Goodall 16/20 Craig "I didn't want my last thought on Earth to be lowkey racist" Goodall (this line fucking killed me)(and it's ironic.) Ross Davenport 25/20 MY BLORBO YOU NEED SOME THERAPY I'D BE WILLING TO PAY I WANT YOU TO BE HAPPY Dylan Anderson 12/20 Take care of your pigs well, love them, please. Kind of forgettable tho, not the statement, just you Mikaele Salesa 13/20 JONNY STOP WITH THE MICHEALS how do you even write his name (also I used to think he was a girl) Lucia Wright 15/20 girl you recorded a statement about meat on my birthday/pos ALSO GNOSTISM??? THAT'S FUCKING INTERESTING Jared Hopworth x2 19/20 Dude I like you but WHY DID YOU KILL YOUR BEST FRIEND if you denied your internalized homophobia you could've dated also you have 7 hands and that's canon now (Alex said it) also what do you look like for your creator and VA to go NUTS about you Bonus - Reese "Gristlebloom Orchid" [No last name] - 30/20 ANOTHER BLORBO WHY ARE MY BLORBOS DYSPHORIC BODYBUILDERS BUT I LOVE THEM (also ft him getting me a cool user) Bonus - Tyler 19/20 I just think he's meat. I mean neat.

[suffer-my-beloved-mutuals]

Aww they have to kill daisy :(

[gammija]

@a-mag-a-day

She never asked me to forgive her.

[fractal-voidling]

MAG178 - ########-18 │ The Processing Line

police violence, wow

YES, BASIRA

[iamnmbr3]

Jon: Even me

TMA Fandom: 

[angryrivaini]

anybody else assume all of the fears would get a turn in the spotlight before we dug into the meat rest of the season or just me

[gammija]

@a-mag-a-day

the new episode gave me emotions

take them

[im-the-queen-of-stardust]

So now that we've been through all the fourteen fears plus the Extinction I'm very curious to see where we will end up now. And most importantly where Daisy is.

[bernard-the-rabbit]

God, I hate all of these… loose ends.

[voidix]

Hey guys remember how they said Martin will not be okay and now

“They just get what hurts them the most even me “

Hmm I don’t like the sound of that not all we are gonna be devastated

[tma-latino]

MAG178 – Caso ########-18 – “La línea de procesamiento”

Un examen sobre el procesamiento industrial de la carne.

[Disclaimer/ Aviso]

[MAG177] | x | [MAG179]

[tullmetal-archivist]

having Thoughts about deaths in tma having the opposite of shock value (which I guess, to put it concisely, would be 'story value'). Quite aside from the characters who were dead from the beginning, and about whom the how and why were where the plot twists and development lay, there's Daisy.

The 'will she or won't she?' suspense is all but gone: Jon has said she a) needs to die and b) is going to, and we believe him, because he knows everything and he hasn't been wrong yet in this new world. He's telling us exactly how this story's going to end, which from a writing perspective is Jonny reminding us exactly how this story's going to end. We literally CANNOT be shocked by it, and guess what: it's still excellent storytelling!! Television writers, take note!

[feargender]

MAG178 Accomplice // MAG200 Last Words

[Image Description: 2 screenshots from The Magnus Archives transcripts. The first is from episode 178 and reads “DAISY: Partner. C-come.” The second is from episode 200 and reads “ARCHIVIST: We can still be together, here. Until it’s over.” End description]

[thevoidcannotbefilled]

This episode puts a lot of Jon's development in an entirely new context. Gonna lay it out.

From season 1 and season 2, Jon took a lesson, his feelings and fears do not matter. From his denial to his paranoia, indulging in his own fears and this taking preventitive measures only brought others pain. Season 2 in particular, when Jon brings up how he's feeling about all this, Tim interrupts him by telling him off.

Season 3 is where Jon isolates himself from everyone else. He's learned the world is dangerous and no matter what he does, no one is safe. But, everyone has their own will and their own goals, and Jon is already too far deep to push everyone else away. So by the end, he resolves himself to trust them, to go against his fear and paranoia. Despite people like Tim treating him like a monster, he still cares. This is also the season where he had the most avatar encounters, over and over, his safety was compromised and he was thrown around like he was nothing. In particular, this is also where Jon starts hiding his he's feeling because of various traumas. Jon's interaction with Martin post Nikola in S3, him awkwardly joking with Martin how his skin being in better condition than ever.

This is a sign of him wanting to talk to others but feeling he has no right to. He doesnt want to hurt them with his own feelings.

Which brings up to season 4 and I'm going to skip to the Daisy of it all. The first half is a lot of Jon taking the abuse of others because he feels like he deserves it. But the second half and the Daisy interactions... Jon self-admiitedly was willing to go in because he wanted to save Daisy for Basira. Despite Daisy being one of his worst memories. Despite Basira treating him like shit, he saved her because he didn't feel like he deserved to have an opinion otherwise. Maybe he also saved her for a different reason.

At this point Jon had been taking statements from people. He knew he was at least acting like a monster. Perhaps he thought himself equal to Daisy and was willing to put aside his own trauma to save her.

Even if that's not the case, their interactions in s4 have a different light. With Daisy, Jon wanted to emphasize with someone who was a monster in his eyes. He knew she was more than anyone. If she had no choice in what she became, maybe he didn't either. But no. Daisy chose this path and she chose to hurt him because it felt good. In season 4, Daisy and Jon have soft moments, two people who see themselves as monsters and want to not be monsters by any means. But that didnt mean they didnt have personal baggage to go with it.

I think back to season 4, and the listen to the quiet moment takes on a weird perspective. In the scene, JON had been the one just held at knifepoint, but by the end, Jon was the one comforting Daisy, helping her by repeating listening to the quiet. It's one of many times he put aside his own feelings for her.

And maybe there was a friendship there at one point. Jon was remorseful enough about Daisy's transformation back in at the beginning of S5. But maybe he's also changed his mind about a lot of things. S5 has been a journey of Jon gaining power and using it against those who hurt him. Finally he can take his own feelings in account again, but in the worst possible scenario.

Jon's journey has been one of trauma endured again and again for the sake of causing this world. As a result, he lost his sense of autonomy and sense self worth from every point of the way. It's no wonder he doesn't like to share how he's feeling, he's been self-taught not to.

[callmearcturus]

i’m still reeling from the glimmer of good news (i can get my surgery oh my god) but the new TMA episode Is Good. TMA is a rehabilitationist narrative, and I’m thrilled.

i’m just really glad for the second time i think i’ve come across a story that truly believes that the most important thing you can do if you’ve done something terrible is to become a better person.  forget forgiveness, forget atonement, sometimes they are literally impossible, and your choices are self-flagellation (which doesn’t help anyone but yourself) or... being better.

the fucking tragedy of daisy, that she realized this, that she never asked forgiveness, that she made the decision to be better even if it slowly killed her... only to fall into a deeper kind of monsterhood because the apocalypse, jesus fucking christ, that’s a tragedy.

i love this show!!!!! i love it.

[mwagneto]

jon said acab