#Mag 189

[bitter-goodbyes]

LOLLLL MELANIE KNOWS

[tumb1rprincess]

Georgie and Melanie are okay, yay! I know they’re still not the biggest fans of Jon, but at least they’ll change up the dynamic of the group a bit. And Melanie teasing Jon for his tendency to faint and calling him “the Ceaseless Watcher’s special little boy” had me laughing. She actually sounds kind of happy, despite everything.

[some-minor-inconvenience]

it was a great moment for me when I realized Jon being called "The Ceaseless Watcher's Special Little Boy" is cannon and not just fan base shenanigans

[a-mag-meme-a-day]

Meme for @a-mag-a-day Day 196

MAG 189 - Peers

[flowersfrombefore]

Jon getting made fun of by his ex, his exes new girlfriend who hates him, and his current boyfriend is quite possibly the funniest interaction in the show. He’s already having the worst day ever and now they’re calling him the ceaseless watchers special boy

[wretchedbroth]

This year's tmatober prompts :) Ignore the fact I'm already behind schedule <3

[chaoticpinetree]

Akjhgdhjhgdhd 'Ceaseless Watcher's special little boy' I DIDN'T KNOW THAT WAS CANON I thought the fandom came up with that one! I cannotttt

[fractal-voidling]

MAG189 - ########-29 │ Peers

"Eldritch popularity contest" 💀

[a-mag-a-day]

Date: May 1st, 2023

Episode of the day: MAG 189 Peers

"MELANIE: [Sarcastically] Everyone is so excited to see the Ceaseless Watcher’s special little boy."

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[lycanlovingvampyre]

MAG 189 Relisten

Activity on my first listen: mowing the lawn.

MARTIN: "It’s the final battle, right? We climb the tower, take out the bad guy, figure out how to change the world back, and back in time for tea." No Martin, after this episode there are still 11 left! (Martin seems so stressed.)

MARTIN: "Yeah. They did roll out the red carpet, didn’t they? Must be nice getting the star treatment." JON: "I’d hardly call flooding Oxford Street with blood, the 'star treatment'." Sooo, the "red" carpet was literally blood? (Also, reminds me of The Shining). Martin is so snippy in this one. Been a while since he last did that, like to this extent.

MARTIN: [Amused] "Seriously? Stage fright? The great Archivist, master of all he surveys can’t handle a bit of public attention?" And boyfriend of said master of all he surveys also seems pretty scared and on edge. It fits his character that he gets nervous and is irritated easily because of that. Still, shitty way to treat Jon.

JON: "You don’t need to be sarcastic, okay?" MARTIN: "You’re right, I’m sorry. If it’s any consolation, I’m scared too." I'm happy it got to that though. Jon calling him out and Martin realizing, it's wrong and apologizing.

JON: "Yes. Except one of the contestants is also planning to try and murder the judge." MARTIN: "… Um. [Searchingly] Maybe it hasn’t realised?" It has not, Eye's too dumb for it, you're good to go!

Oh no, Martin's getting worked up again... That was an ugly, ugly fight. If it can even be called a fight, it was mostly just Martin being all angry and yelling around. And I'm kind of disappointed that Martin still reacts so annoyed whenever Jon has to make a statement. It's a physical need of Jon and reacting to physical needs like that is horrible. At least the two of them get some space now and Martin can go cool off somewhere.

"The light takes on a crimson tinge as he passes an office dried with gore, and turns away from a back room where three men in fine suits laugh among themselves as they weave their pile of nooses." That's Tim, right? The laughter we can hear in the background, that's his uncredited cameo and neither Alex nor Jon knew about it at the time.

"He takes his place, marvelling again at how comfortable the seat is, how well it seems to fit," Forget the Lonely, join the Eye! We have comfortable chairs!

I don't quite get this statement, what is it a metaphor for? What is that pit? What it it about that minister, who seems to care about people in a way (or at least recognizes their suffering), but is ashamed of being wealthy while others starve?

MARTIN: [Brightly] "All good?" JON: "Yes. Just, uh… Left a bit of a bad taste in my mouth." MARTIN: "Oh great! Fantastic!" Martin is so bad at this xD Why? He could keep it together during MAG 118 when confronting Elias while Melanie searched the office for evidence. He kept Peter on the hook for several months! And now he's, what, too giddy to try to act normal?

Hmm, when Georgie and Melanie pulled Jon into the tunnels there was the same sound effect we hear when Jon smites someone, even if only for a brief moment.

JON: "Likewise, I… oh… Ooo…" MELANIE: "Oh, I know that sound. He’s going pale, right? Five quid says he’s about to collapse again." JON: [Archly] "I am not going to collapse. What do you mean again?" MELANIE: "Oh come on. You do it all the time." Yeah, Jon's "hobbies", getting kidnapped and collapsing. Sounds fun!

JON: [Brokenly] "I do not – I’m just feeling a little bit woozy alright? I ca-can’t quite think straight. Like at, um… um, Martin, you remember?" GEORGIE: "Is this what you were talking about?" MARTIN: "Yeah, if something messes with his connection, he can get a little… vague." JON: "I don’t like being discussed like I’m not here." I mean... Jon tried to tell what happened to him at Salesa’s and couldn't, then asked Martin what it was like. Georgie asks Martin, if this is what he was talking about (It makes sense to ask Martin, cause it was him they have spoken to earlier. How would Jon know what Georgie means, he certainly can't Know it here.) and Martin explains what Jon just couldn't put into words. I wouldn't have seen this as "discussing me like I'm not here". But I understand, there are people out there, who are really bothered by this. Friends of mine are like that. He tries to tell something, doesn't quite know how to proceed, she chimes in and says just straight out what he wanted to say and he get's all angry for being interrupted and having the story told for him. I don't know, I wouldn't mind that, I'd see it as a "Oh good, I don't have to explain everything, others already get it."

MELANIE: "It’s fine, Georgie. You can use the “c” word." MARTIN: "E-Excuse me?" GEORGIE: "Fine. We’ve got, sort of a… cult." Yeah, same Martin. This being a British show I thought it would be the word with an N instead of the L xD

GEORGIE: "When the world started to change, it just didn’t hit me and Melanie. Not, not really." ... Not really!!!^^

MELANIE: "There was nowhere to go back to, so I told her about the tunnels. Turns out, not only were they still here, they actually do a decent job of hiding things. When you aren’t painting a huge target on our backs." Mrrrrrhhh, until know this could have been excused as the Slaughter's influence, but Melanie still want to pin everything on Jon!

GEORGIE: "How could we not? The entire city knows you were there." MELANIE: [Sarcastically] "Everyone is so excited to see the Ceaseless Watcher’s special little boy." [GIGGLES] Okay, the entire city knows, but how did they learn about it? Do... the things here in London speak with actual words and they overheard them talking? Bit unspectacular... I'd like to think that every single screen in London now live-broadcasts Jon, as long as he is in London on the surface.

Heh, Jon laughing at Martin getting owned by Melanie XD Serves him a bit right after this episode ^^''

@a-mag-a-day

[spacedemodulator]

MAG 189, Peers

So much to love in this episode!

Alex's announcement of the impending hiatus, which raises the stakes.

Martin, so impatient to get his murder on that he sounds like a child being told to wait for dessert.

Jon, giving a statement that's the audio equivalent of a Ralph Steadman painting. But it's also a tragic self-portrait of a man paralyzed by doubt. Fear and Loathing in Lost London....

And the cherry on top: Melanie and Georgie, accidental cult leaders! That moment when you hear the entire fandom do a double-take and go "Hurrrr?" like a dog that's heard a bag of chips open in another room of the house.

@a-mag-a-day

[themagnustournament]

Redemption Round One - Match Six

In Round One, Killing Floor received 100 votes and Peers got only 34 votes!

MAG 030 - Killing Floor | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of David Laylow, regarding his time working at an industrial abattoir near Dalston.

MAG 189 - Peers | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Considerations of governmental oversight. Recorded by The Archivist in Situ.

[find-me-in-hell]

three cheers for the return of the lesbians

[late-to-the-magnus-archives]

im nowhere near caught up but i have been thinking about a jongeorgie reunion…

[that-agender-from-pluto]

Ok so my internet went out and I wasn't able to post

Here are my thoughts on mag 188 and 189

188

This one was unsettling, which I think was the point. Also, I didn't know the eye ate people but ok

189

I didn't know the whole "ceaseless watchers special little boy" thing was a direct quote from melanie, and it just made it that much better when i heard it for the first time

Also, Melanie and Georgie!!! Woooooo!!!

[flowersfrombefore]

If I was in TMA I also would have joined a cult for Georgie