#The vast avatar

[sh4rksnhe4rts]

🌌•» The Vast Avatar Stimboard with themes of thalassophia, large sea creatures, and planetary stims !

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[emrose-art]

Michael Crew 💙✨

wee waa wee waa magnus archives brain rot >:)

also I drew him with pectus excavatum which feels accurate to him as a character hehe

[cabinette]

AU martin i've been cooking on the tma rp twitter....

[occudo]

hi your gertrude is still sround au is murdering me violently. in a good way

Ok, so first I read it as: your gertrude is murdering me violently. in a good way

Glad you like it! :D (also the ao3 link if you wanna read all of it in order)

[masao-micchi]

when you and some random old guy who worships the same god as you get caught for throwing people off roller coasters:

it was simon’s idea of a team building exercise KAJAJSJA mandatory vast avatar bonding activity

bonus:

[wilkoakdraws]

Inktober 2023, The Magnus Archives Edition - prompts 26-29!

Bonus to 28. under the cut:

[y3llow-hoodie]

Second part! Here’s the first part

[insanitydog25]

Avatars of The Eye and The Vast.

HELLO! I finally got the motivation to cosplay from The Magnus Archives! I managed to cosplay Jonathan Sims and Mike Crew which was fun to do! It's mostly on Tik tok though I thought it worth the shot to post them here too!

[thunderjackal]

you know the hyperfixations bad when you go outside and see clouds and mutter to yourself 'this is just like when simon fairchild-'

thunderstorm warning tonight? thats- thats just like mike crew guys

[vickozone]

~There’s a rainbow of fears~

This is a list I made of what I classify all of the 14 (15) Fears as according to color.

So, now you know.

[the-magpie-archives]

The vast is so commonly associated with rain and thunderstorms, as everyone's favourite vast avatar so boldly represents it, but I think a heatwave presents it just as well.

The spanning empty skies of a truly sunny day, not a cloud in sight - nothing to protect you from the burning heat. Everything feels so much bigger when the skies are opened...

Sweeping shadows cast by tall buildings behind sprawling fences, those shaded spots are never so big, yet when they could provide some respite those fences seem taller than ever.

And the walk home, has it always been so long? Have these pavements been so wide, is there really this much space until safety? Walking forever, the heat beating down upon you, a headache forming as you wish you'd packed a water bottle. Did you? Has the walk really taken so much time that your supply has been drained?

The outside world is bigger than you could imagine when the sky is open and oh so bright, maybe there never was a way to escape it.

[noirsloth]

Enjoy Sky Blue

[micheal-number-5]

I love how different the two most prominent Vastards relationship with their entity is.

The Vast is Simon Fairchild’s CALLING, he LOVES it. Simon is the Vasts special little boy, he has been around for hundreds of years dedicating himself to this entity. His entire him is hingant on the vast and he seems to spend most his time going around and harvesting fear for it, Simon Fairchild and the Vast are inextricably linked eternally. He owes the Vast his everything and intends to give it to it.

Mike Crew??

Yeah the Vast helped him out so he stuck with it. Truthfully hed have probably gone with any of the entities but the Vast helped him first so here he is.

Yeah he’ll chuck someone into the vast, why not.

[fearcicada]

Some alt TMA entity blinkies

[i-am-not-a-who-i-am-a-what]

so about the header that proceeded today's statement:

Viability as agent: Low

Viability as subject: None

Viability as catalyst: Medium

i didn't know what to think of this part of the entry at first, but the longer the statement went on... was the institute in this universe trying to manufacture avatars?

the dice can't do anything without someone to use them, they can't be an "agent" by themselves, but might be capable of manipulation, so in that aspect their viability is "low."

the dice could be a "subject" in the sense that they could use further studying, but the statement itself was a very thorough investigation of their workings, so in that aspect their viability is "none."

the dice seem to influence their holder to roll them, or at least find more victims to roll them, and could therefore be described as a "catalyst" for someone's becoming. but, as seen in the statement, their owner can give the dice to someone else (albeit not without consequences), so in that aspect their viability is only "medium."

so what about the line following all this, what does "Recommend referral to Catalytics for Enrichment applicability assessment" mean? if we go by this interpretation, i'd say it could mean the institute wanted to find a way to make the dice even more potent as an artifact, maybe even remove that pesky ability for their owner to reject them.

imho all of this this brings a whole new level of context to the events of episode seven, of unknown violent agents going after an influx of objects that seemed straight out of artifact storage. was that the nature of the titular "magnus protocol" first mentioned in episode four, the one that involved the starkwall group? containing or destroying potential artifacts before the institute could get their hands on them?

it also makes their "gifted kids program," and sam's link to it as one of the kids being studied, all the more horrifying to think about. was it not just avatars in general they were after, but child avatars specifically? no wonder gertrude got so defensive over the possibility of sam and celia dragging gerry back into the institute's business last episode, we all picked up on her clearly knowing more than she's letting on but now we might know the shape of that information a bit better.

and one final bit of food for thought... this statement had a lot of familiar themes, didn't it? free will or the illusion of it, gambling and not-so-random chance, the statement giver being done in by one final hit from what feels like a bit of an addition... all hallmarks of a certain mother of puppets. doesn't it seem fitting that "chester" would use this kind of statement to warn sam about what harm pursuing the magnus institute could bring to him, considering the one his voice might draw from? and doesn't it seem so painfully ironic that his warning seems to have only driven sam further into that web?