#WHAT THE FUCK IS AN EYEPOCALYPSE

[vulture-cuisine]

i'm almost done with season one and I tried to curate a jon design based on how I imagine him plus like with some other designs I've seen in mind too. i wanna know what the FUCK THE EYES MEAN GUYS. ARGHHHHH

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[cataclitsmicdisaster]

[murderandcoffee]

WAIT I DIDN'T EXPECT OT BE RIGHT

FUCKING GEORGIE???????!!!!!!

[squircatlies]

Hey, so if not being able to feel fear makes Georgie basically immune to all the horrors, would lobotomy also do the trick?

[starlocked01]

I dislike fandom on tumblr so much 😂

If you had asked me before listening to the end of S5 of the Magnus Archives, I would have said the last episodes had a heck of a lot to do with something called Sex Tunnels

No one bothered to mention that it was One Line of Dialogue. You horny fucks (lighthearted)

[werewolf-w1tch]

can you IMAGINE the witch hunt for avatars too. like oh my god.

i wouldn't be surprised if plenty of avatars across the world were seen by the people they tortured/were just kinda There but not suffering (jude was definitely doing awful shit to people but like. oliver? he just was kinda there), but what about the avatars that weren't really seen? or were able to go into hiding after all hell broke loose?

when everyone gets just dropped back into the lives they had before the apocalypse, we know for a fact that some avatars suffered (rip simon you were funny but also no one was surprised). but what about when the public got done with the known avatars, the most easily recognizable ones? you've got millions of people all around the world who had different experiences in the apocalypse who probably didn't even have (formerly) human avatars that could be present in those areas (dimensions?), but what about people who were in, say, the factory in The Processing Line? or The Sick Village? if enough people said that there were avatars in their own dimensions, it stands to reason that people who didnt have avatars in their dimensions would assume that there WERE avatars, they just never saw them.

and then the searches begin.

picture this: you've just gone through an unspeakably horrifying and traumatic experience for god knows how long. as time passes once you're out, you start seeing posts on the internet from people putting out warnings and/or wanted posters for people they claim were responsible for their suffering (since jon is gone, who do they place blame on?). you don't remember seeing anyone like that where you were, but maybe there's enough posts from people who had similar experiences to you that you reason that maybe there WAS someone like that there, you just never saw them or don't remember them.

and then you see posts from other victims saying how betrayed and heartbroken they feel, because their sister or father or other relative or close friend was an avatar. and you can't help but wonder if anyone in your family was like that. you don't want to think that anyone you know was an avatar, but how can you be sure? why wouldn't they lie to protect themselves?

i can't even begin to imagine the suspicion and fear and paranoia that would ravage the world as people point figures and struggle their way to vengeance for some semblance of control or closure they will never get. families turning on each other left and right, governments accusing each other of hiding "demons", the absolute chaos that would tear through the streets.

It is so fucked up how at the end of the magnus archives everyone on earth remembers the apocalypse

Like there were just two straight weeks (or something) where everyone on earth was suddenly in a hell dimension specifically designed to torture them and then *poof* things were just back to normal and everything looks exactly the same except for one building that fell down in London. And there’s no explanation for it! No lingering proof either except the fact that everyone on earth also remembers it and that the dickwads who tortured you are still here!

Did people really go back to work? Because if that happened to me I’d just assume there was no economy anymore and start breaking shit

One minute you’re in a job interview, then you’re a flower made of meat being cut up, and then you’re back in your interview as if nothing happened but the interviewer is white as a sheet and whatever happened to you also happened to them. Then you find out that EVERYONE literally EVERYONE ON THE PLANET went through it too and you’re just supposed to go back to normal?

There would have been riots

There would be arguments of mass hallucination

Ironically there would be new cults

And then eventually there’s going to be a new generation who didn’t go through that and they’re just going to have to take everyone’s word for it that the world turned into a hell dimension for a month but then got better before they were born!

And time will move on

And without physical evidence future generations will just assume it never really happened and that it wasn’t real. There will be historians who dedicate their lives to figuring out what natural disaster/mass hysteria/world wide gas leak caused their ancestors to believe there was an apocalypse

That world is going to get so fucked up

[wolfythewitch]

what would your eyepocalypse experience look like? no worries if you don’t want to answer lol im just always curious what people imagine for season 5

Hmm probably something related to the corruption? Though I will say as a person I have very little will to survive. The hunt wouldn't work on me because I'd just lay down and die. The buried wouldn't work because of the same thing. The corruption might work because it will be a sensory nightmare and I fucking hate roaches

[broodingheroine]

tmagp7 thoughts

WRESTLING WITH TAPE RECORDERS AND MANILA FOLDERS??? immediately with the references wtf

celia don't be curious abt the computers

CELIA STOP BEING WEIRD

she def knows who's in the computers

SHES LISTING THE FEARS WHAT THE FUCK

"you won't need to know about tma to enjoy tmagp" yeah okay what the fuck is this then

HILLTOP?

is derek chambers a name I should remember. check this later.

can't remember his name 👀

shouting human face? wtf

also lol bumbling new volunteer who has nothing on his resume but is punctual and hardworking. not martin coded at all.

another name they can't remember

lowkey giving the anatomy students episode of tma

BEARSKIN RUG??? SKIN????

the items are definitely cursed right

more forgotten names and lost paperwork 🤨

it's REALLY giving anatomy students

taxidermy. hm.

also kind of breekon and hope taking over breekon and hope vibes

so hoarding

GUNSHOTS????

fire..... hilltop....... hmmmm.........

security organization.......

THE VOICE THREW YOU

CELIAAAAA YOU KNOWWWW

THOUGHT YOU RECOGNIZED IT AAAAA

SHES TOTALLY FROM THE EYEPOCALYPSE

colin :)

JON???? FUCKING JON????????? WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK

the real stuff???? what the fuck colin

colin ur paranoia is showing

COLIN WHAT THE FUCK

go gwen! blackmail ur boss!

SHE SHOT HIM?

oh he's not dead? ohhhhhh

SHE GOT PAID TO KILL A GUY?

GWEN WHAT SOURCE WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT

bouchards old money confirmation?

REAL WORK?

EXTERNALS LIASON? WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK

NOW I HAVE TO WAIT A WEEK??????????

god okay so

is the oiar secretly the security team that burned the hilltop place down? that's obviously what the external liason will be right. but then what would the response department end up being?

colin is devolving extremely quickly and im deeply upset about it. no "outside" electronics. as opposed to...?

once again: EMAIL FROM JON???? what did it say. what was it about.

"you don't need to know anything about tma to listen to tmagp" yeah BULLSHIT like I'm sure you don't NEED it but it certainly HELPS

gwen going to lena is giving the archival crew confronting elias abt murdering leitner except gwen has dubious morals and is unapologetically in it for her own gain

which I do appreciate. a protagonist who's willing to admit she's in it for herself and nothing else? love.

I do question whether the oiar office work is done purely as a front for whatever lena is bringing gwen into or if it does actually serve a purpose.

like I said up there somewhere, celia is definitely a transplant from the tma verse. there's no way she's not.

okay I think I'm done? that was a lot..... like a lot a lot

so I think I'm gonna go lay down and die now

[vee-thebee]

i’m actively losing it dude. gwen is now the head of the OIAR. lena knew some fuckshit was going on and was really, REALLY truly trying to protect everyone and do this as safely as possible but gwen went and fucked it. celia was CONFIRMED to be THE celia ripley from tma, the rip between worlds at hilltop did work like annabelle said and they did manage to transfer the fears over (obviously but still), sam and the archivist are now in the tma universe and things are going to be so chaotic for him (i wonder if we’ll get to hear bits and pieces from him? since the archivist is in the post-eyepocalypse world with him now), colin went and fucked with fr3-d1 and he is PROBABLY dead, WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON?!

[gr-book-worm-1818]

the thing with tma is you could shuffle and place pretty much any mc as an archivist and as a not!person au and make it WORK

jarchivist & not!georgie. jarchivist & not!tim. sarchivist & not!martin. tarchivist & not!jon. marchivist & not!sasha. hell, who’s to say melarchivist couldn’t work? or garchivist, or barchivist, or even darchivist? just slightly alter their backstories so that they’ll find themselves in a position where elias both offers them the archivist job and they accept it. just THINK of all the possibilities!!!! no matter who the archivist is, imagining that someone STILL gets not’ed no matter what, is absolutely HAUNTING and i LOVE it.

working ideas for these:

not!georgie au where she visits the institute and ends up in artefact storage, BOOM not’ed ; naturally, jon isn’t even the one who notices. maybe martin or tim?

the classic sarchivist & not!jon au BUT martin is still the ‘anti-christ plus-one’ and gets to watch the smiting of the not!them, sasha james style

sarchivist, not!martin, & archival assistant jon where JON is the only one who thinks something’s kinda off with martin

melarchivist au where she encounters something genuinely Fucked Up at ghost hunt uk pre-jarchivist and literally no one believes her et cerera et cetera so drama happens, ghost hunt uk is abolished, and when melanie heads to the institute elias offers her the position

MARCHIVIST + NOT!JON.

SARCHIVIST + NOT!TIM.

tarchivist au where he’s still the one who sets off the explosion during the unknowing, but HE’S the only one who survives and all of his friends die in the explosion (yk cause in this case he’s an avatar)

tbh, i think every single one of these characters, no matter who’s the archivist and who’s the not!person, they’d still end up starting the eyepocalypse one way or another, even if their way isn’t as impulsive as jon’s. i just feel like they would!!! i mean, we all know every single character had made incredibly stupid decisions in tma, so…

anyway, just things to think about :)

[radiofreeilium]

Also cannot get over Celia, fully still being on board with the eyepocalypse cult shit. Fucking "The Brave One pulled me out" Like hello?? Totally reframes how i think about her trying to find georgie and melanie off the bat - like she wasn't trying to find a familiar face, she was trying to find a leader again! And now she's got a goal in the form of fucking evil baby boy! Like again what is up with Jack!!!!

[witchinatree]

so i think celia has been TRYING to bring this up to sam for a while now, she asks him about the institute a lot and tries to measure his interest

i think his anger towards alice just pushed him to be more interested in the institute (out of spite, go off king) and celia saw that and is drawing him in. why?? who the fuck knows

i'm still with alice on this one, but i want to see where celia takes sam and what she chooses to tell him.

big spoilers under the cut (i just figured out how to do this!!!!)

also, starting with jon and martin was kind of crazy i love you queen

she has so much she could tell him, like about the eyepocalypse and the institute as a whole but she's starting with them? i wonder if she's gonna explain it like a timeline or..

also how will she do any of it without explaining where she's from or how she knows it?? or is she gonna explain that too?? i'm so excited

[clansnaphance]

I'm really not vibing with whatever staff is doing now. Not only does there seem to be a total internal communication breakdown, there also seems to be an absolute disregard for how the players are affected by this.

Like, ignoring the fact that the consistency argument doesn't even hold water, their takeaway from the Fern/Paisley thread seems to have been "oh we gotta change Breakup and Hypnotic too!!"

And then completely reversing Sandsurge Blend on top of that? A gene that's been out for over half a year and was only listed as having the gradient softened, not reversed? Just a total failure to communicate and an absolute bullheadedness in pushing the changes through despite the very reasonable player concerns?

To top it all off, none of these are bug changes, they are style changes. Someone saw these genes before they went live, greenlighted them, and put them in the game. And now, months upon months later, someone else (presumably) says "fuck that, I want the gene to look like this instead" and that complete change is just... pushed through??

Like. Did they learn nothing from the Butterfly debacle, from Obelisk Flair, hell, from the Eyepocalypse?

What the fuck is going on behind the scenes?

[semisentient-entity]

TMA Shitpost/Late Night Thoughts

What if TMA was a tragedy because the characters didn't have the Power of Friendship™?

The Eyepocalypse involves at least one Eye in the sky. What if Simon managed to launch himself up there and pepper spray the Eye, would that do anything? Would that (briefly) interrupt the Eyepocalypse, or would it make things worse because the Eye is pissed?

What if Simon just launched HIMSELF into the Eye? Would he just be like a speck of dust to it? Would it blink? Would it react at all? Would Jon or Elias/Jonah (and any other avatars of the Eye) feel it too? Would they all just have irritated eyes that won't go away because The Eye doesn't have hands to rub at it's eye with??

Would Simon even WANT to irritate the Eye? If he did it'd probably be just for funsies, just to see what would happen. Idk maybe he was launching himself elsewhere and then someone aimed him to the Eye instead?

If we were able to hear the characters' inner monologues, Gertrude would likely always interrupt Elias' Evil Inner Monologue. As for Jon, maybe his and Elias' would overlap and annoy the fuck out of each of them?

Maybe avatars of the Eye break the fourth wall often.

Martin: Jon, PLEASE stop breaking the fourth wall! It's barely standing as is!

The Fourth Wall [covered in bandages]: :(

Everyone has probably lost count on how many times Peter and Elias have gotten divorced. Maybe sometimes they forget whether or not they're married at the moment

Elias: I want another divorce. >:(

Peter: We haven't even remarried since the last divorce!

Elias: And we won't be for a long while!

[They remarry that weekend.]

[They have another divorce a few days later.]

[pyromant1c]

Au where instead of Jon calling the end of the world the statement just does nothing. Or he assumes it does nothing. Why the fuck is there a child on the doorstep of the institute with an obscene amount of eyes that open like a biblically accurate angel what

AKA Au where instead of calling the eyepocalypse the Eye manifests a child into existence that's to be the antichrist and drops it into Jon's lap like a cat bringing its kittens to its owner.

[disappointingcabbage]

Tmagp 18 thoughts, spoilers under the cut!!

Episode title was originally going to be “I Wandered Lonely” but they changed it to “Solo Work”

I think Teddy might be coming back to the OIAR despite his insistence that he’s interviewing somewhere else

Celia’s not at work, apparently had a childcare emergency (another teleportation incident?)

Augustus (Jonah?) statement :0

Talking corpse!!! Might be the drowning victim Alice encountered, or something similar

Ooh the talking corpse’s statement sounds like the lonely house Martin almost got lost in during the eyepocalypse

There’s fog, Big Lonely Moment

She seems to have died walking through the lonely house according to the injuries listed on the autopsy report

Sam immediately made the connection between this case and Alice’s incident

If there were more details in the case I would agree more with sam that alice should investigate it but as it is, Alice is right, she should probably avoid it due to trauma

Alice bringing up curiosity being what gets you killed is very much a Jon callout

GWEN IS ACTUALLY TELLING PEOPLE THINGS HOLY SHIT

Oh fuck Sam never heard the Bonzo statements he thinks she’s kidding

I hope he realizes she wasn’t kidding

GEORGIE!!!

also jack has a voice now

“You don’t need to lie to me” “I’m not!” Immediate big glitch

Are they roommates?

poor Georgie is paranoid

Yup, definitely a teleportation incident again