#a sturdy lock

[tmascrapbook]

Mag 27: a sturdy lock

[revyn-moonfox]

Commenting on the the magnus archives episodes, part 3 (I think) - spoilers ahead

MAG 16 Arachnophobia: I was fully prepared for that episode to destroy me, I can't stand spiders, but now I feel like it could have been worse, at least it was only one spider at a time, my nightmares are filled with a bunch of spiders... which I guess he got at the end, but that wasn't described in great detail, so I was okay. Apropos the end: I was a bit confused because I read this episode was the most obviously paranormal one, and honestly, thinking the spiders from your youth are haunting you isn't so much paranormal, I thought episode 15 with her beeing found with candles she didn't pack was worse, but then I got to the end, and him beeing found incased in Web... uah. And come on John, you wanna try to reason that they came from one week of lying there?! Ugh

MAG 17, the Bone Turner's Tale: immediately after the first few sentences I was like: oh no, this is a Leitner one, isn't it? And sure enough it was... I don't even know what else to say to this except type out the Leitner Rant, but that is a lot of text, and this post will already be very long. At least John is a bit more inclined to believe the tale when there is Leitner involved.

MAG 18 The Man upstairs: I needed a bit more time for that episode because I have a very active imagination and got nauseous towards the end...

MAG 19 Confession | & MAG 20 Desecrated Host || : love the connection to the hilltop Road episode. Also, did somebody say religious trauma? Because these episodes screamed in answer. The beginning of 19 was... worrying to say the least - "We will get to the cannibalism of course" ehm, hold on, what? On another note, these episodes made me suspect that John's predecessor realy had a sorting system because that was at least the third episode in a row with the flesh entitie! While I honestly was just waiting for the first appearance of the Vast...

MAG 21 Freefall: finally, the Vast, I don't know what exactly sparked my obsession with it, but I like this entitie (as much as you can like a fear personified) since I first saw a art-tiktok about it weeks ago. Nothing much to say to this episode tho, except that John got sceptic again, he had such a good run of taking things seriously before.

Ending the Episode with the quote "By God Martin, what are these things?!" Was a choice...

MAG 22 Colony: Did I ever mention before that I love Martin? Well, I do, and now that he actually speaks for himself once, I feel even more justified in saying that.

Two options here "poor Martin, just wanted to show a picture to his (future) boyfriend" or "King wanted to stick it to his asshole Boss" I'm in the party of both. Both is good.

Also, after this episode the following post I found on Pinterest suddenly makes a lot more sense

I also asked myself how much the entities blurr together, because, while this was mainly corruption, there was also darkness because the lights didn't work in Martins flat, right?

I was so happy when John showed that he cared for Martin, in telling him to life in the institute for now :)

The creepy text messages at the end sparked a conversation between me and @regulus-needs-swimminglessons and I wanted to share one of his comments to that:

These text are so funny because there are basically 2 options

1 (the boring one) Jon and Martin don't text a lot so Jon doesn't actually know what Martin's texting style is like so Jane was able to impersonate him easily

2 (the better option) Jane was looking through the past texts giggling and kicking her feet while reading funny passages out loud for her worm friends so she could copy his texting style but she had to hold back to not end every message with "❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🥰🥰😍😘😘😘😘😘😘❤️❤️❤️😘😘😘😘🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱😘😘🥰🥰❤️"

MAG 24 Schwarzwald: at first I was convinced that the headline was read by someone else than John, because it sounded weird to me. Then I got reminded that German words, like Schwarzwald, just get pronounced weirdly by englishspeakers, which is totally normal, so back to the story. An old letter to Jonah Magnus, did Elias read these 👀. The comment that there was no account of a Johann von Württemberg confused me, because Johann is/was a fairly common german name, especially in the higher up families. And there was in fact a Johann Friedrich von Württemberg who lived from 1582 to 1628, but that's not the one reported here, I would guess. He ruled as the 7th Duke at that time. Anyway, the Grave gave me slight Lukas-Family vibes, even tho I know that not the case, the involved entitie here is the Eye not the Lonely (even tho it kind of screams the lonely to me too, I mean, it's the Schwarzwald, and he described it as silent on lonely, but oh well)

Martin, scaring John by walking though the archive without pants. 🤣

Sir that is his living room and he can wear whatever he wants 😌 Martin can do whatever he wants, wherever he wants, just because he's awesome, and I love him.

MAG 24 Strange Music: I don't like dolls, I don't like clowns, and that's all I'm gonna say to that... But there is finally an appearance from sasha, which is awesome ^^ And again, something incredible: John is inclined to believe a Statement woob woob

MAG 25 Growing Dark: I mentioned religious trauma before, and I will mention it again, because this is exactly that. A bit frustrating to go back to "mh, we don't believe this because the author isn't even believing himself"

MAG 16 Distortion: Michael! My Dude! Be a dear and miracle me a towel, would you? Oh whops, wrong fandom, wrong quote... anyway, hello Michael, and hello Sasha. Its a bit sad to hear every archival assistant tell in their statement that they feared to come forward because John would judge them... But Sasha is hurt, and the "most level headed" so of course he believes her. Also, she's a little heroine, because she went to that place only to save John (and Martin, and the Archive, but oh well) first time that not beeing able/wanting to quit got mentioned, intrigued for the future.

MAG 27 A sturdy Lock: Everything involving the spiral always confuses me. I feel sorry for the old man, and am very interested what the statement from his Son is gonna be. But what do you meant the door had no knob or keyhole at the end?!

That's all for now, I'm currently listening to MAG 28 Skintight, but that will be in my next post I assume. So good bye, I hope you had fun with my incoherent rambling. (And again: please excuse my grammar, English is not my first language)

Okay byyyyeeee

[themagnustournament]

Round One Part Eight - Match 65

Monster Pig, finally! Against the other half of our legacy episode pair -- Will Paul McKenzie join his son in Round Two? Or will he be devoured by the monster pig?

MAG 103 - Cruelty Free | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Dylan Anderson, regarding an unusual pig he acquired on his farm in New Zealand.

MAG 027 - A Sturdy Lock | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Paul McKenzie, regarding repeated nocturnal intrusions into his home.

[generalb]

MAG 27 “a sturdy lock” review:

Gotta be honest It’s hard to keep my thoughts about this clear because my back is killing me atm. Can’t even breathe without feeling it yell. Must’ve pulled a back muscle wrong due to my continuous non-exercise. Anyways, statement begins.

This is a really tough one to figure whether that it was truly paranormal. Given the fact that the person was an old man, and that both there was no evidence(not to mention the only evidence he had was a creepy looking shadow) This really could go either way. Today’s name mention is one Sarah Carpenter, which I swear is important. She was a then member of the institute(this happened in 2003). Then again, it could be just that the name Sarah and carpenter have belonged to many important characters in many other pieces of media. Who knows. I rate this episode 5/10 imaginary locks, would haunt an old man again.

Statement ends.

[lilies-and-laughing-gas]

Oh MAG 26 thank you for having some of the best and only SashaMichael interactions. For two people that barely talked I sure do love their dynamic alot. No i haven't forgotten the amazing quote that is "How would a melody describe its self when asked?" I just haven't gotten around to make a design for it.

Some more love out here for random episodes. I think A Sturdy Lock is super cleaver, throwing you off by coming right after a very obvious Spiral episode. Up until this point there hadn't been any right after another occurances (to my knowlege).

The first of many an episode that seem pretty standard, except for the most mind rockingly cool quote you've ever heard in your life. Its so random it didnt need to go that hard but it did and you respect it for doing so. For some reason alot of them come from either The Flesh or The Slaughter.

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6

[timeloopbuddy]

A Record A Day

MAG 27 - A Sturdy Lock by Michael, 2003

[hypokeimena]

those like white republican woman security theatre tiktoks also get me bc like you can see their houses and. lock that front door all you want but it is NOT going to keep out a determined someone with an axe or perhaps a man door hand hook.

[myfckingnameisnuwanda]

Actually, now that I think about it, is this the Dark or the Stranger?? Or maybe the End?

Masterpost

<- 026: A Distortion - 028: Skintight ->

<-<- 001: Angler Fish

[hazyla]

Oh boy I finally listened to tmagp ep 14 and I too forgot about the hole. my biggest takeaways are,”cool, snakes” and “😢”. This person’s dad being the focus of an episode is going on my bingo card based on when I listened to TMA and decided sturdy lock probably wasn’t that important AND THEN HIS SON HAS A STATEMENT A HUNDRED EPISODES LATER

[danikore-does-pole]

Had a very sweet moment today while listening to TMA. Episode 27, Sturdy Lock is about an old man who lives alone who spends months unable to sleep due to someone trying to break into his bedroom. It is not the episode to listen to if you’re the only person in a building & it certainly isn’t one to listen to if there’s any chance of the building making weird noises.

It freaked me out. A Lot.

Like so much that I had to message one of my friends telling them I’d spooked myself & ask if they could call me.

And they did. They spent 20 minutes listening to me ramble while I calmed myself down & got my job done. Because I listened to the spooky shit podcast & spooked myself

[vonlipvig]

also, i really really miss tma. and when i say that, i mean i don't actually give a shit about the plot or the characters, i just miss listening to all these fucked up horror stories of the week. fuck the powers or whoever those were, tell me more about the creepy cave or that weird ass computer.

[shrikeseams]

The thing I think people don't get about hurricane parties is that, at the bare bones, it's about sheltering together. Like, realistically not everyone in a social group is able to evacuate, or live in a home that's storm-safe. Maybe your neighborhood floods, or has a lot of weakened large trees, or you live in a mobile/manufactured home that's just not wind safe. Maybe you have pets and can't take the, to a shelter. But if you have a friend who's better situated to shelter in place--a more solid building, or higher ground, or they're near emergency services and less likely to loose power--then it makes sense to have a few friends or a few households huddle up there together.

And if you're there, and up in each others' space, and maybe a little anxious if you're new or worried that your house will flood while you're gone... well. Might as well drink a few cocktails and eat cake about it. 🤷‍♀️

[aphemorpha]

man this shadow monsteris a dick. smh

[themagnustournament]

Redemption Round 3 - Match 4

Reflection made it through RR2 with 141 votes, but is it able to beat out A Sturdy Lock's 149 RR2 votes and 181 Redemption votes so far?

MAG 156 - Reflection | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Adelard Dekker, taken from a letter to Gertrude Robinson.

MAG 027 - A Sturdy Lock | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Paul McKenzie, regarding repeated nocturnal intrusions into his home.

[devotion-between-the-wheat]

I'm finally got back in act two of b.g3, and on track to working on hal.sin's personal quest🎉

[dnangelic]

this is just me but smth i like when it comes to having dark n daisuke as muses is the way that the curse and transformation ends up being such a candid tell in regards to their feelings. daisuke's heart is huge and his feelings are so big for everything and everyone, but he's also at the mercy of his own anxiety and delicate sense of shame, making the curse versatile in metaphor. sometimes it's liking or wanting to protect someone so much that your heart beats for them, but being afraid they'll hate you if you spill a certain secret, or show another side of yourself that you aren't certain they'll accept or find weird. sometimes it's loving what you're doing so much that your heart pounds, you feel alive, and you can't make it stop, but also feeling impostor syndrome, frustration and shame; the insecurity that what you're doing or what you're making isn't actually good, and therefore has no value, leading up to embarrassment. i joke about being cringe but free and really that's what daisuke, at the v least, should hear - since he's the one between himself and dark who's always worried about confessions and being truthful to himself and others.