#archival staff

[mortal-kingss]

charm designs… might make them a thing if people enjoy! :3

likely around 14 USD :)

[cult-of-the-eye]

It's actually so bad I started listening to tma and my brain immediately started redrafting all my career plans...the "How to Become An Archivist" tab is open...another tab is online shopping for cardigans...

[croshnaloov]

Heyo made this for my other platforms but I think my favourite one deserves it too as a treat 💕

[hollowmoon-art]

just another normal work day in the archives, nothing to See here

[neo--queen--serenity]

Lena losing her patience and furiously berating Gwen for potentially endangering the staff members of the OAIR is quite literally the opposite of how Elias ran the Archives.

Elias used the Archival staff—as well as his Archivist—as pawns that can be readily replaced as needed. His patron offered them minimal protections at best (the Archivist’s privileges notwithstanding), and even then, he would never actually intervene to save any of them if they were in danger, much less take precautions to protect them at their headquarters. They are used as bait, as sacrifices, as currency, as objects. The listener knows, eventually, how easily he could discard them if his plans called for it.

But Lena. This episode showed us that Lena keeps her entire organization running through keeping her subordinates hidden, safe, and unnoticed by the Externals. It’s quite clear through her conversation with Gwen that such a safety risk has never happened before.

As far as we know, Lena has successfully kept all of her employees alive, watched them come and go, bemoaned the turnover rate, and then got them to look the other way while they documented and dutifully filed the horrors.

But most impressive of all, she’s kept her real work hidden from her subordinates, and her subordinates hidden from her real work—a feat Elias had no interest or desire to accomplish.

[iseeyoujon]

The S1 Archives main staff was composed entirely of people who (at least partially) liked men. I choose to believe the OIAR will continue the trend of being equal but opposite to the Archives by having the entire S1 main staff like women.

[ceaselesswatchersspecialboy]

If the Magnus Institute Archive is anything like the Archive I volunteer at, sometimes the archival assistants are genuinely just going to be doing mundane tasks like making four-flap folders and boxes to preserve documents.

There also is definitely a conservation department. There has to be.

With how many documents and objects they have in the Archive and Artefact Storage, they need to be preserved! I’m talking correct humidity, temperatures, correct tools for restoration and cleaning (fun fact: old documents can in fact be cleaned up with a simple rubber, also in some cases the ink itself can cause damage to the parchment if not stored correctly).

And also general rule of thumb is that photographs cannot be handled without gloves. Finger prints cause a chemical breakdown that means over a few decades or so, the place in which a photograph has been handled will degrade, at least, that’s how my supervisor explained it to me.

Another thing the Institute would have to sort is slips for keeping track of which documents have been taken out for researchers and students, and when they’ve been put away!

It’s really fun to think about the inner workings of the institute that we don’t see, because there’s a lot that goes into maintaining these things and documenting them.

I’m genuinely begging Jon to get a better archiving system though. I like to think in S4 he does start re-organising the archive and relabelling things with the Eye’s assistance, just for my sanity.

And I love you Gertrude and I get why you did it, but you are my worst nightmare ever. I would take the apocalypse over an unorganised archive any day. Please.

[the-magnusinstitute]

All staff,

In recent months there’s been an uptick in absences from work, and while we in the PR department appreciate that sometimes our Institute can be a difficult place to be employed, Elias Bouchard has asked us to lay out the following guidelines:

ACCEPTABLE EXCUSES FOR MISSING WORK

- illness (physical or otherwise)

- travel difficulty

- medical appointments

- family emergencies

- religious holidays

UNACCEPTABLE EXCUSES FOR MISSING WORK

- ‘a freaky friday type of situation’

- ‘gender crisis’

- ‘trapped in a spiral maze’

- ‘met my clone on the tube’

- ‘jon from the archives’

[notebookpapers]

I see your “Cecil could survive TMA but Jon couldn’t survive Night Vale” posts and I raise you: Carlos (the dad, the myth, the legend) could survive both easily

[hotwaterandmilk]

I was recently fortunate enough to win an auction for a piece of Wedding Peach merchandise I've been unsuccessfully trying to win online for years (at this point, literally decades) and it got me thinking about how lucky I am to not be starting my collection today.

Prices for all older, more obscure magical girl items have ballooned over the past ten years but Wedding Peach merchandise is definitely one of the worst offenders. It's not uncommon to see single manga volumes going for 10k yen, 20k yen or more for the picture books, and let's not even touch on the amount the toys go for (literally several thousand dollars a pop).

In an ideal world we'd have better access to the series itself at least (the Japanese release of the DVDs and manga, for example, are in high demand due to the manga being out of print for something like 28 years and the DVDs being a relatively limited run from 25 years ago). I understand it's unlikely that we'll be getting more fun toys or merchandise for the series, but it is truly bleak when people can't even access the series itself.

This isn't some lost media type thing, this is just capitalism and it solidifies why I feel a sense of duty to ruin my own collection in order to archive what I have. If my house burns down or washes away in a flood, I truly don't think I can restart my collection and have a fraction of what I have now ever again. It's too expensive and too time-consuming, I simply don't have another 25 years up my sleeve to dig through every possible website to try and find scraps of 90s Ciao magazine issues.

In that sense I feel like I should share what I have with others while I have the opportunity. Even if a teenager today falls for Wedding Peach like I did as a kid, they would need to be extremely wealthy to get these pieces together and I just don't think your ability to own the core of a series should come down to wealth alone.

Goodness knows I'm not wealthy and I had very little growing up, hence my collection took decades to get where it is now. I don't want people to have to endure all that just to see a picture book from 30 years ago or to see an obscure illustration from a Ciao paper bag given away for free in 1994.

The efforts of fans keep series like this alive long after most companies have dismissed their long term profitability (although I do see you Germany with your beautiful hardback manga editions and I thank you).

Not everyone wants to break down their collection for the benefit of others and I respect that (there are some things in my collection I don't want to pull apart either), but I appreciate the efforts of those who do and aspire to do better with my own archiving as I work to get Weddingpeach.net updated to celebrate 30 years of the manga series.

[bandtrees]

something i've always loved about tma is its massive potential for someone to get attached to literally any random character and get something substantial out of it. tma fans reblog and tag with your favorite one-off/statement characters! i like seeing peoples' obscure faves and love for characters others forget exist.

graham folger's an easy pull for me but i do like him a lot, i think about all the not!them victims in general a good amount. if i had to pick someone else it would be justin gough!

[thesleeptokenarchive]

Ritual Reminiscence: Birmingham 2023

On January 17 2023, Sleep Token continued touring but this day started their headline tour in the UK. Today is also the first day that the pauldron first made it's appearance on stage, alongside the iconic staff that was used in this tour and then only seen on merchandise after.

On this night, The Summoning, Aqua Regia, and Granite were performed live for the first time.

O2 Academy, Birmingham, England January 17 2023

Sacred moments in time, captured in Birmingham by Adamrosssi. Tonight, Glasgow shall gather in Worship.

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[honeysucklethornsandalligtrhorns]

'i'm fine with elias simps but i draw the line at lady mowbray you people have clearly never met old rich ladies-' i'm not in it for the money i'm in it for the senseless violence and killings. god forbid a woman do anything.

[godshaper]

selkie courting season is EXHAUSTING!!

full pic 🔞 / patreon

[posthumanwanderings]

is anyone else having issues uploading videos to tumblr? I can’t seem to upload anything over 100MB even though it says 500MB is the limit, and I know it compresses it down after which is ok and all but when I had to make the video fit under 100MB myself and upload it to drafts it looks HORRIBLE. either there is some storage issue going on with tumblr right now that they aren’t being transparent about or just staff not upkeeping their site as well which is probably the case. if this is how it’s gonna be for some time I’ll be forced to post shorter clips for now just as I was combing through my past PS2 streams to post highlights from. I’ll put whatever up as a youtube video if I need to.

[doizy]

A few of my favorites pictures from Itaoka Nishiki's twitter.