#archivist!Georgie

[occudo]

fine, they can be happy too

pose ref

[dontmixpaintinyourcoffee]

Podcast fanartists baffle and amaze me. I've been seeing TMA fanart for *years* on the peripherals of my feeds, and I always assumed that there was official art or clear descriptions or something because there was always variety in the designs, but there were things that were almost always the same, just like fanart of any visual media.

Here is a list of all the main character descriptions I am aware of that exist in the 200 episodes of The Magnus Archives (not counting scar descriptions):

Johnathan Sims

"Scrawny"

Premature grey hairs

Martin Blackwood

"Not the smallest guy in the world"

"Uncanny" resemblance to his father. Whatever he looks like.

Sasha James

"Tall"

"Long hair"

"Glasses"

Timothy Stoker

"The hot one"

Basira Hussain

...

Alice "Daisy" Tonner

...

Melanie King

...

Georgina Barker

...

The amount of details that everyone has just agreed on being true for all of these guys is legitimately wild

[passiunclepaltry]

if there’s a georgie in this universe do you think……..

[bleeding-seraphic]

Hell of a season finale huh

[wilkoakdraws]

have at ya an unholy pile of wildly chaotic and VERY serious magnus stuff from last 6 months. happy 2024

[mintytea-exe]

me while socialising atm

[madootles]

ever since I read this gorgeous gorgeous work by @nebulations I have wanted to draw jon with his nails painted soooo bad. so. read that. and here

[ID: Magnus Archives fanart of Georgie and Jon in college. Georgie is a Black woman with an afro, and Jon is an Indian man with short hair. The two smile as Jon paints Georgie's nails while they sit cross-legged on the floor together. The piece is in grayscale, but Jon's bright red nail polish and Georgie's bright purple nail polish are in color. End ID] - ID courtesy of @nebulations. Thank you!

[lunacias]

are you still listening?

[aziuuu]

SEASON 3!!!!!!!!!

Jon is wearing random borrowed clothes... Not like he has time to stylize proffesional looking outfits.

Have some fresh Elias but I didn't change his outfit. Maybe I'm getting lazy lmao

I just made Tim more angry lookin sorry

Michael is the same as in last season and Helen will be in the next one!

[creatorofarcadia]

I’m aware that I’m definitely Jon Sims biased when I listen to TMA, he’s my favourite, so naturally it’s much easier for me to empathise with him. But every time I re-listen (I’ve lost count now but I think I’ve done 6?), I always legitimately try to let go of my bias and really consider the perspective of characters I instinctively disagree with. Something I’ve noticed is that, the one moment that always gets me, that I can never look past or empathise with, is Basira and Georgie’s response to Jon waking up in MAG 122.

It’s funny because I don’t think it is supposed to be some character defining moment for either of them and (maybe I’ve just missed it because I’m not super fandom active) I’ve never really heard anybody else talk about this. But the way they respond to him has always REALLY rubbed me wrong. Because I get it, they’re concerned about how much ‘Jon’ is really left inside the person sat in bed, but Jesus fuck. This guy wakes up after, as far as you know at the time, sacrificing himself to successfully save billions of people and the first thing you say is ‘no it’s not good you woke up actually’ - like damn he’s been conscious for 10 SECONDS could this not wait until later? Could you first idk, thank him? Say your glad to see your friend is still alive and save the ‘are you human?’ conversation for after he’s had a cuppa maybe?

The first thing you say to someone who’s woken up from a coma being ‘it’s not good you woke up’ just seems needlessly fucking cruel, regardless of how I attempt to spin it in my mind. And unless you’re literally talking to Satan the correct response to “Disappointed to see me alive?” is unequivocally NO not “We can deal with it later”. 

Overall, there’s a difference between caution and callousness, and while I understand the desire to be cautious with Jon as how much of his humanity remains is unclear, this moment always tipped into callousness for me in a way I struggle to empathise with even when I really try. 

[mommymilkersmac-n-cheese]

I finally finished The Magnus Archives. How the fuck am I supposed to recover from that?!?

[occudo]

Night out

Or the perks of not having a crush on your boss

[the-southern-cereal-king]

Sit down all the avatars of the Eye, give them a catalogue of ai generated images, puzzles, stories, and general nonsense, and watch the madness unfold.

I think there would be actual deaths

[thetriboulet]

one thing i will forever find funny about the magnus archives is how much of a pretentious academic jon is throughout the entire thing. martin slightly paraphrases a shakespeare quote? unforgivable. don't even get me started on the hungarian mountain man. 'he does know what a book is, right?' you rascal. you pseud. do you even know what a mountain is? thought not.

[l0sercherry]

More archivist!michael au! This time, with references for half of the season one archives crew!

Jon, who was fed to the spiral by Gertrude while he was still a researcher, kind of haunts the narrative for a while, I’d think. For characters like Georgie and Tim, Jon’s mysterious disappearance combined with the fact that he’d been talking to Gertrude is part of what urges them to work in the archives. Tim had works with Jon in research, and Georgie and Jon had broken up not too long beforehand.

It’s been a really fun au to work on and I will never ever be normal about it. Ever.

Transcripts for the text on the au refs:

GEORGIE BARKER: 29. She/They. Georgie never actually applied as an archival assistant. She was investigating the institute after the disappearance of Jonathan Sims, and Elias had personally reached out to her about it! She’s not sure why the hell she said yes. (She’s) really chill, but doesn’t hesitate to set up boundaries when the need to crops up. She gets on well with Sasha from the research department upstairs. End transcript.

GERARD DELANO: 35 years old. He/They. Gerry managed to catch the brain tumor early! He winds up signing an employment contract a few years before Gertrude “vanishes” figuring he didn’t have many other options. Gerry intended to keep Michael in the dark because he thought it could keep him from being involved. You should know better, Gerry. End transcript.

MICHAEL SHELLEY: 44 years old. He/Him. After Gertrude’s tragic disappearance, Elias appoints her most experienced assistant as the new Head Archivist! (in reality, Elias was already pissed at Gertrude for feeding his next pick for archivist to the spiral. This felt like good revenge.) He has a weird laugh, but it’s strangely disarming. Sometimes it makes people more willing to talk. Sometimes he laughs and they suddenly remember the most humiliating moment in their lives. He Knows about it too, now. Not fun. Nobody ever believes him when he says he’s in his forties, and he’s given up on correcting them.

[wilkoakdraws]

Inktober 2023, The Magnus Archives Edition - finished with the last part, prompts 30 and 31, both so season-5-style plot heavy.

*wipes brow* what a challenge! You can find all previous ones on my blog. I will probably compile them later for neatness~