#asto vs the archive

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wow im so close to finishing the whole show but like, martin's deadpan delivery of 'shocker, i have self-esteem issues, not the point' just made me laugh out loud in public

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had the thought 'if i had a domain what would it be like' and my brain helpfully supplied 'kafka's metamorphosis' JDSFHKSHDKFJHS

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obsessed with mikaele salesa's vibe. yeah annabelle cane showed up to my house one day and says she's gonna stay here now and i can't get rid of her so i just hope she's not destroying anything i guess

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WHY DOES MAG 173 HAVE AN UWU BIRD* IN THE BACKGROUND

*asian koel, but look up what they sound like and you'll see why we call it the uwu bird

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so i've been reading through the transcripts of tma s5 more than listening to them (mostly cuz i've been kind of busy) but uh. whoever wrote the line 'to be loved you must be less' uh. thanks (derogatory)

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havent done my tma liveblogging in a while but im at MAG128 and when jon tells 1/2 breekon n hope to drop the cockney accent and he switches to that horrendous russian accent and jon just kinda mutters 'christ that's worse' i almost laughed OUT LOUD in my school library

(also i think i said this before but i LOVE the detail of each entity's avatars affecting the tapes in different ways like jon vs michael distortion vs peter lukas all create static on the tapes but its completely different sounding static i love it)

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im not sure if this is a bug or a feature but like when the entities have to manifest like actual concrete powers for their avatars sometimes it just comes out slightly silly like the desolation people are all just. good at arson. peter lukas is just a Guy who can turn invisible sometimes. jon occasionally gets random useless trivia put in his head. hysterical

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ok i take it back MAG34 is officially my fav episode now i was so very nearly a biology major and this monster concept like Not Humans who join an anat class to learn how to physically construct themselves is SO delicious to me. also the entries with jon actl talking to someone else are always my favourite and i love the 'well this is patently insane but i guess this is happening now' vibe of this professor. 'oh good lord that's-' 'deeply unpleasant yes!!' is SENDING me

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'he manages to pull himself out of the coffin like a grubby jesus!' i LOVE peter lukas

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aw. i'm gonna miss michael

i love helen's voice tho

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god i love nikola orsinov so so much

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MAG81-87

i love every single part of Jon and Georgie's conversation but she has a CAT called THE ADMIRAL THATS ADORABLE

WHAT is UP with elias on my god. him giving """"daisy's statement"""" while daisy is right there is SO unsettling

ok love the idea of martin doing the statements while jon is away but specifically like the way jon delivers some of the post statement followups was always one of the things i found the most unsettling about this show (the one s1 episode about the arachnophobe whose corpse was found 'covered in web' stuck with me for 2 years. what the hell) so martin delivering his read of the followup in this tone of '???? ew?? i guess???' is so goddamn funny

'archival prisoner' tim?? u good???

ok well if the stranger's deal didnt tend to be so gross it would be SO my aesthetic (looks at my wooden puppet theatre troupe wip)

anyway gonna take a bit of a break cuz my sleep is uhhhhh not doing so great!

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MAG71-80

what on earth is with the lady from mag71 like nobody just shows up at the magnus institute of all places being like hey here's a yarn. goodbye

the setup of mag72 is so fucked but the idea of a takeaway with a sign that just says 'FOOD' is SENDING me

'like i didnt want my last thoughts on earth to be lowkey racist' fucking wheezing this has got to be the FUNNIEST way for that orientalism content warning to pan out

'yes i know what a meme is' brb CRYING

damn this whole sasha conversation wouldve been so much easier if jon wasnt so good at antagonising people DJFHKSJDHFKJHDS

ok but shouting match aside 'is that another sasha? are you collecting them??' why are all of jon and melanies interactions this specific brand of unhinged

somehow the turn of phrase 'travel freely, sowing random terror' is sending me. i too would like to sow random terror

'if i had a nervous breakdown and i just misremembered a cousin i dont know well it couldve been a lot worse' is such a FUNNY train of thought

'it is remarkably easy to buy an axe in central london' ???

i fucking LOVE michael so much

'what are you doing here??' 'probably watching the archivist die :)' PLS

honestly this exchange is even funnier in text form

kinda cool how both michael and notsasha fuck up the tapes but in different ways

'i was almost beaten to death by an angry goth!' that is the FUNNIEST possible way to phrase that sentence

'we dont have time for you to have a breakdown archivist!' oof

...wanted to see how the transcript described leitner's death bc i couldnt figure out what the noises were for a second and shoutout to the transcript for this hysterical phrasing

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MAG61-70

'i'll break every bone in your body :|' oh i love daisy's vibe already

when jon said 'looks like we're not done with sinister coffins just yet' i seriously thought he was gonna say 'looks like we're not done with the police' KJDFHKSJHDKJFH

also 'when a precinct finds a vampire they call me to drive them out the forest and set them on fire' i LOVE daisy's vibe

what the fuck is this dynamic between gertrude and mary kaey im losing my mind

'who... is this' 'that's a surprise!' bro

why do all these end guys like the mummy from mag64 feel less like horror stories and more like tragedies. just these really pathetic creatures trying very hard to die :(

as a CS major i dont know how i feel about mag65

mag67 another one that reads more like a tragedy than a horror story :( anyway i think i know enough spoilers to guess why they called out the movie they watched as specifically the prestige (genuinely one of my fav movies of all time) but im just gonna put a pin in that until agnes comes back again in the podcast

was listening to mag69 (one of the arachnophobia ones) halfway while on the bus back to my dorm and a moth flew into the bus. atmospheric 👍

'i should just leave it but i can't... not know' i mean i know what this man's problem is but damn this man has a problem

'deep down both of you know that you don't actually like each other but it's just more effort to not be friends' help why does this perfectly describe me and a guy at my school

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MAG51-60

MAG41-50 (for my own navigation cuz tumblr ate my post)

'asking (sasha) to produce said boyfriend' i LAUGHED

‘all in all he’s a delightful person to discuss money laundering with!’ the energy of this man is sending me

'he seemed determined to avoid eye contact [...] but i have a cousin with autism so' YES THANK YOU (<- eye contact anxiety haver)

ok im probably just gonna be reading instead of listening to all the.. bug n worm episodes for a bit (shoutout to the tma wiki content warning page) especially since i got to MAG55 when i just started eating dinner but also '(the police) might not look too kindly on me setting a man alight' i wheezed

'i am far too unlucky for (the person made of spiders) to simply be an old tramp hallucination' wow jon is becoming genre aware

knowing what i know about how this show ends why is jon so mean to martin good lord

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MAG41-50

'i am not a brave man, but i am in some cases a very stubborn man' i LAUGHED

Jon's paranoia in the supplements is gonna drive me insane

(from mag41) 'encore?' 'i have an uncomfortable feeling she might have finally gotten that video to work' horror involving single lines that just Fuck You Up my beloved

'they only got away with significant mental trauma!' i- ????

ok the corruption is my least favourite entity and i live in SEA ie mosquito country so yeah mag45 was the first one i chose to read the transcript of instead of actually listen to. not gonna bother even trying to put up with that one

for some weird reason when michael started talking in mag47 i was CONVINCED the voice was jane prentiss for one confused second

ok but if michael is gonna be like any form of recurring antagonist i am. SO MUCH more down for that than the fucking worm lady like i love everything about this guy. the distorted effect on the tape. the cadence of his voice. 'does your hand in any way own your stomach' idk thats just a very fun line. 'let her go!' 'he he he no????' fuckin. hysterical line delivery 10/10

i listened to the first half of season 1 like fully 2 years ago now (its funny cuz i started tma literally the day the last episode came out) so some of the references jon makes to previous statements are very,,, ????? anyway thank god for the wiki i guess

TIM THINKING JON AND BASIRA ARE DATING I AM WHEEZING