#basira hussian

[magpod-confessions]

Atually, going off another ask I saw on here about Basira... As much as I love her, something about fanon interpretation of her just kinda. Irks me.

Let me preface this by saying I am (mixed) arab.

At no point (to my knowledge) is Basira ever hinted at to be muslim, and a lot of her behaviour and actions would be considered haram.

Idk, I guess it just bothers me that every time theres even a vaguely middle eastern/north African person in media, they get hc'd as muslim, and shown wearing a hijab if theyre fem. I think people forget that there are christian arabs, jewish arabs, hindu arabs, buddhist arabs, hell even zoroastrian arabs, or just atheist/agnostic/nonreligious arabs like myself. It's just. Idk, it rubs me the wrong way.

Also too ig I just hardly ever see anyone vaguely resembling myself in media too :/

Like dont get me wrong theres nothing wrong with headcanoning a character as being a hijabi or whatnot but. Idk man.

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[lesbianmothman3000]

already said this in a tag but I think what basira really needs is a crazy ass hyper specific hobby. Not really of course what she needs is some category 5 introspection and a job that isnt evil. But like. Give that woman welding tools. Give her a dirt bike. Introduce her to fly fishing, get her started on woodcarving! I'm not saying a special interest would Fix her but it could be a positive outlet for her Relentless Need To Be Doing Something.

[papitadodo]

making a storyboard for a daisira animatic and i liked these sketches

[life-of-a-rat]

magnus archives characters as weird shirts i found on pinerest part 2

jon (S3)

2. Martin (S5)

3. Jane Prentiss

4. Simon Fairchild (sky grampa my beloved)

5. Mike Crew

6. Sasha and Tim

7. Elias (Jonah)

8. Basira Hussian

9. Daisy Tonner (S4)

10. Georgie Barker

BONUS: worm

part 1

part 3 soon

[nol0nger-human]

MAG155: The Cost of Living: Basira Hussian Perspective. Word Count: 1892

This episode was a massive turning point for Basira and I don't think many people are really able to acknowledge this due to the subtlety of it, but just like how Jon finally cracked in 154 with his confrontation with Martin, this is really Basiras cracking point as well. As I've talked about in extremity, and as we all know, Basira is deeply, deeply reliant on Daisy. After all the shit that's gone down in her life Daisy has been the one constant, the one thing that's always there for her to rely on. Not only did they go through extremely traumatizing events together when working as partners in Section 31, but with everything happening in the institute, they're practically bound together. Even the very first interaction we have with Daisy, there's an expression of her concern and care for her 

[DAISY - [anxious, drawn] Don’t tell Basira. She doesn’t know about that procedure. I, I’m not sure how much she’d understand, she – she’s not – cut out for that kind of work.].

 Time and time again we begin to realize just how deeply bound they are as people. As the series goes on, we see them go from work partners, to trauma-bound, to full on codependent to a point where neither of them see life worth living without the other one in it. To the point where Basira practically sacrificed her life for Daisy, joining the institute and signing the rest of her life away on a contract that would save Daisy's life. They're incredibly bonded, to the point where we really barely see them interact. This is because they're so close that they don't *need* to talk to each other a lot for their bond to hold strong. They're so incredibly close that interaction simply isn't needed, because their care for eachother prevails despite how much they're around each other or not. This expression comes to a climax in mag146 during everyone's intervention with Jon. Basira explodes at Jon, furious with him for hurting innocent people to save his own life. However, when it's brought up that Daisy has murdered people again and again for this same reason, using her status as police to get away with it, Basira ADAMENTLY defends her viciously, insisting that what Daisy did was different, despite it being much, much more severe than what Jon had done. This is because Basira idealizes Daisy more than she likes to admit and for several reasons. Basira is someone who thrives off stability, so with her entire life crumbling around her, Daisy is the stone pillar she can lean on, rely on, count on as someone who's always going to be the good in her life. So when this image of Daisy is threatened, Basira becomes enraged. I've talked about this before but this mentality is illustrated well by Leson Festinger's theory of cognitive dissonance. When a person's conviction does not align with physical evidence of reality, and so that person rewrites reality in order for that awkward gap to be closed. Basira needs Daisy to be a good person due to her devotion to Justice, and so even when it's proved to her that what Daisys done is extremely immoral, she makes excuses for her to eradicate the dissonance created between her belief and reality. This is especially because of Basiras massive dedication to justice, and her black and white good and evil way of thinking. And so, the events of 146 go down. (if you want more on this scene [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aWHkkKeG9iDYXaesQ927NAvnHeczZnToT8y_NKBeLSU/edit?usp=sharing]) 

NOW let's take this in the context of mag155. The previous night after Jon was attacked by Julia and Trevor, he called Daisy for help, and this situation ended up exhausting her. We see just how incredibly weak Daisy has become, as we realize she can hardly take much physical work, is scarily thin, and is exhausted incredibly easily, getting her sick from the temptation of the hunt. This puts her out of commission for a little, and we are really truly hit with the reality of what her resisting the hunt has done to her. Painful, and intense withdrawal with no escape. Then, in 155, when Jon asks Basira about Daisy, we get the following interaction. Let's go through it, starting with the words exchanged. 

[BASIRA - I’m trying to convince her to go after them. To, uh… Hunt them. ARCHIVIST - Why? BASIRA - Because I’m not going to lose her. ARCHIVIST - She goes hunting again, you might anyway. BASIRA - And if she doesn’t, she might die. ARCHIVIST - Something you’re fine with in certain other cases, and something she’s made peace with. BASIRA - Because of the guilt she feels over the stuff the Hunt made her do. It’s not her fault.] 

Now. my fucking god lets go over this. This is really the scene where everything that happened in 146 and everything that's been happening, Basira really admits to. And what's truly revealed is just how dependent she is on Daisy. Seeing Daisy so weak, Basira is more dreadful than she could ever imagine, because aside from just seeing Daisy as a pillar, she also loves her. She cares about her. Hell she's everything to her even if that fact is extremely repressed. To the point where when she sees Daisy in such a state she is trying to convince her to kill people again. Basira the woman who quit the police force due to the corruption in it, Basira who judges people in black and white based on how just they are, Basira who exploded on Jon when he temporarily hurt four innocent people for his own survival, pleads with Daisy to go back to her own ways. Desperately tries to convince her to give into the hunt just once in order to feel better. Basira cares about Daisy so much that she's willing to set aside every moral she's ever had every thought of justice simply so that she doesn't have to lose Daisy, because she doesn't know what she would ever do without her. [BASIRA - Because I’m not going to lose her. ] 

Because she doesn't want to lose her. Because she cant lose her. And so she betrays everything she bases her own self on just to try and protect her, finally admitting how much she relies on her even if it's just through a few vague words. Even after this, when Jon snaps at her for her own hypocrisy, calling Basira out for excusing Daisy but not him for hurting people far less for the same reason. 

[ARCHIVIST - Something you’re fine with in certain other cases, and something she’s made peace with.] 

Her own hypocrisy staring her right in the face, she still denies, and still does everything in her power to eradicate that dissonance. She makes vague excuses for her, "it's not her fault", "she didn't know what she was doing", "it's different i swear it's different". Then Jon lays down the lines that really just end up cracking her.

 [ARCHIVIST - Earlier, when she was still out of it, I… I saw some of the things she was talking about, some of the things she did while she was police. Do you want me to tell you? BASIRA - No. No I don’t. ARCHIVIST - you knew, didn’t you? You knew the sort of things she did, and you let her. BASIRA - No. Not exactly. I thought… It’s not that simple.] 

Jon hits her right in the chest with the "I know what she's done. Do you want me to tell you in all the detail I know will crack your vision of her? But that's when we realize. He doesn't need to. It's not that Basira was slightly in the dark about the full extent of what Daisy did and so she filled in the gaps of her knowledge with excuses. It's not as if she only tried to justify what Daisy did due to not having the full picture. Basira knew every fucking thing. Every last detail and yet still excused her actions. She knew every disgusting truth and still clung onto her love for Daisy, and justified it. "Did Festinger ever consider how our justifications are to save not only ourselves, but others too? Did he ever consider how lies and love are intertwined?”  Basira isn't just lying for herself, she's lying to protect Daisy. Her lies about reality mix and tangle and knot with her love for Daisy, twisting and warping the two things into one ugly truth mixed with devotion and heartache. Without realizing it, without saying it directly, without even wanting to, Basira reveals everything about her mindset in this scene because it's when she finally becomes desperate. Just like how Jons desperation (rant coming soon :) ) in mag154 is what finally characterized his motives, Basira has been driven to a point of desperation that reveals her motives in full daylight without her even realizing it. Because at the core of it all: is Daisy. The person she truly lives for and the one that she is willing to do whatever it takes to protect because she's dependent on her to a point of no return, a deep, painfully repressed love driving her every action. Even in the last few words exchanged between the two here, we see how Basira bases her every action based off Daisy.

 [ ARCHIVIST - Have you thought any more about what I said? BASIRA - Yeah, I don’t think I can. Daisy wouldn’t come if I didn’t, and I’m not leaving her behind. Besides, both of us being blind would be… anyway, being stuck here isn’t exactly her main problem right now. ]

 "What i said" was referring to what Jon figured out to be the one way of leaving the institute. (Gouging one's own eyes out). And through hearing that, through Basira realizing the position that's ruined her life, through the job that she was manipulated into joining with Daisy's life on the line, Basira still refuses. Because of Daisy. Her one and only chance of escape is denied because she wants to be able to take care of Daisy. And because she doesn't know if Daisy would follow her. And where Daisy goes, she goes. Which is not going to be a reference to a heartbreaking line later in the series because Daisy and Basira are not parallels to Martin and Jon.

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[ao3feed-jonmartin]

Cause you tried as hard as hell with the hand that you were dealt

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/orpNwMd by TeaMoth11 Jon goes into first heat after waking up from his coma and has a rough time. Author’s first attempt at whump. Words: 3382, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: F/F, M/M Characters: Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist, Martin Blackwood, Basira Hussain, Melanie King, Georgie Barker Relationships: Martin Blackwood/Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist, Georgie Barker/Melanie King Additional Tags: Hurt No Comfort, Whump, Omega Verse, Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Alpha/Omega, going into heat, shared rut/heat, The Magnus Archives Season 4, Before the Coffin, Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist Needs a Hug, Knotting Dildos, Tea as a love language, Trans Character, Trans Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist, Subvocals, Omega Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist, Alpha Martin Blackwood, Beta Basira Hussian, Alpha Georgie Barker, Omega Melanie King, Penis In Vagina Sex, Knotting, No beta we die like archival assistants, No beta we kayak like Tim, Mating Press read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/orpNwMd

[ladychandraofthemoone]

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Here’s a quick drawing ✍️ of Eliza from Stories of Sodor!! I adore the private investigators detective police force unit so I’mma draw the Main Trio of them, Joey, Lenny and Alan Lang are coming soon!!

I got the chibi bases reference (with slight changes) from here go check them out: https://www.deviantart.com/bitsandbees/art/LGBT-Flag-Chibi-YCHs-CLOSED-784654180

Some facts about cause my handwriting sloppy lol:

Would be Afro-Arab-Malaysian in human au hence her (hopefully accurate) police uniform, is demiromantic asexual

I based her personality off of Basira Hussian from the Magnus Archives, refers to everyone with the exception of her coworkers by their railway numbers (or professionals)

She’s the strict mother/nenek figure, gives out tough love and advice despite understanding the situation, she can’t help it as she helped trained Joey alongside Lenny 

She’s totally the ““work first play/personal relationship and issues” later type of person, has extermely high expectations placed on herself and of others, takes the newcomers under her wing despite her off putting look

However she can get irritated over common simple mistakes, granted cause of the profession with crime and life on the lines but she does forgive in her own way 

Uptight, stern, a bit of a perfectionist but has a dry sense of humor and can be rather sarcastic and snarky, never smiles much 

Despite this, she’s very loyal and protective of her fellow colleagues despite how exasperated and annoyed she gets with their antics in their free time 

She has a respectable reputation despite her personality being nearly everyone being intimidated by her

Will kick Johnny Cuba in the no no space for everything he has done and caused such as the death of Agent Lang, threatening and blackmailing Arthur and ““raising” Fred

If faced with the supernatural paranormal stuff cause let’s face it they deal with that a lot, she’s doesn’t react and instead just charges in, spirits are frightened of her lmao 

[shift-n-beet]

Basira Hussian! I'm going to marry her for sure, mean strong lesbian.....

okay I've been seeing these around and I wanted to do one for the TMA cast. here's a random wheel (link) featuring every character I can remember with a speaking role + a couple extras who don't speak but are still important to the plot or that I thought would be funny

[screechingfromthevoid]

Bad tma au where once you're marked by a fear you get a tattoo representing that fear.

Like everyone has a first experience, right? So like Jon would have a spider web from his creepy spider Leitner over his shoulder. Then an eye would appear, faintly at the base of his throat until he sinks deeper into his role as the archivist where it becomes detailed and dark. Each piece of the crown he collects creates a sleeve that connects to his eye.

Tim has a circus tent on his foot that he only has to explain to over curious dates. He doesn't ever see the eye on the back of his thigh.

Daisy has a hound on her forearm and everyone assumed she got on her own. Her eye is in the mouth of the hound.

Martin has a pen identical to the one he'd use as a teen to write his poetry with. His eye appears right over his heart.

Basira has one from all her section 31s. But her first one is an out line of a flame reaching to her upper bicep. Her eye is on the back of her neck and it burns her when she thinks about it.

Melanie has corruption up her stomach and with each passing encounter it grows up her torso, square chunks that look like her skin is coming off all the way up. Her eye is on her finger, tiny but in a place where she can always see it. When she quits it's gone. She doesn't ask Georgie. She just knows.

Gertrude knows what's going on. With every failed ritual she gets another addition to the miral on her back. She would have liked it if she didn't have to burn down the institute. Her eye was in the middle of it all. She burned that piece first.

Elias has his eye somewhere no one could see. Planned, plausible deniability. An eye on the upper thigh only matters to someone who could see it. And no one got to see it. Just like the tiny sail boat on his heal.

[eyelias-douchard]

Okay okay hear me out

Stardew Valley AU

Jon is an overworked, overwhelmed office worker from the city, he is moving into Stardew Valley into his grandmother’s old farm. At first, Jon is really overwhelmed by the mess on the farm, with all the weeds and the trees, but he gets by, planting his starter parsnips and selling whatever he didn’t need to buy more seeds. One day he goes down to the river and he sees Martin, the local poet/musician (he could be any of them but in my mind he’s a mixture between Leah, Elliot and Penny). They meet, they talk, they meet some more and they really hit it off. Jon take some warming up but Martin gets there, he offers to move in to help Jon farm and he is appalled at the situation of the farm (patches of land everywhere, weeds over growing). There’s no twist it’s just gays being happy on a farm together.

Also Elias is the mayor, Peter is Linus. Micheal is the wizard, Georgie and Melanie run the general store, Basira and Daisy run the carpenter’s shop, Tim and Sasha own the Stardrop Salon and Martin works part time with Gertude and Gerry at the farm with all the good cows.

[magpod-confessions]

As a southeast asian muslim the disappointment I felt when I found out that all the fanart of Jon being brown and Basira wearing a hijab wasn't actually based on anything other than fanon was immeasurable

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[mourningmaybells]

it genuinely disturbs me how comfortable tma fans are to joke about police brutality

[brilliantthirteen]

i’m listening to the end of mag 125 and on the one hand it’s so sweet that jon’s trying to use his powers to help people, but also... jon... basira... guys... in what universe was that going to go well??

[beholdiing]

me and my brother made a tma tiktok compilation so you can go and watch it if you want, personally i think it’s very funny and good :)

[imperial-evolution]

Some archival assistants + flowers

[ao3feed-jonmartin]

The Wires in my Mind

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/Uw9JsvY by eyeofbeholding What if Loki didn’t become king of Asgard after the events of Thor: The Dark World, but instead found a job as Head Archivist at The Magnus Institute? Words: 2136, Chapters: 1/200, Language: English Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast), Thor (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Categories: F/F, F/M, M/M, Other Characters: Loki (Marvel), Sasha James, Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist, Martin Blackwood, Tim Stoker (The Magnus Archives), Elias Bouchard | Jonah Magnus, Jane Prentiss, Peter Lukas, Naomi Herne, Melanie King, Georgie Barker, Michael | The Distortion (The Magnus Archives), Helen | The Distortion (The Magnus Archives), Nikola Orsinov, Basira Hussain, Alice "Daisy" Tonner, Other Character Tags to Be Added Relationships: Loki (Marvel)/Sasha James, Martin Blackwood/Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist, Georgie Barker/Melanie King, Melanie King/Loki (Marvel), /p, Martin Blackwood/Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist/Tim Stoker, Elias Bouchard | Jonah Magnus/Peter Lukas Additional Tags: archivist!loki, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Loki Has Issues (Marvel), Loki Has PTSD (Marvel), Past Torture, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Implied/Referenced Suicide, Implied/Referenced Torture, hes not a healthy boy, Protective Sasha James, Protective Melanie King, Protective Alice “Daisy” Tonner, Protective Basira Hussian, scary women, BAMF Loki (Marvel), Lonely Avatar Loki (Marvel), Desolation Avatar Sasha James, Lonely Avatar Martin Blackwood, Beholding Avatar Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist, Slaughter Avatar Melanie King, Hunt Avatar Alice "Daisy" Tonner, Canon-Typical Worms (The Magnus Archives), Other Additional Tags to Be Added read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/Uw9JsvY