#breakone

[just-an-enby-lemon]

"The Mechanisms were Jonathan Sims college band" and "Jon is the secret real past of Jonny D'ville" are both great takes but I present "Jon's descend into an unwilling antichirst figure is The Mecs new album and Jonny plays him in the songs because they just have very similar voices for some reason."

[job-ross-the-second]

Listening to MAG 182, and hearing breakon messing up and keep on saying us and then corrects himself and say me, is absolutely heartbreaking.

[c4yp71d]

Did anyone get more sibling vibes than in love vibes from Breakon and Hope or was that just me???

[crying-pan420]

I guess you could call breakon and hope a package deal

[optimisticrunawaygalaxy]

FABHSFBHABFSHBAShf

"Would you please drop that ridiculous voice"

"(russian accent) This better? :>"

[goldenstorm0]

aaaaah I can't find my tea bowl and making matcha in a normal cup is hella annoying without an electric whisk (which I also can't find)

but since I can't find my bowl....... that means................. I can get a new one................... a cuter one............................

[hapless-and-hopeless]

Being a Magnus Archives/Protocol fan living in London is so funny.

My favourite pub is the last stop off before horrible death on the tube.

A guy was apprehended in a Breakon and Hope van full of explosives along my jogging route.

The music venue I was singing Mr Brightside in last week was a potential site of an alchemical ritual based around the millennium.

It’s just not creepy when you can shout ‘I know that kebab shop!’

[kitkatkitchen]

The Magnus Archives - Fave episodes and final thoughts

I have just done the incredible task of finishing The Magnus Archives. Idk what to really do with myself now besides tell you all about my fave episodes and highlights of the series. So, without further ado, statement begins:

MAG 4 - Page Turner

A classic season 1 episode. A great introduction to Leitner! I originally loved this episode because I love books and loved the gothic and creepy vibes of Mary Keay’s book shop. I now love it because of my beloved GERRY KEAY!!!! You heard it here first, folks, I’m a Gerry Keay stan and will not apologise.

MAG 16 - Arachnophobia

I honestly just love the image of this guy aggressively killing this spider over and over and going mad.

“Perfectly natural explanation for why his body was encased in web”

Thanks Jon… helpful.

MAG 26 - A Distortion

I love the plot slowly starting to thicken during season 1. We ❤️ Micheal on this account.

MAG 32 - Hive

I love the genuine unsettling nature of this statement. A real look into the maddening mind of Jane Prentiss and our lovely Archivist branching out with his acting abilities.

MAG 39 - Infestation

“Statement of Jo Spooky”

All of our season 1 babies fighting it out with a bunch of worms!! Plus Tim being a legend as per usual. This was the episode that I fell in love with Tim. Idk the image of him kicking through a wall while being high on gas is always iconic to me.

MAG 61 - Hard Shoulder

DAISY >>>>

Also Breakon and Hope being creepy boyfriends.

MAG 65 - Binary

This was the episode that scared me the most out of all the series. It made me physically sick and I almost considered turning it off. But that’s all the more reason to love the incredible writing of it.

MAG 80 - The Librarian

Oh yeah Kit must love this episode because of all the big reveals and lore dumps!

WRONG!

I love this for Gerry beating up Leitner and the sounds of brutal pipe murder!

MAG 96 - Return to Sender

We also ❤️ Breakon and Hope on this account.

Also Jon doing a Cockney accent is so inherently funny to me.

MAG 101 - Another Twist

MICHEAL!

MAG 111 - Family Business

You will not be shocked to find out that this is my favourite episode. I am in love with Gerry Keay and this episode made me so sad yet so happy to finally hear his voice.

Also I get gender envy from him. No, I will not be taking questions.

MAG 119 - Stranger and Stranger

NOOOOO TIMMMMM

Such great sound for this episode plus I’m a sucker for dramatic moments.

MAG 128 - Heavy Goods

Once again, we love Breekon and Hope. Boyfriends.

MAG 154 - Bloody Mary

Eric is so cute. Also once again we get Gerry lore.

ALL OF SEASON 5

Incredible. We love John and Martin. And those last two episodes were INCREDIBLE. I have no words

Sorry that was so long!

If anyone has any other podcast recommendations I’d really appreciate them!

[quack3r]

Breakon and hope

App used: ibis paint x

[astrangeraccoon]

TMAGP first listen ep 22:

Ooooh lena and Gwen confrontation!

I need to bundle Gwen in a cover and keep her somewhere safe bc this girl DOESN'T KNOW WHEN TO QUIT

Oooh lena come out with the threat! And Gwen is fired from her liaison job! I'd say poor Gwen but honnestly I'm just glad she ll be safer (I say, as if I believed that to be true)

Ministerial visit?

Why do I feel like the "Gwen still keep her job title" is gonna be used as a plot point to get her back into this shit?

Casement time:

IT'S OLD MAN AUGUSTUS! lets get some history! (tho 1924 is actually quite recent)

Oh it's another experimentation one. Human experimentation of course...

I need them to talk dumber bc that's a lot of word I don't know

AAAHHH IT'S THE DEEP! YESSSSS!

Oohh yes, communicate with the machine and receive answer,totally normal, nothing s wrong here

Aaaaand the man is dead... Again

I know there's probably no link but this talk about being alone and "I are we" make me think of breakon and hope

OUT OUT OUT OUT OUT

Post casement:

OH SHIT SAM IS ONTO ALICE

No no no leave it alone Sam

Oh shit no Sam please listen to her! FUCK

Okay but the accusation of Alice trying to control Sam "again" is interesting. What did she do? What happend between them?

Okay so Alice is def hiding something, what was she hopping to accomplish with Sam s help?

On one hand this is not just Alice being jealous of the couple, on the other hand she is not helping herself with her comments

Shit Sam is mad and not listening. I need this two idiots to fucking put their ego aside and have a real talk BEFORE ONE OF THEM GET KILLED

CELIA STOP BRINGING MORE TROUBLE TO SAM!!!

JONATHAN SIMS AND MARTIN BLACKWOOD???? AAAAAAHHHHH

Okay something very interesting is how everyone aside from Sam has a clear hidden agenda here. (Sam's agenda isn't hiden, we all know it's the mag institute)

And while I'm 99%sure celia only agenda is try to solve the alternative universe travel I also don't trust her not to use Sam as a way to get what she wants...

[beheldandcompelled]

Season 4 Jon has been on my mind a lot.

Jon's not okay he's back from the dead, the world's gone on without him, and he's more isolated than we've ever seen him (season 2 was self impossd this is something different hes being cut off).

His lesser of two evils boss that was guiding him refuses to see him, Tim is dead, Martin also refuses to see him and is pained when they do talk. Basira only wants to look out for herself, and his relationship with Georgie and Melanie is damaged.

He's realizing he's not human, with abilities that are only considered useful when getting information (killing Breakon), but are regarded as a disturbance or annoyance literally any other time. Everyone continues to tell him how much they hate he can know things to the point where his Eye powers have people wondering if he should've even come back and that has to fucking hurt.

Dude's dealing with survivors guilt, stigma, social isolation, more trauma, literally a plethora of effects that lead to a lot of psychological damage and no one think the guy is even human? When what he needs most is support?

Also thank you as always to @buried-in-the-archives for yapping with me about this while I relistened to season 4.

[nicole-survivor]

Just finished s1ep20 of the Magnus Archives podcast and now have questions.

1. Who or what possessed Father Burroughs?

2. Breakon and Hope deliveries were seemingly dismissed before and yet have reappeared in similarly strange circumstances.

3. Not a question just a statement- the police suck in this, no weapons, and a clearly unwell man at the scene of a strange murder and they are just like yeah he's fine to plead guilty despite little to no evidence that wasn't circumstantial being present.

[ambi-kiko]

MAG 2 Do Not Open:

i always really loved this ep omg. that feeling of making a weird deal, not knowing whats happening, not really. not having control when youre asleep, just about to open the coffin. theres not much i can say without spoilers for future episodes so yk

Spoilers ahead! (s3~s4 if im not mistaken)

OMG THIS IS SUCH A GOOD INTRO TO THE COFFIN! its crazy to think that there are people in the Buried there. and they would drown and lose their progress after each rainstorm. why did they stop scratching though? and who is that avatar? nd struggling to breath when hes sleeping huh? like... being buried?? ((:

ALSO OMGG BREAKON AND HOPE <3 i missed them actually they were really silly and breakons death killed me urghh

also was this a Buried-Lonely colab? tim mentioned that he was the only one living there. huh. either that or just Buried (probably the latter)

SPOILERS DONE (:

bro was so smart for that ice thing. its really not that elaborate but its so clever.

fear becoming routine, huh? i get that all too well. i think thats one of the reasons i loved this one so much. and that he didnt remember his dreams. i just relate to him in general haha

john being surprised at mc being alive is so funny to me like "oh? my little coffin didnt kill you? oki tyy" also why did he scream? hmmm

heres an old shitty design of jon (ive changed it but i dont draw s1 jon much and i dont wanna give spoilers that way soo)

lookin rough, buddy

[moonstruckme]

OhTake me to your best friend's houseGoin' 'round this roundabout, oh yeahTake me to your best friend's houseI loved you then and I love you now, oh yeahDon't take me tongue-tiedDon't wave no goodbyeDon't breakOh, take me to your best friend's houseMarmalade, we're making out, oh yeahOh, take me to your best friend's houseI loved you then and I love you nowDon't take me tongue-tiedDon't wave no goodbyeDon't breakOne, two, three, fourDon't leave me tongue-tiedLet's stay up all nightI'll get real highSlumber party, pillow fightMy eyes on your eyesLike Peter Pan up in the skyMy best friend's house tonightLet's bump the beats 'til beddy-byeDon't take me tongue tiedDon't wave no goodbyeDon't take me tongue-tiedDon't kiss me goodnightDon't, ohTake me to your best friend's houseRoll around this roundabout, oh yeahTake me to your best friend's houseI loved you then and I love you now(All right, all right, all right)Don't leave me tongue-tied (don't leave me)Don't wave no goodbye (don't wave bye)Don't leave me tongue tied (don't leave me)Don'tDon't leave me tongue-tied (don't leave me)Don't wave no goodbye (don't wave bye)Don't leave me tongue-tied (don't leave me)Don'tYeah, yeah, yeahYeah, yeahYeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

(Totally didn't copy paste)

-🪳

Excellent song. Makes me want to scream sing on the highway with my windows down

[comas-are-for-sleeping]

ok you have a special interest in tma (im pretty sure) and i do not want to relisten to the whole fucking series SO can you give me liek a summary (however detailed you want) of what i need to know beofre tmp please and thank you

what gave you that impression whaaat???

ok but i love this question bc i can procrastinate on my hw without catastrophizing yippee!!

i'll do like a timeline of main events without dates bc i cannot actually remember numbers for shit

Jonathon Sims becomes Head Archivist of the Magnus Institute (im going to stop with capitals bc it is too much work) because his predecessor, gertrude robinson, died. he's extremely skeptical of anything "paranormal" so it's kinda funny in the beginning bc his whole job is recording statements people have given of their encounters/experiences. Every episode at this point ends with a, "well, it could be dismissed except for this one spooky detail."

at some point a delivery made by breakon and hope (a delivery company that shows up in statements; two guys with suspicious cockney accents) to jon. it's a table with a hole in the center (also has shown up in statements multiple times). because of its association to, like, bad things, jon takes an axe to the thing and it is left in artifacts storage.

the events of season one are basically worm lady named jane prentiss is stalking the institute in order to take it over. she traps martin blackwood, the poor sweet boy, in his apartment for a week. now he cant stand the sight or taste of canned peaches! he moves into the archives temporarily because of this. jon finds him annoying/a nuisance but is very quick to offer the archives as a place for him to stay (spoilers they kiss). sasha james, another employee, meets an entity who calls itself Michael (an icon) who takes her to see a guy from a statement where his one night stand explodes into worms bc she had an encounter with jane prentiss. he is now a worm person. michael gets a worm from sasha's arm that tried to get into her arm w his finger which is Too Long and Too Sharp. The season ends with prentiss invading the archives and being burned to death! tim stoker (another employee, promise that's mostly all of them), martin, and jon are all Traumatized and end up covered in scars from getting worms out of each other with a corkscrew :) sasha and elias bouchard (everyone's boss) attempt to get out, but sasha is separated and ends up in artifacts storage. someone else is there and then the tape cuts out (everything is being recorded on tapes because something funky happens when certain statements come in contact with digital technology). the tape goes missing.

season two is jon's Paranoia Era. he's not sure who he can really trust anymore, since if jane was out there, there must be others and they could even be his own staff (how did she get in?? what are the underground tunnels beneath the archives??). at the end of each statement there is now a "supplemental" in which he describes his suspicions (which leads to him following some of his employees to their homes and they find out and... are not very pleased) and his findings in explorations of these strange tunnels that seem to move by themselves. there is someone down there, but who could it be?

oh btw another reoccurring thing are spooky books with the name "jurgen leitner" in them

the last two statements before Shit Goes Down are both about someone who's relative changes appearance, sound, and personality, except that no one thinks that this has happened and even pictures would suggest they had always looked like that (except polaroids and tapes). jon finds sasha's "missing" tape and listens to it. and... she sounds different in this recording. uh oh!! she isn't who she says she is!! she attacks him, he ends up running around in the archives (perhaps because of michael, who has a multidimensional door that enters into a spiral of confusing hallways) and meets the man himself, jurgen leitner (who, it turns out, has been the one living in the archives). they trap the Not-Sasha in the tunnels because leitner has a book that, if he reads certain sections, can move the walls/stairs/entryways/etc. jon Obviously has questions, so they go into his office and he keeps interrupting leitner (obviously). what he is able to tell jon is basically:

he found some spooky books and decided that he could collect them all. he built a library and put his name in all the books he owned, but one day it was too much and basically the whole thing burned down, all his assistants died, and the books were yet again scattered to the winds. he explains that he believes these books, entities, and items are all part of powerful beings. he also tells jon that elias killed gertrude. jon freaks out and decides to take up smoking again in that moment, so leitner is left alone. and elias goes in there and kills him with a lead pipe. jon comes back and is like wtf. he's pinned as the murderer bc all his coworkers were suspicious of his behaviors.

so now jon is on the run. he hides in his ex-girlfriend's apartment. he decides to do field research into something gertrude seemed to be interested called The Unknowing. we also learn that he encountered a leitner book as a child which led him to witness his school bully being taken by a spider behind a door (this is an animatic of said book teehee). also that georgie (the ex) also had an encounter separate from him which resulted in her losing all ability to feel fear. jon's field research leads him to find various entities from the statements and is kinda bullied by all of them tbh. hand burned by a woman who's basically made of wax (she likes destroying people's things and fire), simulated vertigo from a guy with a lightning scar down his back, and kidnapped by a clown manequine who wants his skin (as part of the Unknowing)! oh and also almost murdered by a bloodthirsty cop (daisy tonner my beloved plus her gf basira. idr if their relationship was ever established but). he tells daisy that he wasn't the one who killed leitner and that it was elias (i think he has proof?? bc she believes him). they corner him but hes like lol no u cant kill me if you kill me you all die rip teehee!!

oh! on his adventures, he ends up in america and learns that the powers are organized into types of fears. there are fourteen of them, jon works for the Eye. jane was the corruption (rot, bugs). the circus is the stranger (fear of the other, unknown, etc).

at this point i think also the clown + her circus have gathered all the materials for this "Unknowing," (a ritual of sorts). the crew (now including daisy and basira) devise a plan to end it while also distracting elias so that he can be arrested. jon makes martin and tim stay behind (as the distraction), but tim refuses bc his brother was killed by a clown (not the same one as the kidnapper) and hes Angry. I think at this point basira and melanie (she made a statement and then got fired from her job as a ghost hunter youtuber) work at the institute also.

they enter the circus Unknowing and martin burns statements to get elias's attention. all the circus people forget who they are so it's hard to blow everything up, but they figure it out enough for tim to detonate. daisy is thrown into a coffin (also a thing that shows up in multiple statements), tim dies in the explosion, and jon is catatonic.

season four! jon wakes up six months later in the hospital and is told that he was entirely dead except for brain activity. martin is distant, elias has been arrested and replaced by peter lukas, a name that has also shown up before. he is part of the lukas family, which is aligned with the lonely (they help fund the institute). jon pulls back up to his place of work and everyone's kinda annoyed and sad bc their friends are dead. melanie is increasingly violent, most likely due to a ghost bullet in her leg from right before she was hired (this is the slaughter, which is war and senseless violence/murder). she hates jon because she is stuck working for the institute forever (you cant leave or you'll like. get increasingly more sickly or something like that). basira spends a lot of time in the institute library. jon realizes that he can Know things randomly now. he also starts needing to read statements in the way that we need food and sometimes kinda is not so great to (random) people when he's especially lacking

oh my turns out there is a word limit to these things!! whoopsie doo there is more so get ready ig