#can you tell im on season 10 of my relisten

[felixcosm]

When Hunter kills Mikey, this is who he's killing

[spiralesbian]

ALRIGHT

here’s my full Stranger Avatar Sasha Archivist timeline:

(also, thanks to @artbyblastweave for being so interested in my lil au!)

SEASON ONE

sasha james is hired as the head archivist of the magnus institute!

her assistants are jon, tim, and martin

tim takes the thematic role of martin (aka getting tormented by my worm wife jane, and stays in the archives)

sasha reads thru statements and is a skeptic! she really does not believe it’s real until jane comes along.

“tim……………………..did you die here?”

“no, but every time i come to work i die a little more inside.”

cute timsha moment in the supply closet tho.

until martin kool-aid-mans through the door and gets them out of there

jon used to work in artefact storage so he hides in there. he’ll be fine

i actually can’t remember how they all get out but they do it KKJSDGFJHD

sasha takes everyone’s statements. tim is fucked up, martin is also fucked up, jon is actually fine though he seems pretty normal about this whole situation most definitely.

sasha realizes this is a bit more than a regular archivist job.

SEASON TWO

sasha gets paranoid of course. she learns more about gertrude because she never got the chance to meet her

she takes a statement from a guy named michael shelley. weird dude. then helen shows up :)

jon is most definitely himself he is just a normal regular grumpy jon i swear :)

sasha starts to manifest her powers a little bit. she doesn’t know it, but she is an avatar of the stranger, and a prisoner of the eye.

she starts to notice more things about jon? similar to this comic but with jon

eventually she + tim + martin help get jon out of the grip of the NotJon. this is my au and i get to choose who dies (it’s no one because i miss the s1 archival assistants too much).

jon is pretty fucked up from this though and at like a season-3-tim mindset already.

fucking goddamn leitner avatar of the fucking whore shows up to trap the NotJon in one of his shitty fucking novels. fuck this guy tho

he’s like Sasha We Must Talk and shes like okay but stay 8 ft away from me at all times you bitch

she leaves the room for 10 minutes and pipe murder occurs. good riddance

wait are the cops in the season i genuinely can’t remember. if they are, their roles don’t change very much. melanie and sasha feud, battle of the bi queens

SEASON THREE:

uh oh! girlie’s be framed for murder! she crashes at her ex gf georgie’s flat. also the admiral is there don’t think i would EVER cut him out of this story

(also jon is georgie’s ex too because i think that would be fun JDHBFHS)

sasha learns abt an upcoming web ritual (mirroring the unknowing), all that shit. gets kidnapped a ton of times, as usual.

helen is like “i am going to kill you because i hate gertrude <3 i was that dumb bitch’s assistant for too long” but michael busts out of the door like Hi Guys and traps her in the hallway.

sasha also gives her statement about a leitner she found as a child that marked her. its a stranger book and we learn her edgy orphan origin story how her parents were both murked by the stranger. fucked up if true!

back at the archives jon is like so fucking tired of this shit honestly and now martin is also pretty paranoid. also jm romance subplot is still very present!

tim is just trying to protect sasha at all times and he’s pissed she keeps leaving the country and getting fucking kidnapped

(remember when jon persuades the traffic cop?) sasha starts to fill her archivist role in a different way. she can shapeshift into the subject of a statement and uses her affiliation with the eye to coerce statements or info out of people. (example: if she needed a live statement from the guy in #90 Body Builder, she could temporarily make herself look like jared hopworth to the guy and ask “what happened to me?” or “what did i do?” and the guy would be like well he built some fucken bodies i guess let me tell you all about it) while reading the statements in america that refuel her, she fully shapeshifts into the statement giver while reading out loud.

once again i truly can’t remember daisy + basira’s roles until the end of the season. also melanie get shot by the ghost at some point

anyways sasha gets kidnapped by trevor and julia and they gerry lays out all the shit for her and she’s like ah! i’m fucked

tim offhand mentions the web ritual to martin and he loses his shit cause he’s marked by the web blah blah this isn’t a web!martin thing i swear i just need someone to fill tim’s role in the ritual and a lonely ritual would be fucking boring as hell as we learned from ass man peter lukas. i hate that man

so they make the plan to stop the web ritual (which is fucking hard when the offense knows your every move) so sasha, basira, daisy, jon, and martin go.

tim stays back at the institute to burn shit and distract elias. elias does some fucked up shit as usual and it makes me sad

the ritual starts! they have a plan to blow it up and run but like. u know how it goes

instead of the unknowing-stranger-dream-sequence, we get everyone kinda mixed up in a huge spider’s web on the big stage and its still quite confusing because this ritual not only manipulates the prey, but also the prey’s perceived reality. the web is also in current control of the buried coffin cause they think that shit is kinda fun. they yeet daisy into it.

hard to describe what happens, but basira keeps her cool, jon is a bit lost in his own mind, sasha tries to use her powers to escape but fails. she manages to get through to martin through the strings and mounds of spiders and she tosses him the detonator.

[squishing spider noises]

SEASON FOUR:

martin doesn't die, i told you i can't kill the og archival assistants! he does lose most of one leg though, he took the blunt of the explosion.

sasha in da hospital in da coma. tim is mad he can’t wake her up and then my man ollie says “ur fucked up mate” and she wakes up

(and because coma jon has such wild hair controversy, i’m establishing that her head was shaved when she was in the coma. it grows back thru s4. it she keeps one side shaved cause she’s cool)

meanwhile tim is recruited by that dumbass man you know who i don’t even wanna say his stupid fucking name

sasha gets daisy out of the buried. they become avatar pals!

(there is the biggest blank in my memory where all of season four should be. at this point i should just relisten to the entire fucking show but i would literally just forget it all again)

melanie says hm. fuck this! and blinds herself. she goes to live with georgie (and that’s the moment jon and sasha realize they are both georgie’s exes FHFHDJD)

tim continues to fight the lonely pull. he thinks that since p*ter l*kas is tied to the institute, he can blind himself out cause melanie was successful. he is wrong. he is also interrupted by elias midway, and only blinds one eye, and loses most of his sight in the other. elias’s hold on him is weak, but this just drives him way farther into the lonely.

gotta be honest i remember the end of season four but like i couldn’t visualize what was happening at the end so i like don’t understand what happened JGDKFJGD but sasha intervenes (???) and peter yeets tim into the lonely (???) and sasha jumps in (??????) after him. elias is just there i guess?

instead of “look at me martin,” sasha finds tim and at this point her form is warped and hard to recognize because of stranger powers, and tim is almost 100% blind, so she says “don’t look at me, see me. see me tim, it’s me.” and finally creates a clear image of herself. “it’s...it’s you. you’re my sasha.”

they break free and go to scotland i guess KHSDDKDSF

idk what happens with jon and martin im losing continuity at this point. fuck it, they smooch <3

“ah these are the statements.”

“yes. basira said last week she’d send some up as soon as the archives weren’t a crime scene. and she wasn’t sure which ones you’ve read already, so she, she just said she’d send a bunch.”

“.........Hello Sasha.”

(alternate ending: personally i think sasha would read through each statement before speaking them aloud cause that’s what i would fucking do, so she would get this statement and be like “lmao tim come look at this elias trying to prank me dumb bitch think i’ll start the apocalypse for him. fucking little puny bitch boy. anyways what do you want for dinner?”)

SEASON FIVE:

“just. listen.”

“...i’m dead. and you have been chosen to be my replacement as head archivist. hopefully, this means you, jon, but if someone else is hearing this, and elias has made a different choice for some reason, then these words are still very much intended for you.”

sasha in full stranger avatar mode and is like 8ft tall and her faces shift a lot as they go through the realms. except the stranger is the second to last one (the panopticon is last obviously).

helen and michael actually talk shit out in the spiral hallway and now they are mlm wlw solidarity and both like tim and sasha are such bi and trans icons <3 this is so fun don’t you love the fearpocalypse <3

oh daisy n basira trapped in the hunt, and jon and martin are trapped in the stranger. wtgfs + the admiral are like in space or some shit idk but they are ok :)

not much to report other than she is my monster wife <3

i really don’t have many theories to how everything in s5 is gonna pan out, and i would like to closely mirror the actual show, so maybe as we get closer to the end i’ll build more on to this! thanks a lot for all the notes on my first sarchivist post!! also if u wanna make art this specific au DEF tag me in it i’d love to see!!

[astronomifier]

Magnus Relisten Eps 13 & 14

Happy friday, though for most people it’s Saturday already. I may try to make up for lost episodes by doing a Sunday episode, but we’ll see. untill then, we have Alone and Piecemeal.

Episode 13: Alone Case #0161301 Statement of Naomi Herne, regarding the events following the funeral of their fiancé, Evan Lukas. Statement taken directly from subject.

So this is a very good episode. The issue I’m kind of having is that its so solid that it’s hard to really describe why. It works like a well oiled machine, where its hard to see how its actually constructed, but it never quite strays into “amazing” territory for long enough that a specific moment stands out. But I’ll try. The narrators reaction to Evans death hits the sad note its going for, the Lukas family is delightfully creepy in a way thats not even really supernatural, and the final, supernatural encounter is also delightfully scary. Herne describes herself as feeling “Forsaken” in this episode, and the episode definitely gets that feeling across. Also, the final scene goes on for a really long time without ever overstaying its welcome, really just drawing you in to the world its building in a way that im not quite sure tma has done yet, other than perhaps in vampire killer. With that said, there are a few small flaws. I think the lead up to Evan’s death goes a bit long on the exposition. It fulfills its purpose well enough, but its a bit clunky. The rest relates to the fact that this is our first guest star episode.

So, lets segue to narrator-watch. We get a nice moment with Jon and Naomi at the start, which really makes the guest star bit seem worth it just in and of itself, honestly. Just the way Naomi says that she doesn’t want to be alone... its good. I do have a few issues with our actress, though. Katie Davidson does a good enough job overall, it totally works. But I do have two issues: the first is that a couple of lines feel a bit overacted, specifically moments where Naomi recalls having realizations... its a nitpick, but it was noticable. The second is that for the first episode where someone is recalling a personal story, Naomi seems less emotional about her supernatural encounter than Jonathan has sounded about some of the ones he’s been reading in statements! Like, listen, i dont think this is the worst voice actress or anything, and i think most of the voice talent on this show is generally “good”, but it wasn’t as strong as it could be.

8/10 a really good episode, with only a few small flaws, but it never quite gets me to go “holy shit i need to tell my friends about this” the way Vampire Killer did.

SPOILER PARAGRAPH: so! our first encounter with the Lukas family, and i believe with the Lonely as well. Funnily enough, though, or flagship Lukas, Peter, never explicitly appears in the episode. I mean sure, he could easily be one of the nameless family members at the funeral, but its an interesting choice. Makes things a little less neat than it would otherwise be. Personally, my headcanon is that Peter was so deep in the Lonely that he decided to just stay on his boat instead of showing up. As far as the Lonely, not much to say here except for that i love how melancholy Lonely episodes can get. Its less about scaring your pants of, and more about making you feel uneasy and unfulfilled in a way that Jonny is really, really good at pulling off. We’ll see lots more of this going forward, especially in season 4.

Episode 14: Piecemeal Case #0112905 Statement of Lee Rentoul, regarding their murder of their associate, Paul Noriega.

Another good one. Short and sweet, with quite a creepy central event. To start us out, the scene where we meet Angela is... weird, in a way that i think is characteristically Magnus. The body part stealing “witch” doesn’t have a witchy aesthetic, she’s just a strange old lady who really, really loves puzzles in a way that may or may not be linked to her ability to steal little bits of people. Its clever, its creepy, and its odd. I like it. Then we get our murder scene with Norega, where i think the fact that it is perfectly mundane is kinda makes it worse. Theres no lore or mystery to it, just human on human brutality. And yet you get the feeling that Norega is more afraid of Rentoul than he is of the supernatural things happening to him. Finally, we have Rentoul’s discovery of the curse that has befallen him. In sharp contrast to Dreamer this isn’t drawn out at all, Lee Retoul makes it very clear how it works and how inevitable it is in record time. I think this was a great descision. the inevitability, the clear, unbreakable rules surrounding the curse, that’s what really makes it scary. best to lay it out and let the listener connect the implications themselves.

Our narrator today, Lee Rentoul, is another one with a big personality. Fun Fact: This episode was the first where Jonny was told to tone back his use of swear words while writing. Rentoul is a hardened criminal, and he makes it very clear. In fact, its kinda his only character trait. I don’t think he’s as interesting a person as some of our previous narrators, but he is an interesting vessel for the story.

7/10. Kinda wondering if i should have spaced out my ratings a bit more on earlier episodes. This is definitely better than some of our 6′s but i cant bring myself to put this above Across the Street. Maybe just barely. Eh, its not as good as Page Turner, so this is fine.

SPOILER PARAGRAPH: so remember how in Thrown Away we talked about how Jonny hadn’’t really figured out what the Flesh was going to be like at the start of the show? well... that’s still true here, i think, but we’re closer. This episode is more directly about body horror and physical injury, but both this episode and thrown away fail to actually get into the whole “eating” part of the Flesh. I mean sure, Angela mentions some vague line about “hunger”, but its not really the focus. Which is odd, as our canonical explanation of the flesh is that its animal’s fear of being slaughtered and eaten. But hey, the Flesh is also canonically weird, and this definitely gets into the slaughtering part. And before you say anything, no, i don’t think this episode could be a manifestation of the Slaughter. There’s not nearly enough glee or gore involved in our narrator’s fate, and the violence isn’t really the point. also one more note. Salesa’s box. is there any chance that this is the same box that Selesa has in “Held in Customs”? the episodes are about a decade apart, so i doubt it. But hey, first appearance of Selesa on the show!