#first listen

[woundlingus]

Oh how Hozier has written an album about the absolute worst humanity has to offer, all our sins and crimes laid bare, and he says you are forgiven with so much tenderness. This is what makes you human. This is what makes you complex in the most beautiful ways. Look at the tragedy around you, and look at the survivors. Aren’t you all just so beautiful in your efforts to strive forward and begin again.

[imasillygooose]

I genuinely get so excited whenever Tim shows up in an episode I love him so muchhh, he's been through sm I hope nothing bad ever happens to him again I just want to protect himmmm

[emrysthemerlin]

Magnus Archives Episode 186 spoilers!

It’s interesting to think that if Jon had been a victim in the eyepocolyps he likely would have been in Martins domain. The fear that no one would remember you or care.

“I don’t want to be a mystery.”

I think one of Jon’s main fears, the original ones I mean was that he’d end up forgotten without anyone really looking into it. Another dusty file on the shelf to molder away in the dust of the archives without anyone knowing or caring what happened.

[purple-egg-yolk]

Solomon being convinced the devil has taken ahold of his child is so funny when the actual devil is busy fighting cowboys and having an existential crisis over developing rudimentary bonds to other people, and probably doesn’t even know Percy exists.

[smashviolet]

How could I pause binging woe.begone after that top-notch impersonation of a 🤌fucking terrible🤌 Raylan Givens impersonation in 44?

Touched my dark crystalline heart, through my ears, through my headphones.

[jacks347]

I MISSED THE NEW BVZ PREMIERE (THANKS JOB)

So now y'all get my live reaction! (I've never done one of these before, this is gonna be fun)

SPOILERS AHEAD IF YOU HAVEN'T WATCHED IT

Intro is great as always, I love this song so much

Here we go~

WHO?? WHAT??

OFF TO A STRONG START

"Lack of cooperation" My guy it's Albus, that's literally his entire thing

On your family?? YOU LEAVE FAITH OUT OF THIS (and Kerano and Devlin)

OH??

HI DEVLIN WHAT

That design is so good, Glowbat you wonder

Plot twist #1, I expect many more

We're not even 5 minutes in, this post is going to be a fucking Bible-

Does Devlin have freckles?? Did he always have freckles?? Beautiful

Oh Devlin got sassy during the break I like :P

Of course he calls for his brother, the strongest person he knows how sweet <3

Miracle of faith, in more ways than one

Oo, that sounds painful

~DINNER BREAK~

ALBUS! LANGUAGE!

Ooo scary protective Albus

"My brothers. My battalion." Oh-

Aaaaand there's the Albus we know and love XD

"Fuck you and your hat!" Pfft you leave Devlin's fedora alone XD

Oh, back to our regularly scheduled program

Waiter I'm afraid you got some capitalism in my cowboy fantasy

GIMME CROSSBOW I WANT A CROSSBOW

I don't even think Albus knows where Albus went, he just heard his brother calling and left

Ewwwww TMI Albus

LIGHTSABER?? WHO LET ALBUS PICK UP A LIGHTSABER

Oo who's at the door? And why do I not trust it-

Oh it's just Devlin-

Uh oh, Albus has to explain his family~

Hi Mahatma! I still don't entirely trust you!

Why am I playing organizing Tetris-

...oops

"Can I ask you something?" I mean you just did so-

"Do you ever feel...powerless?" Well ain't this a pleasant conversation

"Like you can't save the people you care about" WELL AIN'T THIS A PLEASANT CONVERSATION

Look at Hipswitch showing off his detective skills! I'm so proud

Oh? What's on that ship??

Oh god not more new characters-

The mafia's back that's not good-

Why is the mafia fighting the Triad I'M SCARED

THE MAFIA SHOT DOWN THE PALADIN SHIPS?? WHY?? I DON'T LIKE WHERE THIS IS GOING

Another point to the man that can't even fuckin read that he's just a tad bit stupid :P

Boys, boys! You're both pretty stop yelling XD

"Interesting" is certainly a word for it Doc, wait until you hear about the woman they're both in love with-

"Caused any distress" ...do you hear yourself Devlin?

...awkward silence...

Paladins of Cindergorn eh? Looks like we are gonna learn about Faith today

Devlin being a smartypants, Hipswitch giving the most sass I've ever heard in a single sentence, this is great

Ewww I hated everything about that metaphor

"Something doesn't feel quite right" Of course it doesn't because nothing here is ever simple

WHY IS DEVLIN CHANGING COLORS??

"Is there anything else you can actually swallow?" ...Doc that is the wrong person to ask

"Oh...eugh" 10/10 Love that reaction XD

Poor Devlin, he spent enough time single-handedly running a ship-

When did Albus attempt to learn to cook?? And why??

"Don't worry about me" Faith's healer senses are tingling

"I saw you get goosebumps, did I scare you?" Honey considering how this story is going I don't think it was fear-

HIPSWITCH THIS IS NOT THE POSITION YOU WANT TO BE IN WHEN DEVLIN GETS BACK

Oh the secondhand embarrassment is crawling up my spine and it hasn't even happened yet

Please God get off of him before I explode-

And we're safe thank god

"You don't trust him at all, do you?" Would you if you were in my position?

This is really just the backstory episode isn't it

Albus, the hired gun where his last job got him killed, wasn't too keen on being a bounty hunter until he saw the paycheck. Okay that stings a little-

"I'm sure they're fine" *Cut to them being very not fine*

Devlin proudly proclaiming he can't read, 10/10 tension diffused

"We won't tell a soul, right partner?" Sir I couldn't even if I wanted to my mouth is literally just for decoration at this point (don't take that out of context-)

Destroy a sacred scripture surrounded by Paladins of Cindergorn, a certain priestess just felt her eye twitch

Yes Doc, show off that psychology degree you worked so hard for (hi I'm a psych student so it's also the degree *I'm* working so hard for)

"Is Devlin a father?" He's not just a stepdad, he's a dad who stepped up 💪 (that was so bad forgive me-)

Devlin...what did you do...

Okay I do not trust any of what just happened, what are you after Devlin?

Oh god the mafia's back

DOGS?? OH GOD PLEASE NO

NOT DOC!! ALBUS SOUNDS SO WORRIED

Show em what you're made of Albus

Don't talk to Albus like he doesn't know what being trained from birth to be someone's dog is like-

Devlin's going through it again, someone save the poor boy from his flashbacks

Y'know, Redacted being the one getting killed instead of doing the killing is rather cathartic in a bittersweet kind of way

Time to rewrite history! Again!

"What exactly can he do?" Great question, I'll tell you when I find out

Oh great, GB's back on his villain shit what piece of lore are we getting today

I don't trust that music, what's about to happen and is it a sand worm like this is Star Wars (we already had a lightsaber it wouldn't shock me)

I KNEW IT!! ASK ME HOW I KNEW GO ON ASK

WHO IS THE MAN IN THE MASK I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS

"I have someone for this kind of thing" Yes go visit your wife and her special bandage technique :D

"Is it a hooker?" "No! It's not a hooker!" He sounded so offended for her, I love that

:O Let someone else fix you up?? And betray wife?? Wait no Wife is Gienne (hello GB Twitch chat :P)

Where's Faith I saw the cast list where is she

WHAT DO YOU WANT YOU BIRD NOSE FREAK

:D KERANO BABY

Oh that art is adorable

SHE CALLS HIM DAD MY HEART IS GONNA EXPLODE

Oop there's Faith-

And Kerano calls her Mom ughhhhh I'm not gonna make it y'all

"It's been x amount of time" Kerano I love you

"Death is too good for him" Yikes

"That's a relief!" "It is?" Pfft-

Faith went from furious to worried in 2 seconds hearing about Albus, that's our girl

"You didn't tell him about your father's death" HEH?? HONEY YOU DIDN'T TELL *ME* ABOUT HIS FATHER'S DEATH WTF I THOUGHT WE WERE IN THIS TOGETHER FAITH

Oh poor Devlin :(

"I miss him, Faith" Is that the first time we've ever heard Devlin call her by her name? Back in BW he always just called her Sister

Awww hug him for me Faith

Oh yeah, Faith is the only who can actually read-

"Something called Operation Sub Delta" ...what

Oh my god don't read it Faith please god don't read it

And she's reading it-

"You just want an excuse to see him again" Oh look, he's reading the thoughts of the fandom (YES WE WANT ALBUS TO SEE HIS WIFE AGAIN SO SUE US)

"I've actually met someone" EXCUSE ME?? DEVLIN YOU HOE WHO IS IT??

"Look at my choice in men" Ah so she realizes it XD

Come on Faith, connect the dots, I know you're smart enough

And she's done it

Who is Agent and what the hell is happening

Uh oh-

They have the files of the subjects that Devlin doesn't

Which means they can use Albus like their own weapon by probing his training like Kravatas did

Oh I really don't like where this is going

WHAT??

THAT'S THE END??

YOU CAN'T JUST END IT ON THAT WHAT THE HELL

Oh my god this series really loves throwing me for loops doesn't it

OKAY ENDING THOUGHTS

Absolute 100000/10 episode GB you madlad you've done it again

Was completely worth the wait, love seeing the whole cast together again including our new players!

The art is flawless, I expected nothing less of Glowbat

Keep doing what you do you mad genius GB, I'll be holding my breath for the next one (try not to kill me I can't do another 4 months-)

[atomicfunnightmare]

Okay it's great but the John(Jon?) being able to describe everything perfectly in great detail? Unrealistic (ar least for me)

Also I just imagine him saying "good boy" every time Arthur does something he asked

[skwittles821]

“Supplemental: I broke into Gertrude’s flat.”

This is just a regular Tuesday for him and meanwhile my jaw is on the fucking ground

[themaidenofwords]

I finally committed to starting The Magnus Protocol and y'all???

The intro music alone nearly killed me.

And then they mention the Magnus Institute and that it burned down twenty years ago? And that was Martin's voice coming from the computer, right?

I have certifiably gone insane over this. Will be submitting my statement soon.

[whoknowswhatimeant]

Okay so Bojan went full Artic Monkeys on that one then

[lovelyladzzzz]

Listening to the Magnus Archives is genuinely pretty scary at times, but what I can always count on helping me to come out of my fear is listening to Jon just absolutely drag Martin’s name through the mud. Like, you’re recording these statements to theoretically be listened to in the future by other employees. Employees that don’t need to know how fucking stupid you think your coworker is! This man just goes in on Martin at any chance he gets!

He can’t possibly be that bad of a guy! What did he do to you?! Spit in your coffee? Tell a bad joke once or twice at the water cooler?! Like get over yourself man, you sit in a dusty old room filing away records no one cares about and you think it’s appropriate to judge researchers all day! Get a life Jon

[irlkisukeurahara]

Quotes from the mother as she's listening to Magnus Archives (she's on episode 20)

"Yeah, he [Jon] was like 'The last lady in charge was a dumb cunt and I gotta fix this shit-'"

"NOT WORMS-- At least it's not cockroaches!!!"

"(listening to Piecemeal) He has issues."

"THAT FUCKIN SPIDER KILLED HIM."

"[suddenly opens front door after weed whacking for a few hours] I just listened to the episode with the meat on the walls and I swear to god I could SMELL that fucking apartment."

"EWWWWW HE PEELED OFF HIS FACE AND ATE IT!!"

[imasillygooose]

Guys there's gonna be more Michael content right

Like he's gonna come back????

He hasn't been replaced by Helen permanently, right?????????

RIGHT????????

[emrysthemerlin]

The fact that Gertrude literally ran out of assistants and Elias keeps adding more to Jon’s plate when they die horribly (replacing Sasha/not Sasha with Melanie and tossing Basira on for funsies) is amusing to me. Like yeah

(about Gertrude) she’ll probably live on her own and I can’t keep expensing funerals

(About Jon) he’s a wet stray cat who’s getting in fights and needs to be surrounded by people more expendable than him.

[duckies27]

*16 minutes into OUAW*

So Gideon and Kremy are really just in love right away? Slay kings

[invisiblhoax]

Ok guys nobody get mad but I got into MCR about a month-ish ago??? And I really only listened to DD, TBP, some of Three Cheers, and some of the Conventional Weapons songs 😭 I decided to listen to Bullets last night bc I had time to spare and OH MY GOSH I actually love it so much?????? Why did it take me so long to listen 😭

Ft a screenshot I took to send to my brother who was really happy I decided to listen 😭