#how do i pin this

[adrianz-world]

how the fuck do i do this

uh hi

im adrian this is an intro post

i go by they/he

i am autstictic

i am on tumblr to reblog art

[canonkiller]

but you can't keep holding on like this.

[erza-is-on-the-way]

hey uhhhh im door. when i was 15 i spent like a whole year obsessed with fairy tail. if i charge my old ipod touch i'll even find old ft fics i used to write in there lmao. i stopped reading after/during the tartaros arc because of real life issues and then time passed. fast forward to december 2023 somehow this passion was ignited again when i saw nalu art on twitter and i got hit with the overwhelming need to read fairy tail again.

so that's what i've been doing.

currently on: volume 20, finishing the oración seis arc. (ill update this)

idk i know nobody realistically cares but i created this side blog kind of on a whim so i can reblog stuff like crazy and maybe post stuff of my own since there's a LOT of plot points i did not remember. it's been really fun relearning fairy tail again :) i definitely remember why i had so much fun with it as a kid. i feel lucky.

anyway. i ship everything under the sun. kid-me loved the big 4 (especially jerza) and i still do, but i honestly love everything lmao. been trying to find poly team natsu content but its been hard. i feel like there's a lot of potential there. i just really like the thought of everyone in the team being kind of in love with lucy a little bit. (im obviously excluding wendy here.)

my favorite character is erza but lucy natsu gray and juvia come real close. im trying to acclimate myself to drawing the gang again but im really slow when drawing, so.

ANYWAY ill stop rambling. thank you for your time. i hope to stick around (lord knows how many side blogs ive created for different hyperfixations).

[xandrikart]

[iheartmydogfart]

this means the world

sufjan stevens, “the dress looks nice on you”. james fitzjames / fitzier

[annabelle--cane]

"the magnus protocol had a whole ARG beforehand? what?"

yes! it did!

"oh so I need to have participated in this whole big thing to actually understand the podcast?"

not at all! from the official post-mortem put out by RQ, "while the ARG was not something that was necessary to participate in to understand the magnus protocol, it was designed to contain a wealth of background story and context that would enrich any player's listening experience."

"a wealth of background context that would enrich my listening experience 👀👀👀 how can I learn about this?"

SO glad you asked. sadly, many of the materials made for the arg have been taken down since the game ended 😔 (ex., the official OIAR, magnus institute, and bonzoland websites. (edit ii: I found partial wayback machine captures! see below) though @strangehauntsuk is still up!), so we're a bit low on primary sources, but in terms of learning about what happened:

for a starting point, I would really recommend this video by @pinkelotjeart

it's super accessible, it was made in real time as the game progressed and follows the solving and revelation of clues as they happened, it hits all the major points of the mystery and moments of community insanity while eliding some of the nitty gritty puzzle grinding, 10/10 would recommend.

here's the official summary put out by RQ, and I'd recommend reading through this once you've already gotten a basic handle on the flow of the story and the basic connections between major clues and events. it's got some fun behind-the-scenes info and lays out the thought process behind the puzzles in simple terms

here's the full masterdoc of all puzzles and resolutions put together in the statement remains discord server. masterdoc my absolute BELOVED, masterdoc my bethrothed, masterdoc my soul mate. I'd recommend this as a second port of call after the above video as it either contains all details about the puzzles or links to other expanded docs that do.

here's the narrative summary doc that lays out all the plot and lore discovered in three pages of plain prose. if you just want to get to the good bits as fast as you can and get blasted directly in the face by contextless lore bombs, this is the doc for you. if you don't want to start with the video, I'd say this is another good entry point.

once you've got the lay of the land, some of the game materials that I found particularly interesting include:

the in-universe east germany expat usenet forum, with all content translated into english. most of it is irrelevant space filler with occasional extremely sus lore, but I still found it fun to read through. love to soak in some fictional forum drama.

chdb.xlsx, the spreadsheet of the names of all the children the protocol 'verse magnus institute was studying/experimenting on. EDIT: here is a version of the sheet without any annotations and with all of the names in their original order, kudos to @theboombutton for catching that the commonly shared copy had the order swapped around.

klaus.xls, a (very corrupted) spreadsheet with what looks like the classifications of a bunch of old OIAR cases.

EDIT: have a few more saved materials from the game that I forgot to include.

an in-universe audio ad to apply to the OIAR that ran before archives episodes and kicked off the whole game.

an in-universe video ad to apply to the OIAR, this one is an official upload that's still up from the game itself. you can subscribe to the OIAR's official youtube channel today, if you so chose.

the robo-voicemail greeting from the OIAR's phone line.

EDIT II:

here is a wayback machine capture of the OIAR's official website.

here is a wayback machine capture of the bonzoland website.

(pretty sure both of the above captures just archived the home pages, though I haven't tried clicking all of the links. I'd say they're still worth looking at, the home pages give a good window into the vibes.)

once you start poking around in these documents, you'll find a bunch of links to others with further information, the materials I've included here just contain what I feel to be the most relevant details to getting a broad feel for the whole game. once again, huge shout out to the statement remains server, I was barely in there as the ARG was in progress and only ducked my head in every so often to find links like these. true mvps of the fandom.

[crowlion]

[basslinegrave]

pin-up

b&w originals

[lucabyte]

i feel like people are sleeping on the occam's razor situation of how buckwild it is to outright accuse a guy of being a clone of your friend even if you DO have a lot of circumstantial evidence. there's other options is what im saying. they could just be like. a guy. that's a sensible deduction. you should explore that deduction. ignore my shirt that reads I <3 RED HERRINGS.

i still think odile has the correct theory on lock but she's smart enough to know it needs like... a real smoking gun to be able to bring it up without sounding insane.

anyway. (mirabelle voice) i know its rude to speculate but has anyone else noticed the grieving? they seem to be grieving. does anyone have any thoughts on the grieving? i have some thoughts on the grieving.

[natdocx]

THE LOYAL PIN ep. 6 || GAP THE SERIES ep. 9

[cozylittleartblog]

worst way to start my new year, thanks. i have a lot of things to say about these companies but i'm tired and just keeping it focused to the pin side of things for this one. do not ever buy pins from these companies, literally ALL of them are stolen from small artists like me. if you want to buy enamel pins, check out etsy, and artist's personal websites and shops! (though even Etsy has some bootleg pins that ship straight from china, so tread carefully…)

Every pin I've designed is, thus far, EXCLUSIVE to my etsy. if you find it anywhere else, it's been ripped off! and once these stupid bootlegs pop up, it's basically a never ending game of whack-a-mole trying to get them all taken down...

[dizzybizz]

eiland page..... beloved <3

[sicklyjelly]

a moment of comfort

warm-up based off an old doodle adrienne did bc my creativity has wandered off somewhere but I really wanted to draw isa and mira… fwiends… 🥺💕

[vitamimesea]

together we are fnaaaaaf

[spocks-kaathyra]

my second born son <333

taking suggestions for who to make next!!

[wizardweevil]

weird horse