#i was going to just speak my dumb thoughts abt gerard keay aloud but this happened instead so ???????? do with it what u will

[cordialcalliope]

this post contains spoilers for tma (specifically the very end of season 4 to season 5 beginnings (like episode 160+)) so if u r Not There Yet u should probably look Away

free my man gerard keay,,,,,,..,,, he did Not deserve to be stuck in a book like that .

EVERY time i think abt his ending and how he wound up there i either get unreasonably distressed or i start laughing uncontrollably because imagine u help some old lady who works for the Awful Horrors and Terrors That Be out for a bit and she strips part of ur flesh from ur body when you die to bind you into a book . and said book is From the things you’ve tried to get out of & away from all your life . man .

there is no such thing as justice in tma bc so Few people get what they deserve and the rest are just punished ridiculously for minor things . idk abt u but mike crew & jon absolutely did not deserve to end up in the situations they did . they were literally both Kids & one ended up having to sacrifice himself to a fear god to stay out of another’s clutches, while the other just wanted to read something. and that book he stumbled on was probably the reason he applied for a job at the institute, and, unbeknownst to him, was strung along by his boss for so long that he ended up unwillingly jumpstarting the apocalypse, forced into the role of the lynchpin in elias’s plans . all the archival staff from gertrude’s time & jon’s were given awful ends all because they were curious or scared or trusted someone they thought was safe . martin was just a Dude who needed a job, tim just wanted to know more abt the thing that stole his brother , who was just a nice guy that people liked. sasha literally had Nothing to do w the fears . but she died anyway . don’t even get me started on michael and fiona law and sarah carpenter (and emma harvey). or even the directors that elias (jonah) took over . gerard keay was a guy who was born to a fucked up lady who collected fucked up books & wanted to start her own lineage . gerard did Not deserve what happened to him, but then again, none of them rlly did . and That kind of Sucks . people are evil and things are evil by human standards and only do what they can to survive, unknowingly hurting & traumatizing masses . nobody deserved any of the ends they had ended up with but that did not stop them from happening . the concept of fairness is and has never been real & tma does a really good job of explaining & showing that for an audio drama i think . even if it is massively heartbreaking