#idk what jonah's last name is

[the-east-art]

IDK if this counts as a Hagstone ask, but what is Hagstone? Could you give me the rundown? Or do you have a post where you explain the basics already?

Yes!!! It definitely counts!!! Let me tell you about my OCs and their story!

Hagstone is a story that I've been working on with @browniefox on and off for about seven years now! We've made at least one or two complete drafts of the first book, and I'm currently going through and rewriting the first book for (hopefully) the last time! and then it will be done! Hagstone is intended to be a duology, so just two books long.

enjoy this seven year old art when I was first developing the characters! The tag is Hagstone, but to find ALL the art I've ever done on it check the tag wtgp - it had the temporary title of 'Way to go Paul' for like... four or five years, referencing a Vine which I can't remember why we did that haha. There aren't any characters named Paul in it.

The story is about Kyle - a recent college dropout - who has to find new housing after an Event at his old place. He moves in with the eclectic Eldan - and over the course of the book gains new housemates (none of who are actually human) and discovers a dark danger lurking under the town.

(are by @browniefox) The story itself focuses on themes of struggling to let go of the past and face the future, dealing with grief, depression, and combatting loneliness.

One of the reasons I wrote this story was that I was really tired of stories that constantly have a 'normal' character who later realizes they're Secretly half witch or a fea or whatever so a big part of the story is the fact that Kyle is a very Human person with no magical abilities and how he interacts with the magical world.

The main characters are Kyle (of course) an anxious, depressed, and self conscious guy with a special interest in bugs and anger issues.

Eldan - the oldest living Fae who always seems to know more than everyone else and has been reportedly 'in a funk' (didn't leave his house) for many decades leading up to the story.

Marion - An acerbic vampire only a century or two old with trust issues and a secret soft side. He has been ostracized by the local vampire covens for reasons not yet known.

Ollie (Oleander) - Hailing from a family of monster hunters, Ollie is a sweet boy who can transform into a giant beast. His family are technically a line of Gargoyles but many centuries ago Eldan blessed them, hence the furriness of the transformation and the lack of being made of stone. However, something has happened recently causing him to go to Eldan on behalf of his family for help.

and Jonah! - Jonah is the ghost that haunts the house with few memories of his time alive whose death is connected to the darkness that lurks under the town.

(if you look you can see that Jonah and Ollie were recently renamed. Ollie was originally Leander but that read and wrote too similarly to the name 'Eldan', so we changed his name to Oleander and have him go by 'Ollie'. But THEN that was too close to the name Odon, so we changed Odons' name to Jonah. I'm much happier with these names and I think they are now distinct enough from one another, but it may be confusing if you're looking at old stuff)

That's the basic so please feel free to ask questions about the story, the characters, or if you want to meet some of the side characters in the story!

[hop-a-lot]

hellooo sorry maybe you've told it somewhere already but what do you think Bidwell's (real) first name is? I mean I've read somewhere that every Scout's sibling's name starts with J lol but idk, I wanted to know your opinion on this since you basically own Bidwell wholeheartedly <3

I have not explicitly stated his first name before, but it was implied in one of my small comics (X). I choose 'Jonah' as my headcanon for Bidwell's first name, named after a prophet who was swallowed by a sea creature and reappeared after 3 days, unharmed. I thought it was somewhat amusing giving Bidwell a name with a biblical story/implication, in contrast with Scout's real name, Jeremy , which has the meaning "appointed by God" (it's funny given that Scout was actually God's gift to Earth if according to comic lore), plus I also thought the whole idea of "his siblings' name starts with J" sounds pretty cool :)

Extra: As for his last name, I have two HCs. It might have been derived from his father's last name or it could be a fake or code name given by Saxton shortly after he joined Mann Co. This could have been done to protect his and Mr. Reddy's identities, as well as the identities of Mann Co employees, from potential corporate counter-espionage.

[clanwarrior-tumbly]

Okay idk if u wanna do this but May I request a crossover of vita Carnis and Mandela Catalouge headcanons?..

For Adam,Jonah and Mark. Basically they arrive at theyre s/o’s House..and find out they have a pet trimming named Meatloaf or something.s/o treat them like they’re baby like any pet owner would,what are they’re reactions?

Awwwwe yeah my two current analog horror fixations let's goooo

.......

Adam

He shows up at your door right as you were getting food for your pet.

It was especially important that you fed it at this particular time so it would settle down for the night...

But Adam's persistent knocking forces you to stop and answer the door, momentarily leaving it with an empty bowl.

"Adam? What are you doing here so late?"

"Did you get my message? Our client wants us to go to his place now. I got the salt and everything."

"...he's gonna have to wait a minute. I just gotta feed my pet and-"

"C'mon, babe. We can't lose this offer. I'm sure your pet's not gonna starve to dea-"

All of the sudden, both of you hear metal scraping and a loud whining noise that sounded like a dying animal, startling Adam while you just stare blankly at him. "You were saying?"

"..what the hell was that?????"

You decide it's better to just show him, so you go back inside and introduce him to your pet: a small six-legged fat lump of raw red meat with a collar around its neck.

"What the fuck is that?? An alien??"

"No, it's a Trimming. And their name is Meatloaf."

"....that literally explains nothing."

After feeding your Trimming and calming it down, you told Adam a little bit about its role in the Vita Carnis family.

Where you're from, they're common house pets, being even more popular than dogs or cats as they were docile and willing to eat anything.

When you're done explaining, he just stares at Meatloaf for a while, who's now swaddled in a blanket and curled up in your lap.

It looks kinda gross, but he is intrigued.

Apparently, it's trained to sniff out Mimics and scream when it detects one....which has saved your life on multiple occasions, and it did the same when it sensed an Alternate in your house not long after you moved here.

That's cool.

He thinks you should bring it on BPS assignments.

Jonah

On the other hand....

When you mentioned owning an exotic pet, Jonah didn't expect anything like this when he showed up uninvited, letting himself in with a spare key.

"Hey I brought some pizza for--WHAT THE HELL IS THAT, S/O?!!

Babe, please don't scream-"

"Am I tripping or is tHAT A FUCKING FETUS??!!!!" He points wildly to the Trimming sitting in your kitchen sink, covered in soap and looking saddened bc your bf interrupted bath time.

Meanwhile, you're pissed off by his yelling and covered its sensitive ears, glaring at him. "Will you calm down? This is a Trimming..you haven't heard of them?"

"No???? It looks like the goddamn chestburster from Alien! What is it?!!"

He was ready to run out of the house, but you convinced him to stay and you explained what a Trimming is, rinsing off the soap while doing so.

Poor guy's still trying to comprehend why (and how) a thing like this even exists, eyes wide as he watches you dry it off and care for it like you would a puppy or kitten.

It doesn't help that you call it "Meatloaf" and have a cute little bow on its collar/head.

Nothing you say will stop him from getting nauseous, suddenly losing his appetite for the pizza (especially since he got pepperoni and sausage on it).

You reassure him it's not gonna go to waste, instead feeding it to Meatloaf in bite-sized pieces.

Jonah's just in shock as it happily devours them with no hesitation, before it waddles back into your arms for cuddles.

You made it your mission to get him to hold it, trying to show him it's not scary at all.

It's....still a work in progress.

Mark

You knew exactly what he was gonna think of your Trimming.

So you explained what it was exactly, even showing him a photo so he's better prepared to meet it when he comes over.

The last thing you wanted was for him to scream "demon" and throw a bible at your sweet little nondemonic meat pet.

But still...he clams up when you greet him at the door, holding Meatloaf in one arm.

"O-Oh, it's..uh....cute...?" Mark tries his best to be polite, yet his face is as pale as a ghost's.

You're just relieved he didn't panic and cause a huge scene.

However, for a normally social creature...Meatloaf became unusually shy around him, flinching away when he attempted to pet it and whining if you put it down for too long.

It constantly followed you, refusing to be in the same room as him.

This keeps happening whenever he visits, and he's unsure what to do.

So one day he asks if it'll ever warm up to him.

"Oh! How could I forget? Trimmings usually like it when they're sorta "involved" in conversations..if that makes sense." You tell him. "Meatloaf probably thinks you're unfriendly because you talk to only me when you come over."

"....so..how do I fix that? By talking to it myself?"

"Yep!"

"Will it...understand me?"

"Not sure, but it just likes hearing chatter." You then speak to Meatloaf, scratching under its chin to stir it from sleep. "Hey, Loafy. My boyfriend wants to tell you something."

With the Trimming now looking at Mark, he feels...awkward, but he finally stutters something.

"H-Hey, uh...so I'm Mark. But you probably know that. S/o talks about me a lot and...uh....anyways we've been together for a few months. Sorry if I didn't seem that "friendly" to you, but I hope um...you...approve of us..?"

He trails off as it shifts out of your hold and climbs into his lap, curling up and cooing happily.

His eyes are HUGE and he's filled with fear(tm), but eventually makes the brave decision to pat its fleshy head, hearing it...purring?

Then you see his smile.

You're extremely happy about this bonding moment and had to snap a picture of the two.

'Yeah, this one's definitely for the books'

[thepunkmuppet]

ok i just looked back through my blog and it looks like my big theory from way back last year has just… disappeared?? which i’m pretty annoyed about tbh, but i want to expand on it and update it anyway because the casting announcement and logo all validate it and make it a lot more interesting SO

my big magnus protocol theory and what i think the plot will be

so, this is a world completely without the Fears, until BAM. here they are. and with the arg, the encrypted messages and the glitchy aesthetic they seem to be going for, now further expanded on by the logo literally being a glitchy computer screen, i was thinking what if as the fears entered the universe, there was some kind of mass signal or energy surge.

imagine all the screens and electronics in the world suddenly go static, and a jumbled-up incomprehensible message (like the “statement remains” audio) can be heard everywhere, all around the world. and it goes on for around 20-30 minutes. and in those minutes, every single person in the world is fucking TERRIFIED. just frozen in absolute fear.

and of course this causes thousands and thousands of accidents and deaths and just generally terrifies everyone, so naturally every world government thinks it’s an attack of some kind. hence why we follow civil service workers, specifically those working for Incident Assessment and Response. this would be quite an incident!!

in these first few episodes following the signal, we also hear from the prime minister. and i originally thought it would be REALLY fun if the uk prime minister in this universe is the og Elias. i love this idea with all my heart for many reasons, but it doesn’t look like ben meredith will be in it, so i’ve had to modify it a bit. so, either the prime minister will be gwendolyn bouchard, who could either be a relative of elias or transfem elias (although, trans prime minister?? in this godforsaken country??) OR the tim fearon character, who could potentially be jonah magnus or a similar previously established character. but personally, i’m betting on miss gwendolyn, so keep that in mind as you read the rest of this.

and so at the end of the first or second episode, we hear this prime minister in a big meeting about the incident, and the episode ends on a cliffhanger that reveals what the unscrambled audio really was.

it’s mag 200. which is why jon and martin are (potentially) on the cast list. the fears are ushered into the universe using their voices.

but i think what would be an even cooler cliffhanger is if after this big reveal, after the tape squeals and basira says good luck, we hear something we’ve never heard before.

“oh, hello. are you still listening?”

OR

tim fearon’s voice.

so this is where the REDACTED names really come into play. idk what the actual plot will be, but my idea is that jon, martin, and the tim fearon character, who i personally think is the voice of the original jonah magnus, are:

1, stuck as “ghosts in the machine��� of sorts, living on as disembodied glitchy voices and nothing more

2, are huge eldritch entities, who can speak through anything and anyone, maybe possess people, etc, and possibly act as similar entities to the fears in a way, creating their own avatars and suchlike - maybe to fight the fears in jon and martin’s cases

or 3, the fears use their voices to actually speak, probably through recordings and electronics, meaning the REDACTED isn’t just to conceal their characters, they actually just don’t have names

also this is a much smaller point but because her name and presumed age are so out of place in comparison to the rest of the cast, i think lady mowbray is a psychic or mystic woman of some kind rather than an actual noble woman, and will be able to talk to the new jon and martin, whatever they are

so yeah that’s it i guess! i hope all this makes sense, if anyone has any questions, anything to add or challenge, or just want to discuss it please please do!! i want to see what people think of this in light of all the new information because i LOVE this idea so much that if it doesn’t happen i might just write it myself lol

[redstringredeye]

BEAR WITH ME HOLD TIGHT

Hmmmmmmm I know this is nothing but I googled her name and the Magnus archives and she was the statement giver in MAG130: Meat, she was the woman who got accidentally sucked into the flesh ritual but got out unscathed. Now like I KNOW that this is definitely nothing and she’s just friends with Jonny and Alex and oh nobody will notice she played two roles (except freaks like me)

BUT what’s interesting (I am delusional) is that (this is nothing I swear) her character’s name is Lucia Wright. Do you know who else has the last name Wright? JAMES Wright, previous head of the Magnus institute, before Jonah bodyhopped into one Elias Bouchard.

Gwen Bouchard / Elias Bouchard are confirmed connected (cast joking on stream about how Gwen doing a brutal pipe murder is her birthright)

So like… why not Lucia Wright / James Wright? If Gwen is connected to the OIAR in this universe couldn’t Lucia be connected to the Magnus institute?

Idk idk I’m becoming more unhinged every week thank you for coming to my TED talk

[pynkhues]

Hi, I'm a little shy to ask/reblog on main, but your last post on Louis and Lestat's sexual dynamic was really interesting and I appreciated the deep dive! I get similar vibes from them, but couldn't articulate it. This is meant in friendly conversation with the last asker, their question was very thoughtful and lead to me questioning my own assumptions:

It always surprises me that strict Top Lestat/Bottom Louis is a common interpretation, because I thought Louis and Lestat being vers was pretty heavily implied in both the show and official social media? Not only because of all the stuff you mentioned, which is more subtle and interpretive, but because I feel the show does quite a lot to imply sexual dynamics between characters. For instance, I thought the line in the show, "you can be on top", literal or not for that particular night, was there to imply....yk, Louis being on top sometimes (though, I suppose it could also be interpreted as Lestat offering Louis a more "masculine" role *at first* so as not to force something on him he wasn't comfortable with). In addition, there was that silly little "bottom of the coffin" thing in AMC lestarter pack :)). 

If anything, I see the show taking pains to imply Louis tops, but never the other way around -- idk if this is on purpose to counter assumptions of Lestat topping. But because Top Lestat is such a common fan interpretation, I'm starting to question if I'm reading too much into the examples above...

Anyway, I know it doesn't necessarily come down to getting a "real answer" to this single question, and it can be more about just discussing the different possibilities and vibes! But I do find it interesting and relevant to their dynamic as a whole -- especially what you said about "push and pull". Thanks for holding up the Bottom Lestat fort with your beautifully written fics!

(x)

Hi! I'm glad it was interesting, anon, and I agree in that I tend to see a lot of moments in the show overall as indicative of Lestat and Louis having a versatile sexual dynamic, and well, dynamic over all, actually, given the balance of power actually shifts a lot between them broadly.

This is going to sound like a sidetrack, but please bear with me, haha, but I do think there's a lot to be said too in how Louis tells his story, which I mentioned in another ask this morning, namely that he's prone to minimising and sanitising his own choices and actions. We see that of course most notably in Lestat's retelling both of Claudia's turning, which Louis admitted to Daniel was closer to the truth than his own version, and the fight that led up to Lestat dropping him / Lestat's act of abusive violence, but we see it all over the place - again, Louis implying he was keeping his sexual urges at bay in 1.01 only to reveal he'd fucked Jonah years earlier in 1.03 and Louis' memory of choosing Claudia freely instead of hurting her and saving Lestat in 1.07 both being pretty big ones.

This isn't to say Louis' a liar - I don't think he is - but memory is a funny creature, and it's normal to want to put yourself in a more flattering light or to push accountability onto others in order to protect yourself from the consequences of your own actions.

In a lot of ways, it makes me think of Lestat saying that it was Louis who said come to me to him instead of the other way around, and I found it so interesting that the post-ep interviews seemed to acknowledge there was a truth to that. I won't be able to find it now, haha, but Sam and Jacob both have said that they talked about it a lot and that they came to the fact that the come to me was coming in both directions and indicative of a sort of mutual yearning and desire for one another.

That's fascinating to me, but also I think is a great reminder that Louis does tend to draw himself in his relationship with Lestat as someone who was being seduced and pulled in, whereas a lot of the visual language of the show itself actually demonstrated that it was mutual. Gosh, just look at the invention of Dreamstat, Louis attacking Claudia for trying to burn Lestat, even earlier - Louis dressing Lestat, bringing Lestat to his home, Louis taking Lestat in his lover's bed in order to drag him home. It's not to say Lestat doesn't do it too - he does - but the point is that it's a lot more mutual than Louis' initially willing to acknowledge or articulate, and I think that a lot of the fandom still tends to take Louis' word as the pursued instead of also the pursuer, the hunted instead of also the hunter, as gospel when the show's telling us in other ways that its not.

And yeah, I do think that can impact the way people view their sexual dynamic, where Louis' passive / a 'housewife' to a husband / someone who receives instead of being someone who's active / a husband to a husband / someone who gives and takes in equal measure. Louis' not in Lestat's crosshairs, they're in each other's, and just personally, that's why I like them

[circusfable]

Tma au Archivist Meryl 🩷

Lore on the main body of the post bc you will listen to my deranged ramblings

Meryl takes over as the head archivist of the SEEDS Institute (name still a wip) after the mysterious death of the former archivist Rem Saverem. Originally I thought to make Roberto the previous archivist but I want his death to be more meaningful to Meryl’s growth & to do so they’d need to have a chance to grow closer over the course of the story, so he is one of the archival assistants in this au. Think Sasha if you want to know anything about his fate :)

Anyways I’m pulling most of Meryl’s personality from her trimax counterpart. So at the start of her tenure as the head archivist she’s skeptical and writes off many of the statements similar to Jon at the start of tma. But I think she’s this because, like tristamp Meryl, she’s naive to this part of the world and it’s easier for her to go in feigning bravery and confidence in her prior knowledge than accept that she might be wrong about things, in more danger than she realizes, and very very scared. Honestly to me Meryl in this au and Jon have a lot of overlaps in their personality. But also Meryl and Melanie King, acts/is tough but is also terrified and shows that fear with aggression on occasion.

Meryl ends up becoming The Archivist as time goes on ofc :)

Oh and Milly is another archival assistant! And later touched by the lonely because, to me, MerylMilly is very similar to JonMartin and I don’t know how to explain my vision you just have to trust me.

Conrad is the current head of the archives (going by Bill Vasquez since…. yknow…. Jonah Magnus but instead it’s Conrad doing that).

I have Brad as the last member of the starting archival staff rn but I haven’t decided if that’s gonna stick or not, bc idk what I wanna do with him yet, but I do need one more person in my starting archival staff list.

[itchyeye]

i just finished s4, mildly excited still for s5 despite knowing Opinions Are Divided, but i was wondering: what's the fear you wished they developed more, aside from the dark?

this is an excellent question!

i think for me the dark is the only one that feels underdeveloped. jonny simsirl mentioned in one of the q&as that he finds the dark to be the most difficult fear to write because of how quickly it devolves into cliches

and i really would have loved to see the dark being very closely allied to most other fears tbh. because fear of the dark is really fear of the unknown (stranger) and that ties in to the very primal fears of being unable to protect yourself (hunt, slaughter, eye, corruption)

idk if that's totally unique since we know that all the fears purposefully bleed together and into one another, but the dark i think is uniquely situated to work together with other fears because, really, if it's dark, your imagination is what's scaring you (spiral)

and it's such an abstract concept too it could very easily work hand in hand with the vast, the buried, and the lonely

the people's church is dope as heeellllllllll and it was meant to be a Big Bad like the stranger was and then we sort of got.... nothing. which gives me little to no insight into the kind of absolutely crazy sex manuella was having with maxwell raynor's last discarded husk

plus i am verrrrry curious about the relationship between jonah and maxwell since they seem to be utilizing the same body hopping trick

ok anyway on to your question: to me, the dark is the only fear that feels underdeveloped, because jonny was clearly avoiding it. that's like, his own comfort level as a writer, which i can't really fault him for tbh. it's good to play to your strengths. but it's then dumb to create a cult, a named recurring background character, a named recurring acolyte to this background character, a mysterious ritual, and then have it all amount to absolutely nothing. like... .come on, man!!

the fear i have the most issue with is the stranger, which i've talked about before here and here with @florenceisfalling because

i just think it's disorganized and poorly executed

i think it absolutely REEKS of stuffy british xenophobia in the same way so many of the flesh statements with the haan family do, and as A Russian it annoys me deeply to see jonny simirl pass off clearly un-researched cultural stereotypes and google translate names/phrases as Horror. you would shiver at a broscht recipe.

oh actually having said all that, the extinction is also very underdeveloped, for plot reasons that i think are sound. so i don't wish it was developed more. but i do find all the extinction statements really dull. i love the plotline of an emerging fear because i love adelard dekker with my whole heart he is one of my top fav minor characters. but the actual extinction statements are just... lame. imo.

[foster-the-moths]

some doodles for churchghost au (still figuring out designs), plus a basic outline of the au under the readmore! (warning for descriptions of child death and suicide)

-mark was killed by intruder. he made 'scary night' like in canon, but nobody believed him, and after about 3 days of living with MAD intruder comes back and either finishes the job OR mark sees his true form and his head just explodes idk still figuring that out. maybe he took his parent's gun? his death causes a bout of hysteria in mandela and is on newspapers for like a week.

-even though he's a ghost, mark ages. his appearance changes to match how he would have appeared if he had stayed alive (this is how he has different outfits, his hair stays short, etc) due to this he is also pretty much stuck in mandela county, since if he had lived he would have stayed in mandela anyways.

-in the dream i had cesar's mom was a mortician, and this is why he's at the morgue where mark's body is. i might change this to cesar just happened to be at church while mark's funeral was going on. ms.torres as a mortician sounds cool tho so i might keep it.

-mark is tethered to a rosary/crucifix (not sure which one yet). he had it in his pocket when he died, and it falls out either when his corpse is at the morgue or in the church. cesar finds it and picks it up, and that is how he can see mark.

-when cesar first sees mark, he freaks out and actually drops the crucifix, but later he comes back and picks it up again, after he's calmed down. mark is surprised that cesar actually came back for him and thats how he and mark become friends.

-cesar usually wears a suit/something resembling a suit because mark is extremely bad at recognizing faces in ghost form, and associates cesar with suits because that is what he was wearing when they first met.

-mark goes to school with cesar bc he's tethered to him. they both hate it bc they can't talk to each other, but mark helps cesar with his homework bc he can just float over to the teacher's desk and give him answers.

-cesar will sometimes pretend he's on the phone with someone in order to talk to mark without looking crazy. it works surprisingly well. he'll also write things on paper for mark to read.

-due to how young mark was when he died, sarah never got to meet him :( she does meet him eventually though by pulling out a oujia board or something

-speaking of sarah, since mark is. no longer around the heathcliffs need someone to babysit her. and, in a funny little turn of events, they hire cesar! this is how mark finds out he has a baby sister. mark and cesar agree that its best not to get her involved with mark's ghost shenanigans, but mark is still. a bit jealous for a while. he is glad that sarah gets an older brother, though, even if it can't be him.

-mark also just. completely forgets his last name until he sees his parents and recognizes them. or maybe he and cesar go through old newspaper clippings and find mark's name there? unsure.

-sarah sees cesar as a big brother figure, but she knows he's hiding something. little does she know his big secret is ANOTHER older brother. wild. 2 in 1 deal.

-i do think that sarah still founds the bps, and that means adam jonah and evelin will also be in this au.

-not sure if i want to keep the timeline the same or not. on one hand i could have mark and cesar be 34/35 in 2009 (like in canon) and cesar works somewhere in mandela bc mark can't leave the county (maybe he works at mandelatech????) or on the other hand maybe they are slightly younger?? not sure yet.

[missr3n3]

Who do you think which songs that fits for your tmc au characterz? Idk if this already asked soooo

i have not been asked this before! in fact i barely get asks about this au in general lol

anyway to answer ur question, i must first of all mention circle with me by spiritbox, which describes the au as a whole, is the song that gave the au its title, and also explains why the title has an exclamation point lol

now to break down character by character:

jonah: more than i could chew by mastodon. i mentioned in one of my author notes that i think he listens to mastodon when he gets wizard high, but this particular song is what inspired his character arc, and the last two minutes in particular inspired the whole church scene in chapter 18.

adam: no transitory by alexisonfire. not only do i feel the lyrics describe his downward spiral from vol. 2 to catalyst, but i also feel like this is the sort of music he'd listen to when he's feeling particularly upset

thatcher: aftermath by the ghost inside. fun fact this was original going to be the song chapter 17 was named after, as it was originally going to focus much more on thatcher. it still served to inspire the general arc i had in mind for him, how he struggles with finding purpose after dave's death and eventually regains it when jonah comes into his life

evelin: the void by spiritbox (i rly like spiritbox lol) this song inspired a lot of the imagery in the eveli n-centric chapters, including the Nightmare sequence that i rly wanna draw at some point lol. and in general the blend of the harsh with the beautiful fits her vibe i think.

sarah: name by goo goo dolls. this pick stems from both what i think her music taste is (chill 90s alternative) and this song also helped me with figuring out what i wanted to do with her character because. tbh i think i think i struggled w writing her the most

sam and delilah: when it's over by sugar ray. tbh this is my pick bc this song coming on my amv playlist is what inspired their whole existence in the first place. another case of a song causing a character to sprout from my head like athena lol

alternates: the hand that feeds by nine inch nails. im lumping all the alternate antagonists together because. i think they're a bit underdeveloped in my story tbh. but also this song inspired that whole "alternates start questioning alt!gabriel's leadership" plot point.

also stay tuned because i may reblog this later w/ songs for joel n chloe.... 👀

[fridayyy-13th]

rude anons have inspired me to spread good in the world (tumblr)

HI!! i love you're writing your jmart is so soft and incredible. you are wonderful (completely unrelated: magnus protocol theories mayhaps?) and i hope you have a nide day/night !

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hi Red!! thank you so much! jmart has my whole heart, so that’s really nice to hear. i have a lot more tma WIPs (in… varying stages of completeness), and some of them i’m really excited to post once they’re done. i’ve made it a rule w/myself to completely finish a WIP before posting if it has multiple chapters, so that i don’t wind up losing steam halfway through (learned that the hard way), so idk when i’ll start posting some of the longer works i’m writing, but they’ll be out there someday! hopefully soon.

as for tmagp theories… hmm, i’ve been wondering about the difference between this new magnus institute and tma’s magnus institute, since the new one is manchester-based and was destroyed in ‘99. i’ve seen people theorizing about why it was destroyed, but i want to know why it moved to manchester instead of london. like, london had millbank prison/the panopticon, and admittedly i’m american so i don’t know much about manchester other than the fact it exists, but i want to know why jonah moved the institute there instead. tma’s institute was originally located in edinburgh before it was moved to london; did tmagp’s institute originate there too? many questions. i realize this isn’t really a theory but it is something i’m very very curious about.

oh yeah! i was thinking about how this is probably most definitely an alternate universe from tma, and i had the idea that the fears might be categorized differently as a result. not super different, just slightly to the left. like, maybe the fear of puppets/dolls is in the same category as the fear of manipulation, instead of belonging to the stranger and the web respectively. smirke’s fourteen was already stated to be a flawed organization system, and i think it’d be fun to shake things up a bit. plus, there was that whole thing from jonny and alex about “things we think we know;” i think maybe our existing perceptions of the entities might make us misunderstand what’s going on until we get slapped in the face with Facts. heck, if tmagp does somehow feature tma’s tapes, maybe alice and sam themselves will misunderstand, too!

and then a stupid theory: alice’s last name will be newall, bc jonny finally wore alex down into a compromise. i really don’t think this one will happen but it’d be funny as hell

i hope you have a nice day/night too!

[its-your-mind]

Subsection A: Magnus Institute Research Programs

Children. Ft. Sam and Gerry and maybe Alice

Child subjects rated according to social, moral, and empathetic development

Magnus Institute Outreach Centre (!!!) in Oxford (!!!!!!!)

Okay. Okay. Okay. Bear with me here.

What if Magnus Institute found Hilltop Road portal starting to form. And was like “AH HA SPOOKY” and immediately annexed it and set up some offices

PRESUMABLY directly above the crack in reality. (On account of how someone stumbled out of it emaciated, with signs of severe extended malnutrition, and reporting some sort of period of lost time that felt like dreaming but wasn’t, because “you don’t feel pain like that in dreams.”)

No date given. Bc jonny and alex hate me personally. So WHOMST KNOWS if this happened before the main campus institute burned down or if this Outreach Centre is still an active net for catching apocalypse refugees

wait how close is alt au magnus institute to hilltop road

google google google

hmmm 2-3 hours depending on car or train. proper outreach center. I give it 50/50 odds.

Maybe someone different is running it now? I feel like theres another unhinged ramble I made about this out there somewhere but if Gertrude (or someone in a similar position) did manage to torch the Institute to fuck over Jimmy Magma, whoever that was totally could have kept running this satellite office. Food for thought, anyway. Maybe Gerry’s best (and happiest!!) life involves punching avatars at night and selling art by day.

Those people who saved the woman who worked at the charity shop — maybe they’re part of it?That was on Hilltop, and it did feel like she was being assaulted by dream-logic levels of extra-dimensional bullshit. But that might be a reach.

Anyway!!

Research.

So.

They have some sort of incarceration program for people who have Spooky Vibes

Like Artifact Storage

But for humans

It’s called Welling Mutare Materia

IF. Those last words are Latin (which is my assumption? academia fucking loves Latin) I don’t think this is what they’re going for, but for the sake of Completeness: “mutare” is the infinitive form of “muto” — change, warp, shift; literally, “to change” and “materia” is either the plural “materials” or “substances” or it’s the possessive form — “of substance”

My guess is that they aren’t thinking of a literal definition? Jonas Maleficent is absolutely the kind of Extra Ass Bitch to want to name his programs in Latin but not give enough of a shit to make the words mean the right thing? So instead of coming up with a dope phrase he just used Latin words with clear English translations so it could sound impressive but still be clear as to its purpose. so many people use Latin this way. it’s. fine.

All that is to say — I think the Welling Mutare Materia is supposed to be something like. A containment for substances alien to this world. Which apparently includes. People. Which makes sense — Anya Villette came from some other world to the TMA-verse. Celia and Jon and Martin and (probable) Jonah are here.

They take statements(!!!)

But those statements actually are FOR something and not just inane jabbering for an Archivist to slurp up to convert into Zone of Truth spell slots

Bc every statement has three ratings that are attached before the statement itself.

Viability as subject

Viability as agent

Viability as catalyst

Let’s take those one at a time.

Subjects

Presumably, subjects of study and/or testing; i.e. is this person/item/location something worth assigning to a research team or adding to the queue of supernatural detritus to be run through a pre-designed gauntlet to see how it reacts to. Idk. Proximity to spiders and shit.

Agents

Things to be used in the field. If a person, can we recruit them and/or point their power/energy/etc in a specific direction. If an object, is its use consistent and safe enough to be relied upon to accomplish specific goals.

Catalysts

NOW HERE’S WHERE I GET EXCITED.

The other two make sense for a research institute. If I was doing specific academic research and outreach involving supernatural shit, I’d try to set up a similar system

But rating something on whether or not it can be a CATALYST

A catalyst for WHAT??

Especially since you already have subjects to test how their power works, and agents whose power is at your disposal! It’s not like you’re looking for power cubes to fuel your spooky kart engine!

We have a TAD more information on this (ty dice statement)

There is a department called Catalytics

Things get sent there for “Enrichment applicability assessment”

SO NOT ONLY ARE YOU SPECIFICALLY LOOKING FOR OBJECTS TO TRIGGER SOME ahem C A T A C L Y S M (S)

You have SPECIFIC METHODS! To enrich! The spooky shit you get!! To make it!!!

MORE

CATACLYSMIC

Not only that! You have enough understanding of and success with that process to be able to assess new spooky thingamabobs to see if it’s worth taking the time to try enriching the creepiness.

tl;dr: JORDAN MORRGANSTERN WHAT ARE YOU UP TO IN THERE

Ruins of The Magnus Institute FACTS WE KNOW:

Someone (who runs an urban spelunking forum 👀👀👀) marked it as “cleared,” which has led to a lack of exploration

Pictures don’t upload to the internet and also just fucking. disappear.

People leave with a weird sense of paranoia

Scorch marks from fire 20 years ago 1999 (FIRE? 20 years ago??? Web bond gertrude/agnes hilltop road tree????????)

Third floor mostly gone

Feeling like doors were gonna close and TRAP YOU INSIDE

All! The! Fucking! Papers! In! The! Archive! Are! Gone! FUCK!!!

Old graffiti: symbols - also found on an empty wooden box???

Gross stains all over the floor (hello smooshed worms)

Only images posted (after graffiti images were promised) were of gross/gory Eyes

[5yours-yours2]

back with tma theories but this time I listened to season two and holy fuck

okay so um season two

happened.

but here are my theories for what’s gonna happen 👍 ahem.

Jon is becoming the archivist and getting his powers now, that’s why Elias is trying to get him out of the institute

elias is possessed by Jonah magnus, no I don’t have a rhyme or reason to this theory but I think that Jonah knew of the archivist and shit and wanted it OUT.

micheal also wants the archivist out. He’s gonna try to kill Jon and end up killing himself in the process, this is gonna happen like midway through the season, somewhere between MAG 99 and MAG 103

the not! Thems gonna reappear (though not for a good few seasons, hoping season five)

Jons gonna try to kill himself soon 🥲 I think he’s gonna be like almost successful and go into like a coma or smth

whoch leads me to my next bit. MARTIN. He’s gonna be so Lonely (get it) uh yeah I think he’s gonna be trapped in the lonely with that Peter Lukas guy from like 50 episodes

Deaths. Yeah Tim’s gonna kill himself or uh “sacrifice” himself to defeat the unknowing or whatever, which is gonna happen in the wax museum btw cause like Not!Sasha was going in there and shit

deaths pt 2. Daisy 😭 she gonna die to the buried in the FUCKING COFFIN MAN

Thank fuck jergen leightner is dead holy fuck I hated that man with every fiber of my fucking being

oh yea I like figured out all of the fears and my friends rlly upset with me I like just named them all on the spot cause I was bored and they cussed me out again 😭

I definitely have more but i can’t remember them

OH I REMEMBER ONE my emo king is trapped inside of a leightner uh idk why I thought this I just do and my guts telling me yes and I haven’t been wrong n too badly yet sooo

i hate Gertrude tbh not a theory I just don’t like her

micheal whatever is last name might be was sacrificed to the spiral by Gertrude to get it to leave her alone because she would do that the little bitch.

i def have more and will probably edit this post when I remember the rest 😭😭

[homolobotomized]

i realized that tumblr has never seen the beauty that is jegamind so let me put u on smth

here he is in all his glory:

it actually was a jue megamind au at first that somehow evolved into a jetko au but i can’t even be mad about it

[aplaceinhell]

ooh this is fun

JD (Heathers)

Newt (The Maze Runner)

Grian (Third Life but also Hermitcraft)

Arthur Lester (Malevolant)

Jonah Magnus (The Magnus Archives)

Harry Green (Heartstopper)

Jesper Fahey (Six of Crows)

Pluto (idk his last name) (Nevermore)

Aiden (School Bus Graveyard)

Gwen Bouchard (The Magnus Protocol)

Tags (no pressure tho!!): @2econd2ight2yd @aroace-nut-case @spaceonaut @yoghurt-bimbo @crowfromfoggyforest @say-what-say-what @interfacefox

10 Characters, 10 Fandoms

RULES: List your ten favorite characters from ten separate fandoms, then tag ten people!

Thank you @vvatchword for tagging me!!

A few of my favourite characters are the ones that I hyperfixated on years ago and then daydreamed/wrote a ton of fic about so the versions that exist in my head are probably incredibly different than canon, bare with me on this lmao

in some vague sort of order…

1. Joel (The Last of Us)

2. Atlas (Bioshock)

3. Emily Kaldwin (Dishonored 2)

4. Ed Teach (Our Flag Means Death)

5. Crowley (Good Omens)

6. Yang Xiao Long (RWBY)

7. Cass (Fallout New Vegas)

8. Jotaro Kujo (Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure)

9. Vergil (DmC Devil May Cry)

10. Baragon (Godzilla)

i tag uhhh

@stedebonnit @everything-is-by-design @viperra1 @paleoleigh @falloutnewnobody @annihilatius @f0ntainefuturistics @skripsy @firey-the-blaze @iightbringer

[rainbowkarolinas]

Karolina: When I grow up, I want to be just like my dad.

Jonah: Awwww-

Karolina: Not you.

Frank: *carrying Karolina away from Jonah, while flipping him off* Awwwwwww