#im relistening to it…

[wickjump]

i think cross should get to have a childhood dog who dies when he’s a teenager and leaves him with permanent issues and mental scarring

[stars-n-kites]

lups the fucking funniest character bc shes a sort of moral core to the starblaster crew, a huge part of the drive they have to save the worlds they come across and defeat the hunger, incredibly compassionate and emotionally intelligent, and also just fucking LOVES blowing shit up. cannot get enough of it. will see an opportunity to commit nonlethal arson and say "is anyone gonna fuck that up" and not wait for an answer. genuine honest to god pyromaniac. sees a machine gun and her immediate reaction is to start shooting it in the air. her favorite gift shes ever gotten is the opportunity to run around an abandoned building blowing things up with fire magic. its not even really treated as a character flaw its just a fun hobby she has

[albaharu]

Me, reading GTN for the first time, biased for the Gideon POV narration: why everyone is so mean to Gideon why arent they befriending her when she is so cool???

Gideon most of the book:

"Gonna spend my time not talking and standing in the shadows full in black"

[paintedcrows]

Some Fords! (and Martin K Blackwood is also there)

[oneinchfrog]

“sixth house obsessed with medical necromancy” factoid actualy just statistical error. average sixth house scholar has 0 interest in medical necromancy. palamedes sextus, who made a war of his whole life to pursue one cougar with turbo blood cancer, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

[abessive-art]

*Archives your Magnus*

[spooksier]

jon: i hate my evil psychic powers 😭😭😭 i dont want my evil psychic powers 😩😔 theyre so evil 😫😫😫 i hate themmm

jon whenever he gets to use his evil psychic powers:

[one-of-many-mothmen]

Guys. How do u think the assistants reacted to Jon reading the first statement?? Like you got this stick-up-his-ass boss who is the most trying to be professional person you know and one day you find out he can VOICE ACT?? LIKE. REALLY WELL?? What did they even do?? Like do they talk abt Jons inner theatre kid possessing him for like 30 mins or do they not give a fuck?

[ashes-in-a-jar]

I haven't thought much about Jonathan Sims for long enough that I kinda feel like I've started thinking about him a little more divorced of the emotional attachment I might have had once. Because I just saw a post lamenting his slow descent into inhumanity and losing his identity, becoming the archivist rather than Jonathan Sims, losing his friends, his house, everything he loves.

But is that true? That put upon head archivist persona he had in the beginning, was that really him? The way I see it, real life has already leached him of any identity he might have had, he didn't really have friends, Tim and Sasha clearly weren't, as we saw in their season 5 recording. He chose to make them his subordinates over beib friends, pushed away Georgie, he became so desperate for approval that he agreed to take a job he clearly has no idea how to do, let his stress over it isolate him from everyone around him, had a desperate need to assert himself in the beginning of every recording as 'head archivist of the Magnus institute london'. Forget about even having a home, he often slept in his office for heaven's sake.

The way I see it, this story is about him finding himself, finding the perfect place for himself in this already doomed world that was already strangling him and everyone around him. He became the Archivist, no longer needing to connect himself to some godforsaken capitalistic institute to identify himself. found his role, he enjoyed its power, even admitted to it. He found love. He found purpose in trying to save the world. In the end he was surrounded with the friends he made along the way (as friendly as they could be under the circumstances). He was finally allowed to make real choices, have true responsibility over himself and not be some tired corporate worker, part of a tired pointless system. Sure his choices weren't that great, and getting there was through outside manipulation and his own ignorance and he had to suffer immensely and pay an awful price of what we like to call his "humanity" but he Became and found what we all look for - his calling.

"It's still me" he says in the last episode. Because he is. He lost nothing and gained everything. Even dying in his lover's arms.

Forget about being human. In the end Jon achieves apotheosis and truly becomes Jonathan Sims

[valtsv]

faulkner's "i'm not going to hurt you, i'm going to make you a saint" line gains a whole new comically horrific dimension after you've listened to the entire podcast. like buddy i'm so sorry but i don't think that's how it works .

[nebulaeyedfish]

Okay, so I guess I'm... sprinting at it, just like "AAAAH" with Beacon extended, and I think there's a moment just before we collide where Beacon sort of like, almost half-whispers like,

Doing some comics practice with Episode 11 of Amnesty :)

(Tag list: @swanofstorie @raise-me-up-take-me-up @imflyingfish)

[beetlerings]

I think men should kiss each other and women should have as many boyfriends as they want

[thepringlesofblood]

at some point the gods of dnd decided that Lou Wilson specifically is a magnet for doing impromptu surgery without a medical license and somehow it works every time against all odds and I am frankly gobsmacked

[unbloodiedmartyr]

their doglike charm and pathological people pleasing have bewitched me body and soul

[kaleidoskuls]

the magnus archives is a comedy

[sadmages]

I miss this guy so much it's unreal