#institute oc

[ciao2-bambi]

Around season 3

Jon knows he's changed a lot.

[theendorisit]

when @jonnywaistcoat was in The Mechanisms, he was Jonny D’Ville

when he was in @blacktabbygames Slay the Princess, he was Jonny D’Villain

and in season 5 of The Magnus Archives, he was Jonny D’Very Depressed

[foxwitchaine]

Lilia is enjoying this new venture into cosplay

[raycatzdraws]

ribbonwood

[cosmicwhoreo]

Strange new Prof at the Parfaedia Institute (who's TOTALLY not in a long con to make a grab at the Magic Candies made there for his own devices...)

When you have to live along with the annoying little magicians in their boarding school, you have PLENTY of time to set up little things to feel a little more at home-

[d3m0n1c-cl0wn3ry]

Being an avatar of the eye is kinda gay.

The fuck are you beholding?? Other men???

[benthesoldiersjeanshorts]

This should clear up any moral debate, on destroying the Institute.

[ryuki-draws]

3:30 am angst feat. Plex and Pharma back from January 2023

[agrodo1ce]

since my drawing tablet is broken, I want to post some sketchbook drawings

hope you like it

[am-i-jojo]

I’ve finished The Magnus Archives, you know what that means! TMASONA TIME

Me:

A couple of my friends

My sister:

will add more soon >:3

[cupsy-daisy]

Woagh! 2 posts in 1 day! (Saying this like it’s not uncommon) but have my tma sona!!! These drawings are a month or 2 old but i’m finally posting them!!

This is just my sona from season 1-3 the progression of it n stuff, there were some sketches of 4 and 5 but i never finished them, idk if i will! But idk! We’ll see!

I’m wanna ramble a bit about my sona so if you wanna read it’s under the cut! Grahh

Got the idea from bestie @catattack08 to make it so i got hired at first for redesigning the institute logo, Because i’m a freelance artist, but then i started working on organizing physical files n caseloads on the shelves n stuff.

Hired me (mostly) because i had severe connections to a lot of entities, i had been touched by several throughout my lifetime :p

Nothing major happened to me through season 1 and 2 besides being kinda wary about john and probably agreeing that he murdered leitner in season 3.

So like- my sona story is involved with my friends a lot- and my friend was leaning towards john being innocent so managed to keep contact with him and we both went to georgies house to deliver some books, and i came with them to make sure they didn’t get murdered cuz i was still under the impression he murdered that guy.

John went out for a smoke, got kidnapped, i stepped outside to “have a word” with him abt what really went on and breekon and hope saw me, said “no witnesses” and dragged me along too, i have some drawings of that if anyones interested aaghh

When we were both together we had some time to connect and understand eachother (or as best we could) i was kept for the sake of extra skin in case john didn’t “fit” but anywayss- we bonded a lot and this is probably where i would’ve (in super canon) died, nikola kinda using me as a decoration for the ritual.

BUT i dont think abt that cuz i wanna see what happens if i live, so instead, micheal almost leaves me for dead until helen comes along and letting john and me pass through her door, we both make it back and i gain a lot more mutual respect and understanding for him, we’re both decently good friends now, then everything kinda moves forward from then on.

Until peter comes in, this is already getting long enough but long story short, i was used as a practice dummy for the lonely kinda, and i couldn’t kill em, so i got sent to super hell where martin found me. Talked me out of it, withhh the poowerrr of friendshipppp/j

Thennn i either go back home to @catattack08 orrr i stay and they come, and those have 2 different routes but grahhh idk if i should put it here, feel free to ask!

[theendorisit]

apropos of nothing, I made Tape-E

Who is Tape-E?

During one of the TMA livestreams (trying to remember which one), a fan question was asked ‘Is there a mascot (for the Archives or the show itself not sure)?’ One of the team suggested ‘Tape-y?’, to which everyone else responded with ‘Oh no!!’. So I thought, oh yes! So yeah, this is your fault 😘

What is Tape-E?

As Mr Bonzo is a parody of Mr Blobby, Tape-E is a parody of Clippy (these last two names rhyme).

Who is Clippy?

Clippy was a microsoft office assistant, introduced in 1997. He was a little virtual paperclip (officially called Clippit, but that name never caught on) who sat on the bottom right corner of the page, and was programmed to give advice in popup speech bubbles when certain actions were taken. For example, if you wrote out an address and ‘Dear’, Clippy would say ‘Looks like you’re writing a letter. Would you like help?’. The name Tape-E in the livestream seemed to be referring to Clippy, as there are many similarities in the behaviour of Clippy, and the actual tapes/ tape recorders in-universe:

always on by default

appears at inconvenient times

provides help you do not want

hated by (mostly) everyone

watching you with cold dead eyes

enjoyed by nostalgia and retro seekers

Why make Tape-E?

As I am of the same generation as some of the RQ peeps, I unironically loved Clippy and Mr Blobby as a child, and it gives me great joy to imagine, in the TMP universe, Sam getting a little pop up: ‘Looks like you’re trying to code a case file! Would you like some help with that?’ In our world this would be impossible - Windows NT (as the official name) was dropped in 1996, one year before Clippy was born, BUT there is voice recording on TMP’s ancient computers, so it’s not totally impossible! 😅😁

What are cassette tapes?

Just a little recap for those who didn’t grow up with tapes: Cassette Tapes contain information embedded in magnetic tape, wrapped around one spool and attached to a second spool. When played, the spools are turned by the machine and the magnetic tape is wound onto the other spool, the information read out through speakers as the magnetic tape moves through sensors. As the magnetic tape can contain different information depending on the direction of tape movement, you can flip the cassette tape over in the machine, and play the tape again, hearing another load of information. This concept is never utilised in the show, but it does mean that cassette tapes have A-sides, and B-sides (as Vinyl records do). Here, of course, this stands for Archivist-side, and Brutalpipemurder-side. On occasion, the magnetic tapes would become damaged, or bent, and could be pushed out of the cassette, causing a horrible noise, and terror to small children who were only trying to listen to their Just William tapes. When this happened, a pencil (or in my case, my little finger) could be jammed into the spiky spool ‘teeth’, to rewind the magnetic tape back into the cassette. Maybe that’s why the eyes are red? 🩸 I am very glad that the TMA tapes are magic, and record endlessly, never need flipping, and never get chewed up by the hungry machine.

Why is the name Tape-E?

Canon answer: the name stands for Tape-Eyes. Possibly Tape-Entity? Undecided.

Actual answer: Tape-y, Tapey and Tapie spellings look weird to me. I think Tape-E looks best.

Why a tape and not a tape recorder?

if you can crochet a tape recorder, you’re a genius and I love you.

What gender is Tape-E?

I might refer to Tape-E as male sometimes because that’s how people often referred to Clippy. But Tape-E is whatever gender Tape-E feels like being.

Why now?

Why not? also now is a good time because TMP episode 15 is an excellent episode

What’s going to happen to Tape-E?

I’m going to gift it to Jonny sometime, if we get more liveshows or book signings. It’s his fault this exists after all. Plus you can write whatever you like in the speech bubbles! Hopefully I can give it calmly? But maybe Tape-E will be yeeted in his general direction in a fit of ADHD-fuelled social anxiety. Only time will tell.

Tape-E is a pattern and design created entirely by myself. The inspiration and world building from whence it came, is entirely the genius of @jonnywaistcoat Jonny Sims, Rusty Quill @rqbossman and The Magnus Archives, which is a podcast distributed by Rusty Quill and licensed under a creative commons attribution, non-commercial share alike 4.0 international license.

Clippy was invented by Microsoft and Kevan Atteberry, who now illustrates children’s books.

Mr Blobby is an adorable abomination, created from a fevered mind.

[foxwitchaine]

Mom! Dad! Take your PDA elsewhere!

[somethingaboutmint]

i love your sole survivior SO much. does shaun/father ever find out his teen mom was pressured not to terminate him i think that would do fun things to his weird brain

This is killing me. Anon ur mind

[adrianasunderworld]

✨SSR Clara Cristalería Card✨

When Summoned: It's almost twelve, but it seems I've arrived just in time.

Summoned: Welcome, child, to the White Ash Institute. I hope you enjoy your visit.

Grooovy!!!: Don't be disheartened. As my grandmother used to say, all good things take time, even miracles.

Home: Care to show me around?

Home Idle 1: Lily and Marina are eager to see you again. It warms my heart to see you all be such fast friends.

Home Idle 2: I've been having the most awful craving for pumpkin pie lately. Next time you're in town I'll treat you to a slice from my favorite bakery.

Home Idle 3: I swear I feel like I hear more about fights at Night Raven more than anywhere else. I don't know how Crowley can allow such misconduct.

Home Idle- login: This is around the time of day I start making my rounds. Checking emails, talking to my assistant, looking into classes. It keeps me busy.

Home Idle- groovy: My grandmother founded White Ash, you know? Now it's my turn to guard that dream of hers.

Home tap 1: Dire-uh, I mean, Mr. Crowley, has been strangely absent today. What is that man up to now?

Home tap 2: Trein is an excellent professor. I've seen his whole career and he's done well. He reminds me so much of his great grandfather.

Home tap 3: I wonder where Silver and Lilia are, I wanted to say hello. Hm? Yes I'm a family friend. Silver still calls me his Aunt Clara, isn't that just precious?

Home tap 4: We have a few spirits in White Ash as well. However our grounds are better for pixies to make their home. And mice. Lots of cute little mice.

Home tap 5: That's your dorm? It's very...rustic. I'll have to have a little chat with Crowley all about it.

Home tap groovy: As much as I can critique Night Raven, I can't say it's not an excellent school worthy of itsprestige. I know you'll do well here.

Duo:

CLARA: I think its time for a lesson, Dire.

CROWLEY: After you, my dear.

@mangacupcake @fair-night-starry-tears @writing-heiress @the-weirdos-mind

[bonefydskeleton]

I’m really enamored with @luubyart’s entire cast of characters, but Neo and the baby deathclaw duo stole my heart last year during Art Fight! Never trust a baby deathclaw in the teething stage with your boots