#is it even the tma universe?

[avariceaside]

I'm sorry, the what

[squircatlies]

Get his ass, Gertrude.

[one-of-many-mothmen]

If Tim Stoker was still alive when they figured out that you can pluck out your eyeballs to leave that absolute KING would not only do it but would do it IN FRONT OF JON just to make him feel the guilt

[bandtrees]

Then finally, after what seemed like forever, a stupid, arrogant, little man cut the webs and set the monster free.

[foxdrawdoodles]

Believe it or not this all started with me getting an ad for a shitty bacon costume back when I first stated listening to TMA, thinking it would be something that Tim would wear and then completely forgetting about it untill this month.

[alexo-lotl]

doing some research on parapsychology as a field. in short, it's the study of how the supernatural relates to psychology, and is largely regarded as pseudoscience with only a handful of people studying it, and very very few universities will even offer a parapsych program.

so… martin, buddy, did you just google 'what degrees do people get for paranormal research' and go with the first one that popped up? you did didn't you. idiot.

[witchinatree]

vaguely mentioned this in my recap but those things are long and just me live-blogging

celia is the ONLY tea drinker in the OIAR, everyone else drinks coffee

i think this goes on the list of evidence for why she's from the TMA universe

the magnus institute was tea centered, it was martin's whole thing and all of them drank tea

actually, elias drank coffee didn't he? sorry vaguely off topic but he had coffee when melanie poisoned him. i wonder if that's also symbolic of him not belonging either, he was out of place because his ass was not elias. that's DEFINITELY a reach but it's interesting

the OIAR is coffee centered, but celia drinks tea, because she does not belong there, she's from Somewhere Else

very interesting to use the drinks as symbolism, unless i'm reaching

[ginzburgjake]

okay but. so few named victims in tma never get their own statements.

at least people share stories about agnes, but no one noticed elias’s replacement. as he bled, he might’ve heard his parents’ say, “you’ll stay nothing til the day you die”.

and his last thought was, “you were right”.

[kankalinkisasszony]

I am walking down the streets, with my dog's leash in my hand, and John Sims' screams in my ears as I listen (for the first time) to The Magnus Archives season one finale. Something is moving, just out of my field of vision. I slowly turn and...

It's this thing. Around an inch long, silver, segmented little... creature.

[koldefingre]

Im so invested in their look, dont even get me started.

Same goes for their identity, “I am not a who archivist, I am a what” ARHGGGG

[enjoyvoidblack]

I think where everyone goes wrong in the TMA to WTNV comparisons is putting Cecil in an analogous role to Jon in the first place. Cecil is not "Jon if he was more chill about it," because Nightvale does not have a Jon. If anything, the entire town is simultaneously us the audience, and the statement-givers, and Cecil? Cecil is the mysteriously appearing tape recorder.

[i-do-not-know-what-it-is]

if jon shows up in my dreams somewhat frequently these days does that mean that i mustve given a statement and have since forgotten about it

[randomfandomsgobrrrrrr]

Is it really brainrot if you haven't had a dream where you were a character in the show

[youmustfixyourheartt]

personally i think the backlash coming from de-gothing gerry has less to do with peoples personal and differing headcanons and more to do with the fact that as soon as he was mentioned to be happy, people could no longer see him as goth. which is. Not Good. as a goth, there are very few examples of happy goths in media, because people subconsciously equate being goth with trauma or mental illness. and this isn't to say that people whose goth identity overlaps or is directly connected to their trauma or mental illness are wrong or invalid! It's actually the opposite. again, you can headcanon him however you want it's all up to you, but i have seen people saying that because he is happy there is no longer a need for him to have "badly dyed hair" or to be goth, as if these are universal indicators of someones happiness. i'd urge you to think about the implications of that.

[schrodingerscal]

I don’t think I could explain in human words how much I HATE the stereotypes for Martin “The Spinners Little Boy” Blackwood.

The two main characterizations I’ve seen of him either make him a soft teddy bear who does nothing but make tea and cry, or the complete opposite and make him a blood thirty angst machine who is addicted to murder and trying to fuckinv idk break laws ( *cough* a certain yt creator *cough* )

NEITHER of these are good characterizations of him. Yes, they can be good characters, but not Martin.

Martin Blackwood is a character who grew up with a neglectful mother and a “family is blood” mentality, leaving himself to run himself ragged to take care of his only blood relation who wants nothing to do with him, ending in him with no choice but to fall into near poverty and the last choice to lie about his experience to get a half decent job. He is a character who cares so much with so little care thrown back at him. He is a character whose experience and surroundings leave him deep in isolation and loneliness. He his a character who had no choice but to learn how to manipulate himself into peoples perception as an innocent bystander with no fight, and when he’s given to chance to go all out and be vengeful for once he takes it, forcing his one trustful companion out of their comfort zone and nearly throwing their relationship off a cliff via murder.

He is a character so wrapped up in the story, that he ends up with no choice but to fall in the wreckage of his metaphorical and literal prison, holding the bleeding body of his reason for living after having to choose between his love and the world.

He is so much more than his stereotypes.

[machrealgirl]

the thing is that if jonathan sims and sydney sargent met, i do not think they'd get along. it'd be like epic rap battles autism vs. adhd. sydney would take one good look at jon and go "this man has zero sense of whimsy and fun i want him dead" and jon would take one good look at sydney and go "this man is dead. who did this. is he an avatar. i am scared get me out of this fucked up summer camp"

and if jonah magnus and elijah volkov met, it'd be a whole different kind of disaster. it would turn psychosexual before you can say sigmund freud. and they would both be hypocrites about it too just thinking "damn this bitch is crazy. i'm so glad i picked the correct religion, unlike her" about each other the whole time.

but if gertrude robinson and lucille bertuccelli met, it would be the best thing to ever happen to both of them. they would be best friends without ever expressing a single emotion towards each other. if they met, the world might go up in flames, though.