#jonah's sequel

[nastyquill]

some random TMA worldbuilding speculation about five years too late, but here it is anyway: I used to wonder what the practical purpose of Artifact Storage was supposed to be. like, I know the in-universe reason for its existence was that the Institute was "researching" the artifacts, but by the end we know the Institute wasn't researching shit; Elias (and presumably the people in charge of the sister organizations) knew exactly what was up with all that crap all along.

then I realized: it's Elias's home garden. hoard a bunch of extremely scary and dangerous artifacts with very specific containment requirements, then put a few stressed-out academics in charge of keeping it all in order so you can passively feed on their fear. people who desperately want to believe that learning and knowing the behaviors of every item will be enough to keep them safe. it's a less effort-intensive version of what Peter does on the Tundra.

[galindathrop]

JONAH HAUER-KING and HALLE BAILEY as ERIC and ARIEL in THE LITTLE MERMAID (2023)

[fandom-geek17]

So when and where do we start the campaign for a Little Mermaid (2023) sequel? Because I need more of those two🧜🏽‍♀️🤴🏻❤️

[redmrmcid]

the little mermaid (2023)

in “a guide to merfolk”, we learn through eric’s annotations how much the queen despises merfolk, yet the engagement ring belonged to her mother.

what if at a point in time, the merfolk royal bloodline and human royal bloodlines lived amongst each other on land, marrying to united both worlds ?

but for x reason, the merfolk royal bloodline who resided on land were exiled from sea, being stripped of their merfolk gifts.

resulting in them teach their children and future generations to despise merfolk believing their worlds could never be together.

so queen selina or the late king most definitely had merfolk ancestry in them. this would be the only explanation as to why queen selina had the mermaid sapphire ring!

eric and ariel’s marriage is ending centuries of war between the two worlds that were once united!

[cjbolan]

Know what I just realized? Prince Eric’s overprotective mom trying to keep him away from the sea... is EXACTLY like The Little Mermaid 2: Return to the Sea when he and Ariel do the exact same thing to their own daughter.

(In all seriousness if that cartoon gets remade I want to see Eric be a much more involved father. )

[rmblythe7]

I need a season 2 of The Little Mermaid with Jonah and Halle please

[ifthesewings--couldfly]

Love how TLM 2023 is unexpectedly bringing The Little Mermaid 2 and Melody back into the spotlight. I hadn’t seen either of them brought up in conversation outside of the fandom in decades. Seeing so many people talking about her & a potential LA sequel makes me so thrilled.

[maladaptivedaydreamsx]

kicho route got me feeling some kinda way......... oh no.... im still waiting for the other foot to drop. he's been so sweet I'm here already expecting the worst to inevitably happen.....?

so turns out I'm easier to sway than I thought, fuck his actions in the other routes but in his?? I'm deaf, dumb and blind, what flags? all this red? the blood of my enemies I'm covered in?? don't worry about it, you didn't see anything

side note am i the only one who finds his toothless grin sprite just a tad... uncanny?

[haveyouseenthisromcom]

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

21 Jump Street (2012, Phil Lord and Chris Miller)

26/07/2024

[viideo-kidd]

Been really enjoying how the Magnus Protocol has been playing with the idea of ✨️nostalgia✨️. Sam obsessing over the Magnus Institute, Alice wanting to rekindle her relationship with Sam, Celia looking into familiar names from TMA.  Even the monsters are a bit of a throwback - a mascot from a 90s TV show, a member of British aristocracy, [ERROR] with her cassette tapes.

And on a meta level - the listeners are playing into this nostalgia, too. The theories that Jon/Martin/Jonah are stuck in the computer. Our excitement at hearing familiar voices again. Trying to  assign the Smirke 14 to the O.I.A.R. cases...

The thing is - nostalgia is actually just  corrupting everyone. Sam's obsession is putting the O.I.A.R. crew in danger. Alice's attempts at reshaping their relationship to how it used to be is harming her current friendship with Sam. Celia's investigations just keep leading to dead ends.

And us, the listeners, our inclinations to apply the old lore from TMA to this new series...it might be causing us to miss some big clues in Protocol...

so yeah, I just think it's really cool how Magnus Protocol is playing with the dangers of nostalgia, especially considering it's a sequel!

[marlasomething]

(my) Mag a Week: Square Circle

Hello there!

I am participating in the "a mag a day" idea by  @a-mag-a-day  which is BRILLIANT and I decided to do "statement a week", rolling dice with the characters and fears that were ftw that week in the episodes I have listened.

For today I rolled Archivist!Elias Bouchard (the one that is already Magnus, not the pot-smoker one) and The Spiral (Eps. 126-132).

As usual, please do forgive my quick tipper and non-native speaker mistakes, Marla

Allons-y!

CW: almost of character in here is an ass, major character death (or worse), irreality, PTSD, insomnia

Also on AO3!

Statement of Lucia Wright, regarding the road she took to get here.

Audio recording by Elias Bouchard, still The Archivist.

Statement begins.

 The decadence that set off the events that eventually brought me here begun months ago. It had already been about a week since I had spoken to your assistant…Gertrude, right? Yes, I believe that was her name…I thought talking about what had happened to me in Istanbul would made me some good, feel better, somehow. However, it just worsened everything beyond all expectations.

My nightmares have changed. They used to be vague memories, sometimes even just twisted reflections of what had actually happened. All too much to keep a sane mind in the long term, but within what could be expected after what happened to me. Now, I…they are not dreams anymore, they are still memories , but vivid ones. Not only in the sense of feeling quite realistic, but as if they were actually taking place as I dream about them. What happened to me, that hole of meat, all that people…they are really there and I just can watch from my very own frozen body, that only moves to imitate up to perfection all the gestures I did the first time. And then, there is the Darkness. The Darkness that stays where she , your assistant, used to do.

Because she was there, every single night, staring at my misfortune…Until she was no more, and, now there is this gap that I want, I need , to fill myself because I am certain that, if I let it remain open , whoever comes afterwards will be far worse than her.

So, in summary, sleeping had become an activity I would rather avoid, though most nights I just fall asleep, ready for my torture, by merely letting myself get relaxed on a horizontal surface. My life is far too tiring for any other outcome.

Only one solution possible: night walks.

 It is funny how after enough days of going on with just the bare minimum of sleep that you cannot simply allow your body to miss, even the straightest, brightest street becomes the dingiest of passageways.

I was walking right alongside the Passport Office, in Eccleston Square and the wide well-lit street started to feel… confusing , blurry. My knees trembled and I felt the sudden need of having to hold tight to something, just to realise I had planted myself as far as humanly possible of all the porches nearby me. Hell, even the cars parked seemed to be miles away!

I bit my lower lip and cower a little bit over myself, folding my knees in a vain attempt of keeping my equilibrium and failing tremendously. I swear as those small shreds of glass weren’t there just before.

I yelled as the back part of my muscles was pierced and, just as my body was deciding that, maybe, this was the last straw and I had to go into deep sleep, almost clinical unconsciousness, a voice cut through the mist that had been installed in my brain for months already.

“Do you need help?” it was a typically female-presenting voice, and it gave me just the right tone for me to trust them immediately. Because they didn’t sound completely certain of what they were saying and, at that time, I would have refused the help of anyone who had perfect confidence on their own self.

The last few people I met that were that way…well, you already know that story, right?

They never actually introduced themselves, and just pointed to a door that tried to be yellow but instead was purple with some neon bright colours being born from the lowest part of it up to the top. Now, I am aware this not-quite-right­ door should have been the biggest red flag in history of red flags but, the thing is…I was in pain, tired and there was something about the wrongness of this person that felt as the only kind of “Ok” I could deal with at the moment.

So, as of what had been already years for me, I opened the door.

I am currently looking at your calendar…apparently, it had been barely a couple of months and, maybe…even less? What year you said we were in?

 Sorry, I get dizzy. Even though I actually got some quality sleep while walking through this person’s residence , I am still deadly tired. Not that the ambiance helped, at all. It was all wrong, because I was supposed to be walking through corridors, but they weren’t always the shape a corridor should be. Sometimes, they were just turn into rooms, all kinds of them, without rhyme or reason. Mostly, rooms that had price-tags on them; I know it might sound funny from your perspective but…it absolutely isn’t. It made all feel as stock pictures. Stock pictures that I kept walking along with my host nowhere to be seen.

Literally, I didn’t get a single glimpse of them, not even the sound of someone breathing behind my neck…I was utterly alone . The one time I thought I saw someone, it turned out to be just my reflection; though it wasn’t truly me, not anymore.

The Me on the reflection without mirror was the woman that would have loved this place, having it being presented as a museum of the bizarre. I followed her and, just a couple of days later, I began to not only feel tiredness, but also hunger, thirst and other bodily function being reactivated…and, in barely a few hours, I somehow knew that the door in front of me was my only way out.

After all, it was the only thing that was truly yellow in the whole place.

  Statement ends.

  The Spiral, as untrustworthy as always. I guess this was whatever is left of Michael trying to just leave another prove of what a terrible monster Gertrude Robinson was…

…pot calls kettle black, I guess.

Funny how Helen is still a bit of a real estate agent. Jesus, maybe feeding her to The Spiral wasn’t as inspired as I thought…although…she might be useful.

I thought that, finally , after more than fifty years, I could get my Institute back, but, no, that… prick of Sims has to appear, courtesy of the Buried, with his trained Stockholm-Syndromed dog Daisy Tonner, took over and…well, I might not be as powerful as I once had the potential to be.

And, then, of course, there is the fact that that bloody coffin ate Peter. Not that I cared that much, but he is a useful ally for getting My Institute back (and in other fields) and I would hate for him to just be lost without having completely served me. It is just that.

I hope he likes the present I’ve sent him, though. My indications were intense enough for Miss Wright not to get lost inside the coffin, in her search of a final resting place, and it is not as if she wasn’t already alienated enough for The Lonely to take over.

Enjoy it, Peter.

End recording.

[not-the-cheese]

one sentence(ish) summaries of every magnus archive episode PART 2

(eps 61-110) thank u for the funny comments and tags on the last part i love u guys

the rest of these may take a while as i've caught up to where i am currently in the podcast but i will finish them like in a month i promise

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61. the thrilling sequel to man does not open coffin: man DOES open coffin.

62. surely this doctor can find an easier way to scam people out of money than putting them in a little book.

63. THE DARK ATE MY BROTHER IN LAW.

64. this is possibly the plot of laura croft tomb raider

65. mmm crumchy

66. what's the opposite of an unboxing video

67. as close to a coffeeshop au as you're going to get from this podcast

68. Doctors hate him! Man REFUSES to die from tuberculosis!

69. your college's psych department has the worst idea ever.

70. reverse death note

71. not even death will stop this woman from taking the british subway

72. man doesn't want to be low key racist in his last moments before getting eaten

73. police versus the second coming of dark jesus

74. lady is haunted by an ad for coffee

75. mike crew says "uh fuck it let's just put this guy on a skyscraper forever"

76. ryan from buzzfeed unsolved breaks into a train yard and suffers consequences

77. you're not a enough of a bitch to be my real mom

78. man gets harassed by his cousin and then exorcises him

79. you know that chase scene in scooby doo with the doors

80. stupid idiot motherfucking jurgen leitner

81. i have been personally victimized by the sequel to the hungry hungry caterpillar

82. pov: elias threatens to cancel you

83. mannequin takes matters into its own hands after people don't like its pitch for a new window display

84. a hoarder put newspaper on my friend's face :(

85. hey there's maybe a little man upon these stairs?

86. man gets got by a squiggly thing in the dark.

87. plumber is so oblivious to spooky happenings around him that it possibly saves his life.

88. guys i think this guy likes to dig

89. lesbian investment banker finds a new, less evil job: arson!

90. guy who turns people's bones starts a gym where he promises not to turn your bones! (he is lying)

91. i was stalked by lightning for 10 years and i all i got were these stupid scars

92. jonah magnus is a bad friend // another day another elias slay

93. ocd is no match for purple fuzz

94. let the bodies drop gently to the floor let the bodies drop gently to the floor

95. im so sorry my brain refuses to remember what the war ones were about but i think one guy got gently kissed on the forehead so that's pretty nice.

96. diversity wins! the not-quite-human delivery men who stole your identity and business are maybe gay?

97. man gets gaslighted by an entire town about a hole

98. 🎶mister sandman bring me a dream, actually don't, please stay far from me 🎶

99. another one bites the dust

100. archival assistants face off against the general public (they lose)

101. jon finally levels up high enough to unlock an eldritch horror's tragic backstory

102. LOCAL MAN MARRIES BUG

103. peppa eats a clown and they cover her in concrete instead of congratulating her.

104. pennywise stole my brother's skin

105. it's world war z baby

106. Something Big Is In Space.

107. man is interrogated about the time he saw thomas the train roasts people alive and also sans is there

108. actor is stalked by mask who liked his monologue so much that it tells its mask friends to come watch.

109. sometimes a family is just a serial killer's daughter and that guy who maybe killed some vampires

110. yeah man those spiders be eating

Part 1 |

[redmrmcid]

the little mermaid (2023)

i loved rob marshall changing the statue to not be of prince eric in the little mermaid (2023) , further proving ariel was in love with the human world itself leading her to seek ursula’s help and not just give up her whole life for some man she had just met.

[writingwhilecaffeinated]

I’m gonna be honest, and I hope I don’t get hate, but if they did a live action The Little Mermaid sequel, I wouldn’t want it to be a retelling of TLM 2. I wouldn’t want it to be Melody’s story.

I very selfishly want it to be purely Ariel and Eric having an adventure together before they have to be king and queen and have a family. I want to see them in the prime of their relationship, battling some evil forces together, and honestly I want some merman Jonah Hauer-King.

And an epic duet.

I said what I said, I just want pure Ariel/Eric against the world from start to finish.

[4stormfly]

Why Chester and Norris are probably more than just Jon and Martin’s voices

The ramblings of a madman who really wants his silly little guys back

Spoilers for up to tmagp episode 4

First of all, just because tmagp can be enjoyed without listening to tma, that doesn’t mean none of the characters from tma will come back. All sequels are designed to be enjoyable on their own, it would be bad writing otherwise. You never know where a new listener/viewer/reader will start, so everything needs to be able to be enjoyed by itself so that they continue to consume your content, but that doesn’t stop writers from including characters from the original work. Just look at Marvel movies. You don’t need to have watched every single movie that came before to enjoy Infinity War (I hadn’t, and I still loved Infinity War), but it’s still able to reference things from those previous movies without explaining the entire MCU at the time. Characters can come back from tma and tmagp can still be enjoyable for new listeners. These two things aren’t mutually exclusive.

One of the major theories is that the fears are just using their voices from the tapes. This doesn’t explain Augustus’ voice, though. His voice isn’t anywhere on the tma tapes, unless you want to say he’s a recast for Leitner, which doesn’t really make sense for any other reason than they sound similar. It’s much more likely that Augustus is og Jonah, since he was the only one in the panopticon with Jon and Martin (plus there’s no implication that Elias’s body in the rubble in MAG200, so Jonah could have been sent wherever Jon and Martin went).

As pointed out very often, even though we only have four cases read out by the text to speech voices, they all line up pretty well with the characters they would be. Chester reads the case about the dangers of the Magnus Institute, serving as a warning for what’s to come. Norris reads the cases about love and how easily it is to lose yourself to these fears. Finally, Augustus reads the case from the 18th century about a selfish man willing to use the fears to harm other people in order to get what he wants.

Another thing I don’t see mentioned a lot is the censorship around who Jonny, Alex, and Tim Fearon are playing. When the official cast was revealed, the characters they were playing were censored. On top of that, at the end of each episode, when listing the cast members and who they play, Jonny, Alex, and Tim Fearon are always listed as “additional voices” rather than as Chester/Norris/Augustus. It just seems like a weird thing to do if they end up being just text to speech programs.

Finally, the first case with “some of” Arthur coming back and Jonny’s statement on it about being careful for what you wish to come back because it’ll come back wrong just parallel the situation too well. It could be a coincidence, but it could also be some great foreshadowing.