#mag 008

[nanaarchy]

Hey chat !!!! I'm going insane.

Ever since my first listen to TMA, I've had a huge question that NEVER got answered.

Never. Not in the whole series, not Q&As or the wiki or anything. I thought I would never find answers. I thought it would be forgotten. I thought it was a small insignificant detail and I'd have to live with never knowing the truth about it.

Now with TMAGP 19, I might finally know the answer.

Maybe. Maybe maybe. But It Could Be. And now I'm losing my mind at the implications.

((For the record, I know that the stories and worldbuilding are inherently separate - hell, there are even timeline differences in the cases I'm using as evidence. But the overlap might be important, especially when it comes to the Web.))

Spoilers for both shows below!

Its branches were exquisite, and delicate, swaying slightly from small eddies in the liquid, and they shone with every spectra. I must confess that to look upon it, one was – (sigh) filled with profound wonder at its exquisite elegance. [...] Even I, steeped in worldly matters as I am, recognized The Lord’s words to Adam, and was much dismayed at the implication. Isaac then plucked the delicate fruit with ungloved hands and held it before me. [...] The creature was taking root. Strands of its mottled brown hair were extruding downwards between the floor, seeking the dark earth below. Then, too, its back began to sprout, radiant branches unfurling and thickening before me, reaching upwards towards the sunlight with a seemingly insatiable desire. [...] I tell you here, Robert, it saw me, and it knew me. (TMAGP 19 - HARD RESET)

It was an ornate wooden thing, with a snaking pattern of lines weaving their way around towards the centre. The pattern was hypnotic and shifted as I watched it, like an optical illusion. I found my eyes following the lines towards the middle of the table, where there was nothing but a small square hole. Graham noticed me staring, and told me that interesting antique furniture was one of his few true passions. Apparently he’d found the table in a second-hand shop during his student days and fallen in love with it. It had been in pretty bad shape but he’d spent a long time and a lot of money restoring it, though he’d never been able to figure out what was supposed to go in the centre. He assumed it was a separate piece and couldn’t track it down. (MAG 3 - ACROSS THE STREET)

Re: Magnus Institute Ruins. By RedCanary on Saturday April 23 2022 12:17pm. The photos from the spelunk seem properly gone, but I did find an old wooden thing with a bunch of similar symbols on. Some kinda empty box, not really sure what for, though. Gonna see if I can get the light right for a decent pic. Edit: No dice, I’m afraid. Must be something up with my phone camera. Really not helping the whole paranoia thing either. Anyone know anything about photographic distortion? Gonna see if I can borrow my dad’s SLR tomorrow. (TMAGP 1 - FIRST SHIFT)

Adelard Dekker stood in the corner. He was straight and motionless, his lips moving rapidly, though no sound came out of them. In the centre of the room, stood a table carved from dark wood and wrapped all over with a sprawling, intricate pattern. And in front of that table was the thing that had said it was my cousin. It was long and thin, the tops of it bent against the ceiling and its stick-like limbs flailed from too many joints and elbows. Wrapped around it were thick strands of what I think was spider’s web, stretching back into the table, which I now saw pulsed along its carved channels with a sickly light. The face at the top of that gangly frame was like nothing on earth. (MAG 78 - DISTANT COUSIN)

Now... Now I get it. I get it. I finally gave an answer. Or, at least, I think we'll get a concrete answer soon. But I think I get it.

I think I get where the web table comes from. I think I know what it's made of. why it glows. why it had a hole in the middle. I think I might know how the web gained control and sentience so much faster than the other fears. and, if it still manifests in the same way in the Protocol universe, how it also quickly became "the manager" of other fears, as theories suggest.

More importantly, I think I know what was up with the mysterious tree from so, so long ago.

Now I have an answer.

Why was there an apple buried in Hill Top Road?

I opened the box and sitting inside was a single green apple. It looked fresh, shiny, with a coat of condensation like it had just been picked on a cool spring morning. I picked it up. I wasn’t going to eat it, I’m not that stupid, but more than bleeding trees or phantom burning, this confused me. As I took it out of the box, though, it began to turn. The skin turned brown and bruised and started to shrivel in my hand. Then it split. And out came spiders. Dozens, hundreds of spiders erupting from this apple that was rotting right before my eyes. I shrieked and dropped it before any of them could touch my arm. The apple fell to the ground and burst in a cloud of dust. I backed away and waited until I was sure all the spiders had left before retrieving the box. I smashed it with a crowbar, and threw the remains into a skip. (MAG 8 - BURNED OUT)

And now I have an answer. Maybe.

[two-idiots-one-thought]

MAG008 - Burned Out

[magnusarchivesrelisten]

MAG 008

I have returned from the void!! Sorry I was gone so long.

I think I had this one confused with episode 74 because they both vaguely feature Michael. Idk how I forgot that this was the first Hilltop Road statement.

I really like this one! It's mostly setting things up for later, but it does that really well (this whole series is really good at introducing elements that will be important without calling too much attention to it). I love how the little sidebar about the statement giver's dad implies that weird shit happens to people outside of the statements that we're going to hear. It's implied throughout the series but direct little acknowledgements like that help sell it. Idk I think I'm rambling.

This statement is super mysterious. It's basically just "something about this house is wrong" and not much else but that works pretty well I think (this does make me curious about how Jonny would write a typical haunted old house story). I still don't really get why the tree bled (maybe a product of the dimensional weak point?), but it was pretty cool. Like usual, I don't have a whole bunch to say about the actual statement, but maybe that'll change someday who knows.

Jon immediately dismissing the statement as usual is still fun. I always forget how much I miss him being a complete dick in the other seasons.

I promise my next post won't be 9 years from now.

Thanks for reading, have a fantastic day!

[themagnustournament]

Round One Part Two - Match 17

Today we have the first appearance of both the House on Hill Top Road and Agnes Montague up against the Sweariest Statement Giver Ever. #ReleaseTheSwearCut

MAG 008 - Burned Out | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Ivo Lensik regarding his experiences during the construction of a house on Hill Top Road.

MAG 014 - Piecemeal | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Lee Rentoul, on the murder of his associate Paul Noriega.

[fractal-voidling]

MAG008 - #0071304 │ Burned Out

feeling like one's sanity is slipping is something I can strongly relate to tbh

even though I have a feeling that Ivo's dad's delusions sound far too specific to be just a result of a disturbed mind

Canadian vampires would've loved that tree for sure though, lmao

can't wait for statement #0218011, the place really does seem like it has a complicated (and very paranormal) history

Agnes Montague sounds super sus, can't wait to learn about that potential correlation

[magallifreyannus-archives]

MAG 008 - Burned Out

[podcast-official]

did anybody else noticed the parallels between mag 156 and magp 008?

-both have elements of famine, starvation, and emaciation

-both take place in places that, for all intents and purposes, should have food (a theme park and a restaurant)

-both involve elements of temporal distortion and unreality

-both involve reality hopping

-both involve abandoned places

[6-and-7]

Creeptober 26 - Hanging Tree The Tower: MAG 008 - Burned Out

"People had always whispered about Agnes, but now the whispers got nasty. Nasty enough that when smoke was seen pouring out of the old Fielding house a week after little Henry disappeared, no-one did a thing. No-one phoned the fire brigade or tried to help. They just watched. Agnes must not have phoned for assistance either, as by the time the fire trucks arrived, there was nothing left to save.

Through it all, nobody saw any sign of life from within the building. No screaming, no movement, nothing but the roaring of the flames. When the fire was finally put out, they did find human remains, but it wasn’t Agnes, nor was it Henry White. The only body they found was that of Raymond Fielding. All that was left was a badly-charred skeleton, missing its right hand."

[itchyeye]

IMO Burnt Out was really good, not just because of the creepy Desolation things happening in the background, but because of how mask-off it gets w/the Institute. There's some real horror in the statement-giver being 100% right about the Institute: they're not going to do anything to help him or his family, but they'll maybe put the pieces together in 10 years

do you mean mag 008 burned out? this is a unique choice! i'll confess i don't remember this one well because i tune out of all the hilltop road episodes

but also yes my best beloved 👁️ doesn't like to get her hands dirty... she just listens and she watches and she feasts...

[a-mag-a-day]

Got to listen to 59 today! The big thing that stuck out to me was that we now have backstory for the Green Apple from the Lensik Statement (MAG 008)! It feels like one of those situations where it didn't really need more context, but it's nice that we have it.

It is interesting to me that the Web disguises their traps. Like, you have complete control of this person, they can't free themselves from your grasp, and yet you still feel the need to make your egg sacks look like vaguely referential fruit loaded with potential meta-textual meaning that has the dual purpose of just sounding really *bleeping* delicious. Is it more scary to not actually know what you're really biting into (but it looks so good) or would it be scarier to know you're about to swallow a ridiculous number of spiders?

Still though, I have to agree with the people from yesterday who were commenting on the odd obsession with Faith and religion and the twisting thereof in the Statements. I think I've gathered to an extent why? But mostly it still surprises me how many religious symbols sneak their way into Statements on the regular.

Both of those situations are terrifying but... it is interesting!

[yeswearemagazine]

The story of this image by the Serbian Jupiter Ovpstren in YWAMag is unbelievable. I’m gonna explain... Right after my text of the 20 June 2 023 with the reblog of a 2 019 Peter Solarz’ text about me and YWAMag, my text explaining the Tumblr boycott on me, my wife and partner Anne Pangolin Guéno and the mag in spite of our high artistic level and all I have been doing for art here and elsewhere since 2 008, Peter was on the Tumblr radar again, as it happened three or four times in the last years. Being on this radar or in its variation, “Tumblr Today”, brings a lot of likes, reblogs and follows. These things are not just “web glory”, for professional artists like me, web glory can bring money. Thus, obviously, political boycott “unbrings” money. A few days after (27 June 2 023), it’s Jupiter’s image which was on Tumblr Today, which brought the image one of the main amounts of likes and reblogs EVER in the mag, that’s to say since 2 015 on Tumblr - I’ll remind that the mag is a daily publication and has had more than 50 000 selections on Tumblr for hundreds of artists. It’s the FIRST IMAGE OR IMAGE OF VISUAL ARTWORK EVER among my thousands of pictures posted on my two personal Tumblrs  since 2 012, the few hundreds of posts of Anne (painter and designer) and the selections of YWAMag on Radar or Tumblr Today which is not a mosque image. Funny, or something else. Basile Pesso, YWAMag director since 2 014

[rainyhideoutartisan]

SOUTH PARK REFRENCE IN THE MAGNUM ARCHIVES?!?

(MAG 008 "Burned Out")

[eggi1972]

[Rezension] Fluffl & Sumsi – Silke Quast

Klappentext: Zwei ungleiche Freunde Eines Tages trifft Fluffl die kleine Schwalbe Sumsi, die ihre Eltern verloren hat. Die kleine Fledermaus möchte Sumsi gerne bei der Suche helfen. Bald finden sie heraus, dass Sumsis Eltern wohl bereits in den Süden geflogen sind. Mutig machen sich die zwei ungleichen Freunde gemeinsam auf die lange, beschwerliche Reise nach Afrika. Doch die Reise wird aufregender, als sie angenommen hatten. "Eine berührende Geschichte über Mut und Freundschaft, die selbst die größten Unterschiede überbrückt." Rezension: Kinderbücher sind ja für mich etwas, das ich gerne zum Entspannen zwischendurch rezensiere und „Fluffl & Sumsi“ aus dem Medu Verlag bildet da keine Ausnahme. Da ich schon seit Monaten immer wieder über dieses Buch gestolpert bin, war die Freude groß, als ich das Buch endlich in den Händen hielt. Erstmal durchblättern war angesagt. Die Zeichnungen haben mich an mich selbst erinnert, nicht dass sie so schlecht waren wie meine Zeichenversuche, sondern ich habe früher sehr gerne mit Buntstiften gezeichnet, allerdings ist das künstlerische Gen an mir vorbeigegangen. Mein Cousin ist neben meinem Opa der Zeichner in der Familie, ich bin da eher der Leser und Konsument. Diese Zeichnungen hier sind absolut kindgerecht. Viele Zeichnungen gehen über eine ganze Seite und sind immer wieder passend zum Text auf der anderen Seite. Die Geschichte der zwei ungleichen Freunde ist auch recht spannend und lässt sich sehr leicht lesen. Es ist einfach interessant, wie sich die beiden kennengelernt haben, aber auch wie sie von hier nach Afrika gekommen sind.  Ohne den Kranich hätten sie es nicht geschafft. Dies zeigt wieder einmal, egal ob man nun klein ist oder groß, jung oder alt, zusammen geht es besser und wenn man aufeinander achtet, dann kann man vieles erreichen! Dann kann man auch als Fledermaus oder kleine Schwalbe ohne den großen Schwarm nach Afrika kommen. Aus manchen Sätzen kann man auch etwas herausziehen. Einer der schönsten Sätze in diesem Buch kommt vom Kranich: „Man darf niemals aufgeben. Egal wie weit das Ziel auch noch entfernt zu sein scheint.“ Und dies kann man sich doch sehr gut auf die Fahnen schreiben, man sollte einfach das Ziel im Auge behalten und seinen weg gehen, egal wie steinig oder weit er auch zu sein mag. Ich fände es sehr schön, wenn vielleicht noch ein Abenteuer der beiden kommen würde, da die Autorin ja auch sagt, dass die beiden einige Abenteuer in Afrika erlebt haben. Vielleicht kommt ja noch ein Afrikaabenteuer mit Fluffl & Sumsi, aber wer weiß dies schon? Es ist egal ob nun ein weiteres Buch erscheint, oder nicht – dieses hier ist lesenswert. Es ist ein Buch welches aufzeigt, egal wie groß die Unterschiede sind, man kann immer vom anderen profitieren und lernen, solange man sich gegenseitig achtet und respektiert. Titel: Fluffl & SumsiAutor/In: Quast, SilkeAltersempfehlung: ab 3 JahreISBN: 978-3-96352-008-2Verlag: Medu VerlagPreis: 9,95 €Erscheinungsdatum: 1. September 2018 Bei unseren Partnern bestellen: Bei Hugendubel.de bestellen. Bei Thalia.de bestellen. Die Buchhandlung Freiheitsplatz.de unterstützen! Lesen Sie den ganzen Artikel

[themagnustournament]

Redemption Round 2 - Match 50

The Show Must Go On must go on! It's coming in with 146 votes from Round Two and a total of 283 votes so far! Burned Out earned 204 votes in Round One.

MAG 116 - The Show Must Go On | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Abraham Janssen regarding an incident in the Court Theatre of Buda.

MAG 008 - Burned Out | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Ivo Lensik regarding his experiences during the construction of a house on Hill Top Road.

[colin-becher-death-countdown]

JOHN RESEARCH

Okay ready to show my findings, I'm not doing repeats

MAG 001 Anglerfish

John Fellowes

MAG 002 Do Not Open

John no last name given

MAG 008 Burned Out

John Radcliffe Hospital

MAG 011 Dreamer

John Uzel

MAG 015 Lost John's Cave

Cave named after a story of 2 men named John

MAG 022 Colony

Jonathan Sims is referred to as John (Jon) for the first time

MAG 034 Anatomy Class

John Doe

MAG 036 Taken Ill

John Amherst

MAG 043 Section 31

John Spencer

MAG 045 Blood Bag

John Snow

MAG 053 Crusader

St. John

MAG 058 Trail Rations

Fort John

MAG 066 Held In Customs

John Ruskin

MAG 070 Book of the Dead

John Kendrick

MAG 072 Takeaway

John Haan

MAG 082 Eyewitnesses

A body is referred to as a John Doe and I'd be remiss to not mention it

MAG 098 Lights Out

John Franklin

John Heyrick Macaulay

MAG 100 I Guess You Had To Be There

'John Smith' obviously a not their legal name but I'm an ally

MAG 108 Monologue

John Flamsteed

MAG 114 Cracked Foundation

John Hector Lettings

MAG 122 Zombie

Lorell St. John

MAG 133 Dead Horse

John Franklin

MAG 136 The Puppeteer

John Carpenter

🟩 - Person named John in some capacity

🟦 - Location

🟥 - Just for fun

That means in 200 episodes of The Magnus Archives there were 20 different Johns

So 10% of The Magnus Archives has an episode with a different person called John

doing some vital john research, will report back in an hour or two

[shinysnek]

EPISODE EIGHT: BURNED OUT

I wasn’t going to eat it, I’m not that stupid, but more than bleeding trees or phantom burning, this confused me.

[ID: A brightly coloured digital painting of a green apple impaled on a bloody crowbar, which has been stuck into the grass at an right diagonal angle. The apple has a hole rotted into it, and is teeming with spiders. Behind the apple is a leafless tree, lit up by invisible firelight, and toppling to the left. From the tree, behind the crowbar, hangs Agnes Montague, dress and pigtails flowing. On the left side of the canvas is the text VIII Burned Out. End ID]