#mag 109 nightfall

[themagnustournament]

Round Two Part Two - Match 15

Julia and Trevor are double duty statement giving today in Nightfall. But will they beat out the Sweariest Statement Ever, Piecemeal, which ended Round One with 225 votes?

MAG 109 - Nightfall | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Julia Montauk, regarding her initial encounters with the hunter Trevor Herbert.

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

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

[fractal-voidling]

MAG109 - #0092008 │ Nightfall

what an iconic duo, very entertaining

imagine talking so fxcking much that your victim just wishes you cut their ears off, lol

[ominoustaperecordernoises]

TMA OFFICIAL BRACKET - Julia Montaulk Edition

[a-mag-meme-a-day]

meme for @a-mag-a-day Day 112

MAG 109 - Nightfall

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Favourite Episode Masterlist

[gammija]

only tangentially related to this ep, but - i have an Avatar concept around the cold/freezing water/hypothermia and drowning, and Ive discussed before which Fear that would most closely align with. A lot of people said the Buried or the Lonely, maybe the Vast, mixed with Dark.

Water and cold can be hard to categorise, even aside from how the categories are arbitrary lines drawn between fears etc etc. Cause these motifs have shown up with the Vast, Buried and Lonely, and probably others on occasion too.

But I think the cold an sich, and cold water especially, are most closely related to the Dark. Just like how Manuela describes the darkness as not the opposite of light, but the absence of it, the universe's natural state; so too does she talk in today's ep about how cold is not the opposite of warmth, but the lack of it. Cold is stillness, quiet, numbing. Dark.

...and also;

109, Nightfall: "As soon as my foot hit the water, I fell into it completely. It was colder than anything I had ever experienced, and the torch slipped from my hand as my vision immediately went dark."

140, The Movement of the Heavens: "I gripped the head of my foul adversary, and forced it down, into the dark pool before us. There I held it, the water so cold upon my skin the marks have yet to fade."

143 Heart of Darkness: "... I began submerging the first of the sacrifices in the brackish water it had blessed with its stillness."

143 ,, : "There is another world, a world of still and quiet darkness, where no heat touches..."

Other Fears statements occasionally also feature water, sometimes even cold water (though it's always accompanied of a mention of how dark it is, too), but it's not as much of A Thing as with the Dark. And I think it's a cool motif which they should get more credit for!

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[lycanlovingvampyre]

MAG 109 Relisten

Activity on my first listen: putting up a new fence

Haha, funny coincidence! (I probably already said this in S1?) Julia's statement is MAG 9 and Trevor's (first) statement MAG 10. And now their mutual statement is MAG 109! Like... 9 and 10, 109?

Episode title "Nightfall" - On one side it seems to be late in the evening or already night when this recording is happening (the crickets) and on the other side it's of course a statement involving the Dark.

JON: "And, and, and if I run?" TREVOR: "I’m very much hoping that you do." Hunters wanna hunt, not catch.

JON "I read your statement, you know, you, you don’t kill people. Only monsters." TREVOR: "The line gets blurrier every day." Daisy does the same. Justifying her murders with ever lower and lower growing standards to what qualifies as a "human". I wonder where Jon would draw the line since it’s something that bothers him?

JON: "I, I mean, yes… but the situation has changed quite a bit…? Last I heard, you were dying of lung cancer." TREVOR: "I was." JON: "And now…?" TREVOR: "I’m not. (heh)" JON: "And that doesn’t strike you as… odd." TREVOR: "Not much I see these days isn’t “odd” somehow or other. Not gonna turn my nose up at one bit of it worked out well for me. I hunt monsters; my lungs don’t kill me. Seems like a fair trade. No big job, is it." There it is, the hypocrisy of the Hunt. The inability for self-reflection. Also I think it's unfair that the Eye let Gerry die of his cancer and Trevor was saved, that seems like a bad deal! (Yeah, yeah, something about choosing to stay human...)

JULIA: "What is it, do you think, that makes people so obsessed with horrific things happening to other people?" I know Julia exclusively talks about true crime here. Can't really talk about that specifically, cause I don't really watch much true crime stuff. It actually upsets me cause I know it was real. Especially cases that happened not too long ago. I've thought about people, who knew the victims, seeing videos on Youtube and how they must feel more than once. But there is a bit of an overlap in "fans" of true crime and horror and the supernatural (e.g. Buzzfeed Unsolved. It started out as a true crime show I think, but then got into ghost hunting). Have you ever noticed that there are a lot of people in the horror community, who have experienced something horrific happening to themselves? Some kind of trauma. There's a reason for that. On a meta level it's dealing with the trauma in a safe and contained way.

Just quickly throwing in that I love the crickets in the background.  So soothing, the sound of them. Reminds me of summer. 

JON: "Uh, um… (nervous laugh) Yeah… it’s, uh… it’s… what do you do for money?" JULIA: "(annoyed) Sorry?" JON: "I, I just, I-I doubt roaming around killing things pays all that well, What do you do to support yourselves?" Capitalism is the real enemy!

JON "Uh, yeah… o-o-okay, uh, Mustermann, or whatever your name is" Oh, Jon(ny)’s the only one saying Mustermann with the German pronunciation of the U - like moo-ster (m-uhn)!

MUSTERMANN: "Maybe not, but are you sure you know what’s listening in?" JON: "Do you?" MUSTERMANN: "No. But I don’t like it." TREVOR: "What’s he mean, 'listening in?'?" It may be a coincidence again that it’s a Stranger pointing out the tapes and questions who’s listening in via those (last time it was Nikola, MAG 101). The Stranger just really got a lot of screen time. Last episode I said I enjoy TMA providing canon explanations for.. just things which are necessary for a good narration. We already found out, why Jon’s acting his little heart out during the statement and why all those statements are written like the people have a degree in creative writing. And now the tapes are getting addressed more and more. Everything just clicks wonderfully into place and I love that in a story.

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[a-mag-a-day]

Date: February 6th, 2023

Episode of the day: MAG 109 Nightfall

"TREVOR: Oh-ho, hey! Look who’s talking!

[JULIA LAUGHS]

MUSTERMANN: (raspily, gasping) You could have at least chopped my ears off, too. You people just won’t shut up! Hhhhow am I supposed to get the lungs lined up right, when I can’t even con-concentrate…"

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[oaxleaf]

mag 109 - nightfall

i love julia and trevor as a duo. i mean, i have soft spot for duos in genereal (especially when they're both awful people and actively making each other worse), but they in particular are so great because i can't help but notice so many parallels to basira and daisy

i've already gone into this, but hunt avatars very much have a tendency to forge really really strong bonds based on dangerous situations without knowing too much about each other beyond that. we don't ever really see daisy and basira working together before their relationship starts to fracture, but i can very much imagine that, at its best, it looked a lot like this. there seems to come such a pack mentality with the hunt, even when there are only two people involved, that makes the avatars that serve it unable to self-reflect and instead put themselves in an echo chamber. one that daisy and basira manage to break out of but julia and trevor do not. i suppose it only makes sense that they're the ones that end up killing them

[aquietweirdo]

First listen to: MAG 109 - Nightfall

Loved hearing about how Julia and Trevor met. They remind me so much of Supernatural. Which is very fitting since they’re both clearly marked by the Hunt. Truth be told I didn’t remember Julia until I googled her name. I was ecstatic when Trevor showed up though. It’s like meeting a well known person from history.

[your-mom-friend]

Julia Montauk coming in clutch with words true 5 years later

[themagnustournament]

Redemption Round 2 - Match 15

Nightfall is another one of our high seeds to end up in the Redemption Rounds, with 136 votes from Round Two. Burnt Offering earned 130 votes in Round One and 120 Redemption votes so far!

MAG 109 - Nightfall | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Julia Montauk, regarding her initial encounters with the hunter Trevor Herbert.

MAG 037 - Burnt Offering | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Jason North, regarding the discovery of an alleged ritual site found near Loch Glass in Scotland.

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MAG 109: Nightfall

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MAG 109 - Nightfall

doodle 109/200; days left -2/110 16/128

had this sitting unfinished for a bit bc i had no idea how to make it look good. i give up. oh well

[sleevesareforlosers]

ideal tma watch order:

MAG 4: Page Turner

MAG 12: First Aid

MAG 35: Old Passages

MAG 48: Lost in the Crowd

MAG 80: The Librarian

MAG 99: Dust to Dust

MAG 102: Nesting Instinct

MAG 103: Cruelty Free

MAG 105: Total War

MAG 107: Third Degree

MAG 109: Nightfall

MAG 111: Family Business

MAG 113: Breathing Room

MAG 117: Testament

MAG 137: Nemesis

MAG 153: Love Bombing

MAG 154: Bloody Mary

MAG 162: A Cosy Cabin

[tmaoftheday]

Date: July 11th

Episode: MAG 109 - Nightfall

Event: In 2018, the 109th episode of TMA was released.