#mag 193 a stern look

[themagnustournament]

Round Two Part Six - Match 47

Flesh!!! Jared’s here!! And Jon’s rib! And his other rib!! I think if they’re outside his body the ribs count as their own characters. Possibly the least intelligible episode (I had to personally perform this episode for my family so they could begin to comprehend what was happening), Flesh is against A Stern Look, coming in with 170 votes.

MAG 131 - Flesh | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Jared Hopworth, the Boneturner, regarding his association with The Flesh and recent activities.

MAG 193 - A Stern Look | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

An examination of Elias Bouchard. Recorded by The Archivist in Situ.

[thatweirddolldude]

You know what makes me so mad about the Elias statement in tma?

Why is Jon saying Elias' lines? Why is Elias saying Jonah's lines?

Jon is getting a statement from Elias Bouchard- not from Jonah Magnus. He's reaching into Elias' fear- he's feeding off of him. It's a direct power switch if you don't overthink Jonah's body snatching.

Jon should be saying what Jonah said, because he's eating Elias' fear.

[literalfuckingfreak]

yeah so i was like i want to draw this and did and whether or not i do anything with this sketch is debatable but im happy with how it looks bc this is how it should look

also. its blood everywhere. thats why page break ❤️

[6-and-7]

Creeptober 14 - Probing Look Judgement/MAG 193 - A Stern Look

"He recognises those eyes. He’s seen them all his life, watching him, judging him, cutting through him so no part of him was secret or safe. They peel away the armour, his carefree smile and practiced shrugs. They are the eyes of his father, and they stare at Elias over an old mahogany desk, sat in the face of a man who said his name was James Wright. His interviewer smiles with his mouth, but the eyes are the same."

"So tell me, Elias. What are you afraid of?"

[fractal-voidling]

MAG193 - ########-33 │ A Stern Look

poor Elias

and I mean Elias Elias, not Jonah Magnus

Jonah Magnus can suck my ass

[og-elias]

So anyway today is the two year anniversary of MAG 193: A Stern Look. IF you even care.

[a-mag-meme-a-day]

Meme for @a-mag-a-day Day 201

MAG 193 - A Stern Look

[branwinged]

proposing eye contact as an alternate ship name for jonelias in honour of mag 120 eye contact ofc wherein elias records his nightmares/dreams because he's a freak and also because he knows jon would want to hear the tape i.e. feeding your archivist a statement on the topic of himself which you personally extracted from him. in a feedback loop of feeding their god! (actually got sidetracked here but do you ever think about how jonah/elias did two proper original statements in the podcast and they're both about jon and one time he did a joint statement with the archivist — mag 193 a stern look — which is also really about jon "why did you heed the call? / because this is the place i know i should be" gothic romance. to me) and anyway yeah mag 120 eye contact which also had totally normal lines such as: "He. Is. Whole." also because they're. y'know. eye avatars. the only ones left even. whatever i'll leave...

[pinkelotjeart]

Mag 193 - a stern look

My brain fixated on og!elias all of the sudden for no reason so now this exists.

Alt version of the first panel below (I had to, it’s too iconic)

[magnuspanoptes]

Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë // MAG 160 - "The Eye Opens" // MAG 158 - "Panopticon" // MAG 193 - "A Stern Look"

[kat-and-their-cats]

Favourite Episode Masterlist

[themagnustournament]

Round One Part Six - Match 53

Oh, pre-Jonah Elias. You were a rich asshole stoner.

MAG 193 - A Stern Look | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

An examination of Elias Bouchard. Recorded by The Archivist in Situ.

MAG 050 - Foundations | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Sampson Kempthorne, regarding the workhouse architecture of George Gilbert Scott.

[oaxleaf]

mag 193 - a stern look

once again, jonah targets those with very few personal connections. only difference here is that elias came from a very priviliged position, socially. which is of course useful, but i also doubt jonah would ever want to take over the body of someone who'd have to fight their way through life. hot take, i find og elias kinda insufferable, with all his talk of deserving better. he may have daddy issues but he's still an upper class prick. that's exactly the type of person jonah would want to take over, too. all the fancy designs for him are fun, but like, i'm sorry, but in my mind elias looks normal as hell. the terror that is a corporate middle aged white guy manifested

he does also continue the pattern of having been in touch with the fears before, which is something i have a harder time to pinpoint exactly why it even is a pattern. what function does that serve? it specifically being the web, considering the spiders and his fear of his memory being manipulated, is also interesting. it sort of parallels jon, doesn't it? i can't be the only one who finds the description of him entering the bloody room oddly reminiscent of a guest for mr. spider. and speaking of that description, for some reason it's also one of the few moments that does make me just a bit nauseous. something about the sound effects, i think

also, i'm very glad at least someone suggested trying to take him down through physical violence. this final act is really showing the positive sides of martin's refusal to accept the world - even if his suggestions might not be realistic, he keeps jon out of his head. he sparks some sense of creativity and problem solving rather than just giving in to despair. and anyways, even if beating him up might not be very helpful, i'm sure it'd be very cathartic

[literalfuckingfreak]

with mag 193 a stern look why do we focus on og elias smoking weed sm and not the his eyes. what did they do with his eyes part. i am thinking HARD about alan shreiber today and every day. i just. its such a good episode.

[lycanlovingvampyre]

MAG 193 Relisten

Activity on my first listen: mowing the lawn.

"but the mist that curls its bitter weeping ache around his legs that bristle up with shivered gooseflesh stained with red that’s not his blood whose blood he bled but this is not from him and yet he knows he loved this blood when once it beat within a heart that joined to his through choice or circumstance but now it stains his weeping edges scarlet gloating now of all the butchered ugly fates that might already have befallen what you still might boast he loves at hands that might be moved by others or that might just now be his what have you done what have you done what have you done what have you done " Uhhhh... That's going to age horribly...

JON: "To someone so close to it, I imagine it would be a state of… agonised bliss. I can feel it… the… completeness of it all passing out from him. I can see everything from here, and that’s still just a hint of what he must be feeling –" MARTIN: [Warning] "Jon…" JON: "– as he watches a man run screaming down endless dark alleys that close and crush and press –" [RUMBLING SOUNDS START TO RISE] MARTIN: [Hard warning] "Jon…" JON: "Hm?" MARTIN: "Stay with me." This is the moment it seems we're losing Jon. Until now, yes, the fear fed him and it felt good for it. But now he really seems to crave it, consider it...

MARTIN: "Look, I know it’s all about dream logic and metaphor and all that… stuff, but, y’know, what if we just… what if we just grabbed him and, y’know, pulled him down? Or just threw something heavy at him?" It's a valid idea. Also I would love an Elias pinata! OMG, tma-themed party with an Elias pinata! An you get a pipe prop to beat it!

JON: "Ah, no, it isn’t that – Ahh…" [CEASELESS CHANTING CEASES] [BACKGROUND STATIC LIKE RUSTLING PAPER ECHOES THROUGH THE CHAMBER] [STATEMENT STATIC RISES] MARTIN: "Again? But you just did one for Ro– [Realisation] Oh no…" Those gasps of Jon that follow! Like he can't even try to swallow it down again, or keep it together a bit longer. Completely gone, he can only take one last breath before the wave hits him.

And another job interview! These are really heavy Eye stuff...

"He feels that prickly panic building in the back of his skull, that worry that spills through: he knows. He knows I’m high." Okay, imagine me, calmly pushing the lawn mower up and down the length of the garden, suddenly bursting into laughter XD

I wonder what's up with the parts that are spoken by Jonah!Elias. It is Ben's voice in there, and it is the same effect as Elias has as pupil of the Eye. Is this statement a group project? Jon and Jonah!Elias singing a duet?

"The image of a scuttling, filthy creature, eight eyes glinting out in the darkness, crawls into his mind, and he shudders, looking away for a second. But the uninvited thought keeps going. He imagines the spider moving up his leg, his body, he imagines feeling its bristling hairs against the skin of his shoulder, his throat, his cheek. It’s spindly probing legs finding their way up his face. Elias can’t stop himself picturing that spider sat there, venom dripping from fangs that hang, poised over his eye. He can’t shut his eye. A cough from over the desk breaks his train of thought. His interviewer is staring at him, and all at once he’s back with himself, burning with embarrassment. Those eyes stare, impassive and stern as ever, but… is that a twinkle of satisfaction? As though he has been given him an answer he likes." Elias did something like this with Rosie as well... Did he do this at every interview? What would this have looked like at Jon's interview? Martin's? Sasha's? Tim's?

"What should he say? That he had no idea why he wanted this job? That he was all alone in the world, no friends, no family, nothing but the deep certainty that he deserved better." Jonah preferred people like these I think. People who wouldn't be missed if they suddenly vanished, or had a sudden change in personality.

[STRANGE STATIC RISES. A FAINT REPEATING RUMBLING SOUND STARTS UP] "Elias has the briefest of flashes, a sudden burst of terror, an image of himself, strapped down, helpless." I like that repeating rumbling sound that keeps playing for the rest of the statement.

MARTIN: "Was that… the real Elias? Is he still in there then?" JON: "No… No. It was…" Me, pushing the lawn mower: "An Echo!"

JON: "an echo." me: “HA!” (I'm so proud of that moment XDD)

JON: "If we kill Jonah Magnus, I take his place." MARTIN: "Oh god." JON: "And I think… that’s exactly what it wants." Is this what the Eye wants, or is this what Jon wants...? Also Martin will comment on this perfectly in the next episode...

@a-mag-a-day

[a-mag-a-day]

Date: May 6th, 2023

Episode of the day: MAG 193 A Stern Look

"JONAH/ELIAS: Enough. Tell me, why are you here?

ARCHIVIST (STATEMENT): I… I don’t know.

JONAH/ELIAS: Were you drawn here?

ARCHIVIST (STATEMENT): Yes. I was.

JONAH/ELIAS: Against your will?

ARCHIVIST (STATEMENT): No.

JONAH/ELIAS: Then why did you heed the call?

ARCHIVIST (STATEMENT): Because… this is the place I know I should be.

JONAH/ELIAS: Good. The job is yours"

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