#mag 195 adrift

[irate-iguana]

The content warnings for my next Magnus Archives episode sound like they’re describing Harrow the Ninth.

[themagnustournament]

Round One Part Five - Match 38

"Nooo don't make the Archivist row a boat with his squimpy little arms" (I am weirdly really tired as I draft these. All my creative juice has been used for the first half of round one. blurbs might get really weird today)

MAG 073 - Police Lights | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Basira Hussain, regarding the attempted arrest of Maxwell Rayner

MAG 195 - Adrift | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

An approach to hidden depths. Recorded by The Archivist in Situ.

[itssomethingcosmic]

@a-mag-a-day​ that post statement in ep.195 tho...

[murderandcoffee]

OH SHIT WAIT WAS THAT ONE OF THE VICTIMS IN THE VAST DOMAIN IN MAG 195 ADRIFT?? HOLY FUCK

[nausikaaa]

so... the drowning woman in the alley is from the archives dimension, hence the tape recorder, right? she's the person from MAG 195, Adrift, right??

[a-mag-meme-a-day]

Meme for @a-mag-a-day Day 203

MAG 195 - Adrift

[citadelss]

Cover concepts of some of my favorite tma episodes in no particular order

MAG 195 - Adrift

[kat-and-their-cats]

Favourite Episode Masterlist

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MAG #195: Adrift

Basira: I wouldn’t want to cramp your style.

Jon: it’s about the only thing I have left that isn’t cramped.

Me: ladies and gents, are you telling me that Jonathan Sims, Head Archivist of the Magnus Institute, London, Avatar of the Ceaseless Watcher, has

style???

[go-to-the-mirror]

HEY WELL AT LEAST THEY'RE NONBINARY RIGHT?

he/they jonbinary rights. also oh god oh fuck, time for MAG 132.

@a-mag-a-day

CW: canon- typical suicidal ideation and attempt, canon-typical self sacrificial tendencies. Both discussed more frankly than in the actual podcast.

Also, I'm allowing myself free use of my reaction images (with image descriptions) because I'm in SHAMBLES. Mostly words though.

ARCHIVIST Hello, Melanie. I know I said we’d wait until Basira was back, but I don’t… I’m sorry. I know she won’t… She’d want to do it a different way.

headinhands

Wish me luck. Although, I suppose if you’re hearing this, then I didn’t have any.

The way he says "wish me luck" with that levity and then just hhh like yk joking is one his coping mechanisms for like, crushing fear and grief and stuff, and just the way they SAY it just makes me want to CRY, AAA

I don’t know. I’m… I’m scared. When does the fear go away?

I remember in my first listen, this line stood out to me, I was in shambles, shambles. "When does the fear go away" I'm so, so sorry Jon.

[ID: Drawing of a person sitting at a computer, hands covering their face, crying. /End ID]

Anyway, I’m sorry. You too, Basira, if you’re hearing this. I know you’d stop me. You’d be right to, but … But if this goes wrong, all you lose is … I’m not risking anyone else.

This is a suicide note. Now, he's hoping he'll get out -- probably -- maybe -- but that. It is. Similar. The apology. All you lose is another monster. He might get stuck there forever, he's terrified, he's doing this for someone he doesn't even like out of guilt, out of the crushing -- ha -- amount of guilt, over Tim, over Daisy, over Martin and Basira and Melanie, over his... victims.

In case I don't make it. In case I don't get lucky.

Jonny stop making this podcast so good I'm going to cry.

Let’s do this one properly.

A reference to the Unknowing, where they... did not do it properly.

Stone steps. Roughly hewn. They… They keep going.

Just wanted to point out that he's like, ooh, information gathering. For information's sake, for the people in Artefacts. I think it's neat that he's doing this, and it's a way that makes sense in the world to let us know what's going on. Like how in Malevolent, Arthur's blind and John describes stuff in eloquent detail like some sort of poet or whatever, the statement givers describe the environment and people in their statements, and Jon is describing The Buried.

[The Archivist struggles forward]

Jon's voice in this, it sounds like they're confined, Jonny did a great job on the voice acting there. And the soundscaping in general is like, oh boy claustrophobia time! It's so good.

ARCHIVIST I heard someone. He was begging for me to save him. He said he couldn’t breathe. I can barely breathe. I couldn’t find him, but I am not here for him. I don’t even know him.

The Buried and putting you under the crushing weight of responsibility? Jon went into the coffin because he felt 'crushing' guilt over Tim's death and Daisy's imprisonment in the coffin, and the whole mess that The Unknowing was. In the coffin he's being called by others, and the responsibility of their safety is put on him. Now obviously it's not the other victims who are at fault, however it's interesting that The Buried does that. Perhaps that's how it makes people stay in it, alongside the spooky magic. With putting the responsibility of others on them, making them dig themselves a hole, and not be able to climb out. But Jon has Daisy's tapes as an anchor, he has a purpose, and so he can press on without getting too weighed down?

Just some thoughts.

For all this place closes around me, I feel adrift, like nothing can get through the dirt and the muck and …

This reminds me of how a lot of people say that The Buried and The Vast are quite similar, as an example -- the statement in MAG 195 - Adrift could be either Buried or Vast, big creature, but also crushing depths of water and drowning, but also lots of water. Also the categorizations aren't really like that, again like gender and colours.

The air is heavy – soil and dust. I am very thirsty, but I know I won’t die of it.

Two fun facts about me!

1. I used to live in a desert and the air was like weighted blanket air. I loved it.

2. I used to forget to drink water a lot, and I'd go days where I'd drink like... a glass? Now I drink a minimum of two glasses a day because meds, which has really helped lessen the constant headaches lol. Yea um. Drink water, kiddos.

[He struggles to breath as the Buried squeezes him. The Buried relaxes.]

THE SOUND EDITORS THIS EPISODE WERE KILLING IT!

DAISY —just alone. I think, I think … I hear this, sometimes, singing, when it’s wet. Or, or scratching, trying to get out. But I don’t … I don’t think there’s anyone there. It’s just been me, until now.

Fay Roberts did an excellent job as well. The voice acting <333 10/10 no notes, or like yes notes, and the notes are Feeling Claustrophobic well done.

ARCHIVIST It’s okay, I’ve, uh … I’ve got a plan. DAISY This like all your other plans?

If by "all [their] other plans" she means impulsive, borderline suicidal, and likely to fail... yes.

ARCHIVIST No. I know where we are. There is no out. Not here. This is … This is forever deep below creation, where the weight of existence bears down. This is the Buried, and we are alive. There isn’t even an up. Oh God. What have I done? What have I done?

I really like the way he delivers that line, especially the "This is the Buried, and we are alive" and "Oh God" parts.

DAISY Not alone, though? ARCHIVIST No. No, not alone.

[ID: A blurry screenshot of CC!GoodTimesWithScar from his stream. He's a bit further away from the camera than usual for streams, and has his head in his hands. /End ID]

DAISY Scared. I’m scared. I’ve been scared the whole time here, not just when it’s crushing, when it fills your mouth with dirt. It knows when to stop, or when to ease back so you don’t lose it or grow numb. Leaves you terrified for when it starts again, and when it does, you’re scared it’ll never stop.

My friend, Jay Mapleejay -- who you should follow by the way, @/mapleejay or @/mapleeowl everywhere -- once wondered how the Domains in the Eyepocolypse kept people afraid without the memory loss like in MAG 170. And there's your answer probably.

Also :(

The Hunt was me, but I don’t think I liked it. I think it just made me need it.

Idk what to say, just like this line.

I don’t … I don’t know who I am without the chase. I just know that I don’t like who I was back outside. I don’t want to be her again. I want to be better.

Same for this.

ARCHIVIST One thing I’ve learned, Daisy, is that we all get a choice. Even if it doesn’t feel like one.

Themes of choice in The Magnus Archivessssss this podcast makes me abnormal in so many ways <333

ARCHIVIST And now? DAISY Don’t know. I miss dreaming. You don’t sleep down here. ARCHIVIST Daisy, you should know I’m … If I wasn’t human before, I’m even less human now. DAISY Yeah, well. At the moment, I don’t care. ARCHIVIST And if we get out? DAISY But we can’t get out. [The Earth shifts.] (The Archivist grunts in pain.) DAISY (Pained) I’m sorry. I’m sorry, John. I’m sorry.

I just really like this exchange :(

[The coffin door creaks open and, groaning with effort, the Archivist and Daisy crawl out into the office. There are many tape recorders playing in the background.] [...] ARCHIVIST Tape recorders. M-must be dozens of them.

The Web my absolute beloathed. Now, I love Martin K-Anchor Blackwood as much as the next hopeless (a)romantic, however I don't think that it was Martin's love for Jon that pulled Jon out The Buried, I think it was The Web. Well, The Web definitely influenced Martin, however we do know that The Web has used their... undying love for one another against them *cough cough* *wink wink* *nudge nudge*, so it could have been the act of Martin leaving the tape recorders, but my personal theory is that it was just The Web. Uh oh, Jo(h)n (/ref).

Anyway! Ain't it great! Daisy's back! Jon isn't constantly alone!

He...

I'm going to have a lot of talking to do come MAG 136.

[ramenwithbroccoli]

Hi there!! Saw that you likes The Magnus Archives!!

Which episode/statement is your favorite? C:

oh man, this got me thinking!

my favourite one would probably me MAG 74 "Fatigue". i love the way the dreams (or rather hallucinations) bleed out into reality until nothing is recognisable anymore. the narration is excellent here, scenes cut short, replaced by another ones, the world twisting in on itself. it really hammers that sense of losing yourself into you. i think that'd be the episode i would pick for someone who's not a fan of tma. it also encouraged me to experiment with different styles when writing :]

i also really enjoyed MAG "That Face at the Window", a standalone story posted after the main series already ended. i'm not really sure why it captivated me so much, but my mind revisits it all the time. also who put Jurgen Leitner voice in my lesbian horror story????

some honorable mentions (because it's extremely hard to pick just one episode out of 200+!)

MAG 19 ("Confession I") and 20 ("Desecrated Host II"), for it's captivating storyline and that poor priest who got beaten up by every entity all of sudden

MAG 45 - "Bloodbag", for making me think too much about mosquitoes and experiments

MAG 93 - "Contaminant", for being the one that really disturbed me

MAG 123 - "Web Development", for an interesting premise and always lingering somewhere in my mind

MAG 166 ("The Worms") , 171 ("The Gardener") and 195 ("Adrift") for describing the hellscapes so vividly they're still alive in my memory, even though i listened to them only once (haven't gotten to them yet on my re-listen)

[themagnustournament]

Redemption Round One - Match Five

Here today we have two episodes that I voted for! Adrift received 121 votes and The Architecture of Fear received 126; perhaps the most evenly matched of our redemption matches!

MAG 138 - The Architecture of Fear | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Robert Smirke, taken from a letter to Jonah Magnus dated 13th February 1867.

MAG 195 - Adrift | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

An approach to hidden depths. Recorded by The Archivist in Situ.

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mag 195 - adrift

i do not remember this statement filling me with so much anxiety. to be fair, the first time around this entire final section pretty much had me experiencing a constant sense of dread, and it's definitely nice to not feel that way this time, but i sincerely don't think i was this affected by this statement then. i'm not exactly thalassophobic, but i will admit that that the few times i have been on open water with no land in sight, i have been filled with anxiety. i don't think the second person point of view really helps either. but it's more than that, i guess. this fear that you'll never actually be free? that even if you escape from the hardships in life, you'll still be stuck in the endless, repeating nature of it. that's sort of what the vast does, doesn't it? it makes you look at the big picture, look at how much meaninglessness there is, and i don't think humans really are meant to plan ahead further than a few years or so

also, drowning is terrifying. few ways i'd be less willing to die

basira and jon continue their relationship in the same nature it's always been. good when they're focused on a task and when jon doesn't try to get her too involved in her emotions. i think she might be taking steps regarding that, but they're tiny. and anyways, emotions are not what she's good for in this situation. she keeps his focus on the task at hand, asks leading questions and makes him break it down. kinda funny that they do that in a vast domain. i like that their relationship is sort of unchanging in that aspect, really. it might be complex, but it's not hard to understand. i think she's pretty good for him, in the sense that she's always been willing to work with him in a mostly peaceful allyship as long as he doesn't cross the very clear boundaries she sets. even when their relationship is at its worst, he at least knows where he has her. they're such an underrated duo tbh

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MAG 195, Adrift

The wiki says Jon found Basira on an island, but I remember thinking she must have been the person in the statement, or maybe a less panicked person just swimming along. But if that’s the case then her willingness to row wouldn’t make much sense.

So I admire Basira’s ability to stay calm and wait and not to try her luck in the water. (I wonder if it was any good to drink?) But she’s always been a very thinky hunter.

@a-mag-a-day

[a-mag-a-day]

Date: May 8th, 2023

Episode of the day: MAG 195 Adrift

"It is close.

Closer.

It is here.

You can feel its titanic bulk moving past, just below you. Or perhaps above. It almost brushes against you and, despite the pressure of the water all around you, you cannot fight the frantic instinct to run."

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[mattholicguilt]

okay so far three episodes into the Stranger supercut and I love it. right now it's these three disjointed puzzle pieces (Anglerfish, Across the Street and Strange Music) but I knowww how they'll ultimately fit together and that's fun.

trying to figure out what to do with episodes like Open Passages, The Librarian and Monument which don't really have a predominant Entity. maybe a Leitner/misc leg? Or just lump them in with the End or the Exrinction?

there's also some interpretation going on. I put MAG 195 Adrift with the Buried because the themes of being crushed by the pressure of the water and not sure how to get to the surface feel way more Buried to me than Vast. And I put A Cosy Cabin with the Corruption because of the themes of decay and devotion.

I finished my tma s5 relisten and now I think I'm gonna relisten to the whole show but entity by entity. like I'll start with mag 1 but then just listen to all the Stranger-centric episodes in chronological order. and then go back and listen to mag 2 and then all the Buried episodes, etc.