#mag 37 burnt offering

[themagnustournament]

Redemption Round 3 - Match 8

We were so close to a Desolation v Desolation, y'all. Alas, Section 31 stayed in the rankings with 126 votes last round, and is up against Burnt Offering and its 136 RR2 votes for 256 Redemption Votes so far! Side note, I don't think I put this in any of the posts yet but did y'all know Burnt Offering is partially based on a true story? Like the finding a weird ritual site?

MAG 043 - Section 31 | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Police Constable Basira Hussain regarding her time investigating strange occurrences as part of Section 31. Statement taken direct from subject.

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.

[heartub]

john is starting to be nicer to martin, good for him <3

he's leaving my shit list slowly

[charon-cries]

Gertrude Robinson commission for @thatf-ckinnerd through @magnusforgaza !!

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Mag 37: burnt offering

[lurkingindoorways]

Favorite sub-genre of Magnus archives episode: man has the audacity, and gets what he deserves

[generalb]

MAG 37 “Burnt Offering” review: man, this is heavy…..

We start off with Sims grilling Martin about the movers, but lost importantly there’s a soft moment between him and Martin when Martin tells him he needs to sleep. But onto the statement:

This one was not as scary as others, but it definitely had good creepy vibes. There’s something menacing about how he didn’t describe what fire-related incident happened to his wife which makes the whole thing worse as you have to imagine what happened yourself. Most importantly, the photo in the glass jars surrounding the clearing are of Gertrude, Sim’s predecessor.

The same Gertrude who died at the same time of an incident in an earlier,m statement, though for the life of me I can’t remember which. I’d have to look through the transcripts and I can’t bring myself to muster up enough energy to read through them. Typing out that sentence made me feel like I want to do it out of spite so I’ll be back.

Okay, after combing through some transcripts I found that in MAG 25 “Growing Dark”, Gertrude Robinson died May 15th, 2015, the same day that police were called out to investigate the weird chapel that the vampire cult lived in, on account of neighbors hearing screams. I don’t think this has any connection to today’s Statement but I like to keep things connected. Gertrude…..what was your damage? Overall, this episode has a 6/10 for me, could’ve been scarier, will burn down a random man’s life again.

Statement ends.

[pillowspace]

"" Now, up in the north of Scotland, the bit without all the people, there are plantations of evergreen trees. "' -MAG 37: Burnt Offering

Relistening to The Magnus Archives, and it feels so strange that one of the statements takes place in northern Scotland. I'm so used to northern Scotland being associated with wholesome peace in the fandom due to the safehouse period, like it's untouched by horror unless the other characters have anything to do with it. Turns out they've got their own wacky things going on up there in the TMA universe

[a-mag-meme-a-day]

meme for @a-mag-a-day Day 38

MAG 37 - Burnt Offering

[ominoustaperecordernoises]

TMA Bracket- The End of Agnes Montague

(37. Burnt Offering) Statement of Jason North regarding the discovery of an Alleged Ritual site

(145. Infectious doubts) Statement of Arthur Nolan regarding the Life and Death of Agnes Montague

[kat-and-their-cats]

Favourite Episode Masterlist

[morning-softness]

For the @a-mag-a-day event: Episode 37, Burnt Offering

“I don’t know what this means. I don’t know what any of this means. I am very tired.”

(Me too, Jon. Me too.)

[Image Description: A picture of Jonathan Sims, from The Magnus Archives, in front of a purple background. Jon is a stocky British-Indian man with short, greying dark hair. He is wearing a grey jumper, pale trousers, and a dark blazer. Jon is standing with one hand pressed to his forehead. His eyes are closed, and he has a sad and tired expression. His glasses dangle loosely from his hand. End Description]

[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.

[iamabigbox]

Finally finished my relisten of season one of TMA so here is TSH characters as TMA S1 statements (basically whether I think they’re similar to the statement giver, victim or would end up in that situation)

Richard

Mag 1 Angler fish - he would get drunk fall down stairs and then avoid being killed(??) by not being bothered to get up.

Mag 2 Do not open - Again with him getting into situations but avoiding death (+ him doing it for some cash seems about right) him and Joshua Gellespie have the same vibe

Mag 3 Across the street - not saying he’s a stalker or anything but he would end up in this situation

Mag 6 squirm - again I think he’s the one most likely to end up in this situation

Mag 23 Schwartzwald - Richard writing to Henry vibes

Mag 33 boatswain’s call - would survive in this situation by just following along with what everyone else is doing

Henry

Mag 9 A father’s love - okay idk what about this just reminds me of him honestly he reminds me of the Father ( killing people to serve a fear entity to protect himself/who he cares for is right up his alley idk)

Mag 19 confession I - his hubris leading to his downfall sounds like something that would happen to him

Mag 34 Autonomy class - Julian as the teacher and Henry as the students

Bunny

Mag 21 Freefall - he would be eaten by the sky

Mag 31 first hunt - do I need to explain myself with this one

Mag 37 burnt offering - fucking around and finding out

Camilla

Mag 15 Lost John’s Cave - out of the pair of them I think Camilla would be most likely to try sacrificing Charles to save her own life

Mag 28 Skintight - idk I just feel like Camilla and Melanie would share the same/similar attitude in this situation

Charles

Mag 10 vampire killer - your sibling dying bc of ur inaction then becoming a vampire hunter seems like something he would do

Mag 14 Piecemeal - you can’t tell me this statement isn’t just a variation of Charles and his hatred for Henry

Francis

Mag 29 cheating death - was considering putting this for Bunny but the whole bold not brave thing gives Francis vibes

Mag 36 taken ill - his thing with disease (I forgot the name of what it’s called but yk what I mean)

Mag 38 lost and found - the homophobic vase got him + I think he spiral would destroy Francis if given the chance idk why

I’ll probably also do this for season 2 when I eventually listen to all of that again as well. I love doing these silly little comparison for my current two fave interests icl

[corens-relisten]

MAG 37 Burnt Offering

spoilers already oop-

breekon and hope, avatars of the stranger, looking "exactly as youd expect" IS SO COOL id forgotten aboht that detail but honnestly i love it so much like yes the weird and uncanny can be creepy but so can the completely ordinary

"were arent in the business of destroying knowledge" also elias told jon to destroy the table?? OH MY GOD??

im here already, so may as well make my guess. i think this is the Desolation, of course. all the heat nd stuff (: oh and the Web too!

spoilers done!

omg martin <33 hii wait did jon just call him a "waste of tape"?? dude.

"it keeps the fear away" hm. i genuinely love how pissed he is at the archives, bc he just hates himself and he knows it and he wants someone or something to take it out on.

the whole foreshadowing whats to come and "i regret what happened without saying what happened" usually irritates me a bit but i really loved it in this one. idk i love the anger i guess haha

OMG HE DIDNT LOSE ETHAN!! whys he in a foster home tho? OH SHIT THATS WHY- OOP yes yes jon thats very normal for alcoholics LIKE WTH DUDE YOU CANNOT TRY TO CONVINCE URSELF THATS NOT SUPERNATURAL

oh Gertrude??

anyway heres my offering! silly lil angy jon (i think near the end of s1 he has to start tying his hair or slicking it bad)

omg only 2 episodes left to the season!! have a nice day!

(i keep forgetting to post these lmaoo)

[randomatthingy]

TMA Credits Songs - Season 1

If TMA became a tv series, with a different end credits song every time, this is what I'd want them to be.

MAG 1: Anglerfish - "Who Are You Really" (Mickey Ekko)

MAG 2: Do Not Open - The Work Song (Hoser)

MAG 3: Across The Street - Somebody That I Used To Know (Gotye, Kimbra)

MAG 4: Pageturner - Thunderstruck (ACDC)

MAG 5 - Thrown Away - Skeleton Appreciation Day (Will Wood)

MAG 6: Squirm - Butch 4 Butch (Rio Romeo)

MAG 7: The Piper - For Whom The Bell Tolls (Metallica) *OR* - Great War (Sabaton)

MAG 8: Burned Out - Burned Out (dodie)

MAG 9: A Father's Love - Murders (Miracle Musical)

MAG 10: Vampire Killer - St. Benard (Lincoln)

MAG 11: Dreamer - Momento Mori (Will Wood)

MAG 12: First Aid - Play With Fire (Sam Tinnezz)

MAG 13: Alone - Everbody's Lonely (Jukebox and the Ghost)

MAG 14: Piecemeal - Modify (Lemon Demon)

MAG 15: Lost John's Cave - bury a friend (Billie Eilish)

MAG 16: Arachnophobia - Spider (Bo Burnham)

MAG 17: The Boneturner's Tail - Body (Mother Mother)

MAG 18: The Man Upstairs - Mirror Man (Jack Stauber)

MAG 19: Confession (Part 1 of 2) - Amazing Grace (Mandela Catalogue Version)

MAG 20: Desecrated Host (Part 2 of 2) - Hellfire (The Hunchback of Notre Damn)

MAG 21: Freefall - Freefallling (Tom Petty)

MAG 22: Colony - Deep Dark Basement (AJJ)

MAG 23: Schwartzwald - Dead (They Might Be Giants)

MAG 24: Strange Music - Entry Of The Gladiators (Julius Fuicik)

MAG 25: Growing Dark - No Light, No Light (Florence + The Machine)

MAG 26: A Distortion - The Distortionist (Ghost)

MAG 27: A Sturdy Lock - Mr. Backwards (Jack Stauber)

MAG 28: Skintight - Ghostbusters Theme (Ghostbusters)

MAG 29: Cheating Death - Wherever I May Roam (Mettalica)

MAG 30: Killing Floor - People Eater (Sodikken)

MAG 31: First Hunt - A Hunting We Shall Go (Simon)

MAG 32: Hive - Nobody Like's Me, I'll Go Eat Worms

MAG 33: Boatswin's Call - How To Disappear Completely (Radiohead)

MAG 34: Anatomy Class - Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes

MAG 35: Old Passages - Teenagers (My Chemical Romance)

MAG 36: Taken Ill - It's Just A Burning Memory (Everywhere At The End Of Time)

MAG 37: Burnt Offering - Burning Pile (Mother Mother)

MAG 38: Lost and Found - Come Along (Cosmo Sheldrake)

MAG 39: Infestation -Breezeblocks (alt-J)

MAG 40: Human Remains - This Is Home (Cavetown)

[eliasappreciator]

attempting to compile comprehensive Elias appearances & information sources for Me, a guy with Problems

Mentions:

Angler Fish (1), Page Turner (4), Dreamer (11), SCheating Death (29), Taken Ill (36), Burnt Offering (37), Butcher's Window (49), Binary (65), Thought For The Day (68), The Coming Storm (91), Lights Out (98), Another Twist (101), Creature Feature (110), The Eye Opens (160) [also kind of an appearance? yknow. his statement!]

Appearances:

The Bone Turner's Tale (17) [briefly], Infestation (39), Human Remains (40), Lost In The Crowd (48), Observer Effect (60), Burning Desire (67), The Librarian (80), The Eyewitnesses (82), Possessive (84), Body Builder (90), Nothing Beside Remains (92), Lights Out (98), Nesting Instinct (102), Sneak Preview (104), A Matter Of Perspective (106), The Show Must Go On (116), Eye Contact (120), Remains To Be Seen (127), The Architecture Of Fear (138), The Panopticon (158), Parting (194) [plus either 193 or 195]

details under readmore

appearances details

MAG 17: starting at 7:50, "miss hearn has lodged a complaint." we get a "jonathon!" and the famous "I'll be more lovely." [also a mention in the final comments]

MAG 39: starting 13:52, Elias and Sasha discuss the Jane Prentiss attack as it happens.

MAG 48: starting 20:50, private disciplinary meeting between Jon and Elias regarding his paranoia.

MAG 60: 15:50 disciplinary hearing again

MAG 67: starting 19: 34, argument about the tunnels.

MAG 80: brutal pipe murder

MAG 84: starting 20:26, Elias offers Melanie a job

MAG 90: starting 3:15, talking with Tim about his unauthorized leave

MAG 92: reads a statement, pleasured exhalation. he is there from the episode beginning onwards.

MAG 98: starting 21:55 Melanie tries coffee poisoning him (Elias and Jon drink their coffee the same and this is "a fair assumption" for some reason)

MAG 102: from beginning 3:10. "I admit I may have overreacted [by beating leitner to death with a lead pipe]"

MAG 104: starting 25:10ish, Elias announces himself with "knock knock" aloud

MAG 106: starting 24:48 onwards, Melanie performance review.

MAG 116: from beginning, showing Gertrude's tape about the Mechanical Turk & the previous attempted stranger ritual.

MAG 120: dream narration

MAG 138: Martin goes to see him in prison

MAG 127: starting 24:20, meeting with Basira.

MAG 135: starting 20:34, meeting with Basira again regarding Jon's trip into the buried.

MAG 138: Martin goes to see him in prison

MAG 148: from beginning, Basira beats Elias up for keeping Jon's pulling statements out of unwilling strangers a secret.

MAG 194 [or maybe 193 or 195]: yknow the one we find him in the panopticon. all spooky-like. Jon says this place wasn't made for him, it was made for Jon.

mentions

MAG 1: in opening

MAG 4: 29:51 about making the leitner search a top priority institute project

MAG 11: 22:17, regarding Gertrude's death

MAG 17: in final comments Jon notes that Elias would tell him to watch and record, and not interfere with events.

MAG 24: in final comments 22:44 about the calliope organ

MAG 29: starting at 23:19, about his time working as a filing clerk in 1972 (two decades before Elias began working there, a year before James Wright even became Head of the institute, meaning he actually witnessed these events from the skull of Richard Mendelson).

MAG 36: a little bit after 21:37, Tim asks Jon about a delivery Elias was also enquiring about. he asked "a couple of questions".

MAG 37: at around 3:01 Jon mentions Elias giving him "advice" to destroy the table that binds the Not-Them.

MAG 49: starting supplemental 24:58. "used to be something of a pothead" comment as well as comments about his employment history.

MAG 65: about trouble installing security cameras in the archive. starting 24:05. follow through for Tim saying "Elias doesn't care," and "he should've fired you weeks ago" and also a heart wrenching Sasha mention

MAG 69: starting supplemental 22:41, literally just Jon saying "short of confronting Elias" with regards to his tunnel explorations

MAG 91: starting 17:40 for Jon character moment leading into mentioning Jon suspecting Elias for murder. Actual Elias mention starting 18:49ish ("first [Jon] then his creepy boss"), 19:18 for "I think it was Elias" about the murders.

MAG 96: in supplemental Jon talks about being annoyed with Elias & believing him to have led Jon to breekon & hope's Newcastle depot, & Elias "isn't big on micromanagement"

MAG 98: 3:40 onwards. just very briefly, about him requesting Martin continue recording statements because Jon is too inconsistent about it at the moment.

MAG 101: elias is addressed from the beginning until Michael appears. there's also Jon making gagged noises to entertain throughout.

MAG 110: we find out he can't see things when occupied (didn't know about Martin knocking over papers during performance review)

MAG 139: starting 22:57 about Elias killing Gertrude