#mag 50

[pastellich]

The Governor

There is very little information about this character, so i decided to keep him shrouded in shadow. This was made using pastel on top of modeling paste, which was a technique I had never tried before.

[tmascrapbook]

Mag 50: foundations

[landscaping-your-mind]

today has been a day of procrastinating tma stuff and actually doing irl stuff (my washing! which is always like a four hour ordeal, but finally my favourite hoodis are clean) So, yeah didn't even get done writing things, much less the tma relisten. But I made a promise in the tags of an earlier post that I'd ramble about jontim here, so... I just... I'm sad about them.

Firstly, did you know that MAG 50 - Foundations is the last time we hear Tim and Jon have a good moment together on tape? Barring of course MAG 161. And here it's cracked foundations. Do you know that in MAG 11, Jon says he trusts Tim most of all, for it not to be a joke? Do you know that in MAG 159 Jon's mind immediately jumps to Tim and Sasha when asked where his friends are? They feel like they were friends, really close friends, that just... fell apart. Do you know how it feels to lose your rock. To lose someone you always thought was going to be forever for you? Do you know how it feels to be betrayed, to have someone you thought was your best friend turn on you and hurt you? Do you know how it feels to stand in document storage, and look at each other, and see the person you trusted, and see how it all fell apart, and see fear and mistrust, and see a want to repair things, but it's already too late?

Do you know how it feels to look at the person who represents everything that's wrong about this place, and know that they're the only one you're ever going to trust to be real?

"I'm still me, Tim. I'm still me." "You know what? You're actually right." "What?" "You're the only one."

@a-mag-a-day

[saintetheldredablogshorrormovies]

if its a horror podcast why am i giggling helplessly like a ten year old girl tell me that

[6-and-7]

TMA Tarot

10 of Wands: MAG 50 - Foundations

[themagnustournament]

Redemption Round 2 - Match 18

The Meat Pit comes with 262 total votes, 92 of which were from Round Two! Foundations left Round One with only 57 votes.

MAG 130 - Meat | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Lucia Wright, regarding a hole filled with meat.

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

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

[es-mentiras]

MAG 50: The Real Evil Is Capitalism In This One Too

[siren-mic]

Bloody Malthusian politics in my nice horror podcast

[landofspaceandrainbows]

This is me just being a asshole and picky about minor details, but like, there's this whole thing about the architect George Gilbert Scott, and we all know about G. G. S. and his workhouses and The Govenor - and the Buried. And anyway, there's this whole deal about how he worked on a whole bunch of other big stuff, like big scale stuff with lots of people use. Like some halls and Westminster and St. Pancras's Railway Station. And how it's weird and kinda unsettling that there hasn't been more reports - like waiting for the other shoe to drop.

Anyway, I was listening toour best girl Karolina from MAG 71, Underground. And I notice and think "doesn't she take the North line, and more often the Victoria Line? And i'm like "o, isn't king's cross on the way there?" and make a note that i should listen for which station she uses - and the first station she uses / gets on on is King's Cross Station, which the full name of is King's Cross - St. Pancras Station because it goes under both train stations. And she's going north, which could take her under quite a bit more of St. Pancras's Station.

(edit: if i'm remembering correctly, if she's taking the victoria line north, she should be on platform 3, does anyone have a sense, or a picture of where exactly platform 3 goes under / is? )

And who built the front of St Pancras's Station?

Ofc, it's one experience out of tens of thousands of users, and it's in central London which is crawling with creepy shit, but interesting still. (imo)

[shgark]

lmfaoo the supplemental in mag 50

[dieselocelot]

the fact that mr house had to experience OCD in order to become the sole proprietor of the new vegas strip... i cant move

[citricacidprince]

Drawings of Dipper and Mabel as 7 year olds, 10 year olds, and 15 year olds in my Relativity AU! I made them to accompany my Shermie post!

I love them, little babies who love each other and make me ill <3

[landscaping-your-mind]

#ramblings of a lunatic#the magnus archives#tma#this is NOT a jonah sympathy post. he deserved everything that came to him#but i think narratively it's interesting#...i feel very conflicted mentioning potential jon and jonah parallels#not only because i think it's naturally going to raise ppls hackles but because i don't. want to compare them as like. ppl???#more that i think they're occasionally presented with similar problems (i.e death or giving into power or ppl abandoning them)#and nearly every time jon makes a decision motivated by a desire to be good and help and Jonah makes a decision based on h#*what benefits him#it's interesting!! it's a neat way to contrast our protagonist and our villain#tma relisten 

Tags of the post which I am putting here, because hnrrrg parallels. I hate Jimmy Magma with my whole being, the bastard, but I can! Appreciate! The parallels!!

There are only 5 letter to Jonah Magnus statements, being MAG 23 - Schwartzwald, MAG 50 - Foundations, MAG 92 - Nothing Beside Remains, MAG 127 - Remains to be Seen, and MAG 138 - The Architecture of Fear.

MAG 23 - Schwartzwald was dated 31 March, 1816, notably before Jonah Magnus attempted his first ritual. Albrecht is quite kind to Jonah throughout the letter, and states he looks forward to meeting him again to discuss the books. Nowhere in the statement does Albrecht express any ill-will towards Jonah, or express discomfort at how Jonah’s a “weird motherfucker.”

MAG 50 - Foundations was dated 12 June, 1841, well after Jonah’s first attempt at a ritual. Sampson is also quite kind to Jonah, and inquires after his health. Doesn’t think Jonah’s a “weird motherfucker” either.

MAG 92 - Nothing Beside Remains was dated 9 April, 1824, a couple years after the ritual attempt. Barnabas begging for Jonah’s help, which he sincerely believes Jonah will give. Jonah is a weird motherfucker, but Barnabas doesn’t know that unfortunately.

MAG 127 - Remains to be Seen was dated 21 November, 1831, and Jonathan was definitely angry with Jonah for the, like, causing the death of Albrecht, and asking Jonathan to be his doctor, and being a weird motherfucker, all of that, he’s really angry at Jonah for the path he’s going down -- has gone down, this is post-1818 -- and this is the first letter writer who’s actually angry at Jonah.

MAG 138 - The Architecture of Fear was dated 13 February, 1867, and Robert Smirke begins his letter with the acknowledgment that their relationship has deteriorated over the years. His letter is a plea for Jonah to abandon the path he’s going down, and Smirke has not given up on all hope. I mean, he knows that it’s Jonah’s fault that he’s going to die, but hopes that it’s not him. Really it’s only Jonathan who’s actually angry with Jonah.

So, we go from perfectly cordial to Jonah; cordial to Jonah and especially worried about his health and him overworking himself; begging Jonah for help; being angry with Jonah for putting him in harms way on purpose, causing the deaths of people who were his friends, and going down the path towards becoming an avatar -- which Jonah has already gone down -- and finally a plea for Jonah to abandon the path he’s on, even after all the awful things he’s done, and not hurt anyone else including himself.

Jon goes from average and normal human -- albeit a bit of a dick -- to having quite a bit of paranoia because he’s under the quite justified belief that he’s in danger; to being distant with the others as an attempt to help them; to waking up from his coma as Something Else, having caused the deaths of Tim and Daisy, and continuing to unwillingly drag Melanie, Basira, and Martin into the happenings at the institute due to them being unable to quit while he’s alive -- something he does not know -- to being confronted about the people he’s hurt on his path of being an Avatar.

Yeah, I’m seeing the parallels.

Wait, we all joke about how every letter to Jonah in TMA ends with "dearest jonah, it pains me to say but I must sever our correspondence on account of you being a Weird Motherfucker"...but I think those only start around season 4?? I skipped some episodes in season 1 and 2, which means I could've missed some, but the first statement I noticed it happening in was 127.

I'm only saying this because I think it's very appropriate to introduce the part of Jonah's narrative where he becomes such a bastard everyone he knows begins to systematically remove him from their lives...in season 4, the season with the strongest ties to the theme of the dangers of isolation

[atomic-raunch]

Betty Webster flirts with Satan for old girlie mag, Satan’s Scrapbook

[determunition]

happy valentines day!! gay old men be upon ye

[hezekiahwakely]

So I had to look up what it meant to get a 3rd in PPE (since that is apparantly the degree the original Elias Bouchard graduated with) but now I'm flabbergasted by the UK university level grading system (if I'm understanding it correctly). Do you mean to tell me that the highest level of honors degree only requires 70%??