#mag142

[mag200]

MAG142: Scrutiny

watercolor & ink // kofi

[abejaenacuarela]

pipeline weak sarcastic nerd ---> lovcraftian demigod who doesn't know how to human anymore (but is trying)

[timeline de peinados, barba, cicatrices, outfit, poderes y personalidad de Jonathan Sims a lo largo de las temporadas según yo las imagino] 👁️🧿👁️‍🗨️👀💚🩸🥸🛐🥴💀📼🕸️

Just binged TMA in less than two weeks. I'm dizzy and obsessed. I can't believe it took me this long to get into it. Drew this in a trance. Jon they could never make me hate you<3

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odio como quedaron la mayoría de estos Jones. No sé hacer barbas. El color se tradujo re mal de la compu al celu. Enfin

Anyway así es el formato con el que lo subí a Instagram ( y el boceto final):

yes I am implying that the t-shirt daisy dreamt about was a Dua Lipa 2017 tour shirt

[fractal-voidling]

MAG142 - #0181206 │ Scrutiny

John

John

I can't believe I'm the one who's saying this, but John

that's not how you communicate

you can't just eat people's trauma

bad John

spit it out

I swear to the gods, Daisy's need for company's gonna save Martin's stupid ass

or John being a suicidal idiot, lol

[gammija]

my thoughts on this eps statement et cetera are [LOUD HUMMING NOISE] and cannot be expressed in words so instead I'll just remark on some small martinisms

- "Look, I-I just need to, to talk to a manager, or something?"

MARTIN: "Okay, uh, well, uh, yeah, actually; I’m a – I’m a manager."

i love his one-sentence journey from 'ah what do i do, i can't send her to peter but who else is there' to 'wait... IM technically a manager'

MARTIN: "I know. Not nice being interrogated, is it?"

i fully did not get what martin was getting at here during my first listen, since i went through s3 and 4 in about 3 days or so. And i didn't remember her interview with him as being particularly harsh. but clearly my man can hold a grudge

@a-mag-a-day

[im-the-queen-of-stardust]

I know I'm one day late but I got another flashback to the first time I listened to MAG142. I was actually so excited when that woman came in to complain about Jon because I honestly thought this was a return to season one Jon. In the way that he was bitchy and rude to someone in the lobby of the institute or something. And then bam! No, this is another step in his becoming a monster(?) path. Like that time he first Knew something or when he read that statement that was written in French. It was such a slap in the face for me, because season four is truly miserable for Jon and I thought he deserved to be a bit of a bastard again. But no, now he's got to have some more of an existential crisis and also an intervention.

[ceaseless-bitcher]

I’m literally obsessed with how victims’ differing feelings about said ambiguous fears pre-encounter impacts how they are affected. Because we only hear the survivors, it’s kinda implied that a massive piece of the sample population is lost to us!

Also, there appear to be large differences between the people who die soon after giving a statement and those who have an experience, survive to give a statement, and then go on after. The latter group seems to have a better grasp on their relationship with the specific fear tormenting them; episode 71, statement #0172501 from Karolina Górka comes to mind, as she was able to reach acceptance of her death before The Buried fully trapped her. It realised she wouldn’t be worth it because she wasn’t feeding it anymore. The survivors almost always seem to “let go,” or are otherwise incapable of feeding the entity further. Nathan Watts is suspicious of the Anglerfish, and is able to notice what is wrong with it before he gets into its range of attack. Because of this, it relents and he’s able to escape.

However, there seems to be another class of statement giver: those who only have a tangential encounter, or those whose fear is reliant on limited exposure (like the Not!Them). In MAG30, David Laylow survives because his experience was mostly a result of Tom Haan’s avatar-ness, not his fear drawing in The Flesh on its own. In MAG97, Jackson Ellis escapes from the pit in Bucoda because he wasn’t a part of the town or their attempted ritual. Even in MAG12, Lesere Saraki, the nurse who treats Gerard Keay and Diego Molina, is only a bystander in the Desolation avatar’s death throes and general lashing-out.

I would love to see some statistics of victims of entities that isn’t inherently biased by the fact that only some live to give a statement, want to, or are able to recognise that what happened to them was supernatural. I don’t think it’s coincidence that the highest proportion of statements given throughout TMA are attributable to The Stranger (although data is, again, disrupted by the fact that they were gearing up for a ritual)- the Uncanny Valley (lol) is one of the most recognisable tropes in horror. The only statement that Jon took from someone who wasn’t willing to give it (MAG142) was a woman who was trapped by The Buried, and enough of the fear was “natural” claustrophobia, or deniable, that she was able to brush it off.

JONNY GIVE US THE STATISTICS

goddd i love tma so much i love how each episode has thematic relevance to the fear that's about to attack the person, they have to be SUSCEPTIBLE first. im relistening to piecemeal and in addition to just being a literal murderer who presumably deals a lot in Meat, the guy keeps using phrases like "waste of skin" and "human garbage" and all this other stuff that clearly feeds into the more esoteric stuff behind The Flesh, about feeling like a body in the machine, only as valuable as the pieces you can cut off of yourself are. he was ripe for the flesh long before he met angela.

and ive gone on before about like, Do Not Open, and how joshua was feeling money pressure and all this ambient stress unrelated to but definitely feeding the coffin.

10/10 good shit jonny sims knows how to do a horror.

[annabelle--cane]

experiencing real feelings of violence at seeing someone say they don't like an incredibly minor fictional character. love and cherish my glup shitto or I'll kill you.

[ndrwlls]

i love the fact that in mag142 jon became one of the entities he reads about. he is now a nightmare haunting innocent people i love that for him

no green eyes version he looks crazy here

[heeha-must-die]

i’ll try to do at least some of the inktober 2023 prompts

this is obviously not made in ink but who cares

day 1: dream, featuring my beloved little deranged archivist (MAG142, that is)

[duskerus]

thinking about jonathan sims at the late hours of night never goes well. Have you thought about how the web deals with addiction and how Jon is basically confirmed to be addicted in mag142 scrutiny lately? how he's forced to keep his habits up to survive, how he fights for a way to stop them? How at the last second he relapses? Cause once you're stuck in the spider's web you're never free again? Have you????

[pinkbeetroot]

less eyes under the cut (statement found in MAG142)

[ace-apple]

my life is over and i will never be okay again (listened to mag142)

[kaijukebox]

-eats your trauma- -eats your trauma- -eats your trauma-

[taoserene]

"I just sort of turn, you know? Just to check if he’s still there – and he is standing right behind me."

I love monster John and this is one of my favorite scenes. I couldn't do it justice! 

[im-the-queen-of-stardust]

Love how Jon's distinguishing feature is "looks like he hasn't slept in a week".

[class-m-planet]

“He’s all eyes. He’s all eyes. (inhale, less shaky)”

–  MAG142, “Scrutiny”

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