#magnus ex

[ravelqueen]

Lmao OMFG Martin. He's now confirmed to have been jealous of

- (possibly lesbian?) Cop for daring to have private conversations with Jon

- literal embodiment of death Jon has only metaphorically met in a coma-dream

- lady he talked to for half an hour, once

Truly he is the "you know other people" meme

[ghosted-draws]

A redraw of an old Tim piece, because this song always hits me in the TMA feels

[sarcasticscribbles]

"What's the deal is with the Magnus Institute?"

[buildoblivion]

alice dyer and the terrible, awful, very not good bad day

[cult-of-the-eye]

Do I think Sam and Alice should get together? No. Do I think Alice being still in love with Sam is extremely compelling anyway? Absolutely.

[liliactrickster]

Painting of Gerard Keay burning the Ex Altiora

close up and joke edit under the cut

[transrevolutions]

sam is so fucking down bad he literally JUST learned his gf is seriously considering sacrificing him to the shadow realm yet he STILL decides to fistfight (???) the manifestation of illegally obtained personal information to protect her. sam PLEASE learn to set some boundaries im BEGGING YOU RIGHT NOW

[mojo-chojoo]

i might have a type after all

[fiuworks]

the admiral and jon shennanigans...

when georgie's not home jon ties his lanyard and drapes his tie over the admiral and practises his reunion with the archives (READ: JUST MARTIN) on admiral but all admiral wants is the treats jon isnt giving him

[psyduckz]

i can’t get over the symbolism of red canary’s username in sam’s statement. do you think that was a choice jon made? that jon might have picked the statement as a warning to look away, only for sam to take it as a reason to investigate

[pathojon]

feed mymy statements mr siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiims

[pumkinrae]

its impossible vastness undeniable

[willthespy]

do you ever just sit in a group and realize everyone is some flavor of homo. that’s how i feel reading anything rick riordan. fuck, not every one of them is friends, but that just makes it more accurate

[i-am-not-a-who-i-am-a-what]

so about the header that proceeded today's statement:

Viability as agent: Low

Viability as subject: None

Viability as catalyst: Medium

i didn't know what to think of this part of the entry at first, but the longer the statement went on... was the institute in this universe trying to manufacture avatars?

the dice can't do anything without someone to use them, they can't be an "agent" by themselves, but might be capable of manipulation, so in that aspect their viability is "low."

the dice could be a "subject" in the sense that they could use further studying, but the statement itself was a very thorough investigation of their workings, so in that aspect their viability is "none."

the dice seem to influence their holder to roll them, or at least find more victims to roll them, and could therefore be described as a "catalyst" for someone's becoming. but, as seen in the statement, their owner can give the dice to someone else (albeit not without consequences), so in that aspect their viability is only "medium."

so what about the line following all this, what does "Recommend referral to Catalytics for Enrichment applicability assessment" mean? if we go by this interpretation, i'd say it could mean the institute wanted to find a way to make the dice even more potent as an artifact, maybe even remove that pesky ability for their owner to reject them.

imho all of this this brings a whole new level of context to the events of episode seven, of unknown violent agents going after an influx of objects that seemed straight out of artifact storage. was that the nature of the titular "magnus protocol" first mentioned in episode four, the one that involved the starkwall group? containing or destroying potential artifacts before the institute could get their hands on them?

it also makes their "gifted kids program," and sam's link to it as one of the kids being studied, all the more horrifying to think about. was it not just avatars in general they were after, but child avatars specifically? no wonder gertrude got so defensive over the possibility of sam and celia dragging gerry back into the institute's business last episode, we all picked up on her clearly knowing more than she's letting on but now we might know the shape of that information a bit better.

and one final bit of food for thought... this statement had a lot of familiar themes, didn't it? free will or the illusion of it, gambling and not-so-random chance, the statement giver being done in by one final hit from what feels like a bit of an addition... all hallmarks of a certain mother of puppets. doesn't it seem fitting that "chester" would use this kind of statement to warn sam about what harm pursuing the magnus institute could bring to him, considering the one his voice might draw from? and doesn't it seem so painfully ironic that his warning seems to have only driven sam further into that web?

[bamboo-is-a-lie]

To me Elias has evil divorced wine mom vibes and follows several Real House Wives series at the same time at yells at you if you interrupt them watching an episode but falls asleep every. single. time. they. watch. (unless its a reunion)

[cult-of-the-eye]

Toxic ex husbands is the funniest dynamic like actually we've been married for 40 years we've been divorced for longer he took all the money I took his fucking antique scarves collection I hate him we're making out in a broom closet we both try to inconvenience each other in every way we have extremely loving and emotional sex every anniversary and then go straight back to hating each other