#magnus: how- how did you do that

[odysseus-crewmate-number38]

magnus meeting apollo would be so funny actually

magnus: wait, you know my dad?

apollo: oh I KNOW you’re dad :)

“…”

magnus: wait-

[xxplastic-cubexx]

oh boy 2AM !!!!!!

[destructo-range]

dumb tma fic idea: when michael becomes the distortion it's still technically bound to the eye because his contract never ended with the institute/the eye. and he has to come in like once a week to do paperwork or he'll feel ill

[cantdealwiththisnow]

Part 1 - Appreciation post for all the TFP universe Autobot mugshot cameos (known and unknown) in RID2015 3x25 (even if the context is that they've been OUSTED against their will)

[booksandmore]

reminder that the malec age gap does excist and does HEAVILY impact their relationship

[cyndaquillt]

Side note, Metatron sounds such a mecha kinda name like I'd expect a giant Transformer have, not an archangel. And me being from not an Abrahamic religion nor growing up in a culturally Abrahamic setting + getting my archangel knowledge secondhand from media or friends, I genuinely thought TWSA/ORV made Metatron up.....

[faithandfairies]

Re-visiting Antoinette

So, I've been re-watching the show and it has me coming back to Antoinette. Which, I think I always come back to Antoinette because she is important, just not in the way a lot of people think.

The thing is, Louis and Lestat don't communicate properly so you have to look at their actions to figure out where they are at mentally and emotionally at any given time. And painting a more complete picture of Lestat's actions in relation to Antoinette and her purpose according to Lestat does that.

You see, I think by the time Antoinette enters, Lestat feels like he is losing Louis. Their relationship is going down the drain because they're not communicating properly and on top of that Louis isn't feeding well so he doesn't have energy for the parts of their relationship that do work. Louis' lack of proper feeding though is tied to his feelings, his humanity. And his shame of what he is, for which Lestat partly blames himself because of how he handled Louis' turning and their relationship.

And so Lestat starts trying to re-write history to get Louis back. Fix the mistakes he made in the past that Louis holds against him to get Louis back in the present but also as a way to remind Louis of the good times. And he uses Antoinette to do that.

As such Lestat casts Antoinette in the role of Ernesto. Because that's where everything started to go wrong in their relationship. Louis being disgusted with how and why Lestat kills. In Louis' opinion Lestat should never have killed Ernesto. At the very least not in the way he did.

Just like Ernesto Antoinette is a musician. And just like with Ernesto as she leaves Lestat is looking at her like he wants to drain her but he doesn't at that point even though I believe he wants to.

He then also uses Antoinette to remind Louis of his courting period with him. I think Lestat's intention with Antoinette is for Louis to miss him during that two week period as he lavishes all of his attention on someone other than Louis only to then try to seduce him at the end of it, recreating the first time he and Louis slept together after their two week courting period with Antoinette in the role of Lily. Also using the fact that Louis is hungry to try to get him to feed.

I genuinely think Lestat would have killed Antoinette if his plan had worked here. Drained her with Louis most likely. Ernesto's death, but with different circumstances. No humiliation, no torture, just pleasure and lulling her into a false sense of security so Louis can feed. Trying to listen to the objections Louis had to the way Lestat killed. Because the killing itself is non-negotiable, but the circumstances can be negotiated. Lestat is willing to hunt for Louis, and in whatever way that will make it more likely that Louis will feed human.

Lestat's genuinely trying to find viable alternatives for Louis to feed on. Because Louis isn't opposed to feeding on animals. But that isn't a sufficient diet. So what is the human equivalent of an animal to Louis? Louis is opposed to feeding on black people because he considers them his people. Louis is also gay, attracted to his own sex, so all men might be off the table. So I think Lestat goes, would white women suffice? Would that be impersonal enough? Or do you need it to be more personal? Would a white woman that looks like me make you angry enough to feed if you can direct your anger at her? Since male criminals don't do the trick? Or do you need variety of the sexual sort? Do you need to have sex that then devolves into you draining your victim in the heat of the moment?

And I mean, Lestat hit the nail on the head too, you've got to give him that. He knows Louis very well. Because Louis in Paris feeds on humans when he hallucinates his victims as Lestat and directs his anger at them. And in San Francisco Louis sleeps with his victims then drains them. They need so much therapy by the way.

But then here that doesn't work. Louis leaves to feed on animals instead of joining Lestat and Antoinette. So Lestat's like okay, I've got to go back even further. Fix every mistake I've ever made with Louis. Not kill Lily, not turn Louis two weeks into knowing him and use Antoinette to represent that. And so he continues to cast Antoinette in the role of Lily and adds Louis-stand-in and doesn't kill or turn Antoinette. Instead he continues a relationship with her as a human.

But I think Lestat's also realizing it won't make a difference, even if he has learned from his mistakes. I think his relationship with her devolves into a form of self-flagellation through her then. Because he can't turn back time and not turn Louis after only two weeks of knowing him, ease him into things so that Louis doesn't hate Lestat and himself for what they both are. So that he doesn't want to hurt himself and Lestat for what they both are.

I think Antoinette also ended up becoming a way to bridge the gap between Lestat's vampirism and his humanity to save his relationship with Louis when Louis became hard to reach, because Lestat stopped being able to read Louis' mind to understand him and because they didn't communicate well. And because Lestat kept making missteps that created an increasingly larger chasm between them.

Because that's one of the problems, although Lestat understood where Louis thought he went wrong enough to try to fix it I don't think Lestat fully understood why Louis thought certain decisions Lestat made were wrong, why Louis saw things the way he did. Lestat acts on instinct a lot, having been a vampire for as long as he's been by the time he meets Louis and having embraced it as he has. He just doesn't think about things the same way Louis does or at all.

He left Antoinette human as long as he did because it was beneficial to him, because it meant she could help him understand Louis' human side, to be a confidante and a sounding board, but it also genuinely offered a layer of protection to him and Louis for him to be seen with a woman when he and Louis were suspected to be lovers by the town.

Until of course it was more beneficial to have her as a vampire. And of course her love becomes a stand-in for the love he wishes he got from Louis, that he feels he could have gotten from Louis if he'd handled things differently with him.

The thing is, just like everything else in Lestat's mind his involvement with Antoinette is for Louis. It's just that Lestat being Lestat everything he does or thinks he does for Louis alone he's usually also doing for himself.

[bananonbinary]

god, Exceptional Risk gets me so much, this guy isnt even an avatar but the way he TALKS about the prisoners he "guarded" is far more chilling than any of the supernatural shit

[ceaseless-watchers-special-girl]

being a young, british fan of tmagp is like. i do not know mr blobby. my father does. my father was terrified of mr blobby, and refuses to speak of him. my mother, alas, lived in india during the reign of mr blobby, and thankfully does not know of him.

but for real i need to know about him. did he actually have a fanbase. was there a divide between kids who liked him and kids who didn't. were all the adults terrified of him or did they find him funny. is it appropriate to ask my teachers about this

[cirrus-grey]

Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck the goddamn music-

I don't know the name for the technique but there's this thing that was in there that's the string players, like, tapping the instrument with the bow to create a more percussive sound and normally I wouldn't think too much of it but I swear to god it sounded like creeping spider legs. During the case set at Hill Top Road. With the very obvious references to the Buried and the Stranger and all the rest. Which dropped about a hundred Achives references including Jon's fucking name???

I have always respected the soundscaping they do at Rusty Quill but they're really going above and beyond for this show.

[starsandwriting]

Jonathan Sims and Richard Faulkner duking it out in the 'being crushed alive by the guilt of your actions' competition

[xxplastic-cubexx]

give me some whiskey and ill draw The Most Thing i can come up with

bonus:

[magpiespaceace]

THEY'RE NOT THE SAME- SO WHY JON?!

Ok, so I know TMA itself has been over for a minute, but during the last year and a half that I'd spent binging the ever-living pipe murder out of ALL 200 EPISODES (and the RE-binging it after the announcement of TMP)

The ONE thing that ALWAYS bothered me?

WHY does Jon pronounce Jared and Gerard the same way?!

Jared => Jeh-rid

Gerard => Jer-rard

THEY'RE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT!!!

Was it a mistake Jonny&Crew made the first time they recorded an episode that mentioned our beloved Angry Goth SadBoi by name?? and they didn't notice it until after it was posted, so they had to keep it that way because of continuity????

Sounds plausible, right?

But wait!

NO!

That can't be right, because NO ONE ELSE in the show pronounces them like this!

What the heck guys? lol

[springypaws]

Have a glimpse into the chaos of me trying to figure out Daisy’s creature design rn (for no reason in particular…)

I gotta add more scare factors considering I like. Only focus on convenience/efficiencymso she basically looks like some normal canine 💀💀

Now, here comes some unnecessarily long image descriptions:

First Image ID: This page is made up of my efforts to design Daisy’s overall build. The top left corner shows a wolf bust with wide eyes and an open, drooling mouth. In the opposite corner is a similar situation, except the wolf’s eyes are smaller, and it’s facing forwards. At the bottom of the page is a thin wolf with longer fur in some areas than others. The ribs of large lungs are showing, she has tall domed ears, and she long legs. Besides a silhouette of an average human, the top of her head lays about 2 1/2 heads taller, around the size of a horse. Notes are amount around these drawings, those of which include:

“Humanoid = less efficient”, “Looks starved -> at least looks desperate, and therefore looks more threatening”, “build based on Wild dogs (except her kill rate is 99%, not 85%)”, “Jon is the 1% she didn’t kill” (a small rolling-eyes expression is drawn here), “Worked at institute -> Somewhat connected to The Eye -> Constant eye contact?”. Around the full-body next to the human, the following notes are written: “Long legs, fur = additional sensory input, large lungs, tall, domed ears, unblocked forwards-facing eyes, about horse size.”

Second Image ID: This page is dedicated to figuring out colors and fur patterns. Two duplicates of the previous full body are here. The first has half of it with white fur, the other half without fur and with revealed dark skin. Notes on this: “With light reflection (on the white-fur side)”, “without reflection (skin)”, “like polar bear”, “apocalypse = very little light to reflect”.

Next to this are two quick doodles, one showing glowing yellow eyes in darkness and the slightest silhouette of a canine, and the second showing someone shining a light on the creature, making the fur bright white and revealing a blood-covered creature with wide, light yellow irises. Notes on this are: “Good 4 season 5”, and, “yellow/light irises = stalking predators”. Under here is the other full body, this one also having blood on it, although it’s colors and patterns are similar to a forest wolf with more black. Notes made before this design were: “London = what camouflage?”, “Before season 5”, “forest camo? Countershading?”, “Big = hard to hide”. On this design, there are notes that include: “”Dark under eyes = scarier? Makes irises bolder”, “London has forests, so….”, “ribs = more visible due to coloration”, “pattern is similar to forest wolves with more black”, and, “countershading.”

[mildcicada]

[too-young-to-fall-in-love]

Turned Night Into Day

summary:

There's no reason why Illya should want to talk to him. Really, there isn't. So why's he showing up at his hotel room with a bottle of Scotch and something like an apology on his lips? Or, most of Amor Magnus Doctor Est chapter 8 in Napoleon's POV!! <3

notes:

inspired by Amor Magnus Doctor Est by @cha-melodius

tags:

POV Napoleon Solo, Napoleon solo has no self confidence, insecure Napoleon solo, Reunions, the happy ending to just like me, Mild Sexual Content, inspired by another fic, Napoleon Solo Needs a Hug, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Fluff and Angst, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe - Professors

excerpt:

“I’m sorry,” Illya whispers, the words ringing like a gunshot in the otherwise dead quiet of the room. Of all the things Napoleon was expecting, it was definitely not that. “I heard what you and Gaby were talking about,” and “Did you really get Victoria fired to try and win me back?” seemed the most obvious. He’s only able to stare at Illya as the words rattle around in his head. In the silence of the room it seems that Illya might want to take it back. He finds himself hoping he will, because while there’s nothing he wants more than Illya, he’s only good for being left behind. He hopes equally as much that he won’t, because even in the face of reality he still wants him more than he’s ever wanted anything else. “What for?” he asks, head tilted to the side, brow furrowed. Illya huffs out a sound that could be a laugh, but it’s too harsh, too bitter to be classified as such. It’s so sudden that Napoleon actually flinches from it. “Everything,” he answers, like it’s obvious. Like he’d done anything wrong. Leaving him may have been the best decision Illya’s ever made. He can’t imagine how that could be wrong. “For blaming you when it wasn’t really your fault. For shutting you out. For not—” Illya’s voice catches in his throat, and he takes another swallow of liquor. Napoleon shuts his eyes against Illya’s next words, “for not being there for you when I should have been.” A feeble sense of hope takes root in his heart, growing until it threatens to choke him.

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