#magpod oc

[c0yb0y]

recent doodle dump time :3

the last two are @guillotine-girly's tma spiral oc, angelia :3 the one before that is my daisy design

last one has a tw for blood and eyes below the cut

he's my own tma oc, rael, he's a hunt avatar and an archival intern (i need to draw him more)

[murderandcoffee]

avatar oc ideas so far:

eye avatar who feeds on the gossip and secrets of the people in his small town

slaughter victim (veteran) turned avatar (serial killer)

stranger avatar who embodies the fear of running into someone you never want to see again by adopting the visage of said person (idea from @melandrops)

end avatar based off of the washer at the ford/bean-nighe (a passive omen of death rather than an active bringer of it)

flesh avatar who performs gender-affirming surgeries on people with transphobic families (and uses the "disposed of" materials from said surgeries to build a "child" of sorts)

spiral avatar who turns horrors from people's nightmares into real things

inclement weather-themed desolation avatar (hurricanes, blizzards, tornadoes)

dark avatar who drags people into caves and mutates them to resemble cave-dwelling creatures (colorless skin, no eyes, etc.) until they are barely human anymore

buried avatar who lives at the bottom of the ocean and sabotages submarines/drowns divers

web avatar matchmaker who pulls people into bad relationships

vast avatar who untethers people from gravity and either lets them float endlessly upward or who makes them fall to their death (it depends on their mood)

hunt avatar who turns prey animals into predators and vice versa

extremophile extinction avatar who leads a doomsday cult

corruption avatar who withers/decays/erodes anything they touch

lonely avatar who disappears lone hikers in deep wilderness

bonus: spiral avatar who is a compulsive liar, but whose lies become true for whoever they tell them to

[theendorisit]

apropos of nothing, I made Tape-E

Who is Tape-E?

During one of the TMA livestreams (trying to remember which one), a fan question was asked ‘Is there a mascot (for the Archives or the show itself not sure)?’ One of the team suggested ‘Tape-y?’, to which everyone else responded with ‘Oh no!!’. So I thought, oh yes! So yeah, this is your fault 😘

What is Tape-E?

As Mr Bonzo is a parody of Mr Blobby, Tape-E is a parody of Clippy (these last two names rhyme).

Who is Clippy?

Clippy was a microsoft office assistant, introduced in 1997. He was a little virtual paperclip (officially called Clippit, but that name never caught on) who sat on the bottom right corner of the page, and was programmed to give advice in popup speech bubbles when certain actions were taken. For example, if you wrote out an address and ‘Dear’, Clippy would say ‘Looks like you’re writing a letter. Would you like help?’. The name Tape-E in the livestream seemed to be referring to Clippy, as there are many similarities in the behaviour of Clippy, and the actual tapes/ tape recorders in-universe:

always on by default

appears at inconvenient times

provides help you do not want

hated by (mostly) everyone

watching you with cold dead eyes

enjoyed by nostalgia and retro seekers

Why make Tape-E?

As I am of the same generation as some of the RQ peeps, I unironically loved Clippy and Mr Blobby as a child, and it gives me great joy to imagine, in the TMP universe, Sam getting a little pop up: ‘Looks like you’re trying to code a case file! Would you like some help with that?’ In our world this would be impossible - Windows NT (as the official name) was dropped in 1996, one year before Clippy was born, BUT there is voice recording on TMP’s ancient computers, so it’s not totally impossible! 😅😁

What are cassette tapes?

Just a little recap for those who didn’t grow up with tapes: Cassette Tapes contain information embedded in magnetic tape, wrapped around one spool and attached to a second spool. When played, the spools are turned by the machine and the magnetic tape is wound onto the other spool, the information read out through speakers as the magnetic tape moves through sensors. As the magnetic tape can contain different information depending on the direction of tape movement, you can flip the cassette tape over in the machine, and play the tape again, hearing another load of information. This concept is never utilised in the show, but it does mean that cassette tapes have A-sides, and B-sides (as Vinyl records do). Here, of course, this stands for Archivist-side, and Brutalpipemurder-side. On occasion, the magnetic tapes would become damaged, or bent, and could be pushed out of the cassette, causing a horrible noise, and terror to small children who were only trying to listen to their Just William tapes. When this happened, a pencil (or in my case, my little finger) could be jammed into the spiky spool ‘teeth’, to rewind the magnetic tape back into the cassette. Maybe that’s why the eyes are red? 🩸 I am very glad that the TMA tapes are magic, and record endlessly, never need flipping, and never get chewed up by the hungry machine.

Why is the name Tape-E?

Canon answer: the name stands for Tape-Eyes. Possibly Tape-Entity? Undecided.

Actual answer: Tape-y, Tapey and Tapie spellings look weird to me. I think Tape-E looks best.

Why a tape and not a tape recorder?

if you can crochet a tape recorder, you’re a genius and I love you.

What gender is Tape-E?

I might refer to Tape-E as male sometimes because that’s how people often referred to Clippy. But Tape-E is whatever gender Tape-E feels like being.

Why now?

Why not? also now is a good time because TMP episode 15 is an excellent episode

What’s going to happen to Tape-E?

I’m going to gift it to Jonny sometime, if we get more liveshows or book signings. It’s his fault this exists after all. Plus you can write whatever you like in the speech bubbles! Hopefully I can give it calmly? But maybe Tape-E will be yeeted in his general direction in a fit of ADHD-fuelled social anxiety. Only time will tell.

Tape-E is a pattern and design created entirely by myself. The inspiration and world building from whence it came, is entirely the genius of @jonnywaistcoat Jonny Sims, Rusty Quill @rqbossman and The Magnus Archives, which is a podcast distributed by Rusty Quill and licensed under a creative commons attribution, non-commercial share alike 4.0 international license.

Clippy was invented by Microsoft and Kevan Atteberry, who now illustrates children’s books.

Mr Blobby is an adorable abomination, created from a fevered mind.

[mordenandmerry]

I think tma made me realize that I love watching a character go through a horrible arc and you can see it in their design. I’m talking grown out hair, covered in scars, heavy eye bags and an overall melancholy fear in their eyes.

I eat that shit up every time.

[3ris-d1st0rtionnn]

Eris quietly walks through the various rooms of an art museum, assuming a slightly more humanoid form to blend in with the crowd. That constant buzzing never leaves it, and it’s clearly confusing the other visitors who can’t discern the source of the noise. Eris seems content; it’s always fun to return to its roots.

A familiar face in the crowd catches its eye. Its head turns to acknowledge the presence, a few bystanders clearly shocked by the painful-looking angle its neck tilts at.

((OPEN RP TIIIIIIME

[joskippy]

CONSCIOUSNESS:UPLOADED! CHARACTER SHEETS !!!!!!!

[fiuworks]

THE HUNT.

hi! kind of an oc self insert art but im SOO proud of it....an avatar of the hunt and like. idk a metaphor on vulnerability and self indulgence/destruction as an avatar of the hunt...........it has to be said...im literally so locked into the hunt its crazy EEK

[magpod-confessions]

"the flesh is underrated" this "web is underappreciated" that.

you know what's really underrated? the dark.

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[world-fire-entity]

COTTAGECORE CORRUPTION

"Hey I love you"

*Gives you all my cottagecore corruption avatar concepts*

Lowkey, if you use/are inspired by this pretty please tag/credit me. Mainly tag me. I WANT THESE TO BE MADE SO INSANELY BAD AND I WANNA SEE THEM.

[VISUAL ID:

IMAGE 1: Human-Insert has Lily pad on top of its head as well as a frog buried into its neck, a frog buried into his arm, 4 frogs on top of each other buried into its stomach, a frog buried in its leg, and a frog climbing up its leg. END 1 IMAGE 2: Human-Insert with orange tree branches sprouting from various parts of it's body. It smells of Citrus. END 2 IMAGE 3: Human-Insert with Mushrooms growing out of its head, arms, and legs. END 3

IMAGE 4: Human-Insert with strawberry bush growing through a cavity in its abdomen and one growing my its left leg. A stray strawberry vine is covering its eye while fugly sonic the hedgehog, Jerry, and that bunny from snow white beg for food at its feet. END 4

IMAGE 5: Human-insert has a duck on its head, two baby ducks burying into its neck, three in its abdomen, one through its arm, one trying to climb its leg, and two trying to get in on this. END 5

IMAGE 6: Human-insert has flowers growing out of various cavities throughout its body. These flowers attract hummingbirds and bees. END 6 VISUAL ID END]

[charon-cries]

new avatar oc just dropped. il padello doesn't have a passport and they're going to get gay catholic married for citizenship. bonzo brings home the dough and il padello cooks it

Carlo Gambero (the man in the suit) ran a cooking show in italy that lost viewership and shut down after the mr bonzo murders. when il padello gained sentience, Carlo was still inside the suit. il padello's teeth clamped down on him, nigel dickerson had them both moved into his apartment, and the rest is history <3

shared custody with @vvviktor

[c0yb0y]

cw for body horror and bright colors/eye strain below the cut

i drew some magnus archives ocs :D

angelia and rael <33 angelia is @guillotine-girly's spiral oc and rael is her hunt bf (mine)

they are toxic pathetic t4t realness

[murderandcoffee]

concept: a flesh avatar who gives people free gender reassignment surgeries in order to prey on the fear and disgust of transphobes

[howdyadoitsnatty]

So I actually had a flesh aligned avatar oc who's a painter, so seeing the Magnus Protocol...

(this is all in good fun of course haha)

[loneliestavatar]

stares.. blink blink.., drops art and goes back to saying nothing… (TMA OCS!!)

Runs away

[fullsaw]

My TMA Oc!!

He's a Slaughter Avatar born from the plume clouds of a stratovolcano :]

[3ris-d1st0rtionnn]

A strange noice drifts from Eris’ hallways, cutting through the usual music, static, and the buzzing of insects. It’s vocalizing in a warbling, off-key tone, attempting to learn the song of its swarm.

Its voice cracks and skips like a broken music box as it takes notice of a presence in its domain, and falls silent as it turns its head.

H e L L o - ? ¡

((OPEN RP AAAAGHHHHH