#olivergraham

[lobosalvador]

closed starter to @olivergraham

àquela altura, Wolf já estava praticamente vacinado contra irritar-se com as pessoas que ultrapassavam o limite do álcool em seu estabelecimento. era um bar, afinal de contas. seu negócio era praticamente feito para isso. claro que tudo seria muito mais fácil se as pessoas soubessem o quanto podiam ou não consumir as bebidas, mas ele não podia reclamar muito no final. ainda mais quando essas pessoas eram colegas. porque, bem, aquela era a palavra mais intimista que ele se atreveria a utilizar para descrever as pessoas que o rodeavam. não que Oliver fosse a sua pessoa favorita na cidade, até porque como poderia um jornalista estar nas boas graças da pessoa mais fechada de Sunnyvale? mas também não podia dizer que desgostava do homem. e era unicamente por isso que se desgastava para levar até o rapaz uma garrafa de água, segurando o corpo relaxado e pesado quando tentara fazer com que ele levantasse. “sua casa é aqui perto, não vai demorar muito. mas, pelo amor de tudo que é mais sagrado, não vomita em mim. entendeu?”

[toothflowers]

A TMA commission for @lonelyluddy on insta :-D

Love getting to draw very minor characters (see also my beloved Gabriel <3 )

[notaperson-justtrash]

walks up to gay couple: so which of you eats your notebooks and which of you commits identity theft so you can sleep

[sleepeven-deader]

I’m so happy it was finally confirmed that Oliver Banks dated Graham Folger. I just had to draw these 2 KINGS together!

[bracefacefreak]

This is for @who-needs-words, who asked for a look at my timeline for Oliver Banks and Graham Folger. Sorry it’s a bit late, but I hope you enjoy it. 

Please note, this is absolutely based on my own hcs and while I have tried to fit it around the dates/events that we are given in tma canon, I have had to tweak and change things a little to make it all fit and make sense. Therefore none of this is canon, it’s just my own ideas and imagination and what made sense to me. So here goes.

Late 2000 - Oliver Banks and Graham Folger meet in Oxford and start dating. Oliver is working after having left his degree programme (he completed his first year in economics and was a high-achieving student, but left due to issues of racism in the department.) Graham has just started studying for a PhD.

Early 2001 - Graham first spots the web-table in a second-hand store in Oxford. He is intrigued but does not purchase it. He shows it to Oliver, who hates the table on sight, although he can’t explain why. 

Aug 2001 - Graham’s parents die in a car crash. (*MAG 3*)

Late 2001 - Graham suddenly leaves his PhD programme. Around this time he also goes back to purchase the web-table. 

Jan 2002 - Graham leaves Oxford and moves into his parent’s flat in London. The web-table goes into storage, while Graham hopes to research it and figure out how it can be restored. 

He and Oliver continue their relationship, meeting up on weekends and their days off. 

Mid 2002 - Graham begins to take night classes as an attempt to entertain himself and to try and meet new people, much to Oliver’s relief. 

2003 - Graham’s mood improves and he begins to feel better, although he sometimes feels like he is being followed. Oliver and him are going steady. 

Late 2004 - Graham persuades Oliver to consider going back to finish his undergraduate degree. Oliver applies to a number of universities, mostly in and around London. 

July 2005 - While getting the flat ready for Oliver’s arrival, Graham goes through the things he has in storage and comes across the web-table. He has it moved into the flat. 

Aug 2005 - Oliver moves in with Graham after being accepted to study economics at the LSE (*MAG 11 - I lived in London for almost a decade now*). He is granted permission to begin from the second year due to his previous study (*yeah I know it’s not the most believable, but the LSE do let you do this - I checked, and it’s the best way to get the dates to work properly.*) 

Sept 2005 - Oliver begins studying at the LSE. Graham is quickly becoming obsessed with researching and restoring the web-table, spending great amounts of time and money on it, which begins to put strain on his relationship with Oliver. 

Oct 2005 - Oliver and Graham argue about the web-table. Graham refuses to move it/get rid of it. 

Dec 2005 - Graham has his first close-encounter with the Not-Them and realises that something is coming for him. He becomes more and more paranoid. Oliver tries to help, but whatever he does only seems to make things worse. 

Early Jan 2006 - before Amy Patel gets concussed outside Graham’s flat - Oliver decides to move out to give Graham some space in the hopes it will save their relationship. It’s not long before Graham realises that not having another person around makes him more vulnerable, but he is also unwilling to ask Oliver back in case it puts him at risk. 

Late Jan 2006 - Amy Patel is attacked outside Graham’s flat (*MAG 3*) 

April 2006 - Graham is killed and replaced by the Not-Them (*MAG 3*)

Mid 2006 - Oliver moves back in with Not-Graham over the summer break, and is glad to see his boyfriend is no longer paranoid. Oliver completes an intern programme at Barclays. 

Late 2006 - Oliver and Not-Graham’s relationship is struggling. Oliver can’t place what it is exactly, but something just feels off. 

June 2007 - Oliver graduates and ends up with a job at Barclays in the City. (*MAG 11*)

Aug 2007 - (*MAG 3 post statement notes - I’m taking a bit of a liberty with ‘early 2007′ I know, but this just fits better*) Oliver and Not-Graham’s relationship breaks down completely and Oliver moves out of the apartment. His mental health begins to deteriorate. 

Early 2008 - Oliver has a dramatic and very public breakdown due to stress and is forced to leave his job. He can no longer afford the small flat he’s been renting on his own and so he ends up sofa-surfing. (*Again, in  MAG 11 he does say he barely made a year, but again it just didn’t fit quite well enough to match with the whole death-dreams for nearly 8 years - also this way he still sees the new year with the company which maybe could count??*)

He begins to have dreams that predict others deaths. 

Dec 2014 - Oliver has a dream where he sees his father. His father passes away 10 days later. (*MAG11*)

March 2015 - Oliver has a dream involving Gertrude Robinson and the Magnus Institute, two days later he goes to make a statement. (*MAG 11*)

[halloweentual]

you know what, i'll say it. i really want an oliver banks and graham folger centric tma spin-off. these dudes' lives were so insane. iconic.

[fridge-orange]

Hey olivergraham supremacists, have you considered calling them Deathnote?

[avatarofthebeholding]

my playlist compilation for tma, pt. 2:

characters cont. :

die to catch the freedom of falling | mike crew

jon, i’m only dancing (nikola orsinov vibes)

i chose to close my eyes | manuela dominguez - in order

my blood is all i see (as you steal my soul from me) | eric delano

i’ll find a new place to be from | evan lukas - in order

she feels the ice within her still | a domain ghost

the wall is too high | a domain ghost

relationships:

i will hold you when our sky is falling | jonXmartin

all our love came out of the woodwork | wtgfs

love is not a victory march | jonXtim

look at the fire and think of me | jonXgerry

you are nothing more than a ghost to me | oliverXgraham

pt. 1 2 3 4

[kayleerowena]

a commission for my friend @olivergrahams, who wanted olivergraham in the style of alan foster’s the fall !

[webtable]

happy birthday also to my eventual obsession with this piece of commentary on the song orange ball of love:

"It doesn't mean you're obsessed, no, you're not that kind of person, but you do spend maybe five minutes too many on: 'Wow, what do they know that I don't know?' Right? And like, right at that five-minute mark, you thought too long about that question.

"And then it's only about a split-second trip to 'Oh, geez, maybe they're recording our conversations? Maybe there's a camera behind this goddamn mirror. Maybe there's shit of mine on some website that I don't even know about. Damn, I'd better look good when I'm shaving,' that kind of thing. Maybe you think about that kind of thing. I know you do. You- you can't lie to me."

[-- John Darnielle, 02/11/2007 | Grinnell, Iowa]

[organicclownfarm]

honestly i just think a Lot about the tragedy of oliver and graham’s relationship. like. you’re in love with a man, been in a stable relationship with him for six years. you know all his little quirks and habits and he knows yours, you can trace constellations in the freckles on his back, tell him anything and everything and he loves you back. you move to london with him looking forward to this life you will share but things start to go off the rails.

he stops talking to you as much. he no longer wakes you up with tea, he doesn’t seem to listen when you tell him about your day. he barely sleeps, doesn’t eat nearly enough. just writes in his notebooks and mumbles under his breath. you used to think his dedication was endearing, the mumbling was cute, but now it just fills you with dread. he needs help that he either can’t or won’t take- the man you love is falling to pieces in front of you and it seems like all you can do is watch until that becomes to painful and then you have to leave and its a hard and awful thing but you just can’t stay.

with that and the stress of your job, things fall apart soon after. the nervous break, losing your job, the dreams of death, one right after the other. for ages and ages you walk through a parody of london in your dreams, you watch tendril’s snake and burrow into people, acquaint yourself with the ghosts.

you can’t decide what would be worse; seeing graham woven through with the snaking vines or never knowing what happened to him. you’re never able to find graham in the dreams even when you look and look and look. you miss him, sometimes.

[hedonistbyheart]

@theboombutton : Like it's heavily implied that the breakup drove him into such a profound suicidal depression that he became death-aligned. Of course he's not over it.

I really wanted to reply to this in a post, because it made me realize something more about Oliver and specifically about the way he presents himself. I hadn’t thought of him as suicidal until you wrote me this reply. It makes perfect sense as an assumption, from what he does tell us - is even highlighted by the way his death-dreams start at the top of a tall building which he throws himself off of.

But I didn’t think of it that way, because he is so vague. It’s like there is a constant tension between him wanting to be honest “I should tell you I lied to get in here” he says, even though that doesn’t really matter, considering he did it to help and that his statement is in fact legitimately supernatural - and between him desperately wanting to hide.

He gives a false name, all his info is fake, and he is vague about personal specifics. What exactly happened in your personal life to give you a breakdown that made you spiral into the arms of Terminus, Oliver? 

The specifics about Graham are interesting, because we know from 121 that Oliver is a bad liar and, referring back to your point and my original post, he is clearly still affected by his breakup (and breakdown), which leads me to believe that he is (accidentally?) honest about those.  

He keeps going back and forth between honesty and paranoid caution and I keep thinking about the web and Graham Folger, who was also paranoid (for good reason) and yet poured out all kinds of info to Amy Patel, while she sat concussed at his spooky table. Oliver and Graham living together, along with that web table (and a Stranger) for 6 years, would explain why Oliver acts like this, even before becoming a full avatar.   

[mwagneto]

no seriously what the FUCK was up with Graham he dated an avatar of the End, had a table from the Web, I'm pretty sure there were also fractals which is the Spiral???, somehow knew Amy was watching him (Eye???) and then got killed by the Stranger?????? this dude was fuckin IN IT bro

[olivergrahams]

graham: sun bears... moon bears... kinda fucked up aren’t they

oliver: <3 please go back to sleep

graham: m waitin’ for the sleepin’ aids to kick in. anyway, i’ve got some photos of those weird little bastards under the bed--

oliver: huh, well ok then

[spoolesofthread]

would just like to point out my blog title is a line that i wrote in an rp months ago (:

[throatofdelusion]

i think gabriel workerofclay/neil lagorio is the only canon interentity romance actually