#oooh ahh

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SomnaBuster character art

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#ramblings of a lunatic#the magnus archives#tma#this is NOT a jonah sympathy post. he deserved everything that came to him#but i think narratively it's interesting#...i feel very conflicted mentioning potential jon and jonah parallels#not only because i think it's naturally going to raise ppls hackles but because i don't. want to compare them as like. ppl???#more that i think they're occasionally presented with similar problems (i.e death or giving into power or ppl abandoning them)#and nearly every time jon makes a decision motivated by a desire to be good and help and Jonah makes a decision based on h#*what benefits him#it's interesting!! it's a neat way to contrast our protagonist and our villain#tma relisten 

Tags of the post which I am putting here, because hnrrrg parallels. I hate Jimmy Magma with my whole being, the bastard, but I can! Appreciate! The parallels!!

There are only 5 letter to Jonah Magnus statements, being MAG 23 - Schwartzwald, MAG 50 - Foundations, MAG 92 - Nothing Beside Remains, MAG 127 - Remains to be Seen, and MAG 138 - The Architecture of Fear.

MAG 23 - Schwartzwald was dated 31 March, 1816, notably before Jonah Magnus attempted his first ritual. Albrecht is quite kind to Jonah throughout the letter, and states he looks forward to meeting him again to discuss the books. Nowhere in the statement does Albrecht express any ill-will towards Jonah, or express discomfort at how Jonah’s a “weird motherfucker.”

MAG 50 - Foundations was dated 12 June, 1841, well after Jonah’s first attempt at a ritual. Sampson is also quite kind to Jonah, and inquires after his health. Doesn’t think Jonah’s a “weird motherfucker” either.

MAG 92 - Nothing Beside Remains was dated 9 April, 1824, a couple years after the ritual attempt. Barnabas begging for Jonah’s help, which he sincerely believes Jonah will give. Jonah is a weird motherfucker, but Barnabas doesn’t know that unfortunately.

MAG 127 - Remains to be Seen was dated 21 November, 1831, and Jonathan was definitely angry with Jonah for the, like, causing the death of Albrecht, and asking Jonathan to be his doctor, and being a weird motherfucker, all of that, he’s really angry at Jonah for the path he’s going down -- has gone down, this is post-1818 -- and this is the first letter writer who’s actually angry at Jonah.

MAG 138 - The Architecture of Fear was dated 13 February, 1867, and Robert Smirke begins his letter with the acknowledgment that their relationship has deteriorated over the years. His letter is a plea for Jonah to abandon the path he’s going down, and Smirke has not given up on all hope. I mean, he knows that it’s Jonah’s fault that he’s going to die, but hopes that it’s not him. Really it’s only Jonathan who’s actually angry with Jonah.

So, we go from perfectly cordial to Jonah; cordial to Jonah and especially worried about his health and him overworking himself; begging Jonah for help; being angry with Jonah for putting him in harms way on purpose, causing the deaths of people who were his friends, and going down the path towards becoming an avatar -- which Jonah has already gone down -- and finally a plea for Jonah to abandon the path he’s on, even after all the awful things he’s done, and not hurt anyone else including himself.

Jon goes from average and normal human -- albeit a bit of a dick -- to having quite a bit of paranoia because he’s under the quite justified belief that he’s in danger; to being distant with the others as an attempt to help them; to waking up from his coma as Something Else, having caused the deaths of Tim and Daisy, and continuing to unwillingly drag Melanie, Basira, and Martin into the happenings at the institute due to them being unable to quit while he’s alive -- something he does not know -- to being confronted about the people he’s hurt on his path of being an Avatar.

Yeah, I’m seeing the parallels.

Wait, we all joke about how every letter to Jonah in TMA ends with "dearest jonah, it pains me to say but I must sever our correspondence on account of you being a Weird Motherfucker"...but I think those only start around season 4?? I skipped some episodes in season 1 and 2, which means I could've missed some, but the first statement I noticed it happening in was 127.

I'm only saying this because I think it's very appropriate to introduce the part of Jonah's narrative where he becomes such a bastard everyone he knows begins to systematically remove him from their lives...in season 4, the season with the strongest ties to the theme of the dangers of isolation

[krembruleed]

[insp Gil Elvgren, 1939]

[fluffyposting]

Entrapta’s immediate reluctance to open the portal once she realizes that it means she will have to part ways with Hordak… I’m…

[puddii-ng]

the girls!

[doumakei]

JUMPSCARE

uhm this is very stupid and dumb and stupid but eeuurhghhhr...gieuurgh... leo as some vkei bandmen i rlly like... kyo from dir en grey and atsushi sakurai from yea buck tick uh huh uh huh idk why i made these but they look cool.. kinda..

is there anyone who likes vkei and rottmnt... aside from me??? no??? just me?? ok....

[cold--carnage]

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[jazzzzzzhands]

Hi Hello! 🕺

Your groovy au is one of my favorite things ever, mostly cause I absolutely love 70s fashion and aesthetic

The colors are very cozy and comforting!!

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[sunberry-strawflower]

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OH I KNOW!! You love music abt diamonds!!! /j

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[cathymee]

goofy-ahh ghosthunter trying to talk to spirits but then being like 'i don't wanna talk to you 😡' when he literally encounters one 💀

[maiteo]

NAMASOOOO

[gravity-knight]

I know what’s going on

But I like to believe that Sora being so angry in KH2 was Roxas’ influence

And his childlike demeanor in DDD is Ven’s

[teddybeartoji]

The funny thing about facesitting is that PEOPLE DON'T DO IT RIGHT😭😭😭😭

Like, either you SIT or you don't??? It's not facesitting if you're not going full in imo. Like, so what if you're 90kgs? I WANT IT!!! MY FACE IS A CHAIR!!!!! THIGHS RELAXED SWEETHEART, I want to FEEL the pressure on my cheekbones

sighhh

-thirsty ahh anon

YEEESSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU PUTTING YOUR WHOLE WEIGHT ON TOP OF ME IS LITERALLY THE WHOLE FUCKING POINTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE PRESSURE IS WHAT MAKES IT BETTER FOR THE BOTH OF US!!!!!!!! YOU'RE SO RIGHT NONNIE AND I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[thesearethingsetcetera]

i love the path residents so much they are literally so cool. someone remind me of this when large animal medicine tempts me again (tomorrow)

[jazzzzzzhands]

Doodling my favorite Welcome Home bug for comfort QwQ

[augustbitez]

i wanna see the fnaf movie whimper