#rusty quill crew

[jaisaac-cosplay]

Relistened to @rustyquill 's Honey Heist from like. 2018 😭 anyway Toddles Boris and Winnie

[shrews-art]

From the Heights

[billielhindle]

I have a “Magnus park.” There is a park I walked to a lot while listening to TMA for research. To this day when I go I think: “oh this is bench I sat on when Mike Crew showed up. Here is the rock I stood by when Jon smashed up the table. Here is the tree I sat under while I listened to Elias Bouchard bludgeon Jurgen Leitner’s skull into a bloody pulp with a lead pipe.”

Ah, memories.

[boomposhpow]

junk from a whiteboard with @veiledren :33

[individual-fire]

Does Rusty Quill have a minimum Mike requirement to be a podcast on their network? Or are the rest of the podcast covered by The Magnus Archives and WOE.BEGONE?

[kald-dal-art]

Bringing back this series hi. Trying to do a proper relisten of the series, so have the first 4 episodes of TMA posters. Hopefully manages to do all the episodes of the first season 🤞

Ko-Fi

[helpmeimblorboing]

Melanie - Hey, was the Black Death caused by a Corruption Avatar, d’you think ?

Jon, not looking up from his book - We didn’t do everything, Mel. Sometimes shit just happens

Melanie, rolling her eyes - It’s a yes-or-no question. Not much of an Eye Avatar if you can’t answer that, are you ?

Jon - I am not going to dignify that with a response

Melanie - Anyways, I was just asking because I think the whole situation was really quite well-done

Tim - How morbid

Melanie, a little bit indignant - Oi, Slaughter Avatar, remember ? Anyways, so did they create the Black Death or no ?

Tim, squinting at her - Why are you asking me that ? D’you think I’m a Corruption Avatar or something ?

Melanie, deadpan - Yes

Tim, rolling his eyes - Fuck off

Jon, still not looking up from his book - Will you two pipe down over there ? I just got to a good part !!

Tim - He dies at the end

Jon, finally looking up to glare at him - I know, Timothy. I’m the fucking Eye Avatar, of course I know. But it’s not about the twist. It’s about the plot setups and executions, not -

Tim - The author’s a homophobe

Jon, throwing his book aside - Fuck you

Melanie - Will someone please answer my question ?

Tim - Oh, for the love of - fine !! (pulls out phone) Lemme just phone her real quick. I’m sure she’ll be glad to have her business interrupted by your inane questions !!

Jon- Who’s “her” ?

Melanie - What business ? Worm breeding ?

Jon - Wait, worm-breeding ? Tell me it isn’t-

Melanie, nodding soberly - Prentiss

Jon, indignant - Tim, do you have the fucking zombie on speed-dial ?

Tim, rolling her eyes -She’s a useful associate, alright ?

Jon - She’s a corpse !!

[wizardprodigy]

roughly coloured mike crew doodle cause i havent drawn tma in eons

[piiejwice]

CALLING ALL TMA/TMP FANS!!

Based on an idea by @rainy-weather-supremacy, we decided to try and work on a massive project: A The Magnus Archives Musical!

We need musicians, composers, writers, anyone with theatre knowledge and/or experience, or thinkers to give ideas to the project. Everyone is welcome!

Our discord server for anyone interested: https://discord.gg/dYhJ3JuC

We can make this a thing, y'all!

[rainbugartist]

vast domain but its a minecraft flat world

[just-an-enby-lemon]

'He was the one that told me: love is selfish'

Barnes isn't blind.

He knows the way Zolf and Wilde look at each other, the way they appear to live in their own bubble sometimes.

He is quiet but he is not blind.

He knows the way they look at Carter. Wilde is better at it, more self-aware maybe, more aware is not really Carter's fault, his expression screams foundly annoyed boss more than it does 'you're not Sasha' nowdays. Zolf is not as kind. Barnes knows the cleric does have the same annoyed foundness for Carter they all do but to Zolf everything is still a bit too much about Sasha.

Carter isn't Sasha and it is unfair to him to pay the consequences for other people's grief.

Between that and how much Zolf and Wilde were deeply connected in their own messy way, Barnes thinks things must've been very alone for Carter before him.

Zolf and Wilde have their own world.

Barnes looks at Carter and think they can have that as well, maybe.

Barnes isn't blind. Even if sometimes he wishes he was.

He notices the way Carter looks at him, the touches, the feelings and the forever talks about everything.

He loves Carter. He doesn't think he loves Carter the same way Carter loves him.

He hopes one day he can.

.

'They are the one that told me: funny how things are, we do thousands of them at the same time without losing our ways'

Cel changes things irreparably.

Of course they do. The idea of Cel somehow being somewhere and things still being the exact same is insane.

Instead Cel smiles at him and talks about the universe and Barnes is completly smitten.

He loves Carter. He loves Cel the way he wishes he loved Carter.

Wilde dies and Zolf does not hesitate when they ask for someone that can bring him back. They will always follow each other.

Carter dies and Barnes doesn't think he should be the one bringing him back. He doesn't know if he could. Carter has been falling apart for longer than they've known each other and Barnes doesn't think he has the words to ever fix it. And maybe just maybe it is a coward way to admit that he's been lying when he act as if they were two duos all the way back in Japan, instead of a duo and two people trying their best to fit together.

He asks Cel about it once. Years after. They tell him feelings are complicated and everyone is always just trying their best to fit together. Carter and Barnes are a duo, they say, just like Cel and Barnes are partners, one can be more than one thing.

He asks Carter once. The day Carter leaves the Venga to go be an archeologist. All archeologists are thiefs. Carter says and his smile is as bright as it used to be when the two of them thought they could be one. All archeologists are also historians and Barnes doesn't think he ever realized how much joy Carter finds in learning when it is all about unknown dead languages and mysterious other gods.

Cel smilles at Carter and asks about buildings and life. Barnes has never realized that "joy for life" was a turn on until he sees these two beutifull people talking about the way people lived thousands of years ago. He has never saw Carter as passionate, as content. And it was Carter himself, and it was Azu and he sure hopes it was somewhat him, but it was also the magic of Cel awakening the best on people. They are just like that and Barnes loves them.

Zolf leaves and Wilde says he will not wait for him. Wilde waits for him. Of course he does. No one was expecting anything different.

Barnes thinks he is the only one that notices, in a very rare visit, that Wilde actually changes the sheets of a single way too particular guest room every day.

Carter leaves and Barnes thinks is better that way.

Zolf comes back. Of course he does. Zolf is likely the only one surprised by that.

Carter stays in Egypt. Barnes is the only one unsurprised by that. Carter always wanted to settle roots he just never was able to find somewhere that would allow him to. Barnes used to think he could be that place.

Barnes always wanted a place as well. Cel offers their hand to an unpromptu slow dance at a random wendnesday for absolutly no reason besides the fact they are both alive and Barnes knows he found it.

.

'He was the one that told me: close the door and open your eyes' | 'They were the one that told me: dreams turn into bigger dreams'

Zolf and Wilde are living together for a whole year before deciding they should open an inn.

Barnes does not need to read Carter letters to know they are filled with jokes about old age. The one he sends Barnes is offering to bet that Wilde actually wanted to do a nightclub and got heavilly vetoed. Barnes is not a betting man anymore. Cel takes the bet.

They miss the opening but are there two days after. Hamid already left. Azu stays another day so she can see Carter before also making her way home.

Carter gets three days and six hours too late and becames fourteen gold richer. Cel only betted five gold so Barnes has no idea where the rest came from. Is probably for the best.

Carter's skin is tanned know. He smells of whisky and sand and dust. Hugging him still feels like holding the world in his arms.

Barnes is not blind but he somehow missed the two most important people in his life becoming close friends.

They are talking about a stone, Cel talking faster than even their usual rants and Carter is answering just as fast hands flying everywhere. And the vision strikes like a realization. As if suddently Barnes can see all the visits in a different light. How sometimes only Cel gets letters from Carter nowdays.

He fells horrible about the pang of loss the realization gives him. He fells even worst about the pang of lust.

They leave the inn and Barnes misses hearing the egyptian talks the most.

It does not take longer till they are all together again. Carter discovered a whole old language and he wants to get drunk over it. Cel cannot wait to learn all about a different language and Barnes cannot wait to see Cel and Carter talk in ways he barely understands.

Barnes isn't blind so is really frustrating that it takes Wilde for him to realize he, Carter and Cel are a trio.

Cel invented a non-magical mobile stone and now their weekly letters to friends became weekly calls. They are in Egypt again. They seem to spend a long time in there even if Cel is the only one actually visiting Hamid. And for some reason Barnes decides to stop Wilde's rant about Zolf's 'stupid refusal to get a knew appron' to talk about how Carter stopped being an aid in taking Cel out of their makeshift lab and instead now spends almost as much time in there helping Cel with some form of interactive atraction about how the pyramids were build that can be used on local schools. Apparently people started talking about gods and other plannar creatures and Carter was very annoyed by those theories. And Wilde the ultmost traitor answer to that with 'you're a lucky man, James, to find one person to share a life is hard and yet you found two' with the faint irish accent he seems to be slowly regaining these days and the idea is ludicrous and still the only honest answer Barnes has is 'you are lucky too'.

Barnes isn't blind but he is confused.

He doesn't loves Carter the same way he loves Cel but he loves Carter as much as he loves Cel.

He doesn't know what this means.

He asks Cel and Cel smiles and says "you have two hands" as if it explained it all. They are very wise like that.

He asks Carter and Carter says "i don't particularly care".

So that is it.

The Venga University moves across the world.

But they stay on Egypt.

At least until Cel and Carter decide to take Barnes to another different brighter thing.

Cel giggles when he takes their hand. Carter smirks when he takes his.

All is fine.

[agrodo1ce]

here are some avatar designs I did while listening will wood songs

( I know that Gerry isn't an avatar but still)

[entre-isaac]

oh.

[ghostbiie]

[ratvic]

Why is finding other Tma fans situated in Dublin SO HARD i'll meet one at a convention and they'll end up living across the country. PLEASE if you like TMA and live un Dublin be my friend. I'm a very lonley avatar of the vast and would like to meet people 😕💔

[starrynightsoversunflowers]

The Vast ⚡🌪️

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