#season 1 archive crew

[just-an-enby-lemon]

Elias 👁️: So what are your guys job qualifications again?

Sasha: Hacking. Mostly to get personal information.

Jon: What?

Tim:Seducing cops. Also explosives.

Jon: I don't think that it's the type of quali-

Martin: Stabbing people! Oh and arson.

Jon: Did you say stabbing people??

Elias👁️: Perfect. What about you, Jonathan?

Jon: *defeated* Invading private property.

[kald-dal-art]

Me: *Haven't made a proper illustration for almost 2 weeks straight*

Also me: *Proceeds to make 4 illustrations in one day*

Anyways been listening (very slowly) through TMA again, and thought "Hey why not make some posters for some episodes I like". So here have 4 of my fave episodes of the first half of season 1

[koymoa]

WHO THE HELL IS NOT SASHA????? WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY GIRLIE???????

BRING MY WIFE BACK

[renirae]

I was just reminded that it's ace week!! and this year I actually have a canonically asexual character to draw for it :DD

[blankieisablankie]

I hate him I love him I hate him I want him to die I want people to stop beating him up *I* want to beat him up I hope he dies I hope he lives I hope he gets lost in the tunnels I

[quizzical-is]

THE MAGNUS ARCHIVE IS SO GOOD HOLY SHIT

I'm obsessed. No spoilers tho please I'm in the midst of season 3 and LOSING MY MIND. Also Agnes is now in my mind. We stan a lesbian embodiment of fire and destruction.

[crossnamara]

need to make a tma/hf crossover au but im stupid. and have no ideas

[jordankennedy]

niche tag searches can only get you so far…give me fic recs please

[lightless-flame-official]

Sasha James

couldn't pronounce "calliope"

spent multiple months working in the most dangerous part of the institute, where her job description basically amounted to "fuck around and find out."

didn't really like horror, despite being a very dedicated employee at the Horrifying Things Collection Facility

accused martin of not having very good self-preservational instincts, immediately before describing how she

followed a strange man who she knew was a monster into an abandoned building without a moment of hesitation

would regularly break into her coworkers computers, seemingly just for the hell of it

hacked into at least one hospital database, once again did not seem to see any issues with this

stapled together archived documents

in conclusion: anyone who claims sasha james had the brain cell is either a fool or a con man. that woman had never seen a brain cell in her life. actually if anyone had the brain cell it was tim but i don't think y'all are ready for that conversation.

[thatweirdenby]

Sketches of the season 1 crew from memory

Look at themmm!!

[zoomclown]

thinking about Jonathan Sims and Samama Khalid.

Thinking about how, by all laws of Horror Story Trope, Jon should not be the protagonist. If I'd never heard of tma and you showed me a lineup of the archives crew and asked me to guess who died first I would have pointed to Jon. He's the paranoid professor archetype. The one who dies discovering some crucial bit of information at the beginning to push the plot forward. He's unfriendly, cowardly, insecure, and makes other people do his investigation for him for all of season 1. He doesn't do anything even remotely heroic until the second half of the show. He has no interest in romance for the first half of the show. The audience wasn't even aware Jon had a dark past until he starts telling us about A Guest for Mr. Spider. But he is *Chosen.* Despite the fact that he has no actual qualities of a hero, he's chosen as the eyes special boy. Over the course of the show he starts to become more and more like an actual protagonist. He starts trying to save the world, resist the eye, all that jazz. For one reason or another, being the Archivist turns Jonathan "definition of a side character" Sims into the main character.

Then we have Sam. Sam starts acting like a horror/mystery protagonist almost immediately. He is young, charming, has a mysterious past (that we are made aware of pretty much right away) and a curiosity that causes him to frequently put himself personally in the path of The Horrors. He pokes around where he doesn't belong and looks for clues. He's the center of an office love triangle for goodness sake. He has a strong sense of duty to others and will put himself in harms way to protect those he loves. He exudes main character energy. He has everything a horror protagonist needs to push the plot along. But Sam wasn't *Chosen.* Despite being exactly the person you'd expect the plot to follow. And I can't help but wonder if, in the same way that the narrative made Jon important, it's going to make Sam unimportant. Irrelevant. If, with his rejection from The Magnus Institute, Sam is going to disappear completely. Become a mystery.

Because at the end of the day, so much of your life, your impact on the world, your relevance, has absolutely nothing to do with you. So much of it has everything to do with those in power, and whether they decide you're important.

It all comes down to your own rotten luck.

[xxshadowcasterxx]

Short Gay Librarian Jon, all khakis and sweater vests that are just a bit too big, gold rimmed glasses he wears more for the idea of being taken seriously and less for his vision (He really only needs reading glasses)

Chubby Bumbling Redhead Martin, always has a sweater even in the summer and glasses that need a bit thicker of a lense (Doesn’t have money to update his prescription, and this means he is a lot more accident prone due to his shitty eyesight)

Hawaiian Shirt Flirt™️ Tim, who needs to be wearing at least 3 bright contrasting colors at any given time (If Elias cared about the dress code, he would have been fired weeks ago) ((Jon wishes he *had* been fired weeks ago))

Reliable Nerd Sasha, with her hair always up and her outfit always consisting of a clean blouse or well fitting turtleneck, muted colors and black + white combos are most of her work closet.

Elias looks like a Victorian man trying to dress modern, with his fancy golden pocketwatch and his nicely pressed white shirts

This is all I got for our Main Season One Cast, but I have a lot more for our other seasons.

Completely unhinged about the magnus archives, please please tell me how the characters look in your headcanons so I can doodle them.

[valtsv]

I just finished season 1 of the Magnus Archives, I'm really liking it. I want to look at fanart but I really don't wanna be spoiled, this is like the one thing I managed to avoid spoilers for at this point.

Who was your favorite character, I'm a Martin girlie :)

Idk why I felt the need to tell you specifically but you're a TMA person in my head

oh noooooo we're star-crossed listeners because idgaf about martin. you won't have met them yet, but my favourite characters are agnes, gerry, and oliver banks. out of the original crew i'm a jon liker.

[casual-socks]

season 1 archives crew in animal crossing btw. if u care

[somehow-a-human]

The Ineffable Detective Agency Presents: Street Seating - A Disappearing Act!

As @noneorother mentioned the other day, we’re going through the archives over @ineffable-detective-agency and trying to post discontinuities and clues that haven’t been shared yet! 

Have you ever noticed the outdoor seating on Whickber street? Just in front of the Deli?

Don't see it? Look closer, this one, here!

You can also see it up close when Maggie and Nina have their “Awning of a New Age” moment nearby. 

These tables and their surrounding hedges are present consistently throughout episodes 1-3 but when we get to episode 4, take a look at Whickber street when Aziraphale returns from his Edinburgh trip…

Um, where did it go? The outdoor seating has mysteriously disappeared, and we know it is a physical prop, so the crew had to go about removing it all together, they couldn’t just use VFX. Why remove it for this scene? Did they really just need the Bentley to drive that close to the curb or is there something off about this version of Whickber street? 

By the time Crowley returns again the next morning in Episode 5, the seating area is back, you can see it just behind Aziraphale.

It’s present throughout the rest of the season, and visible even in the final scene. 

So, what is special about the morning Aziraphale returns from Edinburgh? Douglas MacKinnon mentioned that there was an important clue in that scene, could this have been what he was referring to? Let's hear your theories and thoughts! And as always, be kind to each other <3

Special thanks to @kimberleyjean for her lovely screenshotting skills, and the rest of the detectives @theastrophysicistnextdoor, @noneorother, @komorezuki, @maufungi, @lookingatacupoftea, @havemyheartaziraphale, @251-dmr, @dunkthebiscuit, @ghstptats <3

[raybies-10]

Season 1 Archive Crew line up!