#so scared to finish tma

[ruidiancoffee]

drew myself with jon because i can

also how does anatomy work? i dont know and i also didnt use a reference cause i couldn’t find any

[zabala0z]

Welcome back to “listening to TMA S5 for the first time”, Im ur host and god.

MAG 165: Revolutions

HE SAID THE THING. “Ceaseless Watcher, turn your gaze upon this wretched thing” HE SAID THE THING!!! Since the start of these posts, I’ve seen that quote SO MUCH and I finally got to hear it. Guys. Do you know how annoying it was that I was in PUBLIC?? I couldn’t say shit!!

I’m very happy not Sasha is dead. Bye girl! I hate you. You took such a great girl from the world.

MAG 166: The Worms

I love Martin. He is SO DOWN for all this smiting. I wish Helen was allowed to tag along like guys come on :(( she’s just a silly girl.

Ah Annabelle. What’s your game here? I wish I knew. I wish I still had my 78 pages of notes but alas, I have school. She says she wants to help them. I don’t know with what but I can’t help but think about how The Web was one of the few entities who didn’t perform a ritual.

MAG 167: Curiosity

Gertrude Robinson. God. You are such a badass but maybe you should get like a nice nap. Emma Harvey was a dick. But understandable to a degree. Also!! There was a mention of the Sandman who featured in MAG 98! Also! Michael!

“Yes Martin you are my reason” oh god. These guys are so in love it makes me sick

MAG 168: Roots

Out of all the avatars, I think Oliver Banks is the coolest. He just…does his thing. Like I’d love to hang out with him. Oliver. My man. Come on

“I’m not going to kill a man just because you’re jealous”

“Why not?!”

I think Martin’s character development was the best. Like his support for Jons smiting is amazing. I’m also really interested in Oliver’s “report”. He was very thorough. I guess the entities fear dying as much as humans. Makes sense.

Okay. That’s everything. Sorry for the slow ass posts, these episodes are heavy and school is a pain 😭 I see the next episode is related to The Desolation. Fun fact, The Desolation terrifies me. So. We’ll see how that goes. I hope we’ll see Jude! I think she’s interesting and y’know she’s not dead yet. Until next time!

[the-sunbee]

No one told me how hard it is to quiet the voice in my head that just goes "Jonathan Simms, head archivist of the Magnus Institute, London." after I started listening to TMA.

[pummelingbat]

officially venturing into new territory (TMA season 5) today

[congregation-of-the-spiral]

I have officially started working on my fanfic

[halfdeadwallfly]

I love the magnus archives so. much

[crescentrivers]

Me: I think I’m pretty good with (FICTIONAL) gore, especially when there aren’t super realistic images of it

Me when The Magnus Archives episode 49:

[calamari-minecraft-corner]

I feel so bad for Tim but at the same time I’m so scared he’s gonna do something to fuck everything up

Like I understand where he’s coming from but Tim p l e a s e

[shedk1d]

Been cooking up so much TMA fan art

I’m almost finished my first listen, only 6 more episodes I’m so scared </3

[shhhimnothereiswear]

I think I'd be an avatar of the Eye (I LOVE learning new stuff) or the Spiral (im just funky like that)

I think I'd probably give a statement on the Corruption (I'm currently writing a fan statement on it B] )

ok wait im curious-

which tma entity do you think youd be an avatar of and which do you think youd give a statement on

[thirdchildart]

-SPOILERS! -Flashing images at 6:53-6:57. -Eye/Body horror warning

This is my version of episode 159 from The Magnus Archives. Thank you to the friends who cheered me on though the project, the cool folks who hung out with me on twitch, and my awesome sister who is too scared to finish the podcast but will listen to me talk about it for hours on end.

And, of course, thank you to Jonny Sims, Alex Newall, Alasdair Stuart and and the rest of the crew and cast behind TMA (I'm so looking forward to the Magnus Protocol!)

I love animation, I love storyboarding, I love the Magnus Archives.

SOFTWARE: Storyboard Pro 20, with ROZ ToonBoom brushes (https://rozlynnwaltz.gumroad.com/l/SBProBrushesStarterPack)

[the-hotel-bella-muerte]

I love the Magnus archives but tbh I was never really scared by any of the episodes?

I’m a big fan of all sorts of horror but I’ve found that this a thing with supernatural horror for me. I really only get deeply frightened or disturbed by things that have some potential— however slim— of actually happening, and I’m just not a supernatural believer at all. And because I’m a sick little freak, I will often seek out the type of horror that scares me the most, just to feel something. There is just no greater evil than what normal humans are capable of doing I guess!

But…

There was one fucking moment.

I was listening to TMA while doing some dishes late at night.

And i finished up and walked into the living room, podcast still in my ears.

Only to see a man I don’t know standing in my apartment.

And for a second I really thought “This is it. the Stranger has come for me. I’m a goner. It’s so over for me.”

Turns out: it was just my roommate’s casual noncommittal boyfriend!

Apparently he’d been over at our place for a few hours just hanging out with her and I simply had not seen him.

Why my brain went “supernatural entity” and not “apartment break-in”? I do not know.

But for a moment this man watched me experience the Sheer Mortal Terror of believing that somehow the monsters from the stories being pumped directly into my brain via earbuds had begun to manifest in my living room. For just a moment, I actually Got It.

This is the real danger of binging podcast audio dramas 😔. You are not immune to the spooky (this is good actually!)

[the-sunbee]

a little update about how far i got into malevolent and the thoughts ive had so far

spoilers for parts 1-5

here is a man, who wakes up not being able to see and he starts hearing a voice in his head. he wakes up in an office he discovers is his with his partner's dead body in the middle.

and he questions it so little. the thought of not having his own eyes and having a voice in his head and having just killed his partner normalizes so easily for him

istg the first ep i was just :o the whole time

second part so far has been the loudest. there was thunder and yelling and gunshots and it scared me. the podcast started out relatively quietly for my phone (and my headphones suck) so i had to listen to it on speaker. the room i work in is loud so it had to be pretty loud... i had my dog w me. we were both scared of the gunshots and thunder lmao

but yet again it was cool. the world design seems so cool and im eager to keep listening.

he finds a baby in the forest.

thats it. a baby. in the woods. no questions.

he finds a car by the side of the road, sees blood and track marks and FOLLOWS THEM. he finds a campsite with 2 women (one is dead) and a baby and he and john doe think "oh yeah. we have to save the baby." thats it. only baby.

and then she starts laughing. and chasing.

and just... only thoughts are baby.

the wraith things were so cool. i love ghosts and spirits and folklore about such things so the mansion ep was just super cool.

the gasmask man (im bad w names dont mind me) intrigued me. the way john would speak and the man would just scream shut up so the question "does the gas mask man hear john" rise up only for him to shut that idea down. and the comment about the mother. that callback minutes later was comedy gold istg.

im about half way into ep 5 too and the whole starting bit was creepy and cool and set up so well. the voice change from a calm helpful tone to a "TELL ME WHAT YOU KNOW ARTHUR" was 10/10

[ariawhatstheirface]

Okay okay okay, now that I’ve caught up with Malevolent and The Magnus Archives/Protocol and started Welcome to Nightvale, I can finally give my take on all three. I will preface that I love them all and this is just my general thoughts about them :P

While they are all horror podcasts, they all deal with a different kind of horror, or more like a different kind of feeling. TMA/TMAGP is that creeping horror, it’s so close to reality that we can’t not be scared of it, of the implications that we have no real control over our own fear and what it will do to us. Malevolent is more sci-fi/fantasy and classic horror, where there are a lot of jump scares, different worlds, and things that make us go “ew” in general. While I’m not that deep into Nightvale, I already know that it’s more of the cryptic horror, the kind you have to sit with and decode. It’s more of a commentary on our own world, with supernatural stuff mixed in with it all. I’d closely compare it to Gravity Falls, but creepier (I just finished episode 13, A Story About You. and it was pretty ding-dang creepy)

All in all, I love all of them! And as soon as I catch up with Nightvale, I can probably give a better deep dive into all of them and go from there. I hope this helps anyone who wants to get into any of the three series, I know that my friend would’ve liked to know these things when I was trying to get her into TMA and accidentally scared her too much😅

[weremadeofbadcode]

I've finally listened to MAG 200 and I have some thoughts regarding the computer voices on TMP

To start it off I've been listening to tma for like two years now but I never could bring myself into properly finishing it because I was scared for it to end lol

BUT I'm so glad I finally did because I've.. Been thinking

So John and Martin are dead, yes? I'm pretty sure their consciousness moved with the tape recorders into the other reality, where tmp is taking place and that's why they are the voices of Chester and Norris

But what about Augustus?

Now I've been thinking. There's 3 voices for the computers

And how many people were inside the panopticon when the explosion happened?

I think the third voice is Jonah Magnus.

I think all three of them got their consciousness transferred into the computers.

[auto-correct-sucks]

*THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES/THE MAGNUS PROTOCOL SPOILERS FOR LITERALLY EVERYTHING*

I'm over-exaggerating, but there ARE huge spoilers for the ends of both of these. So, just to be safe, finish them both before reading this, ty!!

I've been so stuck on the fact that the extinction is still there. It still exists. It just wasn't elaborated on in tma more that what Adalard and Peter had to say

But I started thinking of the fact that tmagp could just have it be far more prominent than tma did. And that scares the shit out of me cause that could only end it actual disaster BECAUSE IT'S THE EXTINCTION. PURE FUCKING EMPTINESS IN WAYS WE COULD NOT EVEN COMPREHEND AND THATS SO FUCKING SCARY. Colin's already probably dead. Jon is quite literally ONLY eyes and physically can’t think for himself, and Martin and Jonah are both stuck in computers(maybe idk it COULD just be their voices, but I highly doubt that) AND NOW THE POSSIBILITY OF THE EXTINCTION JUST MANIFESTING.

Or maybe I'm over thinking too much about something that could not matter, like, at all.