#south asian jon sims

[dspd]

There's something so satisfying about the idea of short, south asian king Jonathon Sims. By which I mean he looks like he should be a background character in a Bollywood movie, working in a Sri Lankan call center while the main character is running out of work to meet her two decades older prince charming who just happens to have a blooming business in California and whisks her away to a 3,000 sq. ft house in the hills. Meanwhile background character Jon is somehow tangled up in computer cords and panicking as his flailing pulls all the server cords out of their sockets and the 2nd love interest's 3 hour wait time just jumped to 15 and he sobs and smashes his flip phone again the table as the music swells and the end credits start up.

[cult-of-the-eye]

All these brown Jonathan Sims I'm seeing and every so often I'm presented with one that looks very close to my dad...

[fox-guardian]

[ID: A digital drawing of Jonathan Sims from The Magnus Archives ad Samama Khalid from The Magnus Protocol. It is just their heads. Jon is an Arab man with scarred brown skin and long, curly black hair with gray streaks and a mustache and beard, and Sam is a South Asian man with brown skin, short curly black hair, and a mustache and small goatee. Both have brown eyes that have been drawn as very huge and sparkly. They are giving pleading "puppy dog eyes" expressions. The background is a pattern of sad green and red cat and dog faces, and there is a gold and green "VS" between their heads. end ID]

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i present to you all

The Puppy Dog Eyes Showdown

the ultimate battle between our current most sopping wet eye guys among these two podcasts. i beseech thee to cast thy vote in favor of whomever has the most convincing, most unbearable, most Powerful pleading puppy dog eyes out of the two of them.

NOT NECESSARILY FOR THESE DESIGNS ofc, the pic is just there for vibes. please, look into your heart of hearts, what do you believe?

[samwise1548]

JonMartin week, Day 3: Victorian Times // Confessions (prompts by @jonmartinweek)

This is the last one I got done haha

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[ID: A Magnus Archives drawing of Jonathan Sims and Martin Blackwood. Jon is a short, brown South Asian man, with black and grey streaked hair, and skin speckled with scars. Martin is a white, fat man, with curly ginger hair turned white at the bangs, round glasses, and a yellow and pink jumper on. Jon is kissing Martin's cheek and whispering loving affirmations to him. Martin laughs as his kisses tickle him, holding him close to his chest. They're both happy in this moment. \End ID]

[daylight-boyy]

Sometimes you have an idea that is so horrible you immediately have to do it (:

Comic but the panels are separate images because we didn't draw them in a visually cohesive manner because why would we do something that made sense ??

Image description and reference image below cut

[ID: a three-panel comic of Jonathan Sims from the Magnus archives. It is hand drawn and coloured with grey markers. He is depicted as a thin, South Asian man with long greying hair. He has visible body hair, pockmark scars, and tired bags under his eyes. He has stubble on his jaw and upper lip. Throughout, he is wearing a voluminous tie-front dress, which looks to be a style appropriate for sleeping or lounging at home. It is tied at the front with a small bow giving it a very low neckline, and the bottom hem and trailing sleeves are trimmed in fur or fluff, reminiscent of a dressing gown. He is also wearing a pair of pearl earrings.

In the first panel, he stands in a doorway, one hand on the frame while the other rests at his side. One leg is bent at the knee and pokes out between the two sides of the dress. His head is tilted to the side, and he looks up at the camera with a look of exaggerated innocence and shock. A speech bubble next to him reads "my evil boss found dead under suspicious circumstances, you say?".

In the second panel, we see a close up of Jon's head and torso. He faces straight forwards, hands clasped together in front of his chest. He gazes at the camera emphatically, eyes brimming with tears. His mouth hangs open mid-sentence as he says "stabbed in both eyes, you say?"

In the final panel, he is turned to the side, back of his hand resting against his forehead in a show of feigned distress. His hair flies behind him, as does the gauzy material of his dress, suggesting he has just turned or is in motion. His dress has slipped down on one side, revealing half of his chest. He has a short scar below the collarbone, as well as top surgery incision scars. Tears flow down his face as he cries "good lord, I am overcome by the horror". Below this speech bubble reads "Martin, fetch me my fainting chair" followed by two letter-X 'kisses'. It is in smaller text, suggesting it is an afterthought or spoken under his breath. End ID]

Reference for dress

[ID: two images side by side, depicting the dress Jon is wearing. One is entirely pale pink while the other is black with a pink fur trim. It is captioned "I need this outfit for when the police come and tell me my rich husband died in mysterious circumstances". In these images, the dresses are made of a sheer fabric which, combined with the plunging neckline and cinched waist, could be considered as romantic or evocative. End ID]

[cashew-cow]

@tmaappreciationweek day three, with the prompt ‘au’. they’re ghost-hunters and best friends (they hate each other), you honor.

[Image ID: a drawing of melanie king and jon sims from the magnus archives. melanie is a short, east asian woman with black hair dyed bright red at the tips, upon which rests a pair of sunglasses. she is frowning at her small, handheld camera, and resting one hand on the top of jon’s head. she is wearing a leather jacket with spikes on the shoulders and a knife, coffin, and star pin on the lapel. she has two patches: a trans lesbian patch and one that says ‘fuck terfs’ in trans colors. she is wearing a spiked collar and a necklace with the lesbian symbol. her shirt is dark green with ghosts on it, and she is wearing an assortment of rings and bracelets. she has a pleated red skirt over a pair of fishnets and black boots with yellow and purple laces. she has two arrows pointing at her that label her as ‘the Face’, and ‘actual ghost-hunter’. jon is sitting beside her, a notepad in one hand and a pen in the other. he is a thin, south asian man with long graying hair, glasses attached to a chain, and a turquoise button-up shirt. he has two lapel pins in the shape of eyes with a thin band between them. he is wearing a long black and blue striped skirt and calf-length socks with ghosts printed on them. he has green converse shoes on which he has put a trans pride flag. he is wearing an asexual ring and looking at his notepad. he has two arrows pointing at him that label him as ‘(skeptic) empath’ and ‘editor’. the background is of a repeated pattern of ghosts, and on it is written ‘the archives, ghost-hunters extraordinaire’. below them is written their names. End ID]

[stardustfanfare]

this fuckin guy

ID: a drawing of jon sims from the magnus archives. he is drawn from the chest up and depicted as a south asian man with short wavy hair half tied up in a small ponytail at the back of his head. he is wearing a t shirt and cardigan and he has rectangular glasses on. end ID

[lucky-numberme]

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SHHH THE JARCHIVIST SLEEPS

[Image ID: A fluffy grey cat sits on the sleeping form of Jon Sims. In the background, Jon is mostly covered by a fluffy blue blanket and sleeping on a couch. In the foreground, the cat sits on his leg proprietarily while staring directly at the viewer. End ID]

515 notes - Posted April 29, 2022

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[Image ID: Digital art of Jon Sims sitting at a dimly lit desk hiding his face in his hand and looking deeply concerned. Jon is a brown-skinned South Asian person with long greying hair, heavy scarring, and a short beard. He wears a brown sweatervest and a light blue collared shirt. Papers, post-its, and a tape recorder are lying on the desk. A black ace ring is visible on his right middle finger. End ID]

saw @bagginshield's lovely Jon dtiys and had to give it a go!

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#2

[Image ID: a sketch of a pale hand (Gerry Keay's) holding a lit zippo lighter. The lighter is inscribed with the text "This Machine Burns Leitners." The nails are painted black and each joint is tattooed with a stylized eye. /end ID]

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[tmaandsp]

shout out to ppl who depict jon as south asian. my gender euphoria fucking skyrocketed after i got into tma

[welcometogrouchland]

i am once again requesting jon in a sari on any tma art request post (if you would like to do it ofc 💜)

*rings my little service bell at the food counter* one handsome fella for table 5?

[image ID: a digital drawing of Jonathan sims from the Magnus archives. He is a thin brown skinned man with black greying hair that is fluffy and reaches almost to his shoulders. He has facial hair, pockmark scars on his face and arms, a burn scar on his hand, and stab wound scar on his abdomen. He is wearing a kandyan sari. The sari is a shiny magenta colour, and underneath he wears a yellow crop top with pink accents and trim. He is standing with his face in side profile, his right hand holding his left arm in front of his stomach. The background is a pink square on a peach background. End Image ID]

[trashbatistrash]

Old doodles of jon sims tma

(I haven’t actually caught up with everything yet)

[ririprobably]

i don’t have enough energy to coherently articulate this thought but man. the tma fandom is so much less woke or progressive or whatever you want to call it than you guys think you are.

like for reference i have seen Many People say things like “oh unlike the wtnv fanbase, WE depict the main character as a poc. look at how progressive we are 🤪” and first of all.. wtnv is from an era in which the majority of the characters common on this website were white and skinny and yeah that sucks but it’s not comparable to the environment we exist in or the media we consume in 2020 (in which! btw tons of people depict cecil as a poc). white default was still a thing. it IS still a thing. it’s a system to unlearn but unlearning it doesn’t make you... better than teenagers from 2015??

but even beyond the wtnv comparison. it seems like the mentality is that tma fans are extremely socially aware, which is true to an extent, is extremely common even though there is absolutely no critical thinking put into the way fans talk about race, and y’all use that as a way to ignore the actual issues with the way poc are depicted. drawing a character with dark skin does not equal representation or social awareness. i can’t speak for every poc obviously but as someone who is south asian and middle eastern, there are times when fan depictions of jon get.. really uncomfortable. same with a lot of content i’ve seen about annabelle (especially from before 180). it’s a spectrum ranging from “this feels a little prejudiced” to “this is a microagression/this is dehumanizing/this is playing into a rhetoric that is used to justify racism” and a lot of the time i DON’T think it’s conscious. i feel like i have to clarify that i’m not saying that anyone is a raging racist because of course you’re depicting this character as a person of color out of a place of good intent. but good intent isn’t enough sometimes. if you want to depict poc in your writing/art/etc. as a white person i would advise doing research on whatever group you’re representing or just.. talking to a person from that group? slapping the label of “minority” onto a character is, at best, lazy or, at worst, genuinely harmful to that group. like i cannot urge you strongly enough to analyze a) the character you’re depicting and how their traits tie into the ethnicity/race you’e representing (race impacts identity SO much beyond just “i experienced racism”/“i didn’t experience racism” and i feel like a lot of people, myself included, forget) b) your internal biases (which are so deeply engrained. everyone struggles with internalized biases! everyone needs to unlearn them!) and c) how you represent this! cultural identity goes beyond a skin tone.

actually this applies to so much more than tma and at some point i’ll write something on racial representation and how it can be harmful in general but. going back to my original point lol. white tma fans think critically about the characters you’re depicting as poc and HOW you’re depicting them and also maybe stop being so self congratulatory <3

[cult-of-the-eye]

Fucking love basira she's so angry!!! I also love collective headcanon hijabi representation it's beautiful!!! Love poc in horror who aren't getting killed for the shock of it!!! Complex poc!!! Tragic poc!!! Happy poc!!! Queer poc!!!

[capitalistelias]

I'm only gonna say this once because I don't and shouldn't need to repeat. White people, this is about you specifically.

If you accept the popular headcanon that Jonathan Sims is south asian and then proceed to post or reblog posts that call him feral/depict him as overly messy compared to characters headcanoned as white/make him out to be more aggressive or rude than beyond what we've seen canonically, cut it out.

I shouldn't have to explain how or why that this is racist and if you don't know, search it up and learn. And if you do see this and dm/post a message here for me, talking about how Jon is shown to be angry, mistrustful or disheveled sometimes and that your posts are about that then please take a step back and realise I'm not fussed with those depictions, I'm talking specifically about him being drawn/referred to in text as being overly dirty/feral/aggressive or the like without any awareness.

Thank you.

[iiiumihottie]

[ID: Three drawings of Jon from TMA along with cats. In the top left, he holds a grey cat up to kiss it while it places a paw on his neck. In the top right, he hugs the same cat in his arms. On the bottom, he lies down, surrounded by kittens that crawl around and on him. He has a love struck expression on his face in all of the drawings, and hearts surround him.  He is depicted as a thin, South Asian man with brown skin and long, black and gray wavy hair. End ID.]

very VERY belated drawings for jon sims and cats day that i never posted 😭 figured i might as well clean them up and post them now, he needs more HAPPINESS...

[cashew-cow]

@eyes-eyes-eyes-eyes-eyes-eyes dtiys (that i screenshotted so very very long ago and only just drew)

[Image ID: a digital illustration of jon sims from the magnus archives. he is a thin south asian man with graying hair that has clearly grown out past a near haircut and several round scars ob his face. he is sitting in a bathtub fully clothed in a white dress shirt, a black tie, and black pants. the shirt has become slightly transparent from the water and you can vaguely see his nipples and top surgery scars through the fabric. in one hand he is holding a lot cigarette and the other is dangling over the water with a black ring on his middle finger. he is looking into the middle distance from behind square glasses. the wall behind him is tiled and blue and the few bubbles in the water have small eyes in them. next to his head is written #eyesdtiys with a stylized eye below it. End ID]