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The chat scrolling at Mach 3 waiting for the stream to go live

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Ok I have been working too hard on my human osteology class because I need someone to stop me from lecturing about how that much ear cartilage would attach to the skull

New Adopt Auction for the next 24 hours! This cute and awkward softie elf is looking to weave a new story~!

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Waiting….waiting…when the stream goes live I’ll be waiting….

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TOMORROW GUYS!!! TMAGP SEASON 2 IS OUT!!!!

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Absolutely amazing summery and connections map!

PRE SEASON 2 RECAP (spoilers for the end of TMA and TMAGP's Season 2 trailer)

We're so close to be back! I have SO MANY Important questions that are gnawing at my mind... It's a long post so, keep reading to join my meltdown :D I want to know your thoughts!

-Where are SAM and the ARCHIVIST?

It seems both are currently in the PRIMELINE (as the Season 2 Trailer Transcript says), aka TMA's original universe. We all assumed it got rid of the Fears after TMA's finale, but the Transcript says "sounds of unsettling not-quite human things can be heard". So… it’s not as clear as we thought. Was Jon and Martin’s sacrifice for nothing? :( Also, it seems they don’t come out together. If you read the transcripts, the Epilogue describes Sam exiting the rift in “London’s Exclusion Zone” without mentioning the Archivist. Then the Season 2 Trailer describes the Archivist exiting the rift without mentioning Sam…

-THE ROYAL SOCIETY, THE MAGNUS INSTITUTE, THE OIAR and STARKWALL

THE ROYAL SOCIETY is an organisation of High Achieving Intellectuals (like Robert Boyle and Robert Hooke), researching alchemy (among other things), and erasing dangerous knowledge when needed through executing Protocols. 

At some point, some alchemists founded THE MAGNUS INSTITUTE to research Alchemy together, as “they had reached the limit of what they could achieve alone”. Their end goal was completing the Millenium Ritual in the year 2000, but they were stopped.

The OIAR “manages the bad guys”. There’s opposite forces (both benevolent and not) in the world, and the OIAR monitores them to keep the balance. The Response Department used to work with STARKWALL and executed at least one Protocol that we know of:

The Institute got destroyed by Starkwall in 1999, under the orders of the OIAR's Response Department and William Price, who ran the department. At some point after this, Starkwall and the OIAR ceased working together, and the Response Department disappeared.

-List of executed PROTOCOLS (that we know so far)

-1666: The Great Fire of London

Procedure: FIRE

Executed by: The Royal Society

Trying to stop: The bubonic plague?

-Around 1684: Newton’s Laboratory

Procedure: FIRE

Executed by: The Royal Society

Trying to stop: Newton’s research on Alchemy and experiments on Arbor Philosophorum Perfecta

-1999: The Magnus Institute

Procedure: FIRE

Executed by: Starkwall, under OIAR's orders

Trying to stop: The Institute’s research on Alchemy? The “Millenium Ritual”, planned to happen in the year 2000, attempting “Universal Transmutation”

-2016: Hilltop Centre branch of Oxford Peoples Trust?

Procedure: FIRE

Executed by: Starkwall

Trying to stop: Something like a ritual

The 2016 Fire at Hilltop apparently happens after the OIAR and Starkwall cease relations. So... WHO ordered that Protocol?

-Why is CELIA in this universe??

After TMA's finale, its easy to understand why Jon, Martin and Jonah get pulled through the Rift at Hilltop and spit somewhere else. But WHY CELIA?

Also, how long has it been since they arrived? Alice says the text to speech started 1 year ago, and Celia says her son Jack is around 1 year old. But she also says she had "a couple of wild years after she moved here" before having Jack...

-FR3-d1 (or Freddie), The Incidents and Voyeurism

Who records the Incidents? Whatever it is, it has access through many types of technology. But I find more interesting asking, who's listening to the OIAR staff? We spy the lives of the OIAR workers through the podcast. In TMA, they explained the "voyeurism" of the listeners through The Web. It was The Web, through the tape recorders, who wanted to spy and listen to the characters. We listened to whatever The Web was interested in. Whose intentions are we listening through now?

And what triggers the text to speech? At first, I thought only the "text to speech" incidents were "supernatural" in nature, similar to TMA's "only records on magnetic tape". But Lena says to Gwen in ep13 "whatever horrible case you read, it happened". So if ALL incidents are "real", what makes the text to speech ones different?

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You cannot handle the ultra instincts of my ultra autism. Observe

*gets obsessed with fictional worlds to the point I have academic citations for a theory*

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CAPTAIN PLEASE!!!

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COMBINGINF MY TWO LONGEST HYPERFIXATIONS YES I LOVE IT YOU ARE SO CORRECT

Heyy do you guys ever think about how Odysseus torturing Poseidon could honest to Gods sound like Jon killing Jonah because i swear . make Jon beating the shit out of / killing Jonah under,

“HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE HELPLESS

HOW DOES IT FEEL TO KNOW PAIN?

I WATCHED MY FRIENDS DIE IN HORROR

CRYING AS THEY WERE ALL SLAIN

I HEARD THEIR FINAL MOMENTS

CALLING THEIR CAPTAIN IN VAIN

LOOK WHAT YOU TURNED ME INTO

LOOK WHAT WE’VE BECOME.

ALL OF THE PAIN THAT I’VE BEEN THROUGH

HAVEN’T I SUFFERED ENOUGH?

YOU DIDNT STOP WHEN I BEGGED YOU

TOLD ME TO CLOSE MY HEART

YOU SAID THE WORLD WAS DARK

DIDN’T YOU SAY THAT RUTHLESSNESS IS MERCY UPON OURSELVES?

and JONAH screaming “you MONSTER.” ?????

???

Im fucking UNWELL PLEASE IF ANYONE DOES THIS I WILL PAY YOU IN AUTISTIC JOY

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What do you MEAN I like Dimple now??? The booger ghost??? The one I swore I thought was annoying??? I like him???? Hes,,,not the worst??? And I like his character now??? What the fuck?? This thing has grown on me like a weed

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You know, I was going to put more effort into the fictional planet my Star Wars OC was from. come up with a good name or find a canon planet that perfectly matched what I wanted. And then I learned that the planet Stewjon, the planet Obi-Wan Kenobi is canonically from, was named because John Stewart asked Lucas where he was from and thus Stewjon was born so fuck it random ass planet names are solid

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The Dirt, it beckons me. No this has nothing to do with my further descent into madness, that instinct was already there before The Horrora

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My dog Argus has the inability to walk past a sprinkler without trying to drink/fight the water, and he will occasionally just lie in it. The issue is that he is a very over excited 150 pound Great Dane of whom controls my life and walk pattern so every now and then I just have to stand there while this goof of a creature rolls in water. I love this dog so much and I too wish I could roll on the wet grass but alas, I am human and must look Vaguely Irritated while secretly being giddy at such joy

Behold the lovely goof in question

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I love the vultures that circle overhead, they loom around looking for something to eat and I gaze up at them and my eyes are full of love

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We talk about cats being bastards but my dog is just as much of a bastard

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Feeling rather Icarian, might go play 2 weeks straight of Minecraft and let the worms win