#t. blackwood

[recorded-anew]

i made this So quickly after seeing tags @teamfortresstwo left on a post about NotJon. I don't even know what to say. It's perfect.

Tags under cut

also yes tim and martin do look weird here, im working on making my assistants look a bit more unique compared to how I draw their canon counterparts.

[k11lka]

The most out of character here is the fact that Jonathan is not a dickhead and can flirt (lets not talk about t-shirt, everyone can be young and make mistakes)

[clairebearsparkles]

Back to my moth Jon doodling lol, but this time evolved! I have my own mothman oc I play around with and I’ve changed how he (his name is Steven) looks a lot, so I thought I’d update my mothman Jon to be similar. Anyway, I love him so much

[frogman-inator2000]

They are very similar, this isn’t even all the things! Please add more if y’all think of any I need something to sustain me.

[lilliesandeyes]

redraw :3

[fiuworks]

polychives is my one true god

literally all your problems can be solved by doing polychives i SWEAR....they have a spreadsheet managed by sasha to work out when theyre all free to hang out in the Long Bed for Brainrot Scroll On Phone and Cuddle Time.........rocks back and forth in my padded cell

this is also kind of half rendered because i got carried away cleaning it up and half watching danny gonzalez in the corner of my screen

[macksartblock]

I guess I’m trying to work out TMA designs now

[moonriselabyrinth]

Aeron: you’re the most jealous man I know

Davos: you know other men?

[garygoldenbignaturals]

headshots of my oobert dooberts

[gammija]

Two clerics of the One Alone

[chocolatey-umbreon]

my perspective on jon and martin has gone like this:

season 1-2: okay i see why people ship that. it does sound like something tumblr ppl would like.

season 3, when basira and melanie talk about martin liking jon: oh it’s going to actually be part of the show, it’s not just a fan thing. also aw martin is the one with the crush first, that’s v cute to think about actually.

rest of season 3: i mean it’s a cute ship but i’m much more interested on whatever elias has got going on.

season 4: oh um. fuck. fuck. okay. this um.. this Thing. going on. between them has skipped every rational part of me processing the show and gone straight to squeeze and punch and tear my heart apart without my consent? hello!! im sobbing and crying and screaming and i don’t even know when it started?? what is happening please help me

[recorded-anew]

Soooo,,,, any holiday events happening at the institute ? (And if not, how will the archives crew be spending the holiday ?)

There's a holiday potluck sort of thing!

Elias has banned from bringing food since he accidentally brought "magic" brownies to the shared break room a few years back.

Tim wore an ugly holiday sweater, realized he was the only one, and got embarrassed. Martin when home and put on a matching ugly sweater so Tim wasn't alone.

Sasha stood by a wall like this the entire time. She had an amazing time.

Gertrude showed up with a bottle of wine. She wasn't invited. No one had the guts to ask her to leave.

[paperfrog1987]

Magnus Archives fandom, i give you:

my live reaction to the end of season 2

bonus:

[clairebearsparkles]

More moth Jon! I am on a roll (despite going to be gone for 2 weeks on vacation soon)

[flingpossecule]

boyfriends…..

[darlington-v]

ok serious posting time now i think

let me lay down for this (i am laying down)

i am overwhelmed with emotion that jon says like "maybe everything works out, and we end up somewhere else" after telling martin to kill him

because like. like it doesn't work out. they end up somewhere else, but with the knowledge you have as the viewer with tmagp coming out, we know it doesn't work out.

they don't even get like to rest, like they don't get to die. like the note that tma leaves jon and martin on is doomed. and like... without tmagp, it could have been more hopeful, had you chosen to believe that?

like their ending is still so horrifically tragic, but tma pre-tmagp, jon's statement of hope was ambiguous and could be pursued, it could still be hopeful.

ROCKS BACK AND FORTH. BUT WE HAVE TMAGP. AND WHILE... SURE, WE DON'T EXACTLY KNOW THEIR FATES, BUT WE KNOW THAT JON AND MARTIN DID NOT ESCAPE THIS NARRATIVE.

SO NOW IT CANNOT BE A HOPEFUL STATEMENT. NOW, WE, THE AUDIENCE, KNOWS THE FUTILITY OF JON EVEN TRYING TO HAVE HOPE FOR THE TWO OF THEM FOR EVEN A SECOND? like I CANNOT. i cant even articulate it because it's more about whats not happening??? its about the potential? the hope of it all??

LIKE HOW CAN I EXPLAIN THE SHRIMP EMOTIONS THIS LIKE GAP???? GIVES ME??? THE LIKE. GAP BETWEEN WHAT JON SAYS AND WHAT WE KNOW HAPPENS NEXT. ITS NOT "MAYBE IT ALL WORKS OUT." THATS FOR DAMN SURE

and like ik... like maybe it DOES work out in tmagp.

but like... bare with me here, meld ur mind with me. theres a lot of tragedy in that moment and the moment that follows because the characters have no idea what immediately comes next, but we do know what comes immediately after? which is NOT an escape from the narrative. like even if it could work out for them within tmagp, it doesn't take away from the deep ache of knowing how far they still have to go? that it isn't okay, that wherever they went, it wasn't them being "okay."

this is really surface level, i dont have anything insightful to say it just made me cry. like i was very emotionally overwhelmed at the fact that the one time jon actively put effort into being hopeful, like idealistically so, that like maybe he even let himself want and hope and mean what he said, that it was a futile wish.

like... jon's hope juxtaposed by the hopelessness of the narrative got me man. the Dramatic Irony of it all really fucking got my ass.