#the magnus archives spoilers

[zeeeero]

Reblogging this now bc it was my ask and I straight up didn't notice that it had gotten posted😭 glad people like it tho

Okay so I'm going to preface this by saying: I think if Sasha were to have survived season 1 and Tim got Not!Themmed instead, Sasha would have just gotten Tim's storyline and Danny would be Sasha's brother instead.

I think that devolving into direct resentment makes more sense for Sasha's character than Tim's.

Like don't get me wrong I understand "being trapped in an evil job and my best friend getting replaced in a way that I don't even remember what she looks like anymore" is an understandable reason for Tim to have that negative character arc.

That being said, I think that Sasha has a more convincing reason to start blaming Jon for it. (Not a justified one, mind you, but definitely more convincing.)

Like yeah, she has the being bound to the institute thing, and she has the Not!Tim thing, but she also has something that I think they would have explored more had Sasha stayed around: She wanted Jon's position, and wasn't happy about Gertrude giving it to him instead of her.

Like she's cordial about it, but what about when she's that far under stress? After she got chomped on by worms, had her best friend replaced without her even noticing? If *she* was in Jon's position, *she* could have done better. *She* could have done *so much better.* *She* could have taken a more active approach in the statements. Maybe *she* could have stopped Jane's attack. Maybe *she could have saved Tim.* But she couldn't. Because *she* isn't the Head Archivist of the Magnus Institute, London. *He* is. *She* can't call the shots that'll save everyone because *he's* the archivist.

Idk, I just feel like that sort of slight jealousy would have added a bit more believability to blaming Jon that Tim just didn't.

I might have gotten a bit rambly at the end, sorry if it's long.

OHHH oh youre ONTO SMTH OMG i like this - rosette

[jeena-says-hi]

Sometimes therapy is playing “Sigyn” by The Mechanisms and pretend it’s Basira singing to Daisy

[just-an-enby-lemon]

A huge part of the appeal of LonelyEyes for me is that Elias never lied to Peter.

I mean he did, of course, but unlike any of his other relationships he never pretended to not be evil, toxic and a manipulator. James Wright met Peter with the bright warming colors some animals have to announce they are poison and Peter somehow (the abusive way the Lukas family raises their kids likely) went for it.

Even in cannon Peter remains Eliss friend. Yes, he wants to kill Elias but only when Elias proposes it as part of their bet. There's a genuine chance Peter had not even considered Elias would've actually died even if Peter had won (and let's be honest he likely wouldn't, Elias is not one to bet his own life without a contigency plan).

Hell, we have no idea how long he did know but it is heavilly implied that Peter knew and had access to Jonah Magnus original body for a long time already. Elias trusted him to not end it.

There's the closest Elias gets to respecting someone and there's also the biggest example on the ways being raised to be part of the Lonely fucked Peter up completly.

[rye-bot]

My thought process listening to TMA

Season one: haha why does this cynical rude man voice act when reading the statements I don’t think putting on a voice was part of the job description

Season five: oh dear god that’s why

[not-scared-of-microwaves]

i can’t decide if it’s funnier that when Elias confronts Jon for literally stalking his employees, a very reasonable thing for elias to do, jon immediately decides that elias murdered gertrude, or that jon was RIGHT

[starsh0ck]

martin blackwood

[tentotea]

jurgen leitner has been dead for seven slutty years

[momokarp]

A sassy mean girl, that’s who Elias is 💅

[thatsfrickenace]

[mini-minish]

GERRY MY FRIEND GERRY?!!?!?!??

[mydirtyvalentine]

poor, disposable, magnus podcast men

[bermudarhombus2]

Oh boy this one is a doozy for people who don't know the ARG

[ithinkimfaking]

I know that "hello Jon, apologies for the deception" is like the LINE from tma 160 and for good reason it was fucking amazing. But the line that just *gets* me that i think back to all the time is this

Especially with Jons cry cackle afterwards. Like fuck everything truly did go *wrong* what a fucking banger of a final line to the season

[sochika]

if i can pipe murder him, i would and im not going to like it (old TMA repost)

[thechrochetarchives]

Crochet Annabelle Cane 🕷️

Here she is with Jon and Martin, hope she doesn’t try to fill anyone with spiders…

I’ve been excited to make Annabelle since I started making these, she turned out just how I imagined

TMA crochet characters

[sofitai28]

doodles of the jarchivst for instagram. be thankful that I am not spamming my blog with him he is my wife and I’m so normal about this podcast.