#the Archivist

[sporesigil]

anatomy 👁️

[spookyspeks]

Happy Ace day everyone <33

[radladrobin]

Im in season 4 now,.... this is what happens, right?

[arch-aeology]

the archivist and the admiral bc I miss them :(

[vickozone]

-No!

+tap on image and turn up brightness for better quality+

[scene from MAG 187]

-closeups and more underneath-

HAPPY 2,000 FOLLOWERS!!! … YAY.

This was my very first drawing of Jon back in 2023 if anyone was wondering—

we have come a long way.

[yoki-loves-stars]

Dude chill out nobody wants your loser you can keep him

[kassiaactuallydraws]

I was going to say "Well, at least somebody does remember her so that's cool" until I remembered that someone is Melanie

concept i thought of and want to share because i can't be sad alone: after jon realized that he could Know Everything, the first thing he tried to find out was what sasha really looked like.

[duckiewashere]

So um. Finally got to 200… listened to it on the way home last night… I have many thoughts but

… this is what happened right JSJJFJFJS

[allseeingmoth]

in honor of ace day, have them falling asleep fully clothed while watching videos on an old laptop. as an ace this relationship goals, thank you for coming to my ted talk.

[mishoru]

possible keychain design hehehe

[phthalosblues]

Straight up magnusing it. Adn by it?. Let s juts say., my archives.

[sinkfood]

jonathan sims (plural)

[terminalvelocityfrfr]

Entirety of tma spoilers!!

Just remembered that no one from the og archive crew survived might go cry now

[radladrobin]

That part in ep 191....

[regular-gnome]

Have the Archivist ever,, tried to study the circumstances around how a Collector forms or are they uninterested in there own nature? (Do Collectors form at random, did the "birthrate" change after the extinction event, can a Collector be purposefully spawned,, can they only appear around others of their kind or could the fabric just pop up in the middle of space?)

They do know the circumstances of their own creation, on most part. Collectors come into existence when the magic released by a kilonova gains consciousness

Magic is unstable without something to contain it and give it directions. When a larger amount of pure magic is left unused for too long, it forms a kind of awareness to stabilise. This is how Starchildren come into being. A kilonova just produces the amount of magic that forms a collector

Starchildren form from different-sized "pockets" of magic. The smaller the pockets create smaller starchildren that tend to gravitate to other energy and stimuli, be around life, around noise. These little ones tend to stick together in groups and don’t really understand much. The bigger pockets of magic create larger, offften more solitary starchildren with a deeper awareness. They even hold bits of memory from before they became what they are.

Since magic works like energy it has always existed in some form, it was once part of a single, massive "pocket"- an entity called Everything. This being held all the energy there was. But it wanted more than stillness. It wanted things to exist.. So it exploded. In a way, it died, but because energy can’t be created or destroyed, it changed forms, scattered. But when enough magic gathers in one place, a piece of Everything echos

The archivists are somewhere in between. They’re closer to the smaller starchildren in nature, but they’ve got enough awareness to feel a pull, to keep things in motion, to help life continue. They don’t know why they feel this way. It’s just a quiet drive, probably the closest thing to instinct they have

The whole process is generally random, but it’s not hard to spot when it might happen, like when neutron stars are heading toward collision. The starchildren don’t try to force it. They work on a timescale where rushing makes no sense. Adding kinetic energy could throw off the outcome. So they wait. And in the face of infinity, what’s an eon?