#the Archivist

[hermitsandarchives]

I was looking at the top 100 ao3 ships of 2020 and went I saw Jmart I genuinely thought to myself "Hey, why is this under m/m and not other?" before I realized enby Jon isn't canon..

jonbinary

he says that every season

[madootles]

the last dance

[ceaseless-sandwich]

We eating good tonight 🙏🙏🙏

[mercyhaunt]

WE’VE OPENED THE DOOR; NOW IT’S ALL COMING THROUGH

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[dontmixpaintinyourcoffee]

Update my mom saw this and said "He looks like Hozier" and I laughed so hard I spit my water out

This one goes out to all the bitches who love some good Safehouse Era Horror. It's me, I'm bitches. I want Jon and Martin to be fucked up and eldritch but I want them to be fucked up and eldritch and loved

(Notes under the cut because I can't help myself. Heads up, I do go into some detail of how Jon gets injured so I can explain my thought process for how I designed his scars. All canon-typical and fairly clinical in tone.)

Here's how I picture Safehouse Jon!

He doesn't need glasses anymore by this point, so he should just be wearing empty frames, but I drew this before I settled on my glasses headcanons. This drawing looks better with the reflection anyways.

He hasn't gotten a haircut since before his promotion to Head Archivist. He doesn't love the weight of it on his neck, but he also uses it to fidget, and he really doesn't want to go through the whole process of cutting it. He's disliked haircuts since he was a kid (People: Bad. Small talk: Bad. Touching: Bad. Loud sounds: Bad. People talking all at once: Bad) and since his time with the Circus he's only grown more reluctant to go and get it done.

At this length his hair is naturally pretty curly but he is. Not taking care of it. I actually put a lot of effort into trying to make it look brittle and tangled (I have a lot of experience lol, my hair is quite thick and I've always hated taking care of it. Yes I am also projecting my feelings about going to a hairdressers onto him why do you ask.)

The various scars were a bit of a strange task, but anyone who has seen my takes on The Bad Kids knows I'm not averse to selective realism in my fiction. Easiest one was the neck, I always pictured Daisy making a vertical cut based on "through the voice box". The larynx is longer than it is wide, so I think Daisy would go for the method that dealt damage across the largest total surface area. Yes I am aware that I'm speaking the same way Martin does when he explains his corkscrew.

The worm scars were easy because I barely drew any. There are a few marks on his cheek, but they're just surface bites. I picture most of his encounter with Prentiss showing on his legs, particularly on the right side, with enough damage there that he starts using a cane after the incident to keep weight off his right leg. More research to be done on this particular detail.

Finally the burn on his hand from Jude. This was the weirdest one to figure out just because of the nature of the injury. How do you quantify the damage done to an epidermis by a living manifestation of sometimes-boiling wax that can heat and cool at will? I settled on it being a second-degree burn that healed supernaturally fast, containing the damage to the space Jude had direct contact with. He'd probably have some mobility issues there as well. I know there are ways to help with mobility and pain after a severe burn, but I don't know how much of it Jon would actually. Do. Like I said, definitely further research to be done on these last two.

Hey so I'm gonna ask you to stop and consider the horror of the watcher. The helplessness. The guilt. The inherent terror of being a spectator, a participant by proximity but not by action. The horror of not being able to look away, of being a bystander. Jon forgets to blink sometimes. But wouldn't it be so much worse if there were no eyelids at all? That's how I interpret the description of The Archivist being "All Eyes" :D

I love a good Many-Eyed Jon, so I whipped up my own interpretation here. I think the more he Becomes the more he starts to resemble the thing from the dreams. He has a lot more control of it in S5, but it still creeps up on him and he has to consciously go back to a human shape.

[vieramars]

Corkivist. Corkathan Sims.

[pines-eyes]

Session 2 of my Magnus Archives TTRPG has been out for a bit and I wanted to post on tumblr about it because why not :p

Session 2 we get introduced to the character Riku and learn that a lot of things arnt as they seem in this world. Secrets can be kept like coins and only traded for something more.

If you listen to it I hope you enjoy!

[mag184]

[sillier-than-thou]

YOOOO

Not quite human enough to die, still too human to survive

[ultramarinaa]

The Magnus Archives x Disco Elysium 📼🪩

Picking the quotes was really fun hehehe

[bleepzip]

anatomy 👁️

[mishoru]

i am so normal about this podcast

[lonionjon]

The Archivist

[carryondrawing]

An alternate universe where The Archivist forgets to top up his oyster card and misses the train

[lazy-klown]

The first and only time I ever drew a background and enjoyed it.

I hope he falls off that chair <3

Edit: I originally uploaded the unfinished version of this with only half the animation aaaaahhhhhhhhhh it’s fine