#the magnus archives is a workplace comedy

[skittlesandham]

Cooking up something for my fellow tma fans out there >:)

This is actually my animation project for school, I'll be posting more behind the scenes as production continues. Materpost - Behind the scenes 01

[soupdwelling]

my favorite somewhat underrated jarchivist moments

“a COMPLAINT? i could just as easily COMPLAIN about her WASTING MY TIME”

“before i address the central point of this statement, namely the question of…. whether the sky can eat people .”

melanie: “i should have known this was a COMPLETE waste of my time” jon: “probably 🙄”

“you don’t seem like you’re in your fifties?? or- or burnt to a crisp”

“you’re serious? you’re going on a date with… the dullard of skull mountain just so you have an excuse to eat a shopska salad?”

“another startling insight from the piercing investigative mind of georgie barker”

“WHAT is my metaphorical pit???”

melanie: “i mean it’s not like you have any reason to kill me” jon: noncommittal sound

martin: “melanie seems okay but i get the feeling she’s planning something?” jon: “i- i got that feeling. Too.”

“so. kidnapped. Again.”

“like colors, but if colors hated me. got it. christ i need a cigarette.”

“MARTIN. STOP trying to TOUCH the PLASTIC EXPLOSIVE. just PUT YOUR HANDS in YOUR POCKETS or SOMETHING-”

basira: “so would you say this was supposed to be churchill or alfred hitchcock?” jon: “jowls like that, could be either”

“coma! great! let’s rearrange his office! sleeping people don’t need. pens!”

“police brutality lawsuit? :)”

[picture of edwardian offense] “I what?”

daisy: “it’s a joke, jon.” jon: “oh! hAha! yes.”

“i mean you’re not suggesting that santa works for the people’s church..”

long-suffering sigh “fuck.”

“i’m starting to feel a little. Self Conscious being a post apocalyptic google !”

martin: “did it stir any feeling in you?” jon: “Yes! Nausea! Because of the Horrible Things In It!”

“Yes the Colossal Web stretching down into an Endless Pit is a Significant improvement😑”

“‘free will’ she says, as we stand in the middle of her FUCKING WEB”

[daily-tma]

Daily TMA 222 - Tim dragged them all out partying to celebrate their new jobs!

[mothmanred]

Kiss kiss fall in love 🌸

[cult-of-the-eye]

Oh my god guys I bet every year when the cricket world cup is on, Tim would make everyone draw lots to pick a country to back and this year, Martin gets India and he knows nothing about cricket so hes just happy to be participating and Jon gets australia and like inside he's miffed about not getting India but it's Australia so he's ok, Tim gets England and Sasha calls him a coloniser (she got Bangladesh). Jon would begrudgingly join in and grumble at everyone's friendly fire in the break room until it's the final and he's the WORST winner you've ever seen in your life. He's so smug. Martin finds this unbearably adorable, he can't even be mad that he lost. Everyone hates it. But it puts him in a better mood than he's been in for weeks and they take whatever wins they can get.

[kraeftwerker]

falling back into Magnus Archives obsession. I'm blaming my newfound love of cassette tapes

[mintybagels]

id like to imagine martin just finding jon frantically crawling around on the floor in a pile of paper and he just leaves a piece of lightly burnt toast out for him before slowly closing the door

Jon: Wow look at all of these Freaks and Weirdos in these statements. Good thing that I'm unlike them and always logical and intelligent.

Also Jon: Supplemental-- I am in the walls.

[stompandhollar]

i like to think the archives has a shitty workplace kitchen with no counter space and a creaky folding table with two mismatched chairs and a fridge that always has jon’s lunch in it with a note that declares “tim: do not touch” that’s consistently half eaten (not by jon) by midday.

[annamationsart]

pursuing art might have been a mistake

[hermitsandarchives]

This time the magnus archives really is just an office comedy and no gays die.

au where nothing goes wrong and they all just work together at their mildly strange job

+ some other Very Normal people who work on the same street as the Institute

[gaygirldoodles]

Theoretically

Couldn't Jon just make someone *know* what period cramps feel like? Whether you believe if trans Jon where he projects his own period cramps onto Elias, or someone like Peter, or Jon accidentally *knows* what period cramps are like and decides to inflict them upon somebody by making them *know*

[dontmindmeimjusthereforthesequel]

Elias: You know what, fuck you. *uncomedys your workplace*

[mothmanred]

his sweater is made out of boyfriend material

[wow-an-unfunny-joke]

All the kids hate Jon for some unknown reason, except Oliver Banks who’s just chill. Peter Lukas and Elias keep flipping between fake weddings and fighting. Annabelle and Jane get into a fight over which creepy crawly is better, spiders or worms. Micheal keeps drawing weird shit that creeps everyone out. Mike somehow got onto the roof.

Tma fear avatars but they’re all just autistic kids with weird special interests

[nikkodikko]

[Image ID: a The Magnus Archives comic made with colorful pens on squared paper, illustrating a moment from episode 161

Panel 1. A closeup of Martin, who has short curly hair, rounded square glasses and is wearing a collared shirt with a cardigan on top.

He's smiling with his eyes closed and eyebrows raised,

He says "I preferred going for ice cream anyway"

Panel 2. A closeup of Jon, who has short wavy hair in a side-part slickback, rectangular glasses and is wearing a collared shirt with a jacket on top.

He looks confused

He says "You went for ice cream?"

Panel 3. A closeup of Tim and Sasha

Tim is wearing a loose shirt, has medium length wavy hair and a bit of a mustache. Sasha has very curly hair in a half up half down, round glasses and is wearing a cardigan.

They both look baffled

Sasha says "Yes! You were there!"

Panel 4. Flashback of Martin's birthday at an ice cream shop.

Jon is talking non stop and everyone at the table looks like they're defeatedly screaming inside except for martin who looks very interested in this mans nonsense

Panel 5. Back to present. Closeup of Martin, smiling and looking off to the side while pointing up

He says "You had rum and raisins and taught us all about emulsifiers!"

Panel 6. Close up of Jon, looking embarassed at the memory

He says "Oh. Yeah. Right." /.End]

Class doodle time because my notebook is more tma than notes rn

Wdym i used the exact same panel layout as last time no i didn't

[cult-of-the-eye]

Tim Stoker is definitely the kinda guy who needs to have someone come with him to do little tasks...Jon told him to get some statements? He's bringing Sasha...Jon told him to follow up on a statement? He's asking Martin to come with him...Martin hugely appreciates it cause he can't feel the Horrors when Tim's chatting to him about his latest escapades...Jon thinks it's an Unnecessary Distraction but Tim's asked everyone to come with him to Artefact Storage and he finds a strange Ache just beneath his ribcage...