#the magnus archives spoiler

[pigeons-with-jello]

hold on have yall been seeing watchers crown and thinking like crown as in the hat??? like tiara kinda crown??? ive honestly heard watchers crown and thought, like, head ykw. like theyre taking over a host like we saw with elias/jonah and its the ceaseless watchers head now yknow

[fiuworks]

i like it when people doodle tim with a whole cartoonishly large stick of dynamite in his hand instead of a detonator

like i like u bbg lets go full manual drive in this circus tonight

[l-wandering-etranger]

don't you just love it when they doom infinite timelines for the person they love?

[ID: The cover art for Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint and The Magnus Archives. End ID]

[disappointingcabbage]

If Sasha James was nonbinary, her pronouns would be Not!they/them :)

[mita-vittua-olivia]

rip to 2 michaels

[patrilles]

Really torn between the I REALLY WANT IT TO BE JON AND MARTIN BC I LOVE THEM and the I DON'T WANT IT TO BE JON AND MARTIN. FOR THE PLOT

[disappointingcabbage]

lmao can we talk about how Worm Lady Jane was in the walls for months and Jon only noticed bc he freaked out about a totally unrelated spider and broke the fucking wall

Local Archivist too underqualified and focused on reorganizing to worry about supernatural worm invasion, more at 11

[mintybagels]

hello jon

:)

[themaidenofwords]

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.

[caseofthea]

This is a really prevalent take that I've noticed appearing and have been thinking of myself and I want to point out a detail I haven't seen Anyone mentioning.

Namely the fact that Alice says "It started about a year ago".

TmagP appears to start off in early summer of 2022, or atleast that's when the two stories in ep1 take place and it's reasonable to assume that these are more or less recent cases, seeing as the computer system scours the world wibe web for cases and the team at the OIAR have a full case load each night.

To people who have actively listened to season 5 of tma while it was coming out, this might make a few connections in their head, because the last episode of s5 aired on the 25 of march in 2021, which is incidentally, "about a year ago" in the current setting of tmagp.

Now I don't know if the last episode of tma is also set in spring of 2021 or in 2020 or if time was non-existent in the eye-pocalypse caused a bit of timey wimey loop holes for this to work but to me this makes is seem that when Martin cut the tether and the world went back to normal with both Martin and John gone coincides with Chester, Norris and Augustus appearing as text to speech in the OIAR's age omd computer system.

Lmao my TikTok was too long to upload here so I’m just gonna retype it all out

Chester and Norris: Are they really Jon and Martin?

Wrong question imo! The BETTER question is: How MUCH of Jon and Martin are Chester and Norris?

The fact is these programs have SOME link to Jon and Martin, Jonny and Alex would not be voicing them otherwise, so what it comes down to is how much of a link?

Because it could be that it’s ONLY their voices. Annabelle explained to Jon that the tapes belonged to the Web, and that by “taking his voice” Jon was therefore bound to the Web and the other fears by extension. It’s entirely possible that when the Fears left Archives’ universe, they brought Jon (and Martin as he was also on the tapes) voices over with them, but JUST the voices. Nothing else. It’s just a coat of paint over the entities methods of collection, Chester and Norris aren’t Jon and Martin anymore than glasses are the person wearing them

But I’m not sure that’s the case. There’s a lot of holes there. The main one being: why? If it is just hollow voices, then why? What’s the purpose of the fears using them? It’s only been two episodes, so it might be answered later, but let’s talk about the second possibility

Chester and Norris ARE Jon and Martin, they just aren’t aware. When Martin “cut the tether” in episode 200, he didn’t cut the Fears away from Jon, he cut the Fears away from the world and at that point, as the Pupil of the Eye, Jon was part of the fears. Since Martin was in the panopticon when they went, he went too.

And now we have a disembodied Jon and Martin existing in a dazed but still hungry state. They seek out whatever’s familiar and since there’s no Magnus Institute, they go to the OIAR, get into their system, and read out any “real” statements they can find. Feeding off of them.

In this possibility, Jon and Martin are effectively asleep. They aren’t aware of what they’re doing really, just going by their new instincts/nature. But I think the more they feed, the more conscious they’ll become, and we’ll start to Chester and Norris break script. Stutter over a word. Add words. Things that a text to speech program simply CAN’T do even if glitched to shit

What complicates this possibility is the fact that Alice said they only showed up a year ago when it’s implied the OIAR has existed much longer than that as well as the fears in this world. It could be they move from place to place feeding off what they can, and when that’s bled dry, they move somewhere else? If they’re as intertwined with the fears as this theory implies, they could exist across infinite universes, staying alive like this

I’m not sure! It’s super interesting tho. I think the saddest ending would be if it’s never really answered, and Jon becomes, at least in some ways, a mystery

[tyrannosarahsrex8]

Welcome to the “whoops! I accidentally started got manipulated into starting the apocalypse!” Club. Members being Jonathan Sims and Mable Pines. They’re both ✨traumatised✨

Bonus comic

[awnrii]

i don't forgive you. but thank you for this

[pinkravat-art]

"breakfast" a tma s5 animation thing

audio on:333

dawg can't even fry me an egg in this eyeconomy

[VD: A Magnus Archives animation done in orange and teal titled "Pusryčiai" (meaning: "breakfast"). Mellow music plays as Martin cracks two eggs into a frying pan. He turns away to throw the shells while the pan sizzles, and when he returns with a spatula, a "boom" sound effect plays as Martin recoils with comic disgust.

The egg yolks have been replaced by human eyeballs. Martin stares at them for a moment. He then pokes at the egg with the spatula, producing a squelching sound, and one of the eyes blinks with another gross wet sound. Martin goes from disgusted to comically sad and disappointed, and he fades away before the setting does. The video ends on the words "darė Skaistė" (meaning: made by Skaistė) and a quick shot of an eyeball. End VD]

ty @princess-of-purple-prose for the description, i edited it a bit too.

[l-wandering-etranger]

•are you an artifact of the spiral? Because you make me crazy for you

•you make me wanna be an avater of the eye so that i can know everything about you

•i think you might be an avater of the vast with the way i get lost in your eyes

•you might be martin k blackwood with the way i wanna run away with you

•call me jonathan sims with the way ill follow you into the lonely

•are you agnes montague? Because you burn me with a passion

•are you the angler fish cause i wanna follow you into a dark alley

•you might be the fourteen fears with the way i wanna bring you into my world

•are you fiona law? Because i wouldnt mind being buried with you

MAGNUS ARCHIVES THEMED PICK UP LIN ES

Are you a real estate agent? Cause I would love you to come in my corridors

Are you a priest cursed by a fear god? Cause I'll make you say unholy things

Are you a friend of Michael crew? Cause I can make you dizzy and sweep you off your feet

Call me Agnes Montague cause I have a burning passion for you

Call me Jon the way I head your archive

Etc etc (feel free to add ur own)

[mita-vittua-olivia]

i told my brother (11) that i listen to tma and that it’s a horror podcast etc. he likes to come into my room in the mornings and today i couldn’t sleep so i was awake when he came in (which usually never happens) and he was so surprised, but then quickly came to the conclusion that it’s because of “that horror podcast”

like yes you’re right but

[shyaringan]

i spelled apocalypse wrong 4 times