#the panopticon

[rat-in-a-cloak]

elias showing up at the panopticon like the bastard he is

[antihero8baller]

se5 animatic cause ive been going a little 🤏 crazy

[jouxlskaard]

there isn't a barber in prison

[atomic--bloom]

Ceaseless Watcher, i want that butch obliterated

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A slightly older fanart that i never uploaded anywhere

[thatweirdthingoverthere]

"You who watch and know and understand none-"

A Theory On Why Jon's Empathy Made Him The True Pupil

The Eye sees all, knows all, and forever craves more knowledge. But knowledge is hollow without understanding. There's a difference between reading "fire is hot" and burning your finger touching a candle. Fear is only a concept, until it is *felt*.

Unlike the Eye's sister fear, the Web, the Eye sees what was and is in pure cold objectivity, and never understands enough to use this knowledge to form new information, such as predicting the future.

The Eye needs understanding. To gain this understanding, it needs a conduit.

Jonah Magnus, Elias, is not this conduit. Jonah is a coward and never engages directly, choosing to manipulate and watch the suffering of others from a distance. He is detached from all of it in his selfish greed. He is not committed to the Eye save for how it serves his own desires. This is easily discerned from the fact that he himself could have undergone the "trials" Jon went through to become the catalyst of the change but instead forced Jon to do so.

Then, there is Jon. In a sense cowardly, yes, but unlike Jonah, he has - albeit often unwillingly - *faced* his fears, and through statements *felt* the suffering of others. He is a being of empathy, of understanding. And as Jon becomes more and more embedded in his existence as The Archivist, his empathy grows. His portrayal gradually changes from a snide, detached academic, to a man struggling to hold on to what's left of his humanity and the people he cares about. The same season that he begins to prioritize helping his friends (pulling Daisy from the coffin, removing the bullet from Melanie), he completes his transformation into this conduit - finalized by opening up and rescuing the person he loves, Martin.

Another Tumblr post emphasized that Jon during the apocalypse is not the antichrist, but in fact an allegory of Christ Himself. It occurred to me reading that post that also, much like Christ, Jon is both man and god, and feels all of the fear and pain of the trapped souls in the world. A bridge between divine fear and human suffering.

When Jon uses his power to "smite", his weapon is empathy. He forces the avatar to feel and know the fear they have inflicted - unlike him, they are unable to bear this suffering, and disappear.

The Eye knows, and Jon feels. And that is why he is the true Pupil, because unlike Jonah, he can make the Eye's knowledge of human fear whole.

[starsh0ck]

MAG 200 SPOILERS

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Based on the painting “Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on 16 November 1581” by Ilya Repin

[excaliburarts]

Omg I just realised I hadn't posted this tma piece that I spent way too long working on in June. I'm so dumb.

Full disclosure this clearly was just an excuse to draw the panopticon. As a criminologist, a special interest of mine has always been prison design. So me and the panopticon go way back haha. Even wrote a whole research paper on the design's failures lol. Also resulted in collecting a whole bunch of quotes that give major tma vibes so here's a couple.

"The Inspector was in fact all-seeing: his gaze extending beyond the limit of the visible into the invisible." (Bozovic, 1995)

'Upon seeing the panopticon plans Edmund Burke (philosopher) remarked "there's the keeper, the spider in the web."' (Hummelbarb, 1968)

Also if anyway is interested here is Jeremy Bentham's original design mock-up.

[iwikpines]

statement ends

[guillempaints]

CW: MAJOR SPOILERS FOR TMA and a bit of blood

+my reference ;))

This is actually my first Jonmartin piece, I saw the painting and couldnt not paint them... why do i do this to myself??

[tenementhill]

any glass beach tma fans here

[inky-squid-art]

is this not how that scene went (og meme under cut)

[ineffablewhovianholmes]

How am I meant to focus on criminology work when they're talking about panopticons ?

[klm-zoflorr]

Pagnogtigpion

[unamzi]

hey una! If you have ocs, what would they listen to? Otherwise what do you think characters of look outside would listen to?? :DD

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Ummumumumumumu. Doing my. Look outside ocs:)))))

Lucia Pernet: she mainly listens to techno after her niece introduced her to it. Otherwise she'll listen to a rock band from her youth. If you.wanna know she mainly uses CDs she pops in her car or downloads the songs onto an mp3 to listen to.

The sea creature: it doesn't really... Listen to music? Lullabies/humming makes them calm down tho, so I guess that?

The panopticon: again, doesn't really listen to music (tho it's because they kinda. Can't) but if they could they'd listen to country music.

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Also um whatever characters from look outside I wanna:

Dan: he listens to game soundtracks. Genuinely. Maybe a band or two here and there but it's 99% game soundtracks.

Hellen: she listens to those "9 hours of nature" videos.

Xaria: she listens to death metal and hard rock

Monty: he listens to kawaii metal and alternative rock

Ermmm yeah that's it for now,,,,,

[rat-in-a-cloak]

the pupil: made to take light and define it.

plus some fun alternate versions