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Now… repeat after me
"You who watch and know and understand none. You who listen and hear and will not comprehend. You who wait and wait and drink in all that is not yours by right.
Come to us in your wholeness.
Come to us in your perfection.
Bring all that is fear and all that is terror and all that is the awful dread that crawls and chokes and blinds and falls and twists and leaves and hides and weaves and burns and hunts and rips and bleeds and dies!
Come to us.
I – OPEN – THE DOOR!"
#the amazing digital circus#tadc#tadc au#tadc fanart#tadc caine#the eye opens#tma the eye#Tadc x tma#I open the door#the watcher’s crown
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one blind eye jon and mahtinnnn
#art#fanart#illustration#character art#the magnus archives#digital arwork#tma#jonathan sims#martin blackwood#jmart#tma fanart#the eyepocalypse#the eye#the watcher’s crown#ceaseless watcher#gg my post#gg my art
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Did we ever get a date for when Jonah Magnus first tried the Watcher’s Crown ritual at Millbank?
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Behold, more nonsense
Alt text sucks on phone and the text was not at all planned _:(´ཀ`」 ∠):
Sry for the messy handwriting this is another brain dump cuz I thought the way The Watcher’s Crown is portrayed in some animatics was cool and I wanted to give it a shot
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Look at the sky, Martin. 👁️
k I’m gonna go eep now
#tma#the magnus archives#the magnus institute#magpod#jonathan sims#the magnus archive fanart#tma jon#tma fanart#tma spoilers#magnus pod#jon sims#jarchivist#tma art#the archivist#the eye#ceaseless watcher#the beholding#the watchers crown#magnus archives#the magnus pod#tma s5#tma season 5#tma s5 spoilers#mag 160#tma podcast#tma posting#tma eye#Ooooo cool poster ooooooo#14 hours later and still unsatisfied#But yeah
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Wait!?
(Spoilers ALL both TMA and TMP)
Jonah Attempts The Watcher's Crown on 1867 - TMA
And The Magnus Institute is Relocated from Chelsea to Manchester in 1868, one year later in TMP!!!
Is this where the timelines split!?
#the magnus archives#tma podcast#the magnus protocol#tmagp#tmagp spoilers#tmp#The Magnus Institute#The Watcher's Crown#gertrude robinson#gerry kay#Angus Stacey#The year the institute burned down in TMP would have been the same year the files got leaked in TMA
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actually its probably a good thing we’re in the timeline where mr samama khalid is not the archivist because i fear the “stop eating people” intervention would not have worked on him he’d just shoot them one of these
and everybody would just let him do whatever he wants
#text!#magprotocol#if sam was the archivist he would’ve made jon’s run look like rookie numbers#he wouldve done the watcher’s crown maybe 3 weeks after getting the job#anywayssss i love how often in the show he just goes 🥺? and people just tell him things
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love all of y’all’s cool interpretations of watchers crown. Don’t get me wrong, I love the blood and the eyes and the bones and thorns and broken tape recorders, but. Respectfully we all know our little pathetic man is wearing a Burger King crown. I’m sorry I’m not budging.
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POSSIBLE TMA SPOILERS
currently on MAG 138: The Architecture of Fear tn and i’m totally spitballing here.
Okay so The Watcher’s Crown ritual has been bugging me lately, I couldn’t figure out what exactly it was.
And then I started thinking about Jon’s scars.
the scalpel wound from Melanie - The Slaughter
the knife wound from Daisy - The Hunt
the worm burrow holes from Prentiss - The Corruption
the burn in his hand from Jude Perry - The Desolation
the ribs he let Jared Hopworth take - The Flesh
the five stitches he needed after Michael stabbed him - The Spiral
add on when he was just free falling bc of Mike Crew which had to leave some kind of damage, even if it’s not physical - The Vast
and the fact he’s the avatar for The Beholding - The Eye
plus his emotional trauma from A Guest for Mr. Spider - The Web
that’s 8 out of the 14 entities. he’s collecting scars/traumas from each of them. one could even say he’s collecting a jewel for each of them…
That has to be The Watcher’s Crown, he has to have first-hand encounters with each of them or something like that to complete his ritual.
AND I BET THAT’S WHY MARTIN IS SUDDENLY SO INVOLVED WITH PETER LUKAS AND THE LONELY WAIT A DMAN SECOND YALL-
#tma podcast#tma#the magnus archives#the magnus archive#the magnus institute#jonathan sims#jon sims#the archivist#martin blackwood#tma season 4#the watchers crown#the eye#the ceaseless watcher
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Random stuff
#incredibox#sepbox#monart#spiders#Okay time to dump my thoughts in the tags#The first doodle was drawn cuz it had rained recently#I thought Edgar would enjoy the rain (assuming it doesn't rain in the depths)#The Watcher doodle was me thinking about how the Watcher watches over everyone#He sends out his little spider minions to spy on ppl!#He sees everything through their eyes#The Edgar comic is what I imagine he did when he left the depths#While the docs say that they only found his jewerly and crown at the Gateway#I like to think that Edgar saw this new place and immediately stripped naked. Cuz it's funnier that way#He decided to leave his past life as the prince at the gate with his royal clothes and jewerly#or something like that#The last doodle is how I imagine Tam's illness spread across his face#The documents don't mention how exactly he got the illness#I thought maybe it started from an innocuous scratch#He lost his eye cuz it straigh up rotted away#Annnnd that's about it#I'm always thinking about this mod as you can tell. So sad I can't draw every idea I have orz#Anyway I'll contunie having thoughts and patiently waiting for v8
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Hey dudes,
Just wanted to wish everyone a happy-
Hello Jon,
Apologies for the deception, but I wanted to make sure you started reading, so I thought it best not to announce myself.
I’m assuming you’re alone; you always did prefer to read your statements in private. (slightly strained) I wouldn’t try too hard to stop reading; there’s every likelihood you’ll just hurt yourself. So just listen.
Now, shall we turn the page and try again?
Statement of Jonah Magnus regarding Jonathan Sims, The Archivist.
Statement begins.
I hope you’ll forgive me the self-indulgence, but I have worked so very hard for this moment, a culmination of two centuries of work. It’s rare that you get the chance to monologue through another, and you can’t tell me you’re not curious.
Why does a man seek to destroy the world?
It’s a simple enough answer: for immortality and power. Uninspired, perhaps, but – my god. The discovery, not simply of the dark and horrible reality of the world in which you live, but that you would quite willingly doom that world and confine the billions in it to an eternity of terror and suffering, all to ensure your own happiness, to place yourself beyond pain and death and fear.
It is an awful thing to know about yourself, but the freedom, John, the freedom of it all. I have dedicated my life to handing the world to these Dread Powers all for my own gain, and I feel… nothing but satisfaction in that choice.
I am to be a king of a ruined world, and I shall never die.
I believe there are far more people in this world that would take that bargain than you would ever guess. And I have beaten all of them.
Of course, this desire did not manifest overnight. When Smirke first gathered our little band – Lukas, Scott, and the rest – to discuss and hypothesize on the nature of the things he had learned from Rayner, I felt what I believe we all felt: curiosity, and fear.
But as he compiled his taxonomy and codified his theories on the grand rituals, I began to develop a very specific concern. Smirke was so obsessed with his ideas on balance, even as our fellows began to experiment and fall to the service of our patrons.
I began to worry that if one of them successfully attempted their ritual, then I would be as much a victim as any, trapped in the nightmare landscape of a twisted world.
At first, I attempted prevention, but the cause seemed hopeless. The only way to ensure I did not suffer the tribulations of what I believed to be an inevitable transformation was to bring it about myself. So what began as an experiment soon became a race.
Beyond that, I was getting older, and mortality began to weigh more heavily on my mind. How much in this world is done because we fear death, the last and greatest terror?
I convinced Smirke to work on Millbank, leading him to design it as a temple to all the Fears in equilibrium, such that my own modifications to the design of the Panopticon went… unremarked.
It. Took. Years, for the dread of the prisoners to fully suffuse the place, and I was an old man before I made my first attempt at the Watcher’s Crown, sat in the center of that colossal eye, the great ring of cells encircling me like a coronet.
It was… flawed, of course, as all Smirke’s rituals were, and none of the inmates survived as the power I attempted to harness shook the building almost to pieces, and the murky swamp upon which the prison was built consumed it.
But it left me a gift: For sat in that watchtower, I could see everything I turned my mind to.
It was a dizzying power, and one I discovered I maintained even as I found vessels to extend my life. Of course, I had to make sure the location was kept under my control while I worked on revising my plans, and so I moved the organization I had founded to assist in my research down to London, and the Institute as you know it was born.
I’ll not bore you with details of my bodies and failures through those intervening years. Suffice to say I kept busy, both planning my own next attempt, and doing my best to stymie those others who tried versions of their own.
Surely my interpretation of the Watcher’s Crown had been incomplete; there had been some element of the ritual I had overlooked.
It was not until I met Gertrude Robinson that things began to really come into focus.
You see, the role of Archivist has been part of the Beholding for as far back as my research can go. This isn’t uncommon for the Powers; most of the beliefs around them are guesswork and fallible human interpretation, but there are certain throughlines and consistencies that can be spotted, regardless of the trappings.
But Gertrude was unlike any other Archivist. She simply did not care about compiling experiences or collecting the fears of others. She was driven to stop those who served the Powers.
More than once I thought she must secretly be of the Hunt – but there was never that sick joy in her, that thrill of predator and prey. She had simply decided that this was her position in life, and went about it with a practicality that even I found disconcerting at times.
I once asked her what drove her, what had started her down that path. She told me the Desolation had killed her cat.
I don’t know if she was joking, and, to be honest, I could never bring myself to look into her mind and find out for sure.
In any case, Gertrude’s ruthless efficiency in derailing and collapsing rituals threw into stark relief a question that had been bothering me for almost a hundred and fifty years: In the whole span of humanity, why had nobody ever succeeded?
Perhaps there were a long line of Gertrude Robinsons throughout history, but I found that hard to credit. Could it be, then, that there was something in the very concept of the rituals that meant they couldn’t succeed?
She was clearly having similar thoughts in that last year, all of which culminated with the People’s Church.
When I saw that she was making no preparations whatsoever to stop it, I realized she was putting into practice a theory, and one she couldn’t afford to be wrong. She was going to wait, and see if the unopposed ritual succeeded, or if it collapsed under its own strain as mine had all those years ago.
Knowing Gertrude, I’m sure she had a backup plan if she had miscalculated – but she had not. The ritual failed. And all at once, I realized what had to be done.
You see, the thing about the Fears is that they can never be truly separated from each other. When does the fear of sudden violence transition into the fear of hunted prey? When does the mask of the Stranger become the deception of the Spiral?
Even those that seem to exist in direct opposition rely on each other for their definition as much as up relies on down.
To try and create a world with only the Buried makes as much sense as trying to conceive a world with only down.
Every ritual tied itself so closely to a single power as to render itself impossible. They could bring their patron close, but never sever it from the others, and eventually it would be violently pulled back into the place next to reality where they dwell.
The solution, then, is simple: A new ritual must be devised which will bring through all the Powers at once. All fourteen, as I had hoped I could complete it before any new powers such as Extinction were able to fully emerge. All under the Eye’s auspices, of course. We mustn’t forget our roots.
And there was only one being that could possibly serve as a lynchpin for this new ritual: The Archivist. A position that had so recently become vacant, thanks to Gertrude’s ill-timed retirement plans.
Because the thing about the Archivist is that – well, it’s a bit of a misnomer.-
It might, perhaps, be better named: The Archive.
Because you do not administer and preserve the records of fear, John. You are a record of fear, both in mind as you walk the shuddering record of each statement, and in body as the Powers each leave their mark upon you.
You are a living chronicle of terror.
Perhaps, then, if I could find an Archivist and have each Power mark them, have them confront each one and each in turn instill in them a powerful and acute fear for their life, they could be turned into a conduit for the coming of this – nightmare kingdom.
Do you see where I’m going, John?
It does tickle me, that in this world of would-be occult dynasties and ageless monsters, the Chosen One is simply that – someone I chose. It’s not in your blood, or your soul, or your destiny. It’s just in your own, rotten luck.
I’ll admit, my options were somewhat limited, but My God, when you came to me already marked by the Web, I knew it had to be you. I even held out some small hope you had been sent by the Spider as some sort of implicit blessing on the whole project, and, do you know what, I think it was.
Of course, I had to bide my time, get a measure of you before I began to push, learn how you worked – So I decided I would wait until something came for you, and see how you reacted. Attacks upon the Archives were not uncommon during Gertrude’s tenure, and, while she was always prepared, I made sure you would not be.
I reasoned if you couldn’t survive a single encounter, you were unlikely to make it through all fourteen. So, when Jane Prentiss attacked, I watched eagerly, one hand on the gas release from the start.
You acquitted yourself well enough, so I decided to see how far you would get, though I waited until the worms were in you before I pulled the lever. I needed to make sure you felt that fear all the way to your bones.
The discovery that one of the Stranger’s minions had infiltrated the Institute in the aftermath was certainly a pleasant bonus. Even if that sliver of paranoia, that vague wrongness you couldn’t quite place wouldn’t count as a mark, it was only a matter of time before it confronted you in a far more direct and affecting matter.
Admittedly, given the advent of the Unknowing, I needn’t have bothered. But what’s the old saying about hindsight?
More important to me was Sasha’s encounter with the Distortion. If it had taken an interest, then I very much wanted it to cross your path.
So I found one of its current victims and convinced her to make a statement.
Poor Helen. I actually had to put her in a taxi myself, she was getting so lost in those narrow London side streets.
It worked, though.
Between the stabbing and at least two desperate flights into its doors – you’re marked very deeply by the Spiral.
Jurgen Leitner was a surprise, of course, and I was forced to improvise. I had no idea how much Gertrude would have told him, and he could very easily have derailed everything if you learned too much too fast.
I… justified it to myself saying I was going to have to send you out into the world anyway, if you were to encounter more of the Powers, but I can’t honestly pretend it wasn’t a… rather rash move.
Still. I’d requested Detective Tonner be assigned to the case when they found Gertrude’s body in the hope that having a Hunter in the mix would eventually lead to a confrontation, and setting you up as a killer certainly hastened that.
Then it was just a matter of feeding you statements to lead you to a few Avatars I thought were likely to harm you – but probably would stop short of actually killing you.
Jude served her purpose exactly as I had hoped, as did our dearly departed Mr. Crew, marking you for the Desolation and the Vast.
Honestly, I had – nothing to do with Melanie and her Slaughter adventure, but when I saw the situation, I made sure to trap her here, so when her rage bubbled over you would be right there, a ready target.
I didn’t foresee the mark coming from surgery gone wrong, but it was a very pleasant surprise.
The Unknowing was a distraction, but not an unwelcome one. For this to work, you needed more than just the marks; you needed power. And that was something the Unknowing served to test, though it posed no actual danger in the grand scheme of things.
And it did serve another purpose, of course. It inadvertently pushed you to confront death, a mark I had been very worried about trying to orchestrate. If I tried too early, you’d just die. Too late, and you might be powerful enough to see the attempt coming, and maybe even understand why.
As it was, it was just right, and once again, you came through with flying colors.
By this point, your abilities were coming along in leaps and bounds, and I was concerned that meeting face-to-face might end up with you – (sigh) – Knowing something you shouldn’t.
I had initially planned to go into hiding, but when your colleagues surprised me with the police, well. It was simple enough to cut a deal.
All that remained, then, were the Dark, the Flesh, the Buried, and the Lonely.
I was a little put out when that idiot Jared Hopworth misinterpreted my letters and attacked the Institute too soon, before you were even out of the hospital, but then – Ho, you should have see my face when you voluntarily went to him.
I couldn’t see what happened in there, of course, but given how you came out, I’m very sure it counts as a mark.
I suspected the coffin might turn up again, and once it did, it was simply a matter of getting any, uh… restraining factors you might have had flying off on a wild goose chase, and waiting.
Honestly, Detective Tonner has been proving invaluable through this process. I’d been racking my brains for months about what I could use to lure you in.
And, of course, I knew the Dark Sun was just sitting there waiting. So when it came time, I just whipped up another apocalypse and sent you on your merry way.
Then all that remained was the Lonely.
Poor Peter. He really should have left well enough alone. (cruel laugh) Or just done what I’d asked in the first place.
Ah well. He knew what I was attempting, and was very unwilling to cooperate until I made him a little wager about Martin.
Of course, he had no way of knowing that, in addition to setting you up for the final mark, he was giving you all the tools you needed to escape from it.
How is Martin, by the way? He looks well. You will keep an eye on him when all this is over, won’t you? He’s earned that.
And there, I think, we are brought just about up to date. I have enjoyed our little trip down memory lane, but past here lies only impatience.
You are prepared. You are ready. You are marked. The power of the Ceaseless Watcher flows through you, and the time of our victory is here.
Don’t worry, John. You’ll get used to it here, in the world that we have made.
Now. (cruel, cruel laugh) Repeat after me.
You who watch and know and understand none. You who listen and hear and will not comprehend. You who wait and wait and drink in all that is not yours by right.
Come to us in your wholeness.
Come to us in your perfection.
Bring all that is fear and all that is terror and all that is the awful dread that crawls and chokes and blinds and falls and twists and leaves and hides and weaves and burns and hunts and rips and bleeds and dies!
Come to us.
I – OPEN – THE DOOR!
#the magnus archives#jonathan sims#jonah magnus#elias bouchard#tma#martin blackwood#jonmartin#mag 160#the watcher#the watchers crown#the eye#the eye opens
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I swear to god if Watcher’s Crown by cloudkissed is what gets me back into The Magnus Archives/Protocol I’m. Well I’m not sure what I’ll do but I’ll do something.
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I bring u Wheatley content and Jon
#tma podcast#tma s1#tma season one#tma fandom#tma the eye#the beholding#the watchers crown#tma jon sims#jon sims#the magnus archive season 1#the magnus protocol#the magnus archives#wheatley#portal 2#human wheatley#wheatly portal 2#i hate his ass#someone kick him in the sun#soccer ball lookin ass#dumb ass couldn’t even handle power#stupid little guy#I hope he stays in space#little shit man#Wheatley is probably shorter than a toddler
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Finally got round to The Magnus Protocol (because I basically didn't realise it was out for ages) and am immediately relistening because, y'know, you gotta. Obvs here be spoilers, but it's tagged.
Anyway, some thoughts.
1 - Celia. Yeah yeah, the Celia voiced by Lowri Ann Davis, we've all seen it. Regardless just ??? girl what are you doing at the devil's sacrament OIAR? She knows about tapes, she recognises John's voice, she's got the name she chose due to the eyepocalypse, she knows about the TMA Fears, she's...teleporting in her sleep?
2 - So uh, I've oddly seen nothing about this in the discussions but like, the tapes are still a thing. I didn't notice it myself but I was checking something on a transcript and episode 15 "Well Run". At the end when Alice has her run-in with the talking dead the scene opens with the tape recorder clunks! And she sees it, picks it up, it's literally a mystery tape recorder running in the scene.
3 - Loooot of discussion about how it's not Fears now but it's all about Hunger but I'm not actually sold on this idea. Avatars feeding on fear, hungering for it and talking about it like that was all through TMA as well. This isn't like, new. I'm not discounting the idea, mind, I think it may well prove true but I don't think it's quite so firm as a lot of people do and we've got solid evidence that there are supernatural avatar-like individuals feeding on fear.
#tmagp#the magnus protocol#tmagp spoilers#the magnus protocol spoilers#also people keep going on about how if it's still the Fears then we have to throw out Smirke's 14#and I agree there appears to be more overlap here but there always was#that they were inseparable was the core conceit of the watcher's crown#we've got a straight up Hunt avatar in this season already
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<Grian> she’s dead scar
<Grian> you won
#my art#trafficblr#traffic life smp#traffic life fanart#secret life smp#secret life spoilers#grian#grian fanart#goodtimeswithscar#goodtimeswithscar fanart#watcher grian#secret life scar#3rd life grian#yeah this is on purpose#scar turns up wearing a symbol of his 3rd life alliance and i’m NOT supposed to draw 3rd life grian crowning him the winner?? try again#earth scar headcanon comes from applestruda I love this hc a lot#grian's got his watcher wings out since he directly spoke to scar about him winning which. watchercore am i right#i love love love the way scar’s cloak turned out I think I did good with his design#i’m sure you can guess who the people in the bg are :)#desert duo#forgot the tag whoops#if i had a nickel for every time i’ve drawn 3rd life grian lit by backlighting i’d have two nickels#this series makes me go wild i love it
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little sketch of my favorite archivist <3 (sorry Gertrude, you're a close second)
#the magnus archives#tma#tma podcast#tma fanart#johnathan sims#jarchivist#the archivist#the beholding#the watcher's crown#pimh art
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