#tma 43

[kat-and-their-cats]

Favourite Episode Masterlist

[eleanor-is-fine]

TMA 43 Section 31

Basira shares information about weird police cases

She and Daisy (who’d been “sectioned” years ago, something to do with spider husks)

Diego Molina - very hot - “piece of the puzzle”

Man shoots self and doesn’t stop

Supplement: Jon will get tapes, concerned they won’t actually help him with investigation

[kaijukebox]

Jmart gets a silly lil smooch this week. 🫶

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Today’s Reference

[arthur-lesters-left-arm]

the past two days shall forever be remembered by me as my own personal “maggotfest.” this is because i listened to both malevolent 43 and mag 22 for the first time in the same two days

[its-surprising]

praise be to our good lady jane prentis (malevolent flavour)

[trans-jon-rights]

Listening to Malevolent 43 as a TMA fan be like :

The Witch : *talks about maggots and rot and being consumed by the things that loves her and which she calls her children*

Me, a Jane Prentiss enjoyer : ... go on...

[if-loki-was-a-fox]

I am so obsessed with how incredibly abruptly and beyond unsubtly Jon cuts off the recording when he asks Basira to let him have the Gertrude tapes in mag43. Buddy, buddy please, you could not be more suspicious if you were actively trying </33

[watchful-crown]

arthur lester taken by the corruption??

[a-mag-a-day]

I love Basira’s introduction

Basira: “Look. I’m breaking the law by saying this, especially on tape.”

Jon: “Oh, you can write it down if you want-“

Basira: “No. Anyways my full name is Basira Hussain and I work as a police constable”

Like yes disregard those non disclosure agreements!!! Section 31’s got nothing on you!!!

EHEHEHEHEYE

[somanyfuckedupiftruebooks]

Mag 43

[Waves like an overexcited mum seeing her child in a school play] Hi Basira!!!!!!

What struck me most about this episode for this relisten was how quickly Jon and Basira seemed to click with each other. These two were on each other's level from the first few lines.

More information about how the Institute works! Makes snese that they'd have thorough policies in place for information control, and cool that Jon is apparently good enough at his job by now to be familiar with correct procedure off the top of his head.

Look at how much effort Jon is going through to reassure her and help her feel comfortable giving her statement! This is such a far cry from his behaviour during every previous live statement he's ever taken. Took him long enough, but I guess he's finally decided to be more lovely.

Look at this! An attempt at levity! This is basically banter. Maybe Tim isn't way off base for thinking these two had something going on. This is definitely the most pleasant Jon has ever been with a statement-giver that wasn't one of his employees.

Always so great when the Archivist switches into statement mode and the statement-giver is like '...wtf do you want me to do now.'

Love this in terms of world-building. There are people who know about the supernatural and basically have the job of sweeping as much of it as possible under the rug, but don't expect them to know what's going on because they don't get told anything more than anyone else ever does.

At some point I'll have to put together a larger post about way that various institutions in the world must have been effected by the presence of the Entites, because its an aspect of the worldbuilding of TMA that is endlessly fascinating to me. Really hope this is something we get some new angles on in TMAGP.

I know a lot of people had issues with the portrayal of law enforcement (and Daisy and Basira's arcs specifically) in TMA and I don't intend to dive super deep into it, mostly because I'm a white woman who has never had any significant interaction with law enforcement, so I probably don't have anything particularly insightful to offer. All I'll say for now is that I think the series does a better job of saying ACAB than some people give it credit for, and we can see that in moments like this that explore 'us versus them' mentality within the cops (especially from the POV of Basira, who has her own issues with black and white morality and loyalty versus ethics).

I really can't imagine Basira being thrown by any amount of weirdness. Do we ever see her lose her composure over supernatural shit?

God Molina's such a fucking moron. What was his plan here? Just walk away from the fire dipshit, don't hang out raving like a lunatic and getting into fistfights.

Haha, Basira is the kind of person who takes welding classes on a whim. She's going to fit in so well with all the autism/ADHD girlies in the Archives.

[themagnustournament]

Redemption Round 3 - Match 8

We were so close to a Desolation v Desolation, y'all. Alas, Section 31 stayed in the rankings with 126 votes last round, and is up against Burnt Offering and its 136 RR2 votes for 256 Redemption Votes so far! Side note, I don't think I put this in any of the posts yet but did y'all know Burnt Offering is partially based on a true story? Like the finding a weird ritual site?

MAG 043 - Section 31 | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Police Constable Basira Hussain regarding her time investigating strange occurrences as part of Section 31. Statement taken direct from subject.

MAG 037 - Burnt Offering | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Jason North, regarding the discovery of an alleged ritual site found near Loch Glass in Scotland.

[insanearchivist]

So another fire and Asag. Show me the eye tatts.

Okay red leather bound book.

SPIDER HUSKS???? Carlos Vittery maybe???

Ripped off jaw?? Like the dolls from the statement with the calliope organ. Was this guy the boyfriend???

ARE WE GETTING GERTRUDE TAPES???

[bound-books-and-glowing-clouds]

just listened to MAG 43

YES YES YES Jonathan treated someone like an actual human being from the start THIS IS PROGRESS

[marlasomething]

BASIRA IS HEREEEEE (and Daisy gets mentioned!)

I am here to say that I LOVE Diego so much and he went down taking some cops with him. What a legend.

[oaxleaf]

mag 43 - section 31

this is one of my favorite episodes from season two, mainly because of jon and basira's interractions. they do actually get along pretty well and seem to be on the same wavelength, and had it not been for, well, pretty much everything that goes down, i could see them being pretty good friends

i like basira in general. she's not exactly a good person - which goes for almost everyone in tma to some extent - but i've never used that as a merit to what characters i like. she's such a strong personality whilst her emotions are quite subtle, and i look forward to hearing more from her in upcomming episodes.

i do love the worldbuilding in this episode. the fears would obviously have an impact on the wider world, even if they are mostly hidden, so hearing how they impact one specific institution is very interesting.

also, i know jon is having a bit of a breakdown, but how can he not realize he's being suspicious as hell? does he seriously think basira just gave him the tapes for fun lmao

[fizzseed]

jon sounds so resigned while taking direct statements now :(((