#tma crochet

[thechrochetarchives]

Jon and Martin had a great time at comic con!

I asked Alex to hold them for a picture and he made them kiss with no hesitation

They also enjoyed the panel and all the reveals…

They’re very excited for the tmagp s2 premiere tomorrow!

Bonus - the selfie @overambitiousnpc and I took just as Alex successfully flipped his bottle

Also hello to the people that recognised them, thank you for stopping to talk! Hope you had a great day as well 💜

TMA crochet characters

[crochetbypameelasherpa]

[thechrochetarchives]

This means the world to me thank you so much! I’m working on Nikola Orsinov rn hopefully she’ll be done soon ❤️

i love when i see more of those crocheted tma characters on my feed it brings me immense jou

@thechrochetarchives i adore these guys i want to consume them they are avrually so cute omg i need

[teafromthemicrowave]

Day 9 of @jonmartinweek !!

Free // AU Day

I can finally show off my crochet creations. LOOK AT CROCHET JMART ‼️

Now I can physically put them under a blanket and read goodnight stories for them, I won in life

More pictures under the cut!!

ALSO MADE JON A PRETTY SKIRT BECAUSE HE DESERVES IT!! Gonna dress him up like a barbie.

LOOK AT THEM OMG

Well that's it goodbye

[inaweofdiana]

This is a long shot but I’m hoping someone out there has an extra skein of this yarn they’re willing to sell or trade to me.

Yarn inspired by the Magnus Archives! An indie dyer no longer in business, Merry and Mae, made this GORGEOUS vast-inspired yarn. It is worsted weight in the colorway Ex Altiora.

I am willing to pay for the yarn and shipping, or the cost of shipping and I will make you a hat or cowl from any other yarn I have in my stash! You can pick the pattern if you want or I have a bunch of patterns you can pick from and then I will also pay shipping to send it back to you.

I’m starting to get desperate here— if you have some you are willing to part with (even just part of a skein leftover!) PLEASE let me know!

Reblogs for visibility GREATLY appreciated, especially within the tma fandom 💙

[theendorisit]

apropos of nothing, I made Tape-E

Who is Tape-E?

During one of the TMA livestreams (trying to remember which one), a fan question was asked ‘Is there a mascot (for the Archives or the show itself not sure)?’ One of the team suggested ‘Tape-y?’, to which everyone else responded with ‘Oh no!!’. So I thought, oh yes! So yeah, this is your fault 😘

What is Tape-E?

As Mr Bonzo is a parody of Mr Blobby, Tape-E is a parody of Clippy (these last two names rhyme).

Who is Clippy?

Clippy was a microsoft office assistant, introduced in 1997. He was a little virtual paperclip (officially called Clippit, but that name never caught on) who sat on the bottom right corner of the page, and was programmed to give advice in popup speech bubbles when certain actions were taken. For example, if you wrote out an address and ‘Dear’, Clippy would say ‘Looks like you’re writing a letter. Would you like help?’. The name Tape-E in the livestream seemed to be referring to Clippy, as there are many similarities in the behaviour of Clippy, and the actual tapes/ tape recorders in-universe:

always on by default

appears at inconvenient times

provides help you do not want

hated by (mostly) everyone

watching you with cold dead eyes

enjoyed by nostalgia and retro seekers

Why make Tape-E?

As I am of the same generation as some of the RQ peeps, I unironically loved Clippy and Mr Blobby as a child, and it gives me great joy to imagine, in the TMP universe, Sam getting a little pop up: ‘Looks like you’re trying to code a case file! Would you like some help with that?’ In our world this would be impossible - Windows NT (as the official name) was dropped in 1996, one year before Clippy was born, BUT there is voice recording on TMP’s ancient computers, so it’s not totally impossible! 😅😁

What are cassette tapes?

Just a little recap for those who didn’t grow up with tapes: Cassette Tapes contain information embedded in magnetic tape, wrapped around one spool and attached to a second spool. When played, the spools are turned by the machine and the magnetic tape is wound onto the other spool, the information read out through speakers as the magnetic tape moves through sensors. As the magnetic tape can contain different information depending on the direction of tape movement, you can flip the cassette tape over in the machine, and play the tape again, hearing another load of information. This concept is never utilised in the show, but it does mean that cassette tapes have A-sides, and B-sides (as Vinyl records do). Here, of course, this stands for Archivist-side, and Brutalpipemurder-side. On occasion, the magnetic tapes would become damaged, or bent, and could be pushed out of the cassette, causing a horrible noise, and terror to small children who were only trying to listen to their Just William tapes. When this happened, a pencil (or in my case, my little finger) could be jammed into the spiky spool ‘teeth’, to rewind the magnetic tape back into the cassette. Maybe that’s why the eyes are red? 🩸 I am very glad that the TMA tapes are magic, and record endlessly, never need flipping, and never get chewed up by the hungry machine.

Why is the name Tape-E?

Canon answer: the name stands for Tape-Eyes. Possibly Tape-Entity? Undecided.

Actual answer: Tape-y, Tapey and Tapie spellings look weird to me. I think Tape-E looks best.

Why a tape and not a tape recorder?

if you can crochet a tape recorder, you’re a genius and I love you.

What gender is Tape-E?

I might refer to Tape-E as male sometimes because that’s how people often referred to Clippy. But Tape-E is whatever gender Tape-E feels like being.

Why now?

Why not? also now is a good time because TMP episode 15 is an excellent episode

What’s going to happen to Tape-E?

I’m going to gift it to Jonny sometime, if we get more liveshows or book signings. It’s his fault this exists after all. Plus you can write whatever you like in the speech bubbles! Hopefully I can give it calmly? But maybe Tape-E will be yeeted in his general direction in a fit of ADHD-fuelled social anxiety. Only time will tell.

Tape-E is a pattern and design created entirely by myself. The inspiration and world building from whence it came, is entirely the genius of @jonnywaistcoat Jonny Sims, Rusty Quill @rqbossman and The Magnus Archives, which is a podcast distributed by Rusty Quill and licensed under a creative commons attribution, non-commercial share alike 4.0 international license.

Clippy was invented by Microsoft and Kevan Atteberry, who now illustrates children’s books.

Mr Blobby is an adorable abomination, created from a fevered mind.

[toothflowers]

My Handy Scarf :-)

I am not going to pretend I did not make this for the Michael Distortion Vibes (Now to draw Michael in it to complete the circle)

[springypaws]

@jonmartinweek day 3, Nightmare | Hair Care

Do not question me and my overuse of these particular types of color palettes 💞

[cyrus-solaris]

current crochet wip is definitely giving Ceaseless Watcher vibes 👁️

[t4tcecilos]

here is my TMA inspired sweater :3

crocheted with various colors/types of yarn + by mostly following this pattern

[thechrochetarchives]

Finished Gerry!

Turns out earrings make great tiny pin badges. Also I couldn’t think of a way to give him tattoos so I just painted an eye on his top

Here he is with Jon - I didn’t realise how short I made him until I took this picture

And with Michael of course because in the process of making these I’ve inevitably become a doorkeay shipper

Figuring out how to give him roots took ages but he wasn’t to tricky apart from that, I think he turned out really cute. Agnes Montague next! 🔥

TMA crochet characters

[magnus-brain-rot]

I finished crocheting Jon Sims. I’m very proud of it.

[tvorogzok]

A shopper inspired by The SPIRAL

[tapedwormss]

trying to design tma themed clothing is so funny because the fact i'm genuinely looking up "wasp larvae" on google to use as inspiration is just so silly

[eyesofmyarms]

Had a dream @420technoblazeit commissioned me to crochet a magnus archives themed chicken, so i did

More picture below :D

[unknown-tear1]

I know this is an old podcast but I've been listening to rusty quill gaming well I wait for tmagp. And I have been making an the eye sweater ❤️👁️👄👁️