#tma ep3

[phoenix-void]

⚠️ The Magnus archives Ep 3 “Across the street” spoilers ⚠️

THAT EPISODE JUST SCARED THE SHIT OUT OF ME JESUS CHRIST?! “Not-Graham” staring back at her in the window?! My heart literally stopped. The other two eps I was completely fine with but DEAR GOD.

The “keep watching” in the notebooks?! I wonder if the others where all like that as well? Graham obviously knew about whatever the hell “Not-Graham” is, which was probably why he was so paranoid all the time.

In other news, I’ll be taking a short (few hour’s) break and watching some comedy! (Seriously tho I’ve really enjoyed the first few episodes! despite the fact I’m now paranoid about looking out my windows 🙃)

[ashisinsuperhell]

saw a post about it but lost it

anyway the main difference between "statements" in tma and tmagp is that in tma the people were scared, even those who later became avatars or were serving the fears. that was the theme - fear. but in protocol so far we only had people somewhat embracing those fears. and idk if it's because the fears are so different here maybe they're not even truly fears maybe they don't feast on terror. or maybe we're just seeing people we never got to see in tma, especially in episode 2. we wouldn't get a statement from Daria but rather those that came in contact with her.

[rowanraven08]

Okokok random thought, relistening to TMA again, and just finished ep 3. I never really could figure out what was up with Graham’s notebooks, and this may be kinda far fetched, but maybe him writing down “keep watching” was some sort of ritualish thing? It’s pretty clear Amy Patel was aligned with the eye, my thought is that maybe his notebooks were a way of trying to encourage someone like that to watch him. Maybe intentional, maybe he was drawn to do it without understanding, or simply did it out of paranoia and it drew her in. He wrote “keep watching” and she did, up until he died, and even as that happened she didn’t look away. Idk, that’s my little theory.

[bryverros]

browsing for fanart is like a game of russian roulette rn

[il3x]

speaking of posting some tidbits

[ilargeicontradictmiself]

I started wtnv and... Am i...drunk?high?having some short of episode ? What is ,what? What

What

[wolf-of-woke-street]

Stranger aligned cat is just Khoshekh from Welcome to Nightvale

[no-romance-for-me-please]

Episode 3

girlypop meets a guy

They happen to live close, she could see his apartment from her window

Starts watching the guy obsessively (no it’s not a hobby)

Stops watching for a while cuz work

Continues watching

There’s weird things????

She calls the police

They come

The guy’s gone, there’s a new guy

They meet again accidentally

He knows her name (she never told him)

I am confused

[gammija]

ive been meaning to make this post for a few weeks, and now that Lena's "I am not a wealthy woman, certainly not compared to your own family," to Gwen seems to have put a spotlight on it, here's my lil suggestion;

Elias Bouchard is a ministerial employee/politician, and the OIAR falls under his responsibilities.

Gwen's Bouchard surname already heavily suggests that she comes from a wealthy family, like Elias did in tma. Alice's "Let me guess, fancy gowns, champagne, bathing in the blood of the poor, that sort of thing," comment in ep3 makes that not just independently wealthy, but high class as well.

Then with Alice accusing Gwen of (benefitting from) nepotism in the first episode, it makes sense that someone in her family has a powerful position somewhere in the OIAR hierarchy.

All those are easy to notice, but one thing I haven't seen many posts about - in that same episode, Collin and Alice have this conversation:

ALICE: [...] Is it an app yet? Do we have a minimalist logo? I assume you’ve finished all the social features?

COLIN: Don't you start. I swear I'm going to shove a cable down that prick's throat, pull it out his ministerial anus and floss him to death.

and later, with Teddy-

TEDDY: Colin, mate, you know you’re never getting out of here.

COLIN: Christ, don’t say that.

TEDDY: Even if his nibs lets you off the hook, which he won’t, you couldn’t bring yourself to just leave.

Based on that, we can conclude that somewhere up the OIARs hierarchy, there's some managerial asshole who insists on keeping Colin around (for the app?).

So, combined with what we know from OG Elias in tma, and Gwens nepotism comments, until proven otherwise, that asshole is Elias to me <3

[insertfandomrefhere]

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[littlepodcastcorner]

TMA ep3: Across the Street

All the reasons women hate being alone ever.

You went home with him??

Okay, he might be gay but still

How did you now know he lived across the street??

Um, don't watch people?

Okay, but this guy is wack

I have so many questions wtf. Like, who pushed her? Was it Graham or New Graham? Why did eat eat his books? Whats with the table? GAH

[goldpilot22]

he ATE the notebook????

[july-19th-club]

you want me to write a NaNo novel about some charming, smart youths who are learning sparring tricks in the woods when my brain is full of worms and i am spending the day at work so i can’t find out if sasha’s been got et by a table that makes changelings THAT NOBODY WILL NOTICE? nice try 

[mythsandmagicfancast]

im slowly making my way through your episodes (theyre great) (school doesnt leave me much time to listen:() and something you mentioned in ep3, about letting the druids stop hiding in the shadows made me think, like. youve referenced tma before so i assume youve heard of the mechanisms n my fav album of theirs is high noon over camelot and the songs. the songs are so good. esp the lines in skin and bone abt like "with my fathers power for peace i sue and in the sun theres room for you" (1/2)

or "ill show you peace. then we will try. well walk beneath the rusted sky" its just an interesting portrayal of ostracized people who interact with society at large but have their own customs n r not generally interested in assimilation is all. and the last song, once and future king, makes me fuckin weep. sometimes you just gotta be sad about things like mordred or loss of innocence or failure on a governmental level. terribly sorry for how long this is!! i never shut up about the mechs (2/2)

While Edith is aware that the mechs exist that’s as far as our knowledge goes! This does sound very interesting though and her literature student brain went into overdrive at the thought so rest assured this will be discussed in a future episode... 👀 Thank you for writing!

[stilitana]

i stopped listening to tma on like ep3 of s5, whatever the damn war statement was...maybe ill finish if once it’s finished people say it’s worth it to slog thru:/ i don’t think this is a case of me not liking artistic change or w/e i think the tonal and scale shift have just made blatant its issues and done the quality of the writing no favors. s1 was really peak for me...i honestly don’t think the scale of events should have ever grown larger than jane prentiss as the big bad...it’s not a bad thing to write a story on a smaller scale, it can be a really great thing if that’s the largest scale you’re willing to actually engage with honestly...to introduce all these concepts like police brutality and such but do nothing with them...you’d have been better off recognizing your current limitations and sticking with the idea of doing serialized shorts as throwbacks to early internet horror like that was quaint nostalgic and it worked. jane’s arc was the scariest thing in the whole show, none of the big points introduced later work, they’re way too real but handled with the same sensibilities as jane. meh

[gloww0rms]

Okay I just started tma (im on ep3 now) and it’s rlly cool but I’m mostly confused like.. if it’s just statements how do you learn abt the characters & what they’re up to? Also ep1 jonathan fucking HATES martin and that’s all I know abt him 💀