#tma fear entities

[acrylcii]

i'd like to divert everyone's attention to my magnum opus

this took way longer than i'd like to admit

[fliederbeerensaft]

listen, this thought has been bugging me for way too long and i need to know

it is entirely possible that this has been discussed before but if so, then i haven't seen it yet.

Also, you are so very welcome to go all in with explanation and references and red-string-on-a-board style theories, it's just so much fun to read it all

[thunderandsage]

yellowjackets as tma fears based on season 1 impressions

Shauna: the Flesh (being the butcher both in past and the present, possibly also due to the baby?)

Jackie: i honestly feel that Jackie’s the team member without a power-connection to a fear—she’s the one who’s traumatized by a fear, so i’m putting down the End for her

Lottie: the Spiral (visions and loose grasp of reality and all the fun stuff)

Taissa: the Dark (i was leaning towards the Buried, but the sleepwalking and the no-eyes motifs point more towards this)

Van: the Desolation (almost set on fire once, then actually set on fire jesus christ, also the religious vibes fit in with Van's worship of Lottie)

Laura Lee: the Vast (the water side with the drowning and the air with dying as the plane explodes in the sky)

Misty: the Web (this one is kinda tough—i’m mostly playing off of her manipulative tendencies but adult Misty fits the Eye much better...)

Natalie: the Slaughter (while she’s a huntress functionally, what i’ve seen so far is more focused on the act and direct consequences of violence than the pursuit)

[all-that-good-stuf]

I was relistening to some TMA and decided to align DST characters with the fear entities. I didn’t put anyone in buried because no one really gave off the vibe.

I had a hard time with Winona and Walani so if you think you have a better alternative please tell me 😭

[pisscentral]

haven’t posted any art in a bit sooo

FEAR WHEEL

(btw yes the dice is purposefully all snake eyes, just clarifying)

[homeostasister]

Hey, do you like TMA? Do you like music? Do you have songs that you think fit certain fear entities, or want to find new fear entity songs? Might I recommend checking out the poll blog @tma-entity-song-poll?

They’re doing brackets to decide on a theme song for each of the fear entities, and I think it’s a fun project that deserves more attention. They’ve already done the Spiral and are currently working through the Corruption. Due to the format of the bracket I don’t want to reblog just a few of their posts or spam the people following me with every single one of their active polls, so I figure the best thing to do is just encourage people to check out the blog if they’re interested.

[monarchetype]

life pro tip - reframe your daily activities in your mind

instead of ENJOYING NEW EXPERIENCES, you are FEEDING THE CEASELESS WATCHER

instead of GETTING DISTRACTED BY STORY IDEAS, you are PLEASING THE MOTHER OF PUPPETS

instead of HAVING AN EXISTENTIAL CRISIS, you are INDULGING IN THE MAGNITUDE OF THE VAST

instead of PREPARING MEALS, you are NOURISHING THE RAVENOUS FLESH

instead of GETTING COMFY UNDER THE BLANKETS, you are ENTERING THE LOVING EMBRACE OF THE BURIED

feel free to reblog with your own reframing techniques!!!

[polyhexianbirb]

7 down, 7 more to go.

[thermodynamic-comedian]

consider this. i don't know what it is, but i want you to consider it.

the eye - paranoia

the spiral - delusion

the stranger - capgras syndrome

the slaughter - trauma

the dark - dissociation

the hunt - projection

the lonely - depression

the vast - hypomania

the end - existential dread

the corruption - intrusive thoughts

the flesh - body dysmorphia

the desolation - destructive behavior

the web - addiction

the buried - burnout

[jaybirdscoffee]

forever thinking about how the magnus archives really fumbled the Flesh. there was such potential there beyond just meat and whatever jared hopworth’s deal was. there’s the body, there’s the lack of control over it, there’s changes against your will, and sometimes hatred for it. there are uniquely horrifying bodily experiences that could have been explored that expand on it wholly. to me, the Flesh is the one fear i think never got enough development.

as a trans person, i identify with the flesh. i’m sure i’m not the only one, but the idea of a trans exploration of the Flesh and its nuances has fascinated me since i first listened to MAG 111, when we first learned about smirke’s 14. i would’ve loved (and still would) a trans or trans-coded Flesh avatar (because jared hopworth just does not cut it for me). jared’s flesh garden is something i think about often, though. the way the plants are tended, groomed and transformed into something else, people twisted into flowers comprised of their entire beings, still able to feel and exist with the horror of living as something you are not, something this world has shaped you into. i think a lot about a Flesh avatar with a similar premise, too. someone who saw themself transforming into something - someone - they couldn’t recognize, instead taking hold of it, molding their own flesh, cutting away and adding pieces, in an eternal state of visceral metamorphosis. and they wouldn’t have it any other way.

to me, the flesh is more than just meat. there are so many angles to look at it. the idea of feeling your emotions so viscerally they only manifest as bodily sensation, as nausea, as bruises and bleeding and bile, and you don’t have any idea why this is happening to you, because you’re fine. you’re fine, aren’t you? your mind is fine. sure, your head is pounding and your stomach feels like it’s a burning hole within you, and your bones ache so much you can’t move, but you’re fine. (for me, this is a big part of my being autistic. my feelings tend to register in my body before they ever do my brain). your body is turning against you in new and horrible ways, and you don’t know why. and the Flesh feeds on that confusion and pain. it loves it.

the Flesh genuinely had so, so much potential, and i wish there had been more on it, something that made it truly horrifying, especially since i think a piece of TMA’s fanbase found something in it that scratched their brains from the beginning.

anyway, yeah, i have feelings about the Flesh.

[mildcicada]

My friend's gift to me for my birthday!!! (⁠≧⁠▽⁠≦⁠)

[whisperingphantasm]

[aqualin-art]

Welcome DoorKeay to our chibi party ✨❤️

[spirallingdark]

My friend made this for our subject Soft Materials, which was my last push into listening to the Magnus Archives:P

She doesn't have a tumblr but she does have insta @gioiagaoio

[fluffyfrogfriend]

A wheel of fears

Just don’t look too closely at the flesh pig Digital art is hard for me okay

[homeostasister]

Because I love taking categorization schemes from one media and applying them to aspects of another, I’ve been thinking about what MTG color identities the different fear entities from the Magnus Archives would have, and I would love to hear people’s perspectives.

I definitely think the Corruption would be white/green/black, given its association with both sickness/parasitism and love/unity/collectives.

The Hunt is definitely green/red.

I feel like the Slaughter would probably be red/white, as the colors associated with war and nationalism. I could also see black in there, but I’m not sure how well it fits.

For the Eye I could see either mono-blue or blue/black, since it focuses on collecting knowledge specifically to exploit people’s suffering.

The Web gives me such Esper vibes that I would feel pretty confident classifying it as white/blue/black, but I could also see green/blue/black as it emphasizes the connections between everything and simply demands that you follow the threads as they have been laid out, which does seem very green to me.

I think the desolation would probably be mono-red—just a force of pure unreasoning destruction.

I feel like maybe the Stranger could be blue/red and the Spiral could be blue/red/black—there’s a lot of overlap between them, I think, but where the Stranger just wants to make reality, well, stranger, the Spiral is actively trying to obscure reality, to make people doubt their own perceptions and feel powerless and unstable.

I think the Buried would probably be mono-green, the End would probably be mono-black, and I’m not too sure about any of the others.

Since there are five colors, ten two-color combinations, and ten three-color combinations, one approach would be to assign each of the 15 entities a distinct 1-, 2-, or 3-color identity, although I’m not sure how well that would work out in practice. I would be happy to discuss ideas with anyone who wants to.