#tma manuela dominguez

[the-butterbun]

The Star - Manueala Dominguez

She will snuff them all out until only her creation is left on the firmament.

[seriseriously]

I’m just saying she literally created a blackstar, how was I supposed to not relate it to David Bowie???? I love Manuela Dominguez with my whole heart, she is possibly my favorite non-main crew avatar.

it’s also the fact that she grew up with religious parents, and turned away from that, and got roped into a cult. Like the catholic guilt this babe was carrying around was a recipe for disaster.

I gotta draw more Manuela and Datalus art, I adore the storyline so much.

anyways, live laugh love Manuela Dominguez, evil lesbian scientist.

[skirm-the-terrible]

this cumbersome and heavy body.

(TW for canon-typical body horror)

I finished this little project about a year ago (by little I mean this thing was a MONSTER took me months to get around to finishing) and honestly every opportunity I get to share it I will goddamit. Unfortunately I can find the TikTok that put the idea in my head but it was just going to be a short snippet of the song until my brain exploded and the rest was born. For my first attempt at a project like this, I'm pretty happy with it.

Here’s a few of my favorite frames~

[realkeylogger]

i have new tma slop

[jordankennedy]

everyone has things wrong with them dip shit it came free with your fucking space station (fullview for detail)

[wilkoakdraws]

Inktober 2023, The Magnus Archives Edition - prompts 22-25 !

+ bonus to 24. under the cut:

[seriseriously]

DAEDALUS POLYCULE!!!

listen I'm not usually a rarepair shipper. I'm not the type of guy to aggressively ship characters who interacted like once because it was cute. I usually just stick with the main pairing and maybe the one with the best imagery. but there is one ship for the magnus archives that I cannot stop thinking about despite it literally being impossible and breaking most of canon.

but like. hear me out. Daedalus crew polycule.

I know this makes no sense but they're all so. gay.

they all have pronouns too. to me. jan he/she carter they/he manuela she/they.

please I need someone to hear me out. they're up on their little trauma mobile orbiting the planet and maybe. just maybe. they kiss about it.

[myzlwow]

ok heres part 2

the fears :]

i had to put some of them together bc tumblr wont let me attach that many images but. yeah.

ive been making these for like 4 days im so glad ive finished it lmao

[ashes-in-a-jar]

A scientist

[the-butterbun]

Hello. I’m glad you like my descriptions for your TMA Tarot.

They are very basic for cards. Mostly just enough to get a message.

But given each Tarot deck is personal to the images they use, I might eventually have time to really go into depth of cards meaning. I have 5 decks myself, and though messages can be the same, the way they are presented are different depending on the cards images.

(Example being my Arcana Deck’s star is very big into hope and courage. As the person who represents it is these things. But my Vampire Deck’s Star is more about the determination and desire of hope than the feeling of it.)

So for your deck I’d be going into more about how the Star and The Dark go hand in hand. Your deck would talk more about the facing of darkness rather than the hope the Star invokes. And would give more messages to the reader that, say reversed, means they are in despair.

So say they got Strength and The Star reversed, the reading would indicate they are in despair and fear, the darkness is about to consume them, and Strength would tell them to face the Dark with calmness and resolve. Invoking in a way two beings, to face the fear of The Dark you must embrace the strength of The Hunt.

I hope this gives you an idea of why I adore Tarot Deck’s that are stylized to certain fandoms. Because though the meaning of the cards are roughly the same, the way they are presented and told to the reader is very different depending on the art and/or fandom they are based in.

Sorry for this info dump, I wish you well with your exams and your project. Dont feel any pressure to continue it, doing 72 cards with 22 of them being heavy stylized as Major Arcane is not easy. (Not to mention the 16 Court Cards.)

((Dude!! The Court Cards could easily be the 14 fears with the Magnus Institute and its Underground being the last two))

Ah, sorry getting carried away with this ‘ask’. Again good luck and hope everything goes well!

I absolutely love your descriptions for the tma tarot cards I drew!

I don't have a lot of practice with more flowery/metaphorical language. Seeing your proposals for the card meanings really sparked up my drive for this project once again. I can go in depth about my reasonings and analysis but poetic prose is a whole other ball park.

The fact that I don't actually have a lot of experience with tarot is also certainly a factor. at the beginning I had trouble matching characters with their cards since all decks are different but that is also the beaty of tarot I learned!

Here's the whole list of the Major Arcana matches so far (keep in mind these might still change, some of theses matches I am more attached to than others)! I paired up all these cards a few months ago so atm am a bit fuzzy on my exact thought process but I made it a point to give each fear AT LEAST one card of the Major Arcana (including the extinction). I have not done the Courts as of yet and probably won't for a while.

0 - the fool - Micheal Shelly

1 - the magician - Anabelle Cain

2 - the high priestess - Melanie King/Helen Richardson (I'm still split on this one)

3 - the empress - Gertrude Robinson

4 - the emperor - Jonah Magnus/Elias Bouchard

5 - the hierophant - Raymond Fielding

6 - the lovers - Agnes Montague and Jack Barnabas

7 - the chariot - Julia Montauk and Trevor Herbert

8 - strength - Daisy Tonner and Badura Hussain

9 - the hermit - Martin Blackwood

10 - wheel of fortune - Georgie Barker and Oliver Banks

11 - Justice - Peter Lukas

12 - the hanged man - Jonathan Sims

13 - death - Gerry Keay

14 - temperance - Jared Hopworth

15 - the devil - Nikola Orsinov

16 - the tower - Micheal Crew

17 - the star - Manuela Dominguez

18 - the moon - Gary Boylen

19 - the sun - Jane Prentis

20 - judgement - Hazekiah Wakely

21 - the world - Simon fairchild

I have my in depth notes on these somewhere in my journal so if anyone's interested I can go in depth on each card, why I chose who I chose as well as alternative candidates :)

PS.: Actually I should probably check out the Courts before I finalize these matches. who knows maybe I'll find better ones and push off some of the Eye servants over there I mean I love them dearly but also this deck is VERY heavily Eye stacked. the 'one card per fear minimum rule' definitely stays regardless

PSS.: (god I can't even even fit them all in the tags, my pookies...)

[clairebearsparkles]

Here’s a piece of Manuela Dominguez and Maxwell Rayner based on a different artwork I saw. (Ref included under the cut)

Original painting by Aruntzazu Martinez

[candlecoo-sideb-art]

Some more Magnus Archives characters

Part 1 

[jesterjunkie]

𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔲𝔰 𝔄𝔠𝔥𝔦𝔢𝔳𝔢𝔰 𝔓𝔩𝔞𝔶𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔱𝔰

Part 3/3

[daily-tma]

Daily TMA 189 - Miss Dominguez