#tma old avatars

[thebarrows]

old hunter lady and her dogs... (•‿•)

[ascendingconures]

spooky reminder that i made a VR map of the Magnus Institute you can go explore on vrchat. Its interactable. Its unhinged. its buggy. its full off references. dont take it too seriously.

[worldwright]

ok so just to summarize we have:

Simon Fairchild, geriatric extreme sports buff who enjoys hurtling around the sky at terminal velocity and jumping out of airborne vehicles just to scare the shit out of people

Peter Lukas, trust fund grown man who sails an empty cargo ship and routinely kicks all the crew off so he can enjoy a night of having zero people within a five-mile radius, and yet who still has a. rather close relationship with the local gay evil paperwork-loving CEO

Jonah Magnus, local gay evil paperwork-loving CEO who talks with his hands, drinks wine with his employees at 11 in the morning, signed off on his staff committing murder as long as it wasn't on the property, once stole an entire library's worth of books from a guy,

[murderandcoffee]

gertrude never would have become the Archivist, whether she gave in to the Eye or not, and it's for one reason and one reason alone: Jonah needed avatars of the other fears to mark the Archivist, and whenever Gertrude interacted with another avatar, she was the one traumatizing them. she was not the marked, but the mark maker.

[just-an-enby-lemon]

"The Mechanisms were Jonathan Sims college band" and "Jon is the secret real past of Jonny D'ville" are both great takes but I present "Jon's descend into an unwilling antichirst figure is The Mecs new album and Jonny plays him in the songs because they just have very similar voices for some reason."

[vieramars]

women,,

[gr3yart]

The one on the right isn't my oc its the oc of a friend i drew a while ago.

[your-local-friendly-door]

we just found a fucking 75+ year old pipe under our house covered in 5 inches of cement while we were trying to clear a blockage. tell me that the previous owners of this house didn't have something to do with the buried. i mean, we have probably found the coffin 2.0

Update: there are worms in the pipe. there are WORMS in the FUCKING pipe

wtf was old lady judy doing 20 yrs ago, huh?

wtf were you doing, judy?

and im not gonna take "i fucked worm woman" as an answer

[the-random-phan]

DP x TMA

Danny arrives to lend a helping hand! Life must be tough when you're hiding in your ex's apartment because of murder charges and being mildly tormented by some circus clowns.

Danny might be a bit too calm in this situation ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Set some time between MAG 81 and 87

[sneckoil]

Thoughts on the episode "No Reason?" Just finished season 2 last night

it’s the first appearance of the “house is played by his own mind” trope which i enjoy.

As a finale it’s not my fav, but i appreciate its formula divergence. i wish it had more lasting effects in later episodes. im talking about how he was shot in general not the ketamine. house getting shot is a big thing and it’s so strange to me how it’s like… “your arm’s off” “[scoff] it’s just a flesh wound” and everyone marches on. (basically i wanted people to grapple with house’s fragility)

also. it’s cool* to me how house only starts to be self-aware he’s hallucinating when he realizes wilson is acting ooc

*extremely gay

[zephyruswrites536]

Short short short fic:

The old men avatar trying to get anything done in pairs/groups~!warning cursing!

Jonah: Hey… Peter could you get me some tea?

Peter: No, you haven’t won a bet

Jonah*Had just been trying to relax after Brutal pipe murder*: OH FOR FUCKS SAKE

-

Peter: Simon, I really don’t want to have to do the institutes party, can you host it?

Simon(drinking a blue coffee): No, you haven’t won a bet against me to allow that-

Peter(cringing inside before phasing to the prison): Elias- if I let you out this one time..:

Jonah(laying down on the metal bench looking at his nails): Fuck off, I’m not hosting an institute party just because your sorry ass is Asocial

-

Simon: So, Jonah… I was thinking- what if I tried making one of your employees-

Jonah(putting his pointer finger up): I’m going to stop you right there and say you don’t have a win on me.

-

Continuation of Peter trying to get somebody to host the party~

Peter: Rayner… could you possibly-

Maxwell: Peter. I Will say this one time and one time only, I do not associate with the institute outside of Jonah- and I do not place bets like you dumb fucks.

Peter(giving his best 😀 smile): Thank you for the insight, Rayner.

-

Jonah: Simon, is it true you only really have two avatars under the vast?

Simon(trying to slip away): Jonah, you know I do not answer questions for the watcher.

Jonah(smirking): ah, well, yes. I know that. But I was just wondering if you’d like to tell me. Not the watcher.

Simon(stopping his escape to give the 😃 smile): You know Jonah- you are not the least bit as clever as you try to come off as… maybe a few more centuries will get you there.

Jonah(grasping at straws): Simon… Please.

Simon: How about a bet?

Jonah(sighing-screaming internally): On what exactly, Simon?

Simon(tapping his cane against the ground as he thinks): How about… how much time it will take for Peter to come how with the idea that he doesn’t have to do the institute party?

Jonah(nodding): Sounds fair… How long do you think?

Simon: About a week.

Jonah(laughing): We’ll see about that…

Simon(realizing he’s just made the dumbest bet of his life with the best manipulator he knows): Oh- wait- no- Jonah come back!

-

Everyone respectively drinking their coffee- Simon’s blue one, Peter’s black coffee(with one pump of vanilla and nothing else), Jonah’s Carmel macchiato, and Maxwell’s seasonal black as night coffee-

Maxwell: So- Jonah- how are things with the new Archivist?

Jonah(seeming quizzical): Since when do you- ah- … How’s your little minuscule and ultimately unsuccessful black hole doing?

Maxwell(suddenly angry): Oh well since you asked so kindly-

Simon(leaning over to talk to Peter while Jonah and Maxwell bicker): When you do think Maxwell will first bring up your great great great great grandpa?

Peter(going rigid at the thought of Mordechai): I’m not making a stupid bet with you, Simon.

Simon(tutting, before giving the 😃 smile): Seems I was right anyways.

Maxwell(having set down his coffee minutes ago): Are you going to fuck them like you fuck every avatar and worker in your inner circle?

Jonah(giving a 😀 but one eye-twitching smile): Edmund, do you want to visit the end? Or do you want me to squeeze the information out of you like twisting out a soaked necktie?

-

Annabelle(got invited while Elias was in prison): This seems like an awfully boring event.

Maxwell(sitting as far back in his seat as possible sipping his black coffee that goes cold every time and deadpan staring at her like she’s committed a capital offense): It’s actually quite eventful when Jonah is here.

Simon (reading the same paper that Gertrude had posted to stop Peter’s ritual in physical format as he does every-time the meet for coffee): Why- it is peculiar that you are acting so upset now that Jonah is gone- or is that your hormones from the new body?

Maxwell(looking like a goth but not the good kind- the 12 y/o kind): Oh shut up!

-

Simon(on his way over to the institute but stopping at the prison to say hi): Don’t you look ravishing.

Jonah, bored to death, sitting upside down for the first time in months): Fuck off. What do you want?

Simon(smirking and looking him over before sighing): We both know that Peter is going to fail.

Jonah(nodding and sitting correctly): Yes.

Simon: But we don’t know how badly he’ll fail.

Jonah(stopping for a second): What are you suggesting?

Simon(giving a cheery laugh): I suggest the good captain will die.

Jonah(thinking it over before nodding and leaning back): Most likely.

Simon: The question is when?

Jonah: Placing a bet, are we?

Simon(nodding like a kid on Cotten candy): Exactly, I estimate after the worlds changed.

Jonah(shaking his head): You’re saying he’d give himself over to the end?

Simon: Precisely.

Jonah: Well- I’m sure you’re wrong and Jon will kill him, good luck then.

[bubbl3s-dot-jpg]

Hot take (neutral take?): The faceless old woman who secretly lives in your home is the epitome of a web avatar. She literally spends her whole existence post-Russia influencing people. The parts where she talks to Craig, her entire monologue is about all the things she’s doing to get him together with someone who will have a kid. Sometimes her motives are very clear, like when she’s trying to win the election and she threatens the listener. Sometimes she’s not, like most of what happens in the book.

[ineffable-gallimaufry]

i hate how everyone likes to talk so much about cecil gershwin palmer being an avatar of the eye but no one talks about the fact that the faceless old woman who secretly lives in your home is literally an avatar of the desolation

[bat-luun]

(tags via @encryptidarchivist)

YESSSSS i love him very much hes my darling beloved!!! <33

(ramble below cut cuz this got so long oh my god lmao - cw: suicide mention)

The tma oc is actually an au version of 'Pai Rite' (he/she)! He's player character i made while co-DMing a Call of Cthulhu campaign. He's originally from 1982 Chicago and about 28 years old. Her og lore and backstory and what played out in the campaign is rather complicated so imma leave it out. (tho i'd happy to rant about it lol-)

For the tma version: She uses her full name more often than just her nickname/chosen name; Joshua 'Pyrite' Kerr (he/she). She was born in 1978 in LA, moved to England in 1997, and died 2010 at age 32.

She is marked by both The Vast and The Spiral! (in the same way Martin is a mix of The Eye and The Lonely)

Pyrite has a rocky relationship with his parents from the start, his father was killed/taken by The Vast when Pyrite was only 17. His mother was killed by The Spiral, which triggered Pyrites leave to England to study mathematics at the King's Collage in London.

(Idk if it would really work all that well in canon but I've taken The Vast in a less 'real' direction? Like making it less of a place of endless mist or whatever but making it more like a concept?) Pyrite's father was a mathematician and investigating/trying to figure out more of the pi number. The horror of the uncomprehendable powered my the Fear drove him to insanity and eventually suicide, leaving his family suddenly and without a word.

Her mother, turning even more hyper religious than before, turned to pseudoscience as a way to cope with the grief (buying crystals and crafted religious symbols/spells to protect her, and doing other low-key paranoid superstitious stuff).

She eventually got her hands on some colorful (sea)glass shards which she hung by the windows to catch the light and "ward off evil".

The glass is an artifact of The Spiral! It slowly multiplies in numbers in the given location, and starts changing colors/patterns of objects within it's line of sight (though the owner is the only one who can see it's effects).

The longer the artifact is a set location and affecting it's victim, the more intense the distortions get (pottery/dishes "melting" or changing shape, entire rooms becoming mirrored, objects switching places with each other, glass clinking sounds being heard from every room, ...). Eventually it moves from inanimate objects to people in the victims life.

Pyrite's hair got turned a purple/pink as a cause of the artifact. Panicked, Pyrite's mother took a hammer to the glass, breaking it untill there was nothing left but dust. Pyrite found her body later that day as it was being taken away by paramedics. He moved away after that, taking a single glass shard as a keepsake to remember her by, having no idea of it's effects.

He went on to study mathematics in London and found his fathers research notes, going down the same cursed rabbit hole he did.

She did become an avatar for The Spiral later on as the artifact went on to distort any research notes Pyrite made/found beyond recognition, essentially 'winning' and making her a Spiral avatar. Pyrite died in 2010 after Gertrude and Michael stopped the great twisting. Died mad and dazed and out of breath, trying to keep her grip on the only thing that was left of her mother, the destruction of the ritual making her take her own life.

me and my best friend(one of the other co-DMs) did art of Pai Rite and his gay boyfriend Revemine for valentines day!! :D

(also tagging @horrid-mothlegs for if you want more info for when our tma ocs can hang out >:])

[unabletomakedecisions]

[servantoftheye]

Avatar of the Corruption: Gus Curtis aka 'living kitchen nightmare'

Gustave Curtis Avatar of the Corruption. Works has work as cook/dishwasher/ short order cook and pizza cook at a lot of small mom and pop places. Works cheap, usually gets paid under the table, and basically can turn any commercial kitchen into a filthy nightmare.  He is NYC/New Jersey based. He’s middle aged, short, squat, hairy, with greasy black thinning hair all over. He’s constantly sweating too. Smells bad, like limburger cheese.  Heavy Jersey accent.  Has killed health inspectors and will kill again.  Starts out as a dishwasher at places that are new with cheap owners or neighborhood places where the original owners retired and the new ones cut corners. I said starts a dishwasher but he never stays as one, the other cooks get ‘sick’ or quit and he moves up the chain, until he’s basically the only one in the kitchen. His nickname is ‘Living Kitchen Nightmare’ and he’s been around since the 80s as far as anyone knows. After the restaurant he works at closes for good, he’s gone in a puff of disgusting smoke.

So I found out my research assistant Ada is after this guy, I might as well hold a funeral for her, cuz she's probably dead and probably rotting in a walk in freezer. I mean I should look into it, that guy in London survived an encounter, but Gus is awful and many suspect he's just a bunch of rats and roaches in a trench coat err chef's coat.

Also to my esteemed colleagues he was last working at a hamburger place on the Jersey Shore, it's a another reason to avoid that awful state.