#tma tapes

[edensbackyard]

Tape recorder click sound my beloved

[ennthony]

Good Lord. I think I have a new goal in life.

It is complete! After obtaining a new tape deck (and 146 re-records because the quality difference was day and night) I have finally finished recording all 200 episodes of The Magnus Archives on tape. Now all that is left is the "painful" task of having to listen to them all and confirm the recordings are good ;)

[saewokhrisz]

sometimes i think im funny

og under cut

[najicicada]

Statement ends

[novahedron]

Me circa 2018: what the fuck is a mangos archives

Me, 2023, covered in blood: I get it now.

[bluenoisen]

plunged into the deep end

[lonelyslutavatar]

TOMMY AND ADAM TOMMY AND ADAM TOMMY AND ADAM

[therealdistortion]

There are two kinds of tma fans that listen to tmagp

One that looses their shit the second they hear a tape recorder

And one that is so used to hearing tape recorders that they don’t notice until they see everyone loosing their shit over it

[acearchivist359]

did anyone else just feel just a wave of dread as they realized that sam was giving a fucking statement . cause i missed the tape recorder click in the rain sounds so i didn’t realize and then he started talking and it was just oh . ohhhh no

[spiral-man]

There is some so insanely heartbreaking to me about Jonathan Sims and the way the statements were recorded. They were all originally handwritten which is such a very human thing, using your own flesh and blood write something down, just the amount of effort and emotion that goes into that. And then Jon had to digitize them using a tape recorder, definitely a lot less human as it’s now batteries and tape but still human enough since it’s using his voice. And now he’s fully inhuman, robotic, stuck in a computer, where there used to be blood and skin and bone there is now plastic and wires and a screen.

I’m currently studying funeral services and in my embalming textbook it talks about how one woman phrased it like “a dead body is an object, but it is an object unlike any other object, cannot be like any other object, because this object used to be alive” and I really like that, it feels comforting, it feels human. Jon doesn’t get this though, he was terrified of being inhuman and he doesn’t even get to be human in this “somewhere else” he doesn’t get to be an object that used to be alive, he is just an object, like a pencil that wrote down the original statements, or the tape recorder that used to record them, and now the computer.

[bardic-irritation]

losing my mind what do you mean martin is canonically Down Bad for jon? and jon is canonically ace? these were casually confirmed in the span of like 30 seconds? i thought those were just the typical in-denial fanbase headcanons, they're REAL?!?

[y3llow-hoodie]

[vicioustoker]

thinking about how jon couldn't record any of the statements digitally and how now we only get to hear his voice through the computer

[phantomrose96]

Entity!Jon who chases terrified people around with a tape recorder until they die of fright is actually, in fact, peak comedy.

[bagofdo-ritos]

jon: save me statement… statement save me

[solo-walker]

I want TMA to be made into a musical for just one reason:

The Jurgen Leitner rant as a Jon-Gerry duet.