#tmag spoilers

[jayceewarhammerman]

Listen

I am as upset as anybody with Sam laughing off Gwen venting about The Horrors™️

But if a coworker came up to me and said seriously: Barney is real and has murdered several people at a strip club, I too would piss myself laughing at their expense

[angell-castiglione]

Just learned today that there are people who hate Martin Blackwood.

Martin “I will repeatedly and without hesitation throw myself before eldritch horrors so the people I love can be free from tyranny” Blackwood.

Martin “My fatal flaw is loyalty and the need to protect my loved ones” Blackwood.

Martin “The thing that breaks my brain is that no matter how much I love and care for my mother she will always hate me because I look like my father” Blackwood.

Martin “There’s nothing wrong with wanting everyone to be ok” Blackwood.

Ok, sure, yeah. Clearly he pretends to be mild mannered as a defense mechanism. If given the chance he would go scorched earth on every avatar and is angry when Jon doesn’t listen to him. And? Is he not allowed to be angry at a lack of justice? It’s not exactly a dilemma with a perfect solution.

Idk there’s something about characters so dedicated to the well being of the people around them that they repeatedly fall on swords for them. Sure, it’s a coping mechanism to need everyone in your life to be happy. That makes him feel safe.

And??? Jon’s cope is the need to understand. That doesn’t do much for anyone except repeatedly put people in harm’s way. He tells himself he’ll destroy the fears once he kills Jonah, but he was clearly deluding himself. He wanted the knowledge all to himself and Martin called him on his bullshit.

That’s not to say he deserves hate either. Obviously he’s a victim of the Ceaseless Watcher and had his fear warped into something monstrous. But Martin’s fears drove him to extremes in order to protect the people around him.

He’s a terrified, bumbling hero and the most nuanced character of the Magnus Archives.

[cool-person-yey]

i hope Eric Delano is happily divorced somewhere

[bopbop171]

Spinoff of Sams Apocalypse Adventure when?

[theelkmaiden]

So I had a thought while scrolling and I just need to get it out there.

You know how Archives Jon and Martin were pretty tied to the crack in the multiverse due to the web of tapes. Well, what if their connection killed all the subsequent Jons and Martins in existence (like the protocol jmart) specifically them dying as they're being pulled though. Jon was stabbed (in the heart) and Martin was (presumably) crushed by the panopticon and that kind of impact would kill anyone who just so happens to be riding a bike to work.

I mean, obviously something of Jon and Martin is left in this universe, but that could be because they're entity aligned. Any normal human Jons and Martins wouldn't have that kind of durability.

Anyway, that's just my ramblings

[tear-catch3r]

I AM IN TEARS THIS KILLED ME

[eye-saw-that]

new Guy just dropped

[theythemmaehem]

gwens entire speech (tmagp)

I have put together everything Gwen said while she was compelled into one big paragraph so yippee!

GWEN [COMPELLED]

“When I was a little girl there was a shed at the bottom of the garden that I was always told never to go inside. There were tools and sharp and deadly things that were not right, too dangerous for a little girl. But then one year we lost the gardener to another house and the new one brought everything they needed in the van so the shed was locked up tight and sealed against any nosy children who would think that something in there might be rusty toys for playing without the fear they needed at what damage such sharp metal can inflict on uncareful flesh it took no more than the smallest push to break it open and inside spilled out teeming swarms of writhing bonewhite maggots flesh poured forth from the rotted fox that must have come in through the window seeking warmth not death instead finding only putrescence seeping squirming reaching for me as I-“

and then ofc it cuts off

very interesting im so completely normal about it

[neverfeverdream]

when i was a kid i was scared of clowns, and ive grown out of it since then

Mr. Bonzo is about to fucking ruin it!!!!! what was that!!!! i made it through all of tma unscathed by my early childhood clown problems, and for WHAT

[warensupremo]

somehow in that 10-minute ride alice managed to charm the taxi driver??? hot girl privilege

[jayceewarhammerman]

In today’s episode of Magnus Protocol:

• Isaac Newton creates the ✨Philosopher’s Bush✨

• Old Yeller learns the process of Alchemic Photosynthesis

• Collin checks if Alice has Games on Her Phone

• We learn The Great Fire of London was caused because an Avatar of the Corruption forgot to change the batteries in their smoke alarm

• Sam forgot to turn on Incognito Mode while examining government secrets

[lesmurples]

(Spoilers for TMA and TMAGP below.)

Just remembered that Jonah’s desiccated original corpse was in the tunnels in TMA and had a flurry of TMAGP theories sprout in my brain. (I haven’t been in the fandom much recently, so apologies if any of this has already been said elsewhere.)

Maybe the thing coming out of the trap door in ep 10 is Jonah’s og zombie corpse? The body holding Jonah’s eyes and consciousness may have died, but in TMA it was indicated that this body needed to be killed in order to kill Jonah, or at least to kick him out of the Panopticon’s seat of power to make way for Martin. If it has any trace of life or Jonah (or just The Eye) left in it, maybe it could have slowly dragged itself up to that trap door over the years.

On that matter, maybe Elias became the new Jonah in this universe too, and that’s why Gwen is trying to learn more about this supernatural world. She either knew he had been changed, or she wants to know what happened that led to his death/disappearance after the fire - assuming that’s what happened to Elias in this world. (That or maybe Elias was also in the “gifted program” and something went terribly wrong.) something something we thought Alice was the new Tim but alas it was Gwen the whole time etc.

If Jonah was pulled from the TMA universe and isekai’ed into an ancient computer along with jmart, maybe he’s able to reach out to this parallel version of this body, possessing it to interact with the world or just puppeteering it.

On the subject of the fearsome threesome stuck in a computer, there is also the question of what “Chester”s game is, seemingly leading Sam on to fish around in the Magnus Institute ruins. Maybe his last message was a warning not to do this, but Sam seemed pretty resigned to not getting answers before that statement from artifact storage. Maybe “Chester” wanted to free a version of Jon himself from the tunnels, or maybe there’s a disconnect between the actions of “Jon” trying to lead Sam to answers and “Chester” sharing a forum thread in the first ep seemingly warning Sam to stay away from the Magnus Institute. Then again, maybe this too was trying to send Sam to the institute, since Sam seemed to have not thought about his experiences there for a long time. So maybe this whole thing really is Jon leading Sam to uncover these things, not wanting to be “another goddamn mystery,” and maybe the the thing crawling out of the basement is related to Jon. OR maybe there’s nothing stopping a trapped Jonah from using Jon’s voice for his own ends. After all, that email to Sam may have been from “Jon,” but consider that the first three letters of Jonah’s name are indeed J O N OH HO HO I SEE WHAT YOU’RE DOING JONNY, THEY CALLED ME MAD BUT I SAW THROUGH YOU THIS WHOLE TIME-

Anyway thank you for coming to my ted talk.

[thefandomlifechoseme]

The OIAR employees: *minding their own business*

The definitely not haunted program that no one understands how it works: beeps, boops, or even bings

Colin, instantly, with a sledgehammer in hand: -AVATAR OF THE WHORE-

Gwen: *holding him back with one hand, completing overdue paperwork in the other, fed up with the world*

Alice: *munching on a packet of Doritos*

Sam, stealing a handful: is this.... normal?

[funkyt-t]

Sam: Isn't it horrible that the OIAR killed everyone in the Magnus institute?

Celia, who saw the Beholding fist hand: Well...

[limpest-noodle]

tmagp ep 22 spoilers below cut

(please please go listen to it asap)

OMGOMGONGONGOMG MY BOYYYYS

CELIA WHERE TF DID YOU GET THE NAMES

DOES SHE REMEMBER THEM??

WHAT IS GOING ON

THE BOYS ARE COMING BACKK

[racooninurtrash]

archivist namedrop xjskeowpdkehsja?!??!!