#tmagp 08

[clairebearsparkles]

He’s happy, even if I don’t trust it for a second

[thirdchildart]

it's like colors if colors liked him 🖼️🧑‍🎨🎨😭

[4amode]

What do you mean the psychotic episode I just had a few days ago is not a reliable source for my essay?!?

[stupidsexygrizzop]

[officially-nothing]

[theboombutton]

I just got rate limited for posting comments on too many posts incorrectly tagged as #tmagp vague .

#tmagp vague is for hype that DOES NOT (significantly) SPOIL the episode it's about. If you put spoilers in the #vague tag you are ruining the vague experience for the people who want to use it!

Good vaguing for tmagp 8: The "Beyonce?!" meme

Hypes up future listeners

Ambiguous - is there a character who is actually like Beyonce in some way, or is this a metaphorical Beyonce in that it is a concept, object, or person that fans recognize and didn't expect to encounter?

Very minor spoiler. Readers know there is something that they will be excited to see, but not who/what it is or why they will be excited

Can be fully appreciated only after listening

Bad vaguing for tmagp 8: "OMG it's NAME and they're HAPPY!"

Spoils the surprise

Robs future listeners of the dawning realization

There's no mystery - they're just waiting for [name]

Listeners are likely to focus on waiting for [name] to the detriment of their enjoyment of the rest of the episode

Please, please, please stop posting major spoilers in #tmagp vague.

[syntia13treeman]

Rough transliteration of my reaction to new voices: "ÀAÀAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaAAaaAAaaaAaaAaAAAaaAaàaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAaAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaAAaaAAaaaAaaAaAAAaaAaàaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAaaaaaAAaaAAaaaAaaAaAAAaaAaàaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAaAaaaaAAAAaAaaaa!!!!

[syntia13treeman]

You're both right and you should say it.

Jonny and Alex are really just firing checkovs gun into the crowd and there are so many fucking casualties

[officially-nothing]

[theboombutton]

Ok, everybody's rightly freaking out about the 3 G's; but I've had a couple days to chew on this episode, and this is what's got me really ruminating:

What do you mean a "candidate," Sam? You were in the gifted program - what did that make you a candidate for?

[syntia13treeman]

Let me tell you, I kind of admire Terrance Stevens. Dude knows his self-care, holy shit.

His life was a mess and he felt lost? He deliberately found a lower paying but also less stressful new job and he gave himself an enrichment in the form of university course he finds interesting.

His new job turned out to be no-so-stressless and tried to eat him? He walked away, never to return.

He'd seen the unexplainable horrors? He explained them as nervous breakdown caused by hostile architecture and took himself away from said architecture, so now he needn't worry about being eaten OR his mental state.

Yes. Excellent behaviour. You go King, you would survive a horror movie.

[theboombutton]

5 (my working theory). Archivesverse Celia sought out Protocolverse Georgie because she has no memory of her previous identity, so Georgie or Melanie are the only people she could think of to go to for help.

Georgie's podcast only involves interdimensional travel because of Celia's involvement

so here's the thing about the latest protocol episode:

georgie has presumably been here for a while. long enough to have a podcast indexed on google, at least. so the assumption i've been seeing that she's protocol-verse georgie and separate from archives-verse georgie makes sense.

but then, why is her podcast on dimensional travel? (sam linked celia mentioning dimensions to the podcast directly, and he has no reason to lie—)

possibilities:

protocol-verse georgie is actually archives-verse georgie who was pulled into the protocol-verse somehow and started the podcast in hopes of finding her friends from archives-verse, and did in fact get celia in on it. they're trying to figure out what the hell is going on with the universes

protocol-verse georgie is separate from archives-verse georgie and is just doing a podcast on dimensional travel for funsies, while celia got pulled from archives into protocol and found georgie immediately but not the one she remembered. then her telling sam that her research was for georgie's podcast was lying to cover up that celia's actually trying to find a way to go back

protocol-verse georgie and protocol-verse celia are entirely different from archives-verse them and celia's whole "tape recorders and manila folders" thing is a whole red herring; she recognized chester because he sounded like georgie's ex (or current boyfriend?) from years ago

georgie's podcast is quite literally the magnus archives. somehow

[its-your-mind]

Everyone who has immediately assumed that Gerry’s hair is no longer dyed and he doesn’t have any piercings or tatts and wears pastel instead of black is SO VALID and I comPLETELY understand the desire to lean into the visible change but also you need to understand that the most goth/punk-looking people I know are also some of the happiest people I know bc they have allowed themselves to lean fully into who they want to be and they are relatively safe and stable enough to afford to do that.

also he is actively involved in his local artist scene there is no way he does not have at Least five piercings and two tattoos.

OMG MAYBE HE KNOWS (or knows someone who knows) INK5OUL

anyway in my head he still owns an obnoxious leather trenchcoat (he thrifted it), he STILL primarily wears punk rock band tshirts and black skinny jeans (but theyre like. artfully paint splattered. he did it on purpose.), his hair is STILL very poorly dyed black (but maybe he’s had some fun and added some colorful streaks) (the roots growing in are just cuz he can’t be fucked to bother with them until he has the Urge to fuck with his hair again), he’s still full of metal (but he’s gotten most of them done at a professional parlor), and he Does still have tattoos (eyes or not will be determined by whether or not we learn more about him) (jonny and alex plsplsplspls tell us more about him pls give me more gerry)

[lemonchilderen]

Another thing is that, unless Gertrude is Erics mom, (which i doubt) there is no way for Gertrude to be Gerrys bio grandmother because we know Mary's family history, she's a VanClosen Jon explains it to us in Mag23!

This reinforces my idea that SOMETHING IS WRONG.

[yellow-yellow-jacket]

hey yeah bro you can’t say you’re gonna write an analysis about liminal spaces and brutalism and then pivot over to a personal anecdote about being eaten alive. or having a psychotic break and hallucinating about being eaten alive. whatever. that’s not really how this essay works man

[theboombutton]

I am so disappointed in everyone in the comments giving away that this was going to happen. This post wasn't tagged as spoilers, so no one had any reason to believe they'd be spoiled by looking at the comments.

The unspoiled are our precious younger siblings in fandom. Protect them.

actually, it would be really funny if gerry shows up in a statement in tmagp considering the arg confirms that he & sam were in the same unethical magnus experiment. like he just just up in the middle of a talker & goes "gerard keay??? the gerard keay from traumatic childhood??? my fucking trauma buddy gerry???"