ok well. a week ago i decided to get in to the magnus archives. I figured 8 episodes a day should get me caught up just in time for the end of the final season so i could consume it in real time and get in on the hype on tumblr. instead i binged 100 episodes in 6 days and now i am in constant terror.
me, flinching at every shadow in my periphery and odd noise in my house at 2am: its okay, british people aren't real
look i know everyone and their mother has drawn this scene but i am not immune to Cool Eye Imagery so i decided to give it a go too
words cannot express how funny this was
May I offer you a Gerry in these trying times?
Boy I sure do love sharing out of context comic panels rather than actually finishing anything!
This takes place during season 1 ✨
I LIKE. totally get why people arent super into jondaisy or daisy in general and i dont really think people need to feel positively about daisy because like beyond the “someone who committed unforgivable acts of violence” angle there is also the layer of “police brutality” which is going to hit a lot of people in ways that are both very personal and stiflingly societal. but . i am going to discuss jondaisy. because i am so fucking fascinated by their dynamic in so many ways.
anyway in s5 the things that stood out to me were.
1. jon saying he never forgave daisy
2. daisy never asking him to
3. jon wishing daisy had recognized him, after going fully hunt.
and it was i think such a chilling distillation of their dynamic that makes me FUCKING LOSE IT. like the fact that
one, jon did not ever forget OR forgive daisy for what she did to him,
two, he TRIED TO CUT OFF HIS FINGERS and then GAVE UP HIS RIBS to go into the coffin to SAVE HER despite this,
THREE, there is NO FUCKING WAY daisy didnt know that jon DID NOT FORGIVE HER and that him going into the coffin for her was NOT him saying its ok now, youre forgiven, but a very pointed its not fine and i dont forgive you but this is the right thing to do, and
FOUR i believe that yes her reflection and introspection re her actions and the kind of person shed been and let herself be and enabled basira to be as well happened partially because she was in the buried for six months with nothing but her thoughts BUT the catalyst for her desire to ACTUALLY change and decide to do whatever the fuck it took to be better INCLUDING die was because jon got into the coffin to rescue her, NOT because he forgave her, but because he DIDNT, and he did it anyway.
(arguably you can say that it was also a kind of a suicide mission. you can also argue it was because at that point jon was trying to get SOMETHING concrete GOOD done. you can also argue jon was just sort of like, resigned to the idea that he was good for nothing anyway so it didnt really matter. but jon saying he didnt forgive her makes me think there was an interpersonal relationship between them that made this a MORE complicated choice than “going into coffin easy way to die” like tim’s choice to blow the wax museum up was, or martin’s surrender to the lonely)
like. i cant fucking imagine the kind of person you have to be to be willing to cut your fingers off. to go to jared fucking hopworth and go take my fucking ribs idc. i need to go into the buried to save the woman who has been nothing but hostile to me and who tried to KILL me. and i need something to anchor me. so i will give up A PART OF MY BODY for that purpose. it makes me fucking lose my mind imagining the guilt daisy mustve felt. or not even guilt, because she wouldnt wallow in that, but – looking at someone who did that for her. who believed in her that much. that she was still worth saving. who said im a monster. and i dont forgive you for what you did to me, because i cant and dont want to and i get to choose if i do that and i won’t. and said youre a monster too. but i still think youre worth saving. so you can be better. because i still think we can both be better.
which goes back to the wishing she’d recognized him. because she recognized him once, as a peer. as another person whod done things that they felt could never be forgiven (on a smaller scale and this is arguable anyway, sure, but still) but who still saw her as a person. there was a time where they saw each other as equals who were pushing each other to do better. and its such a fucking shame that it can’t happen again because daisy is gone now.
Happy holidays! Have a hoop for Episode 135 - Dark Matter.
"A tiny, terrible sun of the pitchest black, shining beautiful darkness all around it."
I've had this one floating around in my head for a while. You can pry black on black embroidery from my cold, dead hands.
I recently reached that part in TMA where Georgie comments on how Jon doesn’t even have a library science degree which turns into finding out that nobody on the archival staff does and now I am very curious on what that hiring process looked like pre-season 1 considering that nobody at The Magnus Institute is remotely qualified
i like to think there are in fact people with library science degrees, jonah just deliberately put them in like. artifact storage to piss them off.
eric delano mentions having a library science degree! maybe that’s why he was the only one to figure out how to leave
now i dont know a TON about library science but are you telling me gouging your eyes out is a skill within that wheelhouse.
tullmetal-archivistReblogged madmaudlingoesiamnmbr3Followjust thinking about what a giving person jon is despite how little mercy and kindness the world has ever shown him32beesinatrenchcoat#he was unwanted since childhood and yet he’s the kind of person to immediately rip out 2 ribs for someone he’s not even that close to. they weren’t just not close, she had kidnapped him and threatened his life and made him so afraid he never forgave her for it. despite all that, he not only took out 2 of his ribs, he went into the buried where he knew he had very slim chances of getting out, and rescued that personsorry to hijack your post OP but I have a lot of love for the Archivist pleasant-miserySo many of the ‘wrong choices’ he made were him trying to help people. Jonah used his compassion to bait him on more than one occasion, and somehow Jon still only got kinder as the show progressed. 57551,363
tullmetal-archivistReblogged corvidbonesteeholdingFollowA bratty S1 Jon on this fine Saturday1751
tullmetal-archivistReblogged everchasedsaint-ceciliasFollowa pervasive and frankly borderline toxic issue in fandom these days is how popular headcanons are elevated to the status of being irrefutable canon and so insanely clung to and that when they are challenged, majority of fandom lose their damn minds and forget they was the ones to make the shit up in the first place loisfreakinglane#im not a CANON IS END ALL BE ALL person at all#but once fandom gets locked in on a specific headcanon and they can find a way to weaponize a moral reason why it is SO#fuggetaboutit#and its EXHAUSTING to watch tbh#going into non-edit tags is like setting urself on fire#and im a FANDOM OLD and like lol it wasn’t always like this saint-cecilias#your headcanons might be important#they might enhance your canon experience by a fuckton#they might make all kinds of sense to you#but literally none of that makes them actual canon#LITERALLY NONE OF IT#and its exhausting to see ppl villified for not falling in line with certain headcanons voxofthevoidListen, most of fandom doesn’t even give 2 flying fucks about canon compliance. Expecting compliance to popular fanon is ludicrous. 7614,43720,115
tullmetal-archivistReblogged poisonedcureyellowvixenFollowlocal goth on a bench what will he burn#GERRY51,8284,128
tullmetal-archivistReblogged mothmansbuttcrittizenFollowthis is a poem#this is someone who survived an entity encounter167178,576188,001
tullmetal-archivistReblogged corvidbonesggraceeFollowHello TMA what an EPISODE9633,128
tullmetal-archivistReblogged mxrbutchphilipronansFollowour gerard (affectionate)429884
tullmetal-archivistReblogged loumandlikeracornwoodpeckergranaryFollowbig squishy jonmartin for @piornik ,,,,,,,,,#jonmartin21,0742,678
tullmetal-archivistReblogged decadentcreatorblizzardashsweetFollowExtremely Untrustworthy Tea: The Dark and The SlaughterThats the last two folks! I’ll post all of them together tomorrow:)69742,865
tullmetal-archivistReblogged internetserviceprovidernat-20sFollowThe biggest appeal of fictional narrative podcasts is that their protagonists are almost always just as confused as I amnat-20sPodcast protag’s exasperated, lost, and incredulous voice: What33,7276,937
tullmetal-archivistReblogged july-19th-clubmundycideFollowim so sorry hot jon truthers but he was never in a “”cool”” band in college. he had a caffeine and nicotine addiction and did his dumb thesis and snot-cried into georgie’s calves when she dumped him#@ everyone who's drawn a college aged 'punk' jon: im glad you're having fun but you KNOW that's not right#<- previous tags lmao EXACTLY266211
tullmetal-archivistReblogged dead-tribadistadreadfulidea-deactivated202402I think a surprising amount of writers don’t realize that tragedies are supposed to be cathartic. They’re intended to result in a purging of emotion, a luxurious cry; the sorrow caused by a great tragedy is akin to fear caused by a good horror movie – it’s a “safe” sorrow, one that is actually satisfying to the audience. It can still be beautiful! It’s isn’t supposed to just be salting the earth so nothing can grow.But that’s how you get grimdark: writers who don’t realize that they’re supposed to be doing something with the audience instead of to the audience.jadewhisper#i once heard a lecture where someone said that the great appeal of tragedy is to see terrible things happen to people you’re supposed to#empathize with and see yourself in#and that the catharsis comes from seeing someone’s life go horribly wrong and still have the author hold your hand and tell you#‘this story mattered. even though it had a sad ending it still mattered. even if you don’t succeed your attempts matter’#grimdark tells you that the world sucks and nothing you do matters#well-written tragedy tells you that sometimes the world sucks but everything you do matters so so much#your story is still worth telling even if you never achieve that happy ending#or if you lose it along the way#people have inherent value and their stories deserve to be told no matter if they turn out okay or not#and in a reality that has no concept of ‘fair’ that shit just hits good man!!! feels good!!!!! it’s COMFORTING #tragedy#writing15080,74492,147
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tullmetal-archivistReblogged corvidbonesbirdpensFollowsee this lie, this golden strand of falsehood. 73,4746,436
tullmetal-archivistReblogged madmaudlingoesgretaghostFollowFooled you with the jmart post I actually only draw Gerry now#oh YES!!!!#gerry#MAG121,3563,135
tullmetal-archivistReblogged corvidbonesmisterghostfrogFollow[Image ID: A digital illustration of Jonathan Sims, viewed from the front. Jon is at hte center of the frame, standing over a desk. he’s a skinny man with dark skin, and short dark hair with a large streak of grey running through it. And several flyaway greys scattered around. He is wearing a blue vest with a single wavy stripe arcross the middle. A green polka dot tie, the polka dots have smaller dots in the center. Resulting in them resembling eyes, a pair of plain rectangle framed glasses, And a plain white button up shirt rolled up to his elbows. He is hunched over a desk, which is covered in a variety of items. In the foreground covering part of his arm is a large stack of papers, on the very top paper the words ‘Vittery case’ can be read. across the desk several other pieces of paper are scattered. there is a small purple mug with a cartoon smiling ghost on it, beside the ghost there is a speech bubble that says ‘boo!’. Beside the mug there is a laptop and a tape recorder. The background is a series of dark shapes, overlayed with what looks like tv static. One of Jon’s hands impressed up against his face, it has pushed his glasses up into his hair. and his other hand it on the desk, gripping onto it and crumpling some of the paper scattered across the surface. On the side of his face opposite of the one he is covering what appears to be a void full of plain eyes seems to be creeping over him, the eyes seem to bunch up and overlap each other, laving large patches of plain blackness around them. It has covered part of his face, just reaching his right eye, and still crawling up his fingertips of the hand on the table. Jons expression is one of extreme distress. The part that has been overtaken seems to be less solid than the rest of him. And is surrounded by small patches of tv static. There is a speechbuble by his head, the tail coming from both Jons mouth and the tape recorder by his laptop, the part of the bubble closer to the tape is full of faint static. The bubble says “What’s happening to me?” the words begin to overlap towards the bottom of the bubble, like there are multiple people speaking. End ID]So I saw this art by @wishfishy and it made me laugh and I loved the design so I wanted to do a funny little drawing based off it and instead I got this, so enjoy!159341
tullmetal-archivistRebloggediamnmbr3Followon the one hand i really appreciate what rq was trying to do both in terms of validating the right of fans/listeners to interpret stories how they want and also in terms of going out of their way to avoid queer baiting adjacent behaviors by accidentally overplaying the significance of a queer relationship in what is ultimately a cosmic horror tragedy. like genuinely i get where they were coming from and i appreciate it bc it’s such a breath of fresh air.but also. jonny saying “you can read jonmartin as platonic” in the post s4 q&a and then giving us the s5 he has is SO funny. i understand exactly why he said it but i will never stop laughing about it.galpalkirk5051,429
tullmetal-archivistRebloggedsatsumadrawsFollowThen and NowFinally got my rear in gear and did a real version of this doodle
*sigh* Let Jon nap 2k20#going thru old art <32142
tullmetal-archivistRebloggedcheroidFollowthe magnus archives is a good podcast#YES1,4883,385
tullmetal-archivistReblogged madmaudlingoesmosskrowFollowon his way to beat up a senior citizenactual size under the cutKeep reading4241,067
