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Looking at my drafts for something to post and all my drafts fall into one of a few categories:

1. TMA thoughts that i had in quick succession and draftified in order to space them out. Quality ranges from “absolute shitpost” to “really insightful deep dive into some random part of the podcast”

2. Rants under multi-month-old posts that i opted not to post because it didn’t actually add anything to the post (generally multiple paragraphs long

3. The most unhinged half written posts youve ever seen. One of them just says “The Web is just” about 14 times followed by “The Eye is just” another 14 times and i dont remember what i was planning to do with it

i would love to hear more of your thoughts on michael shelley!!! 🌀🚪✨

you're in luck because i've sat on thoughts about him for years and i finally feel like i can articulate them. because michael shelley is such a well written case of tragic horror in the horror tragedy podcast. and, despite my criticisms of season 5, it really did do an excellent job in concluding his character arc with the gertrude backstory episode. in a podcast where a common in-universe theme is that knowledge, and the pursuit of knowledge, is dangerous, michael is a subversion in that his ignorance of the horrors of the world he lived in not only didn't save him, but was intentionally engineered to make him vulnerable to exploitation and harm (which, on a broader scope, emphasises the futility of the world of the magnus archives - regardless of whether you participate in or turn a blind eye to the systems at play, involved or uninvolved, you are not safe).

furthermore, i really appreciate the subversion of traditional tropes of the sacrifice as a typically female figure taken advantage of by a male father, brother, or lover, whose tragic and horrible death is used to motivate him (whether to greatness or self-destruction), with michael being a son sacrificed by his mother (or grandmother) figure, who never actually loved him and whose 'frail' and 'nurturing' qualities were weaponised incompetence used to gaslight and manipulate him - and who continues to operate successfully (at least in terms of what can be said to be 'success' in a world like the magnus archives) without being haunted by any apparent doubt about the decision she made, or any hesitation to use others in similar ways, following this betrayal. which makes the fact that he's sewn into the fabric of a being that represents lies in their most insidious form, used as a weapon to devour people and destroy their lives, all the more abhorrent in hindsight - he is forced to not only relive his trauma in an endless loop (or spiral, if you will), but to become the mechanism which enables it. michael is taken to the edge of something evil (at least from a human perspective), and pushed over the threshold with no hope of recourse. there's almost a reverse orphic quality to it - he descends into terrifying other world, one which exists side-by-side with but fundamentally seperate from his own, against his will, and looking back will only cause him pain as he's assaulted by memories of a life he will never be able to reach.

i think a lot of people forget to look past the surface with michael, despite there being an entire episode dedicated to doing so. which is understandable, he's a very outwardly expressive character - but this is intentional obfuscation to hide an incredibly damaged victim whose hatred of this part of himself is integral to his entire reason for being, and which the rejection of causes him to be unmade, incapable of existing as this contradictory nightmare any longer. it's a mercy killing, and yet it is violent and painful, because michael cannot and should not exist, and excising that graft used to muzzle the distortion is as agonising as latching it into place was in the first place. when michael-the-distortion says about michael shelley "he was born. he was pointless. and he should have died." there is an implicit longing there, a rage at the way he was used, his decisions made for him and used to imprison something else instead of ever being allowed to exercise any measure of free will. because michael shelley probably would have died for the archivist, given the opportunity, but he never got the choice.

Someone left me on tma tumblr for too long and now im writing fanfic instead of doing the things i said i would do today 👍

I was trying to express something about jon’s eyes, but unfortunately the mental word processing crashed and it came out as “imagine having a glow in the dark boyfriend”. So there you go that’s the new post

Artworks of michael distortion and michael shelley in the same image often draw the former intimidating/enfolding the latter. But that’s not it at all, is it? They’re one and the same, yet mutually unrecognizable to each other. The distortion did not prey on michael shelley, he was fed to it and it was bound to him. And once it became clear it would not escape unscathed, it did not want him. Michael shelley was never even meant for the spiral at all, and it shows in how it acts as a distortion. If anything, the intimidating factor above the hapless human should be gertrude robinson, not any facet of something that could be called michael in some capacity

Yknow what? Fuck it. Boosting my luck stat for this week

so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

This post literally changed my life- (in a good way)

Anyways since it looks like I might be a Tumblr User(TM) now, I figured it would be wayyy easier to find this post if I actually reblog it already instead of just leaving the url in random spots on my desktop. Hello tumblr welcome to my eternal brainrot I am very normal about fandoms that have a mind electric animatic

after seeing that other ask recommending you a song, I can't help but toss in my own recent obsession- The Mind Electric, though I'd recommend looking up the version without flashing lights / reversed audio. the lyrics, uh... really speak for themselves as to why it feels like a hordak song to me

Ah, all these song recommendations! Everyone should partake c:

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Laptops are always so much more Fucked than phones in my experience. A laptop is like a beautiful horse that wants nothing more than to break all of its legs. A decently solid android phone will act normal

New bot account format guys! Username made up of a few words usually, no dashes, and with a single random-ish post or reblog on it. They tend not to have their like or follow list visible, and they follow you out of nowhere and then don’t interact further. Interesting construction.