So True

I wonder if Michael Shelley got a grave. I don't think Gertrude would have made one; she's not sentimental enough for it. If you make graves for people you lose, you might think too hard about sacrificing them. If he had living family, they probably would have been at least a little estranged by virtue of how much time he spent at this job that, frankly, would make him sound like a lunatic to most people. I also doubt Gertrude would report his death in any official way. He would just disappear, never to be heard from again. Anyone else might not know he was gone for months.

The other assistants... they would know he was gone. Some silent acknowledgment that he wouldn't come back and shouldn't be spoken about. Maybe one of them would give him a grave, maybe. Or maybe not; after all, burials generally involve digging in the dirt, and they all knew about the Coffin by then. Who would want to tempt fate that way, and all for one dead man that cared too much?

No, his only grave is a labyrinth of doors. And even that twisted, painful testament to who he was and what he did, is taken from him when Helen usurps him.

ABACUSYNTH by ELIAS JARZOMBEK [2022]

Abacusynth is a synthesizer inspired by an abacus, the ancient counting tool used all around the world. Just like an abacus is used to learn the fundamentals of math, the Abacusynth can be used to explore the building blocks of audio synthesis.

The web and the spiral and the eye are all the same thing. Until the finale I kept wondering why all three of them existed since they NEED each other to exist. They are aspects of one Fear. The only reason the Web is separate is because it’s sentient in a way the others aren’t. But just as Knowing isn’t necessarily Understanding, you do need to Know to Understand. Annabelle said more deceptive half-truths than the Distortion did, but in the exact same flavour. Helen did it for fun while Annabelle did it for sneaky plotting (and… probably also fun, tbh). I see the Spiral as having a lot to do with manic 3 am creativity, which is inexorably tied to all the best schemes. The Spiral and the Eye combine to form the Web. Screams loudly

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

Love emerging from the void, reblogging a bunch of memes, and disappearing again

Anyways hello gay people

You are not exempt from death of the author

"Jon and Martin are in the computers" I hear you, I hear you. So then walk with me. A lot of people quote Jon's "I will not become another damn mystery." when they discuss why him being trapped in the computer is tragic. But I think you are all missing the even more devastating quote and the episode it comes from.

“Supplemental. It looks like my posting on a few of the more tech-savvy boards appealing for statements has worked. While the incident itself seems ultimately inconsequential, I was able to convince Tessa to have a look at Gertrude’s laptop, claiming to have locked myself out,”

From MAG 65. And what is MAG 65? Tessa Winters' statement about Sergey Ushanka. The man who tried to upload his consciousness to a computer and got trapped in it.

"While the incident itself seems ultimately inconsequential" Jon, you truly cannot stop being a self-fulfilling prophecy, can you?

Its my new favorite post too

thats really awesome and furthermore, proceeds to find new ways to warp between sex, FBI"s and um really nice speed

hey magnus archives fans i know yall got a lot of mikes… you may even know a mike who isn’t in magnus

consider send one in?