Deeply Unserious Five-second Doodle Inspired By This Post By @amiableamos

Statement of Dolly Parton regarding…”Jolene”

One of my favorite things about The Magnus Archives is how we're initially introduced to two characters: One who is an Archivist who is very scholarly, curious, and observant. And the other is a kind man who likes to make tea and is said by multiple people to have no survival instincts.

Then as the series goes on the kind man with "no survival instincts" is slowly reveled to be someone who is quite cunning and manipulative when he needs to be. He's consistently shown to be one of the smartest characters in the series, and he pulls off some pretty impressive feats like playing Peter like a fiddle for the majority of season 4 and having enough foresight to put an end to the apocalypse in season 5.

Then there's the Archivist. While he is very book smart, most of his street smart plans rely on ✨vibes✨ and the phrase "Gee. I sure hope this works!" He got lost in the tunnels where his boss was murdered. He has been kidnapped an unreasonable amount of times. He read a statement about a binding ritual trapping a creature to a table and decided to hit said table with an axe.

Martin and Jon are such good subversions of their character archetypes and it's so fun to think about. Martin, who tends to be portrayed as the worst assistant in season 1, ends up making logical choices even when they contradict with what his heart/gut instinct wants. Meanwhile, Jon, who is first portrayed as this guy who is "logical to the point of skepticism," ends up spending most of the series making choices with his heart and/or gut instinct. He's not great at using his head when push comes to shove, but he's usually trying to make the choice that feels right in the moment.

Jon and Martin's growth throughout the series takes them in opposite directions that break their archetypes, and that makes the series so much more enjoyable to me. It wouldn't be the same if Martin hadn't burned the statements in front of Elias or if Jon hadn't broken into Gertrude's flat, and I do love how the "logical Archivist" is genuinely one of the most unhinged characters in the series by like... season 2.

First sketch for Peter Lukas ('7')/ fun fact(?) : In my wip drawing have Leitner but when I finished the sketch, I decide to give the design to Peter-----

MOOORE SCOTTISH SAFEHOUSEEEE

(the way I recently found out, that we could have had T E N episodes of "the office romance", before shit hit the fan, but NOOOOO A l e x-)

(Martin's frostbite scars)

Close enough

Welcome back anatomy students

Quick sketch i did (of the first 8 donations at least, the screaming face fake plant vase got me i must admit, i had to draw it but then i lost track of shit obviously, also dont mind the crookedness of the paintings)

finished TMA

mag 159 animatic because i can't get this scene out of my head

win for traumatised individuals! local eldritch horror is here to rip it all out free of charge

jon gets tipsy off a couple sips of red wine and martin has to carry him around like a sack of potatoes