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I BEG YOUR FINEST PARDON

Every time I open tumblr and see that TMA is trending I cackle gleefully and rub my hands together like a cartoon villain

Me, a chemistry major, hearing the name Robert Boyle:

“Who keeps stealing Georgie’s face?” WHAT THE HELL ABSOLUTELY NO ONE EVERYTHING IS 100% FINE 😃😃

rip Gary you would’ve love the D&D movie

I’m climbing the walls wtf was this episode

Jonny and Alex you can’t just make an episode about liminal spaces and expect me to not go batshit crazy on tumblr dot com

On today’s episode of I should be writing a lab report

Ah yes, the TmagP avatars:

guy who got peer pressured into eye removal by a building (i assume)

Incredibly talented artist… what will they do? Hurt people probably

Killed his wife, now he’s the garden

Violin player (evil)

73 million needles in a trench coat

This was my face whilst hearing all the references to tma

THIS SURE WAS AN EPISODE HUH

Me after hearing “do you know who Jon is”

HILLTOP CENTER?!?! brb processing this

Happy bpm day guys

Happy extended sounds of brutal pipe murder day to all who celebrate

babes wake up new limited edition Flesh violin just dropped

The Magnus Protocol 3 without context:

(those are jasmine flowers btw 😭)

The fact that alternate universe Jon and Martin are disembodied voices speaking out of a shitty computer that runs Windows 95 is very on brand for them tbh

“Even working with an ex?”

OH?!?! Jon and Georgie core

another day another cosmic existential horror podcast co-written by Jonny sims 🫡

why is drawing Elias Bouchard the hardest thing that I’ve ever done wtf

The best part of the Magnus archives is definitely the minute he takes after each statement to trash the person who gave it

Heavy on the Arctic part

Magnus Protocol Fanart to hype myself back up for the new season!!!!

SEMI CANON TMA DESIGNS FROM THE TTRPG?????? WOAHHHHHHH

TMA general update:

Okay so I’ve finished season 2 and now I’m almost done season 3, so we’ve got a lot to cover.

There have been so many death flags for Tim, even before he asked Elias to kill him :((( Finding out about Sasha really broke him, and then we find out The Stranger took his brother from him too. I have a feeling he will not survive the third season, rip. I’m putting off listening to the ‘Masquerade’ episode cause my guess is that’s when he’ll die, or something worse will happen to him while they’re trying to stop The Unknowing.

Jon’s character development has been truly masterful. He’s gone from a paranoid wreck to an avatar getting used to his burgeoning powers, I’m proud of him tbh, even though he’s literally becoming a monster. I like the new style in S3 where Jon travels around collecting statements and Martin reads more back at the Institute. The reappearing characters are great to see too! MAG111 was so interesting, we finally got an explanation and names for ‘The 14’ entities that have been behind all the spooks and abominations! And of course we met Gerry, another assistant Gertrude fed to the horrors without hesitation. Michael’s statement in MAG101 was also a big piece of lore, considering he’s a main antagonist/meddler. Finding out about the Impossible Altar, the Watcher’s Crown, (Eye-pocalypse?) and the other rituals was so exciting! I sense the overarching plot at work here…

Elias finally getting his hands dirty with some good old-fashioned pipe murder for the S2 finale was something else. He’s certainly been showing his true character in S3, snarky and devious but also has powers and knows how to use them. And ya’know, I thought it was fanon, but from the two Peter Lukas visits I’ve listened to so far, they really do act like an old married (for convenience) couple. Speaking of, the second time he showed up, Martin got transported to The Lonely when Peter Lukas talked to him!! Not his first time in an entity’s realm/domain, and luckily not his first time escaping from one. I’m so glad he got let go, I was really scared for him for a sec there.

Melanie and Basira have joined the team, (Elias’s prison), and it’s nice to have more pov characters to follow! I love how they made Basira a bookworm so much, it warms my nerdy heart! I was sad when Elias revealed Melanie’s father was a victim of The Corruption at that old folks home, (something-Ivy?), although I do appreciate her attempts at offing Elias, and I want to see where her research into war ghosts leads her. (We finally found out how she got shot by a ghost!)

This is the “oh yeah, it’s all coming together” point in the story and I am living for it! TMA is doing the mystery + horror balance very well; we’re learning some important lore in between getting scared by monsters. The darkness one from MAG86 still haunts me, its “the blanket never did anything” line was so cold, it would’ve terrified me particularly bad as a kid.

That’s all for now! I’ll do another one of these around season 4, probably.

**He was not, in fact, seeing this shit.**

blorbos from my podcast

i had to illustrate a short story for uni so i took the opportunity to make some fanart

The Magnus Archives: mentions a road/ borough I visit regularly/ live in:

Me (a Londoner):

Horror podcasts are REALLY gay.

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