2025-07-02 0:20:39 ¶ ●

I was fandom adjacent to The Magnus Archives for years before actually watching the series, so here’s a list of things I thought about TMA when I only knew the series from mutual posting:

A: I thought Anabelle Cane was far more of an ally to Jon and Martin then she ended up being. Like, I thought she joined the main crew at one point and TBH I think this is thing I’m most disappointed that I was wrong about.

B: Someone called Agnes Montague a ghost in what was probably a metaphorical sense and I thought it was a literal sense so I spent the whole series waiting for Agnes to show up as a ghost. Then when Gerard Keay showed up as a ghost I genuinely thought she was going to be part of the skin book for some reason.

C: I thought The Hunt was the fear of animals and nature. Like wolves or poisonous snakes, or mudslides, or getting lost in a forest.

D: I also thought The Lonely was the fear of people and was basically the manifestation of social anxiety.

E: I thought Daisy was in a monstrous wolf form for like 70% of the series, turns out the people I was following just really liked Season 5. Or they were furies.

F: I thought The Admiral was The Institute’s cat. I thought he was a stray that they all took care of.

G: Everyone’s fanart’s of the character’s are so consistent that I figured an official reference had been made for them at some point and I was like “I can’t wait to finish TMA and go see the canon references that everyone inspires their art of off!” Turn’s out the fandom was just going off vibes, and quite frankly they’re the best vibes of all time because yeah they just seem like they’d look like that.

H: I knew about Sasha and Tim’s fates, but I thought Sasha died in the Season 2 finale and Tim died in early Season 5. I was NOT ready.

I: I thought Gertrude got confirmed as bisexual and I don’t even remember which post made me think that. It might have just come to me in a dream, who knows?

J: In terms of ships I thought Daisy/Basira and Doorkeay were canon, while Georgie/Melanie and Jon/Martin were just popular fandom ships. I think my jaw genuinely dropped twice during Season 4 when I realized what was going canon and what wasn’t.