A Magnus Archives Headcanon:

Gerard likes bad movies. Like, really bad movies. He’ll only enjoy a piece of media if it’s rated less than 30% on Rotten Tomatoes.

However, he has very prestigious opinions about these movies and will talk about them as if they’re refined cinema.

Bonus Headcanon From An AU Where Everything Is Fine:

Jon once got into conversation with him about movies without knowing this. When Gerard started talking about a movie he watched the night before with prestigious intensity, Jon assumed he was mentioning a critically acclaimed film he had never even heard of.

It made Jon feel a bit behind in his media consumption…so he tried to nod along with the conversation and pretend that he totally knew what Gerard was talking about. It was only when Jon went “Yes! And the…visuals were…magnificent.” that Gerard realized what was going on. It made him laugh HARD, but it took Jon awhile to emotionally recover from the the interaction. (Though, he was able to see the humor in it after time had healed some of the wounds to his ego.)

Random Magnus Archive Headcanons

A: Gertrude used to have a hippie aesthetic. There’s only a handful of pictures that serve as evidence for this, and no one in her life has ever seen them.

B: Georgie loves DND and has a group she plays with on weekends. She’s the DM.

C: Gerard is bad at making decisions and tends to flip a coin when he’s unsure. He doesn’t always listen to the coin, but he finds it to be a good way to figure out which outcome he’d actually been hoping for.

D: Jon doesn’t realize this about himself, but he always plays paper when playing rock, paper, scissors. He doesn’t understand how he keeps loosing to Martin.

E: Michael Shelley had hiccup fits all the time.

F: Anabelle has done despicable and worrying things in every version of “The Sims” franchise. Including “The Sims Free Play” which…is almost impressive.

G: Jon found the Creepypasta website when he was a teen and genuinely thought he stumbled upon an Archive of documented supernatural encounters. He obviously hadn’t, and he realized that sooner than later, but not before gaining anxiety around the idea of hyper realistic eyes. (Jon after starting the apocalypse: “Martin this is just like that website. The pasta one.”)

H: Agnes is always wearing at least one piece of jewelry. Most people assume it’s am aesthetic thing, but really she just likes having something on her to fiddle with. She doesn’t know what to do with her hands otherwise.

I: Peter and Elias frequently send each other letters written on their finest parchment paper and mailed in a homemade envelope closed with their own personal wax seal. Then, after receiving each others letters, they shred them to be petty. They both know the other person shreds them, but they keep putting in a large amount of effort anyways. Their dynamic is incomprehensible.

J: Melanie has always had a deeply unnatural skill that’s come in handy many times in her life: She can train cats to do tricks. No one knows how she does it, not even herself, but give her an hour and a box of treats and she’ll have a cat sitting 50% of the time…Which is an impressively high number if you’ve ever met a cat.