hii saw you were pondering going down the rusty quill rabbit hole and i totally recommend woe.begone!! it is quite gorey but if you like time travel narratives you'll be all over it <33
I’ve been obsessed with tma time travel fics, especially this one. It’s making me wanna make comics of certain scenes that I absolutely adore jkgkjfhshfj
AITA for being upset with my boyfriend for the position he put me in?
My boyfriend (M30s) and I(M30s) have been dating for a few months, but have known each other for a few years now. He was my supervisor in the archives department at a paranormal research institute (I don’t want to name names and get in trouble, but you could probably guess which one it is) and I was an archival assistant.
Recently, my boyfriend’s boss (the head of said institute) manipulated him into starting the apocalypse and changing the world as we know it. I want to make it clear that I don’t blame him at all for this. I love my boyfriend and I know he never intended for this to happen. But he blames himself a lot, despite my best efforts to convince him that this wasn’t his fault.
We were faced with a decision recently that would have fixed things. There were essentially two choices, which I’m going to try and present in an unbiased manner, though I have my opinions.
-We could kill our boss. However, this would require my boyfriend to take my boss’s place as the arbiter of the dread power who oversees the apocalypse. My boyfriend would have been arguably in a worse position than ever before.
-We could flush out our boss (as well as all the other core fears of our new apocalypse) into an alternate dimension. However, we would have no idea who or what could be impacted by that.
Me, my boyfriend and a few of our coworkers ended up discussing it and putting it to a vote. We decided to go with the second option. My boyfriend wasn’t happy with this (I think it’s because he’s got a bit of a martyr complex, but he insists that’s not the reason.)
My boyfriend said that he would go along with the popular vote, but he ended up going behind my back to carry out the first option. I found him in the process of ascending into godhood, but was too late to stop it. I was PISSED OFF. Pissed off isn’t strong enough. I was furious. Not only did he go behind my back, but he insisted on carrying out his stupid martyr complex.)
I gave him a thorough scolding and he ended up telling me to go through with the second plan anyway, despite the fact that he’d now become god anyway. He said that if I stabbed him while the powers were being released, there was a chance we could come out the other end happy. I did it, but I was NOT happy to do it. It had a really big impact on me to do that to my boyfriend, especially when it was all avoidable. I feel angry still, but also a little bad for feeling so angry. So…AITA?
Edit for context: At one point, my boyfriend promised me that he would never leave me if there was any other option. So this felt like an added betrayal on top of all that.
Going from TMA Jonny Sim’s “I don’t want kissing noises in my podcast”, to ThePenumbra Podcast’s “there is a make out scene at the end of episode one” is WILD man—
RQ really made a whole piece of worldbuilding about sorting things based on vibes into vividly distinct yet loose enough categories, presented it to an audience of neurodivergent nerds and expected people to be normal about it huh. literally how am i supposed to go on with my life ever
I’ve been thinking about tmp, except I think of it off tmagp, and at some point that morphed into ‘tmagpie’, so all future posts will refer to The Magnus Protocol as The Magpie
god’s strongest soldiers are my mutuals who put up with me when I let the brainrot take over and start posting like I got possessed about something they haven’t even heard of yet
Earlier, I had a conversation with my mom about how she probably couldn’t be on the phone for long because she’s in the middle of nowhere and had exactly one bar of signal.
Just now, the same day, I texted her “Do you have bars?”
She responded: “In the pantry?”
…
“On your phone,” I reply. “For phone calls.”
She thought I was asking if she, much too far away to share them with me, had any granola bars
Gerry asking Jon about his love life (he knows Jon loves talking about Martin) and Jon rambling to Gerry about Martin. these two are besties you can’t change my mind.
damn tma fans really do just wanna be asked which eldritch fear god they’d give their soul to, huh? like, me too, but still. I feel as though we may have taken the wrong messaging from this show.
HI I LOVE UR MICHAEL SO MUCH AND WAIT IF HES A SHEEP DOES THAT MEAN GE WAS BORN IN 1967????
Yes! I headcanon that (or for this AU thing):
Michael was born on 1967. was hired into the institute around 1987 (age 20) was thrown into the spiral around 2010 (age 43)
while Gerry was born on 1986 Eric dies on 1988 (Gerry was 2 y/o) Mag 35 (2002) happens when Gerry was 16. Mary binds herself to the book when Gerry was 22.
The current year for them is 2015, so Gerry is currently 29 while Michael is 48.
(For this AU thing they meet months before Michael was thrown into the distortion. so, Michael would be around 43 while Gerry was 24.)