here have this *throws 12k words of jon and gerry being friends and gerry talking about the love his life michael while jon figures out how to break the news that michael is dead*
or in other words: i rewrote ep 111 of tma. well, more like i added 12,000 words to it
*through ugly tears* John was trapped in the darkworld again- thrown there violently by the king. He was stuck there for countless years- and he still remembered Arthur. He was willing to do so fucking much just to be back with Arthur. He just wanted a life back with Arthur. Guys. GUYS. The first thing he heard when he got back was Arthur playing the piano and longing for him just as much as he was longing for Arthur. John came back after lifetimes of being trapped and tortured and was instantly welcomed by Arthur sobbing tears of joy at his return despite being dragged off to his possible death. Arthur is the only thing that mattered and he was terrified of losing him again. IM SO NORMAL RIGHT NOW. IM SO NORMAL.
gerry was being experimented on in the magnus institute bc his mother forced him to. gertrude was working there but since there is no threat of the apocalypse in this universe she isn’t as hardened by life as she was in tma. she grows attached to him (maybe bc she knew eric delano??? who’s i guess dead???) and takes him in, gets him out of the institute and away from mary keay. cue found family library AU
FUCK another point towards the Gerry situation being Fucked: the episode title is “Running on Empty.” The case being about something that seems vibrant, colorful and full of life at a distance but when you get closer it’s hollow, there’s nothing behind it
podcast protags are always so silly if you try to explain. archivist so bad at it that he becomes the eldritch overseer of a ruined world. accountant popsicle and his redditor best friend. 30s detective with some incorporeal asshole controlling his eyes. woman and guy that are spiritually entwined with the spirit of the idea of a really muddy river. it never gets old
hiiii so i started listening to ur podcast and i absolutely love it!! i'm working on a fanart and i was wondering, does grace have an official design or anything? i kinda have a hc design but idk :0 i love their character sm already, hlwl is so cool so far and i cant wait for more episodes! also thank u so much for all of your artwork, especially your tma stuff!! have a lovely day <33
Hii, thanks for listening ^^
No, Grace doesn’t have an official design. The most I’d give them is probably a clothes description in the future (or haircut?).
I love scrolling through fan interpretation of characters from my favorite podcasts, so I wanted to do that here as well <33
will never ever get over the fact that the church of scientology tried to indoctrinate some magnus protocol arg players out in the wild. like that’s something that should be up there in the fandom history books but i haven’t seen anyone talk about it it’s so funny
when i was listening to the magnus archives i wrote down a timestamp for when jon said cock and balls so if you ever need that timestamp it happens at about 2:39 in episode 103
my theory on why gerry’s hair is so badly dyed is that he tried to give himself highlights with one of those ugly ass hair caps that u poke with a hook, and then when it came out looking chunky and completely disastrous, he cried in the bathroom for 20 minutes solid before locating the black fabric dye
The day we’ve all been waiting for. The question that longs for an answer. The answer that will bring world peace and solve all of the problems and mysteries of the universe!!! Finals!!!!!
It is my pleasure to announce out competition has a winner! Jonathan Sims, from the Magnus archives was just crownded the saddest gay and ultimate depressed queer! King of homosexual unhappiness. I will be back in a week or so with some art for him, as I am kinda busy rn (and utterly depressed ). It has been lovely to run The saddest gay competition, thought the fights in the end took a great part of my joy in interacting with the voters. Thus I hereby name Ryo Asuka the Lord of gay sadness, forever to be overshadowed by his highness Jon, but still such a gay little shit. I hope you guys had as much fun with this as I did. :)
IT FINALLY HAPPENED, GUYS. HE FINALLY WON SOMETHING FOR ONCE
Random thought but what if gertrude let gerry die bc she sensed that he had been marked by all of the fears by virtue of bookhunting and didnt want jonah noticing and abruptly changing plans for who the archivist is
“Oh you had a plague? Come back to us when you had a World War, brand new unconventional weapons, and a new international order.”
I apologize.
insert that YOU chihuahua post where theyre being pinned down i cant for the life of me find it
This one?
Oh, Charles. The hubris. Honey. You had to know this was a possibility. Why would you tempt Apollo like that.
I love how we don’t even need Apollo to be captioned, it’s just “he’s holding a dodgeball and looks Greek statue, of COURSE it’s Apollo delivering the gift of prophecy unto unsuspecting tumblr users”
jonah magnus possessing someone for the first time. one eye at a time. jonah magnus looking in the mirror, oh, my eyes inside someone else, and they look a bit too different. jonah magnus scared, terrified of what he’s done, staring at his own body. just sitting there. seeing himself fully with his own eyes, a perspective no human is supposed to view themself from. this is how everyone else sees you. jonah magnus examining his own body. this is what my face looked like. jonah magnus picking up the knife again, just out of curiosity. just to see if it still hurts. jonah magnus sitting in his own lap, cutting into his own skin, falling asleep in his own arms, beholding himself.
some friendly reminders: several tmagp cast members have said that episode 10 is their favorite because “alice and sam go to a place and do a thing.” in a q&a stream, alex and jonny said that people would most likely only really start to understand and appreciate lena around episode 10. after episode ten there is going to be a four week hiatus :)
Hey guys, we need to talk. Because a certain little something in TMAGP 8 is causing what is genuinely the most toxic part of the Magpod fandom at large to once again rear its ugly head.
So let’s talk about podcast character appearance head canons, shall we?
I’m tagging this with the Magnus Archives, TMA and Magpod tags because I am absolutely calling all of you out, but if you don’t want spoilers for The Magnus Protocol episode 8 then stop reading right now.
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. Okay, so, Gerry exists in the TMAGP universe. He’s happy (or at least acts cheerful). And some people have headcanoned this to mean that he is no longer goth, or at the very least isn’t dying his hair black with bad box color.
And other people have decided to get seriously agro over this. I have literally seen with my very own eyeballs someone call “un-gothing” Gerry a “hate crime” and calling the person they were talking to “gothphobic.”
Let me make this absolutely clear for all of you: podcasts are a purely audio medium and unless a physical trait of theirs is explicitely stated, everyone’s headcanon for how a character appears is valid.
Goth TMAGP Gerry is valid.
But also
Rainbow Goth TMAGP Gerry is valid.
Pastel Goth TMAGP Gerry is valid.
Not Goth At All TMAGP Gerry is valid.
Bald Gerry who has actually gotten his brain cancer diagnosed in time and is getting treated for it is valid.
Somebody’s headcanon of a character that has no canonical description to them, or whose headcanon matches the few crumbs of canonical description we have but otherwise doesn’t look the way you imagine them to, is not going to take away from your own headcanon of what a character looks like. If someone imagining or drawing a character looking a different way from how you imagine them looking somehow takes away from your enjoyment of the fandom or otherwise makes you feel like you need to barge in and tell them that they’re Wrong and need to conform to your headcanon or else, that is a reflection on you, not them.
And this problem way predates TMAGP, let alone TMAGP 8.
The only description we have of John is that he is in his early 30’s and has prematurely greying hair.
If someone thinks he looks like the pastiest motherfucker to ever dwell in a basement, an extra-in-the-Adam’s Family or Tim Burtan protagonist of a man, let them.
What’s that? You want to tell them that John is BROWN and if they don’t headcanon him looking that way they’re WRONG and RACIST? Back away from the keyboard and go outside.
(Ironically, as someone who started getting grey hairs in my hair in my 20’s myself, I’m pretty sure everyone’s headcanon of John, with tiny little whisps of grey in his hair, is wrong, because if he was so grey that people were surprised to learn he was “a child of the 90’s,” he was probably full on salt-and-pepper when he was in his 20’s.)
The only description we have for Martin is that he (man who canonically has the self esteem of a used doormat) describes himself as “not the smallest guy”, Not-Sasha called him “roomy”, Melanie is skinner than him, and Jonny said he imagined him as a “bigger guy” who would beat Alex in a physical fight.
If someone decides to take this information and conclude that it means he’s tall, broad and has muscle, rather than that he’s overweight, fucking let them.
If your first instinct to this is to run to your keyboard and call them “fatphobic” or otherwise bash them for it, I once again urge you to back away from your keyboard and go outside.
Someone headcanons Basira not wearing a headscarf? We have exactly 0 canonical physical description of her and the people who headcanon her as having one are basing that purely off of her name alone. Fucking let them.
Someone headcanons Melanie and/ or Georgie as a skin color you don’t agree with or a hairstyle you don’t like? Fucking let them.
As long as someone’s headcanon of a character’s description doesn’t contradict the few canonical descriptions we have of a character, why do you care? Them having a different headcanon from you doesn’t take away your right to imagine the characters looking however you like, anymore than it should take away their right to do the same. Someone headcanoning John as white (or Black, or Asian, or Mixed, or whatever) isn’t going to make all of the fanart of John as brown with long hair suddenly disappear, nor the fanfiction describing him as such (although I do often wonder if the opposite is not true; is the fact that John looks the same in so much of the fanart I see on here really because of fandom “consensus”, or is it because people are absolutely awful to anyone who draws him Different?). Someone headcanoning Martin as not fat isn’t going to make the mountains of fanart of him as a fluffy little marshmallow vanish into the void (although I do remember hearing about someone getting bullied off the internet for daring to draw Martin as not fat). And someone headcanoning Gerry in TMAGP as not being goth isn’t going to take away your preciouse goth TMAGP Gerry headcanon.
That should be part of the fun of it, shouldn’t it? Seeing what different images people have conjured in their heads of these characters we only get to experience with our ears, and celebrating the differences as well as the similarities? Why are we bullying people into conforming to one appearance of a character when no actual canonical appearance of them exists?
Reblog if you think Gerry has even shittier hair dye in tmagp and it doesn’t speak anything at all about his character or overall happiness as a person
had a dream that I met a wizard and we fell in love and became unhealthily attached to each other so we decided to meld into one single creature together but the process was horrifically slow and painful and most of the dream was us lying in bed holding hands while lesions opened up in our skin and seeped out blue and green fluid and the wizard said “this is going to take a very very long time” and I said “that’s ok”
(having mildly hard time drawing) i hate doing this shit i’m never doing it again (having mildly fun time drawing) i love this shit it’s what i was born to do (having mildly hard time drawing) i hate this shi
I’m actually so tired of the way twitter gays will be like “you’re bi and date nonbinary people? You’re gay and go both ways?? Youre aromantic but date people? That doesn’t make ANY sense.”
Like seriously do you not know what this community is about. The literal definition of queer means peculiar. Sometimes queer people are fucking weird and messy and don’t make sense and sometimes and it’s both confusing and beautiful. Some of you will literally be like “um there’s no such thing as bi lesbians” yet you still have the sheer and utter fucking audacity to be like “I love weird gays!”.
Yeah, you sure love your sanitized version of what it means to be queer. You don’t actually know what it means, you just think “lesbian means girls who like girls, gay means boys who like boys, bi means people who like girls and boys, and-“ when the entire fucking point of it is that not everyone fits into the boxes you assign them. Exclusionists can go eat a dick.
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