trans jonah magnus is so real to Me… a lot of his traits could be partially ascribed to his experience as a 19th century trans person
it would create a separation between him and hisbody, make him a guest in his own flesh, form a “my body is not my own” sentiment that would last for 200+ years (even if for different reasons). it would force him to create himself, and to fight for recognition. it would form the “it’s not in your blood, or your soul, or your destiny” belief (he wouldn’t believe in biological determinism at least, which is a solid argument, i think). it would make him afraid of being outed, and thus afraid of being truly known, and yet make him long for someone who would understand
Thinking about Jon and Elias hunting together in the most brutal, synchronised, and methodical fashion possible 🥰🥰🥰
I do have a weakness for the scarce moments of complicity we glimpse in the show. I wish we could have seen Jon realise that understanding Elias is both possible and inevitable to him because they are the same… and Jon would hate himself about it afterward, but that doesn’t change much now, does it?
Important part of Jon and Elias’s vibe that I feel like gets overlooked a lot is that Jon is equally as much of a pain in the ass to Elias as Elias is to him. The powers that be hand delivered him the perfect guy to craft a linchpin out of for his two century old scheme and it turned out to be the nosiest bastard in all of London who is obsessed with being right. This is Elias we’re talking about. We’re talking about Mr “Doesn’t Like Getting His Hands Dirty” here. Mr Perpetual Middle Management. Mr “Sat On His Ass For 200 Years Waiting For An Opportunity Instead of Getting Out There and Making Something Himself” getting conned into shaping his antichrist out of the guy who’s first instinct towards dealing with his problems is to take a literal ax to them. It’s like throwing two unsocialized cats in a bathtub together. This is why Elias doesn’t believe in fate
The reason Jon and Elias have this weird psychosexual tension in every scene they’re in together is because they are the same. The reason they are 0.2 seconds away from killing each other is also because they are the same. Do you understand me
random silly little headcanon: i think jonah probably didn’t like eating anything overly sweet until hijacking elias’ body, because i think elias had kind of a massive sweet tooth. so the first time jonah bites into a cake or something after this, he’s really kind of shocked by how much he’s enjoying it because usually he can’t stand anything too sugary. so after this new discovery, he makes it a point to try out new sweets sometimes :]
(and during his birthday party, jon is a little baffled when he realizes elias is on, like, his third piece of cake, because jon could barely even finish his own slice)
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PHOTO ID: in the photo Jonathan sims , a brown middle aged man with a beard and greying-black curly hair, sits upon a throne with his legs crossed. He is holding a gold sceptre with a eye pattern emblazoned onto it. He is wearing two green, fur-lined cloaks and is wearing a mostly green outfit as well as a nazar necklace. On the right hand side of his face, his eye is normal and green and on his left hand side he has mutilple green glowing eyes. In the background is a tapestry like design with mirrored drawings of Jonah Magnus (a white old man with green eyes and rectangular glasses) a cassette tape spilling out its film, an illustration of a panopticon and underneath that a illustration of three people bowing down and preying too a giant eye in the sky. Above the drawing of the panopticon is a drawing of a green barn owl.
hey bro can we like adopt paralleling themes and symbolize opposites but in a two sides of the same coin kind of way? it doesn’t have to be weird. wait what do you mean thats gay
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If their funding is from the UN and various countries, what’s up with this fundraiser?
A massive amount of UNRWA’s budget was just cut in the middle of a humanitarian crisis, as the US and a number of other countries cut off aid to UNRWA completely.
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eugh blugh anyway anyway. elias like talks to jon completely differently than he talks to anyone else. if jon is the room he is talking exclusively to jon regardless of how many other people are in the room. if jon is not in the room but there’s a tape recorder running he’s talking to jon. if he thinks jon might have this conversation relayed to him at a later date he’s talking to jon. mag 92 is hysterical because why did you pack this office with as many people as possible for this conversation and then audibly not break eye contact with one specific guy for twenty minutes. well this is because jon is the only person that actually exists to him in this situation. or most situations. elias knows he’s in a podcast but as far as he’s concerned he and jon are the only characters in it and everyone else is set dressing and he gets so cranky about it when the set dressing starts expressing free will. jon is aware that other people exist 95% of the time unless he is actively talking to and/or yelling at elias and then he kind of forgor. mag 102 when elias is like melanie is coming to murder me with a knife for like .25 seconds jon is like the fuck is melanie and then returns to reality and remembers he has a life outside of “weird thing with elias” and is kind of embarrassed. like uh whoops sorry got kind of intense there for a second (elias continues to be kind of intense unabated) (forever)
underappreciated aspect of jonelias is that, at least in my mind, elias would 100% be the world’s clingiest, neediest boyfriend ever if him and jon were actually dating. not a fan of martin’s sudden distant and avoidant behavior in s4? get ready for the absolute opposite. he’d be knocking on the door to the archives 24/7 going “jon?? archivist??? joonn??? why aren’t you responding to my emails jon :( ???”
like that one textpost that’s like “i noticed you were paying attention to someone other than me. why is that”
it’s so insane to me how differently jonah treats jon compared to how he treats everyone else. throughout his life he treated people like tools, like something “to watch, to know, and ultimately to discard”. he doesn’t care about their suffering as long as it benefits Him. but even though he separates himself from other people, puts himself on a higher pedestal, it never seems to apply to jon. with jon it’s always “our master”, “our victory”, “the world that we have made”. everyone else is for us to use. the world is our playground. he’s been living with this “use or be used” mindset for centuries, always on the run, never safe, never trusting anyone, just to meet jon and decide to include him in his life-long plan… and yes, part of this was out of the necessity (he did need to get an archivist for this to work), but if it was purely transactional, then why would he say all that. gayass
The thing is, I am absolutely obsessed with Mordechai Lukas.
He literally showed up in one episode and was like “Barnabas, i’ll need the twenty bucks back”, and when he refused he just killed him, only to be like “Nice, now it’s time to give Magnus regular portions of my family’s fortune for the rest of his life. Put him on my will for good measure”. Literally an unbothered king.
Canon Jonah Magnus is way funnier than fanon Jonah Magnus. Why does everyone try to change him. He’s perfect.
Everyone writes him like Stereotypical Creepy Looking Villain Who Is Easily Angered Into Mistakes but he’s so much funnier than that. He’s trying to destroy the world and put everyone in perpetual misery specifically to avoid someone doing that to him first and his Secret Fear Factory is a shitty paranormal research institute full of offices and bureaucracy because he genuinely prefers it that way. The highlight of his week is on Wednesdays when he does the scheduling for next week and the protagonists trying to get out of their shitty fear jobs use this against him.
He almost never gets angry at anyone because he genuinely does not care, he does actually try to be reasonable and convince his employees not to try to kill him or break his stuff, and considers using his See Everything Powers and Evil Mental Torture powers on them to be a strenuous inconvenience. When he is annoyed or threatened enough to pull out the Evil Torture Mind Powers in self defense, he just does it and then washes his hands of it and goes back to being the Totally Normal Institute Manager he genuinely enjoys being. Dude could hire and blackmail people into doing all the boring tedious parts of his job but he just likes doing them himself.
Half of the dude’s character is how Totally Normal he is. Whenever someone has a big revelation about his evil mind powers or his secret immortality or about how he’s killed someone or screwed them over in some way he completely takes the wind out of their sails by acting like this is a normal thing and he forgot they didn’t already know, like they’re inquiring about when they need to attend a new HR seminar by. He treats them like they’re being unreasonable and need to keep up and it’s funny every single time. He’s so good at being a Helpful but Incompetent Office Manager that it’s usually impossible for the protagonists to tell how much he knows and whether he’s screwing them over on purpose at any given time (he always is). He considers little matters like “my employee keeps trying to kill me” and “my employee got me sent to prison for murder” to be minor inconveniences and never holds grudges against anyone because he genuinely doesn’t care about them enough to be angry.
It’s never stated why he has so little control over what the Head Archivist decides to do at any given time; he just seems to hate micromanagement. He let Gertrude do whatever the fuck she wanted for 50 years no matter what danger or inconvenience it caused (it’s reasonable to assume that the vast majority of attacks on the archives during Gertrude’s day were from people who were specifically pissed off at Gertrude’s actions) and only killed her when it was necessary for self-defense. The whole thing is just a sitcom to him. Everyone is an NPC in his Destroy the World Adventure and he doesn’t seem to take anything personally. He’s Owen Burnett who thinks he’s David Xanotos and it’s the funniest fucking thing.
He overreacted and killed ONE GUY with a lead pipe and now half the fanfic treats him like an incredibly weird little murdergoblin who can be incensed into making mistakes with a bit of namecalling and throws his Eye abilities around constantly. The canon version is so much funnier.
People find out about his Two (2) Canon Murders and go “wait you mean OUR Jonah?” even when they are his Villainous Allies who do regular murders themselves. “That seems like WAY too much effort for him,” says his friend the Evil Fog Man “He’d have to leave his office and everything”
randomly got annoyed again today at fandom portrayals of elias as a luddite. you think the world’s most powerful avatar of beholding would be…. behind the times? ignorant to the progress of technology? even if you choose to ignore the fact that the digital age revolutionized beholding as a dread power (going from something tied much more closely to the hunt to something so much more exestential and all-consuming… the surveilance state! online surveilance! wiretapping! data gathering! predatory privacy policies! the zoom boom! etc!!!) and that the evolution of recording technology is how the institute was able to function as efficiently as it did to tell us its story… why would it ever make sense to you that the world’s most powerful beholding avatar would remain wilfully ignorant of… anything. let alone wilfully ignorant of how the vast majority of the world functions and communicates. plus his greatest fear is death!! you think he isn’t up to date on all the most prominent medical advances? that’s just a willful misreading of the text.
also i cant explain it but suicidal jonah is so real to me
like jonah that metaphorically killed himself in order to survive. jonah that’s literally just a corpse under the institute. jonah that let jon kill him. jonah “I couldn’t stop you if I wanted to” magnus.
jonah ‘the only constant in life is death’ magnus. jonah thats been waiting his entire life to die magnus. jonah that probably knew jon would become as powerful, if not more, after the change, & knew jon would hate him to the point of murderousness, and let it happen. jonah that even didnt try and fight jon. jonah that was so calm in the face of melanie trying to kill him - and sure, they werent good attempts. but you have to wonder.
one-sided jonelias is so funny just as a concept. your evil eldritch monster boss keeps getting you into life-threatening situations but also he is just incredibly down bad for you. like, astronomically down bad. just completely hopelessly devastatingly in love with you. and you just kind of wish he’d stop mentally torturing your co-workers
the end of s4 is actually just jonah getting rejected in the most humiliating way possible (seeing his crush spiral into codependency with someone that isn’t him) so he just kind of. starts the apocalypse about it. /j
i. i just realized the further implications of this concept. because that also means that s5, from jonah’s point of view, was just him watching every single jonmartin moment via the eye and then getting killed by jon and THEN having them share their first kiss in the same room as his dead body. the entire multiverse’s biggest adding insult to injury moment ever, possibly. the single biggest L in the world. a comically horrible situation for him tbh. how are you the king of a ruined world and still such a loser on a cosmic level
I have a disorder that makes me want to headcanon every nonhuman character with the ability to purr regardless if it makes sense for their kind or not. It’s called being right. With enough research i could justify a tree purring if i wanted to
