A standard hardback book titled “Drowning in debt? A financial guide to keeping your head above water” by Eberhart & Strauss. The cover is orange/tan with imagery of £50 bank notes, two markings show it was on offer. The entire book suffers extensive water damage resulting in the destruction of the spine, fading of the covers and damage to text block. Pieces of pages have also been torn out.
The content of the book from what remains consists of nautical and water based analogies for describing financial turmoil. Despite the title there is little useful financial advice provided mainly just surface level jargon.
The book was found in a flat in West London after the resident had managed to drown in their living room. The flat was heavily water damaged but no neighbouring flats were affected. The book was found close to the body with torn pages still clutched tightly in their hand.
It’s believed that due to the damage done to the book it has lost a great deal of its power as there has been no successful recreations of the original event. What has been noted is that when left near water pipes they will eventually burst from a buildup of pressure. It’s interesting that the book was not protected from its own power instead suffering from its own actions.
From what research was done Eberhart & Strauss was a real business located in London however little information remains about them, it seems they went under sometime back. No former employees could be located. The book appears to have been published after their downfall. The book has been stored away from all piping and regular checks will be made as a precaution.
Jon and Jonah being soulmates wouldn’t fix anything. it would, in fact, makes everything worse and more tragic which is why I love it
Jonah would know that Jon is his soulmate and intentionally keep away. he wouldn’t let the Mother of Puppets control him (I imagine she would be the one responsible for soul marks since it deals with fate/predetermination/loss of control. I have a lot of thoughts of how soulmates and Fears mix, please ask me about it). Jonah would view the soul mark both as an approval of his plan and also a mockery of his desire to not have a soulmate
I see young Jonah first wishing for a soulmate due to the societal influence before slowly starting to despise the very concept of it, of being controlled like that, especially after learning about the Web. Jonah would be so smug about not having a soul mark until Elias Bouchard wakes up to ‘Jonathan Sims’ written neatly on his wrist
Jon wouldn’t be interested in finding his soulmate at first. the name on his wrist says Jonah Magnus, so what if the only Jonah Magnus he can find died in the 19th century. it must mean his soulmate has yet to change their name legally, making it harder to find them. it had no influence on him joining the Magnus Institute, he would swear when asked
later he would genuinely hate having a soulmate. both because of the Web and because it hurt “for some reason” to know that Jonah has known the entire time, that he made no mention of it, that he didn’t want Jon. and Jon definitely isn’t bitter about it, he definitely doesn’t want Jonah nor does he wants Jonah to want him
(and Jonah wants him, wants Jon more than he predicted but wanting isn’t the same as choosing and Jonah Magnus is well practiced in the art of choosing himself over anyone else)
Weird genre of person is when fans of media with actually complex and interesting characters get scared by any level of moral ambiguity whatsoever like why are you buying purity at the nuance store
“Martin matched Jon’s freak” Jon didn’t unwittingly pledge himself to the same patron as Elias and keep bones in his office and admit to the beauty of the apocalypse and spend an entire season obsessed with killing him for you to say that Jon’s freak is being matched by, of all people, Martin why are you enjoying killing people after I pushed you to kill people, you weren’t supposed to go against my cottagecore fantasy :( Blackwood.
This is doubling as a response to your ask AND ALSO art for @screechfoxesfic which is uhhhhhh my jam….love a georgian spookybitch who kisses the skulls of his friends.
[image description: a watercolor painting of a solar eclipse shaped like a giant glowing eye in the sky. its eyelashes are formed by rays of light spearing out into the clouds. it sits in a dark purple sky, surrounded by thick purple clouds dotted with outlines of smaller eyes, over a yellow glow on the horizon, like a sunset. the lower edge of the painting is framed by silhouetted trees. /end i.d.]
The thing about Jonathan Sims is that he isn’t at all stupid, in fact he’s quite the opposite.
Take the Coffin for example, the idea of using an anchor is a logical and honestly quite clever one, however, where this idea falls apart is that while Jon may be intelligent, that does not mean he has common sense, or any sense of self preservation for that matter, and so he goes straight to cutting off his finger, and then continuously trying to cut it off despite the fact his body’s healing factor is clearly winning here.
And then, to top that off, he immediately decides the next reasonable choice of an anchor is his own rib, and actively gets not one, but two of his ribs removed by the walking embodiment of body horror.
Jonathan Sims is not stupid, but he is stupidly impulsive and should not be trusted with any actual plan ever, because while his initial idea may be the most ingenious thing you’ve ever bloody heard, I promise you he is going to ruin it with the most unhinged, god-awful follow up known to man.
I love the phrase “they get along like a house on fire”. It’s perfect. You and me have perfect chemistry and it’s setting off the carbon monoxide detectors. People are calling emergency services to get us to stop being so chummy. Someone died
guys i need you to be less comfortable making super negative comments abt a character in the tags of a random post abt that character. like i support haterism but make your own post. please stop and think about whether op, a person who is interested in this character enough to make posts abt them, wants to hear all that. i see this too much from people reblogging from me and it makes me embarrassed that you’re reblogging from me. you are being rude
“their relationship is strictly platonic” “they’re so in love” well, more importantly, they are fucking weird and abnormal about each other in an undeniable way
One of my favorite things with TMA fanart is when people draw Elias with eye paraphernalia or motifs because it makes pre entity discovery tma so much funnier
I tried drawing a sequence from The Magnus Archives episode #111 Family Business.
Definitely a memorable episode. I hope we learn more about Gerard, it was nice to hear a bit of comedy in the podcast. I’ve started season 4 and my goodness, it just gets darker and darker.
I need that tragic hero collapsed on the floor in a hysterical state of despair as their thin veneer of god complex finally cracks and they feel the now-unrepressed crushing weight of all their horrendous flaws/mistakes bear down upon them all at once. and then I need them to die immediately, painfully, and most importantly, homoerotically.
ive been listening to q&a and the second i had a thought “hmm i wanna add some text here” johnny instantly screamed in my ears TELL ME YOUR STORY and i was like wow okay no need to be so harsh man (i didn’t tell him my story)
Hey, no homo, but I am sitting on the broken swing set out back in the perfect, quiet, 2:00am blackness and picturing the softness of your voice and the darkness of your eyes with such perfect and terrible clarity that it feels like I’m choking on my own heartbeat.
