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think I may have figured out when jon’s birthday is meant to be in the most mundane way possible. in one of the q+a episodes (too lazy to figure out which atm) (edit: s3 extended q+a!), jonny said that the archivist’s just meant to be “[his] age,” and given that the birthday party scene seems to take place fairly soon after the new archives staff got together in autumn/winter 2015, I think jonny might just have given him his own birthday, november 3.

3 november 2016 is the date of mag 55 and that actually gives a whole new flavor to this supplemental

Text reading, "Supplemental. I… I don’t have much to report, actually. It’s been Halloween week, which means the research department is always inundated with statements. Most of them are patently false, but the volume means that they’ve called in the archive to assist with the overflow. It’s… been nice, actually. Disproving piles of nonsense felt good, like real work, not just driving myself to distraction with conspiracy theories and paranoia. I even got a good night’s sleep. I miss those days. End supplemental."ALT

it’s the birthday boy’s first vaguely good day in at least four months, probably longer. god.

also: one year ago to this day, all his assistants crowded into his office and threw him a party and they had a nice time together. that’s not what this birthday is like at all. I’m rotting.