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
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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.
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