2025-09-01 15:49:54 ¶ ●

you see two doors.

in front of one of them is elias bouchard. in front of the other is annabelle cane.

“this is exactly what it looks like,” annabelle says.

(what does it look like?)

“one of us always tells the truth. the other always lies.” says elias.

(oh.)

(oh no.)

you hear a voice from behind you. “yeah, they’re playing that stupid game again. wanna go this way instead? ☺️”

it’s helen distortion! (yayyyyy— wait. no—)

as per The Riddle, what questions do you start asking?

2025-09-02 4:05:55 ¶ ●

was it ever mentioned how elias feeds the eye? he doesn’t seem to read statements so what exactly is keeping him alive?

same for martin– shouldn’t his adjacency to the lonely make him need to feed it?

is jon the only one who we actively see and know about how he feeds his entity?

2025-09-02 16:47:54 ¶ ●

tma au where everyone’s chill with jon being the World’s Spookiest Interviewer and lets him keep taking live statements, inadvertently sabotaging elias’s whole plan

jon’s not the one talking anymore when he takes his statements, and now no one can do the ritual.

2025-09-06 0:37:56 ¶ ●

on the day of jon’s interview at The Magnus Institute elias makes sure to put a sign on his door that says “It Is Polite To Knock 😊”

2025-09-10 1:18:04 ¶ ●

who is season 1-2 jon’s emergency contact?

georgie (his ex?? really?)

elias (his BOSS??)

tim and/or sasha (actual sensible option. yet feels more wrong than the first 2)

martin (THERE’S NO WAY. HE’D RATHER DIE)

no one (<- correct answer,,but isn’t funny at all. so please see options 1-4)

See Results

2025-09-14 16:05:20 ¶ ●

elias is such a hilarious character because his whole motive is so cartoonishly evil (world domination, immortality, the whole Bringing The Apocalypse thing), yet his whole demeanor is so serious and down to earth.

elias “don’t be so dramatic” bouchard looks everyone dead in the eye and tells them that it’s very important to file their paperwork properly and if they waste company funds he’ll have to write them up and reprimand them on their next performance review.

then everyone leaves the room and he continues orchestrating the end of the world, as if financial responsibility and Ending All Humanity are tasks of equal importance and significance.

2025-09-16 22:13:52 ¶ ●

# similarities between tma and hamlet

– catalyst of the story is the death of someone and the person filling their job position

– conflict at least partially revolves around confirming the suspicions over who killed the person who died before the story began

– protagonist is an academic of sorts

– protagonist goes on a paranoia spiral

–themes of not knowing who to trust, suspect everyone, search for answers

– HEAVY themes of self sacrifice

– ghosts

– intervention/ intervention-esque confrontations where people ask the protagonist to stop harassing everyone around them

– nearly all of the protagonist’s friends end up dead by the end

– antagonist is very interested in a crown of some sort

– story ends with protagonist successfully killing antagonist, but in a way where he sacrifices himself right in front of his boyfriend/‘best friend’

–boyfriend/'best friend’ reacts to that with 'well then I’ll gladly die too!’

–protagonist would rather that boyfriend didn’t die.

–sad sad tragic tragic cry forever ending

2025-09-19 23:22:02 ¶ ●

mandatory movie night at the magnus institute

elias makes them all watch The Truman Show

(it’s the eye’s favorite movie)

2025-09-20 0:16:23 ¶ ●

absolutely devastating how everyone’s insistence that jon stops taking live statements from people just makes him more dependent on the written ones, to the point where whenever he leaves the institute he needs people to constantly send him statements (because he can’t just feed on the locals)

absolutely devastating how jon’s desperate attempt at avoiding losing his humanity directly leads to him kickstarting the apocolypse. jon’s complete dependance on the written statements is what elias was relying on. taking live statements would have prevented anyone literally putting words into jon’s mouth.

had he just been a little less committed to maintaining his humanity– had he had a little less sympathy or concern for those he had to feed on– he wouldn’t have been able to complete the ritual.

2025-09-23 0:29:56 ¶ ●

## the only three Magnus Institute characters who died before finding out what genre they were in

always crying over The Tragic Death Trio

2025-09-25 15:34:47 ¶ ●

rip tim stoker but if I was mad at my boss for stalking me and three other people on suspicions that one of us is a violent murderer, and then we found out that TWO of us were violent murderers, not only would I not be mad at him anymore but I’d be thanking him for his service

2025-09-30 16:05:26 ¶ ●

btw THIS Is what I mean when I say elias has such strong claudius vibes

ik I said in the tags of that other post that elias treats jon the way claudius treats laertes but it’s so.

it’s just- the way they encourage and gently guide them to lean into their impulses to make increasingly destructive decisions