spent 3 months now in the magnus archives fandom. took me three whole months. to notice that the only date we have connected to the Watcher’s Crown ritual is my birthday
Jonah Magnus on February 13th 🤝 My Mother on February 13th
the one thing I gotta give tartuffe credit for is that he has little to no interest in the young girl he’s temporarily engaged to, but instead is wildly obsessed with that girl’s stepmother
*grabs my soap box and scrambles up onto it again*
and what if the stimulus is less important than the response??
for example. what if someone loses a sentimental item– something that would usually be associated with the desolation (grief, loss, destruction of something important to someone)– but instead of this person reacting with grief, their emotional response is instead a violent epiphany of the finitude of everything, or existential dread at the understanding that a day will come, in the distant future, where every part of the world that’s familiar to them will disappear.
it wouldn’t matter that the initial stimulus is associated to the desolation– it wouldn’t even matter if the sentimental item was destroyed in a fire; the desolation’s motif. their response falls under the jurisdiction of the end or the extinction.
and this can work with any stimulus and any response.
a person who looks at a burnt photograph and, instead of mourning the lost memories, is disgusted by the ashes.
a person who is buried alive. but instead of feeling trapped, they’re more scared of what sort of animals might also be lurking beneath the earth.
a person who’s hiding a dark secret, but instead of worrying about the social consequences, is more afraid that someone might respond violently if they were to find out.
everyone drawing jonathan’s scars leaves out the probably full-body scars he has from being in a building that exploded. we all forget he was right there when tim blew up the Unknowing.
Im certainly very late to the game on this, but if anyone has tracked all significant 18s in the magnus archives. I’d love to see that.
took me this long to notice that 160 took place on Oct 18th, 2018, and the institute was founded in 1818.
and my computer is on its last leg and doesn’t have the capacity to let me click through every wiki page to look for other occurrences of the number 18
Im certainly very late to the game on this, but if anyone has tracked all significant 18s in the magnus archives. I’d love to see that.
took me this long to notice that 160 took place on Oct 18th, 2018, and the institute was founded in 1818.
and my computer is on its last leg and doesn’t have the capacity to let me click through every wiki page to look for other occurrences of the number 18
ANDDD the first thing irl that comes to mind when I hear 1818 is Frankenstein (original version, as opposed to the 1831 version with the revisions).
which is very fitting for Jonah Magnus, the guy who ‘made’ his 'monster,’ and this supposed monster ultimately destroyed him
the Dark (fear of the unknown) 🤝 the Stranger (fear of the unknowable) 🤝 the lonely (fear of being unknown) 🤝 the eye (fear of being known)
let the four of them collaborate to torment one person. please it would be so funny
good news, it’s not contradictory at all!!
everyone has a basic human desire to control their own narrative– to be viewed in accordance to how they view themselves.
removing them from the narrative entirely (the lonely), or removing the narrative from their control (the eye), are both equally fears surrounding personal perception. and are very closely linked.
wildly disappointing that we never really get much content from the fact that the one thing known for having a lot of eyes are spiders. yet we get no eye and web collaborations where both eye avatars and web avatars are using spiders to spy on things
elias must have really enjoyed prison. a high surveillance environment where everyone’s on high alert. he must have been having the time of his life. it must have been an all-you-can-eat buffet for him.
blood types were discovered in 1901. I think elias should be haunted by the fact that he doesn’t know his original body’s blood type. I think that would be really funny.
do we know if martin’s deadbeat dad was alive in the apocalypse. do we know if there’s a chance they could have come across him. found him in some Buried domain. (he would have ended up in a Buried domain.) watched him suffer.
oughhh frankenstein. what if this became a frankenstein account.
Frankenstein (1818) liveblog
“…and my present sensations strongly intimated that the fiend would follow me, and exempt my family from the dangers of his machinations”.
victor are you stupid.
victor how stupid are you.
“I felt as if I had committed some great crime, the consciousness of which haunted me. I was guiltless, but I had indeed drawn down a horrible curse upon my head, as mortal as that of crime”
Point and laugh at this man who has the audacity to say “I was guiltless” when he was, in fact, Very Guilty.
oughhh frankenstein. what if this became a frankenstein account.
Frankenstein (1818) liveblog
“…and my present sensations strongly intimated that the fiend would follow me, and exempt my family from the dangers of his machinations”.
victor are you stupid.
victor how stupid are you.
“I felt as if I had committed some great crime, the consciousness of which haunted me. I was guiltless, but I had indeed drawn down a horrible curse upon my head, as mortal as that of crime”
Point and laugh at this man who has the audacity to say “I was guiltless” when he was, in fact, Very Guilty.
“"He may be innocent of the murder, but he has certainly a bad conscience”
These words struck me. A bad conscience! Yes, surely I had one.“
how often do you think about the fact that Jon probably viewed it as some form of karmic justice, that he was framed for murder right after suspecting everyone else of committing a murder
do we know if martin’s deadbeat dad was alive in the apocalypse. do we know if there’s a chance they could have come across him. found him in some Buried domain. (he would have ended up in a Buried domain.) watched him suffer.
do we know if martin’s deadbeat dad was alive in the apocalypse. do we know if there’s a chance they could have come across him. found him in some Buried domain. (he would have ended up in a Buried domain.) watched him suffer.
Aouugghhhhh I have no comprehensible words to say in response but just know that I am Suffering.
oh my god. im so glad / sorry it is as emotionally devastating to you as it is to me. and thanks for repaying the favor bc ALL YOUR TAGS ARE FUCKING PERFECT AND I THINK I NEED TO WRITE THAT FIC NOW OH MY GOD
I’m going to scream??? like???? DUDE???????
Uhhh imma be thinking about this for the next 3-5 business years. ouch. thank you for adding to the devastation xD
uhhhhh it is nearly midnight but i have started writing a few little snippets bc it Wont Leave My Brain XD
so. uh. yeah!!!!! we shall see what becomes of this!!!! hahaha
do we know if martin’s deadbeat dad was alive in the apocalypse. do we know if there’s a chance they could have come across him. found him in some Buried domain. (he would have ended up in a Buried domain.) watched him suffer.
Aouugghhhhh I have no comprehensible words to say in response but just know that I am Suffering.
oh my god. im so glad / sorry it is as emotionally devastating to you as it is to me. and thanks for repaying the favor bc ALL YOUR TAGS ARE FUCKING PERFECT AND I THINK I NEED TO WRITE THAT FIC NOW OH MY GOD
I’m going to scream??? like???? DUDE???????
Uhhh imma be thinking about this for the next 3-5 business years. ouch. thank you for adding to the devastation xD
uhhhhh it is nearly midnight but i have started writing a few little snippets bc it Wont Leave My Brain XD
so. uh. yeah!!!!! we shall see what becomes of this!!!! hahaha
YES YESS MAKE IT SAD MAKE IT TRAGIC AND LET OUR BOYS BE SOFT WITH EACH OTHER AND CARE FOR EACH OTHER!!
it’s truly revolutionary that they made jonathan sims canonically enjoy using his Eye powers.
they could have very easily made him tortured and miserable about it. And that’s not to say he’s not tortured and miserable– he certainly is– but he doesn’t sit there purely hating the new abilities he’s been gifted. He actively enjoys it. He figures out that when he asks questions, people are compelled to answer. And he immediately goes and asks a guy for his “deepest darkest secret” when he isn’t satisfied with the information the man is giving him willingly.
He’s groomed into starting the apocalypse, but the emotional conflict he deals with isn’t a straightforward “I’ve doomed everyone forever”– instead it’s “Everyone is suffering forever, AND I’M ACTIVELY ENJOYING IT”
He’s so extremely human. He recognizes on a logical level that it’s bad, he doesn’t want to hurt anyone– but it feels good. And often, it’s very VERY convenient. It makes whatever he’s trying to do a lot easier. He could get the information he wants. He could indulge in compelling people and taking statements and feeding. During the apocalypse he could instantly kill any avatar he doesn’t like.
And yet he makes a conscious effort to choose not to hurt people.
scrolled deep enough in the tma tag to see a whole entire arguement over whether jon is a good or bad liar.
probably won’t commit to actually citing sources to back this up, but he’s extremely good at lies of omission and extremely bad at outright saying things that aren’t true. didn’t know anyone was debating over this, I thought that’s just canon.
I love thinking about the rumors people probably spread about Jon at the Institute. Even before he went all spooky. They probably hated his ass.
YES I’M SURE SPIDER OVERLORD HAS SOME THEORIES
you CANNOT do this to me Im gonna CRY
FIRST. tell me what episode you’re on.
THEN. save this post for later and come back and continue the bit once it becomes funny. Please I beg of you. I need to hear the spider theories you can provide us with.
I love thinking about the rumors people probably spread about Jon at the Institute. Even before he went all spooky. They probably hated his ass.
YES I’M SURE SPIDER OVERLORD HAS SOME THEORIES
you CANNOT do this to me Im gonna CRY
FIRST. tell me what episode you’re on.
THEN. save this post for later and come back and continue the bit once it becomes funny. Please I beg of you. I need to hear the spider theories you can provide us with.
you’re SO FAR AWAY from the mere CONCEPT of spiders!! you’re not even deep enough in to have even TOUCHED a spider!!
@official-linguistics-post please please teach me the linguistic background of/ explanation for why the word fruit works like that
why is it a valid plural in some contexts (“I like fruit”/“fruit is healthy”) but a singular word that needs to be changed to plural in other contexts (“fruits and vegetables”/“my favorite fruits are […]”)
