the joy in jon’s voice whenever he puts a piece of the puzzle together is so endearing. and ofc I <3 whenever he reverently calls sth ‘monstrous’ beautiful
darlingggg. ik Elias is frothing at the mouth listening to this
anyway MAG 122 Zombies most relatable statement. solipsism + ‘how do you know you’re the same person that went to sleep?’ + also the opposing undercurrent of everyone is real except you
sexiest thing Jon’s said has to be, ‘I am the avatar of awful knowledge and revealed secrets, so what does it not want me to know?’ yesss wrestle with your god.
i’ve been re- and re- and re- listening to this episode bc i love peter’s statement so much and i love jarchivist growing a little bit of spine for once
and i was thinking that if jon has this power, to see peter wherever he goes, even in the depths of the lonely, elias can probably do that too
elias who has been an avatar of the eye for two hundred years and is intimately familiar with the forsaken
just sort of blown away by the lonelyeyes implications… to suffer the mortifying ordeal of being known by an eldritch voyeur while serving a god of isolation
talk about throwing your palms down on the nails!!!!!
the most power italics the world has ever known
i need to know how the jonah reveal went down i need to know how peter’s feelings towards elias gradually changed i need to know how this became a long standing relationship i need
this is in such stark contrast to how anyone else describes jonah like. a creep, a weirdo, a bureucrat, a freak. sure. but a shyster?????? literally something only peter ever mentions. and he says it like this!! this isn’t something elias did once, this is how he understands him as a person. this is an evaluation of his character. what goes on.
one more example of this i guess! peter knows him better than any of us 🥹
altho i admit to taking this screenshot with the intention of captioning it “not the first dick i sucked in the back of a squad car, jon, but with how this letter is going i’m fairly confident that it will have been the last”
What amuses me (and infuriated me back when the show was still airing and I was considerably less zen about it) about people calling Elias entitled is that he does not, by any stretch of the imagination, consider that his life is worth more than others. He believes his life has the exact same inherent value as any other life: zero, because they might be snuffed out without warning at any moment. Therefore, he can and has to do whatever he pleases. Look at Mister “Your own rotten luck” here and tell me he believes there is a preexisting hierarchy (and therefore inherent order to the universe) he is a part of.
elias is very clear that he thinks a huge number of people would do exactly what he did if they could. and that the transformation of the world through a successful ritual is inevitable.
he wants to win. he knows he can. he does. but it’s not because he was special or predestined!! he just could. and you couldn’t. poor show, old chap.
Yes! Good citations. And his belief that someone would manage it eventually (at first, anyway) really solidifies the reason why he first went down this path. He tried to be a quote-unquote “good person” and prevent the rituals rather than attempt his own, but this could only carry him so far. Someone was going to crown themself and leave everyone else for suckers, so why shouldn’t it be him? Why should he allow others to make him suffer?
the inevitability of it is really important, i think, both in how it informs jonah’s own morality and in how it parallels jon’s transformation
there are many examples in s3 and s4 that clearly show jon’s transform into the archivist as not just beyond his control but totally inevitable, whether it’s by beholding’s pull or the web’s, but this exchange with helen really wraps it up nice and simple for me
there is nothing you can do to stop it, so why fight it? how pointless.
if the world is inevitably going to be devoured by the eldritch forces that live just beyond it, and all of humanity save one will be plunged into endless heretofore unimagined terror, why shouldn’t you be the one? what makes you more or less worthy of taking that spot?
I think Jonah’s eyes are canonically grey (and that’s how I’d pictured them thus far) but lately I’ve been leaning towards hazel bc MAG 160 is the statement of ‘Hazel Rutter’.
it makes my pupils turn into little beating cartoon hearts that elias’ mask of burecratic, academic, clerical work is so effective that he has to warn the people he imprisons dozens of times not to cross him and they all keep pushing. because they just don’t think he has it in him to hurt them! they don’t believe that their lives are tied to his. they don’t believe he has the capacity for violence. he’s just a suit!! a hands off manager with more interest in admin than management. and gracefully. effortless. on a dime. he can pull their darkest secrets out from the centers of their skulls like fistfuls of writhing maggots forced from their burrowholes into the blinding light of day. he can find you and pin you and look at you in the one place every living creature thinks themselves safe: inside your own head! there is nowhere you can curl up to hide from him. your inner monologue isn’t yours anymore. he can listen in and contribute any time he wants. he can show you what you’ve spent your whole life avoiding. he can force your eyes open when you screw them shut. and maybe if you’d believed him the first time he told you to back down, well….then this really needn’t have happened.
