I love trying to research a basic question like, “When did Jon get promoted to Head Archivist?” and being reminded that the timeline of this show is complete bonkers nonsense.
Like, according to the wiki, on March 15, 2015, Elias finds a pool Gertrude’s blood at her desk and reports her missing, but March 20 is the day he shoots her, and then on April 4 she records the statement of Sebastian Skinner???
Where did all that blood come from if Gertrude hadn’t been shot yet? Did she record that statement posthumously? Did it take her two weeks to die? Is Elias just really bad at murder?
I know that tumblr’s self-curated dashboard is the superior social media experience in a lot of ways, but there is something delightful about Instagram’s algorithm going, “We noticed you like a lot of posts with words like ‘archivist’ and ‘archives’ in them,” and then suggesting me memes made by actual archivists about their actual jobs:
future-crab:
I know that tumblr’s self-curated dashboard is the superior social media experience in a lot of ways, but there is something delightful about Instagram’s algorithm going, “We noticed you like a lot of posts with words like ‘archivist’ and ‘archives’ in them,” and then suggesting me memes made by actual archivists about their actual jobs:
TMA no-fears au where Jon runs a meme account posting stuff like this:
Source: the_memeing_archivist on Instagram
future-crab:
future-crab:
I know that tumblr’s self-curated dashboard is the superior social media experience in a lot of ways, but there is something delightful about Instagram’s algorithm going, “We noticed you like a lot of posts with words like ‘archivist’ and ‘archives’ in them,” and then suggesting me memes made by actual archivists about their actual jobs:
TMA no-fears au where Jon runs a meme account posting stuff like this:
Source: the_memeing_archivist on Instagram
Jon and Martin still fall in love, but it goes like this:
Source
I wish I had the words to articulate how much and why I love the episode descriptions of the Magnus Archives, especially in the early seasons. I have such a distinct memory of the time when I had first decided I was going to listen to this podcast, and as I was downloading some episodes from season 1 I saw:
“Case #0161203
Statement of Martin Blackwood, archival assistant at the Magnus Institute, London, regarding a close encounter with something he believes to have once been Jane Prentiss.”
And I just knew, then, that I was going to love this show. It was so ominous and intriguing and SPOOKY. There’s something else to it - the way it blends academic detachment with supernatural horror, the intersection of the mundane and the horrific - but I don’t really know how to explain it. All I know is reading the episode descriptions always gave me goosebumps when I first started listening to TMA, and I find them really nostalgic now.
Good news! I’m sad about Jonathan Sims again.
artyphex:
artyphex:
I add “sexy” to almost every Jon I reblog. Because that’s the secret, y’know? Every Jon ever drawn is sexy. All Jons. You’ve drawn Jon? Fantastic. Your Jon is SO fucking sexy
Stopping tagging this was “Garfield” you ANIMALS
