March 2024

theaxolotlkween:

Reasons why Jon Archivist is truly a character of all time:

• Had the police called on him several times when he was a young child
• Keeps his rib and the ashes of the season one antagonist next to his stationary drawer
• Promised he wouldn’t get lost in tunnels and then immediately got lost in aforementioned tunnels
• Has no clue what a joke is
• Learned how remarkably easy it is to buy an ax in central London
• Had to have two separate interventions
• Told people his place of employment before traumatising them for life
• The first character he ever said ‘I love you’ to is a cat
• Allegedly participated in amdram
• Watches documentaries and collects some kind of weird shit (my headcanon is Soviet Union postcards) when he’s not being a paranoid mess
• Canonically looks like he hasn’t slept in weeks
• Knows nothing about library science
• Fell head over heels for a man that he hated until he learned he lied on his resumé
• Has been referred to as Jesus or Jesus-adjacent at least twice
• Asexual icon
• Rode on a merry-go-round sometime during his university days because he was in a weird place emotionally
• Died for our Jonathan Sins
• Is probably a computer now playing minesweeper with his boyfriend and evil 200+ year old boss

Why is falling back into old hyperfixations so embarrassing? Like, hello, yes, the year is 2024 and once again every love song was written about Martin Blackwood and Jonathan Sims, Head Archivist of the Magnus Institute, London

future-crab:

Why is falling back into old hyperfixations so embarrassing? Like, hello, yes, the year is 2024 and once again every love song was written about Martin Blackwood and Jonathan Sims, Head Archivist of the Magnus Institute, London

^^ This song is about Them, btw

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*through tears* I like it when they say “tough.” I just think it’s neat.

[ID: two screenshots from the unofficial Magnus Archives transcripts. The first reads,

“Martin
(echoing) His only wish was to die alone.
Archivist
Tough. Now - listen to me, Martin. Listen.”

and the second reads,

“Archivist
Martin, please! I can’t lose you. Not like this…
Martin
Tough! Okay? Where you go, I go!”

End ID.]

future-crab:

future-crab:

Why is falling back into old hyperfixations so embarrassing? Like, hello, yes, the year is 2024 and once again every love song was written about Martin Blackwood and Jonathan Sims, Head Archivist of the Magnus Institute, London

^^ This song is about Them, btw

This one is too but that should go without saying

b0nkcreat:

b0nkcreat:

good news everyone! ive come to the conclusion that the worst thing a character can be is unlucky

there’s no reason anything terrible should have happened to you. you were just in the wrong place at the wrong time, maybe with the wrong people. it could have been anyone in the world, and yet it was you. maybe it’s a blessing that nobody else will ever go through this. maybe it’s a curse that you will instead. maybe that’s a selfish thought. it’s all a game of chance and you spun onto that loaded barrel. you lost the roulette without even realizing - or maybe you did, and you just didn’t care. you’ll never be the same either way

Not to beat a dead horse, but the naming conventions in the Magnus Archives are truly delightful. Jonny really said, “Here’s a cast of fascinating characters! Their names are:

1. My actual full legal name
2. The first names of my friends + the last names of famous horror writers
3. Michael (x4)

They all die horrible deaths :)”

wolfythewitch:

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