YOU BROUGHT ME BACK. THAT WAS… UNMOTIVATED BY ANYTHING ELSE, OTHER THAN… LOVE.
for a guy who said they’re just friends he is feeding us so well lmao
But he’s never said they’re “just” friends! He said their love isn’t romantic, but that doesn’t mean their love isn’t meaningful. That’s the heart of the whole show. It works especially well with an aro interpretation of Arthur—his love can change a god, and without romantic love he can still represent the ups and downs of humanity against the cosmos.
But it all boils down to how Arthur can so easily and confidently say that he knows John loves him, and John replying that Arthur is his dear friend as agreement rather than contradiction.
[ID: Arthur lester lying on a bed with his head turned to one side, eyes closed and smiling peacefully. His arms are crossed over his chest. A black speech bubble says, “Goodnight Arthur,” and a white one replies, “Goodnight John.” /end ID]
concept: 8 year old jonathan sims finds a book containing not Mr Spider, but John Doe malevolent instead.
john now has to learn humanity not from a caustic adult that can give as good as he’s given, but by bullying an autistic child to PLEASE stop wandering into construction sites and shit im in your body too holy shit we’re going to get killed
(it still starts with John killing Jon’s bully, but thankfully no one would ever believe the 8 year old killed a grown ass adult, so they chalk it up to ‘something traumatic happened here that jon doesnt want to remember’)
i imagine John’s character growth would be like:
“god shut up you little fuck i hate you”
*baby jon tears*
“oh fuck time to bring out the Soothing Voice instead”
*baby jon is bullied and neglected*
“oh FUCK this body i’m in is. so fucking fragile. he’s crying again. what the fuck. is this mortality???”
*baby jon voice* “hi this is my other dad he’s a huge fucking asshole but he taught me swears and says anyone who’s mean to me will meet a horrible fate eventually. I told him that wasn’t very nice tho.”
28 years in the future, still trying to find out what John is (which was sorta backburnered while jon was a child), Jonathan Sims applies to the magnus institute. Elias takes one look in his head and has a panic attack.
this could actually go two ways:
1) jonah sees an eldrich fucking god squatting there who is VERY protective, or
2) jonah can’t look at all because jon is blind and unwittingly hires him anyway with NO FUCKING IDEA that jon is far closer to anything that could be considered an “avatar” than anyone in jonah’s world
Which TV series’ finale retroactively ruined the entire show so badly that, while you otherwise would happily recommended the series to people who haven’t watched it yet, because of what happened *in the finale only*, you can’t, in good faith, recommend the series to anyone now?
(Please note I am not including Game of Thrones in this poll because duh)
okay it’s very simple. jane prentiss was coworkers with oliver banks. oliver was also exes with graham the notebook eater. oliver was also friendly with annabelle. annabelle had a whole puppet/puppet master thing going on with neil lagorio. neil was exes with gabriel the worker in clay. neil never worked on that dexter banks (no relation)(…unless?) spider movie, but he had been rumored to. gertrude killed gabriel, and she herself was involved in that whole agnes/jack/jude fiasco, and jude was casual friends with nikola orsinov and mike crew. mike crew was childhood friends with dominic swain from mag 4, and also he facilitated jared hopworth getting his hands on the boneturner’s tale. it’s not confusing at all when you think about it.
also, sarah baldwin was one of nikola orsinov’s main associates. sarah was a sound tech on the paranormal investigation scene that georgie worked with and whom georgie then recommended to melanie (why did she recommend someone who was so obviously a monster? who knows), starting melanie’s whole descent into madness and exile from the youtube ghost hunting community. georgie is also exes with this guy you might have heard of called jon archivist.
when jane prentiss died, jordan kennedy was sent to deal with her house, and then her former landlord arthur nolan (desolation avatar) self-immolated in front of him. jordan also set fire to john amherst (corruption avatar) at one point. arthur nolan was stuck being jane’s landlord because he’d been deposed from his position as head of the cult of the lightless flame by diego molina. basira was called in to arrest diego once, and he burned her hands quite badly by making his handcuffs suddenly red hot. he was eventually killed by gerry keay a few years before gerry went on to work with gertude. gertrude was a friend of adelard dekker, the guy who eventually went on to kill john amherst.
also (associate of sarah baldwin, ghost bullet slaughter rage victim, employee of the magnus institute with a very complicated relationship to The Archivist) melanie king’s father was a resident of ivy meadows care home, which was overtaken by the corruption and eventually burned down by hunt avatars trevor herbert and julia montauk. julia montauk’s father, robert montauk, was a member of the people’s church of the divine host and a personal associate of, among others, maxwell rayner. maxwell rainer was a friend and associate of eye avatar and founder of the magnus institute jonah magnus, and vast avatar simon fairchild, as well as a longtime friend of the lucas family (oxymoron).
no, yeah, no aspect of this is confusing.
“georgie recommended sarah baldwin because she knew her pre-anglerfishing” clamor people in the notes. sarah got anglerfished in 2006, and georgie wasn’t making what the ghost until she was out of university. georgie worked with this heavily perfumed chain smoking sawdust woman and thought “eh she’s a bit weird but she does her job.”
tma fic writers it is our duty to give jon more grandmacore curse words, we can’t stop at “good lord.” this man says goodness gracious. blimey. blast it. drat. oh deary me if he’s particularly blind sided.
whenever I come across a poll where I dont have an opinion (dont know anything about either option) I just vote whatever my mutuals tags tell me to. whatever you say baby girl <3
fics that make sasha calm and level headed and have her minding her own business and chilling drive me insane. this bitch cyberstalked her coworkers in her free time and almost got Wormed because she was curious to see what would happen if she followed a supernatural entity to an abandoned building in the middle of the night. she’s the most unchill assistant and i will die on this hill
jon as the archivist says “it’s like there’s a door in my brain and the entire ocean is behind it and if i open it i’ll drown.”
sasha as the archivist says “oh, a new door in my brain? cool! can’t wait to find out what’s behind it!” and Yanks it open just to see what happens
[ID: A two panel digital comic of Jude Perry and Jonathan Sims from The Magnus Archives. Jon’s speech bubbles are green and Jude’s are orange.
In the first panel, Jonathan Sims asks a smugly laughing Jude Perry: “Something funny, Ms. Perry?”. Jude replies: “Uh, yeah.” Jon asks: “Care to share?”, and Jude responds: “I think it’s pretty obvious.”
In the second panel, Jon is wearing a bright, holographic puffer coat with several patches on it, including three cat patches, a What the Ghost patch, a Ghost Hunt UK patch, a Welcome to Nightvale patch, a The B-52s patch, a Grifter’s Bone patch, and a one with the bisexual flag. He has an irritated expression on his face and his hair is tied back into a ponytail. He says: “Look, I lost my normal coat, and i-it’s cold. Some of us actually feel it, you know?” /End ID.]
Jon “Soggy Academic Wardrobe” Sims vs Georgie “One Million Articles of Clothing with Cats on Them” Barker
Bonus:
[ID: A digital sketch of Jonathan Sims and Georgie Barker from The Magnus Archives done with blue lines. Jon is showing Georgie his bandaged hand and Georgie is concernedly looking at it. Jon says: “…So I found her and the first thing she did was laugh at your coat.” Georgie responds with a frowning emoticon. Jon continues: “Don’t worry about the hand or the neck.” /End ID]
So I was just thinking about The Magnus Archive, cause it has consumed my every waking thought, and you know in MAG 181 when Salesa is teasing Jon and he says:
“Your powers won’t work here, Jonathan Sims, Head Archivist of the Magnus Institute, London.”
Yeah well, it made me wonder how he would even know Jon said this, but then I realized he’s been roommates with Annabelle Cane for at least a couple month (I assume anyway.)
Anyway what I’m saying is, even though it’s a very funny meta joke it’s also a hint that the tapes were Web the whole time.
my friend told me that her boyfriend got her a super cool rock while they were on vacation together and you would not BELIEVE my disappointment when i realized she was talking about her engagement ring
*holds your head in my hands* im sorry i let you down
uni student jon who’s The Favorite of the street cats near his uni !! <3 when the cats see him, they rub themselves along his legs and meow for attention !!!
jon gives cat food and human food that’s safe for cats with water, and just watch them with a lil smile on his face :((
jon definitely named the cats and the cats would respond! he’d have silly lil convos with em :DD
jon: hanni, what did i say about picking fights with the others?
People will really say “Jonathan Sims is a good guy!” or “Jonathan Sims is a bad person!” as if a prominent message of his character arc wasn’t that no matter who you are, what you do, or how you behave your actions can cause harm or good without intention, and baselessly assigning morals to people who aren’t deliberately causing harm is pointless because our view of them is more about how they affect us than how they actually are.
For better or worse, everyone is just a person. We’re all both not at fault and entirely to blame.
I need people to stop blaming the death of movies on “quips”. A quip is just a funny line of dialogue. That’s all. Like I just saw a post talking about quips and the death of movies and brought up Pirates of the Caribbean as an example of a better movie and yes it is but also that movie is FULL OF QUIPS. I just rewatched The Princess Bride. It’s all quips. Every single line. And it’s a masterpiece.
Movies suck when people don’t care about the art they’re making. That includes them not caring about their quips. Which is why a lot of comic relief dialogue ALSO sucks now. But the problem isn’t that funny dialogue exists.
The Princess Bride is almost all quips, but it’s all sincerity. Every aspect of the plot is ridiculous and yet no movie dialogue has ever gone as hard as “I want my father back, you son of a bitch”
people recognize the problem contained within Whedon-style quippyness without knowing the term for the actual issue so they say “quips” when they mean “bathos”
another problem with quips that’s a little harder to analyze and explain is the quips are all in the author’s voice, NOT the characters’.
steve rogers, natalia romanoff, james barnes, tony stark, pepper potts, and bruce banner are people from radically different walks of life, and should therefore have extremely different styles of communication, despite all off them nominally speaking the same language (english). they should have different senses of humor, different senses of where the boundary lies between irreverence and insult, different boundaries, different sore spots, different goals as well as different methods of communication.
the fact that all these characters banter the exact same way, i.e how joss whedon thinks is funny, is incredibly shallow and grating.
steve grew up as a challenging little shit, who was also very small and poor, and he did it in 1920′s-30′s brooklyn new york. he regularly got his ass kicked. tony stark is also challenging and provocative, he’s a shit stirrer, but he grew up rich as all fuck. no one was beating the piss out of him in a dirty alley. tony has grown up surrounded by sycophants, rich enough to get away with whatever amount of bad behavior he wants to pull; steve grew up poor and disabled in a society that openly advocated for the death and degradation of the weak and unfit. why the fuck would they enter a conversation the same way? why would they deliver a snappy retort the same way? natasha romanoff is a spy, she’s manipulative, she’s always watching to see how a joke lands, she’s always conscientiously tuning herself this way and that to get results. she doesn’t have the luxury of casual defiance, or unthinking obnoxiousness, or even standing by her principles and pissing off someone she hates. again, why would she be tossing off little asides the same as tony, or even the same as steve?
the princess bride is sincere, and the characters still banter in their own voices. fezzik is cautious and methodical, inigo is weary and incredulous, vizzini is desperate to impress everyone with his own intelligence and in so doing often sounds like a complete twerp, buttercup is so incredibly pissed off she doesn’t have any brain cells to spare for joking around, and westley is here to ruin everyone’s day. and it works! the characters have great banter because they’re striking sparks off each other, not meshing like identical cogs in a machine.
humor is about subverting expectations, about breaking up patterns, about confrontation and absurdity. you can’t get that from a blandly uniform pulp.
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