honestly I love that I often see non-TMA listeners guessing that the archives crew are found family trope when in fact they are a bunch of angry, depressed, traumatized idiots stuck in basement hell together who would without question actually kill one another if it seemed necessary or maybe just if they really felt like it. daisy is the only one who seems to be friends with everybody despite having attempted to do a murder on her current coworkers at least twice in the past. jon and martin’s mutually undeclared love is sending them on self-destructive spirals in opposite directions from one another. melanie walked in on jon repeatedly trying to cut his own finger off and her reaction was just “you’re so fucking stupid. look i’ll take you to meet body horror incarnate and he’ll do this job properly like you apparently can’t, you pathetic man.” helen’s just kind of here, occasionally eating people, and nobody really talks about it
they’re literally the exact opposite of a found family it’s spectacular
….. As someone who is not in the TMA fandom, that’s a lot of angst. Like. A SHIT TON OF ANGST and
Are
Are y'all okay???
short and funny answer, no not even a little bit
longer answer, well, at least the creator has always been very upfront about the fact that there isn’t going to be a happy ending, but there’s a reason I do my best to make sure people know what kinda angsty horror sadfest they’re getting into when they start listening lmao.
