[ID: An eight page digital comic featuring Sam, Celia, and Alice from The Magnus Protocol on a gray background. The characters are all colored with a single color each. Sam is red, Celia is green, and Alice is pink. Sam is a fat Arab man with short curly dark hair, a mustache, and a small goatee, and he is wearing small black earrings, a cardigan, a turtleneck, trousers and loafers. Celia is a taller Korean woman with short dark hair and she is wearing rectangular glasses, piercings including an industrial piercing, an x-shaped earring, and snakebites, a button-down shirt with the sleeves rolled up, a vest, trousers, and black wrist cuffs. Alice is an even taller white woman with long fluffy hair and crooked teeth, and she is wearing cat eye glasses, three pairs of earrings, snakebites, a flannel shirt, a hoodie tied around her waist, a patchwork skirt, bracelets, and a lanyard.
Sam and Celia are stood at a table covered in papers. Celia urgently turns to Sam. Celia: Alice is coming! She can’t catch us researching, we need a diversion, QUICK! How can we make her think we’re not doing what we’re doing? Sam, shrugging really hard: UHHHH she thinks I have a crush on you?? Celia, sweating, turns back to where Alice is coming from, panicked, and turns back to Sam, shrugging and reaching for him. Celia smiling a bit manically: Yeah, that’ll work, sure!
Sam, with Celia’s hands grabbing his cardigan: Wait whaAAAA- He is pulled out of frame. Alice walks in: Hey Sam, working hard or hardly woOOOAA She leans on the doorframe as she holds a hand to her chest in shock.
The next panel is rendered with soft pink shadows and “shoujo sparkles” in the now pink background. Sam is sitting on the table holding onto Celia, whose face is buried in his neck as she wraps one arm around his back and the other holds up one of his legs under his knee. Neither of their faces are visible. The rest of the page fades back to gray from there. Sam and Celia look over at Alice, hair ruffled, Sam is now blushing. Sam: ALICE!! He pushes Celia away and they look at each other for a moment, panicked. Sam: It’s- …. exactly what it looks like! Celia: Aw, you’ve caught us! He rests his hands on her shoulders and they both look in opposite directions as though embarrassed. Celia is also blushing lightly. There are red and green neon signs pointing to them reading “Totally Ham-Slammin’” and “GAY! (in an M/F way)” respectively.
Alice looks to be in shock with a vacant expression and a computer pop up over her forehead reading “Alice.exe has stopped responding”. In the next panel she is fine again and back to smirking. Alice: WOW SAM, didn’t know you had it in you! Now I’m no snitch, so I didn’t see anything, BUT- you lovebirds should cut it out before Gwen catches you. Celia and Sam look at each other anxiously, cheeks pressed together as she speaks. Alice: You KNOW she’d tell Lena. Celia, pulling back and smoothing her hair out: Oh, for sure. Sam: Th-Thanks, Alice. Alice: Don’t mention it! I’ll give you crazy kids a minute to straighten up, TA-TA~ She waves as she leaves.
Sam and Celia listen to her steps fade before going “phew” and finally pulling away from each other, now holding hands at an arms distance. Celia: You alright? That was kinda sudden…. Sam: It’s fine! Just a bit caught off guard. Celia: I can’t believe she actually bought all of that! Sam: Me either! Works for me, though.
Celia: Did you want to get down- Sam, pulling away suddenly, blushing again: NO! He crosses his legs and looks away sheepishly, scratching his head. Sam: I wanna stay here another minute or so…. Celia, concerned: You sure you’re alright? Sam: Yeah! Just, er…. Celia looks at him, confused. Sam, blushing increasingly harder: Ahem. (He folds his hands in his lap politely.) I am not immune to being thrown on a table. Celia, smiling and politely stepping away: AH! …. Noted~
She walks away casually, still smiling. Celia: I’ll give you a minute to collect yourself. Sam, head down in his lap, embarrassed: Thanks…. He looks up after she leaves. Sam: Wait. He straightens up, slightly panicked, face entirely red. Sam: What do you mean by “NOTED”?!
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i am SO glad this episode didn’t entirely debunk the silly headcanon that birthed this comic. initially i wasn’t convinced sam actually had a crush so i made this like “well if he didn’t before, HE DOES NOW” so…. here’s this silly comic thing <3 i just think they’re neat <3
gerrytim established relationship around spring 2014 they just started living together. Gerry randomly disappears for about twelve hours, doesn’t answer his phone, shows up half an hour before midnight when Tim’s almost worked himself into a partially flashback induced panic attack. Gerry says his phone died halfway through the day. Tim says he was worried. Gerry says he didn’t think Tim would. Tim tries not to think about the implications of that single sentence. Gerry downs an ibuprofen pill (for his headache) (on empty stomach of course because he didn’t have time to eat) (and Tim would tell him to eat first but there’s no food in the fridge and he was supposed to cook something but was too busy calling and worrying and working up the courage to go out and look) (aren’t they both a mess). Gerry hugs Tim. says he’s sorry. Tim sighs and breathes in the smell of smoke from his shirt and says “let’s just go to sleep”. they go to sleep. maybe for a moment everything feels okay. it’s not.
Now, I’m not saying romantic relationships are inferior, or that they’re useless, or that you being in one or that you shipping some characters romantically is Bad or something off the walls like that. What I’m saying is that two people (or characters, since we’re talking shipping here) can be just as devoted to each other, love each other just as deeply, mean just as much to each other while being in a platonic relationship. The end point of caring about someone doesn’t have to be romance.
Friendship isn’t a stepping stone between strangers and romantic partners, it’s a different path. And you can follow that path as deep into the wood as a romantic one if you want, and neither is inferior to the other, they just have different views.
headcanoning both jacobi and maxwell as trans is the funniest thing ever because it just means that this terrible, dad-humour-ass cishet white man accidentally adopted the queerest little freaks goddard had to offer and i think that’s beautiful
for all my artists, content creators, and anyone else out there who use specific color palettes for references/designs, here are the hex codes for each of the lgbtq flags for your queer creative purposes. i hope you find these useful. enjoy!
28. philadelphia pride flag. 29. demisexual. 30. demiromantic. 31. intersex. 32. genderfae. 33. genderfaun. 34. polyamorous. 35. sapphic. 36. polysexual.
37. trans lesbian. 38. femme lesbian by strwbryfemme on twitter. 39. femme lesbian. 40. aro lesbian. 41. ace lesbian by @r00. 42. gay ace. 43. agenderflux. 44. girlflux. 45. boyflux.
46. alternate philadelphia pride flag. 47. alternate femme lesbian. 48. alternate gay ace. 49. alternate aro lesbian by @juanpujolgarcia. 50-51. alternate ace lesbian. 52. gay aro inspired by aro lesbian flag by @/lesbiflags on twitter. 53. sapphic ace by @/strwbryfemme on twitter. 54. achillean ace by @z1msoda.
55. sapphic aro by sapphicimagines on twitter. 56. sapphic aroace also by sapphicimagines. 57. achillean aro. 58. achillean aroace.
So I saw a tag on a post about the newest episode about Gertrude saying “good luck hunting” and how she might have thought Celia and Sam were avatars. And I got hit by a realisation
TMA GERRY WAS TRAPPED IN A BOOK, AN OBJECT THAT GIVES KNOWLEDGE, in the HANDS OF HUNT AVATARS and whose only way to escape the misery of not being was death. An escape Jon gave him even if he lost knowledge
Did JON REACHED OUT HOPING TO FINALLY DIE ? DID HE HOPE THIS GERRY, EVEN IF HE WASNT TMA GERRY HE WOULD RETURN THE FAVOR ? THAT HE WOULD FREE HIM LIKE JON FREED GERRY ? THAT WITH THE PLACES REVERSED THE SAME THING WOULD HAPPEN ?
THE GODDAMN PARALLELS THAT MIGHT JUST BE ME OVERTHINKING BUT ZKXVZKNDZKFBKZOXKZOBX
Talking to people about your characters really is a game changer. You’ll start saying things about them you didn’t even know you knew.
Legitimately one of the best ways to find out something about your character that you don’t know is to have someone else ask you. It’s absolutely wild.
I realized this morning that I’ve never designed a Ḩ̵̛̘̤͙͔̝̫̖̻̦̞͙̺̅̿͘͝ë̸͓̮͉͈͇͍̖͎̩̞͈́́́̋̇̾͋̈́̾͆͑͘͘͜͠͝l̶̬̞͎̖͉̹̝͕̝͖̣̉͆ë̸͓̮͉͈͇͍̖͎̩̞͈́́́̋̇̾͋̈́̾͆͑͘͘͜͠͝ǹ̷̨͍̮̥̹̘͙̗̻̬̬̜̥̮̃̒̈́̽͗̿̍̄̂̏͆͠͝ in my style well here ¿she? is!
when i was listening to the magnus archives i wrote down a timestamp for when jon said cock and balls so if you ever need that timestamp it happens at about 2:39 in episode 103
the way half of the tmagp fandom is like “omg needles is so cunty he’s so sexy i want their gender” and the other half is like “needles my loserboy <3 it’s okay you pathetic twink you’re intimidating dw now go to bed”
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