June 2023

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tmaappreciationweek:

TMA Appreciaton Week II is a prompt week to celebrate the Magnus Archives, the people behind it, and the fandom memories that have been created. This event will run August 6th to August 12th and feature fanworks for your favorite characters, scenes, ships, and more. Each day five different prompts will be provided for inspiration but don’t feel like you have to stick to them. If you have an idea you want to use, feel free to use it.

To participate, you can post on tumblr using the tag #tmaappreciationweek or pinging us @tmaappreciationweek.


Prompts

Monday, August 6th

Tuesday, August 7th

Wednesday, August 8th

Thursday, August 9th

Friday, August 10th

Saturday, August 11th

Sunday, August 12th

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sm0kebreaks:

i know we love talking about what a cunt jon was in s1 and he was sure but i was reading the transcript of Alone and tbh without hearing the intonation it’s easier to see why jon was being a bit extra cunty like

first of all they started the statement only for it to get fucked up and they had to restart using the tapes instead

naomi goes on for a bit about how shitty his tape recorder is and his laptop and how nobody respects the institute unprompted to where jon simply is like okay.. you dont HAVE to talk to me…

and then after the statement shes like cool now what and jon tells her what their next steps are going to be and what he thinks could help her (which yes is telling her seeking some grief counselling could help her deal with her fiancees death) to which she gets MAD at him for not having anything else to offer her!

like… at that point he wasn’t even really being a cunt he was just matching her tone..

like imagine how frustrating it must have been at the start of his career as head archivist having to deal with the shit show the archives are and not having shit work so he has to use analog means to do his work he has martin who doesnt know what hes fucking doing because hes not qualified for his job and even if he was he wasnt a researcher and then on top of that you have people coming in and shitting on you and your place of work like.. come on… id be a cunt too

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About your anti-Martin-in-Season-5 post: I understand your position and I get how he seems like a different person to you, but keep in mind that they are both in a supremely difficult situation (and I know that other TMA situations have been stressful but this is the end of the world we’re talking about) and Martin has to deal with the fact that Jon is the one that caused it. And I’m not saying that’s healthy or good for their relationship, but we haven’t really seen Martin in that kind of situation before season 5. It makes sense that he’s a bit shitty about it (and less kind than in season 1, when relatively little had gone tits-up for him yet). PLUS he’s been forcibly attached to Jon at the hip for months now, which is a strain to put on any new relationship, especially when there’s all the preexisting issues to contend with, Martin hasn’t exactly been able to be alone with his thoughts about Jon starting the whole apocalypse. So yeah, he’s a bit spiteful and mean to Jon

Also re: the Upton house and Salesa, here Martin is INCREDIBLY relieved at being able to find somewhere he can feel human (eating, sleeping) again (at this point he still thinks of himself as human, I don’t think he knows about his Domain and if he does, it’s certainly not in any detail). So that’s almost definitely colouring his perception of Salesa and Annabelle, especially since he’s meeting Salesa for the first time and he’s being very charming (and saying the first uncomplicatedly nice thing Martin has heard in a very long time, and Annabelle’s not there to counteract that). I don’t have a good explanation for why Martin laughs at Jon when he’s so vulnerable, but I will say that he’s probably not unhappy to be away from Jon’s statements (he REALLY REALLY doesn’t like them and has probably heard more than his fair share), so that’s definitely a factor. And he’s relieved! Upton house was a (brief, but he didn’t really think about that yet) respite from the literal apocalypse happening outside

iamnmbr3:


So personally I actually don’t agree with a lot of this. Yes Martin is in a difficult position ins season 5 - they all are - but it’s not Jon who caused the situation. It’s Jonah. Jon was an unwitting victim. Martin blaming Jon is frankly horrible. But what bothers me much more is that the narrative presents Martin as being in the right, to the point that many fans started echoing that sentiment, even though it makes no sense and we are explicitly shown in canon that Jon is as much a victim as anyone else.

It’s a horror story so Jon’s relationship with Martin being destroyed or turning sour and downright abusive as it does isn’t necessary a problem. Bad stuff happens in horror all the time. What I don’t like is that the abuse is framed as ok.

And I also do feel it’s ooc. Martin has been in plenty of stressful situations before. But he never once engaged in the type of behavior he engaged in in S5 or even tolerated other people treating Jon that way. Even in the first arc of S5 Martin doesn’t treat Jon that way or victim blame him. It’s starting in the second arc, when the writing takes a dive, that Martin’s character and behavior also changes.

Upton House being a “respite” from the apocalypse doesn’t really make sense. There’s no in character reason for them to trust anything that’s going on there or for them to feel relaxed. And Jon suffers horribly there but Martin doesn’t care. Which again is ooc.

Also btw I hated the way Martin treated Jon’s loss of autonomy due to having been made an Avatar against his will, and his dependence on statements which again Jon feels great distress over as an annoyance that he can mock Jon over. That’s a horrible way to treat your partner. And again feels very ooc. and what’s even more jarring tho is how this horrible treatment is presented as tho it’s cute and fluffy and reasonable when it’s not.

But yeah these are just some quick disorganized thoughts. I went into much more detail about why I think Martin is wildly ooc in arcs 2 and 3 of S5 here

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havocspiral:

jonathan “im an unforgivable monster” sims after his life is filled with remorse and second chances for people others would consider irredeemable, after his life is at risk just to bring someone back from the depths of despair on numerous occasions, after all he tries to do is love people. idk. idk

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It’s always a good day to remind people of how much I hate Georgie FUCKING Barker :3

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tobi-smp:

cardentist:

between jay marble hornets and jon magnus archives I think a lot of people really do just take offense to characters in horror movies being People and not action heroes

paranoia and fear are considered character flaws (stupidity or cowardice or a lack of humanity). they’re supposed to strong enough to survive but anything they do for survival has to be Socially Acceptable.

you can’t have a horror protagonist be Smart without also being paranoid, otherwise it’s not good horror. asking a character to always make the right decisions and always know when they’re in danger but Also holding them accountable when they’re distrustful of the characters that You know are safe is silly.

sometimes not being crazy murdered means doing a little stalking. wanting to live when you know For Sure that there’s someone (or something) out there that is completely willing to kill you means choosing Survival over social convention

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landscaping-your-mind:

this is the georgie and martin one… oh no…

HI @a-mag-a-day IM ABOUT TO BE SO NORMAL. anyway um conflicts of interest: i love jonathan sims head archivist of the magnus institute london more than anyone else in the world barring my cat and my partner.

so let’s just. go then, i guess.

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mattholicguilt:

I love when Martin tells Jon “we had like a year of working a normal job together and you hated me.” because like. baby that was not a normal job. Jon specifically was putting on this aloof skeptical act the entire time because he was scared of the Eye. also martin was “bad at his job” but the job also wasn’t designed to like. be in any way a successful enterprise.

it’s like they were working at a restaurant that was actually a front for money laundering but Jon and martin were both super focused on making sure the burgers were made properly. martin believes in the tma workplace comedy but it truly was never there!!