I’m genuinely tired of people only talking about Jon in terms of him being an addict with no self-control.
At some point y’all are going to have to recognize that what you’re implying is that his boss, without his knowledge or consent, spiked his ‘food’, thereby making him addicted to a drug only his job or unwilling victims could provide… and it was his fault for not fighting against it hard enough.
Let me repeat.
Y’all are saying. That A MAN WHO WAS NON-CONSENSUALLY DRUGGED. THAT HE WAS NOT AWARE OF. UNTIL HE WAS ADDICTED. SHOULD’VE FOUGHT HARDER. TO NOT HAVE BECOME ADDICTED. EVEN THOUGH. HE WASN’T AWARE. UNTIL IT WAS TOO LATE.
Cool cool cool. Cool. Awesome. Glad to have that settled. Gonna think about how Jon super enjoyed being basically roofied so much that he started purposefully roofieing himself cause it was so great. Gonna think about how his personality really emphasized how much he wanted to be roofied. Really nice work all. Totally “reading comprehension”-ed your way into that LOVEliness.
There is no reason for Jon to feel trapped or cornered when Tim knocks to be let into his office. The somewhat disjointed tune of ‘shave and a haircut’ is enough to spike his adrenaline, however.
“Come in,” Jon calls in response and the door opens without hesitation.
“You got a minute?” Tim asks even as he closes the door behind him, taking a seat at Jon’s desk.
“I suppose I do.”
“Good,” Tim flashes a quick smile. “Have we done something wrong?”
“I-what?”
“I think you’ve spoken to us maybe twice in as many weeks and there haven’t been any requests for us to do follow-ups or research on any of the statements,” Tim says, crossing his arms. “Hell, I don’t think you’ve even checked on our other tasks either. You’ve gone from kind of overbearing to fully hands off practically overnight and-”
“You-you’re asking for… more work?” Jon interrupts.
“I’m asking for feedback and structure, mate,” Tim says. “We’re kind of floundering here.”
“The archives are looking more and more organized and presentable day-by-day, Tim,” Jon says. “You are all doing excellent work in what I need you all to be doing. I do not think any of you need my help with putting statements and their corroborating material where they are supposed to go in the stacks.” Jon’s tone is light, but he doesn’t smile. “Everything else, right now, is unnecessary.”
“Sure, but-”
“Genuinely, Tim, it is fine. This place is not going to be in order any time soon and none of you three need to burn out before then,” Jon says. “Now, if that’s all, we need to get back to work.”
“Jon, this is coming from me as your friend and not your coworker, it feels like you’re kind of checking out and I’m a bit worried.” The words are delivered with the intensity and concern that Jon didn’t expect from anyone, let alone Tim. The expression on Tim’s face only highlights this fact.
There is only one thing Jon can think to say, the only thing he knows will get him to leave.
“We are not nor have we ever been friends, Tim. I am your boss.”
Tim stares at him, wide-eyed and jaw slack.
“Please leave.”
It takes a moment for the shock to wear off and then, like the clouds parting, the anger Jon was so used to breaks through Tim’s expression. He leaves without another word or a second glance and the relief of it, of no longer having to worry about the relationship he and Tim had, is enough to get him to smile. It doesn’t last long, however, as he gets back to the tasks at hand.
I’m not gonna say that jon’s season 2 stalking was a Good thing or that the other characters weren’t right to be upset about it, but it’s like.
you know that post that points out that death note would’ve ended a lot sooner if L had just risked it all and hit light with his car? that is Also a way that jonathan sims head archivist of the magnus institute could’ve handled the whole “there is a monster masquerading as one of my co-workers who wants to crazy murder me” situation
a situation that, it bares repeating, he was completely correct about on Multiple accounts
Ok new game. What’s the thing you’re a fan of that you’re the most pretentious about. NOT the most pretentious thing you’re a fan of, I mean the thing that makes *you* act like one of those “oh yeah? Name five of their albums” people. There is a difference
Bad news: everyone who has said some variation of “umm actually I don’t do that 🙏 I’m a good person” is more annoying than the rest of us confessing to our nerd crimes. Yes you do. I guarantee it you do. You’re saying Um, Actually right now
had a dream last night where I took a uquiz called “what do you serve?” and at first the questions were standard but as the quiz progressed they became more and more highly specific to me personally and the answers became more and more similar and I realised the quiz Knew me and was forcing me into being honest by giving me no other option so I tried to click out but it just went to the next question which was “are you the spider? or are you the web?” and it had an option for each but I didn’t click either so it then turned to a text box and I typed “I think I’m the fly” and the quiz paused for a while and then took me to a results page that said “you serve truth” and the description just read “what you know will kill you but you will die laughing” so like. good morning everyone I guess :/
low key i do not vibe w a lot of the martin fan characterizations and designs. like he's one of my favorites largely bc of how the lonely manifests w him bc it's more complex than just -lonely guy is lonely gets assigned lonely- yk? like there's stuff going on w his character and he's like not a ruthless killer or whatever but he's also not like pure and perfect and kind. also ok i just hate how ppl draw fat characters and how a character being fat affects their characterization bc u just KNOW that that's part of the reason y people make his character like so pure and soft all the time
like idk maybe im losing it but like. i feel like i never actually see any good discussion on martin it all just makes me cringe. s4 martin is so important to me and i love getting to interact so much w fandom but also lowkey i feel like y'all don't get him like i do
“Jon’s abrasiveness and egotism, as well as his skepticism, directly caused Martin to be attacked by Jane Prentiss and Sasha to be attacked by Timothy Hodge because they were under the belief they needed to give him more concrete evidence in order to keep their jobs.”
Hi. That’s two grown adults. With agency. Who did those things. After work hours.
If Jon is wholly responsible for every choice he made that resulted in the end of the world, despite the manipulation from HIS boss and the Web, they also are wholly responsible for theirs. He didn’t tell them or ask them to do any of that. He didn’t even fucking know what they were going to do. They didn’t inform him and he didn’t give them the go ahead. He was their boss and they might’ve felt like if they didn’t they would’ve been reprimanded, but they did what they did outside of his purview or blessing.
Not only that, but Sasha even assumed Martin was lying or exaggerating what happened. Even with visual evidence. And we have no idea what Martin’s belief level was prior to Jane Prentiss’s attack. Both of them did what they did under the impression it was going to be fine. And Jon, still occluding, wouldn’t have
Fuck off with these double standards. I’m sick of it.
Saw someone waxing poetic about Jon and Martin’s feelings for each other and…
You’re fucking delusional.
Martin does not see or care about Jon as a person. There is no single person in that podcast that looks at Jon and sees any humanity in him. And I’m starting to get ill about the fandom making shit up in order to ignore that very obvious fact, lol
At my most uncharitable, I wouldn’t be surprised if Martin’s whole ‘appear unassuming and bumbling in order to manipulate the people around him into doing what he wants’ extended to the supposed feelings he had for Jon and that in fact a huge part of JMart being together was because Martin saw Jon as a means to an ends (I.e., his very survival) and that everything he said to him during the apocalypse and whatever we didn’t see during their time in the safe house was calculated and when they were finally free of the horrors that Martin would’ve skipped out of town.
i think my favorite part of the ‘jon gets a cat in a post series good end’ trope is how there’s a not insignificant amount of people who make that cat a scarred and disabled stray as a reflection of jon finally wanting to and being able to take care of himself and my heart guys my fucking heart
Hijabi basira really makes no sense to me, it feels like the fandom just wanted to force representation onto the characters. Basira actively does things all the time that contradict islamic beliefs and it low-key feels a bit disrespectful, the hijab isn't just cultural wear, it's a religious symbol/garment.
I'm writing this while waiting for my doctor's appointment so if it's incoherent it's because I'm very stressed thanks for providing me with the distraction
I love Joshua Gillespie as much as the next guy but he's not as awesome as people say he is and he would not be "the only one to survive the apocalypse" or whatever. Dude was just avoidant and accepted the horrors but if the horrors were more aggressive it would get him killed. Literally one of my favorite quotes from this show "it's funny how fear can become as routine as hunger" comes from this episode and it shows exactly that. I get why people think that because freezing the key *was* smart but he still took that coffin in at the end of the day.
What I'm trying to say is none of the characters are smart or dumb, some of them are just luckier than the others and their fear response happened to go against the fear that tormented them.
He's still one of my favorite statement givers but not because he's the perfect final girl who would always survive but because he's just a guy who had fucked up nightmarish thing happen to him and survived in the most underwhelming way possible.
If you make a joke about ‘Elias Bouchard’ and Peter Lukas being ex-husbands or what the fuck ever, I automatically will dismiss every thing you have to say about The Magnus Archives. Period. It’s a stupid and tired joke. Same with the fucking kayak jokes. Die.
Adding the ‘Jon had a band in university that was the Mechanisms’ to the list of annoyingly pervasive and idiotic fanon in-jokes that make me want to rip my hair out from the root until I’m BALD.
Now adding the “Jonny only has one name he uses and it’s Michael” to this roster. Stop beating a dead horse you’re just digging a hole now shut the fuck up.
I fucking hate people saying Jon isn't a repulsed ace, i think it's weird and they're obviously just trying to bend the narrative so they feel less bad abt engaging in content where the isn't repulsed.
Consume what you want to consume but atleast acknowledge that you're changing something from the source marterial ig? It feels like the least you can do
In what world is this not Martin not listening nor caring that Jon is deeply upset at everything that was forced upon him, lol. In what world is this not Jon attempting to talk about his emotions so he can deal with them but instead being steamrolled into ~suppressing them~ again cause his “”anchor“” thinks it’s chill.
Enlighten me.
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Did… did Jon start it? Or did he unconsciously do something he HAD NO IDEA HE COULD DO? Something he was so disgusted by? And then MARTIN started “”cheerleading“” the “”magical murder spree“”??? Maybe I’m mistaken. Maybe I’m an idiot.
Martin: “Have you thought maybe the world wouldn’t be consumed by eldritch horrors if you’d just killed yourself? Also, have you thought maybe you’re such a terrible person that, had you known, you wouldn’t have told them? Nor allow them to kill you? Like they had attempted to already multiple times? Because you’re such a monster that you don’t want to die, even if it was to save the world?”
I drew this way back when the series ended and only now have decided to post it. Kismet means I only think of MAG 200 when I hear these lyrics so now I’m subjecting y’all to it. Okay thank you :)
I can’t stop thinking about this scene. I can’t stop thinking about how this is legitimately just Martin pointing out that if Jon had just stayed dead or killed himself that the archival crew would’ve been free and safe and therefore the world would’ve been free and safe cause he wouldn’t have been able to be used to enact the ritual. I can’t stop thinking about how this is legitimately just Martin asking Jon if he would’ve stayed dead or killed himself had he known about the fact of the matter and in questioning him doubted his commitment to DYING for the greater good.
Martin flat out told Jon to his face that the world would’ve been better off without him and Jon didn’t disagree. And then Martin has the gall to be shocked when Jon decides to kill everyone and everything just for the notion that no one would be in the situation he had been in that resulted in the rituals success.
the martin blackwood hater was funny cause dude actually had legitimate gripes about the guy and the lonely he backed up with facts. the micheal shelley hater isn’t funny cause its trying hard to be that martin hater and fails because in no world do people actually care enough about micheal shelley beyond aesthetics and shipping to legitimately hate him.
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