2025-10-02 6:09:45 ¶ ●

I did end up listening to two episodes tonight, starting with MAG 81. And so here are my thoughts as we go through them. Under read more cause holy yap.

## MAG 81

I just. I know it’s brought up pretty often when talking about this episode, when people care enough to talk about it, but. Christ, Jon.

This whole backstory. These two paragraphs that are pretty swiftly glossed over. Holding my head in my hands like. He was always unwanted. There was never, not really, a point in his life where he doesn’t remember not feeling like he was hated and RESENTED. ‘Too bleak a picture’. Yeah. Pretty fucking bleak my guy. ‘Private feelings’? My guy. If they were PRIVATE. You wouldn’t have KNOWN. Even if you couldn’t name it at the time, you knew. Jesus Christ.

I can’t even think rn about him finding himself ‘hardly an easy child’. It’s been so long since I’ve heard his backstory and voice I’m like. Reeling at how detached he sounds. About himself. About his story. There’s emotion, yeah, but it’s empty. Hollow. Like any other statement. Like beneath it he’s just. Wanting it over with. He doesn’t feel anything for himself.

Moving on.

I hate this. I hate it because I know it’s foreshadowing. I hate this because it implies, with that foreshadowing, that even at eight Jon is considered culpable for the end of the world. He knew he hated it, that it ‘oozed violence’, but that didn’t stop him. An eight year old.

Jesus Christ

Anyway. Moving on…

THATS A SURPRISE TOOL THAT’LL HELP US LATER.

Presented without comment but ANNOTATED.

Actually, a little comment… MY GUY. YOU LITERALLY SAY THAT RIGHT AFTER EXCUSING HIM ON THE GROUNDS OF YOU BEING *checks notes* A ‘DEEPLY ANNOYING CHILD’. I want to study your brain. You have so fucking much wrong with you.

Factually incorrect, you believed every time Leitner and or books were mentioned. Unless you mean, had you not already had this encounter. Then yeah. No shit. Why would you think anything supernatural was real?

Now Georgie is here so I’m like. Done. With commentary for this episode. Cause otherwise I would be a bitch. Next.

## MAG 82

This episode is just Daisy harassing the archival employees then Jonah harassing Daisy so I might not have a lot to say…

…previously, two episodes ago…

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ANYWAY.

This is so irritating to me, lol

THIS IS SO I R R I T A T I N G TO ME. EL. OH. EL.

They probably thought they were being OH SO CLEVER. Well FUCK YEW JOHNNY. FUCK YEW AJN.

I’ve said it before and I’ll reiterate it here. Daisy. Is a wolf. In sheep’s clothing. She may not act it, but she very clearly wants to appear and sound unassuming and therefore underestimated. Buff, butch Daisy is antithetical to the point of her character. Get that through y’all’s thick skulls.

Anyway. Daisy. Yeah. Also. I’ve reached photo limit on my phone. Boooo. I was gonna add that scene where Martin and Tim talk about Daisy accusing Jon of killing Sasha and like. Trying to wrap my head around the idea that murder was a ‘logical’ progression from stalking and paranoia. Feels like it’s saying that all paranoid schizophrenics will eventually murder someone. And I think that’s what gets me. Cause unless there was something else that made them assume Jon was capable of murder, then the other sign would be… stalking and paranoia. Because that’s all that changed about him to affect their opinion. Jon being an asshole could not be reason enough.

Anyway. That’s it for tonight. Come back tomorrow for two more I guess.

2025-10-03 6:29:55 ¶ ●

Back at it again with two more episodes.

## MAG 83

Gonna try and be more reserved with the images.

That said, I don’t want to talk about this opening. I have baggage about this opening. I am not smart nor detached enough to talk about this opening. So. I’m not going to. It’s good. It’s fine. It’s whatever. It just makes me want to kms. Anyway. Moving on.

Chloe Ashburt is one of the more memorable statement givers imo and yes it’s cause of her dwarfism. It’s a part of her life but it’s not all of her life and we see that. The connection to circuses and freak shows that dwarfs have is something that cannot be ignored, and bringing her in when we’re ‘introduced’ to Nikola Orsinov (in a way) addresses it without being completely offensive. Too bad that can’t be said for much else this show does — looking at the Haan family here — but this wasn’t horrible at least.

I don’t have much else to say about the statement. It’s pretty damn good. One of the few non live statements that stuck with me. Chloe doing her life drawings, the descriptions of the displays, the single line of blood across her lips. I can see it like a movie.

I guess by the end I’m just. Wondering. Why isn’t he trying to exonerate himself? Why is Jon more focused on the Unknowing rather than finding evidence that Elias killed Gertrude and Jurgen? Guess it’s a combination of being unable to freely leave the flat and also being sent that statement as a distraction? Dunno why that, of everything, is tripping me up. Just don’t get why Jon is unconcerned with being a murder suspect. It’s weird.

## MAG 84

Eurgh. Martin reading :/

I don’t think I can give much input to this statement. It’s one-off and unconnected. Just gives another view into the Corruption and its dual meanings. Maggie as an abusive family member, Gordon as an eventual perpetuator of the cycle of abuse. Clear cut metaphors.

Anyway.

Not gonna talk about the conversation between M&M before Jonah comes in to trap Melanie as a pawn. Don’t wanna get into the weeds about the others perceptions of Jon and how frustrating they are. They confuse and annoy my simple brain.

You know… I can’t even be mad. I can be annoyed that she blames Jon later, considering HE WASN’T EVEN THERE but… I mean. C’mon. Accepting a job she didn’t know — except for a mild warning — will eventually cause her to gouge your eyes out, isn’t something I’ll hold against her. That’d be dumb of me.

Anyway. Much shorter post tonight. Don’t have much to say for now. Gonna go to bed. Night night.