Two moreee. The Coming Storm and *ugh* Nothing Beside Remains.

MAG 91

Another kinda boring episode. I don’t… particularly care about Mike Crew. Short episode too. Anyway. Jon. He was being polite. Why ask about scars when you ALREADY KNOW HOW HE GOT IT. It’s not about respect, it’s just about not being a dick.

Oh. Again. Eight years old. Why pick that age. Interesting choice…

Mike Crew is like. The opposite of Gerry. Finding cursed books – THREEEEE OF THEM – to try and become cursed rather than finding them to burn and prevent them from cursing other people.

So the Lichtenberg figure was tried to be used by the Spiral despite it not being a spiral at all but actually a part of the Vast due to lightning. This is why I don’t like the whole ‘parts of one being’ thing regarding the fears because, well….. does a foot have beef with a mouth???

Anyway.

Sounds like Mike Crew also died to become??? Is that what actually happened when he jumped? Not that he just free-fell before being spat out? Huh… then how did he die permanently this time?

I really don’t like hearing pained or scared noises. Especially when the Foley artist and director isn’t good at it.

Jon actually did ask Basira for tapes. Which is why I think we didn’t automatically assume that they were part of the Web. Like. At this point it really could’ve been him 'compelling’ Basira, but also I’m pretty sure in hindsight we’re supposed to connect that it wasn’t him asking for them that made them give them to him. Just an unfortunate coincidence I’m sure the Web was happy to oblige.

AND THEN THEY WATCH JON, INJURED AND BLEEDING, DIG A GRAVE. Okay, it’s more than likely they also dug, but still. Wow.

One last thing. Jon oscillating between attempting to purposefully compel Daisy and apologizing and begging for his life and asserting his innocence is… really whiplashy to me. Desperation, yeah, and I’m not criticizing it, I just… makes my head spin with how many emotions and shit he goes through in a five minute span……

Moving onto… oh….. oh no….

MAG 92

I’m gonna kermit…

Fuck. You. Jujube. Mandelbrot. You shit stain. I am so tired of hearing your goddamn voice. The only thing good about you is that this is reminding me of the actual evil in the series and I am now focusing all my hate on you so I can be incrementally more sane about the others. I’m not thanking you for it. I’d rather not think of you at all.

OH GODDAMNIT AJN WHY ARE YOU you know what. I don’t care. I’m not gonna bitch about you being an incidental voice. Not like you can really hear it.

I am always so surprised at how much the Victorian Era gets any fans. This is one of the shortest statements. It’s no more memorable than any other statement. Why anyone cares about Barnabas Bennett in any capacity is beyond my comprehension.

GOD. JUST… S H U T… U P… fucking DIE ABOUT IT.

I’m tired of this, Grandpa.

LIKE YOU DON’T FUCKING KNOW. I am going to kill you.

I will not talk about that stage direction. You cannot make me. I will bash my brains in before I do that or think about it or listen to it. You will have to clean up my bloody CORPSE. Die.

Oh fuck off. You’re such a puppet. You ridiculous man.

DO. WHAT. MARTIN. WHAT IS HE SUPPOSED TO FUCKING DO. WHAT. DO YOU WANT. HIM. TO FUCKING DOOOOO.

So this part where Jonah is like 'I’m the beating heart’ blah blah blah. I really think isn’t a bluff. There’s no way to know but I want to believe it to be true if only because the alternative, that they could’ve killed him and been freed, is just… idk, it would genuinely make everything else meaningless. To me. I’m sure someone could point out how it would make the tragedy even sweeter, and we know they could’ve quit had Jon died, but I think it would sour everything if all they had to do to prevent their deaths and the end of the world was to just… let Melanie stab or poison or shoot or whatever him. It would make me even angrier at this podcast were that the case.

This is why I go so insane so stupid when people in the fandom talk about how everything Jon did and caused to happen to him was his choice even though he didn’t know their outcome. Because they’re literally agreeing with Jonah Magnus here. They’re literally echoing his words and saying that they’re a theme and part of the podcast and its disgusting. This is victim-blaming rhetoric. Textbook victim-blaming. 'You chose to go dancing in that outfit’, 'you chose to ride that motorcycle’, 'you chose to do those drugs,’ 'you chose it so you’ll get no sympathy from me.’ That’s what I hear. That’s all I hear. Every. Goddamn. Time. If you agree with Jonah here, you’re agreeing with a groomer. If you truly believe in the idea that Jon (A) not knowing what he was choosing (B) having limited options to begin with, means he should have zero sympathy granted to him and that he should be dehumanized and hated for the outcome of those choices, then I don’t know what to say to you.

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FUCK YOU. FUCK ME. FUCK THIS EPISODE. AND FUCK JONNY SIMS AND ALEXANDER J NEWALL.