Anyway. Ya bitch here has been spending their afternoons playing Crime Scene Cleaner instead of. Literally anything else. I’m almost done tho. Maybe tomorrow or the day after. That’s when I’ll get back to ‘live’ blogging my TMA relisten. I will finish season 3 by the end of the month if I stay at the pace I was trying. Just gotta get past this fixation.
K. 97 and 98. We All Ignore The Pit and Lights Out. Felt a little icky about listening for some reason then I pulled up the YouTube video for the first one (YouTube has autoskip ads) and it had that quote embedded in the title so…
MAG 97
I genuinely can’t remember now but I don’t think we’ve heard Jan Kilbride’s statement yet? Okay quick check no but we did hear one of the Daedalus crews prior. More on this later.
My sister once was at a job only for like a year before it was absorbed and then shut down. Then she got a job where she was almost there for ten years and the last few involved her managing a dozen or so acquired stores. Weird how that happens.
I looked up Bucoda once…
The red outline is the town line.
They picked a good small town. Looks a bit isolated.
Here’s the pit.
lol
Sorry if it’s weird I’m showing pictures. Its weird they did enough research on some random town in the US to actually get street names and all that. I know it probably was just as much research as I just did but… really? That’s what you’ll spend time on?
Anyway.
I find that they chose the US to be a site of a Buried ritual really interesting. Like. What makes the US that much of a hot spot of the Buried? I would’ve thought, if any, that the Vast would attempt one here. But also If rituals can only be attempted every century or so after one is already attempted. Is that just regarding whatever power as a whole? Or would it take location into consideration? Could there be another Buried ritual attempted not too long after this one in, say, Asia? Or Africa? Like, since it was in the Americas, would a continent on the other side of the world be able to? Like whats the upper limit to the radius effect of a ritual? And would the ritual HAVE to be attempted again in the same genera location however many decades later?
I very clearly focus on all the wrong things. I’m barely paying attention to this statement. This has got me speculating for absolutely no reason. It’s not like any of these thoughts matter.
I love this statement though. It really gives a 70s pulp horror a la the blob or night of the living dead feel. I can almost picture the emblematic camera angles and high contrast coloring.
“What is my metaphorical pit?!” Babe, I doubt Elias wants you to be cognizant of your issues. That seems pretty antithetical to… your whole situation. No. It’s. It’s literally just info on rituals. Namely, though its not confirmed here, that ‘stopping’ a ritual will require a sacrifice. The crying, shockingly blue-eyed person is later revealed to be… Jan Kilbride.
I wish I could remember if I intuited that this was Jan. Obviously the details and all that stuck out to me. But I digress.
I’m gonna skip this post-statement part. Nikola’s voice is irritating and all we get out of it is another mention about the Unknowing and the gorilla skin and threats to Jon’s life and blah blah blah.
MAG 98
For a bit there I was listening to this podcast that essentially just explained or read near verbatim short stories and poems and stuff. One of them was, in English, Der Sandmann. Obviously I listened to it. Can’t remember a lick of it though. Something about cousins and jumping off a tower or drowning or something.
Martin and Tim convo…
There’s a lot here but I want to highlight this part first. I get they’re all, like, disillusioned, and also the place IS evil, but….. what has changed in anything they’ve been asked to do prior to this? And I’m not counting the worms or what happened in artifact storage or Micheal. Cause those were done TO them. And in all the years they worked in ACTUAL Research (or the Library or in Artifact Storage) and not the Archives, nothing like that happened. Why is he suddenly so convinced NOW that THEY are doing evil when it is literally what he was doing before. Research. Investigation. Paperwork. If its just the deaths and attacks then that’s insane cause, like I said; yes, they happened because they were too curious for their own good, but it still happened TO them. It wasn’t something THEY DID.
And fucking. Wild of him to say Jon was weird and borderline jealous about them when, the next time they speak, Jon is CONCERNED about him reading them. They’re unpleasant. Martin knows this. Jon has expressed that they’re unpleasant before. This is wild to say and shows how Martin just. Does not pay attention to anything Jon says.
Okay. Sure. Okay. Sure. Yeah.
I’m tired.
“Not everything’s for you!” OH WHATEVER. Give me a break.
Maybe I should watch The Terror to figure out why an expedition to the North Pole had any interest to… oh… nevermind.
Okay, so, Maxwell calls upon the Sandman. But the People’s Church of the Divine Host, which he’s the leader of, has their whole thing regarding the murky water. Some slimy oozy something or other took Benjamin Hatendi. I don’t think it had any affiliation with Max. Still. Anyway. Something to ponder. Alongside the fact that blinding himself is what 'saved’ Dr Moss here. “There is far more to the darkness than simply being unable to see.” Whatsup with that.
Oh. That’s funny. These are both Dark statements. Anyway.
That reminds me! Something weird that happened in London while we were doing a walking tour one afternoon, around 1 or 2 pm actually. I think it was the Great Fire of London Tour. Either way. The back streets were full of people in business suits DRINKING. Like. Full on in the broad daylight. With their lunch! Clearly on clock or on a work lunch! It was so weird. I couldn’t imagine drinking before 5 pm. Hell, I can’t imagine drinking before the sun goes down.
Anyway. Not too much about the rampant alcoholism of European countries. Apologies.
Melanie Murder Attempts: 1
Its so funny going back and remembering how scary (🙄) I though Jonah was. I was so unnerved and worried for Melanie here. Now I’m just like. Fuck you being so smug for dick face? For ~knowing~ she’s trying to poison you? OOOOOO NEVER WOULD’VE GUESSED WITHOUT SPOOKY EYE POWERS 😱 Irritating piece of shit.
