i can be serious if you want. what do you want me to be serious about i can do it on command
Show me your art i want you to be serious about your art. Martin be damned show me like a sketch or something
never posted this one (not relevant 2 my blog) but i did it for a drama coursework thing (switched to performing tho eventually so this never came to anything 💔)
Omg thats the justice lady!! Shes so cool.. both my grandparents used to be judges and they got statuettes of her when they retired so i see her a lot. Great art ❤️
yep yep 😋 context is i was supposed to be doing costume design for Prima Facie (the play about the barrister) so yknow it was on theme 🤷♂️🤷♂️
if Martin became web-aligned instead of lonely, do you think narratively his character would’ve been more interesting/bearable?
not really. i don’t like to work in hypotheticals tho because it so depends on how it’s treated by the writing and in part the fandom. like if disliking martin wasn’t forced into being such a like radical take then i wouldn’t put so much into this blog and i probably wouldn’t have it at all, and that could’ve happened if martin was written with his manipulation at more of the forefront of the writing and treated that way by the fandom, something that could’ve happened with him being more web aligned.
also Lonely fans piss me off so bad and it’s very clearly the worst fear so tbh maybe yeah anything other than the lonely could improve him a little.
ultimately, i don’t think it could truly make me hate him more as a character, and it does have the potential to improve things a little, but there’s just so many other aspects at play that i just don’t like these hypotheticals.
You know how funny I've curated my Tumblr for you page? I'll scroll and right underneath some fluff teaholding post will be your account dissecting how Martin is a terrible character/terribly written and I find this occurance in my life fascinating.
brutal mischaracterisation in one of those two posts and it probably isn’t mine.
what did you mean when you said the Lonely is the worst fear? like... worst characters/avatars? worst written? least scary? i'd love some elaboration on that
least scary + most boring + like just most the interpretations of the lonely that are at least semi interesting or scary could be covered by another fear so it just feels so irrelevant. it just feels like a filler fear to me how did this one get more popular over the actually cool fears of like Vast or Extinction or something 💔
I agree with everything you say so completely, I still stan Martin tho. He's a selfish bitch, no lie, he's just my favourite selfish bitch. What are you thoughts on this angle? (im curious)
possibly my least favourite type of people. every comment said like this is like another small 9/11 to me
I agree with everything you say so completely, I still stan Martin tho. He's a selfish bitch, no lie, he's just my favourite selfish bitch. What are you thoughts on this angle? (im curious)
Wonderland is one of my favorite episodes of The Magnus Archives, towards the end of the series you start to see the horror become more real, less distant from reality. There’s something my older sibling said once that always stuck with me about the episode. I don’t remember their exact wording, but it was about how wonderland was one of the scariest episodes to them because thinking that your perfectly normal, your not disabled or anything, and your just a screw-up is so much more terrifying than any horror story for a very different reason. It’s something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately and even though I don’t get that fear as much as a lot of other people, I still felt so heard the first time I listened to that episode, and it just felt really powerful to me. Also, the comment Martin made about finding out that you don’t have a disorder being a good thing was such a nice touch!!! Like, they could have just stopped talking about Wonderland and moved on, but that single comment made that whole episode like, 30 times better. Because he misses the point, THE WHOLE FEAR IS THAT YOU ARE FINE!! Because if you do have some form of disability than the thought that that’s all there is, and that that’s normal is terrifying because that means your whole life has been a lie. DEAR GOD I LOVE THIS PODCAST!!! Also, wasn’t the name of the husband in the homophobic vase episode… David?
this is crazy it’s like we’re destined to be opposites because i think that episodes kinda overhyped
I agree with everything you say so completely, I still stan Martin tho. He's a selfish bitch, no lie, he's just my favourite selfish bitch. What are you thoughts on this angle? (im curious)
what did you mean when you said the Lonely is the worst fear? like... worst characters/avatars? worst written? least scary? i'd love some elaboration on that
least scary + most boring + like just most the interpretations of the lonely that are at least semi interesting or scary could be covered by another fear so it just feels so irrelevant. it just feels like a filler fear to me how did this one get more popular over the actually cool fears of like Vast or Extinction or something 💔
it just doesn’t pull it’s weight i feel
THE VAST AND EXTINCTION FELT SUPER BLAND TO ME!!!! (the lonely and flesh are my favorite ones, specifically flesh) The flesh statements are always so well-written…
it’s like you’re going out of your way to have the worst takes how is this possible we’re like evil opposites. i feel like vast and extinction have a uniqueness to them that like the Lonely could just never manage though. like with the extinction there’s that unique sense of humanity and guilt that you don’t truly get with any other fear, and that’s why i like it as like most of the other avatars are dehumanised by their Fear whereas the Extinction has humanity’s flaws so deeply integral to it that like i don’t see how this dehumanisation could happen for an avatar and therefore it has more potential to be interesting and unique to me. and ya the Flesh is cool and i like it’s relationship with Extinction as being both like somewhat opposites (least human + most human fear <- oversimplification but basically). the lonely doesn’t have anything like that going for it tho bro stop glazing
Imagining myself in new ways… it is my favorite activity. And rhis beautiful art gives me a new world to explore. I am standing up AND standing out, among the crowd, in this new world of mine. My ideas will certainly change America, or “Ponyville,” as it were.
My cutie mark being munny — ohh, the love runs so deep. Not just what you know, but more than what you might know! Because money, don’t you know, it keeps us all safe…
and I need to protect those I love…
And well… most of all, I loook like a diva while doing it! And I have my red shoes (not like that lol)
I will have dreams of this tonight… THANK YOU DEAREST HATER!!!!!!
also guys yesterday i googled devon and MAAAAAAAAAAN that’s the cutest place ever i didn’t know england had actually nice places but yes martin being from devon is so <3
also guys yesterday i googled devon and MAAAAAAAAAAN that’s the cutest place ever i didn’t know england had actually nice places but yes martin being from devon is so <3
what the FUCK martin’s from DEVON 😨😨😨😨😨😨 how could i miss this
TO BE FAIR AS FAR AS I KNOW IT’S JUST THAT HIS MOTHER LIVES THERE BUT I AM ASSUMING HE AND HIS FAMILY ARE FROM IT
but it fits him so much at least by what’s shown on pinterest
its centred around tourists and falling apart so yeah lowkey makes sense but whatttt he can’t live in devon i live in devon he could literally be in MY house 😨😨
i keep going back to that one ask you got its so funny. "youre chill with gertrude KILLING and DISMEMBERING and MANIPULATING people and jons surgery on melanie but you draw the line at MARTIN" fuck. FUCKKKK it's so funny. yes girl at least gertrude's wrongs were interesting and what she thought was the best option same for jon, what does martin do. he isn't a badass that orders explosives with institute funds.
literallyyyy like im sorry but martin isn’t a badass old woman who’s flaws are human sacrifice to do what she believes is saving the world he’s an awful blonde twink boyfriend who’s flaws are being boring as hell
I am someone who likes Martin, but ever since discovering your blog I've realized it's not really Canon Martin I like. It's Reworked Martin, where he gets proper development and gets to be imperfect and web-like manipulative because it was those initial things along the lines of "not just the 'sweetheart' he pretends to be" that I like originally (Like the brief moments showing him tricking/manipulating characters like Elias or Peter who shouldn't be all that easy to fool).
Martin seemed to be on a good path of a more complex moral code in s4 that when s5 came around, it really did feel jarring how that all halted and came to a swap around.
I really wish the writers went more into the potential of Web Martin as the way Lonely Martin was written felt so obviously more like him being a victim rather than him being a potential avatar of the Lonely. The way that Lonely Martin was portrayed felt just. Really bad? He wasn't an avatar who had control over a domain, he was a victim trapped in the fog and his isolation and roughly-written depression was used to make him feel worse and imprisoned. I feel it would've made more sense for Martin to be shown as a victim of the Lonely and have Peter have no real understanding of how to properly make someone outside of the Lukas family an avatar without them just getting trapped instead.
Basically, i think Web Martin would've made for a better developed character than how Canon Martin came out. It won't stop me from making my own rewrites/headcanons about him because he feels like he has so much potential that could be worked with.
Anyway I find your character analysis' fascinating and you have fully turned me around to looking more critically at the type of writing TMA/some parts of the fan base fall short in. It's a lot of fun to do proper studies on characters, their Canon portrayals, and how they could've been improved on.
it’s always a little funny to me how much people have to like oc-ify and change martins character just to make him tolerable to cope and at times (not targeted at anon) like just to fit with the fanon idea of him being this cutesy little sweetheart because it’s so clearly just not written into canon at all to have him portrayed like that? im actually baffled by the mass delusion of fans at times. i think they just see a character portrayed as blonde and kinda fat and have to fit him into the like bubbly sunshine trope and it kinda pisses me off
look at his fuckin collarbone man… most of the pixels in this image are dedicated to defining that shit wowie now ik how they knew what the skeleton looked like b4 xray ty faggot
i feel like a lot of the reason john is portrayed as vaguely brown without being given any like links to actual culture or a direct ethnicity and therefore it just coming across as more of an aesthetic thing is just so that he can like he clearly protrayed as a direct opposite to martin (who’s always portrayed as like a [usually tall] fat blonde/ginger white guy compared to john being a short skinny black-haired brown guy) and this trope is so incredibly prevalent in the fandom mainly due to how it peaked in quarantine in fandoms of largely white queers and typically teenagers and therefore still has that like visible effect on the fanon today. getting off topic but i just really hate how like rigid the ideas are in the fandom as well as the lack of any real thought into any designs that like fit the characters in a different way. sorry this was a tangent and kinda rambling
i caught myself hate-scrolling thru ur blog bc i love martin and jmart but u know what ima just block and mind my business. live ur best hater life ig and good luck w the grey hairs
i don’t know why you felt the need to tell me this
As a genuine question, why don’t you like Martin? Like. Which choices within the series didn’t you like?
my most justified reason is that he hits his boyfriend and i also think he’s boring but you can find a real answer pretty easily by just searching on my blog
yeah? it’s not like subtext or anything like he very openly does it so maybe you’re just haven’t got to that bit yet if it’s your first listen but if it’s not or you’re past ep 172 or you just don’t care about spoilers then i can find a couple links to were ive talked about it more in depth
my most justified reason is that he hits his boyfriend and i also think he’s boring but you can find a real answer pretty easily by just searching on my blog
dude if i was The End in season 5 id be so fucking pissed like what do you mean 98% of the world’s immortal now because of some evil fag. fucking scam.
i caught myself hate-scrolling thru ur blog bc i love martin and jmart but u know what ima just block and mind my business. live ur best hater life ig and good luck w the grey hairs
Bro this game is so easy, I can’t believe Elon Musk had to hire a professional gamer to play it for him. What a loser
For this reason, I know I will be able to inherit all of Elon’s wealth. I will lure him into a false sense of security, become his right hand man, the defacto expert on all things “Pou.” I will tell him how to take care of my kin, but never enough to leave him satisfied. He will always ask for more. His love for space and the curiousity that I have bred within his mind will make him yearn to see my home planet, given his “passion” for the “cosmos.” I will take him there, and, even if I didn’t plan to abandon him, the power of their hivemind will be enough to incapacitate him, as he dies cold and alone on the planet’s surface. I will leave him there. I’ll tell them he simply wasn’t ready to handle the harsh environment of my home. They’ll understand. And I need not worry about criminal charges, as my ten years of service and place as his companion in his later years of life may as well have written my name in his Will & Testament itself. Of course, his now budding rivalry with the Trump will make me the perfect opponent, and with all of the money I may expend on campaign efforts, I will be sure to win. Yes…. 👍
okay actually jm is boring because, unlike what they tell you in the posts, m*rtin is NOT a monsterf*cker/lover. he wants jon to be human unless he wants jon to clock an avatar he personally doesn’t like and has no patience for any weird thing that jon does even if that weird thing is for jon’s survival, he just REJECTS jon’s monster qualities until they suit his needs/wants. whereas the tma world is full of so many REAL monsterf*ckers/lovers/friends, because it DEMANDS a comfort within a certain monstrous morality (never an acceptance of bad as good but an understanding of what people, human or not, will do to survive)…….. m*rtin just comes off as a class-a boring-ass nag who can’t come out of his tiny boring office world to appreciate a glorious monster bf even when said glorious monster bf is BEGGING for acceptance. if you can’t appreciate the monstrous qualities of your monster bf then you don’t deserve him. thank you for coming to my tedtalk, this was the intro and it continues for another 4.8 hours and it has 93 powerpoint slides
He was clumsy and shy, and bad at his job, but he was also caring and kind, in a very simple way. His acts of kindness were plain but sweet in their simplicity, and his demeanor seemed almost childish. I can see how that could make him endearing.
He was quite an uncomplicated character: all that we knew of him was that he’s clumsy, a bit squeamish, fond of insects and other small creatures, and that he wrote bad poetry. A perfect fit into the softie character archetype. You could find him cute, and develop an attachment to him - it was easy since he had no real flaws. But he didn’t have anything unique about him either.
Did your parents not give you enough attention as a child for you to despise a fictional character? You are cringe incarcerate and I hope you fall downstairs holding your favorite plate of food and you trip on the last step, breaking said plate into a thousand pieces.
why would i bring a plate of food upstairs when the food is downstairs already. and my favourite food is the 200g bag of roasted and salted california pistachios from lidl why would i carry that on a plate
Did your parents not give you enough attention as a child for you to despise a fictional character? You are cringe incarcerate and I hope you fall downstairs holding your favorite plate of food and you trip on the last step, breaking said plate into a thousand pieces.
why would i bring a plate of food upstairs when the food is downstairs already. and my favourite food is the 200g bag of roasted and salted california pistachios from lidl why would i carry that on a plate
