I’m sort of continuing my TMA relisten (skipped the Prentiss attack because I didn’t feel like listening to it at the moment) and I’ve got something to say about the MAG 42 supplemental and Jon’s paranoia.
Fans consistently joke that Jon being suspicious of Martin’s behaviour was stupid and entirely irrational and “stupid paranoid idiot, Martin’s being attentive to your needs because he has a crush on you!” But you have to take into account Martin’s very impressive (and entirely fake) resume, as well as him turning out to be quite resourceful during the Prentiss attack despite being previously bad at his job, not to mention the ominous unfinished letter he left behind that said he’s worried about the others “finding out that he’s been lying” - if I were Jon then I would sure as HELL be suspicious of him too. Also you need to remember the very likely possibility that Jon never really had many people care for him before (on the account of him being orphaned from an early age and his grandmother disliking him etc etc so. What might be obvious and logical to YOU doesn’t necessarily have to be that obvious to HIM.)
It’s strange that so many fans dismiss the thought of Martin putting up a front and pretending to be incompetent as completely impossible when he straight up admits to having done just that in S5. Yeah he didn’t kill Gertrude, and he was bad at his job cause he lied on his resume, but that doesn’t mean he’s the world’s most honest man cmon
I once saw a comment on a tma episode that was like “isn’t it funny how Peter Lukas is an avatar of the Lonely yet he’s also so outwardly charismatic and charming” which is true, but also interesting because to me he’s charismatic in a very cold, insidiously corporate kind of way that sort of perfectly encapsulates the isolation of the whole “toxic grindset hustle culture” bullshit.
Like in his interactions with Martin he’s always emphasising how important it is that he completes his goal, how he’s the only one who can save everybody, that he simply has to keep giving up more and more of himself for the sake of others. And maybe his reasoning does seem logical—enticing, almost—drawing Martin in, even though ultimately his interests are only in increasing his own power and control. Peter also explains himself in a way that, honestly, feels highkey patronising a lot of the time— like he just assumes that there’s no way Martin will disagree with him, but he still insists on putting on this facade of faux concern and insincere politeness.
He literally has the same vibe of every shitty boss who tells you with a smile on their face that you just can’t take your scheduled PTO, they need someone to work over the holidays, surely you wouldn’t mind stepping up for the sake of the company—
And tbh I can’t really think of a better embodiment of pure isolating loneliness than that type of mindset.
my dislike of jmart is entirely a me problem and it’s deeply rooted in me not understanding how can you love someone you don’t really. click with? how can you love someone without liking them as who they are, now in this moment, not the person they used to be (that you didn’t even know!!!). I know there are couple irl who have nothing in common with and they can be happy but I personally just don’t understand that. and the basic example is that they don’t even find each other funny. Basira thinks Jon is funny. and martin doesn’t
and also I don’t like it when the narrative wants you to believe one of characters is morally superior and it doesn’t matter whether it’s true or not. moral superiority brings condescension and there is little I hate more than that
Martin Blackwood hate on Tumblr is so crazy to me man. Of course he’s screwed up, and so is Jon. The whole point is that he is a nuanced character who has been through hell and back. There is no need to actively mess with Martin fans. It just makes you come off like a stereotypical bully in an 80s movie.
Seen a lot of people in the replies referring to one specific person. According to a post they made a few weeks ago, they’re 16. Which I feel explains a lot.
i pull up to the tma party and slowly make my way up towards the stage. everyone turns their heads curiously towards me but i am determined. they look at me, faces slowly contorting into disgust, as i whisper “jonelias is better than jmart” into the microphone. i leave covered in tomatoes.
i don’t like people acting like me hating martin is me making a judge of his relative morality and saying he’s the most awful person on the podcast. i don’t hate him because i think he’s evil i just hate him because he pmo…
Feeling sad myself so I’m sitting here thinking of this scene and how it’s so dumb cause literally just the episode prior there’s THIS scene.
SOUNDS LIKE HE’S PRETTY FUCKING ARTICULATE ABOUT HIS EMOTIONS HERE, BABE, YOU JUST DIDN’T WANT TO HEAR THEM.
And yeah Martin’s point was him not being emotionally open and tbf he wasn’t talking about how he felt about smiting Not!Sasha but if THIS is Martin’s reaction, I can see why. Dismissive, dismissive, dismissive.
All that said, how is he supposed to talk about his feelings anyway if, as the first scene posits, he’s unable to articulate them beyond ‘sad’.
im fully aware of the fact that absolutely noone is following the martinblackwoodhater account for my ocs… but with that said im working on organising them all on characterhub check it out if you want (https://characterhub.com/profile/mbwh) booooo 🍅💥🍅💥 i know 🍅💥🍅💥💥
is there anything harder in the entire world than reading takes you disagree with about The Character
super not the point but my petty version of this is whenever I read a fic where Jon is taller than Martin. Just no, gimme my tall, fat, physically strong w shit endurance Martin who’s had to make himself small both physically and socially his entire life and my skinny 5’4” twink Jon who’s been trying to stander taller than he is his entire life and has a permanent limp/uses a cane due to worms
the slightly less petty version of this is that I cannot stand White Jon. Personally my favorite headcanon is South Asian Jon, but I’ve seen lots of people use him to describe their own underrepresented cultures and I think that’s really beautiful. Except for White Jon: it gives me the creeps and I don’t even really know why aside from it feels like whitewashing even though his ancestry is never touched on in canon. In my head Martin is/speaks Polish and on top of everything also had to be the medical translator for his mom and Tim is Korean bc I read one fic where he brought in his mom’s kimchi to share with the s1 archives crew and it rewired my brain a bit, but it’s fun to see other people’s interpretations and White Tim does not give me the same creeps as White Jon.
however, Sasha and Georgie are black, I don’t make the rules
Melanie’s unfortunately just English but gay enough to make up for it
anyways somehow this has devolved into just my headcanons about the heritage of tma characters who don’t have canon ethnicities
but to go back to the point this is why I have the blog martinblackwoodhater blocked, that shit pissed me off to no end and I’ve already got way too much actually important shit to be pissed off about, like the government and White Jon
why am i catching strays :( i don’t even think of john as white or martin as skinny am i just the face of any problem anyone has with this fandom 🥀
thinking about tma furry au…. If I was forced at gunpoint to think about martin and give him an animal assignment I would make him a panda I think. both because pandas are easily underestimated animals that are much stronger and more capable than the average human would think, and also because I hate pandas and think they suck
this enrages me and that’s largely because i love pandas and i don’t want to stand for this stupid stupid panda slander leave these poor creatures alone they’ve been through enough 🥀
i was trying to be nice and unbiased and therefore i wasn’t a fan of Melanie in the past but like now i can very much admit to being biased and like idk i like melanie i think she’s cool and maybeeeee if she was a man she’d pmo but like whateverrr because she’s not and she’s interesting and she doesn’t piss me off like martin does and i love her tbh 🔥🔥
Also if you like martin blackwood then why on earth would you go to martin hate blogs. Don’t say you didn’t know what to expect the ‘content warning’ is in the literal url. And why would you want to send them an anonymous ask about martin being your favourite character and him being the best guy ever actually. Do you expect them to have a sudden change of heart or what.
And then after all that you people run to the magpod confessions crying that “martin haters are so mean and toxic!” First of all you did this to yourself. Frog willingly jumps into boiling water then complains to the stove. And second of all we know you just mean that one guy. You’re not fooling anyone
is there anything harder in the entire world than reading takes you disagree with about The Character
super not the point but my petty version of this is whenever I read a fic where Jon is taller than Martin. Just no, gimme my tall, fat, physically strong w shit endurance Martin who’s had to make himself small both physically and socially his entire life and my skinny 5’4” twink Jon who’s been trying to stander taller than he is his entire life and has a permanent limp/uses a cane due to worms
the slightly less petty version of this is that I cannot stand White Jon. Personally my favorite headcanon is South Asian Jon, but I’ve seen lots of people use him to describe their own underrepresented cultures and I think that’s really beautiful. Except for White Jon: it gives me the creeps and I don’t even really know why aside from it feels like whitewashing even though his ancestry is never touched on in canon. In my head Martin is/speaks Polish and on top of everything also had to be the medical translator for his mom and Tim is Korean bc I read one fic where he brought in his mom’s kimchi to share with the s1 archives crew and it rewired my brain a bit, but it’s fun to see other people’s interpretations and White Tim does not give me the same creeps as White Jon.
however, Sasha and Georgie are black, I don’t make the rules
Melanie’s unfortunately just English but gay enough to make up for it
anyways somehow this has devolved into just my headcanons about the heritage of tma characters who don’t have canon ethnicities
but to go back to the point this is why I have the blog martinblackwoodhater blocked, that shit pissed me off to no end and I’ve already got way too much actually important shit to be pissed off about, like the government and White Jon
why am i catching strays :( i don’t even think of john as white or martin as skinny am i just the face of any problem anyone has with this fandom 🥀
To go back to op’s point: I hate reading your takes so I have you blocked. I don’t think you have a good faith reading of Martin in the text and I have too much shit to deal with for me to care about it, so I’ve preemptively made sure you won’t bother me. That’s it. Hence why I said “to go back to the point” in my original post after a huge tangent about other things I personally dislike. You’re not a victim here, I’m not scapegoating you, I just dislike your posts on their own basis
this truly is the “piss on the poor” website
i was just making a joke about how it was unexpected to see my name randomly come up in a mostly unrelated post about other issues lmao im not trying to victimise you personally i promise 🙏 just weird to be randomly namedropped fr
