this is a really good example of how analyzing a narrative based entirely on whether something is good or bad for your baby boy makes you dumb as fuck. anyway what are your thoughts on melanie kin
i don’t understand your first point lowkey im sorry 🥀 like i get the concept but i don’t understand how this applies to me mb
and yeah i like melanie i think she’s cool.
doesn’t appeal to me like intimately or personally as a character but nothing wrong with her. her hate for john felt somewhat irrational but like characters are allowed to be irrational and it made sense for her personally especially with the obvious Slaughter influence. like it would be poor writing imo if she was acting rationally at that point.
i don’t remember her that much to be honest but i like that she was the only one with the gumption to actually gouge out her eyes to leave the institute idk why none of the others didn’t.
also her relationship with georgie also felt like weirdly sudden and out of the blue when i listened? I’ll go into more detail in another post on how the like style of storytelling really doesn’t help with that so it’s not really the fault of the characters but it still just felt kinda random to me.
aside from that though i really did like a lot of her character and im just glad to have some Slaughter rep because it is one of the more underrated fears it’s one of my faves (though her interpretation of it isn’t really as interesting or appealing to me compared to some of the other statements and just the potential it holds as a Fear).
i didn’t really like season 5’s ending and i didn’t really understand her and georgie just kinda randomly appearing with their little group? felt like padding out of content a bit or maybe a way to lull fans into more of a sense of security and let them have more like jmart time which just sort of didn’t appeal to me for obvious reasons.
also i understand obviously that like it’s very hard to represent blindness in an audio medium but i would’ve appreciated a little more mention of that by the end maybe? unless im forgetting about something in which case like yeah fair enough.
her character did just feel a bit like she went from angry to nonchalant without much range in between, which makes sense of course especially considering the supernatural reasons but idk i just feel like i would’ve connected with her more if there was like a bit more of a range there?
but ultimately i think she was a great character and i like her. also controversial opinion but i really don’t think she has blue hair and pronouns 🥀 sorry liberals
(post about martin blackwood) it is human nature to want people that you trust/care about to know the bad or complicated things that happened to you without wanting to say what happened, and i think that this is clearly something that is also felt by martin in particular due to how we see him isolating himself while still wanting john to come get him, and how we see him getting mad at john for not being able to predict exactly what he wants while also getting mad at john for having mind reading powers (a pattern he picked up from his mother presumably).
that is to say, i think that him having his experiences with his mother ripped out of his head and put on tape and without any of the biases that he would taint it with if telling the story himself is something that at least some part of him wanted to happen.
it’s sort of the perfect scenario for him in that he has a part of the whole complicated relationship with his mother shared with john (presumably) without any of the actual responsibility that would come if he had told him himself. the only way we could ever get martin’s backstory from a semi-reliable narrator is without his will, and i think martin himself knows that.
Honestly with how you hate everyone from TMA except for Jon you should probably just rebrand to TMAhater
why would i do that i love tma and also i love other characters other than john 🥀 the characters are NOT the main point of tma
also like johns not even my fav he’s just like the main guy
The way you spell Jon hurts my soul. Love the blog though you are my favorite person in the fandom
that’s literally how it’s spelled in the transcripts is it not? 😨 swear it’s john
martinblackwoodhaterfan:
A funny thing about the widespread “Jon is stupid and keeps making dumb choices that lead to him almost dying” take is that if you were to really look at his behaviour, he very much acts in the way the “horror characters are so dumb” people would want him to act.
He doesn’t jump to irrational conclusions, doesn’t dive head first into danger and instead prepares for it as well as he can etc etc. He’s very distrustful of everyone and everything due to his paranoia, and tries to do as much research as possible before heading into the unknown.
You just get annoyed at him because you, as the listener, already know the things he’s researching, and possibly already know what his actions will result in. No, his fate couldn’t have been avoided if he had done something differently. The only way Jonathan Archivist Sims’s fate could’ve been avoided would’ve been by entirely rewriting his character story from at least the age of eight. Goodbye Mr Spider!
dramatic irony’s like an unheard of concept in the fandom i swear. like how would Jon possibly know that the whole world is out to get him because of the world’s most evilest boss 🥀 he’s trying his best guys
I secretly am growing to hate Martin just as much as you do...
The thing is I LIKED Martin in season 1. As I'm sure many other Martin haters would agree—in his first few appearances he was actually pretty fun. But then came season five, and immediately he became so insufferable and irritating and now I can't really stand him in any context. Which is a shame, but I can't help it.
The fandom around jmart also annoys me immensely too. People are just SO OBSESSED with them, making cute art of them in the apocalypse even though I found that entire last season to be so insanely depressing because of jmart's constant arguing (AKA them just consistently not understanding each other and their senses of humour, oh and of course Martin trying to force his boyfriend to murder people out of jealousy!!). I genuinely don't get how anybody saw that as cute. Even the person who recommended the podcast to me told me their arguing was just playful couple bickering, when it absolutely was not.
Honestly I kind of wished I had never listened to season 5. I would probably enjoy this fandom a lot more if I could live in blissful ignorance about Martin's true personality lol. As it is I have all of the jmart tags blocked and yet I still keep coming across them constantly...
lowkey real like i miss when i was also fandom brainrotted because like the idea of a like canon fluffy gay ship where it was all hurt/comfort and one of them was a cute fat guy and the other was this fucked up scrawny loser is like genuinely really nice esp when you’re like 13 like i was. like i loved martin my first listen and i got really into jmart (wrote fanfic and everything). lowkey kinda sad i became so dissolutioned but i just can’t get back into the fandom like that anymore