I had some fun on WPlace you see. Never enough Magnus Archives/Protocols out there. (Location is Bournemouth)
(No painted heart bc the site was down, again, oh well)
My og Pixel Art plan I made:
And a shoutout to all the other great tma stuff I saw on there, especially the people at Ny-Ålesund who copied my green eye a couple of times down there ✧
All y’all out here in the TMA fandom talkin about icons like the guy who froze the key to the buried and that plumber who somehow managed to miss a wholeass murder-clown barn. Talkin about how you’d all like to see just once what would have happened if someone had straight up punched an avatar in the face.
How is no one talkin about my man Alexander Scaplehorn, the absolute legend who went to investigate the Trophy Room for money laundering in ep 54 and escaped by fuckin bodyslamming an avatar of the Stranger straight to the floor and then just fuckin hightailin it outta there. This man is a true badass and it’s a crime he doesn’t get mentioned in this fandom more.
You left out the best part which was that after he barely escaped from Monster Taxidermy Hell with his life, he wrote them a glowing report, because whatever creepy supernatural bullshit they were doing, they weren’t laundering money.
He body-slammed a Stranger Avatar in front ofBreekon & Hope who he also escaped from by just being too nimble for them to grab. Remember this is the same Breekon & Hope with reflexes fast enough to snatch a butterfly out of the air. The combined forces of a Stranger Avatar, whatever the Angler Fish is, and Breekon & Hope were not enough to hold him.
And the best part is. Despite seeing all the taxidermy come alive and barely escaping from 4 Stranger creatures he ends by saying he’s glad he remembered to bring his briefcase of notes with him because otherwise he would have had to go back!
The man was perfectly ready to walk right back in there if that’s what he needed to do to get his report filed. He really said ‘eldritch monsters or not ya’ll are getting your taxes inspected.’
Also he loves talking about anti-money laundering measures and he uses his job as an excuse to infodump about them because people will actually listen. Don’t we all want that. Plus “oh he’s not making eye contact with me but like, autistic people exist.” He’s surrounded by taxidermy meant to put the fear of the uncanny valley in you and he goes “I refuse to judge this guy just because I don’t Get his hobbies” which is something more people should think. Except in this circumstance, I guess. And the he nearly forget about the evil taxidermy because the taxidermied person (and this one is actually a direct quote) “was a real pleasure to discuss money laundering with.” I love him so much. Autistic icon. I’d let him infodump about money laundering to me
I really love seeing how much attention the fandom pays to Martin’s character. The fandom I was in before had a similar character (being sort of pathetic and skittish in the beginning, then becoming a complete badass especially when it came to protecting their partner) but the fandom NEVER seemed to stop seeing him as pathetic until years afterwards.
All that to say that I really enjoy getting a fresh off breath air with Martin. Bonus points since this may be the first time I’ve ever seen a character commonly depicted as overweight without falling into stereotypical archetypes. Depictions of him single-handedly has helped my own body image, and I’m sure it has for others too.
I really really love seeing a fat, underestimated character be treated with actual love and worthiness. I wish i could get my thoughts across clearer. It just makes me happy to see.
Martin Blackwood, they could never make me hate you ❤️
Like even in his most “pathetic” in S1-S2, if you’re really looking at him, he’s not just a pushover. In the earlier seasons, he’s:
- Breaking into dangerous situations just to prove to his (hot) boss that the statements are real.
- Basically Prentiss-proofed the Archives by hiding more extinguishers around and identified the best way to get them out when they start to burrow.
- Was upset with himself when he got separated from Jon and Tim because he couldn’t be there to protect them and was likely very upset by the scars they accrued when he got away without any damage.
- Telling Tim and Jon to get over themselves and talk to each other when they’re starting to fight, but doesn’t shy away from the fact that Jon is doing some scary shit and helps host an intervention that Jon did genuinely need (he’s not just being a simp for Jon this whole time, regardless of his feelings, he’s holding Jon accountable).
- Watching over Jon when the man’s at his worst mental state to make sure he’s not carving himself open with “bread knives”.
- When Jon is being chased by the Not!Them, he’s the one demanding to Tim that they go help. And when he sees Michael, he literally tries to rally Tim into beating him up two on one before Tim tells him not to by pointing out his knife hands.
He still has a lot of growing to do in those early seasons, but even then he is so, so much braver and more cunning than he even gives himself credit.
And when he’s at his most loved and cared for, he’s also shed a lot of his people pleasing tendencies. That’s the time where a lot of people would look at a person and go “Oh, you’re not doing my emotional labor for me anymore? Well, you’ve changed for the worst, I liked you better when you didn’t stick up for yourself”
But by S5 he’s just completely done playing nice and is frankly a bit of a bitch at times, and Jon fucking adores him for it. And that just means the world to me.
And then to add, l love Martin just getting to be fat and I almost never see him made into a stereotype over it. And even if there is a bit of it, when he’s characterized well, he uses the caricature of “big soft oaf that won’t hurt a fly” to his advantage, and I love that for him ❤️
Tl;Dr: hot Martin rights, give that man more knives, pls
