season 1 magnus archive squad. is a room full of ghosts

YEAH AND IM REALLY NOT WELL ABOUT IT!!! it’s like. everyone inside the horror story is always already dead. everyone inside the archive is ALSO already dead, either bc they’re a statement or bc they’re on-staff, which means they’re a ghost waiting to happen.

[ID: Archivist: Hang on, have you been recording this? [Clothing rustling.] Tim: Oh! Yeah! I – just thought it might be nice, you know, something to look back on when we’re all old and sick of each other. End ID]

it’s why THIS is one of the most ruinous exchanges of all time bc like. you’re not GONNA grow old, you’re all already dead!!! recording, which literally transforms people into stories, is in a sense killing them!!! tim thinks he is creating memories but he is IN FACT producing ghosts!!!!