While I really like the idea of Jon having glasses in the beginning but not needing them post-coma I think it’d be hilarious if he just. Stopped wearing them out of spite. The Eye gets pissy about a statement? The glasses come off. Elias trying to spy on the archive gang? No glasses for you. Naughty watchers get good vision rights revoked
Elias tries to see what Jon and the others are planning from jail but everything just looks like this:
actually while i’m here: jonathan “gotta compromise the structural integrity of my skeleton before i jump into the Crush You To Death Dimension” sims is fucking COASTING on the quality of his voice. this man impulse-murdered a coffee table with an axe because he was pissed at the eldritch being imprisoned within it and was SURPRISED when destroying the horror prison released the horrors. by season 2 he is accusing his coworkers of murder for being nice to him and is literally on a first name basis with the autonomous physical manifestation of losing your mind. he makes the most absurd possible choice at every turn and somehow STILL manages to come across as straitlaced and reasonable because he talks like if a bbc documentary voiceover was disappointed in you personally
my friends like sooooo perceptive to they were like "funny how Jon's all expressive and invested sounding when he reads the statements and his voice changes back to normal when he's done" and I was like "bestie you're on EPISODE 3 how have you ALREADY NOTICED STATEMENT VOICE"
people who have already listened to tma and manage not to give stuff away to their friends are literally god’s strongest soldiers look at this conversation i had with my friend (who had already listened through s4) while i was on episode 23 i think in his shoes i would have probably imploded
this has probably been said before but i think it would be funny if elias just gave jon the archivist job for being ace
i mean it’s not like he’s a prude—there’s Literally nothing he hasn’t seen before—but babysitting a fledging avatar is tedious enough without waiting for them to use up all their vacation time abusing the power of the Eye and it’s physically impossible to fire them
pre-s1 tim: hey elias why the hell did you skip over sasha for the promotion??? she’s literally better than jon in every conceivable way???
elias, scrambling for an explanation that will raise fewer questions than his personal policy against giving the archivist job to anyone who fucks: uh. because i hate women
[ID: tags from op that read “tim: but gertrude was a woman! elias (panicking and doubling down): she was a fucking WHAT” end ID]
Me: I have a silly idea for a drawing :) I definitely won’t spend hours rendering it in some sort of fugue state
[ID: a picture featuring characters from the Magnus Archives, based off the cover of the manga “Go For It, Nakamura!”. Jonathan Sims stands in the middle, clutching his chest and that strap of his bag and looks very frightened. The background is dark blue with a light green bubble frame in the middle. At the top in red are the words “MY COWORKERS WANT TO KILL ME”. Red irised eyes float around in the background. Jon is a dark skinned Indian man with long grey streaked black wavy hair pulled into a ponytail. He has gold framed glasses and a mustache and beard and circular worm scars on his face. He is wearing a mint button up shirt and pinstripe brown pants with a brown messenger bag. Around him are heart and star shaped bubbles showing his different coworkers; Tim is a thin Korean man with a mullet and worm scars on his face, he has a green and pink flannel shirt and is flirtatiously arching an eyebrow in Jon’s direction with little sparkles around him. A much smaller bubble shows Rosie, who’s a white woman with curly brown hair and cat eye glasses. Martin is a fat white man with reddish brown curly hair and blue framed glasses, he’s smiling and blushing and kind of waving, with hearts floating around his head. A smaller bubble shows Michael, who’s white with an evil distorted fave and wildly curling upwards blonde hair, and wearing a rainbow striped shirt. Not-Sasha is a mixed slightly tan woman with short straight brown hair held back in a headband with a black turtleneck underneath a green shirt, he have is partially hidden in shadow and there’s a halo above her head. Elias is a pale white man with slicked back blonde hair wearing a pinstripe black shirt and green tie, looking creepily in Jon’s direction with hearts around his head.]
