i haven’t gotten a philosophy degree yet, so don’t trust me too much, but i really wish tma s5 would’ve discussed the idea that fear needs hope to survive. fear has a very short lifespan when there’s no hope. so basically, if the world was truly hopeless, everyone would give up and cease to actually fear the entities, which would leave them with nothing to feed on. in this essay i will,
it’s so sad that i could easily assign literally any tma character and/or ship a minimum of at least five songs, but nobody knows. hey wait there might be a solution to this problem
Hi dyke here do you have an opinion on Agnes and Gertrude? Because I swear there was hinting at kind of weird soul bond in there.
OH MY FUCKINH GOD YES I AM SO HAPPY YOU ASKED. I WROTE AN ENTIRE FIC ABOUT THEM. I LOVE THEM.
the angst potential the fluff potential the smut potential. i need an entire spin-off about gertrude hunting agnes down while also slowly falling in love with her.
this idea got implanted in my brain by a friend and it has never left since so... elias and tim for tma ship opinions
OOOHHHH.. YES. i have read a few fics of them and i have to say i am a fan. specifically the interpretation of them that’s like elias being like “hehe he doesn’t know i’m using him for my evil schemes” and then being like “oh shit oh fuck feelings”
i have ideas in my fucked up little mind. jonathan sims is afraid of everything about himself that’s monstrous and jonah magnus is afraid of everything about himself that’s human.
it’s so fucking funny to me that maxwell rayner was like “heyyyyyyyy jonah, long time no see (get it?) your patron sucks and is nothing compared to mine, but when the darkness swallows us all you’re totally invited to come join me in the tender embrace of the dark!! please leave the eye for me & the dark please please pleaaaaase” like bro fr? that all-seeing twink bussy got him acting unwise
fiction podcast antagonists are always so out of pocket. guy who lives as a cryptid in the woods near a summer camp, wears a fucking wizard cape, is a blond russian twink for some reason, and hangs upside down from trees in your peripheral vision. guy who has lived for two centuries as a manager while trying to bring about the apocalypse because he’s just really into the idea of watching. both of them are weird about religion in wildly different ways
i have ideas in my fucked up little mind. jonathan sims is afraid of everything about himself that’s monstrous and jonah magnus is afraid of everything about himself that’s human.
hello, jon. apologies for the deception, but i rather wanted to make sure you started reading, so i thought it best not to announce myself.
I SAW UR REBLOG AND I FEEL LIKE BASHING MY HEAD AGINST THE WALL LIKE YEAAAAHHHH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAAAAHHH and also. Also. Hi. Blinks so prettily up at you. Jon has never had a sibling or a father and he secretly really years for that kind of connection. And Jonah's only exposure to familial dynamics have GOT to be messed up like just look at the way he Is so I just think that could lead to some very interesting directions. Blinks oh-so-prettily. The thing you said about eldest daughter syndrome is also SO TRUE!!! Like this thing you have dedicated so much of your long long life too suddenly decides this fucking wet cat of a man is its favorite? I'd start eating drywall.
(Also, sidenote, but Jonah has always SCREAMED "middle child but oldest daughter" to me. Partially because he's trans in my head but also it just seems Right you know. It feels emotionally truthful.)
SORRY THIS IS ALL OVER THE PLACE LMAOOOO eye just feel Insane over them Okay ? Okay.<3
IM SHAKING YOU BY YOUR SHOULDERS MAN. LETS BE INSANE TOGETHER!!!!!
ok ok <- guy who’s about to let its “youngest sibling with a really messed up relationship to their older sister” side take over entirely
tbh it WAS a jonelias fic but very very recently i did in fact write abt that idea that jonah’s oh so envious of jon and the fact that the eye just. adores this random little man who doesn’t even WANT to be adored by it. meanwhile jonah’s been dedicating his whole immortal existence to the eye. and he HAS to look after this kid, because who else is gonna teach him how to please the eye?? but at the same time how infuriating and unfair and cruel. the eye is fr just an abusive parent leaving its first child to actually look after its youngest.
and jon IS the eye’s favourite, we know that for a fucking fact. everybody knows that. he doesn’t even WANT to be. he HATES being the eye’s favourite. but he IS and jonah has to resent him so fucking much for that
also trans jonah real <- guy who has been writing jonah as genderfluid in every single tma fic they write
The way the TMA fandom treats Martin honestly baffles me.
Like, he is not just a soft uwu tea boy, y'all. We all remember when Annabelle straight up called him out on feigning his awkwardness and incompetency, right? We all remember when he was actively encouraging Jon to go on a murder spree, right? Even in season two, we all remember when he was fully prepared to just beat the shit out of Michael in the tunnels until Tim stopped him, right?
Hell, even in season one, the dude is not THAT incompetent. Jon is just an asshole and an unreliable narrator.
The dude is a compulsive liar and manipulator. He’s counting on you to underestimate him and see him as a harmless, sweet guy who can do no wrong because as soon as you underestimate him, he’s got the advantage.
He’s also petty as hell! He asked Jon to kill a man because he woke him up!
I want to make something clear too btw: I absolutely love his character because of all of this. I absolutely adore how fucking insane he is. He may be nice and makes good tea, but he will also slit your throat without a moment’s hesitation if you mildly inconvenience him. He is an enigma and it’s great
I would also appreciate your opinion on lonelyeyes
OH BOY. not even gonna lie that’s what got me into this fandom. they’re so divorced. they’re not even in love. and yet it’s one of the most appealing ships in the whole podcast to me. partially i blame alasdair stuart and ben meredith. partially i also blame the fact that they’re so fucking fun to put into situations together.
also i need more transhet lonelyeyes content, where is all the transhet lonelyeyes content
personally my favourite tma ship is one i made up while very sleep deprived: the spiral (entity) x the spiral (entity). this can also include the distortion I guess
imagine if in s4 literally all the archival staff heard about the whole “gouging out your eyes frees you from the beholding” thing and collectively decided to do it
elias walks back into the institute one day to find the archives completely empty and is just like “literally what the fuck”
in a way, the buried and the vast are about the same thing, and as a guy who might be aligned with both, i wanna give my perspective on this. i see them both as being embraced by something so, so much bigger than you. being insignificant and finding comfort in that insignificance. in both cases, you’re a part of the universe, a body buried in the dirt, a body floating in space. do u get me
I love the idea that Robert Smirke had fourteen friends to represent the Fears. That would make him the fifteenth, the extinction, and honestly, that makes a lot of sense regarding who he was as a character.
Trying to control and balance everything to the point that it becomes destructive and makes everything worse.
Also, based on the timeline, that means that Hezekiah Wakely could have been part of his group.
