i am like one encouraging reply away from writing a crackfic where all the avatars go to a karaoke bar and each eyevatar gives a shockingly different yet cunt-serving performance.
guys i have good news. i got several encouraging replies
so basically um. evil gross femslash. yes please. jonah is actually insanely corruption pilled if u think abt it. like a dying moth to the last light it sees, indulging fully in its last meal. love that consumes and marks and corrupts. making yourself a home for something else to live in. kissing with tongue, mostly, and so much teeth. flinching and squirming in disgust, but never quite walking away.
melanie king is a big fan of the hit fps video game ultrakill.
jonah magnus was half-irish but elias bouchard isn't, so he kind of had to lose whatever remained of that aspect of his identity.
peter lukas is finnish, i know this because i am, and all finnish people just sort of are like that.
simon fairchild's favourite album is hawaii: part II by miracle musical, for both the vast aspects of it and because it's a concept album where the main character's name is simon.
gertrude robinson back in the day was like a film noir detective hunting down avatars while also having sexual tension with every girl she fought and she'd say shit like "nothing personal, montageu. a true archivist is married to the job." for fun
i really like the little detail that the fairchilds aren’t a real family, but rather just a name, whereas the lukases are a biological family, but deeply disconnected from each other. the vast sees no inherent value in names, they hold no meaning and can be given away like a gift to anyone it wants to mark. the lonely sees no value in family bonds, they can be severed at any indication of disloyalty, but are still preferable to chosen bonds.
big fan of mag 116 because i like to imagine elias putting the gertrude tape on, and then all of them just sit in a circle, listening. tim slowly falls asleep because he finds her voice soothing. melanie starts drawing on the ground out of boredom. elias is giggling and kicking his feet like this is a fun sleepover activity
honestly the real reason i keep writing and posting about jonah magnus as a lesbian is because everytime i do, i feel like i’m shooting a gun into the air to make sure none of you guys forget who you followed. this is a part of my brand.
simon fairchild is also not immune. that old man is also a dyke
nikola orsinov x helen the distortion. btw. could be something. could be cute. monsters in love. the stranger and the spiral are already making out sloppy style, this much is known, but personally i think they could be really cute but in a creepy way together.
nikola orsinov x helen the distortion. btw. could be something. could be cute. monsters in love. the stranger and the spiral are already making out sloppy style, this much is known, but personally i think they could be really cute but in a creepy way together.
they would have something completely incomprehensible going on. something that’s trying to look human but can never truly be one, and the twisted remnants of something that used to be human but has been distorted beyond recognition. i think they could find non-human comfort in each other. also they’re both girl-shaped things, the genderfuckery aspect is appealing too.
they could fall into each other endlessly, explore each other like an interesting new apartment building, where do these hallways end and where’s that music coming from? if that’s your real face, it’s pretty. if you stole that voice, you picked a good one. will you dance with me, love, will you pretend to be a human with me, will you drop the act with me later on, bless my ears with your inhuman laugh, bless my eyes with your unsettling smile…
Based on their conversation in mag 17 and some of Jon’s comments in season 1 I’m convinced that Jon was a constant pain in Elias’s ass from the minute he started at the institute. I also think that’s a big part of why Elias chose Jon to be Archivist. Just…
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The way they talk to eachother, Jon is, as always, unnecessary snippy and abrasive. Elias is patient but quietly exasperated. There’s a definite familiarity there. They’ve had many conversations like this before. Then at the end of the episode Jon says
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I like to imagine that Jon’s been in Elias’s office at least once a week since he started badgering him about whatever case he’s working on. How many times has Elias had to give the old “record and study, not interfere or contain” speech?
Im just obsessed with Jon and Elias’s comfortably antagonistic pre canon relationship. Like obviously Jon respects and maybe even looks up to Elias as an authority on his chosen field. But he’s also comfortable enough with him to be his unadulterated bitchy self around him.
It’s harder to tell what Elias thinks of Jon since at this point he is keeping his true nature under wraps. But I like to think he’s got an exasperated affection for Jon. Kind of like a pet who’s constantly getting into shit but is so cute you can’t truely get mad at them.
Jon is an insufferable bastard and so is Elias even though he’s (kind of) pretending not to be. Knowing Elias I bet he loves arguing with Jon, probably purposely riles him up because it amuses him. Of course Jon also enjoys arguing with Elias, it’s like one of his main ways of communicating. They are have an ideal bastard for bastard relationship.
I bet the first time Jon came to Elias insisting they should do more with a case he was like, yes finally, this is exactly the obnoxious little guy I’ve been waiting for. Yes Elias chose Jon because he was marked by the spider but I think he also chose Jon because he liked him and was a little bit obsessed with him.
like don’t get me wrong, i absolutely love simon/elias/peter, but the solution of maxwell/simon and gertrude/peter/elias is just so much more entertaining to me. couple that has been together since the 1600s vs. polycule that gets divorced in three different directions every tuesday
nikola orsinov x helen the distortion. btw. could be something. could be cute. monsters in love. the stranger and the spiral are already making out sloppy style, this much is known, but personally i think they could be really cute but in a creepy way together.
out of all the tma rarepairs i have written for, somehow jane prentiss x jonah magnus is the one that there were absolutely zero pre-existing fics for on ao3. preaching to an empty crowd with this one. standing on my little soapbox in the town’s square, declaring some hot new ideology with this one. but alas the civilians ignore me and keep walking
Bro I was scrolling through your blog and do you specialise in rarepairs or something??? You have more strength than I ever will, soldier 🫡 you are a pioneer of these ships, godspeed
teehee thank youuu :3 i do kinda specialize in rarepairs, but especially in tma. there’s so many possibilities and i WILL explore all of them!!!
yes. devastating for both of them. “please god why him” type of beat in both directions. in general i love shipping elias with characters that just fucking despise him because honestly i think she’d be into that
at this point i know i AM reaching and i AM insane but. mag 92, nothing besides remains. mag 127, remains to be seen. letters to jonah magnus. evidance of relationships. evidance of jonah magnus consistantly failing to be a human. they’re nothing besides remains to be seen.
this is all the old stuff but i want it here so . i will post the newer stuff tomorrow fire emoji fire emoji i am on my computer i don’t have it right now but pretend
you cannot deny that elias is a bit cute in some scenes. she’s one of the only characters who actually gets to have these little silly moments during serious scenes. she’s silly
i love when posts criticizing specific chsrscterizations of tma characters i honestly don’t care about all that much show up on my dash. it proves how much variety there is in the fandom because like wow you guys are having entire wars about guys i barely think about. keep doing it i love the passion even tho i don’t get it
like don’t get me wrong, i absolutely love simon/elias/peter, but the solution of maxwell/simon and gertrude/peter/elias is just so much more entertaining to me. couple that has been together since the 1600s vs. polycule that gets divorced in three different directions every tuesday
the lonelyeyes crowd really lost out on a banger ship name, but their loss is my gain, so i’m claiming the ship name “eye eye captain” for gertrude/elias/peter instead.
i already gave elijah volkov meeting jonah magnus enough thought (the conclusion was extremely psychosexual with religious overtones), but now i’m thinking about john gaius meeting jonah magnus. he would see him as essencially just a very troubled teenager. “i’m 200 years old.” “omg…you have your whole life ahead of you…” <- one of them is a victim of the industrial revolution and species dysphoria. the other is a victim of some sort of greek tragedy and his own hero complex
I know I’ve already said this already (probably too many times) on this blog, but Gertrude Robinson is truly the Most character of all time. Her defining characteristic is the belief that The Ends Justify the Means, and she’s placed in a situation where the stakes are so high that absolutely Any means are justified. The world will end if she doesn’t take action, so of course she’ll sacrifice the people closest to her, and she’ll chop that astronaut into pieces and toss him in a pit, and she’ll plant explosives in a historic gnostic temple without worrying about who’s inside. And she’ll do it all seemingly without malice, or satisfaction, or any emotion other than maybe a grim sense of duty. AND THEN she finds out that actually the stakes were NEVER that high, the world was never in danger, every terrible thing she did was pointless, because things would have worked out fine if she’d just done nothing.
And then she fucking dies, before the show even starts, before any of the main characters ever get a chance to really meet her, but the shadow she casts looms over all of them until the end of the series.
tma s5 except helen somehow stops being the distortion out of nowhere and now she’s just some scared confused lesbian. sopping wet cat of a girl whose only life experience is being a middle class real estate agent. how will she ever make it in this world, you ask. well i heard a rumor that there’s a hot new apocalypse cult around,
tma s5 except helen somehow stops being the distortion out of nowhere and now she’s just some scared confused lesbian. sopping wet cat of a girl whose only life experience is being a middle class real estate agent. how will she ever make it in this world, you ask. well i heard a rumor that there’s a hot new apocalypse cult around,
if you’re stuck inside the apocalypse, she’s stuck inside the apocalypse. put her in your cult.
“Elias is a bitchy gay” this, “Elias is homophobic” that, I’ve actually decided that Elias Bouchard is a gay man but Jonah Magnus is a homophobic 1800s (?) bitch and together they create the vibes of a supposed cishet teenage boy who claims to hate gay people but has SOMETHING homoerotic going on with his best friend in this essay I will
tma s5 except helen somehow stops being the distortion out of nowhere and now she’s just some scared confused lesbian. sopping wet cat of a girl whose only life experience is being a middle class real estate agent. how will she ever make it in this world, you ask. well i heard a rumor that there’s a hot new apocalypse cult around,
if you’re stuck inside the apocalypse, she’s stuck inside the apocalypse. put her in your cult.
added conflict if some of the cult members are former spiral domain victims. obviously they don’t trust her or want her around. and how could she ever prove that she wasn’t just lying, i mean, lying is the spiral’s whole thing, this could just be another trick. but then melanie touches her hand is like “you feel human.” because she knows what the distortion’s hands feel like, and it’s not this.
georgie can’t stand the idea of just leaving her to fend for herself, for whatever reason. she’s fearless, but she doesn’t even need to be in order to know that helen richardson is not something to be afraid of, not after the spiral spat her out. and, like, fuck it, why not?
it takes a long time for a good majority of the other cult members to start trusting helen. after a while, they come up with this game where they tell her about different fear domains, and challenge her to try and ‘sell’ those fear domains to them as real estate.
it was at that moment, watching helen joke about how a desolation domain has “excellent central heating” to a fellow cult member, that georgie and melanie had a collective “i need her” moment.
so interested in young gertrude robinson tbh. like just imagine.
it’s the 1970’s. you’re a single woman with no family or friends, and no desire for any, either. somehow, you know about ancient fear gods almost no one else knows about, and you’ve decided it’s up to you to stop them from crossing over into this world. so you start working as an archivist for a god you don’t worship, for a man you neither trust nor respect, among co-workers you neither like nor value. in your heart, you know you wouldn’t hesitate to sacrifice any one of them to complete your goal. because in your mind, you’re saving the world. you’re on a mission.
anybody else constantly thinking about how the three main eye avatars sort of represent three equally fucked up parts of humanity.
jonathan sims. self-sacrificing. the part of humanity that seeks to connect and understand, but also to save others at its own expense. it believes that the way for it to help others is not by actually helping them, but rather by destroying itself.
gertrude robinson. self-righteous. almost machiavellian in its belief that it has the right to do anything it needs to in order to acheive its goal, because it believes its doing the right thing. it thinks that it’s saving the world, so of course the ends justify the means.
jonah magnus. self-preserving. when faced with its own mortality, it seeks out something to believe in. something to devote itself to. misguided worship, hubris, the fear of death, the need to sever itself from its mortality. and, in the process, sever itself from its humanity.
basically the way i come up with new tma ships is. wouldn’t it be interesting if these characters had something. how would they change each other. which is why so many of them include jonah magnus. he is the most fun to put into situations
You asked for characters to be sent. So i give you Nikola orsinov. Now tell the people about Nikola orsinov.
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1. sexuality headcanon: how could she have any sexuality? she’s plastic! /ref
2. otp: spiraldance. nikola x helen. just really cute
3. brotp: has anyone ever written about her and annabelle cane as friends bc i could see it
4. notp: none, really. i keep an open mind
5. first headcanon that pops into my head: i have this headcanon about basically every fear but i think the stranger (and, by extension, nikola) feels like it holds at least some claim over jonah magnus. mostly because of the watcher’s crown formation (how the eye feeds all other fears) but also because @jonahmagnus said so and i believe my mutuals on all topics
6. favourite line from this character: “i did use all the bits.”
7. one way in which i relate to this character: sometimes i too am weird and offputting
8. thing that gives me second hand embarrassment about this character: nothing really
9. cinnamon roll or problematic fave?: definitely more cinnamon roll. i don’t think there’s any dedicated nikola haters out there, even though she’s technically an antagonist
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