ooo i do need to think about her more often. bless
1. sexuality headcanon: aromantic bisexual tbh
2. otp: i’ve seen a few people ship her with helen, which is pretty cute. her and jon could also be something. the part of my brain that invents tma rarepairs on the spot is currently saying annabelle x jude perry so that’s probably also something
3. brotp: def her and nikola orsinov. the more i think about it the more i wanna see them interact
5. first headcanon that pops into my head: i think she’s at least a little into jirai kei fashion
6. favourite line from this character: “it’s a real shame, you know. i was so looking forward to filling you with spiders.”
7. one way in which i relate to this character: well i’m gonna get my hair bleached. eventually.
today i spent like 15 minutes vividly picturing a fake video essay about fiction podcasts and the theme of misguided worship (drawing parallels between welcome to nightvale, camp here & there, and the magnus archives) and now my dash is filled with fiction podcast posts. suspicious
today i spent like 15 minutes vividly picturing a fake video essay about fiction podcasts and the theme of misguided worship (drawing parallels between welcome to nightvale, camp here & there, and the magnus archives) and now my dash is filled with fiction podcast posts. suspicious
in case you’re interested. the video essay in my brain did have seperate segments for each podcast. and yes in my brain i did use the intros/soundtracks of the podcasts to transition between the segments. the wtnv segment was about religion as a form of absurdist comedy. the ch&t segment was about the concept of an unwilling religious figure. the tma segment was about how human it is to worship something that should not be worshipped.
i think i’m really interested in the exact time the older avatars were born, because it feels like it explains a lot about them. how simon fairchild was born into a world just beginning to comprehend its place in the universe, and he decided to embrace it. how maxwell rayner was born into a world just beginning to create its own light, and he decided to escape it. how jonah magnus was born into a dying world, and he wanted so badly to live.
gertrude fucking robinson is one badass motherfucker. she implied the desolation liked her because she was causing devastation upon the cult of the lightless flame and then said “maybe you picked a bad god”. think about how sick and twisted and cool that is
that you could spend your entire life worshipping something, but it will still enjoy your destruction because that’s its nature. you’re not special. your suffering is just food for your god
i really like the idea of gertrude as an anti-avatar of sorts. someone who manages not to align herself fully with any of the fears, but rather uses the fears against their own avatars.
the first scene in mag 148 is actually so important to me. i relisten to it so often. it’s devastating how silly elias is. “i’m- i’m sorry.” “oh yeah? for which part?” “….all of it?” what is her problem. he thinks hes so cute. nobody tell him hes right
i don’t think any of the older avatars know they’re supposed to be in a horror podcast. simon thinks he’s in a sitcom. maxwell thinks they’re in the bible. jonah thinks its in some sort of problematic yuri anime
i don’t think any of the older avatars know they’re supposed to be in a horror podcast. simon thinks he’s in a sitcom. maxwell thinks they’re in the bible. jonah thinks its in some sort of problematic yuri anime
simon talks like he’s expecting a laughtrack to play after everything he says. maxwell literally started a church. jonah just gets jabami yumeko levels of horny over the weirdest things.
jonathan sims is so funny as a protagonist bc he acts and talks like the tortured mc of a 19th century gothic horror novel while everyone else around him just talks like a regular person. extra funny because they all make fun of him for it and it still doesn’t stop him.
it’s not a joke anymore i genuinely think there’s something exceptionally themes and narratives to the idea of gertrude/jonah/peter. relistening to mag 158. first episode where jonah and peter directly interact. also the first episode where we hear jonah and gertrude interact. in both scenarios one of them is about to kill the other. jonah calls killing gertrude “the end of an era” and thinks her idea of burning down the institute and dying together is “poetic.” moments before we hear him confront peter, who’s trying to get martin to kill him.
the idea of the sky opening up into a giant eye is excellent and creepy, but unfortunately i can no longer take it seriously after imagining people just posting pictures of it captioned shit like “quit staring at me with them big ol eyes” and “im shaking someone please buy her brown contacts” and “fuck r u lookin at”
@vieramars this is too funny to be left in the tags of my stupid little post.
there would be so many posts like “i am the prettiest little flower in this mortal garden” “guys i don’t think we can ‘but i stay silly :3’ our way out of this one” “crazy that the archivist is like. just some guy.” “buried domain gang rise up. oh wait”
people would reblog posts with “op must’ve been inside a spiral domain when they wrote this”
i bet there’d be at least a few people making fan edits of the avatars. and i don’t know how any of them would feel about that to be honest.
you guys need to stop improving my mediocre shitpost with your god-tier tags oh my god
wait i finally have a good addition to make. tma tumblr reblog threads
“imagine getting sent to the eye domain for saying what peter lukas did to jonah magnus”
“what did he do”
“he fucked that old man”
“[screenshot of op’s blog that says they deactivated] hey op how’s the eye domain”
i like the idea that jonah can’t compel people, not just because each avatar having a unique set of powers is cool, but also because the eye probably knew his horny ass would’ve tried to compel himself if he could, and that might’ve caused a paradox of some kind
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
vast/buried avatar culture is. the call of the void. the cave. the cave. it calls me. go. to the cave. it calls me. i want. to go inTO THE CAVE LET ME GO DOWN DOWN FURTHER DOWN. lol
new headcanon i came up with last night: jonah’s eyes slowly accumulate rotten blood stains from his eyelids (both because of the physical damage dealt to that area when he possessed elias, and also because the eye loves forcing him to see physical evidance of what he is) so he has to clean his eyes up every morning to make sure no one else sees.
new headcanon i came up with last night: jonah’s eyes slowly accumulate rotten blood stains from his eyelids (both because of the physical damage dealt to that area when he possessed elias, and also because the eye loves forcing him to see physical evidance of what he is) so he has to clean his eyes up every morning to make sure no one else sees.
Once when he forgets to do it and shows up to work
Rosie: Uhhhh sir, there is uhhh, something in … your eye?
he panics and accidentally says it’s an infection and then gets weirdly embarrassed about it because eye infections are essencially stds for eye avatars.
fucked up and maybe kind of cute or maybe funny idea idk: s1 except jane and her worms somehow make their way into the panopticon and elias is like oh HELL no and runs down there but when he gets there she’s just. playing around with the corpse of jonah magnus. and he’s like um. uh. can you not. that’s my body. that’s kind of rude. and she’s like teehee [puts worms in your skull] :3 and he’s like ok. can you please just mark my archivist now. why are you like this (<- secretly finds her really cute)
fucked up and maybe kind of cute or maybe funny idea idk: s1 except jane and her worms somehow make their way into the panopticon and elias is like oh HELL no and runs down there but when he gets there she’s just. playing around with the corpse of jonah magnus. and he’s like um. uh. can you not. that’s my body. that’s kind of rude. and she’s like teehee [puts worms in your skull] :3 and he’s like ok. can you please just mark my archivist now. why are you like this (<- secretly finds her really cute)
well…if it’s what the people want!! (<- girl who was looking for a reason to write yet another janelias fic)
me when i enter a fandom for a piece of media based heavily around the idea of moral complexity and there’s motherfuckers simplifying morality in there.
you guys better not start simplifying morality when i say this
ok now with that warning out of the way
do you guys ever think about the parallels between daisy trapped in the buried and barnabas bennett trapped in the lonely. and how their respective pet eye avatars made the two opposite decisions on how to proceed. how jon threw himself into that coffin with little to no hesitation and jonah just kind of. watched.
according to unreliable sources (my own thoughts) assigning songs to ships is the best way to get people interested in them. so. for your consideration.
songs that make me think about jane prentiss/jonah magnus
Martin: He snores, mumbles, AND drools. John doesn’t really mind, but has occasionally woken up to a quiet “john hi hello..mm I love youuu” or a distraught “NOOoo don’t you take my sandwhich…”
John: Sleeps with his eyes open. Along with this, he has the tendency to mumble out coherent sentences. Some of these have been: “have a seat”, “what did you say your name was?”, or: “this is great, but unfortunately, I appear to be asleep” (Martin ended up putting that one on a magnet).
Sasha: Punches and kicks in her sleep. After hearing this, Tim would always ask “Punch yourself awake again, huh?” whenever she came in tired.
Tim: Cries in his sleep. Along with that, he has been known to sleepwalk. Once, he woke up to find an entire omelette sitting in front of him. He still doesn’t know where it came from, and it haunts him.
Daisy: She doesn’t like to admit this, but she’ll frequently wake up from dreams in which she’s chasing someone to find she had been running in her sleep. This also has the added bonus of launching everything off her bed.
Basira: Cannot stay still. She must rotate every thirty minutes, much like a turkey. Maybe that’s just because she likes to sleep on the floor, though.
Melanie: MUST fall asleep to music. That, or some variety of nature white noise. She also frequently rolls off her bed.
Elias: Sleeps like a log. Nothing could wake that man up, not even an actual flood. That did happen once, and yep, you guessed it: He somehow slept through it.
u guys arent being sufficiently insane w/ me about the fact that gertrude’s plan was to burn the institute down and die with jonah. die together while the building that tied them to a mutual god burned down around them. die as bitter enemies but still too intrinsically tied to each other to die anywhere except here. together. in this building.
i find the idea of a half-irish scotsman jonah magnus to be hilarious hfhshsja
originally i came up with this when i was thinking about him being half-irish and elias being decidedly Not. someone attempts a terrible fake irish accent in his vicinity and he has to pretend to not be bothered by it in order to not blow his cover
me when i enter a fandom for a piece of media based heavily around the idea of moral complexity and there’s motherfuckers simplifying morality in there.
“ok so these are the GOOD avatars and these are the BAD ones” did you listen to the same fucking podcast i did. all of them are bad in tragically human ways. that’s the point. none of them are good. and your need to categorize characters into neat little boxes of heroes and villains is indicative of a lack of understanding or willingness to understand the true complexity of human nature as it relates to ethics and morality!!!!! you’re not willing to start asking the difficult questions that the series is trying to make you ask, so you water it down into who you feel bad for and who you don’t!!!!!!
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