i speedran this comic in 2 and a half evenings btw idk what’s happening to me i’m usually much slower with drawing😭😭😭 tma is bringing out something wild in me
oh also now that it’s done i can talk some about this episode. so WHY IN THE WORLD did jon choose the tactic of SMILING to intimidate trevor. like if i were him i’d just defy domain’s rules and force kill martin. just to show jon he’s not all that, like that must’ve been so infuriating LOL
basira’s entrance and the whole convo after with her figuring out whether they’re real was so cool too, i actually wanted to draw it too. still might maybe
also i’m a bit sad for julia and trevor since they were such a cool duo.. ik they threatened jon a bunch of times and (i guess in a way) tortured gerry BUT C'MONNN worse things happened in this universe, i’d say on a scale they were still pretty chill.. and i liked them as found family :( also i still quite vividly remember trevor’s first statement, that counts as one of my favorites
i really, really love this high-ptiched, ear-destroying glitch sound that happens when jon smites someone
cause now that i read the description that it’s ‘wrongly heard’ it just. adds even more coolness to this scene. something so abnormal happens that even those DAMNED TAPE RECORDERS cannot register it
like those tapes can truly handle. a lot. different dimensions, otherworldly creatures. you know the drill
the fact that something is completely BEYOND THEM is insanely thrilling
ok another problem i have with listening to tma now is that there’s too many scenes i want to make fanart of :^) and i just don’t want to progress further before i do, so i don’t lose the urge to draw them, yk
there’s so much. jon smiting not!sasha, basira’s confrontation with daisy, ‘i spy with my little eye’, salesa’s house scenes…. oh and i also wanted somehing from mag 170, which feels like ages ago already…… aghdhhh so manyyy cool scenes to drawwww
hmm season 4 jon always wearing covering, baggy clothes that hide his scars, not wanting to recall all the fear and pain he experienced vs season 5 jon wearing light shirts, rolling up sleeves cause the sight of his scars now remind him of his humanity
idk when and if i’ll draw peter lukas but just so everybody knows he’d have a very long white beard and very long white hair that’d blend with the fog in a very cool way
like imagine gandalf but a bit less old and also a marine
“I thought you might be lost.” is one of the most delightfully romantic things Jon ever says to Martin.
It’s so devoid of blame, of derision. A truly neutral statement, soft, no touch of sarcasm, no hint of cruelty. A gentle hand reached out to pull him from the depths of the lonely.
Such an unusual phrase for Jon, especially at that time. There’s no definitives, it’s entirely open to correction, open to being wrong. ‘I thought’ not I knew. It comes from Jon’s perspective, he holds himself out to rejection, something that’s hard to do at the best of times.
'you might be lost’, not you were, not you are. He respects that this may well have been a conscious choice, that Martin really could have chosen to abandon him, preferring the lonely to the lack of certainty in their relationship. But it retains the softness and love, the worry and care. He was worried that Martin might not be able to find his way back, but not willing to drag him out of a place he might have chosen to be.
And that’s not even mentioning the softness with which he says it. In an intense moment of great urgency and importance he’s able to drop his fear, stress, and anger, in an attempt to reach the man he loves.
It’s such an elegant moment of love; in a second Jon is willing to let go of the gravity of the situation and put all of his being into connecting with Martin, and when it comes down to it, it works.
DUDE i had a very similar train of thought regarding jon’s “not anymore” in response to martin’s “it’s the lonely, jon. it’s me”
like how in this one simple line he makes a gentle promise, he reassures him, and most importantly - let’s martin know that he acknowledges his pain and past experiences, doesn’t dismiss them one bit
'jonathan sims is bad with expressing his love through words’ my ass. he actually is so good that he doesn’t need more than two in one sentence. that’s why it’s easily missable. man mastered it to such a level it becomes missable for an average human being
i think melanie and martin should be best friends (i can’t recall what their canon dynamic was unfortunately💔 so we probably didn’t get much of them together. correct me if i’m wrong tho)
cause like, martin would look at her and think, wow that’s who i’d be if i got to speak and do what’s actually on my mind
and melanie would look at him and go wow, that’s who I’d be if it wasn’t for this wild anger rooted in my brain
yeah i think they could balance each other out nicely like they’d rant to each other about stuff
MAN i LOVE how all the magnus archives characters are just. some guys (well excluding those who are very obviously not human)
LIKE I LOVE how they’re all flawed. not a single major character that hasn’t done or said something questionable at least once. all of them have their ups and downs. all of them struggle with finding balance between emotions and rationality. you get reasons to like and dislike every each one of them
they feel so alive to meee that’s some great writing
i think melanie and martin should be best friends (i can’t recall what their canon dynamic was unfortunately💔 so we probably didn’t get much of them together. correct me if i’m wrong tho)
cause like, martin would look at her and think, wow that’s who i’d be if i got to speak and do what’s actually on my mind
and melanie would look at him and go wow, that’s who I’d be if it wasn’t for this wild anger rooted in my brain
yeah i think they could balance each other out nicely like they’d rant to each other about stuff
ok so i got to mag 190 and i wasn’t much off LMAO they indeed barely got to know each other
this was followed by one of my favorite conversations in the series ever i think. maybe just because i was hyped for it. but it truly felt like they click so well :^)
