Happy December! Here’s what advent calendars I think the characters in TMA would have!
Jon: Socks, probably. Maybe ties? Something that would be advertised as “top advent calendar to get your grumpy husband 😜”. Martin bought it for him.
Martin: Teabags. I don’t think I need to elaborate.
Sasha: Something really elegant and cool like second hand books or handmade jewellery. She probably saw it on etsy and told Tim about it and he bought it for her.
Tim: One of the shitty aldi own brand ones…. Sasha bought it for him as a joke. (he was even happier with it than sasha was with what he got her.)
Melanie: Some kinda murder mystery one where you get a piece of evidence each day and you have to solve it before the 24th (if this isn’t already a thing it should be)
Basira: A coffee one with different flavours every day. Daisy got it for her.
Daisy: Same as Basira. They both got eachother the same one and they open it together each morning and discuss the flavours…
Elias: He has an original victorian paper one that he’s always used. He lets out a little chuckle every time he opens the pictures. Even though he knows exactly what each of them is.
Recently I’ve been on several very long car journeys with my mum, so of course, I persuaded her to listen to TMA! As a result, here’s how she’s been picturing the characters:
Jon: Older guy, kind of thin, tall but not overly tall, grey hair. (I showed her the popular design for Jon and she literally said “No!! They made him look too cool!!!”)
Martin: younger, shorter, short brown hair, always smiling. (“obviously until things got super serious in the archives… ” ).
Sasha: Average height, midsize, short bobbed darkish hair dyed red. (she said she couldn’t picture sasha’s face, which is kinda poetic.)
Tim: very tall, lanky.
Melanie: very short blonde hair with dark roots, quite petite, quite pretty.
Micheal (distortion): short black hair, pale, haunted look. (I don’t know how she came to this conclusion, we listened to all of his episodes… The heart wants what the heart wants 😌 Although there is a chance that she’s mentally combined both Micheals.)
Gertrude: much older, very short curly grey hair but not in a boyish way, glasses, very short, a bit round.
Daisy: short dark hair, petite, formidable…(“you know, powerful like some smaller women are…”)
Elias: “I can’t picture him, he’s just like… A blob of evil with his evil voice…”
Why is it always “Your employees are allowed to do whatever they want on break! ” or “stop stalking your employees Jon!” or “You’re creating an unhealthy workplace environment!”??
Why can’t it be “how was Madame Tussauds, Jon?”, “did you enjoy seeing the wax figures?”, “Did you get a picture with your favourite celebrity?”???
Recently it snowed all across London, so here’s how I think the characters from TMA would find it!
Jon: Goes on about how impractical it is, tells everyone that he’s been late to work because of train delays due to ice on the tracks. (He’s really late because he stopped to make a snowman.) he keeps going out to “get some air.” (everyone thinks he’s chainsmoking but really he just wants to look at the snow)
Martin: Absolutely LOVES the snow. He’s out initiating snowball fights, he’s writing poetry about how ‘the earth is covered with a duvet of icy hopes’ or something like that.
Tim: Having the time of his life! He’s building snow forts and joining Martin in snowball fights.
Sasha: Is also having the time of her life, and is the only reason they managed to build the snow Fort without it falling down.
Basira: Loves the snow, but from a practical point of view it makes doing things really annoying. I feel like she’s got a really cool pair of snow boots though.
Daisy: Doesn’t like it. Coats are bulky and slippery floors make the chase a pain in the arse to do without falling over.
Elias: Loves it… But always goes on about how “Back in the old days the river (Thames) used to freeze over and we’d go out skating on it!” The old days were the victorian era.
Happy New Year’s Eve everyone! Here’s how I think the tma characters would celebrate:
Martin and Jon: Martin seems like the type of guy who’d want to celebrate with a small group of friends, but Jon does NOT. To even this out I think they’d have a very romantic night in with a nice bottle of wine and the fireworks on TV.
Daisy and Basira: Judging by how quick they were to go out for drinks when trapped at the institute I imagine they’d like to go out clubbing for NYE! And they’d totally kiss over dramtically at midnight.
Melanie and Georgie: They’d have a couple friends over and have a house party (approved by the admiral, of course!), and they’d probably write up bingo cards for the coming year.
Tim and Sasha: A nice big party with their mutual friends. Being social and all sorts of things like that!
Elias: He’d watch the fireworks in Central London. Like an insane person.