[Image description: grayscale fanart for The Magnus Archives. Jon sits in Elias’s lap in his office, grasping his tie while Elias holds his knee. Jon says “Tell me.” Elias says, “Hm. Try again.” With green artifacts indicating compulsion, Jon repeats, “Tell me.” End image description]
in honor of the death of The Mechanisms, have Jonny Sims summoning all the things at once
spoilers for MAG 160
[Audio transcript: A Magnus Archives edit. First, from a Q&A, Alex J Newall asks, “Jonny, how did you get through the closing chant of 160 on a single breath?” Jonny Sims, blase, replies, “Eldritch strength, channeling my dark masters.” Then, proudly: “I can do an invocation.”
After that, “Red Signal” by The Mechanisms (which is performed by Jonny Sims) plays over the ritual speech from MAG160. The song continues on its own after the end of the invocation, and at the very end, over “All the doors are open now,” is Jon saying, “Look at the sky, Martin. Look at the sky. It’s looking back,” and his hysterical laughter. End transcript]
one of the roughly ten thousand “the thing about jonelias”es i have floating around in my head at any given time is how off the shits ridiculous it is to systematically annihilate a guys life with the intention of forcing him to kill the world and in the process knowingly and deliberately making that guy super overpowered like way more powerful than you easily thus pretty much guaranteeing that this guy IS going to kill you which you are terrified of beyond measure. like there’s no way you don’t know that’s going to happen at some point monstrous hubris aside it is an obvious eventuality you have had time to think this one out. a guy as careful as me doesn’t have accidents etc. and then when he shows up still being genuinely pretty pleased to see him. ugh
[ring] [ring] [ring] Mum? you there? yeah, it’s me. well it’s bad news, I’m afraid. magnus sent him into the unknowing. yeah, like we thought. no, yeah, fully blown up. his body’s in tact, but he’s not getting up again, I think this thread’s dead. good thing magnus was working on that backu–what? well, no, he’s not brain dead, but his heart’s not beating. I’d imagine they tried defibrillation already. Mum, I don’t know how else to say this. he’s dead, we need to drop this. well yeah, one of Terminus’s children probably could, but his ex isn’t strong enough with it. hang on, what? no, Mum, he’s dead as well. middle of the fucking pacific ocean. satellite or something fell on him, he’s drowned at the very least. no I can’t “pull him out.” excuse me, you want me to–a row boat and a fishing pole?
Sopping wet cat
Wrote mom instead of mum but euahdh I’ve been giggling uncontrollably at this please
AND THIS IM GOIGN TO WAKE MT GRANDMA UP GOD UAHSH HE GOT BETTER????
the vibes in this scene were off the charts. jon and daisy are shaking and seething audibly. tim and basira are not happy. melanie is intrigued, exasperated. elias is giggling, batting his lashes and twirling a strand of hair round his finger.
That whole exchange and specifically Tim’s “what.” in that episode is literally one of my favourite moments ever. Just the absolute deadpan “I’m so tired of your shit” tone of voice. I can perfectly imagine his face when he says it and it’s… just perfection
now that it’s finally published, i can share my piece for the direct from subject zine!!! there’s so many cool artists in it, go check it out at @directfromsubjectzine :]
Image ID: Sasha James from The Magnus Archives aims a fire extinguisher at the bottom right corner of the image. Along the bottom and lower right of the image is the white foam from the extinguisher and little white worms. Sasha is a brown-skinned woman with shoulder length, curly dark hair, large glasses, and a blue turtleneck with the sleeves rolled up to the elbow, tucked into white trousers. Her teeth are gritted in an expression of concentration.
In the top right is the face of The Distortion-as-Michael. Its face is a saturated pink, and it grins with sharp teeth. Its left eye has a blue iris and is unremarkable but its right eye has a red pupil with red concentric circles around it. Its blond hair extends out around Sasha, and a yellow door is visible within it. The background is purple, pink and dark blue lines.
tma is a show which spends the first 100 episodes going “look at these monsters. aren’t they fucked up. yeah and they’re all so happy being monsters who hurt people monstrously” and then the protagonist who you’ve spent hours listening to at this point becomes one of those fucked up monsters, forcing you to either dismiss him as evil or you have to fully change how you view all the previous monsters. and then they spend the next 100 episodes dealing with that
