I’m sorry. People think Elias “your own rotten luck” would give a damn about free handouts? Scratch that. People think Elias “actively working on planning the apocalypse, also British” would give a damn about US politics?
If you really think about it- The Lonely (and in general the fear of being alone) is something that ties a lot with the other Fear Entities because fear in general is largely entwined with the fear that you’re facing something alone.
For example- The Web. It’s the fear of manipulation, of the loss of your free will. If you believe you’re being manipulated- and thus unsure of who you can trust, if there even is anyone you can trust- you are alone in the sense you have no one you can truly believe in. If that is the case you are alone because there is no one you can trust even if you have family and friends around you.
Same thing with the other fears such as The Spiral and even The Stranger- both of these fears can intersect with one another, but they can also be related to The Lonely. When you believe your mind is playing tricks on you- who can you rely on? When everything feels like deception and a trick of the mind- who can truly relate to what you’re feeling, when they don’t understand what exactly you’re going through? You will feel isolated, which is another manifestation of the Lonely.
Same thing applies with the other Fears even though its not quite the same. Fear of the Buried- in the literal sense of being buried, there is no one around to help you from being crushed and you suffocate alone with no hope of salvation. Fear of the End- we all face death alone, no matter if we die with loved ones around us, in the End you alone face your own mortality.
To summarize; The Lonely can be linked with so many of the Fears because fear, in many cases, largely relate to the feel of being helpless and alone in your own struggle and pain and mortal danger, with no support and no one to save or help you
EXACTLY!!
Perfect example of this is The Sick Village- not only are you terrified of catching this deadly corrupting disease you’re also worried people will find out you have it and so you isolate yourself from everyone. You’re alone! Self isolated! Unable to open up to anyone in the fear of being people knowing about your ailment!
The Lonely is one of the most ironic thing in TMA. The fear entity most tied with the other Dread Powers.
the dichotomy of one server I found that was full of people going: “headcanoning the literal bodysnatcher as trans is so gross, the implications you’re creating are really not good,” while another server has been like: “it’s SO valid of Jonah to steal cis men’s bodies <3 love that for him!” is never not going to be funny to me
Monster fucker this, monster fucker that. What if I want a monster RELATIONSHIP huh?! Monster HAND HOLDING, monster INTIMATE CONVERSATIONS, monster COMFORTABLE SILENCE??
Jane Prentiss was the funniest bitch in the whole avatar collective. She literally had no reason at all to do what she did, no ritual no threat against her person no command from a higher power (hell, Jon didn’t even know about the corruption at that point in time) and yet her dedication was UNPARALLELED. She spent TWO WEEKS hanging outside of Martin’s apartment for laughs (duringwhich she signs Jon up for Shitty Insect Puns Daily™️), and then another FOUR MONTHS chilling in the institute basement planning the world’s worst surprise party. She didn’t just wake up one morning and decide on a whim to traumatize some nerd, she wrote a whole ass college-level course on how to do it for every single avatar that ever came after her, patented it, then left it on Elias’s desk so he could pass it out at the next eldritch horror’s anonymous meeting. Literally unmatched commitment to the bit. No one even comes close to the level of hilarity that is Jane Prentiss
“Starring Role” by Marina is such a LonelyEyes song to me. “Sometimes, I ignore you, so I feel in control / ‘Cause really, I adore you, and I can’t leave you alone” is soo these fools getting divorced for the nth time <3
Abandoning my og!Elias WIP to write some illegally soft LonelyEyes… They should go on vacation together: Peter planned the entire trip himself, hidden the whole time within the obscuring fog of the Lonely, because Elias hates surprises so of course Peter wanted to surprise him
Peter waxing poetic about how wonderful it is to be alone at sea, with absolutely no one around. Behind him, half a dozen employees are actually doing all the work on the ship. Peter continues talking about how he’s in complete solitude out here. One of the employees stares into the camera.
consider: Elias is actually quite a catch by Traditional Lukas Standards (TLS)
Nathaniel: (after the customary Sorry for your losses have been exchanged) What’s it like being engaged to the Head of the Institute?
Peter: He’s very open about wanting me for my money, enjoys that I’ll be away from him most of the year, drives me even further apart than that with his endless prying, and would be fine with killing me in a heartbeat for his own plans, of which he tells me little.
Nathaniel: You’ve always been favored by Forsaken.
Peter: And, he’s all but guaranteed to outlive me. Do you think it’d be too soon if I told him I think he’d look good in black?
I want to see Jonah Magnus fics with 1800s slang. Jonah deserves to be called a Church Bell for talking too much, or have him start gossiping about the idiot Foozler who works for Mordechai. Even better yet, Elias(Jonah) using 1800s slang when he is stressed out, and no one understanding what he is saying at all. Maybe Simon understands, maybe he doesnt. Maybe Elias’ loving husband understands a bit of what he is saying, but not enough to actually pay attention. Please, someone write this for me, because I have no ability to write fics.
Me, doing basic research for a fic I’m writing: So how much do luxury yachts cost? $1,000,000 seems like an exorbitantly high number to say, that would be impressive enough, but I should look up to see if that’s even realistic– $39,900,000????
I really think Elias loves scheduling so much because he looks into his employees’ lives and he gives them time off for events that they never informed him of. It’s nice for them - they’ll get a day off for things like their child’s birthday. If they’re worried about missing money when they miss a shift, they’re scheduled to come in for a day that they normally don’t work to make up for it. If they’re not worried about finances, they just get given a day off. It’s so nice, but it’s also so creepy, because how did Elias know that they would need to have the morning off to help their father get to his doctor’s appointment? Their dad hadn’t even told them about it when the schedule was made!
as much as i love all the doe-eyed tragic lovestory barnabas interpretations i think we all need to remember that the first thing this man did when he was told to pay a debt was saying “fuck you, see me in court, it’s not like they’d side with you anyway” and im sorry but this absolute prick of a person being the one jonah cherished to the point of keeping his bones for a century makes far more sense then a doting sadboy lover
Before I made this blog, I saw art of Elias with heterochromia (because Jonah replaced one of Elias’s eyes with his own and put his other eye in Elias’s heart). I am obsessed with that as a concept and I haven’t been able to find the art again to reblog it :(
I need to talk about an evil fucked up no good very terrible relationship between og!Elias and James Wright!Jonah. I have so many thoughts
Brb, looking up the history of colored contacts (how be off an invention they are) so I can decide if JonahJames can bully Elias into hating his pretty brown eyes enough to start wearing different colored contacts until it comes as a surprise to no one that he settles on having grey eyes for the rest of time.. until anyone has forgotten that he didn’t always have grey eyes…. preliminary research says yes. xoxo
JonahJames/og!Elias thesis statement is that I think Jonah would get a kick out of making sure everyone can clearlysee that Elias is his, belongs to him even before he becomes Elias. Ergo, fucked up possessive relationship even before the literal possession comes in
the virgin canon of jon being distanced from everyone even in research days vs the chad fanon of tim and jon building up such a solid rapport they become a two guy package deal. a noted duo. and one day when jon actually calls in sick tim mopes around and complains and sulks dramatically and whenever anyone is like ?!? sasha is like “oh he’s just missing his little friend today he’ll be fine tomorrow”
wouldnt it be a fucked up callback if they had a running bit back then where tim cracks some dad joke or pun and jon is like 🙄 that’s not funny and tim is like i know ;)
i could add so much recontextualization by just making shit up
[ID: An excerpt from the transcript of MAG119 that reads:
Tim: [dryly] You sound stressed. You know I hear the great Grimaldi’s in town. You should go see it, cheer yourself up.
Nikola: That’s. Not. Funny. (Italics: That’s not funny.)
Tim: I know. End ID]
Favourite part about Tim & Jon posts is when they start nice and fuzzy and warm and then they kick you in the stomach.
I love the idea of og!Elias having just some god-awful tattoos. I mean the kind done by drunken teens daring each other to at a party, that he was lucky didn’t get infected too badly. And then more, gotten from cheap parlors by amateur hands, because he’s already gotten some tattoos, might as well get more! He wants to cover his skin in things that amuse him, to become a canvas that he enjoys looking at in the mirror.
Jonah hates them. They’re ugly things, of course they are. Even if the art had been good to begin with, the majority had healed very poorly. Elias might have fond memories attached to even the worst of them, where he had gotten tattooed in the company of friends no longer with him, but Jonah certainly doesn’t care about that. The tattoos look awful. They’re immature, asinine things, and Jonah does not want them on his body. He gets them removed and covered up as soon as he’s able to.
a collection of very serious lonelyeyes comics 😌 the last one is forever my favorite tma thing of all time
[Start ID: Three comics of Elias and Peter from the Magnus Archives. Elias has slicked back hair and wears dangly earrings with a closed eye at the end. He also wears a suit with a vest and tie. Peter has short hair pulled back into a ponytail and wears a sea captain’s coat along with a turtleneck sweater. He has a full beard.
1st comic: Peter looks at Elias with a serious expression and says, “Elias, I’m not budging on this. You can’t claim CO2 canisters as work expenses.”. In the next panel, Elias hums, clearly displeased. In the next panel, Elias takes out a planner and a pen, and says “Pardon me one moment.”. In the next panel he looks up at Peter with disdain and scribbles into the planner. In the last panel, Peter looks on in worry with a small blush and asks, “Wh - What are you crossing out? Elias…”. We can view Elias’ schedule within his planner that is as follows:
0900: Behold
1030: Meeting with Peter
The times are cut off the rest but the next line states “Give Peter a blowjob” and this is actively being crossed out. The next line says “Behold” which is what he intended to do after the previous line.
2nd comic: In the first panel, Elias is handing a document envelope to Jon’s hand, stating “Here are those new statements, Archivist.”. Jon accepts them and says “Yes, thank you.”. In the next panel, Jon begins to take out the statements from the envelope, saying “Huh - lighter than usual…”. Jon has short curly hair and wears rectangular glasses. In the next panel, Jon looks down in horror as what he pulls out is a photograph addressed “To Elias” with a heart next to it. Jon stutters “I-”. In the next panel, Elias looks at the photo with comically large eyes that have red in the pupils and an even more horrified expression than Jon’s. From the view of the photograph, it appears to be Peter in nothing but a hat. In the next panel, Elias dramatically snatches the photograph out of Jon’s hands with an angry expression. In the next panel, Elias holds up a different document envelope with an embarrassed expression, sweating and shaking profusely, he says “Apologies. It seems I mislabeled some files. This one is correct.”. In the final panel, there is a box with the word “Later” in it. Next to it, Elias’ face is blurred from motion and his hands are outstretched towards Peter ready to strangle him. Elias has a red slit for an eye and has a few disembodied red eyes behind him. Peter stands in front of him blissfully unaware and asks with a blush, “Hey, did you like those pictures-?”.
3rd comic: In the first panel, Elias is frothing mad, his teeth sharp and grey steam coming off him. He angrily demands, “Peter. Give me the alimony check now.” In the next panel, Peter’s disembodied hand holds up a check that Elias looks at furiously in the background. Peter asks, “Oh, this check?”. Elias is growling in the background. In the next panel, Peter waves the check with an amuses expression, saying “You have to be quicker than that, Elias”. His sentence is punctuated with a heart. In the next panel, Peter holds the check out to the side at an arm’s length with a smile. He thinks to himself, “Oh man. Heh, heh. He looks furious.”. Elias is not in the panel but his gradual scream is represented by several lowercase a’s followed by several uppercase A’s. At the rightmost side of the panel, there is a large dialogue bubble where Elias screams, “Peter!!!”. In the last panel, Peter has turned semi-transparent with clouds of fog around him. There is a loud crash and an Elias shaped hole is in the wall behind his arm, several cracks are coming off the hole as well. Peter laughs, “Holy shit, haha.” in all caps.
[ID: A digital picture of an open spiral spine notebook on a teal background. In the notebook there is a bullet point list written in cursive green text titled “What to pack”. Sometimes there is a remark add to the bullet point in blue text. The text in the notebook goes as followed:
What to pack list
At least one outfit for a day
At least one presentable shirt for Peter (what you mean by presentable?) A shirt without stupid pun
All the necessary travel documents, tickets, insurance and other stuff my husband would forget (we do not even need insurance!) It was just fun to do the paperwork for it
Divorce papers - just in case (do you need to write it down? You have their copy hidden everywhere…) what are you talking about, dear?
Greek myths and history book, guide through Athens (please try to refrain from taking too many books) Define too many?
The literature I wanted to catch up for a while (Are we taking your entire library Elias?)
Work laptop (you promised no work during the honeymoon) Just in case of absolute emergency I swear!
Sunscreen
Skin care package
Sunglasses
Bedroom toys (By that you mean…?) Yes, don’t worry about it
Swimsuit (you do not like swimming) I might want to go sunbathing!
Towels and bathrobe (won’t be some at hotel?) What if I will not like the material?
Camera (No photos of me though) …we will talk about that
Barnabas (we are not taking bones of your ex-boyfriend Elias…) He always wanted to visit Greece (either he goes or I go) I will have to think about it (…)
There is also blue drawing of a ship in top right corner of the page and green drawing of an eye in bottom right corner of the page. End of ID]
I really think Elias loves scheduling so much because he looks into his employees’ lives and he gives them time off for events that they never informed him of. It’s nice for them - they’ll get a day off for things like their child’s birthday. If they’re worried about missing money when they miss a shift, they’re scheduled to come in for a day that they normally don’t work to make up for it. If they’re not worried about finances, they just get given a day off. It’s so nice, but it’s also so creepy, because how did Elias know that they would need to have the morning off to help their father get to his doctor’s appointment? Their dad hadn’t even told them about it when the schedule was made!
The absolute worst part of Elias getting arrested for murder and Peter taking over as Head of the Institute, is that suddenly everyone needed to figure out how to actually ask for time off. They’ll ask their department manager, but the department managers will say, “I’d approve it, but I don’t actually make our schedules…”
Man,,, the latest episode had such interesting parallels between Jon and Elias, plus all the web symbolism, and the ominous foreshadowing….anyway here’s Stoner Jonah.
My charm designs from the jonelias zine. They looked so good next to each other they get their own post >:]
{ID: two pictures of Jonathan sims and elias Bouchard from the magnus archives. Elias is a thin white man wearing a green pinstripe suite with stone like grey feathery wings behind him. Over his arms is a scroll with illegible red writing on it. The top part of his face is obscured in shadows, but he’s smiling wide, with eerie spiraling blue grey eyes. Behind him is a golden halo and little eyes floating all around him. Jon is a creature with completely black skin and hair, which floats up with grey streaks mixed in. There are spiraling eyes all over his body, and he hugs himself with a panicked expression, no mouth and tears falling from the eyes on his face, the number of which is three. Behind him are two giant green moth wings with stylized eyes, glitching with artifacts. Small eyes surround him like they do elias. The background on both pictures is completely red.]
characters who refuse to bury the loved one… who hide the rotting body somewhere in the house. who drag it for miles bc they can’t leave it behind. who cannibalize. who taxidermize. who come back and dig up the bones
