March 2023

watchingthefog:

My headcanon I have absolutely zero basis for is that Elias and Tim totally fucked before Tim joined the Magnus Institute. By which I mean that Peter and Elias seek out lonely people desperate for human affection, and have godawful threesome sex with them. Like, just the worst. Elias likes to watch and everyone can feel the judgment in his gaze, meanwhile Peter doesn’t seem to look at person even while he’s fucking them like they could be a fleshlight for all he cares, and half the time they’re bickering like the old married couple they are (and their one night stand is not a part of the conversation at all, just forced to sit and listen). It’s just altogether objectifying and Bad.

Anyway, Tim after his brother’s death was totally a lonely soul ready to get dragged into whatever that is.

crunchy–milk:

avatarofthevast:

kristsune:

kristsune:

okay listen, l i s t e n. with all the posts about Elias being able to see through any eyes, what if he just stuck googly eyes all over the Archives to keep an eye on everything???

#okay but imagine it like #dull fake eyes that swirl at you at once they follow your movement#a silent room with nothing but the faintest scratch of plastic as the eye lolls about (via @possibly-not-a-ghost )

Okay but i HEARD that in my head??? and its honestly super creepy?? thank you for that

The archive staff start taking them down in irritation, but they can never quite get them all. They’ll think for a moment that the googly eyes are gone, just to hear that small plastic rattling from across the room once again.

They sigh, and realize they can either give up and leave it, or try and search yet again.

you know that head cannon that the tape recorders are some kind of beholding extension of john in order to gather information thats important to him? yeah that, but with elias and googly eyes. 

sm0kebreaks:

i know we love talking about what a cunt jon was in s1 and he was sure but i was reading the transcript of Alone and tbh without hearing the intonation it’s easier to see why jon was being a bit extra cunty like

first of all they started the statement only for it to get fucked up and they had to restart using the tapes instead

naomi goes on for a bit about how shitty his tape recorder is and his laptop and how nobody respects the institute unprompted to where jon simply is like okay.. you dont HAVE to talk to me…

and then after the statement shes like cool now what and jon tells her what their next steps are going to be and what he thinks could help her (which yes is telling her seeking some grief counselling could help her deal with her fiancees death) to which she gets MAD at him for not having anything else to offer her!

like… at that point he wasn’t even really being a cunt he was just matching her tone..

like imagine how frustrating it must have been at the start of his career as head archivist having to deal with the shit show the archives are and not having shit work so he has to use analog means to do his work he has martin who doesnt know what hes fucking doing because hes not qualified for his job and even if he was he wasnt a researcher and then on top of that you have people coming in and shitting on you and your place of work like.. come on… id be a cunt too

itchyeye:

i think the fandomification of every tma character’s visual design is grating for the same primary reason, which is that this is a modern academic setting with characters who are generally in their mid 30s or older working in a formal professional environment and everyone draws them like a gaggle of freshman year theater majors who spend 9 - 12 hours a day online OR like they are closet cosplaying homestuck villains

elias-rights:

I do think Elias would wear a subtle eye accessory, like a tiny tie pin shaped like a stylised eye; it’s the sort of thing that would amuse him. He saw it at a shop once and it charmed him. Something as flashy as the dangly earrings doesn’t suit his austerity, although—my god—those are so pretty to me.

elias-rights:

elias-rights:

I genuinely forget Elias is evil sometimes; like, I don’t forget he’s a murderer, but it’s so far from my mind to do a moral reading of his actions that it’s a shock to remember people don’t sympathise with him. “He ended the world.” Yeah, and? He was coping.

Level 0: Elias is evil, so I hate him.

Level 1: Elias is evil, but I still enjoy him as a character.

Level 2: Elias is evil, but I understand his actions even if I don’t condone them.

Level 3: Elias is evil, and that’s sexy of him.

Level 4: But I was so caught up in the euphoria of Elias being a prey who made himself into a predator that for a moment I forgot morals in fiction are important to some people.

anarchyvist:

Jonah Magnus got the equivalent of nonstop internet access in the 1800s when no one else around him knew the phrase “touch grass” that’s why he’s like that

somuchbetterthanthat:

I love Elias ‘Jonah Magnus’ Bouchard so much. I love this 200 year old man who loves spreadsheets and passively watching horrible shit going around him; I love him for how he heard there are horrible Fears Entities in the world, had his mentor tell him 'we need to balance them out!’ whilst all their friends where picking a side and becoming horrible monsters or tragic victims and went “actually I’ll pick one and just learn how to play the game until i’m untouchable”. I love a man who was so afraid of death he decided he would just not die and then found a way to do it for decades without being found out. I love that he has all this terrifying fear power and he oftentimes uses it to know where there is cake in his institute.

He is a scholar. He is a boring boss. He is a smug evil prick who relishes into his evilness and power. He tells his employees to do admin to feel better. He sighs when he has to torture them because they keep try to kill him. He’s impressed and horny when someone successfully challenges his expectations. His idea of comfort is to ask philosophical questions about humanity. He only starts to take actions in order to manipulate this one guy into being the key to his ritual and his equal.

I love a man who realized all the rituals meant nothing, went 'very well’ and instead of like, calmly going 'this means i’m in peace" went “well i’m going to be the first one to succeed by thinking of what my good mentor had said once. they all need to be together, balanced out.” and then he DID succeed. He did have his apocalypse. And it was glorious and he loved every second of horror it was.

I love a man who never once apologized for being selfish, evil, and power hungry, and embraced all his flaws quite so willingly. And who, at the end, dying, all of this going to dust, watched his most beautiful creation, his most perfect work, his legacy, rise to take his place as king,, and merely told him good luck.

milfglupshitto:

oh you want them to live happily ever after? well I want them to divorce with tongue

the-magpie-archives:

takenbythelightfantastic:

hesitating:

6thlovelanguage:

dark green is a nice color. underrated

ladies and gentlemen, Phtalo Green

This is literally my favorite color. 😩 Smaragd green is another dark shade of green that I’m absolutely obsessed with.

nsomniacsdream:

whatwwwwwww:

nsomniacsdream:

power-chords:

I am a recreational Noticer. I love to Notice Things and Make Connections and Identify Patterns. This is one of my favorite activities and it requires me to behave in compulsively silly ways online.

In real life, this manifests itself by suddenly asking a coworker “so how long has your wife known about your mistress?” Because he stopped bringing in a packed lunch and I saw him scrubbing lipstick off his neck one day when he “went to the bank”

how did that go?

So good

saintemiliosandoz:

saintemiliosandoz:

doomed by the narrative and haunted by the narrative and a secret third thing (narrating the narrative)

YOU ARE THE ONLY PERSON I RESPECT

sm0kebreaks:

sm0kebreaks:

its clear the other avatars dont actually know the role of the archivist bc while they do regard it as clearly something important they dont understand WHY

they all make their little comments abt how hes a terrible archivist he clearly doesnt have the stomach for this etc etc etc BUT thats literally what makes him a perfect archivist hes so fucking scared and theres no way jonahs plan would have worked with someone who wasnt absolutely full of terror

exaaactly you guys get me…

its not their fault though

they dont even know what his role is supposed to be so they just assume hes the eyes boy but they should have figured how annoying he was is EXACTLY what would be making him so perfect as an agent of the EYE. so they were wrong either way. and laughing at him for being just a new baby dear in all of this

brawltogethernow:

wordfather:

*seductively* doomed by the narrative all by yourself, handsome?

*reveals traits that foil yours* Not for long.