October 2024

Incident Elements:

Alexander J. Newall

Yum?

Yum.

I couldn't find this answer in your blog so I hope this is okay to ask. How do you feel about artists selling fanart and merch of TMA? I saw somewhere that this show was copyrighted, but I know they're a lot of artists in this fandom who make a lot of cool art and with many different character designs. And if it is copyrighted and no one should sell anything related to tma, is there a specific design that is copyrighted, or just anything that draws inspiration from the show?

Hey so I get this question a LOT and so will give an answer here but it will be the same as previous.

1) Questions like this should be addressed to mail@rustyquill.com as they will give better answers. My socials are NOT official company anything.

2) Our Podcasts are distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Sharealike 4.0 International license which means People can duplicate, modify copies, sample it and generate fanworks on condition that:
a) NO money changes hands. A lot of people interpret this to mean they can’t make profit but it actually means money isn’t allowed to be involved in anyway, even to cover costs. (it’s just too easy to exploit loopholes if that isn’t the case)
b) Anything based on our work must ALSO be shared with the same licensing.
c) Full credit needs to be given to the original work including links on where to find it etc.
d) People do not claim we endorse their work

3) We can choose to allow certain extra stuff on a case-by-case e.g. we have granted certain permissions for charity or educational use etc.

In my experience our fandom is pretty respectful (and creative!) but there are a few known bad actors who keep trying to flood online stores with copycat merch and spam duplicate Youtube and podcast content for a quick buck.

To be clear though this is a personal social media channel not a business correspondence so this post is NOT an official edict or anything.

TLDR:
As a gross over simplification, if the fanwork is distributed with the same licensing, with no money exchange and the original content is credited properly, it’s fine. Otherwise they are open to legal consequences.

As always just consume responsibly I guess and any questions on this stuff are better sent to mail@rustyquill.com

Hi Alex,

So Anusia mentioned you gave her a detailed description to inspire the scream at the end of the epilogue.

Is there any chance that we might to hear some of that delicious detail? Maybe in Season 2? Please?

You get a dash in Season 2 but that’s all. I can’t go full ham as the episode is already recorded.

who is your favourite character in the magnus archives universe (multiverse?)

can be in terms of favourite to write and create or just general enjoyment

S1 Alice is the most fun to write in Protocol.

MAG Distortion was most fun to write in Archives.

Gertrude is probably the most interesting character.

But an actual favourite in Magnusverse? Not really.

did you write the intros and outros for the epilogue and the fluff episodes? they're so iconic i feel like being called a greedy little content goblin should deter me from handing over my money but it doesn't

Yes I think I wrote intro and outro for all special content in Archives and Protocol. Certainly if it’s in my voice for those, I wrote it.

Who would win in a fight, Sasha Rackett or Melanie King?

Sasha Racket by a massive margin.

Now, if you asked me who would be the fastest at cutting out Melanie’s eyes?

That would be a close one.

Are you guys aware of this youtube channel? They are just posting the audio from the magnus protocol statements without credit or anything https://youtube.com/@fr3-d1-jmjerror?si=RBSyK-pEAML91Ojb

Cheers for the heads up. I have passed this across to our Comms team to look at.

As always if you see something you aren’t sure of just message mail@rustyquill.com and then you can be sure the right people will get notified.

Hi Alex I want to apologise as that Fr3-D1 youtube is mine I was trying to set up a Protocol Halloween ARG for some friends and made the case vids for it. I messed up the crediting since I thought youtube tags were visible. I'll remove all the videos. Sorry for the trouble.

Hey don’t worry, no real trouble, just message mail@rustyquill.com and they’ll see if they can help you do it in a way that is okay.

sorry if you've been asked this before, but does Elias ever blink?

Yes, but he tends to outsource it.

Hey!

How’d you decide on the name The Magnus Archives?

If I remember correctly, Jonny said:

“I want to make a show called The Magnus Archives”

And I said:

“Okay.”

That’s the whole story from my perspective.

If you were to die by the hands of an Avatar, wich one would it be ? Like, the lest painful, or the most legendary/funny way ???

Probably one of the Corruption ones.

I’d try to kick it and like my leg would fall off or something.

Apologies in advance if this is not the place to be asking this, but. I missed the Monte Cook Magnus RP thing completely (overseas payments are Very complicated rn), but will the book ever be sold anywhere for us late people after all the backers get their share? Thanks!

Hey, I got you.

You can still purchase pre-order over at Monte Cook Games :

The Magnus Archives Roleplaying Game - Monte Cook Games Store

Also it should be going to various retailers too but that’s as much as I know. For more info you’d need to contact Monte Cook directly!

If you could destroy 1 Leitner with your own hands/tools/furniture/etc, which Leitner would you choose to destroy and how would you do it?

The man himself with a damning treatise criticising his book-magpie habits.

hello i hope you are well!

did you have a middle name in mind for martin's mystery 'k' initial, and if so what was it?

Potassium.

(stolen from a random fan as the best answer ever.)

What is something you would feed to the homophobic vase?

Egregious amounts of marmite.

I’m curious what would happen.

Is there a snowballs chance in hell we will ever get anymore RQG related content?

I get asked this a lot and I will answer truthfully.

I have considered it. How it would work, what it would be about. The truth is though I have yet to have the eureka moment I did with Magnus for further content and it may not even be logistically possible. Certainly it would be very different.

Also time spent on that would be time taken away from working on new stuff like the dark fantasy novels I have been developing and other stuff I can’t talk about.

TLDR: Possible but no time soon and it would probably be unrecognisable.

What character would Gertrude be most likely to call “riff-raff”?

I don’t know why but my gut is telling me Needles from Protocol at the moment