Was the stuff in the transcripts such as [Around a Mouthful of Archivist] for your laughs, the readers, or both?
So stage directions were originally written by Jonny under duress because I insisted I needed to have at least some kind of hint as to what the heck was happening if I was going to direct and edit.
These days though we just accept that people are reading them and factor it in. I would say I am generally more comedic and specific than Jonny in my stage directions but then again this is the guy who wrote something along the lines of “weird sounding bullshit happens” in an official script back in the day so there’s probably not that much difference really.
Do you look at fanart often, and what are your thoughts on common headcanons for the way that characters look? Do you imagine some characters looking a certain way?
I don’t really look at fanart unless it is put directly in front of me even though I fully support it as an endeavour.
In terms of HeadCanons, I keep saying people are welcome to do what they want but I am always a little saddened when a fandom homes in on an “accepted” or “standard” portrayal because it just feels to me like closing a bunch of creative doors which seems a shame. That said, fandom is a weird and terrifying beast I do not understand so I’m not sure my opinion counts for much.
Hi Alex, I have a humble request.
during one of the protocol pre-launch livestream Q&A things, you and Jonny were talking, and you mentioned that Jonny had come up with a plot idea, that, on reflection, would quote “fuck up the universe worse than in archives.”
When protocol finishes, please could you release more on this? I desperately want to know what the plot point was, because HOW?! How could Jonny possibly fuck up a universe more than he did in archives? He basically engineered hell on earth last time!!
but I appreciate that this plot point is probably all spoilers, so yeah. After protocol is finished!
Yes. I promise I will share this when possible. In fact I think it will be earlier than you suspect.
Where would the Boneturner take Bonzo on their first date if this is the supposed steamiest romance of 2025. The people need to know!
To the stars and back my friend.
Hello Mr Newall!!
I was wondering if the name Fairchild in any way came from the Fairchild Aviation Corporation? Ima bit of an aviation fan and I just found out about the company (big fan of civil aviation in the 60s) and thought it was neat!
(Feel free to not answer if you don’t want to:3)
That’s a Jonny question I’m afraid.
I just want to ask, is it okay if me and a few of my friends make a podcast in the same universe/inspired by the Magnus archives? We’ve been planning this for a while but I wanted to ask if you were okay with it.
we wouldn’t be doing it for profit or anything, just for fun :)
So that’s a question that has to go via email to mail@rustyquill.com For various reasons, I’m not really allowed to give permission for company related stuff as a private person.
So I once read a tumblr post and it’s been haunting me since: since Michael D Stortion has really long fingers and is in general tall- are his toes also abnormally long???
They could be.
Then again they could be wide.
Wider than flippers, wider than spades, wider than the doors it strides betwixt and between.
Or just, y'know, toe shaped. That would work too.
Did the episode “Schwartzwald” in tma take inspiration from the twilight zone episode “time enough at last” ?
I’m afraid that’s a Jonny Question.
I found out about tma from my friend because he asked me to make an edit of michael distortion and got into it a few months later. I LOVE TMA. I mostly listened to the whole thing three times when I was mostly offline because I have the 200 episodes downloaded on YouTube and now I'm finding out that there's some stuff I missed, there's bloopers, q&a and I was in the wiki because i wanted to see how many times the admiral was mentioned and theres one what the ghost episode? IM GOING INSANE. I love tma. I think it's rotting my brain... it's everywhere, it's in my veins. I need to know everything but when I try to search these things up on YouTube it only shows me rusty quill gaming which I will be watching later but where do I find the other stuff where is the best place to listen to tma and find every extra lore even if it's just the tiniest squeeze of lore? I need to know y'all really did an amazing job with tma, I don't think I'm ever going to get tired of listening to it. I need to relisten to it before hell— I mean... School starts again. Lord save us for another year of merciless torture. Also I was trying to type this fast and forgot to say hi. hi Mr Alex, I hope you're having an amazing day/night when you see this. I promise to listen to all the podcasts rusty quill has after I learn every little squeeze of tma lore. Where is the best place to listen to and learn every little squeeze of information of all of rusty quill podcasts? (I absolutely did not install Tumblr just to ask this what do you mean 😓😓😓)
Lovely to hear from you and thankyou for the kind words.
To list good locations for TMA Lore:
1) The podcast feed is obviously first port of call and includes some bonus materials between seasons
2) Our Patreon has an absolutely enormous amount of content in there now and I believe it should at this point be organised into collections so you can just look up TMA and it’s all there for you (although that is behind a paywall)
2) Any video QNA’s/events etc. not included in the main feed should be on our twitch channel.
3) Rustyquill.com has various links dotted around that have snippets too
4) The fan wiki is a very strong resource. Like any wiki there is the odd error here or there but for the most part its astonishingly accurate and detailed.
5) Special mention to whoever keeps our TV Tropes pages up to date. It was when I saw a proper entry for The Magnus Archives on that site that I actually started to call myself a “proper” writer.
I’ve been thinking about the awesome OIAR casts’ Spotify playlists and it got me thinking: what music do you think Martin/the Archives gang would listen to?
Send in the Clowns?
Hey! Hope ur day is going well!
whats your favourite statement/case that you've had to read aloud, either archives or protocol?
Let’s just say that sitting on an uncomfy chair in a foggy house constantly resetting with no-one to help felt pretty special to perform.