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transbookoftheday · 2 months

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Trans Horror Podcasts

My post about trans horror books last year was much more popular than I expected, and since I've recently fallen in love with fiction podcasts and audio dramas, I thought I'd make a post about trans horror podcasts as well.

If you like trans horror, please give these a try - especially if you enjoy listening to audiobooks!

Hello From The Hallowoods:

Come walk between the black pines! In this award-winning queer fiction podcast, an eldritch narrator follows the increasingly connected residents of the forest at the end of the world. It's a bittersweet story that explores queer identity, horror genre tropes, and finding hope in humanity's last moments.

Hello From The Hallowoods is my absolute favorite podcast! If you only listen to one podcast from this list, please make it this one - it's so beautifully written and super queer! Also: season 4 starts today!

Trans main characters include:

our nonbinary eye-affiliated podcast host

a nonbinary "Frankenstein's creature"

a transmasc ghost

a genderfluid storm witch

a trans woman who can visit other people's dreams

multiple characters using neopronouns

Camp Here & There:

Good morning, campers! Camp Here & There is a weekly horror comedy podcast tuned in to the loudspeakers of a small midwestern sleepaway camp plagued by supernatural terrors and natural disasters. Sydney Sargent, resident camp nurse, cheerfully reports on all the terror we must face with a big smile. Let’s hope there’s nothing weird about that!

Sydney is a trans man.

Dos: After You:

Things have changed. Deck has fallen in love with someone who isn't human, and leaves a hungry house behind to see him again. Will he be waiting for you? The world has changed… but what about him? Dos: After You is a queer urban fantasy/horror audiodrama available in both English & Spanish

Deck is a trans man.

Jar of Rebuke:

Follow Dr. Jared Hel's journey as he works to re-discover his forgotten past and finds his place within the small Indiana farm town of Wichton and the cryptozoological organization he works for called 'The Enclosure'. These audio journals, and other recordings, dive deep into Midwestern US cryptids and folklore while also telling a mystery about identity, queerness, neurodivergence, and community.

Jared is nonbinary.

Spirit Box Radio:

Spirit Box Radio is an award winning, horror audio drama podcast about a radio show for enthusiasts of all things arcane. Follow Sam Enfield a former postboy with no experience in the arcane arts, who finds themselves forced to take over running the show, following the disappearance of the previous host. Sam soon discovers there are more than ghosts haunting the show, and finds himself amidst a mystery which threatens everything he knows about the world beyond his tiny basement broadcast studio, and maybe even himself.

Sam is a trans man.

The Silt Verses:

Carpenter and Faulkner, two worshippers of an outlawed god, travel up the length of their deity’s great black river, searching for holy revelations amongst the reeds and the wetlands. As their pilgrimage lengthens and the river’s mysteries deepen, the two acolytes find themselves under threat from a police manhunt, but also come into conflict with the weirder gods that have flourished in these forgotten rural territories. This is a world where divine intervention takes place through prayer-markings scratched into stumping-posts, and offerings are left squirming to die in the flats of the delta. This is a world of ritual, and hidden language, and sacrifice. This is folk horror, and fantasy, and a dark road trip into the depths of unusual faith.

Faulkner is a trans man.

The Magnus Protocol:

The Magnus Archives 2: The Magnus Protocol is the prequel/sequel/”sidequel” to the internationally renowned Magnus Archives podcast. The Magnus Institute was an organisation dedicated to academic research into the esoteric and the paranormal, based out of Manchester, England. It burned to the ground in 1999. There were no survivors. Now, almost 25 years later, Alice and Sam, a pair of low-level civil service workers at the underfunded Office of Incident Assessment and Response, have stumbled across its legacy. A legacy that will put them in grave danger. If this intrigues you then it is our pleasure to welcome you to the Office of Incident, Assessment and Response. Make sure you pick up your badge at desk and report to your line manager before sitting down. Oh and stay away from I.T., seriously.

I'm not sure if Alice is canonically trans, but her voice actress is a trans woman.

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skyfullofpods · 6 months

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Hello fans of Re: Dracula who were introduced to fiction podcasts through the updates from our good friend Jonathan Harker! Now that the story's over (sob!), would you like some recommendations for some other audio dramas that you might enjoy, made by some of the folks who worked on the podcast?

Jonathan Sims, who played our local phonograph enthusiast, is the writer of the hugely popular horror podcast, The Magnus Archives. The Head Archivist of the Magnus Institute records statements made by members of the public, detailing strange encounters with the supernatural. What soon becomes clear is that these statements do not describe separate and unrelated events, and a bigger and horrific picture begins to emerge. Also appearing as recurring characters in this series are both Sasha Sienna and Alasdair Stuart.

Karim Kronfli is a prolific voice actor, and while he might be best known for his roles in both Re: Dracula and The Magnus Archives, he has voiced a wide range of characters in many different fiction podcasts. Out of all the ones he's appeared in, I would personally recommend urban fantasy anthology series, Unseen. The unseen world exists alongside ours, but only a few humans can see it. It's a world where magic and magical creatures exists, and Karim's character tells his story in episode 7, titled We Ourselves.

Beth Eyre and Felix Trench played twins Antigone and Rudyard Funn in Wooden Overcoats, a British sitcom set on the tiny fictional island of Piffling, in the English Channel. The twins run a funeral parlor together, the only one on the island, until a newcomer arrives. Eric Chapman (played by Tom Crowley) sets up a much more successful funeral parlor, and the story is narrated by the Funns' house mouse, Madeline.

Alan Burgon plays the Interviewer in The Amelia Project. The Amelia Project is a secret organisation, and clients come to them looking for their help in faking their deaths. The Interviewer listens to each client's story, before concocting unique and often elaborate ways in which they will stage their deaths, before being reborn into a new identity.

David Ault is also a very recognisable voice to anyone who spends a considerate amount of time listening to fiction podcasts, and The Kingmaker Histories feels like an appropriate choice here. A weird steampunk series set in the Valorian Socialist Republic in 1911 , this story involves found family, its own intriguing magic system, and being gay and doing crime.

Our favourite cowboy, Giancarlo Herrera, plays one of the protagonists in sci-fi action/thriller, Primordial Deep. Spinner is part of a team which is sent deep beneath the sea to investigate the resurgence of creatures thought to be long-extinct. There's plenty of horror to be had here, as something ancient is stirring in the depths of the ocean.

As for the crew? Tal Minear works on so many podcasts, and if you like fantasy stories, I would recommend the delightfully lighthearted Sidequesting, which follows new adventurer Rion, as they help people on their travels. If you would like some more horror, there's their spoiler-driven anthology series, Someone Dies in This Elevator.

Hannah Wright's Inn Between is a fantasy series based on D&D. Each episode follows a party as they meet in the Goblin's Inn, in between adventures, as the tavern follows them around wherever they go.

Stephen Indrisano's upcoming docu-horror Shelterwood promises to be a series which explores the horror of suburbia, as it follows one man's quest to find his missing sister. Until this is released, I would recommend Do You Copy, in which Stephen plays one of the protagonists. This found footage horror series follows the events which unfold after the closure of Red Tail National Park, and the people who were left inside the park, after its mysterious closure.

Ella Watts is regarded as a walking encyclopedia of all things audio fiction, and has worked on several high-profile projects, including directing both Doctor Who: Redacted and Marvel Move. Her upcoming Camlann is a post-apocalyptic series due to be released next year, inspired by Arthurian legends and British folklore. She is also the executive producer of Tin Can Audio's (who are also producing Camlann) beautiful experimental series, The Tower. The protagonist of this story, Kiri, leaves her life behind to climb an impossibly high tower, making phonecalls along the way.

Newt Schottelkotte's Where The Stars Fell is a supernatural fantasy set in the town of Jerusalem, Oregon. Cryptozoologist Dr Edison Tucker arrives in the town to carry out some research, and meets her roommate, author Lucille Kensington. There's so much more to this strange town than first meets the eye, with a huge revelation at the end of season one.

If you're new to fiction podcasts, welcome! I hope this short (ish!) and very much non-comprehensive list gave you some ideas of what to listen to next!

#Re: Dracula #audio fiction #audio drama #podcasts #podcast recommendations #podcast recs #the mortifying ordeal of being known WELP #me yeeting this list into the void and then disappearing for the forseeable future

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dailyadventureprompts · 6 months

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Tableskills: Creating Dread

I've often had a lot of problems telling scary stories at my table, whether it be in d&d or other horror focused games. I personally don't get scared easily, especially around "traditionally horrifying" things so it's hard for me to recreate that experience in others. Likewise, you can't just port horror movie iconography into tabletop and expect it to evoke genuine fear: I've already spoken of being bored out of my mind during the zombie apocalypse, and my few trips into ravenloft have all been filled with similar levels of limp and derivative grimdark.

It took me a long time (and a lot of video essays about films I'd never watched) to realize that in terms of an experience fear is a lot like a joke, in that it requires multiple steps of setup and payoff. Dread is that setup, it's the rising tension in a scene that makes the revelation worth it, the slow and literal rising of a rollercoaster before the drop. It's way easier to inspire dread in your party than it is to scare them apropos of nothing, which has the added flexibility of letting you choose just the right time to deliver the frights.

TLDR: You start with one of the basic human fears (guide to that below) to emotionally prime your players and introduce it to your party in a initially non-threataning manor. Then you introduce a more severe version of it in a way that has stakes but is not overwhelmingly scary just yet. You wait until they're neck deep in this second scenario before throwing in some kind of twist that forces them to confront their discomfort head on.

More advice (and spoilers for The Magnus Archives) below the cut.

Before we go any farther it's vitally important that you learn your party's limits and triggers before a game begins. A lot of ttrpg content can be downright horrifying without even trying to be, so it's critical you know how everyone in your party is going to react to something before you go into it. Whether or not you're running an actual horror game or just wanting to add some tension to an otherwise heroic romp, you and your group need to be on the same page about this, and discuss safety systems from session 0 onwards.

The Fundamental Fears: It may seem a bit basic but one of the greatest tools to help me understand different aspects of horror was the taxonomy invented by Jonathan Sims of The Magnus Archives podcast. He breaks down fear into different thematic and emotional through lines, each given a snappy name and iconography that's so memorable that I often joke it's the queer-horror version of pokemon types or hogwarts houses. If we start with a basic understanding of WHY people find things scary we learn just what dials we need turn in order to build dread in our players.

Implementation: Each of these examples is like a colour we can paint a scene or encounter with, flavouring it just so to tickle a particular, primal part of our party's brains. You don't have to do much, just something along the lines of "the upcoming cave tunnel is getting a little too close for comfort" or "the all-too thin walkway creaks under your weight ", or "what you don't see is the movement at the edge of the room". Once the seed is planted your party's' minds will do most of the work: humans are social, pattern seeking creatures, and the hint of danger to one member of the group will lay the groundwork of fear in all the rest.

The trick here is not to over commit, which is the mistake most ttrpgs make with horror: actually showing the monster, putting the party into a dangerous situation, that’s the finisher, the punchline of the joke. It’s also a release valve on all the pressure you’ve been hard at work building.

There’s nothing all that scary about fighting a level-appropriate number of skeletons, but forcing your party to creep through a series of dark, cobweb infested catacombs with the THREAT of being attacked by undead? That’s going to have them climbing the walls.

Let narration and bad dice rolls be your main tools here, driving home the discomfort, the risk, the looming threat.

Surprise: Now that you’ve got your party marinating in dread, what you want to do to really scare them is to throw a curve ball. Go back to that list and find another fear which either compliments or contrasts the original one you set up, and have it lurking juuuust out of reach ready to pop up at a moment of perfect tension like a jack in the box. The party is climbing down a slick interior of an underdark cavern, bottom nowhere in sight? They expect to to fall, but what they couldn't possibly expect is for a giant arm to reach out of the darkness and pull one of them down. Have the party figured out that there's a shapeshifter that's infiltrated the rebel meeting and is killing their allies? They suspect suspicion and lies but what they don't expect is for the rebel base to suddenly be on FIRE forcing them to run.

My expert advice is to lightly tease this second threat LONG before you introduce the initial scare. Your players will think you're a genius for doing what amounts to a little extra work, and curse themselves for not paying more attention.

Restraint: Less is more when it comes to scares, as if you do this trick too often your players are going to be inured to it. Try to do it maybe once an adventure, or dungeon level. Scares hit so much harder when the party isn't expecting them. If you're specifically playing in a "horror" game, it's a good idea to introduce a few false scares, or make multiple encounters part of the same bait and switch scare tactic: If we're going into the filthy gross sewer with mould and rot and rats and the like, you'll get more punch if the final challenge isn't corruption based, but is instead some new threat that we could have never prepared for.

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#tableskills #horror #spooky #halloween #the magnus archives #dm tip #dm advice #dm tips

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thatpodcastkid · 1 month

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Magnus Archives Relisten 2, MAG 2, Spoiler Free

Spoiler free version of my Magnus Archives Relisten about Mag 2, "Do Not Open!"

Joshua Gillespie is the smartest man I know. He is the final girl. He would never go in the basement. He is what all horror protagonists wish they could be.

But genuinely, such a simple and practical solution to an eldritch horror of a problem is so incredible and really proves that Jonny can write items and creatures that are in scary in their own right, not necessarily due to the violence they enact on characters. That's a big part of horror and is what makes so many great monsters scary, but it's interesting to be frightened by something when you don't actually what it does.

Another instance of drug use in this statement. Again, I can't necessarily tell if this is just a device so that Jon can dismiss the statements or if the entities are specifically preying on people in fragile/weak states of mind.

Love that we got a cannon home town for Jon, but it's so funny that he find it "nice to hear that my hometown is not completely devoid of odd occurrences and eerie stories. Ice cream, beaches, and boredom are all very well.." Because actually what the hell. What kind of assessment is that. Another instance of him just abandoning the academic objectivity and being so personal with the listener and so feral as an archivist.

Very strange to me that no one lived in Gillespie's building for his entire residency. I theorize that the man who gave him the coffin (also named "John," like our archivist and the disappeared person from the last statement) had something to do with this. He specifically did not deliver the coffin until after Gillespie spent the money, which he used to buy the flat. It's possible that John somehow manipulated Gillespie into buying this specific flat so he could more adequately manipulate him and try to trick him into opening the coffin.

In spite of this, John is impressed with Joshua. He smiles when he sees the key in the freezer, he finds it funny when Joshua tells him "where he could stick it." Whatever John is, he's not just trying to catch people with this coffin, but is looking for someone to test him. He wants people to disobey the directions, but he also wants to see what people will do to follow them.

#podcasts #rusty quill #jonny sims #media analysis #the magnus archives relisten #tma #analysis #tma relisten #audio drama #the magnus archives #magnus archives #jonathan sims #joshua gillespie #MAG 2 #Do Not Open #horror #horror podcasts #rusty quill network

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mllemaenad · 6 months

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I got one of those colds that mean I am functionally useless for several days, so in hunting around for entertainment I could enjoy with my eyes closed, I decided to try The Magnus Archives. I like ghost stories! And the only price was having to occasionally stir to hit a skip button until the ads went away.

I did enjoy it, largely, but despite having a lot of themes about the horror of dreadful knowledge ... on the whole it was an excellent exercise in the way that information kills terror.

See, I do not believe in ghosts or vampires or eldritch beings. Supernatural stories are fun, but not real. But there is clearly some tiny, ancient monkey-brain part of me that disagrees with that assessment, because sometimes a horror story will wake me at 3am, full of adrenaline and some horrifying but what if image imprinted behind my eyelids.

It's not necessarily about the quality of the story: I've had it after seeing some quite dreadful horror films. Something about a concept can poke a sore spot even if the execution is terrible. Mostly, when it happens, I just mentally congratulate the creators on scoring a point.

And a couple of early stories did indeed ping my brain, so well done to them. I don't believe in these things, but the image of some inexplicable thing that can just steal your existence is indeed unsettling.

But then ... there's a whole organised pantheon of nasty things. They have priesthoods. These people all know each other. They may often be trying to murder or terrorise each other, but in some cases they just wander in, flop down in a chair and complain to each other about how rough the apocalypse business is. There's an ongoing quasi-academic argument about classification. Some guy submitted a research paper while dying of plague in order to try to settle that argument, but they're academics (kind of) so it did not work.

After a little bit of that, even the jumpy monkey-brain part of my subconscious goes: "Ah. This is clearly not my problem. This is your problem, unfortunate people with arguably the worst office job in the world. I am sorry for you, and and I'm rooting for you, although I suspect you're all screwed, but there is nothing here I need to deal with."

I get, of course, that from the perspective of the incidental characters this is all still inexplicable and mysterious but ... nah, I know how this works now. This is definitely those people's problem to deal with - not to say that they're dealing with it well.

I did like Gertrude, though. I thoroughly respect: a) weaponised disorganisation and b) finding absolute proof that the supernatural is real and going "Not for bloody long if I have my way" and then just hitting every ghoul and nightmare creature she encountered with a metaphorical fly swatter. They should have just given her some of those traps from Ghostbusters and let her have fun with it.

#the magnus archives #tma podcast

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best-fictional-band-poll · 3 months

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THIS IS THE OLD SUBMISSIONS POST. UP TO DATE SUBMISSIONS CAN BE FOUND HERE

Sorted alphabetically by band. Please click through to original post to see full list. IF IT'S NOT ON THE LIST, PLEASE SUBMIT IT. NO BAND IS TOO NICHE. Multiple bands from the same media are permitted.

Putting this under the cut because it's getting too long!

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4*town - Turning Red

About Gardens - ROGUEMAKER

The Ark - I Was Born For This

ABXY - Splatoon

Arno van Eyck - Disco Elysium

The Band With Rocks In It - Discworld

The Beets - Doug

The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton - The Mountain Goats

The Bettys - Phineas and Ferb

Black Stones (BLAST) - NANA

The Blues Brothers - The Blues Brothers

Bottom Feeders - Splatoon

Boys In The Sink - Veggietales

Boys Who Cry - Spongebob Squarepants

Boyz4Now - Bob's Burgers

Boyz 12 - American Dad

Bunk Bed Junction - No Straight Roads

Cheetah Girls - Cheetah Girls

The Clash At Demonhead - Scott Pilgrim

The Covey - Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

Crash & The Boys - Scott Pilgrim

Daisy Jones & The Six - Daisy Jones & The Six

Damp Socks - Splatoon

De Bois Band - & Juliet

Deep cut - Splatoon

DETHKLOK - Metalocalypse

Dedf1sh - Splatoon

Decibel Jones and the Absolute Zeros - Space Opera

Dingoes Ate My Baby - Buffy The Vampire Slayer

DJ Octavio - Splatoon

DJ Stylbator - Samurai Jack

Dr Teeth and The Electric Mayhem - The Muppets

Drive Shaft - LOST

Evar Orbus & The Galactic Jizz-Wailers/The Max Rebo Band - Star Wars

Fig and the Cig Figs - Dimension 20 Fantasy High

The Flaming Creatures - Velvet Goldmine

Fran-Shou-Shou - Zombie Land Saga

Gallifrey Academy Hot Five - Doctor Who

Gem & The Scotts - Secret Life SMP

Gillion & The Tidestriders - Just Roll With It

Girls Dead Monster - Angel Beats

Gorillaz - Gorillaz

Grifters Bone - Magnus Archives

Hatsune Miku - Vocaloid

Heaven Seventeen - A Clockwork Orange

The Hectic Glow - The Fault In Our Stars

Hex Girls - Scooby Doo

Ink Theory - Splatoon

Jem & The Holograms - Jem & The Holograms

Johnny Casino and The Gamblers - Grease

Josie & The Pussycats - Archie (Comic)

The Juicy Fruits - Phantom of the Paradise

Julie and the Phantoms - Julie and the Phantoms

Kessoku Band - Bocchi the Rock

Killer Boy Rats - Horrid Henry

The Killjoys - My Chemical Romance

Lacus Clyne - Mobile Suit Gundam Seed

Lady Parts - We Are Lady Parts

The Last Days - The Last Days

Lemonade Mouth - Lemonade Mouth

Leningrad Cowboys - Leningrad Cowboys

Lincoln Hawk - Gossip Girl

Little White Lie - Little White Lie

Loded Diper - Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Love Burger - Can't Hardly Wait

Love Händel - Phineas and Ferb

LumberZacks - Milo Murphy's Law

Mad Gear & The Missile Kid - Danger Days, My Chemical Romance

Maxwell Demon & The Venus In Furs - Velvet Goldmine

The Mechanisms - The Mechanisms

Milkcan - Um Jammer Lammy

The Misfits - Jem & The Holograms

Muppet Orchestra - The Muppets

Needy Beast - Hatchetfield

Octoplush - Splatoon

Old Gods of Asgard - Alan Wake

ok, kids - Andre and Karl

Off The Hook - Splatoon

Pink Slip - Freaky Friday

Plasmagica - Show By Rock

Proto Zoa - Zenon Sweep

The Rainbooms - Equestria Girls

The Rats - Velvet Goldmine

RIP - Ruby Gloom

The Risky Fix-Ins - Buzzfeed Unsolved Franchise

The Rutles - All You Need Is Cash

Sadie-Killer & The Suspects - Steven Universe

Sadgasm - The Simpsons

SCÄB - Home Movies

Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles

Sev'ral Timez - Gravity Falls

Sex Bob-omb - Scott Pilgrim vs The World

Sing Street - Sing Street

Soundcheck - Odd Squad

Spinal Tap - This Is Spinal Tap

Squid Sisters - Splatoon

Squid Squad - Splatoon

The Stiff Dylans - Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging

Sunset Curve - Julie and the Phantoms

The Superconducting Supercolliders - Designations Congruent With Things (Pacific Rim fanfiction)

The Three Lights - Sailor Moon

Trapnest - NANA

Turquoise October - Splatoon

The Vampire Lestat - The Vampire Chronicles

Wonderlands x Showtime - Hatsune Miku Colourful Stage/Vocaloid

The Wonders - That Thing You Do

Wyld Stallyns - Bill & Ted franchise

Wet Floor - Splatoon

w-3 (omega-3) - Splatoon

Yoko & the Gold Bazookas - Splatoon

Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars - David Bowie

#submissions

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pupstim · 20 days

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Throwing words into the void but sometimes I like to sit and think about QSMP Au's. Mainly with q!BBH of course.

One recent one (Beside the creature Stardew) is The Magnus Archive. I think it would be such a fun AU to take into the QSMP. I adore eldritch creatures and TMA is full of it. On the fence a little bit of who would have what affinity and if they would have an affinity at all.

I say this because I'm thinking of a q!Badboyhalo in this sort of situation. What his affinity would be. The biggest obvious answer is of course death. Or The End as the fear is known as. He's a grim reaper so of course that's his affinity. But my mind is churning and turning and I just can't help but think that's just so... obvious? He'd definitely have some of The End clinging to him, but I kind of feel like The Hunt and The Spiral would really fit him as well.

The Spiral is all about deceptions and lies. Twisting words or meanings until they're almost unrecognizable. And Honestly there's no better fitting of the definition than q!BBH. He's a lying liar who lies, sometimes on purpose, sometimes for fun, sometimes just because he's so used to lying that it's his first go to when interacting with someone.

The Hunt is a little bit odder and personally just my personal perception of him. q!Bad is just relentless, oddly like a hunter in my mind when he puts his mind to it. His ability to just find people and sneak into all sorts of spaces. Hunting down items, animals, occasionally even people if I remember correctly. He also just draws them in. Everything is essentially prey to him and I could totally see him hunting down a particularly stubborn spirit as the grim reaper, to how relentless he is when he wants something. It's like an animal sinking their teeth in something and refusing to let go.

I am still not good with words, but it's the mental image of q!Bad who's the/a grim reaper or death, close affinity to the End. People can feel it on him when he passes by, he practically is dripping in it. But also the fact that occasionally his sights will be set onto you, and you cannot help but feel hunted. An unshakeable feeling of being prey, and teeth closing in on your flesh. Of knowing that your end is near and it's coming right for you. There is no escape.

But you don't know really where it's coming from. It seems to come from everywhere and nowhere and I can totally see q!Bad hunting someone down, getting closer to them, twisting words and meanings, talking circles around his prey, leading them along with falsehoods, practically down a maze. Maybe as well his smile is sometimes too sharp, his teeth too long, his proportions just don't fit right in the darkness. Sometimes when he's basking in the confusion of the Spiral he probably looks just all wrong, making people do a double-take to him.

Hrgh it's super late and my words are leaving but just the mental image of a q!bbh who's just a few shades of wrong. Avatar of 3 or at least very closely related to two other than The End. I don't think it'd ever be a very cohesive story, there's not really a plot to go with it. But it'd be fun to write about all the islander's different interactions or think more about who would go with what entity and such.

#qsmp au #qsmp x TMA #sometimes my brain just wants to have fun and be goofy #q!badboyhalo #Fear Entities from TMA #I'll be honest idk how to tag this

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two-bit-socrates · 1 month

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The Magnus Protocal

Spoilers of episode 10 but mainly it's just me spitting out theory gibberish but also spoilers for The Magnus Archive

I think the trap door is linked to the The Buried's Domain like how The Coffin leads to The Pit and that the key Sam found is an anchor for whatever was in The Trap Door (Trapped Door maybe?) and Sam being connected to the Institute and managing to find the key and getting into the archivist room and seeing the worm grooves in the floor that kinda seem like a pattern (Like the swirls on that jar that Salesea sold or the swirls on the table that entrance you) leads him to the spot where the wood breaks and he falls in to lose the key. I first thought it was The Coffin because John gave explict instructions on how to keep the coffin locked up but doesn't have it destroyed since destroying the swirly table UnAnchored Not!Sasha. But now I think The Coffin served as a cosmic escape hatch in World 1 and something/someone/??? went into The Coffin at the end of the MAG series and was able to get out into World 2. Also this series is called The Magnus Protocol - I didn't participate in the ARG or anything so I don't know what everyone else knows BUT I believe the Protocol reference means 'This is what you're suppose to do in case Star Crossed Lovers fuck things up some how' or something. Also my over all theory is that The Web and the other fears are trying to make itself into a sentient whole creature because the statements so far seem like the fears are working together in a more cohesive manner compared to World 1 where they just kinda overlaped. I think it's possible they're trying to bring itself together into a coherent deity to have its own world to feed off of in a more balanced way rather than what happened at the end of MAG. I think in the first Series Smirke may have been meant to try and bring the fears in balance for the purpose of creating the fears into a coherent deity that can more reliably feed itself and control things but doesn't seem to be able to create much. Like I think Smirke may have been the beginning of an avatar proccess for The Web but people are going to people. Idk idk this is all just getting started and im dizzy as fuck for some reason but im word vomitting here to get my thoughts out. Also where's Annabell? My theory is she's the one bringing the key to the Trapped Door but couldn't get the key herself. Also i forgot that Alice said Architect before Archive when Sam said Archipelago. Last theory the fears need an architect to unify them from an archipelago state to a pangaea. I don't trust Alice but only because I want her to be more than just an employee I want her to be a deliberate orchestraitor of horribleness. Maybe shes the architect and all the other kids who disappearred from sam's gifted program those years ago she got hired one by one to fullfill certain protocols but they all failed until now. I need to lie down im too dizzy but yea

#tmagp spoilers #the magnus protocol #tma spoilers #the magnus archives

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the-vibes-are-off · 1 year

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The Stormlight Archive Volume 1: The Way of Kings’ Review: Chapters 12-15

link to contents page - https://at.tumblr.com/the-vibes-are-off/hey-hey/96xd9ohihrzs

aaaaaaaaaand the energy continues to be low, naturally I would continue to be lacking recovery at the height of essay writing season. This part comes fresh from the fingertips of my post nap self since I did a grocery shop this morning (i forgot to buy tea :’)))) and just passed tf out after lunch. I would make another cuppa to attempt to feel the benefits of a little caffeine boost but, even though my kettle is in my room, bed too snuggly and warm to leave.

Deffo intrigued by part 2, the prelude and prologue are making more sense in relation to the plot now and im liking the characterisation and relationship dynamics that are being built :))

Spoiler Free Zone:

The absolutely heart wrenching feeling seeing Shallan NOT in this part that I experienced yesterday was not ok. BUT the introduction of the Elhokar, Adolin, Dalinar, Renarin and Sadeas interactions is kinda worth it bc they’re hella entertaining.

Kaladin maintaining the better energy in this part is great too, he’s on some kinda wild grindset like I could personally never but pop off ig king.

Syl and her progression too? Living for it. I can’t wait to find out more about her as the book continues.

***SPOILER ZONE AHEAD, YOU’VE BEEN WARNED***

Spoiler Zone:

Interesting change in chapter quotes, I was very much enjoying the before death quotes but I dont know I think I vibe with these too. I’m assuming they’re from a letter to someone and whoever is writing it is so sassy I love it: “I hope this missive find you well” to “now that you are essentially immortal, I would guess that wellness on your part is something of a given” is so iconic.

In the ways of tabs, I simply loved Dalinar’s little moment just riding his horse with the wind hitting his face like mf needs a break from having these visions like the destress must’ve been immense.

And then his little smile when Elhokar won their little like race thingy, so cute, we love positive masculine relationships omg

Which naturally just had to be interrupted by memories of his vision and stress out the poor guy. I will say though I love a character that has questionable means of acquiring knowledge that is untrusted by their peers (hello Jonathan Sims of The Magnus Archives) so I’m super on the edge of my seat over this visions business

On my earlier topic of character interactions tho, Wit is READING the whole family to filth my goodness. Like yeah it was chill whatever when he was just teasing Renarin over girls but the shade on Sadeas? As he fucking should. Sadeas is a bitch and should be treated as such.

Then the fight, ugh. While I love the lore of like chasmfiends, and gemhearts and how they’re harvested and their uses and all that jazz; and OBVIOUSLY you can’t beat a cheeky little beat down of some insect like creature; Elhokar’s little main character ‘I’m hard as fuck’ call to destiny “I defy you” moment made my blood boil and instantly lose any likeability towards him. It was a major ick. You’d thinking having inherited the title of king that long ago that he would have matured more.

Alas, all I had tabbed in Kaladin’s bit was between him and Syl (what can I say I love her). Her whole self-awareness into gaining intelligence and sentience is so cool and I’m so intrigued to see how it progresses. Its kinda sad that shes stuck inbetween the threat of forgetting into being ignorant of everything that has happened and all she knows and, although that would be easier, not wanting to lose the freedom of what she knows.

And on that same page, Kaladin says something I think everyone needs to hear: “I don’t know what I am either. A bridgeman? A surgeon? A soldier? A slave? Those are all just labels. Inside, I’m me.”

Tab Count:

Cute <3 - 1

Fights - 1

Sad ;-; - 0

Death - 0

Cool - 1

Wtf wow - 0

Wtf Why - 2

Slay Quotes - 3

Love this! - 2

Hate this >:( - 1

Lore - 0

Tab Total:

Cute <3 - 7

Fights - 5

Sad ;-; - 2

Death - 2

Cool - 5

Wtf wow - 2

Wtf Why - 3

Slay Quotes - 8

Love this! - 8

Hate this >:( - 3

Lore - 2

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monstrousproductions · 11 months

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Hello! Genuine question here and I don't want to be parasocial by messaging you directly. How would you feel about someone using MA as a jumping off point for a podcast of their own? Something that explores similar themes of queerness, community, and self-expression and borrowing some of your creature-centric terminology? Is that derivative? Thanks so much for your time, you've been an inspiration Mx. Owen

Hello! Thanks for asking. First of all, DMing me on this account isn't parasocial at all - if I wasn't comfortable with people sending me DMs, I'd... close DMs lol They're a handy tool to communicate through, and being parasocial is far more complicated than "sent a creator a message using one format instead of another". All is well!

Secondly, I personally prefer not to use salutations (Mx, Ms, Dr, etc) so please, feel free to call me Hero!

And now, to the meat of your question. I absolutely don't have a problem with people being inspired by MA to make their own art. Far from it! I think that's one of the coolest things about making art - that it can spark something in someone else and they go off and formulate a response or a reaction or something entirely new.

I don't see that something exploring themes of queerness, community and self-expression could possibly be mine to gatekeep. I didn't invent these concepts, and MA is far from the first piece of media to explore them! Neither is any of the language used in MA copyrighted or unique - they aren't invented words, they're just riffing on real ways we talk about marginalisation.

In a legal sense, if your work was really truly "derivative" of MA - as in, explicitly set in the same universe and playing with the canon established by MA - then yes, you'd have to acknowledge that somewhere. Have a look at how The Underwood Collection manage things - they make it very very clear that they are "an unendorsed, noncanonical derivative podcast of Rusty Quill’s The Magnus Archives".

To break that down, it's important you're clear that I haven't lent my name to your project; what you write doesn't impact the MA canon; and that your work is directly building on MA, of which you explicitly credit me as the creator. MA is also released on a non-commercial license, which means you cannot use its derivatives for commerical purposes. Having a Patreon etc to support you is fine, but the content itself must be free to access.

However, if you're using "derivative" in a more general sense - you're making your own world and just playing with the same ideas as MA - then I don't think my opinion matters much. What matters is whether you feel like you're making art that's worth making, that says something you think is worth saying. Even if someone's already said it - many things are important enough to be worth repeating!

I think there's a lot to be said for transformative art and riffing on other creators' work, and that it's a really exciting, interesting thing to put yourself explicitly in conversation with the original work. At the same time, I think making your own art is an opportunity to blend all your influences together and put something into the world that only you could possibly create. And I'm touched that people find Monstrous Agonies interesting and rich enough for them to engage with in either way!

I hope that answered your question, and if not, just shout xx

#monstrous askbox #monstrous agonies

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I'm a firm believer that the Dark has more to it than just the physical darkness we see in the podcast. Like the eye and other fears, it can manifest in different ways, more metaphorical and abstract.

There's a popular saying about lacking knowledge, being "left in the dark" when that knowledge could have helped you. Seeing as the Dark and the Eye are sort-of opposites, it makes sense that the Dark would encompass the lack of knowledge and perhaps forced ignorance. Cults are usually built on that, and the biggest Dark avatars we see are from the People’s Church, a cult.

But what I really wanted to talk about is the future. The other entities can't predict it, only the Web can really even comprehend it, but the Dark IS it. In the sense that since it's an unknown at all times, even if the outcome is almost guaranteed, we can never be sure until it happens. The fear regarding the unknown is Dark, but this takes it further than simply not being able to see. Something we hear people say about the Dark in the podcast, but almost never explored.

I wish we got to see more Dark content in the Magnus Archives, more than just the People’s Church and the rare encounter with a Dark creature. But what we did get showed how terrifying the Dark can be. After all, the blanket never did anything.

#not a poll #propaganda #the dark #the fear aesthetic tourney #the magnus archives #*whispering* dsrk sweep dark sweep dark sweep

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void-the-punk-or-something-idk · 1 month

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“ Oh, can it be?

The voice is calling me

They get lost and out of time ”

“ I should have seen it glow

But everybody knows that a broken heart is blind ”

Little Black Submarines - The Black Keys

About this blog !

• How should you refer to me?

However you like, and with whatever name fits the vibe. It need not be restrained by gender. If you need help, though, then Dirk works just fine.

I prefer he/him pronouns, generally. Perhaps I'll throw an "it" around on some occasions.

• What is this place?

This is an otherkin blog separate from my main blog since that one is mostly for fandom. I am part of a system, but the blog for those sorts of shenanigans is @just-paradox-things. I'll be posting a little bit about source memories, and using this blog to send asks in "otherkin culture is" type spots.

• What are my kintypes?

I perceive myself two ways that are very separate.

1.) Fictionkin:

I feel that I was, at one point or another, in like a past life or whatever, Dirk Strider from Homestuck. I take comfort in this alternate identity, hence why I ask that anyone who sees my blog drifting in the void default to his name if they can think of nothing else.

When I lean more this direction, I more or less perceive myself like this:

(They have a tag in-picture, but art by @\borzoilover69)

2.) Otherkin/Alterhuman:

This one is harder to explain. A lot of times I feel like something not made for a human body, but forced to inhabit one, anyway. That is the alterhuman aspect.

However, on occasion, I don't feel particularly human at all. Humanoid, yes, but that's wrong and constrains my true nature. In these cases, I've been known to describe such as a "tentacled, Eldritch creature of shadow, piloting a turn-of-the-century automaton." Insert Magnus Archives reference here.

I did a sketch to give a vague approximation of something inexpressible. To point at the unknowable, which shifts and changes whenever I try to define it. Here it is:

• Other fun facts:

- Unsurprisingly, I like cosmic, psychological and body horror. My current favorite things in this genre are The Magnus Archives and Slay the Princess. I am normal about neither.

- Speaking of Magnus Archives, my fear alignments!

Touched by: The Web, The Buried, The Vast

Marked by: The Flesh, The Spiral, The Lonely

Avatar of: The Stranger

- I'm trans. Maybe I didn't need to tell you that.

- I draw! (Obviously.)

- Other interests: Homestuck, Cult of the Lamb, Hazbin Hotel, analogue horror, horror in general, witchcraft, psychology, writing and fanfiction, cooking, long walks on the beach and having intimate relations with your mother.

#pinned post #otherkin #otherkin blog #fiction kin #fictionkin #fictionkin blog #voidpunk #alterhuman #intro post #introductory post #please interact #homestuck fictionkin #dirk strider #dirk strider kin

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redneaththedogwood · 3 months

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Introduction

Hi! Call me Red.

I am a queer young adult artist with a passion for making stories! My pronouns are he/they/it.

Red 'Neath the Dogwood is a feline centric xenofiction world building project that is inspired by the blogs @/barrenclan, @/bonefall, @/trinitywc, and @/cathedralcomic, as well as published works such as Warrior Cats, Ratha's Creature, Guardians of Ga'Hoole, and Watership Down. Other influences may show through, particularly the horror aspects present in media such as The Magnus Archives and Old Gods of Appalachia.

My goal with R'NtD is to create compelling groups with their own religious beliefs, food cultures, and a unifying language. The overarching story has not been decided yet, and while I flesh that out I will focus on characterizing the groups and who resides in them, along with creating unique roles and government systems for each.

This blog is a passion project and it is mostly just me working on it, with language help from my good friend @elkpaws.

Things To Know

Red 'Neath the Dogwood will not be a project for children and will include serious discussion of topics ranging from mental health, cultism, oppressive structures, and more. If these topics upset you, that is absolutely okay! This project will likely not be for you.

You are not bothering me with like spam or reblog spam! I appreciate the love and engagement :)

I ADORE seeing people talk and reply in tags and replies, it makes my day!!

I love asks! I will read them all!!! I might not get to all of them if I ever get super popular, but as a smaller work I will do my best to answer.

Please do not ping me on other people's work. It feels very rude!

The main theme I want to portray with Red 'Neath the Dogwood is generational differences, finding one's sense of self, and what drives people to fall into fascist ideas. GROWTH, CHANGE, and PROGRESS, for better or worse.

This will likely be a story that follows many characters and will grow to reflect that, with different "arcs" and offshoot tales about characters within the three groups present. I will do my best to tag for organization's sake, but be warned that I am forgetful and might lose posts.

I will also try to remember to tag for triggering or otherwise upsetting subject matter, but if I miss something send me an ask and I'll take care of it as best I can.

Closing Thoughts

For now I believe this covers everything I can think of, and as this project grows I will likely rewrite this pinned post to reflect those changes. In future I hope to have several original tags set up for this blog, including things specific to food, culture, and character posts.

Thank you for taking the time to read this! I hope I can make this blog worthwhile.

Ask Status: Open

#Red 'Neath the Dogwood #Original Xenofiction #Introductory Post #R'NtD #World Building Project #I'm not sure if I should tag this as warrior cats because it's not a WC project but. idk #I'm nervous!!!#R'NtD Character Tag #Steeple's Point Church #The HarborKin #The Union of Feline Colliers #R'NtD Fanworks Tag #R'NtD Asks Tag #Red Caterwauls

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late-to-the-magnus-archives · 1 year

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Snippet of CORRUPTED - Magnus Archives x Malevolent fic

Danny Stoker died trying to keep a weird, cursed book away from some very bad people. Tim opened the book, and has been thrust into an entirely new world.

A snippet in which Tim is growing increasingly concerned about whatever has taken up residence in his head.

And in which some of that being's nature begins to slip through...

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A few kabobs later, Tim feels significantly better. Stable blood sugar is a hell of a thing.

He still hates not being able to see. It’s awful. It’s terrifying.

But John is doing a really good job of keeping him safe, and as long as Tim tells himself this will be over soon, he’s all right.

He has to be all right.

Tim also tells himself not to think too much about Bouchard’s description of John.

That was… not a safe-sounding creature. And maybe Tim is just being some sort of speciesist, but he doesn’t know how to approach the topic at all.

It brings to mind again the question of why John had been bound in a book held by humans.

It brings to mind again that John is manipulative, and is controlling. And Tim is more than fine with both of those things in certain circumstances, but depending on the guy to stay alive is definitely not one of them.

It brings to mind the question: what else is in that book that John cannot see?

Tim believes Bouchard. Something else is in there.

He wonders if it’s safe in the backpack. “Hey, John?”

The shop we need is about twenty steps ahead and to your right. Yes?

“Is the book safe? Should I, like, wrap it in my belt, or something, so it doesn’t open in the bag?”

It won’t matter if it opens in the bag. It could fall down a cliff and flutter completely agape, revealing its perverseness to the seagulls, and nothing would happen. It must be opened by a living, sentient being.

“Wow. If they could go that far, you’d think they’d put some kind of lock on it, yeah? A safeword, or something.”

John sounds amused. You mean a fail-safe? Or a password, perhaps?

“Sure, whatever. Still, that’s good to know. Wouldn’t want to release Cthulhu in the middle of London.”

No, we wouldn’t want to do that, says John with absolutely no inflection at all. Store to your right, now.

Oh, that wasn’t spooky. Nope!

Tim sighs. It’s still early morning, he tells himself. There’s safety in that, even if he can’t see the daylight.

John doesn’t have a body, Tim tells himself. He’s not Cthulhu, either, since that is an old-timey story by a crazy dead racist. (Speciesist, Tim’s brain adds.)

He’s safe, he tells himself. It’s not like weird gray-skinned monsters are going to come at him on a busy London street.

John directs him into the store, which turns out to be a health-food, raw sugar, vitamins-the-size-of-thumbs kind of place. There, John directs him to buy just… stuff.

A block of salt. Six small candles, unscented. Various herbs. A hand-built clay bowl. Matches. Distilled water. Rubbing alcohol.

Then they leave, and find a hardware store, and John directs him to buy a length of rope, a hammer, six cleat hooks, one plastic pipe, and one copper.

Tim has played games and read books and seen movies, and cannot for the life of him figure out what all of this is supposed to do.

Very good, Tim, says John, who has obviously figured out Tim likes to be praised. Now we need a place to cast. I do not suggest your apartment, as we need to keep that location completely separate.

“Cast?”

Yes.

“I’m going to cast a spell?”

We are.

Tim’s not sure about that. “You… how are you going to be casting it?”

In the same way that your thoughts can sink into me, my power can just barely be lent to you - not much, or it would hurt you, or break your mind, and I have no need to do that.

The unspoken right now might only be in Tim’s head.

He hopes it’s only in his head.

“You’re going to make me magical for five minutes, or something?”

Less time than that. As I said, I don’t want to burn you out, and unless you have an affinity for magic, using it would harm you with longer exposure.

“So I don’t have an affinity for magic?”

Well, we don’t know, do we? Have you ever tried to cast it?

Tim snorts. “Have I ever tried to cast the thing I didn’t think existed twelve hours ago? Yeah, no.”

Then we’re going to find out, and I’d rather that not result in your harm. Now, as I said: we need a place where we won’t be disturbed.

Tim thinks for a moment. His heart pings painfully, and he has to rub his eyes dry.

Tim?

“Sorry, just… Danny. Got into exploring derelict buildings not too long ago. It’s what I thought he was still doing when he showed up ranting about cultists, but… I'm pretty sure he knew some places. We need to go back to my flat and get his laptop. For his pictures, and… all of that.”

Mister Smooth is in the metaphorical building. Of course, Tim. Whatever we need to do. I’m sorry for your loss.

“Look, don’t… don’t do that.”

Do what? Even smoother.

“You’ve got one hell of a set of pipes, and we both know it, but you whip out that voice every time I get upset. And I don’t think you’re doing it to comfort me.”

Why else would I be doing it, Tim?

It’s not a flat tone. He’s not angry. He’s testing the waters.

Tim doesn’t want him angry. He needs him to fucking navigate. “I don’t know. I just… I don’t want to be manipulated. I know I’m all kinds of fucked right now, okay? Fragile. So maybe I’m being prickly, but…”

I have no reason to wish you any harm, Tim. If I have chosen a manner of speaking to you with the goal of it being effective, perhaps you should ask yourself what effect I’m trying to achieve.

Huh. That was… kind of hard to just argue with. Tim is still sure in his gut that it’s another form of bossiness, but the goal of the bossiness wasn’t one he’d considered. “Hm.”

Shall we go back to your apartment? John isn’t pushing.

Suspiciously not pushing. Maybe he wants Tim to think about it.

Or maybe Tim's still feeling paranoid because of the spooky Eye god. “Fuck that place,” Tim mutters.

What? Ah - the Institute?

“It’s still messing with my head.”

There’s a pause. I wonder if we can block him.

“Who, Bouchard?”

It might be unwise. We could anger his god. But… it might be satisfying, too.

“We can do that?”

Let’s complete this conjuring first. I need to see how you take it - if you’re in any way harmed, Tim, we won’t be doing it again.

There’s a weird little thrill in him - the same kind of thrill he had when he realized he could outrun everyone else in track and field, the same little thrill when he realized he had a skill for editing almost no one around him possessed, the same little thrill (though a touch more complicated) when he realized he did, indeed, like all the genders in whatever configuration they came.

“You think I could do magic?” he says.

I don’t know yet. We’ll see.

Tim suddenly snickers. “Are you telling me I could actually be a wizard called Tim?”

John laughs.

It’s a real laugh, not a chuckle - a deep and genuine guffaw.

It’s also possibly the wickedest sound Tim has ever heard. There’s something terrible in it, like it’s often cruel, and it feels like a sound so bottomless he could fall in it, screaming, forever.

That reference is far too old for you, isn’t it? John finally says.

“Do not tell me you’re familiar with Monty Python.”

And why not?

“It… it’s just weird, is all.” Unnerving. “How the hell long have you been on Earth, anyway?”

Oh, Tim… the things I could tell you.

And then John doesn’t.

“Okay,” says Tim, slowly. “So. Um.” Choice time: pursue that spooky line of questioning, or just go the hell home?

“Let’s go the hell home,” he says. “Need the bus number?”

No, I remember. Turn around. The closest stop is behind us.

John remembered that?

Had he already been looking for a bus stop?

Tim knows that if he’d been in the position of having to navigate through some dude’s eyes, he wouldn’t have been focusing on surroundings enough to catch that.

John is… scary smart, actually.

Combining that with the manipulative tendencies, the bossiness, the obviously good memory…

Tim?

“Sorry. Right.”

It has to be obvious he’s lost in thought, but John doesn’t push.

Of course he doesn’t. It wouldn’t be scary smart to do that, would it?

A few more steps. Stop. It says the bus should be along in about fifteen minutes.

Since last night, Tim’s been running from cultists, from gray-skinned claw-monsters, from an eyeball god and its creepy priest.

For the first time, he genuinely wonders if he’s in serious danger from John, too.

Some of that must be getting through. Water in porous stone. You’re going to be all right, Tim.

“You don’t know that.”

How about this, then: you’ve shown yourself worthy of reward, throughout this. I will see to it that you receive it.

Funny. After all the casual humor and the relatability of shared media, John has casually dropped an abjectly alien and terrifying sentence.

“Glad… to know I’ve fit your standards?” Tim says after a moment. “Though there’s not a lot you can do to make that happen.”

Not yet. But the time is coming soon when I will.

Oh, fuck me, Tim thinks. “Um… how?”

Would you like to know why I was in that book?

Would he? “Yes!”

Home. We do this conjuring. If you handle it well, Tim, I’ll show you.

Was it his imagination, or was something… bad about the way he said that? “And if I don’t handle it well?”

Then I will just tell you.

And that would disappoint John.

Tim exhales slowly. I am in so much trouble, he thinks.”So this conjuring will find some power to help us.”

That’s the idea.

Then they really had to do it. It was that or go back to Bouchard, and Tim would rather eat a rat. “All right.”

Bus.

They’re both quiet on the way home.

Without meaning to, Tim dozes until they’re about twenty minutes from his stop.

John lets him rest.

#tma #malevolent #tma fic #malevolent fic #tma crossover #malevolent crossover #fic in progress #wip #amwriting #tim stoker #yellow malevolent

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Asks compilation: 09/05

God ok that actually sounds like it would work really well. John would be a huge McElroy fan, wouldn’t he?

I just looked up the Washington accent to compare it to Griffin’s, and wow, my mental voice for John is completely different. I probably have all the wrong accents for these characters in my head, since I don’t have a clue which accent maps to which state.

At least we’re all in the same boat about not knowing Jade’s accent - unless we learn where Grandpa grew up later on, since she’d probably have picked up his.

Brilliant! Yeah, no, I’ve been trying to nail down that font for ages.

Dammit, I just realized I could have inspected homestuck.com’s source >:(

It narrowly edges out Gen 4, for me. D/P/Pt were great, but Black and White were the games which really perfected the formula. I honestly don’t think they should have gone 3D, but whatcha gonna do?

Oh my god, of course there are. I’m going to rewatch that show some day and lose my mind, aren’t I?

Hey, thanks for the ask!

I thought about this back when I was first starting the blog. I dunno, though. You’re really not missing much - my live reactions aren’t nearly as coherent as the writeups - mostly just a lot of ‘oh my god, what?’ moments. I write more articulately than I speak. Trust me on this.

I’m honestly impressed you came up with something more headache inducing than the bogo algorithm, which for the uninitiated literally means ‘randomly shuffle a list until it’s sorted’.

aw fuck we’re getting a bogo modus aren’t we

I like Bogleech’s writing, especially his creature design reviews, but I could never get more than a handful of pages into Awful Hospital. I respect his commitment to the stereotypically ‘gross’ organic aesthetic, but it kind of just squicks me out. Plus, I dunno. The premise is really dark, but the comic seems to be a full-on comedy. The dissonance just doesn’t really work for me.

Still, though. Pokéween is some of my favorite writing on the web. Check out his stuff.

I’ve never been super into horror. Mind you, I like having something to listen to when I’m out on a walk, and I’ve heard good things about the Magnus Archives, so maybe this is my opportunity to give it another chance?

No, yeah, we have a winner. Step aside, Broderick.

I have come to accept that Hussie is just really prone to making unintentional references. When Dave Strider is one of your primary characters, you probably can’t avoid constantly referencing pop culture - even, it seems, accidentality!

The Queen is dead! everything has gone to shit! Long live Jack the Ascended!

Haha, I never considered that tumblr’s format does kind of resemble John and CG’s inverted conversations, in a way. When you reblog a connected pair of joke posts, you even have to make sure to reblog them backwards, or you’ll invert them!

Ah, indie devs. Heads, they’re legends, tails, they’re assholes.

I’ve never played it, but it’s been sitting in my steam library for months! If it’s anything like Celeste, I should have started playing it yesterday. Lore is pretty much the only thing Celeste is missing - not that it needs it.

Those giant Underlings are nothing compared to what you see in Pipecorp. This is just another day in the office for Harold P. Egbert.

Awesome! Yeah, I already see why the comic’s music is so popular. And considering we’ve got Toby ‘Leitmotifs’ Fox on the music team, these are all sure to return.

So what, it’s like, Act 6: Act 1? We’re going to start recursing?

Don’t lie to me, guys. This comic is a fractal, isn’t it? It goes on forever, the sub-acts shrinking into the infinitesimal.

I know not what awaits me.

Six, right? Based on the above ask, there can’t be room for any more, unless they shrink dramatically after Act 6.

I have no idea how many sub-acts there could be, though. Once you pop open that can of worms, you can’t easily close it.

Done! From now on, all theoryposts will be tagged #theories!

Yeah, noted! I didn’t expect Homestuck to require the equivalent of waiting for the post-credits scene, but here we are?

In what sense? The Trollslum showed up pretty soon after Jade’s intro, and CG chimed in up not long after. The sense I always got was that Hussie improvised a lot of the comic, but maybe the trolls were a particularly spontaneous addition?

Liveblogging a liveblog! I can get behind that. Yeah, like I’ve alluded to before, I’d be having a very different experience with this comic if I wasn’t reading it in bite-sized chunks.

Thank you!! I’m really trying to convey the same feelings that I’m getting while I’m reading this comic. I’m glad it’s working!

Honestly, my guessing technique is essentially just throwing theories at the wall to see what sticks.

I usually have like, two or three explanations for a a given event in the comic, which means I can be eerily correct and ironically wrong about the same thing - or ironically wrong twice over, as is probably more likely.

#asks #act 4 #full liveblog

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