#and the buried is one of my least favorites but hearing hezekiah talk about it made it seem comforting

[nyctodromist]

my favorite thing about tma has always been the avatars who love the fears they serve, who show that love so vibrantly that, for just a moment, they sway you into feeling like you could learn to love that fear the way they do. when jane prentiss said "not loved as you would understand it, a deeper, more primal love, a need as much as a feeling" and when jude perry said "as the heat warped my bones and bubbled my flesh, all i heard was the loving exaltation of my god" and when mike crew said "falling had always held a special place in my heart, that wonderful border between terror and delight" and when manuela dominguez said "and at his words i felt afraid, and my heart soared in terror and elation as my eyes brimmed with tears, for i knew he spoke the truth" and when hezekiah wakely said "i had never felt such safety as within the crushing weight of earth all around me, the pressing embrace of the buried." do you get me

#bernie talks #tma #bernie's best #i didn't care for the dark or the desolation until i heard manuela and jude's statements #and the buried is one of my least favorites but hearing hezekiah talk about it made it seem comforting #the magnus archives #magnuspod #jane prentiss #jude perry #mike crew #manuela dominguez #hezekiah wakely

[bare1ythere]

Who’re your top five favorite TMA characters?

OHHH Thanks for asking!!

1. Martin! Mainly because of the sheer amount I project on him!! I thought he was fun and cute in S1 (and love(d) that he described himself as “not the smallest guy in the world”) and S2 but when he faced off against Elias in S3 I got REALLY attached. like FUCK, he CRIED. He only really became my favourite character in S4 where his whole arc with the Lonely really meant a lot to me and I related a lot to it. Now in S5 his personality is SO FUN and I love that he’s in every single episode. 

Fanon wise many folks draw him a lot like me (which is fun since I project on him enough as is) and make him trans and its all just SO GOOD and means So much to me. In conclusion Give this man a knife and set him in front of elias its what he deserves. I love him so much.

2. Jon! Jon is a really close second because he was my favourite character up until S4 (not his fault, my love for Martin just grew A LOT in s4). I actually really didn’t like him in s1 during my first listen until Episode 22 when he showed Some kindness to martin and I just went “OH SO HES SOFT BUT GUARDED!! I SEE”

I know im talking a lot so Im just gonna talk about highlights: S3 Jon is my absolute favourite. Knowing enough to be Really Scared but not knowing enough to be comfortable in that knowledge was a really fun time for him. He was traveling around and had softened significantly from s1 and s2, and also went through one of my absolute favourite tropes of “becoming the thing you’ve been fighting against.” S4 Jon makes my heart ache he deserved SO much better and S5 Jon makes me want to scream into a pillow because he’s the most openly happy he’s every been in the dang podcast but its all MELANCHOLY. I love every design for him, especially colourschemes folks use for his outfits. He’s very cool I love him

3. Helen!! I LOVED Michael (specifically his laugh) But Helen’s progression into being an avatar at the same time as Jon was SO interesting to me. I didn’t start to really love her until S5/late S4, though. She’s just SO chaotic neutral and Likes to Cause Problems on Purpose and ACTIVELY FOUND JON’S SMITING ENTERTAINING I GHDSKJFHDSSFD. Her whole vibe is very fun and funky and I love her a lot. The only thing that stopped me from liking her in S4 was her not helping Jon when he begged her in like MAG156 I think gdshjkfds but Thats mainly because when I first listening I was in Full Panic Mode for Jon and Martin

4. Daisy!! Okay well, I don’t like Daisy before s4. I actively Hated Daisy in S3, killing Mike Crew and then almost killing Jon. Being aggressive with the archival crew (minus elias because he deserved it) in MAG81 iirc. And you know, all of her Hunt Crimes. Daisy’s change post-buried though was very good. I loved the episode with her and Jon in the coffin a Lot. She became a lot sweeter and her willingness to starve to never give into the hunt again was very devastating, especially with Basira trying to convince her to lean into it again. She was also arguably the one who was the nicest to Jon in S4, though she wasn’t perfect. The reason she isn’t higher is because she’s a cop and that definitely stops me from enjoying her fully and without hesitation because Fuck That. I more enjoy her arc than her character as an entirety. Anyway I hope she turns out ok in the upcoming act though Im not very optimistic :c

5. Melanie!! Melanie’s first interaction with Jon in season 1 was VERY funny but her later character is very very good. During the small period of time in S3 after she got hired but before Elias confessed to murdering gertrude I loved her attitude about her job and her personality. Afterwords, It was fun to see her try to assassinate Elias and her part in the Slaughter in S4 both scared me and also was very interesting to listen to. I’m glad she got to leave the institute though and at least got a very short happy ending with georgie and the admiral and even maybe jon!! as a friend!!! She said he could be his friend!!!!! Im SOFT. I hope she’s okay right now and I can’t wait to hear from her again ówò

HONOURABLE MENTIONS: Hezekiah Wakely because he might’ve been a one off character but he GOT IT and Jonah Magnus but more because of his fanon interpretation than anything we got in canon, so he didnt make the list ghdksjfds

#tma #asks #shut up me #GOD IM SORRY I RAMBLED #noticed i was talking a lot when typing jon's thing and went 'fuck' #anyway my feelings are Very mixed about daisy but overall i find her character very interesting #Anonymous