#but tma is something different

[waffle-bubbles]

I’m trying to contain my hyperfixation on The Magnus Archives until I finish it

#I just finished season 2 #it’s so good #and I don’t usually like podcasts #but tma is something different #the magnus archives #tma #rusty quill

[elijah-loyal]

im gon keep yapping about the sound design for the magnus protocol because its driving me insane

the difference between the two podcasts is so drastic its FRIGHTENING

The Magnus Archives intro/outro: high-pitched, screeching, eerie, dies off with what sounds like a stone tumbling into the depths and lights turning on/off, water, sounds like the darkness of a cave that you must descend into even though you're terrified, but you do it anyway

The Magnus Protocol intro/outro: LOUD, deep, bone-chilling/shaking, foreboding, it sounds like darkness in a different way, like the great throat of some unknown beast that is hundreds of times larger and older than us and will swallow us whole; it's fear that hunts us, instead of us hunting it

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also, side note/addition because i realized i forgot to add WHY it freaked me out

long story short, i was around 50% deaf in my right ear until I was 12 years old (reconstructive surgery truly is something I am so grateful for) and now I'm back to a fairly normal hearing range.

The problem?

I can't hear low tones as easily.

the magnus protocol is heavily reliant on lower tones, so what I hear is likely not how most people hear it, but for me it sputters, almost, parts of it are kind of missing, and I know I'm not hearing it right, which freaks me the fuck out.

#god the sound design for tmagp is actually so amazing and astounding to me #the sound alone actually freaks me out #which is something that the magnus archives DIDNT do #im already on edge when the episode begins for protocol #tma #tmagp #the magnus archives #the magnus protocol #tma podcast #tmagp podcast #jarchivist #magnus archives #magnus protocol #the difference is that in tma theyre actively seeking the fears #but in tmagp i think the fears are hunting THEM #also the fear in the audio for me is knowing im missing parts of it #not hearing it as its supposed to be heard

[felix-krain]

👁.

#my art #tma #the magnus archives #jonathan sims #the archivist #jarchavist #tma fanart #just a lil warm up I did while working on something bigger hehehe #I’m still getting a hang at his design I know he looks different each time I draw him ahahaha

[cool-person-yey]

45% of my brain is like " the puter voices are jmart and jonah magnus!!11!1!1!!;" and 45% are " they know we were going to try make TMA and tmagp have some sort of direct relation and they're using it to trick us" and the other 10% are " these motherfuckers are planning something totally different and completely unexpected"

#I'm fearing for my life #but also rly excited #honestly i for me tmagp is a different universe ( maybe the one from Anny Villette statement or something idk her name ) after the fears— #— were released but since they were reconfigured they're different (insert the fears are now desires theory here) and the puter voices #i think Annabelle mentioned how their voices will live on or smth so. yeah. #or maybe I'm totally wrong #who knows? not me #tmagp #the magnus protocol #tmagp spoilers #can i tag this as tma #i mean i mentioned both so #tma

[spooksier]

new year, same freaks

#art zone #fanart #tma #jonmartin #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #yeah i just posted something but the jmart disease ramped up in the past 10 hours #slightly different designs now! trying to get closer to how i see them when im listening to eps #gave martin a tboy stache and changed how i draw jon’s grey hair #i like these designs a lot xoxo also i love you marker brush i will use you forever #art zone plus

[thermodynamic-comedian]

if this take gets me in trouble im just gonna blame sea-induced madness because im on a boat rn but like. lonelyeyes could be a polycule and still be equally divorced AND still called lonelyeyes. if you put gertrude robinson in there. in this essay i will [red dot appears on my forehead]

#lonely-aligned eye avatar gertrude robinson. or perhaps eye-aligned lonely avatar #they could be divorced in three different directions #the dynamic would be . something so beautiful #tma #the magnus archives #lonelyeyes #tma shitpost #elias bouchard #peter lukas #gertrude robinson

[the-magpie-archives]

You know when you've been thinking something for ages and it feels normal and then you say it out loud and it sounds so odd and unbelievable that you physically wince but you have to keep going because it'd be embarrassing to backtrack at that point so you just speak it into being normal again?

Yeah I think that's what the supplementals were like for Jon.

#You know what I always say! Anything can be normal if you ramble on for long enough! #But this sorta cycle is very real in tma... Because there's continuous odd happenings and constant doubt that dance around eachother #It makes you feel crazy eventually because you make claims‚ face disbelief‚ then get evidence for something different altogether! #The paranormal likes to play with it's food before it eats it basically #(in fiction and in reality 😌) #tma #the magnus archives #the magnus institute #jonathan sims #tma memes #tma season 2

[edgycarr0t]

Sorry for changing my Martin slightly everytime I draw him... Hope you weren't madly in love with the last one because you will never see him again

#my art #fanart #the magnus archives #tma #tma fanart #the magnus pod #the magnus archives fanart #the magnus archive fanart #tma martin blackwood #martin blackwood #this drawing got absolutely destroyed by color differences on different screens... #I tried to do something about it so if there is a quality drop... That's why

[xoyalanztov]

What I really want to find out from The Magnus Protocol is how Oliver Banks and Graham Folger broke up. If it wasnt the notebook eating then what was it??

#also the not!them made him straight #thats not very girlboss of them #tma #the magnus archives #oliver banks #graham folger #jon sims #chaotic academia #martin blackwood #sasha james #tim stoker #everything is something different if you look at it long enough #the magnus protocol #magpod

[mementoasts]

takes these guys in my head and turns them into ridiculously cutesy charm designs for myself

#helpppp i'm so happy with these 😭 idk when i'll order them but gaaaahh i'm excited #i need to at least Try to make more merch to Sell ����🗿🗿 it's been a while..... #i've had ideas but gaaaahh motivation *weeps* #the magnus archives #tma #jonathan sims #elias bouchard #it's their s3 designs Specifically. i've decided s3 elias' only design change is him wearing reading glasses half the time #bc a lot of his scenes take place in his office. meanwhile i've got slightly different jons for each season dhfkdhkdh #the void given form #jonelias #technically? i mean i named the file something like “je charms hgjdhdufhls”

[accidentalautomaton]

webweaver🕸️

annabelle moment :::-3 (sorry for not posting u guys :-3 working on it)

#tma #my art #tma art #annabelle cane #tma annabelle #tma fanart #the magnus archives #the magnus archive fanart #the web #i did something a little different in this i guess? idk… #i wanted to do something else w the background but. alas alack

[gammija]

@a-mag-a-day Today I'm thinking about Martin, specifically, how quote-unquote human he really still is

he's clearly fallen on the side of 'Watcher' in the Eyepocalypse, not surprising perhaps, cause he already was able to turn invisible or something like it in s4 from the Lonely, and had to be 'both Lonely and Watching' enough for Peter's plan to at least work in theory. and while not as deep in it as Jon, he's still worked for the Eye for 10 years iirc, and he's marked by it to the point that it's a part of his domain

Martin in canon appears occasionally insensitive to Jon's new impulses, acting as the straight man to his avatar-ness. But we know that Martin's really good at acting like how he thinks things ought to be, while ignoring how he knows them to be deep down. (examples: him being the last one to accept Sasha is gone, at first instance assuming Jon must've been brainwashed in 142 Scrutiny, "I'm knackered!' -'Are you?' -'... ok, well, no, but i feel like i should be")

so i wonder, how much of his reactions are because Jon's words are genuinely alien to him, and how much is just posturing, exaggerating how he feels like he should react, to ignore when Jon's experiences feel relatable, or that niggling idea that, if everyone in this world is either victim or watcher, and Martin feels remarkably good, all things considered... well.

Or,

#as is often the case this isn't an essay on Why Martin Is Actually Just As Much An Avatar As Jon or something #just thinking out loud #spurred on by today's ep #and some amagaday posts with differing interpretations that set me thinking about my own #a mag a day #tma #tma s5 #mag171 #tma theory #Martin blackwood #the magnus archives #martin #joos yaps #also since im doing the amagaday and s5 isn't my fav there might very well be complicating statements made by Martin later #that i just forgot about #but that's for future me to deal with

[fog-kid]

ah yes, it's the very tired, cynical man with an obsession for investigating and caffeine that has some weird paranormal connection with knowledge, and his partner, the lovable, silly little guy who supports him through every war crime and pushes aside his own problems in order to help him and others.

yes, of course, the cynical guy who considers himself a monster and values trust above anything else. and the charismatic, lovable guy who has so many issues he ignores, so much rage he never lets out, and who somehow wins over said trust because, really, how could he not after everything they went through?

the very oblivious cynical guy who doesn't notice the obvious crush the charismatic guy has on him, and that, after a very rocky start, falls head over heels for him and never looks back.

yes, the couple that goes through so much shit and have eachtohers back through it all, that no matter what nightmarish scenario they're stuck in, they are together and will fight for it to stay that way.

so. is this about guapoduo/spiderbit or jonmartin. you decide

#tbh i think martin and roier are VERY different but I had to make a connection here #there's something about the beholding and the entity of knowledge yk? #and about a silly little guy and the serious investigator that is so so in love with him #sorry kinda had to mash together two of my hyperfixations it is what i do #qsmp #guapoduo #spiderbit #q!roier #q!cellbit #qsmp roier #qsmp cellbit #tma #jonmartin #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #rrally hoping this reaches the very small group of people that both like qsmp and listened to tma #if that's you then ily you're so cool

[maxgicalgirl]

I really love re-listening to tma and coming across statements that I have absolutely zero memory of. I’ve listened to this podcast four times. Goes to show how low my attention span really is.

#I’m on my fourth re-listen and I had no memory of the guy who found Gertrude’s desolation ritual in the woods #listened to that episode three times but it took four for it to finally stick #tma #the magnus archives #I’m also having so much fun seeing how different tma is from protocol #idk tma just never gets old you’re always getting something out of it on every relisten :)

[web-stersdictionary]

loving all the theories we’re all coming up with and speculation of what entities are connected to what cases, but uhhhhh have we considered:

the 14 entities don’t exist here— it’s closer to the Eyepocalypse version of the entities than the 14 individual ones. like personal hells. and the eye is presiding over it all, watching and cataloging and taking it all in. which is why OIAR has access to all this incredibly invasive info like personal emails or phone calls or therapy sessions.

the world of TMagP is living in the shadow of the panopticon.

#tmagp #tma #tmagp theory #big dictionary approved posts #theres evidence for this if y’all comb through the episodes of TMagP released #and also something jon said in season 5 abt the difference between the entities before and the entities after the eyepocalypse.

[poeticsandaliens]

one of the things that impresses me so much about TMA is that I'm content enough with how the story went down and enjoy the cast of characters and their dynamics such that I don't have a single "exclude" tag here on AO3. Like yeah there's stuff thematically I don't read but nothing I automatically filter out when I comb through the TMA tag. No characters or ships that I really avoid.

#the magnus archives #tma podcast #like my history of participating in media is so based in spite and dissatisfaction with that media #it's such a different experience to engage with something that I'm not actively angry at #maybe I've just matured? But also The X-Files ending sucked #so I doubt that's just me #like being in the “here to explore whatever” mindset with a story is so much fun #tma #jonathan sims