#decrypted tma

[ruler-of-turtle-kind]

Okay, that's enough Magnus Archives for today.

#tma reactions #episode 144 #decrypted tma #it's leaving me feeling bone-achingly alone #but I know I'm not alone #but I feel like I am #and the argument between logic and emotion just goes round and round in my head #and I feel like I’m drowning in a whirlpool of anxiety #just round and round and round #and the overactive part of my imagination wants to use this as basis to convince me this stuff is real #but it's not real #it's fiction #why can't i have a normal brain #one that doesn't try to lie to me #maybe I need to put MAG down for a few weeks again #no. no I'll be fine. I just need to keep doing this. Keep reasoning it out #when you have a brain that lies to you you need to practice arguing with it #that way it gets easier to dismiss the lies #it's good I'm in a safe environment to do so with something that is clearly fiction. #frick I'm delusional aren't I? #why God did you deal me this hand? what purpose does it serve?

[weakcorii]

WIP Gary Boylan from MAG144 because it's my favourite statement now

UPD: my good mates I have finished this drawing come take a look

[ID: A sketch of Gary Boylan from The Magnus Archives podcast. He is portrayed as a Caucasian man holding a sign above his head. The sign says "The end is near. It told me" and has a drawing of a power pylon next to the caption. Gary has a little stubble on his face, and straight hair reaching the middle of his neck. He is wearing a band T-shirt with The Clash's London Calling album cover. End ID]

#gary boylan #the magnus archives #tma #tma fanart #the magnus archive fanart #mag 144 #mag144 #decrypted #nuclear death prophet boi #martin blackwood #jonathan sims #sketch #alice daisy tonner #elias bouchard #basira hussain #melanie king #georgie barker #tim stoker #sasha james #jon sims #cori's art

[frootbyethefoot]

thought about how fucked up it was that moreno was completely ready to kill courier 6 and (more notably) arcade if you don’t manage to convince him to fight with the ncr. and didn’t stop thinking.

[ID: three digital drawings of fallout: new vegas. the first drawing is of orion moreno sitting on a wooden chair, his expression is indiscernible. in the background, theres a small light brown bookshelf, a bed frame, and a mattress. there is smoke coming from morenos mouth. a small orange box of text next to him says “... smoking that god-awful pipe that left the wallpaper yellow and peeling.” the entire drawing is tinted in orange. the second drawing is of arcade gannon. he is drawn from around the waist up, and looks uncomfortable. he has his fist balled up and towards his chest. a purple text box to the right of him reads, “ i remember thinking he wasn’t content to just destroy himself.” the entire drawing is tinted in a purpleish pink color. the final drawing is of moreno in his enclave armor. he looks ready to fight, and is holding a gatling laser. the gatling laser is colored in only a bright red, and is already shooting out a laser. a red text box just above him reads, “ he seemed to have to take out everything with him.” the entire drawing is tinted in a dark red.]

#ORIGINALLY i was gonna draw arcade and veronica similarities but then i stared at my screen for 2 hours and ended up with this. #i think it turned out okay! arcade looks a little off but that could be because i haven't drawn him (or anything really) in a while #but this was a good warm up i think! #quote is from tma ep 144 'decrypted' maybe my favorite tma statement episode ever #but this line in particular made me think of moreno with how after everything hes just a. bitter hateful old man #who refuses to let go of the past. i like how his codeword is 'remember' #fnv #fallout: new vegas #fallout new vegas #arcade ganon #orion moreno #joeys art

[6-and-7]

TMA Tarot Page of Swords - MAG 144: Decrypted

#art #fan art #my art #the magnus archives #the extinction #tarot #tma tarot #mag 144 #decrypted #page of swords

[themagnustournament]

Redemption Round 3 - Match 16

It's the end of today's matches, here with two episodes that I think are absolute bangers! Decrypted, despite being knocked out in Round One, made it through RR2 with 115 votes! It's up against the iconic Boneturner's Tale, wich comes with 164 votes from last round!

MAG 144 - Decrypted | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Gary Boylan, regarding a strange track on his iPod.

MAG 017 - The Boneturner’s Tale | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Sebastian Adekoya, regarding a new acquisition at Chiswick Library.

#the magnus tournament #the magnus archives #tma #mag 144 #mag 144 decrypted #decrypted #gary boylan #the extinction #extinction #mag 017 #mag 17 #mag 017 the boneturner's tale #mag 017 the bone turner's tale #mag 17 the boneturner's tale #mag 17 the bone turner's tale #the boneturner's tale #the bone turner's tale #the boneturner #the bone turner #jared hopworth #sebastian adekoya #the flesh #flesh #leitner books #redemption round three

[buildoblivionthenwewilltalk]

okay jonny I have a grown up job now so if you could hold that new magnus content until after the hours of 9-5 that would be grand

#im looking at that decrypted stuff saying it’ll release 5pm on Friday bst with great hope #i need this to have my full attention outside of designated email time many thank #tma #the magnus archives

[jr-but-magnus-archives]

Shoutout to the time I ran an entire streaming radio station of Zampanio related bullshit that included all the numbers, read by my AI, from MAG 144: Decrypted  (this is only one of the files that would play randomly over the course of like, multiple days).  

Even had the folk music that Decrypted mentioning happening over and over again.

http://farragofiction.com/FarragoFraydio/2022myStream/interludes/audio/ButlerBotBullshit/The_skye_boat_song.mp3 https://the-magnus-archives.fandom.com/wiki/MAG_144:_Decrypted

#magnus archives #tma 144 #mag 144 #decrypted #zampanio

[nat-20s]

rusty quill drops a cryptic eye emoji tweet: oh huh that's probably a fun little promo for a new show

rusty quill puts codes in magnus episodes: ah so this is actually a tma thing. Ooo! I wonder if it'll be like script books or something!

"magnusarchivestwo" gets decrypted: are they...they're clowning us? we're being clowned right now?

New audio clip of my beloved darling boy Martin K Blackwood: WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK

#HELLO??? #WHAT IS GOING ON??? #tma #the magnus archives

[shizucheese]

Someone give me a cookie, I managed to listen to the new episode within like 48 hours of the new episode coming out! As usual, this is the standalone version of the weekly post that I also made as a reblog to my main Red String Board, which can be found here. Today is 3/9/24. TMAGP episode 9 released on 3/7/2024.

“Talkers”

Norris (Voice: Martin?/ Alex)

Episode 1: “Reanimation (Partial) -/- Regret [Email]”. The Stranger? The End? The Dark? The Lonely? The Flesh? Arthur (Nolan?).

Episode 3: "Infection (full body" -/- Arboreal [Journal entry]". The Spiral? (Paranoia? Auditory, visual and olfactory hallucinations) The Lonely? The Corruption. The Flesh? (Callbacks to the Flesh Garden from S5)

Episode 8: "Architecture (liminal) -/- hunger [coursework]". The Spiral. The Lonely. (Statement giver has an ex-wife. Witnesses strange mist. Fog?) The Stranger? The Vast. The Flesh. The description of the space reminds me a bit of Mag 150: Cul-De-Sac. The description of the diners and the way they were speaking reminds me of Mag 48: Lost in the Crowd.

Common Themes: Hearing the voice of a dead/ missing loved one? Loneliness

Chester (Voice: John?/ Jonny)

Episode 1: “Transformation (eyes) -/- Tresspass [chat log]”. Magnus Institute, The Eye. (Involves a forum; the Web?).

Episode 5: "Disappearance (undetermined) -/- Invitation [Internet blog]". The Eye (Movies. Movie name: "Voyeur" "Must be seen to be believed"...). The Web? (Another website?). (Very reminiscent of Mag 110: Creature Feature.) The "poor old guy" at the theater is totally an Eye avatar, right? Kinda gives me "Simon Fairchild when he was first introduced" vibes.

Episode 7: "Agglomeration (miscellany) -/- congregation [email]". The Stranger. The Burried. The Desolation. Possibly all of them if my theory about the items the Volunteers brought in is correct...

Unsure if this is Eye related like the other statements were. This is also the first "Chester" statement where the source material wasn't from a website or blog, which don't have the same expectation of privacy that the sources of the other statements do. Email, though, so still internet related, and this seems to be an open letter rather than personal correspondence, so it still might align with the theme.

Episode 9: "Dice (bone) -/- fate [Magnus Statement]" Flesh (blood)? The Dark (blown lightbulbs)? Web. (The dice aren't random. Nobody ever says no to rolling them. The way the statement giver describes his experience almost sounds like addiction, which is also Web affiliated).

Are these the same dice that were in the bag of The Merchant from TMAGP 4? Common theme continues to be Eyes/ The Magnus Institute and The Web (either internet-related or an artifact of The Eye like in TMAGP 7)

Agustus: (rare?)

Episode 4: “Collection (blood) -/- musical [letter]” The End. The Lonely? The Slaughter.

Letter writer thinks passing on his violin might allow a part of himself to live on in his nephew. Very Jonah Magnus of him.

Music teacher hears “faraway music”, then goes crazy and throws himself out of the carriage and dies. Reminiscent of Mag7 and the Piper? The merchant’s wares include dice (Mag 29?). Got the violin from him (took his blood?). Effect of the violin reminiscent to Grifter’s Bone (Mag 42).

(Oliver Bardwell lol very funny guys)

Non-Talkers (?)

Episode 2: "Transformation (full) -/- dysmorphic [video call]". The Spiral? The Flesh. The Stranger. Ink 5oul (avatar/ entity?)

Episode 6: "Injury (needles) -/- intimidation [999 call] "Corruption? The Spiral? The Flesh? The End?

"Needles" reminds me of Michael!Distortion.

Notes and Thoughts:

...Sam's filling out the paperwork because he feels compelled to do it? Does the paperwork also have spiderwebs on it?

This might be nothing but the statement giver for Mag144: Decrypted was also named Garry.

There was something incredibly cozy about hearing Jonny's voice reading a good old fashioned Magnus Institute statement. So I posted a while ago about my theory that in TMA, the Magnus Institute was not only affiliated with The Eye but also The Web, and that John (and Gertrude before him) was an avatar of both The Eye and The Web (hence their ability to compel statements and stuff). (If you haven't read it, you can find the whole thing here.) Everything "Norris" just reaffirms that theory. All of his statements have had two things in common: they have been related to the Magnus Institute or the Eye, and they have had something web related about them. TMAGP 1 and 5 were a forum and a blog, which are both websites, which is something that has previously been associated with The Web (eg: In MAG 123: Web Development). They are also the only statements that didn't have the expectation of privacy/ limited audience that the other statements have. And if the dice from this episode aren't Web aligned, idk what is. The only exception to this seems to be TMAGP 7. It was an email, which is still internet related--also now that I'm thinking about it, it was set on Hilltop Road which we all KNOW is web aligned--but there doesn't seem to be an obvious Magnus Institute or Eye theme to that one though. Was it the fact that it was set on Hilltop Road? Was it the security firm? Am I on to something my theory that the "good cause" was a summoning ritual that required artifacts or actions related to all of the Entities, in order to maybe summon a certain someone we all know and love who was touched by all of the Entities into the TMAGP world (a certain someone who was made Head Archivist of the Magnus Institute, London in 2015 in TMA, which is the same year that statement took place)?

I recall also saying in my post with my "The Institute was part of The Web" post that I'll believe Teddy fully left the OIAR for good when I believe it. How convenient that he ended up being laid off from the job he left the OIAR basically immediately; I'm starting the countdown until he ends up getting his old job back (or turns up dead) now.

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Idk what's funnier about the dedication at the beginning: the fact that it was probably written before the person who wrote it knew the details of Protocol and the whole "voices in the computer" thing, or the way Jonny read it.

#the magnus protocol #the magnus protocol spoilers #the magnus protocol speculation #tmp #tmp spoilers #tmp speculation #tmagp #tmagp spoilers #tmagp speculation #tma spoilers #shizu's red string board

[autoneurotic]

#tma #magpod #the magnus archives #i said Weaver btw. wonderland makes me feel craaaazy insane but not my fav of the bunch!

[weakcorii]

I know, I know, the hair looks too clean, but I like my blorbos showered.

[ID: A drawing of Gary Boylan from The Magnus Archives podcast. He is portrayed as a Caucasian man holding a sign above his head. The sign says "The end is near. It told me" and has a drawing of a power pylon next to the caption. Gary has a little stubble on his face, and straight brown hair reaching the middle of his neck. He is looking up with a serious facial expression. He is wearing jeans and a band T-shirt with The Clash's London Calling album cover. The background is cloudless sky. End ID]

#cori's art #nuclear death prophet boi #gary boylan #the magnus archives #tma #tma fanart #the magnus archive fanart #mag 144 #mag144 #decrypted #martin blackwood #jonathan sims #sketch #alice daisy tonner #elias bouchard #basira hussain #melanie king #georgie barker #tim stoker #sasha james #jon sims #described #the extinction

[malachiwardyt]

Howdy, podcast side of Tumblr.

I forgot to share this here, but on the 30th (yes, I cut the deadline that close) I uploaded an explanation of the Extinction from hit horror anthology podcast The Magnus Archives as part of my ongoing series analysing the Entities one at a time. For this, the penultimate episode, I wound up going way further into detail than I expected, resulting in the video analysing the least significant Entity being the longest in the series. Whoops.

As always, here's a breakdown of the art, for the curious. Although he isn't an avatar of the Extinction (in fact, he seems to be actively fighting against it in most of his appearances), it felt wrong not to do Adelard Dekker for this piece. I really wanted to play around with colour and contrast in this one, and I think it turned out pretty nice.

I dressed Dekker himself in a grey suit with silver accents, because I wanted him to feel very ordinary. Dekker is one of the most human characters in TMA, never seeming to fall to any Entity despite interacting with them very frequently. More than that, he's about as close as TMA gets to a true hero, being at least a comparatively strong force for good. Silver, then, I chose both because it compliments his suit very nicely and because it has mythological and traditional precedent, especially in European folklore, as a deterrent for evil or the supernatural. One of Dekker's most interesting traits is his persistent faith, which I knew I had to include somehow, so I gave him a silver necklace with a cross on the end. It's simple, but it works. The only pop of colour in his otherwise monochrome dress is the tie around his neck, which I've coloured green to show his connection to the Extinction. I know I needed at least a bit of colour, and a neon, toxic green is the colour I associate with the Extinction, so I used a darkened, desaturated form of it for his necktie. I always pictured Dekker as a slender, angular man, which I've conveyed in his face and body. I wanted to give him hair that stood up a lot into short points, and while I considered making them a bit rounder, in the end, the pointed tips just stuck. Finally, there's the glowing green in his eyes, which is, of course, another allusion to the Extinction. Not to imply that he's being guided or influenced by it, simply that he sees it. He was the first to catalogue it, and, admittedly, they do stand out quite nicely against the shadows over him.

In the background, I knew I wanted a skyline with a mushroom cloud behind it, but, as I was working, I decided to make the buildings different references to Extinction episodes. Before I get to that, though, I have to talk about the colour scheme, which is mostly pale green. This was both, again, because the Extinction's colour, in my mind, is green, and because it contrasted nicely against the reds and oranges of the blast. Starting at the leftmost building, it references MAG 144: Decrypted, with numbers running down the side and an antenna on top to send out its encoded message. The next one over is a reference to MAG 175: Epoch, being a massive, Empire State-esque building with abandoned boxes and detritus scattered on its landings, alongside a few more... "living" manifestations. There are only five statements which are the MOST likely Extinction appearances, so, for symmetry, I had to pick an extra statement to throw in. This wound up being MAG 65: Binary, since it's a fan favourite and plenty of people theorise that it actually was related to the Extinction. To get the idea across, I put a few distorted faces on large screens, though I do regret not lightening the entire building up a bit. Across the empty space, we find a reference to MAG 156: Reflection, designed to mimic a large carnival sign and featuring tall windows with thin creatures in them. The windows could have been a bit smaller, but I worried that they would seem too similar to the next building. Speak of which, that brings us to the MAG 134: Time of Revelation reference, being an apartment building in a French architectural style (I don't recall which one at the moment, but I know it was a specific one) filled with figures in the windows, some of whom are half melted into walls or floors. Finally, the last building is a reference to MAG 149: Concrete Jungle, with a rounded roof to mimic the circular shabonos of the Yanomami people and a large, concrete serpent for... obvious reasons.

I think that about covers it. If you've read this far, I hope you enjoyed, and get yourselves ready for the final episode of Entities Explained dropping later this month. With that, all I have left to say is good night, Tumblr people!

#youtube #magnuspod #the magnus archives #the magnus institute #the magnus pod #the magnus protocol #tma #magnus #tma fanart #the magnus archives fanart #tma art #tma podcast #tma spoilers #tma entities #the extinction #tma the extinction #extinction #the terrible change #the future without us #the world is always ending #adelard dekker #mag 134 #mag 144 #mag 149 #mag 156 #mag 175 #mag 5 #mag 65 #mg 84 #mag 114

[kat-and-their-cats]

Favourite Episode Masterlist

#tma #the magnus archives #tma poll #podcasts #tma season 4 #tma season four #tma 141 #tma 142 #tma 143 #tma 144 #tma 145 #tma 146 #tma 147 #tma 148 #tma 149 #tma 150

[funkyfenderbender]

things that are making me go absolutely rabid during my tma relisten (im currently on season 4 so this is mostly focused on that but references the series as a whole):

- MAG 65 - Binary is one that i keep thinking about. i know it was intended to be the spiral but the way it hints at the extinction is really hitting me this time around. i think its the comparison to it and mag 144 - decrypted. the image of technology as a piece of humanity’s fall (but not the main player!!) has me Thinking many Thoughts.

- honestly the extinction as a whole. the idea of the fears not being set, structured identities but ones that can change and blend and separate as humanity progresses. humanity is not static and neither are the things we fear

- the tunnels, the prison, and how the whole panopticon thing was set up. the tunnels are a blind spot, something that gained more meaning as the series went on but it shows that the the watchers crown was always destined to fail oh my god

- the rituals keep failing but people keep trying, convinced each time that This will be the time it works and it just. doesnt. even the Change was gonna eventually fail

- the web. everything about it. in mag 147 one of the first things annabelle says in the letter is “can i call you john” which is obv a very common phrase but also the parallel to nikolas whole “can i call you elias” thing…something something identity…something something the web…something something its all connected…

- addiction as a form of control. john saying he doesn’t smoke when he first gets the lighter, but leaving leitner to smoke a cigarette (allowing elias to brutal pipe murder him). john bringing the lighter everywhere to the point where multiple people bring it up but despite overanalyzing everything in his life he never thinks about it. IT BEING PRESENT FOR MORE THAN ONE EVENT WHERE JOHN IS MARKED BY DIFFERENT ENTITIES ??? the web truly controlled everything. annabelle cane i fear you like a god.

#will probably add more later #tma #the magnus archives #brainrot absolute brainrot #ryn rambles

[themagnustournament]

Redemption Round 2 - Match 32

Civilian Casualties has been a consistent hitter, with half-rounded-up (131) of its total 261 votes coming from Round Two. Decrypted received only 88 votes in Round One.

MAG 125 - Civilian Casualties | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Sergeant Terrance Simpson, regarding an outbreak of violence in the crofting community of Lanncraig, Ross-shire.

MAG 144 - Decrypted | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Gary Boylan, regarding a strange track on his iPod.

#the magnus tournament #the magnus archives #tma #mag 125 #mag 125 civilian casualties #civilian casualties #terrance simpson #the slaughter #slaughter #mag 144 #mag 144 decrypted #decrypted #gary boylan #the extinction #extinction #redemption round two

[a-space-lizard]

So in my TMA/destiny au since Osiris was the Archivist until he got exiled, I wonder who would be the next Archivist. A likely candidate would be Ikora, but I think she'd turn down the offer, especially if she knew anything about what being the Archivist really means (which Osiris probably warned her about). I also have to consider who is choosing the archivists and for what reason. Maybe the speaker appoints the role as a way to protect the city from the fears?

All that said, it would be very funny if the current Archivist was Rahool and he's just too busy doing his normal archiving/decrypting job to notice the supernatural side of his job.

#tma #the magnus archives #destiny 2 #destiny #osiris destiny