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theartistichuman · 2 years

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I love you violence I love you descent into madness I love you transformations into an unrecognizable self I love you monsters who were human I love you questioning if I’ve changed or been like this all along I love you being scared I love you secrets I love you twisted coming of age stories

#horror #I’m talking specifically here about books like #hell followed with us #howl #the coldest girl in cold town #episode 32 of the Magnus archives #episode 152 of the Magnus archives #the magnus archives #movies like #Carrie #Jennifer’s body

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a-mag-a-day · 1 year

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The thing about avatars' statements I love so much is that there is always that sense of deep and primordial connection that clearly drew them into becoming an avatar of that Fear - is it love? recognition? belonging? understanding? etc...

Jane became an avatar of the Corruption because the wasps nest sang to her that they loved her.

Simon became an avatar of the Vast because he fell in love with the sky.

Jude devoted herself to the Cult of the Lightless Flame because they offered her a release from her depression.

Hezekiah became an avatar of the Buried because it promised him a restful sleep beneath the earth.

It's so interesting because these statements are scattered around and lesser in number than the other statements about how people barely escaped an encounter with one of the Fears only to be later be taken by them anyway, that when we hear an avatar's statement, it's almost like..poetic or romantic in a way??? if that makes sense?? like the Buried freaks me out but listening to this episode still makes me want to take a nap in the dirt...

The strong emotional connection really does come across as quite convincing to the point of almost relatability yeah

#a mag a day #tma #the magnus archives #episode asks #mod ashes #mag 152 #itssomethingcosmic

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go-to-the-mirror · 1 year

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March, 2023

I MEANT TO DRAW SOMETHING HHHH

Istg, if the only art I make for this whole relisten is for fatigue I'm gonna cry.

Anyway, 152 time!! I love 152, I love Jon and Helen, I love the parallels, I'm excited, ohhh this is so cool we're heading to like fantastic episode WAY TOO MANY NOTES ones really quickly (too quickly, i want to draw something for 160) and yeah! Yeah! Oh god it's almost season 5.

Below is a mixture of amazing words - mostly Jonny's /j (i have some as well) - and rambling. I love this statement so. much. now.

@a-mag-a-day!!!

I'm putting a content warning for I think it's unreality, cause I talk a bit about... not being able to trust yourself, and that could be... not grand for some people.

Statement of Hezekiah Wakely, regarding his career as a gravedigger. Compiled from a series of letters to Nathaniel Beale between 1837 and 1839. Audio recording by Jonathan Sims, the Archivist.

Who's Nathaniel Beale? I feel like I've seen his name before. Unless, of course, it's another Michael situation. There's... Nathaniel Thorp and Nathaniel Lukas. Hmm.

I’ve been installed here some weeks now, and I’m finding myself well-contented, my sexton duties keeping my time employed such as I scarce have a chance to allow myself those dark thoughts that so concerned you when last we visited.

What thoughts, I wonder. It probably mentions it further along, but I haven't really paid attention to this statement enough to be sure. For a while I thought it was "A Gravedigger's Entry".

The Lord gave him that voice for a purpose, no doubt – but sometimes that purpose does feel like it might be providing me a few minutes of unearned slumber

Hehe

My troubled sleep, on the other hand, has not, of yet, resolved itself in any way to my satisfaction. I work myself to exhaustion, cleaning, polishing and looking after the church proper, and I tell you, when I lie abed I can scarce rise again for the weakness I leave myself in. And yet, sleep still eludes me.

Heh, real. I too cannot sleep.

I’ve never quite known a rest like it. Perhaps it is the harder, more physical aspect of the task, or perhaps the quiet rhythm of it. There’s no echo as there is in the church, just the sound of pick and shovel hitting dirt. And when it’s deep enough, when you stand at the bottom, the noise of the world just… fades away to nothing. It is the sort of quiet that makes you feel as though the commotion and hubbub of life were but a terrible dream, and in sleeping you were waking up to peace.

BLANKETS ARE NOT ENOUGH I NEED TO BE BURIED ALIVE

That just sounds so?? Nice??? HHhnhnmhn

There is such peace in the churchyard, you see: to walk atop the soil knowing that, deep below my feet, those blessed souls wait happy and silent in the cool, damp earth, counting the days until the Resurrection. It gives me such warmth to think of that I have taken to spending much of my unoccupied time wandering the graves, and, where the mood allows me, taking my sleep there.

That is creepy, but like... I mean... I can understand it? It's nice to be outside in nights that aren't too cold, it's nice to sleep under the stars, the creepy part is the fact that it's a graveyard, but that can be brushed aside.

But I do long for that rest. I tell myself I wake each day renewed, but I am never as truly satisfied as when I’m in my slumber, and insensible to the world.

This statement is making me want to go to sleep and/or be buried in the dirt.

I do find, however, that when I dig my graves, I have been going deeper. And at times, I worry I might dig so far as I can no longer get out with my meager ladder. Now, those moments – you must not cast judgment on me for this, Nathaniel, for it is simply a passing fancy – but I will often lie myself down on that soft earth, and I will sleep. And I swear to you that the sleep I find there is more blissful than any I have ever found.

A Gravedigger's Envy? He's getting the nice grave sleep, I want the nice grave sleep, how is Jonny making grave sleep sound so appealing?

At least until a few feet down. But by the end of it… oh, I tell you there was warmth in that grave. Whether by my own body or the heat of the soil, I couldn’t say, but it was as comfortable as the fireplace of a public house, and the wind could not reach me in the hole that I had made.

I want that, I really want the grave sleep, that sounds so nice.

I had a dream, then. I dreamt a rain had come. A terrible bitter rain that chilled my bones and turned the soil around me dark and sodden. The walls grew damp and slippery, their firm shape lost as they began to slip and crumble. And then all at once they collapsed, the grave filling in a moment with a wave of mud and wet dirt. In a single terrible moment of utter terror, it was atop and around me, covering my face and filling my lungs with its awful choking sod. And the strangest thing was that it was wonderful. I had never felt such safety as within the crushing weight of earth all around me, the pressing embrace of the buried. In that instant I knew what it was to be dead, and I ached with envy for them.

Ok, hi, I saw a post, and I was thinking about the post, and I'm going to make a vague rebuttal (friendly-like, because they had good points). Hezekiah was afraid before the walls crashed around him. He was not afraid of some other terror, he was afraid of being buried - in the dead way or the forever deep below creation way... I don't know. Seems to be both, fear soup, remember.

The dreamers that have no idea what Smirke's fourteen is, or the supernatural, still affect the dream. Hezekiah associates being buried with being dead, and therefore the fears affect him as if being buried and being dead were similar things. I'm guessing quite a lot of people fear destruction and associate that with their fear of fire. Spiders and control for the aesthetic and also little bug guys fear being trapped when they're in a spider's web. People fear judgement when they're being looked at. (Speaking of, I swear at the shops today everyone was looking at me, like I saw them look at me, I felt their eyes on me, I associated this with the fear of judgement, and was appropriately spooked. What is this, episode 188 of The Magnus Archives?)

Anyway, back to this, Hezekiah's fear transformed into what Hezekiah became. Similarly, Martin - he was afraid of being alone, abandoned, and afraid of being found out. He became an "avatar" of The Lonely and The Eye. Also, would Martin's fear of being alone and being judged overlap, or feel similar? Is this why he gets both?

Mike was afraid of the part of The Twisting Deceit (The Spiral) that chased him, but he also had encounters with The Vast before Ex Altiora, he was afraid of the unfathomable power of that which chased him, he said that the form it took belonged to The Vast, the way he describes the pain of being struck by lightning - how it is so painful that to try to measure it is impossible. That's all pretty Vast-y to me.

Jane... Jane was afraid of the Hive. She didn't want it, she was afraid, she went to it... sure, she was lonely, but looking at her statement, how much of it is the Hive - if we're separating the two - and how much is Lonely? She talks of picking at her skin, of worms that emerged from the ground after rain, of an itch that called her to the attic, to the wasp's nest.

Sure, something chased them to becoming an Avatar, but I wouldn't go so far as to say it's "another fear" both because fear soup and because... a lot of their stories are about being repulsed and terrified by something, but getting so caught up in it that you forget that person who was scared, and you hurt others just how you've been hurt. Cycle of violence, babyyyy!

For an example, let's grab Peter and Martin. Peter's from the family of... basically a cult? Sure, he doesn't seem too bothered by it, but humans are social animals, and he was neglected for his whole childhood, that fucks people up @ the person who said yea Peter's childhood was actually fine. Then he becomes an avatar of the Forsaken and manipulates Martin into becoming an avatar of The Lonely in turn, who then - in the Eyepocolypse - hurts people in his domain. It's not one to one, but no analogies are.

I’ve been thinking, Nathaniel, of funerals and bodies. Souls that escape leaving this common clay to become one again with a truer clay. Were we not created from mud? And it seems more fitting to me that we should return forever to that mud, not pulled from it by some would-be Redeemer, or lifted to sing hosannas in his holy court. I’ve worked so long, so hard. Do I not deserve a rest in the mud from which I came? Commit my body to the earth and let it stay there. I’d do the same for you. For worship of the Most High - though it may be earned, perhaps, by He that made the heavens and the earth - well, to my mind, all that prayer still sounds a lot like work.

The difference between this and the beginning. Speedrunning his decent, as it were. The difference between envying the dead, and their rest before they go to Heaven, to wishing that when he leaves the world he stays in the ground. Hmmmm!!

But He is the son of God and we are merely sons of the dirt. We are not as strong as He is, and we deserve rest. We deserve to sleep.

The Buried oft represents being metaphorically under pressure, as Hezekiah is. He wishes to be Buried to finally rest from his work. That's interesting to me.

Also, feels sort of Flesh-y, but in a way where it's like... yes, soup, is not the fear of being one and the same as animals, as already being dead, as being from the earth and knowing one day you shall return all part of the same thing? Is that not a similar fear? Feels like one to me. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, that's about death, that's about the earth, are they not one and the same? We all come from the same earthen roots, people, animals, plants, everything, we are the same, and we will die the same.

I’ve been trying to sleep, but that bell kept ringing, the one over Jacob the baker’s grave. That nonsense safety valve the Reverend insisted on putting there, ringing and ringing, and disturbing the sleep of everyone in the churchyard. I’ve no doubt it disturbed Jacob as well, who worked so hard all his life and never thought to complain of his lot. He deserved to rest. So I cut the cord. And now he is quiet.

Oh, lord, he buried Jacob alive.

But I can see why he did it. He fears being away from the earth, he fears not being able to die, and so he sees it as saving Jacob and I understand that, I can understand that in his position, robbed of restful sleep, the grave being the only place where he can find his rest that he would do this.

I think this statement has just achieved the rank of "one of my favourites," because... that line. "He deserved to rest. So I cut the cord. And now he is quiet."

But worry not, Nathaniel. The love I bear you will not let me leave you ignorant. As I did with the Reverend, I will come and I will show you, once and forever, the true and glorious peace of the Buried.

Wow. Just... wow.

Nathaniel Beale is buried on the grounds of St. Peter’s Church in his hometown of Dunstable. And I am only the third person to know that in almost 200 years, after Nathaniel Beale himself, and Mr. Wakeley, the person who buried him.

Hey, we're still getting post-statement spookiness, but because everyone's just stopped doing work it's with Jon's eye spookiness.

I... wow.

I cannot tell how much of the change that comes over someone when they are taken by one of the Fears is a direct product of their influence, and how much is their own mind, desperately contorting itself to accept and justify the awful things they find themselves drawn to doing.

I have a really good quote that ties in with this, but it's only in the deluxe transcript of Hive (patreon exclusive transcripts that have Jon's notes and are canon, the Hive one is the most emotionally ruining of the ones out (1 - 33 as of 22/03/2023) so far), but I will say that his attitude towards them has changed significantly as he's... become one.

He called Jane Prentiss "the entity formerly known as Jane Prentiss" and now... hm...

It's interesting how his understanding or conception of avatars and the like changing over the seasons, and although season 4 doesn't have a lot of other avatar interactions... Jon's whole humanity thing, it's enough to make it my favourite season when it comes to this stuff.

I have read many statements now by those who are changing, who are becoming – something else, and few if any of them seem… entirely rational. Entirely the people that they were before.

GIDDY LEG WIGGLE LIKE HHJNNHNHEHN!!! Humanity and identity and monsterhood and trauma!!! The THEMES of this podded cast, I'm love, I'm love!

But how can I tell, I suppose. My job is to view people at their lowest, their most fearful and unstable moments. Perhaps there is less change there than I imagine. Certainly, I don’t feel different. I have no desire for pseudo-religious philosophizing, or delighting in the suffering of those I harm. Then again, I suppose I’m hardly in the best position to judge. Perhaps to anyone listening to these tapes I sound remarkably similar to Hezekiah. Or to Manuela. Or to Jane.

So, I talked about this to my (middlest) sister because sometimes when you're this excited about things you just have to talk to people, like actually talk, and I had some pretty good thoughts about rationality, about if you can know if you're a monster. If you're slipping and you can't trust your mind anymore, how can you trust your mind enough to know that you can't trust your mind? It's just, how can you know you're so far gone, if you can't trust you, then you can't trust trusting you, therefore you can never truly trust yourself, can you? Everything is your perception, and you will never know if you can trust that. You will only know that you can't.

I just think that it's very neat, the whole... everything, all of this, it's just really cool, like how would Hezekiah know he's wrong to be responsible for the death of Jacob, for the Reverend, for Nathaniel? Does he? How does Jon know if he's just like Hezekiah, how can you truly know yourself - or understand yourself? Oh boy, this is such a cool statement and post statement.

HELEN Hello, John. Been a while since you’ve been down here. ARCHIVIST (Impatient noise) I didn’t come here to see you. HELEN Oh, come now! I’m sure I’m more interesting company than the late Jane Prentiss. ARCHIVIST It’s all that’s left of her now – apart from a jar of ashes in my desk. Just a circle of rotten stone on an otherwise-unremarkable wall.

Is the circle of stone a mirror? Is the jar of ashes as much a part of you as your rib? What was she trying to achieve, you wondered so long ago and now you have the answer and you still don't know why... why she listened to the song in her dreams, why she scratched the itch, but then again, why did you?

HELEN (Cont.) Ah… But that’s not why you’re here, is it? ARCHIVIST Yeah. I’ve been thinking a lot about Jane. She was the first, you know. The first I actually encountered like… like us. She seemed so… inhuman. Like everything she used to be was stripped away. HELEN And now…? ARCHIVIST I wonder how much of her was still in there. How much did she choose to be what she was? I read her statement, she was… (inhale, exhale) she was scared. I assumed she’d been possessed completely against her will, but now I’m not even sure that’s possible. HELEN It is astounding the sort of thing you’re willing to choose – given an unpleasant enough alternative – isn’t it? ARCHIVIST How much of willpower is just – safety? “Comfort” by another name. The option to choose and be fine.

THEMES OF CHOICE AND HOW MUCH YOU'RE AFFORDED!!! God, I love this so much! I love how Jane Prentiss, our and Jon's conception of Jane Prentiss changes from season 1 to season 4. How it starts with her as an inhuman enemy, no longer the person she was, and changes to be... what was she, why did she chose this, who was she, she's humanised as Jon becomes a monster, knows her. Understands her.

She was scared.

Good lord.

And then Jon's line, "How much of willpower is just - safety. Comfort by another name. The option to choose and be fine." and that choice isn't really afforded to them, it's always these hard choices with one option that's like "at least you don't die", or live in fear, or whatever. The option to choose and be fine.

Themes. So many themes, I love this bloody podcast.

HELEN Hungry, are we? ARCHIVIST (Angrily) That’s not – – I haven’t done anything – HELEN – yet. ARCHIVIST (Roughly) I feel like if I don’t… I might die. Fade away into nothing. HELEN … Do you… Know that? ARCHIVIST No. But I… (frustrated noise) I can’t die. They need me. HELEN Come on, Jon, no excuses. (The Archivist sighs.) HELEN (Cont.) They don’t need your protection.

I DONT KNOW WHAT TO SAY, JUST PODDED CAST!!

ARCHIVIST When does it stop? HELEN (Impatient) What? ARCHIVIST The guilt. The misery. All the others I’ve met, they’ve been – cold, cruel. They’ve enjoyed what they do. When does the Eye (inhale) make me monstrous? (Helen laughs.) HELEN What – why would it ever do that? ARCHIVIST I don’t… HELEN When has your guilt, or your sadness, or your handwringing ever actually stopped you from doing what it wants? ARCHIVIST (Stammering) I-I – I have not been taking statements – HELEN You’ve sworn of other people’s trauma for now because you’re caught. Because continuing would endanger you. But other than that, when has your discomfort ever actually stopped you walking the path of the Beholding? ARCHIVIST I… I don’t know… HELEN Even if it were capable of doing so, what possible reason would the Eye have to change how you feel, when it makes no difference to your actions? Helen was like you, at first. She felt such guilt over taking people. Until one day she realized she wasn’t going to stop doing it. So she chose to stop feeling guilty.

OK FIRST OF ALL SOMETHING I CAN DEAL WITH, SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN JON AND HELEN! Helen went to Jon for help with the guilt, and Jon turned her away because he was scared of what he was becoming. Jon asks Helen when the Eye makes him monstrous and she says no, it's not the Eye that'll do that, it's you. You have to decide to stop feelings guilty about the monstrous things you're doing.

Secondly, *gestures* yeah fr fr! I don't even... I just need to listen to this over and over and have it burned into my mind please :3.

Yeah, well, wow! Yeah! For real for real, this is just like 111, I'm discovering a new love for this statement, I need to make a new "holy shit tma" playlist because. Wow. Wow! Mhm hm! WOw!!! Uhh, well, uhm.

Your most humble servant,

landscaping-your-mind

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girlwholovesturtles · 3 months

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A Gravedigger’s Envy

A story about the End, I'm guessing?

Hezekiah. No there is a name I have NEVER heard before...

Mayhaps the Buried then?

I do quite like the way this has been written.

This is an interesting, and rather pleasant man... hm...

I don't know who Nathaniel Beale is but I'm pretty sure he's doomed this man...

Am concerned for this man... yep, that's feeling like a Buried story...

Oh... oh that sounds horrifying... nah, being buried sounds like a nightmare. I'm getting cremated because screw that.

Buddy, you are slowly drifting into insanity... oh hun... oh... well alright... well that's... not great...

Oh... yeah... this is a lot bud... Nathaniel, he's gonna bury you honey. You better run... well alright then...

Horrifying, thank you for the info, Jon...

Oh, Helen! What's happening right now? Interesting?

Makes sense. Kinda like mold, I suppose.

Does Helen know ho- Okay, so she does know?

"A delightful surprise." What does that mean, woman!

I'm... I'm pretty sure Michael pushed Helen into the door. I'm pretty sure you can use those hands as much as you like, Helen...

Damn Helen, putting him on blast.

Jon... maybe you should stop talking to her. I'm not sure it's very good for you... you know, emotionally speaking.

#the magnus archives #tma #live blogging #episode 152

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MAG 152: "Statement of Hezekiah Wakely regarding his career as a gravedigger, compiled from a series of letters to Nathaniel Beale between 1837 and 1839."

MAG 166: "Lamentation of those left below. Audio recording by the Archivist, in situ."

Statement from Jon is in the perspective of a worm named Sam deep below the dirt.

#basira hussain #jonah magnus #martin blackwood #the magnus archives #tim stoker #sasha james #melanie king #tma #daisy tonner #magnus archives

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sexiestpodcastcharacter · 7 months

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Who is the Sexiest Fictional Podcast Character?

After receiving 219 submissions for 152 characters from 52 podcasts and a round of preliminaries, we have our brackets!*

*20 characters from the podcast Welcome to Night Vale will appear later in a Night Vale-only bracket.

Round 1:

Scripted Bracket

Isabel Lovelace (Wolf 359) vs Cyrille (5 Minuten Harry Podcast)

Krejjh (The Strange Case of Starship Iris) vs Lady Ethel Mallory (Hello From The Hallowoods)

Lord Arum (The Penumbra Podcast: Second Citadel) vs The Witch Queen A.K.A. Daughter Dooley (Old Gods of Appalachia

Warren Kepler (Wolf 359) vs Ashley "Ash" Ramis (Georgie Romero is Done For)

Brutus Feels (Kane and Feels) vs Shan (SPINES)

Sir Caroline (The Penumbra Podcast: Second Citadel) vs The Dragon Narrator (Unseen)

Alé (The Penumbra Podcast: Second Citadel) vs Hester/The Narrator (Within The Wires: Season 1)

Thistle/The Woman (Alice Isn't Dead) vs Sam Bailey (The Sheridan Tapes)

Peter Nureyev (The Penumbra Podcast: Juno Steel) vs Butt (Pounded In The Butt By My Own Podcast: Episode 1)

Alice (Alice Isn't Dead) vs Diggory Graves (Hello From the Hallowoods)

Antigone Funn (Wooden Overcoats) vs Ryan Dallas (EOS 10)

Martin Blackwood (The Magnus Archives) vs Galileo (Let's Make A Music)

Lucifer Kane (Kane and Feels) vs Gin (Story Break: Heaven Heist)

Amaryllis of Exile (The Penumbra Podcast: Second Citadel) vs Mabel Martin (Mabel)

Pilot Pereya (The Penumbra Podcast: Juno Steel) vs Hester Oleta (Within The Wires: Season 1)

Strelitzia (Additional Postage Required) vs Harold "HBD" Bastion Demetrius (The Soft-Boiled Detective)

Akmazian (EOS 10) vs Everyone from The Strange Case of Starship Iris

Damien (The Bright Sessions) vs Mari Datuin (Hi Nay)

Count Dracula (Re: Dracule) vs Static Man (Archive 81)

Dragana Vukovic (The White Vault) vs Elias Bouchard (The Magnus Archives)

Agnes Montague (The Magnus Archives) vs Vega Rex (Vega: A Sci-Fi Adventure Podcast!)

Mina Murray (Re: Dracula) vs Nicholas Waters (Archive 81)

Mark Bryant (The Bright Sessions) vs Laura (Hi Nay)

Georgie Crusoe (Wooden Overcoats) vs Kate Burnham (The Bridge)

Keisha (Alice Isn't Dead) vs SAYER (SAYER)

Chance Sequoyah (The Penumbra Podcast) vs Yaretzi (Hello From The Hallowoods)

Buddy Aurinko (The Penumbra Podcast: Juno Steel) vs Dane (Dreamboy)

Sadie Doyle (Thrilling Adventure Hour: Beyond Belief) vs Hera (Wolf 359)

Tim Stoker (The Magnus Archives) vs The CryptoNaturalist (The CryptoNaturalist)

Rita (The Penumbra Podcast: Juno Steel) vs Lou (Archive 81)

Dr. Joan Bright (The Bright Sessions) vs Ashvin Beeharee (Hi Nay)

Renée Minkowski (Wolf 359) vs Clara Page (Who is Aldrich Kemp)

Unscripted Bracket

Pickman (Friends at the Table: Sangfielle) vs The Shadow Man ('Til Death Do Us Blart)

Beacon (The Adventure Zone: Amnesty vs Glenn Close (Dungeons and Daddies)

Oscar Wilde (Rusty Quill Gaming) vs Grand Magnificent (Friends at the Table: Twilight Mirage)

Taako (The Adventure Zone: Balance) vs Bathin (Stella Firma)

Lup (The Adventure Zone: Balance) vs Sago Glegg (Rotating Heroes: Arc 6)

Sans Undertale (Interstitial: Our Hearts Intertwined: Authority) vs M. Leopold Duvall (Friends at the Table: Sangfielle)

Duck Newton (The Adventure Zone: Amnesty) vs Chine (Friends at the Table: Sangfielle)

Tryst Valentine (Campaign: Star Wars) vs Mini Smithson (Chapter and Multiverse: Masks)

Gable (Campaign: Skyjacks) vs Hector Hu (Friends at the Table: Bluff City)

Michael (The Adventure Zone: Dust) vs Nicky Close (Dungeons and Daddies

Zolf Smith (Rusty Quill Gaming) vs Fourteen Fifteen (Friends at the Table: Twilight Mirage)

Coco Cashmere (Hey Riddle Riddle) vs Trexel Geistman (Stella Firma)

Killian Fangbattle (The Adventure Zone: Balance) vs Henrietta Salm (Pest Control: Fate)

Kalvin Brnine (Friends at the Table: PALISADE) vs Lye "Lyke" Lichen (Friends at the Table: Sangfielle)

Indrid Cold (The Adventure Zone: Amnesty) vs Rigour (Friends at the Table: COUNTER/Weight)

Chunt (Hello From The Magic Tavern) vs Suvirin Kedberiket (Worlds Beyond Number: The Wizard, The Witch, and the Wild One)

Tender Sky (Friends at the Table: Twilight Mirage) vs Pox (NeoScum)

The Firbolg (The Adventure Zone: Graduation) vs Ron Stampler (Dungeons and Daddies)

Azu (Rusty Quill Gaming) vs Hadrian (Friends at the Table: Seasons of Hieron)

Moonshine Cybin (Not Another D&D Podcast: Bahumia) vs Caspian (Just Roll With It: Riptide)

Amber Gris (The Adventure Zone: Ethersea) vs Jens Lyndelle (Not Another D&D Podcast: Trinvyvale)

Perennial (Friends at the Table: PARTIZAN and PALISADE) vs Throndir (Friends at the Table: Seasons of Hieron)

Nadiya Jones (The Adventure Zone: Commitment) vs Ibex (Friends at the Table: COUNTER/Weight)

Cassander Timaeus Berenice (Friends at the Table: COUNTER/Weight) vs Tech Wizard (NeoScum)

Vermillion "Milli" Blue (Friends at the Table: PARTIZAN) vs Dak Rambo (NeoScum)

Rainer (The Adventure Zone: Graduation) vs Mercedes Oak-Garcia (Dungeons and Daddies)

Thisbe (Friends at the Table: PARTIZAN and PALISADE) vs Echo Reverie (Friends at the Table: Twilight Mirage)

Kravitz (The Adventure Zone: Balance) vs Henry Hogfish (Not Another D&D Podcast)

Aubrey Little (The Adventure Zone: Amnesty) vs Glenfyr "Glen" Gladewyn (Not Another D&D Podcast

Cel Sidebottom (Rusty Quill Gaming) vs Adelaide Tristé (Friends at the Table: Seasons of Hieron)

Kardala (The Adventure Zone: Commitment) vs Jacqui Green (Friends at the Table: COUNTER/Weight)

Hella Varal (Friends at the Table: Seasons of Hieron) vs (Former) Confessor Bartholomew Lamentations (The Unexplored Places: Ruin's Gate)

#Round 1 #podcasts #Tumblr Bracket

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anonymouslymadebydesign · 8 months

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Ive been really into The Magnus Archives as of late because one of my close coworkers said

“If you like WTNV then you’d like TMA”

It took awhile to get into , but now I’ve found myself on episode 152 of TMA and im absolutely enraptured

I love John (Jon??) so much. I feel so sorry for him, and find myself wanting to defend him with every breath I take ! Season four has me up in arms like this ! ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ

Everyone is so mean to him and I just want to make him a nice bowl of hearty potato soup (specifically potato) and tell him that everything is going to be okay.

I do Hope everything will be okay , im so close to the ending (╯︵╰,)

#TMA #the magnus archives #tma jon #tma podcast #tma possible spoilers #tma spoilers #tma s4 spoilers #I don’t know if implying everyone is mad at John is considered a spoiler but I’m going to tag it a such just in case #God bless Jon I hope he’s okay #and poor Martin…my boy…my son

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desolationtimstoker · 2 years

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How to Survive the Magnus Archives

An Abridged List of Survival Strategies for Anyone Who May Find Themselves in an Episode of The Magnus Archives.

(I have too much free time, it is very late, and I'm thinking about how you really Can't Win in The Magnus Archives. So here's this, I guess.)

Avoid anyplace where secondhand books can be found. Libraries, used bookstores, antiques shops, and the attics of dead relatives are all firmly off-limits. (Episodes 4, 17, 24, 46, 60, 62, 66, 68, 70, 80, 81, 131 and 134)

DO NOT accept any unexpected or inexplicable promotions at work. (The entire thing, man. You know who this is about).

Also don't take a job which requires you to work in a solitary setting or after-hours (ex. night watchman, janitor, park ranger). (Episodes 33, 37, 57, 69, 109, 114 and 148)

But also don't take a job which brings you into contact with a LOT of people. (Episodes 5, 34, 36, 55, 61, and 87)

I wouldn't recommend anything in construction or maintenance, either. (Episodes 8, 35, 69, 87 and 114)

Also stay off boats. (Episodes 33, 51, 101, 115, 121 and 141)

Get enough sleep :) (Episode 74)

But going to sleep can also be bad? (Episodes 11, 86, 98, 113 and 120)

Go vegan. (Episodes 18, 30, 72 and 130)

Do not care for aging friends or relatives. (Episodes 24, 36, 84, 136 and 144)

Do not live alone with your mother. (Episodes 111 and 170)

Actually it's probably best to cut off contact with your mother altogether. To be safe. (Episode 77 and 111)

Keep your house and person clean. But not like, too clean? It is absolutely imperative that you and all your personal effects remain passably clean. But don't be weird about it, either. (Episodes 32, 93 and 102)

Don't take the underground. (Episode 71)

Actually stay above ground in general. (Episodes 15,41, 51, 53, 63, 64, 132 and 152)

Find a damn good exterminator. (Episodes 32, 39, 45, 55 and 102)

Gouge your eyes out. (Episode 154)

Keep your home and surrounding areas brightly lit as often as possible. (Episode 25, 52, 63 and 73)

Resist the urge to isolate yourself. (Episodes 13, 48, 92 and 159)

But also bear in mind that someone nearby might be a secret monster. (Episodes 78, 79 and 122)

Stay out of abandoned buildings. (Episodes 23, 26, 28, 63, 72, 73, 104, 147 and 156)

When you enter a place, count the doors upon arriving, and again before you leave, and never use a door you don't recognize! (Episodes 47, 101, 79 and 146)

If you find something evil, absolutely set it on fire. (Episodes 111, 119 and 130)

But try not to enjoy it too much. (Episodes 89 and 139)

If a woman is Extremely Hot, but you get kind of an "evil" vibe from her, you're probably better off NOT dating her. (Episodes 67 and 154)

If you find yourself with a spider infestation, pick a god and pray. (Episodes 16, 69, 123, 147 and The Entire Podcast, Basically)

#the magnus archives #my post #anabelle cain #agnes montague #eric delano #not!sasha #idk what to tag this #long post

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annimoose · 23 days

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Me Podcast Listy List:

A list of podcast I'm looking into and adding my thoughts on.

Got any recommendations, feel free to comment or reblog with em. Im wanting to find more. 👍

Anyways,

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Completed:

Malevolent- ✅️

Going to listen to Alice in Chains after that new episode.

Red Valley- ✅️

I am also in shock and confusion. Dipshits deserve it lolololol. Season 3's theme fucking slaps

Deviser- ✅️

So,, humanity really is a bitch huh? I don't think I'm going to sleep tonight, in fact i will be having an existential crisis.

Thanks Harlan. 👍

Wolf 359- ✅️

Yep, I definitely just lost a piece of myself. I will not recover from this. 10/10 would cry again 👍

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Started:

Archive 81- starting ep. 23

Proving my point that men CAN be made breedable

The Magnus Archives- starting ep.13

Ep.6 edit: What sex does to a mf.. 🙄

Old Gods Of Appalachia- starting ep. 3

Finally, a podcast narrator who's an old sounding southern guy, funny too.

Hello From The Hallowoods- on episode 7 /

to be continued

(I'm really enjoying this one, Diggory and Percy my beloved 💖)

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In Queue:

(Going from shortest to longest excluding Nine To Midnight)

The White Vault- 10 episodes

I Am In Eskew- 30 episodes

SCP: Find Us Alive- 52 episodes

(this was the first fiction podcast I ran into and had interests in and yet I still haven't listened to it aaaaaaah hahahah....)

Hello From The Hallowoods- 146 episodes

WOE.BEGONE- 152 episodes

The Magnus Archives- 200 episodes

Welcome To Night Vale- 245 episodes

Nine To Midnight- saving pod as Halloween treats :)

- - -

I plan on going down this line but ey, it might change depending on how well I'm liking podcast or if I simply just want to switch it up a bit.

Idk guess I'll see when I start going through the queue.

Thanks for reading this poorly put together list if you are indeed looking at it. Don't ask me to fix the formatting or anything that might be misspelled or if episode numbers are wrong. I will probably come back and edit this whenever I finish a podcast.

#fiction podcast #scifi podcast #horror podcast #malevolent podcast #deviser podcast #red valley podcast #wolf 359 podcast #hello from the hallowoods #the white vault #i am in eskew #scp: find us alive #old gods of appalachia #woe.begone #the magnus archives #welcome to night vale #nine to midnight #archive 81 #moose rambles

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a-mag-a-day · 1 year

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RIP Hezekiah Wakely you would have loved the "weighted blanket is not enough I need ___" craze on tumblr dot com

Rip

#a mag a day #tma #the magnus archives #episode asks #mod ashes #mag 152 #gilgamushroom

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namusthetic · 4 months

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The Fear Entities (pt.2)

From The Magnus Archives

Disclaimer: The Magnus Archives belongs to Rusty Quill, all credits go to them, I don't own anything, only made the moodboards. The descriptions are taken from Wikia and the lines in italics are quotes taken directly from the episodes (in brackets). Thank you, enjoy 👁️

⚠️ Warning ⚠️: for those who don't know what The Magnus Archives is, it's a horror pod, so in this post will be mention of fears, quotes and images that could be disturbing or sensitive, please be careful

The Corruption

Let their love consume you.

There is a wasps’ nest in my attic. Perhaps it can soothe my itching soul. (MAG 32)

Fear of corruption, disease, and filth.

The Flesh

In the end that's all you are.

It was impossible to tell what had once been animal, and what might have once been us. It was all just meat. (MAG 130)

Fear of having your body changed or destroyed connected to insecurity and self-hatred, specifically regarding one's own body image.

The Stranger

I do not know you.

Who will you be with a name or three, and a stranger's face worn wrong? (MAG 165)

Fear of things that are almost human, but not quite, the creeping sense that something is not right but you don't know what, why, or how.

The Buried

Let the soil embrace you.

I will often lie myself down on that soft earth, and I will sleep. And I swear to you that the sleep I find there is more blissful than any I have ever found. (MAG 152)

Fear of being trapped without enough space, of being at the center of everything and it is all pushing down.

The Hunt

If you don't need its call, that means you are the prey.

As soon as our eyes met, I knew the chase was on, and this time I was the prey. (MAG 112)

The animalistic and instinctual fear of being hunted or chased, of becoming prey.

The Lonely

Loneliness is the safest place you'll ever be.

He calls out for somebody to see him, for somebody to know how achingly hollow he is. He walks and walks and walks, desperate for another voice, for someone to know where he is and what he’s going through. (MAG 186)

Fear of isolation, of being completely cut off and alone, the fear of being disconnected.

#moodboard #aestethic #the magnus archives #tma podcast #the fear entities #tag your aesthetic #rusty quill #jonathan sims #the magnus protocol

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alisoncooper · 1 year

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listening to the magnus archives for the first time: an update

i am on episode 152 and i’ve developed a very sudden and unexplainable crush on elias, which is something i will think about and unpack properly once i’ve finished the series completely, i think.

#there was something about him having the shit beaten out of him #by basira in 148 that just made me feel something #he was so powerful and manipulative and smarmy and awful #and then you just hear his handcuffs #and then he's having the shit kicked out of him and he's a bit Pathetic #like that's Sexy #and i will need to psychologically evaluate myself about this later #effie rambles

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byebiscus · 2 months

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Episode 152 of the magnus archives is so funny. Supernatural forces aside, the way this guy describes the comforting weight of being buried under dirt and wanting to rest in it forever makes me want to introduce him to weighted blankets and melatonin

#to be fair weighted blankets and melatonin could solve a lot of things in this podcast #tma

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