#for the sake of the archive and myself

[disabled-dragoon]

Good news: I've fixed the absolute mess that was the archive organisation system. It is now semi-functional once again and I can get back to adding books on

Bad news: May have overdone it on the buttons. I now have to add more things to it which may break it all over again. I still have to go over every category and make sure everything is where it is supposed to be. I already know one thing is not in its designated area but I cannot figure out what it is and its driving me up the wall. I've been in triple digits for a while now on the books but I still have well over 150 to add 🥲 [smiling face with tear emoji]

#still launching in the New Year #its for the best at this point #for the sake of the archive and myself #but this should make it better #it at least looks more presentable now #archive update #book archive #the disability archive

[starapture]

#a jon tma for old times sake #ik hes usually green but i had just been drawing cecil and confused myself #also its 3am this daily drawing thing is hard #jonathan sims #the magnus archives

[the-magpie-archives]

TMA characters as texts my sister's sent me:

(part 3)

Melanie:

Daisy recovering from the buried:

Elias:

Jon, suffering immense horrors at work:

Martin:

Gerry:

Martin transferring to the archives:

Everyone to Basira for enjoying working in the Archives:

Leitner @ Jon:

#A few of these call me out directly but I can put myself on the line for the sake of comedy 😌 #As usual the actual contexts of these texts are even funnier than the jokes! #tma #the magnus archives #the magnus institute #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #daisy tonner #basira hussain #Melanie King #elias bouchard #gerry keay #jurgen leitner #tma memes

[theunconcernedembalmer]

idk how long my laptop will survive seeing as i hardly use it anymore so anyway here's an abandoned project from a couple of years ago where i ambitiously tried to make an rpg with the yokai outfits. here are some sprites i made

#identity v #aesop carl #identity v embalmer #joseph desaulnier #identity v photographer #tracy reznik #identity v mechanic #this is a part 1 i have more. but its not enough for an entire game #i had a couple of glaring plotholed i couldnt resolve #n tbh by the time i got to the other sprites i didnt like the way aesop n joseph turned out cos i did them first #i also meant to shade them but i couldnt get around to it. i think the flats are nicer but i also feel like i should shade #project death by perfectionism. if anyone wants to hear more im more than happy to share about this #i could probably dig up the docs somewhere. i dont have the time or energy to make a full blown game #i am so bad at coding #also shoutout n apology to ish aka azzy mun cos she offered to help with this #but i disappointed both her and myself by not having anything very concrete. im sorry ish but also thank u for the help #anyway seeing as the blog is slowly dying due to lack of asks n interactions n also my full time job that hates me #i might as well dump these here for archive sake #unconcerned art #part 2 coming soon

[elliwoods]

In such a weird spot right now, very much debating a reblog sideblog

I know tumblr is all about "reblogging is good for the ecosystem!" which, yes! Reblogging is such a help for art! But at the same time I am one of those people who doesnt follow people who reblog too much because I get stressed out easily when there is too much stuff on my dash to catch up with. Which leads to me missing out on some cool peoples art. And I KNOW I am not alone in this mindset

I am currently trying to keep a balance between 'reblogging enough to get attention on smaller art posts' and 'not posting enough to cause people to unfollow me' but ah, thats hard....

#shrug #thoughts ig #but at the same time im like. hmm #2 blogs is enough.... actually.... #haha 2 blogs left *gets smacked* #another part of me wants to make a reblog sideblog for the sake of archiving purposes #I tried making that years ago actually but then deleted it after 3 reblogs #because I relogged some fanart to main by accident and got embarrassed LMAO #hell yeah #embarrass myself in front of the what the 100 followers I had back then? #good lord turtles exploded this blog #@intotheelliwoods was just supposed to be silly occasional fanart......... #what happened to you #turtle hell #this is also why whenever I do reblog some art on @intotheelliwoods #its typically some like. small artist little note post #that def needs some more attraction #I would LOVE to reblog friends shit but then!!!!! #ugh!!!!!!! #I would be reblogging so much and I fear I would scare off people aha

[so2uv]

i’m cooking. and by cooking i mean making / moving to a new blog

#💭. mutters ! #and moving all my side blogs there and then archiving this blog lol #i need a little change in pace and also to rebrand myself a bit #i’ll keep this blog up for memories sake lol

[shikai-the-storyteller]

Clawing at the walls I hate that I don't have enough time to keep up with all the QSMP and Purgatory POVs / lore I'm interested in, I JUST WANNA KNOW WHATS HAPPENING!!!! I WANNA SEE IT ALL!!!!!!

#i talk #qsmp talk #purgatory talk #IM A SPONGE FOR KNOWLEDGE AND INFORMATION AND THE CONSTANT FLOW IS EXCEEDING MY ABILITY TO ABSORB #by which I mean being an adult with a full-time job makes it so hard to be a QSMP fan OTL #I just wanna know all the things... and not just summaries I want all the juicy details #I want to know the exact quotes I need primary sources #I don't like hearing things second-hand and even when I DO hear them from trusted sources #I like looking things up myself because #what was the tone? what was the context? what was the response to what was said? #It's important!!! It can change my entire perspective rather than if I just took a quote or summary at face value!!!! #agh!!!! #QSMP / MCYT as a whole was the worst possible media for me to get into because it's IMPOSSIBLE to know it all #Meanwhile I'm cited the official gosh dang Transf0rmers wiki #because I'm literally the ONLY person who transcribed an interview from one of the (at the time) recent TV show writers #I wish I'd known how to archive / download streams at the time. It's lost media and I'm so glad I summarized things / transcribed stufd #* stuff. But I could've done it even better... #anyways that's a big reason why I run R.A. I want the clips for my own sake but I also like providing context for other fans #agh. I AM mostly exhilarated with the Purgatory 2 things because Quackity's commentating is SO fun #and it's a good way for me to keep up w/ multiple POVs without watching 10 streams at once #but I'm still missing out on things. And I've missed SO MUCH QSMP lore. #I never used to miss a Phil stream but now I'm so behind on VODs #OTL #none of this is super serious complaining this is more of a ''man wouldn't it be nice if I could do it all?'' thing #Anyways. Idk if you read tags Bell but if you see this — you're a real one for posting so many clips #I appreciate you so much #*** Meanwhile I'm cited on #missed a word there

[neon-merrick]

i am stuck at my job magnus institute style

#i literally can not bring myself to quit or hand in a two weeks notice #like i want and need to for the sake of my health #i have looked up other jobs and how to write up a proper 2 weeks notice #have i done anything to actually go through with it? nope. #of corse not. #is this how tim felt trying to leave the archives/institute? because i understand his anger now... #tma #the magnus archives

[vectorworm]

damn. watching sex, lies and videotape (1989) and my guy has problems with human connection i can relate to

#movie night :-) #this movie is on internet archive and has james spader in it :) #MAYOR SPOILER AHEAD: #to cite: #'Anne you dont have the slightest idea who i am. am i supposed te recount all the points in my life leading up to this moment and #then just hope that its coherant? That it makes some sort of sense to you? It doesnt make any sense to me. #You know... i was there! I dont have the slightest idea who i am and im supposed to be able to explain it to you. And why? #Tell me why. Why do i have to explain myself to you?' #but also: can asexuality please exist without being pathologized for christ sake #about me #sex lies and videotape

[hyunubear]

whew... i just cleaned up my saved urls... deleted every url i never used bc i will probably never use them anyway.

also, heads up, im changing to @ babieken soon for as long as this vixx promotion lasts (which probably isn't that long).

do we have anyone from my babieken era here?????hello???

#i just searched up 'vixx' to see how many active vixx blogs there are and the answer is.... none? #i mean none that are specifically vixx blogs #there is one who i blocked a while back sldjlsdjf #there are a few multis who blog abt vixx and make contnet but yeah thats pretty much it #lq-hyuk is surprisingly still active #vixx net is too. but im guessing only for official stuff #like i dont think they'll be posting fantaken pics and stuff like a data blog would #i might do that #just for the sake of archiving them for myself #bc i don't think that many ppl following me care abt vixx sldjlsdj

[anonymouslymadebydesign]

ah, would it be cringey of me to make a magnus archives OC ? probably , but im turning 24 soon so who cares if im cringey or not

i think so long as your happy and you aren't harming anyone, you should be as cringey as your heart desires 😤

#the magnus archives #tma #tma oc #tma ocs #cause why not #we all die in the end #why die with regrets #why deprive myself from happiness for the sake of a stranger's jurisdiction

[polarisjisung]

im not the anon whos asking abt if u saw nct but UR SO REAL ABOUT THE NCT NATIONNN

NO BC ID GIVE EVERYTHING UP SO FAST TO SEE THEM

like black on black LIVE?!?! and ot7 boom GAWD I AM SUCH A BOOM ENTHUSIAST and let's not even talk about pado and the bat because we all know how that went

#huasks #huanons 🌸! #convincing myself nct nation wasnt real for the sake of my sanity #literally how do you even survive after seeing the bat irl 🤨 #AND PADO? #i just wanna see jaehyun do the little funky movey groove he does at the end of the archiving video #just once 🙏🏼

[talkingpointss]

it is a joyous day for all of my followers who Were Not Here originally for my blatant au-posting as i have now just officially made a sideblog! all further anachronism posts will be made at @oxeye-daisyy from now on, so if you followed me for that and wanna ensure you can keep seeing those, go follow me over there! :D

#anachronism #condolences if you decide to do it right away though because i'm about to go on a reblog spree from myself #for the sake of keeping all of the significant posts archived

[electroniccollectiondonut]

okay yall turns out the reason i am feeling so unhinged about tma is that i managed to trigger a manic episode when i listened to 39 so i am going to be so incredibly insufferable about this for????? idk i've been in a low since like november so we're gonna see how long the mania carries me i guess.

#the magnus archives #< i WILL keep track of myself in the tags goddamn it! #anyway i just put like 500 words into the discord chat because mania + caffeine=fast typing and desire to type #so even though i was attempting to be brief in the discord for the sake of not being incrediblY annoying i still talked a lot #anyway yeah here goes i guess. gonna go write son jon whump because that what im feelin right now #and manic me is always fun for the first few days so im gonna ride it

[mcmansionhell]

pre-recession, post-taste

Hello, everyone. I hope this blog can bring some well-needed laughs in really trying times. That's why I've gone back into the archives of that precipitous year 2007, a year where the McMansion was sleepwalking into being a symbol of the financial calamity to follow. We return to the Chicago suburbs once more because they remain the highest concentration of houses in their original conditions. Thanks to our flipping predilection, these houses become rarer and rarer and I have to admit even I have developed a fondness for them as a result.

Our present house is ostensibly "French Provincial" in style, which is McMansion for "Chateaux designed by Carmela Soprano". It boasts 7 bedrooms, 8.5 bathrooms, and comes in at a completely reasonable 15,000 square feet. It can be yours for an equally reasonable $1.5 million.

Every 2007 McMansion needed two things: a plethora of sitting rooms and those dark wood floors. This house actually has around five or six sitting rooms (depending if you count the tiled sunroom) but for brevity's sake, I'll only provide two of them.

With regards to the second sitting room, I'm really not one to talk statuary here because beside me there is a bust of Dante where the sculptor made him look simultaneously sickly and lowkey hot.

Technically, if we are devising a dichotomy between sitting and not sitting (yes, I know about the song), the dining room also counts as a sitting room. The more chairs in your McMansion dining room, the more people allegedly like you enough to travel 2.5 hours in traffic to see you twice a year.

Here's the thing about nostalgia: the world as we knew it then is never coming back. In some ways this is sad (kitchens are entirely white now and marble countertops will look terrible in about 3 years) but in other ways this is very good (guys in manhattan have switched to private equity instead of betting the farm on credit default swaps made from junk mortgages proffered to America's most vulnerable and exploited populations.) Progress!

Okay I really don't understand the 50 bed pillows thing. Every night my parents tossed their gazillion decorative pillows on the floor just to put them back on the bed the next morning. Like, for WHAT? Who was going in there? The Pope?

Here's a fun one for your liminal spaces moodboards. (Speaking for myself.)

Yes, I know about skibidi toilet. And sticking out your gyatt for the rizzler. I wish I didn't. I wish I couldn't read. Literacy is like a mirror in which I only see the aging contours of my face.

When your kids move out every room becomes a guest room.

Anyway, let's see what the rear of this house has to offer.

The migratory birds will not forgive them for their crimes. But also seriously, not even a garden?

Anyway, that does it for this round of McMansion Hell. Happy Halloween!

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#architecture #design #mcmansion #mcmansions #ugly houses #interior design #bad architecture #2000s design #illinois

[commanderyes]

The Commander Says Goodbye

I’m not going to lie, I’m extremely anxious as i’m writing this, out of what these news could mean to a lot of people, and my heart feels heavy enough it could drop down my ribcage any minute from now and squish all my other organs. But I’ve been dancing around this topic for a long time now, and I think i’ve finally reached a point where i can’t ignore it anymore, for my own sake.

I hereby announce Commander Yes has come to an end.

As I’ve mentioned plenty of times before, here and to many other people, when I began this comic all the way back in 2018 I was in a really bad, really low place in my life in every sense of the word, and it was a spur-of-the moment decision to cheer myself up, because Path of Fire had just released and my enjoyment of the game had reached fever pitch and I had been playing Guild Wars 2 alone since as far as launch, and none of my other friends had ever really gotten into it. I guess I just, dunno, cried out into the big maelstrom of the community, one voice amidst millions, because i wanted SOMEBODY to look at what i did and revel in the nerdery with me.

And somehow the snowball began to roll and people wanted more and more of what I could do, and I was being actively reached out to, and, well, some time after that I landed my first ever job, I discovered a lot of things about myself, and I found myself in communities that welcomed me with open arms, and many of the people in there have since become among the best friends I could’ve possibly encountered, kindred souls who i’ve shared joys and sorrows for many years and who I can’t imagine living without anymore.

And all the while I kept making the comics, and with every entry posted every week I’d keep having people stopping to comment on them, and whether they were dumb jokes or personal takes on the story, they’d all share how much what I do kept hitting them in the kokoro, and to this day whenever I play anywhere in the game I still get people who recognize me and thank me for doing what I do. It was wonderful, it IS wonderful, and seeing that response motivated me to keep going, because what did still mattered to people, out there.

But I did always say I planned to keep doing these comics until I ran out of energy for them, and I think i’ve finally reached that point.

Because ever since I actually landed that job I’m exhausted and sleep-deprived every other day, so much so that I only have time to work on the comic on saturdays and sundays, and it gets harder and harder to just sit and draw, and at that point it was just more work, and while I still enjoy and play Guild Wars 2 a lot, it no longer consumes my time and attention like I’ve used to and i’ve been having fun with more personal projects, and honestly the direction the story is taking these days does not sit right with me and it’s hard to find inspiration in that, and this might be borderline selfish but every year I find people care less and less about the comics and it really takes a hit to you motivation when hardly anybody responds after you’ve spent a whole weekend trying to squeeze a five-page comic out.

And, well, I have been doing these for six years straight, and I think that’s a good run. I’m tired, and ready to move on, at long last. Let it be someone else’s turn.

But that’s the beautiful thing about this community, isn’t it? Even if I’m hanging up the hat, there are a whole lot of fantastic artists out there, as we speak, still cranking out works of art, deserving of all the attention they can get. And think of all the artists yet to come! For every story that ends, another story is just about to begin!

The world keeps on spinning, one way or another.

I’ll be closing my patreon shortly after this, but the reddit archives and tumblr blog shall remain for people to browse whenever they feel like (or until they both go in flames, i guess, what social media isn’t about to these days)

I still don’t think I ever was that much of a big deal, but all the same, to everyone who’s ever supported me and helped me be the person I am right now, to everyone who’s been there from the beginning, to all the devs of this game that has captured us for nearly a decade now, to all my fellow players and artists out there

Thank you.

See you out there, fellow commanders. Still the stars find their way.

#guild wars 2 #guild wars 2 fan art #guild wars 2 fan submission #snargle gutslurper #commander yes #that's all folks #thank you for everything #keep loving yourselves okay? you're worth it #all of you #see you in the game :)