#mag 105

[belpheg0r-luna]

So mag 105 is just there to make me sob uncontrollably isn't it?! Isn't it?!?!!!!! God i hate this episode so much! It's not even anything supernatural! It's just war! Manmade! war! 😖

#i cant stop crying #the magnus archives #mag 105 #total war #tma #tma podcast #war #war fiction #war crimes #jonathan sims #gertrude robinson #belphegor luna

[a-mag-a-day]

I don't really remember much about Total War except for two things:

-My fixation on diversified sister foundations to the Magnus Institute started here, and

-...Jon knows Chinese??? Oh no wait hol up it's just funky eye powers such a disappointment

Your Jon Archivist devise has new Google translate updates ready for download

#a mag a day #tma #the magnus archives #episode asks #mod ashes #tma spoilers #mag 105 #thatguyatthetypewriter

[yeetcats]

#mag 105 #tma 105 #tma #the magnus archives #aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah #tma s3 #Martin too but just presently specifically worried about Tim

[burninginthegymplplinko]

MAG 105 - Total War

doodle 105/200; days left 2/110 20/128

wwhgggbbbhhh? ¯\(･_･ ;)/¯ idk i don't like war statements that much tbh

#tma #the magnus archives #tma 105 #mag 105 #yet againg spent too much time on a single episode. im horrible at this. #tma s3 #-

[sky-bee42]

Nesting instinct

Jon: (After reading the entire statement)This is all written in French. I don't speak French.

Total War

Xiaoling: (In Chinese) You speak Chinese? Jon: I don't, why? Also Jon: If only I spoke Mandarin or Cantonese...

This man.... is so clueless sometimes (most of the time)......

#tma #the magnus archives #mag 102 #mag 105 #jonathon sims #jon sims #jon: can understand languages even if he doesn't actually know them #also jon: damn i wish i could read any more of these STATEMENTS #MY GUY YOUR WHOLE THING IS READING STATEMENTS IM SURE YOU COULD READ DANY STATEMENT IN THAT DAMN LIBRARY #does anyone else constantly think about this

[find-me-in-hell]

this librarian asking jon if he speaks chinese and him fully understanding it but still saying no, okay you silly man

#mag 105 #tma #jamie listens to tma

[locheye]

"I came for no cause but violence and greed, and have been humbled by the unimaginable brutality of true and total war. I have nothing left, except a hope that what remains of my own life is neither long, nor memorable."

I- fkdjkdkdlfjkdjdldkx

I am so normal about this statement.

#mag 105 #total war #tma #the magnus archives #I have been listening to this episode on a loop #I'm not even Slaughter aligned wth- #it's just so good I can't help it

[themagnustournament]

Redemption Round 2 - Match 29

Far Away is our highest seed to go to the Redemption Zone! It's here with 203 votes from Round Two, and is against Total War which had 65 votes in Round One

MAG 121 - Far Away | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Oliver Banks, regarding his dreams and trying to run away. Statement given directly to Jonathan Sims, Head Archivist of the Magnus Institute, currently unresponsive.

MAG 105 - Total War | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Second Lieutenant Charles Fleming, regarding his experiences during the Taiping Rebellion.

#the magnus tournament #the magnus archives #tma #mag 121 #mag 121 far away #far away #oliver banks #jonathan sims #the end #end #mag 105 #mag 105 total war #total war #charles fleming #the slaughter #slaughter #redemption round two

[oaxleaf]

mag 105 - total war

i am starting to notice a pattern that slaughter statements are almost always amongst my favourite. especially the ones regarding war and more wide-scale violence. i guess it's really common to get interested in history through war, but i have always been particularly interested by the more, idk, philosophical? side of war

this statement has a lot of themes we've seen before, and perhaps the biggest of them is the desensitization to violence that is brought along with war. both in the moment, but also when looked back upon. the statement just loads on violence upon violence, and it is all too much to go into in any greater detail. the idea the slaughter of thousands of people can be turned into a footnote in a textbook, that the descriptions trying to capture the horrors of it can be turned into dismissed clichés, is in itself horrifying. which is what i suppose marks this one different to other statements regarding desensitization - this one is (at least in my eyes) about how there is just so so much of it that it is impossible to even attempt to truly present all the suffering

honestly, the slaughter barely needs a ritual. is it ever mentioned trying to make one? because it'd be really hard for any avatar to try and organize something that would feed it as much as these large scale wars

moving on to other matters - how do the other institutes work? did jonah magnus start them all? are they also driven by eye avatars? or are the heads of them just normal academics who really liked ghost stories as kids?

#tma #a mag a day #mag 105

[lycanlovingvampyre]

MAG 105 Relisten

Activity on my first listen: putting up a new fence

XIAOLING: "Oh, 你说中文?" JON: "I, I don’t, why?" XIAOLING: "… How long did you say you have been Archivist?" JON: "Uh, about two years now." XIAOLING: "Well, Elias made a good choice." Am I the only one you finds it super uncomfortable when people talk like that about(/to) Jon (Elias did that too in MAG 92 and 102). I can't really describe it. It feels dehumanising, like they don't talk to/about him as a person. Also, knowing that Elias does not have good intentions with Jon is probably also adding to it.

Statement from the 1800s. I always have such a hard time with those.

I'm halfway through the statement and I have no idea what's going on. My brain just goes blank.

So basically this Lieutenant was followed by war ghosts?

JON: "Some long confession he left tucked away in a library somewhere, telling me the ancient chant I need to stop the Unknowing from coming to pass?" Well, you could say Gerry's knowledge to stop the Unknowing was among the pages of a book, so it’s library related^^ And that ancient chant will be for something different^^

JON: "Hang on, I think… I think this says 2004. Yes, 1992… 1997… 2004." Hmmm... Did Gertrude read that statement when she was researching the Slaughter ritual?

JON: "I mean, in 2004, yes, but I-I need information about her visit three years ago. Did, did your assistant find anything about that?" XIAOLING: "Yes. There were two accounts that Gertrude took out in 2014." Was one of the two statements MAG 137: Nemesis (like the ship in this statement)? Do we ever find out?

@a-mag-a-day

#a-mag-a-day #mag 105 #tma #tma spoilers

[chaoticpinetree]

So, last episodes

I still think it’s super neat that Jon just… Understands languages now. Very cool hehe.

Also oh god Elias. And the way he goes from inserting traumatising memories into Melanie’s head to being a polite, smiling asshole again damn.

AND SO JON NOW NEEDS STATEMENTS TO SURVIVE, HUH. So. That’s something. Of course Elias knew, of course he did. This in itself is a massive angst potential. Then his trip to America turned into a murder trip and just afsgjsfshg. At least that woman wasn’t hunting him heh.

#tma #tma reactions #the magnus archives #mag 105 #mag 106 #mag 107

[portuguesedisaster]

Jon, you are so clueless.

#mag 105 #he is now hearing other languages and understanding everything #tma #the magnus archives #carol listens to the magnus archives. #wow wonderful The institute has friends.

[a-mag-a-day]

I always imagine the woman in the Chinese institute being non-plus hearing Jon speaking and reading Chinese while insisting in not knowing the language (I know that IS not exactly how it went, but still)

Honestly? The pluri-language power IS the BEST beholding power

It’s definitely be a skill I’d like to have.

#a mag a day #tma #the magnus archives #episode asks #mag 105 #marlasomething #mod elian

[roguecanoe]

Mag 105: Total War

#inktober #the magnus archives #tma #mag 105 #total war #tw death #hope you enjoyed #ye!

[tiny-yoongienthusiast]

Me at the 18 minute mark of mag 105: Oh! Tai Ping not Typing Rebellion

#tiny thoughts #the magnus archives #mag 105 #I’m stupid your honour

[penguinie-18]

theory: if they did all the fear rituals all at the same time they would all cancel out and nothing would happen

#i mean think about it #the fear rituals are about like. bringing more of that fear into the world right #so if they did them all at the same time then there would be equal amounts of each fear #and nothing would happen #tma #the magnus archives #I’m only on mag 105 please don’t spoil