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silly-tma-headcanons · 1 month

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had michael shelley not been a lamb to the slaughter with the Spiral, I like to think he would've been an avatar of the Lonely.

the way he speaks to gertrude, despite being skittish and jittery, is not the way you talk when you have a surplus of friends, family and generally just people in your life close to you.

#the magnus archives #the magnus archives headcanons #the magnus pod #the magpod #tma #tma headcanons #michael the distortion #michael shelley #michael the distortion headcanons #michael shelley headcanons

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ezrazzle · 20 days

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After slowly chipping away at this for a while, I'm finally done drawing the cast of The Magnus Archives!

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claie171art · 10 months

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Made a comic about that idea I had of the Spot being an avatar of the Spiral! I like to think that him and Michael met and became buddies immediately, and Michael showed him some tricks- like making portal doors for instance

Transcript/ image ID under the cut!

[First page] Miles (landing on the top of Big Ben): “Where is he?” The Spot (coming out of a portal): “Oh! Hi Spider-Man!” The Spot: “Looks like you followed me in London! Haha…” Miles: “Spot! Why are you here?” The Spot: “Uh… For the weather?”

[Second page]

The Spot: “By the way! I made a new friend here. Hold on, I’ve got something to show you” Miles (as the spot goes back in his portal): “Wait Sp-! Ugh… this guy…” Michael (appearing out of a door): “Hello~” Miles: “JESUS!!” Miles: “Who are you?” Michael: “That… is a question” Miles: “what” (They turn their heads as they hear a creak)

[Last panel] The Spot (leaning on a doorframe floating in the sky, leading to a black portal): “Pretty cool, right?”

[End ID]

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vieramars · 1 month

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I love this wet bedraggled cat of a man with all my heart

#vieramars art #gerard keay #gerry keay #tma #the magnus archives #tmagp #the magnus protocol #michael shelley #michael the distortion #doorkeay #gerrymichael #and they have a cat!#the cat's name is frankie #short for frankenstein #not my idea i'm pretty sure i read it in a fic somewhere #celia ripley #i should draw gerry with a cane more #headcanoning him with chronic pain helped me figure out my own

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c0l0re · 1 month

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Songs that I associate with TMA characters

Jon:

The Great Tale of How I Ruined It All - Jhariah

Whose Eye Is It Anyway??? - Jhariah

Violence and Spiders - SAINT PHNX

Honey I'm Home - Ghost and Pals

I Ain't Done - The Crane Wives

Reckless Battery Burns - Ghost and Pals + Vane Lily

Martin:

The Crooked, The Cradle - The Crane Wives

Every Day Is Exactly The Same - Nine Inch Nails

Goodbye - Jhariah

Achilles Come Down - Gang of Youths

My Time - bo en

Sweet Hibiscus Tea - Penelope Scott

Melanie:

Somewhat Damaged - Nine Inch Nails

I'm Gonna Win - Rob Cantor

Take Me To War - The Crane Wives

The Moon Will Sing - The Crane Wives

Where the Girls Are - Gossip

The Afternoon - Lemon Demon

Michael Distortion:

Pathological Façade - Ghost and Pals

You're at the Party - Lemon Demon

Turn the Lights Off - Tally Hall

Mask of My Own Face - Lemon Demon

The Chattering Lack of Common Sense - Ghost and Pals

A Crow's Trial - Vane Lily

Elias:

Kiss Me, Son of God - They Might Be Giants

Laplace's Angel - Will Wood

Weight of the World - Shayfer James

Lifetime Achievement Award - Lemon Demon

BAD LUCK! - Jhariah

Sympathy For the Devil - The Rolling Stones

#tma #the magnus archives #tma headcanons #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #melanie king #michael distortion #elias bouchard #colore speaks #i may or may not partially be making this post to spread my music taste :)))#jhariah my beloved <3333 #also lemon demon. and will wood. and the crane wives. my beloveds <3

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mikothemushroom · 8 months

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I still have to make a proper Gerry design

#theyre so gay #doorkeay #art #digital art #fanart #tma #the magnus archives #the magnus pod #tma distortion #tma podcast #tma headcanons #tma memes #meme #michael shelly #Gerry #gerard keay #doodle #doodles

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stardewsnail · 1 year

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✩ Misc Stardew Valley appearance hc ✩

- Sebastian and Maru both have freckles

- Alex’s hair is like that because after puberty it suddenly got curly and he still has no idea how to style it so he just gels the shit out of it

- Elliot has a roman nose with a bumped nose bridge

- Elliot is lanky, every part of him is just a little too long he’s built like slenderman

- Nobody ever guesses Harvey’s height correctly because he always holds himself to appear smaller and more friend shaped (something he does just by nature but also because it’s a manner to set his patients at ease)

- Shane is so broad that people often are surprised to hear that he’s under six foot. He’s got a big presence

- Elliot has a few silver hairs in the mix, he thinks they make him look distinguished

- Shane’s nose has been broken before and now sits just a little off

- Penny is perpetually a little sunburned

- Pam draws on her eyebrows because hers are so blonde they’re nearly invisible

- Robin’s hands are covered in little scars from years of using sharp tools.

- A couple of Sam’s fingers are a lil crooked from breaking them skating

- Harvey can’t grow a beard—it’s a goatee or a mustache. He chose the mustache

- Alex has big hands—like almost weirdly big. It was great for gridball

- Haley and Emily only look alike when you see them with their parents and you can map out the features all four share

#stardew valley #sdv #sdv shane #sdv sebastian #sdv sam #sdv alex #sdv harvey #snailwrites #stardew valley headcanons #sdv headcanons #sdv Maru #sdv Robin #sdv Elliot #idk why I always imagine Elliot looking like distortion Michael from the magnus archives

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thermodynamic-comedian · 1 month

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allowing myself one (1) angsty post cuz i already wrote a whole fic about this idea.

so, "the eye as the fear of being outed" this is known. but have you considered "the spiral as the fear of living your entire life closeted"

michael was chosen by the spiral because of how much of his life was marked by madness. his old friend from school, him seeking out the eye as an antidote for his own doubts and confusion, and, finally, the betrayal that led to his death.

but what if helen was chosen by the spiral because of how connected she was to the idea of lying. what if she'd been lying about something her entire life, to the point where her entire life was an elaborate lie, yes, of course i love my job, of course i trust my friends, of course i'll get a husband, just give it a few more years. she lived her entire life like this, and it was never her fault, it was a situation she was forced into. she could never be honest. the spiral marked her an excellent liar.

#they're both so tragic like that. michael died deep in his doubts and helen died deep in her lies.#tma #the magnus archives #tma spoilers #tma headcanons #michael distortion #michael shelley #helen richardson #helen distortion #helen the distortion

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starsh0ck · 4 months

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MAG 101 - another twist

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sleepdeprivationitself · 7 months

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Consider: Michael Distortion using trapdoors too. Him popping up out of the floor or ceiling. Him deciding that he's done with a conversation and just opening a trapdoor underneath him. Him playing a prank on Jon or someone else by surrounding them with trapdoors

Give Michael more trapdoors

#tma #tma micheal distortion #michael distortion #tma headcanons #the magnus archives #ive been enamored with this idea for so long now #i finally remembered i can share it with the world #so i finally might get more trapdoor michael #like hed still use the doors mainly for trapping victims #but the trapdoor has some dramatic flair weve been sleeping on #and being surrounded by trapdoors that if you step on them will fall inward and put you into the distortion would be super scary #so itd feed him #and its such a spiral move #like so distortiony

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silly-tma-headcanons · 7 days

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micheal/the distortion listens to tally hall. specifically good day by tally hall is so the distortion

he does!! he also listens to mika, btw

i havent listened to good day, but I'll take your word on it, knowing the tone of tally hall's other songs lmao

#ask!!! woop woop!!!#the magnus archives #the magpod #the magnus pod #tma #the magnus archives headcanons #tma headcanons #michael the distortion #michael the distortion headcanons

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ezrazzle · 20 days

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After slowly chipping away at this for a while, I'm finally done drawing the cast of The Magnus Archives!

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cherryzlem · 6 months

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Tw// eyestrain, because these are the best type of michael fanarts

Mmh the silly ever <3

#artists on tumblr #procreate #digital art #tma #tma michael #tma fanart #tma podcast #tma headcanons #michael shelley #spiral #the spiral #the distortion #michael distortion #hyperpop #neon colors #tw eyestrain #digital artist

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nucifraga · 4 months

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so... who was going to tell me that my estimates of the tma characters' ages was WAYYY off??

and i know jonny probably meant it to be that way so that there'd be leeway for creative interpretation of the characters and all, but my brain wants them pinned down. so. here's a mini-list/research rant of my favs. presently the list consists of:

Jonathan Sims

Martin Blackwood

Sasha James

Timothy Stoker

Mike Crew !

Oliver Banks

Michael Shelley

Gerard Keay

Three disclaimers – (i) The TMA timeline is a trainwreck. Many assumptions have been made. At least half of them are probably wrong (especially where University is used as an age marker) and also my maths ability sucks because I haven’t done maths in two years, so where there are glaring issues, so feel free to correct me and I will edit accordingly :’) (ii) This is by no means definite. See above. Honestly, attempting to decipher them feels like trying to understand the Spiral. But I’m doing it anyway, because as both a fanfic writer and an academic, I want to at least try. (iii) SPOILER WARNING!! SO MANY SPOILERS! I think the only seaosn that isn't spoiled is maybeeee S5 ???

With that, let's go! [Ages are approximate & as-of 2016 / S1]

Jonathan Sims Age: 28 Birth year: 1987-1988 There seems to be a general consensus on this one. MAG81 appears to be one of the key clues here – ‘Jon says that he was about 8 during the events of the statement and that it happened a year or two after Leitner's library ended, which was in 1994. So he's born around 1987-88.’ [source: reddit]Of note is the fact that he lied about his age and pretended to be older, which is hilarious, and leads me to believe that he’s the youngest of the Archives crew – or at least, near there.

Martin Blackwood Age: 28-ish Birth year: 1988 Has worked for the Institute since at least 2009. He’s lied about having a Master’s in parapsychology, so is likely old enough to feasibly be able to have one. As all institute staff have to at least have a Master’s in something archive-related (iirc), all of them must hence be at least 22/23, assuming the Master’s courses are 1 year long. Jonny has, however, stated that Martin is either a bit older or a bit younger than Jon, and I’m tempted to believe it’s the former (see above).

Sasha James Age: 28-34, 30-ish? Birth year: 1981-1987 There’s like, nothing on Sasha. I’m assuming she’s at least older than Jon, because that might be why he began faking his age. The only possible marker would be that Sasha’s worked in Artefact Storage (for 3 months), Research (for longer, I assume) and long enough in Archives to be considered as Gertrude’s likely successor. So, definitely more qualified, and also older than Jon.

Timothy Stoker Age: 30-ish Birth year: 1986? Tim has a degree in Anthropology from Trinity College (I assume this to be Oxbridge, rather than Ireland or something, since he resides in London), and spent 5 years working at a publishing firm. This puts him at 26 (18+3+5) in 2013 when Danny was taken. As he says he began working for the Institute shortly after, I would assume that this is when he stopped working for the firm. I’ve added a bit of buffer because nobody’s birthdays are given, ever, and also there might have been a bit of time between leaving university and joining the firm and/or leaving the firm and finding the Institute. So – 30.

Okay that’s the core staff, onto my other favs.

Michael 'Mike' Crew Age: 37-ish Birth year: ~1979 My #1 avatar! I did a double-take after I worked out his entire timeline, but here’s the highlights: He was a uni student during late 1997-early 1998 when he went looking for Ex Altiora in Lion Books. I’m assuming he was a first year, because generally uni students stay in the sameish area for the whole course and I don’t see him missing out on an opportunity to Leitner-hunt just because the store was in a slightly out-of-the-way part of town. So! This puts his birthdate at around 1979-1980.

Oliver Banks Age: 28-ish Birth year: ~1987 Oliver Banks’ timeline during & post-Uni makes NO SENSE. Fortunately, we do know that he moved to London around 2005 to do his undergraduate degree at the London School of Economics. Which puts him at around 18 in 2005, and his birth year can be worked out from there. Quick rant about Oliver’s timeline: Oliver is working at Barclays by 2007, and he was recruited after graduating. Which means he both began and subsequently completed his undergraduate degree between 2005 and 2007. That’s literally impossible for a standard 3 year course. Plus, by around 2007, he’s been working for nearly a year at Barclays, so he started in 2006… so apparently he began his degree and completed it in under a year, since the academic year starts in September??

Michael Shelley / Michael the Distortion Age: 31 / 49 / early 50s (but canonically 92 at all points in the timeline) Birth year: ??? I didn’t do the research on this one, so here’s my source because I don’t think there’s any more I can add.This mess is truly Spiral-worthy, which could have been intended, but also may just be the TMA timeline wonkiness at work. There’s also been some speculation that he was hired at even younger than 18, but equally it’s possible that he was hired older, which puts his age squarely into the [I don’t have a fucking clue] range.

Gerard Keay Age: technically 32 Birth year: ~1984 Gerry was born in the 80s, and given that the above source states he was in his ‘late teens’ in 2002, this tracks. Making the assumption that he’s 18 in 2002, I’m going to place his birth year at around 1984. However, he died in 2014 (I’m assuming late-2014, given that he had time to encounter Leitner in London & travel a bit with Gertrude before his death) in the USA, putting him at around 30 at the age of his death. Since he’s dead, he doesn’t really age, but he is ‘aware’ enough to be in existential pain so I’m going to go with Descartes on this one and say he’s ‘alive’ enough to continue counting his years of existence. Poor guy. Doesn’t even get to actually die til August 2017 either.

Part 2 ft. the 4 Grandpas of the Apocalypse here

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hrabraport · 11 months

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#tma fandom #tma fanart #tma art #tma headcanons #tma #michael distortion #michael shelley #tma micheal shelly #tma michael #tma micheal distortion #the magnus archives #hrabra art

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agrodo1ce · 9 months

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here are some avatar designs I did while listening will wood songs

( I know that Gerry isn't an avatar but still)

#rusty quill tma #tma distortion #the magnus institute #the magnus archives #the magnus protocol #the magnus archive fanart #the magnus pod #tma vast #tma michael #tma headcanons #tma fanart #tma #tma podcast #tma micheal distortion #tma micheal crew #tma gerry #tma gerard keay #the Magnus archives pod

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