#rq network

[nanaarchy]

let them be happy for ONCE 👁🌧

#tma #the magnus pod #the magpie #mag pod #the magnus archives #jarchivist #jon sims #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #jmart #jonmartin #the admiral tma #georgie barker #rusty quill #rq network #tma fanart #fanart #art #illustration #digitalart #ibispaintx #ananapost #the magnus archive fanart #the magnus podcast

[lesbeansprout]

Gentle reminder that when you talk about podcasts on the Rusty Quill network, remember that the shows are created and produced by independent groups, not RQ themselves. The network is a great tool to uplift these smaller creators, so as listeners, let’s do our part in supporting them as well!

#audio drama #rusty quill #rq network #podcasts #silt verses #old gods of appalachia #milkmen of st gaffs #the program #malevolent #i am in eskew #we’re alive #the town whispers #the storage papers #the deca tapes #I’m definitely forgetting some shows but point stands

[victorianlonging]

so that article about rq going around? was written by the marketing director of Fable & Folly (another podcasting network)

i won’t say anything else about the content, but maybeeee keep that in mind when you’re reading it 

#rq #rusty quill #rq critical #rq discourse #tma #tmp #the magnus archives #the magnus protocol #rusty quill gaming #trice forgotten #rq network #chapter and multiverse #txt #not dark academia

[thatpodcastkid]

Magnus Archives Relisten 7, MAG 7 The Piper, Spoiler-Free Version

This is a spoiler-free analysis of Magnus Archives MAG 7, The Piper. One of the best-written episodes in the series. Pure poetry.

Facts: Statement of Seargent Clarence Berry regarding his time serving with Wilfred Owen during World War One. Statement given November 6, 1922.

Statement Notes: "Hey you know Wilfred Owen? The famous poet Wilfred Owen? The guy whose poems you had to read in class Wilfred Owen? Yeah, what if he was possessed? Wouldn't that be fucked?" -Jonny Sims at the Rusty Quill pitch meeting.

In all seriousness, this episode is incredible. The description of the three faces of war is so detailed, yet so brief. I want to take a little time to explore each face and set of arms.

The First Face: "One to play its pipes on scrimshaw bone." This line is apparently where the title "The Piper" comes from. As the story goes on, both Berry and Owen describe hearing strange music. This seems to be the "song of war" that the Piper plays, signaling a truly gruesome battle. This song doesn't necessarily warn off or compel the soldiers, but seems to do a bit of both. A war song doesn't just encourage a soldier to fight, but also warns an enemy. Wilfred Owen believes this being is The War itself, therefore its song should encourage violence from all sides, but also instill a deep fear in every soldier.

To me, this face fits with the hand raised "in a crisp salute." This hand and face prevent a false majesty and honor to war. This face tells the soldiers fighting is good, they will be rewarded, they will be valued. But of course, underneath its muddied green coat, all that the War has is a scarred and bloody body. "Nothing remained but the wounds themselves."

The Second Face: I've chosen to associate the face that "screamed its dying battle cry" with "the arms gripping blades and guns and spears." This face seems to represent the adrenaline violence and war brings, even as it kills you. I've always thought adrenaline not as good or bad, but creating more tangible and real emotions than other things can.

The Third Face: "One that would not open its mouth, for when it did blood and sodden soil flowed out like a waterfall." I associate this face with the hands begging for mercy. Clarence Berry is under 22 when this statement takes place, and (the real) Wilfred Owen would be between 22-24. These are practically children. They are going to die. They are going to die before their time, before it is fair. They are going to beg for mercy. This is the nature of war, and so is the nature of The War.

There is an implication that The War kept Owen alive so he could create poetry that glorifies The War. I wonder if this is out of ego--it wanted to be seen as glorious and beautiful--or simply to drag the battle on longer. If it seems inspirational, it will continue.

Overall I think this episode demonstrates the tentative balance World War One held between being "the writer's war" and "the technological front." The war represented a shift in humanity's ability to be brutal, but also spawned art and innovation. This doesn't justify the violence that occurred, but rather the acts of destruction and creation during the war existed in tandem, like two sides of a coin.

Character Notes: I know that Jon was speaking through the statement when he was making fun of Owen's poetry, but the idea of Jon being a cannon poetry hater is too funny for me to ignore

#podcasts #audio drama #rusty quill #the magnus archives relisten #tma #tma relisten #jonny sims #jonathan sims #media analysis #analysis #the magnus archives #Wilfred Owen #rusty quill network #rq network #horror #horror podcasts

[cityelf]

-- a confluence of stars and light that seeps through all you see and consumes everything in its path --

#wake of corrosion #rq network #attempts

[felixcosm]

If the Kickstarter reaches 500k, they'll do a UK live show! Donate here!!

#tma #the magnus archives #statement remains #the magnus protocol #rusty quill #jonathan sims #rq network #tma2 #my contribution to tma at this point is solely the destiel meme

[terra-toma]

Welcome to tiny terrors where we have characters like:

-Cole Weavers as Cole (absent podcast father) putting his entire ass into voice acting a malevolent dog spirit (phoning it in)

-B. Narr as D’s spooky laugh practice compilation

-Mike Lebeau as a valiant impression of Mike Lebeau if he wasn’t a streamer

#tiny terrors #tiny terrors podcast #rusty quill #rusty quill network #rq network #i don’t know how deep into genuine spook this will develop but right now it’s audio production funtimes and I’m having a BALL

[helpimstuckposting]

Malevolent is like listening to a choose your own adventure play through but the person playing keeps choosing all the wrong options

#every time Jon is like ‘you can do this bad thing or you can do this safe thing’ #and every single time Arthur says ‘yeah let’s do the bad thing’ #same though #malevolent podcast #malevolent #rusty quill #rq network

[genderfluidcrowley]

OKAY SO GUYS I AM VERY FINE IT WAS JUST ANNOUNCED THAT HARLAN GUTHRIE (creator of @malevolentcast) IS MAKING ANOTHER HORROR DRAMA PODCAST GNEBBFBEJSHSBWJSJSJEBDHEHHSS CALLED DEVISER

#malevolent #Rusty quill #malevolent podcast #drama podcast #podcast #horror podcast #RQ network #Instagram

[kagekanecavi]

#nine ii midnight #hmm wonder if something came out last night? #woe.begone #wake of corrosion #the night post #malevolent #the storage papers #rq network #the dead letter office of somewhere ohio

[pearlsdiamondsandvodka]

THREE MORE SEASONS OF THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES?????? oh don’t mind me I’m just going insane and crying and throwing up

#the magnus archives #tma #the magnus archives 2 #rusty quill #rq network

[lemondemonology]

The tiny terrors discord is amazing, you should join us 👁️ 👁️

#tiny terrors #rusty quill #rq network #tiny terrors podcast #cole weavers

[muscari-melpomene]

@ fellow rusty quill fans… grabbed this from their Instagram story. Anyone know what it is?

#gotta admit I’ve got a bit of a conspiracy brain after the shit they’ve been pulling #rusty quill #the rusty quill #rq network #tma #the Magnus archives

[moon-and-stars-angel]

After everything that’s come out, the fact the kickstarter grossed so much yet lay offs are still happening feels gross. I really beginning to wonder if there’s any motivation for this project other than profit

#magnus protocol #tma #the magnus archives #rusty quill #rq network

[thatpodcastkid]

Magnus Archives Relisten 9, MAG 9, A Father's Love

Julia Montork.

That's it end of post.

Jk jk this is my MAG 9 analysis. Spoilers ahead!

Facts: Statement of Julia Montauk (not Montork) regarding the actions of her father, serial killer Robert Montauk (not Montork). Statement given December 3rd, 2002.

Statement Notes: This episode utilizes two horror tropes that are rather common, but not often seen together. This is a Serial Killer horror story, but also a "Discovering A Family Member" story. Serial Killer stories are self-explanatory, following the vicious actions of a single killer, drawing fear from the nature of their deeds and the fear that anyone could be next. "Discovering A Family Member" is the name I use for horror stories in which someone discovers that someone in their family is a monster, literally or figuratively. Think Mom and Dad or We Need To Talk About Kevin. The combination of these two tropes makes it so the audience witnesses a serial killer story from the inside out. We aren't afraid of who the killer is going to get next because we don't need the other characters. Rather, the fear we feel isn't that of attacked townspeople, but of a child. We are not afraid because we might be attacked, but because the person who's always protected us might be the thing we need protection from.

Something that really stood out to me in this episode is how much Julia expects of her childhood self, repeatedly pointing out things that should have bothered her or made her realize what was happening. Of course, hindsight is twenty-twenty and it's easy to see all the clues after the mystery's been solved, but there was no way for her to know back then. Especially because she was a literal child. This is a very real feeling though. It's common for people to hate or blame their childhood selves for doing things wrong or not knowing enough, even though there's no way for a child be as intelligent or mature as an adult. Julia expresses a very genuine feeling, if not an entirely rational one.

The heartbeat audio at the end of the statement was so incredible. Such a gradual and effective sound. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe this is the first time an outside noise was used to create effect in the series.

Entity Alignment: This is the first Peoples' Church of the Divine Host Mention, and a pretty solid Dark episode, but there's some stuff that doesn't make sense to me.

(Unrelated, but one of these things is the Church's name. We have "The Cult of The LIGHTLESS Flame" and the " Peoples' Church of the DIVINE HOST." One of these groups worships darkness and one of them has a person acting as a spiritual host for all their desires and it's not the ones you think.)

The shed glows when Robert Montauk performs his ritual. For a Dark ceremony, this doesn't really make a lot of sense. The only explanation I can really think of is that this glowing area is somehow "stealing" the light from others. But I don't fully understand how the murders and heart collection truly fuels the Dark. There's probably another aspect that occurs during the tortures Julia sees in the photographs, but I guess we'll never really know.

It's never confirmed that Montauk is a member of the Church, but it is confirmed that at least some of his victims are. Additionally, the light goes out in his cell when he is murdered. I theorize that even if Montauk was a member of the Church, he wasn't killing for the Dark, but rather targeting its members to get revenge for his wife and to protect his daughter. The ritual may offer protective forces against the Dark, which is why the shed glows.

The line that really stuck with me in this episode was "The Darkness was inside." The idea that the darkness isn't an absence of light, but a presence of something else. In a weird, poetic way, Julia foreshadows that the lights going out isn't something that just happens, but fear entering a room.

I also love the use of the Dark as a childhood fear throughout the series. Even in episodes where it attacks adults, many of them still cite feeling like a child again. This is because fear of the Dark is a very primal, instinctual thing engrained in our psyches from the moment we are born. It also makes the stories so relatable. When Julia says she "did as I was told" and went straight to bed, only wandering out to get a drink of water, when the fear crept in, that's something every kid has gone through. It keeps with the recurring fear of the mundane in the Magnus Archives. It's not during the big moments that the fear will get you, but the during the little, everyday ones.

Character Notes: I love Julia. I love her. I think about her all the time. That's it end of post.

#podcasts #audio drama #rusty quill #the magnus archives relisten #tma #tma relisten #jonny sims #jonathan sims #media analysis #analysis #julia montauk #the dark #tma entities #fear entities #peoples' church of the divine host #horror podcasts #horror podcast #horror #rq network #rusty quill network #magnus archives #the magnus archives

[cityelf]

Wake of Corrosion... is a podcast...

#wake of corrosion #rq network #art #horror #gore #attempts #eye strain