#the magnus archives

[mangozic]

my dead goth son and his friendly neighborhood personified concept of insanity

#really happy with how michael turned out :] i might stick to this design #rapunzel ah glowy hair <3 #i do need to workshop gerry though orz #have been working on this during breaks from my other projects and god it took way too long to finish #fun fact the final file for this is over 2gb 👍 forgot i was recording the timelapse #i could post it if anyone would be interested #the magnus archives #tma #michael distortion #michael shelley #tma michael #tma distortion #gerard keay #gerry keay #tma gerry #gerrymichael #doorkeay #technically? i’m not one to draw ship art usually but this one’s close enough i think #tma fanart #fanart #my art #digital art #illustration #magpod

[momokarp]

More eye halo plus give him a friend!!!

#momoart #fanart #digital art #jonathan sims #the magnus archives #gerard keay #martin blackwood #the magnus archives podcast

[wolfythewitch]

rough jontim animatic as a little treat

#animatic #art #tma #the magnus archives #jonathan sims #tim stoker #timothy stoker #jontim

[dcartcorner]

ancient

#tma #the magnus archives #fanart #simon fairchild #peter lukas #foggyskies

[ciao2-bambi]

Doodle of Jonathan Sims through Season 1-5!

Not the final version I think. But wanted to draw him throughout the season. Had a BLAST and EMOTIONAL ROLLERCOASTER RIDE while listening. BUT I'M FINE.

Anyway, here's a wet cat of a man.

#the magnus archives #jonathan sims #the magnus institute #tma #tma podcast #tma fanart #jon sims #magnus archives #jarchivist #also there's the Admiral the name is such an icon #i love how people call jon: wet cat of a man the word hit me somewhere in my heart

[abellarts]

[ID in alt]

jon should have been able to sock him at least once before s5

#i don't actually know if he socks him in s5 i forgor but like. yeah. #this was for class but i decided to have some fun <3 #i've already submitted this as is but in the future i want to try cleaning this up + adding more frames to smooth it out #and intensify the impact #tma #Jonathan Sims #the magnus archives #Jon Sims #idk whether to tag elias because while he DOES play a major role in the animation idk if elias fans would appreciate this on their feed #rip #abellarts

[bone-apple-teeths]

big fan of artists who depict martin looking more and more like peter every season. also a big fan of artists who depict jon looking more and more like elias every season. like hell yeah remind me how they never break the cycle and are all just replaceable pawns to the same eldritch horrors I love it keep em coming boys.

#bonus points for people who draw sam and alice lowkey looking like jon and martin #tma #the magnus archives #tmagp #the magnus protocol #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #elias bouchard #peter lukas

[mydirtyvalentine]

pretty normal podcast listening experience i think,

#the magnus archives #jonathan sims #the archivist #tma podcast #the magnus protocol #rusty quill #horror podcast #tma jon #library science #audio drama enjoyer/deragatory

[orchidbreezefc]

ok. years have passed and we've had some distance, so i'm finally gonna take the leap of faith that tma fandom is finally ready to hear me on this. let's talk about tannins.

161 was the first tma episode i heard on early release, and i felt the bit where martin declines wine and cites tannins was pretty obvious in its implications. cool, got it, say no more.

imagine my surprise when i was one of maybe three people i saw read between the lines there, in a fandom famous for red stringing--a fandom that immediately caught the much less obvious thread of ignition sources in the same episode. i'll spell it out: alcohol is an issue for martin.

maybe it just felt obvious because addiction is a pet issue for me--as it is for jonny, who has said everything he writes is filtered through a lens of addiction. i don't know if that's due to his own experience or a loved one's, and i won't speculate; i also don't know if martin personally struggled with drinking or just avoids it for fear he would, but alcohol would fit what we know of his family. his dad walking out and his mum spiralling into bitter wallowing and verbal abuse? i'd bet one or both of them drank, yeah.

on a basic level martin tries to decline alcohol, and that alone should have raised eyebrows given what we know of martin and, again, a fandom that dissects everything. we already knew martin "K" blackwood lied about his personal life and his family in particular, especially pre-canon, which is when this flashback took place. i was shocked that everyone took his flimsy excuse at face value with no further questions.

and the excuse is flimsy. martin turns down wine by--nervously--exclaiming tannins are "a proven headache trigger!" which sounds like trivia from a magazine cover and not the words of someone who actually has headaches--and it hasn't come up before or since. jon, confused, points out that tea, a drink martin consumes to a degree that is memetic both in- and out-of-universe, also contains tannins, and martin squawks a panicked, "what?!"

if tannins are enough of a concern for martin that he knew they're in wine and so avoids it, why didn't he know they're in his drink of choice? why does he still drink tea at the time of canon, and why doesn't he struggle with constant headaches from consuming 'a proven headache trigger' day in and day out? why, indeed, would someone avoid wine and not tea?

when sasha insists martin drink he caves and agrees to 'just a drop'. i imagine him pouring it in a plant, which admittedly he could have done if tannins really were the issue. i will say that i, for one, would be less likely to falsely agree to something that makes me physically ill than to a private issue that i'd rather not be pressed on any further. this scene also establishes martin's birthday was an ice cream party instead of the more traditional visit to a pub.

also, this scene was in the first episode of the final season, as one of three flashbacks that could have been to any pre-canon event in the archives. prime narrative real estate. not really time one would waste on establishing the important character context that martin has... headaches. which never comes up before or after, even regarding the week he spent in spiral town. but you know what is pretty crucial character background...?

it felt like a no-brainer, and yet all i saw was h/c fluff about jon attending to martin's headaches. and i hate feeling bitter about disability representation. i want folks with chronic headaches to feel seen and have fluffy escapist fantasies. i don't want to be mad about people portraying a character with a disability. but, guys? you got the wrong disability. jonny sent a clear message, and it went over fandom's head.

#martin blackwood #tma #the magnus archives #tma meta #the magnus archives meta #tma 161 #mag161 #sage speaks #sage original post #meta #im sure others caught it that i didnt see but listen. i was DEEP in the fandom. people getting it made up maybe 1% of the response i saw #and i had people fighting me for saying it #alcohol cw #alcoholism cw #addiction cw

[syb-rooks]

Statement of Siobhan Thompson regarding the creature pretending to be her coworker, Grant O'Brien.

#game changer #the magnus archives #tma #mag #zac oyama #grant o'brien #dropout #not!grant #i started the magnus archives a couple weeks ago #its fuuun #siobhan thompson

[clawfootcoffin]

gertie and gerry :3

#trying to art meme my way out of artblock #tma #this is technically tmagp versions of them but i dont wanna muck up the tags #gerry keay #gertrude robinson #my art #the magnus archives #ik gertie would never. i just Needed to draw this

[mordenandmerry]

I’ve seen so many versions of the tma finale where Jon is a distorted thing with a bunch of eyes floating above the ground but hear me out:

The moment Jon becomes the pupil of the eye, he looks even more like himself than he’s looked in years.

I dunno I feel like the implications are kinda sick.

#the magnus archives #tma #tma podcast #magpod #tma shitpost #jonathan sims #jon sims

[momokarp]

God, could you imagine if more of Gertrude’s assistants lived and worked together?

#momoart #fanart #the magnus archives #gerard keay #michael shelley #digital art

[friccafracc]

every time i remember martins poetry i go into a fit of hysterics. HES SO BAD AT IT BUT HE LOVES DOING IT SO MUCH....ITS HOW HE EXPRESSES HIMSELF.....TO ME THAT IS THE PUREST FORM OF ART

#txt #tma #the magnus archives #martin blackwood #tma martin #HE IS SO ASS #AND I LOVE THAT SO MUCH

[beegs-bugs]

Live footage of Jon gaslighting himself into thinking he’s only jealous of Peter Lukas because Martin is such a good assistant. No other reason.

Art by my irl friend Vin Who Isn’t On Tumblr

#vin who isn’t on tumblr #Vin’s art #jonathan sims #the magnus archives fanart #the magnus archives #tma #tma jon #caption by vin #she just finished s4 im so proud #also her iPad crashed and wiped All of her old art— she drew this today #he’s holding a teacup. do u get it. #hes so in love #also in denial #in deep denial #vin who isn’t on tumblr’s art #digital art #jarchivist #tma s4

[dcartcorner]

Commission for @chrisis-averted for the fic, "Rewind. Reset. Rewrite." Thank you for the support!

#tma #the magnus archives #fanart #fanfic #jonathan sims #breekon and hope #cw: blood