#tma relisten 2

[chaossauceart]

Subtle TMA merch part 11/14

It’s time for the spiral hehehehehhehe. This one is my favorite entity so I had to do it justice

#original art #art #artists on tumblr #digital art #my art #the magnus archives 2 #the magnus archives #tma 2 #tma jon #rusty quill tma #tma #tma rituals #tma relisten #tma podcast #tma fanart #tma shitpost #tma spoilers #the magnus pod #the magnus archive merch #the magnus protocol #the magnus archive fanart

[annabelle--cane]

stepping back from the actual narrative of mag 009 for a second, where the dark is involved because that weird brackish water creature is there, the episode is also all about secrets. julia is kept in the dark about this massive thing for her whole childhood and then she keeps most of the real story to herself until her father dies. the themece.

#in case you haven't guessed I'm doing a relisten rn where I'm trying to make myself go slowly for once #2-4 eps a day max. will power unbeatable. #tma #marina marvels at life

[thatpodcastkid]

Magnus Archives Relisten 2, MAG 2, Spoiler Free

Spoiler free version of my Magnus Archives Relisten about Mag 2, "Do Not Open!"

Joshua Gillespie is the smartest man I know. He is the final girl. He would never go in the basement. He is what all horror protagonists wish they could be.

But genuinely, such a simple and practical solution to an eldritch horror of a problem is so incredible and really proves that Jonny can write items and creatures that are in scary in their own right, not necessarily due to the violence they enact on characters. That's a big part of horror and is what makes so many great monsters scary, but it's interesting to be frightened by something when you don't actually what it does.

Another instance of drug use in this statement. Again, I can't necessarily tell if this is just a device so that Jon can dismiss the statements or if the entities are specifically preying on people in fragile/weak states of mind.

Love that we got a cannon home town for Jon, but it's so funny that he find it "nice to hear that my hometown is not completely devoid of odd occurrences and eerie stories. Ice cream, beaches, and boredom are all very well.." Because actually what the hell. What kind of assessment is that. Another instance of him just abandoning the academic objectivity and being so personal with the listener and so feral as an archivist.

Very strange to me that no one lived in Gillespie's building for his entire residency. I theorize that the man who gave him the coffin (also named "John," like our archivist and the disappeared person from the last statement) had something to do with this. He specifically did not deliver the coffin until after Gillespie spent the money, which he used to buy the flat. It's possible that John somehow manipulated Gillespie into buying this specific flat so he could more adequately manipulate him and try to trick him into opening the coffin.

In spite of this, John is impressed with Joshua. He smiles when he sees the key in the freezer, he finds it funny when Joshua tells him "where he could stick it." Whatever John is, he's not just trying to catch people with this coffin, but is looking for someone to test him. He wants people to disobey the directions, but he also wants to see what people will do to follow them.

#podcasts #rusty quill #jonny sims #media analysis #the magnus archives relisten #tma #analysis #tma relisten #audio drama #the magnus archives #magnus archives #jonathan sims #joshua gillespie #MAG 2 #Do Not Open #horror #horror podcasts #rusty quill network

[all-the-golden-roses]

Deciding which TMA fear would torment you in the event of an eyepocolypse and which fear you’d become an avatar for is the equivalent of figuring out your Hogwarts house

#tma fears #for example the buried and the dark would get me so fast #but I could honestly probably be an avatar for The Eye #because I’m a nosy lil bitch #the magnus archives #tma relisten #tma season 1 #tma 2 !!! #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #tim stoker #kayaking king #sasha james #not sasha #melanie king #tma basira #the buried #the dark #the eye #the distortion

[looks-at-you]

Finally back to relistening to tma and we have made it to:

✨️paranoia✨️

#the cy rambles #the magnus archives #tma #Tma season 2 #tma season two #Cy relistens to tma #tma spoilers #Kinda?? #i guess??

[bitterren]

Some jons for comfort

#they don't look like 2 completely different characters shush #the vibes are there that's all that matters #dbdjks #the magnus archives #magnuspod #tma #jonathan sims #am slowly crawling through a relisten and how I missed them all so #also can't believe I have a habit of not doing fanart for the stuff I'm obsessed with

[apothecaryofthedamned]

oh hello???? OH HELLO?!?!?!

#my magnus archives hyperfixation is back in full swing for…obvious reasons. started my relisten and drew the first 2 eps. i think i did okay #considering i don’t really draw backgrounds a lot #art #artblr #my art #traditional art #fanart #artists on tumblr #artwork #sketch #the magnus archives art #the magnus archives #tma fanart #mag 1 angler fish #mag 2 do not open #rusty quill tma #tma relisten

[t0tally-n0t-3m0]

NO JON!!! THATS NOT SAHSA!!! THATS NOT SASHA JON!!!!!!!

#relistening to mag 40 #tma season 2 spoilers #tma shitpost #not sasha #jon sims

[waterbrand101]

I am definitely on board the "Augustus is Jonah" train. Unless I'm not remembering it 100% right Jon stabbed Jonah when he killed him and didn't do anything with his eyes and Jonah body hopped by transferring his eyes. So there is a chance that all Jon did was kill Elias and Jonah was just hanging out in the eyes still. Meaning when Jon and Martin got computerized Jonah went with them.

#the magnus protocol #i still need to relisten to the last 2 seasons of tma its been awhile

[trainwreckisawreck]

r u having an agnes montague kind of day?

look…

yea

#i’m relistening to tma for the first time in almost 2 years #and i’m still insane about agnes #ask

[hyperfixationoftheweek]

everyone's surprised martin and (presumably) jon are ok when (love of my life) annabelle cane literally said point blank that she had a plan where neither of them were killed or consumed by the powers.............im simply built different 💪

#tma #tma spoilers #the magnus archives #magnus........2! #also thanks rq for dropping this nonsense right at the end of my relisten

[chaossauceart]

Subtle TMA Merch 3/14

The Dark/ The people’s church of the divine host

This one was pretty hard lol- it was all a question of how to portray darkness in an interesting way. I think I got it figured out tho

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[starship--aurora]

episode one liveblog (sort of) let’s go

jon sims you dramatic fucker. /aff

did not miss the four minutes of ads LMAO

you can HEAR the contempt in his voice as he talks about gertrude.

”i don’t count martin” giggling, i love asshole jon.

”tim, sasha, and. yes, i guess, martin.”

ANGLERFISH ANGLERFISH ANGLERFISH.

”recording by jonathan sims, head archivist of the magnus institute, london” DUDE. i don’t know why that took me so aback.

mike. like michael. goddamnit jonny sims, what’s it with mikes and michaels.

THE STATIC.

“can i have a cigarette?”

i love the background music so much.

i remember thinking how much he got into it, how much of a theatre kid he seemed to be.

ANGLERFISH.

”i looked at their feet, and saw that they weren’t quite touching the ground.”

torch. i always forget that torches are the same thing as flashlights.

“statement ends, this was fucking stupid”

sasha mention <3

”look at this drunk creeper, ell-oh-ell.” i hate how he says lol, i don’t know what it is about it LMAO.

episode two!

JOSHUA GILLESPIE <3

i remember one time while rambling to my mother about joshua, she kept thinking i was saying “lesbian” and not “gillespie”.

got bored this is being continued hours later.

joshua gillespie you absolute fucker, i love you and want to kiss you on the mouth.

oh no, what ever shall you do, waking up with the key.

”perhaps a bit elaborate” Joshy Boy Elaborate Is What You Need.

”it’s odd how fear can become as routine as hunger.”

yeah, my living room coffin is making weird noises, Music Time.

ooo, knock knock.

hi john. surprised to see you, shocked to see me.

smash smash on the ground.

breekon and hope, let’s go. i love.

joshua gillespie, the hero. we salute you.

”it’s always nice to hear my hometown isn’t always devoid of odd happenings”

giggle that was great.

episode three!!

tmagp ad, oh em gee (<- this loser listened to tmagp premier today and is very normal about it)

”she sleeps with other women” what is this ad, i want to listen to this podcast. /hj

”rusty quill presents… the magnus archives…” stop with your verbal ellipsis, dude. LMAO

”jonathan sims, head archivist of the magnus institute, london”

GRAHAM!!!!! I love Graham so much.

”hey man, i always see you writing, how’s your notes coming along?” “i. i don’t take notes?”

sexy graham rights.

the amount of times i’ve had to rewind because i didn’t process it.

“hey graham” “HOLY SHIT”

public transport is scary, no judgement there.

i honestly never understood the statement giver’s discomfort with graham. to the point you couldn’t even let him see which building.

yeowch graham what did you do. 😔

“apparently he was gay.”

weird hooks weird hooks weird hooks woo.

graham’s notebooks 🥰.

graham honestly sounds like an interesting guy, i think if i’d ever met him, i’d befriend him.

TABLE. WAIT, IS IT THE TABLE USED TO TRAP NOTTHEM?

wait. wait wait wait. oh my god.

it is i think.

stalking your coworkers is Creepy. jon, please don’t take ideas. (jon then proceeds to take ideas)

driving through ohio at night is fun, ngl.

i saw him take one of his notebooks. he ate it.

wowza, all sexy gay people eat notebooks, do you eat notebooks?

“i even saw him freak out at the ice cream truck” that is honestly me. any loud sound? i panic like there’s no tomorrow

memorizing his pizza order <3

fuck capitalism. (“i had to drop out of the college course to work late nights”)

notthem notthem notthem wooohooo

okay i take it back, ohio backroads are NOT fun at night.

notthem <3

yeah i kinda. just stood there.

the background music slow rising!!

”from my months of watching” haha

not!graham!!

imposter? like…… among…

i love the description so much.

aw man, bye notebooks ✌️

hey amy, i’m going to come to your house.

statement ends!

tim mention ❤️❤️❤️.

“i trust coworker testimony as far as i can burn it.”

ohio hills and sharp turns at night are not fun, my stomach is in my throat.

JOURNAL JOURNAL JOURNAL JOURNAL

KEEP WATCHING.

#tma #the magnus archives #live-blogging #i discovered my attention span is absolutely horrible #the first two episodes were listened to at like 10:00 this morning then decided i was bored and listened to the mechs for the next few hour #i only started episode three at like 6:30-7:00 PM #mag 1 #mag 2 #mag 3 #edit forgot to mention this is a relisten

[thatpodcastkid]

Magnus Archives Relisten 2, MAG 2

Second part of the relisten analysis, featuring my beloved Joshua Gillespie <3 Sorry this is a bit later in the day than expected, had it queued but must've saved it wrong.

Spoilers ahead!

Facts: Statement of Joshua Gillespie (my love) from November 22nd, 1998, regarding an empty wooden casket he acquired while living in Amsterdam.

Character Notes: Jon's from Bournemouth confirmed! Again, hindsight is hilarious when Jon says "it's nice to hear my hometown is not entirely devoid of odd occurrences." Like sir you were almost eaten by a book?

Statement Notes: Another instance of drug use. Again, I can't necessarily tell if this is just a device so that Jon can dismiss the statements or if the entities are specifically preying on people in fragile/weak states of mind.

But none of that matters because the incredible Joshua Gillespie was there <3 <3, smartest character in the series on God. Specifically loved the end of the statement when the man who gave him the coffin sees the key in the ice box and seems impressed, because damn I'm impressed to. The statement specifically says he was impressed after Gillespie "Told him where he could stick it." This definitely feeds into the idea that, as much as the fears prey on weak and scared people, they're really attracted to confident and bold people. I think a person's response to a scary scenario has a lot to do with whether they become an avatar or a victim; not necessarily whether they were scared or brave, but whether that fear overtook them or they dove into it. Gillespie really faced his fear of the coffin and just dealt with it in a head on, practical manner.

I don't recall the character who gives Gillespie the coffin coming up again, but of course his name is John. Obviously Breekon and Hope come up, but I don't remember this other guy showing up again, anyone else?

It's super interesting that the coffin didn't get delivered until after Gillespie spent the money, as if it was waiting for some kind of a debt to be established.

Entity Alignment: Little on the nose, but this is the Buried. It pretty weird, that although long term fans know this is Buried aligned "thing," there's really no mention of anyone entering or being buried in the coffin in this episode. But at the end of the statement, Tim discovers that no one was living in the building with Gillespie for many years. That could have to do with the money, whoever gave him the coffin may have set up the apartment sale to manipulate him into spending it, but a part of me really likes the idea that all the other residents wandered into the coffin while they slept, unable to resist the call. There's obviously evidence against that, being that no Tim found no one lived there for the entirety of Gillespie's residence and any other possible residence wouldn't have the coffin key.

People like to bring up the Vast/Buried dichotomy a lot, and I think it's really prevalent in this episode. Gillespie first hears the scratching on the coffin when he places a glass on it, but he doesn't hear the wailing until it starts raining. Thinking about the End episode in Season 5, where Oliver Banks determines things stop being scary if you become too used to them, I think hearing the rain is a tool used by the Buried to keep its victims afraid. It may be easy to succumb to the dirt and the darkness on a regular day, but a day you're reminded that there's a wide open sky you can't and won't ever be able to see? Not gonna happen. Letting the victims hear the rain amps up the fear and torment.

One of the best episodes in the series, let me know what you think!

#magnus archives #the magnus archives relisten #tma relisten #tma #tma podcast #tma spoilers #MAG 2 #Do Not Open #the mag pod #rusty quill #rusty quill network #tim stoker #jonathan sims #jonny sims #joshua gillespie #podcasts #horror podcast #horror #audio drama #the buried #the vast #tma entities #fear entities #analysis #media analysis

[looking-to-rattle-the-stars]

i didn’t know jonathan sims related content has so much fucking crack in it

#just stayed up to properly listen through 2 1/2 mechs albums #probably gonna wake up and finish tales to be told #then listen to MAG 63 #every day i listen to jonathan sims voice 😭 major part of my routine rn #no but seriously #he was cooking with jonny dville #still a big tim stoker fan too #istg if this man gets me to start reading again just so i can read his published works #i need to listen to more TMA i wanna cook up some angst stories #OH MY GOD #also a big gunpowder tim fan #oh my god and ashes in underground blues #i’m gonna have to relisten to the albums another time to properly grasp their stories but #god ulysses dies at dawn was a fucking banger #need to keep listened to TMA though i wanna finish season two before the end of the month #also dying to meet nikola in season 3 #and i want the distortions to come back #andy rants #FUCK MY ASS IS SO TIRED I MEANT UNDERWORLD BLUES NOT UNDERGROUND

[i-will-change-this-someday]

I’m relistening to The Magnus Archives, so I’ll probably be posting some of my thoughts.

I think I’ll also try and identify what Fears appear in each episode.

MAG 1, Anglerfish:

“I have been working as a researcher at the Institute for four years now and am familiar with most of our more significant contracts and projects.” I’m honestly so curious what kind of projects the Magnus Institute have.

Jon is so sassy, does he realize that this is going to be on an official institute recording?

Do they ever explain what the deal is with the anglerfish and cigarettes? Cause cigarettes are Web, right? Addiction and all that.

Sarah is obviously mentioned again later, and I think Daniel Rawlings is in the taxidermy episode, but are any of the other names brought up again?

It’s literally the first episode and there’s already a Michael (Michael MacAulay) and a John (John Fellowes) mentioned.

Obviously this one’s The Stranger.

MAG 2, Do Not Open:

Two episodes in and we have another John.

Why is the apartment building completely empty? Just cause it’s spooky? Is it from The Buried? Or The Stranger? Or do the entities just have that effect sometimes?

“That said, I did mention it to Tim yesterday, and apparently he did some digging of his own.” Do none of them have anything better to do with their free time than more of their job?

The Coffin is Buried, and I think it’s said that “John” is Stranger, as are Breekon and Hope.

#the magnus archives #Tma #MAG 1 #MAG 2 #tma relisten #My Post