Tma fans thinking Tim would have been an avatar of the desolation if tma was actually good are so wrong and monkey brained. Tim’s demise wasn’t about destruction it was about closing a curtain. Tim has always been the most theatrical in his antics, his decision to go on his suicide mission wasn’t about the destruction or even a removal dare I say. it was about the end. He wanted the book closed he wanted to be DONE with it more than he wanted revenge on the creature that took his brother imo, Tim’s worst fear wasn’t that the stranger would go on his worst fear was that he’d have to live another day in this nightmare his life had become. His character was someone who was pushed to his limit bc of the circumstances around him and also because of Jon himself. Tim isn’t the flame, Tim is the snuffing of the flame. His arc came to a close on him making a one-liner and and thanking Jon, a final goodbye and and closure on his character while he is quite literally standing in the middle of a play. Yes he wanted to go down in a blaze but I don’t think Tim was chasing that blaze tho. I think he just wanted to die and he didn’t want it to be for nothing. He wanted to take something with him as a final and absolute statement. NOT TO MENTION that the explosion killed Tim and Jon as well and ended the book on whoever they were “supposed” to be before Jon gave in to the eye. As Tim Stoker would say, Periodt!!!!!
[VD: A Magnus Archives animation done in orange and teal titled "Pusryčiai" (meaning: "breakfast"). Mellow music plays as Martin cracks two eggs into a frying pan. He turns away to throw the shells while the pan sizzles, and when he returns with a spatula, a "boom" sound effect plays as Martin recoils with comic disgust.
The egg yolks have been replaced by human eyeballs. Martin stares at them for a moment. He then pokes at the egg with the spatula, producing a squelching sound, and one of the eyes blinks with another gross wet sound. Martin goes from disgusted to comically sad and disappointed, and he fades away before the setting does. The video ends on the words "darė Skaistė" (meaning: made by Skaistė) and a quick shot of an eyeball. End VD]
ty @princess-of-purple-prose for the description, i edited it a bit too.
my favorite thing about tma has always been the avatars who love the fears they serve, who show that love so vibrantly that, for just a moment, they sway you into feeling like you could learn to love that fear the way they do. when jane prentiss said "not loved as you would understand it, a deeper, more primal love, a need as much as a feeling" and when jude perry said "as the heat warped my bones and bubbled my flesh, all i heard was the loving exaltation of my god" and when mike crew said "falling had always held a special place in my heart, that wonderful border between terror and delight" and when manuela dominguez said "and at his words i felt afraid, and my heart soared in terror and elation as my eyes brimmed with tears, for i knew he spoke the truth" and when hezekiah wakely said "i had never felt such safety as within the crushing weight of earth all around me, the pressing embrace of the buried." do you get me
choose your horror denier: Alice "it has nothing to do with us" Dyer or Jonathan "it's all nonsense unless it's about two very specific people I hate very much" Sims
I know it’s the standard for the media you’re invested in to flop at the end but nothing pisses me off more than season 5 of tma. Irl jon is so lucky I can’t do terrorism at his house because I’m American. Never in my life have I felt so disrespected after spending so much of my time on an artwork. I spit on the rusty quill. A fucking pox on all of you.
Paranoid? I was paranoid once. They put me in the archives. The Magnus Archives. The Magnus Archives full of statements. And statements make me paranoid. Paranoid? I was paranoid once—
I’m so obsessed with how Martin Blackwood casts himself as Pylades/Horatio/Samwise Gamgee, deciding early on that his role within the narrative is to Be There for Jon as he descends into tragedy and that he can’t really affect the narrative otherwise. He doesn’t fully consider the consequences of his actions because he’s so confident that he doesn’t matter enough to impact the events around him. He hurts people because he doesn’t think he has the power to hurt people. His fatal flaw is his absolute conviction in his own unimportance. WHAT a character
jon makes me so sick because literally every choice he made was out of his own control. his own life was, in his own words, one long set up to literally ending the world and he didn’t even KNOW. he had NO FUCKING IDEA!!! and tbh i don’t even blame him with how mag200 ended with that in mind? like? all his efforts to fight against this were basically futile, he would’ve ended up here regardless, and that’s such a way to feel even less like a person and more like a chess piece. i cannot imagine how hopeless he must have felt it makes me want to do something crazy