[ID: Image one is Francisco Goya’s painting Saturn devouring his son. It portrays a naked humanoid figure kneeling on a dark background. It has long, grey hair and its eyes are wide. It holds a headless body in its hands with one arm of the corpse in its gaping mouth.
Image two is digital fanart from The Magnus Archives. It portrays the vampire Sylvia McDonald from MAG 10 in the same pose as Goya’s painting, with thicker limbs and a distended stomach. A long, fleshy tongue emerges from its throat and it has triangular, shark-like teeth. The body in its hands is that of Nigel Herbert, a pale person with dark hair and eyes dressed in a short-sleeved collared white shirt and dark brown trousers. The vampire’s tongue is affixed to his neck and his bloodshot eyes loll at odd angles with his mouth open in an expression of horror. Both figures are smeared with blood and the vampire’s drool. End ID.]
listen i know this does not match the minutiae of the actual statement but this idea was cool so <3
It opened its mouth for what I then realised was the first time since we met it, and I could see nothing inside save for a dozen long, thick, pointed teeth.
[ID: A digital drawing of Sylvia McDonald, one of the vampyric creatures that exist within The Magnus Archives. Though she has some features of an old widow, with pale hair, a wrinkled face, and a long black gown, Sylvia is far more monstrous than the contemporary vampire. Its eyes glow with sinister light, and it has a massive toothy smile. A long, thick tongue snakes from its mouth towards the top left corner of the image, where it opens into a maw of those fangs, like a lamprey mouth. Sylvia’s dress is crumpled and bloodstained, vanishing into the dark around. The image looks down on her from above, as she leers up at the viewer. In the lower left corner, X. Vampire Killer is written is red splattered lettering. /End ID]
TMA SPOILAERS? IDK VAMPIRES AND EVENTS THAT SURROUND THEM
the vampires strewn throughout the magnus archives podcast universe are such a wild concept.
its like 'oh yeah there a vampires that look human but cant talk, use hypnosis to lure in their victims and have a mouth full of shark teeth. theyre extremely flammable. theres two british people who made it their life mission to kill them, one is homeless and one is the daughter of a cultish serial killer. a lesbian cop's actual job she got paid for was to take people who were suspected to be vampires and kill them in the woods.'
the vampires would completely escape detection if they just pretended to be signing BSL or ASL while they spoke telepathically and that is my last thought.
[VD: A grayscale Magnus Archives animatic of Jon and Gerry talking in episode 111 of The Magnus Archives. Gerry, a ghostly goth, and Jon, a thin brown man in a graphic T-shirt, sit together at a table. Gerry says scornfully, "Playing politics with things they didn’t understand. Reckoned her tradition was less the academic and more the, uh…" Jon offers dryly, "V-Village witch?"
Gerry laughs, pleased, and asks, "You sure you don’t know her?" He sighs, sobers, and says, "Yeah. But deep down what she wanted wasn’t all that different from the ivory tower idiots she hated. Y’know, I think, secretly, she dreamed of starting a little mystic dynasty of her own." He grimaces. "With me."
Jon says a little eagerly, "Like the, the Lukases? Or the Fairchilds?" Gerry corrects, "Well, Fairchild’s just a name, they’re not really family." Then he does a finger gun and says, "The Lukases, though, yeah."
He turns away, pensive and frowning, and says, "Thing is, it’s harder than it looks. What’s out there… doesn’t care about blood." Jon, grinning a little, says, "Well, I-I mean, except for the vampires…" Gerry scowls, "Yeah, obviously except for the vampires." Jon looks abashed, and Gerry looks down sorrowfully to say, "But they care about your choices, your fears, not your parents." End VD]
[ID: A still of the scene where Gerry scowls and says "Yeah, obviously except for the vampires" to an embarrassed Jon. End ID]
There is such a profound beauty of finding love within a horror story. Seeing the worst that humanity has to offer, of comprehending all the vile and grotesque actions that people can take and still choosing to find the love hidden in the terror of it all.
It's tragic. It's courageous. It's pointless. It's life-changing. Everything is hopeless, but for love's sake, it is still worth it to fight as hard as possible, despite already knowing that there will never be a happy ending.
Summary: Struggling for income, Martin registers with an app that connects vampires with willing blood donors. His first client is not at all what he expected.
Rating: T (graphic violence warning)
Word count: 124k COMPLETE!!!
Tags: vampires & vampire bites, canon tma vampires, getting together, mutual pining, body horror, non-sexual intimacy, power dynamics, fluff/angst, hurt/comfort, trans martin, sex-averse jon, slow burn, non-sexual kink, humor