#uuh I have two finals in 8 hours I didn’t study for

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‘Jon is a better Archivist than Gertrude’ thread was so awesome people should talk about it more. What it means for Gertrude, how she fought the eye at every step, the ominous feeling of what it must mean for Jon every time it comes up. As the listener learns more about Gertrude she becomes a role model for this mysterious Archivist role— she clearly knew far, far more than Jon and had layers of hidden agendas, while Jon is stumbling around in the dark. She’s ruthless in foiling the powers and she seems to be the goal to strive to of how to fight back against this system. But an Archivist isn’t meant to fight. It’s meant to feed. Gertrude valued knowledge, she had skills given by the eye, but she had priorities. Priorities entirely based on stopping evil, including the hunt for knowledge at the center of the beholding’s power. She cared for knowledge only for its practical use. Jon has none of that. His priorities are to find out what the hell is happening, to search for safety, but more importantly, answers. He has a need to seek and protect information. He doesn’t know enough to know what he’s doing dooms him. And, his respect for human life makes him a far easier target. Gertrude was iron willed, Jon is… not. An Archivist who doesn’t like to compel people, who only reads statements occasionally, who intentionally ruins filing systems, who will do anything to get what she wants, in as straightforward a way as possible? A poor victim, indeed. An Archivist who is desperate for anything that will help him orient himself, who takes to his new powers as a lifeline, who will frantically search for ways to avoid violence? Now there’s someone the eye can use!

What’s important to being Archivist isn’t knowledge. It’s hunger. After his realization post-Unknowing, Jon is much less frantic, but just as scared. He’s further into a transformation than Gertrude ever got, the hunger fed fiercely enough that he has no way back. Gertrude kept herself isolated, as a defense, so she could stay practically brutal, but Jon never wants this. His season 2 spiral was caused by his inability to trust anyone— Gertrude simply decided not to. Jon is not in the wrong for this, overall the show frames staying connected to his humanity as a good thing for him. It’s funny that he was far less human while doing it than Gertrude was, alone.

#the magnus archives #tma #jonathan sims #gertrude robinson #uuh I have two finals in 8 hours I didn’t study for #tma spoilers

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Ten and t(h)en again

 Tagged by @mygeekcorner <3

1.  What was the gateway anime that got you hooked into this anime life?  Inuyasha for sure, nothing could compare to starting an episode with the first intro song! Then Naruto and Bleach? I remember reading Love Hina, Rurouni Kenshin and other manga in a Swedish Manga magazine, good times. But what awoke me to Japanese storytelling first was actually a video game, Final Fantasy X, it made me realize was something special about japanese stories. Sailor moon and Silverfang and some more old ones when I was young as well I suppose..Please save my earth hooked me on for life later on though <3

2. If today is the day of the purge, what law would you break first?

Uuh, maybe go over the speedlimit just a bit on certain roads and then be an internet pirate? ^^;

3. Are you a coffee drinker, if yes, how do you like your coffee in the morning?

Not really, I’d rather have some apple juice in the morning, but sometimes I don’t mind a coffee with milk (maybe sugar?) and something sweet to eat with it.

4.  What is the latest tv show/anime you’re obsessed with?

Well in manga, something that was pleasantly surprising this year was one called Mahoutsukai no musume, about an adoptive daughter to a magician who has to unwillingly deal with her father’s work taking care of ghosts and Japanese demons and the like. It’s so different in its fun yet sometimes serious tone, I want an anime!

5. Have you ever cried over a fictional character death? I Oh yes, but I’m good at spoiling myself at times so sometimes it doesn’t hit me as much. Still, yes, fictional deaths and later the mourning process in stories can make me cry for sure!

6. What is your new favourite thing you’ve attempted during lockdown? Ie baking, painting, sewing,etc. Do you plan to keep doing it? Essential worker not much of a lockdown for me, but I’m practicing Spanish more cause a relative  who comes from a Spanish speaking country mentioned last year she wished that I who studied it before would keep it up, so I’ve tried to get back to it lately.

7. If someone were to cut queue in front of you, would you let it slide and resent quietly or would you blast them in their face for cutting line? Well, sometimes I quietly make a scene by making a gesture that I’m bothered by it, but I might let it slide depending on the mood.

8. How did you discover tumblr? Not sure, might have been someone on internet or a friend, I can’t remember at the moment...

9. Are you a beach person or a mountain person? Well, if I had to choose…Beach? Though mountains are as nice when it isn’t hot outside.

10. Are you the type that listen to a whole playlist without skipping or the type that listen to that ONE song for 10000 hours until you got sick of it and never listen to it again? I like to listen to whole playlist at times, but sometimes I skip to my favorites depending on my mood.

11. Did you grow up around animals? How about your life now? My family owns a tortoise since long ago, one bunny when I was really small and then later another one who was my sweetiepie. My grandparents in the countryside had cats sometimes. Then I had my lovely budgie when older, my sister had a wonderful dog that passed away. Now my mum has a dog, my dad in the countryside has cats and chickens and I have the sweetest cat! and my sister has a new dog I still haven’t met T___T

12. What arbitrary personality thing do you identify with? Astrology, hogwarts houses, mbti etc I think I  kind of identify with astrology, Hogwarts and mbti. I feel Cancer, Hufflepuff and INFP seems to fit my personality, not completely but I still feel I can identify to them.

13. Do you take compliments well? Not sure, I mostly don’t take too much notice when I hear them, I appreciate them though just not sure how to react when I get them?

14. Favourite mythological creature from your culture? Troll maybe? I find the big ears and tail cool, but tomtenissar, (gnomes?) who help around the farms are cute and sweet too!

15. Do you think your internet-personality is a good representation of how you are IRL? I suppose so, I have more time to think about things when I write on internet but it’s still more or less me in IRL

16. Are you the person who sings along to intros or skip them completely? I love singing along, skipping feels like I miss a part of the show’s atmosphere.

17. What’s an assumption people seem to have about you? Are they right? I don’t know, I suppose people assume I’m quiet sometimes? My inner mind is not quiet though, and my voice can be very loud in certain situations

18. Are you able to keep plants alive? Not at all, sorry plants- I just forget about you…

19. What old fandom thing do you miss? AMVs, I loved watching them and I made one or two, maybe people still are making them but it’s been a while since I watched some…

20.  Tell me something good that’s happened to you in 2020. I was taking a walk one evening when two children I didn’t know gave me handpicked flowers, it was sweet of them and it warmed my heart, still have the bouqets <3

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