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drop your fav TMA fics please 🙏🙏 finished the podcast and i need emotional support fanon

preferably Ao3 and nothing exceedingly long

jmart day apparently being the day after i finished mag 200 feels like some very cruel cosmic irony.

my new lifeline is fan content of Gerry and Jon being best friends bc i love my dead goth son and this wet cat of a man.

TMA SPOILERS UNDER THE CUT

okay so i have a TMA theory.

i think that Jon’s smoking is a machination of The Web.

we already know that The Web uses addiction as a form of manipulation. and (correct me if i’m wrong) Jon didn’t start smoking again until after his promotion to Head Archivist.

plus, the very first episode was directly involved with cigarettes. “Can I have a cigarette?”

additionally, in MAG 199 (i think), the cigarettes are brought up again AND the reference back to MAG 001 with Georgie asking “Can I have a cigarette?”

and another thing: the lighter. the spiderweb lighter.

we already know that it’s another manipulation of The Web and that Jon forgets he even has it very often, though he subconsciously keeps it on him.

and what does a smoker need? a lighter, of course.

and what results in Leitner being piped to death by Elias? Jon needing a cigarette.

so yeah, Jon’s smoking is probably a direct influence of The Web 🤷‍♀️

so i just read Rewind. Reset. Rewrite. in one sitting and just

wow, what a fic.

TMA SPOILERS??

desperately wishing for a TMA animatic with the song “No Longer You” by Jorge Rivera-Herrans

like hear me out here

“I see a song of past romance” Georgie and Jon

“I see the sacrifice of man” Jon choosing to Become an avatar and relinquish his humanity or even Sasha being replaced by the Not Them

“I see portrayals of betrayal” Gertrude’s assistants or Jonah Magnus’ ritual

“and a brother’s final stand” Tim.

“I see you on the brink of death” Oliver Banks and his dream roots

“I see you draw your final breath” Basira killing Daisy

“I see a man who gets to make it home alive.” Georgie, Melanie, and Basira after the end of the world

“But it’s no longer you.” Jon and Martin

yall see the vision???

also now looking at the opening lyrics to this song, it would also work wonderfully for a time-travel fix-it animatic except they can’t actually fix it.

MILD TMA SEASON 3 SPOILERS

Okay so like, i don’t think i ever mentioned this on here but i just HAVE to give this iconic moment its own post of honor.

when everyone is recording their mini-statements right before The Unknowing in MAG 117

[clattering sounds] was 100% Daisy cocking a gun, right?? cause that is definitely what i heard.

i love her so much.

TMA SEASON 4/5 SPOILERS

we didn’t get NEARLY enough Daisy and Jon friendship before the literal end of the world and i think that’s criminal.

how to sum up the TMA fandom

listening to literal horrors and murders: perfectly fine, completely unfazed

listening to tooth-rotting fluff: utterly terrified of what’s about to happen

the horrors are not what you should fear. fear the fluff. the fluff with come back to hurt you.

TMA book rec for The Flesh

In this dystopian horror novel, animals around the globe have been infected with a deadly virus, leaving their meat contaminated and inedible. In the absence of these animals and their meat, the government has sanctioned cannibalism (though it’s taboo to refer to it as such). Meat processing plants become human processing plants and humans are bred and slaughtered like cattle. Follow Marcos, a manager of one of these plants, as he is gifted a human bred for the slaughter and is forced to face the inhumanity of this new world, with a plot twist that will leave you throwing this book across the room.

i thought this book suited The Flesh very well in highlighting the fact that we are no different from the animals we eat. after all…

meat is meat.

digital art is so much fun to mess around with. combine that with The Spiral and well…

you get this eyesore.

MAG 001 being a Stranger statement and TMAGP 1 being about The Stranger ansloshsbslsosb i am UNWELL.

TMAGP 4 SPOILERS

you cannot tell me that Jonathan Sims did NOT send that email to Gwen containing with the video of Lena presumably about to off someone.

he really said “we will NOT wait another two and a half seasons to find out our boss is murderous, thank you very much.”

TMAGP 7 SPOILERS

okay i’m IMMEDIATELY suspicious of Celia. she seems to… know too much??

like she specifically references “tape recorders and manila envelopes” and asks if there’s a way to look up specific cases, using “being buried alive” and “meat” as examples. aka The Buried and The Flesh. plus she asks if there’s anything connecting the read aloud cases (like how the true statements were all connected by only recording on a tape recorder.) and then she says in TMAGP 6 “four weirdos in a basement reading scary stories” aka the og archives crew. and then the interaction right after between Alice and Celia. “You got that hardened killer look in your eyes. (Alice) And here I thought I’d hidden it behind a sweet demeanor. (Celia)”

it could be nothing. it could be coincidences and i’m reading into it too much.

but this is a Magnus podcast. this is Jonny Sims and Alexander J Newall we’re talking about. they don’t do coincidences.

TMAGP 7 SPOILERS

THE HILLTOP CENTER WHAT?!

THE WHAT CENTER?!

HILLTOP?!

can we please, PLEASE, just in case that entire are in concrete like our lord and savior Adelard Dekker would’ve wanted us to???

TMAGP 8 VAGUE SPOILERS

a study on architecture… very strange architecture… distortions… architectural hunger of a space… ARC STAF… ARCSTU…

it’s Robert fucking Smirke again and his weird ass buildings, isn’t it???

TMAGP 8 SPOILERS

GERRY AND GERTRUDE.

GERRY. AND. GEE GEE.

Gerry sounds so happy I-

I’M GONNA CRY.

TMA: “Like colors, but if colors hated me.”

TMAGP: “Like colors, but if colors hated me. And if they didn’t know what color they are. And also didn’t know what colors are. But the colors definitely still hate me.”

idk if this is accurate cause i only just finished TMAGP 8 but that’s the vibe im getting.

VAGUE TMAGP SPOILERS UNDER THE CUT

cause ik The Fears technically aren’t supposed to exist in this world, but it’s blatantly obvious that they do, at least to a certain extent.

but they seem to be very muddled together. in TMA, it was generally pretty clear cut which statement belonged to which Fear and in the few statements where they would overlap, it usually wasn’t more than 2 Fears cooperating at once.

but in TMAGP, it’s almost like there’s multiple Fears trying to coexist in one case file and the lines between them are very blurred together. like they aren’t as… refined as they were in TMA. (probably due to The Banishing as i’m calling it imo.)

in TMA, they were 14 dollops of different colored paint neatly organized on a paint palette and would occasionally be mixed together to obtain a certain hue, while still being recognizable.

in TMAGP, these 14 dollops of different colored paint have all been swirled and mixed together so much that the original colors used are just barely distinguishable.

and the palette is cracked. and decaying. and staining your hand that tarnished-cheap-metal-green even thought the palette is wooden.

and the colors still hate you.

TMAGP 10 SPOILERS

firstly, i want to say the the OIAR using a supernatural, murderous clown as an assassin is amazing.

secondly: whatever’s going on here.

THE NAME BLOCK.

THIS. JUST THIS. (THE CORRUPTION.)

WEIRD. MEMORIES.

AND LETS NOT FORGET TF IS GOING ON HERE (it’s probably not the Jarchivist BUT HOW I HOPE IT IS)

THE. TAPE. RECORDER.

we are so back.

TMAGP THEORY (spoilers for tmagp 17)

okay so, TMAGP 17: Saved Copy was, obviously, weird.

this theory may be a biiit out there but i’m sticking with it.

first of all, this entire case reeks of some amalgamation of The Web and The Stranger. if The Web and The Stranger (as we know them) even exist anymore.

but this whole thing starts off with another tease at whatever The Magnus Institute is in this world, so that’s already damning enough.

but OG Darrien (the statement giver) says he lost consciousness in a “shopping centre” after exiting an odd, meditative state. specifically, a shopping centre near the “Magnus Institute Outreach Centre.” once again, that’s already damning. but when he said “shopping centre”, my first thought was the Hilltop Centre mentioned in TMAGP 7: Give and Take.

and i’m assuming this is a shopping centre near the infamous Hilltop House from TMA. Ya know, an epicenter for The Web. especially given that OG Darrien lost consciousness near a Magnus Institute Outreach Centre, and we know The OG Magnus Institute was heavily influenced/controlled by The Web. also, remember when Sam mentioned in TMAGP 10: Saturday Night that he had weird memories from The Magnus Institute, but no context… almost as if he couldn’t properly remember the context… as if his memories were, shall we say, manipulated??

and again in TMAGP 8: Running on Empty, Gerry says he can barely remember any of his time as a “gifted kid” with The Magnus Institute.

so obviously there’s still a lot of Web influence going on.

and then OG Darrien wakes up with withered arms and ends up at Hartcourt House (which immediately made me think of Hilltop House) and meets the Other Darrien.

he later goes on to finish his statement, mentioning that “your world and mine are pretty similar.” your world and mine. aka confirmation that he did enter another work and he was now aware of it.

and he did so right after passing out in Hilltop Centre.

i think the crack in reality or portal or whatever you want to call it from the basement of Hilltop House in TMA is still open.

we never really got to see how Georgie, Melanie, and Basira handled things after MAG 200 after all, just that brief few moments at the very end. we don’t know if they ever sealed up that crack or not. or if they even remember it, given the heavy Web influence in both shows.

listen, all i’m saying is that the crack/portal is definitely still active and that The Web is up to something again, and it involves The Magnus Institute again.