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Noo babe don’t get character development and cool eye powers you’ll doom the world and your gay workplace situationship
Statement begins. 👁️
Guess who finished their first ever listen of The Magnus Archives January 1st. Me. It was me. Happy new year I'm still not emotionally recovered.
𝘐𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘰 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥!
my favorite somewhat underrated jarchivist moments
“a COMPLAINT? i could just as easily COMPLAIN about her WASTING MY TIME”
“before i address the central point of this statement, namely the question of…. whether the sky can eat people .”
melanie: “i should have known this was a COMPLETE waste of my time” jon: “probably 🙄”
“you don’t seem like you’re in your fifties?? or- or burnt to a crisp”
“you’re serious? you’re going on a date with… the dullard of skull mountain just so you have an excuse to eat a shopska salad?”
“another startling insight from the piercing investigative mind of georgie barker”
“WHAT is my metaphorical pit???”
melanie: “i mean it’s not like you have any reason to kill me” jon: noncommittal sound
martin: “melanie seems okay but i get the feeling she’s planning something?” jon: “i- i got that feeling. Too.”
“so. kidnapped. Again.”
“like colors, but if colors hated me. got it. christ i need a cigarette.”
“MARTIN. STOP trying to TOUCH the PLASTIC EXPLOSIVE. just PUT YOUR HANDS in YOUR POCKETS or SOMETHING-”
basira: “so would you say this was supposed to be churchill or alfred hitchcock?” jon: “jowls like that, could be either”
“coma! great! let’s rearrange his office! sleeping people don’t need. pens!”
“police brutality lawsuit? :)”
[picture of edwardian offense] “I what?”
daisy: “it’s a joke, jon.” jon: “oh! hAha! yes.”
“i mean you’re not suggesting that santa works for the people’s church..”
long-suffering sigh “fuck.”
“i’m starting to feel a little. Self Conscious being a post apocalyptic google !”
martin: “did it stir any feeling in you?” jon: “Yes! Nausea! Because of the Horrible Things In It!”
“Yes the Colossal Web stretching down into an Endless Pit is a Significant improvement😑”
“‘free will’ she says, as we stand in the middle of her FUCKING WEB”
Quick Jon Sims while I work on my portfolio. I'm so normal about him.
TMAG 160
OKAY I JUSTFINISHED TMAG 160 WHAT!!!
been listening to the Magnus archives for just over a year now, and what a journey it has been… but seeing everything start to come together, compiling into THIS… it’s just insane. What a milestone, aye? 👀👀👀
"Mr Achilles sir who's this freak working in the Administrative Chambers and talking about how he misses something called a "laptop" " - Zag, probably
anyways Somewhere Else au but Jon and Martin get isekai'd into Hades (the smoke laurel is Martin's doing)
jarchivist only under cut!
hes jarchiving all over the place
Post this seal when they least expect it.
Random Magnus archives doodles and stuff
A lot of these are really old, so whoops
I love looking at fanart for the magnus archives because we are practically a hivemind with how we think the characters look. But I've noticed one of the only character design that is different in practically all fanart I've seen. Is the Admiral. We all agree that Jon is black even though the voice actor is white. We all agree that Basira wears a hijab. But we can't agree on whether that silly cat is orange or not.
(Which he is, he is orange and chubby and has kinda long fur cuz I want him to)
Ok I don't have time rn to actually do much with the idea but season 5 jon have like a second set of pupils/irises inside his eyes instead of gaining full extra eyes
so tiktok is dead?? that’s where i mainly posted my art but now it’s screwed so i guess here i am? i haven’t used this site since i was a freshman so idk how this works but i’ll figure it out. but here. have this Jon fanart
So I’ve been on my re listen of the magnus archives
And something that I’m thinking about allot is the “I see you” line, the way it’s used as an anchor. You have the obvious and wel known season 4 lonely “I see you, Jon” but I want to talk about the one in season 3
Because I lost my absolute marbles hearing that line in the season 3 finale. It is Jon suddenly being able to anchor himself and recognising the situation around him, seeing through the stranger.
But the most import part, is how it relates to Tim. Tim has previously stated that he can only be sure Jon is real. He doesn’t trust anyone because anyone could be a stranger, but Jon, Jon is real to him, he knows Jon can’t just be magically replaced.. that’s Tim’s anchor, Jon.
This is THEIR “I see you” moment.
Jon helps Tim Anchor himself which makes him able to recognise the situation and save everyone.
The phrase “I see you” is used in every season finale now expect season 5 (I think?). I don’t know if I’ve fully figured out what that narrative through line means (especially in the case of Sasha) but god is it intresting. Especially cus it’s every member of the original crew that gets the line in some way
Yknow what I'm thinking of actually? I'm thinking of an au where Tim survives the Unknowing and becomes an avatar of the Desolation. But he doesn't come back to the Archives or the Institute. He's free, so why would he? No longer marked by the Eye. I do imagine him sitting by Jon in the hospital whenever someone wasn't there, leaving just in time to never be spotted. Being just out of sight to hear Jon wake up, to hear how devastated he is at the knews everyone thinks he's dead. But he still doesn't show his face. Because he's earned a break, time to figure out where he's going next and what he's going to do. So he does. Can't go back to his flat, can't go back to the Institute, so where does he go? [I'm so glad you asked] He goes to Sasha's old flat. One of the firm memories he has of her is where she lived, so he goes there. It's empty, seems like it has been since she died. He lives there for the duration if season 4, getting used to his new life, figuring out what it means for him. And deciding how(/if) he's going to reconnect.
And then the Eyepocalypse happens. And he's thrown into a wasteland of chaos and fear, but it can't hurt him. Because he's part of it now. He decides to set out to find Jon. Because if anyone knows what's going on, it's him.
Damn lighter is out of fluid.
Gif versions under the cut
Looping gif without flicker
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Close-ups!!
Reasons why Jon Archivist is truly a character of all time:
Had the police called on him several times when he was a young child
Keeps his rib and the ashes of the season one antagonist next to his stationary drawer
Promised he wouldn’t get lost in tunnels and then immediately got lost in aforementioned tunnels
Has no clue what a joke is
Learned how remarkably easy it is to buy an ax in central London
Had to have two separate interventions
Told people his place of employment before traumatising them for life
The first character he ever said ‘I love you’ to is a cat
Allegedly participated in amdram
Watches documentaries and collects some kind of weird shit (my headcanon is Soviet Union postcards) when he’s not being a paranoid mess
Canonically looks like he hasn’t slept in weeks
Knows nothing about library science
Fell head over heels for a man that he hated until he learned he lied on his resumé
Has been referred to as Jesus or Jesus-adjacent at least twice
Asexual icon
Knows what a meme is and said “LOL” in the first episode
Rode on a merry-go-round sometime during his university days because he was in a weird place emotionally
Died for our Jonathan Sins
Is probably a computer now playing minesweeper with his boyfriend and evil 200+ year old boss
win for traumatised individuals! local eldritch horror is here to rip it all out free of charge
well that was awkward
i fucking loved this line delivery, hes so done with everything