Michael Shelley - Blog Posts

reposting my own Tweet (from 3 days ago) here 💖 enjoy

Tma au in which even becoming the distortion doesn't get Michael out of his archival assistant job so now they just have this creature of pure insanity labeling files for them

(Yes, this was thought of while listening to that one blooper scene)

Au where getting distortioned didn’t terminate Micheal’s contract, so he just kinda shows up every day, knife hands and all, and just does paperwork

nope, you can't fool me, I'm well aware that this is an inside joke from the season 1 blooper reel

michael shelley died in a place with no name, that never existed and never will exist. the horror to die somewhere that never existed, because did you ever really exist?

ITS SO CUTE

aw, I love you too Michael distortion

aw, I love you too Michael distortion

song of the day!

I’m very annoyed at myself that I didnt get chance to do this yesterday, so you all get two songs today rather than just one

I’ve decided on michael shelley and jon vibes:

day 8- Winter White Hymnal {Fleet Foxes}

day 9- Evil Eye {Franz Ferdinand}

hes a gif now for all of your silly gif needs

MICHAEL DISTORTION!!

Because I've been meaning to draw a cannon representation of this freak, he freaks me out its the teeth istg get him away from me

[id: an image of a lightning strike next to a yellow door with a cowboy hat on it. it has a white background. end id]

hey look! its mike and michael walters! what do you mean this is the wrong mike and michael?

reposting my own Tweet (from 3 days ago) here 💖 enjoy

Poor, disposable Michael

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tall, blond and monster

👁‍🗨 “It’s not like any pain you feel when your alive. It’s… it hurts to exist. To be dead and still here.” -Garry Keay

None of the assistants in the magnus archives came out alive or without trauma. Such as Gertrude’s assistants, Michael and Gerry (one becoming the embodiment of the spiral and the other being bonded to a page in a death book).

I like to think that they met and were friends when they were alive, even if there is no canonical interaction between them (that I can recall). They were both Gertrude’s assistants, so they must have met at least once.

michael awareness poster

I want Michael the Distortion to meet Page Gerry. I want them to talk. I want Michael to gently touch his face and say, "What did she do to you?" And Gerry to stroke Michael's hand and say, "No worse than she did to you."

My favorite character interpretation for both Jonathan Sims and pre distortion Michael Shelley is that they’re a little odd in general even without all the fear entity stuff.

Jon stares just a little too long when makes conversation. Michael moves in a sudden jerky way that would remind most people of a spider moving its legs. Jon always looks a little too…stiff. Like he’s a porcelain doll sat against the chair instead of a man. Michael never walks flat on feet, he noticeably puts his weight on either on his heels or his toes.

Jon’s eye, hair, and clothing colors always look a bit dull somehow. Like someone drew him and then turned the contrast down. Michael’s fingers and toes are noticeably long and quite a few people have told him that he has the longest fingers/toes they’ve ever seen.

I could pretend this headcanon is profound commentary on their humanity, but honestly I’m just very fond of viewing Jon and Michael as cryptid adjacent.

hey, do you ever thing about how Michael was disposed of by the distortion once he opened up about how disposable Michael Shelley was to Gertrude.

I do

I think about it a lot

No one talks about how michael shelley was angry. no one talks about how michael distortion was murderous. helen barely got that bad and she was the distortion during the apocalypse. michael was quiet with his anger but it ran free when he had the power to hurt people. he wanted to, somewhere deep down. that is before we get to the revenge aspect. he never grew out of his thirst for revenge towards the archives and the institute and gertrude more than anything, the one he trusted and loved like a parent who abandoned him, left him for bait. michael wanted someone dead for his pain, he wanted to hurt someone like he had been hurt.

My design for pre-Distortion Michael Shelley. Ugh I love him, I hope he comes back in Protocol

Ooooo. That last shot of Michael Shelley as he originally was is so powerful….WELL DONE!

CONTENT WARNING: Body horror.

Spooky scary Shelley-tons!! Ok Michael Distortion fans, this one is for you.

Drawn in Storyboard Pro 20.1 with custom brushes from Rozlyn Waltz. The Magnus Archives is a podcast written by Jonathan Sims, Directed by Alexander J Newall, and distributed by Rusty Quill! This clip features voice acting by Jonathan Sims and Luke Booys!

Had a lot of fun figuring out how Michael moves! Now that I've drawn his grand entrance, maybe someday I'll draw the scene where he...uh...leaves.

Don’t forget Kevin from wtnv, he would fit in perfectly

I just want to put Michael Shelley, Needles, and Kayne in a room just to see what would happen.

"Then Dionysus appeared to his followers in his most terrible aspect and [he] drove them mad." - John M. Hunt

Have a doodle from my TMA Swan Lake AU! Feat. “The Horned Man” that will lead our intrepid lonely hero astray betwixt the trees

(More details to come, stay tuned)

if u know what fanfic this is from please dont mention it i am very embarassed. anyways. thinking about my favs.

he's so smol

michael shelley but