in the tma tag

Being a magnus archives veteran listening to protocol is like being Pavlov’s dog trained to 20 different bell tones, being starved for three whole years, and all of a sudden your owner is ringing all 20 bells but there’s still no food

the key difference between lena and elias is that elias would force the archival team into doing awkward team building exercises like trust falls whereas lena would rather shoot herself

So...do you come here often?

Siren!Jon and Selkie!Martin hanging out

What she says: I'm fine

What she means: Do you ever think about the tragedy of Gerard Keay and Jonathan Sims? Mag 153 when Jon said "Gerry wasn't yours." with a snarl to serial killers. How Jon grew fond of him through statements alone "Our Gerard." How lonely Jon was when meeting him, and how every avatar up to that point has hurt him, and how it just gets worse. How the other characters either hurt him or treated him like shit, many times, because of things outside of his control. "I always wanted my friends to call me Gerry." How Jon burned Gerry's page even though it would harm him (through the eye's hatred of lost knowledge, and through the anger of the hunters) because he believed Gerry was a person and deserved better. "Just rest." How they were both kind and did their best to help people despite it all. How they were manipulated into terrible situations because of it. They would have been such good friends. Fuck, maybe if Jon had Gerry to remind him that he is not a monster some marks could've been avoided...maybe they could've had a softer epilogue.

Month logos.......

The homophobic vase says HAPPY PRIDE!!!!! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️‼️

Bring a friend! Or maybe an enemy!

Who do you think would win in a fight between The Boneturner and Mr bonzo?

Why on earth would they fight? That's the steamiest romance of 2025.

Who do you think would win in a fight between The Boneturner and Mr bonzo?

Why on earth would they fight? That's the steamiest romance of 2025.

jonelias but set in the 19th century where elias is jons personal doctor and jon is an influential nobleman who is mentally ill and very quickly deteriorating

Sassy Siren!Jon and down to earth water Siren!Tim

based on @just-prime 's ask

you cannot convince me that Elias wasn’t giggling and kicking his feet whenever Jon read one of his letters

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I think they would wear their own merch

some pride month doodles :] happy pride to the magnus institute

joshua gillespie's quality of life would have gone up by at least 70% if he'd just become goth. he could have invited friends over and they'd see his huge centerpiece coffin and just think "fuck yeah, classic joshua."

Spinning Jon Sims in my head again. Everyone talks about the "yeah I was bullied cause I was a deeply annoying child" but. The way he follows the deeply annoying child bit with "he was over my twice my age, so I'm certainly not excusing it" is said in such a way that I'm like. He definitely mentioned his childhood bully offhandedly to Georgie at some point and justified it with "yeah haha I was just really annoying" and she went "that guy was an adult bullying an 8 year old what do you mean you were just annoying" and he hated that whole conversation so he just said "yeah okay I'm not excusing his bullying" but he absolutely still does think it was his fault for being annoying.

And he keeps downplaying it, too. He says "more than twice my age" which is true and sounds bad but not as bad as "a decade older than me and also legally an adult", especially with how casual he is about it. And "Name calling, the odd beating, sometimes stealing from me— all very standard" JON ARE WE JUST GOING TO BRUSH PAST THE FACT THAT YOU GOT BEAT UP BY A 19 YEAR OLD AT THE AGE OF 8. We just brush past it!!

I'm meant to be packing but I really want to just write an essay on how Jon's childhood (and more importantly, his perception of it) impacted his feelings and actions over the course of the series. Like, of course Jonathan "yeah I had a traumatic childhood but my grandmother tried her best and I was annoying so it's actually all fine" Sims blames himself for every problem ever and thinks he deserves pain and suffering about it. Shaking him. Please for the love of god get therapy about that