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Welcome to this mess of Hyperfixation. Berd, They/them, 18+ and queer as fuck. Filthy Gerry Keay liker. This is where I dump TMA art, ramblings and reblogs.
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Late but this is me when I hear about an eclipse
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just finished season 1 of tma so heres gerard keay as a teenager! i drew him as described in episode 35 "old passages". theres a lot of stuff i wished i had fixed but i wnated to keep the losse sketchy style. took some "artistic license" and gave him eyeliner bc like,,, teenage metalhead,,, i had to,,,
anyways im going very very insane after that finale oh my goD
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Gerry my beloved 🖤
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Sorry I’ve been sick as hell have mullet Gerry as consolation
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Why Basira Hussain in The Magnus Archives Isn't Textually Muslim
I've noted before that Basira Hussain in The Magnus Archives isn't textually Muslim and is implied not to have strong religious faith. And it is religious faith I want to talk about in this post. Basira may very well come from a Muslim cultural background. But she isn't depicted as a capital B Believer.
Let's start with: a character's background - of any and every sort - is going to have some kind of impact on that character. The specifics of that impact will vary - there is no universal experience of anything - and the extend of the impact will be affected by the specifics of the story they are inhabiting. But a character's background shouldn't just be garnish.
With The Magnus Archives, it's a story that deeply involves religion and religious faith, what with the fear entities being worshiped as gods and all. And that means that characters' non-fear-god religious background comes up more than it might in another narrative. Thus, we get stuff like Eugene opining that the Cult of the Lightless Flame shouldn't just imitate Christianity and Martin & Jon discussing whether the Christian God is a force they can invoke.
As such, the fact that religion never comes up with Basira - when it comes up with so many other characters in the story - leads me to believe that she doesn't have a strong religious background.
Are you following me so far?
Right. So why is this? Why did the creative team make this creative decision?
Well, it's because of season five.
The fourth season ends with the fear apocalypse beginning, and then throughout all of season five, no deity intervenes to stop the fear apocalypse. (Well, unless you want to argue this was the case with Georgie and Melanie's immunity, and there, yeah, I think from an in-story perspective their cult's pretty justified, honestly.)
We spend most of the our time with Jon & Martin, who explicitly come from culturally Christian backgrounds but don't have particularly strong Christian faith themselves and predominantly experience religion in the context of the fear gods. Then there's Basira, Georgie, and Melanie.
The goal of the fifth season is the stop the fear apocalypse, which the characters do, and then the series quickly ends. And the sequel series is over there in a whole different parallel universe.
Because, look, even after being undone, the fear apocalypse was going to fuck with a lot of humanity's religious faith (or lack there of!) something fierce. Gods are real but also they're monsters and also no other god intervened.
That's...a lot.
Basira's doesn't have strong religious faith because if she did, she'd have to process season five through the lens of her religion.
And that's...a lot.
And the creative team wanted Basira's story arc to be about her confronting the harm she and Daisy did as corrupt cops.
Also, look, a British podcast depicting the Christian God as either probably nonexistent or useless? That's like, whatever. England's got a whole Church of England. Christians in England aren't being persecuted for being Christian. The episode "The Architect of Fear" can have Robert Smirke write, "I am certain the Dread Powers cannot take a soul who keeps faith in the Resurrection." and then drop dead before he can even finish his letter. It's fine.
But a British podcast specifically depicting a Muslim character having to confront that their faith is false?
Muslims in England are a religious minority. They don't have a whole institutionalized Mosque of England behind them.
Yeah, that could easily end up coming off as Jerk Move.
Not saying that it couldn't be done or couldn't make a compelling narrative, but it would be a lot to take on. It would risk overpowering the corrupt cop reckoning character arc. And the creative team would have to tread carefully for it not to be a Jerk Move.
Ergo, it's easier on the creative team for them to just...not have Basira be religiously Muslim.
Relatedly, Melanie and Georgie aren't depicted as strongly religious for similar reasons. Because they're outside of the Eye's power! If either of them had a strong religious faith, the characters would likely be interpreting their exemption as being a reflection of their faith! And that would be another plotline where the creative team would likely feel like they had to tread carefully lest their story come off as Jerk Move. Again, not impossible to pull off. But difficult.
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Hey I just wanted to say that I LOVE your art!! Tbh your Sasha , Jon, and Gerry are all now my faceclaims for canon because they're just So Good!! I was wondering if you had any long-haired Jon art, or if you tend to keep it short? I'm in the long-hair-in-s5 camp aha but I haven't seen him with long hair in your stuff 👀 (and if you haven't, I may be shooting you a commission request 👀👀👀) thank you!!
Hi!
Thank you!
I'm talking against myself, but I did draw long haired Jon before- a lonely!Jon and a birthday Jon as well- but I do like to think he cuts it off in s5 :D
But if you want more, my commissions are open!
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Thinking about how Jon said he was a deeply annoying child and then listed textbook symptoms of autism
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A funky little hair timeline
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jon + the admiral comfort doodles
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make your statement
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archivist be upon ye
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Tma sketch dump yippeeee
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