What the GFs!!!!

alright, yeah, enough. so, i’ve said something similar to this before in regards to the concept of jewishness in the delano-keay family, but something should probably be said about the seriously uncomfortable implications of depicting either mary or eric as anything but white.

this is primarily directed at white people who draw gerry or eric as POC because they want them to be Interesting or Cool, or whatever else goes into people’s heads when they make a character Ambiguously Brown for Clout without thinking about the can of really racist worms that it can open up.

i’m going to talk about why it’s different when artists of colour do this, but the fact is that most people in this fanbase are white, and it’s times like these where it really shows.

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i rly truly do love helen as the zany murderous aunt but idk i think for two seconds about the normal realtor she once was and i :(

what the gf’s said goth girl summer and they were right

how funny would it be if elias died off screen (off audio?). how hilarious would it fucking be if jon and martin burst into his discount eye of sauron, ready to smite, and hes just laying in a ruined heap at the foot of whatever cheap little throne he built for himself. how sexy would it be for miss annabelle cane to be draped across said throne, cobwebs drifting lazily out out of her mouth as she smiles and says "took you guys long enough ::::)"

Loved that new episode...got inspired by some of the “plants” so here are some illustrations of them.

ok so. i know a lot of this has probably been said before, but i wanted to put my two cents in. very rambly and disorganized because i am just like that.

i think everyone in this fandom needs to examine the way they interract with male vs female characters. why is it easier for you to focus on and create content for male characters that have appeared in 2 episodes maximum, then it is for the women that are in the main cast? why do you gravitate towards ships between two male characters who have never met (specifically jonah and like. his harem of old british men. usually based on one single line of dialogue) then the actual, canon wlw relationships?

like dont get me wrong, when lonely eyes first started cropping up it was funny! i enjoyed it, i enjoyed the multiple divorce jokes, because it was a small fandom in joke that made fun of some old bastards. and now its the second most popular ship in the fandom. now its so popular, people think its canon before they start listening. why are you unable to muster that same kind of enthusiasm for any of the female characters? gertrude and mary have very similar appeal to lonely eyes, and yet its a fringe ship that nobody ever talks about. gertrude and agnes have very significant moments and mentions in the podcast, and yet the only people i see talking about them are wlw.

or we could talk about michael and helen! helen who, as of this moment, has become a key player in the storyline. helen who yeeted michael out of existence, who took over the power of the distortion by her own choice, and with her own strength. and so often i see her relegated to "vodka aunt that coos over jonmartin" is that a bad take on her? of course not! but having her only purpose be to comment on the male characters rubs me the wrong way.

lets talk about elias and mary. elias gets praise, and love, and devotion, regardless of the horrible things he does. the entire fandom has the reputation of eliasfuckers now because everyone goes so crazy for him. mary is just as evil, has just as sexy a voice (i assume lol cause tbh? eel eyes does not do it for me and never will), and people just. hate her. full stop. why is that?

it seems like manuela has been. completely forgotten. i Never see anyone talk about her. she has just as much appeal as the male avatars, so why are you so uninterested in her? sasha and tim have the same amount of importance, and both have died, but there is So much more focus on tim. why.

daisy/basira and melanie/georgie are incredibly well developed relationships, their stories are as beautiful and tragic and intimate as jonmartin, but the f/f and m/m fic ratio on ao3 is abysmal. because it seems to me that the only people writing about them are wlw.

which happens.....a lot. het relationships and gay relationships are for everyone, but lesbian ships? thats just for gay women. everyone goes head over heels for mlm movies, regardless of sexuality, but wlw movies never receive the same kind of treatment. why.

this isn't even touching on the. blatant and disgusting fetishising of mlm. elias is evil because hes gay and skanky. tim is bi so he must sleep around. tim and martin are both mlm in the same vicinity of each other so they must have had a friends with benefits relationship. jon/elias and peter/martin have significant age differences and power disparities, so they must have an incredibly fucked up sexual relationship. jon is ace, but yall just fully ignore that so you can write horny fic of him. (and im going to be completely honest, if you get legitimate joy from writing manipulative r*pe fic involving these characters, Especially involving an ace character, than that is a big problem. you arent "exploring dark topics in a meaningful way" youre writing fucked up porn for your own sick enjoyment. get angry at me all u want lmao but i stand by that)

i could go on about this forever, but what im really asking is for people to look inward and ask yourselves why you are so against connecting and interracting with female characters? no one is saying you cant like the men, but if theyre the only ones you care about? thats a problem. there are more women in tma then there are men, but they still feel like the minority because of the way the fandom acts. this isnt just a tma problem either! you can put as many rounded out female characters as you want into your content, and every time without fail they will be pushed to the side in favor of the men.

and dont come at me with "oh if you want content of the women you should make it" like we fucking are. the issue is that wlw are the only ones doing it. just take a second and think. are you ignoring the female characters in favor of the men? why? why is that your first instinct? why do you not feel the need to go against that instinct?

My favorite thing about The Magnus Archives is when they just Make Shit Up about historical figures. Like fuck it, Robert Smirke was an occultist. Wilfred Owen was a war god. Edmond Halley is still alive and he’s trying to extinguish the sun.

s1 archive crew :0

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[ID: A digital drawing of four characters from The Magnus Archives: Sasha James, Tim Stoker, Martin Blackwood, and Jonathan Sims, standing against a white background. Sasha is a black woman with curly black hair and round glasses. She is laughing and blushing and wears a beige cardigan over a white button up with a black tie and a black skirt. One hand covers her moth while the other is on her hip. Tim is mostly obscured by Sasha and Martin, but he is a tall, mixed race man with dark brown hair and eyes, and medium brown skin. He is smirking, and wears a red button up shirt and a black tie, which is loosened and hanging low from his collar. Martin is a chubby asian man with curly black hair and light skin. He is blushing and holds his hands in front of himself. He is wearing a blue sweater over a white button up and tie with black pants. Jon is a short, thin, brown man with short black hair that is greying in some areas. He wears a dark green button up with a black tie, and holds a mug in one hand. He wears rectangular glasses and has brown eyes. He is looking at Martin with a confused expression. /End ID]

icons who i miss very much 😫😫😫

It’s 2 am so I’m allowed to be introspective but something I’ve always wondered about in tma is who we are as the audience and additionally, at what point in the story are we hearing the recordings? Are we hearing them way after the the events of season 5 or are we hearing them only a few days/weeks after they are recorded? Is everyone in the recordings already gone but we just don’t know they are? What is our purpose as the audience to listen to them? How have we come to possess the recordings? Are we actually a character or just an effect of the beholding needing to record???? My mind is on a constant cycle that I cannot stop.

i caved. it’s uquiz time. how did you die in the magnus archives?

[Image description: A black and white comic of Jon Sims, Martin Blackwood, and Helen as the Distortion from the Magnus Archives. Jon is a thin Asian man with pockmarked scars, long messy hair, and stubble. Martin is a chubby black man with round glasses and a temple fade with ringlets wearing a hoodie. Helen is a lanky black woman with an oversized suit jacket, oversized long fingers, and strange spiral-y hair and eyes

. Arm in arm with Martin, Jon knocks on a distorted door with a grumpy expression. “Ugh, what does she even want?” He says. “To say hello to the happy couple!!” Helen shouts, bursting through the door enthusiastically. Martin waves and says “Hi!” back.

 Helen crowds close to them, plopping one of her enormous hands on their heads while Jon grabs on to Martin, clearly uncomfortable. “My favourite couple, who are romantically a pair!” She says, smiling. She smooshed all three of their faces together. “My two friends, who are men! Having a romance!”

Jon is gripping Martin, clearly angry. Martin looks mildly non-plussed.  Helen steps back, framing them with her hands. “Just two lovely male people, who are in love, with each other,” she says, sliding out of the bounds of the panel. 

Helen steps through a laptop screen to smile menacingly at a person sitting on the other side. They are wearing a shirt that says ‘ Platonic JonMartin Headcanons’. As she steps through, Helen says, “Just two men, in a canonically romantic relationship as of episode 159 of the Magnus Archives, a podcast distributed by rusty quill licensed under a creative commons attribution non-commercial share-alike international licen-”

End description.]

Helen Richardson, Avatar of Jonny Sims’ frustration. 

the fact that jon cant see where melanie and georgie are? i do not trust that shit!!!!!!!

This is how Daisy Tonner could still live..

the spiral really is the xoxo gossip girl of the entities and its soooo funny lmfao. they just show up wherever shit is going down and decide to make it their business to cause problems on purpose.