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sarcasticscribbles · 7 months

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I made a curious cat and people been asking about my designs so I thought I would share it here too If you have any question too you can send it here or over on curious cat!

Under cut is a very long monologue about some design choices regarding my s1 gang, Gerry and some avatars!

S1: Jon, Martin, Sasha and Tim

Right off the bat I'll admit I had seen TMA fanart before, but I assumed it was a game from how consistent designs are (Jon and Martin); however when I started I avoided fanart (but I am not immune to TMA fanon designs). I'll explain S1 gang, they are my favourites. I find fcs helpful to keep them consistence.

Jon: I have a basic Jon design: short, brown man with long hair and glasses. Jon has a put together façade but, he wasn't qualified for the archivist position, and he doesn't know what he's doing. Therefore, I like him with longer hair he can't care for, therefore messy. It gets longer with the seasons and adding on all the marks he gains from the entities. I gave him half-moon, golden glasses with chains holding two eyes. I like to think it's a Beholding artefact, so Gertrude wore them before him. I used to have Dev Patel as a reference for him, but I've switched over to Riz Ahmed!

Martin: Very basic: fat man with fluffy hair and glasses. When I heard his voice, I thought of Harvey Guillén, who stayed a reference for Martin's body. I pictured him in a dorky attire; round glasses, ginger, comfy yet business appropriate clothing. I added eyes in the pattern of his jumper and added freckles. I've recently play around adding a beard, because I think he wants to look older than he is (re: CV; "I'm only 29!") but haven't found a style I like. I keep him fat throughout the series, instead of him losing weight s4.

Sasha: She has some canon traits: tall, long hair and glasses. I draw her hair up to stay out of her face. Contra Jon, I think she was more qualified for the archivist position, so Gertrude started preparing her for the role. She wears an eye necklace I draw Gertrude wearing that's in the same style as Jon's glasses. She has a matching bracelet with Tim and overall is one of my favourites. (notSasha): I took what was established and flipped it; short, short hair, no glasses. I imagine notthem could pass as cousins (since they still need traits to the victim's family?); no immediate resemblance but with a few traits of the original.

Tim: Canonically described as hot so I have my own bias. I started with general attractive traits: tall and fit. I think he puts a lot into his appearance. I use Keanu Reeves as a reference, and he works great for him. He’s a hair guy, gets it professionally cut and owns expensive products, skincare routine and dresses in fitted clothing. His standard is a shirt with an eye pattern. He takes pride in his appearance, so S2’s worm scars troubled him. He stops shaving to let it heal properly but they never go away. He never liked looking at them and they are a cruel reminder of the past (however, one scar splits his eyebrow to x2 bisexuality). S3 he stopped caring about putting in effort, the stubble grew into a beard and his clothes aren't fitted. He loses muscles, gains weight, and isn’t who he was in S1.

Gerard Keay

I had just assumed Eric was hispanic (for some reason) and then I connected that he's Gerry's dad, and apparently I headcanon him half hispanic lol

But it was why I wanted to draw the Mama family portrait to play with genetics. Letting his dad be rather tall, tan with dark curly hair and Mary be ginger with paler skin; Gerry's pale, ginger with curly hair as a child. He grew up looking like Mary and started altering his appearance to be more like his dad; dyed dark hair and taking some of Eric's clothing (I also gave both a beauty mark under their eye he'll highlight despite wearing make up). Alternative scenes and goths tend to straighten their hair but I let Gerry have naturally wavy to still resemble his dad more. I tried to give him trad goth make up, mainly looking at Siouxsie Sioux in the late 70s. And a fun bonus to have his hair often cover one eye because, The Eye

Gerry cared for his dad, even if he died when he was a toddler (if I remember correctly). Gerry's chosen name is the nickname Eric referred to him as, which is also where my trans headcanon comes in (afab). I haven't thought it out fully, or how that reflects on other characters since everyone else calls him Gerard but I think there's some symbolising there having a chosen name relating back to Eric

(some) Avatars

Oliver Banks: "the Egyptians believed the most significant thing you could do in your life was die,"; I take inspiration from Ancient Egypt for my Oliver design! He wears an Ankh around his neck, but I want to look into more about Egyptian death symbolism (he has a cross too, but I'll probably remove it for future designs). I've also taken some inspiration from Nordic mythology, with Hel (Hela In English? Loki's daughter (not Marvel) ) as half his face is beautiful, and the other is a corpse (skull). I don't wanna mix too many cultures just for the sake of it, but it was a really fun design decision. And he's goth. Bonus death aligned I next time I draw Georgie I'll draw inspiration from the Death's-head hawkmoth

The Distortions: Michael's 60s and Helen's 80s inspired, no reason, just vibes. I like to think of Michael as a spiral while Helen's a twist, if that makes sense, I've been meaning to draw them together to demonstrate, but I'll include a doodle of it

Jane Prentiss: I looked into a lot of paganism, and fell into a rabbit hole. She's described as a modern witch, so I wanted a subtle alternative look with a shaved side and gauges. One of her breasts are exposed because (boobs) in old pagan traditions a lot of rituals were performed nude, to be closer to nature. A lot of pagan art has a very strong feminine force, I want for Prentiss. She has one eye, but I'll probably remove the other too, I've seen a lot of people do for more holes

Nikola Orsinov: Drag king. Because we need more of those. I love drag so Nikola's has a mix of both male and female attributes since he's just trying to imitate a human. Their design is also inspired The Toy Soldier in the mechanisms (haven't listened? To it but a lot of people pointed me to that designing Nikola!) that's also her actor Jessica Law! I put all my gender into Nikola lol, and when I can sneak an IT reference in I will

Breekon and Hope: Wario and Waluigi

Annabelle Cane: She's described having web keeping her skull together, but for some reason I imagined it to be down her neck. So I pictured her head occasionally falling off and being restored by a web. So I gave her both lol. Her vintage style is old, goth Hollywood glam to me and I love looking at reference for her

Bonus Agnes: I haven't drawn her fully, but I wanna take inspiration from Scandinavian culture, think Midsommar (both the movie and the tradition) and maybe Norse paganism. I love Agnes story and how it's only told by other people, and her relationship with Gertrude is so interesting!

#tma #the magnus archives #mag #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #tim stoker #sasha james #gerry keay #gerard keay #oliver banks #jane prentiss #nikola orsinov #the distortion #michael shelley #helen richardsson #agnes montague #annabelle cane #breekon and hope

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centrally-unplanned · 1 year

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Comic Box 1997 End of Evangelion Issue - Archive Scan

Comic Box was a magazine in Japan launched in, from what I can gather, 1982. It was a bit of an ‘alt” magazine - it has an imprint, Comic Box Jr, which focused on doujinshi for example - and would cover anything anime-adjacent, including western films. The October 1997 release of the magazine was dedicated to the release of the End of Evangelion film, and to answering the question “what was the phenomenon called Evangelion?”. Towards that end it features fan submissions, art, comics, essays, all talking about what Eva meant to them. Some are serious, some are fully comedic, way way more than I expected are erotic, and overall it is a time capsule of how the anime community was thinking about Evangelion when EoE came out. The magazine dissolved in 1998 from what I can tell, so this was one of its last releases - you can still see its absolutely vintage website here! Complete with dashing chibi cat gif.

I discovered this magazine through japanese anime/manga archivist-in-residence ehoba on twitter, who provided photos and rough summaries of some of the pages. They are just camera photos of an open magazine though, not scans, and not at all complete. I hunted around for a while to find a scanned version, messaged ehoba and a few others, posted on forums like Evageeks, and drew total blanks. I couldn’t find any listings of it online, so I set the quest aside...until I was placing another order for some artbooks for import and decide to check Yahoo Auctions Japan and lo and behold, there is was! It arrived this week.

So that image above is not one pulled from the internet - I have scanned the entire Evangelion segment of Comic Box - October 1997 issue. I am a neophyte scanner & image editor, these aren’t gonna be amazing or anything, but while I hope to make a more polished version I wanted to share the drafts now. I really aspire to translate it, but of course I don’t speak Japanese, so I am going to see how far working with some people I know and brute-forcing with AI would go. If you are interested or know someone who would be, definitely reach out! 100% would crowdsource this. If someone already scanned and translated this, also let me know, I would groan heavily and curse my google skills but i’d rather it be available and know, and not waste time.

Below will be some reduced-down PNG’s of the magazine to fit Tumblr image limits with Ehoba’s notes and a few of my own attached to them. A link to the full images as a singular PDF is on the Internet Archive [Here]

A reflection of a very known thing in this magazine is that, from my perspective, End of Evangelion is definitely Asuka’s moment to shine, but it didn’t matter because the 90′s Eva fandom *loved* Rei. She was the most popular by far, and I think dethroned Sailor Mercury on the ‘best girl’ polls in magazines of the era. Nowadays if you poll audiences - as the NHK did recently - Asuka is the most popular girl, but it was a different, proto-moe-boom time.

"Evangelion was fake. A fake made by one director, or by the staff. However, it was a very real fake. God, it was so good."

Watermelon Kaji absolute goat here; so cool indeed

How much Asuka is suffering in all these images vs god-salvation Rei is, again, saying alot about the waifu wars.

"I don't think episode 25 and 26 were professional work. I understand that the ADR script and previews with layout sheets are supposed to be avant-garde, but something is wrong with it." "TV show is not an individual's job, so I wanted them to deal with the schedule limitation."

90% sure this Asuka ‘escaped’ and I saw it on the internet in the early 2000′s - maybe the author published it elsewhere in a doujin, I assume a lot of this art would have been repurposed for other mediums.

Honestly the art is incredible for this magazine sometimes, the splash pages they have are filled with Evangelion’s anime-spiritual energy.

"Unit 02 has a mouth, which means it can give a blow job." "The biggest surprise is Rei in cowgirl position. The official content does that, so hentai authors have nothing to do."

(Gainax putting hard-working hentai doujin authors out of a job, what assholes!)

"My heated up feeling toward Evangelion was quick-freezed by episode 25 and 26. EoE defrosted it, but now I feel distant from Evangelion."

How much Episode 25-26 come up here is great evidence for how divisive they were - End of Eva is absolutely seen as commentary on, and opposition to, the TV ending. I think in the west the initial reception of the original ending is overall more positive? Certainly nowadays, would be curious how it is seen in Japan today.

OCR’ing this image will literally murder me, pls I can’t

"Bullshit plot, surficial information, shallow dialogues, inconsistent direction, story with tons of plot holes, the director's masturbation, the otaku's useless attempt to enlighten other otaku..." "BUT I LOVE IT."

10/10 take

"'Sincerity' of someone I don't like just confirms that I still don't like them. Anno apparently thought that honest depiction of himself can be depiction of otaku, but that's not wrong. Anno is exceptionally creepy."

God-tier Anno portrait here. I love how many of this art showcases “settings” from End of Eva and which ones hit the audience - re-using the movie theatre seats for Shinji, that is really cool!

Evangelion - Slayers edition! The artist names are in the black box panel on the page lining, I absolutely hope to track down a few of them and see what kind of works they made.

"I think each material of Evangelion was nothing new. In the early half, however, I was moved by their techniques of arranging and remixing those materials." "Creators' strong desire for expression supported this story, but I'm not sure."

"Adam and Eve in the Eden East" "I hope they will live happily after the ending."

"The theater was like a funeral after the screening. No, I should say it was a literal funeral. Evangelion ended, it died. In terms of entertainment, Evangelion was completely and brilliantly killed."

Kaworu’s insta-inclusion into the ranks of the kid cast is always amusing to me; he is in one episode of the show after all, barely in Eva! But he is all over the art immediately. The power of design - and also being one of the first gay characters on television (as opposed to OVA’s) in Japan.

Hopefully if I can make progress on translation I can have actual thoughts to add to the scan, certainly I will post results if I get them.

I value, way too deeply to be honest, the preservation of the other side of the ‘media mix’ - how people responded to the media in question and what it meant to them. It is way more likely to be lost than the media itself or documents from the production side. May this contribution to preserving a bit of that experience be of value to those out there who would be interested in the history of Evangelion, and anime more generally.

If you think you know anyone or your followers overall would be interested in translation help, I would appreciate the broadcasting!

#evangelion #anime archives #90's anime zeitgeist

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kittlesandbugs · 1 year

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First lines meme

Rules: post the first sentence of your last ten fics. If you haven't written ten fics, share as many first-sentences as you have.

Tagged by @thevikingwoman, gonna tag @sidestepping @gingerbreton @catastrofriend @ardellian @marshalortega @askweisswolf @the-rebel-archivist

Only FHR because I have one brand of brainrot hard enough for fic sbdjdjdkdkd. The last ten fics posted are not in the order written bc I had to sit on stuff for months for Retri spoiler LOL.

"That's a little unusual these days, isn't it?" Ortega gestures to the weekly stack of police reports on the conference table, twice as thick as it normally is. "It's been quiet."

The return - Riley returns to Los Diablos (past Chargestep, Steel POV)

The scent of iron hits like a sledgehammer as you enter the derelict water treatment plant. The shiver that follows rattles bone and nerves and guts and them. A feeling, a longing, welling up inside from your stomach to your throat. They can't drool but if you could they would.

Blood on the floor - Argent finds a gruesome scene at Riley's base (Argentstep, Argent POV)

“No offense, but you look like shit.”

No rest for the wicked - Ortega tries to get to the bottom of why Riley isn't sleeping well (Chargestep, Riley POV)

“How does it feel?"

Empty graves - Argent and Riley pay a visit to Sidestep's grave (Argentstep, Riley POV)

Your breath hitches in your throat, pinched tight and sore. Eyes flick to Ortega, no longer struggling, just staring at you with fiery accusation and betrayal. To Argent, arms crossed and rigid, face unreadable in the reflected dancing candlelight as her gaze goes back and forth between you and Hollow Ground. To Hollow Ground, smug and superior in her upper hand, lips quirked in a too-similar smirk as she watches and waits for your answer.

Whose side? - Riley gets caught in the web of her own machinations between Argent and Ortega and Hollow Ground (Chargentstep, Riley POV)

“She’s not breathing!”

Breathe dammit - Ortega revives Riley after the wreck at the end of Retri (Chargestep, Ortega POV)

You’re both giggling as Argent leads you by the hand through the dark halls of the Rangers HQ, no trace of resistance at breaking and entering. Is it really breaking in though, if the security system lets you in like old friends at her whim? Legality in the eye of the beholder, as with most things in Los Diablos.

Friendly sparring - Argent and Riley take advantage of HQ being empty at night to do a little sparring (Argentstep, Riley POV)

She looks ten years younger when she sleeps.

Unnamed ficlet - Ortega ruminates while Riley sleeps (Chargentstep, Ortega POV)

“Hey. Riley?”

Naptime - Ortega really wants Riley to take a nap (Chargestep, Ortega POV)

She rests her forehead against yours as you lie facing each other on her bed. She’s unusually quiet today, both inside and out. Not looking at you, not really. More through you. You’ve gotten better at telling where her focus is with those pupil-less silver eyes. A stiff breath across your nose smells like chocolate eclairs. You feel her steeling herself for something. What though?

Soft kisses - Argent is a little insecure about her skin, Riley reassures (Argentstep, Riley POV)

#Kitbug writes things #Fhr #Chargestep #Argentstep #Chargentstep #thevikingwoman #thank friend!!!#first line meme #Either i start with dialogue or just meandering gdjggghjj

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jackals-ships · 3 years

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sets this gently at ur feet

content warnings for: canon typical violence, referenced domestic violence+slight transphobia, a couple of straight up murders

Archivist: Statement regarding Jackal..ah. Hm. Statement regarding how Jackal became an Avatar of the Hunt and death of their father. Statement begins.

Archivist: This is not a good story, like of course I know the kind of stories you hear Jon but this is..less than a good light to shine on me. So I'll just say it plainly. I killed my father.

I was, I think I was sixteen? My memory is….it's hazy. I'd been dealing with his abuse for the majority of my life, he'd drink and snap at me for the most inane bullshit. Even sober sometimes he'd accuse me of doing things I never did. And god you should have heard him go off when I came out.

It was funny kind of, the way he yelled first about me being asexual? Like bro why do you care, then it was "I was born a woman I just have to look at myself" bluh bluh bluh transphobic bullshit whine whine whine.

But I handled it, I shoved those bad feelings down and when I was diagnosed with C-PTSD it was a shock to literally no one. Fucking asshole denied it of course though, because of course he fucking did.

But anyways uh. The day I finally snapped...he laid hands on my mom. It was all verbal up until then but I woke out of a dead sleep to my mom yelling for help. It was a reflex the lawyer said, it was fueled by fright that I ran in swinging.

He uh, he wasn't. He wasn't wrong. The first couple hits with the baseball bat were absolutely just me being filled with a rage fueled terror, just me wanting him off her and down to not touch her again until help arrived.

The next few...the next few were just anger. He had hurt her, he had hurt me, he had hurt the boys and I wanted him to feel that same hurt and blind fear. Then it felt….it didn't feel good. Not in the way I feels good when someone pays me a compliment or good in the way that it feels when I help someone you know?

It was like I was on fire. Like a cleansing fire ran through me and if I saw this through I would be clean for the first time in years. I was an angel wreathed in eyes and fire, but instead of saying Be Not Afraid I snarled at him to Be Very, Very Afraid.

One of the jurors talked to me after. Said it was like..you know abused dogs? They put up with a lot of shit, until they remember they have claws and teeth to use. I think, I think that's closer to what it was. I always liked that image too in my mind, of the last thing him seeing just being teeth.

I went to therapy, we all did, mine was both for trauma and a general "uhhh hopefully you won't become a serial killer my guy." Considering the fact that once the deed was done I threw up and fainted they were pretty sure that wasn't going to happen.

A few years later I graduated highschool a little late and went to college. I took an Immediate shine to some of the younger students, pretty sure it was because I have two younger brothers and being around them kicked in that pack bonding instinct. If you'll excuse the half joke. Regardless I took them under my wing, ended up accidentally adopting half a dozen folks.

It did mean however that the day one of my girls came back to the dorms covered in bruises I..I held her. Kissed her forehead and tucked her into bed. It was her boyfriend that did it. They never found his body, and they never would.

Did you know pigs will eat bodies Jon? I grew up in Texas, don't have much of an accent though so it throws folks off when I say it, but I learned that in my agriculture class. Belle got a nice treat that day.

You know when I was younger my mom would joke that if the police came knocking and told her her kid was a serial killer she wouldn't even be surprised. Shit that was even before the thing with Travis went down. I wonder what she would say now..I don't even know if I fit the definition.

It's not like I went out of my way to kill for the thrill, not then. I would just hear bragging or one of my friends would come running to me and it just seemed like the logical conclusion.

I never put a supernatural lean on it until one of my friends went missing. And he came back...wrong. None of the others noticed but he was wrong. He wasn't him. I knew he wasn't him and I knew that he was going to hurt one of mine if I didn't stop him.

There weren't bones in there when I wrung his neck. I thought I was losing my mind until I opened him up and lo and behold: not a single bone in sight.

I burned the body for good measure.

Then I ran. I thought I had finally snapped and I just needed to get away. So I kept running and running until I was in the middle of no fucking where with honestly not much clue how long I'd been moving for. Hours? Days? Weeks? I didn't know, all I knew was I was in the middle of a forest and I wasn't sure I wanted to go home.

I stayed like that for a long time. Pretty sure the Lonely's touched me at least a bit from that. And then...some amount of time later I met someone like me. Bit worse off than me though, told me about how the blood sang to him. How he was a monster hunter by trade.

Took all my willpower to not tell him we were both as much monsters as the ones he hunted down.

But we became semi friends, he told me about his home, bits of his story, told me he was from London originally. Told me about the Magnus Institute. And there was something...something to it. I couldn't put my finger on it, but I just knew I had to get there.

And well. Now I'm here. So that's my story I suppose with some added rambling. Fuck me but I hate how you eyeball bastards do that. At least it's not as bad as when Elias does it, ugh.

Archivist: Statement. Statement ends. (there is the rustling of paper and a shaky exhale.) Well. That certainly explains at least a couple things.

Archivist: …. definitely explains how they went hand to hand with Prentiss. And why they keep bringing me meat as a "gift" because I'm "too small and going to get blown away by the smallest gust of wind." Christ they really are just a dog in human clothing...or wolf in human clothing I suppose.

#jackals barks #i think that jackals of the hunt should be legally allowed to hunt down abusers. as a treat #also i feel like this fits more hunt than slaughter ? its not Aimless violence. its violence with a purpose #ofc usual disclaimer too that i would never actually kill anyone i assume everyone knows this BUT i am what the bitches call: paranoid tm

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penninstitute · 4 years

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Statement of Felix Verloren and Blair Matthews, regarding an encounter with the Skinsnatcher, otherwise known as Natasha. Statement given June 6th, 2020. Statement recorded live from subjects.

Transcript under cut.

[Click.]

ARCHIVIST Okay. Sorry, we're gonna start this again from the top. It should work this time.

Statement of Felix Verloren and Blair Matthews, regarding an encounter with the Skinsnatcher, otherwise known as Natasha. Statement given June 6th, 2020. Statement recorded live from subjects.

Statement begins.

FELIX To begin with, it took a few days to even find the location in question, Foxborough Shopping Center, though the name is more or less forgotten by this point, due to its closure in 1992. The rumored, and, likely correct reason being the sharp decrease in business after a homicide occurred on the premises. The victim in question, young Adaline McKinnon, was murdered in the dressing room of a department store. It was called murder, but the circumstances are unclear enough, without a killer being caught, that it is hard to say. BLAIR Yeah, it was real annoying trying to find that place. We got there at around three in the afternoon. It's quiet and a lil spooky but that's not important. Um, after a bit of searching, we manage to find the store and we find the doors, although they... didn't look like how they were described in the statement

FELIX For one thing they both appeared… normal in every sense of the word, versus how the statement described them. Nothing seemed quite amiss.

BLAIR Yeah, then uh, we went in and they led to two old dressing rooms. The first one was normal too, nothing was out of place. It did still have some old clothing hanging up, which was sort of weird, but it wasn’t that noteworthy at the time. The uh, next one however was a little less normal. The mirror in it was cracked, and I swore I saw the skinsnatcher. A pale woman in a plain black dress, long red hair and really dark eyes. She uh, smiled at me.

[Nervous huff of laughter.] I uh, was happy enough to blame it on ghosts in the moment.

Of course at the time, I didn't know it was the... thing. And when I looked back behind me, there was... nothing.

FELIX Nothing at the time, at any rate.

Investigating the one purported to have contained a 'void', it didn't seem off. Aside from the clothing inside. I... Personally found it strange that a completely abandoned facility would still contain any items within, but that is hardly important. Continuing our search, we didn't find much of anything mentioned in the account aside from the cracked mirror as Blair said. The building was almost empty and unremarkable otherwise. I had personally written the place off as a hoax until…

I saw her myself. It? I don't... I don't know.

BLAIR We were in the middle of the store when we noticed her. It. It was so… pale, and its features were almost weirdly exaggerated? It looked just off enough that we knew it wasn’t… normal. Whatever it was, it blocked off the door and charged us, leading to me and Felix getting separated.

I locked myself in the dressing room with the cracked mirror, and of course that thing followed me instead. Hearing it's creepy voice calling out for me was... not fun. It tried to lure me out, but I'm not that dumb. Eventually it resorted to… scratching, at the door. I don't know how long it took for it to give up, but it felt like ages…

FELIX [Quietly.] Whatever it was…

I managed to get outside the establishment, somehow. I don't know why it didn't simply come after me first, I was the easier target.

It took me longer than I care to admit, but I managed to get ahold of the bat we'd brought along. Er. Blair, brought along, specifically.

At that point it had lost interest in her... and... well, it very nearly caught me just trying to get back inside.

BLAIR While Felix was busy dealing with the thing, I waited for a while just to make sure it was clear. Thankfully, it was. Walking back out of the mall alone was... not easy, to say the least. I'm already a jumpy person, but the atmosphere was... terrible

When I got back outside, lo and behold, what I found out there was Felix beating the shit out of that thing. It was pretty badass. [Felix stammers slightly in the background.] While it was distracted, I got into the car and started it up. When I was sure Felix wasn’t in the way, I rammed into it with the car, sending it flying a good bit.

FELIX Right. That was impressive in its own right. [A pause.] Normally that would have likely killed a man, but... we didn't exactly look back to check. We left as soon as I managed to get back in the car.

I… hope it’s dead, anyway.

BLAIR Me too buddy, me too. That thing was creepy as hell... it looked... too human. If that's even possible.

FELIX Looked a bit like a painted mannequin attempting to masquerade. Her, its... limbs were just slightly off enough to feel a bit, sickening to look at.

ARCHIVIST Hm. [A pause.] And you guys--you’re sure it was the Skinsnatcher?

BLAIR It had to have been. Thing was probably waiting for another victim to snack on.

FELIX It matched the descriptions on file to a T. That thing was 'Natasha'.

ARCHIVIST Right, right. Okay. Did you feel like you were being followed at all, on your way back?

FELIX As much as one would after an experience like that.

ARCHIVIST Okay, that’s fair. Have you seen her since?

BLAIR Don’t think so.

FELIX Not as far as I can recall.

ARCHIVIST Okay. I don’t know if that’s good or not. If you see her again, let me or Hazel know immediately, alright?

BLAIR You got it, Boss.

ARCHIVIST Alright. You can get back to work. Just… take it easy, okay?

[Click.]

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The Archivist: @cacowhistle

Felix Verloren: @riku-reimei

Blair Matthews: @brassgiraffe

#statement #0200606 #13116 #tma #the magnus archives

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jd-arts319 · 4 years

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(This fic I a Ocxcanon fanfic,transformers(Movieverse)opxoc,her name was Emberblade I saw her bio,this story is the same but how her's past goes is,,, different)

Chapter 1:born of the fierce six-wheeler

Emberblade p.o.v

I still remember how it all began,when cybertron was a…..peaceful time,until war began & destroy the planet itself,I remember how I'm just a dock-worker along side the mech I grew to have feelings for,we both face the world,he was quite,smart,gentle,humble,kind,mature,while me….I'm the opposite,smart yes,but laid-back,crazy, creative,can be mature but also playful & cunning, mischevious….too.

I remember how I met him,we met when we are first requited on how to move,fix,shuffle,ect.ect.,then we are partnered to each other in order to get to know one another so in our future,we can help each other with trust,there…..I was partnered with him.

Orion pax…..

We are complete strangers to each other to say at least,me & him are just both younglings around the time,but we hit off..just fine, yes! We are awkward with each other but other exchanging words & starting some conversations & enjoy each other's company,we hit off.

By as to grew,we are now femme & mech,he now worked at the iacon hall as an archivist & working under alpha trion,I'm still a dock-worker but soon moved to crystal city as an artist,we still visit with each other from time to time.

then it happend the council was electing some mechs who will take place as a new prime & the new lord high protector,I always hated the council,orion knew it too…..worst of all? Orion was elected,since sentinel is now reaching his old age,he need a successor.

I stayed with alpha trion,he & I bonded over enegron tea, while I think about how orion's doing,around that time I got into elite guard academy with the help of alpha trion,incase there is a slight chance orion become a prime,but there is another mech I have met around time before electing some successors.

Megatronus…..

A kaonite gladiator,I bumped into him when I was visiting someone there,he was….interesting

I thought I never saw him again until….around the time of election,I saw him,he saw me

We just stared at each other & I felt shiver,I immediately left & me up with orion & alpha trion.

Months passed,me & the others who participated in the elite guard academy, for the new prime & lord high protector,are now almost done with classes,trainings & preparations,I made friends & got to known the each others,afterwards we finally graduated & now we are preparing to be chosen by the new prime & lord high protector.

we are talking,we found out who are chosen on each particular role,then I was chosen,by what surprised us that both prime & high lord chose me for their each side.

All of the mechs & femmes,we're shocked,I was too shocked I mean I was chosen by the two higher ups unless…..I had a feeling I know who are the prime & the high lord.

after we are chosen,we are marching towards a large hall towards a throne room,once got inside & saw who are the new prime & the high lord,lo & behold,it was orion & megatronus!!!!,when the two saw me, orion-who is now called optimus-,face brighten a little & megatron,just stared at me & smirked.

I feel myself internally scream,well at least I found some people,who I can feel calm to serve with…

But then…...war happend….

Everything was in the blazes of fire,buildings & cities are destroyed into smitterins,I was running finding other survivors,then everything was blurry….

All I remember was fire, destruction, chaos,screams,shots,deaths,&......light…..

Years passed

It was a bright sunny day on Earth as a navy blue with blue flames & gold accents,semi-trailer truck drove around town,it hums a small tune as it drives around or rather "she" drives.

"Hmmm,I wonder how bee was doing?",she thought as she scan around looking for some decepticons activities,it was years since she met up with the young scout,she remembers he was only a little adorable sparkling when she was a bodyguard for optimus before the war started & now? He grew into a energetic one,is nice for once to see a fellow bot having a brightside in the war,yet he was so young.

Emberblade remembers how she had met him,she chuckles as she thinks about it,still…

& Then there was the world war,she knew humans are violent primitives but not this violent,well..her own race the same too,so she knew they'd aren't excuse,but she also felt fond of some memories of their war on Earth,especially Edmund burton,nice human.

She make another turn where an abandon construction site,there she transformed as she walking towards bumblebee when she saw another human & stopped,she hides she saw a young boy gets chased by a dog as bumblebee transforms today save him,she let out a hum as she quietly get out of the site & transforms,she had a feeling that boy may play a bigger role in their war?

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Next chapter will be up soon!!!!

Transformers @hasbro

Emberblade @me

(you can find more chapter like this on the tag"Embers of the Phoenix")

#oc #lmao #original & stableverse #inspiration #ships #transformers #tfverse #bayverse #movieverse #archiveverse #chronoverse #Embers of the Phoenix #transformers oc

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echo-inthevoid · 4 years

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Season1 Q&A (+thoughts on s1)

So let's see what sorts of answers we get here.

Ok, so he's always known the ending for the most part... That's comforting in some ways. He's not just going to give a throwaway ending just to end it. It's something he really cares about and is important to the story. (I might make another post on my thoughts about about the ending and it's promised tragedy but this post is already super long)

It's funny how Jonny's voice sort of drifts in and out of what I recognize as being the archivist.

Johnny being a relatable writer.

Ok, so the institute has around 80-100 staff so about what I was imagining. Not huge, but not tiny either.

Alex quoting martin about the lo-fi charm XD

So I assume people started calling him Jonny cause that's what Alex calls him here.

All around good questions. Good answers. Nice to hear a bit of behind the scenes :)

Alright, now for my thoughts on s1. Basically, I loved it. The voice acting is great, the characters(including the statement givers) are enthralling and diverse, and the writing is the best I've seen in a long while. I have so many theories and questions.

Also, @confuzzledbean hinted at me to relisten to the ending of ep40 and it IS not-Sasha! The credits confirm it! So I'm assuming the same thing that happened to the guy in "Across the street" happened to her. It took her identity. So I guess I wasn't spoiled too bad for that cause I still have no idea how it's gonna play out.

Speaking of spoilers, and in the interest of clarity, things I've accidentally picked up on from the fandom so far: Peter Lucas and Elias are jerks, The fears have "avatars". Peter Lucas is avatar of the lonely?? Jon becomes avatar of the beholding at some point. Martin gets stuck in the lonely. Jonah Magnus possesses people?? Elias is also beholding related (is he also an avatar? Can there be more than one?) Jon can "compel" people to answer his questions or something... oh! And cows! There are good cows! I want to see them!

What I've picked up on myself is that the Magnus institute might be protecting them? Or something about the archives is protecting them? Perhaps it's the thing that watches John. Cause the worms were slower in the archives. I also wonder why the true statements have to be tape-recorded. Is it something about the statements? Or something about the tape? Is John using tape that was already at the archives? Is he using Gertrude's leftover tapes?

I also have a theory that the "fears" aren't just fears, they're also wants. Things aren't as scary if there isn't also something pulling you towards them.

For example, the hive represents the fear of being consumed vs the want to be loved.

The beholding represents the fear of being watched vs the hunger for knowledge.

Etc.

And now for my list of categories! I'm starting to think that not all of these are fears themselves but might be other sorts of organizations (like the cult and the library may serve or use power from multiple fears) and I've put some stuff in multiple categories cause I can't decide where to put it and some categories are listed under other categories and... Yea. This is mostly for my own reference but I thought some people might be interested.

Eyes/the beholding- the eye picture in "page turner", the necklace from "a fathers love" has an eye and a hand(perhaps a joining of two powers, one being the eye? Don't know what the hand would be), the dreamer from "dreamer"(cause he's being given knowledge), the burn victim from "first first" with the eyes on all his joints, the eye that appears for one frame of footage in "first aid", the meat pile the man upstairs made had eyes?, the grave from "Schwarzwald", the "gardener" with no eyes from "Schwarzwald".

stinky meat- the man upstairs, Sarah palmer, the endless meat factory?, the students?

Leitner/evil library- bone turner, Gerard kaey, mary kaey, the book from "Schwarzwald",

weird patterns (/the spiral?)- the table from "across the street", the eye picture in "page turner", that guys dad who was obsessed with fractals, the cave from "lost johns cave"?(it's kind of maze-like), the "demon" from "confessions" and "desecrated host"(nauseating unreality seems in line with the patterns), feeling of falling from "page turner", the endless sky from "freefall", Michael from "the distortion"?, the endless meat factory, Leitner?, the vase from "lost and found", the twisting passages from "old passages"

mist/the lonely- how everyone disappeared from hilltop road, the mist from "alone", the mist from "boatswains call", how everyone disappears in "first aid", Peter Lucas,

cults/unstoppable hunger- the darkness from "growing dark" and "a fathers love"(new theory for that ep btw: her mom was part of the darkness cult but left and then it came after her and then her daughter in revenge as long as someone didn't keep serving it), red death tendrils from "dreamer", "the lightless flame"? the boxes from "piecemeal", Gertrude?

"the lightless flame"- the burning from "first aid", the burning from "burnt offering", the burning feeling in hilltop road

voodoo- the trash from "thrown away", the calliope and dolls, Gertrude, "the lightless flame"?

the hive- jane Prentiss, the lady from "squirm", flesh hive from "the distortion" etc...

Evil deliveries?- (the things delivered might be from different things but perhaps there's a spooky delivery system? They always look exactly like you expect them to.) the people who gave the do not open coffin, the students, whoever delivered the boxes in "piecemeal", the people who delivered the table and lighter to jon,

the web- (really only been mentioned by name and alluded to being related to spiders but from what martin said it seems like it would be the fear of being trapped vs the want to be in control.) That one apple that turned into spiders on hilltop road, the spider who killed the arachnophobe, the lighter given to jon, the spider jon knocked over the shelves trying to kill, martin feeling trapped at the archives.

Other-( stuff I can't categorize, perhaps deserve categories of their own later?) the "anglerfish", the piper, the reapers, the vampires, the midnight visitor from a sturdy lock, the "ghost" from skintight, the hunt, the disease from "taken ill"

Ahskdhkdd that took so long to write. Gah! Anyway, onto season 2?

#im trying rlly hard not to take spoilers into account cause i keep finding out its just a popular headcannon and not a spoiler lol.#im pretty sure of the stuff i mention tho.#also if you have a nonspoilery fic now is your time to advertise!#please hit me up with those good good fics!#tma #the magnus archives #season 1 #tma lb #tma s1 #liveblogging #echos stuff #also just got into the mechanisms just in time for them to break up #;-;

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brassandblue · 3 months

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Placeholder character page for Jonathan Sims

#.// hope perches in the soul (ooc)#.// a formal feeling comes (character pages)#.// lo and behold (the archivist)

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brassandblue · 12 days

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Since I just got stood up by one of my bosses (and then had the meeting time changed to this Friday after waiting a week to speak with her) I'm going to indulge in some self-validation.

I'm proud of the wordplay and puns used in my character tags.

For example:

#.// lo & behold (the archivist) for Jon. Because, you know. The Beholding. 👁 If you know, you know. If you don't, go listen to the Magnus Archives.

#.// go with the floe (blanky) for Thomas because he is a deceptively easygoing Icemaster; a sheet of floating sea ice is called a 'floe'.

#.// schrodinger’s doctor (goodsir) for Goodsir because throughout the whole series, it's this back and forth of people calling him "doctor" and he even clarifies to Lt. Gore that he isn't. And by the end, he says if he ever was, he is one no longer. Therefore, he is and is not a doctor, depending on when in canon you observe him.

#.// turn on--tune in--drop dead (alastor) for Alastor requires a little knowledge of US.American history. To spare you a lecture, it's simply a play on 'Turn on, tune in, drop out.' Per an article from Medium,

Timothy Leary's “Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out” mantra defined the 1960's Hippie counterculture movement. The phrase was a call for people to drop out of the mainstream consumer culture and tune in to themselves. The emphasis was on introspection, searching for internal control, internal freedom and internal solutions.

Alastor was a radio host in the 1920s and 1930s based out of New Orleans, Louisiana. As an Overlord in Hell, he appears to be exceedingly motivated by his own goals and above all, a desire for freedom.

#.// lupus in fabula (trm) for the Railroad Man references the Latin phrase, lupus in fabula; or, the wolf in the story. However the true meaning of the phrase is equivalent to the more modern(ish) idiom, "Speak of the Devil and he doth appear." It works in both the literal sense and as an idiom: The Railroad Man is described at one point like a "wolf with a mouth full of your firstborn", and other predatory descriptors. He also has a distinct habit of showing up suddenly (especially around railways).

The others are less creative, IMO, with Arthur's "ruled the waves" (a play on Rule Britannia's 'rules the waves' line) -- Jack's "of blood & bone." But they can't all be gold.

#.// hope perches in the soul (ooc)

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