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its-your-mind · 3 months

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*deep breath in*

the fears 👏 have always 👏 been (in one way or another) 👏 parallel 👏 to 👏 desire 👏

let me explain.

so many of the statements given by actual avatars center around some sort of need that was met by their entity. Lots of them even had a positive relationship with the fear that drove them.

Jane Prentiss is an excellent example - the Corruption has always been about a form of toxic and possessive love, but she personally has a deep desire to be “fully consumed by what loves her,” and finds a perverse joy and relief at allowing herself to be a home

Jude Perry is another - she fucking loved watching people’s lives be utterly destroyed. The Desolation only offered her a power of destruction on a grander scale, and then gave her a more intense rush of joy as she did its work. When she tells Jon that he needs to feed the Eye before it feeds on him, it’s almost as an afterthought; she was happily feeding the Desolation long before it burned her into a new existence.

Simon Fairchild. Every time that old loose bag of bones wanders into the picture, he is having a fucking EXCELLENT time playing with the Vast. He loves showing people their own insignificance, and he loves luring them into situations where he can throw them into the void as he smiles and waves.

Peter Lukas (hell, the whole Lukas family (except Evan. RIP Evan.)) hated. people. all he wanted was for them all to go away, to leave him alone. The Lonely only fulfilled that desire.

Daisy, Trevor, and Julia, all devoted to hunting those things they deemed monstrous.

Melanie, holding tight to that bullet in her leg because on some level, she wanted it. It felt good, it felt right, it felt like it fit right alongside the anger and spite that drove her to success.

Annabelle Cane first encountered the Web when she was a child, running away from home in order to tug on her parents’ heartstrings in just the right way to have them wrapped around her little finger. Later on she volunteered to be the subject of an ESP study. Hell, she’s the one who dangled the “Is it really You that wants this?” question over Jon’s head in S4.

And that brings us to Jon, beloved Jarchivist, the Voice that Opened the Door. Ever since he was a child targeted by the Web, he was looking for answers. He joined the Magnus Institute’s Research Department looking for them, he stalked his coworkers in search for them, he broke into Gertrude’s flat and laptop out of desperation for them. And when he realized that all he had to do was Ask to get truthful answers to his questions? It was only natural for him to jump at that opportunity.

Elias told S3 Jon that he did want this, that he chose it, that at every crossroads he kept pushing onwards, and the inner turmoil that caused was one of the focal points for Jon’s character through the rest of the podcast.

There’s a certain line of thinking in many circles about the power of the Devil: he’s not able to create anything new. All he’s able to do is twist and warp that which was already present, making it something ugly and profane while still maintaining the facade of something desirable.

Jon didn’t choose the Eye. But he did wander into its realm of power, exhibiting exactly the qualities it was most capable of hijacking and warping to its own ends. Jon didn’t choose the Apocalypse. But Jonah picked at him little by little, pointing him towards each Fear individually. Jon didn’t want to release the Fears. But the Web tugged on his strings just so and laid a pretty trail for him to follow until he reached its desired conclusion.

Jon didn’t choose ultimate power, or omniscience, or even his own role as Head Archivist. But he said “yes” to the right (wrong?) orders and kept on pushing for the right (wrong?) answers. He wanted to succeed at the work he had been assigned. He wanted to protect his friends. He wanted to rescue them when they were lost. He wanted to prevent the apocalypse, to save the world. He wanted to know why he was still alive, when so many had died right in front of him.

The Great Wheel of Evil Color that is the Entities might not fit as neatly into categories in this universe - maybe there was no Robert Smirke trying to impose strict categories on emotional experiences, or maybe the ways they manifest in the world has turned on its head (goodness knows many of them have been showcased and blended in some very fun and new and horrifying ways so far) - but their fundamental foundations seem to be the same. Hell, in episode one we learned that there had been enough individual incidents to create a distinction between “dolls, watching” and “dolls, human skin.”

Smirke’s Fourteen isn’t going to be relevant as common parlance, RQ said that already, but I don’t think that means the Fears themselves (and their Dream Logic-based rules) are different - I think it means that the levels of understanding, language used, and personal connections among people “in the know” are going to be entirely unfamiliar

#tma #tmagp #the magnus protocol #tmagp meta #tmagp analysis #the entities #robert smirke #smirke's fourteen #mind write a meta post that doesn’t turn into a fucking essay challenge #I literally thought about citing my episode sources here but decided that would get too FUCKING long.#anyway I’m pulling mostly from Gerry’s statement (111) and #and the Big Elias Group Confrontation (92)#and Annabelle’s statement (147)#and then finale - 196 / 197 / 200 #there are other little lines that I grabbed - tbh feel free to ask about anything I’ve said bc I feel like I’m ready to defend a thesis #I’ve been thinking about this on and off for a few weeks since the desire thing started going around #I have an obsession with Themes as they relate to Worldbuilding and now I have subjected you all to it as well #I am serious tho if anyone wants me to pull the specific parts I’m talking about (whether cuz you have Questions or you wanna ref them too)#lmk #my hyperfocus on silly media brain might as well come in useful somehow #aight peace ✌️

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becca-e-barnes · 1 year

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I can't bring myself to think of anything except a submissive dbf Bucky on his knees, shirtless and just short of begging to be allowed to touch you. (Probably inspired by this tiktok that I've watched SO many times)

Even his very first kiss is frantic. He usually starts off gentle; almost tentative but within minutes he's holding the back of your head, keeping you close and it's such an indulgent kiss, it makes your head swim.

"Fuck." His mouth latches onto your neck, groaning quietly when he realises you already have the first couple of buttons of his shirt undone. He's already lost any desire he might have had to take this slowly.

You pull him back up to kiss your lips with a hand gently cradling the back of his neck. He doesn't voice any objections, following your lead and letting his warm lips slide over yours until your tongue teases his.

He's practically melting already and it's so rewarding to watch how easily he crumbles. Your lips don't part from his while he shrugs his shirt off and as soon as his neck is free of the collar, your hand replaces it.

His eyes open when you start to apply pressure to the outside of his throat, careful to avoid pressing on any of the more delicate structures. "Harder." He needs this. You have no problem indulging him.

"You're so good for me." He's flushed already but you swear the praise makes his cheeks blaze even hotter. His lips are pink and slick and he's long since forgotten his need to kiss you. Up until you use your grip on his neck to direct him to kneel on the carpet.

You let go of his throat, the release of pressure gives him a head rush and it's written all over his face. He's looking up at you expectantly, desperate to know what's coming next. Are you going to tease him about being so submissive? Slap his face a little? Spit in his mouth maybe? A little part of him isn't sure what he'd prefer more.

You do none of the above though. Instead, you perch on the edge of the bed while you play with his hair, letting the seconds tick past, not saying a word.

He almost feels deprived of touch, going from so much to so little in a short space of time. Your knees are pressed tightly together but he kisses up one of your bare legs regardless, worshipping every inch of skin he can press his mouth to.

"Spread your legs." It's only a quiet murmur but his tone is off. He's not in a position to be making any demands.

"Who do you think you're talking to?" It's almost funny that he thinks he'll get what he wants by addressing you like that.

"Spread your legs please." The emphasis seems genuine. He engaged his mouth before he engaged his brain. It happens and you forgive him, parting your thighs and letting him shift the skirt of your dress out of the way.

You hadn't bothered to wear underwear. It only gets in the way and Bucky seemed appreciative that he didn't have to waste any time taking it off you.

"You're so wet already." This wasn't news to you. Even just the thought of him on his knees for you is enough to get you worked up, never mind the reality.

One of your hands instinctively settles on the back of his head and you feel him start to glide his tongue over your slick sex. He kisses your body like he did your lips earlier. The pressure and intensity feels indulgent, long strokes of his tongue that allow him to taste you the way he's been dreaming of.

The slick sounds are obscene. His quiet moans are filthy. He sinks two thick fingers into your body, curling them while his tongue laps at your clit and you can't help the way your legs shake.

The pointed tip of your shoe presses gently to the front of his trousers and he gratefully grinds against the sole. His pleasure can't and won't be forgotten, although it seems like that wasn't a concern of his anyway.

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coconut530 · 3 months

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HESITANT COVENANT

#Nevermore #Nevermore Webtoon #Webtoon #IDK ABOUT Y’ALL BUT I WAS NOT EXPECTING THE 42 FLASHBACK SHE SO SMITTENNNNNNNNNN #AND THEN FORGOT WE ONLY SAW LENORE’S PERSPECTIVE AFTER THAT #ADA HONEY IN THIS TIMELINE IT HAS BEEN LIKE TWO SECONDS AFTER EPISODE 40 LIKE WHY’RE YOU GOING ALONG WITH MONTY #Ngl Prospero I’ve never heard that saying but god it makes sense bc Monty is devil of the group now isn’t he??????????#She was NOT expecting to hear that #Then I wonder what she said to sway them to get Duke 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔#What’re you gonna do with him Annaaaaaaaaaa #THE BUILDUP OF HER RANT IS INSANE IT JUST GETS INCREASINGLY LOUDER I LOVE IT #SHE SAID A (british) SWEAR #THEIR BITTER QUIET EXCHANGES LOVE ITTTTTT #NOT A GENTLEMAN HM GEE HAVEN’T REALLY NOTICED #IDK IF WE’RE PLAYING THE SAME GAME YOU JUST KNOW WE’RE PLAYING A GAME #FUNNY SHILOH 92 ALSO HAD SHANE QUESTIONING SAWYER’S ACT AND NOW MONTY QUESTIONING ANNABEL’S ACT #I CANNOT IMAGINE THE UNIVERSE WHERE MONTY IS IN PROSPERO’S POSITION #THE NARRATION AND THE CHESS METAPHORS OMGGGGG SO COOL (from someone who doesn’t know how to play chess 😂)#DEAL MADEEEEEEEEE #MY LOYALTY ONLY COMES AT THE PRICE OF NEVER HURT MY TRUE LOVE AGAIN M’KAY? M’KAY #VERY GOOD EPISODE #OHHHH APPARENTLY 96 IS SOUL DESTROYING OKAY COOOOOLLLLLL 🫠🫠🫠🫠 WE’LL SEE THEN I GUESS #ALSO 8 WEEKS TO THE BIG 💯 OH BOI

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questionable-prompts · 1 year

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Prompt #92

“There’s no way we can lose! With me leading this project, those scum aren’t gonna stand a chance! Because I always win!”

“I have known you for twelve years. I have never once seen you win. Literally anything.”

#writing prompts #story prompt #prompt #prompts #writing prompt #story prompts #dialogue prompts #dialogue #dialogue prompt #oc prompts #oc prompt #character prompt #character prompts #character dialogue #prompt 92 #questionable prompts

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itchyeye · 1 year

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Of Jonah Magnus' regency era compatriots, who's your favourite? Do you have one? If so, why?

oh this is a wonderful question and yes, i do!!! it's barnabas by a miiiiiile

it has, unfortunately, much less to do with barnabas himself than the context of his letter and of elias recording it

elias reading jon a letter from his dead ex-lover is simply. unmatched. unparalleled.

but to be fair to the poor lad i'll start with the things about him specifically that i like. the first:

if i were begging on my hands and knees for my fwb to come save me from the depths of the forsaken, i would probably not put this in my letter to him

i would probably milk our relationship for all it was worth and beg to see him again

but barnabas is marked deeply by the lonely, even before mordechai banishes him to it

this makes barnabas an excellent and concise example of one of my favorite themes of magpod victims: people being devoured by the malicious embodiment of something they truly loved

barnabas found peace and solace in his solitude, idt he was really interacting with the dread power in this instance. i think he was just enjoying a moment of pleasant respite in the desert (there is nothing in the desert, and no man needs nothing)

just like robert kelly (mag 21 freefall) loved the open air before the sky swallowed him whole, just like andrea nunis (mag 48 lost in the crowd) loved traveling independently and treasured her solitude before the forsaken tried to claim her, just like julian jennings and his mom (mag 124 freefall) loved the thinner air on top of mountain peaks before the falling titan tried to eat them out of a cable car

it is so deliciously horrifying that the fears so often choose their victims from people who truly love the non-eldritch versions of them. who have a sincere attachment to the experience of their non-evil earthly equivalents. it's just so cruel!!! it's so hopeless! yes we can expect victims of the fears to be people who were, like, already arachnophobes! people who had contamination ocd, people with a fear of clowns, etc. but that you aren't even safe from being hunted by the entity that reflects your passions and joys?? that's so BLEAK!! that's so cold and calloused and unfair!!! I LOVE IT.

i also love that jonah i-can-see-it-coming-in-the-air-tonight-d barnabas after barnabs explicitly is like "if you have a shred of humanity left in you please help me"

idk i love this!! i love that this could be read as proof that jonah really doesn't have any humanity left in him. you could just as easily say that he probably didn't like barnabas all that much, and maybe just didn't want to expend the effort, and didn't mind him decaying forever in the forsaken, except

jonah did care for him. he cared enough for him that he went into the lonely to retrieve his bones. he kept those bones as a memento, not in artefact storage as a totem of the forsaken, but in his office as a keepsake

but he made his choice!! ceaseless watching. knowing too much. beholding won out over the clear affection and attachment he had for barnabas. he needed to know.

and then

so many layers here i can't think about it too hard rn or else i'll start making the sort of sound only mosquitos can hear

#[💌] asks and replies #anonymous #jonah x barnabas #mag 92 #tysm this was a lovely question!!!#[📑] transcripts

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swordofazrael1992 · 1 month

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i have so many complicated thoughts on jean paul ludovic’s parenting and jp’s relationship to his father that yall may get a full length analysis post on someday but for now if you want to understand the gist of them listen to paint my face by the devil makes three and your father’s son by shayfer james

#basically it boils down to i don’t think jean paul would have the amount of near blind devotion and trust towards his father #if his father was as completely absent from his life as depicted later in the o’neil era #most of my reasoning is that if ludovic was super distant we would likely see jp questioning HIM in soa ‘92 the same way he questions #the order when in fact there is a moment in soa ‘92 when jp questions the order BECAUSE of his loyalty to his father #and this does end up contradicted a lot later on #but i just can’t reconcile the fact that jp questioned the distant order but doesn’t question his father #imo it speaks to ludovic being more involved in jp’s life #obviously not in a GOOD way. i am not SAYING that ludovic was not a terrible horrible despicable father #but it does not make SENSE to me to try and say there was pretty much no relationship between them #anyway #jp/az posting

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aspiringwarriorlibrarian · 1 year

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I had seen posts saying that next month the las Sherlock Holmes works enter the public domain, you know if that is true or just something that misunderstood? It's hard to know sometimes.

Yup. Most of Sherlock Holmes went into the public domain in 1980 in the US, went private in 1996 and then back to public in 2000 due to Disney fuckery. The ten stories written after 1923 were still designated as under copyright, which has lead to a number of high profile cases, including a) the Conan Doyle estate claiming that Holmes and Watson weren't public domain (dismissed), b) the Conan Doyle estate suing the movie Mr. Holmes for depicting an older Sherlock (settled out of court), and c) the Conan Doyle estate suing the movie Enola Holmes for showing Sherlock respecting women (dismissed with prejudice).

However, since they aren't Disney, they can't actually change the copyright law for pre-1978 works, (95 years after the year of publication), so those stories have been quietly going back into the public domain one by one in the past few years. There's only two left and their copyrights expire in 2023. So yes, starting next year, all Sherlock Holmes works will be public domain.

#sherlock holmes #and yes in most countries the whole thing is public domain since it's 92 years since the author died #and most of them expire 50 or 70 years afterwards #thank you for this question now i know that bram stoker's great grandnephew wrote his own sequel to dracula to try and gain the rights back #it didn't work #and the book sucks too

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aneshipping · 3 months

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🫶 for the ask game for marius heheee :3

id be lying if i didnt think marius fell first from first sight. i shrimply think he would! but i think susanna would realize she actually fell first, marius maybe a little later

#anedoodle #asks #hey hey look my way!#bro saw the cutest person ever and it was OVER #i think he bothered luke to know more about her after this btw #“in theory how does she feel about new people? is she friendly or more closed off? thats a stupid question shes definitely closed-”#“IN THE MEETING YOU'RE ASKING ME ABOUT MY COLLEAGUE?”#as agent 92 #brat cat

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todayisafridaynight · 1 year

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My vision for Y8 is that the Ichigang has to sneak into some large event and what would be a better way for a group of people to be Subtle than dressing up as security guards? And there's only one security company Ichiban is on good terms with-

Majima tells Ichi that he should propose this idea to Mine first as he's Daigo's right hand arm man and pats him on the shoulder in support. Ichiban doesn't know what is coming. A minute into Ichi's suggestion and Mine silently pulls out his gun

(He would never let some idiot's plan potentially ruin the company Daigo's worked so hard on)

i hope mine gives ichiban a big fuck-you-sized packet of questions comprised of background-check-esque and moralality problems just to get the clearance to use daigo's company's uniforms

#snap chats #it's a whole ass exam just to borrow clothes #daigo bouta walk in while ichiban's on question 92 like Mine... Why... Yes Ichi You Can Borrow The Clothes Jesus Christ

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askdrunktwilight · 2 years

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Luna: I really do hope we can help her.

#Drunk Twilight #Twilight Sparkle #Luna #Princess Luna #My Little Pony #Question No. 92 #thedumbguywithaheart43 #Question No. 93 #a-spoonful-of-generosity

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chipjrwibignaturals · 1 year

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BRUH MOMENT i finished my first final and it immediately gave me my score and i almost had a heart attack

FOR REFERENCE. THERES 50 POINTS OF SHORT ANSWER NOT GRADED YET. I GOT A 42/50, ESSENTIALLY, NOT A 42/100.

#BRO.#anyway yippeeee!!! thats a solid B ill take it #embarassing considering i was basically looking up every question but shhhhhh its fine #ive got like a 93 in this course i hsould be Fine even if its an overall B final #but. imma be real the teacher doesnt grade too harsh i feel Confident i can pull a 92 or so

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anotherpapercut · 2 years

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hate it so much when I'm helping someone with something and they think that I'm like thinking they're dumb. just makes me sad that they would think someone would be that judgemental about you needing help

#literally 92% of the students i tutor 🥲#theyre always like 'you probably think this is a stupid question' :( im only as good at math as i am because ive asked these questions too

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popsicle-stick · 2 years

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the serendipity of getting back into dracula just before dracula daily starts posting and therefore half of tumblr gets back into dracula i am SO happy!!!

#i LOVE the flood of content that blessedly eclipses all mention of the 92 film #i do have a semi masochistic urge to rewatch it though if only for the aesthetic and keanu saying 'cahrfax ahbbay'#the question remains whether we'll be able to keep this up through till november lmao

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every-jiraiya · 6 months

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#naruto #jiraiya #naruto uzumaki #arc: chūnin exams #chapter 92 #everyjiraiya #says he'll watch naruto and then promptly gets distracted by the girls minding their own business 😑#random and possibly controversial question: do you think he's one of those guys who would say “girl on girl is hot”?

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clear-exam · 1 year

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#ic 92 pdf #IC 92 MOCK TEST #IC92 MCQ #IC92 QUESTION PAPERS

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upstartly · 1 year

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Well the good news is my score improved

The bad news is I failed my re-sit exam

#i got 92% as opposed to last times 91%#that safeguarding question just fucked me in the ass and not in the fun way #also i only get one more go

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