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Something about how the Eye’s always been there. About how Jon’s voice starts slow and monotone in the first season, when he still doubts these statements. Something about how, toward the middle of the statement, before the thing happens, he takes a breath where the victim took a breath, where their thoughts stumbled. About how he reads them and laughs when they do, and how his tone changes.
Something about how, in Mag 33, Tim was asking Jon why he classified things under the wrong date, someone’s name was wrong, something was cross-referenced wrong…he Knew all along, and had no idea he did.
Something about how he knew everything since the beginning, he read the statements as if they were his own stories, with fear and questions and scoffs and stutters. Something about how the Eye’s been in him since he worked above the basement.
Something about how Jon would read each statement and give what seemed to be an initial reaction to the content—shock, fear, ‘more spiders’— and then say “I had Martin look into this,” and then explain what they followed the case with, even though this seems to be the first time he’s read it. About how the Eye looked into every case, or set it before any of the gang and had them look into it before Jon could read it.
And now, something about how the computer voice fades. How Jon’s voice is still there, how he’s still real. How he’s real on his own terms, in computers still run by the Eye. How he can’t escape but he’s still listed as “unknown” on his Wiki page. Something about how Jon Simms is still out there and still being human through these wires.
Something about how the Eye’s known and loved Jon, and how the Eye still crinkles when someone tells a lie and how Jon’s still human enough in there to read these statements to everyone, listening or not.
#the magnus protocol#the magnus pod#the magnus archives#the magnus institute#tma podcast#tma#tmagp#tmagp theory#tma jon#tmagp speculation#mag 33#the eye#I like making theories#I love Jon I want the best for him#but I feel like he’s always been the eye’s
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meme for @a-mag-a-day Day 34
MAG 33 - Boatswain's Call
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"Archivist!Sasha" sure sure what about Archivist TIM. Actually communicates and says nope to interviewing monsters alone and only nerds about making the archives legible and having all the details in the cases rightly recorded, dammit. Elias can't get him to go to "get your marks" field-trips cause he's too busy actually archiving
Archivist Tim would take the longest to bring the apocalypse, second only to martin who'd see all the scary statements like lost johns cave, say he's claustrophobic and put it away 'for later' xD
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Mag 33
*Waves excitedly* Hi Tim!! It's so nice to meet you in person! <3 I'm glad you've arrived to point out problems and try and make Jon do his job properly.
Grumpy >:(
Thank you Tim for the canonical confirmation that normal people do listen to these tapes as part of standard research and study. This is absolutely essential to the inherent comedy of Season 1 and you are an angel for bringing this to our attention.
Fuck me this is so clever. Pointing out that the dates around Hill Top Road are canonically inconsistent during an in-universe moment where the characters are clarifying non-canonical inconsistencies with their own narration of events, thus disguising the fact that time, space and reality actually are inconsistent around Hill Top Road in-universe. This is so clever!!
Imagine doing a PhD in manifestations. What does that even mean.
Also Jon is being Very Grumpy >:( If you don't care about the answer, don't ask the question Archivist. Tim's trying really hard to be chipper and you're not helping.
God it's so good getting these parantheticals describing their tones. I'm really happy that I'm actually reading the transcripts, this is great.
Tim. Tim. Tim. Look at me. Are you saying you've been working in the Archives for months with no idea what the statement IDs meant and you're only admitting it now? Did you not realise the numbers correlated to anything before this moment? If so, you're the most valid motherfucker in this entire Institute and you deserve a raise.
In all seriousness though, this is incredibly understandable. I have actually done it twice! In a previous job at a hospital I worked in Medical Records (which was very similar to an archive) and I was there for months before I figured out that there was a logical sequence to the MRNs (Medical Record Numbers). I thought they were just long strings of unique numbers. And in my current job I work with educational course codes (processing multiple different subject and qualification level codes each day, sometimes working with the same ones for months) and I literally had this job for years before I was told the system behind the codes and learned to actually start using them properly. Before this I relied on route memorisation, and if I forgot a code I was just fucked because I didn't know it was possible to figure them out from context.
In conclusion, Tim is definitely great at his job and deserves a kiss on the lips from me as a reward.
There's so much great stuff here. What happens if there's two statements on the same day? That just never happens? Like, in the entire history of the Institute? How? Why not? Is the Eye on a diet or something? There's definitely instances later in the series where Jon takes more than one live statement in a single day. Does he not allocate them numbers?
This would also imply that the Research department takes, at most, seven new statements a week (both real and fake). That's ridiculous. Although it might explain why there seems to be an inconsistent amount of follow-up for each statement before it arrives at the Archives. If there are so few coming through, looking into them is probably not the main focus of the department. It might even be an afterthought, 'If we have spare time, we might spend Friday looking into a few statements' kind of a job, not something that is prioritised.
Did Gertrude come up with this system? She could have inherited it from the previous Archivist, but it does line up with her policy of making the Archives deliberately disorganised and difficult to extract information from. If she did implement this date system, then that means at some point she went back through every single statement in the Archives (all of them, not just the real ones) and re-numbered them all. Fuck off.
I can see why Jon is not keen to fix her batshit system and implement a new one. Although obviously that's what he should be doing (you could start by using a more efficient date system on new statements and temporarily running both systems at once until you've updated the historical statements) but it would be a massive undertaking and I do not blame Jon at all for not prioritising it given the state of the Archive and also the fact that monsters are real and after him, specifically.
First 'good lord' of the series?? This epsiode is giving us so much.
Also... *raises hand sheepishly* it was me. I complained about that one. I'm sorry Jon.
Uh oh, Tim's cheery demeanor is wearing thin and Jon is boiling over!
It's good to get a reminder that the statements we are hearing are only a small number of the total 'mountain' that the team are working on, and that they are distinct because they can only be recorded to tape. Also seeing how Jon's attitude towards that has changed since Mag 1 is great. He was so composed and in control back then! Now just the reminder that he needs to read the bad statments is enough to have him freaking out.
Tim calming the Archivist down like he's a spooked horse is great, the fact that it works is even better.
And thank you Jon for confirming what was obvious but unspoken last time. Reading the statements isn't just an opportunity for him to practice his theatrics, they take an actual toll on him and are exhausting and stressful to deal with, to the point at which he refuses to return to them even for minor corrections.
And Elias is supplying the Archives with extra entinguishers, literally the least he could possibly do. From memory Jon even had to ask for them after Sasha's statement, Elias didn't do this on his own initiative. Still, it does imply that he wants the Archival staff to have at least a chance of surviving? Probably because it would be boring and annoying to watch them all just die immediately and have to start over with a new team, but I guess it's better than nothing?
Fucking hell, I will never be able to hear that line again without imagining Tim getting horny over Martin sticking his tongue out for him. This fandom ruins everything (affectionate).
I definitely think that even with his understandable aversion to returning to the bad statements, Jon is being influenced by the Eye here. It doesn't want to be fed the same stale statements that the Archivist already gave it!
But, attitude aside, Jon's not wrong. Re-recording would be a waste of time, and a note in the file outlining the disrepency between the 'digital' and hardcopy versions should be adequate.
There, I defended him once, that makes up for dragging him for the Carla/Clara issue. Now we're square again.
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Redemption Round 2 - Match 55
Murder Club!!! Thrill of the Chase is here with 114 votes from Round Two and 276 votes total! It's against Boatswain's Call with 133 votes from Redemption Round One and 120 votes from Round One!
MAG 112 - Thrill of the Chase | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript
Statement of Lisa Carmel, regarding her involvement in a series of murders.
MAG 033 - Boatswain's Call | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript
Statement of Carlita Sloane, regarding her work on a container ship travelling from Porto do Itaqui to Southampton.
#the magnus tournament#the magnus archives#tma#mag 112#mag 112 thrill of the chase#thrill of the chase#lisa carmel#the hunt#hunt#mag 033#mag 33#mag 033 boatswain's call#mag 33 boatswain's call#boatswain's call#carlita sloane#peter lukas#the lonely#lonely#redemption round two
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Mag 33: Boatswain’s Call
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favourites... my favourite is probably boatswain's call. my grandpa was a boatswain, and while he was in the navy and wasn't ever crew on cargo ships that I know of... it just sort of seems like the sort of story he would've told me and I would've gone "wow thats fucked up" and then not thought much more on except absently.
he had a few of those, lol.
sorry, I realise this ask isn't actually about the episode much and more about my grandpa. but like it Does feel like the sort of story an old former sailor would tell. so.
oh boatswain's call is one of my FAVORITE episodes it is sososososososo good, i love the statement giver and i love the whole atmosphere of the piece and i LOVE this incredible peter lore. i really look forward to this one on every relisten it's an incredible episode.
also please do not apologize thank you for telling me about your grandpa!! that's so cool, it's really special when our families have good storytellers in them. i also love hearing when people have in/direct experiences with the specific things that tma statements are about and then statements themselves ring true. i think that's really special. for many reasons! but very much so because i am super bitter that all the statements i have a cultural connection to ring hollow and dumb. so i love when people have the opposite experience fr!!!
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aah! it’s tim! my guy!!
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wow i love the way jon's character arc is progressing because in previous statements he would just write everything off as bullshit but now he actually wants to investigate further exept he's literally being forcefully prevented from it due to the wealthy family he's investigating literally funding the magus institute which has.... terrifying implications to say the least
#and with the knowledge that Elias ends up being the main villain#its very clever to have him being constantly mentioned with the Lukuses#tma#my posts#mag 33
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giving people shit affectionately is tim's love language and i am absolutely convinced about that. rip our dramatic bitchy king i love u
#r relistens to tma#tma liveblog#tma spoilers#the magnus archives spoilers#tim stoker#tma#mag 33#mag 33 boatswains call
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mag 33 - boatswain's call
this episode is a lot of set-up. we get inroduced to both tim and peter lukas, as well as more general knowledge into the lukas family. i'm really glad to have tim here, because i absolutley love him and his entire arc.
i don't really have a lot to say about this episode really. i think it's one of those that maybe has less value as a relisten? like i said, the main purpose of it seems to be set-ups and getting you to ask questions about the lonely which we later get answers to. it's very well done, but there's not much i can say that doesn't seem obvious or repetetive.
what i do find interesting though is jon mentioning that there was indeed a body, and that it was found. i'd expect the lonely to make the poor guy dissapear without a trace, but hypothetically, with a body, he could still be delivered to and be buried by his family. odd choice, really, but i think it was made to imply that he was drifting alone on the ocean for months before he somehow ended up in the water. that is, admittedly, terrifying.
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ALRIGHT SO BOATSWAIN'S CALL HAS JUST GAVE ME THE CREEPS, BECAUSE I FELT LIKE PETER LUKAS, WHO THE STATEMENT GIVER WAS LIKE: I immediately clocked Peter Lukas because he was the one of the only white guys.
and that gave me the creeps, of how Peter Lukas could just be taking people away from their culture. But here, a DM I sent to a friend, red bold if what I added in afterward while putting my thoughts together :
WAIT HOLD THE FUCK UP, im on boatswain's call and peter is described as the only white guy in the ship ... oh my fucking god, does he, like take people away from their cultures because the statement giver has explicitly stated that? well there could also be like, you know other people who are traveling but still
one of the mates, who introduces himself as Tadeas Dahl has warm brown skin, and since the statement giver said that hey: most people who aren't native english speakers don't talk that much.and Tadeas Dahl speaks many languages and the one who is giving orders
what the fuck, this episode is actually making me uncomfortable of just, the lonely being quiet and how, I expect knocking on wood being a important thing and the statement giver says: it's unatrually quiet. and thats a superstition thats prominent because of european influence that spread to South America to a lot of people but still, knocking on wood is important to south america but there’s no noise. There’s no warding off evil, maybe because they knew they can’t wars it off WAIT OH THATS SUCH A MINDFUCK. me growing up in Peru and then hearing this statement as I now live in America for a couple of years is such: wow
Like L Sean but damned. Also wow statement giver but wow, also the info either the show or maybe the statement giver doesn’t know shit but Brazil doesn’t speak mostly Spanish, it speaks mostly Portuguese and also location off but yeah. The crew being loud after Sean died is such a mind fuck but hey: I’m proud of them. They banded together against a white man except the white man that is their captain who can’t make a profit/j. But Peter Lukas’s business man skills are in the negative, Elias is really using him, like I’m actually so happy because HE IS SUCH A OLD MONEY. THANK YOU ELIAS FOR USING HIM. Elias is twitchy, I want to curb stomp his ass
Jonny Sims, YOU BITCH. I KNOW YOU DIDNT INTENDED THIS, I KNOW I AM THE ONE WHO IS MAKING MYSELF AFRAID BECAUSE THE BRAZIL INFORMATION IS SO WRONG BUT FUCK WHY IS THIS EPISODE FUCKING ME UP
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I suppose case *number number number number bla bla bla*is the one with the girl and her dead fiancé. Also, Elias is on this bullshit somewhat?
#tma#the magnus archives#MAG 33#did they straight up sacrifice the boy to someone/something?#please let it not be gods/entities/slash omnipotent guys#I want interesting mithos ok?#love the confuse mess#half of this people are gonna be scared to life#maybe it's phobos and Deimos? are this fears? or the thingys like famine and stuff#i just remember the ladies from House of Hades on pj universe#i'm gonna call it my 'percy jackson and the magnus archives theory'#i'm just saying bullshit!#probably nothing like this but You know#I want to theorize over stuff#Completely lost the fact that time got messed with somewhere in the middle.#So this is gods then? Gods and cults cause yes#Carol listens to The magnus archives.
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I love that the opening of this episode implies Tim knows the students who come to the institute, at least enough to know what they are studying. It's a fun little characterization I forgot about
You're right! He's so accommodating to the stressful students who people usually have now patience for <3
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Redemption Round One - Match Two
In Round One, these episodes lost against Anatomy Class and The Gardener, two strong Stranger and Flesh competitors. First Hunt got only 46 votes, while Boatswain's Call had a healthy 120. It's the battle of the 30's!
MAG 031 - First Hunt | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript
Statement of Lawrence Mortimer, regarding his hunting trip to Blue Ridge, Virginia.
MAG 033 - Boatswain's Call | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript
Statement of Carlita Sloane, regarding her work on a container ship travelling from Porto do Itaqui to Southampton.
#the magnus archives#the magnus tournament#tma#mag 031#mag 31#mag 31 first hunt#first hunt#mag 031 first hunt#lawrence mortimer#the hunt#hunt#mag 033#mag 33#mag 033 boatswain's call#mag 33 boatswain's call#boatswain's call#carlita sloane#peter lukas#the lonely#lonely#redemption round one
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Statement Ends.
Hi I totally didn't die crying while making this >:^))
[ Based on "Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan" by Ilya Repin. ]
BONUS workplace comedy shot below:
I'm not even sorry /j
#the magnus archives#tma#mag 200#tma fanart#jonathan sims#martin blackwood#jmart#my art heh#[ rambling section ]#*UGLY SOBBING*#they're just so...tragic </33#went through the 5 stages of grief making this not bc it was hard (it was) but BC MAG 200 KEPT PLAYING IN MY HEAD#WOE IS I....
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