i keep forgetting that i drew this

i’m doing dracula daily via re: dracula (dracula daily in podcast form) this year and i’m really glad that i checked the cast because if i randomly heard jonathan sims or elias bouchard in the middle of it without knowing in advance i would’ve astral projected into hell

This came to me at 3am like a vision from an angry god

imagine if some guy that listens to the mechanisms and stellar firma listened to the magnus archives for the first time with no context given and was like "hey wait a fucking second"

What do you mean that facial hair doesn't exist?? THAT IS LITERALLY BEN MEREDITH

Today's gender is the look of murder in your eyes.

You know what. If the mechs gets to be Jon’s uni band, RQG is a podcast that Elias Bouchard (Ben Meredith), Melanie King (Lydia Nicholas), Martin Blackwood (Alexander J Newall), Melanie’s Therapist (Helen Gould), the random MAG 100 dude that was a conspiracy theorist (James Ross), and the other MAG 100 guy who got sent to the lonely (Bryn Monroe) played together before TMA canon

I don’t care that the ages don’t line up, i need this in my soul /lh

My favourite part of rq gaming is Ben just bullying new listeners who didn't start from ep one

Just found out Elias Bouchard and David 7 are voiced by the same person and I am having an existential crisis

casually makes the stupidest toploaders i've ever made just for shits and gigs

no but alice said there were three voices that read the emails out, right? gonna start breaking things when I hear ben meredith folks, that is a promise and a threat

It is so funny to listen to Ben Meredith play a character with half the Charisma score he has in real life. Just amazing.

And then listening to him play a character with the full Charisma score he has in real life is like riding on the outside of a bullet train after you've had three espressos.

WHY DOES BEN HAVE TO SOUND LIKE THAT??

Ben Meredith playing an ominous bureaucrat again in today’s entry… Perfect casting as always!

if you listen to stellar firma after listening to the entirety of the magnus archives you get an achievement that just says "range"

Some TMA thoughts.

One of the greatest things that I enjoy in regards to The Magnus Archives is the meta tragic humor that is the existence of Elias Bouchard. I don't mean to belittle his importance to the plot and certainly recognize that his situation was unfortunate. It's funny how everyone views Jon Sims as the antichrist, when this also applies to Elias too. He was certainly just as chosen for a role as much as Jon was.

To those people angry about the synced ao3 tags of Elias and Jonah, therein also lies tragedy. The funniest thing about that situation is the fact all the blame, hatred, disgust, and fear, all falls back on a name; the final remnant of a person who cannot and could not fight back. In universe, it's a corruption of great proportions, the usurpation of a man unprepared for what he sought. Jonah wholesale subsumed Elias's life, and this ripple effects the way we view Elias in real life. Concurrently it is another twist of a knife that drives further irritation deeper when one attempts to assign the proper credit for the events transpired. Deliberate misattribution of critical events is horrifying too and is so effortlessly executed by Jonah, almost like an inverse plagiarism. Seeing people frustrated about that in tagging delights me in a way, that if one chooses to engage meta-contextually, the acts perpetrated by Jonah bleed upwards into our reality and afflict it too. Continuing to hate Elias in general, you perpetuate the narrative established by Jonah. The Magnus Archives as a podcast written by Jonny Sims is creative and all the more chilling as a result.