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thevoidcannotbefilled · 4 years

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005 and 014 felt like Flesh to you? Could you explain that a bit more? (I'm divided between Flesh and Spiral for 'Piecemeal', but I'd never had any idea what 'Thrown Away' might be.)

Okay firstly, it was confirmed in today’s QnA that Thrown Away was a very early idea of Hans and the Flesh. So keep part of that in mind once I go full explanation. Secondly, even when I say this, it’s not FULL Flesh because there’s other factors working there as well.

That Being Said.

Piecemeal has ALWAYS been very fleshy with me. The second closest one to me could be slaughter, but 1) slaughter is always associated with music or war in some way or another. 2) Not violent enough. The pieces just came off, and not in a bloody fashion. Also the line “Some hungers are too strong to be denied’” is very very fleshy to me.

What connects Piecemeal to Thrown Away has been pieces of another.

Thrown Away had four trash bags. 1) Doll heads, 2) the one long string of the lord’s prayer with pieces of is burnt, 3) the bag full of teeth, and 4) the final iron heart.

Now, keep in mind, this is a VERY early version of the Flesh before Jonny learned more into the meat angle of things. So, instead of meat, the flesh was more about pieces of the self.

So in this case, the doll heads were pieces of the head aka one piece of the doll and the teeth were the same exact tooth, rotting a bit because while they were the same tooth, I don’t think they were from the same person. The heart is just as much of threat as a sign that a piece of the guy was thrown away into the trash as well.

Now, the second trash bag is the most interesting to me and the one that makes the statement feels the most fleshy.

“Of this Eustace Wick’s smile, if it were even possible, got wider and he said that we had all the food we needed. He stared into the fire and began to mutter something. It sounded like a prayer. I think he was in his own demented way saying grace.I remember the words exactly. He locked eyes with Benjamin and said, ‘Come, meat. Be my guest. And let thy gifts to me be blessed.’” - MAG 058, Trail Rations

And

“The prayer apparently spoken by Mr. Wick is a perversion of the old Lutheran grace: ‘Come, Lord Jesus, be our guest, and let thy gifts to us be blessed’.” -MAG 058, Trail Rations

Compared to

“Inside was paper, as I expected. It seemed to be a single strip of thick white writing paper, maybe an inch wide. The paper was long, so longthat it seemed like the whole bag was filled solely with this one piece of it, wrapped and curled and crumpled to fit inside. There was writing on it in another language, I think Latin. Matt, who was raised Catholic and never shut up about it, said he recognised it and claimed that it was the Lord’s Prayer, the Our Father, written over and over again.” -MAG 05, Thrown Away

And lets not forget the cannibal priest which the entire thing could be Flesh messing with religion mixed with the Spiral and Web.

The Flesh has always been associated with the act of eating, but also prayers. Like prayers before meals and such. At the very least, the distortion of religion for use of meals is very much a Flesh thing.

ALL THIS BEING SAID, all these things are small and can be considered for other powers. For the longest time, I thought Thrown Away was the Stranger with a side of Beholding. The guy’s need to find the truth of what happened with the bags still feels like a Beholding tendency, and the pieces within the bags seems to be affected by other powers. Like the doll heads idk what happened to them, but the long strip of paper seems to have been attacked by the Desolation while the teeth could have either a) been there long enough to rot or b) been partially attacked by the Corruption as well. Who’s to say?

Either way, Thrown Away is a weird statement because a lot of the ideas in it weren’t exactly fully realized or at the very least, were shown in other ways, so it ends up being a bit of a black sheep within the universe. I still like it, and I adore the mundane trash men no matter what, but I will always laugh at the fact that this statement made me realize that the flesh has a thing about wrapping things like gifts or presents.

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facelessoldgargoyle · 4 years

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MAG 058: Trail Rations

Mary wept tears. Fuck.

Deeply, deeply horrifying, this one. Ok. So, cannibalism is a deep fear of mine. I knew from the second I saw the title of this one that I’d be in for a ride.

This is basically the story of the Donner party. I liked the added twist that the protagonist thought this stranger was hot, so she was not only happy to marry him so she could go on this adventure, she was excited to marry him specifically. That was really sweet, and unfortunately made me more invested in these poor doomed characters.

The detail that the guide they hired, Eustace, had nice teeth was genius. Exactly the sort of uncanny-valley detail that makes for excellent foreshadowing in horror. It’s so brilliant because it fits perfectly for the time period. It’s no longer weird to see perfect teeth; I didn’t have braces for 4 years for nothing. But it would be so weird back then, especially because not only did orthodontics not exist, the dentistry that occurred was terrifying! Tbh, an episode focused on old times dentistry could be another Magnus Archives episode all on its own.

All the standard stuff. Snowstorm, smashed wagon wheel, shelter in cave, the attack. I have to say, the perverted Lutheran Grace did freak me out.

The next bit, the bit where Benjamin’s dead body started speaking to the protagonist, urging her to eat him for the next two days, is some of the most horrifying, fucked up shit I have ever conceived of. Probably second only the Donner party’s children’s camp.

“Eat me, you can cook me over the fire, I’ll taste delicious, you’re so hungry...”

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themagnustournament · 1 year

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Round Two Part Six - Match 44

The calm before the storm... Or, at least, the traumadump before the death. Today Testament is against Trail Rations, which had a close win of 128 votes!

MAG 117 - Testament | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Various Statements regarding the eve of departure for Great Yarmouth.

MAG 058 - Trail Rations | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Unsigned statement regarding potential cannibalism while attempting to travel the Oregon Trail.

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themagnustournament · 1 year

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The Magnus Tournament: Round One Part Six Masterpost

So as to not create horrifically long masterposts, there will be a Round One Masterpost (pinned) which links to the subgroup Masterposts.

Round One Part Six is open for voting March 29-April 4

Find the full Round One Masterpost here!

[Image ID: Matches 46-54 of Round 1 and the following matches (121-128) of Round 2. The content of the bracket is described below. End ID]

The Matches:

MAG 093 Contaminant vs. MAG 153 Love Bombing

MAG 010 Vampire Killer vs. MAG 030 Killing Floor

MAG 177 Wonderland vs. MAG 189 Peers

MAG 137 Nemesis vs. MAG 048 Lost in the Crowd

MAG 124 Left Hanging vs. MAG 058 Trail Rations

MAG 167 Curiosity vs. MAG 149 Concrete Jungle

MAG 004 Page Turner vs. MAG 036 Taken Ill

MAG 193 A Stern Look vs. MAG 050 Foundations

MAG 157 Rotten Core vs. MAG 066 Held in Customs

Polls will be linked once they are posted and when I have time to edit this post (within 24 hours maximum, I have a day job). Each poll will have links to the episodes, wiki pages, and transcripts.

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