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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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It’s heartbreaking how many times in season 3 Jon casually mentions how he is looking for ways to prove that Gerard Keay faked his death in 2014. It’s so clear that he’s become attached to this chaotic good hot goth vigilante who burns Leitners and helps people touched by the Fears because it’s the right thing to do.
It almost looks like Jon addresses the reality of Gerry’s death less and less (not quite denial, but close) the more he learns about Gerard, and all the good he’s done. It hurts him to face the fact that this ally is gone forever. And when he finally meets him via the Catalogue of the Trapped Dead, he agrees to burn Gerry’s page, despite it being the one, real loophole to Keay’s death that he’s been looking for all along. He’s finally found proof that Gerry’s death wasn’t permanent, but because he chooses to do right by him, he respects Gerry’s decision to finalize his passing.
#the magnus archives#tma#jonathan sims#gerard keay#gerry keay#mag 111#family business#catalogue of the trapped dead#mag 117#testament#tma season three#tma season 3#the end#the eye#jongerry#neo queen serenity’s posts#tma spoilers#tma meta
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MAG 117 - Testament
sometimes you've just gotta do some light grave robbing
And remember! my askbox is open for any and all meme submissions/suggestions!
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This is the evening post to make up for no post yesterday
Quick recap:
MAG 192 is the point of view of the key events in the Magnus Archives in the point of view of the secretary Rosie.
MAG 117 are the statements of Tim Stoker, Jon Sims, Daisy Tonner, Basira Hussain, and Martin Blackwood before they attempt to go stop the Unknowing.
As always please vote on which you find scarier and please repost for a bigger sample.
#the magnus archives#basira hussain#daisy tonner#martin blackwood#jonah magnus#sasha james#melanie king#tim stoker#tma#magnus archives
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a little death, or something like it (Jon/Gerry, The Magnus Archives, Explicit)
a little death, or something like it || Jon/Gerry || Explicit || 6k
Canon-Typical The Beholding Content (The Magnus Archives), Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms, Talking To Dead People, Masturbation, Voyeurism, Not Technically Necrophilia, MAG 117: Testament, Ghost Sex, Not technically a ghost either, Mildly Dubious Consent, Dirty Talk, Demisexual Character, Canon-Typical Musings on Death, Come Shot, Canonical Character Death
It would be nice, he thinks, for a friendly face to see him off. One last conversation that isn't haunted by worms and tunnels and doors and death. Or, at least, no deaths that are immediate.
The evening before the Unknowing, after everyone has given their testament, Jon summons Gerry for one last hurrah.
Read it on AO3 here!
#the magnus archives#my fic#the magnus archives fanfiction#jon sims#jonathan sims#gerard keay#gerry keay#jon sims/gerry keay#jonathan sims/gerard keay#jon/gerry
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Jmart parallels that keep me awake at night
Season 4 Trailer + MAG 159 The Last
MAG 117 Testament + MAG 139 Chosen
MAG 95 Absent Without Leave + MAG 129 Submerged
and of course
MAG 183 Monument + MAG 200 Last Words
#i just know there are more of these#but i can't remember them rn#tma#the magnus archives#jmart#jonmartin#paralells#jonathan sims#martin blackwood#tma parallels#transcript#🌠#parallels
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Favourite Episode Masterlist
#tma#the magnus archives#tma poll#podcasts#tma season 3#tma season three#tma 111#tma 112#tma 113#tma 114#tma 115#tma 116#tma 117#tma 118#tma 119#tma 120
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MAG 117 - Testament
doodle 117/209; days left - 4/110 14/128
bye bye Gerry :(((
(((is this doodle basically the same thing as mag37? ...perhaps (yes). but in my defence it's really hard to have 200 original ideas for each episode in such a short time xD))
#tma#the magnus archives#tma 117#mag 117#tma s3#hnnng i just gotta finish mag 118 so i can post 119 and 120 but it's not going well T__T#combine whole day of drawing with rain and bam perfect recipe for disaster#my bodys gonna kill me
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the magnus archives sure is a tragedy... (let's talk about MAG 117 - Testament...)
We get so much about the characters and also PARALELLES!!!!
I think Basira is the same. She’s coming along to back up Daisy, or so she says. I don’t quite get those two. I suppose what they’ve done, seeing what they’ve seen… it’s a hell of a bond. The sort of thing I’ve mostly done alone. Still, it does sometimes make it hard to fully trust them…
honestly i like that we don't 100% know what Daisy and Basiras relationship is, people are complicated and i love seeing this (plus if you have more canon queer characters it doesn't feel like queerbaiting like in some other pieces of media sometimes)
You, you know what, no. I’m, I’m done with that. No more paranoia. It’s almost got me killed more than once, and Georgie was right. If I am, uh, slipping then I need people I can trust. And I… I don’t think that can happen naturally for me an-anymore, so I’m making a decision. I trust them. All of them.
CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT!!!!! he's realizing that he can't do it alone!! I'm glad that he's learning, i think everything would have ended a lot worse if he'd kept all to himself (also does Jon now know that Martin has a crush on him now......?)
I love all we learn about Basira here, how she didn't want to be police anymore and all that
I don’t, I don’t really know why I’m here. I mean, I know how I got here. All the decisions I made, until suddenly: yep, this is my life! But not the why. Not really. Does that make sense?
did someone pull some strings here? hmmmm. i really should do something for an Archivist!Basira AU...
How the hell did I end up having to save the world?
a few episodes ago Jon said the waiting is the worst and somoeone pointed out that he's a man of action and here Melanie says:
Hope isn’t really good for anything it’s always been action with me. It’s, it’s been doing things that helps. I’ve never really seen the point of hope.
PARALLELES!!!!!! God all the anger she holds in, she'd definetely get soldier in the Soldier, Poet, King quiz.... please, she deserves to heal
Good luck, Jon. I do hope you win. But I also hope it hurts.
martin.............
I, I’m scared, I guess. – no, wait. No, no, I mean, aww, I don’t want that to be my last message, the thing that defines me. “Martin Blackwood, he was always scared, then he died. The end.” I don’t want that.
screaming crying
I need him to be okay
I’ve always been running, always hiding, caught in someone else’s trap, but, but now it’s my trap, and, well, I think it’ll work. I know, I know it’s not exactly intricate, but it felt good leaving my own little web.
Oh, oh, Christ, I hope John doesn’t actually listen to these. “Good lord, is Martin becoming some sort of spider person?” No, John, it’s an expression, chill out!
rip martin blackwood, you would have loved mastermind by taylor swift
Tim.... aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
@a-mag-a-day
#i'm writing this post instead of studying#i'm a lost cause lmao#anyway back to literature theory#a mag a day#tma#the magnus archives#tma relisten#tma s3#jonathan sims#martin blackwood#basira hussain#tim stoker#melanie king#my post
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mag 117 - testament
if i were to rank all the episodes of tma, this would no doubt be in the top ten, maybe top five. i'm the kinda person who tends relistens to my favourite parts of things rather than the whole thing, and i have listened to this a good ten times. thus, expect this to be stupidly long
jon is showing a somewhat uncharacteristic display of spiteful self-destruction here, hoping that elias' plan doesn't work. he definitely has tendency to be spiteful and bitter, and as is pretty clear he doesn't exactly value his own life and safety very highly, but it's not very often those two traits are combined. what is significantly more characteristic, though, is extreme feelings of responsibility (which inevitably leads to guilt)
jon choosing to trust the others is one of my absolute favourite scenes throughout the whole show. there is such an emphasis on how the choices we don't know we make can end up destorying us, a sort of butterfly effect, but this is a total different type of choice. very deliberate, and something that is actually good for him. even before his breakdown he wasn't exactly a trusting person, so, like i have pointed out before in other posts, it's only really this trauma that drives him to this development
basira here has an odd type of self-realization. she finally snaps out of the type of mindless apathy she's been in for so long, the one that makes her bury herself in a book and ignore the world. she is so so close to understanding her flaws and comabtting them, since she does actually take more action from here on forward. yet, she does seem to miss the core of her issues, which is her unwillingness to be in anyway sentimental about or look deeper into things. she'll keep on moving with the same straight focus and practicality, something that will save her in the short hand but holds her back more and more as she is directly faced with more morally complex situations that she can't us logic or rationality to get out of
melanie is, in quite a few ways, pretty similar to tim here. a mixture of anger and depression and slowly giving up that really manages to capture me. i find a lot of relatable things in how she seems so used to things, but that doesn't make her less angry. just because she's been scrabbling and being trampled at the bottom of the ladder her whole life doesn't make things hurt less
she does, however, seem to try and find an identity beyond that. something which is really hard when the whole world seems to be against you. she tries to go beyond her anger and bitterness, and i think that is why she chooses to tell jon about her trip to india. she's not being compelled, after all, and has no actual reason to tell him. i think she just wants to try being vulnerable. at the end though, she retreats back to herself, defensive as always - a pattern she's repeated many times
martin really is on the verge of breaking. just like jon, he is someone who really prefers action to doing nothing, even if that's a trait he represses for a long time. here, for once, he gets to be independent. i think the most interesting parts of this are displayed in the next episode
daisy remains practical and uninterested as ever. even basira indulges jon in the tape recorders, but daisy never becomes all that captured with them. which i think is also part of why she makes such a good companion to him later on, but that's another tangent. simply, she acknowledges it but has zero interest in venting to it
the 'i have a feeling i'm not coming back from this' trope is one i always go feral for. it hurts so much but it's so good. tim has already pretty much given up here and there isn't much more to say about it. it's bitter and painful and we all know the end is near. i think the most interesting part is that, near the end, tim presents jon with a proper, head-on moral dilemma: will he have the guts to do what it takes? a question that sort of becomes meaningless when in the end jon is stuck in the unknowing and tim takes action into his own hands, but an interesting question nontheless. would he be able to do it?
and, finally, to me, jon burning gerry's page reads like a final act of rebellion before jon 'officially' looses his humanity to the eye post-unknowing. i don't think he would have been able to burn that page after waking up from his coma
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Date: February 14th, 2023
Episode of the day: MAG 117 Testament
"I used to blame my brother for going off his own and poking around where he wasn’t wanted. I used to blame myself for not helping him. But now… now it doesn’t matter. I’ve read through enough of these things to know that this doesn’t matter. The only thing you need to have your life destroyed by this stuff is just bad luck. Talk to the wrong person, take the wrong train, open the wrong door, and that’s it!"
MAG 117 transcript
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Redemption Round 3 - Match 22
Testament earned 86 Redemption votes last round! Can it stand up to Lost in the Crowd and its 142 Redemption votes?
MAG 117 - Testament | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript
Various Statements regarding the eve of departure for Great Yarmouth.
MAG 048 - Lost in the Crowd | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript
Statement of Andrea Nunis, regarding a series of encounters in the streets of Genoa, Italy.
#the magnus tournament#the magnus archives#tma#mag 117#mag 117 testament#testament#jonathan sims#basira hussain#melanie king#martin blackwood#timothy stoker#tim stoker#the eye#eye#mag 048#mag 48#mag 048 lost in the crowd#mag 48 lost in the crowd#lost in the crowd#andrea nunis#gerry delano#gerry kaey#gerard delano#gerard keay#the lonely#lonely#redemption round three
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Gerry Keay Timeline
[Plain text: Gerry Keay Timeline]
Mid 80s: Gerry Keay is born (MAG 35 - Old Passages)
Two years after birth: Eric Delano blinds himself. (MAG 154 - Bloody Mary)
Shortly after blinding: Eric Delano is killed and trapped in the Catalogue of the Trapped Dead by Mary Keay.
~2002, statement given 4 June, 2002: Gerry is living with his mother and appears to be in his late teens. (MAG 35 - Old Passages)
2008: Mary Keay dies.
2009: Gerry is on holiday. (MAG 48 - Lost in the Crowd)
23 December, 2011: Gerry is living with his mother and has eye tattoos. (MAG 12 - First Aid)
Winter, 2012: Gerry is living with mother and has no mentioned eye tattoos. (MAG 4 - Page Turner)
2013: Gerry gave Gertrude the Catalogue of the Trapped dead and began to work with her.
2014: Gerry beat Jurgen Leitner half to death. (MAG 80 - The Librarian)
4 June 2014: Gerry was working with Gertrude and appeared. (MAG 102 - Nesting Instinct)
2 July 2014: Gerry was in New Zealand with Gertrude. (MAG 103 - Cruelty Free).
After 9 October, 2014: Gerry was in West Pullman, Chicago with Gertrude. (MAG 107 - Third Degree)
After 9 October, 2014: Gerry dies in UPMC Presbyterian Emergency Department, Pittsburg with Gertrude. (MAG 107 - Third Degree)
After 9 October, 2014: Gertrude binds Gerry to the Catalogue of the Trapped dead. (MAG 107 - Third Degree)
2014: In evidence after Gertrude's arrest for about a year. (MAG 107 - Third Degree)
2015: Taken by Julia Montauk and Trevor Herbert, a book. (MAG 107 - Third Degree) (MAG 111 - Family Business)
30 June 2017: With Julia Montauk and Trevor Herbert, speaks to the Archivist, a book. (MAG 111 - Family Business)
Between 2 August, 2017 and 6 August, 2017: The Archivist burns Gerry's page (MAG 117 - Testament)
Therefore, at the time of his death, Gerry was about 29 years old, assuming he was born in 1985, which I got from assuming "late teens" = 17.
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meme for @a-mag-a-day-a-day Day 120
MAG 117 - Testament
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listening to mag 117, testament, and can someone please hug timothy stoker for me, cheers
#my son!!! my boy#mag 117#tma#timothy stoker#the magnus archives#my darling boy you will always be famous
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Mag 117- testament man now I’m worried that Melanie’s anger will open her up to an entity. I feel like it’s all a hint. Idk.
Oh no and Martin admitting he’s afraid all that time and would be delicious to an entity that feeds off fear noooo Martin be safe and be brave
“Just don’t die John….. or Tim or basira or daisy.” This boy is in LOVE!!!
Tim baby darling I wish I could talk to you cause honey you need therapy. The way Tim just reminds me of myself growing up all my untreated and undiagnosed ptsd anger just good lord.
You didn’t burn Gerry!!!! You had ONE JOB JOHN THE FUCK!!!! Let the poor soul rest wherever he is!!!
Okay good I hope he’s able to rest easy now
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