'Sorry, Elias. I can't hear you. There's – a door in the way.'

or when in doubt, do a Leyendecker study (JC leyendecker "Childhood Thanksgiving,"November 26, 1927)

The way Elias seemed to be disproportionately panicking when Martin started burning statements

I just think maybe without them around the meaning of the title Archivist would have become obsolete and the ritual would no longer actually work. And unlike killing him or the blinding solution, it would have been painless and hurt no one but his institute in the process

Just a thought

"Sorry, Elias. I can’t hear you. There’s – a door in the way."

some dp style tma just for funsies

No wonder The Web wanted Martin, Melanie is literally being affected by The Slaughter and all Martin had to do was go "Melanie please 🥺" and she immediately chilled out

I have a take and I need to know if anyone else has it.

Prince Charles and the Beatles have canonically been taken by the Stranger and likely perished during the attempt its ritual.

In MAG118: The Masquerade, Tim acknowledges them as being part of the museum, commenting on how they all look like they've been in accidents.

However, we later find that the waxworks are actually real, living, petrified people who have been likely deformed through wax (the part where Jon and Basira fight about saving the people trapped as waxworks). Thus, implying that Prince Charles and the Beatles were also there, petrified and alive, by the time of the ritual.

THUS, implying that the Archival team blew up not only a bunch of random innocent people taken by the Stranger, but also Prince Charles and thE FUCKING BEATLES.

I spiraled about this on call with my friend who is on his first listen and I probably sounded insane because he got very concerned.

(I know I could be wrong, but let me be insane)

STOP WHY DOES MARTIN BECOME MORE RELATABLE EACH EPISODE

alone again, naturally

sitting in my apartment alone wailing and running around

[ID: Eight digital drawings of Jonathan Sims from TMA, a thin, British-Indian man with dark, curly hair and a moustache that are shown to rapidly grow out and turn almost entirely grey over the events of the story. He also accrues various scars on his face, neck, and arms, and in the images based in seasons four and five he is shown to have an eerie glow in his eyes, similar to the red eye effect in photos. The drawings depict: Jon with his head raised as Daisy presses a knife to his neck, drawing blood; looking down with a peaceful expression, reading something; smiling sheepishly to the side as he says “To be quite honest, Martin, I’m really rather relieved”; smiling eerily, his face mostly obscured in shadow, as he says “It’s alright, Floyd. You just... need a break”; raising one eyebrow with a horrified expression as he says “We do not want it”; staring silently into the middle distance, shirtless and covered in grime; lifting one hand in a placating gesture as he says “I am not losing you as well!”; and smiling, the sclera of his eyes visibly damaged and red, as he says “Yes, Martin, you are my reason”. The background is dark red and there are frenetic scribbles behind each depiction, which grow brighter and more disordered according to his level of distress. End ID.]

well you see i decided that my s1 jon design needed a receding hairline and a moustache and it just kinda spiralled out of control idk what to tell u. he’s just like that

Fuck it. Someone give me a hammer, I’m killing Elias Bouchard.

no I will NEVER shut up about how infinitely horrifying it was to listen to mag 118 for the first time and hear "and i guess you don't need skin to sing. to join the choir." like holy shit. what a fucking line. that was terrifying Jonny thank you

"You want to know what she sees when she looks at you?"

I hc Martin as trans and I can’t stop thinking about MAG118. Like. Imagine Martin finally feeling comfortable in his own skin. And then he faces Elias and any confidence in his appearance and any sense of self he may have found is now overshadowed by his mother’s hatred.

MAG 118 - The Masquerade

doodle 118/200; days left - 4/110 14/128

i enjoy watching this man getting minor inconveniences :))

+ bonus where he looks as dumb as he possibly can

((hes preparing his special anime move))

Collab Martin!

[ID: A digital drawing of Martin Blackwood from the Magnus Archives holding up a lighter and grinning wildly at an unseen person while he grips several sheets of paper in his other hand. He is dimly lit by the flame of the lighter against the dark blue of the background. Martin is a fat British-Filipino man with beige skin, brown hair in a side-part to our right, stubble, and brown eyes. He wears a dark red hoodie over a pale blue shirt and blue jeans. A text-bubble next to him on the right says "So what? I don't get to be angry?" with angry in bold. Under him is a box containing the artist's handle "@abellarts" and a message that they can be found "on twitter & tumblr" with doodles of both apps' icons./.End ID]

Martin deserves to be angy >:)

Hello! This is my part on a collaboration I hosted [ over here ] on twitter! The idea was for multiple artists to all draw their different takes on one character, like an inverse of the “One Artist, Six Characters” thing! 

Head on over there to take a look at all the 17 wonderful Martins (and an Also!Martin) people have have drawn. :D I’ll host another one next week over there too so 👁️