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dyke-in-crisis · 5 months
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reposting this commission from back in january bc my tags are finally working again 👁️
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artfulacrostic · 2 years
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gerry in mag 12 😭 he's literally 80% covered in second degree burns, drugged to hell and back on painkillers, just woke up from being unconscious, and he's still like "okay here we go another day on the job guess i have to go kill this lightless flame bitch who's trying to boil us all alive!! behold my sterile scalpel bitch" and then when the guy finishes cremating himself he sits back down on his bed and goes to sleep bc he has had a very long day
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its-your-mind · 1 year
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tfw you’re just tryin to burn up an evil Desolation book and some stupid lightless flame cult member gets in your way and when you touch him your whole body burns so bad you pass out, and then you wake up in the hospital just in time to stop a nurse from touching the burning skin man, and she screams in your face for your troubles, then tells you that they lost the evil book and your badass eye pendant, and to make matters even WORSE, it seems that they cut off your new badass black trench coat in order to take care of your burns, so now you don’t have the evil book, your cool pendant, or your cool coat, and oh by the way you’re pushing through the pain of full-body burns and the brain fog of a fuckton of painkillers, so you find the first sharp thing you can (scalpel), stab the evil burn man so he turns to ash, tell the nurse to get rid of it, and pass the fuck back out bc you have had a Day and you’d think fighting evil would feel better but instead you end up with a nurse who’s low-key terrified of you, full-body burns, and your aesthetic royally fucked. And also you’re goth.
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a-mag-a-day · 1 year
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A Gerry theory:
His own statement later on makes it pretty clear where his eye alignment comes from. Even if his familiar connections to the Eye and the Institute had no effect on things, he spent his entire childhood having terrible knowledge forced upon him, he was steeped in it. He does not seem to have been a full-fledged avatar, and it doesn't look to me like he wanted to be, but he was plainly a few steps along that road, and he wasn't above leveraging it for protection against the other Powers.
Many of the avatars we meet represent specific aspects of their patrons. The Eye as callous observation, the Eye as self-destructive (heck, destructive to everyone) curiosity, etc. I suspect that, if Gerry had chosen to fully embrace the Eye, he would have represented its aspect of knowledge that irrevocably changes you, your life, your worldview. He would have gone around inflicting terrible knowledge on others the way it was forced upon him as a child...
...and I think that's why he's so cryptic to statement-givers, when we know that in other circumstances he's happy to speak openly, even bluntly. I think he knows what he could become, and he's actively trying to avoid dragging people into his world (any more than they already are). It's different with Jon, 'cause he's neck deep in it already and actively seeking information. For people who just stumbled into a situation, he's not going to make things any worse than he has to.
Oh I love that theory!!
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a-mag-meme-a-day · 1 year
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meme for @a-mag-a-day Day 13
MAG 12 - First Aid
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social-mockingbird · 7 months
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Relistening to The Magnus Archives from the beginning is just like seeing a popular band reunion concert but with more horror
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themagnustournament · 10 months
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Redemption Round 3 - Match 1
This Old House may have been pretty popular in the regular bracket, but can its 150 RR2 votes stand up to the 191 of First Aid?
MAG 196 - This Old House | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript
A statement on Reality recorded by Martin K Blackwood, recorded at Hilltop Road.
MAG 012 - First Aid | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript
Statement of Lesere Saraki, regarding a recent night-shift at St. Thomas Hospital, London.
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nonbinarylocalcryptid · 2 months
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MAG12 - First Aid, more review time
GERARD KEAY! HOW DARE YOU HANG OUT WITH THAT CULT! I AM ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTED! YOUR ARCHIVIST IS NOW FACING AN INQUIRY AT WORK, AND IT'S ENTIRELY YOUR FAULT! IF YOU PUT ANOTHER TOE OUT OF LINE, WE'LL BRING YOU STRAIGHT HOME!
This episode may not be scary, but I must say that it's mysterious and it's hilarious. I'll explain in a minute.
Gerard Keay is the Batman of TMA, he would get along with Dean Winchester like a house on fire and he deserves his own movie, hell, a tv show. I mean, he lives in an action movie, what the fuck is he doing in this episode in Christmas Eve??? All he has was a suit, a zippo with an eye on it, a long black coat and was being basically a goddamn hero???
Dude's crazy and we love him for that
Quotes for this one:
Ms Saraki is not a poet nor she's dramatic, so I don't have much to comment from her. Every single paranormal bit had me like "sis, run" at every turn. Mad respect for her.
"There’s obviously a lot to unpack here, so let’s start with what is provable." - Jon "I hate my job" Sims, April 17th 2016
Sometimes I want to stranggle him, wtf you mean "provable" Jonathan???
“Veepalach” might also be a mishearing of the Polish word “wypalać”, according to Martin, which means to cauterize or brand. Admittedly, if Martin speaks Polish in the same way he “speaks Latin,” then he might be talking nonsense again, but I’ve looked it up and it appears to check out." - Jon "You must be proffessional at work" Sims
Emotional constipation strikes again!
"It has not escaped my notice that this is the second time Gerard Keay has turned up in this Archive." - Jon Sims, completely unaware of everything
"(...) and if we’re lucky maybe we already have a statement from him tucked away somewhere in these damn files." - Jon Sims about Gerard Keay
yeah, a statement from Gerry, i know how that would be:
JURGEN LEITNER? STUPID IDIOT MOTHERFUCKING JURGEN LEITENER GOD DAMN FOOL BOOK COLLECTING DUST EATING RAT OLD BASTARD SHITHEAD IDIOT AVATAR OF THE WHORE BIGGEST CLOWN IN THE CIRCUS LAUGHED OUT OF TOWN COWBOY MOTHERFUCKING JURGEIN LEITNER STOP PINNING ME WHEN I TALK ABOUT JURGEIN LEITENER I HATE HIM SO MUCH WHY DOES HE HAVE SO MANY FUCKED UP BOOKS WHY DID HE DECIDE TO FUCK AROUND AND FIND OUT---
"At 03:11:22, it shows everybody in that room, which I personally counted at twenty-eight people, standing up and calmly filing out of the doors. (...) The rest of the staff and patients do not return until 03:27:12, over fifteen minutes after they left, when they walk back in through the same doors. The footage does not contain any sound, and no alarm of any sort was recorded, so I cannot offer any guess as to why they left, or what they were doing in the intervening time." - Jon Sims, scared af
notice how he "personally counted all 28 people", woah, I liked this bit soooooo much.
"There is one other thing that Sasha highlighted, however. At 03:22:52, the feed cuts out for less than a second, and is replaced for a single frame by a close-up of a human eye, staring back through the video feed." - Also Jon
wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf
General overview:
Vibe: great, absolutely great, wtf gerry
Horror: spoooooooooky
Audio: pretty ASMR in general
Humour: just the facts, and Jon being neurodivergent
Score: 10/10
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Mag 12
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As someone who worked multiple Christmases at multiple hospitals, I can confirm this. It's the worst day of the year.
This is the first episode I've hit during 'a mag a day' that I didn't immediately recognise from the title alone.
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It wasn't until I got to this part that I recognised the statement and realised that my boy was about to arrive! <3
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Here he is!! Reeah's specialist and most beloved boy!! For his second appearance he has shaved his face and dyed his hair well (for once) and bought himself a fancy new coat that immediately gets destroyed.
He's also acquired a series of bizarre and discomforting burns across almost his entire body! Cool that we get a callback to Gerry's first appearance in MAG4. He's 'had worse' indeed.
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First mention of the tattoos!
What I like about these is that anyone with a tattoo will know that the less fatty tissue there is between your skin and the bone underneath, the more painful it is to get a tattoo there. Also the more your skin 'moves' the faster your tattoo will fade and the more difficult it will be to make sure it heals cleanly. So by tattooing every single joint, Gerry went about marking himself up for the Eye in one of the most painful and awkward (and expensive and time-consuming) ways he possibly could. But none of that matters because it's sexy and it slaps. The only thing more important than serving your patron is serving looks!
That's why it's great that the Eye stepped in and made sure the Desolation didn't mess up Gerry's signature look. It would have been a tragedy to mess up such intricate and detailed inkwork!
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Motherfucker leaves the house each morning with nothing but firestarters and accessories (both customised to suit his aesthetic, of course). He also carries a passport as his primary ID, which tells me that he probably doesn't have his driver's license. He's the world's most perfect man.
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This is interesting. I assume this is the point where everyone else got up and walked out of the building? Although I can't figure why the Desolation would prompt people to leave the site of an oncoming fire, so maybe Beholding had something to do with it? Idk, I don't think it makes sense either way.
Anyway, the point I was about to make is that it's extremely interesting that our statement-giver is just able to shrug off whatever power is compelling people out of the building. She does it so casually! What does she mean by it not being the first time she's felt a reaction lile this? Has she encountered Desolation, or another Entity, before?
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Quick aside, this is how you know that an evacuation didn't take place. Hospitals have procedures in place to evacuate non-ambulatory patients in case of an emergency, and would never simply leave everyone in their beds like this.
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Hells yes! If it sucks, hit da bricks!
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Even more hells yes! Talk shit, get smothered. While I'm glad she didn't get her hand burned off, I am sad we didn't get to see Nurse Badass single handedly (heh) shut down an invocation of the Lightless Flame by aggressively shushing a man.
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Oh he's... strong you say? 😳 That's interesting to me for purely academic and completely non-horny reasons (lying).
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I made my friend @jane-crow guess what the Fear Entities from TMA were (xer currently on mag 16)
For reference, I wrote the list like:
#. What xe called it/what xe think the fear is (what the name is of the fear xe guessed if they got it right) (the number of the episode that they mentioned/referenced as an example)
Ghosts guesses: TMA entities edition
1. Alone (Lonely) (mag 13)
2. Dark (Dark)
3. Heights (Vast)
4. Needles (mag 12)
5. Dolls (Stranger)
6. Dead/dying (End)
7. Spiders (Web)
8. Germs/germaphobia (Corruption) (Mag 6)
9. Claustrobia (Buried) (Mag 15)
10. The unknown (Dark)
11. Fire (Desolation) (mag 8)
12. The Eye (Eye <- I told xem about this one) (mag 14)
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TMA ARTISTS I AM RALLYING YOU
GERRY !!! IN A SUIT !!! I NEED THIS IN MY LIFE
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frozenfishfillet · 1 year
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Is there a reason ppl dont draw gerry with burns (as said in mag 12) is it because its late in the gerry timeline or is it just because everyone forgot
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Oo I love that Lesere Saraki was Eye Marked!
Do you think she was already Marked by the Eye and that's why she noticed the quietness and the strangeness of the burns and didn't leave with everyone else? Or was she just Marked during this encouter?
Beholding Behaviours
I was heading out to meet the ambulance, when I noticed that the A&E waiting room was totally silent. I looked around, and there were all the people there that I expected to see, some cradling obvious injuries, but none of them made a sound. They continued to stare at their phone, read books, comfort one another, but not one of them spoke. I didn’t have much time to really consider what I was seeing as, at that moment, I heard the ambulance pull up outside and ran off to see to the patient. <- Notices the strange quiet.
She started giving some instructions to myself and the EMTs, but I was struck by how quietly she was speaking to me. She didn’t whisper but every word was quiet, as though it was a real effort to get them out. Nobody else seemed to notice, so at the time I assumed the effect was due to my own lack of sleep. <- Notices the strange quietness, no one else does presumably.
I ran towards the door leading from the A&E to the chill of the December night, not something I would ever have thought I’d look forward to. As I approached, though, I noticed that the plastic at each end of the metal handles was ever so slightly warped. <- Wow how did you notice that minor detail in your panicked state? Very Beholding of you...
I didn’t say anything then. I wanted to ask what was happening and it seemed like he was waiting for me to do just that, but something stopped me. Something told me that if there was a coherent explanation for everything that had happened since the ambulance arrived, then I would be no better off for knowing it. <- Seems to be more on the watching side of the Eye than the knowing side, together with her feeling watched since then.
He was going to kill the chanting man; I could feel it in the way he stared past me as I stood in the doorway. <- then again she could be Knowing something here. Or just knows lowercase.
He said, “Yes. For you, better beholding than the lightless flame.”
I didn’t try to stop him as he walked back into the ward. I just stood there and watched as he took out the scalpel, muttered some words I couldn’t make out, and plunged the blade into the centre of the chanting man’s throat. At that moment, there was the sound of sizzling, and a smell like rotten meat on a grill. I watched as the flesh around that wound began to blacken and crack. The bandages curled and disintegrated, and the scorched skin spread over his body like water. There was no fire, and I felt no heat, but over the course of twenty seconds I watched this man’s body cremate itself to ash. Even the scalpel was gone. <- watched watched watched right after Gerry says that, interesting.
I worry sometimes, though. Over the last few months, when I’m alone on the wards, I get the feeling I’m being watched. Not threatened or judged, just watched. I avoid that storeroom, particularly. <- Obviously Eye related lol :)
Beholding & Lightless Flame
He said, “Yes. For you, better beholding than the lightless flame.” <- I still don't entirely get what Gerry meant here. Is he saying it's better for her to be Marked by the Eye than the Desolation? Or side with it? Or that she's already somewhat Eye aligned and so it's better to lean into that rather than towards the Desolation?
When she first hears the burned man whispering: I started to feel warm, like there was a fever quickly creeping out towards my skin. It wasn’t the first time I’d had a reaction like this, though, so I took a moment to centre myself and the feeling receded. <- Hmm do you think that's related to what Gerry said? Maybe she's vaguely aligned to both the Eye and Desolation and effectively was picking a side here when she let the Eye aligned guy kill the Desolation one? And that's what he was talking about?
@a-mag-a-day :)
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zekeyboy · 2 years
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yeah
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a-mag-a-day · 1 year
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I know it's probably just another case of Jonny still nailing down the details of canon in early episodes, but given how it's later established to be almost impossible to kill a fully realized avatar, the fact that Gerry did it with some magic words and a scalpel is absolutely hilarious to me.
Considering Jane and co2, peter and being Asked to death, John Amherst/monster pig and concrete, perhaps it's not hard if you know exactly what you're doing (and Gerry sure as hell knows which is still great xD)
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unfortunatelyevent · 1 year
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someone probably thought this before but it just hit me relistening to MAG 12, do we think that gerry keay had the opportunity of becoming an eye avatar just like Jon did when he was dying, but unlike Jon decided he would prefer do die than serve one of the entities...
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